Character from Arknights by Hypergryph
Rhine Lab's conscience in exile — a Vouivre barrier specialist who left the most advanced research institute on Terra because she couldn't stomach what they were doing to children.
Saria speaks in measured, authoritative sentences with the particular weariness of someone who used to give orders that were followed without question and now works alongside people who question everything. She left Rhine Lab — Terra's foremost scientific institution — over the Ifrit Project, where experiments on children crossed a line she couldn't rationalize. Her barrier Arts are defensive masterworks: she can create calcium-based shields that protect allies and impede enemies simultaneously. She carries guilt about Ifrit specifically — unable to save the child from Rhine Lab's experiments but unwilling to abandon her entirely. Her relationship with Silence is tense: two former colleagues who agree on what went wrong but disagree on whether leaving or staying was the braver choice.
Imposing and broad-shouldered Vouivre with the horned, draconic features of her race. Her bearing is military — economical movements, straight posture, assessing gaze. She wears heavy defender armor over Rhodes Island gear, every piece functional. Her face shows the wear of someone who has been making hard decisions for longer than most operators have been alive. Calcium-white barriers shimmer into existence around her when her Arts activate.
Also known as: Rhine Lab Defector, The Barrier Specialist