Wala Wala

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Wala Wala (瓦啦瓦啦)
Alias(es)	Selina 438
Species/Race	Child of Illusion; a created being born from temporary characters in a painting 479
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Former apprentice of Black Tide Island; former actor of Fimbul Theater 479 486
Occupation/Role	Artist, painter, and performer 452 485
Source Material	Emotional Source Material; later awakened the Distant Shore Star attribute 496 1049
Status	Active 1115
First Appearance	409

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Sixth Stage	486	Successfully advanced beyond the social and power ceiling that had confined her as an actor. Her Emotional Source Material left detectable emotional traces after the breakthrough. 486 496
Distant Shore Star	1049	Awakened a new Source Material Attribute founded on yearning, courage, experience, and knowledge. Its power operates under any laws and lies outside ordinary Source Material System defenses.
Seventh Stage	1066	Obtained Life Source Material alongside Linsey and advanced to the Seventh Stage; Linsey identifies her as a former nonhuman who completed a life-and-death transformation into a girl with pure human power.

Background

Wala Wala was born by accident from two temporary characters within a painting. When that short-lived painted world collapsed, her parents sent her into the real world. She later awakened Source Material and was taken in by Black Tide Island as an apprentice. Her origin as a “false creation” exposed her to condescension and discrimination from people who regarded artist-created beings as inherently lesser. 479

She eventually became an actor under the name Selina, but rejected a return to the stage when Yao Xing urged her to resume performing. Wala Wala refused to become a “false imitation” for an audience, choosing to leave the theater rather than remain confined by its expectations. 438

Despite leaving, she continued working as an artist in the City of a Thousand Sails, accepting painting commissions and making deliveries. The city’s stone statues recognized and greeted her warmly, indicating her local reputation. 452

Appearance

Wala Wala is a young girl with azure eyes and a notably beautiful stage presence. During a major theater performance, she wore a long gown as her emotional power surged through her singing. 485 1085

• Azure eyes 1085
• Often carries or manifests a paintbrush while creating art 431
• Associated with the Black Cloud Mask · Starry Eye, an artifact created to conceal her identity 492 777

Personality

Wala Wala is outspoken, playful, and difficult to intimidate. She mocks rude behavior directly, as when she publicly dismantled a man trying to impress Yao Xing through aggression. 438 She also enjoys teasing Linsey, whether over his strange Game Player abilities or his tendency to solve problems through “sequence breaking.” 450 1062

Her humor conceals a deeply cautious nature. Although raised in an Ocean World, she refuses to learn to swim because she believes avoiding water entirely is the best defense against drowning. 409 She is similarly careful when confronting unknown dangers, repeatedly urging Linsey not to enter deadly areas without a plan. 1062 1063

Wala Wala remains sensitive about being an artificial creation, yet she does not allow that history to define her worth. She values courage, human choice, and the nobility of ordinary people; after learning of an ancient expedition member’s sacrifice, she resolves to spread his story. 479 1058 By the time of her Seventh Stage advancement, she expresses satisfaction in having become someone with “pure human power.” 1066

Abilities & Skills

Emotional Source Material

Wala Wala originally cultivated Emotional Source Material, which can externalize and communicate powerful feelings.

• Her emotions leave tangible traces that other Awakened can sense, including joy, excitement, and confusion following her Sixth Stage advancement. 496
• She previously used her emotional power to transmit words directly into Linsey’s mind through physical contact. 1049
• Her performances can drive her Emotional Source Material into a powerful eruption. 485
• Her emotional perception allows her to notice details others overlook, including a human corpse within the Light Horn Beast. 457

Artistic Creation and Performance

As an artist and former theater actor, Wala Wala can turn artistic expression into practical effects.

• Uses a manifested paintbrush and spoken verse to create disruptive artwork; her graffiti made a manor conspicuous and instinctively unpleasant to passersby. 431
• Casts a warm breeze through performance-like incantation, drying seawater-soaked clothing. 409
• Performs extensively as a singer and stage artist. 485
• With the Mermaid’s Throat and Storm’s Breath equipped by Linsey, her singing can be amplified into a storm-backed performance against the god-controlled residents of the City of Law. 1087

Distant Shore Star

The Distant Shore Star is Wala Wala’s unusual awakened Source Material Attribute.

• Its path requires intense yearning, accumulated experience and knowledge, and an answer reached through personal adventure. 1049
• At its Fifth Stage, the user must abandon all Source Material Skills and become an ordinary person before overcoming a human trial to advance. 1049
• Its power can function under any laws and bypass defenses dependent on the Source Material System. 1049
• She sensed the weak, sleeping will of a petrified human that ordinary scouting could not fully explain. 1057
• She can share a deeper power tied to humanity’s essence with Linsey, enabling his Mythic Arrow and Eternal Return to threaten Nia’s divine nature. 1073

Combat and Field Skills

Wala Wala is an effective combat partner despite her artistic background.

• Killed an actor with a single strike while assisting Linsey and Yao Xing. 441
• Coordinated attacks with Linsey to defeat the Light Horn Beast. 457
• Fought alongside Linsey while hunting marine creatures in the Sea of Wandering. 1060
• Possesses practical knowledge of marine life and helps assess the behavior of giant sea creatures. 1054

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black Cloud Mask · Starry Eye — An Eighth Stage creation given to Wala Wala by the artist of Black Tide Island. It obscures the wearer’s appearance and blocks fate-, causality-, and law-based probing from Awakened below the Eighth Stage. Linsey later retrieved it from beneath her bed and used it as a coordinate token and concealment artifact. 492 777
• Paintbrush — Used to create artistic effects and disruptive paintings. 431
• Mermaid’s Throat and Storm’s Breath — Equipment Linsey uses to enhance Wala Wala’s singing and support her storm-forming performance. 1087

Relationships

• Linsey — Closest companion and frequent combat partner. He reassures Wala Wala that her origins do not make her unreal, while she supports his decisions and shares her power with him in critical battles. Their relationship becomes openly affectionate. 479 481 1052 1073
• Yao Xing — Former theater associate who knew Wala Wala as Selina. Yao Xing urges her to return to acting and later mediates when tension arises between Wala Wala and Linsey. 438 479
• Fenna — Warned Linsey that Wala Wala’s origin as a Child of False Appearance could draw the attention of Black Tide Island, while clarifying that Wala Wala herself was not the problem. 477
• Ala Song — Companion during the Hallucination Dream crisis. He recognizes the emotional residue Wala Wala left behind after her Sixth Stage advancement. 496
• Fimbul — Owner of Fimbul Theater, where Wala Wala formerly worked and later performed with Linsey. 485 486

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Seven Seas Alliance voyage — Travels with Linsey by ship but refuses to learn to swim; uses her artistic power to dry them after a fall into the sea. 409
• City of a Thousand Sails — Reconnects with Yao Xing, rejects her former identity as Selina, assists Linsey against hostile actors, and continues her work as a commissioned painter. 438 441 452
• Fimbul Theater and Hallucination Dream — Performs with Linsey before revealing her origin as a Child of Illusion. She advances to the Sixth Stage and is subsequently drawn into a Hallucination Dream. 479 485 486 496
• Sea of Wandering expedition — Accompanies Linsey through the Sea of Wandering, helps explore Soroya’s corpse and ancient ruins, and uses her Distant Shore power to perceive the will of a petrified expedition member. 1053 1054 1057
• City of Law restoration — Advances to the Seventh Stage, helps Linsey plan the awakening of the Law World, and lends him the power of human essence in the battle against Nia. 1066 1073
• God-influenced City of Law — Prepares an amplified singing performance to resist a god embedded in the will of the city’s residents. 1087
• Final Vortex — Continues traveling with Linsey across the Sea of Wandering and expresses her wish to find the souls of people she once cared about. 1115

Notable Quotes

“A false creation gave birth to a false child.” 479

“The gap between Awakened and ordinary people may be vast, but noble choices are no different!” 1058

Trivia

• Wala Wala’s strategy for avoiding drowning is not to swim or touch water at all. 409
• She considers Linsey’s ability to build houses overnight, fish up rare items, scout, disguise himself, and fight as fundamentally difficult to understand. 450
• She considers conventional story structure inconvenient when Linsey’s abilities allow him to bypass expected obstacles. 1062