Griseo

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Griseo (格蕾修)
Alias(es)	Princess of The Stars; [The Stars] Princess; Griseo of [The Stars]; The Stars’ Illustrated Scroll 1 2 4 179
Species/Race	Unknown; possesses MANTIS-like traits and is regarded by some New Eridu officials as a being from beyond the Black Wall 54 146 187
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Random Play; Phaethon; Sixth Street; The Stars Publishing House; Flame-Chasers 2 8 179 196
Occupation/Role	Painter; Phaethon’s direct agent; Hollow agent; official Flame-Chaser 5 8 56 179
Status	Active 272
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Authority of Elation and twelve legacies	4	Aha forcibly grants her the power of Elation and the blessings of twelve heroic figures, establishing her as Griseo of [The Stars].
Unidentified awakening	5	A pink crystal flower manifests from between her brows after she contemplates “love”; Belle and Wise recognize it as another of her recurring awakenings.
Ether-paint awakening	8	Draws vast Hollow Ether into her brush without protective equipment and destroys nearly twenty Ethereals through Mr. Knight’s marked greatsword.
[Daybreak] imprint	19	Imprints [Daybreak] onto Mr. Knight, manifesting Kosma’s phantom and enabling layered battlefield control with colored paint.
[True Self] and [Paint the World]	105	Uses [True Self] to perceive fading soul fragments and unveils [Paint the World] to return them to recently deceased citizens’ bodies.
Expanded Signet manifestation	158	Reveals that [The Stars] is not her only Authority and allows Hua to manifest through her body to deploy Bagua Rebirth.
Full [The Stars] domain	269	Creates a starry domain that suppresses a pocket world’s rules, protects Wise’s body, and restores Griseo’s adult form.

Background

Aha transported Griseo from her original world into the Zenless Zone Zero world despite her refusal to become an Emanator of Elation. Before sending her through a star-filled gateway, he gave her a multicolored sphere containing the wills and virtues of twelve heroic predecessors; their powers became the foundations of her Signets and painted constructs. 4

She descended into Hollow Zero two years before the present storyline and reached Sixth Street roughly a year and a half ago. Wise describes her as his adopted younger sister; she subsequently became part of the household at Random Play alongside Wise and Belle. 2 54

Griseo rapidly became Sixth Street’s beloved “Princess of The Stars.” Her art earned enough in a month to exceed Wise and Belle’s annual Proxy income, allowing the siblings to finance a third-floor bedroom and studio for her. Her attempt to enter the New Eridu Academy of Fine Arts nevertheless failed despite a perfect score, as the academy used exorbitantly priced supplies and social connections to exclude poorer applicants. 1 5

Appearance

Griseo usually appears as a small girl with long sky-blue hair, a slight build, and an aversion to wearing shoes. Her restricted childlike body is not her natural form: beyond the Black Wall or within an unrestricted [The Stars] domain, she assumes the form of a mature woman. 5 187 269

• Long sky-blue hair and dual, star-like pupils 1
• Violet eyes when her powers or darker emotions surface 153 164
• Commonly paints with pigment-stained hands and carries a brush 1
• Often goes barefoot; Belle repeatedly insists that she wear shoes 2 7
• Height and weight remained unchanged for a year at 145 cm and 39 kg 5

Personality

Griseo is gentle, literal-minded, and openly concerned with helping others. She identifies deception quickly, objects to lying, and initially defines her own goal as becoming “a hero” who can help everyone. Her innocent phrasing often causes misunderstandings, particularly when describing emotions through colors. 5 7 19

Her kindness is accompanied by unusually sharp perception. She can recognize hidden malice, political manipulation, and complicated emotional states that others conceal. She saw through Meflor’s attempt to use her as a political piece and later exposed corruption within Yunkui Mountain through the “colors” surrounding its members. 146 216

Griseo’s view of humanity is conflicted rather than purely idealistic. Warm emotions draw her toward helping people, while overwhelming “gray” and “black” can awaken destructive impulses. The deaths of Morel and Claire nearly push her into a berserk state, but Cui Ji’s intervention helps her distinguish guilty perpetrators from ordinary people. 157 164 165

Abilities & Skills

Painting and Color Perception

Griseo’s paintings are both art and a medium for reading, recording, and affecting emotions.

• Perceives feelings as colors, including Trigger’s intense warmth toward Wise and the “black” surrounding Praise Society forces. 5 19
• Can recognize hidden moral darkness, emotional pain, hope, and goodwill. 147 216
• Her paintings possess supernatural effects; she can create emotional recreations that allow others to revisit lost companions. 5 53
• Reconstructed Morel and Claire’s final days through yellow Ether “paint,” forcing Meflor to witness their private memories. 153

Ether Manipulation

Griseo can generate and control Ether both within and outside Hollows, treating normally corrosive Ether as harmless.

• Draws ambient Hollow Ether directly into her paintbrush without anti-corrosion equipment. 8
• Uses red paint to destroy weapons and communications equipment, blue paint to immobilize opponents, and golden paint to create containment barriers. 19
• Can eliminate large Ethereal groups with paint-based explosions or an Ether net. 7 8 63
• Injected red paint into the Dead End Butcher’s core and detonated its own Ether Frenzy energy from within. 20
• Her MANTIS-like traits grant high Ether adaptability and resistance, but her combat power remains sealed and dependent on Ether reserves. 54 88

Flame-Chaser Signets and Painted Summons

The twelve inherited legacies exist within Griseo as soul-information imprints that gradually awaken through the colors she collects. 4 54

• [Salvation] — ideals; used to neutralize attacks and summon Kevin. 4 187 190
• [True Self] — dreams; senses soul fragments and memory currents. 4 105
• [Discipline] — compassion; manifests Aponia and her restraining chains. 4 190
• [Gold] — brilliance; summons Eden, including her musical support. 4 270
• [Spiral] — miracles. 4
• [Decimation] — sincerity; its influence can contribute to Griseo’s destructive loss of control. 4 164
• [Wisdom] — knowledge; manifests Su to locate paths and targets. 4 190
• [Setsuna] — resolve. 4
• [Daybreak] — perseverance; manifests Kosma’s protector phantom. 4 19
• [Infinity] — yearning; enables consultation with Mobius through its Signet. 4 160
• [Fleeting Life] — resilience. 4
• [Void Dream] — freedom. 4

Her most frequent construct is Mr. Knight, a greatsword-wielding guardian capable of shielding her, killing elite Ethereals, and carrying allies. She can also manifest figures such as Kosma, Lady Marler on the Sheep’s Back, Hua, Aponia, Su, Kevin, and Eden. 7 19 20 158 190

Authority of Elation: [Paint the World]

[Paint the World] is Griseo’s creative and preservative Authority. Rather than functioning as unrestricted resurrection, it works through the preservation and manipulation of soul information. 54 105

• Uses [True Self] to locate fading souls and [The Stars] to guide them back to their bodies. 105
• Restored recently deceased civilians before their soul fragments could return to the Ether Sea. 105
• Can potentially preserve or recreate a person from recorded soul information, but the process has costs and limitations. 54
• Failed to revive Claire because her soul fragments were too scattered, and failed to revive Morel because he died outside a Hollow and was never recorded by Ether. 165
• Cannot freely access [True Self] after resealing it. 165

Healing and Support

Griseo can restore bodily function, heal injuries, replenish stamina, and reduce Ether-related strain.

• Temporarily reactivated Pompey’s suppressed bodily functions for approximately three days. 69
• Healed Wise and Hoshimi Miyabi after their Hollow escape. 94
• Sustained Miyabi and Ithaqua during their Hollow Zero expedition by healing injuries, restoring stamina, enhancing equipment, and protecting them from corruption. 181
• Healed Wise’s injuries after the duel with Pelois. 272

Domains, Forms, and Spatial Authority

Griseo can create isolated domains and open Ether Rifts.

• Her [The Stars] domain suppresses local rules, contains battle damage, and sustains her adult form. 269
• Her childlike form is a restriction imposed outside the Black Wall; her mature appearance is her true form. 187
• Opened a violet rift directly to City Hall, surprising Ithaqua despite the Meflor Family’s specialization in spatial authority. 179
• Can form non-corrosive Ether barriers that isolate combatants from nearby civilians. 157

Martial Technique and Combat Skill

Griseo does not rely solely on her summons. She has developed refined Ether control and can wield swords, layered palm strikes, starlight restraints, and defensive techniques independently. 269 272

• Uses Dawn Sun Radiance, a layered Ether palm strike that overwhelms defenses through precise power accumulation. 269
• Converts shattered stars into threads that erode and restrain an opponent’s Ether constructs. 269 270
• Uses The Astral Walker’s Star Map—Forbidden Limit to continuously drain an enemy’s Ether with innumerable starlight strands. 272
• Wears hidden armor created by Vill-V, which blocked Pelois’s attempted killing strike. 272

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Paintbrush — Primary conduit for drawing Ether, creating paint, and communicating with the Ether Sea. 8 54
• Drawing board and paintings — Used to record emotional “colors,” create visions, and preserve likenesses of people. 53
• Mr. Knight — Greatsword-bearing guardian construct and frequent mount. 7 20
• Azure Nether Sword — Entrusted to Griseo by Hua; she sealed it and suppressed its backlash on Ye Shunguang. 231
• Moth badge — Emblem of the Flame-Chasers. 179

Relationships

• Belle — Adoptive elder sister and primary caretaker. Belle protects Griseo, manages her daily life, and supports her operations through Phaethon’s HDD system. 1 2 5
• Wise — Adoptive elder brother. He trusts Griseo as Phaethon’s direct agent and remains concerned about the moral and physical burden of her power. 2 8 19
• Eous — Trusted Bangboo companion and field link to Phaethon; Kosma specifically entrusts Eous with protecting Griseo. 19
• Aha — Trickster benefactor who imposed the Authority of Elation on Griseo despite her refusal and calls her his “niece.” 4
• The Flame-Chasers — Their wills, virtues, and soul-information imprints reside within Griseo as Signets. 4 54
• Cui Ji — Loyal companion and employee who calls Griseo “Boss.” She protects Griseo during her berserk episode and later cares for her after exhaustion. 160 164 165
• Meflor — Mayor and conditional political ally. Griseo recognizes his self-interest, gives him a two-year deadline to improve New Eridu, and retains the right to end their cooperation. 146 179
• Yixuan — Trusted ally from Yunkui Mountain. Yixuan accepts Griseo’s warning about internal corruption and relies on her perception of moral colors. 177 216
• Hoshimi Miyabi — Initially tasked with assessing Griseo; later receives healing and increasingly recognizes the scale of Griseo’s power. 88 94
• Trigger — Portrait client whose emotional colors reveal a powerful attachment to Wise. Griseo gives her paintings that can let her revisit the memory of her Lila Squad. 5 53
• Pelois — Consciousness within Wise who becomes Griseo’s rival and eventual collaborator after she defeats him in a controlled duel meant to stabilize Wise’s Ether power. 268 269 272
• Liuyin — Investigator and later employee who leaves TOPS after growing close to Griseo; Griseo funds her shop in Weifei Land. 240 242

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Sixth Street and academy rejection — Becomes Random Play’s adopted younger sister, gains fame as an artist, and is unfairly rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts. 1 2 5
• Phaethon’s direct agent — Joins Hollow commissions, rescues Anby and Billy, and establishes herself as Phaethon’s overwhelmingly powerful field agent. 7 8
• Dead End Hollow — Helps protect evacuees, summons Kosma through [Daybreak], and defeats the Dead End Butcher by sabotaging its Ether core. 19 20
• Bringer incident — Unseals [True Self] and reveals [Paint the World] to save civilians whose souls are fading into the Ether Sea. 105
• Ravenlock investigation — Nearly loses control after witnessing the laboratory’s crimes, then resolves to expose and dismantle the Ravenlock Family’s organ-trafficking network while protecting innocents. 164 166
• Municipal alliance — Forces City Hall to acknowledge her strength, accepts the Flame-Chaser identity, and conditions cooperation with Meflor on tangible improvement in New Eridu. 158 179
• Black Wall and Final Domain — Crosses beyond the Black Wall with Remiel Dan, reveals her true adult form, and employs multiple Signets against high-level Ethereals. 187 190
• Weifei Land and Yunkui Mountain — Aids Belle’s awakening, seals the Azure Nether Sword, exposes hidden corruption, and becomes an influential ally of Yunkui Mountain. 216 231 240
• Pelois duel — Fights Pelois within a contained [The Stars] domain, using the confrontation to train Wise’s body to control its accumulated Ether Energy. 268 269 272

Notable Quotes

“Griseo wants to become a hero. Someone who can help everyone.” 19

“Snow shouldn’t fall on sand.” 159

Trivia

• Griseo’s paintings earned enough to fund Random Play’s third-floor renovation into her dedicated bedroom and art studio. 5
• She prefers walking barefoot even in Hollows, to Belle’s repeated alarm. 2 7
• Her body remained exactly 145 cm and 39 kg for a full year before her adult form was revealed. 5 187
• She is recognized publicly as both a popular idol and an unusually young Hollow agent. 56