Porsette

Biodata

Appearance

• Hair: Pale silver-white with a faint lavender tint, initially worn in two thick braids over her chest 15.
• Eyes: Large, burnished-gold eyes whose color appears paler under bright indoor lighting 15 24.
• Facial features: Round eyes, a small nose, and a pointed chin 16.
• Signature clothing: A short red cloak with fabric animal ears on its hood and a red cross-shaped patch along its edge 15.
• Other clothing: An ivory or cream turtleneck sweater and red fingerless gloves 24 31.
• Footwear: Frequently walks barefoot around the mansion. Jin'en gives her gray ankle socks for training after she borrows Flora’s oversized left slipper 17 19.

Personality

Porsette deliberately presents herself as timid and helpless when she wants protection or wishes to avoid scrutiny. During Broken Rainbow’s interrogation, she controls her trembling, produces tears, and clings to Jin'en. Once he promises not to report her escape plans, she abandons the performance and speaks with quiet composure 15 16.

Her caution is practical and persistent. She studies exits, locks, patrol schedules, and people’s habits; even when visiting new places to memorize teleportation coordinates, she checks where she could run after arriving. She also notices changes in the mansion’s layout and keeps them to herself 16 18 27.

Her growing attachment to Jin'en is expressed through specific offers of help. Rather than simply insisting on accompanying him, she identifies coordinates she knows, exits she can open, and surveillance work she can perform. She remains willing to act despite fear, agreeing to serve as bait because she trusts him to cover her 33 35 38 41 49.

Although she initially avoids training, repeated failures bring out a stubborn determination. She is also affected by acknowledgment: after Broken Rainbow praises her observations, she tells Jin'en that her sister has never praised her before 19 32.

Abilities & Skills

Anywhere Door

Porsette’s teleportation ability allows her to enter previously seen locations without passing through their physical entrances. Its use is constrained by rules imposed by Inanna 24.

• Destination memory: Places she has seen remain like fixed photographs in her mind, allowing her to return to their locations 27.
• Stealth: Teleportation requires no preparation time and produces neither sound nor light 24 26.
• Physical barriers: She explicitly states that she can bypass locks because teleportation does not require her to use a door 24.
• Permitted range: Inanna defines her maximum radius. The stated limit after her first mission extends from the mansion to New Hethereau District 26.
• Restricted locations: During the anomalous staircase incident, Inanna’s rules prevent her from using Anywhere Door inside the mansion 18.
• Passengers: Taking another person reduces her teleportation radius to one-third of its normal extent 43.
• Stamina: Inanna warns that a head-on encounter may leave her with only one opportunity to teleport before her stamina drops sharply. During controlled training, Jin'en stops her after three teleports when she becomes pale and breathless 26 36.
• Defensive weakness: She has no effective head-on combat capability. An inaccessible or occupied escape destination can leave her unable to retreat safely 24 26.

Spatial-Rift Support

Anywhere Door briefly opens the space around its destination. Porsette recognizes that this opening can carry Jin'en’s dark-attribute attack, giving her a support application beyond transporting herself 30.

• Remote attack conduit: She opens a hair-thin, gray-white rift through which Jin'en sends his rod’s devouring power, damaging a brick wall across an alley 30.
• Protection requirement: The combination does not resolve her defensive weakness; she must open the rift before Jin'en can attack through it 30.
• Reconnaissance: Jin'en later uses her spatial rift to observe a fleeing van 44.
• Proposed extraction: She offers to open a narrow exit from outside a warehouse so Jin'en can escape without her entering a perception-type opponent’s reach 41.

Insight into the Human Heart

Porsette possesses a perception ability associated with reading emotions and experiencing fragments of futures that she describes as not belonging to her 18.

• Future fragments: She has seen numerous disturbing images, including herself being torn apart by vines. These experiences make it difficult for her to distinguish intuition from fear 18.
• Limits: She cannot read the emotions of inanimate objects or the intentions of anomalies 18.
• Involuntary activation: In the anomalous corridor, the ability activates beyond her control and registers gray emptiness behind doors bearing flower names 18.
• Interpretation: She predicts that revealing Jin'en’s new ability to Inanna would lead to both of them being bound more closely together as assets under Inanna’s control 30.

Observation and Fieldcraft

Porsette combines close observation with increasingly practical reconnaissance skills 16 24 32.

• Distinguishes Jin'en’s habit-focused observation from Broken Rainbow’s attention to emotions 16.
• Learns to assess guard routines, entrances, shift changes, and escape routes 24.
• Infers that a man collecting material from the library lockers is Prism’s regular pickup agent 32.
• Recognizes that the glove left behind by Prism is probably a deliberate lure 34.
• Advises Jin'en to wait outside a lookout’s line of sight before an infiltration 36.
• Notices a surveillance van and deliberately slows her pace to draw a follower away from it 44.

Training and Development

Soul Color

• Broken Rainbow describes Porsette’s soul as transparent, comparing her to a vessel that can take on whatever color is poured into it. No specific combat effect is established for this quality 20.

Equipment / Items

• Red hooded cloak: Her recognizable everyday garment; hiding her braids beneath it makes her harder to identify during surveillance work 15 32.
• Red fingerless gloves: Worn during scouting trips and missions 24 31.
• Gray ankle socks: Given to her by Jin'en before training 19.
• Two carved wooden sticks: Used as supports during stance practice 20 26.
• Devouring Pattern: An anomaly ring retrieved on her first official mission and handed over to Inanna; it is not retained as personal equipment 25 26.

Relationships

• Jin'en — Protector, instructor, and “big brother.” He conceals her initial escape plans, supervises her first mission, and teaches her balance, reconnaissance, and portal placement. She increasingly offers him practical support and worries about the risks of his newly awakened dark ability 16 19 24 31 36 49.
• Broken Rainbow — Senior teammate and assigned trainer, addressed as “big sister.” Initially catches Porsette attempting to escape and challenges her timid act. Later teaches her retreat tactics and survival around illusions, explaining that she helps because no one helped her at that age 15 16 26.
• Inanna — Red Letter’s authority figure, whom Porsette calls “Mother.” Brings her to the mansion, controls the permitted use of Anywhere Door, and assigns her missions and partners 15 24 26.
• Daffodil — Senior associate addressed as “Sister Daffodil.” Helps investigate Prism; Porsette warns her about compromised coordinates and offers teleportation assistance 31 33 37.
• Flora — Fellow mansion resident whose left slipper Porsette borrows while avoiding barefoot training. Jin'en helps her return it 17 19.
• Orange stray cat — An injured animal she and Jin'en bring back to the mansion. Porsette houses it in her room and adjusts her morning plans to change its dressing 46.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arrival at Scarlet Letter Mansion

Inanna introduces Porsette as a new member of Red Letter’s “garden,” naming her Poinsettia. Although she appears frightened, Jin'en notices her systematically surveying the mansion. That night, Broken Rainbow catches her scouting a route toward the front entrance 15.

Jin'en intervenes and promises not to report her escape plans. He also explains why the routes she has investigated will not work. Porsette drops her timid façade, confirms that she is eight, and begins testing whether she can rely on him as a “big brother” 16 17.

The Extra Staircase

After noticing that the number of wall lamps changes between day and night, Porsette discovers a staircase where a corridor turn should be. It leads into an anomalous passage containing doors labeled with flower names, including Poinsettia 18.

Unable to use Anywhere Door, she confronts a small, featureless girl wearing white cloth shoes. Porsette concludes that the girl belongs to the house but was not raised by Inanna. When she promises not to tell Mother, the figure disappears and the route back to the ordinary corridor returns 18.

Training and First Mission

Porsette initially hides behind Jin'en to avoid Broken Rainbow’s footwork lessons. When Broken Rainbow is called away, Jin'en takes over and teaches her to coordinate her natural left-leading movement with changes in balance. Broken Rainbow later warns that his stance instruction could injure Porsette’s knees 17 19 21.

Her first official assignment is to retrieve Devouring Pattern from Victor Lance’s collection. Jin'en scouts the building with her and sets a thirty-second withdrawal limit. Porsette finds two other thieves inside but takes the ring and teleports out unseen; Jin'en subsequently kills them after being spotted 24 25.

Inanna gives her a passing grade and assigns Broken Rainbow to lead her future missions, with Jin'en providing backup. Their training is intended to combine Porsette’s infiltration and retreat advantages with Broken Rainbow’s ability to create chaos and handle opponents 26.

Prism’s Pursuit

A coordinate-gathering trip around Hethereau exposes Porsette to surveillance. Her rare teleportation ability makes information about her destinations valuable to groups seeking to ambush or trap her 27 29.

She joins Jin'en’s investigation into Prism, helping trace its library exchanges and identify surveillance arrangements. She agrees to stand outside the library as bait, but later recognizes that the glove left by a watcher is likely another trap—this time aimed at Jin'en 32 33 34.

Infiltration and Counter-Surveillance

Porsette’s saved destinations become central to recovering Prism’s records. She scouts a logistics storefront, learns to teleport behind a person, and retrieves a sheet listing surveillance targets. The records identify Daffodil’s bungalow as confirmed and Porsette’s mansion location as awaiting collection 36 37.

Further operations reveal that Prism intends to track Jin'en through her. Porsette helps recover the supporting documents and proposes changing their travel patterns 38.

When she and Broken Rainbow openly revisit her saved coordinates as bait, Porsette notices a van and manipulates a follower’s movements. The resulting pursuit leads them to a warehouse used by Old Zheng 43 44.

Old Port and Miguel District Operations

Porsette accompanies Jin'en and Broken Rainbow during the operation at Berth No. 3, where they recover Prism’s remaining copies of files and negatives 47.

During the subsequent Miguel District operation, she becomes trapped at Wu Xun’s pawnshop. Jin'en breaks the surrounding perception barrier, allowing her and Broken Rainbow to overcome the guards and recover a more complete contact list. Afterward, she offers to use coordinates saved at Notik Bridge to support Jin'en if he pursues the people above Prism 49.

Notable Quotes

“My ability is for running away. It doesn't work for fighting.” 19

“I'm afraid I won't be the only one inside.” 24

“Then we'd both become cards in her hand.” 30

“Wherever you go, I can open a door behind you.” 49