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Overview

Lacrimosa is an S-Class Chaos character affiliated with the Bureau of Anomaly Control's ETD-4 unit. Recognizable by her striking black-and-white hair and her gothic aesthetic, Lacrimosa is a sustained damage dealer who specializes in applying stacking damage-over-time effects to enemies. Her combat style revolves around transformation abilities that let her shift between multiple forms, each with distinct attack patterns and visual flair.

Where burst DPS characters like Baicang deliver concentrated spikes of damage, Lacrimosa takes the opposite approach. She layers DoT effects that tick away at enemy health consistently, punishing enemies over the course of an encounter. This makes her less flashy in the moment but extremely effective in total damage output over longer fights.

Character Profile

Combat Kit

Lacrimosa's combat revolves around summoning Esper constructs and transforming into different forms. Her normal attacks summon bats that strike enemies with Chaos energy, each hit applying a stack of her signature DoT. As stacks accumulate on a target, the tick damage intensifies, creating a ramp-up effect that rewards keeping pressure on the same enemies.

Her skills trigger transformation sequences. One of her most notable transformations turns her into a small demon form, granting enhanced attack speed and additional Chaos damage on each hit. Another transformation turns her into what players have nicknamed the "trashcan dog," a creature that spews flaming trash at enemies in a cone-shaped area. This transformation provides her strongest AoE coverage and is effective for softening up groups before focusing on priority targets.

Lacrimosa's Ultimate unleashes a massive Chaos burst that deals heavy immediate damage while also refreshing and extending all active DoT stacks on affected enemies. This creates a synergy loop: build stacks through normal attacks and skills, then use the Ultimate to amplify and extend those stacks for continued damage pressure.

What truly defines Lacrimosa's playstyle is her construct summoning mechanic. She creates ethereal constructs that fight on her behalf while she herself falls asleep. This is not a metaphor; Lacrimosa literally enters a sleeping state during certain abilities, and her summoned constructs continue attacking autonomously. The constructs deal sustained Chaos damage independently of player input, making her one of the most unique damage dealers in the game's roster.

Lacrimosa also summons bats as part of her attack patterns. These bat swarms function as both visual flair and actual damage sources, swarming enemies and applying Chaos damage ticks. The bats work in conjunction with her other constructs, creating multiple sources of autonomous damage that pressure enemies from different angles simultaneously. In practice, a fully set-up Lacrimosa can have her constructs, bats, and DoT effects all damaging enemies at once while she rests.

This sleep-and-summon approach makes Lacrimosa a unique summoner-type character with autonomous damage output. She does not need to be on the field actively attacking to maintain her damage contribution. Once her constructs and bats are deployed, the team can swap to another character while Lacrimosa's summons continue their assault in the background. This off-field damage potential is what makes her so powerful in the Esper Cycle rotation system.

Strengths

• Strong sustained damage through stacking damage-over-time effects that continue ticking even while she is off-field

• Transformation abilities provide both AoE and single-target coverage depending on the form used

• Better survivability than many other DPS characters due to built-in defensive scaling during transformations

• Chaos element pairs with Incantation for Scorch (DoT burn) and with Psyche for Nova (burst damage) reactions

• Her DoT continues dealing damage when swapped off-field. This adds to team DPS during the Esper Cycle

Weaknesses

• Damage ramps up over time rather than being immediately available, making her less effective in content requiring quick burst kills

• Transformation cooldowns can create downtime if abilities are not managed carefully

• In very short encounters, faster burst characters will outperform her total damage

• The trashcan dog form, while powerful, has limited mobility and can be interrupted by certain boss mechanics

Team Synergy

Lacrimosa pairs naturally with Incantation characters to trigger the Scorch reaction, which applies an additional burn DoT on top of her existing stacks. Baicang is the strongest Incantation partner, as his burst damage and her sustained damage complement each other perfectly. While Baicang spikes during Ultimate windows, Lacrimosa's DoTs keep damage flowing during his downtime.

She also works well alongside Psyche characters for the Nova reaction, which provides burst AoE damage when Chaos and Psyche effects overlap. Fadia can fill the Psyche slot while also providing healing, creating a self-sustaining team that deals consistent damage without needing to retreat.

In the Esper Cycle System, Lacrimosa excels as a character who is swapped in to refresh DoT stacks and then swapped out while those stacks continue ticking. This lets her contribute steady off-field damage that complements whichever teammate is currently on the field.

Lacrimosa's autonomous constructs make her an exceptional sub-DPS in quick-swap team compositions. She can deploy her constructs, summon her bats, and then swap out to let a main DPS like Nanally or Hathor take the field while her summons continue dealing Chaos damage. This layered damage approach is central to high-end team building strategies.

Her Chaos element also pairs with Haniel's Psyche element to trigger the Nova reaction, creating a delayed damage burst that complements Lacrimosa's sustained DoT output. The combination of Nova bursts and ongoing construct damage creates a damage profile that never lets up.

Personality and Lore

Despite her intimidating gothic appearance and combat transformations, Lacrimosa has a layered personality that unfolds through character bond stories. She is more complex than her brooding exterior suggests, and her backstory ties into the wider lore of ETD-4 and the anomalies the Bureau investigates. Players who invest in her character bonds discover a softer side beneath the Chaos-wielding exterior.

Lacrimosa is a member of ETD-4, a specialized unit within the Bureau of Anomaly Control. She works alongside Fadia and Skia in the unit. Her distinctive black-and-white hair is her most recognizable visual feature, making her instantly identifiable even among the game's large character roster. The duality of her hair color mirrors the duality of her character: the sleeping girl and the deadly constructs she commands.

Tips

• Focus on building DoT stacks before using her Ultimate. The Ultimate refreshes and extends all active stacks, so using it early wastes potential damage.

• Swap to Lacrimosa periodically to refresh her DoTs, then swap back to your main on-field character. Her off-field damage is a significant portion of team DPS.

• In AoE situations, use the trashcan dog transformation to spread Chaos stacks across multiple enemies quickly.

• For team building, pair her with Baicang and Fadia for one of the strongest elemental reaction teams at launch.

• Her survivability is higher than most DPS characters, but she still benefits from a healer in challenging content.

Base Stats Reference

Quick numerical reference compiled from the in-game character profile. Stats listed at character Level 1 represent the base values before Awakening, Console Modules, Cartridges, or Arc weapons modify them.

Level 1 Base Stats

Lacrimosa's starting numerical baseline before progression systems begin layering bonuses on top.

Slot and Progression Counts

Each character is built from a fixed grid of skills, console-side passives, and progression tiers. The counts below describe the maximum slots ever exposed for this Esper, regardless of which ones are unlocked at any given Awakening rank.

Voice Actors

Lacrimosa is voiced across the three primary localizations supported on launch.