Bullet

Bullet is a mercenary and a playable character in BlazBlue: Chronophantasma.

Information
Bullet is a member of a mercenary squad who appears to be against Sector Seven, due to an incident in the past involving Sector Seven which led to the deaths of her squad mates. Having been raised by mercenaries since she was young, she fights from one battlefield to another.

She dislikes Amane Nishiki as he was once brought in to the squad to teach them how to fight, but he had taught them how to dance instead since he had mistaken the word squad (部隊) for dance stage (舞台) due to the same pronunciation in Japanese (in the English dub, Amane mistook the words "troop" and "troupe").

After having traversed Ikaruga for sometime, Bullet runs into Valkenhayn; however, the two begin a sour relationship as Bullet makes racist remarks towards him, questioning him on Kokonoe's whereabouts due to him being a Beastkin like her. In response, Valkenhayn coldly tells her that he wouldn't tell her any information even if he could. Bullet, believing that he actually knows about Kokonoe's whereabouts, tries to forcefully get the information from Valkenhayn, commenting that she doesn't like fighting those much older than her, but that she won't hold back against someone who is drenched in the smell of blood, especially a Beastkin. They engage in combat but it is cut short as Rachel Alucard calls for Valkenhayn to come to her side; before he leaves, he comments that he has seen her fighting style before but he has forgotten where. Valkenhayn promptly leaves before Bullet can ask what he meant by those words; she begins to try and hunt him down in the hope that she may find some answers.

Desperately trying to track down Valkenhayn, Bullet instead runs into Tager, prompting him to ask what she is doing; dumbfounded by her luck, Bullet asks for Kokonoe. Tager comments on how she expects him to answer that question but instead, Kokonoe answers it; Kokonoe asks for Bullet's name and Bullet replies her name and begins asking about the Deus Machina: Nirvana retrieval event in the 4th Hierarchical City of Naobi from five years ago, a mission which her squad where hired to partake in for Sector Seven. Kokonoe answered, lying that she didn't know very much on the operation, only that Nirvana was found and retrieved; Bullet began to comment on how Relius Clover seemingly planned the entire operation and was the person responsible for hiring her squad, and revealing that the only reason that she is alive is because she was wounded prior to the operation and couldn't participate. Angered by the truth of her survival, Bullet demanded to know who the other survivor of the operation is, only to have Kokonoe lie, and say that the person had actually died in combat but Bullet refused to acknowledge what had just been said. Getting sick of having her time wasted, and knowing that Bullet was digging into truths that she desired to be hidden; Kokonoe ordered Tager to remove Bullet. However, the shock of what he just heard had been nothing short of a blow to Tager and he asked Kokonoe to repeat the order; unable to concentrate, Tager engaged Bullet, but the fight was cut short as the ground began to shake, open up and swallow them both whole.

Arriving in the area around the cauldron of Ibukido, Bullet wonders where Tager disappeared to, but the time spent wondering is cut short once again as Nu-13 descends into the arena and begins to activate. Hazama looks on at the two combatants and comments on how a 'strange' person got caught in the trap. Realising that Bullet must be someone of some importance in the game that Izanami is playing, Hazama commands Nu to play with Bullet; confused and not sure of what else to do, Bullet readies herself to fight the Murakumo Unit. Shortly after the fight, Amaterasu rewinds time to the point where Bullet arrived in Ikaruga; all of the events that happened became nothing more than a blurry memory.

Personality
Likely due to her upbringing, Bullet behaves in a very militaristic and literal manner, taking an aggressive approach to almost everything. In Story Mode, she frequently becomes impatient when things aren't progressing as quickly as she expected and becomes increasingly hostile as a result, threatening a civilian when he began panicking during her attempt to interrogate him for information. During her brief travel with Bang, he noted how she was rather solitary and constantly on alert.

Bullet is also shown to be slightly racist towards Beastkin, this is shown in her Arcade battle against Valkenhayn, where she asks him if he knows where Kokonoe is due to the both of them being Beastkin. As well as this, she also remarks how she wont hold back against a non-human who smells of blood.

Appearance
Bullet's physical appearance is that of a young woman with white hair, golden eyes, dark skin, large breasts and a scar across her nose. She wears a black jacket with a white button-up tee and torn-up short shorts, along with knee high black and white heeled boots. A single belt crosses her waist, and she has a gauntlet-like Armagus on her arms.

In one of her win animations, she quickly undoes the buttons on her white button shirt as she spins while taking off her black jacket and stands to her defeated opponent while handling her jacket over her shoulders as her strapless black bra is now seen. The black bra she wears is similar to Litchi's.

As a child, her appearance is almost identical to her adult self, except she had shorter hair, she wore a short, white bra-like top with a short, black vest, and wore dark brown leather gloves.

Powers and Abilites
Bullet's drive is Lockon. Drive attacks will allow her to quickly rush at her opponent and grab them, provided that she is close enough to the opponent; all her Drive attacks can be blocked however, as they are only command grabs. For every successful grab, Bullet can gain a Heat Up level which increases her Drive strength, her projectile distance and her movement speed; up to three Heat Up levels can be gained and each level is lost over a certain period of time; when she lands an unsuccessful Drive attack or when she uses a projectile.

During her Overdrive, Heat the Beat, Bullet is temporarily in an infinite "Heat Up" state.

Etymology
A bullet is a projectile that is either fired or slung by a firearm or some kind of sling. The word itself originates from Middle French; boulette means cannonball and small ball which is a diminutive of the Middle French word for ball (boule), which in turn came from Latin bulla (round thing). She may be named after the projectile because of her occupation as a mercenary.

Trivia

 * Bullet's birthday, August 2, is Pants Day in Japan.
 * Bullet can get caught off guard when romance is involved, shown in the Teach Me Miss Litchi segment where she becomes confused when Kagura attempts to flirt with her and again when Ragna is subjected to the Spectacles of Eros Mk.II where she tries various approaches she read in a book.
 * In one of BlazBlue: Chronophantasma story mode's gag endings, she falls victim to Litchi's cosplay fetish much like Tsubaki and Noel's gag reels in the previous games. In this reel, she is tricked by Tsubaki, Noel, and Litchi into wearing a Ragna costume, a Rachel costume, and a Platinum costume. Her case of wearing the Ragna costume is a specially designed female variant and is based on the female version of him seen in BlazBlue Radio: Hyper ArcFes Recording Special. Ironically, despite Bullet's dislike of skirts, all three costumes, including the Ragna costume, have skirts on them.