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ElyKallen is the femslash ship between Elysia and Kallen Kaslana from the Honkai fandom.
Canon[]
Elysia and Kallen, being from separate eras, have never interacted. They don’t have direct lore connections either, in the same way Elysia and Kiana do. However, the two do have some similarities, the main one being that they both have parallels to the biblical and historical figure Jesus. For starters, both have been depicted with a crown of thorns that are an explicit reference to Jesus’s crown of thorns. Elysia has worn the Thorny Crown item multiple times, such as in the Version 6.0 PV. And an image of Kallen wore a crown of thorns in the AE visual novel. Both characters also sacrifice themselves for the sake of humanity, in the same way Jesus died to atone for humanity’s sins. Elysia’s sacrifice has those same large scale stakes, in which her death is what allows future Herrschers to maintain their humanity. Kallen, meanwhile, was unfairly criminalized and brought to execution like Jesus, but ultimately she died to save humans that were in danger from a Honkai beast. Additionally, in Chapter 26, Otto mentions that worshippers of the Holy Maid believed Kallen’s death would atone for the sins of all living beings. Elysia and Kallen have many Jesus parallels beyond that (i.e. Elysia being a divine being living among humanity and having a versin of the last supper, or Kallen being regarded as a sort of martyr figure after her death). Though these are the parallels that they have in common.
On top of that, Elysia and Kallen have some minor similarities, like being in the top most powerful ones of their organizations. Kallen was the most powerful Valkyrie of Schicksal, and Elysia’s power is on par with the strongest one of the MOTHs, Kevin.
In the Honkai Carnival 2023, Elysia collaborated with Otto and Kallen at Schicksal to make a sequel to Kallen Fantasy. This turns out to be the "Elysian Idol Career Program" (a continuation of "My Idol Debut Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected" from Honkai Carnival 2022), and any interactions Elysia and Kallen might have had working on this are never shown.
Quotes[]
- Elysia – “Lots of cute girls here. You wanna make them your test subjects?”
- Mobius – “Hm, I think the one with white hair is nice.”
- Elysia – “Are you talking about Kiana, Theresa, or Kallen?”
- — Elysia and Mobius dorm dialogue
- “Now you can check out our collaboration with Miss Elysia! It's super fun!”
- — Kallen introducing "Elysian Idol Career Program", Honkai Carnival 2023
Fanon[]
ElyKallen is a rarepair, with no existing fan art or fics. Most discussion about them resolves around how they both parallel Jesus. Elysia is commonly regarded as Honkai's "Lesbian Jesus" because of these parallels plus her heavy lesbian coding. Many have found that Kallen also fits the title of "Lesbian Jesus" due to her being a canon lesbian and also having parallels to Jesus. Due to this, fans would think the two would get along if they met. Some have brought up that since Kallen is in love with Yae Sakura, a pink-haired girl, she might also be into Elysia.
Fandom[]
- ElyKallen posts on Twitter
- Kallen x Elysia posts on Twitter
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