Bullet (BlazBlue)

Bullet is a character from the BlazBlue games.

Bullet is a member of a mercenary group that ended up massacred in a certain incident involving Sector Seven. Seeking answers, Bullet now has a bone to pick with Kokonoe and Relius.

In the XP4 fics, Bullet is captured by Hitmonlee and DarkSuperStarmon and became part of the Grand Hero Collector's collection.

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 zipper tee shared with her prior mercenary group and torn-up demin short shorts (jokingly called by a few characters as “hot pants”), along with knee high brown boots with black heels, yellow-outlined straps and white metal-toes (also shared with some members of her former group). A single belt crosses her waist with considerable length that has its tail end point out from her left-to-her right from behind, and she has a gauntlet-like weapon on her arms.

In one of her win animations, she quickly undoes the zipper on her white T-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.

In BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, she retains some parts of her original outfit except she wears dark navy jeans and navy high-heel shoes.

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. She even has trouble smiling or laughing, only able to do so when Bang tries to humor her, only for her to laugh due to how hard he’s trying instead of the joke itself; this is actually taken to its extremes in her gag scenario.

Underneath her icy and militaristic attitude, Bullet is actually good-hearted; being able to become relatively close with Bang Shishigami. However, since her usual demeanour is unusually ill-tempered and antisocial, most of the cast are generally unaware of her softer side. Also Bullet admires authority figures who show strong audacity, leadership and tough love (as seen by Litchi who temporarily mimicked being a drill sergeant).

Bullet has very little experience in anything that isn’t related to combat, warfare or her own personal history. She doesn’t feel ashamed of her outfit even when other characters consider her costume to be very revealing, this is mainly because Bullet doesn’t even know what is 'normal' attire and is loyal to wearing her military uniform (even rescuing her outfit from inside a garbage truck when Litchi stole it in a gag scenario). Bullet also seems unaware about her attractive figure, even when rude characters make direct references to her (Tao calling her “Butt Lady” and Ragna calling her “Butt Floss”). In “Teach Me, Miss Litchi”, she is oblivious to and confused by Kagura’s sexist and perverted comments throughout most of the episode. Yet while Bullet has no shame in her own appearance she has, in a hypocritical manner, criticized the sexual outfits of other characters like Makoto and Platinum.

Bullet is also shown to be slightly racist towards beastmen, 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 beastmen. As well as this, she also remarks how she won’t hold back against a non-human who smells of blood. However, in her win quote against Makoto Nanaya, she shows no real qualities of harboring racist tendencies, yet, this does not stop her antagonizing the race in her search for Kokonoe.

Abilities
Bullet wields gauntlets on her arms named Smash Hell (Sumasshu Heru), which she uses as armor to block attacks. But their main function is to create fireballs that she uses in some of her attacks. Yet these fireballs cannot act as projectiles unless Bullet fires them at the ground. Her Astral Heat shows that this weapon can expand into a larger mode, which acts like a piston: crushing down on her opponent with a full blast of heat.

Despite her powerful weapon, most of Bullet’s attacks involve her own physical strength. While she’s obviously weaker than characters like Tager or Azrael, she is strong enough to defeat other BlazBlue characters with her strength. This physical power is combined with her unique fighting style, which focuses on combos, agility, and brutality. Bullet is so vicious that she aims many of her strikes at an enemy’s face or neck. Because of her lack of projectiles, Bullet focuses on rushing at an enemy at close range and then thrashing them to submission. Yet despite her fast strikes, Bullet’s running speed isn’t as superhuman as other characters like Bang or Taokaka.

Bullet’s Drive is Lock On (Rokku On). 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 two 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 (Hīto za Bīto), Bullet is temporarily in an infinite “Heat Up” state.

Trivia

 * Bullet’s birthday, August 2, is Pants Day in Japan.
 * Her move set naming theme is military and fire.
 * 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 Popularity Glasses A where she tries various approaches she read in a book.
 * Nu-13 rates Bullet’s combat ability at B+.
 * Despite Bullet’s slightly racist views on beastmen, it seems at least one member of her team was a beastman.