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| + | == Background == | ||
| + | A little after the Warring Ages began on Belka and the Book of Darkness started leaving its mark upon the universe, a small-time conspiracy with big dreams called Doppelkreuz (Double Cross -- they meant the name literally) formed on Belka. It is ... controversial among historians whether they were good guys or bad guys, with the general consensus being that they ''wanted'' to be good but had fairly authoritarian views on how to accomplish things, but their goal was straightforward to describe: they wanted to overthrow the Saint Kings, take over Belka, and bring "order" to the world. Simple, really. | ||
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| + | They intended to create an entire legion of Griffritter knights, living magical programs based on the Wolkenritter but loyal solely to Doppelkreuz and its ideals, who would continue to fight even if the conspiracy itself was destroyed. The first was intended to be the prototype, from which the rest would be derived. In addition to the usual things like enhanced strength and speed, Griffritter Nachtglocke I was made to seem strange and otherworldly by way of demonic markings (glowing magical tatoos) and slitted glowing catlike eyes (cybernetics affixed to her irises), and her Armed Device, Rubindorn, had somewhat nonstandard additions to make it seem weirder (which amounted to a kind of "Not Invented Here" in some places, and an AI that wasn't exactly humanlike the way Nachtglocke was but which ''talked'' in a humanlike manner and thus sometimes fell into the uncanny valley). | ||
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| + | Her mind, however, was completely human. It never occurred to anyone in Doppelkreuz to worry or even wonder about the psychological effects on an artificial soldier who was created specifically to look monstrous. | ||
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| + | Unfortunately, in the end, Doppelkreuz's scientists bit off more than they could chew. They intended to create two dozen Griffritter units in half a year, but it took them two years just to make the first one. Worse, she was only slightly stronger than the average Belkan Knight (or magical girl) ... but Doppelkreuz never actually found this out, because by that time, the Saint King's forces had caught wind of their activities, and they didn't give the conspiracy time to activate or even test the unit. In the ensuing battle, one of Doppelkreuz's other experiments exploded, and part of the laboratory was blasted into the Dusk Zone. Doppelkreuz was defeated and its surviving members were imprisoned or executed. | ||
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| + | Ritterglocke and Rubindorn's standby form lay together in the Dusk Zone, connected by a small chain, for a the better part of a thousand years. The good news was, they remained ''functional''. The bad news was, they spent the entire time exposed to dark energy, which slowly corrupted their systems in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. The most obvious change was that their color schemes shifted towards black and red and gray. The second-most obvious change was that Nachtglocke would consider much ... darker ways of fulfilling her purpose than Doppelkreuz ever intended. For that matter, her systems began to view dark energy as being just as vital to her systems as her regular mana, if not moreso. That said, it gave her a boost in power, enough that she could hold her own against ... maybe three or four magical girls at once. For a little while. Possibly. | ||
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| + | Finally, Ritterglocke and Rubindorn were recovered by Eclipse and taken to Earth. Riventon wasn't available, so the two were turned over to one of Eclipse's other scientists, Dr. Yuki Murano, a professor at Infinity University who was well versed in Belkan Devices; she was quite surprised to have an entire Belkan Knight suddenly materialize in her laboratory. This caught the attention of Professor Tomoe, who wanted to know whether whether there were any more of her (no), whether Eclipse could create any other Griffritter units (no), and whether Nachtglocke could be controlled (yes, in the sense that she obeyed voluntarily). | ||
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| + | During a conversation with Dr. Murano and Professor Tomoe (the latter videoconferencing remotely from another building for safety), Bell herself was the one who realized that her programmed-in purpose technically said "bring order to the world", not "bring order to Belka", and with the Saint Kings long dead, she was completely free to fulfill her purpose on Earth. After learning enough Japanese in the space of two months to disguise herself as a human schoolgirl, she pledged her loyalty to Eclipse. She wasn't granted any power within the organization, but that suited her just fine; she was quite happy to be a weapon, rather than an officer. Professor Tomoe then assigned Dr. Murano as Nightbell's handler. | ||
Revision as of 17:04, 19 June 2018
| Nightbell (Scenesys ID: 222) (ACTIVE?: Yes) | |||
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| "At midnight, the bell tolls for thee! Now show me what you got!" | |||
| Profile | |||
| Name: | Nightbell | AKA: | Akari Hayamusa, Griffritter Nachtglocke I |
| Gender: | Female | Theme: | (OC) Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha |
| School: | Infinity University | Grade: | N/A |
| Clubs: | Kendo | Age: | 16 (physically), 982 (chronologically), 2 months (uptime) |
| Factional Information | |||
| Faction: | Eclipse | Groups | N/A |
Profile
A living magical program in the form of an Ancient Belkan Knight, created by a short-lived conspiracy for the purpose of bringing order to the world. The Storage Device containing Griffritter Nachtglocke I lay in the depths of the Dusk Zone for a thousand years, getting a nice healthy overdose of dark energy, before it was recovered by Eclipse. When she was activated, she decided that her purpose technically didn't specify which world her purpose referred to, so she started adapting to life on Earth, translated her name as "Nightbell", adopted the civilian pseudonym Akari Hayabusa, and with her Armed Device Rubindorn, she set to work bringing order to the world under the auspices of Eclipse -- whether Earth wants it or not!
(Bell's handler at Eclipse, Dr. Yuki Murano, really wishes she was back in her lab examining ancient Belkan artifacts. On the other hand, this is technically still exactly what she's doing.)
Skills
Dark Magical Girl, Exact Words, "Work Equals Pleasure" Villain, Insecurity About Inhumanity, Enthusiastically Evil, Eldritch Markings (Magical Tattoos), Demonic Eyes (Cybernetics), Warrior Philosopher, Battle Is Love Battle Is Life, A Stranger I Remain, Makes Excuses I MEAN Totally Chill About Losing
Vital Trivia
Height: 6'8" (Nightbell), 5'9" (Akari)
Blood Type: Digital
Birthday: N/A
Likes: Order, dark energy
Dislikes: Peoples' stupidity
Favorite Food: N/A
Least Favorite Food: N/A
Favorite Subject: PE
Least Favorite Subject: N/A
Logs
| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Tanabata ECFH Style | July 14th, 2019 | It's Tanabata! There's a party on the Earth Court Frat House building's roof. |
| A Ros(ali)e By Any Other Name | June 10th, 2019 | Bell and Rashmi visit Fate and Nanoha at the Waldians' home to get the ball rolling on giving Bell her new civilian identity of Rosalie Janus. |
| Feeling Very Jelly | May 29th, 2019 | (Content warning: strong language.) Riley teams up with Bell to take down a jellyfish-youma! In spite of being mildly disastrous (and the fight wasn't exactly a clean victory either), Bell explains a bit more about the magical affairs in Tokyo. |
| Off the Job, Not Off the Hook | April 26th, 2019 | Lacrima and Bell meet at the ECFH and catch up. Lacrima learns that Mr. Mysterious has started giving others the "capture Bell" job. |
| Bell's Night Out | March 31st, 2019 | Bell gets stir-crazy and wanders off to downtown Mitakihara. This proves to be a bad idea, as the shadowy figure sends some (non-UMBRA!) youma-bots after her! Fortunately, Sakura and Cure Victory are there to help her out! Unfortunately, Bell's leg is injured in the process ... |
| Not On Her Last Legs | March 31st, 2019 | Immediately after Bell's Night Out, Mari helps Bell reach the ECFH, where she gets healing from Daisuke. |
| Akari Apprehension! | March 14th, 2019 | Lacrima gets a more urgent order to go after Akari at School of all places. Lacrima drags Unmei along for another fake ambush. Luckily, Rei, Millie and Rashmi are there to protect her! |
| Mocha and Milk | March 12th, 2019 | Signum and Zafira drop by Gullwing Coffee. While Akari is working there. |
| Mutually-Supporting Sisters | March 10th, 2019 | Akari is feeling worse about Dr. Murano's death. Sakura is heartbroken over Yukito turning her down. With Haruna's assistance, they're at least able to find support in each other. |
| The Earliest Memory of Clara Meriva | March 7th, 2019 | While Haruna is getting coffee in the Gullwing bunker, Akari wakes up from a dream which completely throws her perspective on life for a loop. |
| His Best Elsa Impression | February 26th, 2019 | Jadeite plays bait, Zafira takes the bait, and Akari comes running to the rescue when this trio of misfit toys collides. The results might be mixed, but hey, nobody got linker-ganked! |
| Burgers at the Crown | February 22nd, 2019 | Akari and Millie head to the Crown, where they meet a man named Yagami. They have a friendly conversation, little knowing that he's actually Zafira. |
| Knowing How You Feel | February 17th, 2019 | Akari meets with Runealy and Fate to talk about something the three of them have in common: what it's like to lose a mother figure. |
| Taking Flight Once Again | February 13th, 2019 | Akari shows off some of what she can do, now that her Linker Core is recovered and no longer has a limiter in her human form. Of course, the topic of conversation gets heavy in the process. |
| A Chance Meeting of Great Snackisfaction | February 6th, 2019 | Nanoha and Fate and Akari meet Hayate! They talk about ice cream, family and making a bunch fo sweet potato chips! Nanoha, Fate and Akari talk about Akari's recent goings ons via device chat. |
| Pre-Practice Chat | February 2nd, 2019 | Akari and Millie have a chat about feelings. By the end, things are back to ... well, about as normal as they get at the moment. |
| An Odd Checkup | January 31st, 2019 | Rei drops by Gullwing Coffee to check up on Akari. The verdict is good. |
| Lending Her Strength | January 25th, 2019 | Right before they head out for their daily training, Akari has an interesting request for Millie: she wants her to use Rubindorn and Ritterglocke so that they can have a better picture of Akari's situation. However, their subsequent walk from the coffee shop is interrupted. |
| New Puella, old problems | January 18th, 2019 | Erato meets with two(heavily weakened) defenders of light! And discuss many important things... Also, pranks are fun. |
| The Same Favor Again | January 14th, 2019 | Akari decides not to mess with what works, and asks Runealy for help with the dark energy contamination she got from the Wolkenritter's mysterious book. |
| Emergency Shutdown | January 9th, 2019 | Akari and Millie are headed to Gullwing for post-training snacks. Signum and Zafira want their Linker Cores. Nothing goes as planned, especially when you panic. |
| Have You Tried Switching Your Sister Off And On Again? | January 9th, 2019 | After the events of Emergency Shutdown, Sakura rescues Akari and Millie, and uses Ritterglocke to give Akari quick repairs. The conclusion is obvious: the Wolkenritter aren't as evil as they seem. With Rubindorn unable to talk much, Akari invites Millie to stay the night. |
| Putting Yourself Back Together | January 6th, 2019 | Millie comes to visit Akari in Haruna's bunker and learns the horrible truth about why Akari has been incommunicado all week. However, Akari has spent that time recovering, and is nearly ready to return to work and to patrols. |
| Things You Can't Take Back | December 30th, 2018 | CONTENT WARNING: Blood, NPC Death - Lacrima needs to finally make an attempt to bringing Akari back to Eclipse. Luckily, Sailor Mars shows up to protect her! Not so luckily, Saint George does something he can't take back. |
| Life After | December 30th, 2018 | The morning after the events of Things You Can't Take Back, Akari hasn't come in for work, so Haruna and Sakura come to investigate. When she finds out what happened, Sakura gives Akari ALL the hugs! |
| A Special Gift | December 22nd, 2018 | In an attempt to steal christmas, the Grinches and Krampuses of the dream realm swipe something more deeply important. The mahous give chase and find more than they bargained for as a result. |
| Practice Makes Protection | December 21st, 2018 | Makio comes across Akari and Millie training in the park, but the proceedings are interrupted by a storm cloud youma! |
| A little advice abouts boys, Part 1 | December 20th, 2018 | Sakura asks her big sisters for advice on confessing her love! Now, stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of Sakura's love life! |
| A Real Magical Girl | December 17th, 2018 | Unmei and Akari discuss their respective current situations, plus Unmei's new merch. |
| Wolf Writers | December 10th, 2018 | Minako heads to Gullwing Coffee to meet Akari! The two discuss Eclipse, Lacrima, the mysterious silhouette, and the Wolkenritter. |
| Staying Safe | December 9th, 2018 | Millie discovers that Akari is Gullwing's latest employee. The two talk about life, and Akari's current situation. |
| Working with Another Big Sis | December 8th, 2018 | Sakura and Akari chat a bit while working at the Gullwing Cafe. |
| Safer Places Than Warehouses: A GUIDE FOR THE MAGICAL REFUGEE | December 6th, 2018 | The new book from C. Gull, coming soon. Also Haruna helps Akari find a place in her magical bunker basement while she gets back on her feet from running from Eclipse and a breakup. |
| Clotho's linker core | December 4th, 2018 | Clotho meets Signum and tries to fight her one on one! It... goes about as well as could be expected. Fortunately, Akari is there to haul her somewhere safe. |
| Frybery | December 3rd, 2018 | Kyouko is in a Bad Mood. Unmei attempts to bribe her with fries to minimal effect. Akari also happens by and nearly gets interrogated. |
| Broken Shield | December 2nd, 2018 | In the aftermath of Mining for Trouble, Akari teleports to the ECFH balcony with the injured Millie. Lacrima and Kunzite come to help soon after. |
| Mining for problems | December 2nd, 2018 | (Content warning: somewhat graphic injuries) Tarnished, once again, decides to cause trouble for... everyone. Once Cure Shield and Akari show up, however, they find out she has a new toy. The Chimera. While it's not enough to fight Akari head on, it did keep her busy long enough for Tarnished and Cure Shield to have a fight. A fight that leaves one of them violently maimed, and the other one with a shattered shield. Hopefully this won't cause the Cure any more problems... |
| Away from Eclipse's Eyes | November 28th, 2018 | Akari and Lacrima meet in the ECFH and talk about current events. Talking point number 1: Akari is single again. |
| More Intense Practice in the Park | November 23rd, 2018 | While Akari and Millie are training in the park in the hopes of someday being able to take on the Wolkenritter, Kukai drops in. |
| The Core of the Matter | November 21st, 2018 | Just on the heels of 'Shame and Duty', Nanoha Takamachi, Akari Hayabusa and Cure Shield encounter the Wolkenritter- Signum and Zafira, mistaking them for potential friends--- until they steal Nanoha's linker core and all heck breaks loose. |
| Existentialism | November 21st, 2018 | Akari comes home to the hideout after the events of The Core of the Matter. By the end of her conversation with Mikoto, she has a plan. |
| Cheesed Off | November 18th, 2018 | In her first battle post-purification, Akari faces a pizza-youma alongside Mikoto, Millie, and Jiaying. |
| On Her Way Out | November 15th, 2018 | On her last day at the Waldians' home, Akari has a chat with Fate about joining the Aces. |
| Back Home | November 15th, 2018 | After On Her Way Out, Akari and Mikoto return to the hideout. Akari invites Mikoto and Hikari to join the Aces. |
| A Work in Progress | November 14th, 2018 | Sakura visits Akari at the Waldians' home, where they have a chat about how far Akari has come. |
| Safe Room Chat | November 12th, 2018 | (CW: allusions to abuse) While Akari convalesces in the Waldians' safe room, Fate stops by for a chat. Akari learns she isn't alone. |
| Life Without Darkness | November 12th, 2018 | After the events of Safe Room Chat, Mikoto drops by. They chat about several things. |
| Let This Cruel Shell Be Ripped Away | November 11th, 2018 | Akari and Mikoto visit the Waldians' house in Mitakihara, so that Runealy can attempt to purify her. The results are initially ... painful, but better than expected. |
| Making Arrangements | November 10th, 2018 | After the events of About Your Girlfriend, Akari and Mikoto arrange a meeting with Princess Runealy. Plans are made, both for defense and for purification. |
| On Creatures of Darkness | November 9th, 2018 | Akari and Millie happen to cross paths, and team up to fight a panther-youma. Millie then adds herself to the growing number of people who are willing to defend Akari against Lacrima. |
| Those Who Remained | November 4th, 2018 | A continuation of Trouble in the barrier Garden, wherein the two who stayed behind fight further and also escape! |
| Back Home | November 4th, 2018 | After the events of Those Who Remained, Akari comes home to Mikoto's hideout. Mikoto was worried -- and rightly so. |
| Trouble in the Barrier Garden! | November 3rd, 2018 | Runealy, Gaofele, Akari, Jiaying, and Tyrfing go to investigate a garden! They encounter The Thorn and learn some information before they're forced to flee! ... Except for Jiaying and Akari... what will be their fate?! |
| Togetherness | November 1st, 2018 | Akari and Mikoto talk about the situation with Eclipse. Both of them are confident, in the end. |
| Bad News | November 1st, 2018 | Ami tracks down Akari, and delivers the bad news about the situation with Lacrima. But there is hope. |
| I'm Not Freaking Out | November 1st, 2018 | After the events of Bad News, Akari's number one priority is of course letting Sakura-imoutochan know about the situation. |
| How It Feels to Be a Hero | October 27th, 2018 | Akari brings Sakura up to speed about her new life! But when she tries to call up Lacrima afterward, it looks like things might not be as good as they seem ... |
| The Good, the Bad, and the Crunchy | October 24th, 2018 | Part of this complete Stahlfist! A breakfast cereal youma goes on a rampage, and Nightbell is the first to the plate for getting rid of it. The cornflakes get soggy as the fight goes on, meaning that "crunchy" is less-than-accurate for the monster. It soon becomes clear to the heroes that "bad" isn't all that accurate for Akari, either. |
| Dreams of Ancient Belka | October 20th, 2018 | After months of only ever sleeping in her Nightbell form, Akari has the first dream she can remember! It leads to an interesting discovery. |
| Quitting While You're Ahead | October 16th, 2018 | Lacrima tracks down Akari at ... her home. They have a serious discussion about Akari's desire to leave Eclipse. (And names.) |
| The Only Things I Know Are Real | October 14th, 2018 | Nightbell and Tessen have their promised duel. Then Akari and Mikoto figure out the truth about the relationship between "Akari" and "Nightbell." |
| Hagane and Frau Doktor | October 13th, 2018 | While investigating into UMBRA's current events, Hagane comes across Dr. Murano. Some information and questions are exchanged. |
| The Bell Tolls | October 11th, 2018 | Nightbell rigs up the toll booths to drain energy. Due to the warning she gave Sakura during Cutest Bully, things go horribly even by Nightbell's standards. But it looks like words (and Sakura's hugs) are starting to work on her. |
| Cutest bully | October 6th, 2018 | Lacrima decides to Bully Sakura and take the darkness card. Sakura would have fought but... Her wand wasn't working. Oh dear. Fortunately, Big Sister Bell came to save the day! |
| Two Knights and a Monster | September 29th, 2018 | Nightbell and Stahlritter have the world's most uneasy teamup against a shadowy dragon-youma. |
| Good Food, Good Music | September 28th, 2018 | Akari meets Mikoto's "sister" Hikari. Then, during her latest date with Mikoto, she has her first kiss. And her second. And ... |
| Sister meets Sister | September 26th, 2018 | Sakura introduces Haruna and Akari, best big sisters! Also, find out Taka is okay! Ish. |
| Akari's First Date | September 16th, 2018 | Akari and Mikoto stop for ice cream, when suddenly Akari asks a question which changes the course of the conversation quite a bit! |
| A Walk in the Park and the Maze | September 11th, 2018 | Nightbell and Sakura have a philosophical heart to heart which mostly takes place in the Maze Card. |
| Back in the Saddle | September 9th, 2018 | Nightbell tries out Dr. Murano's new Zerobot, a robotic horse. Things go very badly as a result of Sakura-imouto showing up. |
| Friends On Opposite Sides | September 1st, 2018 | Nightbell apologizes to Rashmi for smashing her through a building. The ensuing conversation goes a lot better than she expected. |
| Confessions and Final Judgment | August 27th, 2018 | Nightbell invites Sakura over to talk about the birthday Sakura missed, and Sakura gives her a present. Then Bell accidentally reveals the stakes if Sakura loses. |
| A Belated Birthday Party | August 26th, 2018 | Akari's birthday party with Mikoto, Rashmi, and Fate at the Korma Chameleon. |
| Ring the Bell | August 24th, 2018 | Bell and Tarnished have a training match which results in some high intensity emotions. In the end, Tarnished runs her through some of her tai chi exercises and the two calm down with meditation. |
| Rooftop Meet and Greet | August 19th, 2018 | Nightbell and Tarnished meet on the roof of Infinity University. Tarnished has an interesting proposal. |
| Urban Jungle | August 18th, 2018 | A Silent Sand-Gorilla punches Kokoro to establish dominance. No one can figure out how to hold threat. |
| A Fine Evening in the Golden Kingdom | August 12th, 2018 | On the evening of Empress Endymion's ball, Dame Akari Hayabusa and Dame Mikoto Nakajima of Her Majesty's Left Hand meet together in the rose garden, deciding to spend their time together rather than joining the public festivities. Then something unexpected happens. |
| Mirai's Last Dance | August 11th, 2018 | Part Two of Three: After stealing Mamoru's soul and combining it with her Jewel Seed and three Grief Seeds, Sailor Earth plunges the world into a false version of the Golden Kingdom and holds a grand ball in her own honor as Empress Endymion. |
| Big Sis Nightbell (Akari) | August 10th, 2018 | Nightbell invites Sakura over so that she can reveal her secret identity as Akari. Akari then invites Sakura to her birthday party! |
| Thrown for a LOOP | August 9th, 2018 | Sakura and Bell are caught at the shrine, stuck in a loop! Fortunately, working together, they managed to cut back out into the real world. Only three cards to go... But something new approaches on the horizon. |
| I was here all along! | August 7th, 2018 | Clotho has appeared(she was totally here all along!) and meets a few new magical girls in Nightbell and Star Sword(Kinda got a theme with their names, don't they?) However, the night is truly taken captive my Lamya, an honest to goodness dragon! |
| Birthdays and Lemonade | August 6th, 2018 | Akari meets Mikoto and lets slip that she hasn't had much of a birthday before. Mikoto starts making plans, and Akari finds herself surprisingly touched. |
| A Little Less Dark, Please | August 2nd, 2018 | Bell meets Lacrima to talk about how to control her dark energy -- both in the sense of reeling in her aggressive tendencies, and learning how to dusk step. |
| Practice in the Park | July 20th, 2018 | Akari and Sora meet in the park while practicing their respective sports. Sora gives Akari a bit of extra encouragement. |
| One More Test | July 15th, 2018 | Dr. Murano and Nightbell set up draining-machines on two rooftops this time, and one of them comes with a surprise! However, things get really out of hand when Cute Witch Kazeko shows up. |
| Milkshakes at the Crown | July 4th, 2018 | Milkshakes, art and conversation about sparring. Typical afternoon at the Crown. |
| Kendo Club Blues | June 25th, 2018 | Akari joins Infinity's Kendo Club, where she befriends Mikoto. |
| Red Blade, Blue Fans | June 24th, 2018 | Nightbell and Dr. Murano's second test run is interrupted when Tessen shows up. A rivalry is born. |
| A Chance Encounter | June 23rd, 2018 | Lacrima comes across Nightbell recuperating in the Dusk Zone. |
| Dark Knights and Stars | June 21st, 2018 | Dr. Murano sets up an energy-draining device on an apartment building in order to draw in heroes for a test of Nightbell's combat abilities. It goes about as well as you'd expect when someone filled with dark energy picks a fight with someone who has purification powers. |
Cutscenes
| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Frau Doktor (Nightbell) | October 5th, 2018 | Nightbell drives Dr. Murano home from the hospital. The Doctor decides on her new code name. |
Background
A little after the Warring Ages began on Belka and the Book of Darkness started leaving its mark upon the universe, a small-time conspiracy with big dreams called Doppelkreuz (Double Cross -- they meant the name literally) formed on Belka. It is ... controversial among historians whether they were good guys or bad guys, with the general consensus being that they wanted to be good but had fairly authoritarian views on how to accomplish things, but their goal was straightforward to describe: they wanted to overthrow the Saint Kings, take over Belka, and bring "order" to the world. Simple, really.
They intended to create an entire legion of Griffritter knights, living magical programs based on the Wolkenritter but loyal solely to Doppelkreuz and its ideals, who would continue to fight even if the conspiracy itself was destroyed. The first was intended to be the prototype, from which the rest would be derived. In addition to the usual things like enhanced strength and speed, Griffritter Nachtglocke I was made to seem strange and otherworldly by way of demonic markings (glowing magical tatoos) and slitted glowing catlike eyes (cybernetics affixed to her irises), and her Armed Device, Rubindorn, had somewhat nonstandard additions to make it seem weirder (which amounted to a kind of "Not Invented Here" in some places, and an AI that wasn't exactly humanlike the way Nachtglocke was but which talked in a humanlike manner and thus sometimes fell into the uncanny valley).
Her mind, however, was completely human. It never occurred to anyone in Doppelkreuz to worry or even wonder about the psychological effects on an artificial soldier who was created specifically to look monstrous.
Unfortunately, in the end, Doppelkreuz's scientists bit off more than they could chew. They intended to create two dozen Griffritter units in half a year, but it took them two years just to make the first one. Worse, she was only slightly stronger than the average Belkan Knight (or magical girl) ... but Doppelkreuz never actually found this out, because by that time, the Saint King's forces had caught wind of their activities, and they didn't give the conspiracy time to activate or even test the unit. In the ensuing battle, one of Doppelkreuz's other experiments exploded, and part of the laboratory was blasted into the Dusk Zone. Doppelkreuz was defeated and its surviving members were imprisoned or executed.
Ritterglocke and Rubindorn's standby form lay together in the Dusk Zone, connected by a small chain, for a the better part of a thousand years. The good news was, they remained functional. The bad news was, they spent the entire time exposed to dark energy, which slowly corrupted their systems in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. The most obvious change was that their color schemes shifted towards black and red and gray. The second-most obvious change was that Nachtglocke would consider much ... darker ways of fulfilling her purpose than Doppelkreuz ever intended. For that matter, her systems began to view dark energy as being just as vital to her systems as her regular mana, if not moreso. That said, it gave her a boost in power, enough that she could hold her own against ... maybe three or four magical girls at once. For a little while. Possibly.
Finally, Ritterglocke and Rubindorn were recovered by Eclipse and taken to Earth. Riventon wasn't available, so the two were turned over to one of Eclipse's other scientists, Dr. Yuki Murano, a professor at Infinity University who was well versed in Belkan Devices; she was quite surprised to have an entire Belkan Knight suddenly materialize in her laboratory. This caught the attention of Professor Tomoe, who wanted to know whether whether there were any more of her (no), whether Eclipse could create any other Griffritter units (no), and whether Nachtglocke could be controlled (yes, in the sense that she obeyed voluntarily).
During a conversation with Dr. Murano and Professor Tomoe (the latter videoconferencing remotely from another building for safety), Bell herself was the one who realized that her programmed-in purpose technically said "bring order to the world", not "bring order to Belka", and with the Saint Kings long dead, she was completely free to fulfill her purpose on Earth. After learning enough Japanese in the space of two months to disguise herself as a human schoolgirl, she pledged her loyalty to Eclipse. She wasn't granted any power within the organization, but that suited her just fine; she was quite happy to be a weapon, rather than an officer. Professor Tomoe then assigned Dr. Murano as Nightbell's handler.
