Aschen Brödel (アシェン・ブレイデル Ashen Bureideru) is a fictional character in the Super Robot Wars OG Saga series and the protagonist of Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier. Aschen is a combat android from Lost Herenica and the little sister of Haken Browning with possessing a split-personality between a stoic and reserved android, to a cheerful and happy woman done by activating "Code DTD" (Dust-to-Dust) or whenever her body temperature raises high enough. While activating Code DTD, the green portions of her uniform temporarily dissolve, and her power output increases greatly. She has been alongside Haken for 23 years since he was a baby, but cannot remember her past prior to that accident. However,as she goes through various places, she was able to discover her true duty and identity: which is to protect her Older brother, Haken Browning aka W00, the first W series which is an artificial human bio engineered that was invented by their mother, Lemon Browning.
Aschen's move-set consists of striking attacks while utilizing a variety of armaments located inside her mechanical body. These include wired launchable fists, micro-missile launchers in her hips, and impact blasters in her heels.
Appearances[]
Aschen has appeared in the following games:
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier - Protagonist
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED - Playable character
- Super Robot Wars Original Generation The Moon Dwellers - Non playable character
History[]
Endless Frontier[]
Aschen Brodel was discovered 23 years before the events of the game emerging from the crashed battleship called the Mal Tierra, carrying the infant Haken. They were found by an adventurer named John Moses, who adopted Haken. When the game begins, Aschen accompanies Haken as they finally earn a permit to explore the Mal Tierra. This sets off a longer adventure when they find Kaguya Nanbu sleeping in one of the crew quarters on the ship.
Over the course of their adventure, they meet Cardia Basirissa, the older sister of Aschen, who is another W-Series android with a similar design to her, and she seems to have a grudge against her regarding the duty that is given to them before the crash incident. Through Cardia, they eventually discover the truth about their origins.
She is originally W07, the intial form the W-Series of the Shadow-Mirror and the Lamia Loveless older sister.
Endless Frontier EXCEED[]
After the initial adventures which caused the Endless Frontier to split, Aschen found herself under the services of the Orchestral Army of Formido Heim, revealed to actually possess good intentions for the perseverance of the Endless Frontier against the Einst. She was assigned on a mission from its leader Ezel Granada to investigate the continued struggles within the Endless Frontier, which eventually led Aschen to reunite with Haken, Kaguya along with new entourages such as Aledy Naash, Neige Hausen and a peculiarly amnesiac and happy go lucky flirt redhead named Axel Almer accompanied with his perky female companion Einst Alchimie.
Further investigation eventually led to an encounter to their long lost brother, Pete Pain / W03, and a seemingly resurrected Cardia. During such encounter, Pete used the technique 'Code PTP' (Play The Puppet) to ensnare Aschen into something close enough to a mind control, turning Aschen against the party, and he has done a similar thing to Cardia. At the climax of the battle, Pete demonstrated another feature of PTP, telling his puppets to blow themselves up. Cardia, without close links to the party, did so without hesitation, but Aschen, already bonded to the party, hesitated in blowing herself up, and Haken was unable to stop her from blowing up herself.
Thankfully, this triggered a recent memory buried in Axel's amnesiac brain, to which he deduced that he could activate Code DTD from afar, which took priority over everything else, and strike Aschen at her peak, therefore removing PTP from her programming once she rebooted. With this method, Aschen was saved from imminent death, unaware that the reason Axel could do it was because before he lost his memories, he did a similar thing to her younger sister in another world. Regardless, once she recovered, Aschen set herself up with preventive measures so in the next encounter, Pete is unable to control her again.
Eventually, their journey reached its peak and the chaos settled down. Aschen bade farewell to her companions, including Axel who recovered his memories.
The Moon Dwellers[]
Aschen was absent during the time Haken and Kaguya got involved into another multi-verse crisis. She did catch up when Haken was about to send home his new companion throughout that one journey, Sänger Zonvolt. However, when inputting the points, Aschen got impatient, activated her Code DTD to wreck the machine and as a result, both she and Haken were transported to the OGverse along with Sanger. However, it was just in time to save the Kurogane from the Dark Brain Cult. Haken recovered the Gespenst Haken designed for him and allowed Aschen, being a combat cyborg, to physically assist him without needing to pilot something else. And from this, Aschen could reunite with her direct successor and younger sister, Lamia Loveless. She and Haken relegated themselves to help the Kouryuu Sentai in their battles afterwards.
At first it was suspected that by using the Cross Gate, they could return to the Endless Frontier. However, in the climax of the battle against the XN-L, said Cross Gate was destroyed out of necessity. Because of this, Aschen and Haken was unable to go home, but they didn't lose heart, they simply stayed in the Kurogane and joined them investigating further presences of other Cross Gates.
Learnset[]
Tigress Bite
- Aschen attacks with a combination of punches and kicks, ending with a blaster-heel kick
Genbu Spike
- Attacks the opponent with several rocket-punches.
Divine Lancer
- Pops the enemy into the air with a high kick, and follows up with a flip kick and three rapid blaster heels.
Demon Lancer
- Strikes the enemy with several rapid kicks, and pops them into the air with a final high kick.
Dragon Scale
- Launches several micro-missiles at the enemy and follows up with three double-rocket-punches.
Phantasm Phoenix
- Aschen unleashes a series of punches and kicks, then activates Code DTD, and launches with a balaster heel.
Code Lamia
- Targets multiple foes with rocket punches. Heals Aschen
Code Empusa
- Activates Code DTD and fogs up the battlefield, presumably due to high levels of heat. Inflicts various status ailments on all foes. Does no damage
- Note that Code Empusa is not effective on bosses or the training robot. Also, Code Empusa ends with Aschen's KO'D pose, but it is unknown as to whether Code Empusa actually causes KO.
Phantom Step
- Support attack. Launches the enemy with Code DTD and juggles with three blaster heels.
Video Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Aschen's name is derived from Aschenbrödel, which is the German name for Cinderella. When executing some of her attacks with her legs, Aschen would yell out "Glass Heel" and some times Haken also call her " Cinderella ".
- Aschen shares a number of similarities to Lamia Loveless; both characters are combat androids whom share similar character designs (and voices), and they share the same theme song, Ash-to-Ash.
- The name "Phantasm Phoenix" is a reference to Angelg's signature attack, the Phantom Phoenix.
- Aschen's relationship with Lamia Loveless is confirmed in the Mugen no Frontier drama CD. Kouta Azuma also mistook her as Lamia during their first meeting at EXCEED
- At one point in EXCEED, Aschen suffered brainwashing and was pitted against Haken and his allies, ending with the brainwasher telling her to blow herself up; but this event is prevented by Axel Almer by performing the technique Code DTD (DustToDust). This event mirrors Axel's previous event, preventing the same thing to happen to Lamia, Aschen's little sister.
- Haken Browning was the only human that is enhanced with the use of bio engineering consisting of human flesh while the rest of the W series were androids.
External Links[]
- Aschen Brodel (on SRW JPWiki)