Beyond (NOISZ STΔRLIVHT)

Not to be confused with Beyond Antiphon from NOISZ.

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Bio

A mysterious girl who gives STΔRLIVHT's members the power of the NOISZ/RS. As the liaison between STΔRLIVHT's producer and Antiphon, she's effectively her boss.

Obviously knows more about the NOISZ and Noise Beasts than she lets on. What secrets does she hold...?<ref>https://twitter.com/noiszgame/status/1236677905020792832?s=21</ref>

Beyond is an enigmatic girl who works for Antiphon and gives the idol group, STΔRLIVHT, the NOISZ/RS. She helps the Producer manage STΔRLIVHT. However, instead of focusing on the idol group’s activities and events, she is more focused on using the idol girls to stop a phenomenon called the Silencing, where many musicians are disappearing from Noise Beasts that are showing up. “Beyond” is only a code name for herself, and her true identity and mysteries remain unknown.

History

At some point before the events of the interrogations taking place, Arietta Antiphon assures her sister Beyond Antiphon that "I'll be Beyond for you" and that she'll keep the Producer on the right path.

Story

NOISZ STΔRLIVHT

Take note that from Beyond's perspective, the events of NOISZ STΔRLIVHT take place from two perspectives: the first in the "present day", wherein she interrogates an unknown person for details on the events of the second perspective set somewhere in the past; the main story from STΔRLIVHT's perspective, as recalled by this unknown person. From here, "Beyond" used by itself will refer to this Beyond.

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Chapter 0

At STΔRLIVHT's debut show at the Budo Garden in Chapter 0.I, a Noise Beast attacks, and just in time, Beyond appears and provides Grace Kamenashi with a NOISZ/RS, which she uses to defeat it, impressing Beyond as she provides NOISZ/RS units to the other three members of the group in Chapter 0.II; she introduces herself as their superior at Antiphon before disappearing. Later that day, Beyond calls Producer via an old phone in her office, and noting that she (Beyond) is there as a "substitute", explains to Producer that the group themselves are the main part of the "experiment", Noise Beasts are corrupted music that are part of the phenomenon known as the Silencing, and that the NOISZ/RS that STΔRLIVHT use is an imitation of the original NOISZ - though they will have to reveal their secrets to each other in order to fully utilise it via the power of bonds, and that it still drains their soul when used. In addition, she explains that Producer's role in STΔRLIVHT's story was self-determined rather than randomly chosen, though she opted to erase any memories of making such a choice. Assuring Producer that they are on the same side, the call ends. In Chapter 0.IV, at an unknown time and place which will now be called the "present day", Beyond interrogates an unknown speaker who pleads to be let out from inside their glass tank, though Beyond ignores this and telling the unknown speaker they were never meant to wake up, puts them back to sleep as a dream comes on.

Chapter 1

In Chapter 1.IV, concerned about an incident involving Sumire battling a Noise Beast alone - or so she says - Producer goes to put in a call to Beyond about investigating the possibility of remotely syncing STΔRLIVHT's NOISZ/RS units, though Beyond calls her before she can dial to tell her that the app has just been finished and has been pushed to STΔRLIVHT's NOISZ units. The two of them discuss the theory of battling Noise Beasts alone and Beyond explains conceptual time - that while music travels at the speed of sound, corrupted music in the form of Noise Beasts is a concept more than anything, and can theoretically up to lightspeed, though NOISZ users can do the same, and become concepts themselves, meaning they can take on whatever appearance they desire. Beyond digresses, and informs Producer that Sumire has likely done permanent damage to herself if she has fought a Noise Beast alone, and Producer ends the call. Beyond continues her observation in the "present day" of the unknown person, and finds them witnessing "invalid data" - a dream in which "???????" expresses anxiety at having to follow a plan alone, though a second person, "??????", reassures them, and reminds them to stick to the plan. The second person reassures the first to have faith in themselves to do the right thing, and that they'll never really be alone. Beyond erases this, however, and the unknown person protests, asking Beyond what she's doing and claiming her not to be the true Beyond. Beyond reminds the unknown speaker that they have a part to play - remembering the truth they'd buried under a pile of lies so deep even they no longer know what it is, despite protestations of ignorance to the truth, and Beyond asks the unknown person once again where STΔRLIVHT is.

Chapter 2

Beyond continues her present day interrogation in Chapter 2.IV, and asks the unknown speaker once more where STΔRLIVHT is; they reply that STΔRLIVHT is dead, though Beyond is unsatisfied with this answer, and decides to go deeper, stepping up the investigation.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3.I reveals a flashback of the "present day"; "Beyond" discusses details of an unspecified plan with "Ari", and entrusts the role of "Beyond" to her. Remora chimes in, stating that Producer - the person being interrogated by Beyond in the "present" - is ready and that the procedure must begin. In this scene, ??? tries to remember the plan under Beyond's questioning - but remembers they weren't allowed to know once it was set in motion. Beyond talks to Producer in Chapter 3.II, after Sumire disappears and Hitori fronts in her place, and tells her that her role as STΔRLIVHT's producer is very much real; while real memories removed, human memories cannot be falsified, as the mind rejects it like contents of a dream. Beyond tells producer that the situation with Sumire should sort itself out soon, and notes that the police investigation into Eito Hojo's demise at the hands of Firebird will simply be ended on Antiphon's order, avoiding the possibility of Sumire becoming a suspect. The issue with Sumire resolves itself, and along with her alter/brother Hitori, she dispatches a powerful Noise Beast. Producer updates Beyond on these events, and an intrigued Beyond asks her to bring Sumire in for testing to gauge her power as a NOISZ user as her plan moves into the next stage. Producer expresses open doubt at this plan once more, and asks Beyond who she is, citing the name received on STΔRLIVHT's scouting letter - "Arisa Antiphon". While she initially bristles at the mention of this name, Beyond relents and tells Producer what she wants; revolution.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4.I picks up right after Chapter 3.IV as Beyond continues explaining her plan to Producer; the plan to kill Gaius Antiphon to stop him severing the connection between this world and the World of Music, opting to enact a plan to repair the boundary between these worlds instead to prevent the Silencing. She notes that the dreams the Producer had of STΔRLIVHT fighting Gaius in the Antiphon building basement and dying over and over were not dreams - they were visions of possible futures. Beyond expands on this, and tells Producer that she herself had dreams of STΔRLIVHT before she'd even seen their faces, and that dream was what prompted Beyond to seek them out at the HI-LIVE to scout them out to begin with, though warns Producer that the moment she remembers the truth, her life will come to an end. In Chapter 4.III and Chapter 4.IV, Beyond takes STΔRLIVHT to an Antiphon lab on the outskirts of town for a "checkup" on their souls, to assess their power as NOISZ users; however, the four of them are attacked by a Noise Beast set on them by Stornel, who had been waiting for them. Feeling it calling to her, Sera dispatches it and Beyond leads the group through a series of corridors to escape the crumbling lab, though the appearance of Genbu, a NOISZ Beast almost identical in appearance to Grace, catches them off guard. Before they can react to Genbu's defeat, Beyond holds a gun to Sera's head and tells STΔRLIVHT to enter a nearby machine; they do, and everything goes black. In the "present", Beyond interrogates the unfamiliar speaker from before once more, stating that there's no way things happened that way; she notes that the story may not be what they remember through all of the lies. The speaker insists this recollection of events is false, citing their lack of presence as Producer at the lab, and concludes that if Beyond doesn't remember either, then these aren't anyone's memories at all, to which Beyond concurs, noting that this recollection is an "extrapolation", and the most likely explanation of facts. Beyond continues the investigation, and puts the unknown speaker back to sleep.

Chapter 5

In Chapter 5.I, Beyond advises Producer on how to proceed with the Clash of Twilight - a contest between STΔRLIVHT and SUNRaiSE in which the loser is forced to disband - and urges Producer to ensure STΔRLIVHT lose, to keep them out of the public eye in preparation for their final battle with Gaius Antiphon. However, Producer refuses, determined to make sure her idols do their best, and Beyond relents, casually remarking that she'll figure something out. Later on in the day, Hakuno defeats a Noise Beast in the studio, finding her reason to be an idol. Recalling this event in the "present day", Beyond notes this to be the point where it all begins - and the point they'll always have to return to as data interference grows stronger and the concept of truth is lost; that neither the equipment nor the person she is addressing is defective, but that the person she is addressing is the one hiding the truth of how it all ends. The unknown speaker insists there's nothing left to hide, and that there's no point to further interrogation, pleading to be let go once more. Beyond refuses, stating that the past she has been shown differs from reality. She notes that it's a recreation meant to jog the unknown speaker's memory - and that when it ends, reality will catch up with them: the reality that their life ended two years ago. She insists once more the speaker stop lying to themselves. The speaker replies, and states their name is Arietta, that STΔRLIVHT is dead, that this is punishment for the speaker's betrayal of them. Beyond tells them there aren't many cycles left, and asks them once more to tell her the truth. In Chapter 5.IV, STΔRLIVHT lose the Clash of Twilight, and head to the Antiphon Building; though Beyond expresses scepticism that STΔRLIVHT went straight from the Clash of Twilight to the Antiphon Building. The unknown speaker racks their brain to try to remember what had happened inbetween - though affirms that there was nothing inbetween. Beyond asserts once again that the sequence of events makes no sense, especially with STΔRLIVHT having no reason to be at the Antiphon Building basement, yet the unknown speaker remembers it vividly; Beyond relents, and asks how they got there. The unknown speaker still does not remember anything, and Beyond points out that the speaker should have been there at their final show, as Producer - though adds that they in fact weren't there in this recollection. Beyond comments on how the unknown speaker had hidden the truth - subtle alterations to the parameters over each "cycle", writing themselves out of the story, bit by bit, out of their own story, though the lies that had been built up had finally exposed holes in the narrative, making these recollections amount to no more than a dream. She tells this unknown person that she knows who they are, and the unknown speaker begins to remember - that their identity did not belong to Beyond, but was instead "Arisa Antiphon" - aka Arietta Antiphon. Memories resurface of opening the portal in the basement with Beyond, of what they encountered; however, more discrepancies surface. "Arietta" recalls memories of having interned for Antiphon in her last year of high school, and being brought into the company right afterwards, assigned to STΔRLIVHT as their producer. These memories continue to confuse her, and Beyond remains sceptical, and yet she insists it all happened, regardless of the fact that she was unsure how, citing that a person's memories can't be rewritten. Annoyed, Beyond writes off the cycle as lost, and asks "Ari" to tell her once more about STΔRLIVHT's final battle - the conclusion of this story.

Gallery

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  Beyond as she appears in NOISZ STΔRLIVHT.

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  Beyond's character art.

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  Beyond giving Grace the NOISZ/RS.

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  Beyond's appearance in the LIVHT MY WΔY music video.

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  Beyond's lore post.

References

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