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Character
Name: Rachel Alucard
Fandom: BlazBlue
Gender: Female
Age: At least 72,500 years old (immortal)
Time Period: After the True End of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
Wing Color: Black, and traditionally feathery.
History: http://blazblue.wikia.com/wiki/Rachel_Alucard
For many, many, MANY years, the world of BlazBlue was stuck in a perpetual time loop that lasted approximately a hundred years. Time would reset itself and things would begin anew. Rachel, a vampire and the current head of the noble Alucard clan, technically existed "outside" of the world as an observer, and so was one of the few beings completely aware that time was repeating itself. Given that she has lived through 725 cycles, this makes her very, very old indeed - not counting her age before the time loop began.
At some point prior to the events of the first game, Rachel picked up a rather violent grudge against a spirit called Yuuki Terumi, who had fought alongside her butler Valkenhayn as one of the "Six Heroes." Precisely why she hates him so is a matter that hasn't been revealed, but it's possible that it's partly due to Terumi's betrayal of Valkenhayn and his other allies - a betrayal that Rachel observes every time loop but is powerless to prevent.
Afterwards (but still prior to the part of the time loop shown in the first game), Rachel encountered a badly wounded boy who was bleeding to death. To save his life, she gave into her vampiric impulses for virtually the only time in her life, biting him and giving him partial vampirism and the benefits that came with it. This young man was Ragna, and since then Rachel spent much of her time just... observing him, and dropping in on him when he didn't need it. Really, she's kind of a stalker (as much as she denies it).
Though as an observer she could not outright interfere with events, Rachel's ultimate goal was to break the time loop that had gripped the world - and every cycle, she tried to push things in a slightly different direction. Eventually, she succeeded: Ragna was saved by Noel and did not become the new incarnation of the Black Beast, and time continued onward at long, long last. Of course, this also meant that Rachel's old enemy Terumi was on the move, which was a bad thing.
Rachel was stripped of her powers of "Observer" for interfering in events a bit more than she was supposed to, and in the second game clearly used that newfound freedom to interfere even more than usual. She confronted Terumi directly, and while she fell victim to a trap devised by one of his magic-capable underlings, she was rescued by Ragna - whom she aided in defeating Terumi (albeit temporarily) and rescuing Noel Vermillion from her mental imprisonment as Mu-12.
While she still remains an onlooker and has yet to commit herself to actively assisting Ragna and company in his battle against Terumi and his NOL underlings, Rachel is clearly more involved in the struggle than a pure bystander ought to be. Though really, that's actually fine by her.
Personality: Rachel is the leader of an important vampire clan and is very much aware of her high station and nobility - and with that comes her tendency to look down on common people. She is very, very old and very, very powerful, which means that she very rarely feels the need to sugarcoat her words. In other words ... Rachel's kind of a bitch.
Rachel is arrogant, taunting to the point of cruelty, and sees most other people as disgusting and weak little individuals who are essentially her tools and/or playthings. She makes no attempt to hide her contempt for those who she considers beneath her ... and she considers most everybody beneath her. She abuses her servants Nago and Gii, she insults people like Noel who are already insecure, and even frequently berates someone like Ragna who is important to her. Given that she hates being bored (and after 72,500 years of watching the same thing over and over it would be very easy to be bored), it's easy to imagine that she just does this to be a troll and mess with people for her own entertainment.
Okay, yeah, that's probably part of it.
But the thing is, deep down beneath the many, many layers of bitchiness and cruelty, Rachel genuinely does mean well, and she cares about events - and people - far more than she lets on. As much as she taunts and belittles him, Ragna in particular means quite a bit to her. She's seen him become a mindless agent of destruction over 700 times, and every time hopes that this will be the time that is different - that he'll use his strength to fight to the bitter end. In one path, she even cries over his dead body.
By the time of Continuum Shift, she's starting to visibly soften up. She's still arrogant and bitchy, but she's not above being helpful, either - though this may just be because as much as she looks down on people, she looks down on Terumi more.
She's also very, very intelligent and has a tendency to speak overly elaborately with references to obscure/classical material. This is partly because she's just smart, and it's partly because it confuses the people who are "beneath" her.
Look, just because she genuinely cares deep down inside, it doesn't mean she isn't a bitch.
Strengths:
Power: (Physical) Rachel is easily one of the most powerful entities in the entire BlazBlue universe ... and that's before you factor in her magical Tsukuyomi Unit, the "ultimate defense" - that enabled her to take what was essentially a magical orbital laser strike head-on without so much as flinching. She can manipulate dimensions and space, she can manipulate wind and lightning, and she's easily strong enough to take on virtually every other being in the BlazBlue world. Even after being defeated in other characters' story modes, she's perfectly fine - it's all a game to her. The only character who has ever genuinely threatened her is Terumi, and he also goes out of his way to avoid picking a fight with her if he can help it.
Experience: (Emotional) Rachel has lived for a very, very long time. A very, very long time. As such, she's not only picked up more than her fair share of knowledge during the years, but she's also experienced pretty much everything there is to experience. She's confident in almost every situation she finds herself in, and virtually unflappable. Even when irritated, she keeps her head.
Learned: (Mental) In keeping with the above, Rachel has used her 72,500-year+ lifetime to become rather well-read. There isn't much she doesn't know, particularly about more intellectual topics. She's able to converse on almost any classical subject, and is very, very, very intelligent. It also means she gets to use big words to confuse people.
Weaknesses:
Anemic: (Physical) Rachel is a vampire, but she absolutely abhors her vampiric impulses to drink blood - she much prefers tea. While it obviously isn't necessary for survival, the lack of blood makes her rather... Anemic. She's still tremendously powerful, but she gets tired rather easily and takes frequent naps. This isn't crippling; she's very capable of pushing through her fatigue, but without feeding on blood she's never as energetic as she could be.
Spoiled: (Emotional) Rachel may have experienced quite a bit in her long lifetime, but she is also very reliant on her butler Valkenhayn and her familiars Nago and Gii - more than she lets on. They take all the hits for her in a fight, they pamper her and obey her every whim - Rachel isn't incapable of doing those things herself, but she's certainly not going to be used to it. She might have to find someone else to wait on her hand and foot in their absence. Unfortunately...
Abrasive: (Mental) Rachel's personality does not really lend to her making friends. Sure, she has allies, and can actually be somewhat nice and cordial once in a blue moon, but she tends to treat people like dirt - and this is a very bad thing in a completely new world with only a few people she knows from back home.
Samples
First Person: Do any of you truly believe for a single millisecond that one such as I would ever possibly consent to being confined in this place? Have any of you so-called scientists an iota of an idea of the person with whom you're dealing? I am no man's toy; I am no man's plaything. You will relent this instant, and perhaps I will deign to show you some mercy instead of watering my roses with your lifeblood.
This is a filthy little trash heap of a world, hardly fit for swine, let alone a lady of my considerable breeding. What possible reason could you have for including one such as I in this madhouse of puerile rabble and brutish, Neanderathalic thugs? It is wholly intolerable and I demand that you cease such nonsense at once, lest I take great pleasure in tearing this little bubble to the ground.
I shall be gracious and allow you some time with which to consider the matter. Until then, I expect my every whim to be attended to - I will require a new set of servants, perhaps one or two of the less incompetent local plebians. Contact me immediately if you believe yourself capable of preparing an adequate cup of tea.
Naturally, if you waste my time you will be thoroughly punished.
Third Person: This tea was awful, Rachel thought to herself even as she sipped it. It was truly horrendous. Not at all like Valkenhayn would make. And yet, she drank it anyway - why? She couldn't precisely say.
In fact, none of this was even remotely like what she'd known for thousands and thousands of years - her stately manor, the elegant rose garden, and the full moon blossoming over her dream world. The house in which she'd been forced to take up residence was small and filthy (where were her servants when she needed them?), the closest thing to her garden were some wilting flowers along the roadside, and the moon... well, all right, it was still the moon, hanging high in the sky over the vampire in her repose.
And yet... how strange. She really ought to have hated this place, this prison - she was being held against her will by a group of strange, unseen captors who treated her as little more than an experiment with the rest of these low-class beasts. It chafed her considerable pride, certainly - and then there were the wings; hateful reminders of just what powers these Malnosso claimed to have over her.
But for all of the reasons why Rachel Alucard should have hated this prison, she found that there was a bizarre and rather unseemly reluctance to do precisely that. As intolerable and coarse as this world was, it had one rather large point in its favor: It wasn't what she was used to. After watching the same hundred-year cycle repeat itself hundreds and hundreds of times, Rachel had found herself in a world where – for once – she had no idea what would come next.
It was new. Perhaps, in its own wretched way, it was even a bit exciting to be placed in such a situation. This wasn't to say that she wouldn't have eradicated the Malnosso from time and space were she given the chance – she most certainly would, and relish the opportunity all the while – but if there was one thing that Rachel hated, it was to be bored. And this place, for now, was anything but boring.
She took another sip of the horrid tea, smiling to herself beneath the unfamiliar moon.
“How juvenile of me.”
Name: Funk
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Current Characters at Luceti: N/A - I used to play Yaag Rosch from FF13, but I dropped him a while back.
Character
Name: Rachel Alucard
Fandom: BlazBlue
Gender: Female
Age: At least 72,500 years old (immortal)
Time Period: After the True End of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
Wing Color: Black, and traditionally feathery.
History: http://blazblue.wikia.com/wiki/Rachel_Alucard
For many, many, MANY years, the world of BlazBlue was stuck in a perpetual time loop that lasted approximately a hundred years. Time would reset itself and things would begin anew. Rachel, a vampire and the current head of the noble Alucard clan, technically existed "outside" of the world as an observer, and so was one of the few beings completely aware that time was repeating itself. Given that she has lived through 725 cycles, this makes her very, very old indeed - not counting her age before the time loop began.
At some point prior to the events of the first game, Rachel picked up a rather violent grudge against a spirit called Yuuki Terumi, who had fought alongside her butler Valkenhayn as one of the "Six Heroes." Precisely why she hates him so is a matter that hasn't been revealed, but it's possible that it's partly due to Terumi's betrayal of Valkenhayn and his other allies - a betrayal that Rachel observes every time loop but is powerless to prevent.
Afterwards (but still prior to the part of the time loop shown in the first game), Rachel encountered a badly wounded boy who was bleeding to death. To save his life, she gave into her vampiric impulses for virtually the only time in her life, biting him and giving him partial vampirism and the benefits that came with it. This young man was Ragna, and since then Rachel spent much of her time just... observing him, and dropping in on him when he didn't need it. Really, she's kind of a stalker (as much as she denies it).
Though as an observer she could not outright interfere with events, Rachel's ultimate goal was to break the time loop that had gripped the world - and every cycle, she tried to push things in a slightly different direction. Eventually, she succeeded: Ragna was saved by Noel and did not become the new incarnation of the Black Beast, and time continued onward at long, long last. Of course, this also meant that Rachel's old enemy Terumi was on the move, which was a bad thing.
Rachel was stripped of her powers of "Observer" for interfering in events a bit more than she was supposed to, and in the second game clearly used that newfound freedom to interfere even more than usual. She confronted Terumi directly, and while she fell victim to a trap devised by one of his magic-capable underlings, she was rescued by Ragna - whom she aided in defeating Terumi (albeit temporarily) and rescuing Noel Vermillion from her mental imprisonment as Mu-12.
While she still remains an onlooker and has yet to commit herself to actively assisting Ragna and company in his battle against Terumi and his NOL underlings, Rachel is clearly more involved in the struggle than a pure bystander ought to be. Though really, that's actually fine by her.
Personality: Rachel is the leader of an important vampire clan and is very much aware of her high station and nobility - and with that comes her tendency to look down on common people. She is very, very old and very, very powerful, which means that she very rarely feels the need to sugarcoat her words. In other words ... Rachel's kind of a bitch.
Rachel is arrogant, taunting to the point of cruelty, and sees most other people as disgusting and weak little individuals who are essentially her tools and/or playthings. She makes no attempt to hide her contempt for those who she considers beneath her ... and she considers most everybody beneath her. She abuses her servants Nago and Gii, she insults people like Noel who are already insecure, and even frequently berates someone like Ragna who is important to her. Given that she hates being bored (and after 72,500 years of watching the same thing over and over it would be very easy to be bored), it's easy to imagine that she just does this to be a troll and mess with people for her own entertainment.
Okay, yeah, that's probably part of it.
But the thing is, deep down beneath the many, many layers of bitchiness and cruelty, Rachel genuinely does mean well, and she cares about events - and people - far more than she lets on. As much as she taunts and belittles him, Ragna in particular means quite a bit to her. She's seen him become a mindless agent of destruction over 700 times, and every time hopes that this will be the time that is different - that he'll use his strength to fight to the bitter end. In one path, she even cries over his dead body.
By the time of Continuum Shift, she's starting to visibly soften up. She's still arrogant and bitchy, but she's not above being helpful, either - though this may just be because as much as she looks down on people, she looks down on Terumi more.
She's also very, very intelligent and has a tendency to speak overly elaborately with references to obscure/classical material. This is partly because she's just smart, and it's partly because it confuses the people who are "beneath" her.
Look, just because she genuinely cares deep down inside, it doesn't mean she isn't a bitch.
Strengths:
Power: (Physical) Rachel is easily one of the most powerful entities in the entire BlazBlue universe ... and that's before you factor in her magical Tsukuyomi Unit, the "ultimate defense" - that enabled her to take what was essentially a magical orbital laser strike head-on without so much as flinching. She can manipulate dimensions and space, she can manipulate wind and lightning, and she's easily strong enough to take on virtually every other being in the BlazBlue world. Even after being defeated in other characters' story modes, she's perfectly fine - it's all a game to her. The only character who has ever genuinely threatened her is Terumi, and he also goes out of his way to avoid picking a fight with her if he can help it.
Experience: (Emotional) Rachel has lived for a very, very long time. A very, very long time. As such, she's not only picked up more than her fair share of knowledge during the years, but she's also experienced pretty much everything there is to experience. She's confident in almost every situation she finds herself in, and virtually unflappable. Even when irritated, she keeps her head.
Learned: (Mental) In keeping with the above, Rachel has used her 72,500-year+ lifetime to become rather well-read. There isn't much she doesn't know, particularly about more intellectual topics. She's able to converse on almost any classical subject, and is very, very, very intelligent. It also means she gets to use big words to confuse people.
Weaknesses:
Anemic: (Physical) Rachel is a vampire, but she absolutely abhors her vampiric impulses to drink blood - she much prefers tea. While it obviously isn't necessary for survival, the lack of blood makes her rather... Anemic. She's still tremendously powerful, but she gets tired rather easily and takes frequent naps. This isn't crippling; she's very capable of pushing through her fatigue, but without feeding on blood she's never as energetic as she could be.
Spoiled: (Emotional) Rachel may have experienced quite a bit in her long lifetime, but she is also very reliant on her butler Valkenhayn and her familiars Nago and Gii - more than she lets on. They take all the hits for her in a fight, they pamper her and obey her every whim - Rachel isn't incapable of doing those things herself, but she's certainly not going to be used to it. She might have to find someone else to wait on her hand and foot in their absence. Unfortunately...
Abrasive: (Mental) Rachel's personality does not really lend to her making friends. Sure, she has allies, and can actually be somewhat nice and cordial once in a blue moon, but she tends to treat people like dirt - and this is a very bad thing in a completely new world with only a few people she knows from back home.
Samples
First Person: Do any of you truly believe for a single millisecond that one such as I would ever possibly consent to being confined in this place? Have any of you so-called scientists an iota of an idea of the person with whom you're dealing? I am no man's toy; I am no man's plaything. You will relent this instant, and perhaps I will deign to show you some mercy instead of watering my roses with your lifeblood.
This is a filthy little trash heap of a world, hardly fit for swine, let alone a lady of my considerable breeding. What possible reason could you have for including one such as I in this madhouse of puerile rabble and brutish, Neanderathalic thugs? It is wholly intolerable and I demand that you cease such nonsense at once, lest I take great pleasure in tearing this little bubble to the ground.
I shall be gracious and allow you some time with which to consider the matter. Until then, I expect my every whim to be attended to - I will require a new set of servants, perhaps one or two of the less incompetent local plebians. Contact me immediately if you believe yourself capable of preparing an adequate cup of tea.
Naturally, if you waste my time you will be thoroughly punished.
Third Person: This tea was awful, Rachel thought to herself even as she sipped it. It was truly horrendous. Not at all like Valkenhayn would make. And yet, she drank it anyway - why? She couldn't precisely say.
In fact, none of this was even remotely like what she'd known for thousands and thousands of years - her stately manor, the elegant rose garden, and the full moon blossoming over her dream world. The house in which she'd been forced to take up residence was small and filthy (where were her servants when she needed them?), the closest thing to her garden were some wilting flowers along the roadside, and the moon... well, all right, it was still the moon, hanging high in the sky over the vampire in her repose.
And yet... how strange. She really ought to have hated this place, this prison - she was being held against her will by a group of strange, unseen captors who treated her as little more than an experiment with the rest of these low-class beasts. It chafed her considerable pride, certainly - and then there were the wings; hateful reminders of just what powers these Malnosso claimed to have over her.
But for all of the reasons why Rachel Alucard should have hated this prison, she found that there was a bizarre and rather unseemly reluctance to do precisely that. As intolerable and coarse as this world was, it had one rather large point in its favor: It wasn't what she was used to. After watching the same hundred-year cycle repeat itself hundreds and hundreds of times, Rachel had found herself in a world where – for once – she had no idea what would come next.
It was new. Perhaps, in its own wretched way, it was even a bit exciting to be placed in such a situation. This wasn't to say that she wouldn't have eradicated the Malnosso from time and space were she given the chance – she most certainly would, and relish the opportunity all the while – but if there was one thing that Rachel hated, it was to be bored. And this place, for now, was anything but boring.
She took another sip of the horrid tea, smiling to herself beneath the unfamiliar moon.
“How juvenile of me.”