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» PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Haley
Current AGE: 25

Player TIME ZONE: MST

Personal JOURNAL: BrightBlueInk
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» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Satella Harvenheit
Canon & MEDIUM: Chrono Crusade (Manga version)
Canon PULL-POINT: The morning after the party in Chapter 18.

Character AGE: 19
Character ABILITIES:

Satella is a Jewel Summoner—someone with the ability to summon spirits through jewels using incantations in German, special gems and a glove on her left hand with a spot to place her jewels. The beings can only be summoned for a limited time and eventually run out of energy, but the jewels can be recharged and used again. The summoned beings seem to be somewhat connected to Satella—when they’re attacked, Satella recoils as if she’s feeling their pain (and at one point even bleeds when part of her summoned being is destroyed), and she often mimes their movements to control them.

Although she likely has other gems we never see her use in canon (ie because the writer just tends to create new gems for her to use when dramatically necessary, heh), these are the specific ones we see used:

Ritters Juwel – A knight made out of gems, represented by the symbol for the Taurus zodiac sign. This is the jewel Satella is most comfortable with using in a fight.

Tieferfisch – A strange, fish-like being that can fly through the air. Satella uses this primarily for transportation, although she’s not above ramming an enemy with it in a pinch.

Solid August/Eisen Löwen – A lion-like crystal beast that runs on four legs. Also mostly used for transportation.

Fourth Month of Beginning/ Anfang Weider – Another horned, armored-looking being that fights with a shield and lance. Possibly more powerful than Ritters Juwel (so of course she doesn’t use it until her final battle).

June of Mutual Love/Lieben Twilling – A gem that she uses to imprison herself and another person in crystal.

Another, more powerful jewel summoner is shown summoning a weapon to fight with more directly, and also creates her own gems by imprisoning human souls within crystal, but Satella doesn’t seem to have these powers herself. (I’m headcanoning that she simply doesn’t know how, since she had to be self-taught from the time she was about 9. Although she’s not weak, Chrono seems impressed by her level of power when they first meet.)

Despite mostly fighting through her powers, she also seems to have some traditional fight training and athletic ability of her own, although nothing to an outrageous degree.

It’s also probably worth noting that Satella is an experienced and well known bounty hunter that specializes in the supernatural. In particular, Chrono notes that most bounty hunters are NOT able to take on the dangerous jobs she does alone, but there’s no signs of her having permanent partners before joining up with Rosette’s group. It can be assumed that she has a good amount of specialized knowledge of demons and other supernatural threats in her world. Not that it’ll do her much good in Exsilium.

Character HISTORY:

Wiki entry here!

A little before the start of the 20^th century, a demon jewel summoner fled Pandemonium, the demon world. Eventually she traveled to Germany and settled down with a man whose family was known for dealing in art. Together, they had two children—Florette and Satella.

As a child, Satella was unaware of her heritage but trained as a jewel summoner under the stern watch of her mother. She often felt that she was falling short of her sister’s power, but Florette was a kind big sister who supported her.

However, in one short night Satella lost her entire family when a demon without horns attacked her parents and destroyed her family home. The 9 year old Satella witnessed the demon take the body of her older sister away, and left her in the ashes of her home with the bodies of her parents.

Left with nobody but her butler to take care of her, the young Satella became obsessed with the idea of avenging her family. She soon discovered evidence that the demon had left for America after the attack, so she immigrated to the United States with her butler. As she developed her skills as a jewel summoner, she began to accept jobs as a bounty hunter specializing in fighting demons and monsters.

For 10 long years Satella searched for information on the demon without horns—using her knowledge that demons need their horns to survive to narrow her search. Finally, after a chance encounter with a nun and her assistant, she was finally given what she thought was her big break. The supposedly young boy was revealed to be a powerful demon…without horns. Even the face seemed to match the memory burned into her brain.

However, when she confronted the boy and his partner, Chrono and Rosette, they revealed that it was impossible for Chrono to be the demon that killed her family, as he was sealed away in a tomb at the time of the attack. This, and Chrono’s naturally kind and protective personality, proved to Satella that she’d stumbled across a red herring.

To apologize, she invited Rosette’s group to her home for dinner, and over the course of the night discovered that they were traveling to San Francisco to search for Rosette’s missing brother, who had been kidnapped by a demon, and that to give Chrono the strength to help her Rosette was in a contract with him. Touched by their shared past tragedy, and moved by Rosette’s determination to do whatever it took to save her brother, Satella decided that she wanted to go with them to San Fransisco, both to help them in their quest and to see if she couldn’t find more information on the demon without horns on the west coast.
Character PERSONALITY:

Over her long quest to avenge her family, the once emotional and insecure Satella has transformed into an elegant, stubborn, fierce lone wolf of a bounty hunter.

Dealing with monsters (and the seedy underground of early 20^th century USA) from a young age as made Satella tough as nails, but also wary of getting close to others. This, plus the fact that she comes from a privileged, rich family, can make Satella difficult to deal with when she first meets someone. She can be rude, snobby, has a bit of a potty mouth (although not nearly as much as Rosette!) and often comes across as selfish. To top it off, she’s used to working alone, so she’s a poor team player in the beginning (to the point that she almost KILLS Rosette, Chrono and Azmaria after a careless move sends a building crashing down on top of them). In fact, her butler notes that before she met Rosette and her group, she “never made friends until now.”

Once she joins up with Rosette and the gang, she starts to soften and allow a bit of her mask to slip. With Rosette, she often gets into stubborn arguments that sometimes go as far as name-calling and hair pulling. It’d be easy to assume that she dislikes Rosette, but that isn’t QUITE true—it’s really more that, one, they’re actually more similar in personality than she’d care to admit, and two, that childish, argumentative side is part of her “true personality” that her butler says she rarely shows to others. The fact that she’s comfortable enough with them to drop her “smooth, elegant, experienced bounty hunter” persona to display a sometimes childish and even playful side speaks more to how quickly Rosette’s managed to make her comfortable, more than anything. Later on in canon it becomes clear that they actually are good friends despite the fighting. In fact, later on in the series a major sign to Satella that something is WRONG is when Rosette doesn’t immediately fight back against a teasing barb of hers and instead just laughs.

With CHRONO, on the other hand, Satella is sweet and even clingy at times, to the point that it makes Chrono obviously uncomfortable. Steiner admits that she “likes younger boys” (ADV’s translation for him saying she’s a shotacon) and because of that Satella’s actually got a bit of a crush on him. Although in my personal opinion, it’s not just the fact that he’s legal jailbait—although Satella desperately wanted to dislike Chrono when they first met because she believed him to be the demon that attacked her family, she couldn’t help but be moved by how genuinely thoughtful and kind Chrono could be. Chrono’s actually able to get her to think of her actions when she’s too harsh, in particular when she’s overly critical of Azmaria in an attempt to push her to do better.

Speaking of Azmaria—I mentioned in the history that she tells Chrono that Azmaria reminds her of herself, and while she insists that’s not the way she is now, I still think there’s some elements of that insecure, emotional little girl in her personality, and she definitely identifies with Az on some level. That might be why she seems so protective of Azmaria—she puts herself in harm’s way more than once to protect Azmaria, at one point even choosing to try to protect her even when the very goal she’s been searching for a decade is standing RIGHT in front of her.

Which brings me to the goal itself: her missing sister and the “demon without horns.” Although she’ll only have an inkling of a hint (that she doesn’t even realize she has) at the canon point I’m apping her from, when she later finally finds the answers she’s been looking for she shows just HOW determined—perhaps even obsessed—she is with her goal. Her sister was a huge guiding force in her life, and although she tries to be “realistic” at times and tell herself that her sister must be dead, she still clings to the idea that she may still be alive. Once that hope is ignited anew later on in the series, her stubbornness comes out in full force and she REFUSES to believe in any possibility that she might be wrong. In the end, her stubbornness and obsession with revenge is a little self-destructive and has had something of a negative impact on her life, since in a way it means she’s stuck in the past (a common theme in Chrono Crusade). Eventually in the manga, she comes to the conclusion that she has to let go of her family’s legacy and make a new life for herself. But not yet—and until she learns that lesson, at the core of everything, even when she wants to give up, she’s driven by a need to set right the wrongs done to her family and will cling onto the gems handed down to her by them until that day.

» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON:

Satella will choose her jewel summoner powers as her weapon (because good luck getting her to give up those jewels). She’ll start out with the gems she has in canon—the two knightly figures, the flying fish thing, the lion, and the (probably never used) “Leiben Twilling” sealing gem. However, there’s a slight problem at first with giving her powers its sentience, which means that for a time her gems will actually last for a shorter amount of time than they used to. (Because I enjoy screwing with my characters.)

Eventually they’ll evolve back to their former strength, and as time goes on the time limit for her gems will increase and they’ll get more powerful both in terms of strength and in terms of defense. Eventually, if she can find the materials for it, her powers will evolve enough that she’ll be able to create new gems to summon weapons, spells and eventually spirits to fight for her—although the final one will only be possible if she can find a soul that she’s willing to use, like the energy from an animal or monster, and will also be the hardest for her to master.

Character INVENTORY: Her standard clothing—a yellow dress, stockings, and heels, along with a glove on her left hand with a place to put a gem and a small bag on her ankle where she keeps her gems. She also has on her a large amount of money (by 1924 standards) in USD, a necklace with another gem on it and a single earring she wears on her right ear at all times (often covered by her hair).

» SAMPLES
First PERSON: Test drive thread here!
Third PERSON:

This is not a war Satella would have ever volunteered for willingly, but she’d see it through to the end. She had to. Not because she was some sort of selfless hero (she knew herself too well to even think that as a joke), but because if they were really capable of targeting her world, she had to protect it. Her world was where her goal was, so she couldn’t allow it to be destroyed.

She could see the faded faces of her family in her memory as she trained. Her father, with a gentle smile, helping her learn the names of the painters whose work hung on their walls. Her mother, usually so stern, looking at her with a warm sense of pride as she presented her with her first summoning jewel. But above all she felt a supportive touch on her shoulder as another hand carefully corrected her summoning gesture. 10 years, and she could still hear her sister’s voice as clearly as if she was still standing next to her: “Remember, love the jewels more than I do, and you’ll become much stronger than me.”

Her stomach lurched at the memory, but her only outward reaction was to grit her teeth and make her strikes even sharper.

I’ve done it, Florette. I love these jewels more than anything else.

Because they were part of the only family she had left.

Because her mother had branded on her mind the knowledge that her worth was sealed inside these jewels as if it was another spirit to be summoned.

Because they represented a decade of growing stronger, risking her life alone, all in the name of her life’s goal.

Because they would be the tools for her revenge.

She whirled around, her sister’s earring jingling in her ear, and imagined the hornless demon bowed at her feet, begging for his life. With a grin splitting her face, she slowly pulled up her arm, watched her knight follow her move, and struck down for a final blow.

» ADDITIONAL NOTES
For the Satella-is-a-shotacon thing I’m planning to mostly keep her flirting to Chono, and also put up a permissions post to warn people/give people a chance to opt-in if they’re OK with her flirting. Definitely don’t intend to step on any toes. =|b