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Ciel Deschaine

Full Name: Ciel Deschaine

Age: 18

Race: Human

Birthplace: Central City

Status: Active

Faction: Power Wielder Hero, Tier 3 (10,000 - 100,000)

Appearance

At first glance, Ciel appears to be your typical and proper churchgoing young woman. She always dresses conservatively, maintains a friendly and cheerful demeanor, and appears to be a fairly innocent individual. She dislikes confrontations and her azure eyes always appear to be smiling behind her glasses. But there is another part to the Deschaine girl that she usually doesn't show, concerning her alternate career as a paladin. When on the hunt, the young woman tends to wear body armor, black boots, and dark blue robes over all of this. Her friendly demeanor is discarded, giving way to a battle-hardened warrior who would slay evil in the name of God.

Most of Ciel's upper body sports some very vivid and interesting tattoos. These are actually glyphs which have been grafted onto her, thus establishing a means with which she can summon aids such as her soldiers of the Sword into combat. The glyphs themselves appear to be religious in nature, with crosses and cherubs and the like decorating her torso and arms.

Powers

Ciel sports a decent mixture between the energies of the spirit and magic. One of her more useful abilities seems to be combining her ice spells with her favored weapons, the rather unconventional long knives. Wielding three in each hand, the paladin has been known to cast spells while mixing it in with her fighting style, so that her casting is not interrupted in the least.

More notably, however, are her glyphs. With the tattoos grafted on to her body, the young woman can pool both her ki and magic at the same time to bring forth incantations and formations to help her in combat. Many people might recognize her Glyph of the Mirror, one of her favorite spells, well enough.

Biography

The Deschaine family has lived for a rather long time. While not very well-known, it has nonetheless always been one of aristocrats. Their most notable aspect would be their large devotion to Catholicism, despite the world's fervent clinging to Kamism. Not even its members know exactly when a more secret tradition of theirs started, but ever since that indeterminate point in time, aside from worshipping God at church, the Deschaine began to serve their Lord as paladins. The practice was not consistent, though. Sometimes only one member of the family at a given time pledged to slay evil and protect the innocent. Other times, an entire family of four could be fighting at the same time.

Ciel was born to Joshua Deschaine and his wife Lillya as the sole heiress of the family line. Both of her parents were avid practicioners of paladinhood, and many a time again during her childhood did they set out to combat some evil or another. Joshua and Lillya raised their girl lovingly, and for the most part she had a happy childhood. Ciel always was a straight A student, and as her academic studies flourished, so did her devotion to her religion. It was at the age of nine that she decided to follow in her parents' footsteps as a paladin. Both Joshua and Lillya accepted this, and began to train their child. Ciel learned well, as was her nature, but her training was halted unexpectedly three years later when her parents were met with an untimely demise. What Ciel describes as a black dragon stormed the halls of the Deschaine manor and did away with his enemies, her parents. After that it left, having no interest in the girl herself.

At the age of twelve Ciel was more or less on her own. Her parents had left her with a sizable fortune and enough assets to ensure that she could live her entire life without worry, and she was left with foster parents; merely friends of the family. Since that time the young woman became more or less a recluse, but still a cheerful and friendly one. The loss of her parents was a great pain, but she never let it govern her life. So, she continued to study and to practice paladinhood on her own.

At the age of fifteen, Ciel mastered her first glyph; the Sword. She then decided to do her first real service for God by doing away with a local gang of power wielders which had recently begun to abuse their powers, using them for murder. Since then, she actively became a paladin, save without having completed her training.

Still, her nature as a recluse didn't change. Rather than making any friends in high school, the girl merely spent her time in her room. She developed particular tastes and hobbies, such as reading like a maniac and collecting several books on several subjects. The library at the Deschaine manor already had enough, but adding to the collection was a particular hobby that she liked. Another was her irrepressible love for plushies, though this she guarded fervently from everyone else. Among all of the subjects that she has ever studied, Ciel liked history the most. The past has always been a great mystery to her, and deep down the past was where she had been truly happy. And so when she reached the age of eighteen, she decided to enroll into the Schule vom Gemut to pursue a career in history. And to hone her abilities as well, of course.

It was there where her impenetrable armor began to more or less crack. Eventually Ciel fell in with a young woman who more or less thought akin to her: the witch hunter Constance Ina Kaider. Since then she more or less began to be less and less reclusive, forging more friendships with other people. She has in fact been unofficially adopted into the Kaider family, something that she holds in very very high regard, though she doesn't voice it that way.

Nowadays, Ciel is still serving the Lord as a paladin, pledging to protect the innocent and to slay evil. She's still the same naive girl, but a bit more outgoing than before. When not studying at the schule, she's often seen spending time (mostly) with her almost-sister Constance, or this year's Budokai champion, Johnny Gnash. That is, when she's not out doing her magical girl of holy wrath routine.