Claire Rouge

==Summary==
Claire Elstein is the female lead of Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance. She is a very competent elementalist using the flame spirit Scarlet/Ortlinde and is the leader of «Team Scarlet». As a high-class noble, she is a boxed-in princess who is unaccustomed to men. She's childhood friends with Rinslet Laurenfrost and the younger sister of Rubia Elstein.
Following the betrayal of her sister to the Ordesia Empire and the imprisonment of her parents, she is taken in by Greyworth Ciel Mais who enrolls her at the Areishia Spirit Academy. She cast away the Elstein family name and attended the academy under the alias Claire Rouge. She decides to get stronger to win the Blade Dance festival for the sake of her one desired wish: to meet her sister and hear the truth behind her betrayal.
As a child, Claire was shy, weak and innocent, but after the incident, Claire became a lonely and misunderstood girl, often bullied and looked down on, with a short temper and quick to jump to conclusions.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , higher with End of Vermillion | Possibly , higher with End of Vermillion, Ortlinde, Elstein Flames and Frost Blaze | At least , higher with End of Vermillion, Ortlinde, Elstein Flames and Frost Blaze
Key: Base | Post-Awakening | Post-Training
Name: Claire Rouge, Claire Elstein, Little Sister of the Calamity Queen, Hell Cat Girl, Darkness Queen
Origin: Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Classification: Human, Elementalist, Noble princess, Student of the Areishia Spirit Academy, Leader of «Team Scarlet», Candidate as Darkness Queen
Powers and Abilities:
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Great Strategist, Fire Manipulation, Whip Proficiency, Spirit Contract, Energy Manipulation, Spirit Manipulation, Summoning, Enhanced Senses and Slight Instinctive Reaction (She can sense magic and presence; she has naturally sharp instinct. She reacted to a sudden attack from undergroundVolume 1), Non-Physical Interaction (Can interact and harm spirits and ghosts that can turn intangible or incorporeal), Heat Manipulation, Vibration Manipulation, Statistics Reduction and Status Effect Inducement via Blood Aria, Homing Attack via Hell Hounds, Explosion Manipulation, Forcefield Creation, Chain Manipulation via Flametongue, (Fire Absorption, Fire Manipulation, Statistics Amplification, Size Manipulation, Instinctive Reaction and Berserk Mode) with Scarlet, Fire Nullification and Resistance to Absorption and Absolute Zero with End of Vermillion (The flames resisted getting absorbed by a barrier that steals energy, and they counter Frost Blaze), Telepathy with Scarlet and minor spirits, Healing, Minor Light Manipulation, Resistance to (Fire, steel, cold, poison and diseases), partial Supernatural Willpower and Resistance to mind manipulation and memory manipulation (Partially resisted Rubia's Word of Power, and implied her strong willpower allowed her to overcome itVolume 10Volume 11)
|-|Post-tournament=
Same as before, but stronger and with much more stability, plus Durability Negation and Absolute Zero with Frost Blaze (Absolute Zero proof scans here), Instinctive Reaction (She reacted to Kamito trying to escapeVolume 12), Extrasensory Perception, Passive Statistics Amplification with Flames of Elstein. Scarlet can transform into Ortlinde when her name is called, obtaining better Instinctive Reaction, Scythe Mastery, Acrobatics, Durability Negation and she negates fire resistance
|-|Post-training=
Same as before, but stronger and more skilled, plus better Supernatural Willpower and Resistance to Fear Manipulation (Even in the presence of Demon King Kamito, whose aura alone causes terror to strong elementalists and spirits, Claire purposefully leaped at himVolume 16. She overcame her fear and trauma towards her sisterVolume 15) 
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Attack Potency: Large Building level (Can burn down a part of a forest around her to ashesVolume 2. Scales to 1 head of non-berserk TiamatVolume 5), higher with End of Vermillion (Sligthly pushed Rubia back) | Possibly Large Building level+ (Her experiences in the tournament, her training, and her awakening to the Flames of Elstein strengthened her enough to surpass her teammates who, unlike Claire, were useless against Rubia), higher with Flames of Elstein, Ortlinde (She one-shot Luminaris Saint LeischedVolume 9), End of Vermillion (She blocked Rubia's Frost Blaze spell) and Frost Blaze (capable of one-shotting Fianna's Georgios) | At least Large Building level+, higher with End of Vermillion, Ortlinde, Elstein Flames and Frost Blaze (The strongest of the main female characters; on par with Nepenthes Lore, who's on par with Leonora Lancaster. Strong enough for Kamito to confidently leave his back to her)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic combat speed/reactions (Scales to characters that can react to and dodge cloud-to-ground lightning), at least Superhuman travel speed with added Divine Power | At least Massively Hypersonic, possibly higher, at least Subsonic with Ortlinde (Moves faster than the eye can see)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 25 (She can keep in place and somewhat pull a massive 10-meter & over 25-ton rock golem that was using counterforce. The golem caused the ground to shake by casually walking), likely higher (That was a feat from Volume 1, and Base Claire extends to Volume 10) | At least Class 25, likely higher | At least Class 25, likely higher
Striking Strength: Unknown, likely at least Large Building level (She can casually slice and crush a tamed adamantine spirit from a fodder elementalist) | Unknown, Possibly Large Building level+ with Flametongue | Unknown, at least Large Building level+ with Flametongue
Durability: Large Building level (Can survive attacks on par or even stronger than her) | Possibly Large Building level+ (Stronger than before) | At least Large Building level+ (Much stronger than before)
Stamina: Superhuman
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*Since the beginning of the novel, Claire has been able to fight against two spirits at once without using her own
*Can infuse her body with Divine Power for a long duration of time.
*She stayed active for several hours without food and minimal rest in a large forest, all the while fighting opponents in the Blade Dance tournamentVolumes 5-10
*Can keep fighting when injured and bleeding (even against Jio Inzagi), or while restrained or entangledVolume 6
*Can partially counter water attacks
*She Fought Rubia Elstein while having accumulated physical wounds from two fights and mental stress from the reveal of her sister’s true nature and goal
*She can completely block water attack with End of Vermillion
*She possesses extraordinary mental power; she retained some consciousness after falling victim to Rubia’s mind control and memory manipulation
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**She travelled for several hours in freezing temperatures and strong windsVolume 13
**She fought and defeated multiple Imperial City elementalists, the equivalent of elite militaryVolume 14
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***She overcame her trauma and fear of Rubia Elstein, and defeated her copy
***She defeated 6 clones of Nepenthes Lore, a monster Base Kamito was unable to defeat
***Despite using Ortlinde consuming vast amounts of Divine Power, Claire can keep her active for extended periods of time, while fighting as well and defeating opponents. Pre-training, she couldn't fight efficiently when doing so.
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Range: Standard Melee Range with Blood Aria, Extended Melee Range with regular whip, Several Meters with Flametongue, Tens of Meters with Flame Chain, Hundreds of Meters with other Fire attacks. She can surround her weapon with invisible energy, slightly extending her reach. Extended Melee Range with Ortlinde
Standard Equipment: Flametongue (her whip waffe), healing crystals, a regular whip
Intelligence: Gifted. She's an extremely smart and effective team captain and strategist, and was praised by Rubia Elstein, who's considered a combat and military genius. She's among the best students at the Areisha academy, a school made to house gifted noble ladies. She came up with a plan to successfully defeat Velsaria Eva FahrengartVolume 3, despite her overwhelming power. Possesses vast knowledge about spirits, Astral Zero, and even politics, and can partially decipher complex texts written in ancient languages that few scholars can understand. Can quickly think of strategies and adapt to situation in fights, like against Velsaria, Leonora's team, and Luminaris
Standard Tactics: Claire’s fighting style is long-term battles, wearing down her opponent slowly and making him waste energy, while saving stamina. She is very good at adapting to situations, and will draw fights out to analyze her opponents and find weaknesses to exploit. For example, if an enemy is too quick to directly hit or entangle, she will adapt by using AoE fire attacks and cause widespread destruction rather than using her whip, or will go for close-ranged whip combat against ranged specialists and attempt to use Blood Aria. She’s also very good in one-vs-many situations. Another one of her preferred tactics is to wrap her opponent or their weapon with her whip, to then either swing them around or attack with her flames while they are incapable of moving
Weaknesses:
*Base: She has a short temper (until Volume 7). She is weak to water and earth attacks. She loses sight of things if she loses Scarlet. She can only use End of Vermillion when she's in mortal danger or assaulted with very strong emotions, and she's unable to control the spell. She has a fear, trauma and inferiority complex towards her sister Rubia Elstein.
*Post-tournament: She has a fear, trauma and inferiority complex towards her sister Rubia. She is weak to earth attacks. Using Ortlinde drains her Divine Power and stamina quickly.
*Post-training: She is weak earth attacks.
Feats:
*Took down a berserk militarized spirit with Kamito
*Casually dodged a danmaku of lightning bullets from equally strong elementalists
*Her strategies lead her team into beating Velsaria Eva Fahrengart and other teams in the preliminaries, and two teams in the international tournament
*Held her own against Luminaris Saint Leisched, even before summoning Ortlinde
*Survived battling against her sister, Rubia Elstein
*Took on and overpowered Imperial City elementalists, the equivalent of elite military
*She overcame her trauma and fear of Rubia Elstein, and defeated her copy
*Ortlinde, her spirit's true form, is far more powerful than Claire herself. She one-shot a healthy Luminaris Saint Leisched, who Claire was struggling against. She also casually crushed a clone of Nepenthes Lore, while Claire needed a few fireballs to get rid of one.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Whip Specialist: Her spirit's elemental waffe, Flametongue, is in the form of a whip. She is skilled to the level where she can use it to easily bind others – whether humans or spirits – or do short-to-long-range attacks. She is also capable of deciding whether she wants to add her flame attribute into the whip. The whip is capable of cutting through almost everything, even without applying fire on it. In merely two whip slashes, she cut down a large adamantine spirit and all the trees in a surrounding area
Fire Manipulation
*Fire Ball: Her most prided technique, a devastating ball of fire that can mow down trees with relative ease. She can make it explode if she wants. At base, she can control its size, but not its power. After her awakening however, she can also control the power and intensity
*Fire Wall: A wall of upwards-moving fire that can weaken attacks and completely block fire spells
*Blood Aria: A spell that requires direct contact. From her palm, she strikes her target with high-frequency vibrations and overheats it to the point of severely weakening it, and making it dysfunction if it's a spirit or weapon. Against a living opponent, they become disoriented, weakened, slowed and lose balance for a while
*Flame Chain: An advanced restricting technique that applies fire on the whip and extends its length to tie the entire body of the target
*Fire Burst: A very bright and loud attack consisting of a rain of small fire projectiles. Weaker than Fireball, but has a larger AoE and is effective on dark-attribute enemies
*Hell Hounds: Flames that turn into semi-living hunting hounds that relentlessly chase their target
*End of Vermillion: The power of Flame-Burning Flames, the strongest type of flames. The spell can do anything other fire spells can, but also destroys, devours and nullifies other flames, and can even annihilate weaker fire creatures. Effective at blocking water attacks. Their power is such that they can bypass fire resistance. Those flames are described as being foreign to both the Human World and the Spirit World (Astral Zero), implying the origin of those flames is otherwordly. The flames of this spell resist getting absorbedVolume 16 by other effects, even though Scarlet, a top-rank fire spirit, was unable to carelessly approach those flames. The spell is also capable of destroying Frost Blaze flames, effectively countering Absolute Zero
*Flames of Elstein: (Unavailable at Base) Passive magic acquired after her awakening and first fight against Rubia Elstein. It stabilizes her magic, makes her more durable, and her fire attacks get stronger, enough to bypass fire resistance. Scarlet, a top-rank fire spirit, was unable to carelessly approach Rubia's spells empowered with it
*Frost Blaze: (Unavailable at Base) Described as logic-bending freezing flames, it's a fire spell that freezes anything the flames touch and counts as Absolute Zero. Even other elements, like other flames, are affected. It makes them very fragile and can thus be shattered into tiny pieces. These flames later one-shot Fianna's Georgios, and even froze Terminus Est who can resist elements and is known as an anti-magic legendary sword. Kamito's Blaze Slash, which absorbs fire energy to strike an opponent, was unable to absorb the flames of Frost Blaze
Spirit Manipulation: Her spirit can dematerialize and rematerialize at will, and, if it finds itself in danger, Claire can immediately call it back and turn it into her whip. If defeated, it will be teleported back to Astral Zero, from which it can be summoned again after a couple dozens of seconds (unless it gets stomped, in which case it dies).
*Weapon Form (Flametongue): Scarlet's waffe form is that of a long black whip. Its sharp swing can pretty much cut everything non-magical. When fire is applied on it, even magical items and some spirits can be cut. Its strong grip can also effectively restrain its target's movement, even when they are massive or physically superior to Claire, like Leonora and militarized spirits. Even as a whip, the spirit can absorb fire and become stronger
*Cat Form (Scarlet): In the form of a small-sized red cat, Scarlet is a small and very agile fire-attribute spirit of high rank. It can manipulate fire and heat in the form of projectiles or by surrounding herself with flames, has Instinctive Reactions, can change size and amplify her stats by absorbing fire. However, if she absorbs too much fire, Scarlet will overheat and turn berserk; this is negated in Post-Awakening, where Scarlet is even able to absorb the flames of the Frost Blaze spell
*Human Form (Ortlinde): (Unavailable at Base) When her true name is called by Claire, Scarlet transforms into a short cat-eared girl wearing a dress of flames. Unlike her cat form, Ortlinde has intelligence comparable to a human's instead of an animal's, is far stronger and faster, and severely outmatches Claire. She wields a massive scythe, obtains even better instinctive reactions, comparable to Kamito's, can overpower elementalists as strong as Claire and casually block their full-powered attacks, her flames bypass durability and fire resistance, and she gets access to Crimson Judgment, a fire spell applied to her scythe with which she one-shot a healthy Luminaris Saint Leisched and Nepenthes Lore.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Rabbit (Juuni Taisen: Zodiac War) Rabbit's Profile (Post-awakening Claire was used. Speed was equalized)
Losses:
Inconclusive:
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