Gretchen Eillan

= GAMEPLAY INFO: =
== Special Moves: ==
* Star Summon: QCF + S (She launches a star shaped spell from her floating wand.)
* Wand Upper: DP + S (She rises upwards and allows her floating wand spin to her opponent, similar to Tessa's Reverie Sword.)
* Meteor Charge: HCB + S (She summons a small meteor from her wand. Distance varies depending on the button: near [LS], mid [MS] or far [HS].)
* Wand Push: HCF + K (She rushes her opponent with her wand, pushing him/her down.)
== Spirit Summons: ==
* Hop and Jump: QCF + S and K (Rabbitus jumps to where his opponent is located and stomps him/her to the ground three times before he gets off.)
* Rabbit Scratch: HCF + S and K (Rabbitus hops and scratches his opponent's face ten times, and then kicks him/her to the ground.)
== Limit Breaks: ==
* Asteroid Barrage: QCFx2 + S (She launches a handful of small asteroids towards her opponent.)
* Wand Crush: HCFx2 + K (She launches her wand and floats it with her opponent upwards five times, with the last one spelling a star wave that sends him/her to the ground before the wand returns back to her.)
* Meteor Storm*: F, HCF + 3S (Gretchen prepares by putting her right hand in her abdomen while she does the "Non, Non!" pose similar to Bonne Jenet as she says "Watch out!", then she summons four chains where her opponent is located. Once the chains trap his/her limbs, Gretchen starts to recite magical words as she spins her wand and starts to conjure meteorites from the sky, hitting her opponent ten times, with the last meteorite hitting in his/her face, falling him/her to the ground.)
* = Requires the Maximum Brave Meter to perform
== Murder Acts: ==
* Newt Splat: F, F, D, D + LK (Gretchen blows a star-shaped kiss to her opponent, causing him/her to be transformed into a Newt. Then, she walks closely to her scaredly polymorphed opponent, which runs in circles and stomps him/her immediately, leaving as a result small gibs and blood splats on her shoe as a result as she gets said splats off. Physical Murder. Sweep distance.)
* Killer Rabbit: B, D, F, U + MS (Gretchen summons Rabbitus and orders him to attack as she says "Lunch time!". Then, the rabbit spirit hops to his opponent and starts to eat him/her like a tornado, complete with screams until he eats him/her entirely. After that, Rabbitus spits on the mutilated skull of his opponent and burps afterwards. Spiritual Murder. Sweep distance.)
= MISC.: =
* Voice Actress: Tara Strong (English), Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Patricia Acevedo (Latin American Spanish)
* Intro Sequence: Gretchen is walking seductively as she snaps her fingers, summoning her floating magic wand as she says "Don't understimate me... I got the perfect time to play with you!" before she goes to her fighting stance.
* Match Point Sequence: Gretchen puts her hands on her hips as she says "Not bad for a person of my caliber.".
* Victory Sequence: Gretchen makes her magic wand disappear as she says "There's no single thing magic can't solve!" and then winks to the camera. Rabbitus then pops behind her shoulders.
* Stage: Gretchen's Lab
* Rival: Tifa Eillan
= STORY MODE: =
== Prologue: ==
(Shows the book in one page a drawing of Gretchen blowing a kiss, followed by her name below, and then in the other page, a series of texts will show up with the following prologue here.)
Witchcraft and sorcery, a series of practices involving the usage of magic spells by individuals and certain groups. Most concepts such as occultism, spiritualism, superstition, necromancy, shamanism and the paranormal are usually associated with witchcraft itself.
In the country of Scotland, the Eillans are sorcerers commited to preserve the balance of the world. Gretchen, a witch specialized in astronomy, is the eldest daughter of Duncan and Sophia and the younger sister of Tifa. She predicted the return of Deathstructor, the skeletal ruler of Deathopia, and tried to warn her people about his return.
Unfortunately, she was unjustly blamed, claiming that she unsealed him out of all sudden, when in reality, he got unsealed as a result of the hate wars that took place months ago. To prove her innocence, Gretchen decides to travel to the Deathopian region and put Deathsrtuctor down, so she will get the proof enough to indicate that she's not working with him. However, she also feels that her sister Tifa, now a thief, will get in the way of her quest.
== Stage 4 Interlude - VS. Zi Lang ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place in the Shaolin Pagodas. Lang starts to fight against the Jiang-Shi for ten seconds until a star spell starts to hit the Chinese undead, dissintegrating them.)
Lang: "What's that?"
(Then he turns around and sees Gretchen, being the one who cast the spell.)
Gretchen: "I'm just helping you, sir."
Lang: "Thanks. Name's Zi Lang, the last of the Shaolin Monks. What's your name?"
Gretchen: "Gretchen Eillan, the benevolent Witch of Glasgow."
Lang: "Nice to meet you!"
(Lang does a reverence to Gretchen while looking at her face out of respect. Then, Lang's animal spirit, Pandemonkey, appears and humps on Gretchen's left leg as she gasps.)
Gretchen: "Hey! What's doing this monkey with my leg?"
Lang: "More respect to the lady, Pandemonkey!"
(Gretchen shakes her leg to make Pandemonkey get off of the hump, falling him to the ground with comical rolling eyes as a result.)
Gretchen: "Control your pet! It's fine that I dress provocatively and all, but I'm not anyone's fetish!"
(Pandemonkey disappears as Lang picks his staff and challenges Gretchen.)
Lang: "I'm sorry to say this, but I need to test your abilities."
Gretchen: "Fine by you... however, don't take this so easily."
(Gretchen accepts his challenge and summons her wand as she's ready to fight.)
=== After Match Cutscene: ===
(Lang gets up easily.)
Lang: "Not bad for a sorcerer like you."
Gretchen: "Thanks! Unlike your animal, I see that you are gentle with me."
Lang: "Shaolin are trained in body and mind to resist temptations."
Gretchen: "By the way, what are these monsters that attempted to attack you?"
(Lang explains to Gretchen about what happened in his country.)
Lang: "Jiang-Shi, undead hoppers who feed in the life force of the people. Think these like my country's equivalent of the Romanian Vampires."
Gretchen: "And what are trying to do against you?"
Lang: "Truth to be told, they used to be my fellow Shaolin Monks, until Deathstructor transformed into these creatures. Now I have to pray for them in the heaven."
Gretchen: "Sorry for what happened today. I swear that Deathstructor will pay for this! Only destroying him will convince my people that I'm not a menace."
Lang: "Wait? Are you saying that you're unjustly blamed?"
Gretchen: "I hate the sterotypes of witches being portrayed as evildoers."
Lang: "You're right. By the way, thanks for the visit, Gretchen."
Gretchen: "Take care well in your spiritual journey, Lang."
(Gretchen shakes hands with Lang and then leaves the scene. Later, the camera focuses on Lang meditating.)
== Fated Battle - VS. Tifa Eillan ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place outside of Deathstructor's Castle, where we see dark brown mountains, a couple of bones and dark gray clouds that cover the entire sky, followed by lightning coming from said clouds.)
Gretchen: "Sooner or later, Deathstructor will be destroyed!"
(Gretchen is almost going to step the bridge, that is until out of sudden, two different colored daggers were put to the ground.)
????: "Remember me, sister?"
(Tifa shows up in front of her sister and picks up the daggers.)
Gretchen: "Tifa? What are you doing here?"
Tifa: "It's obvious that I want to end your life... slow and painfully!"
Gretchen: "Not today, black sheep!"
Tifa: "You dare to defy me?"
(Both Gretchen and Tifa start to clash their weapons for ten seconds before they return back to the square one.)
Gretchen: "Listen, this issue is of life and death. I will stop Deathstructor as soon as possible!"
Tifa: "Death will be yours once I finish this duel!"
(Both are now in their fighting stances.)
== After Match Cutscene: ==
(Tifa starts to get up slowly.)
Tifa: "Why you have to get pampered and spoiled with goods while I was treated like dirt?"
Gretchen: "That's because you never intended to be a witch like me. Instead, you took the dark path of the thief, stealing everything you see to survive yourself."
Tifa: "If only I would take the skull in the Deathopian castle, I will use it!"
Gretchen: "So, you just came here for the skull?"
(Tifa succesfully gets up.)
Tifa: "That's what I wanted, to show our parents that I'm as good as you are!"
Gretchen: "Tifa, you are my sister, and I don't want you to be involved in any dangerous situation like this!"
Tifa: "What?"
(Gretchen conjures chains where Tifa is located, trapping her arms and feet.)
Gretchen: "It's for your own sake... I will return soon."
Tifa: "You will not get away with this insult, Gretchen!"
(Gretchen runs towards Deathstructor's castle.)
== Sub-Boss Cutscene: ==
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair as we hear his laugh as he sees Gretchen through a crystal ball.)
Deathstructor: "So you have decided to fight me... However, this isn't going to happen soon."
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball. We cut to the castle with Gretchen walking towards, as a black energy teleports her to a platform in a cave with lava surrounding it.)
Gretchen: "This place is so... hot for me!"
(We hear an animal growl for a while. Then, an hybrid creature starts to land the ground with a huge shockwave.)
Mantigore: "Nobody's going to step Deathopia, mortal!"
Gretchen: "Mantigore? Why you joined the enemy's side?"
Mantigore: "Because of those pathetic humans like you caused the extinction of my kin."
Gretchen: "That's not true!"
(Mantigore screams in front of Gretchen. The latter is now in her combat stance afterwards.)
Mantigore: "You dare to insult me, witch? I will break your wand now!"
Gretchen: "I don't want to hurt you, but I have no choice."
== Final Boss Cutscene: ==
(Mantigore gets up easily.)
Mantigore: "You have proven to be worthy, Gretchen."
Gretchen: "Thanks, Mantigore. Everything is forgiven."
Mantigore: "I feel bad for what I did. Deathstructor is planning the apocalypse."
Gretchen: "I understand your situation, and that's why I want to eradicate him!"
Mantigore: "My time here is over... go to his throne room as I'm resting myself in peace back at my homeland."
(Mantigore's eyes start to close as his ethereal body starts to disappear in front of her.)
Gretchen: "You are now atoned for your sins, Mantigore."
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair, as he gets angry for Mantigore's vanishing, seeing through a crystal ball.)
Deathstructor: "Why Mantigore is defeated by a mere witch?" *laughs* "It doesn't matter... she will receive my touch of death immediately."
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball. We cut back to the cave as Gretchen is feeling a strange sensation.)
Gretchen: "Hope this sends me back to his lair."
(Dark energies causes Gretchen to be teleported to Deathstructor's throne room, a place located in the top of the castle, decorated in dark fantasy architecture. Deathstructor is seen sitting in his black throne.)
Deathstructor: "Gretchen Eillan, what a nice surprise of you."
Gretchen: "We finally met face to face, Deathstructor."
Deathstructor: *laughs* "Exactly, you're just meeting with the future harbinger of the apocalypse."
Gretchen: "Why my people hate me?"
Deathstructor: "You're a witch... and by logic, they have a reason to hate you."
Gretchen: "Don't spill any nonsense about me or my fellow witches."
Deathstructor: "Your townspeople are planning a series of witch trials in the near future, and for what they heard, you will be the first burnt by them."
Gretchen: "Are you are involved with them?"
Deathstructor: "No! While it's true that I hate mankind with passion, there's no way I can collaborate with your future murderers."
Gretchen: "If only I get the proof enough to convince them that I'm not a menace."
Deathstructor: "You are wrong! No matter how are you planning to eradicate me, they will still hate you."
Gretchen: "Then, in this case... I will fight!"
(Deathstructor unearths his scythe, Black Cleaver, out of the ground and grabs it as he starts to walk outside of his throne to the square one in front of Gretchen.)
Deathstructor: "Foolish witch, you are just digging your own grave."
Gretchen: "It is you that you will be buried, undead ruler!"
Deathstructor: "Fine by me... in this case, I will kill you, Witch of Glasgow!"
(Gretchen is now assuming her combat stance.)
== Ending cutscene: ==
(Deathstructor is defeated, however he gets up easily.)
Deathstructor: "I'm defeated by a mere witch? This can't be happening!"
Gretchen: "You don't understand that evil shall never win, right?"
Deathstructor: "Evil will win, witch!"
(Deathstructor runs towards Gretchen and attempts to attack her, but is countered by the witch's wand, launching a powerful star spell to the skeletal ruler in the chest. Deathstructor starts to feel that his ironic death is starting now.)
Deathstructor: "No! What you have done to me?"
Gretchen: "I finally destroyed you for real, and that's the proof enough to convince my people that I'm not joining your evil plans!"
(Gretchen leaves the castle as the components of it are starting to fall while energy waves are starting to surround Deathstructor.)
Deathstructor: "Wish you will get ugly soon, Gretchen Eillan!"
(The waves cause Deathstructor to explode into bones. We cut to Gretchen leaving the castle and summons Rabbitus and hops with him as the Deathopian castle is falling into pieces. We cut later to the Scottish Village as the townspeople are protesting in the streets with forks and torches.)
Villagers: "Burn the witch! Burn the witch! Burn the witch!"
(Immediately, Gretchen comes in front of the townspeople.)
Gretchen: "You want me already? I'm here!"
Villager #1: "Yes! We're ready to execute you!"
Gretchen: "I don't know why all of you hate me?"
Villager #2: "You're a traitor to our nation for siding with the Deathopians!"
Gretchen: "This is a misunderstanding! I got the proof that indicates that I'm against Deathstructor all along!"
Villager #3: "Do it quickly! We aren't losing our time!"
Gretchen: "You got it!"
(Gretchen then summons a flasback spell, showing her eradicating Deathstructor, immediately shocking the villagers.)
Gretchen: "See? I'm not lying! I stopped Deathstructor by myself!"
Villager #2: "We judged you bad, Miss Eillan."
Villager #3: "All the bad things of you... we regretted it."
Villager #1: "Forgive us!"
Gretchen: "Will do with a condition... never hunt witches again, unless they attack you."
Villagers: "Got it, Miss Eillan."
(The villagers then turn off the torches and let them go down with the forks as they go back to their houses. Later, we cut to Gretchen returning to her duties in her lab.)
Gretchen (v/o): "Now that my people are no longer hating me, I will continue with my researching duties with no problem. However... I have a feeling that I forgot something... or perhaps not."
(Gretchen then turns around and looks to a box brought by a certain someone she knows.)
Gretchen: "I wonder what's this strange thing?"
(Then, she grabs the box and reads a message that says "For you, sister.".)
Gretchen: "Tifa? But how?"
(We cut to a flashback in the desolated land [the same stage where the Fated Battles take place] where Tifa is still chained by her sister's spell as Snakespitter is summoned, allowing the female spirit to open the lock with the teeth, freeing her partner from the chains. Later, we see Tifa stealing the Crystal Skull located in the Deathopian throne, while Gretchen is fighting against Deathstructor.)
Gretchen: "I don't know what happened at the time, but... thanks sister."
(Gretchen opens the box and grabs the Crystal Skull.)
Gretchen: "I wonder what's the purpose of this thing."
(Gretchen then starts to use the Crystal Skull, and it unleashes a projector that shows the different alternate dimensions in the following order: The Anthromorphic Dimension, a monarchic realm comprised of different humanoid animals; The Terror Dimension, a gloomy place inhabitated by creatures such as Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies and other similar folk; The Atlantean Dimension, a realm who used to belong to Earth, but a portal caused it to sent to the very underwater empire is currently; The Divine Dimension, which is exactly Mount Olympus if it's inhabitated also by other Pantheonic Deities... and the Negative Dimension, which resembles Hell, with Hades, the Greek God of Death, sitting in the main throne of Erebus.)
Gretchen: "Alternate... dimensions? This means Earth is not the only one in existence."
(Lastly, the projector shows the Ghost Dimension, a world with surreal architecture and green skies where the spirits are originary from, including Mantigore.)
Mantigore: "Gretchen Eillan, you finally found out the true origin of the spirits."
Gretchen: "Mantigore, so is this the place where the Animal Spirits came to Earth?"
Mantigore: "Exactly! When Earth started to originate life, the spirits appeared from a portal in the same way the first lifeforms appeared, in Africa."
Gretchen: "This means, these ethereal partners of ours belong to said... alternate dimension?"
Mantigore: "Indeed."
Gretchen: "What's the true purpose for them to visit Earth?"
Mantigore: "Deathopia started its dark realm in my homeland, and Deathstructor almost eradicated my kin... that is until the skull you're using created a portal to Earth the very first day its formed. The spirits escaped from his wrath and later took animal forms as a way to counterattack Deathstructor's master plan... the extinction of every lifeform in all dimensions."
Gretchen: "But what happened to those who joined Deathopia?"
Mantigore: "They joined because they thought mankind eradicated my kin, and Deathopia's castle was transferred to Earth to continue with their invasion."
Gretchen: "Fortunately, I stopped Deathstructor's plans and the Dimensions are safe!"
Mantigore: "My trust on mankind wouldn't have returned had it not to you."
Gretchen: "Thank you for telling me the truth, Mantigore."
Mantigore: "Take care well, Miss Eillan... I will continue watching my homeland so no spirit will rebel again."
(The projector dissipates after this. Gretchen then safeguards the crystal skull in a vault located in her table.)
Gretchen: "Hope this object will never be used in the wrong hands for the safety of mankind."
(The last take shows Gretchen continuing with her research and then Rudolph Barrett opens the door as he visits his girlfriend and then they converse. The camera zooms out of her lab for ten seconds before the screen fades black.)
(Avril Lavigne's "Keep Holding On" starts playing as the credits which background is accompanied of a papyrus with ink-stained reflections of the Animal Spirits while the credits are rolling.)
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