Ciel/Remake

is the seventh member of the Burial Agency of the Holy Church.
Formerly an incarnation of Michael Roa Valdamjong, she goes undercover at Souya's high school, acting as Shiki Tohno's senior. 
Ciel is one of the six heroines of the Tsukihime Remake series.
==Profile==
===Background===
Birth name: . A girl born in the French countryside to a baker's family. She lived happily, helping her father at his bakery and attending school. Due to a high degree of magical potential, she was born as Michael Roa Valdamjong's fifteenth incarnation. His fourteenth was destroyed by Arcueid Brunestud before he had a chance to find a family bloodline with both wealth and power. He could only fulfill the requirement that his next incarnation would have physical potential, so he was born into a normal family without any social standing. Her body instead had extremely high magical potential, such that in Roa's estimations even magi at the top of their fields look like rusted-out clunkers when compared to her body.
Everything changed around her twelfth birthday, when Roa finally began to manifest, causing her to become a vampire. She started to experience abnormal violent urges, but always kept them in check. She wanted to snap the necks of her friends for no reason, and the sight of a beggar on the road was so funny that she wanted to stab him with a knife. She tried her best to resist the impulses by locking herself away in her room. It was not the same as possession, as she equated the feelings to those normal small destructive passions that all humans possess solidified inside her mind. She knew something terrible would happen if she were to let them take over, so she tried not to see anyone or do anything to avoid hating anyone and bring about her feelings. 
It became too much to bear, so she shut herself into her room. Locking herself away was a large mistake because that gave time for her mind to grind away and finally surpass its limits. She became completely replaced with Roa after that point, but still felt his actions as her own. With only the thought of her thirstiness, she left her room for the first time in months, and bringing smiles to her worried parents, as they rushed to welcome her, bit into their necks and sucked their blood. Roa greatly enjoyed the amount of power the body gave him. Due to her having no social standing, it took him time to take over, and it was difficult to do so without having people notice. 
Roa in Ciel's body took over her village, and eventually become a center figure of what would be called the French Incident. He committed various atrocities to the citizens as he enjoyed using a body with true power, but it was not as wild as previous times and without as much blood spilled. The will of the incarnation still comes from the body, so she still had some power over his actions. She took the townspeople she loved one by one, and she humiliated and mutilated their souls. She figured that she would go insane, but also figured that insanity would cause her to commit even more sins than before. She tried to minimize the damage in order to persevere and keep her sanity. It only took a month before she was in full control of them and playing with their lives however she wished. Her only solace was that it ended quickly. After the town was completely under Roa's control, he was inevitably hunted down by Arcueid. She found him on a night with a crimson moon, and he was killed after their fight. But after being defeated by Arcueid, Roa transferred to the next incarnation and the corpse taken by the Holy Church to where, after seven years, she revived as Elesia, with her original personality without any of Roa's influence, while Roa moved on to his next incarnation, SHIKI Tohno. 
The girl, now immortal for as long as Roa is alive, discarded her name, was baptized as Ciel, and joined the Church as a vampire Hunter in order to one day die as a human.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - Day 13: "Mirage" She was personally recruited into the Burial Agency by the Director of it, Narbareck. She became an Executor at the age of only 13 due to her unique form of immortality and knowledge obtained from Roa, and spent the next six years working as one. Owing to her immortality, she has a 100% success rate, and has killed countless vampires despite impossible odds. According to Noel, she once spent an entire year lurking in the sewer of a European city just to kill a single vampire. The vampire had the ability to monitor the entire city as if it was its own body, allowing it to monitor for any intruders, but had trouble locating people in the sewers due to how filthy they were. As the vampire would have been able to detect her presence if she made use of any Sacraments, she swallowed the handle of a Black Key which she kept inside her body for the entire year she spent in the sewer. Ciel waited until she had an opportunity to attack it, managing to make the kill after the vampire had eliminated a group of other Executors who were sent to kill it, then attacking it from below when it wasn't expecting it. Killing vampires is all she is good at, and all she has done for every single day since she joined the Church. Had her vampire-like nature and inhuman mentality not made her taboo within the Church, she would have been canonized as a saint.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - Day 9: "Arc en Ciel I"
Ciel holds the seventh seat in the Burial Agency, along with the codename . Before the events of Tsukihime, Ciel defeated and killed three of the Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors; the 7th Einnashe, the 22nd Chromclay Petastructure and the 25th Be'ze. She currently possesses Einnashe, Be'ze and Chromclay's Idea Bloods, and utilizes them to facilitate unique magecraft. Noel is her pupil, who she had taken in as a student five years earlier after she had run afoul of a bishop.
Sensing Roa's reincarnation, Ciel assigned herself alone to the town of Souya to punish him. She lives a double life, steadily getting rid of the constantly proliferating vampires by night, and infiltrating a school by day to investigate and observe her Roa body candidate, Shiki Tohno, eldest son of the Tohno family. Despite her suspicions about the assignment of her pupil Noel, she tries to use Shiki to seal and/or destroy Roa, but things don't go as planned.
===Appearance===
She looks about 16-18. In Melty Blood: Type Lumina, Vlov Arkhangel mentions that she looks a lot like his 8th wife.
MB Lumina Ciel.png|Ciel in Melty Blood: Type Lumina, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi.
MB Lumina Ciel 2.png|Ciel in Melty Blood: Type Lumina, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi.
MB Lumina Powered Ciel.png|Powered Ciel in Melty Blood: Type Lumina, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi.
MB Lumina Powered Ciel 2.png|Powered Ciel in Melty Blood: Type Lumina, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi.
===Personality===
She poses as an upperclassman in Shiki's school but is actually a Holy Church Executor who came to Souya after Roa. The people of the Church call her by the pejorative name Quinze. Although she explains their secrets to Shiki as he gets involved in the situation, the mystery woman doesn't tell him a thing about herself. She's Lawful Good. Extroverted, timid, and active. Ciel has a generally quiet and caring personality. However she's also nosy and curious, and can't leave lazy or depressed people alone.
The character whose personality best fits the big sister archetype. She takes cares of people and does anything they ask. She's satisfied with her class representative-like position... but, things get different if she grows affectionate to the person she's helping. Her teasing can get mean-spirited. Maybe she just likes troubling her loved ones.
However, that's all just the base Ciel. She uses a different persona as an Executor, so she can become a cold-blooded machine to fulfill her objectives if necessary.
When operating as an Executor, Ciel is like a machine whose only purpose is to kill vampires. She is absolutely merciless towards them, even willing to kill children who have been transformed into Dead Apostles. Her process is methodical and inhuman, never complaining about her orders and always performing her task with ruthless efficiency. Ciel has dedicated her life solely to the extermination of vampires as a form of atonement for her past actions as Roa’s host. Since she remembers Roa’s actions in her body as if they were her own, she blames herself for having killed her family and other loved ones, and it is that guilt which drives her to become a killing machine. Her ultimate goal, however, is to die as a human after vanquishing Roa, which she views as the only way she can find salvation. It is only through her relationship with Shiki, and confronting her past in the form of Noel, that she is able to overcome her guilt and find a new reason to continue living.
Due to her guilt surrounding her time as Roa, she refuses to use any of the magecraft knowledge obtained from him against any foes other than Arcueid Brunestud and Roa himself. Instead, she relies on the Black Keys and other standard Sacraments taught to her by the Church.
==Role==
===Tsukihime===
Ciel is first introduced on her train trip back to Souya as Shiki's upper-classmate, who she apparently became acquainted with just a week earlier, at least according to her. She is carrying a lot of stuff, having apparently been out early in the morning doing volunteer work at the park. Ciel invites Shiki to visit her at the tea ceremony club after school. Ciel and Shiki's excited chatter is interrupted by a blue-haired sharp-looking middle schooler, who chides them for being loud in public. Ciel has some business elsewhere and leaves Shiki at the station to go to school on his own.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Day 1: "Homecoming"
At lunch, Shiki walks out into the corridor and meets Ciel. She offers to make up for the mishap at the train, inviting him for lunch. Shiki secures them a seat next to Arihiko Inui. Supposedly Ciel had at first plans with Arihiko, but dropped it to talk to Shiki. Ciel brings Shiki curry. They have a small chat until Ciel asks where Shiki lives. He hesitates, but Arihiko spills the beans about his circumstances. Shiki gives in and tells Ciel about his family, and how he is moving today. Arihiko feels bad, and eventually tells Ciel he has to talk to Shiki alone. After she leaves, Arihiko tries to cheer Shiki up about the move.
After school, Shiki is pondering on what to do, and not feeling quite ready to go home, he decides to make good on his promise with Ciel and visits her at the tea ceremony club. After going around looking for the place, Shiki finally finds it after consulting a map. Only Ciel can be found in the room. She explains that the tea ceremony club was long abandoned and that only recently has she been trying to revive it. Eventually, Ciel asks him about his family again. Shiki says he never felt like he could properly return's the Arima family's love for him. He explains how with his Father now dead, he was called back to the Tohno mansion. The two start spend the rest of the time small-talking until the school starts to close.
====Arcueid Route====
====Ciel Route====
Ciel confronting DA Noel.jpg|Ciel after Noel's defeat.
Arcueid pins Ciel on the wall (remake).jpg|Arcueid pins Ciel on a wall.
Ciel crying (remake).jpg|Ciel crying.
In the Normal End of Ciel's route, when Shiki stabs himself to kill Roa, Ciel sacrifices her own life to keep Shiki from dying from his suicide attempt. It ultimately ends with Shiki training to becoming an Executor in hopes that he can find a way to bring Ciel back to life before he himself dies as well.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - Normal End - Day 15: "Midnight Rainbow"
In the True End of Ciel's route, Ciel pulls out all the stops to defeat Red Arcueid before she kills Shiki and consumes the city entirely. She first uses up all her magical energy utilizing the Seventh Holy Scripture to snipe Arcueid from afar from minute one. When that fails, now out of juice and having lost one form of the Seventh Holy Scripture, Ciel consumes Vlov's Idea Blood to replenishes her magical energy, knowing she would lose some of her humanity in the process, and continues the assault, with both weapons and magecraft, the latter of which she detests using. Finally, she unleashes the Star of Calvaria, which finally destroys Arcueid's Lumina and splits the city in half.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - True End - Day 15: "Cloudless Blue"
===Melty Blood===
MBTL Ciel ending.jpg|Ciel's ending.
MBTL DA Noel ending.jpeg|Dead Apostle Noel's ending.
==Abilities==
Ciel is a member of the Burial Agency, special Executors meant for the slaying of Dead Apostles, as a failed saint that rivals a whole Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament. She became an Executor at the age of only 13 due to her unique form of immortality and knowledge obtained from Roa, and has been one for the past six years. Noel calls her a monster, who has a body more immortal than any vampire. Her body has extremely high physical and magical potential, allowing her to jump to and from the tops of lamp posts, leap from buildings and between rooftops, run on the sides of walls at high speeds, and carry a person at full sprint without breaking a sweat. Red Arcueid in her Lumina form states that Ciel's body's capabilities is the pinnacle of human potential, after seeing that Powered Ciel had the mental strength to maintain her mind against her Mystic Eyes. Her physical prowess it such that she can contend with the likes of Dead Apostle Ancestors in physical combat with her exchanging blows with Vlov on equal footing, Shiki states she would have defeated him sooner if not for her using Gothic Fort:Cathedral to protect the city from his Idea Blood.
Ciel is a master of disguise, being able to play both the parts of an upper high school student and an Executor. All the more impressively, she can inherit differing personalities traits of each role distinctively. 
She can move fast enough to create afterimages of herself, appearing as if she can clone herself, which she demonstrates to Shiki after he jokingly talks about how she eats enough curry for two whole people. 
===Combat=== 
She can be called almighty in any weapon she uses. She has no true favorites, but guns are the only ones she likes overall. While preferring to utilize combat weapons like swords and guns, she is quite strong as a magus, as it is her actual nature, but she doesn't normally utilize it because of her dislike for resorting to Roa's knowledge. In Type Lumina, Ciel uses a variety of martial arts moves, from kicks and punches to throws and jabs, along with her Black Keys.
Ciel was taught swordplay by Be'ze, being his last disciple. Ciel's technique is superior to Vlov Arkhangel's, however, she loses their fight as a result of Vlov's Principle continually eating into her alongside her strenuous use of Gothic Fort: Cathedral.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - Day 5: "Icebound Ocean"
She is well over twenty times stronger than Noel outclassing her Dead Apostle form completely with Noel being unable to land even a single blow on her before being killed by the Seventh Holy Scripture. 
Over the course of her career as an Executor she has killed no less than than Three Dead Apostle Ancestors (Four in her own route counting Vlov) including her own sword master Be'ze alongside Chromclay Petastructure and Einnashe. 
As , her main attacks often use weaponry, in the style of "Blaze", "Blade", and "Break", and her heavy armament features both brute force and magical enhancements. 
====Black Keys====
Ciel's primary weapon as an Executor are the Black Keys, one of the standard Scriptural Weapons of the Church created from pages of the through magecraft. While seen as an archaic weapon inferior to modern firearms and more difficult to use than Ash Locks by most Executors, Ciel holds the Black Keys to be one of the most effective tools at her disposal, saying they belong among the "conclusive weapons" that Noi Seonator Granfatima speaks of. She prefers the use of them due to their convenience, with her being able to create as many as she needs on the spot so long as she has the magical energy and carry them around wherever she wants. She also finds them convenient due to being easy to sneak them past airport and border security, and not requiring the heavy maintenance the Seventh Holy Scripture does. They are also more useful during her duties rescuing the victims of vampire attacks, as she can hide them beneath her clothing as to not intimidate scared civilians in the way that carrying a large weapon like the Seventh would.
Ciel utilizes her Black Keys as a primary weapon in conjunction with the Burial Agency's secret martial arts technique known as the Iron Plate Effect, but also makes use of them as a channel for her magecraft, using them to demarcate the boundaries of her Barriers and channel spells such as the Cremation Rite and Internment Rite into them in combat. She also shows the ability to both create and control large numbers of Black Keys telekinetically. During her fight with Noel, she manifests hundreds of them in midair and commands them to fall like rain in order to destroy the vampirized Noel's undead minions. Her degree of control over them is such that not one weapon missed its target.
====Torture Instrument: Virgin Pain====
A conceptual device repurposed into an armour, it is modelled on an , a torture instrument made for identifying witches. All those who wear the armour cannot take it off until the armour has affirmed whether they're a witch or not, either dying if it does declare them a witch or if they take off the armour early, but at the same time the wearer cannot die until the armour has finished affirming. Ciel can make great use of this armour as her curse will cause her to revive when she dies from the armour's affirmations, and also will revive her when she dies by removing the armour, thus allowing her to reuse it. At the same time, the armour itself would stop her dying from any attacks while it affirms whether she's a witch or not, minimising the number of brief lapses between her dying and reviving. 
Ciel used this armour in the battle against Vlov Arkhangel, the device preventing her from dying against his Principle's near-Absolute Zero temperatures. Although she would have been able survive against his Principle in the end, the temperatures would constantly be killing her over and over again and preventing her from moving or fighting.
====Other equipment====
Ciel's nun outfit that acts as her primary Executor clothing, is an all-purpose, lightly armed armament, with incredible protective abilities. In comparison, the Virgin Pain she used against Vlov is for fights to the death.
===Magecraft===
Ciel is extremely gifted at magecraft, having by sheer random chance mutated to be born with very powerful Magic Circuits. It is stated that if the average magus's Od generation was 20, then Ciel's is 5000. Ciel has over twice the amount of magical energy than the Clock Tower's record holder McDonell Trambellio Elrod, even if his magical energy regeneration is unparalleled. She also has inherited a variety of spells from Roa's knowledge, such as his Numerology, High Speed Incantation, Simplified Repetitive Incantation, suggestions, and Necromancy. Due to her past with Roa, she refuses to use any of his magecraft unless absolutely necessary, such as when fighting against Dead Apostle Ancestors or True Ancestors, relying instead on the Sacraments and weaponry she obtained from the Church in normal fights. However, as Roa notes, because she has such incredibly high aptitude, she never learned to be efficient and precise, as a result, her spells can be incredibly wasteful.
She is highly skilled in the use of Sacraments, having invented a spell known as in order to contain Arcueid. It is a powerful Bounded Field, similar in nature to those used by Noel, that is strong enough to temporarily restrain a Dead Apostle Ancestor. It is conceptually based on the Holy Church's that stood for centuries as the tallest building in the world. It was insufficient to hold back Arcueid, however, forcing Ciel to instead try and use Chromclay's Cathedral Idea Blood instead. During Dead Apostle Noel's Arcade Mode ending in Type Lumina, Ciel uses a Baptism Rite to finish her off.Melty Blood: Type Lumina - Dead Apostle Noel's Arcade Route - Ending
She can change her physical appearance, as seen when she takes the form of a different high school girl and can change back to her original appearance by melting away her current appearance. Ciel is also capable of altering and erasing the memories of others, as seen when she takes away Shiki's memories of her.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Moon Princess route - Day 11: "Blood Red Moon II" Noel explains that Ciel used her suggestion magecraft to trick Shiki and everyone at school.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - Day 10: "Arc en Ciel II" According to Noel, the amount of magical energy needed to constantly cast suggestion magecraft on as many people as she did at the school is so immense that only she could've done so.
====Idea Blood====
During her fight with Arcueid, Ciel is revealed to be in possession of three Idea Bloods of the Dead Apostle Ancestors she has killed, Be'ze, Einnashe, and Chromclay Petastructure, located in her chest, abdomen, and right hand respectively. She also acquired the Idea Blood of Vlov Arkhangel after killing him, but in order to replenish her magical energy she turned it into a magical energy reactor, at the cost of her humanity and strain upon her body. It only works for a short time; Vlov's Idea Blood is estimated to only last less than 3 minutes before it becomes exhausted. While powered by the Idea Blood, by chanting "Set — Code Galgalim", Ciel is able to complete a ten-count incantation spell repeatedly within a single breath. The result of that spell each time released bolts of lightning with 2 million volts.
She can use one of them, Chromclay's Cathedral, to create a variant of the original's Idea Blood usage, though she cannot do the same with the other three; in the case of Vlov's, it is because the foundation of his Idea Blood is not mature enough to create a grand magecraft from it, let alone weave a new one, instead using it as a magical energy reactor. However, she is able to work around Be'ze and Einnashe's by using the Idea Bloods to initiate separate magecrafts that Ciel created.
: An angelic wheel deployed in the stratosphere, blazing with focused sunlight. A reflector created with magecraft. The 50km long, 10km wide blade of light beaming towards the surface can be compared to an aurora possessing mass, or a guillotine of light. It is grand magecraft that Ciel came up with after defeating the Ancestor who was her sword mentor; apparently she uses his Idea Blood to initiate it. After firing at full power against Arcueid the remaining magical energy was used to fire one last shot, and it was this move that turned the tables in the endgame. It takes 3 minutes to deploy which is the Spell's main disadvantage, however in terms of Mystery it is on the same level as Excalibur, though its usage is very different. It possesses enough power to pin down Red Arcueid and split an entire city in half. It is also used to destroy Lumina Arcueid.4gamer interview with Kinoko Nasu 
: A phase-transforming, isolation-type Bounded Field developed to contain Rank IX Dead Apostles. It originally belonged to the Ancestor signifying Kingdom, and was a wall with a 30km diameter that isolated everything it enclosed from the outside world. Compared to the original, Ciel's version is a conceptual barrier that can only contain a single instance or kind of object. On the other hand, it possesses a space distortion function that the original lacked, allowing the user to alter the size of the space within at will. Ciel states that depending on how you use it, it can become the greatest weapon. As this grand magecraft demands a special sort of magical energy to be used, it cannot easily be used repeatedly. Ciel is able to use it twice before she needs to replenish the "restricted magical energy" from the Idea Blood, which isn't easily done.
Ciel also has a grand magecraft spell derived from Einnashe's Idea Blood known as due to obtaining their Idea Blood after defeating them. The full functions of Bell Tower are unknown, but Ciel is able to use it to inflict never-ending pain upon an enemy.Melty Blood: Type Lumina - Powered Ciel's Arcade Route
===Immortality===
Ciel possess a unique form of immortality that has her live as long as Roa is alive. The reason Ciel originally revives after her body has been slain by Arcueid and been abandoned by Roa's soul has to do with her magical potential. Her body's power of regeneration is so exceptional that she was able to revive. After her body revived in such a fashion, the World, recognizing her soul as Roa, caused a contradiction to form. While she lived as a unique person for her first twelve years, she was a human born as Roa. She is herself, but she is also Roa because the name of her soul is Roa according to the world. Narbareck describes Ciel’s nature with the metaphor of computer software, an authentication error where so long as Roa’s account exists, Ciel is unable to log into (or out of) human society.
She has gained a form of immortality due to the contradiction, always reverting her to her original state no matter the damage, whether it is lethal or not. She cannot age, so she cannot die of old age. Even if she is incinerated to ashes, time will reverse her to her original state. She is not able to die under any circumstance, meaning that she was able to be killed every moment of an entire month without a single negative consequence to her body.
It is not healing or regeneration, but more like any wounds caused to her are "rewound." After cutting her neck, blood sprays everywhere, but within a moment, the wound and all of the blood are gone, returned to how it was before as if being rewound like a video. Even pools of blood are instantly reverted, leaving no trace of having existed, and her heart will start to beat again even with a sword through her brain. The ability does not remove foreign objects impaling her, so she will still be trapped in place even if they cannot kill her. While it is useful in battle, it does not allow her to compete with Arcueid in direct combat. Though she cannot die, Arcueid can kill her repeatedly to keep her from retaliating.
Her power of immortality is so potent that, according to her, she was once exposed to the Monte Cristo Mythologie and, though suffered pain, was undamagedMelty Blood: Type Lumina - The Count of Monte Cristo's Arcade Route despite its poisonous magical flames and ability to burn souls and nullify regeneration and reincarnation, which is capable of killing Michael Roa Valdamjong permanently.Heroic Spirit Lore Strange Tales ～ King of the Cavern Edmond Dantès ～ Drama CD, Chapter 09.
==Forms and Alternate Versions==
===Roa-Ciel===
 was Ciel's evil persona after awakening as Michael Roa Valdamjong after her twelfth birthday. She was eventually defeated and killed by Arcueid Brunestud, however, thanks to her magical potential, she survived and was trapped by the Burial Agency.
===Powered Ciel===
 is the form Ciel takes when she uses her full power.
====Appearance====
Rather than resembling an assassin like she does normally, she is a martial artist wearing a full combat sleeveless uniform.
====Abilities====
=====Combat=====
;Seventh Holy Scripture:
===Miss Ciel===
 is the reliable instructor of the "Teach Me, Miss Ciel!" segments after the player reaches a bad end.
==Development==
===Conception and creation===
Takashi Takeuchi states that while Ciel is the Tsukihime heroine with the biggest variety of outfits, she isn’t particularly fashionable, which fits with her unaffected and sincere personality. She doesn’t stop getting into battle after battle, to the point it feels like all of her CGs are fight scenes. He made her more sprites in cute poses to compensate that.
Takeuchi states that Miss Ciel is mostly identical to the Ciel in the main story, but he drew her a bit older. He also made a military instructor outfit for the more rigorous lessons.
==References==
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