Arcueid Brunestud/Remake

is the princess of the True Ancestors. She is the main heroine of Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- and one of the six heroines of the Tsukihime Remake series.
==Profile==
===Background===
Arcueid Brunestud is the White Princess of the True Ancestors. The title of Brunestud was given to those True Ancestors capable of manifesting the Millennium Castle Brunestud, and has been likened to be the vampire royal family, although this is not strictly true. The True Ancestors were a race of beings copied from Type Moon, the ultimate being of the moon, also known as the Crimson Moon. Long ago the will of the planet had no defense mechanism against humanity, nothing to keep them in check. Thus the Crimson Moon came down and offered to help the planet make a race of ultimate beings to rule over humanity, thus resulting in them being the "consciousness of the planet".Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - Day 9: "Arc en Ciel I"
She is a True Ancestor who, around the year 1200, spawned naturally, as True Ancestors always do. It was soon discovered that her specs were far above the True Ancestor standard. It was decided impromptu that she was to be educated for anti-corrupted True Ancestor purposes. She woke up only to kill corrupted True Ancestors, and went to sleep after defeating her target.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Moon Princess route - Day 11: "Blood Red Moon II" 
As the executioner, she did not have any vampiric impulses, and the rest of the True Ancestors also believed she had none. Somewhere along the cycle of her killing Demon Lord duties, she was tricked by the magus Roa into drinking human blood, causing her to go haywire. After killing all the True Ancestors who raised her, she regained her sanity and locked herself in the Millennium Castle. After that, she formed a new cycle where every time Roa reincarnated, she would visit the world outside the castle, punish him, and return to sleep.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Moon Princess route - Day 14: "Moon Princess"
===Appearance===
She has the appearance of a female teenager around 16-17. Her real age is about 800-900. Arcueid has short, golden blonde hair and piercing crimson red eyes, wearing plain clothing (often a white turtleneck sweater, a blue skirt, black tights, and boots). At the time of the French Incident and when Roa first met her, Arcueid had much longer hair.
Arcueid is seemingly capable of changing the form of her clothes at will, as seen in the Ciel Route True End when her clothing rapidly change until she gains her Red Arcueid outfit. 
===Personality===
Not the best person to have as an ally and the absolute worst to have as an enemy. This princess is a killer machine who never experienced anything other than fighting and doesn't care for "useless" matters. Or rather, was. That said, the total time she's been active is less than an year. She's a genuine bloodsucker who came to Souya City in pursuit of the vampire Roa. An invigorating heroine with looks and a personality unbecoming of a vampire, who gets killed by the protagonist in her introduction scene. She gets interested in Shiki's murder skills and asks him for his help. She has no desire to threaten human society, instead hunting other vampires known as Dead Apostles.
After suffering through a traumatic experience, a naively innocent side of her was somehow released. She now lives as a free-spirited, almost childish princess. She's Chaotic Good. Introverted (extroverted when it comes to Shiki), cheerful, and active. Since her appearance is stuck in an late teens form, her mental age is also not matured. Not caring about details is in her personality. She got happy-go-lucky ever since Shiki killed her, but she still has her vast knowledge and dry humor (her logical nature as a True Ancestor), resulting in an unbalanced personality, carefree yet intellectual.
After being broken as a True Ancestor beyond repair, she grew greatly interested in Shiki, and this interest eventually developed into affection, which was taken to extreme level of loving Shiki's life, so she wants to protect not only Shiki himself, but also everything Shiki approves. Except when she is rampaging or awakened. In Ciel's route, the awakened Arc's directive was to first obtain Shiki, and only then respect his life. And to obtain Shiki, she chose the frightening method of eliminating all obstacles. 
Arcueid does everything in her power not to drink Shiki's blood, which nearly occurs several times in game as he is practically the only human at night with her, and she has problems controlling her after being drastically weakened by Shiki's attack. She doesn't want to drink blood, as she doesn't want to become a monster that feeds on humans in order to survive.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Moon Princess route - Day 10: "Blood Red Moon II"
==Role==
===Tsukihime===
====Arcueid Route====
Arcueid's mystic eyes.jpg|Arcueid activating her Mystic Eyes.
Arcueid vs Vlov.jpg|Arcueid talking with Vlov.
Arcueid about to bite Shiki (Remake).jpg|Arcueid about to bite Shiki.
Shiki and Arcueid (Remake).png|Shiki holding a weakened Arcueid.
In her own route Moon Princess, Arcueid acts as the heroine. After leaving school early because of an anemia attack, Shiki Tohno spots Arcueid on the street and is consumed by an irresistible urge to kill her because of his Nanaya blood. The Nanaya were a family of killers that specialized in hunting down non-humans, and Arcueid as a vampire awoke his Nanaya blood. Skillfully trailing Arcueid back to her apartment, he rings the doorbell and in the instant the door opens, sneaks through the crack and slices her into 17 pieces in an instantaneous assault with his knife and his Mystic Eyes Of Death Perception.
====Ciel Route====
Arcueid during the French incident.jpg|Arcueid at the time of the French Incident.
In Ciel's route Midnight Rainbow, Arcueid acts as one of the main antagonists, along with Noel.
===Melty Blood: Type Lumina===
MBTL Arcueid ending.jpg|Arcueid's ending.
MBTL Roa ending.jpg|True Ancestor Arcueid in Roa's ending.
While pursuing her greatest enemy, she arrives in Souya, where Shiki lives. Although a fateful encounter awaits her and Shiki, a story of an earlier possibility is about to unfold.
==Abilities==
Arcueid is the brain of the planet, its Archetype, possessing a frame on the level of an Alter Ego of Earth. Due to this, Arcueid stands at the highest echelon of power in all of TYPE-MOON, and is the strongest being in the setting of Tsukihime and Mahoutsukai no Yoru.Tsukihime Tsuushin R - Nasu Kinoko's Arcueid Route Memo - Translated by Petrikow As the most powerful True Ancestor ever, she possesses super speed, strength, durability and resistance to attacks she has experienced before, higher power during the night, and her most potent weapon, her Marble Phantasm. 
===World Backup===
Arcueid receives backup from the planet as part of the Counter Force. She has the ability to increase her fighting power to one level above those she faces while drawing upon it, and it is said to be virtually unlimited. The World provides Arcueid with just enough power to overpower her opponents. As she receives backup from the planet, it can be said that the limits of her actions are the limits of nature itself. When she is active, her output is "always limited to one degree above the opponent", but that is not an expression of her omnipotence. In the case that the limiter known as the physical body is taken away from her, and that her mental activity is not weakened, suppression over her power is undone. The magical energy hidden within the physical body is diffused, and the limit on the energy drawn from the Earth's surface is undone. It is said that she can use the same ability as Enkidu's Transfiguration skill when the latter has the World as their Master; to gain A-rank in all parameters along with extra power she may allocate freely to boost herself further, becoming A+ Rank in all parameters if she distributes it evenly or even higher if she focuses on one or two of them.Type-Moon: Bamboo Broom Diary (12/14) translated by taiboo
She is hard to kill during the day, and she is almost invulnerable at night, her power reaching its peak during the full moon. During the night, she technically "has no death", so all of her lines and points of death disappear. It is possible to see them if she is weakened, and removing her connection with the planet by killing part of the world around her allows for Shiki to view them clearly even at night.
===Combat===
Her specs are far above the True Ancestor standard. While there are different levels of power in the True Ancestor hierarchy, Arcueid, as a sublimation on the level of the First True Ancestor, Crimson Moon, is beyond all of the other True Ancestors. She is incredibly powerful and very capable in close combat, and despite being a , is able to survive in direct sunlight. Arcueid can freely turn her hands into claws for combat like other s, allowing her to easily shred opponents. She can move at tremendous speeds, and her physical strength is easily able to overwhelm opponents. Once she taps into her full power, Arcueid can easily deflect projectiles such as Seventh Holy Scripture: Blaze's bullets or even a 2 million volt thunderstorm of lightning magecraft, via distorting the space and gravity around her caused by concentrated, meaning she doesn't even have to try to avoid them. Arcueid is also capable of attacking with a blast of concentrated energy, and making the air itself attack her opponents without having to lift even a finger. 
Arc Vine.png|A vine manifested by Arcueid.
Red Arc Barrier.png|Arcueid distorting the space around her to create an invisible, nigh-impenetrable barrier.
Red Ac Plant Walk.png|Arcueid's steps generating vegetation.
VegetationSouya.jpeg|Souya city block covered in vegetation.
Red Arc Wave.png|Arcueid unleashing a giant wave of energy that cuts through the city.
Arcueid can also conjure vines and chains for combat. During Arcueid and Shiki's fight with Vlov, she chained Shiki onto one of the blocks with her vines, with the vines later converging onto the other debris, coming together into an aerial pathway. Tapping into her full power causes flowers, vines and other vegetation to sprout whenever Arcueid takes a step. At the True End of the Ciel Route, when Arcueid has recovered most of her strength, the effect is strong enough to cover an entire city block in creepers in a matter of seconds.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Midnight Rainbow route - True End - Day 14: "Stone Unyielding" Her Arc Drive, , has Arcueid bind her foe with vines then ferociously slash them to pieces with her claws. 
Due to being an Elemental, Arcueid possesses several special abilities:
*Regression to the Age of Gods: Arcueid in her Archetype: Earth form possesses her own type of Magic Circuits known as Regression to the Age of Gods. This ability represents the extent at which Arcueid is capable of reproducing Mysteries that existed on Earth before True Magic. 
**Quality (Rank B): Quality represents "how distant from what Humans are capable of" their pure Mysteries are.
**Quantity (Rank A++): Quantity represents power. The higher the quantity, the greater the degree of influence over the surrounding environment. 
**Composition (Before Common Era, pseudo-deified natural phenomenon): Composition represents the era of the "Mystery". In terms of magecraft, it would be equivalent to which foundation they use.
*Mystic Eyes of Enchantment: Arcueid's Mystic Eyes enchant the Souls of those who the user looks at and of those who looks at the user, granting her the ability to plant suggestions and paralyze people in place. 
*Regeneration: Arcueid can regenerate her wounds rapidly, but her time during Tsukihime leaves her unable to do so while trying to hold back her bloodlust. Arcueid can create another body, even if the previous one has been completely destroyed, as it can be considered a form of resurrection.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Day 4: "Fire and Blood I"
*Body Resistance: Arcueid gets antibodies and resistance against any type of magecraft she has already experienced before. Due to this, Runes and Kabbalah don't work on her. The only attacks she has yet to experience are ancient Shinto magecraft in Japan and the treasures in . However even those wouldn't be as effective as Shiki Tohno's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception during daytime, as she was unable to build any antibodies against it. The wounds caused by his eyes made her question what kind of Conceptual Weapon Shiki had used against her.
====Weakened====
Normally, Arcueid can heal her entire body even if she was cut into 17 pieces, however, the wounds caused by Shiki Tohno's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception stop her healing abilities, forcing her to remake her missing body parts from scratch at the cost of 80% of her power.
Prior to their next fight with Vlov, she states to Shiki that if they wait three days, she can regain enough of her power to take Vlov Arkhangel down.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Moon Princess route - Day 5: "Fire and Blood II"
===Marble Phantasm===
Arcueid's Marble Phantasm is an ability possessed by the Nature Spirits that are the planet's sense of touch, allowing them to reconstruct the world through probability alteration. By connecting their will to the world, they can transfigure it into whatever environment they imagine. However, the same cannot be done with things like humans or animals, which exist independently of the world. Imagination realization is purely the ability to freely transform one's surroundings.
During her fight with Roa, Arcueid activates her trump card to change the corridor's shape to become an ethereal crystallized form of itself. This disables Roa's magecraft foundation, sealing him in a confined space that is visualized as a cube that appears before Arcueid, then proceeds to swipe her claws over it, causing Roa's body to be disintegrated.Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Moon Princess route - Day 13: "The Face of the Moon" This is portrayed through her Last Arc .
The reason why the Millennium Castle suddenly appeared in the city of Souya in the Ciel route is simply because Arcueid willed it into existence.
===Other Capabilities===
*Whenever Arcueid faces down an enemy with the full intention of annihilating them, the atmosphere around her physically becomes more oppressive. Various people have described themselves as suffering actual physical pain merely from being the target of Arcueid's killing intent.
*Arcueid was capable of tending to Shiki's wounds by using the remains of Vlov to patch him up.
*In Red Arcueid's Arcade Route ending, Arcueid traps Shiki in a dream world.Melty Blood: Type Lumina - Red Arcueid's Arcade Route - Ending
==Forms and Alternate Versions==
===Red Arcueid===
====Appearance====
She gains a complete appearance of how Classic Arcueid looks, only with an open gap on the right side of her skirt, which causes it to resemble her EXTRA counterpart's outfit.
MB Lumina Red Arcueid.png|Red Arcueid in Melty Blood: Type Lumina, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi.
MB Lumina Red Arcueid 2.png|Red Arcueid in Melty Blood: Type Lumina, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi.
====Personality====
Due to the effects of coming back from a "certain incident" (in Type Lumina, this incident was Shiki killing her - much like he did when they first met in the original Tsukihime series), her vampiric impulses and overwhelming desires have taken over. Controlled by pure emotion, her words and actions are quite dangerous, but her underlying personality remains mostly unchanged. The only big difference is her increased selfishness and changed attitude toward humans.
===Lumina===
 is a body state Arcueid that appears in the True End of the Ciel Route, Midnight Rainbow.
====Appearance====
Lumina Arcueid's appearance varies on the situation and how far away the observer is. When she’s first emerging, she’s super scary and something to the effect of a demonic terror . After she’s stabilized, to someone who is distantly removed from the Lumina—300 meters or more outside her zone of influence—she only looks like light, while if they’re within the 300 meters of her zone of influence, she has a human shape. There might be eye-shaped holes, similar to cavities, where her mouth, eyes, etc, are supposed to be. When even closer to the Luminary—30 meters within Arc’s zone of influence—then the light being emitted looks more subdued, with her eyes, mouth and lips shining with the brilliance of life. She looks even more beautiful than normal Arcueid, due to a perception manipulation effect that the Luminary has against intelligent beings. Those who look on from afar will get the impression of something terrifyingly unknowable, while those who have arrived close will get the impression of something beautifully unknowable. Those who are far away are enemies who are to be killed without being shown the truth, while those who are close by are allies who are to be given a glimpse of the truth—a truly spiritually divine mechanism, in the religious sense. 
The Lumina's surface was indeed hot, but it did not have enough heat to burn the skin, in addition, it had a definite texture. It existed as proper matter. When seen as a landmark from afar it did not seem to be a lifeform, but the impression when touching it directly with one's fingertips was different. The feeling was that of "tough rock" but also "flowing water". Though the Lumina's skin was certainly tough, it was not the toughness of rock, but rather something smooth and pleasant. As though a beautiful porcelain of sorts.
====Abilities====
;Class Skills:
*Lumina (A Rank): of the Spiritual Core. It is what in is called , it’s what the exponential expansion of the universe that occurred after the is called. An excited state only possessed by True Ancestor royalty. When a True Ancestor's body is completely destroyed by some means, this reaction is said to occur. It was the result of Arcueid, a "small yet massive being", losing the container called 'body' and consequently having the compressed magical energy released, causing her Life Scale to expand (though this is actually a false impression). Arcueid's consciousness exists at the core of the light, but since the barrier called a 'body' doesn't exist, it is a state where in this excess of magical energy "an image of herself as she imagines it" is projected and diffused. Ciel describes this as what a True Ancestor looks like without a body; a Luminous Body made of pure Ether.Melty Blood: Type Lumina - Powered Ciel's Arcade Route The Mage's Association calls this a Spiritron Frame (Lightframe). In other words, this is a natural phenomenon created out of nothing but mental power. It is capable of changing from a phenomenon into a lifeform, but Ciel states that this change, if it's completed, will mean the world's done for. If one carelessly destroys a True Ancestor who still has magical energy in surplus, the energy stored within their body manifests—a retribution mechanism—to become a calamity that destroys human cities. While originally staying in the planet's interior, the "soul" meant for prolonged management of the planet leaks onto the surface, a system failure that should never happen. Michael Roa Valdamjong describes the Lumina as a 'system' for the World to reset the environment, one not to be used for one's own feelings. Once it started to walk, it is no longer the world's will, but just a single lifeform. If a True Ancestor still brimming with magical energy is imperfectly destroyed, it will reemerge through just this energy that had been stored within its body and destroy human settlements in the form of a calamity, as a revenge mechanism. Arcueid does not cause Inflation when Roa still has part of her power and she’s about to die from maceration, but with her having killed Roa in Ciel Route, her love toward Shiki causes her to bug out—unable to keep suppressing her vampiric urges, she brings about this phenomenon. Lumina Arcueid is about 200 meters when she’s emerging, and about 100 when she’s stabilized her dispersed consciousness and is in her normal state.
**Mystic Eyes (Hyper Wide-Range): All intelligent beings who Lumina Arcueid looks at will have their minds paralyzed, either out of fear, or out of worship. Unless those seen by Lumina Arcueid have unusually powerful mental strength, both escaping and fighting is infeasible. Her Luminous Body's Mystic Eyes are in a different league from a Dead Apostle. Even if someone does not meet her gaze, in simply by being "seen" by the Princess, their whole body will freeze up and be captivated.
**Fantasy Dequantification (Nullification of Normal Attacks): Because of being in a mental form, only attacks which Arcueid recognizes as ‘oh, this one will suck’ are capable of wounding her. In addition, being in an energy form means all injuries she receives are instantly restored to normal.
**Geothermal Manipulation & Atmospheric Manipulation: To change the surrounding environment into a harsh one. The ground going into high-temperatures alone is enough to impede the activity of life, with all that approaches at the mercy of the atmospheric turbulence, as though a leaf in the wind—in short, she’s a personification of natural disasters. An existence which is earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, and the likes, all put together. Princess Arcueid from Melty used all these consciously and intentionally, while Lumina Arcueid can only ever use them unconsciously and reactionarily. They are only activating automatically as biological functions, and cannot be controlled. Princess Arcueid is actually the one who is the superior of the two, given that she can properly use these disasters as weapons, and is able to keep damage to a minimum. The Lumina is not a form meant for attacking, but for regeneration. It is nothing more than a necessary procedure for recreating the body of the True Ancestor so they will once again be able to act out their role as one. Therefore, it’s unable to move from the spot where it manifested, no matter what (as there is no need to). It’s sort of like the cores and surface-level synchrotron radiation quantity of stars. The convergence of hydrogen and helium through strong gravity leads to planets being pressed together into masses of resources, eventually forming a benign crust after they cool down, while a Lumina is meant to turn into a body after its convergence. The benefit to having a body goes without saying: the establishment of an ego—a self. Remaining a Lumina means that eventually the consciousness would eventually merge with the Earth itself and then disperse as mere energy.
***However, in Ciel's Route, as Arcueid couldn’t control her reason and emotions, she also couldn’t cancel her Lumina transformation. The only thing awaiting her at the end of that would be to perish from dispersal.
***In addition, once she started walking out of jealousy, she gave up on being a chrysalis. Though the Lumina is ultimately a system meant for returning her to normal, once it is employed as an individual lifeform, even Arcueid will start falling apart at the seams, and eventually completely perish.
***On the other hand… if one was to use the Lumina as a means of birthing a new, stronger individual instead of a means of returning it to normal, then this would not apply. It would be able to act as a new True Ancestor, while the Arcueid of before would then quite literally disappear.
;Personal Skills:
*Marble Phantasm (D Rank): Though Arcueid normally has this at A, here it has been ranked down to D. True Ancestors in a Lumina state can only use Marble Phantasm in an approximate manner. As such, she cannot construct any detailed fantasies.
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*Event Storage (EX Rank): The ability to conceptually and physically store things that have been cultivated on the surface of Earth. The confiscation of all creations birthed on the surface of the planet—its Textures. An ability on par with the Divine Spirits’ so-called ‘Authority’, though given that it’s a function possessed by the planet, it is less of a skill, and more of a system. The gravitational sphere that appears under Arcueid’s feet when she has turned into a Lumina has enough of a reach to store all Textures on Earth. An ability of the True Ancestors, the planet's sense of touch. The conceptual and physical storage of things reared on the planet's surface. Every creature that has appeared on the face of the planet——it is something that requisitions textures. Roa explains Arcueid's Event Storage is leveling of spacetime, describing how the city has been confiscated and become metaphysical. A never before observed amount of magical energy density. The heat of the absorbed events are being condensed until the extremum. It was, so to speak, a type of Principle, something Roa also believes to be true as Arcuied's. All the information in the region was compressed to the 10 to the power of minus 35 meters extremum. The celestial egg will cause absolutely no irregularities as long as it is within the Inner Sea of the Planet, the conceptual dimension. However, when it appears materially, the vast amounts of energy are not possible for the extremum to contain, and it rapidly expands. Due to the Event Storage, the city is becoming an uncertain world upon Arcueid entering her Lumina state. Approaching Arcueid, the world's center and furthest depths, is difficult. It seems the world itself is showing discretion, and distancing itself away from her. Roa likens it to a conveyor belt.
*Mana Burst (Star) (A Rank): The super version of Mana Burst—the Breath of the Planet. What animals know as ‘breathing’. She inhales magical energy (Mana) from the atmosphere and then exhales it into the outer World as new magical energy after circulating it through her body—a Mana Cleaner. This is the reason why the Earth gets filled with high-density mana when the Lumina appears, causing Humans to die. The gravitational field that appears under Arcueid’s feet when she’s turned into a Lumina has enough of a reach to store all Textures on Earth.
===Archetype: Earth===
==Development==
===Conception and creation===
Takashi Takeuchi designed Arcueid after idea of an un-vampire-like vampire. He also states that she is "not the best person to have as an ally and the absolute worst to have as an enemy". Her long skirt form at the second half of Ciel’s route was meant as little surprise. It goes to show how much he can’t let go of his habits.
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