Harlock

Chelesandra Harleaux, better known as Harlock, is a major character first introduced in The Harpy's Nest arc, and appearing in many arcs since. 
== History ==
Harlock is from Freearch, mentioning she is from one of the more northern areas of Freearch at that. Some time in the past, she went to Wizard High School with Inien. It is presumable that the two of them met here. Harlock is considered a magic user in Freearch, with the usage of science and magic being considered one and the same there.
At some point Harlock was a child soldier. She also was forced into playing the violin at some point by her family, though she does not play anymore for obvious reasons.
Although in the dream it is somewhat uncertain what happened and what didn't, a younger 16 year old Harlock was visited by the Freearch Mages Guild, calling them after managing to create a small tear in her laboratory in the east wing, wishing for help to stabilize it while she investigated it, in an effort to enter The Hunters Guild. In that incident, one that she refers to as her only mistake, the manor was destroyed in alchemic fire; a fire that never burns out, as well as apparently putting the manor and surrounding area in a sort of permanent time-lock. Harlock bashed her arm off with a rock to escape the fire, which threatened to burn away her body. 
Sometime after, Harlock created her robotic arm as a replacement. She also presumably created Homunculus and his so far unseen sister Kelly during this duration as well.
=== The Harpy's Nest ===
Harlock's first appearance was towards the middle of The Harpy's Nest arc. As the group is stumbling through the forest on their way back towards the town on In Development, they are overrun by traps in almost each step they take.
When Thog is trapped and hung upside down from a tree, Harlock makes her first appearance, and takes Thog with her. However, as she recognizes that he isn't the one she was set out to get, she releases him, but takes Ashe instead, tying her up as she does so.
Harlock manages to get Ashe to the dock, revealing very little about herself in the process, and instead asks her questions. But at the dock, she is temporarily stopped by Rat, who curses her boat after being paid by Ashe to rescue her. Harlock, however, is quick to uncurse the boat, and begins to set sail with Ashe tied up.
Before getting far, though, Markus shoots the boat, in an attempt to sink it, which he is successful with. While it is sinking, Harlock uses her prosthetic arm, which is also a grappling hook, to bring herself to safety on the ground, to which Ashe grabs onto her to get onto land as well.
On dry land, Harlock is surrounded by the group, who begins to interrogate her on why she wanted to kidnap Ashe. She reveals that she was hired by Meathian pirates to kidnap Ashe back to Meathe, to which Harlock would be "rewarded handsomely" for her actions. Ashe then reveals to Harlock that Meathe doesn't have a currency, instead relying on the barter system, and that the "island jewels" Harlock was promised was merely a metaphor for fruit.
Annoyed by being tricked into doing a job for essentially nothing, Harlock states her desire to kill the Meathian pirates that duped her. The group gives her what money they have in their pockets at the time, so that Harlock would assassinate the pirates, but leave Ashe behind.
Before being able to part ways, the group and Harlock learn from The Copywriter that the Harpy situation is far from over - in fact, the Harpy has struck down on the very town just north of the dock. The group heads northwards, and finds out the Harpy is actually not a Harpy at all, but a Jackalator, though the name has been copyrighted, but not the name Harpy.
Using her traps, Harlock helps the group out in their fight against the HARPY.
After finishing off the HARPY, the group and Harlock finds themselves back at the bar, with Harlock expressing her discomfort and confusion of why she's at the bar in the first place. The group discusses the possibility of hiring Harlock again for assassinations, to which she tells them that if they ever open up a tab, they'll never have to do anything again.
=== The Calm ===
She had taken a job to protect the Alm against a creature hunting them down while they were on their way to a meeting with the Alarani. The group, consisting of Ashe, Gregor and Astra, found her deep within a volcano, trying to draw the attention to the creature, The Harrow.
== Appearance ==
Harlock's hair is long and dark, and reaches down somewhere on her back, and is shaved on the left side of her head. Her eyes are a dark brown colour, and she wears a pair of black glasses. Her skin is light brown, though the left part of her face is a more reddish colour, probably from a previous injury. Her left arm is a prosthetic arm.
She carries a maroon backpack with black straps, which holds many of her traps and Homunculus. She wears a tanned brown jacket, where the top part is a rust red colour. Underneath, she wears a yellow shirt and dark blue pants. On her right arm she wears a black glove.
== Personality ==
Harlock seems to have a tendency to be straight-forward, both in her actions and in her manner of speech. She claims to be emotionless, and largely acts as such as well. She seems to be taking contracts and agreements to the letter, trusting the written word, as she didn't seem to even consider the Meathian pirates might not be telling her the complete picture regarding her payment.
She also seems to complete tasks in front of her in the most efficient way possible, regardless of what risks it might pose to people that might get caught in the crossfire, such as when she used The Copywriter as bait to try and blow up the HARPY.
Upon being prompted by Ashe, who states that she is "an asshole", she replied that that is her kind of thing.
Internally however, Harlock is depressed, suppressing her emotions in favor of pure logic and rationale due to her traumatic past. However, since meeting and warming up to the group, Harlock has become more friendly and generally expressive, seeming to be enjoying herself a bit more, and coming to slowly realize her mental state. She is also somewhat sadistic. However, while she still remains largely unaware of emotion and confused, she has recognized that she herself is growing, making jokes, recognizing the fact she is somewhat depressed, and accepting the companionship of those she now at least somewhat deems her friends. And what's more, she has resolved to keep growing. One sign of her growth is the fact that she is able to look back at the tragedy at the Harleaux mannor and have a small laugh, acknowledging her mistakes without being consume by them. 
Additionally, Harlock has become a much more compassionate individual, even directly prioritizing the life of her brother, Emile, over hers in a situation where she very well may have drowned. 
As an alchemist she shares a unique and oddly dry sense of humor. 
Harlock is a massive baseball fanatic. While she was in school, she used to sneak off into an abandoned park and imagine the monsters there playing baseball. She has invisioned the game thousands of times in her mind, despite never having actually seen a match in person. She is incredibly enthusiastic about baseball in general. She learned all she knows from several dozen baseball books she keeps in her backpack at all times. 
== Abilities ==
Harlock's prosthetic arm acts as a grappling hook and allows her to move from place to place efficiently. She can also "get inside minds,"being incredibly cunning and good at getting stuck in one's head. Additionally, she is a skilled and accomplished alchemist being able to use her alchemical skills along with her general intellect to aid her in battle. She is also capable of telepathically communicating with her creation Homunculus, who also shares all of her memories.
More recently, as Harlock has acquired a new arm, the properties and functions of her arm have shifted. As opposed to operating as intended exactly, Harlock now simply must give a will to the arm, and it will fulfill that will, however by unconvential means. For example, when desiring to use her arm to go from one point to another, instead of grappling her in a straight line, it may grapple in a curving bending line, or simply teleport her there.Harlock has the ability to make goop clones of herself once per session. If these goop clones are split, they become smaller goop clones. They do not function completely properly, somewhat glitching about when in action as their models are "not properly rigged".
It is important to note that in water, Harlock's arm will deactivate and become too heavy to lift, resulting in Harlock drowning in large bodies of water.
=== Math 2 ===
More recently, after the destruction of Crowhenge her alchemical calculations and skills have been found to be 'off'. Her attempts at alchemy have all been flawed, with the calculations being off and with various side effects, such as her new arm being filled with a sort of 'meat'. It was realized that her exposure to the chaos magic that created Crowhenge threw off Harlock's alchemy, as her alchemy no longer applied to the real world. Furthermore, it seems that the place where Harlock's alchemy is now tied to is the same 'true world' that Gregor is capable of seeing. Adjusting her alchemy to account for that and dubbing it Math 2, just as regular alchemy aims to alter and calculate the world to the user's wishes, Harlock's now bends and calculates this true world instead, although she has very little control of it and simply focuses on the goal of her actions. In accordance with Gregor's Bread Brain analogy, where the true world is the bread recipe, the real world the bread product and Gregor to be able to cut away the variations from the recipe, Harlock can effectively define the meaning of bread.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
* Mother: Madrigal Harleaux. Deceased.
* Father: Raphael Harleaux. Deceased.
* Brother: Emile Harleaux. Alive.
* Sister: Marseille Harleaux. Alive.
* Brother: Alfred Harleaux. Deceased. 
* Brother: August Harleaux. Deceased. 
=== Ashe ===
When the two first met, Harlock was hired by Meathian pirates to capture Ashe. However, after it was revealed that Harlock would essentially be paid not with money for her services, but with fruits, she stopped trying to kidnap her; instead, she helped the group with the Harpy situation, after being paid by the group.
Despite Harlock saying at first that they aren't friends, Ashe has referred to her as such, going as far as to call her "a new friend who is cooler than [Inien]".
=== Firi ===
Harlock seemed surprised by the fact that someone with Firi's capabilities was with the group, as she had not gotten a file about Firi before she set out to do her job. She later helped Firi with getting her a new, more advanced, prosthetic leg.
=== Homunculus ===
She carries him in her backpack in a glass jar. The two seem to be have known each other for quite some time, but the origin of their relationship is unknown. It has been mentioned that Homunculus is a product of an alchemy experiment - only briefly referred to and, with Harlock calling him her son, implying that she created him. It seems Homunculus also has a sister who is deemed to be superior and favored in the eyes of Harlock.
===Gregor===
Whether because of similar backgrounds, or some sort of strange fondness for him, Harlock appears to have "adopted" Gregor. She treats him like a younger brother and has even referred to him as such, as well as a "precious cinnamon bun" who needs to be protected. Her affectionate pet name for Gregor is seen as an insult to him as he doesn't like cinnamon.
===Inien ===
Inien is apparently Harlock's pen-pal, and the pair gets along quite well. They enjoy being snarky with each other and insulting people together. At some point they were married and then divorced, though that may have been a joke.
===Astra   ===
During The Calm, Astra served as Harlock's employer and charge, as such her safety was Harlock's #1 priority. She's one of the few people that seem to not only be considered competent by Harlock, but has also gained her respect. Harlock says that the concerns are purely professional, however Ashe seems to believe otherwise. 
== Trivia ==
* She is voiced by Brennan Williams (@greatblackotaku), the first ever guest star on a non-stream episode of Thrilling Intent.
* Harlock has a +11 on climbing sheer surfaces From episode 248. 
* After opening a tear within the family mansion when she was 16, most of her family died and she lost her arm due to the alchemical flames that ensued. She later replaced it with a mechanical one.
** Prior to opening the tear, she stated that she was the only mundane in her family, and as such was quite powerless. To what degree this has changed after she went through the tear is unknown.
* Harlock's house emblem is the kraken and the family motto is "nondum apertis oculis nostris" translating to "we have not yet opened our eyes" Screenshots from conversations with Harlock's player
* Due to Harlock having an East wing in her house, it is possible that the Free Isles have a unique cardinal direction system relative to the rest of the world, with the Free Isles having Durst instead, or at least to Freearch.
* Harlock is named after the space pirate captain Harlock from the movie Space Pirate Captain Harlock, a CG anime science fiction film from 2013. Screenshot from a message from Harlock's player.
*Her inventory includes, in addition to Homunculus, the soul of a warrior, Chemical #40, an exploding duck, and acid
*She knows exactly how much alcohol it takes to make her drunk 'to the most efficient degree', where she is not stressed, not falling over, thinking partially about the future but not in a depressing manner. She also knows how to calculate this for others. This calculation is done based on body weight, and body type amongst other things.
**Through this process, it was revealed Harlock knows how much Inien weighs, her tolerance level, and how hard she sucks. She also knows the appropriate amount for Markus, 1 cup, and for Gregor, 0.
*She caries around varieties of tape, including blood-proof tape.
*She is covered in utility belts
*When she was in a darker place mentally, she constructed a body that she would be able to use in the situation her current body stopped functioning. The exact mechanics of that body are not entirely known, however seems to rely in part on homunculi.
*She carries around large bags full of money and swear words.
*She has slimed a cat before.
*It is implied her conception was an accident by her parents in "Where All Light Fades Part 11".
*She goes spelunking every weekend
*She carries around multiple books about baseball, though they are all pretty outdated.
*She has a mechanical trick bat signed by Grand Slam Gehrman.
== Gallery ==
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Harlock RefSheet.jpg|From Twitter
Harlock past01.png|Past Harlock/Harleaux
Harlock past02.png|Past Harlock/Harleaux
HarlockDres.png|Harlock, in a dress.
HarlockMech.png|Harlock, in a mech, during "Duet of Dungeons Part 32"
HarlockDressArmless.png|Harlock, in a dress, without her mechanical arm.
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File:Harlock Helmet.png
File:Comfortable Harlock.png
File:Sheeplock.png|Harlock disguised as a sheep
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== References ==
Category:Main characters