Nadia Rayne

Nadia Rayne (ナーディア・レイン), also known as Nine of Swords () or Nine (ナイン), is the female protagonist of the novel series, Three & Nine.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Nadia is a girl with wavy pink hair arranged into twin tails and mint blue eyes. She wears a sleeveless pink and white lacy top with a high collar and a blue cravat. She has a ruffled tartan skirt, detached ruffled sleeves, black thigh high stockings with a ornamental V shaped pattern at the edge and brown leather boots. Two cotton ball like ornaments are in her hair along with some ribbon. A hair pin resembling the number '9' is present in her hair. Nadia carries around a large stuffed bear with a cape and top hat, which is filled with poisonous needles and wires, her weaponry of choice.
In her older, Calvard appearance, Nadia has updated her original outfit. Keeping the same top, she has added two translucent black sleeves with a lacy floral pattern. She replaces the skirt with a shorter, brighter pink version and now wears black thigh high boots. Nadia now has thick twin tails and has braided the top section, whilst keeping them in place with two black ornaments resembling 9s.
=== Personality ===
Nadia is a seemingly cheery and laid-back individual, with a penchant for taking in the sights while traveling and napping. However, the aforementioned belies an extremely intelligent and analytical individual. Nadia is able to quickly analyze a situation or person, even from just sound. She is an excellent actor and can convincingly play a number of role to feign allegiances. She has a small sadist streak, having threatened targets with talk of horrific torture in order to get information. 
Certain stimuli can trigger a trance-like state in which she becomes laser-focused at carrying out assassinations (such as seeing Rixia perform). Before meeting Swin Abel, Nadia was plagued with nightmares about her past and assassination work, and was unable to sleep. With Swin, she can finally rest easy and is devoted to working with him as his partner, knowing him extremely well.
Nadia gets along well with C and especially Lapis, assuming the role of big sister for the latter. She goes out of her way to teach and tease Lapis in equal measure, and while initially distrustful of C, she grows to genuinely trust and appreciate his presence in her life. Above all else, Nadia deeply cherishes her bonds with her newfound companions, and wants nothing more than to spend as much time with them.
=== Background ===
Nadia grew up in a home with an abusive father who she described as a "monster" who would take all the family's mira, make life difficult for their mother and eventually developed a habit of expensive substance addiction. Her brother Ace looked out for her until one day he was sent away and she was left on her own. She learnt from a letter he was able to send that he had been sold to fund their father's addiction, and he was now part of the organization known as the Garden. He sent her messages about his plans to escape with similarly minded Swin, and how he would let him live if they were ever caught. Through his letters, Nadia felt like she came to know Swin very well, but when the letter stopped entirely, she feared the worst.
Nadia knew her time to be sold would come eventually come, so he planned ahead and arranged to join the organization herself, being sent to their training facility, "The Factory", where she learned about her brother's demise at Swin's hand and she swore revenge. She devoted herself to the training, becoming one of their most talented members and passing the training in just a single year. During this time, she was plagued by nightmares and found herself unable to sleep properly. 
She was assigned to work with Swin, but found him every bit the person her brother made him out to be, and that when beside him, she could sleep peacefully for the first time in ages. She knew that Swin was planning to escape, but that he was poor at acting, so she made her own plans in secret to escape.
Nadia wields a needle from a stuffed toy and steel wires. She possesses a variety of needles, including several kinds of poisons, to adjust to the situation. She supports Swin's close combat by analyzing the enemies and casting arts.
Van Arkride is acquainted with the pair, having transported them before on a 4SPG request.
=== Three & Nine ===
Nadia had been working as an assassin under the alias of Nine of Swords alongside Swin for about a year when they completed a mission to kill Haldor Baarn, a corrupt individual working with Heiyue. She played the part of a tyrannical nobleman's daughter in order to feign access, used her wires and needles to disable the ex-jaegar guards and feigned taking a nap in order to analyse the archaism used by Baarn and detect its weak points. After reporting on the mission, Nadia realises that the Emperor, their superior, is onto Swin's attempt to escape once again, and puts her own plan into action.
Swin's previous partner, Ace, is in fact her older brother. She hides this fact from him until she reports to the Emperor and states that she was planning to kill him from the beginning for his part in Ace's death. She quickly ties her wires and Swin's neck, as he has resigned himself to death. Nadia instead reveals she had planted secrets wires to attack the Emperor and buries him under boulders. They flee upon witnessing his gravity powers but realise they will have no better opportunity to finish the job and otherwise he will pursue them forever. 
Nadia's needles do little damage to the Emperor, even when she works out how to attune their trajectories to account for his gravitational manipulation. This time, she feigns a mortal wound in order to analyse him, and works out he is down to only three out of four of the Monarch's Regalia. The pair finally manage to slay the Emperor.
They travel to Calvard and wonder about their next steps while moving around in a horse cart. During this time, they also meet Van Arkride who helps them out. They are pursued by Ixs and Jolda, who catch up with them at the border, but eventually meet Van Arkride who helps them shake their pursuers and escape into Crossbell. In , a novel about their activities is published, which Nadia later states is the Organization's way of putting out a wanted poster.
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Nadia makes her debut along with Swin in Crossbell. They first come to Crossbell in hopes of hiding the last piece of the Monarch's Regalia, and notice the book named after them doing well. Nadia comments how they should receive royalties. Whilst in the city, they visit the Arc en Ciel and witness Rixia Mao practising. Recognizing her as the legendary assassin, Yin, Nadia's instincts kick in and she thinks of Rixia as a target to be eliminated. Swin restrains her but Yin detects the killing intent. Leaving the city, Rixia and the pair confront each other, but it soon turns out to be a misunderstanding--Rixia thought that someone with a grudge against Yin had sent assassins after her, and Nadia and Swin thought The Organization had sent Yin after them. They part ways on amicable terms.
Nadia and Swin are then hired to deliver a black briefcase to "someone who introduces themself as C", which they successfully do after fighting Zoa Balor. They open this case to reveal Lapis Rosenberg. C then hires the two for their services and travels to Heimdallr where they work to reveal surreptitious elements of the Erebonian Army. Nadia christens the group as the 'Imperial Picnic front'. They are pursued by Rean's group into the catacombs. Nadia threatens a soldier with gruesome torture until he speaks and they fight a devil together. In the Himmel Cemetery, Nadia helps fend off Crow Armbrust and Rean's party who have caught up, but after C's mask is smashed, revealing his identity, they flee onboard a Neinvalli airship.
The group's next destination is the Rosenberg Studio to recover Lapis' memories. Whilst there, the group is split up and Nadia and Swin encounter what appears to be the Emperor, seemingly alive and now with all four pieces of the Monarch's Regalia, even after they had hidden three of them. This new Emperor is no longer interested in killing them, seeing them as the perfect tools and wanting to bring them back to the Organization. After fighting for a while, Nadia deduces small differences and weaker strength than the original and works out that he is a fake. F. Novartis confirms this and Nadia and Swin are able to overcome the effect and destroy the Simulacrum. 
At the Knox prison, they discover Lapis' true nature. The revelation is interrupted by the appearance of a monstrous form of the Emperor, who has been fully taken over by the orb artifact and is now obsessed with tracking the pair down. With help from Zeit, The group cut off the arm containing the orb and Swin and Nadia pierce it together, destroying the artifact and ending the threat once and for all.
Nadia and Swin take part in the operation to retake Crossbell City, and the subsequent infiltration party used to assault the Retributive Tower. Swin and Nadia are separated during the final assault but reconvene towards the center. After the battle, they wait by C's bedside and join him on his travels through Calvard after his recovery.
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Nadia and Swin travel Calvard seeking a way to restore the now lifeless body of Lapis. They come to the aid of Van Arkride when he is nearly overwhelmed by Grendel-Zolga, with Nadia tying it up with her wires.
Nadia and Swin are temporarily brought in as assistants for the Arkride Solutions Office. Nadia and Swin accompany Elaine Auclair after she requests assistance and Nadia laments the loss of her 'easy life.' They fulfil requests around Edith and then investigate the source of multiple power failures and fluctuations. They track down a copy of the Basel Institute of Science's Aurora supercomputer and Altera but after she spawns endless waves of Demi-Grendels, the pair are killed in a effort to let Elaine get away. This events is later rewound and the group recruit Zin Vathek to help them; his attempt also results in the group's death, with Zin remaining the only one alive. After a second reset, Walter Kron is recruited and the party successfully overpower the Demi-Grendels and destroy the Aurora. Nadia deduces Altera must have stolen Lapis' power but she flees before the truth is fully obtained.
Nadia and Swin take up undercover roles at Aramis High School, pretending to be exchange students from Remiferia. Nadia had always wanted to experience the life of a student, dozing off in class and having classmates. She has done infiltration missions before as a student but never officially. They collectively foil a terrorist attack and attempt by Ronald Griffin to discredit Renne. When the arrive at school very early the next day, Garden assassins come after them disguised as students. These are later revealed to be dolls and Renne returns to help fend them off. When meeting Altera again, Nadia deduces that Altera is fact Lapis. She is shocked at the appearance of Garden-Master who resembles her deceased brother.
On Nemeth Island, Nadia is distraught when Swin apparently betrays them and joins Garden-Master. She is heartbroken to learn her brother is Garden-Master and in fact alive, and leaves the group afterwards to work independently.
During the Garden-Master's final attempt at an Erosion, Nadia delivers the seventh Oct-Genesis to Agnes Claudel just in time. She had been trailing Swin and Garden-Master over the last three days and managed to infiltrate their hideout. She managed to steal the genesis before escaping. She joins the party at the statue of Sheena Dirke and they breach the Vanity Garden. After Garden-master attacks Nadia, Swin breaks free and realises it cannot be Ace as he would never attack his sister. After his death, the pair have a brief reunion with the spirit of Ace who restores Lapis. Nadia continues to assist the party from thereon.
=== Character Notes ===
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! colspan=2 |Nadia Rayne
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| colspan=3 |Reborn Imperial Liberation Front
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| colspan=3 |A girl whose darling display fools all. She is never without the stuffed animal that houses her deadly needles and threads.
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| colspan=3 |Three & NineThe organization's bestselling novel stars Swin and Nadia, serving as wanted posters for its agents. And that's fine and all, but where are Nadia's royalties?
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| colspan=3 |InterrogatorNadia teases her interrogation methods before a downed Ebon Defense Force soldier, suggesting that behind her cruel smile lies a crueler past.
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| colspan=3 |The Past BehindTogether with Swin, Nadia is able to overcome the second Emperor and at last embrace her freedom with the love of her life.
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! colspan=2 |ナーディア・レイン
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| colspan=3 |新生帝国解放戦線
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| colspan=3 |いつも大きなぬいぐるみを抱えている少女。その中に得物である針と糸を隠しており、かわいらしい外見と演技で相手を惑わせる。
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| colspan=3 |Ｅｐ：３と９小説《３と９》は自分たちをモデルにした“組織”からの“手配書”。それはともかく、せめて印税を寄越せと叫ぶナーディアだった。
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| colspan=3 |拷問術捕らえた黒の衛士に数々の拷問をちらつかせるナーディア。残酷な笑みの裏に凄絶な過去が垣間見える。
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| colspan=3 |因縁スウィンと共に再来したエンペラーを破壊。過去との因縁に決着をつけ、今度こそ自分たちの人生を歩む。
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== Gameplay ==
=== Weapons ===
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=== Crafts ===
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=== Brave Order ===
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Name 	BP	Effect
Fanciful Spellファンシースペル 	3 	Arts EP Cost -50% (8 turns)ATS/SPD ↑ (S) (2 turns)
Analysis Complete!Analysis Complete! can only be used in one battle of .	2 	Break damage +700% (8 turns)All abilities ↑ (L) (5 turns)
== Gallery ==
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Nadia Rayne (Hajimari).png|Character artwork
Nadia Rayne - S-Craft (Hajimari).png|S-Craft
Nadia Rayne Hollow - S-Craft (Hajimari).png|Hollow S-Craft
Swin and Nadia Key Visual (Hajimari).png|Key visual character artwork with Swin Abel
Drei Und Neun Key Visual (Hajimari).png|Key visual character artwork with Swin Abel
Nadia Rayne Key visual 1 (Hajimari).png|Key visual character artwork 
Nadia Rayne Key visual 2 (Hajimari).png|Key visual character artwork 
Nadia Rayne SD (Hajimari).png|SD Model
HOT-SHOT - Picnic (Hajimari).JPG|HOT-SHOT
HOT-SHOT - Picnic 2 (Hajimari).JPG|HOT-SHOT 2
Nadia Rayne concept art (Hajimari).png|Concept art
Nadia Rayne Alt outfit (Hajimari).png|DLC costume
Nadia Rayne swimsuit 1 (Hajimari).png|Swimsuit
Nadia Rayne swimsuit 2 (Hajimari).png|Swimsuit
Nadia's weapons Concept Art (Hajimari).png|Nadia's Needles & Teddy Bears
Nadia Rayne OP (Reverie).png|Opening screenshot
Nine-Nadia - Promotional Screenshot 1 (Hajimari).jpg|Promotional screenshot
Nadia Rayne - Promotional Screenshot 1 (Hajimari).jpg|Promotional screenshot
Nadia Rayne - Promotional Screenshot 2 (Hajimari).jpg|Promotional screenshot of Nadia with Lapis Rosenberg
C, Swin Abel and Nadia Rayne - Promotional Screenshot (Hajimari).jpg|Promotional screenshot of Nadia with C and Swin Abel
Nadia Rayne and Swin Abel - Promotoional Screenshot (Hajimari).jpg|Promotional screenshot of Nadia with Swin Abel
Revived ILF - Promotional Screenshot (Hajimari).jpg|Promotional screenshot of Nadia with C, Lapis Rosenberg and Swin Abel
Revived ILF at Mater Park - Promotional Screenshot (Hajimari).jpg|Promotional screenshot of Nadia with C, Lapis Rosenberg and Swin Abel
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Nadia Rayne (Kuro II).webp|Character artwork by Katsumi Enami 
Lapis Falls into Slumber - Visual (Kuro II).png|Flashback
Imperial Picnic Front at Creil - Visual (Kuro II).png|Flashback
Van Helping Swin & Nadia Out - Visual (Kuro II).png|Flashback
Ending Visual (Kuro II).png|Ending visual
Nadia Rayne Chibi (Kuro II).png|SD Model
HOT-SHOT - Lovers (Kuro II).png|HOT-SHOT: LOVERS
Nadia Rayne - Finalized Concept Art (Kuro II).png|Finalized concept artwork
Nadia Rayne Hairstyle - Concept Art (Kuro II).png|Hairstyle concept art
Nadia Rayne - Concept Art 1 (Kuro II).png|Concept art
Nadia Rayne - Concept Art 2 (Kuro II).png|Concept art
Nadia Rayne - Concept Art 3 (Kuro II).png|Concept art
Nadia Rayne Z1 Queen - Finalized Concept Art (Kuro II).png|Z1 Queen
Nadia's Needles & Teddy Bears - Concept Art (Kuro II).png|Nadia's Needles & Teddy Bears
Nadia Rayne Combat Icon (Kuro II).png|Combat icon
Nadia Rayne OP (Daybreak II).png|Opening screenshot
Nadia & Swin OP (Daybreak II).png|Opening screenshot
Nadia Rayne Promotional Screenshot 1 (Kuro II).jpg|Promotional Screenshot
Nadia Rayne Promotional Screenshot 2 (Kuro II).jpg|Promotional Screenshot
Nadia Rayne Promotional Screenshot 3 (Kuro II).jpg|Promotional Screenshot
=== Other ===
Nadia Rayne (Browndust Collaboration).png|Browndust
Juna, Nadia & Rixia (Browndust Collaboration).png|Browndust
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