Lethe

==Summary==
Lethe is an extremely powerful magical girl, who holds a particularly high position within the Magical Kingdom's Osk faction. For a long time, Lethe has been a candidate to be a Sage incarnation for Chêne・Osk・Baal・Mel, one of the Three Sages who, alongside the First Mage, are the founders of the Magical Kingdom. When they died, they continued to be reincarnated within a magical girl of their faction. However, both these hosts and any candidates to be hosts aren't originally humans, but instead homunculi, semi-sentient beings created by magic. These particular homunculi were meticulously crafted, designed and molded by the Magical Kingdom to have certain attributes, personalities, demeanors, and magics that would place them at the top of the magical-girl food chain.
While Lethe has been active for years, and both her strength and intelligence have been recognized by the Osk faction, she nevertheless doesn't hold a candle to a proper Sage incarnation in strength, by her own admission, and so Grim Heart was chosen as the host of Chêne・Osk・Baal・Mel. However, after Grim Heart's mysterious death, Lethe was assigned leadership of the Osk faction, as the next strongest. During QUEENS, she leads the Osk faction and an army of magical girls against Puk Puck's forces, to stop her plans.
Lethe is a poised woman with an air of aristocracy about her. As such, she tends to act in a way that is befitting of a noble. Despite this, her subordinate, CQ Angel Hamuel, sees Lethe as someone who is a mere caricature of aristocracy, likening her behavior to that of a clown imitating a noble. Even with Lethe's superior demeanor, she isn't completely without humility. CQ Angel Hamuel acknowledges that whereas Grim Heart would be uncompromising in anything less than perfect and nobly appropriate, Lethe is more lax and even has a playful side. Regardless, Lethe is always seen being attended to by the Shufflin II, whether they are fanning her off, or holding up her dress so that she may walk. In other instances, Lethe is also seen being carried in a palanquin. Also unlike her predecessor, Lethe is smarter, more tactical and more communicative. She ends most of her sentences with "eh".
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least , possibly 
Name: Lethe
Origin: Magical Girl Raising Project
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Classification: Magical Girl, Sage incarnation candidate, Leader of the Osk faction
Powers and Abilities: Magical Girl Physiology, Weapon Mastery (Swords, spears), Spatial Manipulation (Can manipulate distance), Soul Manipulation and limited Durability Negation with Ame-no weapons, Supernatural Willpower (She resisted Puk Puck's magic for about a minute, fighting against her own heart that wanted to succumb), limited Perception Manipulation, limited Telekinesis
Attack Potency: At least Town level+, possibly Large Town level (She once dueled Archfiend Pam and reached a draw, who scales to the Ultimate Princess Explosion. Because she obtained her status in more recent times, she's not as strong as Grim Heart and Puk Puck; however, she competently dueled the latter and nearly wonLight Novel, Volume 11)
Speed: At least Supersonic+ movement speed (Scales to and likely upscales from Marika Fukuroi who crossed 200 meters in half a blink.Light Novel, Volume 7 Despite not being a Sage incarnation, Lethe surpasses almost all magical girls, and is faster than the likes of Snow White and Ace of SpadesLight Novel, Volume 8), with at least Hypersonic+ combat/reaction speed (. Scales to Puk Puck. Much faster than Post-Unmarked Ripple who, already in Unmarked, could react to stat-amped gunfire from blind spotsLight Novel, Volume 5)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 50 (As a Sage candidate, she surpasses all magical girls. She should upscale from La Pucelle. Considerably stronger than Captain Grace who should be able to lift her pirate ship, and stronger than Lady Proud who can lift tanksLight Novel, Volume 12)
Striking Strength: At least Town level+, possibly Large Town level
Durability: At least Town level+, possibly Large Town level (She fought Puk Puck, albeit she was weaker than her)
Stamina: Superhuman. As a magical girl, she has hugely improved stamina and resistance to fatigue (moreover, she doesn't need to eat or to sleep). Fighting against other magical girls for a while, running kilometers and rescuing people for several hours doesn't affect her at all. Magical Girls can stay active for multiple days without rest, resist freezing cold and scorching heat. She tirelessly led a large army of magical girls during a war, before joining the battle herself
Range: Extended Melee Range with weapons. She can ignore distance with her magic, at least up to Hundreds of Kilometers
Standard Equipment:
*Ame-no-Habakiri: A sword with several branching blades centering on one thick blade
*Ame-no-Ohabari: A three-bladed sword
*Ame-no-Nuboko: A spear with a very long blade
*Opera Glasses: A pair of custom-made opera glasses. Whether someone is invisible, camouflaged, or concealed, the glasses can see through it all
Intelligence: At least Above Average, Genius in combat. Lethe is a poised woman who conducts herself in a way that is befitting of a noble and aristocrat. Unlike her predecessor Grim Heart, Lethe can both understand and discuss strategies, including in the context of an ongoing war, is tactical enough to get the grasp of a battlefield with a short look, and is rather cautious when facing opponents. Lethe is particularly skilled and strong in combat, like all Sage candidates, who are specially created and crafted to be above magical girls. While she admits that she cannot defeat Puk Puck by herself in a duel, she was able to stand up to her for a few minutes, despite Puk Puck casually holding off the entire army by herself not long ago, and in spite of Lethe trying to resist Puk Puck's magic. In their fight, Lethe used the utmost of her magic to endlessly increase and decrease the distance between the two, in an attempt to confuse Puk and create an opening.
Weaknesses: None notable
Quotes:
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Distance Manipulation: Lethe's magic is to manipulate physical distance. She can change the actual distance between any two people, locations or objects as long as she knows the location itself. But when she does, there are no visual changes to the environment, nor are there spatial distortions: the distance between the targets is simply changed, but it doesn't visually feel like it.
*She can reduce the distance between herself and an opponent far away until they're next to each other, attack them, then increase the distance again, and the opponent would never have perceived Lethe close to them.
*If she's in melee against a foe, she can increase the distance between them to dodge their attacks, but the opponent will keep seeing Lethe right in front of them. Lethe can then decrease the distance back when she attacks.
*If an opponent runs toward Lethe or another location, Lethe can continuously manipulate the distance between them in such a way that, no matter how much they run, they will never physically reach what they want. All the while, she can manipulate their perception of the distance between them and their destination.
Because of this lack of visual change, it can easily confuse opponents when Lethe hits them from seemingly far away, or when they fail to hit Lethe in melee in spite of "her being in front of them". In combat, she often uses a variety of weapons from the Osk faction's treasury, that she doesn't carry around, but instead pulls in and out by reducing the distance between her position and the weapon's position to 0. She can increase it again to drop it back in its place, pick a different weapon, and reducing the distance to 0 again to have it where she physically is. By reducing distance with a person, location or object to 0, she achieves pseudo-teleportation. She can also remotely move the position of objects that she manipulates the distance of. While moving these positions, the objects will still be affected by physical force, such as gravity.
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Magical Girl Raising Project
Category:Durability Negation Users
Category:Enhanced Senses Users
Category:Female Characters
Category:Flight Users
Category:Homunculi
Category:Leaders
Category:Light Novel Characters
Category:Magic Users
Category:Magical Girls
Category:Perception Users
Category:Regeneration Users
Category:Self-Sustenance Users
Category:Soul Users
Category:Space Users
Category:Spear Users
Category:Supernatural Willpower Users
Category:Sword Users
Category:Telekinesis Users
Category:Weapon Masters
Category:Weapon Users