Wiz

Wiz is a supporting character in the Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! light novel series, as well as its anime and manga adaptations. She is a lich who is the owner of a almost-bankrupt shop in Axel.
Before she became a lich, she used to be known as the Ice Witch in reference to her ice powers that she used to fight the Demon King's army.
She is voiced by who also voiced Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket, Yuki Cross from Vampire Knight, Tsurara Oikawa from Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan and Ayu Tsukimiya from Kanon in the Japanese Dub of the anime and in the English Dub who also provided the English voices of Hu Tao from Genshin Impact, Elaine from The Seven Deadly Sins, and Rem from Re:Zero.
Wiz is one of the only characters in Konosuba to have her honorable actions to be taken quite seriously in the entire series, being one of the only characters considered by Kazuma to be an actual good person.
==Personality==
While she used to be somewhat wrathful, ruthless, and competitive back when she was an adventurer known as the 'Ice Witch', she was still a very nice and altruistic young woman that fought against the Demon King's army so she could help other people and she eventually became a lich just so she could save her former adventuring companions, Brad and Rosary and even befriended her former nemesis, Vanir.
Once she became a lich, she became even nicer and compassionate than ever, despite the preconceptions surround the Liches in this world and her being a Demon King general, but still she was far more innocent and meek than before, apologizing quite frequently to people that generally do not deserve an apology.
Nonetheless, Wiz is still the nice girl that she used to be, always trying to solve conflict by peaceful means and does not get angry even when someone is actively hostile to her, never holding grudges. 
Her kind and pleasant personality and her occasional clumsiness has led to some people, such as Aqua and Vanir to bully her, but eventually even they start treating her with more respect once they spend more and more time with her.
The only way to get Wiz angry is by harming the innocent, the only reason she became an Demon King general in the first place was just so the Demon King's army wouldn't harm any bystanders and once she finds out that fellow Demon King general Hans had murdered an bystander, she immediately drops all neutrality and starts fighting with him.
When she was an adventurer, Wiz's forthcoming personality often made her blind to feelings of love, and that pushed men away from her.
She was aware of that and started to worry about her love life.
==Appearance==
Wiz is a beautiful and well-endowed woman with fair skin and a curvaceous figure. She has brown eyes and straight brown hair reaching down to the front of her shoulders and further behind her back, slightly curling at the tips. Her fringe sometimes covers her right eye. Wiz also possesses a single ahoge that arcs off the top of her head.
Her color theme is purple. She usually wears a purple dress, with a dark purple cloak/robe over it.
==Biography==
Little was known about Wiz's past for a pretty long time, and little is still known about her. But what is known is that she used to be known as the Ice Witch as a adventurer because of her prowess with Ice-type magic.
She and her party, that was composed by her and her two comrades, Brad and Rosary, were famous around the world and became a living legend among the people, and were feared by the Demon Lord's forces for their ruthlessness when dealing with them, not hesitating to kill even after they begged for their lives.
===Meeting Vanir===
During a quest to find a treasure chest, Wiz and her companions were almost defeated by the monsters left in the dungeon after they were close to opening the chest, but before that happened, Wiz destroyed them all using her ability Inferno.
Wiz then attempted to open the chest so she could find the treasure, but instead found. Vanir, in another one of his pranks.
Vanir at first, made fun of them, but then revealed himself as one of the Demon King's generals.
Wiz's party then prepared to fight him, but then he tried to have a "little talk" with them, saying that he is basically a nominal general of the Demon King that was also inactive at the moment.
Wiz then said, in a extremely serious tone that she understood that, but they still received the quest of capturing the treasure chest, and still had that responsibility on their hands, and because devils were enemies of humanity they needed to deal with him.
Vanir continued to make fun of her, saying that it is because of this serious demeanor that she does not notice the feelings of people around her, referring to the relationship between Brad and Rosary, that were in love with each other, Wiz was still confused by this and Brad flushed, and Brad and Rosary started to discuss about what "feelings" Vanir was talking about..
Until Wiz interrupted that by quickly disposing of Vanir by using her "Light Saber" ability.
Wiz "honored" him after he died, saying that she would never forget him, then she used her teleport ability to get out of the Dungeon until... They saw that Vanir was alive, had regenerated and was still making fun of them.
They teleported before they got the chance to respond to that, and Wiz promised to make Vanir pay for his trickery and for fooling them.
She and her party then went almost every day to try and destroy Vanir, every single time failing, with Vanir getting progressively more amused and Wiz progressively angrier.
===The Deal===
Wiz and her party at some point, stopped going to Vanir's dungeon for a long while.
Vanir actually missed those adventurers a bit, since they were the only ones that were persistent enough to keep coming back.
But during that thought, Wiz came back... But this time, she was alone, and seemed much more serious than usual.
Vanir noticed that, but still tried to make fun of her again, but now Wiz was fighting much more seriously, using much more serious attacks.
Wiz then used her "Inferno" ability and then tried to utilize a cursed spell using a forbidden item, but to no avail, having failed the spell.
Wiz did not manage to defeat Vanir, and fell on the ground, defeated.
Vanir stated that he was actually impressed, and thought that she was close to taking one of his lives, but Wiz was not comforted by this, frustrated from the fact that she could not defeat him.
Vanir then joked around, saying that she should learn the Explosion magic spell next if she ever wanted to defeat him(That was an useless spell for humans), then she laughed at that and sadly said that she would learn it next time.. If there is a next time, then showing him a piece of paper.
Vanir takes the piece of paper and sees that this was a contract, a devil's contract, with the requirement of "lifting the curse on [Wiz]'s companions" in exchange for her soul, Vanir then understood that the reason she fought so seriously was so Vanir would recognize her power and take the contract.
Vanir then used his powers to clear the situation out, and he found out that it was quite simple:
Wiz's party had taken another request to take down another Demon King General, this time being the Dullahan General, Beldia.
Though they managed to heavily wound him in battle, Beldia used a cursing spell called 'Premonition of Death', they had now only one month to live, and not even the greatest arch-priests could lift the curse, and her companions decided to live through each and every day with no regrets until they finally passed away.
The reason Wiz was there, was so she could save the lives of her companions and make them live their lives to the fullest.
She thought about going after Beldia, but Beldia had already escaped to the Demon King's castle, so she wanted to use Vanir as a last resort to try and save her companions.
Vanir was actually moved by this, but knew that the gamble was not worth the shot, since she had consumed most of her lifespan using that forbidden item.
Wiz asked him if her life was not enough in a sad tone, obviously knowing the answer to that.
Vanir answered that it was obviously not enough, given how little she was actually giving to him.
Wiz sadly smiled at that, having accepted her fate and the fate of her companions... Until Vanir revealed that there were actually other solutions to that, angering Wiz somewhat.
Vanir recognized that Wiz was an kind magician, and was the first human that he actually recognized by name.
Vanir then offered her another deal, he would teach her a forbidden technique that would turn her into a Lich, and then she would help him build a dungeon so he could have fun with pass-by adventurers for the rest of his life, Wiz accepted those terms, and Vanir then taught that to her.
===Demon King Castle Invasion===
Ever since Vanir finished his teaching of the technique to Wiz, she apparently had vanished completely.
Since the failure of the technique resulted in death, Vanir presumed that she had died in her attempt.
He was interrupted by a warning of one of the Demon King castle's Elite Guards saying that the castle had an extremely powerful intruder, that was defeating every elite guard one by one, and two Demon King generals, Hans and Sylvia had already attempted to confront the intruder, but were also defeated, and the intruder had also destroyed the Demon King Castle's barrier.
Vanir took an interest in that, apparently knowing who the intruder was, and rushed to Beldia's location who was the intruder's last target.
Vanir encountered Beldia begging for his life and saying that he would lift the curse from the intruder's companions and that she should spare him for the day, but she still defeated him anyway.
Vanir walked fearlessly to the intruder: Wiz.
Now, Vanir greeted her in a fake-affable tone, calling her the "amusing magician", Wiz then said that she was no longer a magician and no longer a human... And introduced herself as Wiz, the beginner Lich, and that she had come to fulfill her promise with Vanir.
Vanir then resisted the urge to smile.
===Demon King General===
Some time after that, the Demon King met Wiz and begged her to become one of his generals and protect the barrier of his castle, now knowing how powerful she really was.
Feeling awkward because of his begging, she quickly accepted it.
It is unknown if she, as an active member of the Demon King's forces, committed any crimes, only that she did not actually harm any civilian.
Even so, she eventually became a semi-retired general, and now runs a almost-bankrupt magical item shop in the rookie town of Axel, where she plans to earn enough money to give Vanir his dungeon, but she still buys useless items from the likes of Crimson Demons like Hyoizaburoo, only gathering expensive items or high-level items in a town of rookies.
Before she met Aqua, she also helped guide lost souls to the afterlife.
===Light Novel Vol 1===
After Aqua and Kazuma took on a quest to kill a zombie maker, they encountered an ominous figure during their, seemed to be a high-level undead instead of a small-fry zombie maker that they thought it would be.
The figure was standing in front of a strange magic circle that seemed to be causing the spirits in the cemetery to go up into the surface. Kazuma and his party were initially cautious, until Aqua suddenly chased after them, realizing that this figure was a Lich.
Aqua then started to break the magic circle, trying to ruin whatever spells the Lich could have been using. Wiz the Lich then begged her to stop, frantically explaining that she was trying to send the wandering souls in the cemetery to heaven with that magic circle, Aqua didn't listen, and then tried to purify her along with the rest of the undead in the cemetery.
Wiz was almost purified, only surviving because Kazuma interfered by smacking Aqua in the head.
Kazuma then decided listen to Wiz's explanation, ignoring Aqua's protests that they should just kill her. Wiz explained that, as she is the overlord of the undying, she could hear all of these wandering souls, and because she knew that the families of the souls in the cemetery were too poor to afford a proper burial or an archpriest to send them to Heaven, they remained there and haunted the cemetery every night , and she just wanted to guide the wandering souls, so they could get to the afterlife. Kazuma sympathized with Wiz, and realized that she was probably not the undead that his party needed to kill.
Kazuma decided to spare Wiz and promised that he and his party would do her job from now on.
==Relationships==
===Allies===
*Vanir - Enemy and Attempted Victim turned Close Friend, Business Partner and former Colleague
*Kazuma's Adventuring Party
**Aqua - Superior and Close Friend
**Darkness
**Megumin
**Kazuma Satou - Business Associate and Friend
*Crimson Demon Clan
**Yunyun
*Demon King's Army
**Demon King - Enemy turned Superior
**Beldia † - Enemy turned Colleague
**Seresdina - Colleague
**Sylvia † - Enemy turned Colleague
*Dust - Business Associate
===Enemies===
*Mobile-Fortress Destroyer † - Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
*Hans † - Temporary Ally and Colleague turned Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
*Duke † - Brief Love Interest and Colleague turned Attempted Killer and Victim
==Trivia==
*Wiz's American voice actress, Brianna Knickerbocker, who also voiced who also voiced Rem and Carmilla in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Kanao Tsuyuri in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Macy Baljure in BURN THE WITCH, Misha Necron in The Misfit of Demon King Academy, Filo in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Ninian in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, Sakura in Fire Emblem Fates, Rita Bernal in Mobile Suit Gundam: Narrative, Viola, and Roxie in Pokémon Masters, and Akane Awakusu in Durarara!!.
*In the unofficial short stories of Konosuba: Yorimichi, Wiz shows a distaste and hatred towards vampires, giving her one big character flaw. In the Light novel, her racism towards vampires is only implied in some of her dialogue, such as her laughing at a vampire claiming to be "The King of the Undead", it is unknown how great her hatred of vampires actually is, however.
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