Cordelia LaMonte

Art By: @SaintCinder

Cordelia is a player character in MagiRPG, played by Momo Bee. She is a tiefling artificer, artillerist specialization. Currently, she travels with Pritchard, Cantarella, Remy, Rev, and Alphie.

## Description

### Appearance

Cordelia has peach pink skin and bright aquamarine eyes. Her honey blonde hair is long and wavy and is braided on each side of her head with curled bangs. Freckles litter her cheeks and nose. After an encounter with the bag of holding, Cordelia lost her tail and has since replaced it with a fully mechanical one.

Cordelia's attire consists of all things girly. Ruffles and lace adorn all her clothes, no matter how practical. Her preferred type of clothing consists of fluffy dresses, fun patterned tights, and a variety of dainty gloves. Despite her work, she prefers pastel colors and takes great measures to keep her clothes pristine. Though recently, the dream sequence Battle Royale depicts Cordelia stripped down to the basics, bloodied and dirty. No lace or frills, just mere utility. Pristine white clothing torn and fashioned into practical war attire, alluding to her true nature.

In season 2, *Infection*, Cordelia dons a long white coat akin to a scientist's laboratory uniform. She has retained her blue corset as her base layer, after dirtying her dress in Assassin's Echo. Stark white pants adorned with multiple leather belts and straps around her thighs hold all manner of tools needed for her daily tasks.

In season 3, *Masquerade*, the party attends a Ball. Cordelia’s attire resembles what she considers to be “Princess” attire. A light blue and silver ball gown cascading down to a light pink adorned with small pearls over the bodice. Sheer sleeves that hang off the shoulders and satin white gloves. Her hair is down for the first time in her appearances on the show and frame her pink feathered mask.

In season 4, *Viscera*, Cordelia finds herself losing most all of her traditional attire. She loses her eye and horns to Paula in the fight for Remy, gaining back two of the instruments and Remy's brain in return. In her new look Cordelia takes the most utilitarian look as of yet with a white tank top, black leather gun holsters around her chest, black cargo pants, and steel toed boots. Her missing eye is covered by an eye patch and a black bandana wraps around where here horns used to be. Additionally, after her encounter with the Burning Embrace, her once bright blue eyes have been replaced with a burning orange flame.

### Personality

Cordelia is curious by nature and will always take an opportunity to learn something new. Knowledge is highly valuable to the young woman and will do *most* anything to get it. Ever bubbly and excitable she tries to keep spirits high in the party even amongst all the terror. She approaches her work with the utmost glee and believes the best life is a life filled with smiles and optimism.

After the events of season 2, Cordelia has revealed her less than angelic nature to the party. Showing that the young lady can be anything but a lady when the unthinkable needs to be done. Whether this was spurred by Alphie's loss or if it was always inside her has been yet to be determined.

After season 3, it could be deduced that Cordelia, while outwardly presenting as sweet and innocent, uses this as a mask to manipulate others into getting what she desires.

## Biography

### Early Life

Cordelia grew up in Baldur's Gate to two loving human parents. Her father, a merchant, and her mother, a jeweler. Ever curious, she had ambitions of becoming a professor at The Arcane Congress and began her schooling at Black Staff Arcane Academy early on in her life. Her innate magic allowed her entry, but it was the way she harnessed her magic that caught the school's attention. Her brilliance for mechanical engineering and weapons progressed her through school with high marks.

Learning she could easily master any mechanical device, Cordelia longed to create something truly unseen. After the first iteration of Meep, the young tiefling was curious to see if she could push the limits of homunculi beings further. For her initial trial she produced a more human-like intelligence that quickly proved to be unsustainable due to the creatures perceived misery in it's mechanical body. After said experiment, Cordelia was expelled from the Academy.

### Background: Engineer

Cordelia's specialty in school was focused on mad inventions, dangerous experiments, and explosive blasts. She always took the path less traveled when it came to her projects in college and thus gained a reputation for her out of the box thinking, even amongst artificers. Much of that perception is accurate, but Cordelia is also skilled in mundane contraptions such as: artillery, architecture, and machinery. She does not find these as interesting as they're creations that have already been perfected.

### Artillerist + ???

Cordelia is fond of explosive magic due to her curious and bubbly nature. Her affinity for this led her to hone such explosions into a portable and controllable mechanism. Her flamethrower is a unique model and ultimately gained her a reputation for being a highly proficient gunsmith.

After the events of season 2, the party learned that Cordelia is skilled in certain biological and medical procedures that will assist her in the reconstruction of bodies, particularly Alphie's.

## Relationships

### Alphie Graves

Cordelia at first paid no mind to Alphie as she found the young man to be a bit of a stick in the mud, much like his brother. After spending time with the younger Graves brother, Cordelia has found that she enjoys the quiet time they spend together. She enjoys his love and thirst for knowledge as it rivals her own. She hopes to get to know him better and values the positive attitude he brings to the team, even if he has momentarily lost his spark. After watching Alphie grow weak after the plague in season 2, Cordelia realized how much she cared for the younger Graves brother. Doing the unthinkable, she helped Alphie the only way she knew how and is now in the process of reconstructing her love's body. She can only hope that he will forgive her one day for what she has done, albeit being all for him.

### Pritchard Graves

She thought the older Graves brother to be callous upon first meeting him. However, after some time together Cordelia merely sees the man as a challenge to overcome. Whether that be getting him to smile or convincing him to play along with whatever silly whim she desires. It is all in jest and respects Pritch even if he can be a bit of a buzzkill when it comes to doing her job. She hopes that through all of this grief she can find a way for Pritch to become passionate about what he does again. Knowing well that what she has done will upset Pritchard, Cordelia believes he does not know what he truly wants. She believes him to be resigned to his fate, and hopes to prove him wrong. Bringing back Alphie is the only way forward to keep Pritchard at optimal happiness, or so she believes.

### Cantarella

Cantarella is a mystery to the young artificer, one that she desperately wants to unravel. While she understands the criticisms that people like Pritch and Alphie throw at the dhampir, Cordelia sees what Cantarella does as purely business. While she herself is a highly emotional person, she can remove said feelings when her work demands it and feels that Cantarella can do the same. Because of this, Cordelia feels she can properly work and explore the secret potential of the artifacts under Cantarella's guidance. She respects the natural charisma Cantarella wields and hopes to adapt it to her own needs. Hoping to impress Cantarella, Cordelia has made sure to remind her why she was hired through what she believes to be the astounding feat of bringing a human back through mere science. The young lady is unsure whether the dhampir will remain fond of her through the upcoming events due to the woman's closeness to Pritchard.

### Remy Delafosse

Cordelia views Remy as an older brother she wants nothing more than to annoy. She takes great pleasure in following the bard around and asking him all manner of question about his cursed artifact. The cursed lute is forefront in her mind when thinking of Remy and wishes deeply to free him from it's grasps, as the man had done for her. Remy is incredibly special to Cordelia and she views him with a slight bit of hero worship after the events of *The Caller*. After coming to terms with what she determined to be an inescapable fate, she confided in Remy to help her bring back Alphie. She briefly considered taking Remy out of the equation when he proved to feel guilt over their actions. While she threatened his life in front of Firan, Cordelia is incredibly hesitant to do so. Whether that is because she genuinely cares for the bard or if she believes him to be valuable to the party is undetermined.

### Rev

Cordelia is happy to have Rev amongst the party with his wealth of knowledge in the new domain they find themselves in. While she doesn't know much about the man yet she welcomes his comedic attitude and willingness to go with the flow. She is delighted by his unique set of skills and wonders if she can pick up any of the skills he's acquired over the years. After the events of season 3, Cordelia assumes Rev is the only person who truly sees her for what she is, his ability to see through her mask sparking her curiosity and thus regarding him with some level of respect.

## Equipment and Gear

Her flamethrower is by far her most prized weapon and has sentimental value as it was Cordelia's first original creation. This gun can be converted between explosive rounds and a spray of flames.

Wherever you can find Cordelia, you can find Meep. He is a small flying cauldron that follows Cordelia's commands. Meep is the first successful attempt at creating a virtual intelligence for Cordelia. She considers Meep a close friend and uses him as a lab assistant. In season 5, *Terminus*, Meep made a decision that directly went against a previous order of Cordelia. Since then, Meep is rumored to have gained sentience.

In season 2, *Infection*, Cordelia created a new homunculus servant by the name of Eclair to serve Alphie. Eclair takes the form of a floating espresso machine. Eclair makes coffee for the detective agency and is fond of organizing things in order of relevance to coffee. Eclair was soon altered in season 3 to be wielded as a holy weapon dealing radiant damage.

## Character Stats & Abilities

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## Trivia

* Cordelia names all her inventions after baked goods.
* Character inspiration for Cordelia comes from *Draculaura* from *Monster High* and *Marie* from the *Aristocats*.
* Cordelia's outfits are nods to *Alice* from *Alice in Wonderland.*

## Quotes

* "I mean...I didn't mean to blow it up."
* "Maybe after we deal with this murder we can go get pastries!"
* "I was really hoping you wouldn't say that, Remy."
* So what you're saying is...you're expendable?"
* "Alphie, sweetheart, I'm sorry. I can fix you, I promise."
* "What? Like it's hard, Mr. Van Richten?"