Sapphire Chauvera

## ⚝ Relationship Information

### Family

Unnamed father (mentioned, deceased), unnamed mother (mentioned), the Mendozas (adoptive family)

### Friend(s)

Kellan Xalvador, Torian Lozano, Illias Alnazar, Indirah Alnazar, Finn Adler

## ⚝ Production Information

### Inspiration(s)

Belle Bello, Red Ordonia, Gracie Hart

Arcana

*"Sapphire's name may be girly, but she herself isn't- she's definitely the most badass person I've ever met. Even if she's the youngest agent in the HQ, she never fails to amaze us with her combat skills, she honestly makes me a little scared of her. She's ironically there to lend a shoulder whenever you need it. A big softie, this baddie." - Kellan about Sapphire in his journal*

**Seraphine-Sapphire Chauvera** is the primary tritagonist of Scintillate, being Kellan Xalvador's best friend, as well as Illias Alnazar and his sister, Indirah. Nicknamed in the Trench HQ as **Agent Dawn**, she's recruited by Sunset Mendoza to help find the missing heir to the kingdom, and protect the royal family from anyone ineligible who wants to claim the throne. Sapphire's patron arcana is **the Moon**.

Sapphire is based on **Belle Bello**, who was also the base of Sydney Crimsen in After Solstice.

## **Early Life**

Sapphire's father was a soldier who once fought in a war, not knowing it would be his last since he got shot by the enemy. Her mother was pregnant with her at the time too, and not long after she was born on November 5th. When her mother gave birth to her, she gave Sapphire under the care of an adoption center since she knows she doesn't have enough money to fend for both of them, and her mother died of starvation. Sunset Mendoza's mother picked Sapphire up and raised her with the twins and Kellan.

## **Personality**

She's described by many people as the "tough nugget" of the agency, even though she's the youngest. Sapphire is spunky and often quick-tempered, but she could control her emotions and knows not to raise her voice whenever it's not necessary. She's passionate with everything she does- that is, if she likes what she's doing. She's also not afraid to voice her own thoughts and opinions.

## **Physical Appearance**

Sapphire has wavy light brown hair with gold highlights tied into a high ponytail. She has amber colored eyes, and she's at least 5'1' in height.

She's usually wearing a yellow hoodie tucked into her blue denim pants, which left cuff was rolled up near her calf, and her right pant cuff is at least rolled an inch above her ankles, with a chain attached to her second and third belt loops. Sapphire has high-cut yellow sneakers on with white soles, and she wears a black fingerless glove on her left hand. She has a black rope anklet around her left ankle, and around her neck is a black plastic henna choker. She has a topaz ring around her right thumb.

As an agent, Sapphire's clothes consists of a black turtleneck without a right arm sleeve matched with black baggy pants with the cuffs tight around her calves, and black ankle platform boots with silver soles. She removes her choker, and she still wears her fingerless glove and ring. She wears a light yellow colored smart eyelens over her right eye attached with a built-in mic and speakers. Sapphire carries a gold colored katana on her back.

For her sleepwear, she wears an oversized pastel purple sweatshirt and black leggings.

Kellan described her gala attire consisted of a two-piece dress; a royal blue venus cut bodice and her ballgown skirt is made out of tulle with the same color as her halter. She also has a silver tiara on her head with sapphires on top of it given by Indirah Alnazar, although Kellan admitted the sapphires are fake.

## **Trivias**

* Sapphire, along with Ares Vanderberg, are the only characters in the franchise to not change their names in the Chinese translation of the book.

* "Sapphire" is the shade of blue that writer **Austin Dy** and **Belle Bello** decided on, because of the early tradition that Belle Bello's characters would have shades of color as their name. The first being Red Ordonia from Beyond Worlds.
	+ This is the second time Belle Bello's character, who's the deuteragonist, is best friends with the protagonist, just like Red (Sydney Crimsen from After Solstice doesn't count since the roles are switched for her, Rio Togami, and Anna Sinclair).
		- Despite her name, her birthstone is topaz, and it's the same stone on her ring.
* Although she's the swordswoman of the HQ, she's been enrolled to a ballet class before, but she secretly skips it. Again, she's never told anyone this since it will make her adoptive family upset.
* She's been a member of the student council in school almost five times, as the vice president.
* Out of all Belle Bello's characters, Sapphire is the only one who:
	+ Isn't mentioned to be bisexual, although it's canon that he's a tomboy. In some points of the story, she's shown to drop hints that she might like Indirah Alnazar, but the writers didn't confirm this.
	+ Has the harshest personality and has a canonically bad attitude.
	+ Is thought to be the secret antagonist of the story she's in.
	+ Doesn't have **Amree Aguinaldo**'s character as her best friend- Kellan is.
	+ Hates her mother, due to the fact that she has no idea that her mother is suffering too, and giving her away to an adoption center is her best option to give Sapphire a good life.
	+ Has been in a love-hate relationship with someone (Illias), both of them being frenemies. One cause of this might be the lowly fact that Sapphire is a Scorpio and in that way Illias remembers what happened with his sister, although Sapphire has nothing to do with it. It might also be because Sapphire usually acts before she thinks rather than Illias who always thinks before he acts. In a lot of ways, the two are the opposite of each other.
	+ Is considered to have a bad reputation with good intentions.