Alcestis Zafeiriou

**"If you don't want to die...think!"**

**Alcestis Zafeiriou** (Japanese: **アルケースティスサファイア**, *Alkistis Zafiriou*) was a third year student at Aoba Johsai High. She was the cheer manager. As of 2018, she is working as a Marine Biologist.

## Appearance

Alcestis is a beautiful young woman who has stated that she inherited most of her looks from her mother with mid-back length light blonde hair that has two front hair strands with bangs swept just above the right side while she almost always wears her blue butterfly hair clip on her head, blue eyes and she a curvaceous body that she is very well-endowed (Alina Astley insults Alcestis by nicknaming her "Meat") and tends to flaunt herself.

She is usually depicted in her school uniform. When in public, Alcestis wears flashy clothes that fit her well. It is revealed that Stella Redfield buys her clothes, picks out her outfits and even does her hair and make-up every day.

## Personality

On the outside, Alcestis appears to be an ordinary high school girl, but in truth, Alcestis is arrogant and prideful by nature who is well aware of this, once even stating that she should do so since she's that good. Alcestis considers herself to be the school queen or goddess and so often treats her fellow male students as servants, or "doormats" as Alcestis herself has said (not that they mind). Although because of her personality and beauty, she has no female friends.

Alcestis also believes that there are two types of girls; the ones who are willing to be her friends and the others who are not worthy of her. Alcestis also does not treat the boys in her class with much respect due to them constantly ogling her, and slavishly doing whatever she tells them to.

However, whenever Alcestis's ego is shaken by someone (usually Alina), she bursts into tears and flings childish insults before running away. Alcestis was surprised to see that Kunimi does not act like the boys in the school (wanting to be stepped on) and hence, views Kunimi in a different light. She first saw him in this different light when he rescued her from some guys who were harassing her at a public pool. Since then, her feelings have increased to the point where she nonchalantly admits that she wouldn't mind marrying him and that she is in love with him.

A perfectionist by default, Alcestis always tries her best at everything, and is willing to go to great lengths to do something perfectly (once playing a video game without sleeping until she had finished it). Alcestis gets so involved in her games that she becomes very angry if they are insulted in any way.

Alcestis is very gullible and often fails to see through the tricks Fuyu and Alina play on her, even when the resulting humiliation is plain to see, (an example being the "heap" hairstyle). She only realizes her mistake when her father or some other person points it out to her.

Kunimi has noted her obsessive personality; that she becomes extremely engrossed in things she is interested in, sometimes to beyond reasonable levels (as seen with her grudge against Alina), while completely ignoring things she is not interested in. Since she possesses both the confidence and the means to pursue whatever she may desire, he calls her "a real live princess".

Despite her princess-like arrogance, it's been shown that Alcestis genuinely cares for the other members of the club. For example, Alcestis offered to purchase a theme park ticket for Rumi so that she would not be left out of the group, which showed a degree of care unexpected from an arrogant princess who thinks nothing of others. Later, while she exacted her revenge on Alina for plagiarizing, Alcestis made a point not to go too far and offered Alina a chance to redeem herself by giving her a part in the movie.

## Abilities

### Intelligence

Alcestis is highly intelligent, being able to grasp every single lesson in great detail and hence, she always gets perfect scores for every single test and becoming the valedictorian of her year. Alcestis is even able to remember things from the past easily (as shown when she recalls the first time Alina calls her by her own name) without much trouble. However, due to her pride, Alcestis sometimes claims to be very knowledgeable in areas she knows nothing or very little about and this often backfires on her.

However, Alcestis is also very naïve and gullible often falling for Alina's tricks and lies (although seen through easily by Kunimi and Rumi).

### Physical Abilities

It should be also noted that she shows great results not only in academic subjects but also in athletic ones. Alcestis is a fast learner, despite being unable to swim when the story starts, she is able to easily swim after a few lessons from Kunimi and even being almost as good as him on her first try.

### Domestic Abilities

Alcestis is very bad at domestic work, unable to do her hair and makeup since her family steward, Amore, does all of this for her.

## Etymology

* Latinized form of Greek Ἄλκηστις *(Alkestis)*, a derivative of Greek ἀλκή *(alke)* "defense, defensive strength, valour". In Greek legend this was the name of a princess who offered to die in her husband ADMETUS' place. She was later rescued from the Underworld by HERACLES and reunited with Admetus, who was also allowed to live. She was the title heroine of Euripides' tragedy 'Alcestis' (438 BC).
* The gemstone “sapphire” in Greek is called Zafeiri. As a surname it means “son of Zaferiris” and is another patronymic name.