Joan d'Arc

> *"Truthfully, I was afraid. Not of dying though, it was the separation that scared me. I had never had such feelings before, but it is not something I mind. For the future of mankind, for your future. To protect such things, I am willing to risk my life as many times as needed."*
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## Joan d'Arc

* Currently
* Before Death
* With Armor

### Aliases

* Joan of Arc
* Jeanne d'Arc (Birth name)
* Blonde Devil
* Holy Witch

### Titles

* Du Lys (Lily)
* La Pucelle (The Maiden)
* Holy Maiden Savior

## Characteristics

### Species

Human (Formerly)
Unknown (Currently)

## Personal Status

### Relatives

* Isabelle Romée (Mother)
* Jacques d'Arc (Father)
* Jacquemin d'Arc, Jean d’Arc (Older brothers)
* Catherine d’Arc (Older sister; deceased)
* Pierre d’Arc (Younger brother)

## Professional Status

### Crimes

* Destruction
* Murder
* Attempted mass murder
* Organized crime
* Fraud
* Attempted populicide
* Maleficium
* Abuse of Power
* Stalking
* Defilement
* Aiding and abetting
* Attempted theft

**Joan d'Arc** is one of the followers of the Dark Lord, being a knight. She is also the famous 'Joan of Arc', and is considered a saint, as well as one of the world's heroes.

## Personality

Joan describes herself as "kind of a bad guy", living for the thrill of a fight and causing chaos.

Although she appears to relatively friendly on the surface, Joan is a bloodthirsty warrior. The Kingsguard and her old master made her self-confident, solipsistic, and brash, thriving on the sensation of being alive. A warrior at heart, she constantly seeks ways to grow stronger, regardless of how she obtains said power. Joan considers those who wish to become strong like her to be friends and takes pleasure in battling them on the battlefield. She lusts for combat and grows excited by fighting strong opponents, even if it could mean dying in the process.

Joan does not believe that God had forsaken her in her last moment but rather that the Lord has never forsaken a single person. There was just nothing he could have done. Praying, giving offerings, everything is an act not for oneself, but for the Lord. She believes prayer will heal the Lord's laments and sorrow. The moment her prayer began, she became separated from the world—removed from the past, the future, and reality itself. She was there not for any particular purpose, but simply to offer a prayer to God. By doing so, the course which she ought to take would come to be fixed. To her, every second of prayer is as important as every breath she takes; a day will not pass where she does not pray.

She has a talent for drawing and feels great joy whenever she brings a story to life by drawing. Joan also has a strong desire to be an older sister which is due to her being the youngest of five siblings. She had a strange habit of comically poking Gilles de Rais in the eyes whenever he was least suspecting.

## Background

Joan was born in Domrémy, a small village in the Meuse valley. Her parents were Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée. Joan had at least three brothers and a sister; all but one of the brothers was older. Her father was a peasant farmer of some means. The family had about 50 acres (20 ha) of land, and her father supplemented the family income with a minor position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the local watch.

She claims she had received the command of God to fight. She heard the Lord's lament that the world changed straight into hell. The Lord wept into sorrow as no one could stop it and people were not even allowed to live simply, and were compelled to become either beasts or food. Conflict never ended, and blood continued to rain incessantly and soak the land. She received a revelation from the Lord, the voice contained no glory or victory, no obligation or sense of purpose but only the Lord laments. She caught his small, feeble murmurs that everyone else failed to hear.

She responded by throwing away her life as a simple villager and the joy of loving someone and being loved back. Furthermore, there would be no compensation. She knew she would surely be scorned by the masses of both enemies and allies alike, considering their beliefs in the church's guidelines for proper behavior in women. It was a very terrifying thing to contemplate. It was mad for a mere village girl from the countryside to leap onto the battlefield where people's killing intent swirled about. She would not turn her back on the Lord's cries. She decided to devote her life to oppose this world's hell to help stop the Lord's tears and soothe Him. She clad her armour on her body, hung a sword on her waist and carried the flag. She fought alongside with Gilles de Rais.

Having been born to a peasant family, Joan never knew the contents of the many books of prayer. She did try hard to learn them, but it seems she was simply born incapable of reading or writing. The most she ever managed was learning how to sign her name. While she worried about this, in the end, she decided that she needed little more in order to pray to the Lord. As she recalled, one of her comrades whom rode beside her, Gilles, once laughed and promised her that this was more than enough.

Joan's initial meeting with Turgor II took place at the Royal Court in Chinon in late February or early March. She was aged seventeen and Turgor twenty-three. Joan told him that she had come to raise the siege and to lead him to Thelm for his coronation. They had a private exchange that made a strong impression on Turgor.

With her help, eventually, the prince successfully claimed the vacant throne of her country. However, shortly after, Joan was unfortunately captured in battle. She urgently needed the king to spend a large ransom to free her. But, perhaps it was because he no longer needed her, he refused to help Joan, and she was sentenced to death by fire.

When she was waiting to be killed, Joan was subjected to mistreatment and rape attempts, including one by an English noble. However, Joan's mind was broken by what the new king had done to her and all she felt was anger and betrayal. This is where her decline started.

Joan was put to death at Place du Vieux-Marché in Rouen the 30th of May. Scorned by words of damnation as she was led to the pyre and feeling only slightly pained as she endured it, she had already abandoned emotions such as fear, disappointment, and regret from the outset of her battles, so she was able to walk towards her death without faltering in her steps. As she unconsciously reached for the cross that had been at her chest until they took it from her, she felt some sadness as there was nothing to support her heart. Shortly after, she was given a wooden cross fashioned by an Englishman who revered her, thanking him quietly as he knelt and wept. Her hands were tied to a wooden stake behind her, and the priest present completed the recitation of her final judgement before throwing the torch upon the pyre. As they believed that the loss of the flesh was the greatest of fears, it was the cruelest punishment that could be laid upon her.

The flames began to burn her skin, scorch her flesh, and char her bones, all while she spoke the name of the Lord and the Holy Mother against those who denounced her prayers as only a lie. She could only find such thoughts strange, believing that prayers are nothing more than prayers, no matter to whom is prayed, that carry no intrinsic truths or falsehoods. Although she wished to tell them of the thought, she was unable to produce any sound. As she burned, she saw visions of her past, her ordinary family in her rustic village and herself, "the fool who ran away and tossed all of that aside." Having known how her journey would end from the start, she felt that she may have certainly been foolish in her actions, that she may have been able to have lived a regular life, gotten married, and lived together with her husband and child.

Had she simply shut away the voice and abandoned the lamenting soldiers, she could have had that life, but felt that it was not a mistake to have walked her path due to those she had saved. She knew from the moment she chose to take to battle that she would have such an end, and she felt that she would never come to self-derision for her choices. Her past, impossible futures, and the cruel reality before her were meaningless before her prayers, offering herself that even if all other condemn her that she would not betray herself. Still, however, there was one thought in her mind, one thing she wanted: Revenge. Within the savagery, she only kept a single prayer within her heart to the very end, one unblemished by regret and filled with sincerity. As she said her final words, "...O Lord, I give myself to You...", her consciousnesses ended and she was released from her suffering. Although the girl's dream ended there, "the dream of La Pucelle was only just beginning."

After she died, they raked back the coals to expose her charred body so that no one could claim she had escaped alive. They then burned the body twice more, to reduce it to ashes and prevent any collection of relics, and cast her remains into the Seine River. The executioner, Geoffroy Thérage, later stated that he "greatly feared to be damned for he had burned a holy woman."

Her death had also caused Gilles de Rais to go insane, turn his back on God to practice black magic, and commit atrocities.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Weapons Expert**: Joan is an expert swordswoman and spear wielder, allowing her to match other warriors with nothing but the tip of her signature battle standard.
* **Commanding Skills**: Joan is an accomplished commander who led many battles to victory against superior forces.

## Weaknesses

* **Illiteracy**: She is illiterate as she never learned to read or write in life. She is also terrible at mathematics.

## Trivia

* Due to her upbringing as a peasant Joan was unable to read or write in life. The most she was capable of was signing her own name when required.
* Her main blade is the blade of Saint Catherine, known as La Pucelle.

## Quotes

* *"As I always say, move it or lose it."*
* *"As long as the human race exists, so will my hatred. I will remake this kingdom into a land of the dead."*
* *"I... was fond of you, you know... You were different from the others. You alone were different..."*
* *”I don't care for what people will say. The Lord is crying over the state of the kingdom, and as His child, I will do everything to stop His tears, even if it means being accused and killed for being a 'heretical witch'!”*
* *“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”*

### About Joan

* *“She is very important to me. When my brothers would bully me about women, saying that ‘women can't fight’ or that there’s ‘no such thing as female armor’, the usual growing up; I would always remind them about Joan of Arc. She was a light in a dark time, and still is.”* —A little girl