Krystal

## Other appearances

### Appearances

*"I've been through the same thing as you have, Asgeir. I know how it felt. But the thing is, don't let the past haunt you too much. Keep moving forward."*
―As Krystal, 878
*"Just remember who you're talking to, you lazy prick. If you don't want to be the next dead body, you better watch your own fucking mouth."*
―As Kursed
**Krystal** (クリスタル, *kurisutaru*) was a blue vixen born in a planet of Cerinia. She was a former member of the mobile force called, Star Fox. She would soon later join the Hidden Ones. She was also the wife of Fox McCloud, who was responsible for stealing the Apple of Eden. She is also a member of the Raven Clan. In the alternate reality, she is also called **Kursed**, in which she lived her life alone as a half-bounty hunter half-assassin.

## Biography

* Early life
* Escape to Midgard
* Meeting Asgeir
* Joining the Raven Clan
* Assassinations
* Quest on Revenge
* The finale
* Joining the Hidden Ones
* 879 in Midgard
* Alternate reality as a bounty hunter
* The Piece of Eden
* Forgiveness (Ending 1)
* Loss (Ending 2)
* Later life

Krystal was born in Cerinia, a deserted planet outside of the Lylat system, raised by two unnamed parents. At the age of 19, her parents' death had also involved in the destruction of her home planet.
Trying to find out the truth of her parent's death, she received a distress signal from a mysterious planet.
She searched for the distress signal which led her to a palace, where she was tasked to return the lost Krazoa spirits. As a result, she was imprisoned inside a crystal.
This also led her to send out a signal to Fox McCloud, to locate her powerful staff and rescue her. The two began to form a romantic relationship and she joins the Star Fox team.

She continued her adventures with the Star Fox team until one day when a group of military forces called the Anglars invaded the Lylat system, Fox was too concerned about her safety and he had no choice but to force Krystal out of the team. This leaves their relationship strained and she was never heard again until the war was over. Until then, Fox decided to see Krystal again and the two reconciled their relationship and started a family with a son named Marcus.
An alternate reality presents five years later, Fox hears the news about a powerful mysterious artifact that is under the possession of his rival Wolf O'Donnell, who desires to use it in order to gain control across the galaxy. Preventing it from falling into the wrong hands, Fox steals the Apple and returns home. Krystal, Fox and their son prepare to flee for Corneria but was attacked by an organization called the Order of Ancients. Krystal and her son was told to escape and leave Fox behind to deal with Wolf. Fox locates them to a planet called Midgard, their escape through a portal was a success. However, Fox was killed by Wolf during their fight. Before the portal closes, Wolf attempts to kill Krystal as well by throwing a spear but he missed, instead he had killed her son. Marcus, at his dying breath, handed his mother the Apple. Krystal mourns for the death of her son and apologises for everything that has happened.

Krystal began residing in a small village called Ravensthorpe, spending five months as a widow. She soon meets a Viking named Asgeir Thorfinnsson, who was fighting a group of robbers in a market. Krystal soon finds out that Asgeir was in fact a member of the Hidden Ones, whom her husband was also one of them. She followed him and requests for his help. Asgeir refuses to help Krystal as he had wasted nearly 14 years of his life failing to hunt the people responsible for his parents' murder. Krystal had told him that her husband and son were also killed too, and plans to avenge them. She then reveals that she has the Apple of Eden in possession. Asgeir warns her about the consequences of possessing such artifact. Finally, he accepts her offer to help her and the two goes on a quest for revenge.

Krystal thanked Asgeir for accepting her offer to help. However, he advised her to save her thanks by the time they have met their goals.
In an alternate timeline, Krystal became a member of the Star Wolf team. However, she defected herself from them after the war with the Anglar army and lived her life as a Bounty Hunter, renaming herself as Kursed. In one occasion where she goes on a mission to the planet Kew, she encountered Fox but she doesn't interact with him as he doesn't recognise her. Upon seeing him again after so long, Kursed began to suffer a trauma after what Fox did to her which broke her heart. Just then, she receives a message from Falco Lombardi, who also accuses Fox for his mistakes. Falco then introduces Kursed to the Cornerian Brotherhood of Assassins, where she would be given several targets to assassinate as the entire Lylat system has been controlled by the new Templar Order.

Leon and Panther arrives at the Temple before Kursed does. Kursed orders them to leave the artifact alone, as it was meant to stabilise the planet. Panther told her that with the power of the artifact, no war will occur. He grabs the artifact and caused the temple to rumble. Leon and Panther proceeds to escape, as Kursed pursue them. Leon was killed, Panther and Kursed got into a brutal fight. Kursed overpowers him and slit his throat with her blade. She soon has the recovers the artifact. Just as Fox and Falco arrives, Kursed intends to destroy the artifact, preventing anyone else from taking it. However, Fox pleads her not to and requests her to come back to the Star Fox team.

The two begin to argue again, Kursed reminds him of how he had treated her and forced her out of the time because of her own safety. Fox solemnly apologised to her and tries to make amends to his mistakes, pleading her to return to the team.
The first ending reveals that she had made a decision to redeem herself as Kursed and forgive Fox. The two embraced each other once more and the trio escapes as the Temple collapses. Some time later, the Star Fox team became whole again. The remaining members of the team celebrates Krystal's return. Fox swore to Krystal that he would never ever push her away again and promises that they will be together forever as they kissed. The Star Fox team will then try to find a way to remove Krystal off the list as a traitor. Fox and Krystal heads to a faraway planet and spends a pleasurable moment together.

In the second ending, Kursed refuses to return to the Star Fox team and decides to continue living her life as a bounty hunter as she finds it way easier living her life by her own without Fox. Therefore, she proceeds to destroy the the artifact that keeps the planet stable. However, Falco and Kursed got into a brief fight. She overpowers Falco and aimed her blaster on the artifact to destroy it but failed as Fox uses his body to shield it, resulting in himself being killed by Kursed. Fox gave his last breath telling Kursed that he still loves her as Krystal and dies on her arms. The two escapes as the cave begin to collapse, with Fox's body carried by Kursed. Afterwards, Kursed and Falco buries Fox outside of the Temple, where Kursed also returns her love for him.

It is not known what she actually does later in life, but it is rumoured that Krystal might either remarry Asgeir as her second husband, or she returns to the remaining surviving Star Fox members. In the alternate reality as a bounty hunter, despite the possible endings, Krystal is still being declared as a traitor towards the people of Corneria.

## Personality and characteristics

Krystal was a kind and very caring vixen, who would always willing to help others and demonstrated a gentle nature towards others, as well as those outside of her species. However, there are times where she can be a little stubborn. For example, Krystal refuses to stop following Asgeir and continues to persuade him to help her, despite that Asgeir keeps pushing her away. Afterall, she still demonstrate a supportive demeanour towards her allies.

Although Krystal was a mother, she seems to have the behaviour of a seventeen or nineteen year old. After a prolonged time living her life with Asgeir, she seems to continuously use swear words that Asgeir used, such as "bacrauts" (an asshole). As time goes by together with Asgeir ever since she joined the Hidden Ones, Krystal began to show a flirtatious nature towards most of the Raven clan, mostly aimed on Asgeir. Though they have been together for months, she was already infatuated with him ever since Asgeir saved her from dying to a stab wound made by Wolf. This is hinted when Krystal affectionately comforted Asgeir after he had brutally beat a member of the Order to death. Another example was during the Yule festival, Krystal actually gave hints to Asgeir that she likes him like her husband. However, Asgeir failed to capture her love.

In the alternate timeline as a bounty hunter, Krystal's Kursed persona was rather a ruthless and an aggressive vixen. She also seem to be rude and toxic to her former allies, which is seen that she called Falco a "stupid chicken" and Fox a "selfish dickhead". Similar to Asgeir, she also seem to be brutal as well. In one occasion, she has successfully taken down her target but refuses to spare him as he begged.

### Equipment and skills

Krystal is an expert fighter by using her powerful staff. As she gets along with Asgeir longer, he taught her how to fight with an axe, making her a *berserkr*. When she joined the Hidden Ones along with Asgeir, she also master the use of the Hidden Blade, where she wores it by the upper side of her arm, as requested by Asgeir to not lose her finger. She also is capable of using a shield. Not only using to defend herself, but to throw it at her enemies in order to subdue them as well as boosting Asgeir up in the air. Krystal is also capable of adapting a fast reaction time, it is seen that she dodged an incoming arrow that almost killed her.

Though Krystal does not have the ability of Odin's sight, she possesses the quality of a fox, which include high hearing sensitivity that allows her to hear any approaching enemies, even the faintest footsteps. She has the ability to rotate her ears to detect enemies surrounding her area. She also has a keen sense of smell, allowing her to detect the presence of any odour, such as wolf's bane or mead. Krystal is also professional on parkour. Unlike a regular human being, she is able to jump 5 feet higher than a human. She is also a professional swimmer, where she can swim up to two kilometers in one trip. Due to getting along with the Viking, Asgeir, Krystal became a heavy drinker. She would often challenge Asgeir to a drinking competition where she could also chug 3 horns of mead.

As a bounty hunter, Kursed no longer uses her staff but instead a blaster and a Hidden Blade which she was given by the Cornerian Assassins instead. She wore the blade at her forearm, which she refuses to hide it.

### Romantic life

Krystal was known to have a romantic life with Fox McCloud. The two met when Fox rescued her in a planet called "Sauria". Krystal thanked Fox for his help, and the two began a romantic relationship when she was invited to join the Star Fox team. Krystal and Fox began working together fend off threats around the Lylat system. However, during the war with Anglars, their relationship became strained when Fox had no choice but to force her out of the team, as he was too concerned about her safety and do not wish for her to get killed or injured. She was not heard again until Fox decided to leave the team to reconcile his relationship with her.

Sometime later, the two were married and Krystal had given birth to their son, Marcus McCloud. In the alternate reality, Krystal and her son was told by Fox to escape to a faraway planet to seek safety. Their escape was a success, but Fox was killed in the process by Wolf O'Donnell. Her son, Marcus was also killed, he was impaled by a spear thrown by Wolf. As from then on, Krystal became a widow and resides in Ravensthorpe. She soon meets Asgeir Throfinnsson, a young Viking raider of the Raven Clan, who was fighting against market bandits that robbed an elderly woman. Krystal pleads Asgeir for help avenge her husband and son's death, an offer he agreed despite his rejections. As the two get along more, Asgeir and Krystal shared their stories about how they lost their loved ones. While Asgeir lost his parents when he was just a child, Krystal showed remorse for him.

Krystal not only viewed Asgeir as a friend, she began to show affections for him when Asgeir rescued her from the brink of death, which was reminiscent during the time Fox rescued her. After successfully avenging the death of their loved ones, Krystal was happy to hear that Asgeir had made a promise to her husband to protect her life. With that being said, Krystal and Asgeir had renounced their previous life and devoted anew to the Hidden Ones. Their relationship begin to progress, as Krystal began showing hints to Asgeir that she loves him. Sometime later, the pair eventually fell in love as Krystal decides to sport a scar on her left cheek similar to Asgeir.

In the current reality, Krystal's husband and her son, Fox and Marcus McCloud, are still alive. However, she unexpectedly began to inherit memories of her alternate self, which she knows about Asgeir. Krystal is willing to assist Fox and his human ally, Shimura, to find the missing piece of Eden and her missing staff, which she had misplaced it.

## Portrayal

Krystal is the female main protagonist in the anime spinoff series *Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Star Fox* and the titular protagonist as Kursed in *Assassin's Kurse.* She is known to be the "first furry protagonist" in the Assassin's Creed universe. Krystal is voiced by Estelle Ellis, the original voice actress for Krystal in *Star Fox: Adventures.* She is voiced by Aya Hara, the original Japanese voice actress for Krystal in *Star Fox: Adventures* and *Star Fox: Assault*.

The writer intends to make Krystal as the titular protagonist in the story *Assassin's Kurse* and the deuteragonist alongside with Asgeir. This is because Krystal had only appeared in three Star Fox games and did not appear again in the latest Star Fox game, as her last appearance was in *Star Fox: Command*.