Rubina Crimson

**Rubina Crimson** (ルビナ・ クリムソン *Rubina Kurimuson*) is a S-Class Mage of the Mermaid Heel Guild, wherein she is the partner of Kagura Mikazuchi. She is the younger sister of Erza Scarlet and daughter of Irene Belserion.

## Appearance

Rubina is a young girl with long, crimson wavy hair and round ruby red eyes. She suffered an early growth spurt which made her seem much older than she actually was. At age 12 she looked physically 15, which lead to people often mistaking her age and even hitting on her. At age 16 she was 6' tall.

As a preteen her attire consisted of a white shirt, a blue skirt with brown boots, and a leather belt which holds the black scabbard of her wakizashi in place.

At 13 years old she switched to keeping her hair in a ponytail, with her bangs in front of her face, while she wore a bronze colored cuirass and pauldrons, a long red skirt, black leggings and brown shoes, with her katana in a leather scabbard held at the waist.

## Personality

Rubina has a rather reclusive personality and is an avid reader, often choosing to spend her time alone while working on her engineering projects or studies. This, coupled with her own tragic childhood and maturity beyond her age-mates, made her socially awkward at times and rather shy when it comes to new people, especially by herself.

According to Kagura, Rubina has a beautiful singing voice and is quite proficient with the acoustic guitar. She also has an impressive memory, allowing her to recreate several songs from memory. Despite her usual maturity she still has bouts of childishness and likes sweet things, particularly strawberry flavored, and cute clothes.

Because of her reserved personality and mostly dressing in conservative clothing Rubina was shown to be very body shy, being extremely embarrassed to go at the onsen with Kagura and Maribelle, although this is something that has decreased with time. She also described herself as easily flustered when it comes to handling praise, often blushing and stuttering. At the onset of her puberty she finds herself blushing and staring at attractive people of both sexes. Like her sister, Rubina has a fondness for smut and erotic novels.

She likes crude humor and has also shown to be quite nerdy, often making obscure pop culture quotes and laughing by herself, and fangirlish at times, such as when she impulsively bought a circlet because it reminded her of the one Pyrrha Nikos' used to wear.

She can't hold her alcohol and gets roaring drunk after a couple glasses, losing most of her inibitions and becoming extremely affectionate.

She suffers from recurring nightmares of her sister, which caused Rubina to develop an irrational fear of meeting her, fearing that she'll hate her because she did nothing about the night Rosemary Village was attacked. After being brought at the Tower of Heaven she was forced to confront her failings regarding her foreknowledge, its use and lack thereof, reflecting on her cowardly side.

## Prior History

Prior to his reincarnation, he used to be a 23 year old man from the United States of America with a major in computer engineer and a minor in electrical engineering. One day, after deciding to return home during a thunderstorm, he was hit by a lightning bolt and died, only regaining full consciousness by the time (s)he was 3 years old.

## Magic and Abilities

**Requip** (換装 *Kansō*): a type of Spatial Magic that allows the users to store items in a pocket dimension so they can easily summon them at any time, even during battle. However, there is a limit to how much the pocket dimension can store. Rubina has proven herself to be a skilled user of this Magic, being able to requip both weapons and outfits in short periods of time.

**Sword Magic** (剣の魔法 *Ken no Mahō*): Rubina is also a talented user of Sword Magic, capable of strengthening her blades as well as making them sharper. She can also channel her Lightning Magic through them in order to increase the frequency of the vibrations, which increases their cutting power, in addition to electrocuting and burning the target.

**Expert Swordsmanship Specialist**: Despite Sword Magic not being her primary focus, Rubina has proven herself able to wield a sword with impressive proficiency since her younger years. During her apprenticeship under Maribelle Lockhart she learned several sword styles and was shown to be capable of holding her own against a more naturally talented Kagura Mikazuchi.

**Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: While commonly relying on her swordsmanship or magic, Rubina can also attack unarmed or with a knife if the situation calls for it.

**Lightning Magic** (雷系各種魔法 *Kaminari Kei Kakushu Mahō*): Rubina’s natural affinity and signature Magic, which she unlocked in the aftermath of the slave raid on Rosemary Village. Curiously, it has a red glow and appears to be more powerful and difficult to control than normal, having a tendency to explode and electrocute Rubina on her first attempts at taming it.

It increases her sensitivity towards natural lightning and allows her to produce and manipulate her own at will, having proved capable of conjuring bolts of electricity hot enough to bend metal rods and disintegrate wooden ones. By generating electricity on different parts of her body she’s capable of making her melee attacks deadlier. Rubina has also shown herself capable of controlling the electromagnetic fields generated by her lightning to manipulate ferrous materials like her sword and iron sand.

Her pure lightning manipulation is sufficiently advanced to allow her to generate and shape lightning without using a spell, to the point of forming rough shapes with it such as spears, hammers and blades.

**Storm Magic** (嵐の魔法 *Arashi no Mahō*): A hybrid Magic between Lightning Magic and Wind Magic that allows her to generate and control thunderstorms. Because she cannot use Wind Magic the strongest storm she can summon is only Level 3, which is still powerful enough to warrant Celia Marea's usage of Aqua Celestis to protect herself.

**Magical Transfer**: Rubina has shown the ability to transfer her magic power to other people in order to replenish their magical container.

**Magic Sensor**: Rubina has shown to possess a natural sensitivity towards magical signatures. This was first seen when she perceived the activation of the Eclipse Gate before anyone else, despite being far away from the capital. She has also shown a degree of sensitivity towards evil, being capable of discerning the malignant nature of the residual magic found in one of the incinerated towns around Salice in X630.

**Keen Intellect**: Due to her special circumstances Rubina possesses intellect beyond her age, having proved herself to be a very intelligent and intuitive Mage. She's also an avid reader, being able to construct a prototype lightsaber without outside help and only by using information she collected from books on arcane engineering. Celia considers her very ingenious, able to come up with strategies on the fly and execure complex spells to outmaneuver her opponent. She was particularly impressed by Rubina's ability to learn Storm Magic to such a degree in a single year.

**Enhanced Strength**: By channeling Lightning Magic through her muscles, Rubina can easily collapse a wall by punching it and overcome the effects of Kagura's Gravity Magic. At 15 years old Kagura stated that Rubina could easily lift over one tonne of weight and shatter boulders with her punches.

**Enhanced Speed**: Rubina is extremely fast despite her young age, capable of keeping up with a horse-drawn carriage. When augmenting her muscles with Lightning Magic she can move faster than Kagura can see, leaving behind a trail of red lightning. Her Lightning Form allows her to outmaneuver seasoned opponents like her Guildmaster Celia Marea.

**Enhanced Durability**: Rubina is capable of taking a powerful hit while drained of her magic power and still remain capable of fighting. In X784, during her S-Class examination, she was shown tanking several hits from Celia's Sentinella Abissale with little damage to show for it.

**Enhanced Agility**: Thanks to her dodge training with Celia and swordsmanship lessons with Maribelle, Rubina has become very fast and agile, incorporating many acrobatic maneuvers in her fighting style.

**Enhanced Reflexes**: Rubina has extremely fast reflexes, to the point that her body often finds itself unable to keep up.

**Enhanced Endurance**: Thanks to her rigorous training Rubina possesses a lot of stamina, allowing her to fight at her peak for several minutes despite her young age.

**Enhanced Magic Power**: Despite never having used magic beforehand, Rubina could form a crater by slamming her lightning charged hands against the ground at six years old. By the time she was ten years old she could discharge massive amounts of magic from all over her body. At 16 years old the Magic Council described her Magic Power as far above the norm for her age. When exerted, her Magic Power is red in color.

## Equipment

**Lightsaber**: A prototype weapon capable of storing and channeling her Lightning Magic in the shape of a crimson blade powerful enough to bisect a Vulcan.

**Power Gauntlets**: A pair of armored vambraces capable of increasing the user's strength tenfold, thus allowing Rubina to conserve her Magic Power for spells. At 16 years old she could equal Celia's Sentinella Abissale with Excalibur, although only for a short while.

## Trivia

* Rubina's hobby is playing the guitar while singing in the privacy of her room and working on her personal projects.
* Her favorite color is blue.
* Her favorite food was pizza, now replaced by sweets, strawberries in particular, and salty dishes while her least favorite food is anything sour.
* She wants to beat Maribelle in regards to speed.
* Rubina bears a striking resemblance to Pyrrha Nikos, only with red eyes instead of green.