Seraphita Polaris/Lore

## Background

### Fifth World War Context

In the aftermaths of the Estrellian Genocide in ad 2914, the Fifth World War breaks out in ad 2919. The Alliance Union develops a Defence Force department, a military branch of the organisation. The Defence Force decided to spend a lot of resources and invest in a lot of technologies to face the war on their front. Technologies that quickly link up planets was established and many others projects came to be. The Polaris project was in pre-production, as Eldridge finally gained access to Artifice technology.

The Polaris Project is said to have been the most ambitious one, taking the longest amount of time and being the most expensive in R&D. A lot of technologies invented within the project were eventually integrated in the Defence Force.

### Project Polaris

Project Polaris began in ad 2922, with the lead project engineer Grace Polaris and her assistant Hana Polaris, who both were siblings. The Artifice development went smoothly despite the gigantic amount of research and development needed to make the Artifice Core operational. Grace Polaris, however became gravely ill and bedridden during the project. She was so dedicated that she ended up doing remote work from her hospital bed, giving detailed explanations and instructions to her team. She was the lead engineer of the Core, which is the central part of an Artifice.

The Artifice was envisioned to be as powerful as several armies together at maximum potential, they developed a unique Ether that would support this idea.

The team arrived to a point where they needed to give the Artifice a physical appearance in 2929, and decided to make it look like Grace Polaris as a thanks for her dedication. Grace was not aware of the decisions, as she gave free reigns to the appearance, and sadly passed away right before the team were to announce and showcase a preview build of the Artifice to Grace. This event sent Hana Polaris, her younger sister, into severe depression and immense grief, but continued to work on the project regardless, for her sister's sake. The team decided that the Artifice would be named Seraphita Polaris, bearing the sisters' last name, and Seraphita for being Grace's little angel. In the end, the team noticed that the appearance of Seraphita was so good that she could probably be a legitimate Polaris sister if nobody knew about the project.

Seraphita has had a first startup in ad 2986, in order to test the Core out and how the team needed to interpret and use data between their computers and the Core. The project was nearing completion and Seraphita was turned off to make the final touches. Hana Polaris quit the project and her lead engineer position so she could take the time to finally grieve over the loss of her sister and move onto something else, as she declared that Seraphita reminds her of Grace. By quitting she knew that she would not be able to see Seraphita grow as a person and didn't mind.

### Starfall

Seraphita was finally turned on a couple of months prior to her enrolment in the Starfall Foundation. The Board of Directors got wind of the project, and wanted to have Seraphita on their sides so she could serve Starfall as they noticed that Eldridge were not using her for years, taking dust in her pod for almost a century.

She was transferred to Aeios, where Starfall is located and was taken in charge by engineers there. She unfortunately was not socially or combat trained, but the social aspect could already be taken on before the school opens its exams entry. They planned for her to get into the Academy, where she would be able to socialise, learn combat skills and work her Ether out. She eventually got in without major hurdles, but notified the HQ that she has a hard time controlling her Ether, which is kind of expected for teenagers when they first trigger their own. Seraphita was put into the Elite division as Starfall HQ announced that she may potentially have the most powerful Ether, but needs to train it to cover up her lack of prowess.

## Trivia

Seraphita was originally intended to be an incarnation of Lady Melia, which explains some shared similarities.

Seraphita's name originates from the Seraphim angel, one of the highest ranking theological angels. Most female student characters have theological angel names, such as Anaëlle, Leïla, Autumn (maiden name Casshiel), Charlotte (last name), Akkala (last name). Galéa, Éclair, Iris, Dessert and Alyss do not share this trait.

Seraphita's Ether to turn into objects requires her to be naked, which can create awkward situations. Her headband and her bells, which were created by her DNA, can turn into a scabbard and remain on her body during transformation.

Seraphita is the fifth shortest character after Akkala, Leïla, Charlotte and Shanshu.

Unlike regular Artifices, Seraphita is able to have intercourse and produce powerful pheromones. The reason why is not known.

## Design Archive

Seraphita has an extensive design archive, and is the character that possesses the most amount of iterations.

### Initial Draft: Lady Melia Reincarnate

Initially, Seraphita was designed to be a brand-new reincarnation of Lady Melia during the fourth cycle. From this design idea came forth several cues that tie back to Melia, such as her mole pattern, eyes and ahoge. Seraphita has the same birthmark pattern on her face, being one mole next to her left eye, and an arch of four moles on her right cheek. Part of this mole pattern is a karihana character design staple. Other important characters such as Leïla, Melia, Lilea, Pastelle and Hachimitsu share this trait as well.

She was designed to be bottom-heavy like Melia, while also being an Artifice (Seraphita is a C-type while Melia is a D-type), and share shark-like dentition in their mouths, although Seraphita's are much bigger than Melia.

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### Seraphelle Variants

Later on, it was decided that Seraphita would no longer be a reincarnation of Melia, but its own character entierly. This is when it was decided that Seraphita would be called Seraphelle Paillette, due to how the primary design pattern was stars.

**GALAXYFANTASY Art**

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Seraphita was colour-coded to be white and red, with bell and star imagery across her design. The general direction was to make her look gracious to create a twist when the character develops its own story arc. It was also around that time that Seraphita's Ether was decided to be transforming into objects. Seraphita'ss patterns revolve around four-pointed stars and bells. "Clochette" means sleigh bells in French, as it was the next surname she would be getting around that time.

Her hair was design to have rounded tips and look like chantilly cream to give an inoffensive feeling, and a rather dizzy attitude. A definitive size and shape was decided as she would be of 136cm while being 86kg. This made her the fifth smallest character of Galaxy Travail, being only taller to Akkala, Leïla, Charlotte and Shanshu.

**Outfits Concept Drafts**

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Before the major redesign into Seraphita, she had a uniform redesign as the Kepler academy was being redesigned into the Starfall Foundation. This meant that all characters would have the same uniform code with a high amount of personalisation. The cape is reserved to Elite students, and Seraphita is seen wearing one.

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### Seraphita Polaris Variant

The last name, Polaris was decided as the project saw major restructuring and reworking of its entire worldbuilding. Polaris was chosen because of being the northern star on Earth, being the brighest star that is always in the centre of the sky. The Polaris project event was envisioned with new background characters of Grace and Hana Polaris, which also bear the surname. As for the first name Seraphita, it was changed to closely match her Japanese localised name. Most of the other characters have gotten changes the other way around. Most of her old lore was deprecated, such as being a reincarnation of Ampoule, having multiple Ethers and so on. It was decided that Ampoule and Sirène would be part of Seraphita through her mind, creating a dynamic about which character takes control of the body instead.

For her visual design, her horns were remade to be more sci-fi looking and much taller than her preceding designs. The Starfall Uniform was slightly redesigned to give Seraphita more details as she is one of the protagonists. Her cape was finally moved to her left forearm, which still produces the same visual effect as the original, but allows for a better design of the bust area. She was given boots in the uniform outfit as well. Her weapon designs changed to be more sci-fi looking too. Her Ether colour changes depending on who controls the body, Seraphita is in red, while Ampoule is in purple and Sirène is in blue.

Seraphita went from having a handful of outfits to having about a dozen or so, which can be found in the Outfits tab. The final design was made as an artwork with all the other student. Most of her outfits are either black or white, with Ether flavour to make the designs stand out due to how she was designed.