Dorothea Michiko

**Dorothea Michiko** is the Head Agent of the Holy Church in Kyoto. She is the biological daughter of Leonardo Dantalion and Gabriel, but her birth was not natural. She is an exceptional and paradoxical being. She also happens to be the wielder of Absolute Demise of that era.

She is a secondary protagonist in Spirit of the North Star, though she starts off with an antagonistic role.

## Appearance

Dorothea is an elegant woman with pale skin and purple-yellow eyes. She has light blue hair that is longer on the left side of her face and bangs reaching her eyebrows. Above her bangs, Dorothea wears a black headband and a hairpin to her left. She wears a blue cape, with her Sacred Gear pinned to it, that glows when she uses her blizzard abilities.

Her Church battle suit is similar to Xenovia Quarta's, except hers is more elegant and grandiose. It consists of a black leotard which has a silver symbol of her clan at the sides of the bottom, and the back cut out, with the center translucent and the upper body and sleeves, which ruffles out into blue, colored white, which have the sides of the shoulders cut out, held by a belt strapped below her breasts.

Additionally she wears a blue tie, a pair of black gloves, which are colored blue on the inside, and blue stockings with black, highlighted with silver, thigh-high boots which have an additional strap, silver heels with spurs, and blue soles.

For her civilian disguise, Dorothea wears an outfit that resembles a biker's; a white T-shirt with a black jacket that is seemingly made of leather, dark blue jeans and black shoes.

## Personality

Dorothea Michiko is a part of a very scarce species known as the Nephilim, but she also has human DNA. Due to her heritage, many in the church are distrustful towards her or outright want her eliminated. They call her a 'stain on the Holy Church' and an abomination created by the Devil. Due to her demonic blood, many of her fellow agents see her as a ticking time bomb and an easily corruptable individual. It further damages her case when swears to enact vengeance on any offenders. In the eyes of the Holy Church, this makes her a petty and arrogant being, unfit to serve Heaven. And subsequently, the number of times the leaders of the Holy Church have tried to ostracize her are near-countless.

But Dorothea's true nature is far more nuanced than that. At heart, she is a sweet girl who merely wishes for peace and happiness. She wants no dispute with the church, nor did she want to be a Devil's pawn. That is why being a military commander for the Holy Church is in her eyes, the best option available to her. She holds her job in high regard and always strives to achieve perfection in preforming her duties. This way, she not only keeps her self-esteem, but she also keeps the Holy Church's racism at bay with her unmatched competence.

Dorothea is also very fond of dancing, singing and church etiquette. She becomes agitated when proper etiquette isn't followed on holy grounds. She will then initiate a long-winded verbal confrontation with the offenders, which she will win 9/10 of the times. If not, she will whack them with her sword and leave. This notion of elegance that's nailed in her head by the Holy Church is expressed even in combat. She fights with swift and fluid movements, twirling her sword in her fingers and striking her opponents with enough force to cleave them in half.

Because of her harsh upbringing, Dorothea essentially integrated a stony and graceful facade into her entire personality as a coping mechanism. Despite her infamous background, her close acquaintances consider her a reliable ally and friend with a unique sense of humour, and they have grown to understand that her controversial statements are but a product of her personality. The agents under her command also support her unconditionally.

She is also friends with Delialah, as she rescued her one year ago from several Old Ones who were attacking her.

Dorothea is also decent at cooking, though not nearly as flawless as Ai Hikari is. She later expresses an interest in learning new skills and recipes from her.

## History

To learn of Dorothea's backstory, one must first learn of the name: Dantalion. Or rather, the Dantalion Clan. It was a great archduke clan amongst the 72 Pillars. The 71st of the 72. The Dantalions were extremely smart and potent in a particular set of skills that involved artistic expressions, such as painting, sketching, sculping, torture, puppets, etc. However, the Dantalions were swiftly eliminated one by one by agents of the Holy Church wielding Sacred and Artificial Gears. They were universally hated by the Holy Church for two reasons: being demons and defiling human culture. Whether or not it was morally right of the Holy Church to nearly destroy the entire clan is debatable and not that important.

Of the extermination, only one survived - Leonardo Dantalion. A half-human frank, who pretended to be a soldier in the army of Napoleon. He participated in several more wars for the next hundred years, which got the Holy Church off his back completely. With this, Leonardo moved over to Japan, where the Holy Church was not as powerful as it was at the heart of Europe. He enacted his masterplan there.

With well-prepared trickery, he baits the Archangel Gabriel into a room with anti-holy seals. He takes over her mind and proceeds to force her body to fornicate with his body. Because it is not Gabriel who willingly commits the act, she does not fall, but her womb is now filled with Leonardo's demonic seed. Leonardo manages to keep Gabriel hidden long enough for her to safely deliver the child.

After that, memories of her encounter with him are deleted and she is dropped at her personal chambers, where she usually is.

Leonardo was extremely satisfied with the results. The child was healthy and a girl, but she was also pretty strong. Leonardo's enthusiasm soon got the better of him and turned his adoration of his offspring into an abusive obsession. He wanted her to be perfect to the point where he was willing to enact physical punishment at any flaw.

Fortunately for the young Dantalion girl, she was rescued by a shrine miko and her husband. The two were sent on a mission to search an area that supposedly had traces of immense demonic magic. They were proven correct in their assumption and found Leonardo, just as he was about to give a beating to his daughter.

The church agent immediately charged at him, engaging in a tough battle, while his wife decimated any underlings or familiars that tried to assist their Lord. She took the girl and ran away from the scene. The church agent managed to kill Leonardo, but he was severely wounded as a result. He couldn't preform his duties for several months.

The miko and the agent became the girl's true parents and gave her her name - Dorothea Michiko. After the Church equipped the agent with mechanical prosthetics, he was able to go back to his work. He and the miko took care of Dorothea, shielding her from the Holy Church leaders' predatory eyes and doing their best to make their communities accept her as one of them and not just an abomination born of a disgraceful union.

Their efforts paid off, but just as everything was going well for the little family, Dorothea's adoptive parents were killed. Dorothea was just coming back from a raid on Cthulhu cultists' hideout, when she saw a girl with long white hair and golden eyes looming over her parents, a cold and mocking expression on her face. Before she could react, the girl had disappeared, activating an explosion that blew Dorothea away and sent her into a temporary coma.

Dorothea awoke after a week of sleep and for the first time, she swore genuine vengeance upon someone.

## Powers & Abilities

**Immense Strength** - Due to being a Nephilim, as well as the years of training under the Holy Church and a archduke of Hell, Dorothea's arm strength is massive and her muscle mass does little to emphasize that. This is constantly shown with her being able to swing a heavy enhanced claymore like a wooden stick. Her sword is said to weigh almost as much as the Ruyi Jingu Bang of the Monkey King. She is also capable of annihilating an entire line of low-level demons in one punch, something even high-end combatants like Shiro Hikari and Ai Hikari can't achieve. Takanashi Hikari compared her punching power to a collision with a high-speed train.

**Immense Durability** - On top of being strong, she's also got equal amounts of durability. To normal people, punching her would feel like trying to punch a boulder. She is able to completely shrug off a point-blank explosion of demonic power. She can easily withstand attacks from base form Shiro Hikari. The latter believed that only an attack that could kill deities could truly kill her.

**Immense Speed** - With her strength and durability, Dorothea is already a ridiculous power-house. However, her speed makes her nigh-impossible to overcome in close combat. Even Shiro Hikari is barely able to read through her movements and nearly got defeated several times. Dodging gattling gun fire is child's play to her. Later, she's even able to track light itself.

**Pale Flame** - The **Pale Flame** or **Dory's Original Demonic Power** is a completely original innate ability that was created when Leonardo's demonic power meshed with Gabriel's holy power, creating the paradoxical pale flame. Visually, it's nothing that great. Just a cold white flame that runs through her veins, incapable of burning anything. However, it has several attributes that makes Dorothea even more broken.

* **Dance of Shimmering Wave** - Dorothea infuses her sword with Pale Flame. She then preforms a combat-dance, called 'Dance of Shimmering Wave' due to its utter elegance and quick movements. For the duration of Dorothea's combat-dance, the Pale Flame rapidly gathers power until it explodes in a flash of immense divine energy.
* **Dance of Protection/Decimation** - Dorothea twirls around and swipes at her enemies in a beautiful arc. A sigil then appears on her blade. This sigil represents an enhancement. Depending if Dorothea attacks on self-defense or with murderous intent, the sigil will enhance her defense/power. And both have a special effect when three sigils appear: for Protection - she becomes invulnerable for thirty seconds, for Decimation - her attack potency becomes 'bottomless' for ten seconds. After this special effect ends, Dorothea will be exhausted and no new sigils can be formed for the next 24 hours.

**Accelerated Development** - Dorothea can improve her natural abilities far faster and to a greater extent or beyond the limitations of other Nephilim. This applies at a genetic level, allowing the body to keep up with the her own rapidly developing skills/physical attributes, and at an intellectual level, to which her mind/mental capabilities can develop beyond their normal limits.

**Supernatural Swordsmanship** - Dorothea is able to wield a sword with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, dexterity, and skill, allowing her to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease, such as cutting through nigh-invulnerable or intangible materials, blocking or deflecting things that should be impossible to block/deflect and even slash targets from any distance.

* **Great Sword Proficiency** - Dorothea can place their natural aptitude for swordsmanship into the usage of great swords, allowing her to wield large swords such as the zweihänder, zanbatō, and ōdachi. She can take on multiple opponents, breaking through numerous defenses with immense power. Furthermore, with her strength in wielding such large, heavy blades, she can wield great swords with incredible strength, grace, and subtlety. With the her superior knowledge of great swords, she yields a deep understanding on them inside out. She knows when to either use her full strength in every strike potential or hold back for a more strategic approach.
* **Giant Sword Proficiency** - Dorothea is a master in wielding a sword of gigantic properties that is notably, sometimes massively so, larger than her size.

* **Enhanced Unarmed Combat** - Dorothea possess proficiency, capabilities and knowledge in unarmed combat/hand-to-hand combat, a physical confrontation between two or more persons at very short range (grappling distance, or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of ranged weapons. She is able to use different styles of martial arts, she can also perform many different combination strikes, counters, and disarm their foes with their bare hands. Right now, Dorothea can do grappling, aikido and boxing.

**Tactical Analysis** - Dorothea is an extremely skilled strategic genius and can apply this skill to several objectives, able to intuitively create strategies and plans several steps ahead of the opponent. She can elaborate complex plans/strategies and apply them not only in battle but all activities that involve cunning intellect, e.g. strategic games. She can instinctively anticipate all of the possible obstacles/opportunities and know what the best actions to take in any situation, allowing her to adapt and prepare for future events in advance by considering a large number of scenarios/outcomes/options/paths, and plan ahead for her, to be ready for any situation that may occur and handle it effectively.

**Baking Intuition** - Dorothea has innate knowledge of baking dishes with dry heat along with dishes that mainly use flour, such as bread, bagels, pastries, cakes, buns, pies, and muffins. She is capable of producing both sweet and savory meals with exceptional skill.

## Equipment

**Joyeuse V** - A reconstruction of the holy sword of King Charlemagne of the Frank Empire. Leonardo found it stashed away in the French King's palace during the french revolution. He stole it in secret and created a near-perfect replica. For the next hundred years he played with the sword in his free time. Four times he tried to reconstruct it into a more powerful weapon that could rival even the Longinus in its destructive potency. Four times he failed. Leonardo decided to cancel any further experiments on the blade, seeing it as a pointless endeavor. He made one last attempt, this time using a sample of his daughter's blood, and miraculously, it was a success. The new holy sword resonated perfectly with Dorothea and one time, its power spiked to levels that Leonardo hadn't even thought possible for a holy blade. The blade's maximum potential is unknown and may very well be infinite. It is certainly a superior weapon to the old-fashioned Excalibur.

* **Resonance** - Joyeuse V has the ability to resonate with Dorothea. It functions like an extra limb. Any action or enhancement that Dorothea goes through will affect the sword, as well.
* **Immense Weight** - Due to the nigh-immeasurable force that constantly threatened to burst out of the blade, Leonardo had to triple-enhance its structure to keep it sturdy and stable. As a result, he created a blade that weighted approximately 10k tons.

**Absolute Demise** (, *Abusoryūto Deimaizu*): An Independent-Type Longinus, which can materialize a three-meter tall disfigured doll made of ice that takes a form of a woman in a dress at the wielder's side and obeys their every command. The doll is also shown to be able to manipulate ice on a massive scale, capable of instantly freezing an entire area into a frozen world and create ice walls to trap her opponents. Its maximum range could lock an entire small country within a crystal of ice as long as Dorothea wants to.

* **Assoluto Argento Mondo** (, *Assusorūto Arujiento Mondo*), also known as the **Snow World Believed to be Eternal**, is Dorothea's Balance Breaker. It has the ability to create a strong blizzard that can make a distinction between between friend and foe. Unlike previous wielders of Absolute Demise however, Dorothea can bend her Balance Breaker to her whims. This was achieved after years of training. She still hasn't fully perfected it.
	+ **Icetide Vortex**: Dorothea compresses the blizzard into her blade, giving it the Balance Breaker's attributes on a miniscule scale.
	+ **Grimheart**: Combining her Balance Breaker and her innate ability inside the blade results in **Grimhearts**. These grimhearts rapidly suck away the energy of anyone affected by Assoluto Argento Mondo. At a certain point, the Grimhearts will transform into large ice blades and crash into the opponent before exploding. Even a half-charged explosion of Grimhearts is more destructive than an atomic bomb.

## Trivia

* Dorothea is heavily inspired by **Eula** from Genshin Impact.
* Dorothea's favorite food is mooncakes. She is also extreme proficient in basking them herself. Her squad are huge fans of the dish, as well, especially if prepared by her.
* Dorothea is 1/3 human, 1/3 demon and 1/3 archangel.
* Dorothea has six wings, one half angelic and the other demonic. She can't willingly summon them, but they appear whenever she preforms a special attack.