Mephis Pheles

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## Mephis Pheles / Fuuko Sayama

**Mephis Pheles** (メピス・フェレス), also known by her real name **Fuuko Sayama** (佐山楓子ー), is one of the main protagonists of *Magical Girl Raising Project: Black*, *Magical Girl Raising Project: White*, and *Magical Girl Raising Project: Red*.

She is the leader of Class 2-F's Group 2 at Umemizaki Middle School and was recommended to the Magical Girl Class by the Legal Affairs Bureau. She is also a member of the Caspar's Faction.

 Later on it is revealed that, after going to The Courtyard, Mephis’ original body had been killed and her mind was transferred into homunculus clone.

## Appearance

* Mephis Pheles in *Black* and *White*
* Mephis Pheles's human form, Fuuko Sayama
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### Human

As a human, Fuuko has black hair that is pulled back into a low braid, resulting in her forehead being exposed. She has grey eyes and wears glasses. She wears the Umemizaki school uniform, and has knee-high white socks. She wears white uwabaki with blue tips.

Her appearance used to be different in elementary school according to Tetty, with dyed blonde hair and shaved eyebrows.

### Magical Girl

Mephis Pheles has long black hair with short fringe bangs. She has feathered black eyebrows. Her eyes are grey and she has red pupils with grey eyeshadow on her eyelids. In the middle of her forehead is a red cross. Her tongue is pierced.

Mephis wears a translucent long-sleeved layered black dress that reaches all the way to her ankles. Mephis' dress collar is studded and she wears a silver necklace fashioned in two circles around her neck. There are also spiked studs on the cuffs of her dress. Below her breasts, there are two textured black-blue bands. There is a cross at the bottom center of her dress. All around Mephis' body, there are snakes, particularly around her arms, hands, and legs. The snakes are colored red and green. Mephis wears black boots and they have circular silver patterns on them, similar to her necklace.

On Mephis' left hand, she wears a ring on her finger. On Mephis' right hand, she wears a bracelet on the outside of her fingers. Her fingertips are a pale purple.

Mephis has white wings and a white tail on her head. This tail actually comes out from underneath her hair on the back of her head, which Kana notes to be an interesting place to have a tail.

Mephis also wears a sheep mask on her head, of which has an upside-down red heart on its left eye. There are red fruits connected to the bottom of the mask as well as a tail with a spikey edge.

## Personality

Despite her appearance as a human, which is that of someone who is literary and well-learned, Mephis has a huge temper and acts more like that of a gangster. In elementary school, she would pick fights with everyone that she found to be an annoyance, including boys and even her seniors. Her temper is so bad that at the beginning of the Magical Girl Class, the Millionaire card game had to be banned because she got too aggressive.

Mephis has a foul mouth and swears often, as well as insults those around her, but those in Group Two don't take it personally. It is revealed that even though Mephis has a temper, she's somehow capable of turning that part of herself off for professional matters.

## Magic

***Her sweet words will corrupt your heart.***

Mephis can convince and tempt her target to do her bidding. For that, she has to whisper to her objective. If her target is aware of Mephis' magic and has a strong will and great concentration, it is possible to resist her powers.

Mephis is able to use her magic to interrogate others.

### Special Item(s)

* ***Sheep Mask:*** Mephis's sheep mask that seems to be too small for her. It has an upside-down red heart on its left eye and red fruits connected to the bottom of the mask as well as a tail with a spikey edge.

## Relationships

### Tetty Goodgripp

Mephis Pheles and Tetty Goodgripp are classmates in *Black.*

As humans, Fujino and Fuuko used to attend the same elementary school together and took the same selection test, which they passed together. While they were good friends before, they became estranged when Fujino transferred out of Fuko's class. After making a happy reunion at Umemizaki, their relationship turned sour after Fujino upset Fuko during a game of Millionaire.

In *White*, while bonding with Kana, Mephis grows to regret how badly her and Tetty’s relationship had been screwed up. After going with Tetty to the Courtyard, the two of them seemingly reconcile.

### Classical Lillian

Mephis and Lillian are in the same class group, both of them are also members of the Caspar's Faction.

### Kumi-Kumi

Mephis and Kumi-Kumi are in the same class group and are also members of the Caspar's Faction.

### Thunder-General Adelheid

Mephis and Adelheid are in the same class group. Mephis actually holds a great deal of respect towards Adelheid, due to her being a veteran from Archfiend Cram School, but is too proud to admit it.

### Kana

Mephis and Kana are in the same class group and are members of the Caspar's Faction. At first, Mephis was actually kind of excited at the prospect of a convict from Magical Girl Prison transferring to her school and wanted to fight her. Unfortunately, Kana turned out to be an extremely socially awkward girl, causing Mephis to quickly lose interest in her and just see her as annoying. However, their relationship made a huge turnaround when Kana expressed interest in Manga, causing Mephis to quickly open up to her and get her hooked.

### Diko Narakunoin

They're both members of the Caspar's Faction.

During the first mock battle in *Black*, Mephis and Diko have a back and fourth. Mephis constantly chases Diko, attempting to use her magic on her. The rest of group 2 attempt to get Mephis to leave Diko alone, but to no avail.

### Halna Medhi Melen

Mephis first met Halna when she asked her to let Kana stay over at her house. Mephis initially refused and cursed at her, though her disrespectful attitude quickly disappeared following the revelation that she was the school principal. Halna then changed her request into an order and forced Mephis to let Kana stay over as punishment.

In *White*, Mephis shows great distain towards Halna. When the idea of taking signatures to Halna's office is brought up, Mephis ademently refuses.

### Snow White

Mephis first learned of the *Magical Girl Hunter* during school lectures about her exploits. Upon actually meeting her after she transfered to Umemizaki, however, she was disappointed that Snow White ended up being completely different from what the stories suggested. As a result, Mephis does now consider her a threat to Group 2's secret mission. Despite this, however, the two quickly started to get along during classes due to their shared love for manga.

## Etymology

### Real Name

* The name **Fuuko** means "maple" (楓) (**fuu**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).
	+ "ー" is a symbol that is used to length the vowel mark.
* Fuuko's surname **Sayama** means "help, aid" (佐) (**sa**) and "mountain, hill" (山) (**yama**).

## Trivia

* According to Kana, Mephis wears white-colored panties in her Magical Girl form which clashes with her black color scheme.
* Her sheep mask seems to be smaller than her face.
* She is named after "Mephistopheles". A demon featured in German folklore who is portrayed as an evil demon who assists Lucifer and looks for men in order to corrupt them. Other media portrays it as demon who collects the souls of those who are already damned.
* Mephis was recommended to the Magical Girl Class by The Bureau of Legal Affairs.

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