Ophelia Salvadori

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**Ophelia Salvadori** (オフィーリア＝サルヴァドーリ, *Ofīria Saruvuadōri*) is a fourth year student at Kimberly Magic Academy.

## Background

Ophelia was born to the Salvadori family, who are descended from succubuses and practice sex-based magic aimed at creating a more perfect being by having children with those who show superior talent. Ophelia inherited a succubus trait known as Perfume, which instilled overpowering lust in any man who approached her. Ophelia could not control the technique, which caused the pheromones it produced to continuously surround her. Due to this, Ophelia frequently suffered unwanted sexual advances, and her family encouraged her to allow it and get pregnant to further the family goal. Her family's nature eventually resulted in her father leaving her and her mother behind.

She grew up distrusting of people and with no joy in life before meeting Carlos Whitrow, who was unaffected by her Perfume due to their nature as a Castrato. They became Ophelia's first ever friend.

When she began attending Kimberly, Ophelia had difficulty making friends due to her Perfume and defensive behavior. Carlos, a year ahead of her, tried to invite her to meet their friends, which she resisted. Eventually, Carlos succeeded in introducing Ophelia to Alvin Godfrey. Godfrey was affected by her Perfume, but he consistently cast spells to hurt himself when this happened, eventually training his body into associating her magic with pain and overcoming the effect. This effort caused Ophelia to open up and fall in love for the first time, though she never told Godfrey about her feelings.

Ophelia joined the Campus Watch at the urging of Godfrey and Carlos as a healer, where she became acquainted with Tim Linton and Lesedi Ingwe. She eventually became friends with them and Shannon Sherwood.

Her Perfume was never brought under control, which led to friction with other members of the Watch as it expanded. In her second year at Kimberly, her position beside Godfrey was threatened by this hostility. Ophelia decided to become the monster others saw her as in order to protect her place at the Watch, lashing out violently in contrast to her previous role as a healer. This eventually led to her massacring some of the members and injuring Tim.

After her falling out with the Campus Watch members, she moved down to her workshop in the Labyrinth and began living there full-time. She worked on her research and became known as a dangerous person to encounter in the Labyrinth. Though her former friends tried to reach out to her, Ophelia refused to have anything to do with them and rebuffed all attempts.

She published the thesis *A Study of Rapid Development from Interbreeding Krakens and Scyllas*, which was considered by Oliver Horn to be quite well-written.

In her fourth year, 1532, Ophelia encountered the first year students Oliver Horn, Pete Reston and Michela McFarlane when they accidentally entered the Labyrinth.

After perfecting her mage craft, she was "consumed by the spell" and died alongside her childhood friend, Carlos Whitrow.

## Appearance

Ophelia Salvadori has waist-length reddish-purple hair and similarly colored eyes.

As a first-year student she wore the standard girls' uniform without much embellishment. However, since her second year, she has favored an ankle-length purple ball gown slit to her hip on the right side, with cutouts baring her cleavage and navel. She refashioned the outer coat from her uniform into a bolero jacket that she wears over the gown.

Her athame resembles a kilij, with a rose-shaped pommel.

## Abilities

* **Striking Strength:**

* **Stamina:**

* **Intelligence:**

* **Range:**

* **Durability:**

* **Speed:**

* **Magic capabilities:** Ophelia is an expert in several areas of magic, particularly as relates biology and anatomy. She is talented with healing spells and is also known as a breeder of chimeras, usually storing one in her womb to be birthed at need.

## Techniques

### Spells

* **Partus**: Births the chimera currently stored in her womb and causes it to grow to its towering full size.

* **Grand Aria**:

### Special Trait

* **Perfume**: Perfume is a technique that produces magical pheromones that invoke intense lust and attraction from the victim towards the user. It is a kind of brainwashing technique that can even work in spite of the person's sexuality. Ophelia inherited it through her succubus lineage, and is unable to control it.

* **Chimera creation**: Ophelia's magical specialty is the creation of chimeras. She carries some in her womb as a form of defense.

## Relationships

* **Carlos Whitrow**: Ophelia's childhood friend. Due to their nature as a Castrato, they are unaffected by her Perfume and became her very first friend.

* **Alvin Godfrey**: One of Ophelia first friends at the Academy, who went through significant pain to train his body out of reacting to her Perfume. They had a falling out due to Ophelia's violence against other members of the Campus Watch. Ophelia was in love with Godfrey and became violent due to pressure from other Watch members to keep away from Godfrey because of her Perfume pheromones.

## Trivia

* Ophelia Salvadori's name is suggestive of at least two potential origins:
	+ "Ophelia" comes from a Greek word meaning "aid" or "help", while "Salvadori" (or "Salvatori") is an Italian surname from the same root as the word "savior" (making her possibly an ethnic Ytallian). In the backstory, before her descent into villainy, Ophelia was very much an aid and savior to the Campus Watch, since her abilities with healing spells and administrative tasks allowed Alvin Godfrey to expand the organization into what it is by the time the Sword Roses enroll.
	+ In *Hamlet* by William Shakespeare, Ophelia was the title character's tragic love interest, who was driven mad when she was rejected by him and eventually committed suicide, mirroring much of Ophelia's story in Volume 3.
		- Further mirroring Ophelia to the her play-namesake: Some theories of Hamlet suggest that Ophelia was pregnant (due to in part the herbs she recites during her madness being used to induce abortion). Regardless of whether this is true or not, the reason Hamlet is unable to marry Ophelia is explicitly due to the differences in their station.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Reign of the Seven Spellblades* Volume 3, Chapter 4