Velvet Crowe

Velvet Crowe

**Velvet Crowe**, is both a fictional character and deuteragonist of the *Tales of RWBY* series created by Yoshiharu Gotanda and Monty Oum. She was originally kind and family-oriented girl, and had lead a really nice and peaceful life.

But all of that tragically changed, the events of the Scarlet Night 3 years prior turned her into an angry woman tainted by vengeance. The event has also led Velvet with a curse as well, which allows her to bring out her beast arm out.

She is a human granted with the powers of a Daemon and therefore refers to herself as Monster. In actuality, she is a Therion with the power to consume monsters, daemons and the creatures of grimm, as well as absorbing their souls.

Due to having an imbued beast arm as a vessel bandaged up in her left arm, she is shunned and is also mentioned to be a being which is to be feared by the world. And her's, was turned upside down when she witnessed a murder.

But in reality, Artorius tricked her about her with an optical illusion of her brother's death in the end. Devouring countless inmates while during her time locked up, on the prison island, has earned her the title "**Velvet the Therion**".

During her journey, she comes across a young malak boy, who she later renames after her deceased brother. He changes her with his pure soul. To accomplish her mission of vengeance, she will need the support of her teammates.

"*But even in the depths of despair, only two things mattered to me. The taste of blood-soaked flesh... and revenge upon one man.*"

—Velvet Crowe, to herself.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Cristina Vee (English), Rina Satō (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Biography

Originally a kind and family-oriented girl, Velvet became a vengeful woman fueled by hate due to the traumatic events she went through on the Scarlet Night three years prior to the events of the story. She fights with a blade mounted on her right-hand gauntlet, her feet, and her powers to create, control, manipulate, and change her body to darkness as a daemonic weapon to devour all species; monsters, daemons, humans, and spirits alike.

A woman who once had a friendly, no-frills personality. But that changed three years ago when she became embroiled in a certain incident. Since then, she rarely smiles, and always seems filled with rage and hatred. A mysterious power consumed her on that day that transfigured her left hand into something that was non-human. She usually has her hand bandaged to hide it.

### Appearance

Velvet is a tall woman with long, black hair and golden eyes.

#### Original (Volumes 1–3)

In the prologue, Velvet's attire consists of a brown, short-sleeved shirt over a black, one piece uniform, with shin-pads strapped above brown boots, and her hair is woven in a braid tied by a red strap around the tips.

#### Post-Timeskip

After three years of her imprisonment, being forced to fight, kill, and devour monsters grimm and daemons, Velvet's uniform have been ripped and tattered into rags, exposing a lot of her skin with her left arm's therion capabilities sealed by bandages whenever they are not currently activated. Her hair has become messy, and grown down to her legs, and the red strap is replaced with a bandage. When Seres helps her escape, she takes a tattered, black coat with several belts and silver leg-guards.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Gold
* Age: 16 (Prologue), 19 (Physically; Immortal)
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 170 cm
* Weight: Not Known

## Background

Velvet originally lived in the village of Aball, where she primarily hunted prickleboars for a living, and was taking care of her ill little brother Laphicet Crowe. She and her brother were the only Crowe siblings left after their older sister, Celica Crowe, was killed by daemons during a Scarlet Night three years prior. Artorius, Celica's husband, was tasked with protecting the village and his family from daemons, and he taught Velvet everything he knew about his maxims to apply in combat. Velvet was generally optimistic, and deeply cared for the people around her, especially her brother Laphicet.

However, on the Scarlet Night, a massive outbreak of daemonblight turns all of the villagers into daemons. Worried about Laphicet's safety, Velvet rushes outside the village to a nearby shrine, where she finds Artorius killing her brother in some kind of sacrificial ritual. Devastated, she tries to save her brother from falling into the shrine, but Artorius cuts off her left arm, causing both to fall into the shrine's depths. Laphicet was offered as a sacrifice to the fifth Empyrean Innominat, while Velvet was expelled out of the shrine with a new daemon arm, having been transformed into a Therion. She kills all of the surrounding daemons in a blind rage, but quickly finds out that the daemons she has killed are the villagers that Velvet knew. Artorius quickly takes her down, and locks her up in the prison island of Titania for three years.

One day, a malak named Seres sets Velvet free from her prison to help her get revenge on Artorius, who has now formed an authoritarian society called the Abbey. Determined to avenge her brother's death, Velvet sets out on her long quest for revenge.

Velvet is shown to act very cruel, cynical, and only cares about her goal. She has no qualms about killing anyone who stands in her way, and has racked up a large body count of daemons, malakhim, and exorcists alike. Despite this however, Velvet still has her old feelings hidden inside of her, and is shown to secretly care for her comrades, especially a young malak whom she named Laphicet because he resembles her deceased brother. Eventually, she learns to reconcile her actions after learning the truth about Innominat, and becomes more determined to defeat Artorius in order to make a better world free of "reason". Her battle with Artorius is less "evil vs good", but more "chaos vs order".

## Personality

During a time in the past, Velvet is a cheerful, kind, loving girl with a normal life. She expresses overprotectiveness of her little brother, and instantly falls into shambles when her loved ones are massacred. Consumed by the betrayal of Artorius and the death of her loved ones, Velvet has changed from a kind girl into a standoffish woman driven by vengeance. She is very cold, aloof, and brutally honest about her goals and how she views other people, and her aggressive demeanor especially ignites whenever Artorius is nearby.

Contrary to heroic protagonists fueled by a need to help others and pursue good-intention motives that involve enacting the moral kind of justice, Velvet's rogue path opts for a more personal and less moral kind of justice, almost similar to Yuri Lowell's vigilante approach to things, as the latter takes things that cause harm to others into a personal matter.

Because of her childhood trauma of losing her arm and her brother, Velvet inevitably shuts herself from all other emotions, viewing them as mere obstacles that would hold her back in her goal to kill Artorius, whom she once loved and trusted. His betrayal ultimately spurred a distrust in Velvet that results in her only using people for her own advantage, initially refusing to form friendships until Laphicet, Eleanor, Magilou, Eizen, and Rokurou collectively wear down Velvet's cold exterior.

Before long, Velvet finds herself showing frequent concern and consideration to the other party members despite herself and repeated statements professing to the contrary. When Eleanor is experiencing ill effects from taking sale'tomah, Velvet goes out of her way to ask Laphicet how Eleanor is feeling, and when told the redheaded Exorcist is doing better, Velvet shows genuine relief, but when Laphicet brings up how she seems worried about Eleanor, Velvet brushes it off and claims she doesn't care.

Magilou, who watched the exchange, doesn't believe the Daemoneater at all, even outright saying Velvet has "trouble expressing her feelings." Later on, when Eleanor is driven to tears after Oscar defends the Abbey's atrocities, Velvet kicks Oscar's head to the wall, roundly denouncing him, not for defending the Abbey, but for "making a girl cry," referring to Eleanor. Velvet even admits privately that the only reason she chose not to kill Oscar on the spot is because she did not want to upset Eleanor, and this was long before she discovered the truth of malevolence and how it affects Laphicet.

Velvet's motherly nature allows her to become an older sister figure of the team, particularly to Laphicet and Kamoana to a lesser extent. But Velvet's relationship with Eleanor undergoes the most drastic change due to Velvet's own growth throughout the course of the series, as they start off enemies from their fundamentally different views of the world as well as Eleanor's association with the Abbey.

Through circumstances outside their control, Eleanor and Velvet become uneasy allies due to Eleanor becoming Laphicet's vessel, preventing him from dying, leading to some jealousy over their closeness to him and mistrust due to their early rivalry. But as the story progresses, both women grow to respect and care for one another, and by the end of the game, Velvet and Eleanor develop a deep trust despite still retaining much of their snarky banter, eventually becoming close friends despite their initial emnity.

Before the final battle, Velvet even says "We're lucky to have you, Eleanor," to which Eleanor playfully notes how strange it is for the Lord of Calamity to show gratitude to an Exorcist.

Although Velvet's rage keeps her pressing forward and fighting for the one thing she believes will deliver her resolve, she nevertheless holds to her former self in vulnerable moments, often showing a tenderness that surprises her companions, who only know her current self. While she is wracked with self-loathing, believing herself irredeemable and calling herself a "selfish, horrible girl," the party members all disagree, and each of whom throughout the course of the series express admiration for her passion and still-existing humanity.

Rokurou says she hates as much as she loves, a kind of humanity he admires, while Eizen, who initially felt her crusade against the world was the height of "foolishness," admits that same "foolishness" is worth respecting and following. Magilou, in a rare moment of seriousness, praises her for giving Laphicet a name and helping him forge his own identity.

Magilou is left speechless after realizing Velvet will not give up even after losing her first fight with Artorius, and when Velvet breaks through the illusions at Aball, Magilou expresses her surprise, impressed at Velvet's willpower to avoid false happiness such as the sight of Niko and her brother being alive. Even Eleanor, who was her enemy at first, loses all willingness to betray Velvet after realizing the truth behind Velvet's hatred for Artorius and the Abbey's true goals for the world.

Laphicet is typically the cause of this vulnerability due to his likeness of Velvet's dead brother. However, Velvet wrestles with connecting and disconnecting the two in her head, knowing they are different people but never fully suppressing her softer emotions she still retains. Ultimately, Velvet spends much of the game's plot in a trance-like state that is only broken when her resolve falters, her rage and sorrow conflicting in her mind and confusing her to the point that her internal struggle eventually reaches a climax.

After learning the truth about her brother's death and nearly succumbing to her despair, and through Laphicet's affection towards her, she finally found balance between the two sides of her, becoming more kindhearted to her friends, but still holding a deep grudge towards those who wronged her. But Velvet never does manage to overcome her self-loathing due to her deep-seated remorse and shame for her actions. She admits that she still loves Artorius for who he used to be and what he meant to her as a kid, but she resolves to kill him to avenge herself and to save the world from falling under Innominat's suppression.

Eleanor Hume once offered to mend her clothes, and a confused but appreciative Velvet accepts, even showing consideration to Eleanor's health and hygiene, noting how the male members of the party "aren't considerate enough" to do the same, something Velvet seemed annoyed by. Eleanor chooses not to mend Velvet's clothes only out of respect for Velvet, as Eleanor incorrectly assumed Velvet's clothes belonged to someone Velvet held dear; in fact she just threw her clothes together haphazardly.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Magilou's Menagerie
	+ Rokurou Rangetsu
	+ Laphicet
	+ Eizen
	+ Magilou Mayvin
	+ Eleanor Hume
* Dyle
* Benwick
* Tabatha Baskerville
* Kurogane
* Grimoirh
* Kamoana
* Percival Yil Mid Asgard
* Brave Vesperia
	+ Yuri Lowell
	+ Karol Capel
	+ Judith
* Lloyd Irving
* Zaveid
* Team RWBY
	+ Ruby Rose
	+ Weiss Schnee
	+ Blake Belladonna
	+ Yang Xiao Long
* Team JNPR
	+ Jaune Arc
	+ Nora Valkyrie
	+ Lie Ren
* Qrow Branwen
* Oscar Pine
* Maria Calavera

### Family

* Artorius Collbrande (Brother-in-Law)
* Celica Crowe (Elder sister; Deceased)
* Laphicet Crowe (Younger brother)
* Unnamed mother (Deceased)
* Unnamed father (Deceased)
* Laphicet (adoptive son/younger brother)

### Neutral

* Van Aifread
* Medissa

### Enemies

* Abby
	+ Oscar Dragonia
	+ Teresa Linares
	+ Shigure Rangetsu
	+ Melchior Mayvin
* Salem's Faction
	+ Salem
	+ Tyrian Callows
	+ Hazel Rainart
	+ Arthur Watts
	+ Cinder's Faction
		- Cinder Fall
		- Emerald Sustrai
		- Mercury Black
		- Roman Torchwick
* Alexei Dinoia
* Blood Alliance
	+ Barbos
* Ragou
* Cumore

## Abilities and Powers

Velvet's class is that of a **Lancer** which makes her a quick-combo fighter. She primarily uses martial artes in battle for evasion and rapid succession. She carries a hidden blade underneath her shoe. Velvet fights up-close and personal, utilizing her legs in martial artes performing swift kicks, while relying on her gauntlet blade in hidden artes to perform vicious stabbing attacks. The elemental properties on her hidden artes are well-suited for performing weak point combos.

### Abilities

In battle, she equips a blade which acts as a small lance within the tip of her right-hand gauntlet and use it as if it were an extension of her own body. She also uses the power of the Darkness Slayer sealed within her and turns her arms into bloody-crimson clawed hands that she can then use to strike with. She also uses her legs to kick and sweep into her combos. Her kicks are seen into work when she spirals to the side and kick or swipes her foot with a double-loop airborne to perform an a variety of techniques.

### Combat Skills

#### Fighting Style

Her Break Soul is Consuming Claw, which causes Velvet to be therionized resulting in unleashing the power of her left arm. She gains certain buffs depending on the type of enemy she strikes and enables her to unleash a special arte. Her health constantly decreases in this state, but she also deals more damage in proportion to the amount of health she loses. Her mystic artes are Lethal Pain, Annihilating Crash, and Impulse Desire. She also has a dual mystic arte with Laphicet called Innumerable Wounds.

#### Artes

##### Martial Artes

* **Slicing Foot**:
* **Tearing Thorn**:
* **Gouging Spin**:
* **Swallow Dance**:
* **Twin Whip**:
* **Avalanche Fang**:
* **Harsh Rebuttal**:
* **Water Snake's Wake**:
* **Moonlight Cyclone**:
* **Soaring Dragon**:
* **Rising Moon**:
* **Rising Falcon**:
* **Heaven's Wrath**:
* **Inferno Torrent**:

##### Hidden Artes

* **Searing Edge**:
* **Mega Sonic Thrust**:
* **Shell Splitter**:
* **Shadow Flow**:
* **Slag Assault**:
* **Grounding Strike**:
* **Cerberus Wave**:
* **Banishing Thunder**:
* **Binding Frost**:
* **Scale Crusher**:
* **Defiant Conviction**:

##### Break Souls

* **Consuming Claw** (コンジュームクロウ, *Konshūmu Kurou*; literally meaning "Consume Claw"): A sweeping claw attack that Therionizes an enemy, allowing Velvet to exploit their elemental weaknesses. Following combos will end with special Break Artes, attacks which are specific for the type of enemy that is currently Therionized.
* **Heaven's Claw** (ヘヴンズクロウ, *Hevunzu Kurou*): The second level of Velvet's Break Soul. Velvet swings her daemon arm upward, leaving behind streaks of red energy and unleashing a burst of malevolence in front of her. Once activated, Velvet will perform a flurry of swipes with her daemon arm.
* **Hell's Claw**:
* **Nightmare Claw** (ナイトメアクロウ, *Naitomea Kurou*): The forth level of Velvet's Break Soul. To activate it, Velvet has to be in Therion Mode for twenty seconds. Once activated, Velvet will unleash a frenzied barrage of slashes with her daemon arm.

##### Mystic Artes

* **Lethal Pain** (リーサル・ペイン, *Rīsaru Pein*): Velvet's Level 1 Mystic Arte. She dives into the enemy with a kick, follows up with a couple of slashes with her wrist blade, and then finishes with a sweeping claw attack with her daemon arm.
* **Annihilating Crash** (絶破滅焼撃 / 絶破滅衝撃, *Zeppa Messhougeki*; literally meaning "Stop Ruin Burning Attack" or "Severing Destruction Impact"): Velvet's Level 2 Mystic Arte. She impales the enemy with her wrist blade before using her daemon arm to blast them away with a burst of energy.
* **Impulse Desire** (インパルス・ディザイア, *Inparusu Dizaia*): Velvet's Level 3 Mystic Arte. She performs a barrage of slashes with her wrist blade and daemon arm, and then unleashes a powerful energy attack that raises the ground around the enemy.
* **Innumerable Wounds** (イニュメラブル・ワウンド, *Inyumeraburu Waundo*; literally meaning "Innumerable Wound"): A dual mystic arte with Laphicet, where Laphicet sweeps the enemy into the air with his papers, which then scatter around the air as Laphicet forms a magical glyph beneath the enemy. Velvet advances and slashes the enemy with her gauntlet-blade while ascending by jumping on the scattered papers. As the enemy begins to fall, the magical glyph is fully formed, and the enemy lands on a glowing sphere, propelling it back into the air. Eight ephemeral blades then form around Velvet, landing on circles around the glyph as Velvet descends to stab her enemy down on the glyph. At the center of the glyph, energy expels in a cross shape of darkness while the surrounding circles that were stabbed earlier by the ephemeral blades release pillars of light energy.

### Feats

#### Strength level

* Can break through boulders and stone walls with ease.
* Threw a small rock at someone with enough force to send them flying backwards.

#### Speed

* Easily avoided attacks from Oscar Dragonia, who was moving faster than the human eye could track.

#### Durability

* Has high pain tolerance, and can continue fighting even after sustaining injuries.
* Can survive in extreme temperatures (whether cold and/or heat) without protective clothing.

#### Skill

* Has killed and devoured numerous daemons, malakhim, and exorcists over the course of her quest for revenge.
* Successfully escaped Titania with the help of Seres.
* Decimated the port town of Hellawes, which was under the rule of Teresa Linares.
* Broke through the fortress of Vortigern with Aifread's pirates.
* Slowly undermined the Abbey's control all over the Midgand empire.
* Defeated all four high-ranking exorcists (Oscar Dragonia, Teresa Linares, Shigure Rangetsu, and Melchior Mayvin).
* Has awakened the Four Elemental Empyreans by shoving the souls of the exorcists she's devoured into a volcano.
* Eventually defeated Artorius Collbrande, and the fifth Empyrean; Innominat.
* Has fought and defeated Phoenix, the world's strongest Normin.
* Has sparred with Jude Mathis and Milla Maxwell, who are from another world.

### Weaknesses

* Has very poor durability despite her strength, making her a glass cannon, and she lacks a proper healing factor.
	+ She dislocated her shoulder from falling off a tower, and had to be healed by Seres.
	+ She got stabbed by Artorius a few times and nearly died, and had to be healed by Laphicet.
* Strength feats are sometimes inconsistent. She once struggled to break open an ordinary wooden door in Vortigern.
* Is very prone to losing her temper, which can result in her being reckless and not caring about her own safety.
* Has unstable behavior and suffers from many emotional breakdowns. If pushed to the limit, her own emotions will drive her insane.
* Her Therion Form slowly drains her health when used, making it not very useful in a long battle.
* Has lost the ability to taste anything but blood.
* Is allergic to cats.

### Equipment

* **Wrist Blade**: Velvet's primary weapon. A retractable blade attached to a gauntlet that she wears on her right arm, originally used for hunting prickleboars. The blade's length is somehow longer than the gauntlet it fits into.
* **Hidden Foot Blades**: Concealed blades in Velvet's shoes. Used in a lot of of her kicking attacks.
* **Sorcerer's Ring**: A ring that Velvet obtains from devouring Seres. It grants her the ability to activate her Break Soul attacks and her Therion Mode.

## Etymology

* The term in her name, *Velvet*, is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive feel. By extension, the word *velvety* means "smooth like velvet." Velvet can be made from either synthetic or natural fibers.

## External links

* Velvet Crowe *Heroes Wiki*
* Velvet Crowe *Tales of Berseria (Official Website)*
* Velvet Crowe *Tales of Wiki*
* Velvet Crowe *Aselia, the Tales Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* She shares the same last name as Tytree Crowe
* Velvet's outfit was originally an alpha design for Rutee Katrea
* Velvet is allergic to cats. She avoids going to Katz Corner in order to conceal her allergies, which results in her sneezing. Strangely enough, Velvet also admits that she is a dog person, stating that dogs do not betray.