Duchess Pilut

**Duchess Pilut** (マダムチューリップ, *Madame Tulip*?) was a witch that appeared in the 8th season of *Guardians of Harmony*.

## Bio

### Personality

Duchess Pilut is very independent and flightly, preferring to just run away, and believes nobody cares about her. She is also quite short-tempered, bratty, and demanding and desperately craves the freedom her father denies her. It is also shown that she is deceptive as she pretended to be calmed down by Cheren's words, only to reveal she didn't actually care about the confession and tried to kill him anyways.

### Relationships

* **Cheren Harkabune**: Duchess Pilut no longer gives a care for Cheren at all. Even after he confesses to her, she still doesn't accept it (until she is de-witched) and tries to kill him anyways.

## History

After Bianca and Cheren's first date is ruined in "Bianca's Chrohicles," her father becomes too worried and believes that being both a Trainer and a Guardian are both too dangerous, After she gets released from the hospital and heads home, he confronts her about fighting monsters, saying that Nevaeh is at fault, but adds that her other friends and Kyubey are also at fault for putting his daughter in danger like that. He blames Kyubey for making contracts with children who aren't even old enough to drive, but Bianca protests that she has magical attacks and weapons and can't get physically harmed when transformed. However, he doesn't care, sends Bianca to her room and grounds her for a month for endangering herself fighting monsters, and uses a spell to board her door shut. Fed up despite knowing his good intentions, she briefly transforms to attack her boarded door, and runs away from home crying as her father watches in shock and her Harmony Gem (shaped like a flower shaped earring in its jewelry form) and Power Necklace glow dark purple, turning into a Grief Seed, and subsequently turning her into Duchess Pilut.

## Magical Abilities

Duchess Pilut can summon tulip flowers and can create vines that can trap people in cage-like structures, as well as to bind her victims and strangle them. She can freely change the size and length of her vines and summon them from the floor of her barrier. Her tulip flowers can hypnotize those that look at their center and force them to do her bidding, such as attacking people. She also is extremely fast and has super speed.

## Barrier

Her barrier resembles a garden filled with colorful tulip flowers, with picnic tables scattered throughout complete with food, symbolizing how her date was ruined. However, open birdcages can also be seen, symbolizing how she is too fed up with her father being too overprotective. On the floor of her barrier are vines that can rise up at any moment and ensnare unsuspecting victims.

## GoH Analysis Card

The Witch of Independece. Her nature is freedom. Due to believing nobody cares about her at all and the fact she craves indepdence, she is very flightly and prefers to just run away from everything. She does not take being ordered to do stuff very well, either. It is extremely hard to catch her. One better be speedy to keep up with her.

## Trivia

* It is unknown why Nene and Fauna were both unaffected by her tulip flower's hypnosis. It can be implied that Hilda quickly acted after seeing Rosa fall for it.
* Despite appearing to be calmed down and left speechless by Cheren's love confession, it is subverted when she gets angry and tries to kill him anyways, unlike witches such as Oktavia von Seckendorff or Behaver who actually calm down.