Carla Cromwell

* Main/TABA
* RPGX

Vampire Hunter

**Carla**, or Cara Cromwell (**カーラ**・クロムウェル) is a noble Vampire and the main antagonistic heroine of Carla The Blood Lord and appears in the online games, Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena and Taimanin RPGX.

She is the vampire Queen and known as the Blood Lord of Vlad Kingdom but supports friendly relationships with humans.

## Personality

Although she has an air of nobility about her, she speaks openly and straightforward with people regardless of their higher or lower status. Carla is rather uninhibited and does not like to be bored, she does not hold back in what she says but also has tolerance for the individuality of others.

She hopes to achieve harmony with between humans and vampires, and befriends humans herself. Carla can't stand the idea of selling the blood of her people and buying humans as slaves or livestock, so she advocates joining forces with humans to eradicate the vampires of the criminal underworld.

Carla has been a friend of the Uehara family since the time of the previous king, and is also a close friend of Uehara Kitae, her loyal guard Marika Krishna, as well as Kamimura Azuma. Carla does like to tease and flirt with women but does say that her real taste are beautiful woman like Marika, everything else is just her being playful.

### Relationships

 Black | Carla views Black as dangerous for the co-existence between vampire and humans. She contacted Igawa Asagi on the topic of Black, to plan a cooperation between Taimanin and Vampire Hunters. In RPGX, they seem to be allied lightly and it is confirmed that both are brother and sister.

## Appearance

Carla has medium-length white hair unlike her peers, alongside the signature red eyes of the Vampire race. For an attire, she wore a dress that partially exposed her upper torso alongside a bit of her cleavage and a belt around her waist. She wore tight socks that showed her thighs. She had a robe and on the shoulder lengths she shows a bit of skin as well on her shoulders. Furthermore, she had a crown on her forehead.

## History

### Background

Carla is the current queen of the vampires of Vlad Kingdom, a powerful noble vampire, with almost unmatched strength. She is also known as the Blood Lord and is the older sister of "Edwin Cromwell".

Coming from a noble family of kings who have reigned in that vampire kingdom for generations, she has been in contact with humans through a pact that dates back to the time of the previous king. Like her father, Carla aims for peace between both humans and vampires, and is responsible for the start of a planned peace treaty. Carla's personal guard and closest friend is the vampire Marika Krishna, but she also became friends with the human Uehara Kitae, the barrier master.

When her father died, and she took the throne, corrupt parts of Carla's family were jealous of her success and dismissive of her human friendly attitudes. One of these was Gram and his organization, which regardless of the laws of Vlad Kingdom, continued to trafficking human slaves and the drug "Ambrosia", a product made from vampire blood, which grands youth but also is a highly addictive aphrodisiac.

Carla, confronted her uncle in a raid of his mansion together with Marika Krishna, which resulted in Gram's "fake" demise but also in a heavy injury for Marika. Valuing her "very" close friend, Carla performed an ancient ceremony of vampire rulers, "Soul Bound". Normally used between husband and wife. It turned Marika, immortal as long as Carla remained alive, and also gave them a light form of telepathy. The matter has been kept a secret between only Marika and Carla, though Carla does play affectionately with the idea that Marika is also more of her type.

### Visual Novels

Joining up with the Vampire Hunters, which included Uehara Kitae and Kamimura Azuma, the group learned Gram was still active and confronted him and his servants. "Killing" Gram once more with her far superior strength, Gram once more secretly remained alive and infected one of the teachers of Hayato Private Academy, a location from which Kitae taught future vampire hunters. Carla herself joined the staff as an external instructor, to further cooperation and the fight against criminal vampires.

Unknown to Carla, Gram continued in his quest to corrupt her, by first taking out Uehara Kitae, by the combination of his "Bugs" and Ambrosia. Kitae, broke and became one of his loyal members and Gram now depending on route took either on Kamimura Azuma or Marika Krishna.

While Carla wanted to teach and prepared for further peace treaties, her coworkers slowly fell victim to Gram and became his puppets. Kamimura Azuma can die in the Marika route, or joins the ranks of Gran, as one of his puppets in her own route, while Marika herself always falls into the hands of Gram and their secret bond is revealed.

Carla as well is infected by the blood and "bug"-tool of her uncle. Though in strength alone she could overpower everybody, even with the help of Marika she is not able to escape and becomes in both routes Gram's slave and a puppet, which he uses to rule of Vlad Kingdom. Using Carla, as a figurehead to make a peace treaty but also being the one really in control, manipulating and making more slaves.

### TABA Timeline

Gram seems to be dead or the events of the game Carla The Blood Lord have not happened fully or only in one of the routes. Which makes it also unclear if she is Soul Bounded in that timeline.

Carla has official talks with Igawa Asagi about the demons and how to deal with the Edwin Black problem, together. The talks are held at Hayato Private Academy and Carla seems not to be affected by any events of her main game. The talks are cut short with the interruption of Fuuma Kotaro, and the UFS member Yukina Grace which attacks both sides as in Yukina's eyes all demons are evil. Kotaro, is able to capture Carla and escape, with Uehara Kitae, Kamimura Azuma and Marika Krishna swearing to rescue her.

### RPGX Timeline

Mentioned as the Red Lord/Blood Lord, by Ereshkigal and Teutates, viewed as a potential enemy. Allied with that timelines version of Edwin Black (Kuroto), and seen as reasonable.

In this continuity, it is stated, that Edwin Black's original name was Edwin Cromwell, and Carla was his older sister. Carla, here, lives in the demon realm.

A few years after **2082**, sent Marika Krishna after Efreet, to stop a resurrection of the evil Sorcerer Faust. Another event of, Marika also calls the Blood Lord her "beloved master". Members of the Silver Werewolf tribe under queen, Crocell made their way to Carla's territory for support against the invading Teutates, and his resurrected army of Heliogabalus Gaap.

Hundreds of years ago, she, together with the Taimanin Natsu, sealed the Ancient Dragon, Cuelebre. When the seal became weak once more, she went out alone, using the poor disguise of "Magician Carla" in her territory. Carla also had received a letter from Black, from Hell Knight apprentice, Rola, prior.

On her way to reseal, Cuelebre, she noticed the use of powers not unlike her brother Edwin, and visited a small village, observing Fuuma Kotaro with a strange group. Following the group, she saved them, when one of the group's members, Shojo Hatsumi, went out of control during an attack of thieves. The ruins, they were staying at, right under the dragon's seal. Carla killed the thieves and could calm the Ninja Art of Hatsumi, which was the same as Natsu's. Remaining incognito, she joked with Rola, which had gotten lost on her way back and was currently also part of Kotaro's group, that it was coincidence that she and the Blood Lord shared the same first name. Surprised how a group of demons, humans and Brain Flayer (Latticour) were able to work together that well, she befriended them.

Bringing the group down, to the seal, she helped Hatsumi to understand her Ninja Art. Carla, killed most of the dangerous enemies and prepared once more her powerful spell, to seal the ancient dragon. Mocking the beast, she supported the group, that still was able to impress her, as the group failed to damage the beast the correct way, she gave Hatsumi the strength to use her art and control it.

The "God Killer" Dragon could be sealed again with Carla, stating that she would play with it again if the time came. After, this the Taimanin group returned to their own world, with Carla making her connection to Black clear to Kotaro and voiced her wish to visit Gosha but feared that she could not visit the village as the Blood Lord, so it would have been best to be just known as a mage.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Magic

* **Vampire Abilities**
* **Partial Transformation**: Can create weapons/animals out of her body or create steel hard wings to protect her. (prefers wolves)
* **Regeneration**: Close to immortality.
* **Turning into Mist**
* **Blood Magic**
* **Black Lighting**
* **Soul Bound**: With Marika Krishna. The soul binding ritual grants the receiving partner immortality for as long as the one who casts the ritual remains alive. In Carla's case, Marika will remain immortal as long as Carla lives. The partner also receives some degree of synchronization and limited telepathy. Carla will however become ill should Marika be "killed" and enter regeneration. The illness lasts for the duration of Marika's regeneration. Should Carla be killed, both of them will permanently die.

## Media

* Carla The Blood Lord
* Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena
* Taimanin RPGX

## Trivia

* Her power is said to be comparable to vampire king Edwin Black, in TABA. In fact, she is the strongest character within Carla The Blood Lord and could even take down multiple other characters if they worked together. However, since she tends not to drink blood, her full power is somewhat reduced.
* In Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena she appears also but either doesn't show or has not been affected by Gram, at this point.
* Her title of "Blood Lord" has been mentioned in Taimanin RPGX. However, in TABA the title was also given to a lesser character.
* Her part transform into wolves, resembles the same skill that Alucard of the Hellsing series displayed.
* Unlike Annerose Vajra, Carla only became part of the Taimanin with the addition of online canon.

## Quote

"*If I can't manipulate my own flesh and blood without the need to suck on the lifeblood of others, then I can't really refer to myself as the ruler of all vampires now, can I? That would merely make me a weakling...like you, Uncle.*"
— Carla, displaying she is more powerful than her uncle and mocking him for his criminal ways as a weakling.[src]

**Carla**: "*Oh! If I did want to suck on blood, then I would rather prefer a beautiful woman like you.*"
**Azuma**: "*Geh!? You aren't coming onto me, are you!?*"
**Carla**: "*I was just joking. Marika is the kind of beautiful woman more suited to my tastes anyway.*"
— Carla teasing both Marika and Azuma[src]

**Marika**: "*Fights should be swift.*"
**Azuma**: "*Fights should be fun!*"
**Carla**: "*Fufu... I think both your contrasting opinions have some merit.*"
— Azuma and Marika in the middle of an argument.[src]