Chelsea

"I...don’t blame Gracen for having me exiled. After everything that happened, she had no choice. It was my fault. I did some things that I’m not very proud of… But I want to change. I’m going to try to be better."

### Notes

Chelsea is not an Aion and is a late-game addition to the party.

Chelsea is a somewhat flighty and jumpy girl with a troubled past, who grew up without parents and was eventually forced to turn to criminal work in order to survive. She initially meets Seles and the party while they are investigating Lanylisse, and is reluctant to say very much about herself. She abandons the party at the first sign of trouble, but their paths cross again later on in the story. She is highly mistrustful and quick to sell others out to save her own skin, though deep down she wishes she were braver.

## Personality

Chelsea seems a bit standoffish and timid when the party first meets her, at first refusing to help Seles because she sees nothing in it for her. Not much is known about Chelsea at all until later in the game when she permanently joins the party, and it is revealed that she is highly untrustworthy and only looks out for herself. Having fended for herself for quite some time, Chelsea finds it difficult to get rid of such habits, and is much more eager to throw others under the bus rather than risk getting into trouble herself.

It is through Gracen that Seles finally learns a bit more about Chelsea, and why she behaves the way that she does. Chelsea has never really had a place where she belonged nor has she ever had people around that she could trust, having moved from guild to guild and from job to job without sticking around in one place for too long.

## Story

### Lanylisse

The party first encounters Chelsea in Lanylisse, when she joins up with them to help them escape the Tainted Dagger holding cells. She goes with them to Aden's old house, but when the Royal Knights appear to apprehend the Tainted Daggers she becomes extremely nervous and runs off without explanation.

### Letovi

The party spots Chelsea again when they stop in Port Letovi, where she enters the inn that they are resting in. Upon seeing Liliana, however, Chelsea once again turns and runs away without a word.

### Malutina

Chelsea appears yet again when the party is tied to posts in Malutina. Seles sees Chelsea lurking in the crowd, but rather than helping the party, she once again runs away.

### Hetgaard

The final encounter with Chelsea is when Seles washes up on the shore in Hetgaard, and Chelsea finally explains herself a bit. She tells Seles that she has had some trouble with the Royal Knights before, which is why she fled at the sight of them in Lanylisse and upon seeing Liliana wearing a Royal Knight uniform in Letovi. She also reveals that she had come to Malutina looking for work with Crimson Scar, but then had decided it was a poor idea when she saw the party tied up in the main square.

Chelsea winds up betraying Seles and trying to turn her over to the authorities in Pendragon to try and collect the bounty. This backfires on her, however, when she is immediately thrown out of the city and Gracen releases Seles and apologizes, explaining a bit about Chelsea's background. Seles eventually catches up with Chelsea outside the city and rescues her from a bounty hunter, then invites her to join up with the party to try and give her a place to belong. Chelsea is touched that Seles would give her that chance despite her betrayal, and accepts.

## Family

According to Gracen, Chelsea grew up in an orphanage in Pendragon, which Gracen was the matron of. Chelsea later says that Gracen was something of a mother to her, but that was the closest thing to family that she ever had.

## Combat

Chelsea is not an Aion but a solid damage-dealer in combat. She boasts extremely high AGI, and since the majority of her special skills have damage scaling that is affected by her AGI this allows her to become a good asset to the party if properly used. Chelsea is not necessarily vital to the party, however, and can safely be benched in favor of someone else as she does not bring much utility.

### Strengths

* High AGI
* Can deal good damage, including poison

### Weaknesses

* Skills are somewhat situational
* Low DEF

## Trivia

* Chelsea's outfit heavily resembles that of Suki, the protagonist from the first game. Chelsea states that she made the clothes herself and styled them after a character in a storybook she read once, about a princess who lost everything.
* The game's writer has stated that Chelsea's lack of screentime is due to time crunches and changes to the story late in development, which led to her character being somewhat rushed and underutilized.