Elmina Ruthven

**Elmina Ruthven** is a Noble pure-blooded Vampyre and a member of the Dracula Faction, a male-dominated Vampyre faction, that was previously in a civil war with the Carmilla Faction, a female-domination Vampyre faction, and the Tepes Faction, a fellow male-dominated Vampyre faction.

## Appearance

Elmina has a doll-like appearance with long wavy light blonde hair, deep scarlet eyes, and a beautiful face similar to that of a Western doll. She also has a pale skin tone similar to that of a corpse.

She wears a red dress worn by princesses back in the Middle Ages, with an ornamented head-dress. In Volume 23, she appears at the Pendragon Residence wearing the Kuoh Ryuu Academy girl's uniform. She also wears light pink nail polish on her fingernails and toenails.

## Personality

As a pure-blooded Vampyre noble, she originally had an extremely arrogant, noble, and selfish personality, often discriminating against those who are not pure-bloods, such as herself, although she was capable of acknowledging someone's strength, even if they were outside her race. However, sometime after the chaos caused by the civil war in her homeland and Drakon's actions, her personality has revamped, as she becomes much more calm, sweet, sensitive and kind, ultimately dropping her discriminatory and arrogant attitude, although she maintains an amount of stubbornness.

Elmina is seen to act flushed and embarrassed at the mention of Arthur, showing that she has fallen for him, showing a more shy side to her personality. Similar to Robertina, she previously looked down on Arthur, but overtime she developed feelings for him. She can be quite clumsy with trivial things when nervous, as shown when she tripped and dropped a tray with teacups by accident.

## History

Elmina was born into the House of Ruthven, one of the highest ranking noble Vampyre families of the Dracula Vampyre Faction. At one point she's chosen as the envoy to recruit both Nanao Tepes and Casper Vlad to their side for the Vampyre Civil War.

## Powers and Abilities

### Vampyre Abilities

**Vampyre Physiology:** Being a Vampyre, Elmina has normal/common abilities of a Vampyre. Elmina has the ability to control bats and transform into a flock of them and use them for reconnaissance.

* **Immortality**: As a pure blooded vampyre, Elmina possesses immortal abilities that allows her not to age.
* **Blood Consumption**: Elmina can absorb other people's powers by drinking their blood. The effects are strengthened due to it being a virgin blood. As it shown when she drank both Robertina's and Arthur's blood in Volume 23, gaining Robertina's Phoenix wings of fire and Arthur's crimson and black dragon aura. Elmina can shoot enormous balls of dragon aura her opponents. Arthur's blood also allows her to temporarily walk in sunlight.

**Magic**: Elmina can created Vampyre-style magic circle store away the items and summon it back when she needed it, as well as to summon bats.

**Flight:** During the events of Volume 25, Elmina has demonstrated the ability to stay afloat in mid-air.

## Equipment

**Iron-Boned Dolphins:**Elmina can summon silver dolls that are fifteen centimetres tall and wield sabres and guns that are made out sliver.

## Trivia

* Elmina's last name, Ruthven, is a reference to John William Polidori's short story *The Vampyre*, where it is the titular character, Lord Ruthven's name as a noblemen. In an interesting note, *The Vampyre* actually predates both Bram Stoker's *Dracula* and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's *Carmilla* by 56 (Carmilla) and 82 (Dracula) years respectively.
	+ Her family name could imply she is a descendant of Lord Ruthven.
* Since Elmina comes from Romania her nationality is Romanian.
* Elmina's birthday is on August 28th.
* Her first sexual intercourse was anal.
* Elmina is a fan of Gundam, a hobby she acquired after observing Seekvaira Agares's interest as well as a female Stray Devil who betrayed the Carmilla Faction for the sake of creating a Gundam peerage.