Aradia

**Aradia** is a major character in A Fool's Study into Witchcraft. She is the Persona of Atsuko Kagari and an ancient goddess of witchcraft.

## Appearance

Aradia is a terrifying figure whose appearance akin to archetypal witch but influenced by Akko's psyche owing to her nature as her persona. True to this, she sports brown hair styled after Akko's own albeit longer and messier as well as clad in attire not unlike Shiny Chariot's stage cosume beneath tattered witch cloak (though the outfit has black and grey color scheme and its fabric being soiled and tainted as well as has white runes of pagan origin on few parts of it). Her sharp-looking horned visage is pretty much a crystalline construct that has changing green and purple markings similar to Rorschach test instead of actual face, typically twisted into various expressions that often terrifying to look at. The witch hat she wears being tattered and pointy to the point of can be mistaken as the missing hook of some torture device. Instead of human-looking ones, her legs appears to be goat-like, slender and hooved. She also has clawed hands wearing fingerless gloves adorned with hexagram, the same symbol on the pin that secured her cape.

Lastly, Aradia carries a staff with head of a satanic goat that candles burning on the horns.

## Personality

According to Ursula, Aradia is notorious for delivering brutal vengeance upon those that attempt on her followers' lives, yet at the same time proved to be a caring figure towards those close to her. Thie is true to her relationship with Akko where she acts as mother figure to her summoner and not hesitate to threaten those who dare to lay a finger on her, at times with little provocation much to Akko's chagrin. For the same reason, it's not easy for Ursula to fully gain Aradia's trust after their uneventful first encounter and Aradia herself maintained her suspicion towards the astronomy teacher, though she mellowed out a bit upon learning the latter's Umbran Witch heritage.

## Relationships

### Atsuko Kagari

Aradia first met Atsuko after the latter summoned the ancient goddess as her Persona. The two have a close relationship with Aradia acting as both a maternal figure and mentor to the young would-be witch-in-training and Persona user. She's overprotective towards Atsuko that she's willing to resort violent acts against anyone that slights the girl, much to Atsuko's dismay.

### Ursula Callistis

Aradia initially hostile towards Ursula for falsely perceiving her and Akko as a threat because of dark nature of her powers during their first encounter at Arcturus Forest. Though her opinions regarding the astronomy teacher improve somewhat once they eventually properly meet and she even learns the latter being the descendant of her followers, Umbra Witches, Aradia maintained her suspicion on Ursula due to the latter evidently harbored some dark secrets true to her arcana that happened to be Hermit and noticing Ursula's hair strand in her hand unexpectedly turned red sometime after seemingly attacked her, but agrees to avoid confronting her for it as per Akko's advice since she made a similar mistake that led to Diana being kidnapped by her own Shadow.

## Gallery

Akko unleashes Aradia upon a Cockatrice as illustrated by Artist741