Sapphire Chauvera

"If you challenge me, you won't only see hell, you'll *feel* hell." - **Sapphire** to Blackquill in *XIII: Death*

## Biographical Information

### Alias(es)

Saph
Saphie/Miss Smartypants (by Kellan)
Princess/Vera (by Blackquill)

### Occupation

First-year student in Belvoire Academia of the Arcane
Team captain of House Aqua's Vortex team

## Relationships

### Family

Sigmund Chauvera (father; mentioned)
Unnamed mother ✝

### Friend(s)

Kellan Xalvador
Indirah Alnazar
Izaiah Alnazar
Xylon Lozano
Lucio Damaris
Artemus Blackquill

### Enemies

The Devil
Artemus Blackquill (formerly)
Lucio Damaris (forrmerly)

## Arcane Information

### Keywords

UPRIGHT: Intuition, uncertainty, confusion, complexity, secrets, unconscious
REVERSED: Insomnia, unveiled mysteries, release of fear, unhappiness, unusual dreams

## Physical Information

### Paraphernalia(s)

Topaz ring
Gold choker
Cuff bracelet

## Production Information

### Inspiration(s)

Belle Bello
Red Ordonia

Sapphire's signature

The half-blooded **Seraphine-Sapphire Chauvera** is a main character of The Arcana. She's known as the hot-and-cold best friend of Kellan Xalvador, Xylon Lozano, Izaiah Alnazar, Indirah Alnazar, and Lucio Damaris, who she attends Belvoire Academia of the Arcane as a first-year student. As a Scorpio, she's sorted into House Aqua with Indirah. Sapphire is the daughter of her late human mother and her mage father, who's a famous doctor for finding out the cure to the Crimson Plague. **The Moon** is Sapphire's Patron Arcana.

The inspiration for Sapphire's character is **Belle Bello**.

## THE MOON **Λ**RC

#### **EARLY LIFE**

Sapphire is born on November 5 to a human mother and a mage father, Dr. Sigmund Chauvera, making Sapphire a half-blood. Her mother is a Warlock hunter and she was kidnapped by them for that exact reason, prompting her husband to save her. He notices a young girl who was also captured, but couldn't save them both. He comes home to Sapphire and tells her that her mother got sick with an incurable disease. He promises her that he's going to research more about her disease and would find the cure to the sickness that killed her.

#### **THE CRIMSON PLAGUE**

Sapphire is staying safe in her house while his father tries himself out to help millions of people infected by the plague. He fulfills his promise to Sapphire, although ironically enough, the more he spends time finding what the cure is, the less time he's beginning to spend with his daughter, making Sapphire become independent over time.

## PERSON**Λ**LITY

Sapphire is a naturally energetic soul who's also passionate, single-minded, simple, and sincere. She's enthusiastic, curious about new things, and has her own opinions towards things and could handle a heated debate. Whenever she faces difficulties, Sapphire's not afraid to make hard decisions and she usually turns out to be on the right path of a situation. One of the advantages of her personality is that once she sets a goal, she wouldn't not stop until she achieves it.

Sapphire has a bit of a mysterious side, stimulating the impulse of surrounding people to explore deeper. She's also known to be very stubborn like Xylon is; even if she feels disheartened, she would never give up easily. In a typical Scorpio fashion, if she's not fond of someone, even they try their best, she would ignore them. She could get extremely jealous and she tends to show all emotions on her face, however, she's sometimes over-optimistic and a little careless.

## PHYSIC**Λ**L **Λ**PPE**Λ**R**Λ**NCE

Sapphire has wavy light brown hair with curtain bangs. She has natural bright amber eyes, almost gold, and she's at least 5'1' in height. She has a gold and topaz ring on her left index finger, a gold cuff bracelet around her right wrist, and a gold choker around her neck.

#### **CASUAL**

Sapphire's casual consists of a purple-colored wrap blouse that drapes around her shoulders, and her thigh-reaching skirt is of the same color, as well as her boots. She has a transparent light blue inner-wear, complete with a light blue sash that accentuates her waist.

#### **COMBAT**

She wears a dark blue halter top with a straps around her neck tied to a gold ring on her chest to hold it up, accompanied with a blue transparent drape covering her left shoulder and upper arm. She adds a series of brown belts with a gold buckle across her torso. Sapphire has dark gray pants and a pair of black boots- around her upper right thigh is a gold satchel onto it.

#### **WAND**

Sapphire's wand is 10 and three-quarters long, made of camellia wood which possesses both topaz and chrysanthemum cores as her birthday is in November.

## POWERS & **Λ**BILITIES

* **Spell Casting**- Sapphire can cast spells with a wand and should do a say the spell's name accompanied by a specific hand movement in order for it to activate. Because she's a half-blood mage, she has more control over her magic more than anyone in the franchise.
	+ **Element Manipulating**- She can manipulate all six elements, fire ("Pyro"), water ("Aquam"), air ("Aura"), earth ("Tellus"), ice and snow ("Cryo"), and electricity ("Electro"), with a wave of her wand.
* **Medical Knowledge**- Inheriting her intelligence from her father, Sapphire is mentioned in the story multiple times that she's had enough wisdom to actually be a doctor. She knows how to stop the plague from spreading, and she's knowledgable about the **fire beetles** and how to cure the infected.
* **Fast Learner**- As shown in *Chapter XX: Judgement*, Sapphire conjured a shield spell in order to save Blackquill and the others from the Devil's chains. This surprises both Blackquill and Indirah, and Sapphire says that she's a fast learner- she learnt how to do the spell because of Indirah back in *Chapter XIV: Temperance*.

## RECCURING/RUNNING G**Λ**GS

* **Love Quarrels and Frenemies**- Sapphire and Blackquill bickering with everything, one-upping each other, as well as Izaiah and Lucio.
* **Ahh, Young Love**- Blackquill and Sapphire have obvious romantic tension between the two of them every chapter they're in.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* Sapphire's name means "burning ones", which could be relevant to her fiery and fierce personality. Although this is the case, her name doesn't connect to both her role and occupation in the story and to her Patron Arcana, **the Moon (XVIII)**.
	+ In fact, she, is the first out in the entire franchise to not connect her name's meaning to her card. This is because the writers are following the tradition of having **Belle Bello'**s characters have color-inspired names. The first being **Sydney Crimsen** (**After Solstice**) and **Red Ordonia** (**Beyond Worlds**).

* This is the second time Belle Bello's character, who's the deuteragonist, is best friends with the protagonist, just like Red (Sydney Crimsen doesn't count since the roles are switched for her, **Rio Togami**, and **Anna Sinclair**).
* Despite her name, her birthstone is topaz, and it's the same stone on her ring.
* She calls Artemus Blackquill "Quill", and he calls her "Vera" in return, with both of their last names being shortened. They're the only ones in the entire franchise to do this.

* Out of all Belle Bello's characters, Sapphire is the only one who:
	+ Isn't mentioned to be bisexual, although it's canon that he's a tomboy.
	+ Has the harshest personality and has a canonically bad attitude.
	+ Is thought to be the secret antagonist of the story she's in.
	+ Is considered to have a bad reputation with good intentions.
	+ Doesn't have **Kath Aguinaldo**'s character as her best friend- either Kellan or Izaiah is.

* Apart from Kellan, she's the only character in The Arcana to almost have been orphaned. In the original draft, Sapphire's parents were supposed to get shot in a war, leaving her with Kellan's parents. That way, Sapphire would have known both Kellan and Indirah (as Blanca) longer than in the final cut. She would also be Kellan's adoptive sister.
* In one of the earlier drafts, Sapphire was one of the people supposed to be infected by the Crimson Plague.
	+ Originally, Indirah was supposed to get infected long before Kellan did, and that she was then going to be cured by Sapphire's father, **Dr. Sigmund Chauvera** but retain her eyes being reddish-pink. This was scrapped for unknown reasons, and the writers planned to give the prompt to Sapphire instead, though this wasn't made in the final cut either.
* Sapphire has the lightest color of hair, while Lucio Damaris has the brightest.
* She's the only main character to not have another weapon besides magic and/or wand. Both Kellan and Lucio have magic (as they're pure-bloods and therefore wouldn't need wands) with Kellan having tarot cards like Indirah, and Lucio having a sword. Izaiah has a bow and arrow, and Xylon has a dagger.
* In *Chapter XVII: The Star*, Sapphire shoves grass into Blackquill's mouth. This is a reference to what **Stefan Sanchez** did to **Shy Koumi**.
* No one expected Sapphire and Blackquill to be a pair as everyone was expecting Blackquill to be Xylon's rival for Kellan. The writers did not expect this happening either; they never planned Blackquill to be a part of anything but Kellan's academic rival in Belvoire, but because he's a crowd favorite, the writers gave Blackquill as Sapphire's love interest.