Otome Kifuu

**Otome Kifuu** (known in the English dub as **Astrid Bennett**) is one of the main protagonists of Pokémon: Claire, Mistress of Magick. She is the daughter of the previous Incarnation of the Great One, Aleister Bennett. She transforms into the Legendary Magical Warrior of Faith, Intuition and Emotions, Magician Mallow (マジシャンマロー *Majishan Marō*).

## Personal information

### Aliases

Mother of the Team (Mistresses of Magick)

### Theme color (s)

Purple (main and Legendary Magical Warrior)White (lesser and Idol)

### Debut

 Episode 1 - The Girls in the Forest (cameo) Episode 5 - The Ghost in the Basement (official)

## Appearance

Astrid is a tall and slender teenage girl with peach skin, back-length black hair that are splitted out a bit at both sides, bangs that sided to the right and splitted into two smaller hair locks, in which one of them is splitted half-way. She also have a cowlick that sides to the left on her head. She also wears a quarter-length sleeved shirt with a white collar, white buttons, a black-colored belt, and the shirt is splitted at the end with a black border. She also wears a pair of shorts with pleated ends that is decorated by a black ribbon on each side. She also wears calf-length white socks, and white Mary Janes with purple soles.

As Magician Mallow, her hair is pulled into a left side ponytail, and she wears an orchid-color undershirt with wing-like short frilly sleeves, with an extra pair of Eminence-colored puffed sleeves underneath, and a purpura-colored jumper dress with black borders is worn over it. She also wears a white frilly petticoat with a Tyrian purple overskirt worn over it, splitted at the middle to show parts of the petticoat. She also wears two differently-colored stockings, one colored heliotrope and the other colored mauve. She also wears shoes with the same design as the other members of the Mistresses of Magick, but hers are white and grape-colored and have a lozengy pattern on them. She also wears a Byzantine-colored ruffled arm cuffs, and on her head she wears a wisteria-colored witch hat and two lavender hair ribbons on each side. On her chest is a lavender ribbon with a checkered pattern, and on the centre of it is the Delphic Glyph, the Mistresses of Magick's ingisnia.

## Personality

She is a kind and caring girl who acts as the motherly figure to the whole team. She displays genuine tough love for all members of the Mistresses of Magick. She also enjoys cooking, and has a habit of baking pastries and pies, especially apple pies, to her friends.

She also have a good sense of humor, and likes to make jokes, albeit she usually not very keen on it, as usually her jokes revolves around philosophical concepts, which is deemed very confusing for most of the main protagonists.

She also is rumored to be very intelligent, and there's a rumor in the Dream Stars High School states that she always being the Champion of every School Quiz Challenges, and is said to be the school's quickest speedcuber, solving any variants of a Rubik's Cube in a very short period of time, even when blindfolded.

She usually refers to herself using the feminine less commonly used first-person pronoun "atashi" (あたし), and refers to others using the archaic pronoun "nanji" (汝), which makes everyone deems her a "difficult" person for them to understand. However, Kara and Christos are the only people that serves as the "translator" for her archaic speech.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Hypnosis:** She inherits her father's hypnosis ability, as the result of the "Power Transfer" ability, which allows an Incarnation of the Great One pass down his/her power (s) to their children. She could hypnotize people using just simple tools, such as waving her finger side to side, using her backpack keychain and swinging it from side to side similar to a pendulum, or even using simple commands.
* **Ability to turn invisible and intangible:** As Magician Mallow, she could turns herself invisible while still able to see the surroundings in order to escape the view of enemies. And even more extreme, she can turn herself intagible, similar to a spirit or a ghost, in order to withstand the attack of enemies, and acts as a protective "shield" for other members.
* **Force Field Creation:** As Magician Mallow, she has the ability to generate force fields that could withstand the force of an atomic explosion, as a device to shield others from enemy attacks.
* **Telekinesis and Telepathy:** As Magician Mallow, she has the ability control objects using her mind alone, and even has the ability to lift things that is many times heavier than her. She also has the ability to communicate telepathically with others, especially members of the Mistresses of Magick.
* **Empathy:** Even in her civillian form, she possesses empathy, which she uses to understand the feelings deep inside of people, and even non-human entities such as Pokémon, monsters, and even ghosts.
* **Immortality:** Similar to all members of the Mistresses of Magick, she possesses immortality and eternal youth, as the result of exposure to a Pentagram Stone.

## Relationships

* **Kara:** Despite not a friend of Kara since childhood, she've learned about Kara's existence after working for Allister a while. He told her about the "other Incarnation" (which is heavily implied to be Kara) , their appearance and when they come. She also learned that her father has been reincarnated into two seperate beings, one is Allister, and the other is the "other Incarnation". After abandoning the experiment of the "Purple Liquid", she decided to wait in a makeshift hut until the "other Incarnation" comes.
* **Allister:** Her former boss and friend. At first, he acts nicely to her, but in fact that just a ruse for hiding his dark truth: using her as a vessel to turn the world's population into mindless zombies, go for search for the "other Incarnation", and take over their soul. He promised her to give her back the chance to see her family again, but in fact, he wants to turn her to a mindless puppet of him. At first, Astrid is unaware of his nefarious plans, until she saw the negative effects of his experiments on people. After that, she swore that Allister will not able to steal her soul, and she will keep his influence on her at the minimum.
* **Christos:** Her boyfriend. He deeply cares about her, and casts her in a sympathetic light when he heard about her dark past about her time working with Allister in his dark schemes.
* **Jane:** She held an unfriendly attitude towards Jane due to her excessive pride on her body image, calling her a "girl who behaves like a big macho" , "modern Narcissus", and "Megalomaniac". However, she still shows a soft spot on her, such as making meringue with whimsical shapes, Jane's favorite food.
* **Leila:** Like Jane, she casts Leila in a negative light, and has a hostile attitude towards her aggressiveness, calling her a "bad poppet", "a lass with flaming ardor", and "belligerent pucelle". But despite all of this, she still calls Leila a "strong fighter", a "heroine who won't let away her goal", and often supports Leila in battles.

## Magician Mallow

(**The emotional Spirit of Intuition that brings Faith to everyone! Magician Mallow!**

「*誰にでも信仰をもたらす直感の感情的な精神！マジシャンマロー！*」

(*Darenidemo Shinkō o motarasu Chokkan no kanjō-tekina Seishin! Majishan Marō!*))

With the Faith MagiCard and her MagiMuna, Astrid can transform into the Legendary Magical Warrior of Faith, Intuition and Emotions, Magician Mallow.

**Transformations:**

* ***Magick Power, Magical Change!*** (default)

**Weapons:**

* **Foicomba**: A scythe-like weapon that is the weapon associated with the Spiritual Element of Faith.

**Armor:**

* **Cozy Jacket**: A jacket that is the defensive armor associated with the Spiritual Element of Faith.

## Trivia

She is an allusion to the character Toriel from *Undertale*. Evidences include:

* Both wear purple.
* Both are the eldest main characters.
* Both have similar personalities, and both are associated with pies.
* Both are motherly figures to the main protagonist (s).

Her star sign is Cancer.

She shares her birthdate with the real-life American essayist, poet, and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau.

She shares many similarities to Thoreau himself:

* Both have philosophical thoughts.
* Her love for nature is somewhat similar to Thoreau himself.
* Furthermore, she also have a notebook in her desk drawer that contains some essays about nature, a possible reference to two of Thoreau's works, *Walden* and *Walking*.

She is right-handed.

Her blood type is A+.

Her favorite food is apple pies, which is the very same pies that she usually bakes for the team.

It is revealed that she is allergic to peanuts, and if she is exposed to them, she will develop hives that could cover her body entirely, making her skin looks as it is entirely red.

She shares some similarities to Velvet Scarlatina from RWBY. Evidences of this include:

* Both share the same shy and quiet personality.
* Both are ashamed of their past.
* Both usually refused to fight back, though Astrid often uses her attacks as a counterattack or as a last resort.
* Both of their weapons are said to hold powerful destructive powers.
* Velvet's weapon, Anesidora, once copied Cresent Rose, a weapon which looks like a scythe, which in turn the base of Astrid's weapon, Foicomba.
* Astrid's spirit animal is a rabbit, which alludes to the fact that Velvet is half-rabbit.
* Their height shares the last digit, and their height are just only 10 cm apart, however, Velvet's height is actually the height that does not count her rabbit ears., which could make Velvet actually taller than Astrid if the height that counts her ears is compared to Astrid's height.
* Their hair colors are of the colors that are in the natural human hair colors group.
* Their hairstyles are somewhat the same.
* Both of them can get along with others despite their shy personalities, in Velvet's case, she is seen to be get along well with Team RWBY, while that Astrid is seen to get along well with her teamates in the Mistresses of Magick.
* Both can be sassy when they are with their teamates.