Ah'AlSira

Ah'AlSira is a Lesser Ba'al, who took the human name Spira (for many reasons - similar to her given name, a shortening of "Aspiration" as a reference to Hope, and a reminder to avoid the spiral of despair Loptr had brought to her race), and was a side character in Seaside Rumble 2. A follower of the Sovereign, she did her best to aid the Raiders in their resistance against Loptr - unfortunately for her, a badly timed loss to a Flower resulted in a SaaZe infection, which indirectly led to her death in Loptr's jaws. Her two defining characteristics was her utter inability to comprehend slang (which led to some amusing confusion as she'd tend to look up slang terms on Urban Dictionary when she didn't understand things) and the fact that her physical soul manifested as claw-like nails that she was severely self conscious of, leading her to almost always be found wearing one of her many pairs of gloves that went three quarters of the way to her shoulders.

## Personality

Has an almost childlike fascination with electronics, as they're vastly different from what she knows.  She gets frustrated at touch screens though, since she's never seen without her long, custom gloves, so carries an assortment of lovely styluses to operate them.  She also is often reading literature of all sorts. She has a strong devotion to The Sovereign, and thankfulness to humans for having raised the newest incarnation of Caritas, and tries to raise her skills so that she can wield the light of her Hope against the Devourer's faithful.

## Biography

### Backstory

Ah'AlSira grew up on a doomed world, as a hunter for her village in Greater Ba'al. With her unique soul giving her claws and taloned feet, she was a gifted hunter, and her older sister Pi-RaNe was skilled with a sling. Life was hard, but carried on; until the hunting ground they frequented, the last one left easily accessible was destroyed by an earthquake. In despair, Pi-RaNe jumped and Ah'AlSira was unable to try to stop her, having frozen in fear. She drowned then in despair, unable to even help her village further, until the path to Greater Ba'al from earth was opened. Her hope was quickly smashed again, as Midori gathered the Lesser Ba'al to offer prayers to the Sovereign, as The Devourer had appeared unsealed in the aftermath of the Vanguard Tournament. However, with the noble sacrifice of Celeste the Devourer was re-sealed, and Ah'AlSira - now Spira - swore to never again fall under the sway of despair, instead fighting with the blade of Hope.

### Seaside Rumble 2

Spira first appeared as the roommate for Serah, in the room that Azure and Smoke had shared in Rumble season 1. She met the Raiders through Serah, and spent some time simply watching and observing, learning as much as she could about humans and their odd ways and phrases. One day, when she was having a bit of a philosophical debate with Jack about what The Greater Good entailed, she was surprised to find both of them in the presence of her Sovereign, as well as Caritas. Their debate continued a bit, until Midori strolled up to the Sovereign's throne, with more realistic discussions of what Midori needed the sovereign to do and not to do to avoid a holy war breaking out; most of it was beyond Spira's understanding, but she did save the information about Ryuko being alive to share with the rest of the group, later.

Spira learned from the group chat about the Talon or Gorgon (the terms were interchanged), but she got an in close view of what it was after MjR fused Azure and the Gorgon into one being. The first time she saw Azure the next day in the arena, she had to literally flee: Azure's Divinity was far too close to the Devourer, and Spira couldn't handle being in its presence at the time.

After some soul searching for the path of the Greater Good, and a discussion with The Avenger (as Azure now called herself), Spira decided it was still in her best interest to work alongside Azure, for now. One of her first moves in that regard is to reach out to another Lesser Ba'al that Azure had marked the day before, Muse. Sufficed to say, Spira was far from amused by Azure's marking of Muse, but still sought to reach out to Muse, to try to guide her away from the Devourer's... or Avenger's... sway. Granted, this might have worked much better had Loptr herself not manifested in the yellow cafeteria part of the way through their conversation. Loptr physically attacked Spira when Spira tried to pray to Ec Tisia, and threatened to eat her but that plan was interrupted by Aoi; with Loptr as weak as she was at the moment, Aoi was able to physically remove her from the altercation, and Loptr left after telling Muse and Spira to know their places.

While in Uminari City, investigating and challenging duelists in Kendar Rdan's duel disk competition, she had a moment where she was pulled out of time by the Flowers - Charna herself appeared to try a new tactic, to try to teach Spira spiritual senses to allow her to sense Seeds for them. Spira refused, and defeated Charna in a duel to free herself from Charna's plotting, as much as that worried Jas who was familiar enough with the Flowers to know what it means when she moved a short distance away instantaneously.

Her luck wasn't so great when another Flower pulled her out of time while she watched Sin and Akahito duel, however - she lost to the girl's Cyber Dragon deck, and found herself the proud new owner of a SaaZe brainworm. Surprisingly to her... and sickeningly... she didn't immediately lose herself to the Propagation - instead, SaaZe decided to basically hang out in the back of her head, willing and able to put her out to take control at any time, turning Spira into another agent of the dark High Ba'al amongst the Raiders. Spira quickly started spiraling back into despair and anguish, and finally was forced to reveal the presence near Muse, who had been turned into a mole by Loptr. Her willingness to self sacrifice if necessary was tempered by a new person who would be sacrificed if she misbehaved; however, this never ended up being tested as Sin was revealed to have been overhearing the whole thing. Spira went into a tirade, accusing Sin of betraying Azure by his words volunteering himself instead of her, and she dueled him... while SaaZe Set the Table. Spira made one, slight wrong move and fell to Sin's Blue-Eyes, a Mirror Force shattering her field and ending her life at the jaws of the Devourer... much to the dismay of Ec Tisia, since Spira had been close to receiving a spirit, had she managed to overcome her trial from SaaZe.

## Relationships

### Azure Talon

Her first attitude towards Azure was thankfulness, since Azure was one of the ones who opened the path to Greater Ba'al. The second, after Azure became The Avenger, was fear - her Divinity was far too much like the Devourer's. The third was anger, when Azure went around "marking" some of the Lesser Ba'al as her own. She reluctantly worked with The Avenger anyway, since she determined it would be for the Greater Good, though she never considered Azure as a true High Ba'al, referring to her by name even after her ascension.

### Takahara Akahito

Spira had a close bond with Akahito, that only got closer after Akahito was unable to save his captured sister Namiko from the Flowers. Tragically she was killed before she could get any farther.

### Jack McCree

Spira's bond with Jack over history was showed in a large part by him loaning her several books while she was researching the past of Earth. A philosophical debate with Jack directly led to her being in the presence of her Sovereign, which was something she was also quite thankful for.

## Decks

### Seaside Rumble

Spira's main deck was a Gadget deck as a frame to quickly and efficiently summon cards in the Utopia Archtype. Utopia (as The King of Wishes, Hope) was Spira's shining light of hope in the darkness of the world.