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[h3][i]Weaving Mistress of the Aegean
[b]Agape Andreadis[/b][/i][/h3][/center]

[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Age:[/b] 51

[b]Alignment:[/b] Neutral Good

[b]Rank:[/b]  

[b]Objective for the Grail:[/b] Wishing for “prosperity” could perhaps be useful so as to guarantee their long term goals, but her fundamental goal is to obtain the land promised to the victors, with the cup itself as a secondary concern. Or rather, that is what she says when asked.

[b]Command Seal:[/b] A single vertical line pointing downward with two curved ones joining together at its highest point.

[b]Personality:[/b] A prim-and-proper, not-so-young (but don’t let her hear you saying that) lady, open and amiable. She projects the kind of catty “big sister”-like figure that makes a habit of teasing her juniors, diligent when it comes to work and taking on her family craft without a complaint. 

Having thrown herself into the line of work set out for her from a young age, she’s (as expected) rather serious about it, always seeking to improve upon the last work — well, to put it simply, she’s a bit of a workaholic, and likes to show off her designs to anyone that will care for a look. At the same time, she is truly passionate about every project rather than merely her family’s research, and earnestly wishes to make the perfect dress for every customer, genuinely wishing them well.

Perfectionist to the extreme, prideful about her creations and absolutely assured in the quality and beauty of the finished product. In other words she possesses a true fashionista’s soul.

[b]Biography:[/b] The Andreadis family finds its origins in Greece — more specifically, Athens, with an age of about five hundred years — a piddling number in comparison to those older families found within the city.

Their path to the Root is fundamentally found in “creating the most beautiful dress” so as to guarantee the elevation of a singular individual, a resolution started by the first head and passed down to her descendants as their lifelong odyssey. Details regarding this can be found in the magecraft section.

By and large, they can be considered a kind of növeau riche in the halls of the Clock Tower. Because their magecraft requires them to be accomplished seamstresses and tailors, they have made a living from selling their mundane — if high quality — products and making their name in the fashion world, following the footsteps of the household names of France and Italy. 

Regarding the particulars of Agape herself, she took the full responsibilities of her position as the head in her mid-twenties after a stint in the Clock Tower, more specifically the Department of Valuay, seemingly content slaving away at her workshop like her predecessors, but at the news of the Holy Grail War and the promised prices, she immediately dropped her orders and booked a flight to Paris.

. . .Well, more specifically, she left a note saying “Be back soon (maybe)! Going to present some of our work at Fashion Week!”

What a truant. No wonder she is still single.

[b]Circuit Switch:[/b] The feeling of a thousand needles piercing her arm.

[b]Circuit Quantity:[/b] C
[b]Circuit Quality:[/b] A

[b]Elemental Affinity:[/b] Water and Ether

[b]Magecraft:[/b]

[hider=Dress Maker]The family magecraft of Andreadis.

The title is a bit misleading — the proper cores are “making clothes” and “weaving” as a whole. It appears that she just has a predilection for dresses.

Properly speaking, “clothes” are a foundation as old as humanity itself with regards to their stability and meaning. Much like the idea that “observing something beautiful makes the observer beautiful,” it can be said that “wearing something beautiful makes the wearer beautiful.” Likewise, vestments are commonly associated with a representation of who one is at the moment of being worn — a wedding dress means one is a bride, wearing uniforms means one fills a role, so on and so forth. At its core, Andreadis hopes to create an unsurpassed individual by association rather than design — in that regard, it is somewhat comparable to a fairy godmother granting the heroine in rags a peerless dress to wear for a single night so that her dreams might come true.

Of course, the Andreadis are not fairy godmothers, and their magecraft is not really such thing, but it is nonetheless an apt analogy to their role and the endpoint they wish to achieve. “To craft the greatest dress” in order to create the “greatest person” — elevation by means of function being derived from form.

That is to say, if clothes are considered the outward expression of one’s self, by wearing them is one’s self likewise changed and adjusted, modifying characteristics of the individual or emphasizing the appropriate aspects for the ones the dress represents so as to guarantee a certain outcome. It is their hope to one day create the dress which will lead them to [ ] in such manner. This is accomplished owing to the association “string” possesses in Greece, a holdover from an earlier age.

To one day create a thread to the place that has no name. To one day determine the dress of “someone that would go to [ ].”

In other words, the Andreadis are a family that weaves fate into their dresses, and it would not be out of place to consider such pieces curses (blessings) in and of themselves. The quality of such curse is directly proportional to the resources and effort spent on the article, as well as the quality of the seamstress herself, so the necessity of being a world-class talent if one hopes to become head of the family goes without saying.

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[i]-Alchemy:[/i] Refers to the general theories western alchemy, centered on transmutation of matter, albeit in a different regard than her family’s proper craft. Largely utilized so as to efficiently create accessories to complement and reinforce the purpose of whatever clothes she has made. While it is possible to transmute different materials into the ones she believes would work best for the purpose at hand, she would likely blow a gasket at the suggestion nine times out of ten, so one could say she’s a bit too attached to desktop theory.

[i]-Metallurgy and Mineralogy:[/i] Complementary subjects to enhance her dresses with accessories. If Alchemy is the means through which those are made, knowledge in these two areas is fundamentally utilized so as to draw out the meaning found in different metals and gemstones. Alongside the previous one, they can be considered subjects she “minored” in while at the Clock Tower.

[i]-General Magecraft:[/i] fixing glass, sympathetic magecraft and the like. Generally speaking, what should be expected of someone that studied at the Clock Tower.

[i]Pure Eyes — Crimson String:[/i] A unique trait that manifested itself in the latest head. Fundamentally speaking, it is “something that allows one to see the strings of fate.” Rather tan the ability to see all that Will be, however, she is merely able to follow a single thread that indicates how strong the “possibility of a happy ending” is.

Fate and curses cannot be broken — that is a law of the world. But nobody said they could not be rewoven into “something new.” Nobody said that one had to quietly accept them as a matter of course. Rather than an induced mutation, it could be seen as the manifestation of the family karma.

In particular, she uses them to ascertain whether or not a couple is worth it whenever she receives an order for a wedding dress. She has gained a bit of infamy in that area.

[b]Magic Crest:[/b] 6 generations.

[b]Equipment:[/b]

[i]-Mundane:[/i] Everything she could need for a trip to Paris, including cash, outfits for all occasions, a sewing kit, a couple suitcases filled with gold, silver, bronze and various jewels, supplies of thread, a notebook, pen and paper to draw sketches when required and, of course, her passport.

[i]-Magical:[/i] Prana compass, alchemy kit. 

[i]-Divine Readvent Aegis — Shawl Edition:[/i] A shawl made to be worn alongside a dress for those cold nights, fashionable, smooth and warm. It also happens to have a gorgon head motif.

By means of using goatskin as the base and having melted down silver drachma to then turn into superfine threads so as to painstakingly inlay the decorations, it became possible to make a replica that could borrow the concept of Athena’s aegis so as to create a protective formal wear with a value equating the rank of E. Perhaps because she’s the opposite of an experienced woman, the resonance values are higher than they would be otherwise.

[i]-Divine Readvent Pédila — Reissued Footwear Edition:[/i] Yet another replica of a construct beyond the reach of humanity, adapted to modern use. Unlike the Aegis, there was no need to make as radical a change regarding their original form, merely adapting those old-fashioned sandals to the modern age.

By copying the motif and golden decor, adapted to her heeled shoes, it becomes possible to travel at amazing speed by means of burst of compressed air from beneath her feet. In terms of function, it is similar to “roller skates.” Because of the conceptual origin, she boasts that tripping on her own feet is practically impossible.

She has a tiara she made when she was younger for a costume party, mixing normal tailor work alongside ether clumps within tubing to style a pair of fox ears, but it doesn’t really have any function beyond twitching realistically when magical energy is run through it. It’s basically just a memento that she thinks makes her look “younger” when she wants to play coy. Often worn around her workshop to mess with employees.

[b]Exceptional Benefit:[/b] Superior Mystic Code
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