Class: Lancer
Team: Blue Team
True Name: Santa Muerte, Lady of Shadows, Our Lady of Holy Death
Sex: Female
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Attribute: Heaven
History: There was a farm somewhere in Old Mexico. There lived a father, a mother and an only daughter. Whose smile had given both of them hope in the hard times. They were an impoverished Spanish noble family making ends meet. Their investments gone, their wealth all but vanished. All they have left is each other but even then it did not last long.
One day, the father died, lashes on his body when the Spanish Inquisition arrived to bury the body in what they deemed was hallowed ground. The mother had lost all hope and it was only she and her daughter to work the farm. The little girl asked her mother about the native’s beliefs, about a paradise that awaits them and asked if her father was there. She was naive and idealistic as are all young girls at a mature age in an isolated environment. The mother did not answer and encouraged her daughter to work the farm instead of the nonsense.
The girl tended crops, milked goats, catered feeds. All her father should have done. Her mother was growing old and was forced to stay in their home, leaving her vulnerable to the temptation of the world awaiting her outside the farm.
The girl met an Aztec who was captivated by her beauty… so much so that he had kidnapped her, stripped her and was lashed nonstop. They were speaking in chants, in a language that she could understand, were it not for farm work she would have died from the intense pain of their whips. She was later rescued by the Inquisition, saliva drooling, tears crying and her clothes and body showing signs of tear and redness. There were no scars on her body but on her mind and it would remain with her for the rest of her life.
When she was brought home, her Mother had been taking care of her for weeks, she was breathing but she was sleeping for far too long. The girl would meet someone that looked nearly identical to her, clad in red, a devilish smile, saying that the people that punished her are not worthy to enter the City of Mictlan and offered her a Contract to become her Enforcer. In turn, she had only asked that her mother would be at peace. With the snap of her fingers. The girl woke up to her mother’s cold hand grasping her. An exchange of lives.
The girl would, later on, do the divine will of the Aztecan Death Gods to the point where her mind had fragmented but even when her mind was in this state there are instances that her duty as a crazed grim reaper and the innocent farm girl would never co-exist. She had appeared in various instances throughout Latin America where people are dying, wherever she was, they would die not long after like a peaceful rest.
She died at the hands of the Inquisition in the same way she was blessed. Tied, crucified and lashed to death for “taking God’s place”. Her skin was peeled off from the whips, leaving only bone and all she could muster was the crazed skeletal smile before her owl-like screams echo across the land.
Personality: Santa Muerte comes off as a young lady with virtually no mannes but she does have the air of innocence around her, a pretty smile to show her good intentions. She reveals this side of herself to her Master and those she thinks are her Master’s allies. Of course one should not be fooled by this wholesome appearance for there is another side to that seemingly sinless smile.
This side is supposedly shown towards her enemies, the look of a crazed woman who only knows how to kill. Sadistic? Hardly, she believes that people that sleep forever can live forever in a World governed by the Lord and Lady of Mictlan.
Parameters:
Strength: D
Agility: C
Endurance: D
Mana: A
Luck: D
Class Skills
Rank B Magic Resistance - Cancel spells with a chant below three verses. Even if targeted by High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals, it is difficult for them to be affected.
Personal Skills
Rank A Protection of the Faith - It is a Skill possessed only by those who have sacrificed themselves for a religious view. Despite being a form of divine protection, it is not a blessing from a higher existence. It is the absoluteness of one’s body and mind that was born from their beliefs. But if it is too high, it causes abnormalities in the personality. It is for this reason that Santa Muerte isn’t always the nice village girl, she actually has psychotic tells, visual changes could be seen with her eyes, hair and clothing for the most part.
Rank C Keeper of the Owls - A skill possessed by Lancer that allows her to create owls with pitch black feathers and blue eyes, in Mesoamerican Culture. Owls were depicted as a messenger of death and destruction and at one point, the favored form of Mictlantecuhtli, The Death God of Mictlan. These owls are capable of marking targets for Santa Muerte to track, almost acting like a curse at the cost of the familiar’s own life. These owls usually cry or sing and anyone that makes eye contact would be cursed with the mark. The more marks one has, the more their presence can be tracked, like a thread that can be followed.
Rank B Affection of the Death Gods - A skill possessed by one being loved by the Lord and Lady of Mictlan: Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl. Skills similar to this often grant their chosen, status rank ups, Noble Phantasm permissions, Skill additions and etcetera. In Lancer’s case. She was permitted the use of the Noble Phantasm of the Grim Reaper, his scythe which was known to bear the concept of Death as well as granting her a presence similar to the Underworld in Aztec Myth and Folklore, its principle of "death conducting easily against itself" is a common aspect of Underworld understanding. Although not as prominent or powerful as a certain Pseudo-Servant from Ancient Mesopotamia, this allows her to gain a significant advantage over spirits, ghosts, and even Servants. The skill in question synergizes well with her Noble Phantasm.
Noble Phantasms:
Name: La Parca De Mictlan
Title: The Wandering Scythe Of Holy Death
Rank: B+
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 2-5
Targets: 1
Description: Originally the Noble Phantasm of the Grim Reaper, because of a certain Skill. Santa Muerte is able to utilize the scythe to a certain extent. The scythe itself has the concept of Death and when struck against anything with a soul or a spirit, in essence, it would be similar to cutting lines that represent "life", taking it away as soon as it is cut or traced. Upon a True Name Release, Luck no longer plays the part, all that matters is if her opponent can dodge a truly fatal blow.
However one does not necessarily have to invoke its true name for the scythe to hack away at someone's life force. While not being able to cut lines of "life" without invoking its Name. It does however cut away one's force of providence, essentially lowering their Luck stat and increasing their chances of dying in general.
While it does not grant Lancer the ability to see these lines, it does however do that on its own. Her legend stems around the girl bringing a scythe, this particular scythe could end a living being's life as if she were cutting a thread of silver. The Lancer class is an unusual container for someone like Santa Muerte to be summoned in. In this container, she is only allowed to be the summoned with the scythe and all her other Noble Phantasms sealed behind.
