Irina Clockworker

Irina Clockworker is a powerful sorceress from the Magic Kingdom Levianta and the counterpart to her sister-in-law, Elluka. Cunning and deceitful, she began collecting the Seven Deadly Sins and became involved in numerous conflicts.

Early Life
Born the sister of Kiril Clockworker, Irina became a craftsman and lived with her brother for some time in the Magic Kingdom Levianta. Later on, Irina became friends with Kiril's fiancée, Elluka Chirclatia, but grew jealous of her brother's lover.

Project 'Ma'
In EC 013, both Elluka and Irina were selected as potential candidates for Project 'Ma' after being surveyed for their viability. As the time for the final selection drew closer, Irina began plotting to eliminate the other candidates. After the mysterious accident killing Milky Eights and the apparent suicide of Ly Li, she approached Elluka and asked that they stop fighting for the position, telling her sister-in-law that she, as well as Kiril, supported her becoming the new Ma. Once Elluka expressed her gratitude to Irina and promised to protect her, Irina stabbed the sorceress in the back, crying as Elluka collapsed before her. Admitted for being the only surviving candidate, Irina smiled before an altar in the temple as she was accepted as the project's new test subject. Shortly after, the explosion and ensuing destruction spreading across Levianta mutilated Irina, losing all her limbs and suffering from internal bleeding. Perceiving Elluka to be the cause of the catastrophe, she swore vengeance, even if it took her a hundred years to achieve that revenge. Alone in the wasteland of her country, she was approached by Seth Twiright, illuminated by the moon and carrying a red stuffed cat under his arm.

Venomania Event
Irina possessed the cat, using it as her new body. Afterwards, she began to acquire the Seven Deadly Sins with the intention of spreading malice through the world, and collected the sword holding the Demon of Lust. Referring to herself as “I.R.”, Irina found Haru Netsuma and realized her strong magical power. After she destroyed the girl's home, the sorceress attached herself to the girl, stealing her body and using it as a medium for her feline form. Towards the end of EC 135, she visited the Venomania Mansion and saw Cherubim, the estranged son of Duke Ilotte Venomania, standing over the corpses of his family, sword in hand. As the young man was about to commit suicide, she approached him and said she was a witch working without the devil's power and revealed her connection to the Clockworker Family and her true nature as a cat. With the vessel of Lust in hand, she offered him the blade to encourage him to make a contract with the Demon, hoping to see the evil acts he could commit. Following him to the mansion's basement, she later smiled when he stabbed himself with the vessel and finished the contract as she planned. Because Venomania was the first to make a contract with it, I.R. decided to dub the weapon the "Venom Sword".

As part of their deal, they agreed the new "Duke Sateriasis Venomania". After several months, I.R. returned to the Venomania manor in early April of EC 136, desiring to acquire one of her father's magical artifacts. Entering his basement, she was briefly greeted by Sateriasis before he realized it was her, and unenthusiastically asked why she came. In response, the sorceress asked why he was so rude before asking if he was ready. As the duke asked what she meant, I.R. questioned if he was playing dumb and warned him that he would then need to return the sword. After he conceded, Venomania asked if they would leave her "body" and I.R. affirmed that it was more convenient, charging Mikulia Greeonio with taking care of it. Releasing control of her vessel, the sorceress followed the duke out of the mansion and later leapt upon his person. Hiding within his coat as they traveled, the sorceress took him to Mystica in search of an altar in the Misty Mountains.

After Sateriasis found a guide, Lilien Turner, to lead him to the location, I.R. climbed upon the duke's shoulder and continued their journey through the ruins until they arrived at the altar. As the duke expressed disbelief that Lilien had known Lukana Octo, I.R. retorted that Mystica was his concubine's hometown and that he should have expected it, chastising that he should learn more about the women he entranced. The duke joked how unusual it was for her to care about women; the sorceress responded that she too was once a woman and reminded him to fulfill their contract if he wanted more power.

Unlocking and entering the tomb, Venomania discovered a stone coffin filled with treasure, retracting the spoon from among the riches. The cat denied the duke's claim that it was vessel of sin. After explaining, the disappointed Venomania tossed the weapon, shocking the sorceress and she leapt after the tool. While retrieving it, she remembered the soldier trailing her, and decided to deal with her later and demanding they leave. The duke lectured that he wanted to avoid killing in his land and I.R. questioned if it was because the soldier was a woman, hearing his interest in adding her and other women into his harem. The sorceress leaped back on his shoulder, noting that he was at least consistent.

Once they left the tomb, she asked who would accommodate them during their stay and the duke replied they would stay with Earl Ferdinand. Noting the earl had been investigating the disappearances, she questioned his judgement. Arriving at the mansion, the sorceress attached herself to Ferdinand's wife. After the duke left for Mystica the next day, I.R. discovered the earl's secret collection of Princess Maylis' possessions. That night, after the duke returned from his stroll though the town, she told him he was late and showed him her findings in the secret room. Describing Ferdinand's fetish for Maylis and his wife's apparent ignorance or apathy about it, citing that he was pathetic. After listening to the duke's fascination with the princess, she explored the mansion and discovered the earl's corpse within a room. Quoting the duke's earlier comments, she questioned the paradox of his words versus his actions, discerning he had murdered him. Sometime after, the two went after the soldier. Discovering that she disguised herself as a school lady, the Duke allowed I.R. to interrogate Tette Cetera after enchanting her. The sorceress sorceress extracted interesting information from her before returning to the mansion, having recruited Tette as part of her information network.

Several days since discovering the earl, the sorceress detached herself from her medium, touring the halls before seeing a visitor discover the bodies. Noting the duke's consequences for "showing off", she continued onward and sat along the mansion's walls. Sensing the duke's demon transformation, she spoke aloud that it had begun and began traveling back to see the result of his battle with the intruder. On her way, she found him in the halls and asked if their battle had ended. The duke told her it had and the two left. On their way back to Lasaland, the sorceress questioned if it was alright that he left Lilien there. When he told her she would come on her own, she chuckled and responded that he truly was evil. The duke told her they needed to hurry and she suggested they take a fast carriage. When the duke said they would take any carriage to the city, I.R. revealed what she learned from the woman and that she extracted some interesting information. As the duke noted that she too responded to his charm, she chuckled and commented on the things he ended up lusting for. I.R. retrieved her vessel, Haru, and remained for a time in his mansion.

When Duke Venomania seduced Haru's sister Hakua, Haru's consciousness slightly resurfaced and I.R. kept a wide berth around the girl to be safe. During this period, she also became aware of Lukana Octo's receptiveness to magic and unique Purple Dream ability, planning to take her body for a new medium. She was stopped by the Duke shortly after. When Lolan Eve's dead body was discovered by Lukana, she took the corpse outside the mansion. She also, at some point, realized Mikulia had become the vessel for the Demon of Sloth and, to goad the demon out of her, created a nechuna doll in the image of Eve Moonlit at the Gine Workshop and gave it to Mikulia. Some time before the Duke's death she departed from his home with the Clockworker's Doll and Venom Sword, happy to see that three women had conceived "devil children" with Venomania's blood. She would later be thwarted from taking Lukana's body when Elluka swapped it with her own. At some point, she placed the Demon of Greed in the magic tool she had acquired.

Evil Food Eater Conchita
Unable to take Lukana's body and plagued by Haru's resistance, Irina took the body of one of her subordinates. While searching for a new body, Irina utilized the man as her vessel out of necessity, despite being unable to tap into her magical potential, and referred to herself as "AB-CIR". In late EC 296, the mage arrived at the Conchita Mansion and consulted Duke Muzuri regarding the sudden string of deaths among the mansion's servants after the household ate a baemu. Explaining that they contracted the Goula diseas from the pig, naming the illness after the first town it had occurred in, AB-CIR told Muzuri about the baemu's connection to the Tasan Empire's collapse, leading to the pig being banned in Levin law.

To help Muzuri with his plight, AB-CIR explained that they only needed to keep satiating their appetites for ten years to stop the curse, or else they would die. Acquiring the vessel of Gluttony found inside the eaten baemu in exchange for her information, the mage left Beelzenia. Sometime after, she became acquainted with a talented thief and later his pupil, Platonic, recognizing the latter's skill and innate resistance to the Demons of Sin. She later arrived in Marlon but got caught in a blunder and was forced to give up the wine glass. Fleeing to Lioness, she resided at Castle Hedgehog and learned the wine glass ended up in the possession of Gourmet Noble Banica Conchita. Around EC 325, AB-CIR, aware Platonic had the dregs of Sloth leftover from Mikulia, hired the thief to steal the wine glass from Banica after the death of her master. Around this time, AB-CIR learned that the Levin church in Lucifenia gave the Twin Swords of Levianta to Elluka. Platonic later reported of her failure to the mage in the castle's dungeon, explaining that undead soldiers protecting the estate. In response, the mage sent her to Lucifenia to steal the vessel of Envy from Elluka.

Overhearing their conversation, the captured Prince Carlos Marlon offered to act as a spy for the sorceress and steal the wine glass. Construing a new plan, AB-CIR killed the famed Joseph and used the Venom Sword to change the prince's face, making him irrecognizeable for his former fiancee. Freeing him of his imprisonment, "Joseph" was hired as one of Banica's cooks and successfully infiltrated the masnion. However, unable to foresee the ensuing romance, the sorceress lost contact with Carlos and still hadn't obtained the vessel. In August of that year, Platonic completed her mission and gave the wine glass to AB-CIR before Elluka could retrieve it. She later lost possession of the Venom Sword.

Daughter of Fog
Sometime afterward, Irina took an old woman as her medium and adopted the pseudonym "Abyss I.R." for herself. Desiring to collect the Venom Sword again for her plans, Abyss I.R. tracked the vessel to the orphaned Zenon in Elphegort. After learning about the descendent of her old acquaintence, Duke Venomania, Abyss followed the road across the Asmodean border to the country in EC 473 and crossed paths with the child. Starved, he attacked her and she smiled, envoloping the boy with her conjured flames. Respecting his beautiful face, she avoided burning it and left him injured and unconscious on the side of the road so he could be found later. Once the sword was collected, she left.

Curious if the sword had lost its power, the sorceress planned to use Zenon to test the vessel. Learning of Zenon's exploits as a soldier for the Asmodean Emperor using the name "Gast Venom", Abyss approached Head of Intellegence Futapie in EC 477 and had her research the boy's past. Gaining a witness from Gast's hometown, Abyss and the green-haired man followed the Intelligence agent to the home of General Shalgham. Once the documents of Gast's past were delivered and the Head of Intelligence left, Abyss allowed the witness to confirm the information and that the general's foster daughter, Yvette, shared a great likeness with Gast's dead sister, Sarah. Sending Yvette back to her room, Shalgham spoke to the sorceress about the plan to have Gast killed legally using Yvette and the Venom Sword as the motivator. Once Shalgham accepted the plan, it was executed out at the Misty Mountains. With Gast coming under the sword's influence and determined to fight back and kill the general, the sorceress confirmed that it was still functional.

On the last night when it was planned for Gast to die, Abyss I.R. stood beside Shalgham when Yvette managed to avoid the sorceress and kill her stepfather with a golden knife. Although surprised that Yvette wielded the vessel of Wrath, she did not pursue the fleeing child and instead confronted Gast at her father's altar. Emerging from the fog, she greeted him, poking fun at his name change. When Gast questioned why she was here, the sorceress explained that she had given his ancestor the sword and had simply returned to take it back. After Gast refused, she noted that was fine at first but mused how Yvette unexpectedly became "worried". In the instant she prepared to conjure her flames, Gast struck out at her neck. Cackling after the blade cut into her "body", the sorceress told Gast that it was useless to use the sword on her and that his family never learns. Blasting his chest with flames, she teased that she promised not to burn him completely again, in deference to his face. After consming him in flames and rendering him unconcious again, she took back the vessel of sin and left.

Dark Conspiracy
Around EC 482, Abyss befriended Prim Marlon and offered her the Venom Sword, claiming it was a love charm. After Prim used to the sword to seduce King Arth and gave birth to a reincarnation of Gretel, the sorceress eagerly offered to continue helping the Queen in exchange for using the baby, Ney, as a test subject for Marlon's intelligence network. Prim accepted her offer and Abyss I.R. used the child for numerous experiments and trained the girl as her personal agent. At some point, she acquired the vessel of Pride, splitting it into the Four Mirrors of Lucifenia. Serving as Prim's court mage, the sorceress finished Prim's magical training the queen began with Elluka, supplying her with the vessels of sin she collected for her schemes. The sorceress later proposed creating "new facilities" for espionage and Prim gave her permission to develop it; training multiple women as elite spies and agents for several, Abyss I.R. eventually established the Espionage Task Force. While serving Prim, Abyss I.R. openly caused unhappiness for others. Duke Sfarz was later recruited as part of their conspiracy to establish Prim's son, Kyle as king and overthrow the Kingdom of Lucifenia.

Twiright Prank
In EC 490, under the Queen's directive, Abyss I.R. used the Glass of Conchita to cause a Goula outbreak in the Beelzenian Empire and goad King Arth into invading the weakened state. After Arth was infected and died of the plague the following year, Prim sent the sorceress with a letter addressed to her brother, Presi Rogzé, to have him cooperate with Abyss for the next stage of their plan; afterwards, she sent Ney to begin infiltrating the royal palace and spy on the events that transpired for her, giving her one of the vessel's mirrors. Placing the Demon of Gluttony inside the Mirror of Lucifenia and making it difficult to exorcise for anyone but Presi, the sorceress met with the minister at the royal palace and gave him the letter.

Believing their plan was to have Prince Alexiel become possessed by the Demon of Pride and elevate both Presi and Prim's designs, the Minister of Home Affairs agreed to the arrangement. Showing Presi the mirror, the minister asked if it the ordinary-looking hand mirror was truly a vessel of sin. Abyss, pointing at the mirror's surface, instructed him to look closely and pointed out the faint red light of the demon inside it. Still facing his skepticism, the sorceress brushed off his disbelief as his choice although noting he wasn't in a position to choose. After he spoke aloud that his sister was attempting to take control of Lucifenia through him, she joked she didn't know much about politics, the cat then meowing in unison with her body's chuckle. When asked who she was, she explained she was sorceress and that most people didn't believe her. At Presi's implication that Elluka was staying at the palace, Irina's fur slightly bristled up and the sorceress commented their mission might actually be troublesome.

Suggesting they lure the prince outside so Elluka wouldn't suspect anything, Presi explained that Princess Riliane and Prince Alexiel often escaped from the palace to play at the nearby beach. Enthusiastic about the idea, Abyss I.R. said they needed to prepare and chuckled before disapparating from the room. After placing the mirror in a black box and burying it in the sand where they would play, the sorceress hid in the Forest of Bewilderment and watched as the twins played. Once they found the mirror, she summoned the Demon of Gluttony from the vessel and it possessed Riliane.

A few days later, Abyss I.R. met with Presi in the palace after he attempted to make the princess Arth's heir. When he breathlessly commented that the plan was going well despite the wrong twin being possessed, the sorceress jokingly applauded his ability to adapt to the situation and laughed. Petting her cat body while the minister blamed her for the situation, she calmly replied that even she couldn't perfectly predict the demon's actions. When asked why the possessed Riliane had such a strange appetite when she was supposed to be possessed by a "Demon of Pride", the sorceress acted surprised and non-chalantly brushed off her apparent mess up. Presi then asked if there was anyway to keep her possession secret from the others and Abyss I.R. said it wasn't easy but that his ambition would come true in time. After warning him about Elluka and the Three Heroes, she disappeared in a cloud of vapor.

Meeting with the golden-haired child on a hill in the outskirts of Lucifenia, she listened to Ney's report. Asking what happened after Presi became possessed by the demon and attacked Elluka, Ney explained how Mariam Futapie saved the sorceress and helped her defeat him. The sorceress amusingly remarked how pitable their success was to cost a life and Ney responded that it was exactly as Abyss had planned. The mage noted how the child spoke like an adult, then asked about the Demon. After learning Elluka exorcised it from Riliane and returned it to the mirror, Irina praised Elluka for excising it despite the difficulty. She then admonished her for only collecting one of the four mirrors and that, with the Demon of Pride replaced with the Demon of Gluttony in the mirror, she could easily reawaken the Demon so long as the vessel Prim had was safe; calling it Elluka's payment for not learning about the vessels during her long lifetime, the sorceress begun walking in circles as she muttered to herself regarding their current situation.

Deciding to use the same method she had used on Arth to kill Queen Anne and break up the Three Heroes, she grumbled it would take seven to eight years for the glass' pathogen to infect and kill her. With her thought finished, she checked if Ney remembered what to do and still had one of the mirrors. After reminding her to remember everything she was taught and to endure the long wait til Queen Anne's death, she told her to then replant the Demon on Riliane and that she was counting on her, saying it was all for her mother's sake. Soon after, she revived the demon in the Glass and conjured another strain of the Goula disease to infect Anne.

Decisive Play
In EC 494, after Duke Sfarz was killed by his daughter, Mikina, via the Marlon Spoon, Prim forced the aristocrat to replace her father in their conspiracy, ordered by the Queen to follow Abyss I.R.'s instructions. With the continued success of Abyss I.R.'s Espionage Task Force, Prim consolidated their position and increased their influence. In EC 500, the sorceress remained in contact with Ney and Mikina through a Very Amazing Spring Onion as King Kyle was set up to be possessed by the Demon of Lust. Once it was discovered that Kyle's sweetheart, Michaela, was Elluka's apprentice and had been helping search for the vessels of sin, Abyss had Ney learn the girl's location from Mikina and assure she was killed during the Green Hunting. With the success of the Lucifenian Revolution, all of the Three Heroes save for Elluka were killed, Marlon occupied Lucifenia, and Kyle, possessed by the Demon of Pride, began hunting for "witches", especially those suspected of Michaela's murder.

When Kyle asked to use the Espionage Task Force for his Witch Hunt, Abyss I.R. was allowed to choose its head, selecting Ney to spearhead the inquisition. In EC 503, the sorceress discovered the fugitive Elluka and her apprentice, Gumillia, infiltrating the Marlon royal palace and ambushed them, capturing Elluka although failing to apprehend Gumillia; taking Lukana's body from her, "Abyss I.R." was declared dead while the sorceress continued her service to Prim. In EC 505, Abyss I.R., having learned that Princess Riliane survived the revolution and was living at the Held monastery by Lucifenia's coast, ordered Mikina to visit the convent the Freesis Family funded and spy on "Rin". Abyss later gave Ney the Glass of Conchita to use as part of Kyle's planned invasion of Beelzenia. She later returned to ask the sorceress more questions about the glass, dissatisfied with its reanimated army's effectiveness. Later, when Kyle was freed of demonic possession and both Gumillia and the blue-haired king began heading for Marlon, the sorceress magically grew a jis tiama to an enormous size, sending the kraken after their voyaging ship.

When the attack failed, Ney and Abyss I.R. traveled to Bariti. After learning they were staying at the Freesis Mansion in Marlon, the sorceress, impersonating Elluka, arrived at the estate and greeted Keel and Mikina's daughter. Offered black tea, the sorceress refused and soon after encountered Gumillia at the door. Suggesting they talk in private, Abyss I.R. agreed and headed outside by the Column Forest before attacking her. Locked in combat, the sorceress managed to overwhelm Gumillia within a few attacks but then Yukina and Germaine Avadonia arrived. Revealing herself to the trio, Abyss summoned three black bears to attack the green-haired mage. While Germaine subdued the creatures, Abyss I.R. swiftly approached and grabbed Gumillia, stating she would take the mage's body. At that moment, Elluka's spirit called out and wrestled control from the sorceress, sending both women flying into the air.

Cutting Losses
Without a medium, the sorceress approached Mikina, who immediately took in the cat, and waited while Kyle assaulted Castle Hedgehog to defeat Prim. After Ney was captured and held at the estate, Abyss I.R. took control of Mikina's body and knocked out her husband before killing Ney, stealing the vessels of sin they had acquired from Prim, and fleeing to the Held monastery. On the Lucifenian coastline, Germaine confronted the sorceress and, shortly after Yukina and Rin arrived, discovered Mikina was being controlled by her. When the swordswoman deduced the identity of her true body, Abyss I.R. hid in a cabin while her medium attacked and injured Germaine's neck. Seeing that Germaine's wound rapidly healed, the sorceress realized she was likely a blood relative of Banica Conchita and became interested in her body.

As Germaine found and chased after the cat, Abyss I.R. gave Mikina control of the body to confess her involvement in their conspiracy to her daughter. After regaining control, the sorceress used the Marlon spoon to ensnare the girl in a fiery prison; as she was about to kill her, Rin attempted to steal the vessel and forced the sorceress to release the spell. As Germaine prepared to attack her true body, the sorceress attempted to use the Glass of Conchita to possess the former princess but it failed. With Germaine skewering her body shortly after, Mikina was freed of the mage's control.

New Four Horsemen
Defeated and believed to be dead, the sorceress managed to avoid her demise and, having lost all her vessels of sin save for the Clockworker's Doll, escaped and later went after Germaine in EC 508. Taking possession of the swordswoman's body, Irina traveled to Divine Levianta and collaborated with Neo Apocalypse to acquire the Twins Sword of Levianta, using them to cause the New Four Horsemen Incident. During the event, the sorceress confronted Liliane Mouchet and, during their battle, Abyss became heavily injured, forced to discard the vessel of Envy and retreat.

Père Noël
Forging her identity as "Julia Abelard", Irina amassed a large fortune, becoming a millionaire. At some point, she discovered a young boy named Lemy at an orphanage in the Lucifenian Republic's Rolled city and subsequently adopted him. Sometime before EC 609, Julia met and became friends with Margarita Felix and formed the criminal organization Père Noël with her, taking the codename "I. the Santa". Brainwashing Lemy to be a cold assassin for the organization, she recruited him as well.

In EC 609, Julia comforted Margarita as her failing marriage left her downtrodden and miserable. The sorceress then gifted the Clockworker's Doll to her, concealing the instructions to create a deadly poison inside it. After Margarita became possessed by the Demon of Sloth and eradicated her hometown of Toragay, Julia had already fled and avoided the Freesis Foundation's investigation. Although her involvement with Père Noël was suspected, I. the Santa continued commanding the organization and sent Lemy on nightly assassination missions throughout EC 610 to eliminate targets. During that same year, her organization gained two new members: VII. the Magician and VIII. the Sniper. Early on in the year, Julia assigned Sniper with assassination missions through letters containing instructions.

Towards the end of EC 610, Lemy alerted Santa that Magician was a traitor and, grateful for his loyalty, Julia petted her child's head despite the fact VII. the Magician escaped. At some point, Julia discovered that Sniper had been in a relationship with a member of the Freesis Foundation. Towards the end of the year, she sent a letter and revolver to the assassin, ordering her to kill the man. Learning Magician was actually Elluka, she sent her sister-in-law a letter challenging to come find her at Merigod Plateau in Elphegort. At Merigod, Irina awaited for Elluka's arrival and afterward clashed with her "sister" before being defeated.

Personality and Traits
Irina was a deceitful, cruel, and manipulative woman. Calm and collected, she usually observed conflicts with glee and rarely became too involved in a situation after sowing the seeds herself. As a result, she often laughed at others' shortcomings or mused at how events play out. Coinciding with this, she sadistically enjoyed watching others suffer and treated them as pawns in a game. Because of this, she easily used trickery or lies to achieve her goals. Despite this, she did have brief lapses in her amusement when something unexpected or inconvenient occurred and was visibly distressed or bothered, though she quickly found the benefits these situations give her.

The sorceress had no qualms with murder and regularly employed such methods, usually without remorse. She also was not above jealousy or anger when provoked, particularly towards Elluka, and derived much of her joy from Elluka's failings or suffering. In spite of this, she expected men to treat their women respectfully and take the time to know them, sympathizing due to having also been a woman.

Skills and Abilities
Despite never receiving any magical training, Irina was a powerful sorceress who was only ranked second to Elluka when surveyed for Project 'Ma'. As a result, she had managed to cheat death several times, in part because of an ability she gained to possess the body of another being, such as a stuffed cat, and use it as her own. Her bodies also seemed to inherit a degree of immortality, inhabiting Germaine's body without any noticeable aging for over a century and using her cat body for even longer. As a cat, Irina could communicate with those possessed by Demons of Sin but sounded like just an ordinary cat to others. While using Lukana's body, Irina was able to use her prediction dream ability and, while using Germaine's body, she also had the swordwoman's advanced healing, recovering quickly from serious injuries.

Similarly, while inhabiting her feline body, she used her Body Steal technique to great effect, using a nearby person's body as a medium. Like a ragdoll, the medium was freely under her control and was an extension of herself, sometimes even mimicking her cat body's expressions. While controlling the body, she could suppress the owner's consciousness, allowing her to leave it behind without the person awakening. The body could be damaged without causing any injury to Irina and, as a shell, did not bleed, making it seemingly invincible in combat and also did not age while using them. She could also probe the minds of those she controlled, although she was unable to learn the full knowledge or intent from their memories. To maintain the technique, she always kept her cat body near the intended vessel at all times. However, because she was originally a woman, the cat was unable to utilize her magic to its full potential when stealing a male body.

Among her other proficencies, Irina could cast powerful fire magic and severely burn someone without killing them, disappear in a cloud of smoke, summon nearby animals to attack others, and grow a jis tiama to an enormous size and control it. Irina was also skilled at clockworking, creating the Clockworker's Doll to become the vessel of Sloth, and had a deep knowledge of the vessels of sin and had the skill to transplant the Demons and switch them between their own vessels without becoming possessed herself. In conjunction with this, she was a skilled manipulator, able to use others by taking advantage of their emotions, desires, and insecurities to get what she wanted. She was also extremely skilled in espionage and information gathering, creating vast information networks allowing her to easily acquire information about virtually anything she required and even developing Marlon's Espionage Task Force for Prim.

Character Connections
Kiril Clockworker: Irina's brother. Irina maintained a sisterly relationship with Kiril so that he loved her as much as he loved Elluka, and was described as loving him jealously. Their relationship became distant after her murder of Elluka, and Irina displayed no later regret over his loss of reason and eventual death.

Elluka Clockworker: Irina's sister-in-law. While Irina and Elluka lived in peace during the latter's engagement to Kirill, she turned on her when they were chosen as candidates for Project 'Ma'. After being injured in the Levianta Catastrophe, Irina saw the revived Elluka as her enemy and treated her with hostility throughout their existence, mockingly referring to her as "sister."

Gumillia: The apprentice of Irina's enemy. Irina saw Gumillia with a hostility as an extension of her hate for Elluka and fought with her, although displayed inattention to the latter and Elluka's relationship, such as referring to her with honorifics that Elluka didn't use.

Sateriasis Venomania: Irina's partner. Irina viewed Venomania as having good potential for aiding her and becoming the Sinner of Lust, and so she helped him murder his family and provided him with the Venom Sword. She grew concerned by his careless acquisition of women for his harem; although she was amused by his consistency in goals, she believed many of the duke's actions, without considering the consequences, would cause trouble later.

Platonic: A thief under Irina's employ. Irina knew Platonic's mentor and was appreciative of the girl's skills in infiltration, hiring her on two missions to retrieve the Seven Deadly Sin Vessels. This appreciation for Platonic's skills was deep enough to last even after her first failure to retrieve the Glass of Conchita.

Carlos Marlon: Irina's partner. Irina saw Carlos as a means to infiltrate the Conchita estate after Platonic's intial failure, although she did not anticipate the feelings that would develop between the prince and his former betrothed.

Presi Rogzé: Irina's partner. She used Presi's ambitions to enlist his aid in attacking the twins Alexiel and Riliane, and later was amused at his rage when things did not go according to plan. She was not affected by his later death at the hands of Elluka and Mariam, having warned him of the Three Heroes beforehand.

Prim Marlon: Irina's partner. Irina viewed Prim as a means to orchestrate political chaos during the Story of Evil. She maintained a close confidential relationship with her, but would occasionally act against Prim's own interests, such as in her murder of Anne.

Ney Futapie: Irina's test subject. Irina viewed Ney as merely a means to further her own ends as an incarnation of Gretel. She relied on Ney's connection to Arte as a way to have the Demon of Gluttony take to her and possess her.

Lemy Abelard: Irina's adopted son. Irina viewed Lemy as merely a means further her own ends, adopting him due to his being a reincarnation of Hänsel and brainwashing him into obeying her. She would maintain a false motherly relationship with him to keep his loyalty, using the body of Germaine Avadonia to remind him of Meta Salmhofer.

Margarita Blankenheim: Irina's partner. Irina saw in Margarita potential to become the Sinner of Sloth and destroy Toragay, and so maintained a friendly relationship with her while giving her the Gift and bringing her into Père Noël.

Clockworker's Doll: A doll Irina made. Irina made the Clockworker's Doll with the intention of making it the vessel of Sloth, using it to influence Margarita into committing her mass murder on Toragay.

Haru Netsuma: A body Irina used as a medium. Irina recognized Haru's strong magic potential and thus used her as a medium during the Venomania Event. She would act according to Haru's consciousness when it resurfaced, such as leaving Hakua alone. She displayed little personal attachment to the body, however and later discarded it to move on to other hosts.

Lukana Octo: A body Irina targeted as a medium. She recognized the magic potential of Lukana's body, and so wished to use her as a medium rather than Haru--however, she was unable to follow through on this wish due to the interference of Sateriasis and later Elluka.

Germaine Avadonia: A body Irina inhabited. She originally knew Germaine as an enemy and fought with her during the Story of Evil, and later saw use in possessing her body to become Julia Abelard.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Irina's name is Slavic, meaning "peace".
 * Her surname refers to the inner workings of a clock and literally refers to someone who makes or works with such devices.
 * Her alias as AB-CIR is a bridge to her eventual pseudonynm Abyss I.R. and a reference to her representative Vocaloid; the name Iroha translates as "ABC".
 * Her pseudonym as Abyss I.R. used the word abyss, meaning a "deep or bottomless chasm" or a "profound difference between people".
 * The alias may also be derived from the word abyssinian, a breed of cat characterized by red fur and a slender body; Irina's true form while using the name is that of a slender, red cat.
 * Her pseudonym while possessing Germaine is a female English derivative of the male name "Julius", meaning "Jove's Child"; Jove is another name for the god Jupiter of Roman mythology, the king of the gods.
 * Her alias' surname, Abelard, is derived from German meaning "resolute" or "steadfast" and is the surname of a French philosopher.
 * Irina's name is partially inspired by the name of her representative Vocaloid, Iroha, sharing the same first letters and syllable.

Curiosities

 * When surveyed for Project 'Ma', Irina's rankings were M=206, O=96, T=83, H=113, E=666, R=153.
 * Her E factor being quanitifed as 666 resulted in suspicions that she was a HER; the number is regarded as the Number of the Beast and a satanic number of evil by biblical scholars.
 * Irina's role in Père Noël follows the twisted "Christmas" theme that surrounds the organization, giving "gifts" as "Santa" to the other members and desiring to punish "naughty children" for their actions.
 * As I. the Santa, Irina inhabits the body of Germaine, represented by the Vocaloid MEIKO; like Santa Claus, MEIKO characteristically wears red clothing.
 * According to Ma, Irina desired to collect the Seven Deadly Sins so that they could grant her a wish.
 * Humorously, Irina refers to Elluka as "big sister" while using an old woman as her medium, much to Ney's confusion since Elluka looks physically younger than her.

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