Karchess Crim

"You must be strong to regain what you love."

- Kachess Crim

Kachess Crim is a count and later king of the Kingdom of Marlon who had an affair with Queen Yufina Marlon. He is famous for assassinating Duke Sateriasis Venomania, bringing an end to the Venomania Event, and marrying into the Marlon Royal Family.

Early Life
Born in EC 110, Kachess eventually became a count of the growing Marlon country. at some point, he became friends with Baron Toy Conchita. Later, Kachess met and entered an affair with Yufina Marlon, eventually telling Toy; sometime afterward, she left to travel to Beelzenia as part of her husband's homecoming. Before leaving, she gave Kachess the Golden Key, and he would become aware of its power and capabilities.

Venomania Event
"A report from Marlon's noble family has arrived. Shall I read it to you? It is best you read it yourself. The minister will want to hear it later." "Heheh... It doesn't look that interesting to me''."

- Toy and Princess Maylis regarding Crim's breakthrough

Around the summer of EC 136, the count was asked by Princess Maylis of the Beelzenian Empire to investigate the disappearances of women across Asmodean. While reading through the list of disappearance cases in a local pub, he noticed Lilien Turner's name on the list and began focusing on it. After a thorough investigation, Kachess learned of the rumors surrounding Turner's disappearance and the mass murder of the Ferdinand family in their estate around the same time. Traveling to Mystica himself, Kachess arrived at Earl Ferdinand's Mansion but was blocked at the front gates by the estate's guards before the earl granted him permission to enter.

Seated in the mansion's dining room, the earl expressed pleasure in meeting the Count and apologized for the his cold welcome at the gates. Ignoring it, Kachess noted that the earl's entire family had been massacred and Ferdinand asked if he had already heard the stories about the supposed culprit. Kachess replied that he had once but doubted it and the earl explained how his family and the chamberlains were found dead around the same time a woman disappeared. Continuing to extract the earl's knowledge of the local rumors, he became interested when the Ferdinand mentioned that only one person had a contradicting testimony of the recent events, asking who it was. The earl stated that a peasant farmer and friend of Lilien, Rajih, had absurdly claimed Duke Sateriasis Venomania killed his uncle's family and stole Lilien despite the fact no one saw the duke at all at the time. Interested, Kachess pursued the lead.

Kachess searched the town for Rajih, finding him drunk and ranting about the futility of trying to beat the duke. Scoffing at his reason for giving up, the count told the farmer that anyone drinking endlessly over losing their lover was a miserable existence. With Rajih's reply that Lilien was his childhood friend, not his lover, Kachess brushed aside the comment and replied that he was Rajih. Ignoring the peasant's question of who he was, Kachess instead answered that he wanted to hear Rajih's story about Sateriasis and Lilien. Told a second time to introduce himself, Kachess revealed his name but was taken aback by Rajih instead getting up and walking away. The count asked why he wasn't satisfied and Rajih responded that he was but didn't want to talk about it.

Kachess immediately grabbed the farmer by the shoulder, holding him in place with his one hand. The count explained that, despite their different social statuses, he could be his "savior". Intimidated, Rajih asked if he was a foreignor and Crim explained he was simply a normal man from Marlon. Rajih replied that he was just a farmer and that they had nothing in common. Responding that his way of thinking was despicable, Kachess explained he had three things to tell him: the first being his name and the second being the need of strength to regain lost love. Pulling out the Golden Key, he declared the third was that there existed a weapon capable of defeating a demon. After hearing Rajih's full testimony, Kachess sent a message to Maylis explaining what he had learned.

At some point, Kachess met the mage Elluka Clockworker, and the two joined forces to defeat the duke. After Yufina was enchanted by the duke, Crim managed to track her location and, making a disguise based on Elluka's name and appearance, approached the alleged demon in his mansion. Once Venomania embraced him, the count stabbed Sateriasis in the chest with the Golden Knife, shedding his disguise as Sateriasis collapsed to the ground. Freeing the captured women, including his beloved, Kachess and Yufina fled Asmodean and eloped; due to their activities, the two became fugitives of both the Beelzenian Empire and Marlon throughout the following year. One year after the Duke's death, Kachess returned to his homeland and launched a coup to establish a legitimate Marlon country. With Yufina considered the one legitimate heir to the Marlon Royal Family, he received the backing of the surrounding country's nobles and was able to able successfully install the new government. Kachess then ascended to the throne as its king and part of the royal family. At some point, Kachess sired children with his wife, and would later be succeeded by his grandchild.

Legacy
Following his death, Kachess was succeeded by his grandchild and his lineage would continue for over eight centuries, including Carlos Marlon and Kyle Marlon; the latter would adopt his name as a pen name and later use it as his alias during the Lucifenian Revolution.

Personality and Traits
"Someone who keeps drinking over the loss of his lover is a miserable existence."

- Count Kachess to Rajih

A patriot to his country, Kachess was greatly loyal to Marlon and, like the rest of his countrymen, held hostile sentiments toward the neighboring country Lioness. Similarly, Kachess was against Beelzenia's influence on Marlon's royal government, although he remained cooperative with Marlon's ally before being branded a criminal and even made friends among the Empire's aristocracy. Despite this, he was also in love with Yufina and was willing to enter a secret romance with the Queen despite being married to Martius. After being hunted as fugitives, Kachess married his lover and used her to help stage a coup, believing Marlon's Beelzenian ruler was an illegitimate king.

Kachess was a proud man, valuing strength and determination and believed them to be necessary in order to protect what you love or regain what was lost. He looked down upon others who acted defeated hopeless as a result, considering anyone with such a mentality to be living a "miserable existence". However, the Count considered himself just a "normal" man of his country and was not concerned with the differences in social classes. To a point, Kachess believed in a degree of meritocracy, believing anyone could be a potential savior to another so long as they were strong. When dedicated to a goal, Kachess spoke plainly and succinct, often disregarding pleasantries such as during his investigations into the disappearances and interrogating witnesses. After Yufina became among the missing women, Kachess gained invested interest in uncovering the truth behind the disappearances and gladly helped in Princess Maylis' investigation.

Due to his dedication to Yufina and personal philosophy, Kachess was a bit arrogant, deviating from his plan with Elluka to pursue his own schemes and flatly abandoning the sorceress. He was also openly deceptive, reneging on his promise to give the Golden Key to Elluka when executing his assassination attempt on Duke Venomania. Likely due to the supernatural powers the key possessed, Kachess was willing to pursue Rajih's testimony of the Duke's involvement and confident in his ability to kill the Duke with such a weapon.

Skills and Abilities
"In some cases, different people can be your saviors... Like me."

- Kachess

As a noble from Marlon, Kachess had many connections among the nobility and was treated with utmost respect while working under Princess Maylis. A skilled investigator, Kachess' capabilities as a detective earned him a recommendation from his friend, Toy, to assist in the disappearance cases; he was also perceptive, recognizing Rajih's unique testiomny as a potential lead despite the apparent evidence against it. Coinciding with this, Kachess was an adept planner, constructing his own scheme on top of Elluka's to save Yufina and keep the key his lover gave him. Physically, the Count was notably strong, being able to hold Rajih in place with just a single arm. While in possession of the Golden Key, he was able to transform the vessel into a knife and injure the demon-possessed Duke. He could also raise his voice to a high-pitched feminine tone, employed against Venomania in his impersonation of Elluka.

Character Connections
Sateriasis Venomania: Kachess's object of pursuit. During his investigation Kachess was suspicious of Duke Venomania, thus following the lead Rajih provided. When he discovered his role in the women's disappearances, particularly Yufina's, he became wrathful towards the duke, taking delight in his eventual death.

Yufina Marlon: Kachess' lover. Kachess loved Yufina deeply, tracking her to Venomania's mansion when she disappeared and eloping with her after the Venomania Event. Her disappearance was another motivation for Kachess' interest in the missing women, and she had provided him aid beforehand in giving him the Golden Key.

Rajih: Kachess' partner. Kachess saw Rajih as a useful lead in discovering and catching the culprit of all the abductions, although he believed the latter to be pathetic for drinking instead of saving Lilien and for emphasizing their difference in station.

Elluka Clockworker: A fellow investigator of Venomania. Kachess joined forces with Elluka for the sake of defeating Duke Venomania, although he did not take their partnership seriously, deviating from it when he thought necessary. Nonetheless, he was inspired by her appearance and name in creating his female disguise to fool the Duke.

Maylis Beelzenia: Kachess' employer. Kachess was a close enough acquaintance of Maylis that he accepted her request to investigate the women's disappearances, after Toy's recommendation.

Toy Conchita: A friend of Kachess. Kachess and Toy had a good relationship, the latter being one of the few privy to his affair with Yufina and recommending him to Maylis to help with the investigation.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * His last name, Crim, seems to be a pun on the word "crime", referencing Kachess and Yufina being hunted down after Duke Venomania's murder.
 * Kachess's name is partially based off his representative Vocaloid, KAITO, sharing the first two letters.

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