User blog:SiRenfield/Kachessa Crim

Kachess Crim is a countess and later queen of the Kingdom of Marlon who had an affair with King Yufino Marlon. She is famous for assassinating Duchess Sateriasisa Venomania, bringing an end to the Venomania Event, and marrying into the Marlon Royal Family.

Early Life
Born in EC 110, Kachessa eventually became a countess of the growing Marlon country. At some point, she became friends with Baroness Toya Conchita. Later, Kachessa met and entered an affair with Yufino Marlon, eventually telling Toya; sometime afterward, he left to travel to Beelzenia as part of his wife's homecoming. Before leaving, he gave Kachessa the Golden Key, and he would become aware of its power and capabilities.

Venomania Event
Around the summer of EC 136, the countess was asked by Prince Maritus of the Beelzenian Empire to investigate the disappearances of men across Asmodean. While reading through the list of disappearance cases in a local pub, she noticed Liuptold Turner's name on the list and began focusing on it. After a thorough investigation, Kachessa 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 herself, Kachessa arrived at Earless Ferdinand's Mansion but was blocked at the front gates by the estate's guards before the earless granted her permission to enter.

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

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

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

At some point, Kachessa met the mage Elluki Clockworker, and the two joined forces to defeat the duchess. After Yufino was enchanted by the duchess, Crim managed to track his location and, making a disguise by cutting her hair, approached the alleged demon in her mansion. Once Venomania embraced her, the countess stabbed Sateriasisa in the chest with the Golden Knife, shedding her disguise as Sateriasisa collapsed to the ground. Freeing the captured men, including her beloved, Kachessa and Yufino 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 Duchess' death, Kachessa returned to her homeland and launched a coup to establish a legitimate Marlon country. With Yufino considered the one legitimate heir to the Marlon Royal Family, she received the backing of the surrounding country's nobles and was able to able successfully install the new government. Kachessa then ascended to the throne as its queen and part of the royal family. At some point, Kachessa gave birth to children with her husband, and would later be succeeded by her grandchild.

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

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

Kachessa was a proud woman, valuing strength and determination and believed them to be necessary in order to protect what you love or regain what was lost. She 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 Countess considered herself just a "normal" man of her country and was not concerned with the differences in social classes. To a point, Kachessa 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, Kachessa spoke plainly and succinct, often disregarding pleasantries such as during her investigations into the disappearances and interrogating witnesses. After Yufino became among the missing men, Kachessa gained invested interest in uncovering the truth behind the disappearances and gladly helped in Prince Maritus' investigation.

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

Skills and Abilities
As a noble from Marlon, Kachessa had many connections among the nobility and was treated with utmost respect while working under Prince Maritus. A skilled investigator, Kachessa's capabilities as a detective earned her a recommendation from her friend, Toya, to assist in the disappearance cases; she was also perceptive, recognizing Rajiha's unique testimony as a potential lead despite the apparent evidence against it. Coinciding with this, Kachessa was an adept planner, constructing her own scheme on top of Elluki's to save Yufino and keep the key her lover gave her. Physically, the Countess was notably strong, being able to hold Rajiha in place with just a single arm. While in possession of the Golden Key, she was able to transform the vessel into a knife and injure the demon-possessed Duchess. She could also raise her voice to a low-pitched masculine tone, employed against Venomania in her impersonation of Elluki.

Character Connections

 * Sateriasisa Venomania: Kachessa's object of pursuit. During her investigation Kachessa was suspicious of Duchess Venomania, thus following the lead Rajiha provided. When she discovered her role in the men's disappearances, particularly Yufino's, she became angry towards the duchess, taking delight in her eventual death.


 * Yufino Marlon: Kachessa's lover. Kachessa loved Yufino deeply, tracking him to Venomania's mansion when he disappeared and eloping with him after the Venomania Event. His disappearance was another motivation for Kachessa's interest in the missing men, and he had provided her aid beforehand in giving her the Golden Key.


 * Rajiha: Kachessa's partner. Kachessa saw Rajiha as a useful lead in discovering and catching the culprit of all the abductions, although she believed the latter to be pathetic for drinking instead of saving Liuptold and for emphasizing their difference in station.


 * Elluki Clockworker: A fellow investigator of Venomania. Kachessa joined forces with Elluki for the sake of defeating Duchess Venomania, although she did not take their partnership seriously, deviating from it when she thought necessary.


 * Maritu Beelzenias: Kachessa's employer. Kachessa was a close enough acquaintance of Maritus that he accepted his request to investigate the men's disappearances, after Toya's recommendation.


 * Toya Conchita: A friend of Kachessa. Kachessa and Toya had a good relationship, the latter being one of the few privy to her affair with Yufino and recommending her to Maritus to help with the investigation.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Her last name, Crim, seems to be a pun on the word "crime", referencing Kachessa and Yufino being hunted down after Duchess Venomania's murder.
 * Kachessa's name is partially based off her representative Vocaloid, KAIKO, sharing the first two letters.