Celica A. Mercury is a heroine and one of the main characters from the BlazBlue series since BlazBlue: Chronophantasma who is the younger sister of Konoe A. Mercury, and aunt of Kokonoe. Her role is further explained in BlazBlue: Phase 0. She is a playable character in the arcade version of BlazBlue: Chronophantasma.
She is voiced by Iori Nomizu in the Japanese version, and by Carrie Savage in the English version.
Information[]
Celica A. Mercury was Nine's younger sister, Jubei's sister-in-law, and Kokonoe's aunt. She is also the Nun who raised Ragna, Jin and Saya at the church. She had brown hair in her youth, and was naturally gifted in the use of healing magic. She is the protagonist of the Phase Shift novels, and gets a major role later on in Chronophantasma. Her initial purpose was to be used as the catalyst for Kushinada's Lynchpin by her father, but was talked down from it by Ragna. Many years later, she is killed by Terumi when he attacked the Church. Kokonoe later seemingly "revived" her young self.
Appearance[]
Celica is a young woman with long, brown hair tied into a ponytail with a red ribbon, and bright red eyes. She wears the standard uniform of the Magic Guild with a red ribbon tie.
After the Dark War, she was seen wearing a nun uniform.
Story[]
Celica is the younger sister of Konoe A. Mercury and the daughter of the scientist Schuichiro Ayatsuki and his wife. Upon giving birth to Celica, her mother was weaking up and passed away two years later in front of Konoe, who takes responsibility of her younger sister and forbids her from going outside for her own after the conflict she had with her father for fully focusing on his researches and using his wife's corpse as an experiment.
Celica born with an unique ability, which consist on nullify all kind of Sethir who appears around her.
Xblaze: Lost Memories[]
Celica sneak out to the store to buy eggs by her own as Konoe was still asleep, upon returning, a worried Konoe scolds Celica for that but calms down and promises to prepare the breakfast for her.
Later on, Celica went missing, causing Konoe to search for her around all Ishana and to her house, where she is teleported to the Phantom Field and forced to play riddle games with Nobody, until the sisters finally are reunited upon finding Celica asleep. Before sending them back home, Nobody ask one last riddle: "Who am I?" before pushing them back home.
During the next two weeks, Celica notices Konoe was muttering Nobody's name as she was trying to rebuild the machine that teleported them there, but after a brief talk, the sisters decided to go visit their father for the first time in years.
The Dark War[]
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BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger[]
Celica is murdered by Yuuki Terumi as part of his invasion to the church which ended up with the place burning up to the ground and Ragna losing an arm and earning a rivalry with Jin.
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma[]
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BlazBlue: Centralfiction[]
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BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle[]
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Personality[]
Celica is a kind, generous, and sociable person who deeply loves her sister and friends. She is a sentimental individual who maintains a firm stance that all life is precious and will use her healing magic to assist those in need of it, regardless of who or what they are. She is also shown to be selfless to the point that she will shield a person with her own body without any hesitation. She develops affection toward Bloodedge as time goes by and seems to idolize him. She had difficulty interacting with Kazuma Kuvaru due to the uneasy feelings his presence evoked within her. It has also been noted by people (particularly Bloodedge) that she has no sense of direction, which usually ends with her getting lost.
Powers and Abilities[]
Celica has the rare ability to use healing magic. She has been shown to heal most wounds, although she cannot use her magic to remove illnesses such as seithr poisoning. She has also exhibited the latent ability to suppress seithr, and it is for this reason that Bloodedge looses the ability to use his right arm, right eye, and the Azure Grimoire.
It is also for this reason that Celica is the key to Kushinada's Lynchpin, a device created to seal the seithr within the Gate, and thus disrupt the source of the Black Beast's power.Her true power is control over the flow of life. The healing powers, displayed even before she learned magic, are a manifestation of it. At the time of the Dark War, very few people were able to use it, and even fewer at her level.
Her Drive is Minerva, a puppet in the same vein as Nirvana and Ignis created by Kokonoe for the purpose of protecting Celica that can continuously chain attacks together. Her Overdrive, Regelite, regenerates her health and makes Minerva's attacks more powerful. In the fourth game, she gets an ability named Recover Cap where her attacks will make her gain a green bar that extends off her current health level. She can use the green bar to turn it into her HP or use it to power her specials. Her Overdrive in the fourth game makes her automatically gain the Recover Cap instead of auto-healing.
In the fourth game, her Exceed Accel is called Pue Vapeur where Minerva stuns the foe with her plug, then does a series of kicks before doing a drilling attack. Her Astral, Atout Rillettes, has her heal the opponent to full health. Quite literally, in fact, as their life bar actually regenerates to 100%. Minerva then transforms into what appears to be a jet, flies into the sky at high speeds, then rams into the opponent, shoving them off of the stage.
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Trivia[]
- In Chronophantasma's Tutorial Mode, Celica will guide the player through the section Stylish Lesson - The Basics.
- Her birthday, September 8, shares the birth date of the Virgin Mary. Reflecting her benevolent and motherly personality
- All of Celica's special moves and Distortion Drives are named in French and are a combination of food names/cooking terms and Middle Ages military equipment, such as Armure Sorbet (which means Armor Sherbet in French) and Arc Griller (which means Bow Grilling).
- When Celica counts to three when attacking, she can count in the following languages: Japanese (Ichi, Ni, San!), English (One, Two, Three!) and Spanish (Uno, Dos, Tres!).