Arciene


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Summary
Arciene is one of the six heroines in Paradise Apocrypha. She is a Divine Being that is the Will of the Planet, an actual clone of Gaia said to be its will incarnated in a human body. She is the last of the Ancient Walkers, a race of undead created by Gaia to cull humanity. While she is actually half human and half Hollow Apostle, because she is Gaia herself, she is classified as an Ancient Walker instead. Arciene was sealed away 660 years ago by Keiichi’s ancestor. When she is accidentally unsealed by Keiichi at the start of the story, she is in a weakened state, so she recruits him in an attempt to use his powers as a Replicant to fight off the undead curse caused by those who have partaken in her ancient blood.

Appearance
Arciene is a white haired girl with piercing light blue (or red) eyes. Being a Hollow Apostle, though she is undead she has a beautiful human appearance and retains her intelligence. She may be over 1,000 years old, but she appears as a teenage girl by the time Paradise Apocrypha begins. During her past, she appears to be physically around 13 years old, and that was hundreds of years ago meaning she ages very slowly.

Personality
Arciene is whimsical, kind, caring, and motherly. However she is shown to be ferocious, prideful, and dominant when her “children” are involved. She loves all earth creatures equally, hence why she is upset with humanity the most. She claims that a mother is most upset at the child that bullies and endangers its siblings, and humans have being doing their own thing to advance as a society, but at the cost of other species.

She is not without punishment, actually halving the entire human population as a warning to stop recklessly destroying the environment. She is not a dictator either, having created the Parliament of Forests to act as the governing body for the balance of nature and its creatures. Arciene does not act without the approval of the Living Forest.

Despite this, her behaviour is almost childlike, due to the lonely nature of her upbringing, although she is over 1,000 years old, she spent most of it asleep and knows nearly nothing about the world or how to interact with humans. As she works together with Keiichi to stop Ludwig, she gradually begins to enjoy life and starts to like Keiichi as more than just a friend. Arciene also struggles to not eat flesh, as she is hollow. Originally she had no problem suppressing her urge to eat human flesh, but since she was sealed and subsequently weakened by Keiichi imposing death on her, she feels as if she will die if she does not consume flesh.

Arciene loves breakfast food, and can constantly eat bread like nothing. She surprisingly has no problem with hunting and using other animals for food, as it is the nature of things. It is when it becomes reckless that she has a problem with it. Keiichi understands Arciene isn't bad at all, but her existence needs to be feared. Simply gazing into her white eyes will drive a human into madness, which happens to Keiichi and eventually leads him to his demise if he doesn't decide to stay with one of the girls. Arciene’s eye power is when her light blue eyes become white. These are the eyes no human may gaze into.

She can also be quite jealous. Getting mad at Keiichi when he hangs out with Suna. Her true personality is that of Gaia, a vastly intelligent, motherly, goddess - Mother Nature (or Mother Earth) itself. She has a constant flow of income in the form of gold produced by the Parliament of the Forest. If she spends a reckless amount of money, they will politely ask their mother to spend less so they don't waste resources.

When Arciene loses control and gives into her zombified instincts, she becomes known as Dead Arc and has black sclera.

Powers and Stats
Tier:  7-A | High 6-A | 5-B | Low 2-C

Name: Arciene

Origin: Paradise Apocrypha

Gender: Female

Age: 1,000+ years old

Classification: Ancient Walker, Zombie, Planetary Embodiment, Natural Disaster, Princess

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Elemental Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Teleportation, Telepathy, Telekinesis, Holy Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Magic, Possession (of any life on Earth), Energy Manipulation, Regeneration (Low Godly), Immortality (Types 1, 4 and 8), Biological Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Life Manipulation

Attack Potency: Mountain level (displayed this level of strength against Tartarus) | At least Large Continent level (easily sunk Africa during her fight with Suna to show her she's finally gotten “serious”) | Planet level (more than capable of this level of power at this point. Her Neo-Super Attack shows her grabbing the Earth and crushing it in her palm) | Universe level+ (Gaia Prime is literally stated to be the entity that culls worlds/adjacent realities with insufficient histories. She is at least as powerful as Pluton, which is capable of creating a semblance of the universe with its cries).

Speed: Unknown

Lifting Strength: Class T | Class T | Class E | Universal

Striking Strength: Mountain class | Large Continent class | Planet class | Universe class

Durability: Mountain level | At least Large Continent level | Planet level | Universe level+

Stamina: Limitless as long as she has a supply of magical energy

Range: Planetary (has “direct access” to all life on the planet, can teleport anywhere on the planet instantly and exists at several different locations on the planet at once), Multi-Universal as Gaia Prime via the Multi-Dimensional Resurgence Phenomenon (allowing her to tap into parallel realities to draw strength from her alternate selves)

Standard Equipment: Nature Spirit familiars

Intelligence: Possesses all necessary knowledge since birth. Essentially has billions of years worth of wisdom (Gaia's own wisdom) yet Great Ones have intelligence that cannot be described by humans.

Weaknesses: Has trouble controlling her urge to consume flesh, can get tired if she runs low on magical energy; her authority is only active at 20% power or more

Key: Weakened (5% of her power) | 20% Power | Dead Arciene (50% Power) | Gaia Prime (100% power)

Note: The percentages of Arciene’s power are not be taken literally. Please don't argue that “half of Universe level is not Planet level” as we are well aware of that. The percentages give a very loose indication of how much power she is willing use rather than the actual amount she has.

Notable Attacks and Techniques
Ancient Walker - Zombified beings akin to natural disasters (i.e. hurricanes, tsunamis, storms, etc.). These are the original hollows, beings reanimated by Gaia to cull humankind. Ancient Walkers are planet-class spirits whose power manifests as phenomena or events such as the Great Flood, simultaneous volcanic eruptions, drastic climate change, etc. In more extreme cases they are examples of raining mountains,. They however have a crucial flaw - a taste for human flesh.


 * Transforming beings into hollows - Ancient Walkers are the Undead Ancestors, the originators of Hollowkind. By being bitten any living creature, the creature slowly will zombify an individual as a hollow. It is even shown that being scratched too much by a hollow will carry the same result.


 * Blood of Hollows - Known as the Ancient Blood, it is tainted blood that immediately kills and reanimates those that consume it as zombies. It is faster to become a hollow by consuming their blood rather than being bitten. In Arciene’s case, those who drank her blood become Hollow Apostles due to her royal blood, retaining their human appearance and intelligence.

Will of the Planet - the status of the Ancient Walker that became the clone of the planet by consuming the planet’s “flesh” and essence. Arciene can be considered to be the divine form of the planet incarnated. She is a Counter-Actor much similar to the collective will of humanity. Arciene has the greatest Authority over all earthbound species. She cannot be denied by one born of the Earth, as their abilities literally have no effect on her. Her Authority is only activated at 20% power or more but her status as the planet’s also means that her decree is a conceptual law applied to the planet. If she says “the air is poisonous to you” than it is. If she says “you cannot walk on this Earth”, you cannot. She has absolute control over the conceptual Earth, meaning not just “her” Earth, but any terrestrial Earth-like planet. By her will the planet can immediately reject you as she and the planet are one. To go against Arciene is to go against all of nature.

Nature’s Eyes of Enchantment - Eye power belonging only to Arciene and Altera. These are pure white demonic eyes that see everything and reveal everything. To gaze into these eyes is to see the Unknown, Mankind’s greatest fear - the Eldritch Truth. When a human looks into her eyes, they will become extremely violent, go mad, and crave human flesh. They essentially become “semi hollow”, in a way. These eyes can also petrify anything that looks into it or even so much as glances that way. It locks them into a gaze and turns them into Arciene’s Servants, following the will of the plant species and the Living Forest.

Other
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Trivia

 * Arciene started out as a female Orochi-clone made by Ven in 2007 as a MUGEN character. She used Red Arcueid’s voice clips.