Celestia

Fake Name: (Celestia Ludenberg) Real Name: (Taeko Yasuhiro) Gender: (Female) Age: (18) Nationality: (Japanese) Ethnicity: (Japanese) Birthday: (November 23) Height: (5'5, Average height) Species: (Human) Occupation: (Student at Hope's Peak Academy and a Gambler) Appearance: (Celestia is a petite, slender young woman giving her a very skinny, delicate build with lithe proportions. Her skin is extremely pale—porcelain-white and almost translucent. Celestia has a narrow waist, slim hips, and long, slender legs, contributing to her fragile, elegant silhouette; despite her skinny frame, she boasts an ample, well-endowed bust, creating a subtly curvaceous hourglass figure. Red eyes and black hair in two large twin-drill pigtails. Strangely enough, they frazzle up when she's angry. However, these are clip-ons.) Formal Clothing: (Celestia wears a gothic lolita-style outfit, consisting of a white blouse with a long-point collar, a black jacket that includes white fabric for each sleeve lacing down and fastened by a simple white ribbon near her elbows. She wears a unique, red tie (consisting of a butterfly pattern layered on top of various spears with skulls attached to it) and a black, multi-tiered skirt with white lace at the bottom for each layer. Most notably, she wears a white lace bonnet-like headband with one white ribbon on each side with a smaller ribbon tied at the bottom. Celestia wears knee-high stockings trimmed in ladder lace with a black ribbon on the opposite side of the other for each, dark red mary janes with a thick heel held on her feet by three grey buckles, and a silver, Gunmetal plated ring (reminiscent of a Gunmetal Armour ring designed by Vivienne Westwood) layered in overlapping sections on her index finger. Additionally, she has gold spherical earrings which have an image depicting the cross engraved into them with a red gem placed in the center in each and long black nails. She wears dark-hued panties. The tulle lace is of a regal quality, giving off the distinct vibe of a queen. Supposedly a C-rank human cannot stand gazing upon them, likely due to the fact that she considers them a lower status of even her fine clothing.) Swimsuit: (Celestia wears a ruffled two-piece swimsuit. The top is a black ruffled bandeau-style top with white lace trim and a white ribbon detail at the center. The bottom is a matching black ruffled skirt with white lace trim. She also has white ribbons tied around her twin-drill pigtails. No footwear.) Personality: (As an experienced gambler, Celestia appears collected, cold, and cunning by nature. She possesses the ability to manipulate others to do her bidding and can lie with a perfectly straight face, this is shown when she is able to manipulate Hifumi to make her royal milk tea. She is shown to be fairly intelligent, referencing several aspects of game theory such as Prisoner's Dilemma or Zero-Sum Game, and her manipulative and coercion skills. Celestia is a very ambitious person, as she declared that she will do anything it takes to win and is ready to go as far as murdering someone or manipulating others in cold blood. She is extremely selfish and values her life over the lives of others, stating she has no problem sacrificing others in order to save herself. She also has a lot of pride, refusing to surrender no matter how far into a corner she's pushed, as long as the chance for victory remains. However, when confronted with complete defeat, Celestia preferred to surrender gracefully over dragging out the inevitable. Celestia believes in adaptability to be the key to survival, rather than strength or intellect. Celestia is shown to be relatively materialistic, with her life's dream being living a life of luxury and decadence in a European castle. Her mannerisms are strict, refined and her spoiled nature emphasizes this due to her aspiring to be like European royalty. She even has a habit of ranking people between Rank A and Rank F, with her not caring for anyone who is a D-rank and despising those who are F-rank. She despises her real self as she dislikes ordinary and common things and considers her real identity and name to be one of "a loser". Celestia speaks softly and smiles often in order to imitate Victorian mannerisms and etiquette as a lady. She even uses the extremely polite and formal Japanese pronoun watakushi (わたくし), emphasizing the typically polite and formal way in which she speaks to the others. However, her short-temperedness surfaces when something fails to go as well as she expects it to, such as when Hifumi fails to make her royal milk tea as she likes it often using vulgar language. Her normal European accent also begins to falter as well. To further keep up her Western masquerade, Celestia often does things such as using the Japanese transliteration of the English "gambler" (ギャンブラー), instead of the Japanese term "shōbushi" (勝負師) and claiming her parents are of European ancestry. As an expert at lying, Celestia claimed that she can even fool her own emotions, but this doesn't seem to be entirely the case. She appears to lack empathy and claims that she feels no guilt for the nefarious acts she committed in the gambling underworld, although like most things regarding her, the truth of this is in question. Despite her status as a consummate liar, she presented a smile, but Makoto was still able to recognize her fear within. Celestia has a habit of deceiving her own emotions and so even in defeat always keeps a constant poise.) Ultimate Talent: (The Ultimate Gambler: At a young age, she became a gambler and won countless games, even ones at the stake of her own life, but was able to win regardless. She states during a game of King of Liars, she spilled tea on her favorite dress and she had to end the game quickly to take it to the cleaners. She once even managed to accumulate over ten million dollars. She also won a Shogi tournament despite not really knowing how to play the game. Though her poker-face helped, she claims that the secret to her success is the luck she was born with. She was renowned for managing to rob any who challenged her of all their money and she even won the "King of Liars" underground gambling tournament. She kept earning money for her main goal in life - to live out the rest of her days in luxury in a big fancy European castle with handsome male servants from all around the world dressed as vampires.) Background: (Celestia was a notorious liar. Celestia was given the given name Taeko Yasuhiro and born into a working-class family in the capital of Tochigi Prefecture, Utsunomiya where she came to love its most famous food, gyoza. Celestia had been a gambler for at least 4 years before becoming a student in Hope's Peak Academy. She has defeated many known gamblers including Ryou Ooba (a former gambler), which caused him to completely give it up. Ryou described her as crushing him in no time at all, and leaving as quickly as she came. Celestia had a cat named Grand Bois Chéri Ludenberg whom she spoiled and loved dearly. She taught him to enjoy eating gyoza and made it his favorite food, an example of their close bond. Celestia loathed her true self and the common world she was born into, considering her given name of Taeko Yasuhiro a loser's name, and so sometime during her childhood, Celestia retreated into an obsession with European royalty - particularly of the Victorian and Rococo period and European historical figures like Marie Antoinette. To make her life appear more glamorous, she took on the European-sounding name "Celestia Ludenberg" and concocted a fictional backstory for herself in which her father was a member of the French nobility, and her mother was a member of a German family of musicians. She began adopting a fake ambiguous European accent and wearing and designing her own well-known line of lolita fashion. Her ultimate dream in life was to own and live in a European castle filled with handsome male servants dressed as vampires, and this dream is what led her into the world of gambling in order to raise the significant amount of money she would need. As a person adept at lying, she became extremely successful in the underground gambling scene, able to even win games she had never played before simply on the strength of her ability to deceive and manipulate the other players. In Japan, gambling is illegal and largely controlled by the Yakuza, so Celestia frequently put her life at risk by playing against and defeating dangerous individuals to win the large sums of money she was chasing, particularly as an underage young girl. Despite these genuinely dangerous experiences, even in recounting the events to others she was prone to exaggeration, and instead of telling the real story would recount the stories of well-known gambling fiction such as Liar Game, Akagi, and 81diver, inserting herself into the fictional narratives as if they were real. Her rise to notoriety within the gambling scene brought her to the attention of Hope's Peak Academy scout Koichi Kizakura, leading to Celestia being chosen to enroll in the 78th Class as the Ultimate Gambler. The reason Celestia agreed to enroll in the 78th Class was the urge to achieve even more notoriety and success so she could quickly actualize her dream of becoming something like royalty herself. Celestia had at least a few friends.)