Clorinde

Clorinde Undefeated Champion Duelist of Fontaine

Basic Information

• Titles: Champion Duelist, the strongest/mightiest Champion Duelist in Fontaine
• Birthday: September 20
• Constellation: Rapperia
• Region: Fontaine
• Affiliation: Trial Court
• Special Dish: “Tagged and Bagged”
• Model Type: Tall Female
• Vision: Electro (Ousia-aligned)
• Adoptive Parent / Mentor: Petronilla (Marechaussee Hunter)

Clorinde is the preeminent Champion Duelist of the Court of Fontaine. Sword in hand, she serves as the ultimate guarantor of the law’s dignity and the order of justice. Without the strength to enforce authority, both become fragile; Clorinde provides that strength. She once also served as bodyguard to Furina.

Appearance

Clorinde has long dark blue to dark-purplish hair with a lighter blue streak, worn in a low ponytail that partially covers her right eye. Her eyes are a bright, striking purple.

Her signature work uniform consists of a white button-up dress shirt, a purple ribbon-like tie with gold and light-blue accents that frames her Electro Vision at the center of her chest, and white gloves. She wears a black underbust corset with a light-blue inner lining and four golden buttons, a high-waisted black pencil skirt, nylon tights with black garters on the upper thighs, and black-and-white ankle-length heeled boots. Accessories include muted blue water-droplet earrings and a bycocket hat. Over the uniform she wears a short blue cape with epaulettes that hangs from her shoulders; a longer patterned blue cape with gold tassels drapes from her left shoulder and falls past her knees. This longer cape is a personal keepsake—the only tangible remnant left by her mentor Petronilla.

Personality & Reputation

Clorinde projects an aura of quiet, formidable competence. Her undefeated record has made her name alone sufficient to deflate most frivolous or opportunistic legal challenges. Accused parties frequently surrender the moment they learn she has been assigned as their opponent. Citizens and journalists alike treat her with a mixture of awe, fear, and fascination; colorful (and entirely baseless) rumors once swirled about supernatural rites and ancestral sword lineages until the courts shut them down by simply assigning every relevant duel to her.

Despite the fearsome public image, she is not theatrical. She cares little for the audience’s emotional reactions or the internal monologues her duels inspire. To her, a duel’s only true meaning lies in facing an opponent on fair terms to determine a winner, a loser, and the righteous cause. She holds back slightly only against those who fight with genuine honor and conviction, sometimes allowing the faintest approving smile to appear.

Outside the dueling ring she is composed, precise, and quietly principled. She values impartiality to an almost absolute degree—whether adjudicating a court duel or a tabletop RPG session. She does not work evenings if she can help it, prefers a good night’s sleep, and finds genuine pleasure in ordinary things: fresh coffee, cake, flowers, fruit, and an afternoon of well-crafted role-playing.

Background & History

Clorinde was trained from a young age by the Marechaussee Hunter Petronilla in the old ways of monster-hunting: close-quarters swordsmanship that targets weak points with lightning speed, marksmanship, tracking, camouflage, and the ritual methods of identifying fellow Hunters. Training was harsh—rooms of rotating pillars studded with wooden swords tipped with bags of candy, sand, or worse—and left her with exceptional footwork and combat instincts. Petronilla departed without farewell when Clorinde was about ten, leaving only a long dark-blue cape bearing the Marechaussee Hunter insignia and a dagger-shaped pendant necklace engraved with Clorinde’s name. Clorinde kept both as keepsakes and potential final tests.

She later entered the ranks of Champion Duelists. In a memorable early trial she faced a wealthy merchant who had exploited divers and then tried to sway public opinion with theatrical displays of “generosity.” Amid a roaring, manipulated crowd, Clorinde hesitated only briefly before cutting his ornate sword in two and declaring that honor is proven by the sword alone. Her Vision manifested in that moment. From then on her reputation became absolute.

A personal tragedy strained her oldest friendship. She was forced to kill Callas, father of her childhood friend Navia, in a duel. Callas had acted to protect Navia from a painful truth; Navia did not understand at the time and the relationship fractured. Once the truth came to light, Navia forgave her and the two reconciled.

Clorinde sees no fundamental difference between the duties of a Marechaussee Hunter and those of a Champion Duelist: both exist to restore and protect peace. Her mentor’s lesson remains central—“The sugar cube you’re after is a happy, peaceful life. Fighting is merely the spoon you use to get it. Remember what you’re fighting for, and never let the means become the end.”

Skills & Combat Style

An undefeated swordsman whose technique descends directly from the Marechaussee Hunters. She closes distance rapidly, targets weak points with pinpoint precision, and disarms opponents with almost surgical economy—sometimes cutting cloth wrappings from a hand one strip at a time or sending a weapon spinning into the air like a sewing needle. Hidden gadgets, powder bottles, and theatrical theatrics avail her opponents nothing. She has never known defeat in the ring.

Relationships & Personal Life

• Navia: Childhood friend. Their bond was severely tested by Callas’s death but has been restored. The two still meet for tabletop sessions.
• Petronilla: Adoptive mentor and the source of her martial and philosophical inheritance.
• Furina: Formerly served as her bodyguard.
• Tabletop Troupe: Regular member and preferred Game Master. She joined at Navia’s encouragement, proved an exceptionally attentive and rule-abiding player, and later resumed GMing to spare the club’s other masters from Navia’s wilder ideas. She is famously incorruptible—even cake, fries, or Bulle Fruit will not sway her rulings.

Notable Quotes & Public Perception

“Word to the wise, friend. The evidence against you is irrefutable… There’s no need to resort to a duel. I mean, your opponent is Clorinde. That Clorinde.”

“If you find yourself facing Clorinde, you’d be better off accepting your verdict immediately.”

“Justice revealed the truth to me, and I witnessed it with my own eyes. In this place, honor is proven by the sword alone.”

“I don’t tend to work evenings.”

To the people of Fontaine she is the living embodiment of the maxim that the sword is mightier than the pen—and the quiet assurance that justice still has teeth. Currently engaged in intimate activity.