Rita Rossweisse

Appearance: Rita has honey blonde hair that goes to about her neck in the back, with the front being slightly longer. With reddish pink eyes, and a smile that never leaves her face, she is sickeningly sweet in appearance. Her left eye is covered, but she seems to see just fine. She usually dons a maid outfit with pink accents that match her eyes. Her headdress is a frilly headband, with roses and horns on each side. Her outfit also has quite a bit of these roses scattered about, and they appear even on her lace gloves. These gloves are intricate and quite expensive looking--- they add to the professionalism of the outfit. Her dress itself is a standard monochrome pattern, with a big bow in the back. Rita's outfit is finished off with dark leggings and heels. She also wears a rose anklet on her right ankle. Overall, her appearance is very fitting to her personality and job as Durandal's adjutant.

Personality: The thing that stands out the most about Rita is, of course, the fact that she’s a maid. This polite and elegant way of being makes people forget that she’s one of the most powerful Valkyries of Schicksal. She enjoys cleaning and cooking, and overall being helpful to people. Rita’s probably been inspired by Ragna to take on this role, a Valkyrie that’s saved Rita when she was in middle school, but Rita says that it’s only a coincidence that she also grew up to be a maid. When Ragna told her that “maids are invincible”, Rita didn’t understand what she meant at first but later came to realize that it isn’t that a person becomes invincible because they’re a maid, but rather only a person that’s achieved perfection can become a maid. Similar to when people say “mothers are invincible”.

Rita also remembers reading a fragment of the book “Catcher in the Rye”, left in Reanna’s archives. Reanna wanted to save her fellow Valkyries from meeting a tragic fate, and Rita relates to her. She also expresses this feeling when the Immortal Blades suffer casualties in Arc City. She tries her best to also save the civilians exposed to World Serpent’s bomb, even if it means acting against Otto Apocalypse’s orders. These events lead to her developing a hateful attitude towards World Serpent, especially towards Raven.

Bianka’s remarked that Rita is very well versed when it comes to literature, and she also speaks over a dozen languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

One important person for Rita is, of course, Durandal. When Otto asked Rita to give her opinion about her after the first time they met, she said that Bianka seems like a very talented, ambitious person, that will become the backbone of Schicksal in the future. Rita’s job is to help Bianka mature, and when the time comes that she realizes that the overseer isn’t the man she thinks he is, to ensure that she stays calm and sticks to her beliefs. Over the years, they’ve grown a close relationship, but Rita still treats Durandal as her higher-up when it comes to missions. Rita sometimes teases Durandal, calling her cute, offering her to wash her back or telling her that she enjoyed saying she wanted to sleep with her. Even so, Rita is always worried whenever Durandal goes on dangerous missions. During the visual novel, Rita was moved to the point of tears when Bianka expressed her feelings of powerlessness when it came to Eikenal’s death.

History: Rita is the daughter of a renowned florist from Manchester. She was supposed to take after the family business, but everything changed on a certain day in 2007, when she was only 11 years old. A small honkai incident happened in her hometown, and Rita was saved by a certain Valkyrie dressed as a maid. Rita was immobilized by fear and couldn’t move, so the valkyrie carried her to safety.

Her saviour’s name was Ragna. To Rita, Ragna had a special, beautiful elegance and fragrance, similar to an angel. The little girl was too shy to express her feelings into words, and could only thank the angel. Ragna gave her a business and told her to visit the restaurant she’s working at.

On the following day, Rita arranged a bouquet of sunflowers as she thought they fit Ragna and visited “Abyss Angel” in the afternoon, right after opening time. Ragna told her about the origins of her name, and that her mother was also a valkyrie and wanted her to follow the same path. She also told Rita that she was on a social activity, and that people are more likely to open up to ones working in the service industry. Rita and Ragna ended up talking together for the rest of the day.

In the following years, Rita ended up joining Schicksal and starting training as a valkyrie, even finishing an apprenticeship under Otto himself.