Princess Velvet

Velvet is a 23 year old woman, youthful but mature in appearance, noted by many to be beautiful. Velvet is slim but more voluptuous than her half sisters Gwendolyn or Griselda, and in stance with her style of battle, she resembles a gypsy or dancer. Velvet wears a revealing but somewhat mystical outfit - she contains her hair in a long, pointed hood decorated with a pattern of golden stars round the hem, and beneath it, a cap of black lace with a golden chain with stats dangling from it- her hair is sandy gold, falling in very long curling locks entwined with strings of pearls or white beads. She wears a short black cropped top that hugs her full chest, over which fall the pointed lapels of her red hood, and below the breast her top has two loops of gold drapery- the sleeves are short, capped in red puffs with black striping. She wears a red half-skirt with a dark drapery around her hips, and black stockings with lace tops, finishing with black slippers. It makes her seem like a gypsy (this is no surprise as she is called the Witch of Elrit Forest and that gypsies are often accused for using witchcraft), her clothing style is derived from the mixture of arab and european clothings. She looks very much like a dancer or performer, and it fits with her style of battle.

She is described to be a very serious and independent young woman with a lot of issues, but only because she has gone through a lot of problems in her life as an outcast to both her grandfather and initially her whole nation when the people of Valentine heard that she and her brother were the children of the enemy. But, despite all of these troubles, she tends to be a sweet, kind and even motherly woman. She is also very determined to succeed in her goal to prevent Armageddon and save all of Erion. She has a deep hatred for her father, the Demon Lord, because she believed that he left her, her brother Ingway and their mother; and that he did not care if they all were to be killed by her grandfather. She also denies that he loved or even cared about them, saying that if he did love them he would have done something to prevent her mother's death, or at least save her and Ingway from a life of suffering under their grandfather.

She has a great fear of her grandfather despite him being dead and even believed that he would return (which, to her horror, indeed happened). This is because when she was young he used to torture her and Ingway by whipping them (although Ingway said that Velvet was whipped more times than him). Her fear of him causes her to even still obey him despite knowing what he is planning. Throughout her life she has been haunted by the choice she and Ingway made: to reject their mother in front of their grandfather in order to live; and believed that by being tortured by King Valentine, and accepting the curse in the last letter their mother wrote to them, was the only way to earn her forgiveness.

When she first met Cornelius and fell in love with him, she found new hope and meaning in her life, giving her a reason to want to prevent Armageddon from occurring. She continues to love him despite him being turned into a Pooka, and helps in finding away to return him and her people back to their human forms. She also cares for her brother Ingway (despite his tendency to betray her) and her half-sister Gwendolyn, who is actually jealous of Velvet being the most loved daughter and child of their father, while Velvet is jealous of Gwendolyn herself, thinking that she is Odin's most beloved daughter. But despite the two women's initial dislike of each other, Gwendolyn helped Velvet once to escape fom being executed by General Brigan who was blackmailing Odin, because she knew that their father would be heartbroken if Velvet were to die. This then causes Velvet to worry for Gwendolyn and makes her accept Gwendolyn as her younger sister. She also became even more furious at Odin when he exiled Gwendolyn and placed a sleeping spell on her.

Velvet knows about these characters:

Cornelius: He and Velvet have a deep and truly loving relationship to the point that they are willing to ignore their family members own advice in pursuit of said love. However when Cornelius is turned into a pooka he believes that Velvet would not love him any longer showing some surface to his love despite the fact he truly loved her. Despite this when she discovered his true identity she was more than willing to continue loving him despite his beliefs. Once he accepted his situation and her love their relationship continued, with Armageddon he expressed his concern for her when she attemtepted to use the ring on the Cauldron. After being turned into a pooka Velvet and Cornelius would continue their love for countless centuries as they would live into Alice's time confirming that the events of Odin Sphere are, at the very least, more than likely real. However when they finally collected all the coins Cornelius was hesistant to break the curse as he didn't want to grow old and die as he wished to stay with Velvet forever. Velvet however would convince him that it would be best that they break the curse and to live till death do them part.

It's suffice to say that besides Oswald and Gwendolyn that these two have the strongest love for each other. Neither care for each other's status, nor do they care about the possibility that their love for each other could lead to horrible consequences as it had done for those related to them, Velvet's mother and Cornelius' uncle. Both love each other to such degree that they are willing to protect each other to the bitter end, however neither want the other to get hurt. Their love unlike Oswald and Gwendolyn whose had been born out a desire to feel loved and wanted, or Ingway and Mercedes who had been born due to nessecissity for each other's abilities, is perhaps born out of genuine love. That isn't to say however their love is more pure than the other two but it is very strong for sure. They are both are also very willing to deal with hard conditions so long as they are together with each other.

Demon Lord Odin: DLO and velvet have an unrequited relationship due to his abandonment and neglect of his former lover and that he did not remained loyal to her because he was remarried and had another two daughters, whom are velvet's paternal half-sisters, when velvet knows that he was remarried and had children with his second woman, velvet was disappointed, even though velvet despise her father very much because of what fault he did, demon lord odin continues to love and understand her because she was his daughter and told her that he did not neglected their mother and they we're torn apart because of the unfortunate situation they are in, forcing him to leave his former lover, even though velvet has anger towards her father for his neglect of their mother, she did not wanted nor have intentions of taking revenge against her father while her twin brother has, she is shown to have some little compassion for him when his twin brother ingway comes into his kingdom to confront him over his greed for the cauldron and the neglect of their mother.

Gwendolyn: Her and Velvet first met on the ruins of the valentine kingdom during a war conflict, when they first saw each other, they did not think much rather than being an enemy with each other, although later the truth was revealed about them with each other and their family background in which they had a love-hate relationship at first due to the fact they we're both trying to compete for affection and love of their father to themselves, despite of their dislike of one another they still both show concern with each other, this can be seen when gwendolyn helped velvet free from her capture status by her kingdom's forces while velvet confronts their father for banishing her from their kingdom and continued to pray and hope for her that her kindness will be rewarded that someone will come to her life to love her unconditionally and smoothly in exchange for the kindness she did for velvet herself, their relationship can be described as "frenemy" sometimes at the moments whenever they had a rivalry.

Ingway: Him and velvet's relationship is a sibling argument one, they both show concern with one another but ingway somehow despises his sister's action especially when he noticed that she was acting too "irrationally" for giving her the chain that he was handling, they had confrontation and understandment at the time of ingway's confrontation with their father for his greed of power from the cauldron and the neglect of their father, despite his despise of his sister's actions, velvet continues to concern and have compassionate over him, this can be seen when she informed that their mother did not really hated them but actually loved them both for hating her in order to save themselves from getting killed by their maternal grandfather king valentine.