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arcueid brunestud ☓ tsukihime ☓ unreserved
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Character Name: Arcueid Brunestud
Canon: Tsukihime/Melty Blood
Canon Point: Arcueid Route, post True End
Background/History: voila
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Not knowing how things will turn out, yet
still having hope at least for that moment.”
Arcueid is really one of the most cheerful, optimistic and friendly people you could ever meet. She seems to have a great interest and passion for the normal things in life, and takes great joy in things as simple as eating a hamburger or going to see a movie. In fact, it almost feels like she's living every moment like it's her last, so every moment is full of joy and hope. And, of course, as it goes for fictional characters, in a way, she is.
Arcueid isn't your typical vampire for a lot of reasons besides her bubbly personality. She's the princess of the vampires, and yet not, because in reality, Arcueid is a being created by the rest of the vampires to exterminate their kin who had fallen and been unable to suppress their desire to feed on humans. She existed solely as a weapon and had no thoughts or desires, since every time she was awoken to perform her duty as executioner, her memories of each time were destroyed before she again went to sleep. This continued for a while until a human seeking immortality tricked Arcueid into drinking his blood, which not only made him a very powerful vampire, but also awakened the vampiric impulse that had been dormant in Arcueid before. After slaughtering many vampires in a berserk mode, she opted to sleep again until her duty needed to be performed once more.
So during the course of Tsukihime, Arcueid is tracking down the now-vampire that fed her his blood, but happens to run into a young man who can see death manifested as lines and dots on everything. But of course, as luck would have it, he's also got a healthy dose of crazy and ends up being able to kill Arcueid and significantly weaken her. It's by this odd team-up of a vampire and the person that killed her that Arcueid is able to become more than a weapon, because through having to work with Shiki, she's exposed to many things that she otherwise would have had no interest or need to look into.
Since she doesn't have much experience with the world, she tends to come off as rather naive and childish. Experiences like movies are an enthralling and unique experience that she gets totally caught up in, or on the other hand, if someone is a bit rude to her, she might call them something as childish as a "meanie." It's an interesting and often noted contradiction, since this is a woman with great and terrible power, yet she takes the greatest pleasure in simple and normal things in life.
And as such, we come to that quote at the top. This is the quote that I think embodies how Arcueid is and views the world. It's an optimistic and hopeful sentiment, but also very bittersweet. Even though she takes such joy in the normalcies of human life, she's also caught in the "what ifs." Even though she enjoys them so much, she also believes they're fundamentally something she can't have. She can't have a normal and fun life because it was never meant to be, and she even goes as far in this belief as to deny herself of the chance once it's presented to her. To Arcueid, that kind of happiness simply isn't possible for her. It's ultimately just a "what if."
This is the ultimate tragedy of Arcueid, and it's one that she keeps very well hidden. She's torn between her duty as the weapon of the True Ancestors and her desire to simply live. She doesn't complain about her burden at all, since she feels that it's something that she deserves or is simply her fate, but still longs for something else. So this tragedy is why Arcueid really presents as so bubbly, curious and cheerful. Every interaction and experience she has is something temporary and fleeting, so she wants to learn and enjoy as much as she can before she loses it once she returns to sleep.
But of course, it's hard to pull that out of her. Arcueid is the kind of person to keep up that cheerful and friendly facade until her death, because she doesn't want to burden other people with her problems. Even when she does reveal her feelings of loneliness and the hardship she's dealt with, she has a habit of sugarcoating it. She might say that it's "not so bad" with a smile, but of course, she's really just trying to diminish the impact it has. She has gotten a bit better at learning to share her feelings since meeting Shiki, but it's still not something she will easily admit to.
But overall, Arcueid is a strange, whimsical person. One moment she might be seriously explaining how to confront a situation, but at one comment may laugh with a bright smile and instead branch off to something else. She may not quite understand the general social norms (though she's getting better!!), but it somehow makes her very charming despite her mistakes. Yet these traits don't negate her inclination as a living weapon, so she's hardly to be underestimated as an enemy, which makes her a valuable friend and ally. But most of all, her greatest strength is to look in the face of an impossible circumstance with a smile and wonder "what if," and hope for what the future may hold, even if it's almost impossible.
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So, as a brief summary, Arcueid is a special True Ancestor, which means she has a ton of abilities. And, well, the fact that she exists in TYPE-MOON... Which, as a general note, Arcueid is considered one of the most powerful beings in her universe even at a highly reduced state of power, so. She's hella strong. Pretty much all of her abilities are supernatural in nature, but I've broken them down by what's common to all/most True Ancestors and what's unique to Arcueid. In terms of weaknesses, canon pretty much says in a long, roundabout way that 99.9% of the time, she doesn't have any, and the actual series is focused on that 0.1% of the time where she's kind of fucked. But. One of Arcueid's main weaknesses is that she has to use a large amount of her power to suppress her vampiric impulse. This takes a huge amount of her willpower, and when weakened, it gets more difficult for her to do so. If she were to give in to her vampiric impulse, it would return some of her power, but essentially at the cost of her sanity, since she goes berserk. So she tries very hard to avoid this, to the point of sealing herself and going back to sleep again.
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