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ciel ✟ tsukihime/melty blood ✟ not reserved
She was outgoing during her first year, did everything to support her new friends and acquaintances. She made a big mistake with Shiki, but they eventually made up and she was inspired to keep pushing. She even conducted the ceremony in which he married a girl he fell in love with in town, but unfortunately, the couple was droned shortly after they got together. Their leaving are among the latter of a string of continuous droning of virtually every person that she's grown close to during the past year. She could keep going, but it became very tiring. She'd greet newcomers and explain the town to them, she maintained her cheerful smiles, but after the first year, Ciel became much less keen on becoming attached to others. Having key figures like Sakura and Archer droned and coming back - more than three times each, even, and every single time, without any memories of their previous stays, was especially taxing. She understood that it couldn't be helped, they had no control, they can't do anything about it, but... It was still disheartening. The feeling that no matter what you do and how hard you struggle, it won't amount to anything in the end. A canon update during which she 'returned' home convinced her that nothing that happens in Mayfield matters. She'll honor the memory of the people she met thanks to this town, but in the end, no difference she makes in their lives would count. Yet there she still is, in that town, trudging forward and picking up the pieces left behind by those who are gone.
That led to a questionably healthy resolution during her second year. It's the motto Shiki himself held: to just live the present. She won't concern herself with the future, but she can't afford to have the past drag her down and hollow her out. She grew more reserved and more outgoing at the same time. She didn't stop approaching others, she just did it less. She started to worry a little less about long-term consequences, and started acting a little more as however she truly pleased. She was still careful about the latter, however. She's an expert inquisitor, after all. She can't risk going too soft, becoming too merciful. Trek down that road too far, and she'll become far too easy to kill. Mayfield isn't a town where sentimentality is safe or easy to harbor, but neither was Ciel herself easy to sway, her mentality and modus operanti both hardened countless of times through various events, back home and in Mayfield.
...Or so she thought, but it seems that wherever she went, life liked to prove her wrong. She approached less people, but due to her own kind nature that she cannot change, it inevitably made it so that the few bonds she did held became unimaginably strong. Ciel still snarked at Arcueid, but in a place where the True Ancestor's been notably weakened, Ciel has never failed to do her best to support the ditzy vampire and work together with her when the times were dire. Charles was a thing, too. The fact that she's patient and cheery but secretly a killing machine deep down made it easy to handle his temper tantrums and aggressive physical quips. He learned her physical superiority the hard way, and it's entirely his fault that she grew a bit too fond of trolling and being overbearingly motherly. Marisa's story is similar. Situations were strained sometimes, Ciel nagged, Marisa talked back, but despite arguing often, both truly enjoyed their time together under the same roof playing as 'mom' and 'daughter'. Ciel partly figured that it didn’t matter in the end, but Marisa remains as the first (and only) person she’s personally confessed her past to openly during their last few days of Mayfield. And then, there was Abel. "Bird of a feather" was the only conclusion one can draw. He was just as hypocritical as she was, if not more. Through friendly small talk and sobering admissions when either of their masks cracked, however, she's began to try doing something she thought she never would again: rely on someone else. Seven works alone. She still strongly disagrees with how the priest sees the world: he's too kind, too soft, he can't pull the trigger when it matters, his ideals are too innocent for him to have to dirty his hands. Nevertheless, through cumulative small steps of give and take, she's slowly shedding aside her role of a killing machine to accept her human identity of being a 'woman', and to not rush into everything on her own like always.
Really, it was over-indulging. She really shouldn't be playing at mothering unstable vampire children or outgoing rebellious witches, much less pretend to be a normal girl who's lost her life years ago. Still, Mayfield has undeniably provided her with the opportunity to care for others extensively like she had very little chance to back home, so for that, she became more honest with who she is. So... it looks like she failed to keep her own quirks in check and ended up over-investing herself, after all. Hopefully she can afford to have her edges dulled; she really wasn't counting on remembering all those fuzzy moments, having bargained on forgetting everything once she was through with that town.
Personality: Ciel is first introduced in Tsukihime as a cheerful, chatty, and compassionate, third year senior. She might be a bit strange to follow sometimes and has a frightening obsession with curry, but she generally gives off the air of a kind, mild, well-mannered, polite, reliable, smart, and even motherly older student. Sure, she’s not without her quirks, but generally, she gives a nice relaxed image of someone who goes by her pace and can follow another’s well. She’s also very good at keeping her calm. Even when angered or upset, she can hide her dismay well behind her flawless and very convincing smile, so her presence is generally always considered to be a soothing one. She is always ready to support someone in their time of need too, willing to listen to their troubles and giving them tips when she can. A good example is in her own route, where she finds Shiki soaked and miserable in the park after he ‘killed’ Arcueid. She proceeds to take him in like a lost duckling, but refuses to listen to his pity speech. Shiki was convinced that he was a bad person because of whatever he did, but Ciel tells him that the moment he is remorseful for whatever crime he thought he committed, he is not a bad person. She never allowed him to go into details why he felt so guilty, jokingly brushing it off as something she didn’t need to know. As a constant of Shiki’s school life (or so he thinks, anyway), she is always there as a comforting presence, offering to eat lunch with him and hear him out to get him to relax and calm down.
The picture of a good normal girl is a façade, however. Ciel’s true nature is cold and methodical. Her character is sober, her personality is serious, and her actions are methodical. She is in fact an elite vampire killer who works for the Holy Church, and disguised herself as a student in order to get information on Roa, the vampire who ruined her life that’s ordered to be eliminated by the Church. Above being an Executor, Ciel is a Burial Agent, the most ruthless organization inside the church that would resort to heresies to accomplish their goals. In accordance to the organization’s motto, Ciel can tell lies without batting an eyelash, manipulate people through unethical hypnotism to suit her needs, and engage in very underhanded acts to get the results she seeks. She is also capable of putting up the extremely cold and ruthless mask of an indiscriminate killer for the same purpose. Demonstrated in Powered Ciel's story mode in Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code, her voice and expression are strictly controlled, barely showing any emotion whatsoever. That’s because she can perform self-hypnosis on herself to frame her mindset into that of a detached and mechanical individual who would be more efficient at fighting. Able of clear thinking and sound reasoning even under heavy pressure, she can be very dangerous and highly competent when she needs to be.
That, however, is still another act. Elesia was a kind and loving girl, and even after all that she's been through, this part of her she cannot change. Ciel is a nosy person who would be all up in the business of the people whom she cares for. Even when she deceives them, it’s usually for their own good. She is inherently gentle and wants people close to her to be happy and well. She may proceed generally under the modus operandi that the end justifies the means, but understanding pain well and knowing how hard it blows to be at the wrong place during the wrong time, she would work her hardest to keep innocents out of the way even if it's at a great detriment to herself. She knows full well how sad and painful dying fully is, which is why she is so insistent on trying to talk Shiki out of the highly dangerous vampire hunting business he got roped into by promising Arcueid. Hardened greatly by her personal experiences, she's by large disillusioned by the world, and while she's usually a mild person, she finds herself more often than not voicing reason that she could only wish Shiki would listen to. Still, despite the fact that she has antagonized Shiki in the main storyline, she openly tells him that if there was one person that she wants to show her merciful side to, it would be him. Another contradiction, even there: she's proven time and again to be capable of letting other "heresies" slide, using the bigger picture as an excuse to not be as ruthless as she could/SHOULD have been. This is mostly proven through Arcueid route, where she took the greatly weakened Shiki who could barely stand back to the school upon his request, in order to reunite him with Arcueid for the final fight against Roa. She even admits there, albeit subtly, to be envious of Arcueid for having Shiki love her so strongly, but knowing her own role to be purely supportive, she assisted him regardless. In Melty Blood, she ultimately let Sion go because she trusted Shiki to keep an eye on her, and that her mission, first and foremost, was to eliminate the Tatari. Catching the Alchemist and returning her to Atlas is second to that, so as long as the Tatari still roams, she can overlook Sion. Additionally, in her own route, attempting to kill Shiki was a very hard decision for Ciel to make. If Shiki refused to take off his glasses and face her on equal terms, she would be utterly incapable of shutting of her human side and kill him in cold blood: she would have beaten him up around a bit, but ultimately crack and completely break down in tears once she's forced to come to terms with the fact that he is dear to her. She can't do that to a person who just smiles and accepts her for who she truly is, willing to take on death for her sake and tell her it's fine despite knowing how much she's lied and hid from him from the very start.
All in all, she's caught between two extremities; detachment and care, coldness and warmth, ruthlessness and kindness, and the list goes on. Ciel is far from being a good Catholic, but she takes sin and atonement extremely seriously due to her own survivor's guilt after all the pain and destruction that she wrought upon everything she loved with her own two hands. She understands that it couldn't be helped and Roa is the cause, but while this is something that she will never make mention of under normal circumstances, it's still her responsibility to make up for. She's been brought up as a cold and efficient killer by the Church, but because of her experiences, she's full well capable of speaking logic with emotion and act as a voice of reason. She's not a character who would revel in the spotlight either, preferring to take on a supportive role to help those that she holds in good favor. She can nag, warn and threaten, but when all's said and done, she'll be there to help and bail the reckless hero because she simply can't leave the troublesome types alone. Still capable of being pleasant and carry easily casual conversations, she presents herself as a reliable and strong individual that anyone can confide in and lean on for support. She can get very serious when she has to, but generally, while she may deny it, she still prefers to be the laid-back and smiling senpai that Shiki can always count on.