Summary[]
Arcueid Brunestud is one of the main heroines of the 2000 visual novel, Tsukihime.
She is the famed "White Princess" of the True Ancestors, created for the meaningless purpose of being the strongest of their kind. Tasked with eradicating those True Ancestors that fell to their bloodlust and the Dead Apostles that turned against them, she was nothing more than a tool used for this purpose, lacking any personality or identity. She was only taught what was needed to kill her targets, and whenever she completed her mission, she went to sleep and had her memories erased.
She never had to resist her vampiric impulses, and the rest of the True Ancestors thought she had none. This changed when Michael Roa Valdamjong tricked her into feeding on him, awakening her bloodlust and sending her on a rampage that wiped out most of the remaining True Ancestors. After that, she managed to restrain herself, overpowering her vampiric impulses yet constantly battling against them. While she eventually succeeded in killing Roa alongside the Burial Agency, he had already perfected his method of reincarnation. And so, Arcueid spends her life awakening whenever Roa manifests, tracking him down, and killing him, again and again.
Shiki Tohno meets her the day after he cuts her to pieces, at which point she introduces herself in an oddly cheerful manner. Due to Shiki nearly killing her, she's temporarily vulnerable but still strong enough to kill him, so she strongarms him into helping her destroy Roa. Over the course of their temporary relationship, Arcueid gets the chance to really see the world for the first time due to sleeping almost all of her very long life and starts truly developing her emotions and identity.
Powers and Stats[]
Dimensionality: 3D
Threat Level: Dragon- | Wolf+ | Dragon- | God-
Powers and Abilities:
- Enhanced Senses
- Enhanced Awareness (Was able to notice a Dead one before Shiki did)
- Enhanced Smell (Was able to pick up Shiki's scent across town and get to him)
- Enhanced Sight (Soul Vision; Could see that there are two souls inside of Shiki)
- Aura (Overwhelming and Fear-inducing; Her eyes can release a pressure that made Shiki unable to breathe. She made Shiki feel this. Can use her vampiric will, likely also with her eyes, to make the surroundings difficult to breath in)
- Immortality
- Type 1 (Has been around since the 12th century, with Arcueid having not experienced a childhood nor can she experience old age as Humans do. True Ancestors are also stated to have a lifespan that "has no end".)
- Type 3/Regeneration (Mid-High; As True Ancestors are a type of Elemental, Arcueid should have similar regeneration to Yu-Mei Ren, who can blow up her body and regenerate her body with no issues. True Ancestors are also the progenitors of Dead Apostles, and as both are vampires of similar yet distinctive existences, Arcueid should also possess the Curse of Restoration, which restores the body through means of a reversal of time that "corrects them". With it, Arcuied should be capable of performing the same level of regen as others do such as Dracula and Roa who, after being reduced to an ankle, could completely regenerate his body. However, this regenerative curse is dependent on the moon's phase, with Roa stating he would have died had the moon's phase been slightly off. Arcuied also states that the wounds from being cut up by Shiki couldn't be healed, implying she could have revived and regenerated if not for his MEoDP)
- Type 4/Resurrection (Resurrected herself after being cut up by Shiki using MEoDP. However, this process caused her to use up 80 percent of her power and even after rebuilding her body from scratch, it would take her another 2 nights for her to make a full recovery. Thus, this isn't combat-applicable)
- Type 11 (Situational; Has no concept of death when it's nighttime, but is somewhat vulnerable to any death-inducement abilities such as MEoDP when it's daytime)
- Reality Warping (Possesses the ability Marble Phantasm, which is a shared ability among Elementals that allows one to "transfigure the world into anything they want". Through this, she could freeze someone in place, turn an entire hallway into a vacuum of blades to shred her target nigh-completely, could resurrect someone with it, manifest an entire small village, and was even able to summon the moon from a thousand years in the future (albeit, she can't move while this occurs))
- Statistics Amplification and Reactive Evolution (As a Sensory of the planet, Arcueid possesses a power that makes her "output change in accordance to her target". In other words, Arcueid gains an increase in power that's just slightly above her targets, giving her an overall advantage to her opponent.)
- Mind Manipulation and Status Effect Inducement (Has the Mystic Eyes of Enchantment, which enchants the mind of those who look into Arcueid's eyes rather than her looking at them. When she actively looks at someone, her eyes can force them to stop moving. Can make people lose their memories of herself and others)
- Biological Manipulation and Soul Manipulation (The bite of a True Ancestor causes the victim to not only physically change but also have their very soul soiled as well.)
- Resistance to:
- Heat Manipulation (Unlike most True Ancestors and Dead Apostles who cannot operate under sunlight, Arcueid is able to freely walk around as the heat is only "a little hot" for her at best. It's stated Arcueid would have been fine even if she were to wear a plain t-shirt in the middle of winter.)
- Magecraft (Has resistance to magecraft systems she's experienced, such as Runes and Kahbbalah)
- Probability Manipulation (Was unaffected by a phenoemona that caused bad luck to befall on people in the city)
- Lightning Manipulation (While weakened, she was able to endure bolts of lightning magecraft with a considerable amount of time. She only started to be affected once she got even weaker. At fullpower, she should be more than capable of enduring it far better)
All previous abilities in addition to:
- Matter Manipulation (Can create and manipulate chemical elements, meaning she can manipulate atoms themselves)
- Immunity to Death Manipulation (Ryougi Shiki, who possess the Eyes of Death Perception like Tohno Shiki but "several ranks" higher and is able to cause things like magic to end and can kill intangible ghosts, stated the Archtype Arcueid had no death in her)
Physical Strength: Mountain level Striking Strength with Class 10 Lifting Strength
Attack Potency: Mountain (Nasu states Arcuied's power makes up that of four Servants, as one would have the strength of 1/4's hers. This is also Arcueid at 30% her fullpower as the rest is for controlling her bloodlust. However, she would have trouble fighting Gilgamesh but this is in the matter of affinity compatibility, such as her powers working as "single-entity ability" whereas she'd have trouble against Gilgamesh based solely on his large variety of weapons he holds rather than his own pure power. Was stated by WoG be among the strongest in the Nasuverse (as of 2007, when only stay/night and Zero existed). However, it's unknown if this is referring to Arcueid at 30% her power, her fullpower, or as Archtype: Earth.)
Durability: Mountain (Should be comparable to her AP)
Speed: At least Supersonic (Should be greater than her weakened self in Tsukihime)
Physical Strength: At least Small Building level with Class 10 Lifting Strength (Can rip apart limbs, which requires this much energy to perform)
Attack Potency: At least Small Building (Is heavily weakened due to having to use up 80% of her power to create a new body after Shiki attacked and killed her. Due to this, Arcueid throughout the VN was unable to display the amount of power she normally would have been able to perform at. However, Arcueid was also slowly regaining her strength. During the time she was regaining back her power to a state close to her pre-weakened self, she was able to do feats such as destroying a portion of a school's front side building and hit others with the force of a speeding car. Was equal to Ciel, to whom initially her power surpassed that of Arcueid's but the latter's power was growing overtime to match and eventually overturn hers.)
Durability: At least Small Building (Should be comparable to her AP. Was fine having a bunch of steel beams hitting her leg, but was unable to get out from it. Took a hit from Ciel that sent her skidding back)
Speed: At least Supersonic (Could keep up with Ciel in their fights. Attacked Shiki at what is implied to be at supersonic speeds. Could casually cover 30 meters and was stated that even 70 meters would be nothing to her)
Physical Strength: Mountain level Striking Strength with Class 10 Lifting Strength
Attack Potency: Mountain (Should be stronger than her pre-Tsukihime self due to taking back the portion of power Roa had stolen from her)
Durability: Mountain (Back to her pre-weakened self)
Speed: At least Supersonic (Should at least be the same as her pre-weakened self)
Physical Strength: Moon level Striking Strength at least with Class 10 Lifting Strength
Attack Potency: Moon (Ciel states that she could melt the ice caps on both the north and south poles, and would have disrupted the earth's axis to play ping pong using continents, to which Arcueid didn't deny which suggests she could do these things. She planned on halting the planet's rotation before she was stopped, which would require this much energy to perform. She was stated by the church and even by WoG to rival the Crimson Moon, a being who (in a hypothetical battle depiction stated by WoG) could summon an imitation of the moon and have it dropped down and who has a legend that speaks of them as being able to "end the world", albeit it's unclear in what manner of world ending this is speaking of; Arcueid in her normal state has already been shown to be able to summon the Crimson Moon, and in this state as the being closest to the Ultimate One among the True Ancestors, she should likely be capable of doing that and having it dropped down onto the world)
Durability: Moon (Should be comparable to her AP)
Speed: At least Supersonic (Should be superior than her base), possibly High Hypersonic (She is regarded as the closest one to Crimson Moon, the Ultimate One of the earth. As such, Arcueid should be able to break through the planet's escape velocity just like other Ultimate Ones, who had to have come from their own planets like Jupiter and Saturn by breaking through their own respective planet's escape velocity in order to come to earth)
Intelligence: High; As the White Princess of the True Ancestors, Arcueid is by far the strongest and most skilled among them, being an expert when it comes to hunting down Dead Apostles and has extensive knowledge of human magecraft and magical phenomenon. She is the only member of the True Ancestors who is able to hold back her bloodlust with sheer willpower and knows the inner workings of the Dead Apostle Ancestor's powers to such an extent that she is able to use Nrvnqsr Chaos' remains to heal Shiki. However, outside of supernatural matters, she's rather airheaded, naive, and clueless due to being kept inside Millennium Castle Brunestud for so many years, thinking that school was a place to have fun and hypnotizing the entire faculty into believing she was a student so she could spend the whole day with Shiki.
Stamina: High normally (Should be greater than her weakened self. Can only exercise 30% of her fullpower as the rest is used to suppress her bloodlust. Should be comparable to Servants, as she was stated to contend with Servants 1v1 and most combat-abled Servants can fight for hours to days on end.), otherwise Infinite (As a True Ancestor whose existence is that of the planet's sense of touch and are stated to have no limits, Arcueid can receive back from the planet as supplement to her power for as much as she needs) | Above Average (Though weakened from having to use up most of her power to recreate a new body, Arcueid is still physically active enough to get into lengthy fights as well as fighting against the likes of Ciel in multiple battles) | High, otherwise Infinite | Infinite (Is Arcueid at her strongest and uncapped state, meaning she's able to use her powers and the planet's ability to supplement her with energy without limit)
Range: Melee Range, likely Tens of meters physically (A range of 30 meters is still within her attack range as well as even 70 meters). Tens of meters with Marble Phantasm (At her weakest and using all of her remaining strength, Arcueid could affect an entire school hallway to shred Roa), up to kilometers at her maximum (Could create an entire small village) | Planetary (Could play around with continents like they are pinballs, and was going to stop the planet's rotation before she was stopped)
Weakness: Arcueid must use a percentage of her power to keep herself under control and hold back her bloodlust. Powerful Conceptual Weapons like Gáe Bolg are able to kill her if she is not familiar with them, though she is familiar with most Conceptual Weapons. Her backup from Gaia can be cut off by powerful barriers or reality marbles that overwrite the world. She can also lose her invulnerability to death if one "kills" off her connection to the world such as Shiki with MEoDP, making her more vulnerable to death even at nighttime despite it being a time where she has no concept of death. | After getting "killed" by Shiki Tohno, Arcueid is heavily weakened. In that state, she has poor stamina and cannot utilize her Marble Phantasm more than a few times, and cannot stand garlic. | Same as her pre-weakened self. | Same backup weakness as in base as Archetype: Earth. Archetype: Earth is also quite arrogant.
Key: Pre-Tsukihime | Throughout Tsukihime | Post Tsukihime | Archtype: Earth
Noteworthy Techniques and Abilities[]
Marble Phantasm: The ability to materialize a phantasm - a vision. It is the natural power of the World's "senses of touch", the Elementals. By connecting their will directly to the World, they are able to freely manipulate the world at will to bring it in line with their vision. As the user is the part of nature, they can change the world as they wish, they are able to create any phenomena as long as it's within their own imagination and the scope of nature. A transformation independent from nature - such as transforming a human - cannot be directly realized, though it can be accomplished indirectly. Like a mathematical metaphor involving drawing a white marble from a bag of black marbles with a one percent chance, Marble Phantasm is the ability to alter the probability and raise that chance to one hundred percent and definitely pick the white one amongst all the black ones.
Even while severely weakened and restricted, Arcueid has shown the ability to turn layers of the atmosphere within a corridor into a vacuum to eviscerate her foes. When not restricted, Arcueid can create things on the scale of a village in the mountains, she can even recreate the Crimson Moon from a thousand years into the future. The Millennium Castle Brunestud in which Arcueid lives is a product of her Marble Phantasm.
Mystic Eyes of Enchantment: Arcueid has incredibly powerful Mystic Eyes, allowing her to enchant the heart and souls of others if they make eye contact with her, but she has the ability to restrict this to prevent it. She can also use them to hypnotize others and direct them with basic suggestions, using it to modify the memories of an entire school faculty and student body in order to slip into a school unnoticed.
Curse of Restoration: A Dead Apostle's method of regeneration, which works by reversing time whenever they receive an injury. Its effectiveness is tied to the phases of the Moon. When the moon is a full moon and its nighttime, the Curse of Restoration can allow a Dead Apostle to even completely recover their body from near destruction as an ankle. Arcueid, a True Ancestor and whom share a similar if different existence from Dead Apostles as both are types of vampires of the night, should be capable of performing the same feat.
Denier of Human History: Dead Apostles are beings diametrically opposed to Heroic Spirits. While servants uphold, protect, and support human civilization, Dead Apostles exist to defile the laws of man. Legendary treasures born from the hands of humanity will have their "divine protection" destroyed. However, this does not apply to the weapons created by the gods themselves. Unless Legendary Treasures and Noble Phantasms are wielded by the proper "Emissary of The Throne", they will be totally useless against dead apostles. The weapons either glance off with no effect or crumble to dust. As a True Ancestor with an existence similar to yet different from Dead Apostles, Arcueid should be capable of performing the same feats.
Ultimate One: Due to being part of the Counter Force, Arcueid receives power and support from the planet in order to increase her specs (such as strength, speed, and durability) to be slightly above her opponent's. When used on Earth or against an opponent that originates from Earth, she can activate it without any penalty or limitation. However there is a limit to the parameters she can gain. Furthermore, it isn't very useful against opponents with great versatility or opponents who do not rely on physical attributes alone, such as Gilgamesh, as merely boosting Arcueid's stats will not bridge the gap in versatility.
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Notes[]
This profile covers the character from the 2000 visual novel.