(Image to character) The Laughing Fortuna

Name: Luce Rubis Dagonet

True Name: The Laughing Fortuna

Rank: Saint (Transcendent)

Class: Beast

Soul Cores: [1/1]

Soul Fragments: [1,000/1,000]

Aspect: [Jester of Fortune]

Aspect Rank: Sacred

Aspect Description:

Reality is less certain than people believe.

Every moment contains countless possibilities, and every choice creates another path.

Some people are crushed by fate, others submit to it, while its chosen ones defy it, but you learned to laugh at it.

The world is your stage, possibility is your audience, and every impossible coincidence is another card you must draw upon.

What should be certain can become unlikely, and what should be impossible may suddenly be the only outcome

You are not a fool who stumbled into power.

You are the chaos that learned to write its own joke.

And the universe has never stopped being puppeteered by you.

Attributes:

[Golden soul]: Your soul aligns with your conscious desires.

[Unbroken Spirit]: Your spirit possesses extraordinary resistance to despair, supernatural fear, mental collapse, and prolonged psychological strain.

[Lucky Fool]: The universe conspires in your favor, no matter what you seek to achieve or overcome.

[Quick Study]: You possess exceptional talent for learning through observation and experimentation.

[Flexible being]: Contradiction does not trouble you as much as it troubles ordinary minds.

[Clown]: Born from jesters, prophets, and madmen, the Clown walks between the sacred and absurd.

[Mind of madness]: Reality often appears fractured and strange to you, allowing you to comprehend ### and secrets that ordinary minds cannot perceive.

Aspect Abilities:

Innate Ability: [Reality Shuffle]:
You can subtly alter probability, causing unlikely events to occur in your favor.

Dormant Upgrade: You can consciously influence several possible outcomes surrounding an event, placing greater weight upon the one you favor.

Awakened Upgrade: You can peer into the fortune or misfortune of people and the events leading to it or from it.

Ascended Upgrade: You can manifest probabilities that haven't occurred.

Transcendent Upgrade: You can "rewrite" a single moment that just occurred within the last 7 seconds, forcing reality to reroll the outcome once.

Dormant Ability: [Card Creation]:
You can create supernatural cards from Soul Essence. Cards become weapons, shields, traps, creatures, tools, projectiles, or other constructs.

Awakened Upgrade: imprint a property she has directly observed onto a card.

Ascended Upgrade: You can transform phenomena into cards, capturing and later releasing things..

Transcendent Upgrade: Individual cards can be permanently prepared into specialized decks. Cards belonging to the same deck develop synergy with one another, and playing them in a deliberate sequence strengthens or modifies later cards. (Think Yu gi oh)

Awakened Ability: [Grand Illusion]:
You can create extremely convincing illusions like multisensory, etc.

(Ex: Imitate people, creatures, objects, environments, sounds, and supernatural phenomena.)

Ascended Upgrade: can use materials has foundation of an illusion.

Transcendent Upgrade: Give illusion temporary substance.

Ascended Ability: [White Marionette]
You can generate razor-thin white strings from your body. The strings can attach and interact with the physical has well has the spiritual.

Transcendent Upgrade: You can freely alter the properties of your threads.

(She can also assign different properties to different sections of the same thread.)

Transcendent Ability: [Harlequin]
You can transform into a magnificent Harlequin figure, greatly enhancing your aspect and attributes. A supernatural mask forms over your face while your soul essence manifests as an aura around you. The main ability of this harlequin figure is the ability to instantly swap your position with any target within your range.

Flaw:

[The Unfinished Choice]
Every important decision reveals too many equally valid alternatives. Choosing is possible, but certainty never follows, and the weight of what might have been lingers afterward.
Or
[Laughing Through Grief]
Profound sorrow, fear, anger, despair and overall negative emotion his involuntarily expressed through laughter. The greater the pain, the harder it becomes to stop.

Aspect Legacy: [The Fool’s Pilgrimage]
(The Legacy represents the hidden path of the Fool: to walk where certainty says no path exists.)

1st Stage: [The Fool’s Grimoire]: Claimed
A supernatural inheritance of performance sorcery: ritual theatre, symbolic gestures, masks, dance, stage magic, magical games, card symbolism, sacred comedy, and spells hidden inside performances.

2nd Stage: [The Unbound Existence]: Claimed
Your existence gains extraordinary compatibility with unconventional movement and interaction.

3rd Stage: [Mask of Nobody]: Claimed
Soulbound Legacy Relic: a blank porcelain mask that is currently in its 1st stage.

4th Stage: [Royal Menagerie]: Claimed
Soulbound companion: a white raven with seven black eyes. (It is an Echo-like Legacy creature that grows alongside her rather than having a fixed rank.)

5th Stage: [The Backstage]: Unclaimed

6th Stage: [The Carnival Without End]: Locked
[The audience has gone home. Why are you still performing?]

7th Stage: [Crown of the Fool]: Locked
[A king commands because the world recognizes his authority. A fool commands because the world forgets that it was ever free.]

8th Stage: [The World Upside Down]: Locked
[What stands above may stand below. What is sacred may become absurd. What is impossible merely requires a better joke.]

9th Stage: [The Last Laugh]: Locked
[Do not laugh until the joke is finished.]

Aspect technique:

[Stitching]: Using [Reality Shuffle], [White Marionette], and [Card Creation], Luce binds a prepared card to the soul or spirit of one of her Nascent Domain members. She then increases the probability of beneficial interactions between the card’s properties and the target, improving compatibility while reducing the chances of rejection or harmful side effects.

[House of Mirrors]: Using [Grand Illusion] together with [Reality Shuffle], Luce creates several equally convincing possibilities around a target, then subtly alters probability so that the target is more likely to choose the worst plausible option among them.

[Marionette Waltz]: Using [White Marionette], Luce spreads hundreds of threads across the battlefield and uses them simultaneously for movement, cutting, binding, sensing, manipulating weapons, moving debris, activating cards, and controlling terrain.

[Phantom legion]: Using [grand illusion] Luce creates an army of illusionary soldiers, beasts, or duplicates while giving substance only to selected portions at the moment they need to attack, defend, restrain, or interact.

[Card Counter]: Using the Ascended upgrade of [Card Creation], Luce intercepts an incoming attack, barrier, elemental phenomenon, or other suitable effect and converts it into a card.

[Thread Relay]: Using [White Marionette], [Card Creation], and [Harlequin], Luce scatters cards and thread anchors throughout the battlefield, connecting them into a network of predetermined exchange points. She can rapidly swap between cards, objects, weapons, illusions, and environmental anchors.

Additional Information:

Source Element: Possibility, Fortune, Illusion, Chaos, Cards, Fate.

World Effect: Coincidences become increasingly common. Lost objects are found, mechanisms unexpectedly function, attacks narrowly miss, and unlikely opportunities appear.

(The effect grows more noticeable the longer she remains in an area.)

Soul Core: A small rotating sphere resembling a miniature theater. A crimson center is surrounded by countless golden cards that constantly rearrange themselves.

Soul Sea: An endless moonlit theater beneath a dark sky. A crimson curtain stretches across the horizon while countless cards drift through the air and white strings descend from above. Mirrors scattered across the sea reflect different versions of Luce.

Fortune Essence: A highly adaptable soul essence that is very suitable for fate, luck, fortune, etc., alongside fueling and manipulating complex supernatural constructs.

Talents: Swordsmanship, acrobatics, acting, deception, timing, evasion, strategy, psychology, diplomacy, battlefield improvisation, runic sorcery, and weaving.

Nascent Will: [Laughing Defiance]
Refusal of inevitable outcome
(Where another person sees certain defeat, she searches for the possibility everyone else overlooked.)

Nascent Domain: [The Grand Stage]
A sphere of influence centered around Luce.
People that become attached to her nascent domain have their luck and probability be favorable, allowing her to use her ability on them better. She also makes people bound to her nascent domain through [Stiching].

Natural Supremacy:
Luce’s natural path toward supremacy would involve establishing her authority over possibility strongly enough for the world itself to recognize it.

However, she has also discovered a Fourth Nightmare Seed unusually suited to her.

Combat Philosophy: The essence of combat is unpredictability.

Transcendent Battle Art: [The Fool’s Dance]
A constantly changing combat style combining swordsmanship, acrobatics, cards, illusions, strings, probability, her performance sorcery, and position exchange.

Sorcery: Runic Sorcery, Weaving (white marionette and card creation, her luck, and being able to create illusions to experiment allowed her to learn it), and Sorcery of Names.

She specializes in incorporating theatrical movement into spell construction, allowing complex sorcery to resemble dances, performances, gestures, card tricks, or meaningless flourishes.

Unique Mechanics with the Nightmare Spell:
The Spell assists in displaying possible card interactions and translating supernatural phenomena into a form compatible with [Card Creation].

Turning a nightmare seed into a dungeon's card and her essence, attribute and innate ability allows her for an increased chances of dropping memories and echoes but also of higher rarities.

Citadel: [Redoubt of Rubis]
A large fortress built around a conquered gateway inside a naturally defensible mountain basin.

(The fortress contains massive defensive walls, workshops, housing, barracks, agricultural land, storage facilities, and the central Gateway.)

Citadel Components:

[The Everlasting Furnace]: A supernatural furnace buried beneath the Citadel that requires no conventional fuel. It can sustain extraordinary temperatures and is capable of processing supernatural metals, Nightmare Creature materials, and other difficult substances.

(It serves as the foundation of the Redoubt’s industrial production.)

[The Verdant Basin]: The land surrounding the fortress possesses extraordinarily fertile soil. Plants grow much faster than normal and resist poor weather and environmental conditions.

[The Deep Well]: An underground reservoir produces a seemingly inexhaustible supply of pure supernatural water.

[The Watchtower]: A supernatural observation tower capable of surveying an enormous portion of the surrounding territory.
(It can identify large approaching forces, major Nightmare Creatures, supernatural disturbances, and significant environmental changes.)

[The Endless House]: A supernatural aura that makes room inside the citadel considerably larger inside than its physical dimensions suggest. Food and other nonliving materials stored inside deteriorate extremely slowly.

[The Healing Spring]: A supernatural spring whose waters accelerate natural physical and spiritual recovery.

Alias:

The trickster Saint

Crimson Jester

Lady Luck

The Fool of Valor

Harlequin Saint

The Impossible Woman

The Laughing Omen

The Scarlet Fool

Feats:
Became one of Valor’s most valuable battlefield saints.

Used large-scale illusions to deceive armies.

Tricked a great devil into killing itself.

Used altered perception of time inside illusions to help exhausted soldiers rest and not move in godgrave.

Fought the beast master army by manipulating her creatures with strings.

Survived the Domain War.

Prevented Summer Knight’s death by Asterion forces.

Established a comparatively prosperous settlement following exile.

Manage to discover Cassie's schemes and turn them to her advantage.

Survived a battle to the death with Nephis after trapping Cassi in an illusion of her own betrayal

Personality:
Playful, theatrical, mischievous, and highly intelligent.
She enjoys jokes, dramatic entrances, elaborate performances, and deliberately absurd behavior, but beneath her humor is an extremely serious and loyal person.

Her humor is ultimately a form of defiance and madness against the cruelty of the world.

Top 5 Relevant Characters:

Saint Jest: Father
Luce’s father and the person responsible for much of her upbringing within Valor. She was raised and groomed to eventually become one of the Domain’s Saints.

Anvil: Patron
Anvil considered Luce one of Valor’s most valuable future assets.

Her ability to manipulate fortune and possibility gave him hope that, should she eventually achieve Supremacy, she might be capable of mitigating his flaw and allowing him to feel again.

Summer Knight: Friend
One of Luce’s closest friends.
Their personalities differ considerably, but their friendship and battlefield compatibility developed over years of fighting together.

Morgan: Friend
A longtime friend and training partner from Luce’s years within Valor.
Morgan’s disciplined nature contrasts strongly with Luce’s theatrical behavior, although the two understand one another extremely well.

Cassie: Former Confidant
Cassie became one of Luce’s friends and confidants.
When Luce discovered her betrayal, she retaliated by constructing an illusion based upon Cassie’s own memories and the memories of people connected to her, which included the lord of the shadow because he had one of his avatars in Cassie's shadow when gathering material for the illusion.

She combined the illusion with sorcery, which included the memories of Sunny because Cassie betrayed him the most, the illusion forcing Cassie to experience the betrayals she had inflicted from the perspective of the people affected.

This caused a serious confrontation with Nephis.
And a vague sense of satisfaction from Sunny.

Lore:
Luce Rubis was born into Saint Jest’s household and raised within Clan Valor, where becoming Awakened was treated as an expectation rather than a possibility. She grew up around Valor’s retainers, became close to Morgan and Summer Knight, and knew Mordret before his disappearance.

As her aspect developed, Anvil took particular interest in her affinity over fortune and possibility. Mordret became one of Luce’s first reasons to distrust Valor. She had known him before his removal from the clan, but the truth was hidden from her.

When she eventually learned that Anvil had given Mordret to Asterion and that Mordret’s own Flaw later shattered him into seven incomplete selves, and when Mordret came back he was sealed, she briefly rebelled against Valor before eventually returning.

During the Domain War, Luce served primarily as a battlefield-control Saint. Her illusions concealed formations, created false troops and terrain, and gave exhausted soldiers controlled mental environments where they could experience extended rest in much shorter real time.

She also became close to Cassie. When Cassie and Nephis appeared to betray Valor and injured her father while defecting to Song, Luce took it personally. In anger, she forced Cassie through an illusion built from her own memories, and also Sunny, who was nearby, made her experience the suffering caused by her betrayals from the victims’ perspectives.

After Anvil and Ki Song fell and the Human Domain was created, Luce refused to immediately submit to Nephis. She followed Jest and Summer Knight into exile, where the remaining Valor loyalists lived under brutal conditions. Luce helped keep the settlement functional through governance, supplies, morale, recovery, and civilian organization.

During the Asterion takeover. Later, when Morgan asked the exiles to return to war to fight Mordret and Asterion, Luce joined them not because she had forgiven Nephis or Cassie, but because humanity’s survival mattered more than old loyalties; she even prevented Summer Knight from dying.

She has since become involved in the struggle against Asterion and the Hunger Domain while also preparing for a Fourth Nightmare Seed unusually suited to her aspect.

Current Situation:
Luce is currently fighting alongside the former Valor exiles after their return from exile, using her illusion to distort the name or idea of asterion into something else, making them resistant or immune to his domain influence.

Her relationship with Cassie is complicated by resentment and the knowledge that she never understood the full situation surrounding Cassie’s apparent betrayal and that Cassie was also using her. Summer Knight remains one of the people she is most determined to protect alongside her father.

At the same time, Luce is preparing for a Fourth Nightmare Seed that appears exceptionally compatible with her path. She still considers natural supremacy possible, but the growing hunger crisis is pushing her toward the Nightmare Spell instead.

Her immediate goal is simple: reach Supremacy before humanity runs out of time.

Top 3 Memories:
1. [Eclipse]
Rank: Transcendent
Tier: VII
Type: Weapon: Greatsword
A colossal double-edged greatsword forged from black metal and pale silver. A thin line of darkness runs through the center of its blade.
Enchantments:
[Bound]: Eclipse is bound to Luce at every level and can always be summoned back to her.
[Soul Edge]: The blade damages the physical body and soul simultaneously. Spiritual wounds inflicted by Eclipse remain even after ordinary physical healing.
[Phantom Cleaver]: Eclipse can interact with incorporeal creatures, spirits, intangible targets, and entities that do not possess conventional physical bodies.
[Elemental Armament]: Eclipse can be infused with Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Earth, Water, Light, or Darkness. Its attacks gain the properties and damage of the chosen element.
[Devouring Edge]: Eclipse can absorb 9 cards to boost itself and the wielder.
[Feed]: Each strike steals essence from the opponent.
[Grave Weight]: Eclipse can drastically increase and decrease its mass.
[Abyssal Edge]: By heavily consuming essence, Eclipse can attack supernatural connections such as bindings, possession, certain enchantments, spiritual links, and regenerative effects.
[Eclipse body]: The blade possesses extraordinary durability and cannot be damaged by ordinary physical force.

2. [Aegis of Heaven’s Fall]
Rank: Transcendent
Tier: VII
Type: Armor
A suit of heavy silver armor covered in ancient inscriptions. Six crystalline plates rest along the back and shoulders like folded metallic wings.
Enchantments:
[Bound]: The armor is bound to Luce and follows her transformation and bodily changes.
[Adamant]: Provides extreme resistance to physical damage.
[Elemental Ward]: Provides powerful resistance against elemental attacks.
[Soul Bastion]: Protects Luce against attacks directed toward her soul.
[Mind Fortress]: Provides substantial resistance against mental attacks, illusions, possession, fear, and external interference with cognition.
[Impact Nullification]: Converts part of incoming force into harmless redirected momentum.
[Energy Conversion]: A portion of absorbed energy can be converted into usable Soul Essence.
[Heaven’s Wings]: The six crystalline plates unfold into supernatural wings capable of sustained high-speed flight.
[Absolute Guard]: The plates can detach from the armor and independently defend Luce or another nearby target.

3. [Ouroboros]
Rank: Transcendent
Tier: VII
Type: Utility Memory
A golden mechanical serpent formed from hundreds of interlocking segments.
Enchantments:
[Bound]: Ouroboros is permanently bound to Luce.
[Living Relic]: The serpent can independently move, observe its surroundings, and obey commands.
[Soul Reservoir]: Ouroboros possesses a separate reserve of Soul Essence that Luce can draw upon.
[Regeneration]: Ouroboros can accelerate and improve healing of all sort.
[Soul Mending]: Ouroboros can gradually repair injuries inflicted upon Luce’s soul.
[Essence Conversion]: It can absorb compatible ambient supernatural energies and slowly convert them into usable Soul Essence.
[Poison Eater]: Ouroboros can identify and extract many poisons, toxins, curses, and corruptive substances from Luce or another target.
[Guardian Serpent]: The Memory can automatically intercept attacks directed toward its master.
[Remote Eye]: Luce can perceive through Ouroboros’s senses, allowing it to serve as a mobile scouting tool.
[Ouroboros]: When Luce suffers catastrophic physical or spiritual injuries, the Memory can consume part of its ownstructure to rapidly restore her. The sacrificed portions require descent time and essence to regenerate.

Soulbound Companion: [Seven-Eyed Raven]
A white raven with seven black eyes arranged across its face and brow. It is an Echo-like Legacy creature permanently bound to Luce’s soul and grows alongside her rather than possessing a fixed rank.

Attributes:
[Soulbound]: The raven is permanently connected to Luce.
[Sevenfold interaction]: You can interact with all that you perceive
[Perfect Cartographer]: Every route, location, structure, landscape, gateway, and spatial anomaly the raven witnesses is perfectly remembered.
[Sevenfold Perception]: Each of its seven eyes perceives a different layer of reality.
[Far Wanderer]: Distance, altitude, darkness, thin air, extreme cold, and ordinary environmental hazards interfere very little with its ability to scout.
[Messenger of the Fool]: The raven possesses human-level intelligence and can understand speech, symbols, maps, and complex instructions. It can reproduce voices it has heard with perfect accuracy.

Abilities:
[Shared senses]: Allow the user to perceive through any of the raven’s senses and communicate with it mentally.
[Eye of Distance]: Allows the raven to see extraordinary distances with extreme detail.
[Eye of Essence]: Perceives soul essence and supernatural energy.
[Eye of Spirits]: Perceives souls, incorporeal beings, spiritual residue, and entities partially detached from physical reality.
[Eye of Falsehood]: Detects inconsistencies between what exists and what is being perceived. (She tests her illusions against the raven to improve them.)
[Eye of Passage]: Perceives space and time.
[Eye of Danger] Perceives environmental danger rather than predicting the future.
[Eye of the Unknown]: perceive something the other six cannot understand.
[Never Lost]: The raven can retrace any journey it has personally completed, even when ordinary navigation should be impossible.
Legacy Growth:
Dormant: extraordinary mundane vision, memory and navigation.
Awakened: [Eye of Essence] and mental communication develop.
Ascended: spiritual, deception and space/time perception awaken.
Transcendent: all Seven Eyes become complete, and [Never Lost] awakens.
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