Seraphelle Clochette/Background

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Design
Seraphelle's design is by far, the most work put into a character in order to get the correct iteration. At first, her design was to be reflective of Lady Melia, being one of her reincarnations, later in the development of GALAXYFANTASY, it was decided that Seraphelle would not be a reincarnation of the goddess by a fully designed character of her own, albeit still bearing some similarities with Lady Melia. The general direction was to make her look gracious, which completely turns on its head when the story of the character is learnt.

Her colour coding is aligned towards a red and black combination, with a subtle mix of gold in-between, which can be found across all of her clothing styles and even her weapon/objects forms. The major contrast of the three is Seraphelle's white hair, which allows a distinguishable design with aggressive colours. Despite the cast already having white coloured characters, Seraphelle has a more off-white colour, that shift towards a subtle lavender.

Seraphelle's patterns revolve around 4-point-shaped stars and bells. Her last name "Clochette", means sleigh bells in French, which was changed from "Paillette" (French for sparkles), putting an emphasis on the bell pattern design. For the Season 3, Seraphelle has lightbulbs instead, after learning about her past and unlocking her memories with her creator. Her former name, Amp, is short for "ampoule", which means lightbulb in French.

Her hair was designed to have rounded tips, to give an inoffensive feeling, and a rather dizzy attitude that is reflected in her personality. After many redesigns, the latest version of Seraphelle is seen with much shorter legs and a more miniature body shape, with a definitive height of 130 centimetres and 86 kilograms. This makes her the 4th smallest character in the entire cast of GALAXYFANTASY, being only taller than Leïla, Charlotte and Akkala.

Design similarities with Lady Melia

 * Seraphelle bears the same birthmark layout on her face, which is one on the left cheek, and four on the right cheek, in an arch formation. This feature is common throughout karihana's character design, it reflects the artist's actual moles and birthmarks. Important character designs such as Leïla, Lady Melia, Lady Lilea, Hachimitsu, Seraphelle and Pastelle all share the same mole on the left cheek. Kyuubi, who was designed by karihana's partner, also bears the same, with a different layout on the face to distinguish from karihana's character designs.
 * Both characters have an absurdly long ahoge.
 * Seraphelle and Lady Melia have both a bottom-heavy body.
 * The two are Realians, even though Seraphelle is a Type-C, while Lady Melia was a Type-D at first, then a Type-B on her second body.
 * An all sharp, shark-like dentition can be found in their mouths, though Seraphelle's are more prominent and much bigger than Lady Melia.

Gallery
" Please note that the character design files is not up to date, it is missing the following: "


 * alternate outfits ;
 * her latest redesign ;
 * more recent (digital) concept art ;
 * her objects and weapons forms ;
 * her expressions and many other sketches.

Background
Due to Seraphelle's inability to retain memories, it is hard to track down her past history. She herself is not aware of what happened prior to getting enrolled in the Academy. Thankfully, Lady Melia has been observing her and has complete and thorough memories of Seraphelle's past. In the last Season, she unveils Sera's extensive past after her awakening.

''Seraphelle was created between 20 to 50 years prior to the events of GALAXYFANTASY Season 1. It is not known exactly when the events of her creation took place, as Lady Melia did not give exact year dates in the Federation Calendar.''"Please note that this section is entirely a transcription, which means the script is not adapted for summaries and/or written storytelling, as it transcribes visual ideas directly into words. It is a common pattern for karihana to mentally visualise and get to watch entire scenes for them to be transcribed back into words or storyboards. This section may need to be completely rewritten."

Conn'el Arc (creation)
She was created by an Ancient in his twenties, named Conn'el. He created her body, with the codename AP-X, she did not have a serial number, as she was not created within the laws of the Realian Protocol, and was not registered in the Realian Database. She was designed after Type-C Ancients, that have a pair of horns and a tail. Conn'el named her creation Amp. He detailed her design with lightbulb elements, in order to save up on energy consumption in his settlement. Conn'el created Amp for several reasons, but mainly because he needed someone to live with him, as he lived alone in a repurposed container, while also taking care of it like a maiden. Amp has several notable differences from serial Realians: her parameters lack a robust simulated personality system, which is what makes Realians act like humans, she also has parameters that makes body fluids a source of energy for her, which then turns into a craving if she does not appropriately refuels herself. She also has a unique parameter that lets her turn into bladed objects for Conn'el.

''Technically speaking, Conn'el just built a maiden/sex-doll robot that would act as his affection/care giver and various objects of use. Amp is Conn'el's childhood dream, which is to build a realian entirely on his own for himself, without the need of Array Industries, which manufactures and produces serial realians.''

Amp, is a Female Realian Ancient-C, being 130cm tall and weighing around 80 kilograms. She has white hair, a rather bottom-heavy body shape, several lightbulb elements on her body, such as her Jewel Core shape, her tail, and decoration on her body. The design is reflected on her bladed object form, which is black material, with a small lightbulb attached to it like a keychain, with golden ornaments all over with the Jewel Core at the centre.

Lacking expressions and personality, Conn'el still grows affection towards Amp, taking care of her while she takes care of him and his home. Conn'el finds Amp cute when she asks basic questions that anyone could guess, despite being very robotic for a Realian, Conn'el is proud of his creation. Amp calls Conn'el Meister because he is her creator and never speaks his name. After some revisions and updates, her body got ready to be used on the bed for the "act", but it is more of an additional feature for Conn'el at this point, who changed a bit his mind about how he sees Amp, now as a legitimate close friend. He doesn't feel great about the fact that Amp feels nothing in the bed during the act and that it is solely for his own pleasure. He decides to build a bed and a small space just for Amp, but Amp refuses to sleep alone and wants to be sleeping with Conn'el on his bed. Conn'el isn't sure about it, because the bed isn't built for that amount of weight, and Amp suggests to reinforce the bed which they end up doing.

After some months, he notices that Amp was all along picking up with the data she has been observing, which makes her more and more humane as time goes on. A strange phenomenon for Conn'el, who didn't have the skills to insert a simulated personality onto her. She gets to the point that someday, she expresses her love for Conn'el, even though she does not understand any of it, and wants to be with him forever. She does ask why she was built the way she was and Conn'el with resentment always answers that it's how he wanted her to be, which she always conclude with a dry "Understood". One night, Amp wakes Conn'el up because her cravins are requiring her to have intercourse, which makes Conn'el very uncomfortable. After this event, they end up having less and less intercourse, only for the needs of Amp. Life continues to be the same for the two for several months, until one of Conn'el childhood friends, knock on the door.

Praxis and Conn'el Arc
Named Praxis, she was a childhood friend of Conn'el, whom visited him after a while because he didn't give any signs of life for several months and everyone thought he was dead. She is glad that he is alive, and notices Amp, who is undergoing maintenance on the corner of the room. Conn'el explains that it's his Realian assistant, which surprises Praxis because he didn't register her to the Database. She explains that he will get into trouble if the authorities find out that an illegal Realian was built, which can lead to the dismantling of the Realian and the owner going behind bars. Conn'el begs Praxis to tell nobody, which she reluctantly agrees, with the condition of staying at Conn'el's for a while, which he ends up agreeing. The sheltered life of the 3 continues normally, as Praxis gets to know about Amp every day, and helping out Conn'el on the cooking and work.

One day, while Conn'el was away from the room, Praxis asks Amp out for something. As Amp sits on the bed Praxis is situated, she kisses Amp. Amp remarks that this is not conventional and she is not configured for it, adding that the sexes aren't compatible. Praxis explains that she's into girls, but no one knows and she would get persecuted because of the culture, but asks Amp to help out anyway, by telling her what to do. She notices at her turn that Amp does not feel anything during intercourse, which makes her feel terrible, similar to Conn'el in the early days of Amp's life. She asks Amp to not tell anybody about it, which prompts Amp to make a secret memory bank within her, storing all of what Praxis says to Amp privately. This interaction, though creates a big change in Praxis which will later affect her decisions, because of how close she feels to Amp.

After several months of daily life, Praxis gets involved in the improvement of Amp, but both Conn'el and Praxis decide to not change Amp too much as they love her as she is, even if she is immensely flawed for a realian. Conn'el makes the mistake of one day, to access governmental files relating to realians in order to fix some of Amp's small issues. That action created a chain of events which leads to a major change in the life of the trio. Even after many warnings from Praxis, he shouldn't have accessed external servers, which has the potential of exposing the existence of Amp.

One day, Conn'el is away to get the week's groceries, however Praxis notes that he's taking much more time than usual and it's almost evening time. As she gets worried, she tells Amp the reason why she came to Conn'el in the first place: she is an Array Industries insider that was supposed to take away Amp from Conn'el many months ago, but did not because she grew affection for the two. She rushes to the supermarket where Conn'el went. Before leaving, she asks Amp to stay disconnected on the maintenance pad, which she does.

Praxis rushes to the supermarket, through a thick snowstorm. She eventually finds the store and decides to enter via the staff entry which is located in the back, so she cannot be noticed by anyone. Thankfully, there are upstairs that leads to fake ceiling access, which she craws onto and starts looking for Conn'el. Conn'el can be found on a corner, with a bunch of security guards that are keeping him under arrest, filing a report. She starts using her Lightspeed flair, which lets her snatch Conn'el from the guards and get immediately far enough to not be noticed, in a matter of a second. She breaks the cuffs and say they need to go back to the room as fast as possible.

At home, Praxis starts asking what did Conn'el do for him to get arrested. He admits he hacked the servers of Array in order to get some information on realian technology, which shocks Praxis because she suspected that Array might be on the hook about Amp. After Amp is activated back, Praxis ask Amp to replay what she told her before rushing out to save Conn'el. Conn'el isn't mad, but if Praxis wants to stay they will have to find a solution. They talk a bit about what they should do, and they talk about the container itself acting as the apartment they've been living inside. Conn'el confirms that it's standard size, which makes Praxis think that it can be fitted onto a truck an start living on the roads, because at some point their locations will be found out. Thanks to Amp, they should be able to move the room onto a truck, and Praxis will find the truck to fit it onto.

During the fitting of the container, a small snitch falls down from Praxis' neck, which she didn't notice was here in the first place. They talk about it a little bit, and they come to the conclusion that they need to move very fast, because Array might have been hearing everything and would be one of the reasons that Conn'el got caught besides the hacking. This reassures Conn'el, knowing that Praxis is leaving her company behind to live with the two. After the fitting, they do minor fixes to the truck so the driver can access to the container with a door and such, they hit the road soon after.

Roadtrip Arc
They manage to have peace for about a solid month, with Array left behind they aren't able to track them and thanks to some information Conn'el nabbed from their servers, Conn'el and Praxis make small improvements to Amp: Amp can now make small memory banks that have to be activated to be effective, otherwise she does not retain memories. Amp expresses her happiness being with the two during dinner, and she is scared to forget about all these amazing times she has had since her creation. At this point, Amp looked less robotic and has more refined movements and she can make basic expressions. After that, the two decide to put all of her memories into a special memory bank that cannot be tampered with and all her memories with them will be stored there, so even if she gets a reset she may one day recover her memories.

Though, after months of peace on the truck holding their room, trouble arises again. Wilhelm, CEO of Array got impatient with tracking down the three, and immediately teleports within the room where the three can be found having fun together. He immediately grabs Ampby the neck so she cannot do anything especially turning into a weapon. This puts Conn'el and Praxis at a disadvantage, because Conn'el is flairless like 99.9% of the Ancient population, and Praxis' flair doesn't work on Wilhelm, because his company injected the flair into her and knows every details about it.

Amp opens her eyes with bright golden eyes, makes a small smirk and by clapping her hands creates a shockwave that startle Wilhelm, letting her out of his grab. Conn'el and Praxis are in shock to see Amp acting completely differently, and Wilhelm with condescendence talks to Amp about finally being awakened, in such a dirty body. By being very vague the two others have no idea what he's talking about, but Amp replies to Wilhelm that he won't get anywhere with the three. Wilhelm change plans and takes away Conn'el from Praxis and Amp, while creating a EMP shockwave within the room before teleporting, which turns off Amp and all electronics around. Praxis, devastated is holding the unconscious body of Amp and thinks about Conn'el.

After a couple hours, Praxis turns the power back on and by doing so, Amp wakes up. She no longer seems to have that attitude and the eyes she had during the encounter with Wilhelm. Back to her normal, she asks why is Conn'el absent, which convinces Praxis that something took over Amp's body at that time, if Amp does not remember anything. She explains to Amp that Conn'el was taken away and that they both need to find him. This prompts Amp to cry without any expression, but mentions a feeling of sadness within. The two end up sleeping together, the days later Praxis notices that Amp is starting to show slight nerve reactions such as pain, pleasure and distress, but some are disproportioned than others, such as pain because in her object form, she seems to be about a hundred times more sensible.

Praxis and Amp start their journey to Array's HQ, situated about a month worth of roadtrip from where they are, Praxis knows its location due to the fact that she used to work there. During that month of roadtrip, nothing of great importance comes up, aside from the fact that Amp calls Praxis meister as well, just like for Conn'el. She now considers both of them as her meisters, since both worked on her and Conn'el actually created her to begin with. Amp seems to develop her own feelings as well, even if they are very mute and robotic, which is a feat because she does not have a simulated personality implemented at all. This pushes Praxis to think that maybe a simulated personality is not really needed as she thought otherwise, but Amp is still emotionally immature and very robotic in her nature, which doesn't create that uncanny feeling towards serial realians in her opinion.

Array Industries Arc
As they finally arrive close to the Array Industries Headquarters, they park the truck quite a long way from the building, in order to be safe after retrieving Conn'el. They infiltrate the headquarters via the second division's underground hallway, which is the location Praxis worked under. Amp transforms into a dagger so Praxis can easily sneak in the building alone, while bringing Amp along with her.

To be written.

Yurielle Arc
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REFRAIN Records Arc
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