Felicity Ruber

Felicity Ruber is one of the leading characters in Northbound: The Chariot Girls. Felicity is one of the top ranking mercenaries in the Chariot Mercenary Guild, and is often tasked with handling high profile jobs that are assigned to her directly from Mitsuru. Being descended from a well connected family of master blacksmiths, Felicity seeks to make her own name out in the world without the use of her family name or her connections.

Her current ranking in the Guild is a Charioteer.

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Appearance
Felicity is a tall, slender woman with very long reddish brown hair. She dresses in a very concealed manner, wearing a red dress shirt with a corset belt and long armed gloves. On her right arm she wears a white and gold pauldron and a gauntlet over her outfit. Below, she wears a skirt with dark red tights and boots. Felicity has red eyes with half circle frame glasses with orange lenses, and wears red lipstick with a dark orange eyeshadow. On her cheeks is what appears to be reflective orange scales that run down her neck. Felicity has a preference for wearing lots of layers, even if its in the middle of the summer. She finds it to be embarrassing to wear anything more revealing if it isn't hot out.

In her true form, Felicity wears much of the same, minus the gloves, red tights, and boots. Her snake half is extremely large and long, with orange scales covering a large majority of her body. At the end of the tail is a large rattle, as well as her arms resembling to be large claws. Felicity is very self conscious of this form, seeing as how much room her true form takes up. She's also significantly heavier in this form thanks to the mass of her tail.

Felicity is also seen with a peculiar sword wherever she goes, resembling what appears to be a large red conductor's baton with brass crossguards at the handle.

Felicity
Felicity is very stern and disciplined. Growing up from a family with connections to many nobles and higher ups, she has a habit of being very formal with other people. She enjoys being very supportive and advices her fellow mercenaries where she can, acting as a mentor figure for many. Because of her sheltered upbringing however, Felicity is somewhat oblivious or unfamiliar about certain things about the world. Leading her to be a bit socially awkward or embarrassed by certain situations presented to her.

Felicity's known to be very peculiar and routine to schedules she follows, ensuring she does things with the utmost efficiency with no time being wasted. When she's not working, and while this is not seen by many others, she tends to ease off her strict routine and discipline and lazes around her home.

Birth and Early Life
Felicity was born from a family of master craftsmen, most of whom dedicated their lives mastering blacksmithing. Felicity's family is often commissioned by many nobles and even some high standing officers of the Royal Army to craft ornate artisan swords. She learned how to blacksmith and forge things from various metals at a young age in hopes of her being the next heiress to their craft. Felicity unwilling to dedicate her own life to this craft however, wanted to seek her own life that she could find to be fulfilling on her own terms.

Learning Swordsmanship and Magic
A close family friend upon hearing Felicity's desire to not work as a blacksmith offered Felicity to train under them as an apprentice. Here Felicity was taught how to wield a sword and how to utilize magic, she was very exceptional in both fields, showing lots of promise in becoming a talented swordsman. Hearing that their family friend, who previously was a former officer for the Royal Army, inspired Felicity to join their ranks.

Recruitment into the Guild
During recruitment into the Royal Army, Felicity was scouted out by Mitsuru Miyako, who thought that she would be much better off in finding her own fame in the Chariot Mercenary Guild. Feeling that a life in the Royal Army would prove to find her ending up being another number among the ranks, offered to train Felicity; noticing she had possessed Witchblood due to her exceptional magical prowess. Mitsuru felt that she could help Felicity be bound to a Familiar, which would further advance her swordsmanship to its fullest potential. If Felicity ever felt that she wanted to join the Royal Army down the line, Mitsuru could find an opening for her to join at a higher starting rank in the army.

Significant Rise in Ranking
Felicity's strict self discipline and efficient means of handling bounties, lead her to rising up very quickly to the rank of Charioteer. She found that joining the guild was much better for her, as it allowed her to stay close to home while also continuing to build up her own title. Along the way she befriended Mako, Molly, and Ebony, who proved to be reliable friends and allies for Felicity.

Forming of Team Ruber
Being formerly appointed as a Charioteer in the Guild, Felicity along with her friends formed Team Ruber. Due to her friends unconventional and somewhat unusual skillsets, she prioritized recruiting members of the guild with unconventional skillsets that did not make them accepted by other members of the guild.

Present
With the recent rise of the Surge Virus, Felicity was assigned to be one of the many mercenary teams that is tasked to investigate its source. In a haste, she was assigned Beryl, Francis, and later Ivory into Team Ruber. Being a very tight knit team initially, Felicity works to ensure the new three members of the team are able to fit in and work alongside her friends.

The Events of northbound: The Chariot Girls


Serpent Flexibility
Due to how flexible Felicity can be, she uses this to her advantage and contributes it to her fighting style. This helps make her more agile and able to position herself in ways the average person isn't able to.

Conductor's Baton
Felicity's signature longsword, resembling a large conductor's baton. The blade of the sword is thin and becomes a lot more pointed towards the tip. The Conductor's Baton is her Magical Medium which was given to her by Agimar as a sign of their contract. Its thanks to this sword that Felicity is able to utilize the Red Symphony and summon Agimar.

The Red Symphony
Her main and most used form of magic. Felicity, is able to temporarily summon small portions of Agimar's 'Symphony,' summoning only a few swords at a time. She often shoots them as projectiles, and later incorporates whatever swords she summons into her fighting style as secondary weapons. The swords she summons are random, and vary in different size and shape. The number of swords she's able to summon at a time is only three swords.

Multitasked Swordsmanship
Felicity's fighting style of choice is a modified form of longsword fencing. Inheriting this formal fighting style from her family friend all those years ago. This fighting style is quickly dropped and contrasted when she utilizes her Red Symphony, picking up a more unusual fighting style involving a multitude of swords and simultaneously wielding them at the same time.

Agimar
A large hulking armored Familiar that wields a blacksmithing hammer with a baton shaped handle. Agimar's overwhelming size and magical consumption proves to be very taxing on Felicity's physical health, making him exceptionally rare to summon.

Agimar alone is able to overwhelm opponents with their hulking strength and inhuman swordsmanship.

Agimar's Symphony
Agimar when fully summoned is able to utilize the Red Symphony's full potential. Wielding his hammer, he is able to conduct and direct a significantly large number of swords. Masterfully summoning whatever sword Agimar needs in that moment, and preferring to use it more as a projectile attack much like Felicity does.

Makoto Midori
While Mako can be rough and mild mannered, Felicity can rely on Mako being her right hand woman. The two share a rivalry due to Mako's competitive nature, though Felicity tends to enjoy her competitiveness. After cooperating and earning Mako's respect on hunting down a large beast back when they first met, Mako begrudgingly respects and remains loyal to Felicity. Even if she never says it out loud.

Molly Aubergine
Felicity's most reliable gunman. The two previously worked on and off before in the past, being able to connect with each other because they both inherit Witchblood. Molly was one of the founding members of Team Ruber alongside Mako, and the three share a tight camaraderie between one another.

Ebony
Extending her hand to Ebony, Felicity wanted Ebony to have a place in the Guild as to not make her feel outcasted by everyone. Ebony's strange behavior and attitude makes her stand out from many of the mercenaries, making her not very approachable. Despite this, Felicity supported and acknowledged her skills on the field. Ebony's strange form of archery is what Felicity views as something as only unique to her, even if Ebony considers herself to be a defective Stone Elf.

Beryl Bishop
One of her newest recruits, and the most inexperienced. Felicity acts as sort of a motherly figure to Beryl, ensuring that she doesn't get herself into too much trouble. She's always ready to help guide Beryl on the right track when she's able to, but often leaves her to her own devices.

Francis Alabaster
Francis always does what he's told. Felicity often advices Francis that everything told to him by her is not an order, trying to connect to him as a fellow member of the team. Much like Mako, Felicity can trust Francis as secondary muscle when something needs brute force in their line of work.

Ivory
By Ebony's request and through examination of Ivory's own skillset and capabilities, Ivory was recruited into Team Ruber to Ivory's dismay originally. Personally consulting Ebony, Beryl, and Francis to convince Ivory to join, she eventually began to grow attached to Felicity and the rest of Team Ruber, though her eating habits tend to be quite costly for the team's funds.

Kaaliya Ruber
Felicity's Mother, works as an artisan jeweler. Well known to be a travelling merchant in her youth, often tailing Royal Army platoons in order to make a profit.

Fabrice Ruber
Felicity's Father, who is a renowned master blacksmith. He's rarely seen as he's constantly working on the large amount of orders he receives.

Mitsuru Miyako
Her employer, Mitsuru is a close friend and a mentor of Felicity's. Learning how to summon and use her familiar thanks to Mitsuru, Felicity feels that her skills as a mage would not have progressed so far without her help.

Larid Apollo
A family friend to the Ruber family. Not seen as often ever since they re-enlisted into the Royal Army. Larid was Felicity's old mentor, and is thankful for them able to teach her what they knew. Seeing them as the reason as to why they even got this far.

Kimiko Fujihara
When Mitsuru is busy, Kimiko is left with ordering and managing things with the Charioteers. While they rarely speak outside of work, Felicity finds it rude to bother Kimiko with anything, as he's so busy with his own pile of things he needs to handle.

Trivia

 * Felicity is loosely based off the red diamondback rattlesnake.
 * She finds it ironic that her familiar is revolved around the summoning and creation of swords, given her family history.
 * Has a secret love for strategy games.
 * The length of her tail in her Aridlander form is about 45 ft.
 * She uses a unique form of magic to hide her true form, also finding it more convenient to traverse places outside the Vastitas region this way.