Can Clair Protect Her Lake and Family From Those Who Want to Destroy Them?

"Because there is something you lot have to protect, considering there is a reason you lot tin non die that enables you to live on, those are foolish fantasies of the weak."

―Rippling Ophelia ^[src]

Ophelia
Alias:	Rippling Ophelia Blood-Smeared Wicked Warrior Claret-soaked Warrior
Claymore Stats
Gender:	Female
Symbol:
Rank:	iv (Former)
Blazon:	Offensive
Technique(south):	Rippling Sword
Fate / Status:	Awakened/Dead (Killed by Clare)
Groundwork / Brotherhood Information
Affiliation:	The Organization (Former)
Family:	Older brother killed past Priscilla
Hometown:	Unknown
Commencement Appearances
Manga:	Affiliate 31
Anime:	Episode 12
Other Data
Jap. Voice:	Emi Shinohara
En. Voice:	Luci Christian

Ophelia was Claymore No. iv of Clare'due south generation. Despite the Organization forbidding the killing of humans, Ophelia hints that she may have washed and then. In Japanese, she has the nickname 血塗られた凶戦士, Chinurareta Kyōsenshi, or Blood-Smeared Wicked Warrior.

Her self-invented nickname is "Rippling Ophelia" (漣のオフィーリア, Sazanami no Ofīria), subsequently her trademark sword movement.

Daftar Isi

Etymology [ ]

"Ophelia" is a transliteration of the Japanese "Ofīria"(オフィーリア, pronounced "o-fi-ri-ah").

"Ophelia" derives from the Greek word for help, ὄφελος (óphelos), perhaps referring to her demand for mental and emotional aid.

Information technology is the proper noun of a character in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, who loses her sanity after her father is killed while attempting to protect the queen. Presently afterwards she falls from a willow tree into a brook and drowns. This alludes to the Claymore Ophelia'south madness and the fact that Clare leaves her body floating in a lake later her death, mimicking in both the anime and manga Millais' famous painting of Ophelia's death in Hamlet. In both works information technology appears as though the death is a suicide.

"Ophelia" as well sounds like to the Greek discussion for snake "'ὄφις" (pronounced "o-phis"), which may allude to her technique, advent as an Awakened Being, and unusual flexibility, which enables her to twist her caput 180 degrees around.

Ophelia's name may accept besides come up from "Ophiuchus"; a name used in sidereal astronomy. Added every bit the 13th sign to a potential 13 sign zodiac, which achieved popularity in Japan after it's proffer by Walter Berg and Mark Yazaki. In Nippon, Ophiuchus is known every bit Hebitsukai-Za (へびつかい座 ^? , "The Serpent Bearer"). This may take been used equally a direct refrence to her serpent-like awakened course, or popular connotations of snakes pertaining to malevolence or charade, both being traits applicative to Ophelia'due south vehement and ofttimes sinister nature.

Moreover, Vasilis Kanatas, writer of the volume "Astrology of the xiii Signs of the Zodiac", suggested the greek letter of the alphabet Φ (phi) as the symbol for the sign of Ophiuchus. Intriguingly, this novel was published in 2011, long after the release of Claymore.

The symbol Φ (phi)  is the 21st letter in the greek alphabet. Ophelia's claymore symbol pattern appears identical to this letter.

Appearance [ ]

Human form [ ]

Ophelia has pale, silvery blond hair, which she wears in a long and tight braid. Her hairline is a potent widow'southward summit. Like about Claymores, she possesses argent eyes and wears the standard Claymore uniform. Similar to Irene, Queenie, and Cassandra, she has elf-like ears.

• Peak: 175 cm (5 ft 8.89in).

Awakened Form [ ]

In her awakened form, Ophelia is of a very slender build with light gray pare, greenish pilus, and the typical gold eyes of Yoma . Blades grow from her back and from the end of her hair, and her elongated arms end in abrupt claws. Her lower body is a long, turquoise serpentine tail.

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Personality [ ]

"Don't yous recall it's beautiful? That rosy red that spreads only where the body is wounded. Shall I pigment you in that lovely red... little boy?"

―Ophelia, to Raki, a human ^[src]

Ophelia initially comes across as being lite-hearted and whimsical, but this only serves to mask her unstable, sadistic nature. She genuinely enjoys the thrill of boxing and delights in mutilating her victims in the form of twisted "games." She has an unsettling fascination with blood and has seemingly developed a gustation for it. Her cruelty is indiscriminate; she has no qualms over attacking her own comrades and it is hinted that she too killed humans to sate her bloodlust.

Monstrous Ophelia.

Her Temper can be dangerously explosive, as shown when she attacked Irene for interrupting her "playing" with Clare, even though Irene was at present a civilian. She also displays arrogance in regards to her combat power; she refers to Clare as "just redundancy" for their Awakened Existence mission and claims that she alone would be plenty to defeat their quarry, despite the fact that she ended up losing (initially). Vanity was her motivation for creating her "Rippling Sword " technique; she desired a special nickname (though unbeknownst to her, she did), and was overjoyed at the thought of recognition from others, evidenced when she saw Clare react upon seeing her symbol and asked from whom Clare heard near her.

Ophelia has an unhealthy obsession with Awakened Beings, due to traumatization after watching Priscilla kill her family. She insists on hunting just Awakened Beings, ignoring normal Yoma, and even goes to the length of forcing other Claymores to awaken just so she could fight them, such as in the cases of Clare, Miria, and Hilda. Her hatred is so deeply rooted that when she herself Awakens, she is distraught from having go one of the "monsters" she sought to destroy, and chooses to permit Clare to take her life.

Ophelia seems to despise people, particularly the weak, who effort to sacrifice themselves in guild to protect others. This seems to accept stemmed from a skewed perception of her own brother's sacrifice to save her, possibly because the truth was besides painful for her to accept. This retentivity was the main contributor to her mental pass up and eventually triggers her Awakening.

Awakened Being [ ]

Ironically enough despite Awakening, Ophelia had more or less retained her psychotic, bloodthirsty and whimsical personality and had no major changes to her personality. However interestingly enough, despite awakening and her moving effectually inside her awakened body for quite sometime and fifty-fifty fighting Clare with her new awakened body, Ophelia was completely oblivious to the changes to her body and was unable to sense that anything about her had inverse and simply assumed that her peckish for something to consume (innards of humans) was simply her usual bloodthirst and desire for violence.

This is seen where despite being incredibly hungry she simply wanted to eat meat and was the first awakened being to land that she didn't desire to eat humans later her awakening due to her obliviousness to her awakening. Ophelia was likewise shown to have get more mentally unstable due to her own negative feelings on Awakening and Awakened Beings, every bit seen where she had become somewhat irrational and blamed Clare and Irene for losing her brother and her enkindling to vent her anger.

Abilities [ ]

Claymore [ ]

Ophelia shows not only remarkable speed and forcefulness, just resilience also. Despite having her neck cleaved and her head twisted 180 degrees effectually by the female person Awakened Being, she survives and turns her head dorsum around without using her easily. It is currently unknown whether or not other Claymores are capable of this feat.

Rippling Sword [ ]

Rippling Sword

Ophelia invented a technique that involves swift undulation of her arm so her sword appears to be rippling. The optical illusion and unusual movements this creates makes blocking, countering and Yoki "forecasting" extremely difficult as she can easily "ophidian" her way around an opponent's blade. She'southward first seen using this technique against Clare, just this ability was completely ineffective against Ilena's Quicksword .

Ophelia's organization rating

Organization Rating [ ]

From: Databook 2

• Yoki: A
• Agility: A
• Muscular Force: A
• Spirit: C
• Perception: B+
• Leadership: C

Class: Offensive, Rippling Sword

Awakened Being [ ]

Ophelia uses her claws, tail and the retracting blades on her back as her master weapons. Ophelia showcased that when enraged she could further morph her Awakened Body farther and grow fifty-fifty more blades beyond her body. She tin also use the scales of her body as projectile weapons and fire them in mass in rapid succession.

She tin also relocate her vital "cadre" to any part on her existence, as shown when she moved all of her "human parts" to the end of her tail. Curiously enough, Ophelia's Awakened Being rating is only marginally better than that of the quondam unmarried-digit she kills with ease.

Awakened form Ophelia's organization rating

Arrangement Rating [ ]

• Yoki: SS
• Agility: SSS
• Force: SS
• Invulnerability: Southward
• Intelligence: SS
  

Plot [ ]

Early on life [ ]

Ophelia's parents are unknown, but her older brother was killed and devoured by Priscilla as he protected her. This began Ophelia'south obsession with Awakened Beings. She vowed to "to kill the Ane-Horned Monster" (Priscilla).

Employment as a Claymore [ ]

Ophelia became very powerful and ascended to No. 4. She invented a move involving swift undulation of her sword arm and then her sword has the appearance of rippling. Mocking the other Claymores with nicknames, she informs Clare she started calling herself "Rippling Ophelia." Simply adds that her self-proclaimed nickname is widely "unknown" considering no one, or almost no one, who has seen it has lived.

During her time as a Claymore, she gained the reputation of being vicious and monsterous. She hints that she has killed humans in the past. She even claims that other Claymores who've killed humans and received their punishment are idiotic because they turned themselves in.

She likewise displayed immoral tendencies toward other Claymores. When Hilda was about to Awaken, she asked Ophelia to give her Black Card to Miria. However, Ophelia ripped information technology up, condemning Hilda to Awaken. She was in the Awakened Being hunt that was sent to impale Hilda and so was Miria. When Miria discovered information technology was Hilda she had slain, Ophelia showed signs of involvement when she began to Awaken from the shock, even going so far as to taunt Miria into Awakening faster. This was the reason that spawned Miria's dislike of Ophelia.

Awakened Being Chase with Clare [ ]

Ophelia killing an awakened being

On meeting Clare, she proceeds to physically torment Clare, piercing Clare's skin with her fingers and musing about her involvement in blood, until Raki intervenes. ^[1] Ophelia cuts off Clare's legs and fights Raki in a game, seeing if Clare tin reattach them before Raki is killed. The Awakened Being interrupts the scene. ^[two]

Clare flees with Raki, as Ophelia fights the Awakened Being. Despite having her head turned 180 degrees, Ophelia kills the Awakened Being, who understands before dying that Ophelia survived the deadly attack because of a reason: she is partially Awakened, like Clare. Later on this subtle revelation, Ophelia pursues Clare. ^{[3] [4]} After cornering her on a cliff-confront, she proceeds to battle her.

Ophelia has the upper-hand due to her Rippling Sword, which cuts off Clare'due south right arm. When Clare savage down the cliff, Ophelia follows her, suspicious that she kept a hold on her arm. When Clare attempts to reattach it, Ophelia cuts it to shreds, realizing that Clare is an offensive type warrior and thus preventing her from regenerating it. ^[5] After another battle, Ophelia manages to cut off Clare'due south other hand and would have killed her while she was disarmed and helpless. Despite her own vow of vengeance, she mocks Clare for her resolve to live on.

Irene interrupts Clare's impeding execution. Angered, Ophelia attacks, but is defeated by the Quicksword. ^[6]

Enkindling and Death [ ]

Later on her defeat, she finds herself injured and alone during a thunderstorm. She momentarily displays a more vulnerable side of her psyche, begging for her older brother to help her. Still, she spitefully rebukes herself and, in her rage at Irene and the retention of her brother's sacrifice, she unwittingly Awakens. ^[7] She does non realize this correct abroad and before long comes across Clare. She proceeds to battle her with the intention of eating her, only when she discovers that Clare doesn't taste good, she tries drowning her in a lake. Ophelia is made aware of her Enkindling only upon seeing her reflection in the water. ^[eight]

Stricken and angered at having become the very thing she hated, she lashes out at Clare. After Clar

The Corpse of Ophelia.

e severs both her arms, she gathers her human cadre at the end of her tail. Ophelia then introduces another game: if Clare tin cut past the rest of her body upwards until her human part (her weak point), she wins, and Ophelia will submit obediently to her. If Clare awakens before she can go to Ophelia's human core, she loses.

During this time, Ophelia begins to recall of her brother and only makes one endeavor to end Clare, but encourages her to continue by maxim:

"What the hell are you doing?! If you just die like this, what should the people yous leave behind do?!"

In the end, Clare wins, so Ophelia allows Clare to euthanize her and to fight in her place. She remembers her brother's last smiling and realizes that he was smiling because he saw that she was safety. ^[nine]  Having finally plant peace, she dies, hoping that she will at present be reunited with him. Her torso is later discovered past the Organisation. ^[10]

Relationships [ ]

Brother [ ]

Ophelia was close to her older blood brother, who protected her fatally from Priscilla. On his death, she vowed to avenge him by 'slaying the one-horned monster'. She also hates him at the same fourth dimension for putting his life on the line, fifty-fifty though he had no chance confronting the 1-Horned Awakened Being. In the end, she realised that she hates him for leaving her alone and not because he was killed then hands.

Hilda [ ]

Ophelia knew Hilda simply briefly. She met Hilda in the forest, having picked up on the other warrior's Yoki, where she found Hilda somewhat blindly searching for Miria (every bit she was on the verge of Enkindling). Having a fondness of fighting Awakened beings and looking for good sport - Ophelia took the menu and tore it upwardly defiantly. Equally a upshot of shredding upwards the Blackness Card Hilda gave her that was meant for Miria, she condemned Hilda to Awaken.

Miria [ ]

Miria was sent on a hunt to slay Hilda and it was only after she was slain did Miria realize that it was her friend. In her daze, she began to Awaken. Ophelia showed interest when this happened and it is likely she prevented the Blackness Card reaching Miria just for her to Awaken, and so that she, herself, could fight another Awakened Being.

Clare [ ]

It is an open question why Clare is assigned to the Godal hunting party.

At their first meeting in Godal, Ophelia apace deduces that Clare is a partially-Awakened. She said Clare "smelled like an Awakened one". This is non Ophelia's craziness as when Clare herself went to Raki's village, she noticed that Raki had the 'scent of a Yoma' on him, and Clare was partially awakened. Either way, Clare was intended to die. It is possible that Rubel made the arrangements to get her killed discreetly, every bit she told him virtually her nigh awakening in Rabona, nor did she die with the other partial awakened warriors on her first awakened chase.Equally an enemy spy, had he ordered Clare'due south death at the hands of some other warrior, it might have raised suspicions. Ophelia toys with Clare and Raki until interrupted by an Awakened Being. Later killing the Existence, Ophelia pursues Clare. Clare loses her correct arm and left mitt in the ensuing fight, but Irene rescues Clare with the Quicksword and Ophelia is disabled. Afterward, Ophelia succumbs to her pent-upwards rage and hate and unknowingly Awakens.

Afterward Clare recovers, she meets Ophelia in the forest, and they battle in a nearby lake. When Ophelia realizes what has happened to herself, she allows Clare to kill her and "puts her resolve" to kill Priscilla in Clare'southward hands. Later on when Clare is immersed with the gigantic Yoki mass, a face of Ophelia appears along with Clare and Teresa.

Behind the Scenes [ ]

In the anime, Ophelia'due south voice was potrayed past Luci Christian. Ophelia has a song sung by her voice player on the Claymore Intimate Persona album released while the anime was being recorded. This song is called "Zouo", translated as "Hatred." Luci Christian too voiced similar looking characters (The Black Snake from Blackness Blood Brothers and Medusa from Soul Eater).

Anime and Manga Differences [ ]

In the anime, Miria warns Clare and the others, especially not to meet Ophelia fifty-fifty if this means to brand the System suspicious. In the manga we run across in Chapter 32 Miria regretting not to have told them about Ophelia in more than detail.

References [ ]

1. ↑ Claymore Manga: Chapter 31
2. ↑ Claymore Manga: Affiliate 32
3. ↑ Claymore Manga: Affiliate 33
4. ↑ Claymore Manga: Chapter 34
5. ↑ Claymore Manga: Affiliate 35
6. ↑ Claymore Manga: Chapter 36
7. ↑ Claymore Manga: Chapter 37
8. ↑ Claymore Manga: Chapter 39
9. ↑ Claymore Manga: Chapter 40
10. ↑ Claymore Manga: Affiliate 41

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