Olivie Amaltia

[Ochiverde]

Flower Blooming in Lescatie, Olivie Amaltia
Fallen Knights biography (pre-transformation)

It seems there is a wonderful person in your heart. I too once... no, it's nothing.

Will you always hold those feelings dear?
Truly... it's difficult to continue living in Lescatie while it is this way.

Spoiler

In peacetime, Olivie, the heroine with a special charm, is the leader of the squad of the "Three Musketeers of Lescatie". Olivie grew up, being the daughter of one of the most famous noble families of Lescatie, the noble "house of Amaltia". Thanks to the personalities of her ancestors and a good pedigree, she was born with the great abilities of a hero and possessed sufficient qualities to compete with Wilmarina at one time for the right to be the symbol of Lescatie and lead many people and heroes. The reason Olivie served Wilmarina was because of the strong protectorate of Wilmarina's father. Olivie's father was known as an ambitious nobleman who participated in the confrontation between the factions of the aristocrats of the kingdom, who were in a state similar to a cold war with each other. However, he joined to the faction of the Noscrim family, observing how even the King of Lescatie, “Castor Bistoa Lescatie,” was crushed by Priest Noscrim, the strongest of the priests who largely dominated the country. In other words, by enrolling her daughter in the ranks of the Order of the Knights of the Ice Flower, her father showed his allegiance to the Noscrim family. Since she was from one of the most noble families of Lescatie, in Olivie's life and after becoming a hero, and before that, everything was subject to the intrigues and decisions of her father.

On that day, she wanted to give up the blessing as a hero, but sadness hit her heart. She wanted to escape with a childhood friend, a "servant" who, as she believed, swore to love her, as she did him. Only once in her life, when the feeling flared in the hearts of the two people, she decided to resist the rules of Lescatie, the day they vowed to abandon everything and run away somewhere. However, those who came to her place of meeting were not her beloved, but the servants directed by the father. The beloved, who she thought was affectionate with her, because they loved each other faithfully, was with her until the last moment only because she was the daughter of the Amaltia family, and immediately after they exchanged vows, told everything to Olivie's father. The servant whom Olivie loved, received from his owner an exceptionally large sum of money, which he could not have received even if he worked many years of service, and disappeared from their life. After she became a hero, the girl began to work actively, trying to forget about the broken heart left in her chest. Olivie understood the fragility of the love of men and women in Lescatie, especially for the "Heroes": no matter how strong they are in battle, one must accept the reality that they are all subordinated to the "duty of Lescatie". Because Olivie accepted herself as a hero, she had to give up everything.

"But at least other girls should..."

She did not mind if her fate was forever bound by the house of Amaltia, she would try to live like a hero. However, it was so painful for Olivie to see her close friends, Paula and Alameria, fight for their love, that she could not stand it and always told the young heroes to be happy. But one day she was brought unexpected, incredibly bad news. The execution of Alameria, her ever-laughing, cheerful friend, her comrade of the Order of the Ice Flower, could not be accepted, and many of the Knights of the Order showing dissent gathered together around Olivie. Together with Wilmarina, "The Strongest Heroine of Lescatie," and Paula, who also fought for a long time as one of the "Three Musketeers of Lescatie," they turned to the Senate, where Olivie talked about the very law of Lescatie, the behavior and courage of Alameria, and the unfounded evidence of her punishment. But even the words of Wilmarina were not heard by the Senate, let alone hers or Paula's. She was one of the many heroes whom Lescatie was supposed to support, but in the management of Lescatie, they, the heroes, were more than helpless.

Poisonous Flower Beckoning Corruption, Demon Olivie

Fallen Knights biography (post-transformation)

Long time no see♥ Ufufu, the promise that wasn't fulfilled that day...

Shall we make it an eternal contract this time?
There's not one thing to disturb us anymore♥
This Lescatie, no, this whole world... Will eventually become a world filled with nothing but love♥

Spoiler

Due to the attack of the monsters, when it was not even known where they came from, and the absence of Wilmarina, the strongest hero of the people most relied upon in the event of a sudden attack on Lesсatie, great confusion arose in the Order of the Ice Flower. During this confusion, it was Olivie who summarized the complex information, united the knights and took command of the castle of Salvarision, the headquarters of the Order of the Ice Flower. According to the reports coming one after another, her colleagues, Alameria and Paula, being arrested, were in the upper city, where they were detained by monster girls. Olivie also assumed that castle Salvarision will become the "last stronghold" and collected all whom she could.

What appeared before her turned out to be a succubus with a very familiar face. Although she turned into a monster, she could easily be recognized - it was Wilmarina, dressed in a depraved suit, which remotely resembled her relic armor. As Olivie knew, Wilmarina was stronger than anyone else, stronger than any other great hero. Fortunately for Lesсatie, among a number of demonic states there was not a hero so courageous and just as strong as to be equal to her, but not on the whole continent. It is no exaggeration to say that a person's feelings, his despair and hope, turn into a "threat" when the monster appears before you and you face them in front of you. Nevertheless, the words said by Wilmarina, who pulled her sword against the "monster" before Olivie, were amazing: "Let's break this debt of Lescatie together?"

"Let's do now that we could not on the day when we complained about the treatment of Alameria" - offered Wilmarina, approaching the embarrassed Olivie, - "Let's work together to change Lesсatie easily."

"Let's develop it together."

Although Olivie had resistance to the demon's flattery as a Hero, but due to the trembling from her wavering heart, the sword was shackled, completely useless against Wilmarina, whose heart was full of happiness. Due to the fact that she was already unhappy with Lescatie, there was no way to avoid that the words of Wilmarina initially revealed her own desire. As if to supplement the oscillations of Olivie, Alameria and Paula appeared, who turned into monsters and began to convince her. While the surrounding people fought monsters and turned one after another, Olivie realized that she herself could not influence even one "heroine Wilmarina", not to mention making changes to the whole Lescatie, the "frozen" country. She realized that in order to build a world full of love, in order to build the future that she wanted, the only thing she needs to do - was to borrow the power of monsters and Wilmarina, and so, she turned into a demon.

Perhaps, once noticing his feelings, he always pretended not to notice them, and did not come there that day. No, it's unlikely that this was not the person I loved. He could not come because he became the same victim of this country. In addition, he continues to think about me. Yes, I don't doubt it... but if I had the power of monsters. I so want to see him, I want to whisper to him about love and make him my own, therefore I do not mind destroying all the laws of this world and the order in this country. Such were the radical desires that slept in the depths of Olivie's soul.

Thus, the Order of the Holy Ice Flower was reborn as the Order of the Dark Ice Flower, which was headed by the Dark Hero Wilmarina. Among the many monsters seeking to turn everything around them into a mamono realm, Olivie is especially distinguished, becoming a demon, a mamono with radical views, striving to fill Lescatie with a dominant feeling of love with a frightening smile, so that the happy vows of love are never violated again.

[Spore]

Hello, my good fellows; here is the last real full profile of SGII, ready to go. As you can see, I've changed both family and given names. "Amaretia" is fairly straightforward, in that "Amaltia" just isn't accurate (it would be if it was アマルティア, but it's アマレティア; the /e/ morae are rarely used for the "blended" consonant clusters for glossing words of foreign origin).

"But Spore!," I hear you cry. "Olivier is a man's name! Why did you go with that?" Well, padawan, there's nothing else オリヴィエ can mean because that's literally "Olivier"'s gloss in Japanese verbatim, and "Olivie" isn't a name. I chalk this up to a cultural difference: Will and KC aren't Anglophones, let alone Francophones, and to them, "オリヴィエ" probably sounds as feminine as anything else. They don't presumably know or really care that "Olivier", the real name of the oldest, mopiest Musketeer Athos as revealed by a play that Alexander Dumas wrote about his iconic characters in their youth, isn't a woman's name, because it kind of sounds like one. They didn't seem to care at all that "Eva" is just about as feminine a name as one can possibly get when they gave it to a biological man. Hence, my decision.

Anyway.

The Flower Blooming in Lescatie　
Olivier Amaretia

“I can tell that you hold someone very dear to your heart. You know, once long ago, I… forgive me, it’s nothing. Will you promise me you’ll always cherish those feelings? It truly is… painful, living on under the law1 of Lescatie.”

Spoiler

Olivier is the leader of the “Three Musketeers of Lescatie”, and a hero with a gentle aura and a curiously decadent charm. Growing up as the prim daughter of House Amaretia, a prestigious family even among Lescatie’s aristocracy, she was not merely a skilled hero, but her pedigree and personality were impeccable— just like Wilmarina, she ordinarily would have been a figure more than capable of leading heroes and knights herself, a hero just as worthy as Wilmarina of carrying the banner of Lescatie. The only reason that she ended up serving Wilmarina was the strong recommendation of her father.

Her father, known as a man of great ambition within the complex social battlefield of the faction rivalries among Lescatie’s aristocracy, was the first to realize that the “king” of the Theocracy of Lescatie, Castor Bistois2 Lescatie, had become little more than a puppet, and chose to side with the house who could pull the ear of the priesthood, those who truly pulled the strings of the great nation’s politics: House Noscrim. That is to say, by enlisting his own daughter in the Knights of the Holy Ice Flower, Olivier’s father was pledging his allegiance. As one of the most prominent aristocrats of Lescatie, Olivier’s life was dogged by the shadows of her father’s ambitions and intentions, not merely from when she became a hero, but since long, long before it.

It was on the eve of the day she was to be officially anointed as a hero that a pall was cast over Olivier’s heart. She had vowed to elope with a lover— a dear childhood friend and servant, a man who was always by her side, who she could always have faith in, and who she believed loved her as much as she loved him, and it was upon that very day when they promised each other that they would, for just one time in their lives, defy the law of Lescatie, abandon everything they had, and run. Somewhere, anywhere, as long as it was far away.

However, as Olivier waited and waited at their promised meeting spot, she would eventually be met not by her beloved, but messengers dispatched by her father.

They had told her that the servant she so adored, who she thought adored her in turn, was in the end merely treating her with due kindness as “the young lady of House Amaretia”, and had told her father everything only moments after he had made his promise to Olivier. He was given a sum of gold that, as far as a servant was concerned, was far greater than how much one could earn even after years of employment, and just like that, the man she loved disappeared from Oliver’s life. After she became a hero, the enormous shadow of her family name that engulfed her no matter how many great feats she amassed, and the memories of love lost that still lingered in her heart, were enough to make her understand the fragility of the encounters between men and women in Lescatie, and the reality of heroes: no matter how strong they were in battle, they were nothing more than dolls, controlled by the law of Lescatie. Eventually, Olivier lost all will to fight and acquiesced to her role as a “hero”.

“But… at least the other girls…”

I don’t mind. If it is my fate to be forever bound to the House of Amaretia, then so be it— I will live on as a hero.

Despite that, to see the suffering of her friends, Aramelia’s budding romance and Paula’s troubled brow, brought Olivier more pain than she could bear, and day after day she wished for those younger heroes to be happy in her stead. On one such day, Olivier received urgent, terrible news— news that she could scarcely believe.

The execution order for Aramelia Crescentria, the comrade of the Holy Ice Flower who fought by Olivier’s side, and the dear friend who she had shared many joys with, was entirely unacceptable to her— even among the knighthood, many dissenting voices gathered around Olivier. Accompanied by Lescatie’s mightiest hero, Wilmarina, as well as the third Musketeer, Paula, Olivier appealed at length to the senate about the very nature of Lescatie’s system, to Aramelia’s conduct and achievements as a hero, and the injustice of her treatment, but the council wouldn’t deign to hear even Wilmarina’s pleas, let alone Olivier or Paula’s.

Lescatie supposedly owed its existence and continued blessings on its many “heroes”. And yet, trapped within the law of Lescatie, a hero held no power whatsoever.

Translation Notes:
1: The "law" of Lescatie is a translation thing that will stick around as terminology because it persists throughout Olivier's profile. This is originally 理, and not 法律 (a legal law), so it should be taken more as something like the law of gravity: something that we take for granted as the natural way of things, and not a literal legal law. We don't really have an elegant single word for "the natural way of things", and "status quo" just didn't seem quite right.
2: I changed "Bistoa" to "Bistois", because Lescatie has a distinct France flavor to it, and the "-ois" cluster in French is usually glossed as "-oa" in Japanese. I believe this was what was intended.

The Poison Flower Tempting All to Corruption
Demon Olivier

“It’s been quite a while, hasn’t it ♥ Ehehe~ That promise we made, the one we couldn’t keep… why don’t we make it an eternal contract this time? Now there’s nothing standing in our way ♥ This nation of Lescatie— no, this world will one day become a place filled with nothing but love ♥”

Spoiler

The invasion of Lescatie by monsters from some unknown source, the sudden crisis that had befallen the nation, and above all, the strange absence of Wilmarina, the keystone of the country that everyone else put their hopes on, brought great confusion to the Knights of the Holy Ice Flower.

During this uncertainty, Olivier herself was put in charge of consolidating both conflicting information and her remaining knights, and acting as the commander within Castle Salvarision, the inner citadel that functioned as the base for the Holy Ice Flower. As the reports poured in, Olivier longed for her colleagues Aramelia and Paula to be by her side, and even while she secretly cursed the names of the men in power within the theocracy who kept them from her, Olivier continued to gather all the personnel she could, fearing that Salvarision would become the final stronghold.

Appearing before her, then, was a succubus wearing an all too familiar face.

There could be no doubt it was Wilmarina— even though she was corrupted and warped into a monstrous form, the profane garments she wore still bore a resemblance to her former self. As far as Olivier knew, Wilmarina was a hero who surpassed all others in strength, and in skill. Her power was so overwhelming that it made one feel as if there were none who could rival her, not just in Lescatie, but in any of the many anti-monster states, perhaps even the entire continent. It was no exaggeration to say that she was humanity’s hope— a hope now transformed into a monster menace, a bleak reality, a deep despair given form that now stood in Olivier’s path. Nevertheless, the musketeer drew her sword, and faced off with the monster before her, but the words that came out of Wilmarina’s mouth caught her off guard.

“Join me. Let us destroy the law of Lescatie.”

“Now is the time— let us do what we failed to that day when we appealed Aramelia’s case,” Wilmarina proposed to a bewildered Olivier, her smile deep and sincere. “With your help, changing Lescatie will be easy. Let us rise up together.”

Despite the fact that Olivier could resist the monster’s honeyed words as a hero, the sword she wielded as her heart wavered was utterly trivial to Wilmarina, a being freed from every shackle that held her, overflowing with happiness, and acting without a shred of indecision. Olivier was self-aware of her own discontent and hesitations she already long harbored towards Lescatie, and so even from the start, she had no real way to counter Wilmarina’s words, the words that were everything the musketeer wanted to hear.

As if to add insult to injury, Aramelia and Paula then appeared, having both become monsters themselves, trying to persuade Olivier. As she battled the monsters and witnessed those around her getting monsterized one after another, Olivier realized that in order to revolutionize the frozen nation of Lescatie, a feat that not even the great hero Wilmarina could accomplish, she would have to draw upon the power of monsters. She also realized, then, that this world full of love that the corrupted Wilmarina extolled was exactly what she herself once wished for— a future with him. Once this revelation sublimated throughout her body and soul, she was no longer able to ignore her feelings for her beloved, something she was pretending to do this whole time.

Did he truly never come to meet me that day? It couldn’t have been that— the man I love would never do such a thing. No, he couldn’t come. He was yet another victim of this country. Is he still thinking of me to this very day? Yes, that has to be true— and even if it isn’t, if I had the power that monsters have… I want to see him. I want to whisper words of love to him. I want to make him mine and mine alone. If I have to destroy the laws of this nation— this world, then so be it. The desires that slept within the depth of Olivier’s heart were deliciously radical. And with that, the Knights of the Holy Ice Flower were renown as the Knights of the Dark Ice Flower, commanded by the dark brave Wilmarina.

Olivier has been transformed into a demon, a monster who even among the many that there are, is particularly dedicated to the radical goal of turning the entire world into a mamono realm. As she fills Lescatie, the country dictated by its own cruel status quo, with love, an odd, sensual smile spreads across her face as she prepares to make an oath of happiness with her beloved that could never, ever be broken.

Translation Notes:
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And there we go! Wilmarina shouldn't take much time, hers is literally half the length. As always, ask whatever questions you have!

[Perentie]

Ah, that makes things a bit clearer. Basically all Olivier had was the word of a messenger as far as evidence that the story they told was true, and it is presented as a story she was told. She never got his side of the story, and so her hope that he did in fact love her is more reasonable.