Fluorite( Furōraito) is a young maid, servant to a house of aristocrats in the 18th century France. She seems to be in love with Aquarius Dégel. She appears only in The Lost Canvas anecdotes for Dégel.
Character outline[]
Name[]
Fluorite stone, is a mineral formed by combining the elements calcium and fluoride. Her name follow the pattern of the characters introduced in Degel's gaiden, all named after minerals.
Characteristics[]
Fluorite is somewhat clumsy, but very curious. Yet she is determined and endowed with an investigative mind. She will not give up on finding her father's whereabouts. Despite feeling sad for not encountering her father alive, Fluorite decides that she cannot became depressed and decides that she has to finish the novel book that was left unfinished.
Around Dégel, she at first she became flustered because of the impression that the young warrior had left on her. Although she was disappointed to learn that he had come to the party just to meet lady Garnet, thinking that he was like "everyone else".She was a little frustrated and jealous when she discovered that Degel was accompanied by Seraphina. They quckly develop a relationship of trust, to the point of giving him her father's glasses in thanks for the support the young man gave her. She seems to have eventually fallen in love with Dégel, but the knight's feelings for her are left ambiguous and therefore open to interpretation, though he keeps the glasses and wear it in the main story of Lost Canvas, pointing that he may have some feelings.
Biography[]
The girl goes to work at Garnet's mansion after her father, a talented writer who finished his last novel, mysteriously disappears in the middle of the night. Somehow, she links the mysterious disappearances to Garnet's manor, and infiltrates as a maid to investigate on her own, over time acquiring a reputation for being very clumsy.
During the ball in celebration of Garnet's birthday, the girl meets Dégel, who saves her from the fury of the noble Jet, who attacks her for spilling wine on his clothes. She starts to accompany the Aquarian knight through the mansion's corridors, witnessing the knight's fight against Flint. She then offers to guide Dégel through the palace, taking him underground, facing more enemies. Going to explore on her own, she finds a secret passage that takes her to where all those who disappeared, including her father, had been imprisoned in amber, reduced to parched corpses, as their vitality had been drained. She eventually escapes the mansion, next to Mrs. Flaille, and waits for Dégel outside.
When the knight leaves the mansion with Serapiina, Flourite hands her father's glasses to the knight, as his had broken. Degel keeps the object and years later is seem wearing it during the Lost Canvas series. Dégel then tells Fluorite that she should finish her father's book, and that's what she decides to do.
Trivia[]
- Initially Fluorite and Seraphina were the same character. However, the author decided to create Fluorite as the female lead of Degel's gaiden, to better represent the reader's point of view and accompany Degel through the mansion.
- Fluorite is the one who narrates, in the past, the events of the first chapter of Dégel's Gaiden.
- Interestingly, the story of this Gaiden does not end with a narration from the point of view of Fluorite, but with a scene in the Sanctuary.