History Characters / MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower

* TheAtoner: How Maria Campbell feels after being Maria of Cainhurst.

* BizarreTasteInFood: Maria and blood, to the point where she tried to bake blood into sweets and make blood cocktails, to little success.

* HealingHands: Maria's Light Magic, which can mend soreness and broken bones alike.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Maria can feel things inside her breaking as the evidence against [[spoiler: Sirius Dieke]] mounts, to the point that [[spoiler: her voice is shaking as she asks him to stand down while dueling him with swords, and she freezes rather than finish him]].

* HiddenDepths: Despite her JadeColoredGlasses, Maria has a strong sense of justice and later [[spoiler: works to keep Katarina "safe" from her harem, as she believes Katarina is not mentally competent to consent to intimate behavior]].
* HumbleHero: Maria insists that her summer holidays' actions didn't qualify her for any kind of reward.
* IGaveMyWord: Maria, who always keeps her promises.

* NailedToTheWagon: No matter her cravings, Maria Campbell literally can't get any blood in this world like Maria of Cainhurst drank because the magic is different.
* ParentalSubstitute: The children Maria rescued regard her as this, with some of them even calling her 'mama' and her mother 'grandma'. In exchange, she cares for them greatly and tries to do her best for them.

* SleepsInTheNude: Maria doesn't have any form of nightwear, since when she was 10 she found her room too hot to wear clothes to bed, and when she's older she find them constricting. She also very casual about said nudity, such as when she went to Katarina's sleepover and was never embarrassed once, even when she found out how uncomfortable it made everyone else.
* SupremeChef: Maria's sweets (and threats to stop making them) are about the only thing able to make Katarina behave. Despite her staff being taught how to make the sweets, her friends are still able to immediately distinguish hers from those made by her kitchen staff. They chalk this up to hers simply being better.

* BoringButPractical: Katarina's swordsmanship style. It's very basic, and has little to no active attack capabilities because Katarina spent much of her time refining her defense and evasion at the cost of offense, and any method of attack is reliant on being able to parry, riposte, or counter the opponent's attack. However, Katarina has diligently practiced this style every morning for years, to the point where her defense is practically unbreakable, and can dodge any sort of attack and quickly launch a strike back before returning defensive. Her cousin Matthew, a trained knight, has never won a spar against her no matter what weapon she uses (even a tower shield), forcing her to wear a helmet to avoid her nose being busted(again) by her. Matthew's teacher also quickly lost against her (and got [[RunningGag his nose busted]]), and even ''Maria'' is suitably much impressed by her skill.

** Katarina's training in swordsmanship, introduced in Chapter 2, doesn't get used properly until [[spoiler:the School Festival's play, where the heroine, played by Maria, has an epic final duel with the villainess, played by a disguised Katarina, to the amazement of everyone. It would later become one of the key factors for her becoming a squire under Maria's tutelage to become a knight.]]
** Katarina's Japanese, learned from her previous life, becomes useful [[spoiler:when Maria rescues a group of Ashina slaves, who can't speak Sorcier's language and require a translator.]]
* CovertPervert: Like in the canon, Katarina is supremely ObliviousToLove here. However, as seen in the second interlude, her past life seems to have a thing about IncestYayShipping of ''Fortune Lover'' characters.[[invoked]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Katarina is proven right in her guess that the Student Council President didn't really want them dead and in her refusal to kill him after he passed out.
* FearlessFool: Katarina steps unflinchingly into a cloud of Dark Magic that frightens Maria.
* FriendToAllChildren: Katarina towards all the children [[spoiler:of Maria's estate]], due to her being seen as [[OneOfTheKids one of the kids.]]

* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Katarina is completely incapable of comprehending that she might actually be targetted by someone of ill intent.
* HiddenDepths: Contrary to her [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny personality]], Katarina's swordsmanship is BoringButPractical and she diligently practices in the early mornings before class.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: How Maria sees Katarina, who always sees the best in people and helps others see the best in themselves as well, in spite of having been kidnapped or influenced by Dark Magic users several times. However, she notes that some people would wish to snuff out her light specifically because of this.
* LoopholeAbuse: Maria is very strict about how Katarina addresses people, as she is a noble who needs to act like it. But Sorcier doesn't have any rules on how to address people using ''Ashinago'', so Katarina is able to get away with using honorifics that would be considered incredibly familiar in Ashina.

** Katarina always remembers ''everyone's'' names, including their hobbies, their children, and their dreams. Exactly once, she apparently doesn't recognize someone... because they're a recently promoted knight wearing full-body armor. She figures it out quickly.
** At the diplomatic summit, the building is constructed in old mythic style, an entirely unnecessarily complex form of architecture that requires climbing ladders, going through hidden doors, and jumping down into hidden gardens, all just to get to the main meeting halls. Katarina immediately realizes there must be a series of secret passages to make it easier to get around, because otherwise "how would the servants do their jobs?"
* OneOfTheKids: Katarina Claes, who is seen as a fellow kid by the Wards of the Kingdom and the Ashina children.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Katarina ([[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} of all people]]) ends up piecing together [[spoiler:Anne's secret relationship with Maria's mother and [[ShipperOnDeck voices her approval to Anne]] in private]].
* SimplemindedWisdom: Katarina observes that if Sirius had really wanted to kill her, he'd have killed her after putting her to sleep, so he probably wants to talk about something.

* SuddenlyBilingual: Katarina is the only one who is able to speak Ashinago initially in order to act as a translator for the freed Ashina slaves. Everyone is both incredibly surprised, incredibly confused, and incredibly shocked that ''Katarina'', of all people, somehow knows the language without seemingly any prior contact with Ashina. When anyone asked how she knows it, Katarina just replies "Why wouldn't I know it?", forgetting that she knew it from her past life.

* ACupAngst: Sophia has this when compared to either Mary's "[[ICallHimMisterHappy Pride and Dignity]]" or Maria's "vials of blood".
* AlbinosAreFreaks: As in the ''My Next Life as a Villainess'' canon, albino Sophia was ostracized as a child. However, there's an additional reason here: [[VideoGame/DarkSouls Seath the Scaleless]], one of the ancient enemies of humanity, was an albino dragon, and he keeps reincarnating into new bodies every few decades. Albinos are referred to as "scaleless" and generally seen as nothing but potential Seaths. A few lines imply that the reincarnations lose pigmentation once Seath's soul comes to the fore, but Sophia insists that there is no record of one of the reincarnations losing pigmentation ''before'' they became Seath. Of course, there's also a RunningGag that it's Sophia's [[CuteButPsycho personality]] that makes people think she might be the newest reincarnation of the Paledrake.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Sophia springs a {{Nosebleed}} when she sees Katarina in combat.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Sophia not only comes up with the idea of a revolver, she commissions one from Maria, and later gains an exclusive permit to carry one for personal use.

As in the ''My Next Life as a Villainess'' canon, she is the reincarnation of the "Monkey Girl"'s best friend Atsuko "Acchan" Sasaki, who was a far bigger ''otaku'' than the "Monkey Girl." However, the changes to the setting in ''this'' story seem to give Sophia--who in the ''My Next Life as a Villainess'' canon was strictly a medieval equivalent of the ThinksLikeARomanceNovel ''shoujo'' otaku--quite a bit of bloodlust, plus an association with [[VidelGame/DarkSouls Seath the Scaleless]]. Who she is not. [[RunningGag That would be silly.]]

This page is an incomplete listing of the characters appearing in ''FanFic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower''.

* BoringButPractical: Katarina's swordmanship style. It's very basic, and has little to no active attack capabilities because Katarina spent much of her time refining her defense and evasion at the cost of offense, and any method of attack is reliant on being able to parry, riposte or counter the opponent's attack. However, Katarina has diligently practiced this style every morning for years, to the point where her defense is practically unbreakable, and can dodge any sort of attack and quickly launch a strike back before returning defensive. Her cousin Matthew, a trained knight, has never won a spar against her no matter what weapon she uses (even a tower shield), forcing her to wear a helmet to avoid her nose being busted(again) by her. Matthew's teacher also quickly lost against her (and got [[RunningGag his nose busted]]), and even ''Maria'' is suitably much impressed by her skill.

** Katarina's training in swordsmanship, introduced in Chapter 2, doesn't get used properly until [[spoiler:the School Festival's play, where the heroine, played by Maria, has an epic final duel with the villainess, played by a disguised Katarina, to the amazement of everyone. It would later become one of the key factor for her becoming a squire under Maria's tutelage to become a knight.]]

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: How Maria sees Katarina, who always sees the best in people and helps other see the best in themselves as well, in spite of having been kidnapped or influenced by Dark Magic users several times. Though she notes that some people would wish to snuff out her light specifically because of this.

* MasterSwordsman: Her swordsmanship is on par with Maria, albeit [[OpposingCombatPhilosophies from the opposite direction]]. After her big duel in the school play, several knights approach her to complement her.

** Katarina always remembers ''everyone's'' names, including their hobbies and their children and their dreams. Exactly once, she apparently doesn't recognize someone... because they're a recently promoted knight wearing full-body armor. She figures it out quickly.
** At the diplomatic summit, the building is constructed in old mythic style, an entirely unnecessarily complex form of architecture which requires climbing ladders, going through hidden doors, and jumping down into hidden gardens, all just to get to the main meeting halls. Katarina immediately realizes there must be a series of secret passages to make it easier to get around, because otherwise "how would the servants do their jobs?"

* SuddenlyBilingual: Katarina is the only one who able to speak Ashinago initially in order to act as translator for the freed Ashina slaves. Everyone is both incredibly suprised, incredible confused, and incredibly shocked that ''Katarina'' somehow knows the langauge without seemingly any prior contact with Ashina. When anyone asked how she knows it, Katarina just replies "Why wouldn't I know it?", forgetting that she knew it from her past life.

As in the ''My Next Life as a Villainess'' canon, she is the reincarnation of the "Monkey Girl"'s best friend Atsuko "Acchan" Sasaki, who was a far bigger ''otaku'' than the "Monkey Girl." However, the changes to the setting in ''this'' story seems to give Sophia--who is strictly a medieval equivalent of the ThinksLikeARomanceNovel ''shoujo'' otaku--quite a bit of bloodlust, plus an association with Seath the Scaleless. Who she is not. [[RunningGag That would be silly.]]

* AlbinosAreFreaks: As in the ''My Next Life as a Villainess'' canon, albino Sophia was ostracized as a child. However, there's an additional reason here: [[VideoGame/DarkSouls Seath the Scaleless]], one of the ancient enemies of humanity, was an albino dragon, and he keeps reincarnating into new bodies every few decades. Albinos are referred to as "scaleless" and generally seen as nothing but potential Seaths. A few lines imply that the reincarnations turn albino once Seath's soul comes to the fore, but Sophia insists that there is no record of one of the reincarnations being albino ''before'' they became Seath. Of course, there's also a RunningGag that it's Sophia's [[CuteButPsycho personality]] that makes people think she might be the newest reincarnation of the Paledrake.

As in the ''My Next Life as a Villainess'' canon, she is the reincarnation of the "Monkey Girl"'s best friend Atsuko "Acchan" Sasaki, who was a far bigger ''otaku'' than the "Monkey Girl." However, the changes to the setting in ''this'' story seems to give Sophia--who is strictly a medieval equivalent of the ThinksLikeARomanceNovel ''shoujo'' otaku--quite a bit of bloodlust, plus an association with Seath the Scaleless.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Maria thinks very highly of her because she is level-headed, rational, reasonable, intelligent, imaginative, bloodthirsty, and mildly terrifying. All of which Maria views as positive traits, especially in a [[spoiler: business partner]].

* BoobsOfSteel: Several comments have been made about how well-endowed she is, and she's a honed fighter who takes on all manner of threats.

!!!Maria Campbell, formerly [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, formerly of the Healing Church, formerly of Byrgenwerth, formerly of Cainhurst Castle.]]

* RunningGag: This fic would like to (repeatedly) remind you that she is ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not]]'' the latest incarnation of Seath the Scaleless ''(See AlbinosAerFreaks, above)''. That would be silly.

As in the ''My Next Life as a Villainess'' canon, she is the reincarnation of the "Monkey Girl"'s best friend Atsuko "Acchan" Sasaki, who was a far bigger ''otaku'' than the "Monkey Girl." However, the changes to the setting in ''this'' story seems to give Sophia--who is strictly a ThinksLikeRomanceNovel, medieval equivalent of the ''shoujo'' otaku--quite a bit of bloodlust, plus an association with Seath the Scaleless.

* BoringButPractical: Her swordfighting is based entirely on the idea that she might end up forced into a sword duel against a MasterSwordsman one day, so she focused on being able to survive long enough to run away. She's terrible at attacking, but her defense is unbreakable.

* SuddenlyBilingual: She is delighted to suddenly have a chance to speak Japanese (Ashinago) again, despite the poor circumstances.

[[folder:Katerina Claes]]

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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Maria has Dark Magic, allowing her to manipulate people's memories as well as a degree of mind control, but she doesn't use it without royal permission because it is both illegal and immoral.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Maria has Dark Magic, allowing her to manipulate people's memories as well as a degree of mind control, but she doesn't use it with royal permission because it is both illegal and immoral.

This page is an incomplete listing of the characters appearing in ''FanFic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstalClocktower''.

This page is an incomplete listing of the characters appearing in [[FanFic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstalClocktower]].