Annerose Nichtsehen

"I’ll admit it: You’re strong."

- Annerose, to Mundane Mann

Annerose Nichtsehen (アンネローゼ・フシアナス) is a powerful wandering swordswoman, hailing from the Velgalta Empire who was formerly a member of the Velgalta's Seven Blades.

Appearance
Annerose is a beautiful woman with both blue hair and eyes with a slim built.

As a swordsman, she wears a dark blue armor with gold accents covering his shoulders and back, as well as a black cloth body armor that covers the chest along with a white cape that covered her back, white armor pants with dark blue accents, a pair of gloves and metal boots, and a light green headband with green gems. She also did not forget to bring her sword.

Personality
"You’d best give up now..., If you don’t, you’ll die."

- Annerose, to Mundane Mann

As a proud swordswoman, Annerose presented herself as cynical and aloof. When she first met Mundane Mann (Cid in disguise), she assumed that he was not skilled as a swordsman and condescendingly told him that. Despite this, she's a good person deep down and will step in to defend others, especially those she unwittingly placed in trouble.

However, she wasn't always like this because long ago, she was passionate about swordsmanship that she left her home to become stronger. But the time she spent wandering the world and couldn't find, even failing to face any opponent that could match her skills, making her love for swordsmanship has already faded.

It was only when she met Mundane that she finally found a worthy opponent and showed she is capable of changing her opinion when facing him. Once that happened, she became confused and suddenly flustered whenever the two met. It was after her defeat at Mundane's hands that she regained her love for swordsmanship before she left her home.

Background
Annerose was once one of Vegalta's symbolic Seven Blades, but she has abandoned the title name and is on a journey of training in search of her long desires to find a strong opponent that can match her skills. Unfortunately, years of not finding one leave her cynical and bored.

Sanctuary Infiltration
Annerose is one of the contestants who took part in the Goddess's Trial at Lindwurm, winning her duel against an ancient warrior spirit that was summoned to fight her, called Borg. She has not been seen when Shadow appears after his duel with the Witch of Calamity Aurora and Shadow Garden's arrival who intervenes when the Sanctuary door appears in the middle of the arena. Following the trials, Annerose is the only combatant who was able to summon a "legendary warrior".

Bushin Festival Tournament
Days after the chaos in Lindwurm with the news of the Sanctuary being obliterated by Shadow, Annerose arrived at Midgar Kingdom's capital to participate in the Bushin Festival tournament for the first time. It was there that she met Mundane Mann who she perceives him as a weak swordsman. She tried to dissuade Mundane from participating out of concern, but this act unknowingly caused the other participants to harass Mundane. Initially, she withheld from taking action so Mundane would receive a harsh reality check but finally stepped in to defend the man when Quinton went too far in the assault. Annerose apologized to Mundane, but then observed that Mundane sports no visible wounds from the assault. Annerose then watch Mundane fight against Gonzales Machom on the qualifying thirds round match and saw that Mundane won the fight as she notices his strike by observing his movement.

Curious about the dark horse, she, along with Quinton watched Mundane's match against Goldoh Kinmeki in the qualifying fourth round. To their surprise and the shock of the entire audience, Mundane easily won. While everyone ponders how this had happened, Annerose did noticed the methods Mundane did that allowed him to win his match. Unfortunately, this is met with laughter by Quinton as Mundane's ways are so over the top ridiculous to be possible.

The Vegalta swordswoman met up with Mundane after winning the qualifying final round and told him about their match-up together and that she knew how he won. Regardless of Mundane's skills, Annerose boasted that she's more than match for him. To her shock and surprise, Mundane merely scoffed at her and revealed that he had been holding back; having used weights during his entire run.

Once their match began, the two clashed but her attacks hardly faze him, and he was able to swat her aside. Annerose realized she was being fooled into thinking she could get an advantage and admitted she should have expected him to be skilled after seeing his true strength. She continued to attack but Mundane easily overpowers her and defeats her.

After the match, she gets medical attention and finds Mundane in the halls and talks with him, admitting defeat and thanking him for good battle. She inquired on his true identity, but he answers that he was only a wanderer who abandoned everything in search of power and Annerose said that she would return to Velgalta Empire and train from scratch, also asked Mundane if he would join her empire to become a great warrior though he refuses and walks off, despite her asking he do so if he changes his mind. Since Mundane left the venue before revealing his true identity, she does not know that he is Shadow.

In the anime, Annerose was seen leaving Midgar expecting Mundane to appear and didn't notice the battle between Shadow and Beatrix that was happening in her back.

Powers & Abilities
Annerose is renowned for her skill with the sword, to the point where she earns a spot among Velgalta's Seven Blades before resigning the position. During the Goddess's Trial, she was the only one, besides Shadow, who managed to defeat an ancient warrior's projection, which impressed even Cid himself. She was also a favorite to win the Bushin Festival tournament.

Swordsmanship
Annerose is considered a prodigy at wielding a sword. She was so skilled that she went without a worthy opponent for the longest time until she met "Mundane Mann". She is also able to see through some of his moves and was his first opponent who was not beaten in a single blow.

Perceptual Sight
Annerose is exceptionally perceptive, being the first to take notice of "Mundane Mann's" true strength and even being able to see through some of his acts to notice that the "incidents" that caused his string of victories were, in fact, deliberate actions made by him.

Standard Equipment

 * Battle Maiden Armor:
 * Iron Sword:
 * Training Weights:

Trivia

 * Annerose Nichtsehen can be attributed based on her characteristic personality.
 * Annerose's surname Nichtsehen (Fushiana) means "cannot see" translates from both German and Japan, which is ironic because she's the only one who notices the true might of Mundane Mann (Cid in disguise) and fitting as she is unable to follow Mundane's moves at all in their fight and thus underestimated him.
 * The first name Annerose means "favor; grace" in German, since she accepts defeat gracefully and takes the opportunity to train harder.
 * For some unknown reason, Annerose prefers not to be called on her title as Velgalta's Seven Blades. Whether or not it might possibly be due to the Seven Blades being compromised by the Cult of Diabolos is unknown.
 * Annerose first appeared during the "Goddess Trial" when she won against an ancient warrior, with the manga expanding upon her battle rather than being offhandedly mentioned. She wouldn't be prominent until the next arc.
 * In the specials of the manga, Annerose is seen putting on training shoulder pads, after her defeat against Mundane, not caring that said shoulder pads had spikes on the sides. This as such only appears in the manga, it will not appear in the anime, light novel, web novel, or the game.