Alpha

Alpha (アルファ) (Aλφα) is the second-in-command of Shadow Garden, being the first of the original "Seven Shadows", as well as a descendant of the "Elf Hero" Olivier. After being cured of Demon Possession by Shadow, she devotes her life to him and his cause.

Appearance
Alpha is a young, voluptuous, and beautiful female elf with long golden blond hair and blue eyes, as well as a slender figure with a large bosom. Most notably, she has often been described as strongly resembling the true visage of her ancestor, the Hero Olivier.

In her civilian attire, Alpha normally wears a revealing dark decorative gown with opera gloves and high heels, along with a choker and necklace. During her Shadow Garden activities, she adorns herself in the customary slime bodysuit, with the chest area exposing her cleavage, as well as unique decorations patterned around her uniform, reminiscent of her gown's decor. Additionally, she wears a domino mask attached with a flower to hide her identity when operating.

Personality
"If that's what you want, then I'll devote my life to it..."

- Alpha to Cid Kagenou

Alpha is driven by revenge against the Order of Diabolos, for the suffering she endured when she was a child. Hence why she is determined to make Shadow Garden prosper, in order to fulfill that goal and looks down on those who get in the way of her and her comrades.

However, Alpha is more than that, being compassionate and loyal to Cid and her comrades in Shadow Garden. Alpha has the utmost faith in her master as she knows his full strength, but there are times she is concerned for his safety and well-being and pleads for him to trust her and Shadow Garden. Her faith is so strong, she's even willing to give her life to him and nearly did so when it looked like Shadow abandoned her and Shadow Garden. When such a betrayal was a consideration, Alpha rejoiced alongside the others when they learned he was actually covertly securing funds, which secured their civilian identities from association with Shadow Garden.

As she spearheaded most of Shadow Garden's operation, Alpha always ensures that those under her command return safely and refuses to give them an order that she would not be willing to do herself. She extends this kindness to the victims of the Order of Diabolos as perfectly shown when she mercifully kills a mutated girl, knowing how much suffering she was going through.

Powers & Abilities
Alpha is the second-strongest member of Shadow Garden, surpassed only by the Shadow himself. Her strength is so unchallenged, that none of the Shadow Garden members think she can lose, including the rest of the Seven Shadows. By incorporating Cid's "Shadow Wisdom", Alpha was able to take simple martial arts and self-defense practices and evolve them into lethal combat techniques.

Professional Swordsmanship
Alpha has shown to be a powerful swordswoman, easily disarming Iris Midgar, albeit by catching her off-guard, and defeating a monstrously mutated Millia which Iris struggled against. Alpha is also the only other person aside from the Shadow who has been known to have defeated Delta, whose destructive power is second only to the former. Even her master was impressed by how much she had grown in power and skill.

Infiltration
Aside from her combat abilities, she also possesses excellent stealth and infiltration skills, educated by Cid himself as he honed such abilities in his past and new lives. Alpha is very good at hiding her presence well from anyone, except for her Lord Shadow, who can detect her easily having known her for years.

Leadership
Alpha is a competent commander, serving as Shadow Garden's second-in-command and effectively its true leader since she is the one who manages the organization and saw to its growth to a global network of agents. Meanwhile, although Shadow is the official leader, he often has no idea what is going on, which Alpha is ignorant to given his role in her origin.

Magic
Despite her rarely displaying a use of magic, Alpha is known to be extremely gifted in the practice, being able to heal those under the possession without any difficulty, something only Cid and Epsilon are capable of.

Magic Download
Alpha has the ability to charge her magic into her slime sword, and launch it in the form of a powerful dive attack against her enemy. When she fights the mutation of the Viscount Olba's daughter, she sees Alpha, using this ability for the first time.

Red Mistform
Given her mastery of magic and discipline of character, Alpha is always looking to improve her technique, thus she has been able to master the Vampire Queen's technique in record time after studying it's source. Now, Alpha can master this technique and her body can become a kind of magical mist pool like the Red Mist, with which she can deal a lot of damage, pierce through physical attacks and better magic if she is somewhat small or partially invincible. She used this ability during the Trade Conflict against a counterfeiting master, revealed to be Shadow. She acted frantically from feeling betrayed, but Shadow defeated her as she couldn't resume use of Red Mist when he was likely to irreparably spread her along the winds.

Quick Flash
Alpha has the ability to use her magic to move quickly against her enemies very quickly, this ability was taught to her by her master, Shadow, just like the other original members of Shadow Garden.

Trivia

 * Alpha has shown to have a special respect and affection for Cid, being her biggest fear of not being able to be by his side anymore.
 * Despite being the strongest of the 7 shadows, Alpha is always training and developing new combat techniques, with the sole objective of always keeping up with Cid.
 * Cid currently owes her a meal after eating both shares of food she provided during the abduction incident involving Princess Alexia, but he has yet to have an opportunity to return the favor.
 * So far, Alpha's rule has only been challenged once by Delta when they were young, shortly after the start of Shadow garden. Delta challenged Alpha in combat for the position of second in command when she began to believe the organization. However, Alpha defeated Delta without issue, and since then, Delta respects her and obeys her orders without question. This submission is due to the traumatic fear Alpha dealt her after her defeat.
 * Alpha's hair color is platinum in Web-novels as (白金) and for some reason, Google Translate keeps translating as Gold/blonde (金). this topic has been a debate between the initial older readers of web-novel series. Even the official translator of the light-novel series, Taishi, has no idea of the hair color in the web-novel.
 * Like many members in the Shadow Garden, such as Beta, Epsilon, Delta, among others, Alpha has a loving desire for her Lord, Shadow, having desires to be his wife, without saying part of this. This is revealed that has been confirms more within the Game than in the anime itself (It is not yet clear if the information that the game provides about the characters can be considered canonical).
 * During Alexia's kidnapping, when Alpha found out that her lord, Cid, was dating, she partially attempted to flirt with him by dressing in a schoolgirl outfit, implying her love interest in him and the jealousy that she had when Cid was with another girl (this event only happened in the anime).