Alpha

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

- 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 devoted her life to him and grew his organization rapidly into a world-class superpower in only two years.

Appearance
Alpha is a young, slender, voluptuous, and beautiful female elf with long golden blond hair and blue eyes. She has often been described as strongly resembling her ancestor, the "Elf Hero" Olivier, as well as the Goddess of War, Beatrix, her aunt.

In her civilian attire, Alpha normally wears a revealing dark decorative gown with opera gloves and high heels, a choker, and a necklace. Alpha tends to wear this look as her default fashion, usually when overseeing affairs within Shadow Garden. Depending on the occasion, Alpha will wear another attire, such as when she dressed as in a school uniform to see Cid after Princess Alexia's abduction and update him.

During her Shadow Garden activities, she adorns herself in the customary slime bodysuit, with the chest area exposing her cleavage. There are also unique decorations patterned around her uniform, reminiscent of her gown's décor, with numerous gold accents displaying status. She wears Shadow Garden bracers with golden ends, lining, and design, signifying her authority. The lining of her shoulders connects at the throat where a piece of the bodysuit is stylistically placed over her sternum. Under her breasts, a gold diamond shape is centered atop her diaphragm, with two parallel gold trims starting from her bustier at the exposed cleavage and descends to where her torso meets her pelvis. Along her hips are ornate golden stripes, with symmetrical decoration of two belts originating from her inner thigh and a third belt around the center of the femur. On her feet, she wears platform high heels with gold edged collars.

Additionally, in the written media, she wears a domino mask with an attached flower and frill to hide her identity when operating. However, her mask is omitted in the anime, showing her face to other characters such as the princesses Alexia Midgar, Rose Oriana and the cult 11th Seat Knight of Rounds, Jack Nelson.

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 Cult of Diablos, 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 Cult of Diablos 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 Shadow. Her strength is so unchallenged that none within the organization dare oppose her, including her fellow "Shadows", and even Cid was impressed by how much she had grown. Rose and Alexia noted that while Shadow is the ultimate threshold of strength, Alpha is at least at the level of his footing. However, while proficient in many areas, she is outmatched by her comrades in the fields they specialize in.

Supernatural Physical Prowess
It is speculated that one of the reasons Alpha become very powerful is internally at her magical level at her internal body due to the failed initial experiments that Shadow made to her, while he trying to dissipate and contain its lack of control of magical power that Alpha had in her body from the Demon Possession after managed to return at her true form.

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.

Skilled combatant
Alpha has shown that she is a good fighter, despite the fact that her greatest strength is her sword attacks. During her combat practice against Karen, (who would join Shadow garden, and become Kai), during a time, in which Karen, apparently managed to disarm Alpha, she gave him a couple of strong blows, (according to it seems from the bobseo style), plus a head, to Karen's body, with force. According to Lambda's words and analysis, even Alpha, if she is in need, she can fight bare-handed, and resort to brute force, just like Delta.

Advanced Intellectual
TBA

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 Skills
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 of given his role in her origin.

Magic
Despite her rarely displaying the 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.

Standard equipment:

 * Slime Bodysuit:


 * Slime weapons:

Bursts of magical cuts (Game)
TBD

Magic Download
Alpha can 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 Millia, Viscount Grease's daughter, Alpha uses 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 its 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 the use of Red Mist when he was likely to irreparably spread her along the winds.

Quick Flash
Alpha can 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.

Skilled Tactician
TBA

Trivia

 * Alpha has shown to have a special respect and affection for Cid, as her biggest fear is not being able to be by his side anymore.
 * Despite being the strongest of the Seven Shadows, Alpha is always training and developing new combat techniques with the sole objective of always keeping up with Cid.
 * Like Gamma, Alpha as well has devoted her life solely for Cid and his cause.
 * Alpha is Cid's first disciple and first friend after his reincarnation.
 * Alpha always assumes a role when interacting with the other shadows or members of the Shadow Garden, similar to how Cid takes on the role of Shadow. Cid is the pillar of support for Alpha. Among the seven shadows, she is seen as a flawless leader, creating a clear distinction between her and the others. With Cid, she can be her true self without any need for pretence. He stands as her unwavering grip on support, never to abandon her – a family member, friend, mentor, and the object of her affection and devotion: her love.
 * Unlike in the light novel, anime, game, and web novel, Alpha is seen participating in the assault on Midgar Academy, while not in the other story routes, as only Gamma was available for it. (possibly it was done, to encourage the humor of the readers).
 * Both Alpha and Aurora share something in common, and both are unexpected results because of the experiments and results, which both parties sought differently. Alpha was accidentally cured by his Lord Shadow, and Aurora became a powerful demon, because of the experiments of the Cult of Diabolos.
 * It is speculated that the reason why Alpha, Epsilon and their Lord Shadow can cure the cursed, it is because like Shadow, Alpha and Epsilon, they partially experienced their magic, and partly with their body, to be able to Win strong control, about their magic, at the same time as companied with the power of Shadow, they can also cure cursed girls for the curse of diabolos. This is speculated from the Game.
 * 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.
 * Alpha is the practical leader of Shadow Garden since Cid doesn't really do anything but indulge in his fantasies as a "Eminence in the Shadow," but he is still seen as active by his involvement. She is highly competent, mature, determined, and charismatic. All of the Seven Shadows acknowledge her as having the highest authority in the organization after Shadow and loyally follow her orders.
 * So far, Alpha's leadership has only been challenged by Delta once shortly after the start of Shadow Garden, when Delta challenged Alpha for the position of second in command. However, Alpha defeated her effortlessly, and after Delta's traumatic defeat, the Beastkin Wolf holds the upmost respect and fear for Alpha. In addition, Delta obeys her orders without question.
 * 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.
 * It was revealed in the Chapter 3 on Syosetu, her hair color is stated as (金髪), which is translated as "Blonde"
 * It is revealed in the short episodes of Kage-Jitsu, that Alpha lacks a sense and taste for female fashion, since childhood, she has always been afflicted with the Demon Curse, but even so, she tries to learn, from the tastes and the beauty of it, such as wearing sexy underwear, supported by Gamma.
 * 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 so aloud. This is revealed more within the Master of Garden game than in the anime itself.
 * During Alexia's kidnapping only in the anime, when Alpha found out that Cid was dating, she partially attempted to flirt with him by dressing in a schoolgirl outfit. This implied her love interest in him and the jealousy she felt seeing Cid with another girl.
 * According to the surveys, with the voice actors of the characters, Alpha is madly in love with Cid, which was ascertained by her Japanese voice actress, Asami Seto [ Japanese VA interview ] during her interview.