Victoria

Victoria (ウィクトーリア) also known as No. 559 is a member of Shadow Garden, being one of the Numbers. She is one of the organization's most powerful members, with abilities rivaling those of the "Seven Shadows". Before joining Shadow Garden, she was known as "The Saint". She is also a member of Zeta's secret sub-faction.

Appearance
Victoria is a rather statuesque woman, standing nearly as tall as Cid was in his previous life, and towering over 664, 665, and 666. She has long strawberry-blonde hair that reaches below her hips and covers her left eye. Victoria's face is described as a beautiful good-looking girl, even Rose Oriana describes her beauty as a goddess. Her face normally bears a cold expression with her eyes being lifeless, unless in the presence of Cid and she will suddenly become highly expressive and attentive.

In terms of attire, she wears a unique version of the Shadow Garden standard Slime Bodysuit with a short torn cape on her back and a large shoulder pauldron, giving her an overall more armored look than regular members. A strap continues from the pauldron to her right shoulder and connects to her cape. Her pauldron has several belt straps dangling over her cape, each strap measured at her arm's length. Her attire has a frilled neckline at the collar, dress with a opening at the bust that ends in a tattered material, while there are more belt straps coming from her abdominal section. Her leg are a standard Bodysuit design but with long thigh high boots, or stockings given the clip-on straps, with a pattern at the top then again at her lower legs in a V shape edging, and with short heeled soles.

She is also adorned with a veil on the temples of her head, held there by a tiara giving her the alluded appearance of having horns. In the light novel, these horns are depicted as floating just off the tiara only connected by stands of slime from the bodysuit. While in the manga, the horns are solid in design, more like a one-piece item. In the anime, although brief, her tiara appears to be a one-piece item as well with the horns intact.

Personality
"It’s my duty to purge any who are unworthy of his grace."

- Victoria

Due to her tragic past, Victoria usually holds a cold and intimidating demeanor, except in the presence of Shadow or the Seven Shadows. She harbors an absolute hatred towards the Cult of Diablos and is dedicated to Shadow Garden's mission of destroying them by all possible means, to the point that she very ruthlessly killing those who she believes to be their enemies without hesitation or remorse and being unconcerned about the safety of innocent people. To this end, she would eliminate anyone she deemed unworthy to be by her master side, no matter who it was, even her fellow Shadow Garden' members as she has shown to be strict toward her subordinates, scolding and even branding them as "traitors" should they deviate from their mission.

However, Victoria is not without faults. She is headstrong and reckless, at times charging into battle without any strategy. This is further supported by her having communication problems, not even bothering to explain mission objectives to her subordinates.

But the truth is that Victoria is a spoiled girl, where she acts like one when she is with her master, Shadow, and has a special request to him. Evidently, she would make her cute face and grab the sleeve of Shadow's coat, also make an dissatisfied expression and kept tugging at his coat sleeve when her request was rejected by Shadow. However, when her wish was granted her eyes would light up with joy.

Similar to the members of the Seven Shadows, Victoria utterly adores Shadow. In his presence, the usual cold demeanor immediately disappears and is replaced with that of a love-stuck yandere. On the other hand, her adoration causes her to be jealous of others. For example, her needless cruelty towards 666, who she considers unworthy of her lord's attention. She also desperately wishes to rise through the ranks of Shadow Garden and become a member of the Seven Shadows so she can get closer to Shadow.

In the past, Victoria was noted to be a far kinder and more naive person like an innocent and gentle girl, who she even could not kill a fly. However, after everyone she once trusted betrayed her following her Demonic Possession, she lost her faith until she was saved by Shadow, resulting in her current personality.

Background
Victoria was once known as "The Saint" of the Divine Teachings Holy Church as she preached the doctrine of the Holy Church, as well as the legends of the heroes that defeated demon Diablos. Unbeknownst to her, however, the Cult of Diablos had secretly taken over the church and were preparing to use her in their plans. Unfortunately, one day she began displaying symptoms of "Demon Possession" and turned to her superiors and pray for help, only for everyone who once revered her to repudiate, humiliate and strip her of everything before imprisoning her. With the Cult concluding that they could not use her anymore, she was sentenced to be executed. On the day of her execution, however, Cid just happened to pass by and saved her using his Shadow persona. Afterward, having become enamored with Shadow, Victoria was recruited into Shadow Garden, where she quickly rose through the ranks and gained a reputation as having abilities at, or near those of the Seven Shadows.

Victoria once challenged 89 to fight her, so she could have the right to challenge Numbers. Knowing that she had just joined the organization recently and the difference in numbers was over four hundred gaps, she shouldn't have a chance of winning. But, she had won an extraordinary victory against her with the power she received from her master, Shadow which gave her the right to challenge the Numbers, even a high-ranking "Named Numbers" member.

At some point, Victoria secretly join Zeta's branch faction with the objective to make her lord, Shadow immortal by reviving Demon Diablos.

Bushin Festival Tournament
In the Anime shortly after the events of the Bushin Festival, Victoria is seen sparring with another member of Shadow Garden (presumably No. 89 in her challenge) at Alexandria, the Shadow Garden base of operations which is the old capital of the Midgar Kingdom.

Oriana's "Black Rose" Civil War Wedding Incident
Victoria takes over 664's squad and leads a squad group for an gathers information about the Cult of Diablos' activities in Oriana, by doing infiltration and investigation mission to find out what kind of Cult's plan has for as the Cult send 40 First Children to the Fort First at Oriana Kingdom, as it is now in a civil war and why the cult is involved.

Victoria calls 664, 665 and especially Rose Oriana (666) for the mission, since apart from the "Seven Shadows", only Victoria and Rose were the only ones who received direct power from Shadow. Victoria tells Rose that she doesn't think she is worthy of the power she received, telling her that if she represents a problem for her mission they will leave her behind.

During the squad's espionage in sacred ruins, Victoria sees that Rose's mother, the Queen Reina, is involved with the cult. Regardless of whether she was innocent or not, she lunges at the Queen to take the "Ring" from them, feeling that the ring is the "key" while massacring several members of the cult.

But, Rose intervenes by trying to save her mother from Victoria attack, which leads to Rose and the Queen being captured and taken as hostages. The Cult tries to use the hostages to demand surrender from Victoria, 664, and 665. However, Victoria replies to the Cult that Rose is unfit to serve Shadow Garden and declares her a traitor as she launches herself at the remaining members group of the Cult "First Children". During that time, one of the Cult’s leaders, Kouadoi the Gale send Rose and the Queen go to Duke Doem at the capital.

In the end, the cult group is eliminated but Victoria and her team weren't left unscathed and are received total serious injuries. Victoria was about to be killed by the Cult lieutenant who still had a lot of strength, but she felt the power of Shadow and then he appears killing the lieutenant by ripping out his heart and saving Victoria. Shadow asks Victoria to explain what happened, to which she contextualizes him in a loving, kind and childish way or what happened and tells him that 666 had betrayed them to which Shadow gets angry.

Later, Victoria and Epsilon discuss Rose's situation and why the queen was there in Mitsugoshi's branch, then they calm down with how their lord Shadow is (according to how they see it) and they continue their talk about Victoria's decision for retrieving the "Ring", which is a key of "Black Rose". By the time Cid aka Shadow returns, Victoria and Epsilon are affectionately startled by him and compete to see who they give him a massage.

The Academy Disappearances
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Power & Abilities
Before joining Shadow Garden, Victoria was already a powerful individual, hailed as "The Saint", with even the Cult of Diablos taking notice of her. After joining the organization, she quickly rose through the ranks and is now their sixth-strongest member, after Shadow and the "Seven Shadows" (sans Gamma and Eta), which is why she is expected to take leadership eventually, but her fanaticism makes her a bit of a loose cannon.

Physical Skills
Victoria was able to almost single-handedly battle a large squadron of high-ranking cult members for three days and nights, although ultimately overwhelmed by fatigue and sheer numbers. Even so, she defeated all entire group of First Children, and even killing off three cult leaders among them, with Kouadoi the only last one Cult member that she are about to take him down, before being overwhelmed by him due to her being exhausted.

Swordsmanship
Being one of Shadow Garden's strongest members, Victoria is an exceptionally powerful swordswoman, only ever losing due to being overwhelmed by fatigue.

Magic
In terms of magical power, Victoria was already strong before joining Shadow Garden. When she joined the organization after being healed and receiving Shadow's power, her abilities grew to a point where she could nearly rival those of the "Seven Shadows", even being able to defeat some of the weaker members.

Quick Flash
After joining Shadow Garden, Victoria possesses the ability through the use of her magic, to quickly move through any land that she can like any other elite magical swordsman. Under Lambda's training, her flash ability is upgraded, leveling up to Shadow Garden's "7 Shadow" subordinates.

Weaknesses
Victoria has two glaring weaknesses: her poor social skills and her tendency to overestimate her own abilities. During the Oriana Kingdom operation, she did not even explain their objective to her squadron and rushed into battle head-fight without any sort of plan. According to Epsilon, this is also what holds her back from being promoted, remaining a three-digit Number despite clearly having the skills of a double-digit named Number.

Cid Kagenou / Shadow
Victoria is one of the many girls in the Shadow garden, who has a deep love for her lord, Shadow. She has deep respect, idolization and trusts in her lord. She sees him as a god since when she had lost all confidence, joy, friendship, faith and hope in those she had, both those of the church and her followers. Shadow was the one who saved her from that torment, healed her and gave her a new purpose in her life.

Despite the strong change she has experienced in her personality level, which had become cold, arrogant, hasty, stubborn and insensible, Victoria still retains part of her kind and affectionate personality from the past. This is seen when she was about to die at the hands of one of the lieutenants of the Cult of Diablos by the time Shadow saved her, she adopted a childish and affectionate demeanor from when she was the Saint. Although this is only shown to Shadow, some members of the Shadow Garden had the opportunity to see that childish and friendly side of her, among them, is Epsilon, 664 and 665.

She is enamored with Shadow and considers herself to be his loyal servant, as she stated that she will mercilessly eliminate anyone who she feels in undeserving of his grace. Naturally she has no qualms becoming part of Zeta's faction due to its goal being making Shadow immortal.

Epsilon
Victoria was respectful towards Epsilon as a superior. It helped that they are both madly in love with Shadow hence why they got along so well.

Zeta
Like all subordinates in Shadow Garden, Victoria respects and admires Zeta, one of the Seven Shadows and an original direct disciple of Shadow himself. Both also accomplish their mission regardless of collateral damage, and it is likely because of this that Zeta recruited 559 into her secret sub-faction.

In the Master of Garden game, it is revealed that Victoria meet Zeta long ago before joined Shadow Garden when she still referred as the "Saint" and made a prophetic remark that someday they would meet again.

664 and 665
Victoria treats 664 and 665 in a normal and arrogant way as she would with any other companion of hers from Shadow Garden who is below her, almost without caring what happens to them and so on but without going completely out of line, whether they whether in front of a superior member or not, unless she considers them as traitors if they do something against her orders, when Victoria (559) faced the "First children" of the Cult of Diablos, together with a lieutenant of theirs, called the " Kouadoi", did not fight alone, 664 and 665 joined the combat, implying that they have at least a little consideration for those who help them.

Rose Oriana
Victoria does not hide her dislike towards Rose out of jealousy that the princess was personally healed by her beloved Shadow. This dislike only worsened when Rose caused her to fail a mission for once. She giddily awaited Shadow to punish Rose, preferably execute her. After the death of Doem Ketsuhat and Mordred, Victoria nonetheless gives 666 another chance from her supposedly betrayal. But warn her if she messes up their mission again, she won't be forgiven.

Nina
TBA

Trivia

 * Victoria is one of the only two people, except the "Seven Shadows" to receive their powers directly from Shadow himself.
 * Victoria gained a portion of Epsilon's role in the Web Novel, where she was the injured Shadow Garden member saved from defeat by Shadow.
 * Like Zeta, Victoria does not care about consequences or collateral damage as long as she can accomplish her mission.
 * Victoria hair color differs from each adaptation she appears in; in the LN, her hair is described as strawberry blonde, while in the Master of Garden game, her hair is shown to be platinum blonde; and in the Anime, her hair is shown to be pink.
 * Victoria is one of the clear examples, although it continues to be very ironic for the majority of society, who witnesses this, that even the most good, fair, believing and devout person, can fall before the darkness that lurks in every corner of society, and the world. Since this is reflected in the sudden change she suffered, at the personality level, when everything she believed in and had faith in was nothing more than a lie and deceit in almost everything she believed and learned when she became a Santa, and he, like everyone else, humiliated and tortured her, before sentencing her to die, (if it weren't for the Shadow, she would have completely broken).