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. She was the first recruit to become co-founder along with Shadow, and it was thanks to her that Shadow Garden grew rapidly to be a the most powerful organization in just two years.

Appearance
The first member and co-founder of Shadow Garden, Alpha is a young, slender, voluptuous, and beautiful female elf with long golden blond hair and blue eyes. Most notably, she has often been described as strongly resembling the true visage of her ancestor, the Hero Olivier, as well as bearing a striking resemblance to the Goddess of War, Beatrix.

In her civilian attire, Alpha normally wears a revealing dark decorative gown with opera gloves and high heels, along with a choker and 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 is also unique decorations patterned around her uniform, reminiscent of her gown's decor, 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. Lastly, 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 within 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 the Shadow himself. As the Shadow's earliest recruit, Alpha is shown to be highly adept in many aspects, such as physical combat, magic power, leadership, and etc. Though, she is outmatched by her fellow Shadows in the field that they specialize in.

Alpha's 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. Even her master, Shadow was impressed by how much she had grown in strength and skill. Both Princess Rose Oriana and Alexia Midgar note that while Shadow may be the ultimate threshold of strength, Alpha has at least reached the level of his footing.

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 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 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 Seven 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.
 * Alpha is practically the leader of Shadow Garden since Cid doesn't do anything but indulge in his fantasies as a "Eminence in the Shadow". She is highly competent, mature, determined, and charismatic. All of the Seven Shadows acknowledge her as having the highest authority in the organization beneath Shadow and loyally follow her orders.
 * 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.
 * It is revealed that in the Chapter 3 on Syosetu, her hair color is stated as (金髪), which is translated as "Blonde"
 * 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).