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CHARACTER INFO. ✖ Character Name: Christel, Sylvia ✖ Canon: No More Heroes | after killing Ryuji in NMH2. ✖ Character Appearance:the looks, the spice, the unmeltable ice. ✖ Character Age: 27 ✖ Pick A Number: 777, 77
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Travis Touchdown becomes an assassin at Sylvia Christel’s behest. Sylvia, as an agent of the United Assassins Association, contracts up-and-coming hitmen into joining the UAA’s ranks. The real show, however, are the fights for rankings: the coveted #1 spot belongs only to the best assassin in the nation and can only be gained by killing all of the killers above one’s own rank. Assassins advance through one-on-one duels, and these ranking fights come with a hefty price tag.
✖ Character Personality: Sylvia Christel is a bitch.
...Well, we should back up a little bit first.
Before we address Sylvia’s personality, it’s important to take a good look at her canon, as well as her role in it. No More Heroes is a shallow and stupid action game, but it's also simultaneously a video game about video games-- as well as gamers themselves. As it is, Travis Touchdown is a caricature of the gamer and a parody of the badass action hero: ignoring all reason and consequence, he becomes a killer out of sheer escapist boredom and because he thought it’d get him laid. (And an intentionally ass pull-y vengeance plot, but that’s beside the point.) He’s not even that impressive of an anti-hero, either: he doesn’t have a cause, he doesn’t overthrow anything, he doesn’t get the girl, and he doesn’t move out of the shitty motel room he calls home.
With such a disappointment for a protagonist, it’s only right that our leading lady flips all expectations on their heads. Therefore, as Travis is a parody of the hero, Sylvia is the subversion of the traditional female love interest.
So, let’s get back to it, shall we? Sylvia Christel is, again, a bitch. At first glance, she isn't much more complex than a spoiled, rich brat: she's haughty and snobby, she has expensive tastes, she likes looking pretty, and she likes making others' lives hell. But in Travis’ own words, she lies, she’s greedy, she’s “a fucking contradiction in heels”. Cruel, cold, and unpredictable, she spends her days alternating between flirting with our hero and insulting him and/or shoving him out of moving vehicles. But she isn’t this nasty because she’s playing hard to get, and she certainly doesn’t stop being so for Travis’ sake, either. After all, she's aware of how he sees her: she is not so much his love interest as an object for him to project his desires onto. But rather than being offended or stalled by it, Sylvia takes his fixation on her in stride, using her sexuality to manipulate Travis at every turn and to drop him whenever it's most convenient for her. She is utterly unattainable, and relishes in this superiority. Only the best will do for Sylvia, after all-- and she is, in her own mind, the best of the best.
This manipulative nature is the core of Sylvia's character. Be it sex, money, or power, Sylvia Christel knows what she wants, and when she wants something, there is nothing that will get in the way of that. She acquires new assassins with the UAA much in the way that the CDC does: she finds a willing candidate, she presents them with an offer they cannot possibly refuse, and she contracts them. This seems fair enough, but the fact of the matter is that until NMH2, the UAA did not formally exist. In essence, she managed to convince dozens of people to pay to kill each other for a rank that didn't matter and for an organization that wasn't real. Which speaks volumes about how cunning she is. Sylvia's one hell of a con artist; she knows exactly what to say and exactly what to offer to get something out of another person. And if Travis Touchdown's repeated service with the UAA means anything, she'll do it as many times as it takes to get whatever it is that she wants.
Unfortunately for everyone who isn't Sylvia, she doesn't seem to have any remorse for her actions. Even when the UAA is legitimate the contract has a catch: nearly all assassins who are members of the association are doomed to be trapped in a cycle of violence and vengeance, killing until they lose everything that they love, then continuing to kill until they are themselves killed because they have nothing else left. Sylvia holds no pity for assassins such as these. She's offered them what they wanted, hasn't she? Whatever their fate happens to be is nothing that she should concern herself with once they've done what she ordered (and once she's gotten their money, of course). Unlike Travis, who believes in honoring an opponent and fighting fairly, a battle is only kill or be kill for Sylvia. Her view of other human beings is coolly pragmatic: once an assassin loses, they no longer serve a purpose for her, and they deserve to die, no matter who they are. Other human beings are disposable unless they serve a use for her. She regards any thoughts of mercy with a haughty disdain. Destroying others to advance oneself is something that she believes to be human nature, evolution, even-- and there isn't a hell of a lot of room on top for the weak.
However, Sylvia isn't always consistent in her actions. Despite using Travis Touchdown as a tool like all the other assassins in her service, she favors him far, far more than she is willing to admit, even to the point of loving him. One moment she can be worrying for his safety and wishing him good luck in an upcoming battle, and the next she can be gleefully announcing that she's a million percent sure he'll die. Much in the way that Travis' affections for her are self-serving, so too are hers: he's an embarrassing idiot, but it's tough to not get attached to a man who'd lick the bottom of your heels if you asked. She spares him or provides ways for him to not get killed on multiple occasions, if only because she has some strange possessive attraction to him and also because enjoys the idea of having someone so unyieldingly attached to her in turn. As her manipulative nature suggests, Sylvia's priorities lean toward what will benefit her position more than anything else, and if she breaks a rule she's set, because she felt like it is a perfectly acceptable reason.
Sylvia
unpredictable
possessive
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