Iris Sepperin

Iris Sepperin is a character from Rosenkreuzstilette who is the biological daughter of Graf Michael Sepperin. She is later revealed to be a reincarnation of Rosenkreuz blessed with his power and knowledge, as well as the franchise's main antagonist.

Appearance
Iris is a well-dressed little girl with long blond hair with pigtails held by pairs of red beads and ruby-red eyes. She dresses in a black, long-sleeved body suit all over her body, including her legs, and wears a red/pink vest over it with a red ribbon on her chest and a round red gemstone on it. She wears a short red/pink skirt with a long white skirt and white shoes, and wears white gloves. When she reveals herself to be a villain, she is shown wearing a silver tiara with a small red gemstone in the center.

In Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel, she gains two pairs of white handkerchiefs with red/pink linings hanging from her red beads holding her pigtails.

Personality
Iris appears to be a sweet and innocent kid who is loved by everybody, and acts like a kind-hearted girl who is mature for her age. However, all that is just a mask hiding her true personality, which is that of a cruel, selfish, and manipulative little brat who's willing to do anything in her power for her own personal gain. Everything she does, no matter how cruel or hurtful, is all done just for the sake of pleasure, entertainment, and excitement. Iris is also very proud, claiming everything to be little more than her own personal toy and that she is a god or a child of God himself. Iris loves to sing as she talks, often placing the eighth note (♪) at the end of her sentences, and also has a habit of saying "desu wa" when she speaks in the Japanese version.

Spiritia Rosenberg
Tia believes that Iris is kind and innocent at first, and at that time, the two get along really well, and Tia believes her to be like a kid sister to everyone. When Iris reveals her true position, she and Tia then become enemies from that point on. It's later revealed that Iris had been looking for Rosenkreuz's spirit throughout her life, and by the time of their final confrontation at the end of the first Rosenkreuzstilette, she realizes that his spirit resides within Tia.

Graf Michael Sepperin
Graf Sepperin is Iris' biological father, who loves her and cares for her with all his heart, so much so that he is willing to go so far as to make a pact with the devil to protect her. In fact, he doesn't even see the evil within his own daughter, which was a fatal mistake he made that resulted in his death by her hands. Even so, she brings him back to life in Freudenstachel, where he is still protecting her; he is even willing to protect his own murderer.

Eifer Skute
Eifer Skute is Iris' right-hand girl and creation that she made using Freudia Neuwahl, Tia's childhood friend, as a template. Eifer is shown to be fiercely loyal to Iris, and the two manipulated the Schwarzkreuz into attacking RKS and the Empire together for Iris' personal amusement.

Abilities
Iris wields the miracle power of Blitzstrahl, which allows her the extraordinary capability of manipulating lightning energy at her disposal. With it, she can focus her energy and unleash it in the form of lightning orbs and lightning rods, and can even fire reflect lasers as well as her own variations of Tia's Seelegewehr shots. As Iris was born with every ounce of power and intelligence that Rosenkreuz had inherited throughout his life, Iris is both incredibly powerful and amazingly intelligent, two traits that she uses to her advantage for her own plans.

Background
Iris was born to Graf Sepperin as a reincarnation of Rosenkreuz, whose talents he concealed thanks to her talents in order to keep the Orthodox Church from learning about them. Paying the utmost caution, Sepperin shared her secret with only the few he felt he could trust. As the years passed, Iris grew bored with the world she lived in until she learned that she was born with absolute power and unparalelled brains, a gift she got from being reincarnated from Rosenkreuz. She decided to use her immense power and knowledge to stage a coup from RKS against the Empire just for her own amusement.

A few months before the events of the first Rosenkreuzstilette game, Iris went to work making the members of RKS believe that contempt for their existence was too much for the Empire to take and that persecution towards them began once more. It was thanks to Iris that the members of RKS weren't willing to stand idly as the Empire "brought them back down and began disrespecting their former leader Rosenkreuz." Iris' words of manipulation inspired RKS to launch its own coup against the Empire in an attempt to destroy it and make a peaceful world just for Magi - all as part of her plan for excitement, as well as her desire to usurp God himself.

One notable member of RKS, Karl Palesch, who was a member of the RKS Intelligence Division, was able to see through Iris' facade, and made an attempt on her life. Iris outsmarted Karl and decided to get rid of him by telling her father about his attempt to kill her. Graf Sepperin placed Karl within his castle prison. He believed that Karl was a spy working for the Church to assassinate his daughter, and, too, believed that RKS was the target of persecution again, and commanded Freudia to lead the rebellion against the Empire in their attempt to destroy it in order to create a new world for Magi and ensure the safety of Iris herself. Little did RKS know, that Iris was just using the members to do so just to amuse herself and become a god herself.