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| “ | I hate all of you. I hate your stories. I feel like throwing up when I think of the abhorrent gods that created you. Spitting out stupid stories, everything in this world is vile. | „ |
| ~ Altair proclaiming her disgust with the world to Mamika. |
| “ | Well, my friends, I have returned. I feel like I've been born again! | „ |
| ~ Altair after surviving Sirius' absorption. |
Altair (アルタイル Arutairu), also known as Military Uniform Princess, is the main antagonist of the anime series Re:Creators. As the penultimate creation of the amateur artist Setsuna Shimazaki before her suicide, she is based on Shirotsumekusa (シロツメクサ) from the social game Eternal Wars Megalosphere (悠久大戦メガロスフィア Yūkyū Taisen Megarosufia) and first appearing in an online music video called Altair: World Étude. Since Setsuna died before she could write an established canon for her creation, Altair was relegated to an independent existence without a story or established canon. Vowing to avenge her creator's death and punish the uncaring world that pushed her to take her own life, she sets the series plot into motion, bringing other fictional creations into the real world with the goal of destroying it in its entirety.
She was voiced by Aki Toyosaki in Japanese and Michelle Ruff in English.
Appearance[]
Akin to her warfare-themed epithet, Altair wears a dark navy-blue military hat and a Spanish-style double-breasted coat. Her forearms are enveloped in robust cufflinks, and her skirt has what appears to be a symbol resembling a golden eagle. Along with her slender physique, she has long white hair and piercing red eyes, which have a bluish-green box in them.
After surviving an intense battle with Sirius, a replica of her meant to exploit her weakness and assimilate her, Altair dons a slightly altered costume, with an open skirt, new boots, and a lack of cufflinks.
Personality[]
Throughout most of the series, Altair primarily talked in an aloof, nonchalant fashion, preferring to speak plainly in both strategizing situations as well as when she is taunting her oppositions. With so much power at her dispersal, she is seldom fettered when faced with threats from her enemies, and often chooses to calmy respond with a simple move to demonstrate her superiority over her foes. Occasionally, she wears a psychotic smirk in the midst of battle, appearing exhilarated to face off against new enemies and experiment with her increasing powers. At certain points, Altair acts sadistically towards the other creations she fights against, purposefully dragging out fights to play with her prey, and causing them unfatal injuries first before finally finishing them off. Despite acknowledging her existence as fictional creation of someone else's machinations, Altair is unabashedly full of herself and sees the rest of the world, real and fictional, as beneath her, even going so far as to proclaim herself as "the hero of this story" with the world itself as the setting.
However, Altair's rare outbursts of emotions greatly contradict the front she puts on. She is unshy about her expressing her animosity both towards the real world and the fictional stories within them, and her tendency to lash out takes on a violent form. When Mamika confronted Altair, offered her friendship and tried to convince her to not act out her plan to destroy the world, the Military Uniform Princess responded with brutally executing her while furiously proclaiming her hatred towards everyone and everything. She exhibited a similar angry reaction upon laying eyes on Sirius, another character originally designed by her character before her death, now modified by other artists to be her antithesis and slay her.
Beneath all her haughtiness, cruelty, and vengeful disposition, at her core Altair is a heartbroken individual who never got over the loss of the one being she considered her friend. All of her hatred and animosity is rooted in the fact that her creator, who just wanted a place to belong, was instead falsely accused of plagiarism, abandoned by her allies, and pushed by cyberbullies into ending her own life. Despite her heartlessness and sadism, she showed genuine empathy to Blitz Talker, a creation whose backstory was intentionally written to be tragic in order to draw in audience viewers, and assured him that her actions would avenge the cruelties he experienced. In the penultimate episode, Altair finally comes face-to-face with a reimagined version of Setsuna, completely breaking down emotionally and tearfully confessing all she wanted was to walk alongside her. Desperate to prevent the scene of losing her again, Altair ultimately abandons her plan of eradicating humanity, instead using her power of creation to make an alternate reality where she and her creator could live happily together for eternity.
Victims[]
- Mamika Kirameki
- Alicetaria February
- Selesia Upitiria (Assisted, indirectly)