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| “ | Rian, I'm not who I was. Expecting me to be that girl again is only going to disappoint you. | „ |
| ~ Philomela to Rian. |
| “ | I must go and welcome my mother and father, who are waiting in Hell. | „ |
| ~ Philomela Sargant |
| “ | No more talking. I can't stand it. You've always been so certain that you're right. So strong, and decisive, and straightforward. Being with you makes this one feel pathetic, and foolish, and utterly worthless. Rian, I hate you. I've always hated you. | „ |
| ~ Philomela after being corrupted. |
Philomela Sargant (フィロメラ・サーガント) is a major character of the anime/manga series The Ancient Magus' Bride, serving as the deuteragonist of season 2 alongside Elias Ainsworth. She is the student of the College and the granddaughter of Lizbeth Sargant. She serves under her in order to please her as well as in hoping of bringing her late parents back to life.
She is voiced by Maki Kawase in Japanese and by Jill Harris in English.
Appearance[]
She is a young teenage girl with light white hair that is pulled back into two ponytails with purple ribbons tied with it. Whenever she attends College, she wears a standard red college uniform with a tie, along with a black band that has a ribbon bow. Her bangs are cut into a slant, starting on the right and slanting downwards.
When she became corrupted by the Testament of Carnamagos, her skin turns completely black and naked-like. Her hair grows far longer into a more vine-like and can even be used to strike her enemies.
Personality[]
| “ | Yes, grandmother. | „ |
| ~ Philomela's lack of self-esteem. |
She is shown to be timid and reserved in speaking with others. She severely lacks self-esteem because of the upbringing and lessons of her grandmother. She is often treated as someone who "stole their lineage" within the household and would be punished if she so much as spoke out of turn to her grandmother, who disdains her lack of initiative and sees her as more of a contemptible doll that can only nod her head.
She has a habit of clamming up when things look bad, a habit that Rian has warned her against because it makes her look worse.
However, she was not always like this. She used to be a playful and loving child when she was with her parents. That was until assassins came and took nearly everything from her.
Biography[]
Past[]
She was born a happy life with her parents after they fled Lizbeth's household. They went into hiding in London. Adam ask Alcyone, their familiar, to be Philomela's guardian. However, Philomela's parents were killed by assassins sent by Lizbeth and she and Alycone were later captured as they were running away.
After she has been taken to the Sargant mansion, Lizbeth manipulated her into forgetting about her parents and that her grandmother is the only one who will look after her. During the rest of her childhood, she had been both physically and mentally abused by her grandmother for being inferior comparing to her father, Adam. Not all of her childhood is horrible however, as she grew a genuine bond with Rian Scrimgeour, her distant cousin, and they would tree climb together during free time.
As Philomela grew older, Lizbeth assigned her to accompany the werewolf assassins and observe them as they slaughtered the entire Webster family, the exception being Lucy Webster, and steal the thread spiders that are used to make books. Feeling extremely remorseful on this, she apologized to the people who were killed and prayed for the night to protect them. Afterwards, she reports this to her grandmother with the thread spiders in possessions. Lizbeth congratulated and gifted her the Testament of Carnamagos which she would use to gather magic powers from sorcerers in the College if she wants to bring her late parents back from the dead.
Present[]
She attends the same College where Chise Hatori attended. She was tasked by Lizbeth to drain the magic out of her fellow students and teachers so she could use the accumulated stolen magic in the book to resurrect her late parents so she can see them again.
When Chise is checking her own health in the College nurse’s office, Philomela decides to spy on her out of curiosity. Chise was able to sense her presence, causing Philomela to flee, horrified considering she has never been spotted whenever she uses her smoke stealth magic before.
During the College camping trip, she used the Testament of Carnamagos, given by her grandmother, to sap Lucy’s (Chise’s roommate) magic. This caused Lucy to fall comatose and could even killed her if Chise had not offered her some of her magic, due to being a Sleigh Beggy. Back at the College campus, Philomela sapped Simeon’s, the music professor whom Elias recently befriended, magic, leaving Simeon in a painful coma as well.
After Liza Quillyn, the principal of the college, had locked down the College in order to find the potential attacker, Philomela became even more paranoid. Being pressured by her grandmother, she began sapping many more students, including Jasmine St. George, leaving them in noticeable pain and gradually rendering them unconscious. This goes on for a bit until the Grimoire attacks Chise through one of the afflicted students and gets more than it bargained for, causing its connection to the students to burst and everyone to suddenly get well again.
During the Christmas festival, Philomela completely snaps and starts fusing with the Grimoire and mutates into a pitch-black abomination and starts rapidly absorbing the magic of every student she comes across and rendering them comatose instantly, starting with her roommate Veronica Rickenbacker, a daughter of the Rickenbacker family that she’s tasked with accompanying, and her childhood friend, Rian Scrimgeour, being another victim. She threatens Liza into unsealing the College so she could leave and go back to her grandmother or she would sap many students and teachers’ magic in the process.
Arriving back at the Sargant mansion, she gave her grandmother back the Testament of Carnamagos with enough stolen magic. As Philomela’s body was starting to crumble, she asked her grandmother if they could finally bring back her late parents. Lizbeth did not respond and orders Alcyone to take Philomela to the underground by sundown while she is preparing the ritual to resurrect her son Adam and not her daughter-in-law Iris.
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