Sister Cross Theresa

Sister Cross Theresa (シスター·クロス・テレサ) or simply as Theresa is the recurring and the playable character in Kagihime Monogatari Eikyū Alice Musou and she is an original character created specifically for Eikyū Alice Musou. She is first appears as anti-hero and a boss character along with other Saints members in order to exterminate the sin bearing persons and slaughter them until she was defeated by the player and later serves as ally to undo her mistakes and fights Legion in the final battle. She is extremely powerful and she specialises in close range combat. She has difficulties dealing with long range assaults but proves deadly if she can close the distance.

Simon arc side story
Theresa is only appears in Simon Arc side story and there is connection of the 12 chapters (As the player plays in side story, the number of chapters is now 6 instead of 12 and the stage 1 is only unlocked by clearing Chapter 5 (Balian's Sword) and continuing the side story by unlocking the rest of the Simon Arc main story first).

Theresa is first appears as anti-hero in Simon Arc side story along with other Saints members, where she has few battles with Joseph and Rosalie before joining with Simon and Eclaire in abandoned theme park. When every members of Saints defeated, she warns the player to leave the place, and defeating her Saints members even more causes the riot's will to raise sky rocket, and the boss decides to dispatch their massive riots to surround the entire abandoned theme par filled with angry mobs. After Joseph and his party clear up the misconception and defeating the main boss along with Theresa herself, Theresa apologizes for her mistakes and joins the resistance to fight Legion along with her Saints members for final battle.

Appearance
Theresa is a elder woman of 35 which is younger than Eclaire. She is a shoulder length orange color hair which was covered by her long black headdress and red eyes. She only wears a slight modified nun outfit consist of black long sleeved long dress with long v-cut on the right side of her long skirt that show off her right leg and red leather straps with various lengths that tied to her long sleeves and lower waist areas. A gold cross on the center of her dress collar and a white corset with red strap on her waist area. On her foot area, she wears a black short socks and a pair of steel shoes.

Personality
Despite being a false hope, Theresa is sadistic in her thirst for sins. She is a bloodthirsty nun who enjoys slaughtering her foes in the field who they not to believe in Christ. Obsessed with eliminating Ramesses, she is satisfied that her allegiance allows her several chances to defeat him and even can fought against Simon. Her personal agenda means everything to her, as she hasn't thought of another future for herself. While it pains her to do so, Theresa can set aside her desires to be a capable other Saints members. A bit of a perfectionist, she desires to be punctual and thorough in her endeavors. Soldiers in camp dialogues mention that Theresa used to be cheerful and laid-back, prior to her thirst for sins.

After her defeat and upon meet with Eclaire, Theresa gives up her bring anti-hero, she speaks with polite appology and eventually she join the player along with her Saints members to correct her mistakes she made.

Gameplay
Stats (without accessories and/or armors and default weapon equipped)

Main Stat: STR (Physical ATK)

Moveset
Ground Moveset

, , , , , : Theresa does a basic 6 hit combo with her crossing sword, ending with a spiral hard knockdown slash at the end which cannot be recovered by somersault.

undefined, (undefined): Theresa does a horizontal slash to shoot a large dark red crescent shape slash at distance of 5 meters in front of her to inflict damage and pierce multiple hits. On the second input shoots a second one that pushes the enemy back and spiral knock the enemies away at last hit.

, undefined, (undefined): Theresa slashes an enemy up into the air. On the second input, she slashes upward as she follows the enemy up into the air, transitioning herself in the air for Air Combos.

, , undefined: Theresa does a basic 3 heavy hit combo slash with her crossing sword, ending with a sword stabbing thrust that stuns the enemies on last hit.

, , , undefined, (undefined): Theresa jumps two steps and does a strong wide slash in very wide arc in front of her to inflict damage and sends enemies flying with crashing knockback. On the second input, throws her weapon in front of her that creates an whirlwind of vacuum that sucks the enemy in while carving them up. Inflicts heavy damage and spiral knock the enemies away on last hit via spiral hard knockdown.

, , , , undefined: Theresa jumps and throws her crossing sword into the ground, creating an dark elemental explosion over 5 meter AoE. Launches the enemies up the air and inflict damage.

, , , , , undefined, (undefined), (undefined): Theresa does a quick strong wide horizontal slash while she is dash forward for each input is pressed to inflict damage and sends enemies flying juggle with crashing knockback. She can do up to 5 times and the last one, she rushes forward for a rapid series of strong wide horizontal slashes that inflict further damage, multiple hits and spiral knock the enemies away at last hit.

Direction, undefined: Theresa does a fast, but strong two dashing slashes at the distance 5 meter in front of her that inflict damage and multiple hits, while the second swing inflicts crashing knockback.

Crossing Break( during dash): Theresa jumps into the air and slams her weapon to the ground, creating a small AoE quake that launches the enemies up the air.

Aerial/Air Combo Moveset

, , , , , , : Theresa slashes her crossing sword in mid-air and can be followed up by a basic air combo by slashing up or down in diagonal.

, undefined: Theresa rolls and slam to the ground with her crossing sword to cause a AoE quake. Launches the enemies up the air.

, , undefined: Theresa slashes and slams the air juggled enemy down to the ground that can cause ground bounce.

, , , undefined: After two air combo slashes, Theresa stabs in front while in the air to produce a short range dark energy blast that inflict damage and spiral knock the air juggled enemy away from her.

, , , , undefined: After three air combo slashes, Theresa throws her weapon around her at high speed several that creates an whirlwind of vacuum that sucks the air enemy in while carving them up. Inflicts damage, multiple hits and spiral knocks the air juggled enemies away at last hit.

, , , , , undefined: After four air combo slashes, Theresa throws her weapon down to the ground that create a dark elemental explosion over 5 meter AoE along with air juggled enemy. Launches the other enemies up the air and inflict damage.

, , , , , , undefined, undefined: After five air combo slashes, Theresa does an aerial version of C6 with Aerial C4 at the end, except that her weapon throws in spiral upward in front instead of around her. Inflicts damage, multiple hits and spiral knocks the air juggled enemies away at last hit.

Counterattacking Moveset

While blocking the attack with L1 Button : After blocking the enemy attack, Theresa counters the attacking enemy with a fast C4-1 (without jump and stepping).

While blocking the attack with L1 Button undefined: After blocking the enemy attack, Theresa counters with her Direction Charge attack.

Skill Attacks
These skills can be follow up from normal, Charge attacks or from other active skills are performed.

Dark Moon-Flame: Theresa jumps into the air and slashes her weapon to the ground to shoot a fast three-way large shockwaves of dark energy that ripple outward from her at the distance of 5 meters in front of her. Inflicts damage and pierce multiple hits to enemies (This skill is learned from the start of Sister Cross Theresa’s Level).


 * MP cost: 500
 * Cooldown: 25 seconds

Dark Whirl-Cross: Theresa throws her weapon in front of her that creates an dark whirlwind of vacuum that sucks the enemy in while carving them up. Inflicts minimal damage and multiple hits to enemies where being contacted with her weapon spinning. Afterwards, her weapon returns to her like a boomerang (This skill requires Sister Cross Theresa is Level 10).


 * MP cost: 500
 * Cooldown: 35 seconds

Crossing Suffer: (Acts like the Storm Rush mechanics from Dynasty Warriors 8, execute this skill by pressing  and undefined at the same time) Theresa stands a ready position. Press and hold the  button to perform a crossing slash repeatedly. Pressing the undefined button or let the storm rush stance is over to perform a more damaging version of C4 attack. launches the enemy away. (This skill requires Sister Cross Theresa is Level 20).

During Storm Rush stance, it can move forward via directional pad (not analog stick) during her Storm Rush ready position.

Storm Rush Stance effect last for 6 seconds.


 * MP cost: 700
 * Cooldown: 45 seconds

Death Riser-Wave: (chargeable) Theresa charges and gathers a burst of dark energy, then swings her weapon upwards to unleashes a large shockwave of dark energy that ripple outward from her at the distance of 10 meters in front of her. Inflicts damage, pierce multiple hits to enemies and launches them up the air for every hits. However the longer she charged, the more powerful will be, but Theresa cannot be move while charging. Longer charged version does a rising slash that she jumps into the air while she unleashes a large shockwave of dark energy at the same time, then follows up with slamming her weapon to shoots a 4-way large shockwaves in wine front of her. Enemies will hit by charged version of large shockwaves are the same except with spiral knock into the air via spiral hard knockdown for every hits which cannot be recovered by somersault. (This skill requires Sister Cross Theresa is Level 30).


 * MP cost: 700 (uncharged), 1400 (charged)
 * Cooldown: 50 seconds (uncharged), 100 seconds (charged)

Death Circle-Dance: Theresa charges and gathers a burst of dark energy, then she performs a continuous attack that emits a shock wave of dark energy moving along the ground up to 8 times a row, then follow up with a skill attack version of C6 attack. Inflicts heavy damage, multiple hits on the last part of her skill attack and spiral knocks the enemies away at last hit via spiral hard knockdown. (This skill requires Sister Cross Theresa is Level 30).


 * MP cost: 900
 * Cooldown: 55 seconds

Musou Attacks
(Death Cleave) (Requires 1 Musou bar): Theresa slams her weapon 5 times to unleash a five-stage spreading version of Death Riser-Wave, then jumps into the air and rolls into the ground to slams her weapon one more time to shoots a 7-way spread that covers in front of her. Inflicts heavy damage, pierce multiple hits to enemies and spiral knock into the air via spiral hard knockdown for every hits which cannot be recovered by somersault. This Musou Attack is learned from the start of Sister Cross Theresa’s Level.

, (Death Crash) (Requires 1 Musou bar): Theresa jumps and slam her weapon to the ground to create a unblockable heavy damaging large dark energy explosions that spiral knocks the enemies up into the air via spiral hard knockdown which cannot be recovered by somersault. This Musou Attack is requires to learn when Sister Cross Theresa is Level 10 and is usable in mid air.

Direction buttons (not Analog Stick), (Death Cross-Dance) (Requires 1 Musou bar): Theresa does a Direction Musou attack version of Death Circle-Dance, except she can do up to 16 times a row instead of 8 times a row. This Musou Attack is requires to learn when Sister Cross Theresa is Level 20 and is usable with the Direction buttons.

Alternate Musou Attack - R1 +  (False Holy Cross) (Requires 1 Musou bar): Theresa throws her weapon up into the air to knock the nearby enemies into the air, then her weapon plans itself on the ground to summons a dark energy grand gross in front her. After few seconds, it creates a continuous stream of dark energy within a cross area in front of her, dealing Dark-attribute magical damage and inflicts multiple hit several times. Afterwards explodes that inflict heavy Light-attribute magical damage and spiral launches the enemies away from her. This Musou Attack is requires to learn when Sister Cross Theresa is Level 30 and is usable with the R1 button.

(Death Explosion) (Requires 2 Musou bars and instead of Death Cleave): Theresa spins around one time to hit enemies nearby over 5 meters and knock them up into the air at the same time, the jumps into high air. Afterwards, Theresa throws her weapon down to the ground that create a huge dark elemental explosion over 20 meters AoE along with air juggled enemy. Inflicts heavy damage and spiral knock into the air via spiral hard knockdown for every hits which cannot be recovered by somersault. This Musou Attack is requires to learn when Sister Cross Theresa is Level 40.

(Death Knell) (Requires all Musous bar and instead of Death Explosion): Theresa leaps into the air to shoot numerous of flame swords of dark energy to the ground which can cause a huge explosion on impact that inflict heavy damage and spiral launches the juggled enemies up into the air via spiral hard knockdown before she lands with a powerful unblockable massive damaging huge dark energy explosion rolling slash that spiral knock the juggled enemies away into the great heights via spiral hard knockdown. When any enemies K.Oed will blow violently into low earth orbit and left out from the battlefield. This Musou Attack is requires to learn when Sister Cross Theresa is Level 50 along with Dead End World.

Burst Attack
(Dead End World) (Burst Mode required and instead of Death Knell): Theresa stuns the nearby enemies around her with dark smoke of energy, then she gathers a burst of dark energy. As her Burst Attack starts, she performs a continuous Death Circle-Dance multiple times. As she continues her Burst Attack, she performs a alternate slash of Death Cleave repeatedly up to numerous times before she unleashes a over charged version of Death Riser-Wave which transition herself in the air for Death Knell to shoot numerous of flame swords of dark energy for multiple hits. On the final blow and the burst attack is over, she rolls around and slams to the ground which unleashes a powerful massive damaging huge dark energy explosion rolling slash that spiral knock the juggled enemies away into the great heights via spiral hard knockdown. When any enemies K.Oed enemies from Burst Attack explosion will blast violently into low earth orbit and left out from the battlefield. This Burst Attack is requires to learn when Sister Cross Theresa is Level 50 along with Death Knell.

Special Features
All characters use a Burst Mode.

Burst Mode: Temporally doubles the characters’ movement speed, stats and gain unlimited MP, also able to use Burst Attack.

Burst Mode last for 30 seconds.

All characters use can Dash skill. However, Noa does a gliding dash instead of running dash.

Dash: This ability allows the characters to move with increased movement speed.

Fighting Style
Similar to Rofel Dragonite, Sister Cross Theresa is known for consistently being a character who emphasizes attack power over any other stat in the game despite