| Filia Ul Copt |
| Poor Filia... In Slayers Try, she plays a tragic role that results from the answers found after setting out as written in the Prophecy. Filia is a very, very powerful character, both when she's angry, and when she's overwhelmed by sadness. Strong-minded, has direct goals. She always tries to get the others back on task, and is very rash when she sees the need to be. Three sides: Angry, scary, powerful and cheerful, calm, happy and sad, helpless, overwhelemed. Filia is a Golden Dragon priestess, operating in a society under a Council of Elders. Her job was to seek out people who could help save the world from the impending destruction predicted by the prophecy. Seemed simple at first... but the quest evolved into an ancient tragic story that Filia had known nothing about before, and which ultimately changed her life and way of thinking forever. When Lina & Co. are simply wasting time, or when someone is being perverted, Filia loses her temper and dignity, whips out her mace, and smacks the person away in a fit of rage or desperation. Her uncontrollable anger is her biggest weakness, though her physical strength is very high (being a dragon and all). This side of Filia is not something you would want to face. When people stay on task and all seems to be going well, Filia can relax and start showing some of her true self. She certainly does have a softer side, as evidenced by things such as her passion for Cat's Cradle. Her mood is surprisingly light and happy when nothing is going wrong; a good example is when she was lining up for a ride in a carnival. Her natural innocence had taken over her need to accomplish things. As the story of Slayers Try continued, more and more dark secrets began to be unraveled. Filia is stuck in the middle of it all, having to watch her people die, realizing what her people had done, taking responsibility for uncounted deaths, and witnessing the pain of the tortured soul of Valgaav. As might be expected, Filia couldn't take the pressure of all of this, and so her happy self becomes increasingly less apparent as the situation gets more and more dark, to the point that she's even sobbing uncontrollably at times. Filia may get mad at many people, but by far the person she detests the most is Xellos. He's against everything she stands for, and of course that little grudge about him killing so many dragons 1000 years ago... Her easily angered mind goes out of control when he's around, especially when he goes out of his way to taunt her. Nevertheless, she is controlled by him when she "realizes" that she seems to be doing what he wants her to do. In this way, she's sometimes easily manipulated. Like Amelia because of her over-hyperness, Filia is sometimes dubbed "annoying" by viewers because of her over-dramatic crying. Still, it's necessary to her character to play this role. As expected, Filia can transform back into her true form at will, a Golden Dragon (obviously). Also, her race apparently has its own methods for teleportation, as evidenced by the few times she'd used the technique. As a dragon, she can fly at very high altitudes, but she's exhausted far more easily that way. Since Filia didn't appear until Slayers Try, she hasn't had much time for her character to change. She's basically the same person as when she first started out, just that her soft side showed through more nearer to the end of the series. |
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