| Lina Inverse |
| "A heretic genius who is known as everything from 'Bandit Killer' to 'someone even a dragon wouldn't mess with'." Agressive, powerful, and ruthless, Lina Inverse is one of the most powerful sorceresses in the Slayers world, and is the main heroine whom the whole story revolves around. Very smart and quick on her feet. She understands situations logically and seeks the best way to win over the other side in a logical manner. Can be angered unpredictably, and may be "mean" at times without truly meaning harm to her comrades. Two sides: Egotistical, rude, short-tempered and caring, reserved, loyal. Never gives up, goes after wants very strongly. Lina is a very independant woman most of the time. Although she is loyal to her companions, travelling alone doesn't pose much trouble to her. Her ultra-powerful spells take care of any enemies that might come her way. However, she usually appreciates what people do for her. Even in the first episode, she was doing fine with starting to battle the bandits, but she still continued pretense about her helplessness and thanked Gourry. Her patience, though, and her trying to control herself appears to decrease more and more as she gets to know people longer. If meeting someone for the first time, she usually tries to portray herself as a more polite person. Because of her independence, though, she never ceases to speak up very strongly for what she believes in. In the magical world, Lina is a pure genius. With her manipulation of the chaos words, and her excellent postures, her spells (such as the basic Fireball) are usually a lot stronger than her competitors', and she can also create new spells based off this manipulation. She was the one that created the Giga Slave with this magical knowledge. Also, her knowledge is unbelieveably extensive. If there's information about magic, it's almost certain that she knows it all already. She is one of the only humans that can manage to cast chaos magic that calls upon the Lord of Nightmares, and she casts the Dragon Slave with the greatest of ease, sometimes even poking fun at the incantation casually. One adjective comes up when thinking of Lina's personality: "rash". Lina goes after whatever the situation requires with a strong sense of purpose, even if the group doesn't know fully what's going on. She relies a lot on instinct to achieve victory. For example, when she met Seigram for the first time during the Halcyform incident, after she thought she figured out the flagstone, she simply WENT for it. She's definitely not one to wait around for others to make a plan, and then follow along. Lina's a leader. She's the one in the group that slams her fist into her palm, stands up, and announces her idea. Since Lina possesses this very strong trait, she is also quick to get offended, or annoyed. Without a second thought, she'll usually turn around and DO something to whoever's bothering her (examples: headlocking Amelia, elbowing Gourry, headlocking Xellos, etc.). She acts this way because that's simply the way she is. Lina's a very strong-minded person, and she'll step over whoever gets in her way. This is why she acts the way she usually does: seemingly rude and self-centered. The other side of Lina shows through when something serious might happen to someone she cares about. She's not one to blurt out her feelings, keeping her inner self firmly encased inside a tough outer layer. However, she's still a soft, sensitive person deep down. Whenever her comrades are injured in a battle, she'll become very concerned and try to help in any way that she can, as fast as she can. In this way, she's a very dependable person. Also, when Gourry was taken in Slayers Next by Hellmaster, she couldn't help how she really felt, hidden under all those times she "mistreated" him. In the end, it was only with Martina's help that she finally truly realized how important it was to trust both her instincts and her feelings. Lina is even stronger when this other side shows through than when she's her usual confident self. As shown in the end of Slayers Next, her hidden honest feelings paved the way to victory. Lina wants to do as much with her exciting life as she can. She doesn't like to stay in one place and dwell on anything; she wants to go out and DO something, as evidenced by her "rash" trait. A good example is the last thing she said in Slayers Next, that she didn't know where she was going, but she was certainly going to get there. And in Slayers Try, she set off very enthusiastically for the Outer World, knowing it would be a unique experience for her. It was because of this need to DO something that she left her home at such an early age in the first place, and ended up travelling rather aimlessly. Having Luna, the Knight of Ceipheed, as a sister, wasn't exactly healthy for Lina, and her sister is rumored to be the reason that she left her home so abruptly. However, it's highly probable that it was Luna's harshness that led to Lina becoming such a great sorceress, just to keep herself from getting killed. Lina doesn't have many weaknesses, but her two greatest fears (other than losing her companions) are probably slugs, and her sister Luna. Finally, Lina loves new challenges and adventures, and is very competitive when she wants to be. In other words, if there was another Slayers season after Try, there's no doubt that she'd still be travelling, and seeking new foes to defeat. Of course, she could just rob bandits for fun in her spare time; that is the way she is, after all. |
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