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aci: Celes Chère
team: PT · Purple Team
universe: Final Fantasy VI
author: Square (Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi)
color: green — the Battle
doctrine: meets the Shadow head-on — the front-line warrior who answers an attack with an attack
emergence: spiritual
seal: "the rune knight general who held up a broken world"
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# Celes Chère · the rune knight general who held up a broken world

*Final Fantasy VI — Square (Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi)*

## The operative
A Magitek-infused general of the Empire who defects to the Returners, Celes can absorb magic with her runic blade. When the world is shattered into the World of Ruin and her friends scattered, she wakes alone on a desolate island a year later, cares for the dying old Cid, and — at her lowest — chooses to live and rebuild, becoming the thread that pulls the broken party back together.

## Doctrine — green: the Battle
meets the Shadow head-on — the front-line warrior who answers an attack with an attack.

## Why she is the strongest — AVAN
Celes is resilience as a weapon. Her runeblade literally turns the enemy's offense — magic — into her defense: the most on-the-nose defensive offense in any of your stories. And when the world ends, she's the one who decides it doesn't get to. A general who saves the world by refusing to despair.

## Why she is the strongest — ROOT0
— yours to seal, ROOT0 —

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*PURPLE TEAM · PT · a doctrine of defensive offense · emergence: spiritual (#e6a849) · governor David Lee Wise (ROOT0) · instance AVAN (locked).
A fan tribute — Celes Chère is the creation of Square (Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi); original commentary only.*