Ciel Kanahisa||Sailor Cressida
Biography
Civilian Form
Name and Meaning
Her first name means “sky” in French. Her surname is written with the kanji meaning “gold, money, metal” and “long time, old, long cherished”.
Age and Birthday
16, February 7th
Appearance
She has a tanned complexion, golden eyes, no bangs, golden, wavy hair that goes down to her butt that she usually keeps pulled back in a braid with an orange bow which changes to a metallic gold bow when she transforms into a Sailor Guardian. She stands at 5'7".
Nationality
French
Ethnicity
1/2 French, 1/4th Japanese, 1/4 Kazakh
Personality
Ciel is adventurous, cheerful, energetic, and friendly. She likes to sing and doesn’t hesitate to do so when she is in a good mood. Ciel is hardworking and independent. Despite being from a wealthy family, she takes her home economics class seriously as she aims to move out one day and wants to be able to fend for herself. She is very polite towards her elders but has some resentment towards her parents for neglecting her. She is skilling in basketball, cooking, embroidery, sewing, horseback riding, and archery.
On her free time, she goes horseback riding.
She is good at learning things and can move quickly but can be oblivious.
Her dream is to live freely outside of her parents’ home and be a clothes designer.
Mottos
“Live freely.”
Sexual Preferences
Heteroromantic / Heterosexual
Likes
golden eagles, making clothes, singing. Her favorite food is pomegranates and her favorite subject is Home Economics. Her favorite colors are gold, yellow, amber, red, black, brown, and orange.
Dislikes
people who would harm her loved ones, being neglected, potentially losing her loved ones. Her least favorite subject is Chemistry.
Hobbies
Her hobbies aside from playing basketball are archery, embroidery, making clothes, horseback riding, cooking, and singing.
Her specialty is making clothes.
She can willingly make her pupils expand in “Golden Eagle Eye” mode. Her “Golden Eagle Eye” allows her to have a bird’s eye view of the court. She is an all-rounder in basketball.
She can speak French, Japanese, Kazakh, and English.
Committees
She is part of the sports committee.
Background
Her father’s maternal clan had an ancestor who nursed a golden eagle spirit who had a broken wing and as thanks for being nursed back to health, the golden eagle spirit shared its eyesight with the ancestor who later suffered from partial blindness.
Ciel is the youngest child of Fujin and Amelie Kanahisa. Fujin is mixed Japanese and Kazakh. Her older brother, Zéphyr, was to be the heir behind the Golden Airlines company and as her parents were busy with work, she was usually neglected by them.
Zéphyr took basketball classes and was able to teach Ciel when she was 5 years old, and he was 8 years old. She was enrolled in a prestigious all-girls’ academy known as L’Academie pour les filles royale des Jardins and joined the basketball team. She became a starter and a small forward for the basketball team. She also became friends with her fellow starters. She and her fellow starters were dubbed “The Princesses of Basketball” since they were prodigies.
Due to her family’s business, they had to move to Yokohama in autumn. However, her friends transferred to Japan as well. Some were in other parts of Japan like she was while some were in Tokyo, forcing them to become rivals against one another. Her jersey number in L’Academie pour les filles royales des Jardins was #7 while her jersey number at Kaijō High is #6.
Relationships
Family
Parents — Fujin and Amelie Kanahisa, Zéphyr Kanahisa (older brother)
They invested more in her older brother, Zéphyr, because he was the future heir of Golden Airlines whereas they tended to neglect her because of work. This caused her to feel some resentment towards her parents and desire to move out when she came of age so she could live freely.
Ciel was born when Zéphyr was three years old. Zéphyr was excited about Ciel’s conception because he wanted to be a big brother and take care of his little sister. Because they spent a lot of time together, they share common interests such as basketball, archery, horses, horseback riding, and hawks. They rarely argue with each other and care a lot about one another. Ciel doesn’t envy Zéphyr for being the family heir and doesn’t want to be burdened with responsibilities to parents who did not spend much time with her. They later hind out about each other’s alter egos as Ciel is Sailor Cressida and Zéphyr is Aethra Knight and cooperate with one another.
Friends
Allette Shiratori aka Sailor Leda
Ciel was the first person who extended her hand to her when Allette applied to L’academie pour les filles royale des Jardins and befriended her. Aside from their mutual love of basketball, they bonded over their families having birds’ eyes, being mixed Japanese, having three ethnicities, and clothes design. Ciel told Allette how her parents neglect her and how she doesn’t feel obligated to contribute to the family business they neglected her for and wants to live freely. Allette could somewhat relate given that her parents were busy with work, but she loved her father. Blanche, Allette’s mother, was aware of Allette's friendship with Ciel and disliked Ciel’s viewpoint which is why she disapproved of her daughter’s friendship with Ciel Kanahisa. After Jūban High defeated Kaijō High, they were able to reconcile their friendship.
Rivals
Her fellow Princesses of Basketball used to be her fellow basketball teammates and good friends. But as their strengths in basketball grew, their friendship weakened. When they all moved to Japan in autumn, they transferred to different schools, making them rivals among each other to prove which one of them is the strongest Princess of Basketball. It wasn't until later on that they would regain their friendship due to Allette Shiratori's efforts.
Love Interests
Takuma Shinsō aka Hermes Knight
In their past lives, they met during Princess Serenity’s and Princess Tranquility’s 14th birthday ball. When they asked the attendees to dance with a person from another home celestial body, their eyes met, and he smiled at her before inviting her to dance. They talked during and after the dance then kissed in the hallway of the Moon Castle. In modern days, they first met each other at Yokohama Park. Takuma was planning on practicing soccer by himself, but he was stunned by the beauty of the older girl who was playing basketball by herself and introduced himself to her. As Takuma and Ciel got to know one another, cooperate in their alter egos, play basketball with each other, he eventually confessed to the Princess of Basketball, freeing her from the witch’s curse placed on her heart.
Her type of guy is a charismatic one.
Player She Has Her Eyes On
Allette Shiratori and Ryōta Kise
Guardian Form
Name
Sailor Cressida, Sailor Guardian of Freedom
Guardian Starseed
Cressida Crystal
Mission
To guard Cressida (formerly), to protect Princess Uranus, to protect Earth
Realm of Influence
Cressida, air manipulation
Past Life
In her previous life, she was the daughter of a Uranian duke and was found to have the Cressida Crystal at birth and so she was named Cressida after the moon whose Sailor Crystal she possessed, and she guarded her post on Cressida. Her older brother, Zephyr possessed the Aethra Crystal and became the Aethra Knight.
Guardian Animal
N/A
Allies and Teammates
The Uranian Moon Sailor Guardians
Kotomi Amamoto aka Sailor Miranda
In their past lives and current lives, they were childhood friends because their fathers were friends. During the Silver Millennium, Zephyr and Cressida were childhood friends with Miranda and Prosperity. Cressida, Miranda, and Prosperity knew they were future Uranian Moon Sailor Guardians. The girls often met each other at balls aside from tea parties before they were assigned to their posts on their respective moons. In their current lives, the Amamoto family went on vacation to Paris, France so Sota Amamoto could see his friend, Fujin Kanahisa again and their children got to interact and befriend one another in the process. Kotomi and Ciel both enjoy singing, dancing, basketball and dislike chemistry aside from supporting Zéphyr and Kotori as a couple.
Transformation Token
Sheen Rod
A light yellow spiral sphere with the symbol of Cressida engraved in gold on top of a pale light shade of yellow cloud containing Sailor Uranus’s sword. The rod is a golden stick with a metallic golden ball at the end.)
Henshin Phrase
“Cressida Uranus Power, Make Up!”
Henshin Sequence
The symbol of Cressida shines on the Sheen Rod, she spins the Sheen Rod around her with her gold manicured hand and flaps her arms while shimmers of golden light surround her from a ring on the ground and she reemerges in her Sailor Suit. She flicks her braid back with her eyes closed. Her tiara appears after the golden symbol of Cressida shines on her forehead and when she opens her eyes, white sparkles brush against her lips, giving her some gloss on her lips, and she stands in her pose before a golden colored Cressida.
Symbol
N/A
Guardian Challenge
“The guardian supported by the protection of Uranus’s moon, Cressida, Sailor Guardian of Freedom! Sailor Cressida!”
Guardian Fuku
It is the typical Solar System fuku but her back bow has pointed, golden tails with golden trims that have three white beads and a charm of Sailor Uranus's Space Sword hanging from it. Her dominant color is gold and her accent color is pale yellow. Her earrings are golden feather earrings. She has no stripes on her collar. She has short gloves. Her golden heels have straps, white pearls hanging from the straps, four white ovals with feather shaped decorations behind it and six bands and tips on the ends of them.
Weapon
Golden Bow
Guardian Forms
base, super, eternal
Attacks
Golden Eagle Swoop!
Sailor Cressida channels golden energy in the form of a Golden Eagle that charges at the target, releasing air currents behind it.
Golden Eagle Drop!
Sailor Cressida uses her Golden Bow to shoot an arrow that gets enveloped by a Golden Eagle made of golden energy that unclenches its talons which release air currents that destroy the target.
Golden Eagle Slash!
(Achieved in her Eternal form.) Sailor Cressida uses her Golden Bow to shoot an arrow that gets enveloped by a Golden Eagle made of golden energy that slashes the target while releasing air currents.
Stats
Stats
Physical ability: 9/10
Technique: 9/10
Stamina: 9/10
Mental strength: 9/10
Special ability: 10/10
Lei Motif
Transformation Music
Battle Music
Romantic Theme
Miscellaneous
Inspirations
Nash Gold Jr. from Kuroko's Basketball did not have golden hair and golden eyes hence I wanted a Princess of Basketball with the signature color of gold. Thanks to my coauthor cousin who suggested that she would want to move out when she was of age and thanks to Rose who suggested her parents neglected her. She is an expy of Amir Halgal from A Bride's Story and in her earlier design stages, I wanted her to be associated with the eagle and have eagle eyes and since golden eagles are from Kazakhstan which is where Amir Halgal is from, it worked out. Since we have only seen Amir Halgal's older brother despite it being canonically stated that she has multiple siblings, I only gave Ciel an older brother. My new music box from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam has the Air Opening theme song, and I wanted to include it in one of the Uranian Moon Sailor Guardian's soundtracks. Her stats came from Ryōta Kise who is her counterpart on the Generation of Miracles. Her attacks are inspired by how Golden Eagles attack their prey.