Praline à la Mode



Praline à la Mode, known as Prin à la Mode in Japan, sometimes referred to as the Diva of the Battlefield, is a non-playable character from Bravely Default. Praline is a member of the Eternian Black Blades. Praline is a performer and holds the Performer asterisk. She reappears in Bravely Second: End Layer.

She also appears in Bravely Default: Praying Brage.

D's Journal Entries
''Stationed at Eisen Bridge, where the Shieldbearers and Swordbearers are locked in battle. She uses song to bolster her fan club.''
 * Black Blades

''A 17-year-old girl from Florem. She goes by the name Praline à la Mode, and carries the performer asterisk. She is a battlefield diva, and tends to adlib her way through life without thinking too much.''


 * Likes: Cheering, throat lozenges
 * Dislikes: Boring people, fresh cream

Appearance
Praline is a seventeen year old girl with long, wavy blonde hair and green eyes. She wears a blue dress with a white corset-like middle and blue puffy sleeves. The skirt part flares out and has a white ruffle rim. She has a blue bow around her neck and blue earrings. She has knee length white platform boots with blue bows down the front and white elbow length gloves. She wears a blue and white headband that stick up like rabbit ears. She carries a white and pink handheld microphone.

Personality
Befitting her title the diva, Praline wishes nothing more than to be the center of all attention, which is the only reason she joined the Black Blades since the war gave her the perfect stage to be heard. But Praline also considered herself to be the most hard working of the group, which put her at odds with Barbarossa as she insulted his role in the Black Blades. Taking great pride on her singing skills, though people consider her voice annoying, she claims that even her enemies challenge her solely to listen to her songs, arrogantly dismissing any remarks to the contrary. Being mostly a support unit rather than a fighter, and combined with her much earned praise, she prefers to let her "darlings" do the fighting for her, knowing her "fans" would gladly put their lives at risk for her.

Whenever her songs are interrupted, or her pride tarnished, she can quickly lose her temper and composure, throwing a childish complaint if she cannot sing louder or use her "fans" to beat up her opposition. She also expresses a distaste for music before her generation, believing that upgrading it into a pop song is more important than honoring the original intent of the composer. Despite being spoiled and self-centered, Praline does not seem to be truly heartless, as later on she is not very supportive of Khamer's plan to use her as a means to pacify the people who would be forced into extreme labor, and only agrees to do so thinking it was under Kamiizumi's orders.

Bravely Default
Born in Florem, Praline became a member of the Black Blades and uses her skills to rally her fan-base amongst the Swordbearers at the siege of the Eisenberg bridge. The party first encounters Praline upon arriving at the bridge, wherein the young woman starts encouraging a formidable force of soldiers with "Love in the Crossfire". Ringabel remarks upon her ability, citing the voice as enchanting with Edea sternly pointing out the effect of confusion it can give to a foe. Following their battle, Praline begins a last stand with the party realizing they need to retreat lest they face total annihilation. Frustrated by the endurance of those enchanted under Praline's songs, the party decides to look for an alternative mean of defeating the plucky songstress.

The party arrives at the tavern of the Grandship where the proprietress of the tavern indulges them with a tale about a Siren. Edea remarks that it's a common tale, wherein the siren lures a group of seamen to cast themselves into the sea. The proprietress mentions that the siren's song was once heard throughout the entirety of the Grandship, scaring young and old alike. It just so happened however, that a bard was aboard the ship and knew of a way to combat the menacing siren. He urged everyone on the ship to drown out her singing with their own, thus conducting a long-night display of singing to finally defeat the siren. The bard left the ship soon after, having been mentioned as heading to Ancheim to meet with a pupil. The party then decides to search for Arca Pella's pupils and find the baton to use against Praline.

Having retrieved the bard's baton, the party returns to the Eisen Bridge to do battle once more with a zealous Praline. As Praline begins to sing "Love in the Crossfire", Edea calls out to the Shieldbearers and induces them to sing by conducting with the baton. While in the midst of being drowned out, Praline attempts to sing even louder with little success. She then attempts to use cannonfire, but the attack does not harm the party. Frustrated by the party's interruption of her singing, she engages them in battle.

The party succeeds in defeating Praline and her bodyguards, with a dejected Praline stating that she only wanted her songs to be heard. Fazed by her loss, Praline decides to quit the Black Blades to pursue an ordinary life and runs back to Florem, much to the dismay of her fans.

Following her defeat in the Third World, Praline can be found performing at the tavern on Grandship at night. Her skill at singing and providing buffs is rumored to be the reason why the tavern's service has improved. In the Fourth World, Praline is abducted by Jackal as what the thief thought was a part of a scheme by Eloch Quentis Khamer VIII. At that time, due to her description of Nobutsuna Kamiizumi being similar to that of Ciggma Khint, Praline and Jackal thought they knew the same person which made them able to get along perfectly at the time. In the Fifth World, Praline is summoned to Eternian Central Command where she supports Hayreddin Barbarossa, Barras Lehr, and Alternis Dim as a member of Eternia's third line of defense.

Bravely Second: End Layer
Competing with her former teammate Barbarossa, Praline wants to reimagine an recently discovered composition by Arca Pellar and talked the composer's grandson Rocca into giving her the rights to it. When confronted over it by Edea and Yew's party, Praline is mortified by Edea calling her out for altering the song for her own fame rather than act on Arca's intentions.

If Yew's party decide to fight her, Praline uses her defeat as an excuse to advertise her upcoming appearance at Florem Square Garden before running off in tears when Tiz ruins her moment. However, if they decide to support her, she appears after Barbarossa is defeated where it is revealed that he didn't even listen to the arrangement and merely misjudged it. Praline then decides to perform it at the Square Garden and ends up being pleasing enough for Barbarossa and his crew to enjoy it, and thus let her have her way.

Bravely Default


As a Performer, Praline uses support abilities that enhance the capabilities of her allies. She also has the ability to summon her bodyguards in battle. She falls down to her knees when defeated.

Musical themes
Praline's theme in Bravely Default is "Love in the Crossfire" which plays during her cutscenes, singing the lyrics to booster her fans

In Bravely Second, Praline gets another theme, "Performer Praline's Grand Ship - God Arrangement", that is played during her cutscenes and battle.

"Love in the Crossfire" yrics
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Kanji

 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 あなたの心臓めがけて砲火
 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 あなたの瞳見つめて
 * → 焔の接吻


 * (ふぁいあ!!)


 * 恋愛は戦いなの 3秒見つめたら あなたに《照準固定》
 * 何時だっ戦場なの 諦めたら直ぐに《死亡決定》


 * 失敗した時のダメージが 超マジ ヤバイけど
 * Yes！(Go on!) 女は度胸 とりま 覚悟を決めて 「全軍突撃！」


 * 《キラキラ輝く素敵で無敵な女の子》になりたい
 * あなたを夢中にさせる 可愛い女の子に！
 * でも...でも...素直にはなれない 可愛くなんて出来ない
 * 自分を変えたいよ……


 * えいっ... 当たってク・ダ・ケ・ロ！


 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 恋する乙女無敵の砲火
 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 恋する気持ち弾けて
 * → 焔の接吻


 * どんな娘がタイプなの 冗談めかしても しっかり《脳内録音》
 * 何処だって戦場なの 逃げ腰ではいずれ《失恋決定》


 * 玉砕した時のトラウマが 超マジ バナイけど
 * Yes！(Go on!) 女は根性 とりま 腹を括って 「背水の陣！」


 * 《キラキラ輝く素敵で無敵な女の子》になれたら
 * あなさの瞳の奥 いつでも私がいる？
 * でも...でも...そんな器じゃない 自信なんて持てない
 * 自分を変えたいよ……


 * えいっ... 振られたってダ・メ・モ・ト！


 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 脇目も振らず一途に砲火
 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 脇の甘さを見つけて
 * → 焔の接吻


 * (ふぁいあ！)
 * (ふぁいあ！)


 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 あなたの心臓めがけて砲火
 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 あなたの瞳見つめて砲火


 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 恋する乙女無敵の砲火
 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 恋する気持ち弾けて砲火


 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 脇目も振らず一途に砲火
 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 脇の甘さを見つけて砲火


 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 何処までだって追いかけ砲火
 * 十字砲火 十字砲火 何処へ逃げても無駄だわ
 * → 焔の接吻


 * (ふぁいあ！)


 * (ふぁいあ！)

Romaji

 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, anata no heart megakete fire
 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, anata no hitomi mitsumete
 * → Kiss of fire


 * (Fire!!)


 * Renai wa tatakai nano, sanbyou mitsumetara anata ni 《lock on》
 * Itsudatte senjou nano, akirametara sugu ni 《game over》


 * Shippai shita toki no damage ga, chou maji yabai kedo
 * Yes! (Go on!) Onna wa dokyou torima, kakugo wo kimete "full brave!"


 * 《Superstar》 ni naritai
 * Anata wo muchuu ni saseru, kawaii onna no ko ni!
 * Demo... Demo... Sunao ni wa narenai, kawaiku nante dekinai
 * Jibun wo kaetai yo...


 * Eih... Atatte ku・da・ke・ro!


 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, koi suru otome muteki no fire
 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, koi suru kimochi hajikete
 * → Kiss of fire


 * Donna ko ga type nano, joudan megashite mo shikkari 《lock on》
 * Doko datte senjou nano, nigegoshi de wa izure 《love is over》


 * Gyokusai shite toki no trauma ga, chou maji banai kedo
 * Yes! (Go on!) Onna wa konjou torima, hara wo kukutte "no default!"


 * 《Superstar》 ni naretara
 * Anata no hitomi no oku, itsudemo watashi ga iru?
 * Demo... Demo... Sonna utsuwa ja nai, jishin nante motenai
 * Jibun wo kaetai yo...


 * Eih... furaretatte da・me・mo・to!


 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, wakime mo furazu ichizu ni fire
 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, waki no amasa wo mitsukete
 * → Kiss of fire


 * (Fire!!)
 * (Fire!!)


 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, anata no heart megakete fire
 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, anata no hitomi mitsumete fire


 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, koi suru otome muteki no fire
 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, koi suru kimochi hajikete fire


 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, wakime mo furazu ichizu ni fire
 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, waki no amasa wo mitsukete fire


 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, dokomade datte oikake fire
 * Juujihouka, juujihouka, doko e nigete mo muda da wa
 * → Kiss of fire


 * (Fire!!)


 * (Fire!!)


 * }

English Version

 * Set in my sights, get you tonight. Love in the crossfire. Ready, aim, fire!
 * Feeling alright, Squeeze you so tight. Love in the crossfire.
 * Ready, aim, fire!


 * Set in my sights, get you tonight. Love in the crossfire. Ready, aim, fire!
 * Feeling alright, Squeeze you so tight. Love in the crossfire.
 * Ready, aim, fire!


 * Fit to ignite, set my love alight. Love in the crossfire. Ready, aim, fire!
 * Ready my sight. Get you tonight. Love in the crossfire.
 * Ready, aim, fire!


 * Feel it alright, squeeze you so tight. Love in the crossfire. Ready, aim, fire!
 * Victory night, set my love light. Love in the crossfire.
 * Ready, aim, fire!

Voice
Praline à la Mode is voiced by Fumie Mizusawa in the Japanese version. She shares her Japanese voice actress with Egil.

She is voiced by Stephanie Sheh in the English release. She shares her English voice actress with Airy and Airy's sister in Bravely Default.

Final Fantasy Legends: Toki no Suishō
Praline appears as a light-elemental summon. She is a limited edition cameo summon as part of the Bravely Archive: D's Report collaboration event.

Her special attack is Love in the Crossfire, which deals light-elemental damage to all enemies and lowers their attack, magic, and speed for two turns. Summoning Praline costs 2 points from the Consumption Gauge. All versions of Praline are able to go up to rank 7.

Praline allows the wielder to use the following abilities:
 * Foreign Heart I
 * Foreign Heart II
 * Foreign Heart III

Her Phantom Stone artwork is her official artwork from Bravely Archive: D's Report.

Fantasy Earth Zero
Praline à la Mode items appeared in a collaboration event.

Etymology
Her Japanese name is Prin (as it appears in her minions in Bravely Second and their entry in the artbook), which in Japanese katakana is written the same way as Purin.

Trivia

 * Praline simply quits being a member of the Black Blades after her defeat. Making her one of the three asterisk holders with no apparent death scene in the first world loop, along with Lord DeRosso and Braev Lee.
 * Praline appears when loading up the game, being present in the Event Viewer description screen. Alternis Dim, Nobutsuna Kamiizumi and Braev Lee share this sneak peek of sorts; the latter two being present in Edea Lee's character introduction video.
 * The Square Enix cafe Artnia has a dish named after Praline.