Queen (Type-0)

Queen is a playable character in Final Fantasy Type-0. She represents the number 12 of Class Zero and wields a sword.

Appearance
Queen is a young woman with long black hair with her bangs clipped back with a green barrette. She has violet eyes and wears glasses. As a member of Class Zero she wears a black jacket with gold-padded shoulders, a red cape, a short red skirt and knee-high black socks. She wears plain white panties. Her summer uniform has a black gold-lined vest with red lapels, a white collared short-sleeved shirt with grey stripes at the ends of the sleeves, a black bow-tie, a black skirt with loose black belts, white socks with gray stripes at the top and black gloves. Her dress uniform has a red jacket with black cuffs and black-padded shoulders, a white cape and gloves, a black skirt trimmed with white lace and red socks.

Personality
As her name implies, she has a dignified position among her comrades due to her intelligence and sense of justice. She immerses herself in books, and is attentive during Kurasame's class, being one of the few students to have a proper study posture. She is practical, realistic and logical and is known for saying cruel things to her classmates. In actuality, Queen does so in favor of her classmates; being one of the older students she looks out for the others and cares for them as a sisterly figure. Her leader-like mannerisms and behavior cause others to tease her with the nickname "class leader", or "class president" in the Japanese release.

Final Fantasy Agito
In Final Fantasy Agito, Queen is a member of Class First and dons a light blue mantle.

She can be found in the Naval General Operation Staff 2nd Division during the morning and afternoon and at the Fountain Plaza during the morning.

Final Fantasy Type-0
Queen is a young woman who is a member of Class Zero, a group of students from the Peristylium Suzaku, the Magic Academy of the nation of Rubrum, that fight the invasion of Rubrum by the Militesi Empire. As part of the resistance operation "Operation Apostle", she and her comrades seek to become the Agito, a messiah prophesied in ancient mythology to appear at the time of Tempus Finis, an apocalyptic calamity.

When Milites begins its attack on Rubrum, Queen finds Ace with a dying Izana, consoling the young man while telling him not to heal Izana as the man is beyond any recovery and he needs to reserve his strength for the group of Milites soldiers she predicts will arrive shortly. But in contradiction to her inaction at the time, when she later stands up to Machina for thinking they willingly left his brother to die while chiding him for acting like a hero, Queen reveals that she had remorse for Izana and that she would have saved him if he had suffered only minor injuries.

As she and her classmates are on the verge of death, Queen consoles a sobbing Cinque when she starts to break down in her fear of death.

In the alternate ending caused by Arecia removing the crystals from Orience's history, Queen survives and is able to act more easygoing and relaxed as she forms a friendship with Cinque and Deuce. The trio were seen in their summer outfits, returning from a game of lacrosse while engaging in a conversation. Queen mentions how she saw Ace with Mutsuki, and the three gossip about a possible romance between the two as they pass King, Trey, and Jack.

Gameplay


Queen wields a sword and has great movement speed. Her regular attack is a combination of slashes and lunges that finishes with a jumping attack. Queen is perhaps the most balanced character among the party as while boasting an above average Strength, she doesn't excel in any particular area. She is flexible as she can adapt to any role to better assist her teammates. As such, she is suitable for beginners.

Abilities
Her attacks consist of stabs and jabs. Her normal attack starts with a quick stab, then a three-time jab finished with a lightning-fast circular slash (which forms a sphere of swipes). The finisher is a good Stunning attack, allowing for exploitation of Breaksight and Killsight. Her Balestra Lunge(analog up) is a jumping-lunge in which she may strike multiple hits with the Lv.2 upgrade. She can perform her Balestra Lunge three consecutive times before a short rest. Queen's Riposte Slash (analog down) follows her performing a swipe before backflipping. Holding down the input will allow her to perform her finisher (the lightning-fast circular slash) right after backflipping. With the Lv.2 upgrade of Retreating Attack, Queen can shoot off three energy orbs at her target after backflipping if the analog is in a neutral position. Her energy orbs deal magical damage, have short range and no homing, but Queen can still track enemies while shooting them.

Queen initially knows Divine Judgement that allows her to conjure a wide four-directional cross around her that spins in a counterclockwise fashion. The Divine Judgement's "blades" damage enemies, while restoring HP to allies that come in contact with them. Queen's HP is not restored like the other allies', but she drains the enemies' HP that she hit with Divine Judgement. The amount of HP she drains is half the damage she dealt with Cross Judge. Initially, the rotational and healing speeds of Divine Judgement are slow, but the upgrades will speed them up almost four times faster. Note that the Divine Judgement's blades can stagger small enemies fairly easy, but cannot Stun them.

Queen has two abilities that drain her HP, the Magic Martyr and Gate of Destiny. With Magic martyr, Queen drains her HP to restore missing MP to allies inside her MP-restoring sigil. Initially, the MP restored is proportional with her drained HP(in percentage). When the MP of everyone within the sigil is full, Queen's HP will not be drain. The amount of MP restored can be improved with the upgrade, which means Queen would drain less HP to restore allies' MP. It is better to use this ability to all allies at once since the HP conversion rate is only affected in conjunction with a single character only.

Gate of Destiny is a powerful area-of-effect attack that deals damage to all enemies within the sigil. Queen can instantly cast and make the sigil to blast damage with less HP to consume. Holding down the input will charge and increase the sigil's size as well as damage. A large cross will If held, the ability constantly drains Queen's HP until it drops to 1 whereupon Queen will blast the sigil, and the ability cannot be used again until her HP is at least 2 and above. Note that the Gate of Destiny ability area-of-effect range is proportional with the charged sigil's size instead. A quick use(single, quick tap) of the ability costs approximately 12.5% of Queen's HP, while the charged one costs approximately 25%(if timed right).

The Speedrush ability allows Queen to approach her target in the blink of an eye. It is technically teleport, as Queen can escape ranged attacks with it as well. If there are enemies or other obstacles between Queen and the target, she instead dashes in front of the blocking object. Different elevations may also interrupt the ability, but if Queen is on a higher elevation it works. Using this ability with no target in sight will cause Queen to dash 3 feet in front of her instead.

The Mana Sphere is a long-ranged ability that allows Queen to shoot energy orbs. First, she unleashes a single energy orb that moves sluggishly, but when holding down the input, Queen can cause the single, slow energy orb to split into three smaller energy orbs that shoot at the target with great speed. The three split orbs have strong homing as well. If Queen cast the ability directly in front of a target in point-blank range, she can unleash the orb(the single, sluggish orb) rapidly in a spamming fashion without splitting it.

Queen can learn the tactical-defensive ability, Justice Guard. By timing the ability to guard against an attack, one can use it to block an attack and counter with a ranged attack(may still hit enemies in a point-blank range. After successful guard, Queen will shoot a darting, jerking energy orb that homes at the attacker while traveling with great speed. The energy orb deals great damage as well as inflicts Kill Sight to the attacker (in high-HP enemies, Break Sight). This ability is useful if one prefers the "wait, block, and strike" strategy. The jerking orb has a considerably very long range.

Equipment
Queen's exclusive accessory is the "Janus' Glasses", which guards against Burn, Freeze, and Shock, and activates a special mode for her if she is killed during a mission. When Queen is revived, a black aura surrounds her and her fighting style becomes akin to that of a berserker, dashing around the field and dealing high damage. However, she is under Kill Site status, and risks being killed at any point.


 * Longsword
 * Flamberge
 * Claymore
 * Rune Saber
 * Shamshir
 * Empire Saber
 * Ancient Sword
 * Warspite
 * Mythril Saber
 * Flame Saber
 * Ice Saber
 * Thunder Saber
 * Master Sword
 * Save the Queen
 * Mirage Sword
 * Astral Sword (ultimate weapon)

Voice
Queen is voiced by in the Japanese version of Final Fantasy Type-0. She shares her Japanese voice actress with Agnès Oblige from Bravely Default.

In the English version of Final Fantasy Type-0, Queen is voiced by Heather Hogan.

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Twitter Battle
Queen appears as a playable character in the Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Twitter Battle sponsored by Amazon. Her attacks are Longsword and Thunder.

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Queen appears on a few cards in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game, featuring her CG renders.

Etymology
The Queen of Swords, also known as the Queen of Spades, has signs of intelligence and sorrow, two of Queen's character traits.

Trivia

 * Queen is one of the few playable characters in the series to wear glasses; the first was Tellah from Final Fantasy IV.
 * According to the Type-0 Novel, Queen wishes to continue her studies and become a teacher upon leaving Class Zero.