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Black Butler [OC] Krimhilde Lecroix

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I thought I had gotten over my love of Kuroshitsuji, but nope apparently the moment you watch the first episode you sell your soul not that I have a problem with it lol.
Okay so I've had shit tons of BB ocs, most were terrible honestly and I don't want to remember them, but since my art has improved since then you really don't wanna see my old art I figured I should make one that isn't completely horrific looking. There asterisks in her bio are points I'll explain as to avoid assumptions as well as to just give more detail. I tried to avoid overpowering her and tried to balance her out, giving her a reputation of being a great Reaper but also still being inexperienced and weaker than those who've been around far longer than she is. I also really didn't want to make her more powerful than Sebastian, Undertaker or other established supernatural characters that are on par with Sebastian. 

Also Krim was a natural red head as a human, but before she became a Grim Reaper suffered from Marie Antoinette syndrome. her hair color never came back after she died.

Introduction of Character

Name: Krimhilde Lecroix

(Former) Claudia Krause

Age: 17-20 (Physically)

Gender: Female

Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Pansexual/Panrom

Nickname(s): Krim,
Alias(es):

  • Odette Duval

    Date of Birth: Unknown

    Date of Death: Unknown

    Astrological/Zodiac Sign:

  • Scorpio/Dragon

    Species: Grim Reaper

    Ethnicity: French-German

    Blood Type: 0

    Affiliations/Organizations:

  • Retrieval Division of the Grim Reaper Dispatch

  • Feng Household


Status: Alive

Occupation:  

  • Butler/Head Maid of Yunxu Feng


The Character’s Appearance

General Appearance:

Krimhilde is a slim young woman, possessing straight, white hair which is kept in a side ponytail and chartreuse phosphorescent eyes hidden behind a pair of round glasses when under her ‘Odette’ alias. As Odette she wears a white apron over a black dress with white stockings held up by a garter belt and a pair of black heels.

Out of disguise her hair is loose and tends to get in her face, and instead of her round glasses she wears a pair of half square glasses. Krim wears a black vest over a long sleeved white button up shirt with a bird skull bolo tie and a black suit jacket, with a black pencil skirt with long slits on the sides. A pair of black lace stockings held up by a garter belt with a pair of black heels. On rainy days or when it’s cold she sports a black trenchcoat and carries around an umbrella.
While she customized her uniform slightly, adding slits to her skirt and her bolo tie, Krimhilde will often discard her skirt in favor of wearing shorts when forced into combat for easier movement.


Height: 5’2

Weight: 106 lbs.

Handedness: Ambidextrous

Tattoos/Birthmarks/Scars: Being Yunxu’s head maid she was given a small tattoo of a phoenix on her lower back which she only displays when bathing or when he wants to see it.

Jewelry/Accessories: She has a pair of earrings and a locket.

About the Character

Personality:

Krimhilde has a calm, stoic, and practically mechanical demeanor when dealing with others and shows nothing but disinterest especially when she works. However this is proved to just be an act she keeps up when on the job by Ronald.

Although she does enjoy her job it can be a bit boring for her, so in order to avoid getting reprimanded by William she works hard and ends up focusing so intently on her job that it causes others to assume this of her.

In reality Krim is pretty eccentric, having the habit of watching people when they sleep while comparing them to corpses, or tending to tread on the darker side when it comes to humor and her morals.

Krim is rather confident and free spirited and carries herself as such, freely expressing her opinions or her sexuality despite it being seen as improper for women.


Although appearing to be peaceful, Krimhilde also shows a strong inclination towards violence being quick to resort to punching or strangling Ronald whenever he mentions her “human name” in front of other people. She also has no problem with silencing those who get in her master’s way, albeit leaving them alive as to not break the conditions William gave her but still traumatizing them to the point where they wish for death.


As Odette she acts very shy, clumsy and reserved. Odette reacts very flustered and nervous when hit on and gets exceedingly embarrassed whenever her master lifts up her skirt or pulls her into his lap.

When alone and able to drop her Odette act Krimhilde is very welcoming to Yunxu’s advances, although never allowing him to go further from a caress to her thigh or a kiss to her shoulder.
Despite Odette being meant to be shy Krim isn’t afraid to break character and order around the other servants to do their jobs properly.

Favorites:

  • Red/Black/Turquoise

  • She’s a huge fan of all desserts, especially chocolate based ones.

  • Birds

  • Violin music




Least Favorites:

  • Stuffy clothing

  • Alcoholic beverages

  • Smoking

  • Overt cruelness


Hobbies/Interests:

  • Ballet

  • Emroidery

  • Reading

  • Collecting various skulls of dead things

  • Playing the piano


Phobias/Fears:

  • Spiders(if you want to get a strong reaction from her try putting a spider in her line of vision. She’ll wreck the entire room trying to kill it while crying in fear.)

  • Being caged up or subdued, especially by men.**

Habits:

  • Krimhilde bites her lower lip when she overthinks.

  • She works constantly when she’s stressed, which results in her getting snappy when anyone tries to help her.

  • Krim polishes her death scythe after she uses it.

  • When she sleeps she tends to stick one leg out of her blankets and one arm above her head. Krim also drools a little bit in her sleep.



Mannerisms: Krimhilde has a monotonous way of speech when working, but off the job she speaks in a relaxed manner. While she generally acts very casual and laid back when around those who know her, she will act with some bit of politeness.

Skills/Talents:

  • Krimhilde has various talents she’s developed throughout the years.

  • She’s very skilled in the arts of ballet as well as other forms of dance.

  • Her culinary skills are also extraordinary, mainly due to being a supernatural being and her own hobby of creating and learning recipes.

  • As a human she had various other types of skills, although the only one she kept as a Grim Reaper was her singing. She isn’t exactly an expert songstress, but her voice is nonetheless pleasant to listen to.

  • Krim is very skilled when it comes to combat and her death scythe, being able to move in perfect synchronization with it. However Krimhilde admits that no matter how well her fighting skills may be, even she would be unable to fight Sebastian head on and win.

  • She picked up needlework from Yunxu, who was more than happy to share what his mother passed down to him, and is pretty good at it. Although Yunxu is far more skilled than her.



Best Qualities:

  • Hardworking

  • On time

  • Dependable

  • Strong-willed



Worst Qualities:**

  • Improper

  • Creepy

  • Out-Spoken

  • Independent


Morality/Ethics: Krimhilde believes strongly in free-will and following what she believes she should act instead of what society expects of her. While she cannot interfere with the deaths of humans, Krim’s own inability to allow someone she sees as innocent or care about die in front of her has overcome her desire to uphold the rules. She’s rescued Yunxu from danger multiple times and also saved a young girl from what she saw as an undeserving death even if she was destined to die no matter what she did.

Krimhilde is shown to be merciful in spite of her violent and often careless disposition, allowing the girl to rest on her lap and sang to her upon her request before Ronald  collected her soul.



Goals/Motivations/Dreams:

  • Before meeting Yunxu she had no motivation or goals, just doing her job monotonously and playing the piano by herself. However when he approached her with the offer of excitement in exchange for her servitude she was more than happy to accept. Now her motivation is mainly to please her master and excel in her work.



The Character’s Relationship With Others

Reputation:

As Odette people see her in a very positive light, considering her an upstanding maid and a delicate young lady.

And to young girls and ladies Krimhilde is seen as very charming and chivalrous despite being a woman, which has most claiming her to be a gentlemanly lady.


However most who know Krimhilde see her as being a willful yet dependable individual who while definitely not the poster child for propriety is nonetheless an upstanding worker and servant despite this. It all really depends on the individual person though.

Love Interest(s):


  • Yunxu Feng

One-sided on his part, Krim humors it every once in awhile by giving him a small bit of affection, a kiss or two on the hand, but they both know she has no intentions of returning his feelings.





Friend(s):

  • Ronald Knox

They get along pretty okay, but he does get creeped out when she does the whole ‘staring at humans when they sleep’ stuff.



Enemy(ies):

  • Mingxia Guo



Relationship(s):

  • Yunxu Feng

Her master and one of the few humans she considers a friend. Their relationship is strange to others not involved, being too close for a simple Master and servant relationship and not close enough for her to be his paramour. Krimhilde has a lot of respect for Yunxu considering he gave her purpose, and as such gives him small forms of affection when he desires it. While it’s obvious to everyone that he’s head over heels in love with her, Krim doesn’t share the sentiment.

After his arranged engagement he becomes increasingly persistent in pursuing a romantic relationship with her, and feels devastated when she rejects him much more sternly than before. After his engagement is put off, Krimhilde allows him to return to giving her affection and praise much to his delight.


  • Mingxia Guo

Yunxu’s arranged fiance as well as a noblewoman from China, she feels completely disinterested in her. Which conflicts with Mingxia’s feelings of hatred and jealousy of Krimhilde. While Krim understands why she loathes her, she is also thinks her feelings of jealousy are both pointless and ridiculous considering Yunxu doesn’t want to marry her and will never feel anything but distaste over the situation he’s been forced into.

Their relationship further deteriorates when after she ‘fires’ Krimhilde behind Yunxu’s back, his reaction is beyond livid and he immediately resorts to threatening her for doing so.

She soon calls the engagement off, frightened by Yunxu’s true personality, and leaves England immediately.

  • William T. Spears

Contrary to popular belief amongst the newer reapers, Krimhilde has a strictly business only relationship with William with him being her boss. They have a pretty mutual understanding of each other and a very simple arrangement involving her little ‘Odette hobby’ as he calls it. If she works hard, follows his rules as well as the rules all Grim reapers must abide by, and doesn’t let her little ‘pet’ get in the way of her job then he doesn’t mind. Although he does show slight leniency when she oversteps the line, only quadrupling the amount of work she has instead of piling most of the work of new reapers on to her, which implies some form of ‘friendship’ between them. Or at least whatever William’s idea of friendship is. However she still usually ends up getting suspended for a little while anyways.


  • Ronald Knox

One of the very few people that Krimhilde is close friends with, she has utmost trust in him despite Ronald being the main receiver of her violence. Unlike William, who only knows her ‘old’ name because of his position, Ronald was given the privilege of knowing that name and more.

They’ve frequently worked together on jobs involving particularly difficult souls, and both enjoy going out drinking together. Well more of Ronald drinking like a madman and Krimhilde watching on with a grin on her face while she drinks tea.

He often teases her about various things, such as her fear of spiders or by calling her ‘Claudia’ in front of Ciel and others. Although he means this all in good fun and becomes remorseful when he manages to get tears from her whether it be out of anger or fear.




  • Grell Sutcliff***

While Krimhilde chooses to avoid interacting with Grell, considering the reaper has tried to eviscerate her because of a misunderstanding, she treats Grell with respect that most others do not in spite of Grell’s behavior. Krimhilde actually enjoys Grell’s company and occasionally offers to let her do Krim’s make up.

Because of her respect she refers to Grell as “Ms.Grell” and “My lady” with ease, and having no problems with how Grell represents herself.


  • Undertaker

Krimhilde is more often than not annoyed with him and considers him to be a pain, considering he shouldn’t even know that name but insists on referring to her by it anyways. Despite her finding him irritating she often visits him to try and talk him into giving her a few ‘additions’ to her collection, which usually ends up with a strong no because it’d be rude of him to give away any of his guests ‘possessions’.

After the whole Bizarre dolls incident, her opinion of him doesn’t really change much, considering she couldn’t care less about what he chose to do with humans.


  • Sebastian Michaelis

Krimhilde doesn’t particularly care about Sebastian nor does she try to get in his way, seeing as she knows he would have no problem taking her down and she’s smart enough to know some battles are better left unfought.

He shows some dislike with some of her mannerisms, showing off her legs shamelessly and showing no regard towards politeness, however he begrudgingly admits that she is an efficient maid and that Yunxu’s praise of her was not just talk.



The Character’s Abilities

Demon?: No

Grim Reaper?: Yes

If Yes, Which Branch?: British (German branch transfer)

Which Division?: Retrieval

Death Scythe Appearance:

Unlike other Reapers, she chose to retain most of her original Death scythe’s design except the added rose and thorns on the back of the blade with vine engravings in the blade with her old name printed on the blade.

Fallen Angel?: No

Powers/Abilities:

She has the standard Grim Reaper abilities, as well as being quite skilled with using needles to paralyze enemies.


Origin of Powers: As a Grim Reaper she naturally has these powers.

Strengths:

  • Very agile and flexible

  • Able to fight with her scythe with incredible fluidity and ease.

  • Is considered one of the best Reapers in her unit as she is superbly efficient at her job.

    Weaknesses:

  • Can be overwhelmed by stronger opponents

  • Can’t successfully fight nor beat reapers of a higher level, and is easily subdued by them.

  • Because she hasn’t been around as long as others assume she is still considerably inexperienced with fighting other supernatural beings.

  • She’s practically useless with her glasses knocked off and can’t aim at all without them.


Restrictions:

  • She cannot use her powers to tamper with their death in extreme ways, such as what Undertaker did

  • She cannot collect a soul before it’s due date, or if it’s not on the list at all, therefore she cannot cause life endangering wounds to humans that fall under the latter.


    Fighting Style:

  • Besides her weapon-styled combat with her scythe she is also capable of hand-to-hand combat and the use of needles. Due to Yunxu’s influence Krimhilde’s hand-to-hand combat contains mainly martial arts moves.

    Preferred Weapon(s):

  • Her Death Scythe

  • Needles

Knowledge: 7/10

Conceptualization Power: 8/10

Motivation: 5/10

Will to Act: 6/10

Agility: 9/10

Power Control: 5/10

Swordsmanship: 3/10

Hand-to-Hand Combat: 7/10

Long Range Accuracy: 4/10

Offense: 8/10

Defense: 5/10

Social Skills: 7/10

The Character’s Familial/Biographical Information

Birthplace: Germany

Family:


Wolfram Krause (Father,Deceased)

Rachel Genevieve Lecroix (Mother,Deceased)


Familial Background:

Her mother was a french noblewoman from a family that was renown for confectionaries and clothing that lived a very sheltered life, while her father was a german blacksmith who fell in love with her at first sight. Initially Rachel despised him, thinking of him as a no good pervert, however over the years she spent getting to know him she eventually fell for him as well and ran away with him to live together.

Character Background:

When she was human Krimhilde was a rather happy child, enjoying the humble but pleasant life she lived with her family. Her mother homeschooled her to the best of her abilities, taking with her many of her family’s books, while her father taught her that working hard and being capable of depending on herself were necessary for her to succeed in the world. Wolfram also taught Krimhilde various lessons his own father taught him, completely ignoring Rachel pointing out that they were raising a young lady not a young gentleman.

However around her 14th year her family was brutally massacred and she was kidnapped by a nobleman and forced into slavery. For three years she was brutally whipped and forced to do heinous acts in order to live. On her 17th birthday she was initially going to be forced to ‘breed’ with her owner, who had kept her a virgin throughout her enslavement in order to impregnate her when she got older, but Krimhilde took a stand against him and committed suicide by slitting her own throat.


After her suicide and becoming a reaper she forgoes the name her father gave her while taking on her mother’s maiden name, because Claudia Krause couldn’t protect herself but Krimhilde Lecroix would. As a result of the circumstances of her suicide, Krimhilde’s personality is the way it is now. Desiring to take control and to never allow herself to be held back or repressed by anyone again.


She was originally working in the German branch of the Grim Reaper Dispatch but was transferred to the British Branch upon request, because she noted that the Grim Reapers in the British Branch seemed to get more exciting souls to retrieve. Because they’re so understaffed her request was granted and she was immediately put to work under William T.Spears supervision. After a particularly difficult soul, which Krimhilde actually took on by herself, Ronald makes a casual remark about finding it odd that Krimhilde has worked so much for so long yet never manages to go anywhere. Much to his surprise, William explains that Krimhilde does not want ‘his’ forgiveness because she doesn’t feel like she did something that would warrant it. ****


1. Fear of being subdued by men
this is entirely due to the circumstances of her suicide, with a nobleman being the one to enslave her and other men torturing her and forcing her to kill and even eat the other slaves who tried to escape. It would make sense for the trauma she experienced as a human to pass on to her life as a Grim Reaper as a phobia. She doesn't hate men nor does she think little of them, because she still remembers her father and knows that not everyone is the same. However she does feel uncomfortable around noblemen, with the exception of Yunxu and Ciel because Yunxu is an idiot and Ciel is a child.

2. Qualities
I know these specific qualities she has are not what we consider bad now, but to an old fashioned and pretty much sexist society they are. Krimhilde is extremely against
the ideal that women are their husbands property and as a Grim Reaper she feels that she has the freedom to no longer adhere to gender roles, hence why to other women she would come off as "masculine".

3. About Grell
If it wasn't obvious before I'm following the belief that Grell is a transwoman in canon. Krimhilde is kind of cautious of Grell because she nearly cut her in half in a
"sebas-chan is mine" induced frenzy, which to Krim at the time was baffling because she while she doesn't feel particularly anything towards demons she would never entertain the thought of having a tryst with one. Krimhilde is pretty much the opposite of what polite society expects of a woman, because she isn't interested in being polite or heterosexual, so of course she would respect Grell's identity and refer to her with feminine pronouns and such. 

4. On God and her role as a Grim Reaper.
One of the main reasons I made Krimhilde was to explore the idea of a Grim Reaper that doesn't see their punishment as a punishment and does not consider taking their life as an act that should need atonement. And because of this God will never give them forgiveness for their "pride". She isn't looking for god's forgiveness because considering her circumstances she saw that she had no choice. Either she die before she was violated and used as breeding stock by her own hands, or become a human incubator for a terrible man who would have killed her anyways. There was also the factor that her father, who was the only person she really idolized, was an unapologetic atheist and taught her that no matter what decision she'd make it was up to her to decide if it was wrong or not. The design of her Scythe actually ties into this, but mainly the unnatural blue rose.

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