Claudia Hortensia (クラウディア・オルテンシア, Kuraudia Orutenshia?) is the deceased wife of Kirei Kotomine and mother of Caren Hortensia.
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Background[]
Claudia was a terminally ill woman with only a few years left to live. Kirei Kotomine met her while trying to overcome his innate evil nature, believing that being with a woman would be his last attempt to find normalcy. He wished for the ordinary happiness of love and a family despite having no interest in it, ultimately picking a woman with no future. She came to love him, eventually bearing a child, Caren Hortensia. Kirei tried to love her, but felt happiness at her and Caren's suffering and despair. Claudia, knowing of his mentality, tried to save him, but that only made him want to see her grieve all the more. He understood that she truly meant to save him, and despaired that not even she could fill the void within him.[1]
Their relationship lasted two years, Claudia ending up as a disheveled mess of skin and bones in the hospital. Kirei, having given up hope, planned to end his life after saying goodbye to her. He felt it was his duty as the one who "made her his wife as an experiment." He bluntly told her, "I could not love you", to which she responded, "No, you love me" with a smile while taking her own life. As she died, she looked up at him, smiling while saying that Kirei crying was proof of his love. Despite hoping to use her death to prove that he was capable of love and that he deserved to live, he was not actually crying. He only felt sad at the idea that he was not able to kill her himself. He silently left the room after her death, breaking away from the teachings of God.[1]
Appearance[]
Claudia was an albino and immune deficient, making it so that she could die from even a tiny wound. Her body always appeared tattered as a result. Caren inherited the aspect of "prone to be plagued by illnesses."[2]
Personality[]
Kirei thinks of Claudia as a saint, understanding his anger and remaining faithful in trying to save him. He believes nobody will ever understand him to such a degree as her.[1]
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Fate/stay night[]
Claudia is mentioned in the Heaven's Feel route in Kirei's flashback. He recalls their brief time together, thinking that he cannot even remember her face or voice. He occasionally reminisces that "I wanted to kill her", but he cannot tell if it is pleasure or the grief of having wanted to kill her. He tries not to thinking about it, concluding that her death was meaningless but not wanting it to have been worthless.[1]
Fate/hollow ataraxia[]
She's mentioned in Caren's flashbacks about her childhood. With Claudia dead and Kirei gone, Caren was adopted by a devout priest. The priest looked down on Claudia for comitting suicide and assuming she married out of wedlock, due to Kirei abandoning Caren.[3]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 15: limited. - Interlude 15-4: Death of a saint
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[] TYPE-MOON Fes. Official Pamphlet 10th Anniversary Q & A Booklet:
Q: Kirei's wife Ortensia is covered with wounds in the design draft, is it because she has a body similar to Caren's? Also, Command Spells appeared on Kirei due to the fact that he somehow possesses Magic Circuits despite being born in a non-magus lineage. Does this mean Caren also has Magic Circuits?Q: Kirei's wife Ortensia is covered with wounds in the design draft, is it because she has a body similar to Caren's? Also, Command Spells appeared on Kirei due to the fact that he somehow possesses Magic Circuits despite being born in a non-magus lineage. Does this mean Caren also has Magic Circuits?
A: Kirei's wife is an albino, and is immunodeficient. As a result, she can die from even a tiny wound, thus her body appears tattered. What Caren inherited is the aspect of "prone to be plagued by illnesses". This is truly an ordeal given by God.
About the Magic Circuits, a normal person rarely acquires Magic Circuits. You can consider such cases sudden mutations. However, Kirei is not of this type. Kirei's Circuits were a gift from the divine sacrament, rewarding his father Risei's years of pious worship. Kirei was born with "the right to recreate the miracles in the divine sacrament". This "right", in other words, was the Magic Circuits. Caren did not inherit the Circuits.Ｑ：綺礼の奥さんであるオルタンシアさんが設定画で手当ての跡だらけなカレンと同じ体質だからなのでしょ うか。あと、綺礼に令呪が現れたのは元々魔術師の家じゃないけどたまたま魔術回路を待っていたということで 、カレンにもあるんでしょうか？
Ａ：奥さんはアルビノで、免疫機能が欠如した人でした。なので些細な傷でも死に繋がるし、体もボロボロで した。カレンに受け継がれたのは”病魔に憑かれやすい”という在り方。神の試練ですな一。
魔術回路ですが、これは一般人にも稀に待って生まれる人がいます。突然变異と思ってください。綺礼はその類 ではありませんが、父・離正が長年の信仰によって得た秘蹟の恩恵で、” 秘蹟を再現する資格”をまって生まれました。秘蹟を再現する資格、なんで言ってますが、ようは魔術回路です 。カレンには受け継がれていません。 - ↑ Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/08 - Streets - Caren II