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| ⚫ | [[Kinoko Nasu]] rejected [[Takashi Takeuchi]]'s original design from the [[Plus Period]]. Nasu ideally wanted him to have a coat, a silk hat and a walking stick. He wanted him to give him an impression to make people’s heads turn if you wore it to town. He wanted him to be accompanied by a {{WPlink|German Shepherd}} and was disappointed by it's lack of appearance.<ref>{{Reference|[[Kara no Kyoukai]] - Chapter 5: “Paradox Spiral” DVD Q & A<br/>Q: Why did Alba’s appearance change so much from his original design?|<poem>'''Q: Why did Alba’s appearance change so much from his original design? <Bache>''' |
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| − | [[Nasu]] rejected [[Takeuchi]] original design since [[Plus Period]]. |
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| ⚫ | Nasu ideally wanted him to have a coat, a silk hat and a walking stick. He wanted him to give him an impression to make people’s heads turn if you wore it to town. He wanted him to be accompanied by a {{WPlink|German Shepherd}} and was disappointed by it's lack of appearance.<ref>{{Reference|[[Kara no Kyoukai]] - Chapter 5: “Paradox Spiral” DVD Q & A<br/>Q: Why did Alba’s appearance change so much from his original design?|<poem>'''Q: Why did Alba’s appearance change so much from his original design? <Bache>''' |
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'''Takeuchi:''' It’s because that original design was decisively rejected by Nasu. Or rather, even in Plus Period I’m pretty sure it was noted as a rejected design. |
'''Takeuchi:''' It’s because that original design was decisively rejected by Nasu. Or rather, even in Plus Period I’m pretty sure it was noted as a rejected design. |
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Cornelius Alba (コルネリウス・アルバ, Korunerius Aruba?) is an antagonist of the fifth chapter of Kara no Kyoukai, "Paradox Spiral". He is a powerful Magus.
Profile
Appearance
Alba is fifty years old, but he has the appearance of "an agreeable youth in his twenties." While donning his crimson long coat and top hat and strutting down the street with his black Doberman Familiar by his side, he has the air of a protagonist.[1] He conveys the feeling of a haughty person with great confidence in himself. He gives the impression of being a flashy British gentleman. His staff has no noteworthy background, and it is of no practical use for magic. He has the taste of a gentleman, and wears gloves made out of leather. [2]
Background
Cornelius is a direct descendant of the Renaissance-era scholar and magus Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. He studied at the London branch of the Mage's Association along with Touko Aozaki and Souren Araya. The three of them had a pretty good relationship until their graduation. Alba wanted the title "Red", but it was given to Touko, resulting his inferiority complex. It is rumored that he was to be the next director in line of the Sponheim Abbey, an organization within the Clock Tower.[1]
Personality
While first-rate as a magus, his personality is troublesome, and he has a cruel disposition.[1] He and Touko were on good terms when they were students, until Touko surpassed him in their study of Runes. He is so obsessed with this inferiority complex that he occasionally becomes deranged when speaking of her. Alba wants to be acknowledge by Touko, in his student days he was always popping in to Touko’s research laboratory just to gossip and brag about himself.[3] Alba favourite food is casual homemade food “Pizza Crackers” made by Touko.[4] While he cannot easily love another person, he favors creatures like his doberman who could easily love people.[1]
Unlike most Magus, Alba views reaching Akasha is a useless effort but he is willingly to work with Araya to kill Touko.
Development
Kinoko Nasu rejected Takashi Takeuchi's original design from the Plus Period. Nasu ideally wanted him to have a coat, a silk hat and a walking stick. He wanted him to give him an impression to make people’s heads turn if you wore it to town. He wanted him to be accompanied by a German ShepherdWP and was disappointed by it's lack of appearance.[5]
Role
Fate/Zero
The Enforcer
Alba appears as an Enforcer who participates in the 'cleansing' of the vampirism started by Norikata Emiya at Arimago Island.
Included as a brief cameo, the production staff of Fate/Zero doesn't confirm his appearance by name, but do say that this is the period before this magus met Touko Aozaki at the Mage's Association, only one time, and that it can be called the prime of his life.[6]
Kara no Kyoukai
Chapter 5: Paradox Spiral
He joined up with Araya and came to Japan, not because of the latter's attempt to reach Akasha, but solely to kill Touko to prove his superiority.
Cornelius was first seen by Enjou Tomoe when he notice Shiki Ryougi was being followed.
When Touko and Mikiya Kokutou was examining the Ogawa Apartment complex, Cornelius was spying on them at a far distance.
Touko meets Cornelius in her exhibition, she gave Mikiya a talisman to make him invisible. He explains to Touko his involvement with the Ogawa apartment complex. He mentions the kidnapping of Shiki which shocked Mikiya. Mikiya revealed his presense to Alba and he believed Mikiya to be Touko's apprentice.
When Touko approach Cornelius inside the Ogawa apartment, Touko suggested to bring out Araya as he wasn't capable of facing her. Cornelius frustrated with Touko looking down on him casted his thousand degree sea-of-flames spell, Touko redirects it and nonchalantly uses it to light her cigarette. Touko use her Projection machine and Cornelius was swallowed by the cat familiar until Araya saved him. He was knocked out during in the fight between Araya and Touko.
Cornelius approaches Araya complaining to him about not keeping his promise in which he was suppose to kill Touko. Cornelius angry at Araya desires to kill her personally and calls her Dirty Red. Araya called Cornelius foolish for saying something he shouldn't have but hands over Touko's head.
As he was about to leave, he notices Mikiya in front of him. In front of Mikiya, he sadistically plays with Touko's head and crushes it. As Mikiya runs away from Cornelius, he hums out a classic music while following him. As he caught up with Mikiya, Mikiya attempts to stab Cornelius with the paper knife. Cornelius knocks Mikiya out and attempt to torture him by smashing his head to the wall to vent out his frustration with his history with Touko. Cornelius realises that the Touko standing behind him was the result of him killing her earlier, he panics and wonders which is the real Touko.
He was devoured by Touko's familiar in the 'sealed box' after calling her by her nickname, "Dirty Red." Only at the end did he realize that he "shouldn't have gotten involved with monsters" like Touko and Araya.
Abilities
Alba is a first rate magus with a high amount of Magic Circuits and a great lineage far above that of Souren Araya and Touko Aozaki's thirty and twenty Magic Circuits.[7] In terms of raw power, he is amongst the high end of all the magi to ever appear in TYPE-MOON works, but he doesn't get a chance to fully display his abilities during the story.[8] Despite being an overall superior magus to both Araya and Touko, they can be called monsters that far surpass him in battle capability. He also has a bad compatibility against Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi.
His Sea of Flames (炎の海, Honoo no umi?) can create a thousand-degree conflagration in less than two seconds using high-speed incantations, so he can be compared to a character in a fighting game capable of spamming Super Moves at will. While he does not utilize it during the story, he has a Black Hound (黒い猟犬, Kuroi ryouken?) doberman Familiar, and as well as Ether Clumps, Slimes (スライム?). He is also a puppeteer (人形師, ningyoushi?) and was responsible for the system at Ogawa Mansion, where only the brains of residents were kept alive and connected to puppet bodies. His Origin is Refutation (反証?).[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3
Kara no Kyoukai - Glossary: Cornelius Alba [Name] Magus. An old friend of Touko's.
Rumour had it that this young man was the next director in line of the Sponheim Abbey, an organization within the Clock Tower.
Although he was fifty years old, he had the appearance of a handsome youth.
As a magus, his abilities were first rate, but his personalities were quite troublesome.
Although it did not appear in the story, his Familiar was a black hound. Alba, who could not easily love another person, favoured creatures who could easily love people.
He had quite an air of a protagonist: donning his crimson long coat and top hat, strutting down the street with his black Doberman by his side. - ↑
Haru to Tsuki to Sora to - 【Cornelius Alba - Design Notes】 Left panel - Conveys the feeling of being a haughty person with great confidence in himself.
His ears are not visible.
Right panel - Gives the impression of being a flashy British gentlemen.
The staff has no setting.*
The stylish staff is of no practical use for magic.
Has the taste of a gentlemen.
His gloves are made out of leather. - ↑
Kara no Kyoukai - Chapter 5: “Paradox Spiral” DVD Q & A
Q: Did Alba have a thing for Touko?Q: Did Alba have a thing for Touko? <Tiny Mustache>
Takeuchi: Yeah. He’s quite the yandere, that guy.
Nasu: Before that, though, he probably wanted to be acknowledged. The London-era Alba was always popping in to Touko’s research laboratory just to gossip and brag about himself.
Takeuchi: What an annoying personality…! - ↑
Kara no Kyoukai - Chapter 5: “Paradox Spiral” DVD Q & A
Q: I love love love Alba so much I’m going crazy! What’s his most favorite food in the whole wide world?Q: I love love love Alba so much I’m going crazy! What’s his most favorite food in the whole wide world? <Sucocchi>
Takeuchi: Everybody loves Alba! Of course, his favourite food is chocola- *PUNCHED*
Nasu: It’s actually the casual homemade food (an Aozaki sisters specialty!) that Touko cooked long, long ago. The dish was “Pizza Crackers”. According to Touko, making them for Alba was the biggest mistake of her life. - ↑
Kara no Kyoukai - Chapter 5: “Paradox Spiral” DVD Q & A
Q: Why did Alba’s appearance change so much from his original design?Q: Why did Alba’s appearance change so much from his original design? <Bache>
Takeuchi: It’s because that original design was decisively rejected by Nasu. Or rather, even in Plus Period I’m pretty sure it was noted as a rejected design.
Nasu: From the start, I wanted him to have a coat that, while it could plausibly exist in reality, would make people’s heads turn if you wore it to town. Also, he had to have a silk hat and walking stick, that was non-negotiable. The fact that his German Shepherd didn’t come along is disappointing, though. - ↑
Fate/Zero Anime Visual Guide II - Commentary: Episode 18 "sometime, somewhere-", p.160 Higashide:
Nasu:
Mita:
Nasu: - ↑
Kara no Kyoukai - Glossary: Magic Circuits [Others] The pseudo-nerves existing in the body of a magus.
They are the paths that convert life force into prana, as well as the paths which connect to the foundations underlying Grand Rituals.
The number of Magic Circuits is determined at birth. Mage lineages will resort to any means to alter themselves in hope of giving their descendants just one more Circuit.
This is why magi from older lineages are more powerful.
In terms of the number of Magic Circuits, and the quality of the lineage, Cornelius Alba is undoubtedly a first rate magus.
In fact, neither Aozaki Touko nor Araya Souren have many Magic Circuits. Touko has about 20, Araya about 30.
Still, the two are considered geniuses: Touko has talents that are independent of her lineage. Araya's overwhelming power is probably a result of the anguish that he ceaselessly accumulated through the ages. - ↑
Kara no Kyoukai - Chapter 5: “Paradox Spiral” DVD Q & A
Q: Alba was finished off without a climax in the movie, in terms of pure ability as a magus, how strong is he?Q: Alba was finished off without a climax in the movie, in terms of pure ability as a magus, how strong is he? <FEN>
Nasu: In terms of pure attacking power, Alba is at the high end amongst the magi to ever appear in the stories of Type Moon. Well... his compatibility with Kayneth is kind of bad. To put in terms of fighting games, it is kind of like spamming Super Moves at will.
Takeuchi: Whoa, what an annoying power.Q. 結局見せ場無しでやられてしまったアルバですが、純粋に魔術師として見るなら、彼はどれぐ らい強かったのでしょうか？
奈：単純な攻撃力でいうと、実のところ、タイプムーン伝奇で出てきた魔術師の中でも上位です。 ケイネスとは相性悪いですが……そうですね、格闘ゲームでいうなら超必殺技打ち放題、みたい な性能でしょうか。
武：うわぁ、超嫌われそうな性能。
- ↑
Kara no Kyoukai - Chapter 5: “Paradox Spiral” DVD Q & A
Q: What’s that red loser Cornelius Alba’s origin?
| Main characters: Shiki Ryougi • Mikiya Kokutou • Touko Aozaki • Azaka Kokutou Secondary characters: Cornelius Alba • Daisuke Akimi • Fujino Asagami • Kirie Fujou • Lio Shirazumi • Mana Ryougi • Misaya Ouji • Mitsuru Kamekura • Satsuki Kurogiri • Shizune Seo • Souren Araya • Tomoe Enjou |