Michael Roa Valdamjong (ミハイル・ロア・バルダムヨォン, Mihairu Roa Barudamuyōn?), acting under the name Tarantella (タランテラ, Tarantera?), is a Dead Apostle acting as the main antagonist of Strange Tales of Heroic Spirit Lore ~King of the Cavern, Edmond Dantès~.
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Background[]
Within Fate Worlds, Michael Roa Valdamjong does not have his fated meeting with Arcueid Brunestud. He followed his plan for reincarnation, most recently being born as Tarantella in the 18th century. While still becoming a Dead Apostle as part of his plan, he had deteriorated Mystery compared to his counterpart and lacked the power to be equated to the status of the The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors that he obtained in Tsukihime Worlds.[1]
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Strange Tales of Heroic Spirit Lore ~King of the Cavern, Edmond Dantès~[]
Tarantella is responsible for multiple killings across Europe, draining blood from his victims. Edmond Dantès spread rumors of a huge party in an attempt to lure him into a trap.
Tarantella shows up and notices that there is nobody else at the "party" besides him. He recognizes the Count by his white hair and explains that Faria turned his back on the Holy Church when he said that he wanted to save all life. Edmond says that those are the Church's teachings, but Tarantella explains that's just the Church's front, and the truth is different. Edmond says that they're a bunch of heretics, bloodstained murderers who themselves turned their backs on the Messiah and the Prophets, and activates a trap which fires spears at Tarantella, and then another trap which binds him with chains made to subdue tigers, but Tarantella breaks out easily. Edmond shoots him in the forehead but Tarantella gets back up and pulls out the spears.
Tarantella uses a white lightning that burns Edmond and defeats him instantly, but doesn't kill him because he still needs to interrogate him. The Count asks if the Church is all composed of monsters, and Tarantella says that not all members have this power. The cardinal is a mere weak human for example, who isn't even an Executor - an inquisitor of the Holy Church who represents the Will of God - like Angelo or Tarantella. Edmond is enraged by the claim that they're doing God's work and gets up again, blocking Tarantella's vision with his coat and stabbing him in the heart with a knife. Tarantella says that he's not just a mere Executor either, and asks where that foolish criminal Faria's treasure is while hitting Edmond with more of his lightning magecraft. Edmond answers that both Tarantella and Angelo are idiots as there is no such thing as a "treasure". Tarantella observes that Edmond is impervious to torture, as he doesn't fear death, or pain, or damage to his body, thinking that time in the Chateau d'If made him strong, so he says that he'll have Edmond recall what pain is like by destroying one of his belongings, and leaves.
Tarentall locates Concetta at an inn and finishes sucking her blood dry just as Edmond arrives. Edmond realises that Tarantella is a blood-sucking demon, a vampire. Tarantella says that comparing him to Lord Ruthven makes sense, but that's not quite it as he is another thing, and presents himself by revealing his true name, Michael Roa Valdamjong, a being that devours humans.
Faria wasn't able to tell Edmond about Dead Apostles and Michael Roa Valdamjong, the Monster of Ego and the evil reincarnator who dwells inside the hidden side of the Church, because the vampire put a curse on him. Having acquired "the Treasure of Monte Cristo", the Count of Monte Cristo laughs and says it doesn't matter what Roa is, as he, and not Roa, represents God's Will, and then starts burning with black flames which Roa quickly recognises as the Monte Cristo Mythologie, a legend hidden in the Mountain of the Messiah, the despair of those without God, the flames of Hell and the Void, and a power equal to that from the Age of Myths which forces a special Magic Circuit and Magic Crest into the user.
The Count tells him to shut up and blasts Roa through the inn's wall. Roa runs, but Edmond flies after him, so they fight in the skies of Rome. The Dead Apostle traps Edmond with more magecraft and blasts him with a powerful lightning, and then uses the abilities of his multiple reincarnations, including the curses of the Seventh and the barriers of the Fourth. Edmond calls upon the fires of vengeance to eat his soul and turn into black flames, breaking the magical barrier imprisoning him and then proceeds to grab and burn Roa while laughing, the vampire noticing that damage dealt by those flames is not regenerating. The Count then declares that they'll just have to see whose soul is incinerated first. Roa rabidly shouts that there can't be such a thing as a fire that can burn even souls, but Edmond says those flames are right here. Roa can't heal and Edmond asks him to just try and pretend to be the Messiah in front of God again. Roa starts shouting that this can't be possible and starts to say he is a reincarnator; even if his body is destroyed, he is infinite. But Roa's rambling is cut off short by Edmond's declaration.
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« Despair. That... is Hell. I will not take pity upon you, rot away. » |
| (The Count of Monte Cristo declares his victory) |
When the Count realizes it, he is standing alone and nothing is left of Roa but cinders. His soul is burned away by Edmond Dantès in battle, possibly implying that Roa of that timeline is unable to reincarnate and is gone forever.
Abilities[]
Like his Tsukihime self, he is capable of reincarnating upon his death and has done so multiple times already. He shows great skill in magecraft. As Tarantella, he showed skill in both curses and bounded fields and he can seemingly make use of the unique abilities that belonged to his previous hosts and past incarnations. His main method of attack is summoning white lightning.
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Creation and Conception[]
Michael Roa Valdamjong was designed by Routo Usagi in Strange Tales of Heroic Spirit Lore ~King of the Cavern, Edmond Dantès~.