Candice

Candice
Japanese	キャンディス
Rōmaji	Kyandisu
Gender	Female
Status	Alive
Team	Chess Pieces
Class	Knight
ÄRMs	Boulder Axe Boulder Claw Boulder Fang Grand Boulder Scale of Blessing Gorgon Lamia
Seiyū (Japanese)	Kumi Sakuma
Voice Actor (English)	Karen Straussman

Candice (キャンディス, Kyandisu) is the 11th strongest Knight of the Chess Pieces.

Appearance

Candice is a young brunette with a voluptuous body. Her appearance is influenced by the BDSM subculture and military chic, consisting of a strapless leotard, one-legged grey tights, a grey stocking, combat boots, stockinged gauntlets. and a military cap. Her jewelry is made up of a choker, the magical stone in her eyepatch-clad eye (technically the ÄRM Kukan Teni), and the ÄRM Gorgon which she wears on her cap.

Personality

She has a complex personality. She can be bubbly and easygoing which usually occurs when she is around Phantom or thinking about him. However, she can also be merciless and cruel, regardless of who her opponent is. She retains her dominatrix personality in the anime, but it is more exaggerated.

In her battle against Jack, she reveals her eye-for-an-eye philosophy. She is a sadomasochist who loves to fool her opponents into thinking they are winning by letting them attack her when she has used Scales of Blessing. Her opponents are blissfully unaware of her love of the pain. She does however dislike been insulted for her love of pain, as when Dorothy calls her a freak, Candice tries to crush the life out of her. The opponents then pay the price for their attacks as she gets to watch them scream in agony because of Gorgon. She begins to blush as she watches Gorgon petrifying Jack, saying his expression may be too much for her to take.

Candice has an unusual friendship with fellow knight, Rolan. While Rolan is good-natured and has a feminine appearance, Candice is something of a tomboy (though she has a more feminine side which she shows while caring for an ailing Phantom) and is cruel in battle. It is likely their friendship stems from the fact that the two of them, along with Peta, are the most loyal to Phantom.

History

Candice was once a violent and sadistic military officer. However, after being painfully defeated by Phantom she realized being attacked was just as pleasurable as attacking. She fell in love with him and now serves him to realize her goal of creating a world where all pain is distributed equally and no one will inflict pain without receiving some as well. She plans to reign as the goddess of this world, the "Goddess of All Pain." She then joined the Chess Pieces, willing to do anything for him to get his commends, although the feelings are never fully reciprocated.

First Great MÄR Heaven War

Despite having joined the Chess, it's unclear whether she ever participated in the War Games of the first war, as Gaira and Alan were still forming an opinion of her fighting prowess in the War Games of the second war in her match against Jack.

Six-Year Interlude

Candice is the one who revealed to the other Chess Piece members the revival of Phantom, and showed up during his revival to inform him of Queen Diana summoning him.

Second Great MÄR Heaven War

During the Chess Pieces' war campaign, Candice single-handedly defeats the soldiers at Gheilerul Castle using Gorgon to turn them into stone.

War Games

Before the fifth round, Ash told Candice that he will be fighting Ginta despite Candice wanting revenge for wounding Phantom in their trip to Caldea.

Round 5

While observing the match between Emokis and Princess Snow, Hamelin casually watches Candice smack Ash around for sympathizing with the princess.

With Hamelin's defeat, Candice volunteered to go next, saying she couldn't let Team MÄR win anymore. Jack, despite initially being nervous, felt ready for battle once his turn came and prove he was a real man.

Candice VS Jack

As soon as the battle begins Jack activates his Nature ÄRM, Earth Scoop, and Candice activates the Weapon ÄRM, Boulder Axe. Candice tells Jack that she wanted the praise Phantom would give her for defeating Ginta but she'll tolerate dealing with Jack instead. Candice lunges at Jack attacking with the Boulder Axe but Jack deflects it with his scoop. It that one exchange a small chip appears in Jack's scoop and he can tell that close combat is futile with Candice and backs away. He attacks with a rush of vines from his earth beans while Candice swaps out the axe for a new Nature ÄRM, Boulder Claw. Now equipped with two huge stone claws Candice rips the vines apart without breaking a sweat. Jack attempts to attack Candice with an Earth Wave hoping an attack that can't be cut up will have an affect. Candice lifts her eye patch, revealing a magic stone embedded into her eye, and uses the Kukan Teni spell to swap places with Jack, causing him to be hit by his own attack.

Candice taunts Jack as he comes to the conclusion that this is the strength of someone in the Knight class. Ginta cheers Jack on by telling Jack not to show his weakness and show everyone that he's a man, no longer a weak kid. Candice tells Jack that she'll show him someone who is strong and then unleashes yet another Nature ÄRM attack, Boulder Fang, that causes a series of spikes to erupt from the ground and attack Jack. Jack evades them but the attack doesn't stop there, the stones rise up into the air and then crash down upon Jack. Ginta is worried about the safety of Jack while Candice is enjoying the thought of Phantom watching her battle and strength. Candice tells Pozun to call the match, but before he can Ginta and Snow interrupt him both saying the fight isn't over.

At that moment, a series of vines come through the cracks where the boulders crashed together along with a bean pod. The pod splits in half and out comes an uninjured Jack, who explains that it's a variant of his earth beans, Bean Shield, a technique he developed for situations like this. Candice admits to Jack that he's more skilled than she gave him credit for and removes a bracelet type ÄRM from her wrist. She activates the Scales of Blessing and a large ÄRM with a clock-like face appears leaving Team MÄR to wonder what abilities this new ÄRM has.

Candice purposely hitting herself with her Grand Boulder.

Jack, unafraid of what that ÄRM can do, goes all out against Candice launching yet another Earth Wave. Candice doesn't even attempt to evade the attack and gets hit hard. She has several cuts along her shoulders but strangely smiles and comments that it felt good. One of the hands of the clock moved. She summons yet another Nature ÄRM, Grand Boulder, only instead of attacking Jack, the boulder slams into Candice. Once again the face on the scale moves further. Candice once again seemingly enjoying the damage she has taken comments that a kid couldn't the pleasure she's experiencing. Ginta tells Jack that now is his chance to turn the tides in the battle. Alviss notices that Candice isn't evading Jack's attacks, she's intentionally taking them head on and purposefully injuring herself. Every time she takes damage the gauge on the scales moves further ahead. All the while Jack is attack Candice with everything he's got. Suddenly Alviss yells at Jack to stop attacking but it's too late, the hands of the scale complete a full revolution. As a result, Candice's magic power refills past her original maximum capacity, allowing her to summon her Guardian ÄRM, Gorgon.

Suddenly, the ÄRM on her barrette glows and a huge rock head of a woman who has snake hair appears and its eyes briefly glow as it stares at Jack. Suddenly Jack's legs begin to turn to stone. Candice explains that anyone who looks into Gorgon's eyes become stone, but required using the Scale of Blessing to convert physical damage into magic power for her to be able to summon this powerful guardian. Candice comments that the expression of fear coming from Jack is great as she relishes in his anguish. Realizing that Alice's powerful healing would have no effect on Jack since this petrification wasn't due to a Darkness ÄRM, Ginta screams Jack's name in despair.  

Candice caught in the jaws of Mehitos.

Jack, still not fully stone, realizes he can still move his left arm and digs into his pocket for one of the two ÄRMs that he acquired from Caldea and pulls it out. Candice remarks that even though he's turning to stone he stopped showing the expression of despair that filled her with such pleasure. Jack states that he thought he was done for but hearing Ginta's voice made him realize he didn't want to part with his friend just yet. Jack immediately tosses the ring up in the air and activates it, his new Guardian ÄRM, Mehitos. A colossal Venus fly trap ensnares Candice in its jaws from underground, trapping her while one of the smaller sets of jaws snags the Gorgon ÄRM and destroys it. As the guardian vanishes and Candice falls to the ground she realizes that she can't move and apologizes to Phantom for failing him. The stone surrounding Jack begins to crack and then crumbles as Jack passes out. Since neither combatant can continue the fight, Pozun declares a draw.

As Candice limps back to the sidelines commenting that her fighting technique has become pitiful and ask Ash if he thinks Phantom will be mad. Ash mere replies not really and that there was nothing wrong with her technique.

Aftermath

Returning to Lestava Castle after the fifth round, the Knights are called into Phantom's room for a meeting. Candice apologizes to Phantom for failing to win her match. Phantom kindly reassures her not to worry as he wasn't upset about it. Candice's expression changes to adoration as Ash raises his hand and speaks up, reminding that he also lost his match due to forfeit and offered himself to be punished. Phantom happily assures Ash that he wasn't mad with him either, as it was just part of who Ash was as a person. Phantom then specified that the only Knight who needed to be punished was Rapunzel, for her senseless murder spree of Chess teammates during the fourth round. Phantom offered her a chance to save herself by dueling against a Rook named Ian.

Candice and her fellow Knights go outside to the surface below where the castle floated to observe the duel between Rapunzel and Ian. Ian effortlessly brushes off Rapunzel's attacks and immediately kills her with one attack. Phantom promotes Ian to the Knight class, taking Rapunzel's position, and hands him the Knight pierce. Ian turns to the other Knights and announces his intentions as a new Knight to kill whichever one of them hurt his beloved.

After the War Games

Phantom tells Candice about his late lover, Alma.

Returning to Lestava Castle, Candice carried Phantom to his room and helped him into his chair, trying to put the outcome of the battle in a more positive light. Phantom voiced the reality that the outcome of a potential rematch would end the same. Phantom then tells Candice about his late lover, Alma, who warned him about accepting the Zombie Tattoo from Diana. Candice thought her to be a foolish woman, and tried to convince Phantom to get some much needed rest.

The Kapel Meister appeared at Lestava Castle, and teleported Phantom, Candice, and Rolan (who was with them) to a decrepit fortress on Pultgayin Island, the hideout of the Ghost Chess. The Ghost Chess then proceeded to activate Alviss' Zombie Tattoo, putting him under Phantom's influence, and defeat each of MÄR.

After Alviss was freed and returned to finish Phantom off, Candice led Phantom out of their hiding place in an attempt to save him. They were finally cornered at a cliff looking out to the sea; however, seeing how much Candice cared for him, Phantom understood he wasn't so unloved like he thought he was. He used the last of his energy to protect Candice from Ginta's attack and this led to him seeing the spirit of Alma, who reconciliated with him. Candice tries to convince him to go with her, but with Alma's encouragement, Phantom finally decides to end his own life and set Alviss free. She reluctantly watches as Alviss approaches him and the Purific Ave is inserted into Phantom's body.

Candice going to visit Phantom's grave.

Candice watches from a distance as Phantom passes away against a tree and Alviss and Jack perform a beautiful funeral for him, reviving all of the plant life on the island. Seeing Phantom entombed amidst a green field of flowers, she sorrowfully accepts Phantom's death and walks away.

At the end of the anime, she is last seen still on Pultgayin Island. Donning a light cloak, she heads toward the grave tree and sees Rolan already there, laying a rose upon Phantom's grave.

ÄRMs

She uses stone Nature ÄRMs:

• Boulder Axe: A large stone axe Weapon ÄRM.
• Boulder Claw: With this Nature ÄRM Candice creates two giant sets of stone claws over her real hands that she attacks her opponent with.
• Boulder Fang: A Nature ÄRM that launches sharp rock shards from under her enemies.
  • Boulder Crush: Candice buries her opponent under the shards produced by Boulder Fang.
• Grand Boulder: A Nature ÄRM which creates giant boulders.
• Kukan Teni: A magic stone embedded into her maimed eye that she uses as a Dimension ÄRM in order to exchange her position with another one.
• Scale of Blessing: A scale in the shape of a clock, used to measure the injuries her body takes and change them into enormous magic power to summon her Guardian ÄRM.
• Gorgon: Fairly returning Candice's painstaking masochisms, her pendant ÄRM evoke the awake of Gorgoneion and petrification to all whom its gaze beholds.
• Lamia (anime): From its river dwelling, the alluring nymphs answers Candice's seek for aid with its lyre's enchanting melody, and should the situation warrants, with force far more destructive.

Gallery

Candice greets Phantom as he revives from his grave.

Candice slaps Ash for sympathizing with the enemy.

Candice after her battle with Jack.

Candice and the other Knights observe Ian's class promotion.

Candice runs to Phantom after he is defeated by Ginta.

Candice confronts Kapel Meister.