Gido - Witch and the Beast

 

Guideau (ギド Gido) is the main protagonist of the story. She is a young "human" who travels with the high mage Ashaf in search of the witch who cursed her into her current female form.

Guideau's true form is that of a Beast and is considered the only natural enemy of witches. This form is contained within the coffin carried by Ashaf, keeping it in check. Guideau can only release it temporarily if she kisses a witch, which partially breaks the curse.

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Appearance

Guideau has the appearance of a petite young woman with fair skin and long, straight blonde hair, complemented by bangs. She has thick black lashes and striking yellow eyes with vertical slit pupils. Guideau sports six piercings—three on each ear—and sharp, long fangs. Her attire is always stylish, and she changes outfits frequently.

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Personality

Guideau is short-tempered, impulsive, violent, and vindictive. Her focus is singular: finding Angela, the witch who cursed her, and seeking revenge. Despite her aggressive nature, Guideau is also quite obedient to Ashaf, often complaining but still following his orders. Her relationship with Ashaf is complex, as she frequently threatens to kill him once she gets Angela to lift the curse, though they share a bond of mutual reliance.

Though her violent tendencies are strong, Guideau shows a caring side, especially when she is entrusted with the Nameless Seed, a forbidden instrument. She takes care of a young boy, alongside the Cursed Doll, until the time comes to part with him. The boy grows attached to her, a testament to Guideau's nurturing, albeit unrefined, nature.

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Plot

Crimson/Sanguine Lotus City Arc

Guideau and Ashaf arrive at Sanguine Lotus train station and inquire about the Witch's whereabouts. They meet Marie, who claims to be the Witch's apprentice. Their conversation is interrupted when the station is attacked. A witch named Ione, renowned as the "Heroic Witch," appears and subdues the attacker. Guideau, agitated, tries to confront Ione but is captured. Ashaf rescues her, and they retreat.

They later visit the Witch's house, where they are greeted by Marie, who turns them away, explaining that an important event is happening. Ashaf reviews the data he requested from The Order and discovers that the event is related to the Witch’s plans.

The duo rushes to confront the Witch, but on their way out of the hotel, they are confronted by the local police who wish to arrest them for their earlier confrontation with Ione. Guideau and Ashaf quickly overpower the police and reach the Witch’s home, where Ione is preparing a ritual involving the severed limbs of several girls, including Marie. Guideau breaks through the building’s glass roof to engage Ione in a battle. Ashaf forms a protective barrier around the girls, but Ione overwhelms them.

Ione reveals that she has collected the girls as "keys" to release the hellfire that once engulfed Sanguine Lotus City. Her goal is to bring chaos and revenge for the prejudice her family faced. Guideau manages to outwit Ione and kisses her, temporarily lifting the curse. Guideau’s true form is unleashed, overpowering Ione. However, since the curse is only temporarily lifted, Guideau reverts to her female form.

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Powers and Abilities

Guideau possesses a vast array of unique abilities, both in her current body and in her true form. The abilities tied to her female body stem from a curse placed upon her by a powerful witch, which keeps her in her present state.

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Female Body

While Guideau’s current female form is not as powerful as her original body, she is still incredibly formidable. Notably, she is unable to use any form of magic despite being in a witch’s body.

• Superhuman Strength: Guideau excels in close combat, using her immense strength to overpower opponents with ease.

• Superhuman Durability: Her body is incredibly tough, capable of withstanding magical attacks and physical blows without armor.

• Superhuman Reflexes: Guideau is agile and highly skilled in close-range combat, dodging magical attacks and getting in close for strikes.

• Superhuman Speed: Her current form is faster and more nimble than her original body, making her more agile in combat.

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Beast Form
Guideau’s original form, when the curse is lifted, is extremely powerful. In her true form, Guideau is capable of battling witches and other powerful beings with ease, often overpowering them despite their magical prowess.

• Immense Strength: Guideau’s strength in her original body surpasses that of her female form, allowing her to destroy powerful magic with sheer physical power.

• Immense Durability: Her original body is incredibly tough, shrugging off magical attacks with ease and continuing to fight.

• Chilling Aura: Guideau’s true form emanates an intimidating aura that causes fear in humans, witches, demons, and even great elementals.

• Cursed Right Arm: Guideau's right arm is a potent Forbidden Instrument with immense power. She uses it only against the most formidable of foes.

• Armored Left Arm: In battle, Guideau uses her left arm to minimize damage, though it still delivers powerful blows.

• Deflection: Guideau’s left arm can generate a shield that deflects incoming attacks.

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Equipment

• Brass Knuckle: In her female form, Guideau uses a black metal brass knuckle to enhance her punches, delivering devastating damage. However, it remains unclear whether the brass knuckle is the source of her "inhuman strength," as suggested by Matt Cugat.

Ashaf - Witch and the Beast

 Ashaf (アシャフ Ashafu^?) is a First-Class Mage and a member of the Order of Magical Resonance. He travels with his partner, Guideau, in search for the Witch who cursed her.

Appearance

Ashaf is a tall, young-looking man with delicate features, slender build, and pale skin. Ashaf has light-colored eyes (blue in anime) with dark circles around his eyes and thick black lashes. He has short black hair that always slicked back and rarely seen without cigarette in his mouth. His left ear is pierced with a chain earring and his forearms are tattooed with black runes.

Like Guideau, he changes outfits quite frequently, but seems to consistently wear stylish suits with long-sleeves shirts, coats, and are often black in color.

Powers and Abilities

Ashaf is a First-Class Mage and is very skilled with numerous type of spells. He has magic inscriptions tattooed on both his forearms to aid in casting. As Guideau serves as the frontline fighter, Ashaf provides support with his magic and seems to favor a defensive style of fighting.

Magic

• Rune Magic: Ashaf is able to cast magical writings in order to cast the most basic of spells.
• Protective barriers: Ashaf can summon magical force fields by runs his hand over the inscriptions. He refers to them as "layers" with an increasing level indicating a stronger force field. The most layers used so far is three^[1] and can shield multiple people at a time.^[2]
• Summoning: Crows are Ashaf's familiars and can command crows to do his bidding various ways, using them for transportation, reconnaissance, or body doubles. By covering one eye, he can see through the eyes of his crows and he can attack with a swarm of crows. ^[1] Ashaf speak through his crows and can even summon a large crow to ride on its back. He can also summon a black panther and a large snake.
• Healing: Ashaf is good with healing spells, able to heal wounds and restore lost limbs. He also used his power to paralyze Guideau’s body. For greater degree of healing, he draws up a magic circle for treatment. However, his was unable to fully heal the damage caused by mechanizing his brain and needed to help to fix.
• Mind Control: A spell that allows him to command someone.^[1]
• Magical Bindings: Restrictive magic bindings.^[1]
• Matter manipulation: A spell that allows him move and control objects, including liquids. Ashaf favors using his magic to manipulate water.^[2]
• Compress spell: A spell to compact mass into a small sphere to either entrapped opponents or carry items easier.
• Contract spell: Ashaf know how to perform a contract spell, a magically-binding agreement between two or more people.
• Pyrokinesis: Ashaf can generate fire using magic, which he usually perform to light his cigarettes.
• Spell-picking: Asha is capable of undoing spells and considers it to be one of his specialties. Ashaf states his skill at it is better than be a witch.

Other skills

• Markmanship: Ashaf owns a gun, though he rarely uses it.
• Martial Arts: Ashaf demonstrate some basic hand-to-hand combat skills when defending himself from Guideau.

Personality

Ashaf is calm, mature, charming, and gentlemanly, often sporting a knowing smile and possesses an enigmatic aura. He seems to enjoy smoking cigarettes, rarely seen without one. He has a playful, dry sense of humor, and enjoys bantering with others, especially when dealing with Guideau, who he enjoys teasing. Ashaf is loyal to the Order and takes pride in the organization's work and power.

In contrast to his wild partner, Ashaf is polite, soft-spoken, and patient when interacting with people and prefers to avoid unnecessary conflict. He noted to be cautious by nature and attempts to be prepare for anything with a measured hand, but is able to admit when he is taken by surprise. Nevertheless, Ashaf excels in keeping his wits about him and is good at improvisation, handling unpredictable situations with relative ease.

Ashaf is very intelligent and clever, knowledgeable about about many magic-relate topics and is one that handles the investigative aspect of his cases with Guideau. Ashaf is exceptionally good at reading people and at making observations, allowing him to astutely asset situations and act accordingly. He is very confident in his abilities and takes great pride in being a First-Class mage, but knows what his limitations are.

A responsible and dutiful man, Ashaf has good morals, caring to those he's close to, and provides comfort and honest opinions to others without platitudes. He put in great effort to guide and teach Guideau, even when she being difficult and resistant to his words. Due to the nature his job and the chaotic world he lives in, Ashaf possesses a certain level of ruthlessness and can have a rather flippant attitude to the numerous dangers and bloodshed he faces.

While Ashaf rarely lose his composure, he demonstrate a different side when in comes to Guideau and her well-being. While in Orlencia Sett, Ashaf shows to be willing to risk his own life by mechanizing his own brain and angrily attacks Dunward L. Colvect for endangering Guideau.

Plot

Upon arriving at Sanguine Lotus train station, he and Guideau started asking about the witch in the city. They encountered a young girl, who claimed to be the witch's apprentice. They managed to find the witch quickly, as she was famous as the "heroic witch". As Guideau tried to attack the witch, but was captured, Ashaf came to rescue her and they retreated. Later they visited the witch house, where they encountered the witch's apprentice again as she was accepting guests for the commemoration day, but refused to let them in.

As they stayed in the hotel and Ashaf looked at the data he requested from the order, he realized for what the commemoration days was. As they attempted to leave the hotel, the police officers, charmed by the witch engaged them, but were no match for them.