Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun

nihongo|Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun|アメリア・ウィル・テスラ・セイルーン|Ameria Wiru Tesura Seirūn (sometimes spelled as "Ameria" and "Saillune"), is a fictional character from the "Slayers" manga, light novels and anime series. She is a short, bouncy, bubbly princess who's always ready, willing, and happy to help those who need it, but despite her young age, her breasts are rather large compared to Lina's, much to the latter's aggravation. Amelia's Japanese voice actress is Masami Suzuki. In the dub, she is voiced by Joani Baker originally. However, Baker's voice sounded too low-pitched and western-styled for the character's personalityFact|date=June 2008, and they cast Veronica Taylor to play the role from episode 14 and onwards. In the "Slayers Premium" movie, Taylor was unavailable, so Luci Christian was cast instead.

Biography

Princess Amelia is described as the youngest daughter of Crown Prince Philionel of Seyruun, the "Ultimate Pacifist" who, for the most part, benevolently rules over the Kingdom of Seyruun, one of the largest white-magic-using kingdoms of the Slayers universe. Amelia's mother was killed when she was very young, and the incident reportedly traumatized her older sister, the Crown Princess Gracia (Naga the Serpent), so badly that she ran away from home, while Amelia herself vowed never to use swords in combat (though she did use the Sword of Light once in order to channel the Ra Tilt). A running gag throughout the series is that Amelia looks nothing like her dad, and that Phil looks like a giant dwarf. According to Amelia, height runs in her family, and her older sister was almost as tall as Gourry, which would suggest that Amelia herself, though very small, has not yet stopped growing. According to Amelia, her older sister was "scary" and had a maniacal laugh; it is rumored and hinted at throughout the different Slayers series that Amelia's long-lost sister is actually Naga, the White Serpent (Lina's primary partner in the OAV).

Amelia is first introduced looking for her father when he goes on a secret mission with his brother, Amelia's Uncle Prince Randy, to root out an evil sorcerer who is threatening their kingdom (unaware that it is part of a plot by Randy to overthrow Phil and take the throne for himself). This first brings her into contact with Gourry Gabriev - who was briefly taking a break from Lina Inverse, as she was waiting to meet Prince Phil without knowing that he was not the boyishly handsome figure she imagined him to be - when she helps a traveler who is being robbed by a bandit; when her initial passionate speech about justice does not work and she is insulted by the bandit, Amelia strikes the bandit down with a spell and then knocks him into the river. Gourry agrees to help Amelia look for her dad, though her zealousness regarding the distribution of justice leaves him at a loss for words. Later they catch up with Lina and Phil when they confront Randy and his partner in crime. Since neither Phil nor Amelia has any money to pay Lina and Gourry for their services, they decide to join their group and escort the fiery sorceress and idiot savant swordsman to Seyruun and then pay them once they have returned to the castle. Along the way Amelia tries to get Lina to teach her the Dragon Slave—in the interest of using it to spread justice, of course, much to Lina's annoyance—until Lina makes it very clear that the Dragon Slave is not a toy, so to speak.

When they finally get to Seyruun, it turns out that there is a bounty on Lina and Gourry (and also Zelgadis Greywords), which sends Amelia into a frenzy of moral outrage. She tries to arrest them herself, or at least with the help of the various bounty hunters and "warriors of justice", and eventually succeeds in helping Zangulus and Vrumugun, the minions of Eris and the Rezo clone. When Lina and Gourry escape, Amelia gets caught in the crossfire and confronts Lina again about her misdeeds, and Lina tries to force Amelia to confront the fact that she is not seeing the bad guys for who they are, which Amelia tries to resolve by blasting them both with a giant fireball, assuming that the real heroes will survive simply because they are the heroes.

When Lina and Gourry manage to survive the explosion, Amelia is convinced, albeit for the wrong reasons, that they are innocent. She then offers to travel with them to help clear their names—and also because Phil is mad at her for destroying one of Seyruun's buildings. This later brings Amelia into contact with Zelgadis, for whom she slowly develops strong feelings.

Like Gourry, Amelia often finds herself on the wrong end of Lina's anger, but over time Amelia stands up to Lina more when she thinks that Lina is wrong. Despite their extremely different personalities, Lina and Amelia develop a surrogate big sister/little sister relationship.

In "NEXT" Amelia is dispatched by her father to the kingdom of Xoana as an emissary of peace, but she is captured and held prisoner. Luckily she is "rescued" by Lina, who happens to be in Xoana with the intention of seeing its book to find if it holds anything particularly important within its contents (it does not—at least, not for her). Later, Amelia and her friends are caught up in another conspiracy to assassinate her father, which turns out to involve Gaav the Demon Dragon King, who has rebelled against the Monster Race, and later involving the dark lord Phibrizzo.

In "TRY" Amelia is shown as having risen to more prominence within her kingdom, commanding a whole battalion of magic users when necessary.

Personality

Amelia is initially presented as basically a well meaning but slightly scatter-brained little kid who really cannot tell the good guys from the bad guys. She has a tendency to contradict herself; early she states that it is wrong to judge by appearances, but when she first meets Zelgadis she assumes that there is something not Kosher about him because of his freakish appearance (it should be noted that in the manga she was much more friendly towards him when they first met). On the other hand, Amelia is a kind hearted, compassionate person who does her best to support and encourage her friends, even when they are not especially encouraging of her. She is notable for her obsession with spreading justice, a trait she inherited from her father, who taught her all that she knows regarding justice. This could be part of her way of dealing with the loss of her mother and the disappearance of her older sister.

Her incredible love for 'spreading justice' cause her to make long and involved speeches to the villain before battle. However, her speeches are usually hypocritical interpretations of justice and will pause to yell at the villain if they don't fit the description (she once yelled at a villain since he wasn't dressed in black.)Her strong morals and sense of justice also get her in trouble and often confused. Like when she changed sides and fought against Lina since they were supposed criminals, or when the Demon Dragon King said that they were the evil ones causing Amelia to immediately get confused and distracted, allowing him to appear behind her and almost kill her (before Zelgadis got in the way and saved her.)

It is interesting to note that Amelia frequently displays personality traits that are prominent in her friends. On occasion Amelia has shown a passion and zest similar to Lina's (especially for food), sometimes slow-witted like Gourry (though due more to naivety than lack of intelligence), and intensely focused like Zelgadis, albeit to reduced degrees. While she never completely loses her innocent personality, she does change over the course of her adventures with Lina.

Another notable habit of Amelia's is her tendency to address those who are older than her as either "Miss" or "Mr.", even when the person in question is only a year older than her like Lina.

Lastly, Amelia has an affinity for high places, roofs or statue points where she can make a dramatic entrance and deliver a rousing, justice themed speech. This is usually followed by a descent and an ignoble face-first landing.

She is hinted to have feelings for Zelgadis, and appears to be daydreaming about him at the very end of TRY. Additionally, she is shown to have given him her wristband as a token. So far, in Revolution, she seems much more comfortable around him than before, even reprimanding him without receiving a harsh word in return.

kills

Amelia is a white magic user with a fair amount of skill in shamanism and black magic as well. She calls the Ra Tilt her "killer spell". Outside of her magical abilities, Amelia is well versed in aspects of court life and diplomacy. In a physical fight, Amelia is a decent boxer and martial artist, but her lack of agility makes her an easy target for a more skilled opponent.