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→Xerxsephnia "Seffie" von Blitzengaard
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'''Xerxsephnia''': (wincing) My brother. Yes.
'''Krosp''': You've pretty much sent him to Wulfenbach, you know. [[Big Screwed-Up Family|Your family members]] are ''my kind of people''... I'm told that's ''not a compliment''.}}
** It's important to note that at the time Seffie 'left' Martellus behind, Martellus already had a flying war-clank inbound to extract him. And probably could try [[Please Spare Him, My Liege|personal intercession]] ("coincidentally" also "showing Gil her softer side") as Plan B. Seffie's job was to get Agatha to safety and her horse could only hold two people.
** Later she organized and participated in a covert operation to save Martellus at significant risk to her own life, when she had basically a free pass to defect to Team Agatha already waiting. She does seem to genuinely love the big jerk.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: She's in ''that'' family. This should already say something.
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{{quote|'''Martellus''': Aw... Seffie - I've missed that ''creepy laugh'' of yours.
'''Xerxsephnia''': Hee hee! Isn't it ''good?!'' ...but I'm still working on the ''harmonics''.}}
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: She knows that her brother is not very good at being likeable, and can work with that. Then there was a time Seffie traveled with Sparafucile — one of her Smoke Knights, who boasted being so good at intimidation that she rarely ever needs to kill anyone.
{{quote|'''Martellus:''' But why are we splitting up?
'''Seffie:''' Because, my dear, you've been boorish, tyrannical, and an all-around beast, and now [Agatha] ''doesn't like you''. If I show up with you she won't like ''me'' either, and things will be ''so'' much easier if she likes me.}}
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* [[Master Actress]]: She makes Zola look like a clumsy amateur trying too hard.
* [[Obfuscating Insanity]]: Not much, but occasionally she acts crazier than she is. Between ''training to'' perform maniacal laughter just right and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151030 using fits to cover her other shenanigans].
* [[Politically-Active Princess]]: Literally a princess, as her older brother was a prince (and is now arguably a king). And of all the members of her family we've seen so far, Seffie is second only to her ultra-Machiavellian grandmother at politics and diplomacy. The family doesn't hesitate to use her as their envoy on their most delicate negotiations, such as their attempted alliance with Baron Gilgamesh Wulfenbach. Of course, that's also where she ''wants'' to be: near Gilgamesh.
* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: Remember how the pecking order on Castle Wulfenbach was to large degree defined by "degree of sparkiness", and how Klaus personally doesn't think much of "mundane" nobles and their games? This factor does not seem to hinder Seffie at all, and she is constantly dealing with nobility, [[Mad Scientist]]s and not. From what we have seen, she plays the voice of sanity and is heeded as such, running negotiations with the crazier big fish quite well.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Unlucky School Days Friend]]: Suggested with regard to Gil. Whose letters she used to intercept "since she was a child".
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