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The fine young lady who happens to be sister of Martellus and thus another cousin of Tarvek. If this wasn't enough of a fair warning, too bad. She is the Order's emissary to Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, and as such personally responsible for the two main forces in Europa successfully finding common ground and keeping the truce. She also runs a "totally not romantical, just political expediency" campaign to marry him herself. There's far more than mere expediency there, though, although it takes the readers years to find out.
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* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Played with as her character intro. In one panel the recently-freed-from-time-stasis Martellus, just after having reclaimed the Fortress of Storms by brute force, is angrily demanding that a prisoner tell him who was leading the conspiracy against him to be confronted by Seffie doing a massively [[Dramatic Entrance]] complete with [[Evil Laugh]], implying that she's the mastermind. In the ''next'' panel...
{{quote|'''Seffie:''' (glomping Martellus) Eeee! I'm so glad you're alive! You're my favorite brother!
'''Martellus:'''' (smiling warmly) Aw Seffie... I've missed that creepy laugh of yours.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]/[[Guile Hero]]/[[Manipulative Bastard]]: She does personally walk into dangerous situations when the prize is big enough (such as good relations with the incumbent Heterodyne, greater chance to get Gil, or saving Martellus who almost outsmarted himself to death), but never was shown fighting so far. And probably never needed to do it with her own hands.
** She rose to a very high status in a backstabbing family where she had to compete with [[Magnetic Hero|borderline superhuman charisma of Sparks]] without (apparently) being one herself. Also, they tend toward [[Large Ham|excessive enthusiasm]], while she always [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130826 plans ahead]. This girl is not only very good at acting, she's brilliant in diplomatic skills. It should be no surprise that she gets along splendidly with those ''outside'' the clan — so far including Agatha, Gil and Colette Voltaire (daughter of the Master of Paris). Even when we ''know'' she is double-dealing (at very least), and half of the conditions she points out may "just happened to" be pulled together by her own deft hand, whatever she says is still hard to counter. In fact, usually what she says comes across as the most sensible thing in the given circumstances.
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