Sera

Seraphita
File:Sera2.jpg
Japanese Name	セラ or セラフィタ
Romaji	Sera or Serafita
First Appearance	Digital Devil Saga
Tribe	Embryon (informal)
Firearm Type	Handgun
Atma Avatar	Varnani
Atma Brand	Water Crown
Brand Location	Right cheek
Japanese VA	Houko Kuwashima
English VA	Wendee Lee

Sera, full name Seraphita, is a character in the Digital Devil Saga duology. She is also addressed as the Cyber Shaman.

Appearances

• Digital Devil Saga: Major Character
• Digital Devil Saga 2: Playable Character

Profile

Digital Devil Saga

Sera makes her first appearance in Digital Devil Saga after a pod-like object that appeared in the Junkyard burst and turned everyone in the battlefield (and, ultimately, in the whole Junkyard) into demons. Just after Serph, the protagonist, and his comrades calmed down, they spotted Sera at the remains of the blast. Later, Sera was brought back to Muladhara, the homebase of the Embryon. There, everyone was puzzled to see Sera's unique black hair, and the fact that she did not possess a tag ring, a virtual necessity in the Junkyard. Upon attending the meeting of the Tribes in Sahasrara, the Karma Temple issued a new law: "Devour the other Tribes and bring the black-haired girl to Nirvana", deepening the hostility between tribes. The Embryon understood who the black-haired girl was, and decided to keep Sera's presence as a secret. When Serph, Heat and Argilla went to negotiate with the Vanguard tribe, Gale succumbed to his hunger, and started attacking members of the Embryon. Sera stopped his berserk state with her singing. However, her abnormal ability earned his distrust.

Sera exclaimed that she had come to the Junkyard to help the inhabitants, but confessed she had no memories, as if the song she was singing earlier was the only thing she remembered. As their eventual negotiations with the Maribel tribe were successful, Serph, Heat, and Argilla were sent to attack Anahata, the Solids base. Their plan backfired, however, under the intervention and betrayal of Bat, the second-in-command of the Maribel. As a result, Jinana, the leader of Maribel was killed.

Argilla broke the silence policy on Sera's whereabouts to the dying Jinana, not knowing Bat was nearby, listening. This gave Bat the chance to report back so the Solids could launch a heavy assault towards the Embryon while they were busy claiming Manipura. Sera was abducted by the Solids in this raid, but they left Cielo alive to taunt the Embryon and lure them to Coordinate 136.

Upon venturing to the highest level of the castle, Mick, leader of the Solids, is shown holding Sera captive, alongside with Bat. Bat taunts Heat, offering him to joins forces by killing Serph, eventually allowing him to have Sera alone by himself and reach Nirvana. Heat assaults Serph, but later reveals that he has been putting up an act all along. They coordinate for a near-perfect attack on Mick, but he managed to hold on to Sera until she psychically inflicted pain on him. However, this caused Mick to nearly drop her from the castle's main tower.

Bat, however, managed to divebomb and rescue her, betraying Mick to the Brutes. Cielo intervened at that moment, blasting Bat's wings and retaking Sera. After returning to Muladhara, they realized that since Bat was left alive, Sera's presence had been revealed. Knowing Bat had sided with the Brutes, Gale proposed a plan to trap a large contingent of Brutes inside a deserted ship while blowing up the ship with explosives. While exploring the landlocked vessel, however, Sera has slight hints of flashbacks, and expresses a desire not to destroy the ship.

While the others were busy at the ship, Heat would later try to convince Sera into believing that he is a better protector than Serph. Shocked by Heat's exclamation, Sera ignores Heat and tried to run away, but Heat confessed his love and devotion towards Sera, and forcefully kisses her. Devastated, she pushes him away, crying.

Sera's memories were finally restored during the Embryon's assault upon Ajna. At the Brutes Base, all members of the Embryon except for Gale felt a warm familiarity towards the place, something even they couldn't explain. After defeating the guards, they were ambushed by the leader of the Brutes, Varin Omega. While the Embryon attempted to attack him, he fended them off one by one, angrily questioning why they did not remember being killed by Serph, confusing the party. As Heat tried to attack, Varon sorely asked him that how many times should he (Heat) die for Sera, and forcefully activated Heat's Atma virus, igniting his hunger. With Sera's help, Heat recovered. Enraged, Varin engaged the party to a battle. During the battle, Sera aided the party with her Prayer song, calming the hunger ignited by Varin's attacks.

After his defeat, Varin revealed that everyone in the Junkyard comes from Nirvana, but due having died there, they have been reincarnated in the Junkyard. Before dying, he exclaimed that Sera was the witch destined to destroy the world. Upon Varin's death, Sera secretly left the party, with the others anxiously searching for her. It is at this point that Sera's memories were finally restored. Entering Ajna's last room, Serph encountered an illusion of Sera, who promptly disappeared. Serph picked up a photo Sera was holding earlier, and finally realized the reason behind their familiarity with the mansion: Sera once lived there. Realizing this, the others began to worry what Varin said was true. As the Embryon is the last tribe standing, the eternal rain finally stops. Knowing Sera has gone to the Karma Temple and to the gates of Nirvana, all members of the Embryon decide to go there to find Sera.

Sera entered Sahashara, long before the Embryon did. She was addressed as 'mother' or 'cyber shaman' by the demons and the Temple Guards protecting the Temple, and was shown to be a respected figure. Sera would later order the demons of Sahashara to deter the Embryon's presence, much to the Embryon's confusion. Upon reaching to the highest level of the tower, Sera was shown alongside with a mysterious woman, Jenna Angel. Sera pleaded her to stop the activation of the Junkyard's deletion, to no avail. To protect the Embryon, she froze them to the spot so they would not confront Jenna.

Unwilling to give up, however, Serph and Heat tried to move, and Serph ultimately even turned into his Atma form, reaching Jenna. Amused by their strength, Angel canceled their bonds, and engaged the party to a battle. It is revealed that Angel was the one responsible of implanting the Atma Virus into the citizens of the Junkyard, turning them into fiends. 

Eventually Angel was defeated, and Serph, in his atma form, tried to strike Jenna. However, his attack backfired, destroying Angel's control sphere. This accelerated the Junkyard's destruction; Gale urged the others to reach to the tower's exit portal. However, Serph didn't have enough time to escape, and was separated from the others. Before disappearing, Sera told Serph that she would "find him", and cried, leading to the events of Digital Devil Saga 2.

The Two Princes

Inside Coordinate 136, the four Embryon members arrive there. A fairy tale is told as they ascend the amusement park castle (which resembles a literal fairy tale castle). They encounter the recurring portrait of a 'princess' who greatly resembles Sera. According to a the local "navigator", a fairy statue, the place is known for its tale of a princess and two princes, the good prince and the evil prince. It grows more twisted as they reach higher levels. The good prince was known as a charismatic, kind prince whereas the evil prince is known for his brash and haughty behavior, but holds a soft spot for the princess. The two princes admired the princess, and tried to steal her heart. However, the princess herself was attracted by the good prince, and fell in love with him. According to the tale the evil prince sought out to stop the good Prince from meeting up with the princess, and eventually tried to kill him. Towards the end of the tale, the princess found out that the Evil prince was the only one who truly cared for her all along, and in an ironic twist, the Evil Prince was killed by the Good prince. The Good prince was revealed to be a cruel, manipulative young man, but the story ended abruptly. In reality, the tale reveals Sera's past, a story not revealed until Digital Devil Saga 2 which is a reference of the connection between Serph Sheffield, Heat O'Brien, and Sera.

Digital Devil Saga 2

Sera is in possession of the Karma Society at the beginning of the game, having interfaced with the Junkyard through the EGG facility, and the Embryon's quest to locate her and have their questions answered is part of their motivation for aiding the Lokapala. A document found in the EGG Installation mentions that Sera regained consciousness and made at least a partial report concerning the events in the Junkyard. Margot Cuvier and Jenna Angel disagree as to what to do with Sera: Jenna suggests lobotomizing her (implicitly, so she cannot be used to stop or curb her plans of eventual widespread use of the Atma Virus), but Madame quietly vetoes the notion.

Immediately after Sera is retrieved from the EGG, Heat appears and mortally wounds Serph, and the two of them fall into the EGG fluid. Sera's distress over this scene could be what caused the HAARP to activate, draining data from the planet and sending it to the Black Sun. As the Embryon carries the depressed and exhausted Sera through the Power Plant in the hopes of stopping the data transfer, she is pessimistic about their chances until Argilla helps her realize the sacrifices being made for her sake. This gives her the will to fight, and she inherits Serph's Water Crown Atma and his mastered Mantra. She becomes Varnani, the female version of Serph's Varna, and takes over his role as leader of the Embryon.

Returning to the EGG in hopes of convincing God to stop consuming the planet, Sera and the Embryon encounter Heat, grown massive and mutated from the data in the EGG into the insane Vritra. Heat wishes to devour Sera and be with her forever. As Sera and the others fight, Serph (inside the EGG chamber, which is inside Heat) learns many things about his origins from Schroedinger. He also discovers that the stress from the experiments on Sera have caused her aging to accelerate: outside the EGG's life-sustaining fluid, she's dying. Serph breaks free from Heat, and is tearfully reunited with Sera. After bidding a final farewell to his former comrade, Serph rejoins the Embryon.

With the original EGG destroyed, Sera mentions a second facility from which she might be able to send her data to God and convince him of mankind's worth. She does not expect to return, and declares that she will undertake this mission alone, but Serph, Gale, and Cielo refuse to stay behind. As they are about to steal an airplane to take to the second facility, they are confronted by Sera's parent, Jenna Angel. Sera refuses her mother/father's demand that she return, escaping while Gale distracts Angel.

En route to the facility, Cielo is killed by their pursuers, and Sera finds her only source of strength is Serph. They are able to successfully activate the process to send them both to the Black Sun, but the building collapses around them. Serph and Sera hold hands as their data is transferred. As their data flies through space, they embrace to protect each other from the overwhelming crush of solar data and fuse together, becoming Seraph.

Despite being a perfect fusion of Serph and Sera, Seraph speaks with Sera's voice. This could be because Sera was much more talkative than Serph, making her aspect the more appropriate one for communication.

Although Seraph achieved enlightenment, some aspect of Sera and Serph did not, and was later reincarnated back on Earth.

Gallery

Sera and Varnani

Sera and Varnani

Sera and Varnani

Model

Sera with a gun

Varnani killing an enemy

Berserk Mode

Trivia

• Sera closes her left eye while shooting her pistol, a bad habit that lowers depth perception.

Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Characters (Atma Avatars)
Playable	Serph (Varna) - Heat (Agni) - Argilla (Prithivi) - Gale (Vayu) - Cielo (Dyaus)
Non-Playable	Sera - Angel (Harihara) - Harley (Hayagriva) - Jinana (Usas) - Bat (Camazotz) - Mick the Slug (Rahu) - Lupa (Cerberus) - Varin Omega (Ravana) - Twinklebell - Schrödinger - Demi-fiend
Locations
Junkyard	Ground Zero - Muladhara - Svadhisthana - Manipura - Anahata - Coordinate 136 - Deserted Ship - Embryon Base 2 - Vishuddha - Ajna - Karma Temple - Samsara Tunnels
Music
Albums	Original Soundtracks
Songs	"Pray" - "Danger"
Archives
Terminology	Atma - Embryon - Field hunt - Nirvana - Press Turn - Magnetite
Lists	Demons - Bosses - Mantra - Skills (Combos) - Items
Other Media
Games	A's TEST Server
Publications	Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner - That's Catch 22 - DOGDAYS - Shinen no Matou

Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
Characters
Playable (Avatars)	Serph (Varna) - Argilla (Prithivi) - Gale (Vayu) - Cielo (Dyaus) - Roland (Indra) - Sera (Varnani) - Heat (Agni) - Seraph (Ardha)
Non-Playable	Jenna Angel - Margot Cuvier - Fred - Adil - Schrödinger - Serph Sheffield - Heat O'Brien - Argilla - David Gale - Colonel Beck - Meganada - Brahman
Locations
Nirvana	Occupied Sector - Underground City - Underwater Cable - Internment Facility - Karma Society Tower - EGG Installation - Power plant - Airport - HAARP Facility - Sun
Music
Albums	Original Soundtracks
Songs	"Alive" - "Time Capsule"
Archives
Terminology	Atma - Berserk Mode - Black Sun - Cuvier Syndrome - Field hunt - Karma Society - Lokapala - Tribhvana
Lists	Demons - Bosses - Mantra - Skills (Combos) - Items