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Raabe is a member of the Mitsurugi Agency and Independent Thought Unit that has a personality based on Kagami Hajou. It is unknown if Raabe was created aboard the Dimensional Boundary Submersible Warship Fugaku or in the Possibility that Kagami originated from. Raabe Dives with Ciel Sulfur into the Phantom Fields to free the Observer trapped within them.
Alternative: Dark War
Both Raabe and Ciel dived into a Phantom Field which was set within the Magister's City of Ishana prior to the Dark War. Unfortunately, Raabe was not working properly during this Dive, being unable to speak and being barely capable of its usual powers. Raabe stuck by Ciel's side throughout the Field, being able to communicate with her. Eventually, the two were found by Another Dark Mai, who attacked Ciel. The battle was interrupted by Rei, who had accidentally wandered between their fight. Rei subconsciously used Phenomenon Intervention, giving Ciel time to take Raabe and Rei away from Dark Mai and escape.
Rei introduced themselves to Ciel and Raabe, and the trio were soon joined by Kazuma Kval, a student at the school who had been with Rei before they met with Ciel and Raabe. Monsters soon surrounded the group but they were soundly defeated, although Raabe was clearly annoyed by Rei's lack of ability with either magic or sorcery. Dark Mai soon found the group, jumping down next to them and threatening to kill them. Raabe then used Phenomenon Intervention to place the group onto the other side of the island, far away from Dark Mai.[1] Doing so caused Raabe to deactivate until it was reactivated by Ciel repeatedly hitting it on the side, something that only made Raabe just more angry. Ciel then introduced herself and Raabe to Kazuma and Rei, but under Raabe's nudging, only slight details were omitted. The group came to realize that Ishana was in an unusual state as there were no other people in the island. In order to solve the mystery, they decided to venture deeper towards the center of the island and try and locate the cauldron. More monsters then attacked the group, but they were defeated.[2]
Due to the swarm of monsters that the group kept coming into contact with, since Ciel, Raabe, and Rei were Contaminants, the group agreed that they would head north-east towards the island port where communication devices lay.[3] There was nothing they could use, and the silence was cut through by a piercing scream coming inland.[4] Raabe watched as the various waves of monsters were killed and the source of the scream was saved: Trinity Glassfille. Trinity told the group that Ishana was seemingly in another dimension as part of a secondary defence system that was activated. In order to find a solution, Trinity advised that they head for the Great Library.[5]
To avoid the monsters and Dark Mai, the group travelled through the sewer system to reach their destination. Ciel tried to tell Trinity and Kazuma that she was there to save them, but was about to reveal details that Raabe deemed unnecessary. Raabe hit her and signalled that the information she was about to reveal regarding the Fugaku was not needed. Despite their best efforts to avoid monsters, more managed to find them.[6] After the battle, the group exited the sewers and found themselves in a park that was a short distance away from the library. Raabe picked up on Trinity passively mentioning that she had been here earlier, but had been transported to a forest after being unconscious for a short period.[7]
When the group finally entered the Great Library, Trinity made them aware that they would have to fight a security system in order to proceed to the usually forbidden sections. After the system was beaten, she told Ciel and Raabe that she felt uncomfortable allowing them within this section due to the fact that they are outsiders to Ishana. Rei and Kazuma managed to convince her to let them in.[8] Raabe helped the group comb through the various books to find information that could help them, eventually finding one on the urban planning of Ishana. Handing it to Ciel, she was able to formulate a plan with the others: find the cauldron and stop it in order to free Ishana from the dimension it was trapped within.[9] To find the cauldron, they headed towards the most sacred of places within Ishana - the Ishana Cathedral. On their way there, Ciel confessed to the group that she was going to destroy the cauldron, casting suspicion onto her and Raabe from Kazuma and Trinity, but Rei reaffirmed their trust in them, causing the two mages to realize that they had no reason to doubt the two Mitsurugi Agency members.[10]
Raabe pointed out to Ciel that the Ishana they were in was created by Trinity to fulfil her wishes, and that she was the Observer within the Phantom Field. Armed with this new information, both Ciel and Kazuma confronted Trinity and told her that she was the Observer. More monsters came, seemingly guarding the cauldron underneath Ishana.[11][12] When the group finally managed to find the cauldron, they saw it was guarded by Another Dark Mai, who challenged them to battle.[13] After the fight, Dark Mai escaped through the cauldron and Trinity, unable to accept that she was the Observer and unable to accept that her desires might escape her, turned against the group. Trinity was defeated. Ciel used the BlazBlue Alternative after Rei Observed it, and the cauldron was destroyed. The Phantom Field began to reform into a Possibility. Ciel, Raabe, and Rei were then taken aboard the Fugaku where Raabe was able to receive repairs.[14]
References
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue, 1
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue, 2
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue, 3 - 1
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue, 3 - 2
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue, 3 - 4
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue, 4 - 1
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue, 4 - 3
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue 5 - 2
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue 5 - 3
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue 6 - 1
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue 6 - 2
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue 7 - 1
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue 7 - 2
- ↑ BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, Prologue 7 - 3