Sichte Meister

Designer	WOMI
RKS Number	[RKS007 Sieben]
Relationships	Grolla Seyfarth (close friend, subordinate) Strudel (friend)
Weapon	Die geplante Zukunft
Weaknesses	Rosenkreuzstilette: Grollschwert, Die geplante Zukunft (Iris Stage 3) Freudenstachel: Freudenzwinger
Immunities	Rosenkreuzstilette: Lustatem
Voice Actor	Kotori Kisaki (JP) Natalie Van Sistine (ENG)
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Sichte Meister [RKS007 Sieben] (ズィヒテ・マイスター, Zihite Maisutaa; pronounced Seek-tuh) is the seventh member of RKS as well as its active leader and commander. She is also a close friend of Grolla Seyfarth who happens to be her subordinate, referring to her as Lady Sichte (ズィヒテ殿, Sichte-dono). The other Magi in RKS also respect her as their superior and refer to her as Lady Sichte as well, and Pamela Arwig refers to her as Commander Meister. As of Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~, Sichte is one of the few who aim to inherit the will of the late Michael Zeppelin alongside his successor, Kahl Palesch.

Appearance

Sichte is a very well-endowed woman with tan skin and short, hunter green hair, and dark yellow eyes. In Rosenkreuzstilette, her outfit consists of a white tube-top shirt with sleeves that hangs around her shoulders, as well as black leather shorts, a blue trench skirt and white boots with crosses on the toes. She also wears gold rings around her wrists and a necklace with a cross around her neck.

In Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~, Sichte's shirt and shorts are torn apart, revealing more of her skin, along with a dark blue trench skirt and wider, yet dull-colored gold rings around her wrists. She also wears black underwear under her shirt and has small belts around her arms and one of her legs. She also rids herself of the cross necklace from the previous game. In the ending for Freudia's story, her shirt is shown to have been replaced, although her shorts are still torn.

Personality

"Your future has already been decided. I am merely clearing the way for you."

—Sichte Meister, Rosenkreuzstilette

Being the active leader of the RKS strike force, Sichte is a level-headed decision-maker with keen judgment who values honor above all else. Being born and raised in the slums, Sichte has had a troubled childhood. As a result, she finds it difficult to have faith in adults. While Sichte is pardonless in the face of her enemies, she is in fact kind and caring. Sichte dreams of a utopia where people with magic powers wouldn't be persecuted.

Abilities

Sichte's ability, Die geplante Zukunft, allows her to manipulate time; she can either speed up, or slow down time, or halt it altogether. She can also release emerald shards from her knife and manifest knives out of nowhere.

Rosenkreuzstilette

Sichte as she appears in Rosenkreuzstilette.

Sichte's sole reason in joining Freudia and the other members of RKS was to realize her dream of human and Magi co-existing peacefully.

Pre-Grolla Events

Even though times may have changed, injustice has always been a part of the world, which Sichte claims to be what people fight against. After being amused by Lilli's attitude, Sichte told Spiritia that they are fighting for a place where they belonged and that there was no shame in what they were trying to accomplish. She questioned Spiritia on if humans deserve the right to live for what they did to Magi. Knowing that they were not coming to agreement, Sichte decided to test Spiritia's strength to see who was right. Sichte was defeated, realizimg how strong Spiritia was. Grolla arrives shortly after and comes to Sichte's aid. Grolla vowed to punish Spiritia for defeating Sichte and the two left the area.

After Grolla's defeat, Sichte arrives to her aid. She ordered Grolla to stand down and prayed for Spiritia's success.

Post-Grolla Events

After Spiritia defeated Grolla, Sichte immediately comes to her aid. Sichte could no longer tolerate Spiritia getting in the way of RKS's rebellion against the Empire and was willing to deal with her personally. When Spiritia arrived to confront her, Sicthe told her that they were making a utopia for humans and Magi. Being unable to convince Spiritia to cease her actions against the rebellion, Sichte was intent on killing her.

After being defeated, Sichte realized how strong Spiritia had become. Grolla then appeared before Sichte and came to her aid. Sichte ordered her to stand down, as the victory was Spiritia's. She then prayed for Spiritia's success. Grolla accepted that they have both defeated by Spiritia, though she was not willing to accept her being defeat by another.

In the end of Rosenkreuzstilette, Sichte awaited for Spiritia's arrival along with the other members of RKS on a floating island.

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Grollschwert~

Sichte in the opening of Grollschwert

In Rosenkreuzstilette ~Grollschwert~, Sichte overheard Iris' cry for help and became a witness to Grolla's "attempt" to kill her. Despite not knowing the full details of the situation, she ordered Grolla to sheathe her weapon before things got out of hand. Grolla instead escaped, leaving Sichte to worry about her. She then came to Iris' aid and asked her why Grolla attacked her. Iris pretended to be too afraid to even answer her questions, so Sichte decided not to question her in the condition that Iris was in. Iris gave a short laugh short that caused Sichte to become suspicious of her, though she was still unaware of what had actually happened.

Grolla confronted Sichte in Zuverburg. As the leader of RKS's strike force, Sichte always keeps a look out for those who do not follow their orders, though she never expected Grolla to one of them. Grolla was willing to accept being branded as a traitor and paying the price, though she could not relent during her pursuit of Iris. Sichte grew wary of Grolla's talk of Iris, though she was not going to call Grolla a liar and stated that their ideals did not involve Iris. Grolla then warned her if things continue as they are, she cannot tell what will happen. Sichte understood that the sword Grolla carries was once used by her grandfather and mentor, Raimund Seyfarth. Grolla also told her it was also her grandfather's memento. At that moment, Sichte dueled against Grolla.

After being defeated, Sichte was surprised by how merciful Grolla was. Sichte said to Grolla she would have preferred to be slain by her Grollschwert instead of having the feeling of disappointment from those who does not fight with all their heart. Grolla told her that being dead would not be useful to anyone and she wanted Sichte to stand by her side against Iris. Sichte could not turn her back on her cause even after her defeat, though she promised Grolla that she will no longer stand in her way. If that was not acceptable, then she was willing to be struck down by Grolla's blade. After a moment's silence, Grolla bids her farewells to Sichte and continued her pursuit of Iris.

Stage

Main article: The Fortress City of Zuverburg

Boss strategy

Sichte begins the battle by shoot emerald shards at the player at random directions, this can be easily avoided by keeping a safe distance from her and jump to avoid the ones that needs to jumped over. After she finishes firing shards at the player, she will do one of the following, depending how if the player is close or far away from Sichte: she will simply walks towards the player into crushing into them; or if the player is far away from her, she will use Die geplante Zukunft as she jumps over to the other side of the area, then walk into them after time resumes. During Desperation Mode, she will fire twice the amount of shards from her knife and she will always use Die geplante Zukunft as she jumps. As she jumps however, she will place knives while she jumps to the other side. When time resumes, the knives she has placed will home in on the player. To avoid this, slide under the knives before they can zero-in on the player.

Sichte is weak against Grollschwert, which is obtained by Grolla.

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~

"The past few hours have been spent fighting foe upon foe. Each and every one of them is donning the faces of the ones I trust... I have routed them all. But, as you can see, my clothes are ruined..."

—Sichte Meister, Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~

Sichte awaiting Freudia at the top of the Zuverburg Clock Tower.

Sichte greets Freudia at the top of the Zuverburg Clock Tower, saying that she has encountered many familiar faces during the evening. Freudia then learns that Sichte has fought several homunculi of the RKS members earlier that night and routed them all, only for her clothes to be ruined. If the homunculus looking strikingly like Liebea Palesch was defeated before her, Freudia would state to her that she ran into her as well, which Sichte says speeds things along, then. Sichte requests that they both fight each other to confirm if either of them is a homunculus. She considers the conversation between the two of them to be enough to raise suspicion. Freudia believes that fighting Sichte would not be the best idea, but Sichte assures her that she will be gentle on her.

After being defeated, Sichte is convinced that Freudia is not a fake and learns from her that Spiritia has been abducted. Sichte pleads for Freudia to bring Spiritia back and to take care as RKS knows not what Schwarzkreuz is capable of. Freudia asks Sichte whether or not she is going to try to stop her, and Sichte admits to being well aware of the pointlessness of such efforts. In the solemn atmosphere, she asks Freudia a question and shows Strudel happily rubbing her breasts, asking whether she is a friend of Freudia and commenting that she has been making a fool of herself for a while. Freudia replies that she was beginning to wonder where Strudel went off to.

Freudia learns Weißteufel from her. Later, Sichte, with her clothes fixed back to the way they were before starting to round out the homunculi, is among the members of RKS who happily reunite with Spiritia, Freudia, and their fairy friends.

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Weißsilber~

Pamela climbs up the Zuverburg Clock Tower and finds Sichte at the top, introducing herself as High Commander of Schwarzkreuz. Sichte is surprised that a commander like her would take to the front lines and says that they both have that much in common. Pamela says she never expected to see Sichte's clothing in tatters, but considers it fitting attire for a witch. Sichte tells Pamela that the Church has denied her a more refined upbringing, saying that "beggars cannot be choosers", to which Pamela replies saying that RKS's members reap what they sow, heretic and witch alike. Sichte admits that they've also done questionable things in the past but so has the Church as well, stating that there is no justice in hunting Magi to the point of extinction. Pamela considers it such savagery and unbecoming of the Hand of God, claiming that Schwarzkreuz only wishes to guide the wayward Magi along the path of righteousness, saying that they're not trying to commit a grisly massacre. Sichte finds what Pamela said to be hard to believe, infuriating her into believing that she's calling the Pope a liar. Not willing to let it stand, she vows to bring justice to Sichte with her Weißsilber. Sichte thinks to herself that she wonders what Count Zeppelin would have done.

After the fight, Pamela tells Sichte to prepare herself for punishment. Just then, Zorne Zeppelin and Trauare Wrede arrive just in time to save Sichte. Zorne suggests that they fight Pamela together but Trauare has another idea, suggesting falling back instead since they can't fight and protect Sichte at the same time, and Zorne agrees. After they both escort Sichte somewhere safe, Pamela, having learned of the genuine caring relationship between Sichte and her comrades, realizes that their looking after their superior was more important than their victory and wonders if anyone would come to help her should she fall in battle. Pamela immediately tells herself to get over herself, claiming that she's too strong to require help from anybody and that only the weak need help from others.

Stage

Main article: Zuverburg Clock Tower

Boss Strategy

Sichte will throw four knives into the air and fire two emerald shards from her knife that will slow down upon their release, then zero-in on the player as the knives she threw fall above the player. During Desperation Mode, Sichte will throw more knives into the air and fire three emerald shards instead. She will sometimes jump into the air and either slow down or speed up time, varying on the Roman numeral that lights up on the clock tower. While time slows down or speeds up, the X number of knives will fall from above based which Roman numeral lights up (i.e. I = 1 knife; II = 2 knifes; III = 3 knifes and so forth). If an odd number is lit, a knife will be assured to fall above Freudia with two opening around the sides; if an even number is lit, the knives will split up to anticipate the player's movement away from the opening spot in the center.

Her attack pattern is different in the more recent versions of ~Freudenstachel~; she'll start out by firing several emerald shards from her knife that, like in earlier versions, slow down upon release and then zero-in on the player, and then leap into the air and release several more shards from there that also slow down upon release and then zero-in on the player. She'll then turn transparent and quickly walk around to choose one side of the screen (that while not actually harming the player while she's transparent), and after turning back to normal upon choosing a side of the screen, and then walk with her knife held out as some more knives are hurled at the player in three sets of three. After that, she'll leap into the air and throw several more knives into the air as she does so, and when she lands, the knives she threw into the air will rain down on the player's head. After that, she'll repeat the same process. During Desperation Mode, she gains a new attack where she stops time, jumps into the air, lights up all of the Roman numerals, and comes back down on the player with a giant block as time is resumed, which the player must slide away from to avoid. This attack is used after her emerald shard attacks and before her knife attacks during her new Desperation Mode attack pattern.

Sichte is weak against Freudenzwinger, which is learned from Liebea.

Quotes

Rosenkreuzstilette

• Introduction (Pre-Grolla Event):
  • 「道は一つだ！」 ("Michi wa hitotsuda!") ("There is only one path!")
  • 「キミの未来は、もう決まっている」 ("Kimi no mirai wa, mō kimatte iru.") ("Your future is already decided.")
• Introduction (Post-Grolla Event):
  • 「エルカーエスの誇りにかけて、キミを倒す！」 ("Erukāesu no hokori ni kakete, kimi o taosu!") ("For the pride of RKS, I will strike you down!")
  • 「キミを倒して、その血を新しい世界に捧げるとするか」 ("Kimi o taoshite, sono chi o atarashī sekai ni sasageru to suru ka.") ("I will defeat you here, and give your blood for our new world.")
• Emerald-shooting attack:
  • 「そこだ！」 ("Soko da!") ("Right here!")
  • 「これならどうかな？」 ("Korenara dō ka na?") ("How about this?")
  • 「逃がさない！」 ("Nigasanai!") ("I will not miss!")
• Using Die geplante Zukunft:
  • 「はぁっ！」 ("Ha-!")
  • 「甘いよ！」 ("Amai yo!") ("You are holding back!")
  • 「ムーバーカクテン！」 ("Mubakakuten!")
• Desperation Mode:
  • 「メックヴェルフェン！」 ("Mekkuverufen!")
  • 「ディーベルトン！」 ("Diberuton!")
• Using Die geplante Zukunft (Desperation Mode):
  • 「はぁっ！」 ("Ha-!")
  • 「時を止まれ！」 ("Toki wo tomare!") ("Stop time!")
  • 「アインフリーレン！」 ("Ein frieren!") ("Freeze!")
• Damage (Weakness Weapon):
  • 「うぅっ……厄介な……」 ("U~u ~... yakkai na...") ("Ugh... troublesome...")
• Victory:
  • 「わかっていた結果だ」 ("Wakatte ita kekkada.") ("As I predicted.")
  • 「これが運命だよ」 ("Kore ga unmeida yo.") ("This was fated.")
• Victory (Post-Grolla Event):
  • 「お礼はさせてもらったよ」 ("Orei wa sa sete moratta yo.") ("I got your favor back.")
  • 「愚か者の末路だね」 ("Orokamono no matsuroda ne.") ("A fool's end.")
• Defeated:
  • 「負けた……！？」 ("Make ta...!?") ("I lost...!?")
  • 「こんなはずじゃ……！？」 ("Konna hazu ja...!?") ("Did I not forsee this...!?")
  • 「この……僕が……！？」 ("Kono... boku ga...!?") ("This... I...!?")

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~

• Opening:
  • 「見せてもらうよ、君の力を」 ("Misete morau yo, kimi no chikara wo.") ("Let me see your power.")
  • 「ボクの決意を君に見せよ！」 ("Boku no ketsui wo kimi ni miseyo!") ("I shall show you my determination!")
  • 「負けるわけには…いかない！」 ("Makeru wake ni wa... ikanai!") ("I will show you... that I will not lose!")
• Emerald-Shooting Attack:
  • 「無駄だよ」 ("Muda dayo.") ("It is futile.")
  • 「食らってみるかい？」 ("Kuratte mirukai?") ("You want to try and take this?")
  • 「そらっ」 ("Sora.")
  • 「行けっ」 ("Ike.") ("Go.")
• Teleport:
  • 「狂い咲け！」 ("Kuruizake!") ("Bloom Mad!")
  • 「ツヴァイテブリューテ！」 ("Zweiteblüte!") ("第二の咲き") ("Second Bloom!")
  • 「遅いね」 ("Osoi ne.") ("Too slow.")
• Knife Throw:
  • 「君には無理だね」 ("Kimi ni wa murida ne.") ("It is impossible for you.")
  • 「這いつくばるといい」 ("Aitsukubare to ii.") ("Get pierced.")
• Desperation Mode:
  • 「さぁ、本番だ！」 ("Sa, honban da!") ("Now, for real!")
  • 「見えた！」 ("Mieta!") ("I see you!")
• Time Control Knife Attack (C76 Web Trial):
  • 「時よ……止まれ！」 ("Toki yo... tomare!") ("Time... stop!")
  • 「どこを見ってるんだい？」 ("Doko wo mitterun dai?") ("What are you looking at?")
  • 「お話にならないな」 ("Ohanashi ni naranai na.") ("This won't even make anything.")
• Giant Block Attack (Full Game):
  • 「時よ……止まれ！」 ("Toki yo... tomare!") ("Time... stop!")
  • 「どこを見ってるんだい？」 ("Doko wo mitterun dai?") ("What are you looking at?")
  • 「お話にならないな」 ("Ohanashi ni naranai na.") ("This won't even make anything.")
• Damage (Freudenzwinger):
  • 「くッ…こんなもので！」 ("Ku-... Konna mono de!") ("Gah... I~I will not fall to such things!")
• Victory:
  • 「伯爵の遺志はボクが継ぐ！」 ("Hakushaku no ishi ha boku ga tsugu!") ("I shall inherit the will of the Graf!")
  • 「君ではボクに勝てないよ」 ("Kimi ni ha boku ni katenai yo.") ("You will not be able to beat me.")
  • 「エルカーエスの誇りは滅びない！」 ("Eruka-esu no hokori ha horobinai!") ("The pride of RKS shall never perish!")
• Defeated:
  • 「そんな……！？」 ("Sonna...!?") ("How can this...!?")
  • 「嘘…だろ！？」 ("Uso... daro!?") ("You are... kidding me!?")
  • 「これが定めなのか！？」 ("Kore ga sadame nanoka!?") ("Is this fate!?")

Art Gallery

Official artwork by WOMI of Sichte in The Fortress City of Zuverburg.

Sichte's ~Freudenstachel~ appearance prior to September 05, 2011.

Portraits

Rosenkreuzstilette

Initial

Serious

Hurt

Saddened

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~

Initial

Serious

Hurt

Embarrassed as Ru fits herself between her breasts.

Musical Themes

Title	Artist	Context	Audio
CRASH MAN	Blue Sky!	Stage Theme (Rosenkreuzstilette)
The Ancient Cry	Wingless Seraph	Stage Theme (~Freudenstachel~)
Flame in the Night 夜炎 Yaen	Unlimited Hellest	Dialogue Theme

Trivia

A minor glitch in Rosenkreuzstilette where Sichte appears to be floating upon defeat.

• Sichte, like the other members of RKS, is named after an emotion, in this case "Zuversicht" ("Confidence (in future events"/"Optimism""). As the name was shortened to "Sichte", (coming from "Sicht", meaning "sight") the other part of the emotion is refferenced in her Stage Name (Zuverburg). Her family name, "Meister," comes from that of German board game designer Heinz Meister. Her full thus means either "Master of Optimism" or "Master of Sight".
• Along with Zorne Zeppelin, Sichte is one of the only characters in the Rosenkreuzstilette series who is not based on a character from the Mega Man universe.
  • Sichte is an homage to Dio Brando from the manga and anime series, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, whose name is also an homage to both heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio and actor Marlon Brando. Like Dio Brando, Sichte uses knives to attack and has the ability to manipulate time. She also shouts "Toki wo tomare!!" while freezing time and placing knives that zeros-in on the player in Rosenkreuzstilette.
    • Coincidentally, most of her attacks are similar to the abilities of Sakuya Izayoi from Touhou Koumakyou, who in turn is also an homage to Dio Brando.
  • The green crystal shards she throws are most likely a shout-out to Noriaki Kakyoin, a character who fought against and died at the hand of Dio Brando. His power, called "Emerald Splash" allowed him to throw the eponymous green emerald shards. Before dying he managed to figure out the time-based powers of Dio Brando and shot a nearby clock tower with his crystal shards, thus managing to give his team mates a clue.
  • Her new move in ~Freudenstachel~ where she comes down on the player character's head with a giant block is another similarity to Dio Brando's attacks (except Dio used a steamroller instead of a giant block).
• In Rosenkreuzstilette, Sichte makes an entrance reminiscent to Boomer Kuwanger from Mega Man X.
• Sichte is one of the two people who have a close relationship to Grolla, yet also has a weakness to her weapon; the other being her grandfather, Raimund Seyfarth.
• If Spiritia uses Grollschwert against Sichte when her HP is low enough, it is possible to defeat Sichte in less than two hits.
• Sichte's stage has been selectable in both Rosenkreuzstilette and Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel's~ (Web) trial versions.
• Sichte was weak against Lustatem in the trial version of Rosenkreuzstilette, though she later became immune to it in the full version of the game.
• There is a minor glitch that occurs in Rosenkreuzstilette ~Grollschwert~ when the player defeats Sichte as she jumps while using Die geplante Zukunft.
• One of her quotes in Rosenkreuzstilette used after defeating Grolla references Jet Stingray in Mega Man X4, similarly to what else Trauare Wrede would say if she were fought before Zorne. Sichte herself says, "For the pride of RKS, I will strike you down!", which replaces Stingray's reference to the Repliforce army with RKS.

External links

• Kotori Kisaki's site (Japanese)
• Natalie Van Sistine's site

Characters in the Rosenkreuzstilette series

Enemies and Bosses in the Rosenkreuzstilette series