Strudel

Designer	shizuku
Relationships	Lilli (fellow fairy) Freudia Neuwahl (friend, partner, template) Sichte Meister (friend) Eifer Skute (fellow homunculus)
Voice Actor	Haru Kaburagi (JP) Jennifer Alyx (ENG)
Sprite

Strudel (シュトルーデル, Shutoruuderu), known as Ru (ル, Ru) for short, is a fairy in the Rosenkreuzstilette series, first appearing in Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~. Her role is similar to that of a fellow fairy, Lilli, in the original Rosenkreuzstilette, and she assists Freudia Neuwahl as her fairy partner as she takes the fight to Schwarzkreuz to stop the Holy Empire's witch hunts.

Appearance

Strudel is more clothed than Lilli; she wears a light blue, short-sleeved cloak with yellow linings and yellow bands of the sleeves of her cloak with skull-shaped belt around her waist and white boots. Strudel has long, light blue hair with braids on the sides of her face held by blue beads, a blue band with a dark blue cross around the end of her hair and an ahoge. She also has light blue wings and blue eyes.

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When Strudel shows her true form, her hair turns white and her eyes turn red, just like her partner Freudia, which signifies her role as one of her replicas. Her hair and eye colors immediately return to normal after the defeat of the Darkside Devil.

Personality

"Those are awfully big bumps on your chest..."

—Strudel, Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~

A fairy who didn't quite fit in with the rest of the forest inhabitants, Strudel is caring, carefree and perpetually optimistic and knows nothing of hatred. All she sees is what pleases her. She's the type who lazes about and has no general goal but shows no resentment to work that needs to be done. Thus, she willingly pursues her goals with an unstoppable zeal when she has a goal to chase and is not being lazy. Strangely enough, she likes to rub round and smooth objects, which usually refers to breasts (which she calls bumps on other female characters' chests), with Sichte Meister's own being an example (much to her embarrassment). Strudel talks and refers to herself in third-person and prefers to be called by her nickname of Ru.

Abilities

Strudel can create ice sculptures through Freudia's usage of Strudels Hund and Strudels Flügel that help Freudia herself get to places that are usually impossible for her to reach. They are acquired from Schwer-Muta Casasola Merkle and Luste Teuber respectively.

In addition, like Lilli before her, she can also use the Black Forest's treasure to attack enemies directly after finding it in Liebea Palesch's stage.

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~

Strudel first meets Freudia within the hallways of the Castle Grounds. Strudel stops Freudia in her way to comment on her breasts and Freudia decides that she has no time to deal with Strudel and leaves her. After fighting with Eifer and refuting Pamela's demand for surrender of RKS, Freudia reasoned that it is very likely that Spiritia Rosenberg has been abducted to the High Chapel, the base of operations for Schwarzkreuz. Strudel shows up once again to talk to Freudia, saying that she is very fond of Freudia's "Pretty" snow magic. Freudia reveals that she was the witch who burned the Black Forest where all fairies lived but Strudel doesn't know what forest Freudia was talking about. Despite Freudia's refusal to bring Strudel in her quest, Strudel decides that she will follow her anyway and Freudia gives in.

Strudel makes several comments about different things as Freudia fights her friends at RKS on her way to the High Chapel, and at one point even comments that she would melt if she didn't cool down during Freudia's encounter with Zorne Zeppelin. If Freudia should find the Black Forest's Treasure within Liebea Palesch's stage, the White Wasteland, Strudel will recognize it as the treasure of the forest and decide to borrow some of its power to help Freudia in her travels. Strudel said that there are 77 of such treasures hidden throughout the land and reveals that the actual number is 78, implying that the one Freudia just found will not be returned, at least before the end of the quest. Freu voices how impressed she is to discover how incredible Ru's amount of mana is, realizing that she's not a normal fairy and pondering just what Ru truly is.

Later, when Iris Zeppelin and Eifer reveals the whole truth about Schwarzkreuz and the witch hunts, it is revealed that Strudel was sent by Iris to keep an eye on her. Eifer tells Strudel to return to her side, but Strudel changes her mind and decides to stay friends with Freudia instead, much to Eifer's agitation. Strudel asks for forgiveness from Freudia and the latter gladly complies, overjoying the former.

Later, while Freudia is going after Iris, she encounters Eifer again who was revealed to be a Homunculus based on Freudia by Strudel. Eifer in turn reveals that Strudel doesn't have complete memories when she was created; the Freudia-based cloning was separated in two separate beings resulting in Strudel's incomplete memory; one is a humanoid who doesn't understand happiness and joy, one is a fairy who doesn't know anger and sadness. It is here where Strudel reveals her true form. She reverts back to her normal colors after Freudia defeats the Darkside Devil and reverts it back to Eifer. Strudel understands that Eifer is dying yet still wishes to be her friend. After Eifer disappears and dies, Strudel asks if that's when people cry knowing she can't cry herself despite wanting to do so. Freudia replies that she believes feelings are more important than the act of shedding tears.

Strudel supports Freudia in her final battle against a brainwashed Spiritia and her controller Iris. After Freudia frees Spiritia, Strudel reveals that Spiritia was helping the whole time by sealing her power so that Iris couldn't use it. After Freudia freezes Iris to death, the three arrive at the Snowy Pillars where Spiritia thanks Freudia and Strudel for saving her. Lilli arrives and finally finds Spiritia, not knowing that enemies had already been defeated. A short moment of awkwardness follows between Lilli and Freudia before Strudel cuts in, since she had never met any fairies. Strudel, realizing that her appearance doesn't fit in the species of forest fairies, introduces herself as a frost fairy to Lilli and befriends her. Spiritia, Freudia, Lilli, and Strudel then return home and happily reunite with the others at RKS.

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Weißsilber~

Strudel has a small role in Rosenkreuzstilette ~Weißsilber~. Pamela encounters Freudia and Strudel at the Bloody Ruins at the Iris Palace II, and both are having trouble with the Darkside Devil. While Freudia and Strudel escapes, Pamela, recognizing it as Eifer, who had lost control of her emotions and power, fights the monster in their place and defeats it, reverting her back to normal. Later, after Pamela frees Spritia, foils Iris' plans to fuse with Spiritia and slays her, she reunites Spiritia with both Freudia and Strudel, and they both thank her for saving Spiritia, despite not having expected her to come to her rescue, before taking her back home with them.

Quotes

• Mode Change:
  • 「ローゼンクロイツスティレッテ ♪♪」 ("Rosenkreuzstilette ♪♪")
• Meeting Freudia:
  • 「わぁっ ♪♪」 ("Waa ♪♪")
  • 「よろしくね ♪♪」 ("Yoroshiku ne ♪♪") ("Nice to meet you ♪♪")
• Treasure of the Fairies:
  • 「パワーアップ！えへへぇ ♪♪」 ("Pawaa appu! Ehehe ♪♪") ("Power-up! Ehehe ♪♪")
  • 「ルゥ、いっしょうけんめいがんばるね ♪♪」 ("Ruu, isshoukenmei ganbaru ne") ("Ru, will try her hardest")
• Summoned:
  • 「はいぃ ♪♪」 ("Hai  ♪♪") ("Yes  ♪♪")
  • 「ルゥ、がんばるね ♪♪」 ("Ruu, ganbaru ne ♪♪")  ("Ru, will do her best")
  • 「ルゥにおまかせぇ ♪♪」 ("Ruu ni omakase ♪♪") ("Leave it to Ru ♪♪")
• Attacks:
  • 「エイエイッ ♪♪」 ("Ei ei ♪♪")
  • 「エーイィ！！」 ("Eeei!!")
  • 「タッ ♪♪」 ("Taa  ♪♪")
  • 「トォ〜 ♪♪」 ("Tou~ ♪♪")
  • 「エイ〜ヤッ ♪♪」 ("Eeii~ya ♪♪")
• Tired:
  • 「ルゥ、つかれじゃった〜」 ("Ru, tsukarejatta") ("Ru is tired~")
  • 「くたくたぁ〜」 ("Kutakuta")
  • 「おやすみ〜」("Oyasumi") ("Good Night~")
• Strudels Flügel:
  • 「でばんだよ ♪♪」 ("Deban dayo ♪♪") ("It's time ♪♪")
  • 「出てきて ♪♪」 ("Detekite  ♪♪") ("Come on out  ♪♪")
  • 「ルゥズフリュージェル ♪♪」 ("Ruuzu Furyujeru ♪♪")  ("Ru's Flügel ♪♪")
• Strudels Hund:
  • 「おいで ♪♪」 ("Oide ♪♪") ("Come ♪♪")
  • 「はいは〜い ♪♪」 ("Hai hai ♪♪") ("Yes there ♪♪")
  • 「ルゥズホンド ♪♪」 ("Ruuzu Hondo ♪♪") ("Ru's Hund ♪♪")
• Freudia's Defeat:
  • 「フロイ。。。どこ？？」 ("Furoi... doko??") ("Freu... where are you??")
  • 「だいじょうぶ？？」 ("Daijoubu??") ("Are you alright??")
  • 「あれぇ。。。フロイは？？」 ("Aree... Furoi ha??") ("?? Where is Freu?")

Art Gallery

Strudel's design prior to November 27, 2011, which used a different pose than her final profile artwork.

Artwork of Strudel by WOMI, depicting her final profile image's pose.

Strudel With Freudia Neuwahl on the promo picture for RKSF.

Strudel's Twitter icon.

Strudel's Steam Trading Card.

Portraits

Initial

Confused

Joking

Delighted

Happy

True form

Melt

Musical Themes

Title	Artist	Context	Audio
Labyrinth 迷路 Meiro	Unlimited Hellest	Dialogue Theme when she appears for the second time and joins Freudia from that moment on.
Treasure Found!	[erka:es]	Plays when Freudia finds and collects the Black Forest's Treasure in Liebea's stage.

Spoilers end here.

Trivia

• Strudel's name comes from the dessert of the same name.
• When her design was submitted to WOMI by shizuku, she was given the name "Strudel Totenkopf" before WOMI dropped her surname. Strudel's first name means "swirl" or "vortex" in German, while is is more commonly known as the dessert listed above. Her dropped surname, Totenkopf, is the German name for the skull and crossbones design that is more commonly known as the Jolly Roger.
• Her quote appears to refer to the large round bumps that will comically appear on an anime character's head when hit with heavy force, most commonly with a large fan or a falling pan.
• When Freudia uses Strudels Hund or Strudels Flügel, Strudel will appear and create an ice sculpture of Mega Man's loyal dog companion, Rush, for her, which she can use in a similar fashion that Mega Man himself can use Rush Coil.
• In ~Freudenstachel~ , at the [erka:es] logo screen, there is a chance Strudel would yell "Rosenkreuzstilette ♪♪" instead of Freudia.
• Although Strudel herself is one of the available weaknesses of Eifer, she never perform attacks to Darkside Devil when summoned.

External Links

• shizuku at Pixiv (Japanese)
• Haru Kaburagi's site (Japanese)

Characters in the Rosenkreuzstilette series

Weapons and Abilities in the Rosenkreuzstilette series