The heroine of the story. Victorica (popularly known as Victorique) de Blois (ヴィクトリカ・ド・ブロワ Vikutorika do Burowa) is a young girl who stays atop the library tower of Saint Marguerite Academy.
She is portrayed as a girl who lives her entire life as an enigma, which Kazuya Kujo began to uncover and solve as he develops his feelings for her.
Appearance
Victorica has the appearance of a small (for her time period), almost doll-like, girl with long hair and emerald eyes. However, she possesses a voice (and articulation in speaking) that makes her sound exactly like a matured woman. Another important part of Victorica's appearance is a white ceramic pipe that she usually smokes when thinking about something.
Personality
Along with her sharp tongue, abusive bluntness and eccentric attitude, she possesses amazing detective skills. This, however, do not interfere with the fact that she can also possess a personality of a typical girl of her age: childish, overly curious and fond of sweets. She also reveals her very low tolerance to pain, a result of her inability to step at the outside world.
She initially treats Kazuya as an entertainer of sorts, depending on him to cure her boredom by either bringing her something interesting (which at times fails to meet its purpose) or telling her a mystery to solve. The latter eventually puts her and Kazuya into situations that improve their relationship with each other.
Victorica soon shows a more sincere side to showing her emotions to Kazuya.
Background
Victorica is born of a man of the aristocratic Blois family and a mistress. Because of her status as the illegitimate daughter of the Blois family and due to behavior different from other children, she was raised cut off from the world in the depths of the Blois mansion.
She was then sent off to school under strict orders to never leave the campus, with only direct orders from either the Duke of Sauville or any member of the Blois family as her only tickets to the outside world.
Victorica later finds out that her mother, Cordelia Gallo, is regarded as a criminal in its hometown, called "Village of the Gray Wolves" and goes on a personal quest to clear her mother's name. She succeeds in doing so, however, she is still yet to meet her mother.
Plot
Victorica meets Kazuya for the first time after the transferee's arrest for the murder of a certain government official. She solves the case and becomes Kazuya's first student friend in school.
She later drags Kazuya into into many crime investigations after a near-arrest that Victorique saved him from. When she first met Kazuya, she didn't like him and thought that he was annoying and stupid for climbing up all the stairs in the library, even going as far as ignoring him or making fun of him, but gradually she warmed up to him and began to trust and cherish him.
Trivia
- Due to ethical issues in portraying young-looking characters which practice smoking, Victorica is instead portrayed in the anime series as using her pipe as a mannerism.
- Victorica's height is 157 cm (about 5' 2") and she weighs 40 kg (88.18 lb).