Laphicet

Laphicet
Official Artwork Game Model
Information
Appearance	•Tales of Zestiria •Tales of Berseria
Age	10
Height	142 cm
Race	Malak
Weapon	Paper
Japanese Voice Actor	Azumi Asakura
English Voice Actor	Amber Connor
Character Designer	Minoru Iwamoto

This article is about the protagonist in Tales of Berseria. For the supporting character, see Laphicet Crowe.

Laphicet (ライフィセット, Raifisetto^?) is a protagonist in Tales of Berseria and minor character in Tales of Zestiria. A child of the malakhim race, he is initially seen as an emotionless tool, but through his interactions with Velvet Crowe, he gains feelings and selfhood.

History

Laphicet was originally a child without name or personality, serving only as a magical tool for exorcists. He first appears as a malak serving under Teresa Linares, being referred to simply as Number Two (「二号」, Niigou^?). He assists Teresa in stopping Velvet, dealing considerable damage to Velvet and her group until a fire distracts them. When Teresa and Eleanor Hume intend to stop them from escaping, Velvet orders Laphicet to help her, threatening that she will devour him if he refuses. Following orders, Laphicet blasts Teresa and Eleanor away, giving the group time to escape. Deeming his magical abilities to be useful, Velvet decides to take the malak boy with her.

Laphicet initially clashes with Velvet due to his lack of personality. Laphicet stays quiet unless someone talks to him, or if he is given an order, he will follow it without question. Laphicet begins showing emotion when he becomes interested in a compass used to navigate the ship, always carrying it with him. As he interacts more with Velvet, Laphicet gains knowledge far beyond his initial blank slate and eventually develops a sense of self. He begins to become close with Velvet after she decides to name him after her younger brother, Laphicet. After the defeat of Artorius Collbrande and Innominat, Laphicet becomes the dragon Maotelus so that he, along with the four reincarnated praetor exorcists, can protect the world from malevolence, but this also causes humans to lose the ability to see the malakhim.

Appearance and Personality

Laphicet appears as a young child in pale, innocent colors. His white and blue contrasts strongly with Velvet's red and black. He initially appears shy and withdrawn due to his enslavement to exorcists, but he eventually develops his own sense of self and ability to smile. He soon becomes close with Velvet, determined to protect her. He loves studying new things and reading. As the youngest member of the party, Laphicet idolizes both Eizen and Rokurou, who each on their own way encourage Laphicet to live his own life, becoming his own person, different from the both of them.

Fighting Style

Laphicet battles using paper sheets, similarly to Lailah from Tales of Zestiria. He can use hidden artes to corral his opponents at a slight distance to attack enemies with elemental attacks via mana-imbued papers, but his specialty is in his malak artes, which consist mainly of non-elemental artes. He is not good at close combat and proper movement and positioning is needed to prevent him being surrounded by his enemies. Laphicet's Break Soul is Divide Pain, which expands a field that halves damage received while healing his allies. His mystic artes are Binding Order, which entraps his target in a magical cage before he blows them away, Chaos Bloom, and Indignation. He also shares a dual mystic arte with Velvet known as Innumerable Wound.

Other Appearances

Tales of the Rays

Laphicet appears as a stray nexus created from the mysterious non-sanctioned exoflection of his world, with he and his companions being exoflected before their final battle against Artorius and Innominat. Together with Velvet, they live in an isolated cabin in the forest. While travelling in the nearby village, he encounters Ix Nieves, Mileena Weiss, Sorey, Mikleo, and Edna while trying to get away from a merchant and his thugs. While speaking with them, he learns that he has been exoflected to another world. He also gets confused when Sorey and Mikleo refer to him as a seraphim. While speaking with Edna, he feels like he had seen her somewhere before. After learning her name, he realizes that she's Eizen's sister. While Sorey and Mikleo split from the group to find information about the shimmera glass, Laphicet takes Ix, Mileena, and Edna to meet Velvet. While speaking with the group, Laphicet and Velvet learn that not only were they exoflected from a different world, but that they and Edna were exoflected from different points in time, with the Edna before them being from the distant future of their world. Now knowing that humans and malakhim are not endangered by malevolence in Tir Na Nog, Laphicet desires to give Velvet the chance at a peaceful life by living with her in the exoflected Aball. Velvet is uncertain, but agrees to go see the village. Along the way, the party reunites with Sorey and Mikleo, who quickly become apprehensive, believing Velvet to be the hellion who attacked them and is currently hunting Ix and Mileena while leaving destruction in her path. Edna manages to clear up the misunderstanding, but then the true culprit appears.

Another Velvet is revealed to have been exoflected by Phantom, summoned after she learned the truth about Innominat and the second Scarlet Night, but before Laphicet restored her sanity. Now fully succumbed to despair, the alternate Velvet seeks to kill Ix and Mileena under the false promise that she can return to her world and kill Artorius.

In order to defeat her other self without endangering civilians, Velvet has the party recreate the Meirchio incident in Aball. Then later, when Sorey fails to reason with the daemon, Velvet takes responsibility and devours her. With no place to return to and refusing the Shepherd's offer to clear up the villagers' misconceptions, Velvet resolves to help Ix and Mileena on their quest until her time comes. While Velvet decides to join Ix and the others, Laphicet decides to stay on the continent for a bit longer. While speaking with Edna in private, he reveals that he plans to look for Eizen, having discovered one of his gloves.

Tales of Crestoria

Laphicet was taken in and raised by an adventurer, along with the Combatir sisters, Presea Combatir and Alicia Combatir. After a while, Laphicet's "Uncle" left the three to take care of each other. Suddenly, Presea suffered a terrible accident that prevented her from cutting more trees. The medicine needed was too expensive for working in Kio. So Alicia resorted to traveling to the city to find higher paying work while Laphicet stayed behind to tend to Presea's wounds. Alicia worked day and night at a nobleman's mansion to earn enough money to buy the medicine needed for her sister. And it all went along smoothly. But while she was working, Alicia caught the eye of the nobleman's son, who wanted to marry her. He could not take no for an answer, so he abducted Alicia and locked her away. The details for the rest of the story are currently unknown, but Alicia killed the nobleman's son and escaped.

Gallery

Status image in Tales of Berseria.

Cut-in image for Tales of Berseria.

Break Soul render in Tales of Berseria.

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Artwork for Tales of Asteria.

Artwork for Tales of Link.

Trivia

• Laphicet is the reincarnation of Artorius's and Celica Crowe's unborn child.
• According to the special skit that comes with a pre-ordered copy of Tales of Berseria, Laphicet's favorite past Tales series character is Kohaku Hearts from Tales of Hearts. Laphicet feels he and Kohaku are similar because they both lost their emotions and regain them on their journeys. Velvet teases him by implying he chose Kohaku because she has a similar hairstyle to hers.
• According to the aforementioned special skit, Lapchiet's favorite mascot character is Mieu from Tales of the Abyss because Mieu is able to communicate well, which leads to stronger friendships.