Geliide

Biodata

Background

In her youth, Geliide was a merchant supported by her influential father. Before the Black Rose War, she attempted to profit from an expected rise in grain prices, but her father curtailed her control of the merchant association. She then trusted the Commodore, a noble overseeing naval supplies, and provided a family heirloom as collateral for an apparent grain deal. 41

The arrangement was a trap. The Commodore orchestrated the destruction of the navy’s grain stores, framed Geliide for arson, and used the resulting crisis to have her father executed. Geliide was imprisoned and subjected to prolonged torture, including water torture, flaying, the iron maiden, and medical experimentation. 41

She later became a mercenary and then a privateer captain. By the events of Sea Battle Royale, her pursuit of revenge has driven her crew through a storm zone, costing them their flagship and helping provoke the first mate’s mutiny. 9 18

Appearance

Geliide is a nearly fifty-year-old, bald pirate captain with a visibly weathered and intimidating presence. 16 30

• Chestnut eyes and a heavily scarred face 23
• Tobacco-stained yellow teeth 9 32
• Frequently smokes a pipe 9 23
• Wears riding boots and carries a willow-branch effigy associated with the Wicker Man 23 30

Personality

Geliide is a hardened, pragmatic leader who understands that pirates are motivated by survival, wealth, and immediate gratification rather than ideals. When her command is threatened, she restores morale by promising gold, alcohol, money, and other rewards, then invokes the crew’s past victories to reinforce their shared identity. 12

She is also manipulative and politically alert. During her first conversation with Xia Lun, she tries to appear vulnerable and trustworthy so that he will lower his guard; once he exposes the attempt, she abandons the performance and negotiates from mutual necessity instead. 9

Her long-standing hatred of the Commodore is intensely personal and overrides her usual caution. Believing the Monster to be the Commodore, she becomes eager for a final confrontation, only to discover that the Commodore rumor was a lure used by Captain Haya. 23 30 Despite this ruthless past and obsession with revenge, she ultimately proves capable of genuine loyalty, sacrificing herself for Xia Lun because she considers their alliance real. 32

Abilities & Skills

Nonhuman Toughness

Geliide possesses an abnormal level of endurance gained through extreme suffering. It allows her to continue moving and fighting while gravely injured, with greatly increased pain tolerance, recovery, resilience, endurance, and muscular explosiveness. 14 34

• Can remain active despite injuries that should be immediately incapacitating. 30
• Continued fighting Walking Corpses after catastrophic internal injuries. 32
• Does not prevent death; her final injuries and self-sacrifice still kill her. 32

Command and Morale Control

Geliide can stabilize a volatile crew through rewards, public rhetoric, and calculated displays of confidence. 12

• Publicly declares the first mate’s rebels executed to reduce fear of retaliation. 12
• Uses gold and promised rewards to redirect the survivors’ hostility into renewed loyalty. 12
• Remains composed when the gunner publicly challenges her authority. 12

Close-Quarters Combat

Geliide is willing and able to fight personally rather than command from safety.

• Attacks the Abyssal Hand directly during its first assault on the ship. 2
• Stabs the first mate’s knee during Xia Lun’s standoff, creating the opening that ends the fight. 8
• Leads reinforcements against the Monster and later holds back Walking Corpses with a poleaxe. 29 32

Power Progression

Equipment

• Pipe and tobacco 9 23
• Gilded pocket watch 16
• Willow-branch doll/effigy representing the Wicker Man 23
• Poleaxe, used against Walking Corpses 32
• Flint and gunpowder barrel, used in her final sacrifice 32

The willow effigy Geliide made is later identified as an ornament with an ability-enhancing effect, although the stringent conditions needed to trigger it remain unknown. 148

Relationships

• Xia Lun — Begins as a fragile, mutually beneficial alliance: Xia Lun needs her authority to legitimize his killings, while she needs his combat ability to reclaim control of the ship. Their relationship becomes one of trust, culminating in Geliide’s sacrifice for him. 9 12 32
• The Commodore — Her mortal enemy and the architect of the scheme that framed her, destroyed her family, and led to her imprisonment. She spends more than two decades seeking revenge against him. 23 41
• Captain Haya / Abyssal Hand — Haya claims to seek revenge for a pirate attack on his ship ten years earlier, accusing Geliide of leading the crew that killed his companions and abused and killed his daughter. He uses a false report that the Commodore is aboard the whaling ship to lure her in. A later account reveals that the Doctor brought Haya into existence from a story and fabricated his memory of his daughter’s death, casting doubt on Haya’s account as a record of events. 30 159
• Bird — Her father in the memories underlying Nonhuman Toughness. His execution follows Geliide’s entanglement in the Commodore’s grain conspiracy. 41
• First Mate and his faction — Their mutiny strips Geliide of control over her ship and leaves her dependent on Xia Lun’s intervention. 2 9

Story Role

Mutiny and Alliance

After the first mate betrays her amid the Abyssal Hand’s attack, Geliide survives with wounds and a shattered command structure. She attempts to manipulate Xia Lun into protecting her, but he sees through her approach and proposes an alliance: he will help restore her authority if she publicly identifies his killings as executions of traitors. 2 9

Restoring the Crew

With fewer than two dozen survivors remaining, Geliide and Xia Lun coordinate a plan to stabilize the crew and expose lingering rebels. Geliide’s public speech, gold distribution, and promises of survival temporarily restore order, though the gunner’s challenge demonstrates that her authority remains fragile. 12

Hunt for the “Commodore”

Geliide initially believes the Abyssal Hand is the Commodore who ruined her life. She reveals that the Commodore fears the Wicker Man and commits herself to Xia Lun’s plan to kill the Monster. 23

The Monster identifies itself as Captain Haya, not the Commodore. Haya says he planted the Commodore rumor to draw Geliide into a revenge trap for atrocities committed by her crew. A later revelation that the Doctor created Haya and supplied him with a fabricated memory of his daughter’s death complicates the apparent history behind his revenge. 30 159

Final Sacrifice

Gravely injured and unable to continue fighting, Geliide uses a gunpowder barrel to destroy the remaining Walking Corpses and deny Haya his reinforcements. Her action leaves the Abyssal Hand defenseless and gives Xia Lun the opportunity to kill it. 32

Real-World Counterpart

After meeting Geliide in the scenario, Xia Lun encounters a younger, red-haired Geliide in reality. In the Courtly Tournament Special Memory, he sees her younger likeness and learns that she, too, is Bird’s only daughter. He later records the matching names, appearances, family relationships, and misfortunes of their fathers as evidence of a possible connection between the game and reality, while leaving its cause unresolved. 42 47

The real-world Geliide later witnesses Bird handling documents from Jade Pharmaceuticals. Bird tells her that he is her father but not the father she knows, says that the familiar Bird will return after he leaves, and warns her not to trust him. 298

Notable Quotes

“Because we are allies!” 32

Trivia

• Geliide’s recognition grants Xia Lun 300 Memory Points after her final declaration of loyalty. 32
• Her specialty memory, Nonhuman Toughness, requires fifteen Dream Entries to fully inherit. 14 41
• A younger Geliide appears in the Courtly Tournament Special Memory as Bird’s daughter, prompting Xia Lun to question the connection between the scenario and reality. 42