Flèche

Flèche
Japanese Name	フレシュ
Character Designer Primary Artist	Golden Pe Done

Flèche is a lesser antagonist in Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc", acting as the servant of Minou, Corbeau and Lapin.

General Info

Physical Features
Age	Unknown
Eye colour	Blue
Hair colour	Blue
Magic
Soul Gem	Triangular hairclip (arrow-shaped) on the side of her head
Weapon	Bow and magical arrows
Witch Form	Unnamed Witch
Powers and Abilities	Unknown
Wish	Unknown, but it most likely benefited Corbeau, Minou, Lapin or Isabeau in some way.
Other
Japanese pronoun	Unknown
Known relatives	None known
Origins	Unknown
School	The Holy Maiden Academy (In an event)

Summary

Backstory

A Magical Girl who was forced to contract with Isabeau de Bavière against her will. Once contracted, she lost her free will and acted much like a mindless slave under the orders of Isabeau, and by extension, her daughters Minou, Lapin and Corbeau. She was likely the daughter of a lord or peasant before their death by Isabeau's daughters.

Flèche During Tart Magica

Flèche first appears in Chapter 8, standing besides Corbeau as her attending maid. As Corbeau speaks with John Talbot and William Glasdale concerning the possible loss of the fort at Les Tourelles, Glasdale disagrees with Corbeau’s plans. Corbeau in response snaps her fingers, prompting Flèche to fire her bow repeatedly at him, killing him in the process. As Corbeau finishes her conversation with the head of the English forces, the French soldiers began their attack on the fortress. Corbeau unleashes black feathers that take out the majority of the French forces. She steps outside where Riz and Tart stand waiting for her. They begin their difficult battle with Corbeau, who uses her ability to push her soul gem’s impurities onto other magical girls in the vicinity. Riz warns Tart to stay away from Corbeau who snaps her fingers and once more prompts Flèche, who had been watching from one of the fortress towers, to unleash her arrows, this time at Tart. Several of the arrows find their mark and greatly harm Tart. Corbeau is able to pin Riz down with several of her black feathers as she walks towards Tart, ready to finish her off. From behind, La Hire strikes at Corbeau with his sword in an attempt to defend Tart, but the attack does nothing to Corbeau, who merely blocks a second sword attack with the back of her arm and throws La Hire face first into the ground essentially knocking him unconscious. Melissa rushes to her father's side and Riz calls out to her, telling her to get away from the front lines as soon as possible. Corbeau tells Flèche to make sure nothing is left of La Hire and Flèche conjures a large spear-like arrow and fits it to her bow. As she unleashes the arrow aimed at Melissa and her father, Tart suddenly stands before them and takes the full brunt of the attack, sparing the two humans. As a result, Tart endures a large hole the size of her fist in her right shoulder and collapses. With Tart on the verge of death, Melissa contracts with Kyubey in order to save Tart and her father. As Corbeau orders Flèche to finish them off, Riz pulls Tart and Melissa into her shadow realm where they hatch a plan. Once they emerge, Corbeau demands to know how they plan to defeat her since she brought Flèche with her to prevent anyone from attacking her outside of her magic's range. Melissa and Riz coordinate a joint attack on Corbeau as Corbeau calls out to Flèche to provide cover and to finish off Tart with another attack like the one that nearly killed her earlier.

Meanwhile, Tart attempts to take on Flèche alone. However, Flèche has dropped down one side of the tower, running backwards down the side as she launches arrow after arrow right at Tart, each one finding their mark. She turns and uses her momentum to run sideways across the walls of the fortress, launching more arrows up in her wake. As Flèche jumps back up onto a tower on the opposite side of the fortress, Tart emerges from the dust completely unharmed. Melissa’s wish altered Tart’s fate and has increased Tart’s power as a result. Furious at this news, Corbeau orders Flèche to use her full magic, as if she intends to drain herself dry. Tart unleashes her La Lumiere attack, missing Flèche but destroying the tower in the process. At this point Minou appears, originally intending on simply collecting Flèche but instead opting to summon a magic seal and branding her with it. She calls out to Corbeau to leave everything to Flèche instead and disappears with her sister inside of her portal. The remaining French soldiers with Gilles at the lead finally arrive at the fortress just as Flèche's witch form has spawned and stands ready and waiting in the courtyard. The witch turns its direction towards Orleans and readies to fire an attack. Tart leaps out from the tower and strikes at the witch's head with her sword. While the attack wasn't quite enough to stop the witch, it powers up its attack and Tart only barely manages to turn its head just as it fires off its attack. She grips her sword tightly and slashes the witch down the middle, parting it neatly in half. The witch explodes and is finished off. Off in the distance, Elisa stands at the edge of a cliff side some considerable distance away, having used her rifle to help finish off the witch from a distance.

Powers and Abilities

Flèche is shown to be able to summon magical arrows that she fits to her bow. She was able to concentrate her magic into an attack powerful enough to tear a hole into Tart's shoulder and mortally wound her. She was also shown to be able to run along the side of a castle wall horizontally.

Etymology

• Flèche is the French word for "arrow".
  • The kanjis in her (parallel counterpart's) last name mean "shark" (鮫) and "water well" (井).

Trivia

• In the alternative world of the school Holy Maiden Academy, Fléche and Lame attend the school alongside another new magical girl servant of Isabeau named Fauchard, who appeared in Lapin's Magical Girl Side Story (Source).
  • Flèche full name in this world is Flèche Samegai (鮫ケ井 フレシュ "Samegai Fureshu") (Source).
    • It seems that the alternative Japanese last names for Flèche is a reference to her Witch form, as Flèche's last name has the kanjis for "shark".
• According to Lapin's magical girl story in Magia Record, Fauchard and most likely Flèche, Lame and the rest of the girls in their magical girl army, were daughters of lords (or peasants) whose families were murdered by witches planted by Isabeau's daughters in order to get more girls under her army.
• It is heavily implied that Corbeau seduced Flèche before torturing her into making a wish with Isabeau.

Gallery

Official Art

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  Flèche's witch form
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Art by the artist

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  Fauchard, Lame, and Flèche in a modern day high school setting (Source).
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  Melissa de Vignolles and Flèche doing the Standing Split challenge, made by Masugitune
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  Flèche and Corbeau, from Twitter.

Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story

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  Flèche's L2D model in Magia Record.