


Do you have any idea how a nine-year-old child survives, without the help of a living soul!? Treasures! You must be joking! Have you ever cried, and begged for your next meal!? Did you ever sell your body seeking shelter from the frigid night air!? The gypsy elders got together and decided to excommunicate me. she tried to kill me with her very hands. She, she was so frightened and so full with hatred for me. Being given powers not meant for a child. Imagine that? Predicting your own father's death? Hm! No, I was cursed as a child. I predicted the exact time, place, and ending of my father's life. Koudelka: Do you have any idea how much pain my psychic powers have brought me? My father died when I was only a child. Dark and Troubled Past: Her drunken rant to Edward while they're waiting for James to make nitroglycerin lays it all out.And when the person with the most clarity in a room is the one wearing a straight-jacket and staring blackly into space. Crazy Sane: Sends her-self into a meditative coma to keep from going mad from the torture.Continuity Nod: Koudelka appears in the first Shadow Hearts, and is reunited with her son, Halley.Chekhov's Gun: The pendant she drops early on can be found and used against the Elaine monster.Beneath Koudelka's snarky, seemingly jaded exterior, she's actually deeply damaged due to being denounced by her family, being exiled from her clan, and having to sell her body in her youth just to have shelter. Broken Ace: Her final encounter with Charlotte exposes this.However, the second someone touches her son she drops her meditative trance, taps into the power of the Emigre's Author, and turns into a Person of Mass Destruction. Berserk Button: Koudelka is so jaded to pain that she will outright mess with her torturers by making them think she is catatonic.Action Mom: Proceeds to blow apart her abductor's ritual the second she realizes he is going to destroy the world her son lives in.Koudelka grew up alone, developing her abilities, until one day she was beckoned to Nemeton Monastery by the gathered souls of the dead there. Voiced by: Hiroko Kasahara (JP, games), Yui Horie ( Koudelka Drama CD), Vivianna Bateman (English)Īppearances: Koudelka | Shadow HeartsThe protagonist of Koudelka and its manga sequel she is a Romani girl who possesses mysterious healing powers, which causes people to fear her as a witch.
