Merci Archa

About
Merci is a humble girl from an average town in Helman. She's hard-working, resourceful, and smart. She's also quite a pretty young lady, since she was awarded with beauty prices in the past, and Anasel Caspora considers her, her rival.

She's pretty submissive and is scared pretty easily though.

Kichikuou Rance (non-canon)
In Kichikuou Rance, Merci is from a poor house in the town of Golak. Her town was attacked several times by Rance's thieves gang. Rance eventually found a noble girl called Anasel and took her virginity, making a spicy Anasel rat out Merci to Rance.

Rance's group assault Golak the following week and manage to capture Merci, but the gang is rapidly attacked by soldier led by Ruberan Tser and defeated, leaving Merci free.

During the Helman phase, if the player levys in the conquered Golak, Rance will find Merci and take her back to his castle, which is her bad ending.

Rance IX (canon)
Her role in the canonical timeline changes wildly. Merci's character was identical to her Kichikuou timeline until the year LP0005, where her town is attacked by thieves and she's almost captured by them to be sold as a sex slave. However, Patton's group gets in time and defeat the bandits, saving Merci and the town of Golak in the process. He also reveals his identity as the Prince of Helman and that his group is preparing to start a revolution to take down Stessel's regime.

In Rance IX, Merci appears as a member of the revolutionary army and the leader of the supportive unit. She's mostly in charge of resource managament, supplying goods and also logistic support. She deeply trusts in Patton and looks up to him. When Rance arrives to Helman in Patton's assistance, she's introduced to him immediately and she starts working for him as well. Rance also takes the advantage to take her virginity though.

Trivia

 * In the Rance IX popularity poll, she was ranked 14th in the "Other Girls" category.
 * She was teased with being the third missing apostle of Dark Lord Berksham, since it's known that her name was Merci and there were rumours that she was in Helman, which apparently turned out to be false.