Almond Sharp

"Almond Sharp"

- introducing herself to her siblings.

About
Almond Sharp is the daughter of Tilde Sharp, the strongest female warrior in the Kingdom of Leazas, and Rance, the 8th Demon King of the Planner Scenario.

Almond was conceived at an unknown point during the RA Era while Rance was suppressing the corrupting influence of the Demonic Blood Pool, allowing him to move more freely across The Continent and interact with his loved ones for a short while. Rance was forced to return to his lair of Amazing Castle after beginning to relapse into the violent urges brought on by the Demon King's blood before Almond was born, preventing the father and daughter from meeting for the first years of her life.

During the events of Rance X: Part 2, Almond accompanied her mother to Rance Castle to assist in training the rest of Rance's Children to better prepare them for the approaching battle against their father. As she was too young to fight herself, Almond did not train alongside her siblings, and instead merely observed them as they improved their skills. While Almond was eager to meet her siblings for the first time, she was also very nervous to do so, and spent the entirety of her initial interactions with them hiding behind her mother's legs.

Almond makes an additional appearance during the epilogue of Rance X, where she is shown to have become a member of the Leazas Royal Guard by the 20th year of the Blank Era, and is seen alongside Sturm Addison being ordered by an agitated Prince Zance Leazas to assist in removing his mother, Queen Lia Parapara Leazas, from the Leazas Castle throne.

Personality and Appearance
Almond is a young girl with a petite build and short light green hair. While she strongly resembles her mother in appearance, she possesses purple eyes and rounder, less focused-looking features. Almond's clothing consists of a simple blue dress with white trim along with a large white hair bow identical to the one worn by her mother in her youth.

By the time of the 20th year of the Blank era, Almond has begun wearing the golden armor and white pleated skirt of the Leazas Royal Guard, causing her to resemble her mother even more strongly. Due to possessing the blood of the Demon King, Almond ages much more slowly than an ordinary person, and looks virtually the same between her two appearances despite them happening a full two decades apart from each other.

Due to her limited screen time, very little is known about Almond's personality. She appears to be a shy and easily flustered person, and shows great nervousness and anxiety both when introducing herself to her half siblings and when receiving orders from her prince. This behavior contrasts greatly with her mother, who from a young age worked hard to cultivate an image for herself as a poised, dignified and unflappable person.

Abilities
Nothing is known of Almond's capabilities as an individual beyond the fact that, as Rance's child, she possesses no Level Cap, granting her the potential to grow infinitely stronger with the right amount of dedication. As Almond is shown to have become a member of the Leazas Royal Guard later on into her life, it can be assumed that she inherited some degree of her parents' exceptional fighting prowess.

Due to being conceived while Rance was the Demon King, Almond ages at a far slower rate than an ordinary Human, allowing her to retain her childish appearance for upwards of 20 years. As Rance was deliberately trying to suppress his power as much as possible when she was conceived, however, she possesses no other additional attributes that would set her further apart from the rest of her siblings.

Trivia

 * Almond is the only one of Rance's children that appears during Rance X: Part 2 to not be a playable character.
 * In a Twitter Q&A, Orion, the Rance Series' lead artist, claimed that Almond possesses the Sword Combat Lv2 and Confectionary Lv2 Skill Levels, will grow up to become captain of the Leazas Royal Guad, and had reached a Level of 6 during her appearance in Rance X: Part 2. Orion made a point of noting that this information had not been verified by Alicesoft, and as a result should not be taken as fact.
 * Almond was initially planned to have an entirely different design and a much larger role in Rance X: Part 2's story, where she would have served as the latest incarnation of the Guardian Hero of the World and opposed the El Party under the name "Barbara". After her true identity was revealed, she would have joined her siblings in defeating their father. According to Yoidore Dragon, one of the lead scenario writers of Rance X, this idea was ultimately dropped after it was found to be too difficult to satisfyingly implement.