LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow/Characters/Order of Flourish

Selina Strawberry
"No, you told me that we will bring Hestia back and make the town in peace, but I only see people struggling in pain, all the while turning into Zodiac Demons in process! This isn't what we said! What happened to you, Father?"
 * 49768056_p1_master1200.jpgReal Name: Selina Serenity Sarandon
 * Sin: Ira (Wrath)
 * Virtue: Industria (Delligence)
 * Natural Element: Fire & Gold

Selina Strawberry is supposed to be a kind-hearted and helpful person, but she was affected by the side effect of the Feast of Apollo and was turned into an extremist. Being an well-intentioned extremist, Selina is the second in command of the Order of Flourish, a light-elemental cult led by Lord Helio that controlled Sleepy Hollow secretly after Ichabod Crane's seemly demise at the hands of the Horseman of Death, dedicated to purify the town and every sinners, but the result will be devastating.

Selina was the inventor of the Dawn's Early Light, the final weapon used by the Order to "purify" the Sleepy Hollow during the Feast of Apollo in order to prevent the interference of Zodiac Demons (or so Helio claimed). However, Selina was not heartless, as she only wanted to save everybody in an extreme way. Selina was also the de facto mayor of Sleepy Hollow, acting the seemly mayor's own maid.

After her Heroic BSOD, Selina realized her error and became an ally to the Team Witness.


 * 100% Approval Rating:
 * Affably Evil: Despite her anti-villain status, Selina is quite polite and gracious towards her enemy, and even after turning against Ichabod, she only tried to capture him for the second Feast of Apollo instead of killing him or torturing him.
 * Allerative Name: Selina Serenity Sarandon, aka Selina Strawberry.
 * Anti-Villain: Type III.
 * Badass Boast: After the capture of Richard Raspberry, Selina gave one speech to the world in Helio's brainwashing video to the world, announcing the Order's movement into public world.
 * ​"Attention, people all over the world. This shall be your Judgement Day. 'Tis speech is carried out in the name of the Order's leader, the Light Lord, who will remove this world from Zodiac Demons. For years, as people from the Order of Flourish, we've been living within urban legends as a secret council, running everything in a small town, but not anymore. From this day on, the preperation shall be made for the revolution. There will be no hunger, no war, no corruption... No despair. Prejudice shall disappear and human will be equal. The demon is all around us, and many of them are even inside of us, because of our cowardice and our numb attitude. However, this shall one day ends, as the Feast of Apollo and the Dawn's Early Light will remove the darkness within all of humanity. There'll be no suffering, and we'll live happily. However, at first, we need to remove our enemies. The Bible says that there'll be two Witnesses who will save humanity, and now their usefulness shall be paid off."
 * Big Bad: The primary antagonist of Star Spangled Society Sub Saga, the Arc Villain of Selina Strawberry Arc and one of the main antagonists in the second half of Harvest Saga... before her change of heart.
 * Big Bad Ensemble: With Lord Helio, Crow Faux and Phyllis Peach / Dark Arzonia / Merged Phyllis.
 * Big Good: Zig-zagged between this and Big Bad during the middle part Harvest Saga, until she fully became this after her redemption.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Showed up in the final battle to rescue Team Witness and Rookie Mages from the attack of Merged Phyllis.
 * Disc-One Final Boss: Although she appeared as an antagonistic character almost in the entire second half of Harvest Saga, Selina was only fought before Lord Helio and the Overarching Villain, Phyllis Peach (in her Merged Phyllis Form).
 * The Dragon: To Lord Helio, until she found out that his only aim was reviving Hestia Hawthorn while leaving a lot of people around the world dying by turning into Zodiac Demons and subsquently eliminated by Dawn's Early Light.
 * Everyone Have Standards:
 * ​Even Evil Has Standards
 * Face-Heel Turn: After the Feast of Apollo, though she was struggling to make herself normal in an villainous way she did not realized. This was neutralized by the instigation of the Feast,
 * Fire is Red
 * Fruedian Excuse: Selina is mental-troubling due to being abandoned by her parents and considered to be a needless child. Selina later joined the Order and reclaimed her family estate shortly after her parents' death, and yet her trauma, as well as her suffering in the Feast of Apollo, made her prone into the ideology of the Order's dark side.
 * Heel-Face Turn: After realizing her horror and overcame the effects of the Feast of Apollo by fighting against her own dark side, saving her from turning into fiends like Blaze Banana, Pedro Pineapple, Orlando Orange and those who had turned into Zodiac Demons.
 * Heroic BSOD: Realizing Helio was deceiving her all along and the truth behind the Zodiac Demon's presence in Sleepy Hollow, Selina threw a scream in front of Helio and Calvin, and she immediately stepped back in many paces with sheer horror. Selina then broke down in tears as she questioned Helio's Knight Templar way.
 * Irony: A public servant who is renouned for having a clean record eventually became a monster who was covered in gold and gems beneath fire and mist.
 * Lawful Neutral
 * ​Lawful Good: After her Heal-Face Turn.
 * Light is Good: Instead of allowing the Dawn's Early Light to become a tool to eliminate the corrupting humanity turned by the Second Feast, Selina fused herself with it and it ultimately turned her into the first one who merged perfectly with the Croatoan Virus, becoming an immortal.
 * Poisonous Friend
 * Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Not so easy to be bought with money.
 * Self-Disposing Villain: She was never defeated by anyone from the Team Witness because of her great power, but she start concoquring her own dark side and succeeded, turning into a true hero of the story.
 * Social Darwinist
 * Statusque Stunner: Tallest female human in LOTM: WoSH. She is 1.92m according to official files, and is very slender and attractive.
 * Strawberry Shorthand: Her Plant Motif.
 * Took a Level in Kindness: Most notably taking care of her deformed adopted sister, Helene Hawthorn. Later, Selina
 * Unstoppable Rage: Her sin and motif. Despite being gentle and kind, Selina is short-tempered and could be enraged when something offended her, making her prone to rage and even violence if the situation was intense enough. This would eventually drew her into her dark side when she lost control of her personality and gone extreme. She became better after her Heel-Face Turn.
 * Villainous Breakdown:​ Selina's wrath became intense when Team Witness was framed by Dark Arzonia as the abductor of Helene Hawthorn and the alleged murderer of Albert Apple, making her to fell into her side of rage, becoming distrust Ichabod and turning against him. Her rage also drove her into injecting the Enhanced Croatoan Virus and turned into a deranged and fiery monster covered in gold and gem. Using this form, Selina attacked Ichabod fiercely in the Vault of Valor behind the Gate of Glamour.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Selina saw human doing bidings for Moloch and saw the Blackness inside the heart of a human, making her to develop the Dawn's Early Light and start the second Feast of Apollo, believing it will make Sleepy Hollow away from corruption without knowing it will brought more fatal consequences, even including annihalation of mankind. However, when she realized the truth behind the Second Feast of Apollo was not what she wanted, Selina reacted in horror.
 * Undying Loyalty: She appears to be completely devoted to Lord Helio. However, after being disgusted by the consequences of the Second Feast, Selina shifted her loyalty towards Ichabod Crane, whom she finally came to understand.
 * Even after leaving Helio's side, Selina seems to hold sympathy towards Helio and tries to make him leave his dark side and realize his way of error, but there was no way going back for Helio, forever...
 * Villainous Friendship: Type III with Ichabod. She respects him, feels sorry for Hestia's demise and admires Helio's vision. However, this ended when she saw through Helio's Lack of Empathy and turned against him with sorrow.

Later-Saga Antagonist
'IMPORTANT NOTE: These characters are all Walking Spoilers and their entries feature a lot of endgame details that are not hidden behind spoiler tags. Please read at your own risk.'

Mainstream Phyllis Peach / Therion
"You know what I learnt losing that duel? I learnt that I'll never win. Not that way. That's their game, their rules. I'm not going to fight them. I'm going to ruin them. That's what I know, that's what I am, and only by admitting what we are can we get what we want."
 * Real Name: Phyllis Pride Parker
 * Sin: Gula (Gluttony)
 * Natural Element: Gas
 * Zodiac Demon: Therion

The true source of the corruption of the Order of Flourish, Phyllis Phyllis herself served as an catalyst to drive the heroic and cheerful Selina Strawberry into extremism.

While most of the members from the Order of Flourish are well intentioned anti-villains, with rest of them as Knight Templars, Phyllis Peach stands out as one of the (if not, the) most repulsive, amoral and insane members of the entire Order of Flourish, being a woman with monstrous gluttony and thirst of consuming human flesh and soul. Her favorite hobby was consuming the flesh of her victim, making her one of the most cannibalistic and barbaric villains in the entire storyline. She also had no sense of shame and temperance, showing when she tried to eat souls of humans one time after another so that she would eventually keep her youth.

To make things worse, Phyllis was completely aware of the inner corruption of her Master, Lord Helio, unlike her colleagues who were completely oblivious on this. She eventually found out that Lord Helio, the White Wizard and the Wiseman are one and the same, before using it as an advantage to overthrow him, so that she could take his role (and after many setbacks, she succeeded). She worked with Moloch and his minions to take over the place of Lord Helio and slaughter all of her colleagues. Therefore, she is the only member of the Order without any oyalty towards the so-called Light Lord even from the beginning.
 * Note: This is about the mainstream Phyllis Peach. To see Dark Arzonia, please go to "The Impostor". To see Merged Phyllis, please go to "The Fearmonger"


 * 0% Approval Ratings: To the heroic characters of Team Witness, her colleagues in both Order of Flourish and the minions of Twelve Nethers, who were aware of some of her twisted nature. Everyone hates her to different degrees. Efreet Feuer can barely stand her, and the only reason why she's still alive is because he has blackmail on Wiseman. Even on different sides as bitter foes, both Crow Faux and Selina Strawberry want Phyllis dead for her double agent attitude. Every heroic character hates seeing Phyllis and treats her with complete disdain. This hate is completely justified on multiple degrees. One degree is that she is generally terrifying to them, the other degree is that she's acting like a third party and nearly screwed up Wiseman's plans by ,
 * Alternate Self: There are her original self as a human serving the Order of Flourish, her Zodiac Demon Form of Therion serving the Nethers, her palleral counterpart that imposted Maria Arzonia and led the demons that escaped Purgatory, and finally her fusion form.
 * ​Up to Eleven during the battle against Team Witness and Selina Strawberry with Helene Hawthorn's Painting World, where she started to use her Head of Hydra technique to summon eight more replica of herself, albeit in different forms (two more Therion Zodiacs, two more Mainstream Phyllis, two more Dark Arzonias and two more Merged Phyllis without Supreme Croat Power) to join the fight, creating eight Phyllises in all. Counting her Supreme Croat Fusion Form, there would be nine of them. In the last ditch of fight against Team Witness, Phyllis turned into an army of her Supreme Croat Fusion Form, and Selina nearly costed her life to destroy all of those clones with Dawn's Early Light, so that Ichabod could locate the real one and kill her.
 * Amoal Attorney: Being a prosecutor in the town, Phyllis is utterly devious and unlawful to become an enforcer of law itself. She would even go on being a criminal in order to win her own seat.
 * Breakout Chracter: In the original concept, Phyllis was merely an Ax-Crazy Arc Villain who would be Killed Off For Real at the middle of the story, but she later earned more development and became the Overarching Villain of the entire Harvest Saga, taking over the thunder of Helio and murdered him when he was weakened. It was originally set for both Michael Langdon in early concept in order to pace towards Anti-Christ Saga.
 * Big Bad / Overarching Villain: For the entire Harvest Saga. She is the person responsible for the entire Order's fall into the darkness, and she later succeeded in the depose of her former master to become the Final Boss. All of her counterparts appearing from Horseman Saga to Harvest Saga had the same role in the final arc as well, but it is the Mainstream Phyllis who is the true mastermind, being directly responsible for all of the tragic events that occur in the saga or influence it.
 * Big Bad Dummerative: With Dark Arzonia for most of the saga.
 * Big Bad Ensemble: With the Wiseman / Lord Helio, Selina Strawberry (until her Heel-Face turn) and Crow Faux
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
 * Card-Carrying Villain: She is the only villainous member in the Order of Flourish (as the others are all Knight Templars) who is aware of her deeds are monstrous and wicked, but rather enjoy in bringing suffering towards her enemies.
 * Chaotic Evil: The only one in the Order of Flourish, who did everything for chaos and madness instead of keeping the order in the world.
 * Composite Character: Her character was a composite on characters including Kamen Rider Ouja from Kamen Rider Ryuki and Gremlin from Kamen Rider Wizard. Her palleral counterpart, Dark Arzonia, was a composite to Goku Black and Carla Radames.
 * Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Phyllis is the first Tribulation confronted by the Witnesses in LOTM: WoSH to be a female villain, in contrast to male villains like Michael, Moloch, the Hidden One and Vizeran DeVir. Despite Jasmine Porcelain and Valindra Shadowmantle appeared prior to Phyllis and served as future Tribulations as well, she never really made a direct threat to the Witnesses before the 6th & 8th Saga, respectively where Phyllis was already dead. In addition, being the first true human main villain of the storyline (in contrast to Vanifer who was a Tiefling), Phyllis was an ordinary and powerless human to begin with before she joined the Order of Flourish and gained her dark powers. Unlike other human female villains including Lady Van Tassel and Christine Van Bilj, Phyllis was born in an ordinary family with no witch blood inside her veins. She is also the first female villain of the storyline who managed to equally rival against Michael in both power and manipulation immediately after her debut, of which neither Lady Van Tassel nor Christine had acheived.
 * The Cynic: The villany of Phyllis came from her distrust on justice, and so she believed that only destruction itself had only one value, which is only destruction. Her pessimism and bitterness made led to her repeatedly proclaiming the uselessness of justice, believing a hero never existed and anyone shall have their dark side.
 * Eviler Than Thou: Phyllis is this to her own Zodiac Demon. Zodiac Demons are twisted evil parodies of their host, but Phyllis was such a monster that there was nothing that could make her worse so she got to stay in control.
 * Expy: Her later design was based on Sae Nijima from Persona 5.
 * After her reveal as the murderer of Dragonia Dragonfruit, she could be considered as a femal equivlant of Manfred Von Karma from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
 * Faux Affably Evil
 * Foil: To Michael Langdon. Much like the Anti-Christ, Phyllis is a villain who traversed time to cause havoc in another era. Both have caused trouble for Ichabod Crane, and in both cases the town of Sleepy Hollow played a part in the villains rising to power in the first place. Both acquired the powers of Moloch through some means and serve as an antithesis to the originally benign factions they served (Catholic Church & Order of Flourish) and drove them into darkness by taking their leadership.
 * However, the differences are, Phyllis (alongside her Dark Arzonia counterpart, again) is from the past and went to cause troubles in the future via controlling other trators formed due to her influence (like Blaze Banana, Gladius Grapefruit, Orlando Orange and Pedro Pineapple) who are all inferior to her; while Michael is from the future and creates trouble in the past via manipulating Eckidina KnightWalker, who is in fact a clone of someone as equally dangerous as him. Furthermore, what Michael is doing is for the sake of Moloch, while Phyllis knows fully well everything she does is monstrous and selfi-serving but rather enjoys it.
 * Final Boss: After fusing with Dark Arzonia and becoming the Merged Phyllis, she eventually became the final enemy the Team Witness and the redeemed Order of Flourish faced together by the end of Harvest Saga.
 * The Heavy:
 * Pratically, Phyllis is the cause of every evil events that shall cause explosive consequences in Harvest Saga all together, including orchastrating the Chemical Weapon Attack in New York City, framing the Apricots for the crime, killing Dragonia to stop him from finding the truth and in retaliation of him rejecting her, and murdering Hestia to stop her from finding the truth behind Dragonia's death, causing the Feast of Apollo which corrupted nearly the whole Order and plundged Sleepy Hollow into a whirlpool towards Dark Ages.
 * After the Feast of Apollo, Phyllis did not leave this trope. She was not only one of the major people responsible for Croatoan Virus' enhancement, but also being the one who sent Gladius Grapefruit to help Moloch in building the United Kingdom of America, thus causing the birth of Dark Arzonia and the fall of Los Resistance, destroying the final hope that could stop the Dark Empire of UKA and the Galaxy of Disorder from rising. Therefore, Phyllis was also responsible for every wicked events caused by Dark Arzonia on Prime Earth as well.
 * According to John Dee when he confronted Team Witness, that even without Michael's efforts in bringing back Moloch and creating the UKA (or in another words, the New Timeline for Sleepy Hollow was never formed), Phyllis will still go on her way to manipulate the corruption within the Order all by herself so that she would take over Helio's role as the Fourth Tribulation, which would be inevitable even in the Old Timeline. Therefore, the revival of Moloch and the rise of the UKA only made the progress speeded up.
 * I'm a Humantarian: After all, she is a canniblistic serial killer.
 * I'm a Humantarian: After all, she is a canniblistic serial killer.


 * Irony: She ended up being destroyed by a combined power of the very two things she tried to get for herself - the Dawn's Early Light and the Stone of Wisdom. She desired to become a human with free will, and before she turned into ashes, she returned back into her human form, powerless and weak.
 * Killed Off For Real: Unlike Michael and Christine, after she was killed in the final battle against her, Phyllis would not come back to life ever again.
 * Made of Iron: She survived a fatal attack from the White Wizard when he was actually trying to kill Phyllis.
 * She later survived being impaled by Helio's Hamel Cane, being stoic enough for her to wait until Dark Arzonia rescued her and healed her.
 * Marathon Boss: Like Selina, Phyllis was hard to kill. The battle against her, her direct minions and all of her counterparts had been around in a large part of the Harvest Saga, and the final battle against Phyllis shall take seven episodes in one battle, with less talk and more hitting.
 * Screw the Rules! I Make Them!: Phyllis did not like the society to follow the way against her will, and she was depressed when she discovered that she would be a merely subordinate. That was the motive for her to get the Stone of Wisdom. Using its power, she shall unleash chaos and create her own society filled with no rules, merely shambling zombies infected with Croatoan Virus. With the hivemind power coming from Christine Van Bilj's blood, Phyllis would control all of them as her army to do the same on other planets had the Witnesses did not stop her...
 * The Stoic: Before her Villainous Breakdown, the Mainstream Phyllis (even after she fused with Dark Arzonia) was behaved rather calm and stoic. She could be angered, but she would not lose her temper whenever she was attacked by her enemies.
 * Not So Stoic / Villainous Breakdown: When the Stone of Wisdom was seperated from her, Phyllis and Dark Arzonia began to seperate as their fission started to corrupt. Finally, Phyllis lost her composure, all the while she yelled to Ichabod and Selina, demaning them to return her the Stone. Then, while rejecting her fission, she started to attack Ichabod and Selina in blind fury. After she returned back to fusion form and formed her clones, Phyllis stopped acting calm and let out a mad cackle for the very first time.
 * Undignified Death: Unlike Michael who died one saga after her, Phyllis did not take her death very well. Her final facial expression was a face of horror as she realized that she was fading away. At her final moment, Phyllis could do nothing other than giving her final accusation against Ichabod. Much to her dismay, Ichabod had gave her a hard final blow by disregarding her as a human. Somehow agreeing Ichabod, Phyllis could speak nothing but moaned in agony before she crumbled into ashes.
 * Villounous Glutton: Her sin and motif. Her gluttony was based on not just cannibalism, but also hunger for power and hunger for being a true human with freedom, so that she would do anything she wants without listening to anyone like Lord Helio or Twelve Nethers to tell her what to do. The endless desire of Phyllis was described by herself as her greatest wish in all of her life, but Selina regards it as an endless hole without any bottom.
 * Walking Spoilers: Speaking about her involvement as the mastermind behind the New York Chemical Weapon Attack, the murderer of Dragonia & Hestia and thus the cause of the Feast of Apollo shall ruin the entire fun of Harvest Saga.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Downplayed, but she definitely experiences some Sanity Slippage after fusing with Dark Arzonia.
 * You Monster!: After being mortally wounded and returned back to her human form, with all of her power and other counterparts dissappered, Phyllis made her last accusation against Ichabod for robbing wish from a human, and asks why Ichabod calls himself a Witness. Ichabod responds by saying Phyllis lost her human long ago and that he doesn't consider her a human anymore. Phyllis' response? "That sounds sensible..."