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, born as Selina Serenity Sarandon and titled Lady Strawberry, is one of the main antagonists (later a supporting hero) of LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow - Harvest Saga as well as a supporting antagonist in Horsemen Saga. She is also the protagonist of the upcoming Order of Strawberry spinoff as well as the primary antagonist in Star Spangled Society Sub Saga, also being the main adversary and final villain Ichabod faced before facing Lord Helio and Phyllis Peach.

Later, after she was redeemed and joined Team Witness as soon as she realized her own error, Selina also start acting as a recurring hero. She is one of the most recurring heroic characters in the entire LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow storyline. In the upcoming LOTM: Star Spangled Crown - Rose & Lolth Saga, Selina will serve as the female protagonist of the saga in search of Ichabod Crane with the help of many other allies that appeared lately.

Even after her apparent death, she still appeared several times under her disguise, helping her beloved teammates to resist all sort of terrible turn of events until her true identity being exposed and returned back from death. Selina's alternate counterpart in Astaroth Future serves as one of the major heroes of LOTM: Los Reina de Corazónes.

Being the daughter of the late Steven & Sarah Sarandon, and the sister of the (alledgely) late Silva Sarandon, Selina is born from one of the oldest families in the entire Sleepy Hollow. Originally, Selina is a kind-hearted, selfless 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 Dawn's Early Light, the final weapon used by the Order to "purify" the Sleepy Hollow and saved humans from the control of the Zodiac Demons, who she believed to be the cause of the first Feast of Apollo's failure. However, as soon as she realized that it was the first Feast that spawned those Zodiac Demons, and the purification will actually kill those humans as they had no way back, Selina began to feel remorseful for her actions. It shows that Selina's nature never became completely heartless like that of Helio, 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.

Overall, Selina is one of the most complicated characters inside the town of Sleepy Hollow, as she was once someone who was trying to do the right things but was in the wrong way. Selina is often cosidered the lead of the Order, due to the fact that her master, Lord Helio, rarely showed himself up. Selina did most of the work for the Order in her contributions towards the Feast of Apollo. She at first showed up to Ichabod Crane as an ally, although she also used him to do the Order's biddings in order to make the Order return back to normal. She believed the key would be the Feast of Apollo, and her conflict with Ichabod soon ignited when Ichabod started to doubt the White Wizard (revealed to be an avatar of Lord Helio) and the Order's motive in fighting Moloch.

Due to the trick and mischief caused by Dark Arzonia, which was intentionally making things worsen under the command of Phyllis Peach (the author of all Selina's pain), Selina lost control on her personality and her way, thus turning into an enemy of Team Witness, but she eventually realized her wrong ways when she discovered the truth behind Helio's actions. Then, Selina became a genuiue supporter towards Ichabod. She's the only antagonistic member of the Order that was never really defeated by Team Witness as she overpowered them, but she's also the only Order agent who managed to defy her dark side by herself.

Beside Lord Helio, Selina was also admired by many people inside and outside the Order for her determine nature, her willpower, her beauty and her hardworking attitude, and some people inside the Order, most notably the infamous Bubbly Begonia, even creates a fan club as Selina's own cult of personality enforcer, despite Selina's high reluctance on this kind of fan club and considering it as nothing but a mere farce. Even so, when Selina was just a child, her public image was damaged.after the revealing of the Sleepy Hollow Criminal Triumvirate, where Selina's once-respected lated father was included. Selina's own fame was compromised, though she later worked hard to restore her reputation in the town and became a respected figure again.

In a way, Selina herself is one of the central and protagonistic characters in Harvest Saga (beside Ichabod and Helene Hawthorn) as she has more character development and longer way in change of heart than any other characters, from a person of both delusional and misunderstood to a hero both determined and optimistic. Despite in the latter half of Harvest Saga, when she started to gone rogue due to her inner insanity and caused many deaths in process, Selina still had his humanity remained and eventually realized her way of error. After Lord Helio's death, Selina decided to atone her sins by saving the town of Sleepy Hollow from Phyllis Peach, the author of all her pain, before taking over the Order and redeem herself to mend her mistakes. Selina's nature is not evil. She just went on a wrong way.

She is an OC character created by Officer Candy Apple from CIS Productions.

# - A Tropes

 * 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.

B Tropes

 * Badass Boast:
 * As a Villain:​ 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."
 * As a Hero: After her redemption and during her fight against Phyllis Peach:
 * "No, we're not the same, and we'll never ever be the same! I'm not like you! You're only looking back into the past and embraced your dark side because your petty excuse, while I have a change of heart. I'm now looking towards the future and trying to embrace my new life! First and the formost of all, I'm going to take back the Stone of Wisdom... so that Hestia's soul will rest in peace!"
 * 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.

D Tropes

 * 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.

E Tropes

 * Everyone Have Standards:
 * ​Even Evil Has Standards
 * ​Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She deeply cares about her friends and comrades in the Order of Flourish, and she considered them as her family.

F Tropes

 * 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.

H Tropes

 * 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.

L Tropes

 * 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.

P Tropes

 * Poisonous Friend

S Tropes

 * 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.

T Tropes

 * Took a Level in Kindness: Most notably taking care of her deformed adopted sister, Helene Hawthorn. Later, Selina

U Tropes

 * 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.