Crymaria Levin

Crymaria Levin, aka the Winter Witch, is a major antagonist in Valkyria Chronicles 4.

Appearance
Crymaria has long purple hair that flows down to her legs, sad red eyes, and she tends to wear a revealing purple dress with golden trim that showcases her legs and bust. Her high heeled boots are thigh high and match her dresses outfit. She often is seen wearing a black fur ushanka atop her head, and carries her Valkyrur weapon, a staff like weapon known as the Multi-Ray in her hand. She is nearly always seen accompanied by her white wolf, Fenrir.

History
Crymaria Levin was discovered to possess the powers of the Valkyur from a young age, and placed in a lab alongside Selvaria Bles. Here both girls were subjected to cruel and painful tests to bring forth their latent powers. Crymaria's power was said to be greater than Selvaria's, but due to having her mind and personality become warped thanks to those cruel tests, she was deemed too unstable to be used by Prince Maximilian Gaius Von Reginrave and Selvaria was chosen as his personal bodyguard instead. This act caused a huge rift between the two girls, with Crymaria's resentment leading to a confrontation with Selvaria in a heated battle. Afterwards Selvaria, still viewing Crymaria as a friend consoled her privately, telling her that she could just as easily have been chosen and reassurring her that some day she'll find someone who loves her as much as (she believed) Maximilian loves her. Crymaria saw this as fairytale nonsense but secretly hoped it would be true.

Upon Selvaria's recommendation, Crymaria was evaluated to be ready for combat to Heinrich Belgar, and joined his X-0 strike force; a group of experimental weapons led by Belgar to aid the Imperial army in the second Europan War. Belgar used his political power and influence to prevent Crymaria from leaving his team, although still used the threat of sending her back to the lab to control her. Crymaria was also bullied by Belgar's two bodyguards Nikola Graf and Chiara Rocino both of whom would relentlessly tell her how useless she was, adding to her self confidence issues and desire to be seen as useful. During this time her only true friend was a white wolf named Fenrir who had also been experimented on at the Valkyria labs before being tossed aside.

This changed somewhat when notorious tank hotshot and flirt, Klaus Walz was added to X-0's forces, and he quickly warmed up to Crymaria despite her confusion and distrust of him. Regardless it was the first time in a long time Crymaria was treated as a woman or even a person rather than a weapon.

Belgar's strategist, Forseti, also felt that Crymaria was too unstable to use safely in his plan to obtain the snow cruisers of the Atlantic Federation and opted to keep Crymaria out, only ever referring to her as a thing and a weapon. However Chiara and Nikola went against his plan, and using Crymaria's own desire to prove herself useful, unleashed her upon the cruisers. She bombarded the Comet with her explosive shards, eventually forcing it to be blown up whilst Forseti could do nothing but beg her to stop. She then turned her attention to the Centurion, unleashing an onslaught that caused it to sink into the ice before she passed out, being caught by Walz before she could fall.

Trivia

 * Crymaria is a non-canon unlockable unit for Squad E upon completing Valkyria Chronicles 4 ' c DLC.
 * Crymaria is one of the few Valkyrur to not use the Valkyrur's shield.
 * Crymaria's 'blizzard' is actually made of energy crystals rather than snow.
 * Crymaria's outfit was released as a costume for Phantasy Star Online 2 on June 10th, 2020 as part of the SEGA LEGACY set. Other characters include Akira Yuki, Arle Nadja, Goro Majima, Alicia Melchiott, Riley Miller, Kai Schulen and Selvaria Bles.