Camula

From Yu-Gi-Oh!

Vampire Camula is a female vampire who is the second of the Shadow Riders. She’s very serious when it comes to dueling for she hopes to revive her race from its destruction by the people of Medieval Times.

Camula's name is derived from the name of Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's novel, Carmilla.

[edit] Character design

Camula's design incorporates a wide range of expressions. Depicted here is the Shadow Rider in full regalia from front, side, and rear alongside views of her head from different angles.

Camula's character design was overseen by Kenichi Hara. Her usual outfit consists of a long dress, displaying her cleavage with long slits revealing the side of her legs, straps crossing her arms just below her shoulders attached to a cape and bat broaches below her cleavage and above the slits, gold armbands and bracelets on both arms, and heeled shoes with laces continuing up her shins. She has long straight green waist length hair with one large curl above her forehead. She wears her own exclusive Shadow Rider Duel Disk that's Monster Card Zones are in the shape of bat's wings, on her left arm.

[edit] Name Origin

Her name comes from Carmilla, a vampire story that predates Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was first published in 1872, printed in a magazine called dark blue. There are hints of lesbianism throughout the book, but it is harder to detect since the book was from a more conservative era.

[edit] Character biography

She had been asleep within her coffin until Kagemaru uncovered it and invited her to join the Shadow Riders. She captures the souls of her opponents following their losses within dolls to fuel her cause, and uses the Shadow Charm choker around her neck to bet the souls of others in conjunction with the Shadow Game-exclusive Illusion Gate, a powerful card that requires her to give a soul to the Sacred Beasts, to ensure victory. She manages to obtain the keys of Vellian Crowler and Zane Truesdale, but during her duel with Jaden Yuki, her Shadow Charm's power is negated by the completed item that Jaden possesses. Out of over self-confidence, Camula places her own soul on the line (in the Japanese version, she does not have a choice because the card was already activated), and it is dragged into the Gate after she loses, leaving her body an empty husk which crumbles into dust.

[edit] Deck

Camula plays a Vampire-oriented Zombie Deck. Several of her monsters such as Zombie Werewolf and Vampire Bat can feint revival by either summoning or discarding additional copies of themselves when destroyed through battle. Camula is also able to combine the recursion ability of Vampire Genesis with Genesis Crisis to repetitively raise her undead army from the Graveyard.