Category:Christa

Christa (クリスタ Kurisuta) is the third wife/first cousin of Karlheinz and the mother of Subaru.

Appearance
Christa has white hair and red eyes, matching her son's. She is usually seen with her hair tied up in a bun, held up by what looks like to be a frilly type of hair band. She has one long piece of hair let loose in the front.

Christa wears a black and white  dress. Its straps are of diamond shape patterns. She even has connected from her necklace to her dress in the middle. She also wears a type of light blue sheer fabric around her arms, with white gloves that come almost up to her shoulders.

Christa is seen distressed looking, with her hands over her chest as if clutching her heart and her head held down ,in sorrowed or distressed expressions.

Personality
Despite her innocent and meek appearance, Christa has shown signs of a seriously bipolar personality. Even though usually acting like victim,or a crazy woman that hates Karlheinz,she can snap and openly proclaim how he loves only her in the face of his other wives. Christa has a delusional and immature personality ,even though all the given facts in front her,and being the only one in knowledge of Karlheinz’s experiments ,she still prefers to believe he loves only her, while just using the other two wives.

True to this, Christa’s mind has been torn apart due to the betrayal by her husband. At the revelation that she was used merely to produce a child out of incest as a part of his experiments, she would have fits and psychotic episodes, where she couldn’t differentiate between identities and lost sense of the present, falling in psychotic tantrums and making the entire castle unable to restrain her. She is also revealed to have a more malicious personality, having deceived and poisoned the heroine when she was under the delusion that the heroine was Cordelia ,and Subaru was Karlheinz,that Cordelia was once again taking away from her.Proving like this how jealous and obsessive she can be, on top of everything.

However, she had moments where she was gentle with her son, usually when again mistaking him for Karlheinz,but the “kind brother” Karlheinz who she deeply loves,and trying to cling to Subaru. However when Subaru was a child,she would endlessly abuse him, seeking his presence while telling him he have made her dirty and he is an abomination that have ruined her,making his life miserable by even asking from him to kill her (which he does in the original Diabolik Lovers game).

History
As a pure born vampire in the royal clan ,Christa was famous among them with her pale white beauty therefor called the “White Rose” (because of her Albino looks). While in the first game ( Diabolik Lovers) ,Subaru doesn’t know the whole reasons for her marriage with Karlheinz,he assumes it was because of that .He also assumes she was forced into marriage,because Christa has always said to him she feels “dirtied” by “that man” and by Subaru’s birth.

However in More,Blood (fandisc game) is revealed that Christa married willingly Karlheinz and did loved him ,which was putting Subaru into conflicts ,being unable to understand her bipolar tantrums between love and hate towards his father.At first wanting to blame Karlheinz for her state but then starting to blame himself because Christa would show disgust mostly towards him and run into Karl’s arms.

In Diabolik Lovers ( game) due to her tantrums and being dangerous for herself and for Subaru’s life she would constantly be held locked in a tower or dungeon.

In Dark Fate ( fandsic game) more of her back story and marriage circumstances were revealed. It was revealed that Christa was the only one in knowledge of Karlheinz’s experiments and him needing Cordelia as the last First Blood woman (even when Cordelia never knew her true heritage herself). Christa viewed Karlheinz as her direct sibling, loving him as a big brother,while he was in fact her close blood relative-most likely her first cousin. Even though she having rather platonic feelings towards him and a brother-complex ,Karlheinz decides to take her for wife, which doesn’t really required her agreement. Yet still, despite all the facts she had in front her,that Karlheinz is a person only to use others and love no one,she wanted to believe he loved only her ,while using the other women, and was happy to become his bride. A little after that,though, Christa discovered she was also a mere part of his experiment.This time to create an incest born child for his further plans. Getting torn between the realization she was just like the other women for him - a tool, and is not loved,and the strong love she have always felt for him mostly as a brother, and realizing she is pregnant with that child plot of his incest experiments,Christa feels betrayed,dirtied and heartbroken, which is the main reason her ,in general,  fragile mentality to get broken completely. Karlheinz continues his experiments the same way he does on his other wives (mainly to Cordelia) towards Christa too in order to mentally break them,as a part of them developing bad bonds with their sons,who one day to be more open for a bond with a human.

Growing completely mad,Christa starts to at one moment hate Karlheinz in disgust and seeing the grown up Subaru to see Karl in him and hate him and yell and throw stuff at him wanting to hurt or kill him.At the other moment to see Karlheinz as her “beloved kind big brother” who cares for her and she desires only for herself,to cry for his presence endlessly while he purposely neglects her,and again to mistake Subaru for him,to cling to him or try to push herself to him (which would spook Subaru off). And even to mistake the heroine ( because of her blood scent) for Cordelia and feel envious for being with Karlheinz( Subaru in real) and try to poison her.

During Subaru’s childhood ,she was giving him absolute hell and even the triplets ( Ayato in Subaru’s route in More,Blood) note that Subaru had it the worst because of his crazy mother (Ayato referring to Christa as  “hysteric old hag”).She would call him a dirty abomination that ruined her,try to hurt him or beg him to kill her. (In Diabolik Lovers he does that) .While in More,Blood’s AU Christa is alive and in the good ending of Subaru’s route she could act more normal and kind to him and his future bride. In Dark Fate their relationship gets worse when she tries to kill the heroine,out of her endless jealousy for Cordelia not to have Karlheinz ,but Subaru still cares for her(The Tsukinami brothers kill her there) and he can’t forgive Karlheinz for how he have purposely ruined her,which Karl admits himself in front of him and the heroine.

Relationships
Karlheinz

To further complete his plans, Karlheinz turned to his cousin, who calls him “nii-sama” and views him as direct sibling. As she wished to blindly believe he truly loved only her. When she realized the true nature of their marriage, the conflict between her emotions broke her down and caused her to go insane. Despite this, she still loves her husband. It could be said that Karlheinz cultivated in both Cordelia and her (and maybe Beatrix), a behavior of obsession and devout loyalty, as these women loved him dearly only to be used and constantly lied to.

Subaru Sakamaki

Christa was never sane while she gave birth to her son,and even tried to harm him as a baby .She would always snap between her bipolar states and either seek him and wanting his presence next to her, or bash him and hate him,wanting to hurt him and calling him with terrible words.As he grows up it gets worse because she starts to mistake him for Karlheinz

As an example for her bipolar tantrums when he is a child ,she could call him a “kind boy” in one moment,the next moment yell at him and tell him not to touch her because he is disgusting and have dirtied her.And as grown up at one moment hating him as the man who dirtied her Karlheinz and the next seeing him as her beloved big brother Karlheinz who she begs not to ever leave her alone again.

She has always begged her son to kill her and her husband - to the point of even giving him a silver knife that can kill vampires. Subaru actually does that to her,in the version of the first Diabolik Lovers game,while in the fandsics he fails to do it.

Christa’s bipolar nature and the way she treats and calls Subaru ever since he was a child,is the main reason Subaru to have huge trusting issues towards the females (seeing her at one moment hate Karl and at the other moment to love him makes Subaru conflicted ) .And also makes him have a very poor opinion of himself,thinking he is dirty ,a burden ,a reason for her suffering and unworthy to be loved by anyone.

Subaru loves his mother and tries to help her,no matter what ,and can’t understand the cruelty of his father who admits he have ruined everyone in the family for the purpose of his experiments.

Cordelia

The two women openly dislike one another.And while Cordelia is easily to mock Christa for her “fragile state”, Christa can easily snap at her back and yell that she is the only one loved by their husband,even though she knows the truth is different.

In Dark Fate ( fandsic) Where Christa thinks the heroine is Cordelia ,she talks to her as an old friend,seeing in her the same victim she is because of Karlheinz,but then pitying and mocking her she doesn’t know the truth for the experiments the way Christa does. Christa is the only one to know about Karlheinz experiments with Cordelia and Cordelia having the Ancestor’s blood. When Christa tries to poison the heroine out of jealousy thinking ‘Cordelia’ is stealing her 'Karlheinz"(Subaru) ,she proves how much she have always felt envious from Cordelia even though knowing she wasn’t in any better position with her husband than Christa was.

Quotes

 * "You are such a gentle boy." (To Subaru)
 * "You are filthy, Subaru!" (To Subaru)
 * "The only person he loves is me!" (To Cordelia)
 * "And I was happy to become his wife."