Verena von Vetsera

"I would restore all of the dead tanks screw by screw, if that what it takes to bring this team to its former glory!"

- Verena von Vetsera

Viktoria Verena Valerie Valentina Freiin von Vetsera or simply known as Verena or V is the eccentric Overall Commander behind Steyr Sensha-Do Team. She is one of the main protagonists in Viribus Unitis: Saga of Girls Academy of Fine Arts Steyr

Profile
"Diana is always be the tactician and the leader, I, on the other head of the eagle, am the one with a cool name who approve and pay for everything. She is the Hötzendorf and I am the Franz Joseph."

- Verena, about her role in the team.

Verena is a 3rd year student of Girls Academy of Fine Arts Steyr and the Overall Commander of the school Sensha-Do club. She commands a rare Panther Ausf .F. She is an actual Baroness of Noble house of Vetsera. Verena and her maid, Diana Dreskovich live in Castle Itter.

In Sensha-Do world, Verena is known as the Vampire of Styria, due to her albino appearance, her perceived proficiency in a night match and her rarity to be seen under the sunlight. There are also a rumor that she is a real vampire.

Appearance
"You're just very beautiful, that's all."

- Asaka Haida

Being an albino, Verena is a beautiful slender girl with scarlet eyes, pale skin and long straight white hair.

In her school she wears her school uniform with long socks. When doing Sensha-Do she wears the Overall Commander's variant of the Sensha-Do uniform, usually accompanied by an oversized greatcoat worn on the shoulders.

Personality
"Whatever happens, I will make sure that nobody cast you out. I swear on my name."

- Verena's caring side

She is a fast-talking friendly girl, yet capable of maintaining a noble elegance in certain situations. She always appears to be always ecstatic and elated, especially when explaining something. One quality that Verena lacks entirely is tact and appropriateness, once barging in Asaka Haida's conversation and drank her coffee. However, Asaka speculated that her eccentricity is just a "facade." Being an actual aristocrat, she can be refined and act and talk all lady-like, especially in formal situation.

She seems to be a fairly intelligent person. She was capable to think that Svetlana's provocations was usable as a propaganda tool to unite the team. Verena also deduced Svetlana's hatred for her own nickname and used that to irritate her as a retaliation after Svetlana irritated Asaka.

Despite that, she has a caring side, repeatedly comforted Asaka when she was haunted by her past, especially after hearing her story. In time, Verena grew more attentive and thoughtful for her gunner's well-being. She also cares for her team, going so far to challenge Pravda after Svetlana insulted her team and played with Asaka's trauma.

Being a noble whose life always being dictated by her family, she has a slight distaste for the concept of nobility. She admitted that Sensha-Do is the only thing that she chose by herself, causing her to be zealously dutiful in her duty as a commander.

In Sensha-Do match, she commands her team calmly, although she is not immune to pressure and emotions. She prefers stealth tactics and war of movement. Different with Diana who prefers to stay close with the main force, she likes to command her tank separately from the main force and stealthily, be it as a bait or a sniper.

Trivia

 * Her favorite drink is black coffee, same as Asaka.
 * Her favorite tank is the Austro-Hungarian Burstyn Motorgeschütz.
 * Her favorite flower is Edelweiss.
 * The team reveres her as Commander, Baroness, Freiin or even Boss with a number of exception:
 * Nanami Suzuki, her driver, calls her Ren.
 * Asaka Haida, her gunner, calls her V.
 * Diana Dreskovich, her Vice-commander, reveres her like a maid would to her lady.
 * She has mild photophobia, which is a abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light, commonly found in person with Albinism. This caused her to be severely disadvantaged when fighting in broad daylight, true to her vampiric epithet.
 * Her nickname, the Vampire of Styria is a reference to Carmilla, a 1872 Gothic novella set in Styria by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu. The story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.
 * The relationship of Asaka, the main character of Viribus Unitis, and Verena is an allusion to the relationship of Laura, the main character of the novella, and the vampire, Carmilla.
 * Verena's birthday is January 30th, the same date in 1889 as the Mayerling Incident, when Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and his lover, Mary Freiin von Vetsera were found dead on 30 January 1889 in an imperial hunting lodge in Mayerling in an apparent suicide pact.
 * It's possible that Verena and Mary von Vetsera are related.