Dec 18, 2025
Author's Commentary #9:
Time to talk about Chapter 9: The Fairy League.
And here we have our introduction to the Fairy League. They're an underground chess league that seeks to make fairy chess variants that use fairy chess pieces the default and abolish all other forms of traditional chess. Needless to say, they're quite radical. They are led by the infamous Heather Fairy who is also the queen of the United Kingdom.
ヘザー・フェアリー (Heather Fairy) is how her name is spelled in kanji. "Fairy" is not her given surname, but rather a surname she took on when becoming queen. Her original surname was Stuart, meaning her real name is Heather Stuart. ヘザー・スチュアート (Heather Stuart) is how her original name would be spelled in katakana.
Her birthday is March 12th which she shares with Rikuhachima Aru from Blue Archive. The reason for this is because her character was inspired by Aru.
Her favorite piece is the empress, a fairy chess piece that moves like a rook and knight. Of the normal chess pieces though, her favorite would be the queen since she's queen of the fairies and the UK.
Born in Holyrood Palace, Heather is a legitimate British royal, though was far from succeeding the throne until meeting Scharlachrot. While she is the leader and supposedly the strongest member in the Fairy League, she's an idiot. Not Numakawa-level idiot, but still a lovable idiot. Scharlachrot tends to be the one who calls the shots and does all the heavy lifting.
シャルラッハロット・カルメジンロート (Scharlachrot Karmesinrot) is how Scharlachrot's name is spelled in katakana. Her name is actually German for Scarlet with her last name being German for Crimson. Thus, her name is essentially Scarlet Crimson. She originally hailed from Germany before it was conquered by Red Reaper and reborn as the German Empire of Prussia. She is the league's second-in-command. I feel her character came to be due to me watching Youjo Senki. Though funnily enough, she isn't directly inspired by any specific character from that series. In fact, she's more heavily inspired by Asagi Mutsuki from Blue Archive.
Her birthday is July 29th which she shares with Asagi Mutsuki from Blue Archive.
Her favorite piece is the amazon, a fairy chess piece that combines the movements of a knight and queen. In terms of regular chess pieces, her favorite would be the queen due to it's power.
One thing I'll point out is that all the Rainbow Executives in the Fairy League are themed after a specific color in the rainbow. This is made far more apparent by their character designs. The executives also hail from various European countries and as such, their names tend to be native names for colors from their respective languages. Heather is the only one that doesn't have her name include a color, though her color theme is pink like the Fairy league foot soldiers. She naturally hails from England as she is part of the British royal line. Many respect her which is why she was able to make Britain an absolute monarchy once more and rule over all the commonwealth as queen.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
