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[[File:Celia_the_betrayed_Conduit.png|thumb|left|250px|Young Celia]]
 
[[File:Celia_the_betrayed_Conduit.png|thumb|left|250px|Young Celia]]
Her parents unknown, Celia bounced from foster home to foster home during her early years, until she was eventually adopted by a family. However, said parents perished during the events at New Marais, during which Celia's powers over paper awakened. Alone again, she was discovered by Brooke Augustine, also a Conduit and a member of the military that had been seperated from her battalion.
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Her parents unknown, Celia bounced from foster home to foster home during her early years, until she was eventually adopted by a family. However, said parents perished during the events at New Marais, during which Celia's powers over paper awakened. Alone again, she was discovered by Brooke Augustine, also a Conduit and a member of the military that had been separated from her battalion.
   
 
Celia followed Augustine through the lawless, chaotic city, where the majority of the populace organized lynch mobs to root out the Conduits among them. Eventually, military order was restored, but the pair was seen as a threat, depite their innocence. In a spur of the moment decision, Augustine encased her friend in concrete to gain the government's trust, making Celia the first Conduit to be captured and imprisoned by the DUP.
 
Celia followed Augustine through the lawless, chaotic city, where the majority of the populace organized lynch mobs to root out the Conduits among them. Eventually, military order was restored, but the pair was seen as a threat, depite their innocence. In a spur of the moment decision, Augustine encased her friend in concrete to gain the government's trust, making Celia the first Conduit to be captured and imprisoned by the DUP.
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During her time at Curdun Cay, Celia was subjected to various tests by the DUP, which found her to possess a large amount of untapped potential. She briefly struck up a friendship with the Conduit [[Hank Daughtry|Henry Daughtry]], though the two were kept apart after the wardens discovered their relationship. Although she was technically an inmate, Celia retained a close relationship with Augustine, whom she saw as a mother of sorts.
 
During her time at Curdun Cay, Celia was subjected to various tests by the DUP, which found her to possess a large amount of untapped potential. She briefly struck up a friendship with the Conduit [[Hank Daughtry|Henry Daughtry]], though the two were kept apart after the wardens discovered their relationship. Although she was technically an inmate, Celia retained a close relationship with Augustine, whom she saw as a mother of sorts.
   
However, after seven years, the DUP was on the verge of being shut down, its own success at capturing the Conduits about to become its undoing. To prevent this, Augustine thought up a plan to set the loyal Celia free, so that she could act as Agustine's agent in [[Seattle]]. Celia's escape was engineered through the murder of a young security guard called Naomi Lachter, a woman with no friends or family, and thus the perfect victim.
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However, after seven years, the DUP was on the verge of being shut down, its own success at capturing the Conduits about to become its undoing. To prevent this, Augustine thought up a plan to set the loyal Celia free, so that she could act as Augstine's agent in [[Seattle]]. Celia's escape was engineered through the murder of a young security guard called Naomi Lachter, a woman with no friends or family, and thus the perfect victim.
   
 
Through feigning injury, Celia lured Naomi into her detainment cell, where she killed and purposely disfigured the security guard's face, turning her into a cover-up corpse. With Augustine ruling out the death of "Celia" as a suicide, the real Celia was free to leave Curdun Cay under the guise of Naomi Lachter. Celia's departure from the detainment facility coincided with the transferral of three other Conduits - Henry Daughtry, [[Abigail Walker]] and [[Eugene Sims]] - into the military's oversight. Augustine trusted that Henry Daughtry, notorious for his numerous escape attempts at Curdun Cay, would try to sabotage the voyage, setting her plan in motion.
 
Through feigning injury, Celia lured Naomi into her detainment cell, where she killed and purposely disfigured the security guard's face, turning her into a cover-up corpse. With Augustine ruling out the death of "Celia" as a suicide, the real Celia was free to leave Curdun Cay under the guise of Naomi Lachter. Celia's departure from the detainment facility coincided with the transferral of three other Conduits - Henry Daughtry, [[Abigail Walker]] and [[Eugene Sims]] - into the military's oversight. Augustine trusted that Henry Daughtry, notorious for his numerous escape attempts at Curdun Cay, would try to sabotage the voyage, setting her plan in motion.
   
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===[[Paper Trail|Arrival in Seattle]]===
 
Once Celia arrived in Seattle, she began her assassinations of anti-Conduit officials and members of the government, sowing chaos throughout the city. Celia deliberately orchestrated the murders to look like the work of fellow Conduits Henry, Eugene and Abigail, so that she herself would not be discovered. However, she saw Delsin's impact on Seattle's citizens and was intrigued by his actions. At the same time, she corresponded with Augustine on her mission, using the pseudonym of "Saisei".
 
Once Celia arrived in Seattle, she began her assassinations of anti-Conduit officials and members of the government, sowing chaos throughout the city. Celia deliberately orchestrated the murders to look like the work of fellow Conduits Henry, Eugene and Abigail, so that she herself would not be discovered. However, she saw Delsin's impact on Seattle's citizens and was intrigued by his actions. At the same time, she corresponded with Augustine on her mission, using the pseudonym of "Saisei".
   

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So, where do we go from here? You've got all the pieces. Can you put them together?
― Celia to Delsin.[src]

Celia Penderghast is a Conduit that has the power to manipulate and control paper.

Following the death of her parents during the events in New Marais, a young Celia encountered Brooke Augustine, another Conduit and member of the military. However, upon reaching Augustine's battalion, Celia found herself imprisoned by her friend, who, in doing so, avoided being persecuted by the military and secured the government's trust.

Locked up in Curdun Cay, Celia spent seven years within its walls; despite her imprisonment by Augustine, she came to see the head of the Department of Unified Protection as a parental figure and became her most trusted agent.

Biography

Early life

I found another survivor. She tailed me as I made my way back to the safety of my battalion. Together, we traveled through a lawless city that wanted us dead, because of what we now were.
― Augustine on her journey with Celia.

Celia the betrayed Conduit

Young Celia

Her parents unknown, Celia bounced from foster home to foster home during her early years, until she was eventually adopted by a family. However, said parents perished during the events at New Marais, during which Celia's powers over paper awakened. Alone again, she was discovered by Brooke Augustine, also a Conduit and a member of the military that had been separated from her battalion.

Celia followed Augustine through the lawless, chaotic city, where the majority of the populace organized lynch mobs to root out the Conduits among them. Eventually, military order was restored, but the pair was seen as a threat, depite their innocence. In a spur of the moment decision, Augustine encased her friend in concrete to gain the government's trust, making Celia the first Conduit to be captured and imprisoned by the DUP.

At Curdun Cay

During her time at Curdun Cay, Celia was subjected to various tests by the DUP, which found her to possess a large amount of untapped potential. She briefly struck up a friendship with the Conduit Henry Daughtry, though the two were kept apart after the wardens discovered their relationship. Although she was technically an inmate, Celia retained a close relationship with Augustine, whom she saw as a mother of sorts.

However, after seven years, the DUP was on the verge of being shut down, its own success at capturing the Conduits about to become its undoing. To prevent this, Augustine thought up a plan to set the loyal Celia free, so that she could act as Augstine's agent in Seattle. Celia's escape was engineered through the murder of a young security guard called Naomi Lachter, a woman with no friends or family, and thus the perfect victim.

Through feigning injury, Celia lured Naomi into her detainment cell, where she killed and purposely disfigured the security guard's face, turning her into a cover-up corpse. With Augustine ruling out the death of "Celia" as a suicide, the real Celia was free to leave Curdun Cay under the guise of Naomi Lachter. Celia's departure from the detainment facility coincided with the transferral of three other Conduits - Henry Daughtry, Abigail Walker and Eugene Sims - into the military's oversight. Augustine trusted that Henry Daughtry, notorious for his numerous escape attempts at Curdun Cay, would try to sabotage the voyage, setting her plan in motion.

Arrival in Seattle

Once Celia arrived in Seattle, she began her assassinations of anti-Conduit officials and members of the government, sowing chaos throughout the city. Celia deliberately orchestrated the murders to look like the work of fellow Conduits Henry, Eugene and Abigail, so that she herself would not be discovered. However, she saw Delsin's impact on Seattle's citizens and was intrigued by his actions. At the same time, she corresponded with Augustine on her mission, using the pseudonym of "Saisei".

However, as Delsin's presence became more and more known in the city, Celia's respect for Augustine, who had chosen for an approach Celia deemed "cowardly", crumbled, following which Celia went rogue. She chose to approach Delsin directly and led him to various files that explained the DUP's deception, as well as the background of the people she had killed.

Following Augustine's fall from grace, Celia led Delsin to the abandoned DUP tower where she explained, through the use of her powers, how he had changed her view on Augustine and the DUP. She then thanked Delsin for making her realize that no one could give Conduits their freedom, that they instead needed to take it by force. Leaving behind a final origami dove, Celia then vanished, denying Delsin a confrontation.

Powers and Abilities

Paper Manipulation

Celia's powers over paper was surprisingly versatile; she could control every form of paper, as well as create pulp and stock out of trace elements. Through special folding techniques, which would normally require hundreds of pounds of mechanical force, she could make deceptively durable paper armor, as well as projectile weapons.

Celia was also able to convert her body to adopt the qualities of paper, allowing her to use wind currents to move around, albeit erratically so. She also seemed capable of a type of teleportation, which consisted of suddenly transforming her body into numerous scraps and pieces of paper that quickly dispersed, making her difficult to catch.

Personality and characteristic

Celia was stated by the DUP to suffer from abandonment anxiety, due to her past in the foster homes. The loss of her adoptive parents caused her to repress any and all memories of them, focusing instead of her gifts with paper. In particular, she had an obsession with folding origami doves. Celia was also known to possess artistic skills, which she expressed through various drawings as well as a semi-autobiographical manga.

Her time in Curdun Cay transformed Celia into a dark-minded individual, with some of her drawings taking on more grotesque qualities. Her notes detail how Augustine took her to see the morgue, where the bodies of murdered Conduits had been stored. This experience convinced Celia of the cruelty normal people were capable of. Although Celia was shown to carry little guilt over her other assassinations, she claimed in a letter she could "never forget" the death of Naomi Lachter, as she was her first victim. Despite this, "watching Naomi's blood seep into the concrete" apparently made the act easier, showing Celia's sociopathic personality.

Appearance-wise, Celia seems to wear a type of school uniform that consists of a black jacket with a white shirt and red tie, a short red skirt, black stockings and black sneakers. Her face is hidden by a distinctive paper mask resembling a rabbit.

Trivia

  • Celia had a known obsession with folding paper doves. Coincidentally, the DUP's symbol of a dove was markedly similar to the paper Conduit's creations.
  • Celia's power over paper was briefly considered to become the template of the DUP's Conduit soldiers. However, the DUP found that paper did not convey the "strength and security" they desired, following which they chose to use Augustine's concrete power.
  • Celia is represented by Hitori, later Saisei, the bunny in her own manga.
    • Hitori is Japanese for "alone", while Saisei is Japanese for "rebirth, return to life".