Camula is a 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. In the European Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese versions, she speaks with a stereotyped vampire accent.
Design[]
Appearance[]
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 and yellow eyes. She wears her own exclusive Shadow Rider Duel Disk with Monster Card Zones in the shape of bat's wings on her left arm.
Etymology[]
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.
Biography[]
Centuries ago in Middle Age Europe, Camula was a member of the proud vampire race that lived in isolation from humanity, but seeing how humans see them as monsters, they were exterminated by them. Camula had managed to survive until the present day by sealing herself inside a coffin. She awoke much later when Kagemaru uncovered it and invited her to join the Shadow Riders.
She captures the souls of her opponents within dolls, following their losses 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. Using the souls that she captures, she plans to resurrect her vampire brethren, and take their revenge on the humans that feared and despised them. She preferers to duel people she finds interesting as shown when she rejects both Chazz Princeton and Bastion Misawa due to being "little school boys" in her eyes.
Camula arrives on Duel Academy to obtain the keys and to make up for Nightshroud/Atticus Rhodes' failure after he lost to Jaden at the Duel Academy volcano. She manages to obtain the keys from Vellian Crowler and Zane Truesdale (thanks to information about their cards and strategies from her bats). While the latter had proved to be a far more challenging opponent using his "Cyber End Dragon", the threat of taking Syrus Truesdale's soul caused him to surrender and lose. Though she was only interested in obtaining a doll of Zane, she duels Jaden Yuki due to Jaden wanting to save Crowler and Zane. However, her Shadow Charm's power is negated by the completed Shadow Charm item that Jaden possesses.
Out of over self-confidence, Camula places her own soul on the line (whereas in the original, she does not have a choice because the card was already activated). Jaden however was able to summon forth a new Elemental HERO -Shining Flare Wingman. Shocked, Camula states she has never seen Jaden have this monster as her bats never told her about this. Jaden then states he decided to counteract the darkness with the light as the recent duels lately were in darkness. Camula is defeated by Jaden's "Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman" and because of "Illusion Gate", Camula loses her soul. it is dragged into the gate by a spiritual claw after she loses, leaving her body an empty husk, which crumbles into dust. In the English dub, the part with the spiritual claw going into her back to rip out her soul is edited out.
She later appears in a flashback when Axel Brodie tells Jaden and Alexis Rhodes that Kagemaru once used the scholarship students to resurrect the Sacred Beasts and gain eternal life until Jaden stopped him.
Decks[]
Camula plays a "Vampire Zombie" Deck, capable of maintaining field control through self-searching monsters.
Duels[]
Opponent(s) | Episode(s) | Outcome |
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Vellian Crowler | 31 | Win |
Zane Truesdale | 32 | Win |
Jaden Yuki | 33 | Lose |
Trivia[]
- Amnael and Camula were the only Shadow riders to defeat two keykeepers before losing to Jaden.
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