Alusia Van Dalsia

Alusia Van Dalsia is a Lightweight Centaurine who has asked Centorea Shianus to help teach her how to gallop the same way Centorea does.

Appearance
Alusia has the typical appearance of a Lightweight Centaur with light brown skin and dark brown hair, which is tied in a ponytail at the back of her head. Her clothes consist of a yellow-reddish sports outfit and she wears a yellow headband.

As a Lightweight Centaurine, the most noticeable feature of Alusia in her appearance is her headless horse´s abdomen and pointy horse ears. Their breasts are, however, due to their subspecies quite small compared to Centoreas (although still average for a human). She is slightly smaller than Centorea.

Personality
As a Lightweight Centaur, Alusia is very interested in sporting activities such as morning runs. Alusia has a strong admiration for Centorea, but she can be quite intrusive, for example when she repeatedly apologized to her that she was late at the meeting point, although it wasn't a big deal. Her admiration can also prove problematic, for example when Alusia asked Centorea to show her how she would manage the obstacle course, forgetting to consider that a standard Centaur would find it much more difficult to do because of their lower speed and agility. Just like Centorea, Alusia is also somewhat archaic, for example because she calls her "Senpai" and believes in "Fate Partners".

Physical Traits

 * Lightweight Centaur Physiology:
 * Agility: Like most centaurs she is very fast, but as a lightweight centaur are also racing horses, making her faster than the common centaur.
 * Herbivorous: Centaurs are herbivores.
 * Normothermia: Like horses, she has higher body temperature than Humans. Her's is 38°C (100.4°F) to be precise. This is the same as the average horse.
 * Ear Movement: Centaur's ears are capable of reflecting the centaur's mood as they are able to move much in the same way as a horse's ears.
 * Sense of Smell: Due to their equine biology, Centaurs have a sense of smell that is 1000 times greater than that of a human.

Plot
Alusia came to Japan as a member of a school sports program cultural exchange group of Lightweight Centaurs. One morning while Alusia was training along the river bank in Tokyo, she accidentally noticed Centorea who was busy with her morning run. Centorea had a daydream in which she imagined Kimihito riding on her back. Impressed by this "beautiful running form", Alusia wrote a letter to Centorea and asking Centorea to meet her at the race track in the morning, to ask her something, although Alusia didn't mention her specific concern in the letter.

Centorea found the letter strange as she didn't know Alusia, but Ms Smith pointed out, that Centorea had been studying abroad for quite a long time and should therefore try to offer advice to less experienced Centaur girls from time to time. Centorea agreed, thinking to herself that helping another Centaur in need is another side of the cultural exchange.

Meeting with Centorea
Centorea and Alusia met up the next morning at the race track in Chapter 68, which Centorea always run past on their morning run. Alusia was a little late, whereupon she apologized profusely, even with a deep bow. Centorea quickly assured her that everything was ok, especially since all the apologies made her uncomfortable. She asked Alusia what advice she wanted, to which the Lightweight Centaurine said it was more of a request and asked if Centorea could teach her to gallop like she herself.

However, Centorea is confused about this, as she doesn't understand what Alusia finds so great about her gallop. Alusia then tells her how she came to Japan as part of a school sports program's cultural exchange group and how she happened to see Centorea while training the other morning. Alusia goes on to say that she was struck by Centorea's "beautiful running form" and that she knew in a second that Centorea had something that she didn't have herself. Alusia asks Centorea to be her coach, also referring to her as "senpai", Centorea is taken aback by this admiration, but finally agrees to teach Alusia, as she already feels obligated to do so as a senpai.

Zoological Classification


Lightweight Centaurs (軽量種, Keiryō-shu), known also as Racing Centaurs, are a Centaur subspecies that excels at running. They are smaller than standard centaurs, with slimmer and tighter bodies. Though they approach their rank and records with a stoic attitude and love running, they are easily injured, and they devote much of their attention to studying health care. They can be rather moody, but this can be attributed to timidity or physical and mental innocence. Since their bodies are not as large, neither are their breasts.

Trivia

 * Like many characters, her name is a pun on her species. "Alusia" comes from the Andalusian horse, a breed of race horses.
 * Alusia arrived as a part of a school sports program's cultural exchange group.
 * Alusia's specialty is the 1000m sprint.
 * She hates the multi-stage fitness test.
 * Besides sports she enjoys sports science.