The Empress



The Empress (ジ・エンプレス) is a deck of Cards that can be wielded by Luxord in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. It can be upgraded to The Empress+.

Design
A card from The Empress deck has an odd, star-like shape. The corners are spikes shaped like the spikes of the Nobody symbol. The top and bottom of the card both sport an arrowhead-shaped protrusion, between two of the corners. The border of the card is thick and black, white the bulk of it is orange. There is a thin, white outline of a star that has a similar design to the top of the Nobody symbol in the center of the card. Each of the tips of this outline are almost completely filled by a white diamond, but they leave a thin orange space to distinguish the diamonds from the outline. This deck's cards are almost completely identical to those of The Hierophant. In fact, the only difference between the two is that the green sections on The Hierophant are orange on The Empress.

The Empress is one of twenty-two cards that make up a Tarot deck's Major Arcana and is numbered III (3).

Gameplay
The Empress's ground combo starts with large versions of the cards protruding from the ground around Luxord, followed by throwing a line of cards forwards then flipping them over, and ends with a wide spray of cards forwards.

The aerial combo consists of Luxord slashing diagonally downwards with a larger version of the card held in his right hand, followed by riding a larger version of one the cards like a surfboard while performing a forward 360° spinning attack with larger versions of the cards held in each hand.