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DOES THIS CHARACTER MEET SKELETAL BASICS? Yes
NAME & AGE: Isabeau, 18
CANON & CANON POINT: Shin Megami Tensei IV, after the Neutral ending
CANON INFORMATION: <http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/isabeau>SMT Wiki!

PERSONALITY:

Isabeau, first and foremost, is a Samurai of the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado. She’s a soldier, and sees herself as a protector of the people more than anything. She was raised with the expectation that she would undergo the Gauntlet Rite, the process by which new Samurai are chosen. There is nothing mentioned as to what her alternative would have been if she had not been chosen, but information about her and her family in the game suggests that she probably would have gone into some kind of religious life.

As a Samurai, she is tasked with keeping Mikado safe, though it isn’t until after she becomes one that she finds out that “keeping it safe” is only half of her mission - the other half is “from demons,” and that entails using demons as her allies as well. She doesn’t meet the idea with any kind of revulsion; instead, she’s more surprised that, as much as she knew about the Samurai, she hadn’t known about that.

She takes it in stride and goes about her duty. Everything that a Samurai does, to her, is ultimately to protect the people, and she does everything within her power to further that goal. When her task is to murder someone, even though that someone had proven to be a danger to Mikado, she is visibly distressed, but goes to carry out the order anyway. This even extends to her fight with the protagonist on the Law and Chaos routes - both choices mean the deaths of countless people, and she can't stand by and let it happen.

Isabeau does not take part in the heavy alignment choices in the game because it's a difficult moral decision, one that she cannot make. She doesn't have the fortitude to take an extreme position, but just the same she has her own lines that she will do all in her power to prevent their being crossed. For Route, she is being pulled from the Neutral path, in which the most lives will be saved, from both Mikado and Tokyo. The people of Tokyo are introduced as "Unclean Ones," and a key part of her growth is the realization that the people in Tokyo are, in fact, no different from those in Mikado.

When she goes to Tokyo and finds out the so-called Unclean Ones are just people, she reacts in much the same way she does to finding out about demons - a strong focus on her duty. She doesn't let herself get distracted, to the point where one of her peers says "[he]'d wager she could don an iron helmet and you wouldn't notice the difference," and when they surprise her on the castle roof later on, she just asks them "Can't you be voyeurs in silence? The din is making it difficult to concentrate on my reading." Though polite, she keeps herself distant, telling the protagonist that she doesn't like boys her age. She says that they make her nervous, implying that her stoicism is an attempt to mask that. She reacts to being wrong differently than she does to a straight-up surprise, being readily willing to admit that she was wrong.

In her spare time, she's described as spending a lot of time at the Monastery, whether it's thanking God for her successes at her first tests, or spending her day off visiting wounded Samurai and bringing them flowers. Almost nothing she does is for herself, instead almost always putting others first. She can't bear the thought of actually seriously hurting another human, though demons she never has any problem with. Her reasons for opposing a Law- or Chaos-aligned protagonist is that his plan will either mean genocide or endless war, respectively, and upon losing, will commit suicide so that he doesn't have to kill her.

When she has time to herself, she's shown reading a manga implied to be Rose of Versailles, something that she only does when she's alone. She isn't the type to be particularly concerned with reputation, suggesting that she does it only in her free time. She's enamored with the story, even at one point delaying the mission so that she can read the next volume. On the Neutral path, she does finally get to finish it, though not without the protagonist letting her indulge in a little bit of selfishness in order to do so. What interests her so much is the country and culture portrayed in the story, indicating an open-mindedness that will cause her to care for the people of Tokyo just as much as those of Mikado.

At first, she sees herself as a Samurai who tries to do her best to fulfill her duty, nothing more. She's not as strong as she needs to be if she can't keep Mikado, and later Tokyo as well, safe. Without her realizing it, however, her loyalty and her duty change. She wants the path that will let the most lives be saved, no matter what the other consequences may be. In the Neutral path this means that the actual physical kingdom of Mikado, the same one she's spent most of the game trying to protect, gets destroyed. Mikado, and everything it stands for, can die if it means sparing its people and letting the chips fall where they may.

She wants the best, but Mikado's culture is rigid and repressive. At first, she thinks she knows what "the best" is, but in her travels through Tokyo, she finds out that the world was not as it had always seemed, and that people were not so absolute as Mikado purported them to be. She is paralyzed by what she can't do when the time comes for the heavy alignment choice, but will reach her answer in enough time in order to help the protagonist through the Neutral ending. She has no time for regrets, or wishing she'd acted sooner, not when there are so many lives at stake. In the end, she's able to explain her choice to the penultimate boss: "As humans, we must be accepting of both goodwill and spite. We can always yearn for what is best without falling into extremes. Such have we always lived thus far. That is why I put my faith in the possibilities of humanity... That is the choice in which our hopes lie!"

COURT ALLIANCE & REASONING:

ABILITIES:

Isabeau has training with a sword as a Samurai, and acquires a gun in Tokyo. Based on her attacks when Flynn fights her, she prefers using the gun, has a talent for it, or both. Like Flynn, she can use magic that she’s learned from her demons through Demon Whisper. When she supports Flynn in battle as a guest member, she sticks to the Zio (lightning-element) line of spells, in addition to healing.

She summons demons through her COMP, so since it's useless, she won't have that ability here.

INVENTORY:

Isabeau will have her clothes, her sword, her gun, and her COMP.

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