Isabeau

==Summary==
Isabeau is a main character in Shin Megami Tensei IV. She represents the neutral pathway. She was born of the Luxurors class in the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado and was chosen to be a Samurai on the same day as Flynn, Jonathan, Walter and Navarre. Isabeau is seemingly cold and brutally honest, much to the annoyance, and sometimes amusement of her fellow Samurai.
However, Isabeau is not a bad person. She has a strong sense of justice and will stand up for what she believes is right. This can be poignantly seen in the lawful or chaos pathways, in which she attempts to battle Flynn in order to prevent him from accomplishing his goals, which results in her taking her own life.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | | | 
Key: Early-Game | Mid-Game | Late to End-Game | Apocalypse End-Game
Name: Isabeau
Origin: Megami Tensei
Gender: Female.
Age: 18
Classification: Human, Samurai of the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado.
Powers and Abilities:
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|-|IV=
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Observation (Type 1), Weapon Mastery, Summoning, Magic, Healing, Electricity Manipulation, Danmaku, Statistics Amplification, Power Nullification Accelerated Development and Reactive Evolution / Reactive Power Level (Capable of rapidly evolving and drawing out her own inner power at extraordinary rates due to his inherent potential as a human, even against opponents that previously resided on an entirely superior plane of existence than her, and can adapt to abilities that previously held her at their mercy in a short time, such as with Yaso-Magatsuhi's gas), Non-Physical Interaction (Can damage and interact with spirits and ghosts, as well as strike down the informational forms of Demons and entities devoid of time and space, as well as formless, nonexistent entities such as The White), as well as Healing, Regeneration (High-Mid), Invulnerability, Immortality (Types 2, 3 and 7), and Durability Negation (As a magic user, her attacks likely hold the same property as that of demons in that they function on both the physical and spiritual/mental/conceptual/informational levels, with wounds he inflicts being unable to be healed without spiritual power and capable of harming physically invulnerable foes, as well as killing undead beings and regenerative entities, such as Nagas and Blobs)
|-|Apocalypse=
All previous abilities to much greater degrees, as well as Elemental Manipulation (Air Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation), Existence Erasure, Enhanced Healing (Fully restores her own vitality or that of a selected target with Mediarahan), Resistance Negation
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Conceptual Manipulation / Information Manipulation / Mind Manipulation / Soul Manipulation (Frequently does battle against Demons, who affect their targets on all of the above levels with every attack, often withstanding numerous strikes from them and emerging victorious through brute force alone), Fate Manipulation and Curse Manipulation (Unbothered by interactions with Pisacas, which fate humans to die in the span of nine months), Disease Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Madness Manipulation and Chaos Manipulation (Unaffected by the act of looking into Girimehkala's eye, which inflicts incurable sickness and misfortune into individuals, and by the gaze of Yakkha, which is said to inflict disease and madness), Petrification and Poison Manipulation (Can easily do battle against Basilisk and Cockatrice, both of whom turn normal people into stone simply by being touched or looked at, and have a gaze and breath so poisonous that any mortal being near them instantly dies, turning their surroundings into a desert), Life and Death Manipulation (Can fight Liches, whose presence drains the life of those who see them, and as with other protagonists is likely not affected by Balor's gaze, which instantly kills enemies, and Chatterskull's laughter, which dooms whoever hears it to death, immediately stopping their heart)
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Attack Potency: Country level (Comparable to Flynn, and is capable of assisting him during battles against noticeably powerful demons such as the Minotaur) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Remains comparable to Flynn, Walter and Jonathan throughout the course of the story, with Mastema stating that the four samurai are capable of defeating him by this point) | Outerverse level (Can summon and control Kali Ma, who is superior to Anat, and, by extension to Baal and Beelzebub. Briefly held her own against an end-game Flynn during the Law and Chaos Paths, though the battle was fairly one-sided, and fought against Merkabah alongside him in the Neutral Path) | Outerverse level (Contributed to the battles against Satan and YHVH during the Bonds Route, fighting the latter in both His golden and demonized forms alongside her fellow Samurai)
Speed: Speed of Light Reactions and Combat Speed (Should be comparable to Plasma, a notably weak demon who can attack using electromagnetic waves), higher with Sukukaja | Immeasurable Reactions and Combat Speed | Immeasurable Reactions and Combat Speed | Immeasurable Reactions and Combat Speed
Lifting Strength: Superhuman
Striking Strength: Country level | Low Complex Multiverse level | Outerverse level | Outerverse level
Durability: Country level | Low Complex Multiverse level | Outerverse level | Outerverse level
Stamina: Superhuman
Range: Extended Melee Range with swords, likely up to Planetary with Demons | Same as before, likely up to Low Complex Multiversal with Magic and Demons | Same as before, likely up to Outerversal with Magic and Demons | Outerversal
Standard Equipment: Her sword and guns.
* Gauntlet: A device given to all Samurai of the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado during a ceremonial rite enacted when they reach adulthood, functioning not only as a way for its user to summon, control and communicate with Demons, but also as an all-purpose piece of equipment that provides navigation assistance and a variety of different applications that can assist Flynn in combat, whether by reducing the MP cost of his abilities or directly Influencing the actions of enemy demons during negotiations, ontop of being able to analyze both them and the surrounding terrain in order to assist in battle, with this capability extending even to higher-dimensional realms beyond normal reality, such as the Monochrome Forest and the Expanse, and formless, nonexistent entities, such as The White.
Intelligence: Gifted. Isabeau is an extremely skillful Samurai who has fought many powerful enemies among her fellow Samurai, many of whom were cosmic beings and gods of myth. Like Jonathan, Isabeau is generally smart in multiple topics and aspects of Mikado life and history.
Weaknesses: None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Buffs and Debuffs: A set of skills that, as the name implies, allows the caster to greatly amplify their own physical attributes and reduce that of their foes, thus allowing one to stand up to much stronger opponents by closing or even reversing the gap in power between them. Outside of gameplay limitations, they can be stacked indefinitely, and sufficient usages of buffs allow the caster to survive attacks that would otherwise obliterate them with only minor injuries and amplify their speed to the point of completely outspeeding opponents that could previously predict all of their movements, while debuffs have a directly proportional effect on the enemy's statistics.
* Sukukaja: Increases her own speed and that of allies by one rank.
* Luster Candy: Increases all statistics of an entire party (Strength, speed and durability) by one rank. Only avaliable to her Apocalypse key.
Almighty Attacks: The highest class of spells in the Megami Tensei franchise, consisting largely of powerful non-elemental attacks that have the special property of completely bypassing any resistances or immunities that a target may possess, be them innate or magically enforced, the latter of which including anything from reflective barriers to items that distort the very laws of the universe in order to protect the user from all forms of damage, and they are likewise unable to blocked, drained or generally defended against.
* Megidolaon: Unleashes a wave of destructive energy which deals heavy damage to all foes, tapping into the pale light of divinity that reigns over destruction itself and engulfing them in "the complete annihilation beyond death." Only avaliable to her Apocalypse key.
==Gallery==
Credit to Isabeau for the images used.
Isabeau_1.jpg|Concept art 1
Isabeau_2.png|Concept art 2
Isabeau_3.png|Shin Megami Tensei IV -Prayers-
Isabeau_4.jpg|Shin Megami Tensei IV Demonic Gene
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
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