Esdeath

**Esdeath** (エスデス, *Esudesu*) is a high-ranking General of the Empire. Eventually, due to Night Raid's effectiveness as an assassination unit, she became the leader of the Jaegers under the orders of the Prime Minister. She is deeply in love and obsessed with Tatsumi.

## Description

### Appearance

Esdeath is a tall, beautiful and slender woman with long, light blue hair and blue eyes. She wears a General's apparel with long sleeves with buttons on the upper arms, a blue scarf on her neck and high-heeled boots. She also has a tattoo on her chest, which is the sign of her Teigu.

Esdeath is shown to have a porcelain white skin color (most likely due to the cold climate of her home village). Along with that, her breasts are quite large.

As a child, she wore a black hairband with her clan's symbol on it, a short-sleeved white shirt with dark green trimmings.

### Personality

Esdeath is a manipulative and barbarous sadist who lacked empathy for people whom she deemed weak since she lived by her father's philosophy ("The strong survive and the weak die"). She enjoys putting her enemies through great pain, both physically and emotionally. She had no qualms about killing innocent people to get what she wanted and rationalized her behavior with her father's old creed. Esdeath is known to treat her subordinates well, letting them do as they please, which in turn inspired their intense loyalty and devotion to her; this makes her followers the strongest offensive force of the Empire. To her credit, Esdeath has demonstrated genuine care for her subordinates - the Three Beasts and Jaegers in particular - and unhesitatingly authorized them to kill Tatsumi should he ever endanger their lives.

Esdeath loves to fight and held special respect for strong opponents, which shows when she openly recognized Susanoo as a warrior rather than as a simple Teigu. Her love of battle has occasionally inspired her to take actions that would incite more hatred against the Empire, in the hopes of being able to put down more rebellions. She has even stated that should the Empire fall, she would simply start a war herself to satisfy her need for bloodshed.

Despite her reputation, Esdeath possesses great charisma, able to inspire many to fight for her. Even Run, who expected her to be a scumbag, softened his stance on her, despite his otherwise apprehension towards her sadism.

Although she is unabashedly bloodthirsty, she kept it from dominating her judgment. If she were to see that the battle is too much for her soldiers, she orders a retreat and doesn't risk heavy losses. While she will torture subordinates who fail, she can be forgiving to failed servitors, provided that they aren't complete failures, and gives them the benefit of the doubt if the failure wasn't their fault. However, during the final battle against the Revolutionary Army and the remaining members of the Night Raid, it becomes clear that behind that charismatic military officer lies a person thirsty for battle. This is demonstrated when she used her real trump card to cover the Empire in a Russian winter. Najenda noted that such a technique put Esdeath's subordinates, as well as their families, at risk. Her response of not caring, and once again rationalizing it with her belief in Social Darwinism, showed her cruelty and depravity.

Interestingly, in spite of this pure monstrosity, before the final battle, Esdeath spoke of dedicating the battle in the fallen Jaegers group's memory- even more significant with her initial casual dismal upon Seryu Ubiquitous's demise, internally admitting to missing them greatly and envisioning the entire group in her memory. This demonstrates that while she would put her men and their families at risk, she does fondly recall those who were more significant than a lackey and having valued them in high regard; especially, in comparison to the Three Beasts.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Another testament to Esdeath’s power is that was actually capable of creating her own Tramp Card techniques for her Teigu. Something no other Teigu user has ever been able to accomplish as the Teigu themselves had such functions built into them by their creators in the first place. Furthermore, Esdeath herself has developed numerous Trump Cards:

* *Mahapdama / (Mahakadoma)*: Her first Trump Card which allowed her to freeze time, which gives her a moment to make a move during its effects. Esdeath particularly stated that using this Trump Card used too much of her energy which is why she can only use it once a day. So far she has only shown to use this Trump Card 3 times before her death.
* *Ice Cavalry*: Esdeath's second Trump Card where she created an army of ice soldiers. Despite not shown in the manga, Suzuka mentioned she created thousands of these ice soldiers. Esdeath also mentioned she took a few days making a total of the Ice Cavalry's numbers. Each of the Ice Cavalry also stores her energy which she can withdraw and can empower herself and unleash her third Trump Card.
* *Ice Commander in Chief*: Stated as her Third Trump Card (though not completely confirmed). She draws all of her stored energy from the Ice Cavalry and enhances her power. This Ability allows Esdeath to unleash all of her gathered power into the atmosphere, effectively creating an artifical Russian Winter that has shown to be capable of engulfing a land mass as large as an whole continent. Having shown to have successfully done this feat without showing any signs of fatigue and instead increasing her overall power due to her surroundings conditions now magnifying her power over ice, confirming that Esdeath power has already reached the level of a cataclysmic natural disaster.

### Abilities

Esdeath was considered the finest soldier in the Empire's army and one of the world's strongest, She single-handedly overpowered the entire Revolutionary Army consist of over 100,000 soldiers including ten Teigu users. Ever since her childhood as a Danger Beast tribal hunter, Esdeath became extremely proficient in wielding blades, such as hunting knives and daggers which she used to dissect Danger Beasts for valuable material. Growing up in a region with low temperatures, Esdeath, as well as other members of her tribe, acclimated to harsh winters rather well. As a General of the Empire, Esdeath is tremendously adept with a rapier and was capable of swift, piercing strikes that could dismember large Danger Beasts in an instant. Even without having to resort to her Teigu, she could fight on an equal level with Akame and an Evolved Incursio enhanced Tatsumi. Esdeath was an extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant as well, possessing tremendous physical strength, agility and speed as well as immense stamina and endurance, such as being able to smash through a large portion of a mountain when she was young and being able to send Tatsumi, being enhanced by Incursio, crashing to the ground with a single kick. She managed to take down multiple Teigu users using pure might and skill.

Esdeath has also displayed superhuman durability and stamina, as seen when she managed to easily mow down hundreds of Revolutionary soldiers by herself and was later able to brush off the Trump Card of Heavy Pressure as "nothing but sound" and continue on fighting and even when she began facing the Teigu Troops and then Akame in consecutive battles, Esdeath still managed to dominate them during their battles with no signs of weakening despite being considerably injured and tired.

Another testament to Esdeath's inhuman stamina was her apparent ability to withstand the curse of Murasame for a extended period of time, this is seen where after she was cut by Akame in her right arm, Esdeath was able to withstand its curse despite the normally debilitating pain inflected by it on its victim rendering them unable to move or think clearly and managed to activate **Mahapadma** in order to slow down its effects before nonchalantly cutting off her infected arm. Later after being fatally stabbed in the chest with the remaining blade and hilt of Murasame, Esdeath showed that not only was she immune to the pain of both the wound and the curse, she was still strong enough to stand up, use and active her own Teigu and freeze herself whole before then shattering her body.

Esdeath has also displayed immense, monstrous mental fortitude and strength. This was first seen after her having obtained her Teigu, Demon's Extract, where unlike all the previous users who attempted to synchronize with the Teigu, Esdeath alone managed to overcome the immense, insanity inducing destructive urges, voices and whispers brought about by the weapon and successfully "conquer" it and make it her own seconds after drinking it. Something no other person has ever managed to accomplish since the Teigu's creation.

Esdeath again showcased her immense mental strength during the final stage of the Revolution when she was not at all panicked at the fact that she was being surrounded by hundreds of Revolutionary Army soldiers without any allies or back up to support her and maintained her cool as she thought out her battle strategy and later upon being subjected to Spectator's Trump Card and being placed in a powerful illusion, Esdeath managed to easily maintain control of her Psyche and later managed to break through its illusion through sheer mental brute strength.

* **Intuition:** Esdeath had sharp senses and was very aware of her surroundings, being able to detect someone's killing intent at a long distance, identifying suspicious characters in a group, as well as spotting hidden individuals even if they weren't directly within her line of sight. Her sense of smell was strong as she was able to confirm Tatsumi's presence after checking the scent when she reunited with him on top of Mt. Fake.
* **Master Strategist:** Due to her constant desire for violence and war, Esdeath has built up a considerable amount of skill in regards to strategy and war tactics due to constantly putting down uprisings and rebellions in the Empire and fighting off the invasions of the Empire’s foreign enemeis such as the Northern Tribes, with her army. Due to particpating in so many wars, Esdeath has gained substantial amount of experience in warfare, becoming a master strategist.
	+ **Psychological Warfare**: Esdeath was noted to have an uncanny skill in psychological warfare. This is seen where she was noted to use various tactics, typically involving the brutalist and gorish methods, such as using torture, public executions or mutilations in order to psychologically manipulate her enemies, toy with their minds and break their mentalities.
* **Medical Skill:** Esdeath has extensive knowledge of human physiology, having primarily gained her medical abilities in order to gain the the needed knowledge and skill in order to indulge in her hobby of torturing her enemies in the most painful way possible. Her skill and knowledge in the human body allows her to perform immediate medical care to herself when she is injured in the middle of battle and her knowledge of anatomy was enough that she could create functioning prosthetics made from ice to replace her lost limbs and treat her injuries. Her skills also allows her to dissect a dead body to find information on them, as shown where she examined and dissected the body of Chelsea after her death in order to look for anything telling. Overall, she is quite intelligent and invents new torture methods and moves, such as her trump card Mahapadma.
* **Danger Beasts Hunting:** Due to being raised by her father in the lifestyle of the Partas Clan, Esdeath has also displayed immense skill in battling, hunting and subduing Danger Beasts, as seen when she was able to easily hunt, track and kill various Danger Beasts since early childhood and displayed immense natural instincts in detecting and studying their course of actions, habits and weaknesses to better hunt and kill them.
	+ **Danger Beast Taming:** Esdeath has also shown to have the needed skills to tame Danger Beasts and use them for transportation.
		- **Familiar:** Esdeath also had a pet dragon-like Danger Beast that she flew around on.
* **Survival Skills:** Due to being raised by her father in the wilderness to hunt Danger Beasts, Esdeath is immensely skilled in surviving in the wild. This is seen where she would spend weeks to months in the dangerous northern wild lands of her clan hunting the most dangerous danger beasts without trouble. After her clans massacre and losing her father, Esdeath was noted to have been able to survive on her own by living off the wilderness of the north for years, with it being noted that she may have even hunted the most dangerous danger beasts there into extinction growing up, further highlighting her immense survival skills.
	+ **Cooking:** As part of her survival skills, Esdeath was also noted to be a skilled cook. As seen in her childhood, Esdeath was able to forage and hunt for her own food in the wilderness without the problem for years and she had admitted to be more than capable of identify if something is edible, poisonous or not when foraging for ingredients.

### Weapons

* **Demon's Extract:** She possessed a powerful Teigu called Demon's Extract that allowed her to manipulate ice and mold it from nothing. Due to her ego and immense mental willpower, she was able to withstand the Teigu's overwhelming insanity and obtain its abilities. She used it to create icicles, freeze people to death and more. When she was still starting out with her Teigu, she has been able to freeze an entire lake within moments with her ability. And during her conquest, she was able to freeze thousands of Rebel Soldiers in an instant. However, using her Teigu on a massive scale like that renders her unable to use it for a while and must rest.

## Etymology

* Esudesu is a play on the phrase "S, desu!", which means "I am an S(sadist)".

## Trivia

* She has kissed Tatsumi twice, giving him her first kiss as well as her second kiss.
* She has a small book that she uses to draw Tatsumi as well as advice on how to make Tatsumi fall in love with her.
* Her Army has its own symbol; a black cross, which was originally the emblem of the Partas Clan.
* Her hobby is hunting High-class Danger Beasts.
* Esdeath appeared on the popular web show DEATH BATTLE! where she fought Gray Fullbuster and won.