Legretta

Giselle Oslo (ジゼル・オスロー), better known as God-General Legretta the Quick (魔弾のリグレット), is the teacher of Tear Grants and a major antagonist appearing in Tales of the Abyss.

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Legretta is one of Van's most trusted subordinates, despite originally planning to kill him by means of training Tear, and is shown carrying out his most intricate operations. She even occasionally gives commands to the other God-Generals. She has the rank of Major in the regular Oracle Knights, and is addressed by Tear as "Major Legretta" in a manner similar to which Luke continues to refer to Van as "Master Van". She also has very close ties with both Tear and Van, though she does fight against Tear and her allies multiple times in the storyline.

Legretta fights using a pair of fon-tech handguns and Light fonic artes. Her Japanese name is Regret and her Japanese-language title is Magic Bullet, Regret. Like many, if not all of the God-Generals, she fills her capacity under an assumed name.

Backstory and motives
Legretta held the rank of Major of the Oracle Knights before attaining that of God General, and served as both a mentor and role-model to Tear Grants during her training as an oracle soldier. However, she confesses later in the story that she was very depressed about something (later revealed to be the predicted death of her brother) having to do with the Score. She was also very disgruntled about how the Score held a firm grip on people's lives and dictated their every action and move. Legretta was sickened by how people grew completely dependent on the Score and how it ruled over their lives. She began to wonder whether she herself was nothing more than a puppet being controlled by the same, and pondered if even her emotions and feelings about the Score were controlled by the Score itself.

Legretta refused to accept being controlled by the Score, the planet's memory; for these reasons, she decided to join Van as a God General to help him pursue his ideals to create a replica world and completely annihilate all traces of the Score and the people who blindly followed it. Over time, Legretta began to fall in love with Van, and completely devoted all of her time and energy to fulfilling his plans. This could be the point in time in which she stopped being Tear's instructor, although no real evidence in the game supports this fact.

Legretta also seems to have completely lost all faith in the current state of Auldrant and the people living on it. She shows this on a number of occasions, particularly when she leads the massacre of Sheridan, giving little thought to killing innocents in the town, and also allowing her Oracle Knight minions to do away with any civilians that get in their way. She wished to destroy the current world and create a new replica world along with Van to finally end the Score's reign over the people. Therefore, she is completely loyal to the commandant and willing to put her life on the line if it meant his dream would come true. She stated that this is all she wanted in life and that a world with people that only live if the Score exists is better off dead.

The only other person in the game that Legretta seems to care for is Tear. Being her instructor once, it is no surprise that she and Tear once shared a close bond. Thus, Legretta usually tries to turn Tear over to Van's side whenever they meet, even though Tear always adamantly refuses, telling Legretta that she will not join her so long as she remains with Van. Legretta always seems rather hesitant to fight Tear, but as the game progresses, Legretta seems to realize that since Tear believes in the exact opposite ideals as Van, converting her is futile.

Legretta fights the party a total of three times (not including the replica fight of her in the Abyss optional dungeon), and each time she gives the party a less than friendly greeting usually by shooting a bullet in front of their feet. The first time she is fought is at the end of Deo Pass, before the party reaches Akzeriuth. Once she is defeated, she calls Luke a "reject", giving him a clue on exactly what he is, and also remarks to Jade about fomicry being resurrected by the Oracle Knights.

The second time she is fought is on Mt. Roneal, alongside the two God Generals Largo the Black Lion and Arietta the Wild. She again tries to convert Tear to Van's side again, but to no avail. When defeated, she and her two companions are seemingly killed in a massive avalanche caused by the fight. However, it is later revealed that she survived, as she is seen pursuing Asch after Van is "defeated" by the party at the Absorption Gate, trying to obtain the Jewel of Lorlei before he does. She also attempts to obtain the Sword of Lorelei from him and stop the Key of Lorelei from being assembled. This is a good example of how she still follows Van, even after his apparent death.

The third and final time the party fights against Legretta is very shortly after they crash land in Eldrant. After being met by her usual shot, she reveals herself and admits her desire to destroy the world plagued by the Score, even if it means creating a replica world in its place. After being defeated one last time, she confesses her love for Van and his vision to Tear. She states that even though Tear may think she sacrificed herself for nothing, she died fighting for what she truly believed was right, and for the man she loved. She dies while praying for Van to reform the twisted world ruled by the Score.

Personality
Legretta, being a soldier, is a very calculating, intelligent, and dangerous woman. She often speaks in a calm voice and is very good at negotiating and explaining her beliefs to others. She remains completely loyal to Van at all times, doing whatever she is told to by him, no matter how grisly it may seem.

Legretta explains in Eldrant that people should have free will and not be shackled to Yulia's Score. She claims that she could only gain her own free will by rejecting the Score and seeking to destroy it. Tear, however, tells her that she has no free will if she believes only what the commandant wants. Legretta has shown that she will remain true to her beliefs no matter what others think, and still fights Tear regardless of her relationship with her.

While it is obvious Legretta has emotions and shows them near the end of her life, she is very good at masking her true feelings to the group and comes across to a lot of people as an efficient, emotionless soldier. She was the one who taught Tear that only poor soldiers let people see what they feel outright, so Tear's resolve not to cry or appear frightened or sad under any circumstances is by Legretta's resolve.



Appearance
Legretta is a woman of about Tear's height, 26 years old, and dressed in the standard black Order of Lorelei clothing, similar to Tear's default outfit. She has long blonde hair that is pulled back into a ragged sort of ponytail and a long red piece of cloth that drapes around her arms and trails down her back. She usually carries her two fon-tech handguns behind her back, but she can whip them out whenever she pleases. As with all the other God-Generals however, she gains a costume change later in the game. She keeps her black outfit fairly unchanged, but has the addition of a small, white, mettalic mantle around her chest; and the red piece of cloth is now replaced by the same metallic substance her mantle is made of, though it still retains a flowing appearance.

Legretta has a stacattoed voice and tends to speak loudly when she is about to fight the group. However, when speaking with Tear, Van, or the other God-Generals, she has a very gentle-sounding voice that masks her incredible fighting skill.



Fighting Style
Legretta is a very strong fighter, both physically and in fonic artes. She wields dual fon-tech guns, which she never seems to have to reload, and can perform multiple shooting combos at the party, endlessly and relentlessly. She also has a very powerful attack in which she spins around and fires a single bullet which can easily take off half of a characters HP and knock them down. She also has extraordinarily high physical defense, but isn't particularly hard to stagger when casting her spells. However, her fonic artes are nothing to laugh at, as she can cast a multitude of Light-elemental fonic artes, as well as the high level water fonic arte, Blessed Drops. She also has the dangerous ability to use arcane strike artes without an FOF, which means she can turn the tides of battle at any time the player falls off guard.

Legretta also has two special skills involving her unique weapons. The first is an attack called Rage Laser, which fires a penetrating beam of light from her guns, and her signature Mystic Arte, Prism Ballet, her strongest attack which raises multiple walls of light around her and ends with her firing a larger version of Rage Laser at the person being attacked. Legretta is also resistant to Light-based fonic and strike artes, with her element being Light. It is also worth noting that she shares many artes with her student Tear, notably Eclair de Larmes, Flamme Rouge, Inlay Nocturne, Searing Sorrow, and Holy Lance.