Beryl Benito

Beryl Benito (ベリル・ベニト) is a protagonist in Tales of Hearts.

Information
Beryl Benito is a painter that fled her hometown to become a royal painter. When you meet her, she tells the party to go away because they will steal her ideas. Later on, she ambushes Chen, who had hired her and set her a trap to get her Soma. The party sees that Beryl is being affected by Kohak's Doubt Spirune, and she banishes with magic. When you find her and go inside her Spir Maze, and defeat the Zerom. She decides to trust the group, and Kohak's spirune is recovered. Later, it is discovered that Innes recovered the items stolen to incriminate Beryl, and her Soma becomes Innes' property. However, she let's Beryl keep it. Beryl develops a crush towards Shing Meteoryte and a rivalry against Innes Lorenz later in the game.

Fighting Style
Beryl's weapon is the Soma Thiers (ティエール), a giant brush. This weapon does not change throughout the story, but when her Soma evolve, it will become stronger, though does not change forms. When Beryl reaches the final evolve, that will be considered her ultimate weapon.

Beryl serves primarily as a mage; she has water, earth, and darkness magic, which she calls forth with her brush. Alternatively, she can use physical attacks with her brush against enemies in short-range.

Her Combination Blaster is Crazy Comet, in which she draws a spell circle and launches several comets against her enemies. On the second playthrough, under certain conditions, she gets three extensions: Twinkle Star, Mix Master, and Princess of Mermaid.

Trivia

 * Beryl is named after the minerals beryl and benitoite.