Isabeau de Bavière (Witch ver.)
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| Japanese Name | イザボー・ド・バヴィエール (Isabeau de Bavière) |
| Voiced by | Japanese: Chiaki Takahashi |
| ID No: | 4121 |
| Release Date (JP): | May 24, 2021 |
- For her full bio, see Isabeau de Bavière (or in Magia Record).
Isabeau de Bavière is a character in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record. She is an original character from Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc".
General Info
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| Date of Birth | c. 1370 |
| Age | early 60's (estimated; by 1431) |
| Eye colour | Yellow (Dark Pink when transformed) |
| Hair colour | Blonde |
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| Soul Gem | Oval gem at the center of her necklace (largest oval) |
| Weapon | Ribbons on her dress covered in black roses |
| Witch Form | Crépuscule de La Reine (Real name Isabeau) |
| Powers and Abilities | Creation of Magical Girls, all the powers of Kyubey |
| Wish | For everything you (Kyubey) possess. |
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| Japanese pronoun | watashi (私) |
| Known relatives | Charles VI of France (husband), Dauphin Charles (son), Corbeau, Lapin and Minou (daughters), additional children not shown, Louis I (brother-in-law/lover), Louis IX (grandson), Marie D'Anjou (daughter-in-law) |
| Origins | Likely Munich, Germany |
| School | Not attending |
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Summary
A former queen of France who sold the throne of France to England in the midst of the Hundred Years War, and was called the "traitor queen". She does not transform into a magical girl, but uses unusual magic reminiscent of a Witch, and stands as the last enemy of Tart (Jeanne d'Arc) and others.
Witch Description
La Reine’s Twilight. Her nature is dominion. An avaricious witch who desires endless power and influence. This witch’s main body is actually separate from her larva-shaped legs, and the real body protected by a hard outer shell only rarely reveals its true form. Her Labyrinth is immense enough to cover an entire country, and the populace trapped within it remain none the wiser. The witch feeds on the grief, terror and other negative emotions of the populace swallowed by her Labyrinth’s darkness, and expands her power and territory to become an ever-mightier witch within an ever-larger Labyrinth.
Side Story
| Warning, this section contains spoilers. |
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October, 1428 At noon, La Hire tells Melissa that the English have taken full control of Orleans, that all this happened because of the Treaty of Troyes: an agreement made by Isabeau to marry her daughter Catherine de Valois to the King of England, since her plan was for her grandchild to be the king of both France and England. But since this couldn't happen, things got worse between the English and the French. In another place, Pernelle asks Kyubey if the girl he has chosen will stop Isabeau. Kyubey says he isn't interested in stopping the war, he only wants to stop Isabeau from interfering in his work. Kyubey says that Isabeau was always an intelligent woman, even as a teen, but she always had ambition, so that's what made her have a great potential as a magical girl, but could never have guessed what wish she would make... 1385: Northern France – Amiens Back in the present, Pernelle says that Isabeau also could read and write in Latin, so she quickly became loved in Charles VI's court, being both intelligent and beautiful. Kyubey says that one of Isabeau's talents was the ability to adapt her personality to the tastes of others in order to control them. Kyubey remembers what Isabeau once told him, since she was a foreigner in France, she needed to make allies fast, so she charmed all the court with a fake personality, since only a fool would fight with someone to make enemies. Pernelle guesses that was her way of masking her greedy and power-hungry nature... 1385: France – Paris Back in the present, Pernelle questions Kyubey how he didn't see that the 14-year-old Isabeau seemed to be curious about witches and magical girls, and why he didn't see her as a threat, but Kyubey says he took the risk as the incubators thought that her energy was worth for making a contract, even with all the risks. In the flashback, Isabeau happily starts laughing while making a big face and proceeds to kill Kyubey with a candelabra. At that moment, another Kyubey appeared, asking why she did that if he had already explained himself to her. Isabeau continues smiling as she tells Kyubey that she just wanted to verify that what he told her was true and tells Kyubey how happy she is to have met him, explaining that she did not come to France just to be an ornament and the wife of a king, as she wants to have control over France, England, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire and the rest of the European continent. Kyubey tells her that if that is her case, she can grant her that wish, but Isabeau explains that she actually wants to achieve that for herself and has discovered how to achieve it. With a smile, she proceeds to hold Kyubey with her hands, saying that he is magnificent as if he was "a true incubus". So she asks him for her wish: "I want everything you possess." Isabeau becomes a magical girl, being surprised by her outfit. Kyubey explains to her that it is her magical girl outfit and that, due to her desire, she has become part of him: an Incubator. She obtains the unique ability to create magical girls like Kyubey by sensing their karmic potential like he does. In addition, she also has a large part of the Incubators' other abilities, having great access to all the knowledge that Kyubey possesses, and that her body is eternal and will have the same appearance when older. Isabeau doesn't really understand much of Kyubey's knowledge because it is almost impossible for humans to understand it as Kyubey explains, but Isabeau doesn't seem to care and adds that now that her body is immortal she can start creating her own army of magical girls, who will strengthen her with their wishes and help her eventually dominate Europe. Kyubey asks her how she feels about everything she knows, to which Isabeau adds that she feels like "the Devil himself incarnate." Pernelle thinks that Isabeaus's powers are too powerful, and she finds it strange that Kyubey didn't feel that she was dangerous to him. But Kyubey says that no human will ever be capable of replacing the Incubators, since humans can't comprehend all the knowledge they have, and Isabeau wasn't a threat to them at that moment, since Isabeau wanted to take every step of her conquest slowly, as she thought she had all the time of the world because her body was immortal. 1385: France – Paris Isabeau proceeds to ask the servant what would happen if her husband could no longer rule France, to which the servant says it'd very difficult to say, but the power will probably pass to Charles's brother, Louis I. Isabeau proceeds to ask the servant more questions about other members who could inherit control of France, and she tells her that they would be Philip I himself or his son John I. Isabeau thanks her for the information, and the delighted servant tells her that it is an honor to serve the future Queen and that "her only wish is to serve her for the rest of eternity." Isabeau smiles at her having realized that she has great karmic potential, just as Kyubey told her, and asks the maid if that is what she really wants, she can grant her wish. Isabeau proceeds to transform in her magical girl form and tells her maid to close her eyes, empty her mind, and in this way, she will grant her wish, so that she will swear eternal loyalty to her. 1392: France – Paris Isabeau begins her plan using her maids and servants as spies, who overheard conversations between the palace soldiers as they moved unnoticed from one place to another. A servant of Isabeau spies on a conversation, in which the soldiers talk about Charles VI's poor mental state and how he attacked his brother Louis I on an expedition after having a terrifying vision. The maid informs Isabeau of this, and she realizes that her plan to drive her husband crazy has begun to flourish. Isabeau used the power of one of her servants to start trying to drive her husband crazy, causing him to have these visions while attacking Louis I. Kyubey appears in her room, saying that it has been years since they last saw each other. Kyubey tells her that she has turned several of her maids into magical girls to increase her number of powers or use them for her own benefit in her conspiracies, stating that she forces them to make those wishes. Kyubey does not understand how Isabeau is unable to realize that she now grants miracles, but instead of asking to change things, she only sees her maid servants as magic that just gives her more power in order to be better at manipulation and to make herself more powerful. Isabeau deduces that this must bother Kyubey, but he explains that he really has no emotions and is only intrigued by her incoherent actions and sees them as disadvantageous to his species because he cannot collect the magical energy that Isabeau has been collecting for herself during those years. Isabeau seems to ignore this and Kyubey asks her what she plans to do now. Isabeau tells him that she will make her husband leave the stage with a new power that she has obtained from one of her maids. 1393: France – Near Paris - Saint-Marche 1403: France – Paris 1404: France – Paris November 1407: France – Paris 1410 In her palace, Isabeau is questioned by Kyubey once again if everything is going according to her plan. Isabeau says that she wants to divide France in two and eventually take control of the crown in a more easy way. Isabeau admits that not everything has really gone in the way she wants, but she is making more and more progress in taking down John I. Kyubey tells her that her actions have led to the fragmentation of the country and a civil war about to break out, to which Isabeau responds that she already has one more plan. Due to the events of internal conflicts, England will probably plan to intervene to take over French territory as they did in the past. Isabeau says that some of her daughters are "very pretty" and they can probably marry into the English crown. Isabeau plans to wed her daughter Catherine de Valois to the future king of England, Henry V. Isabeau also states that her youngest daughters "have" the same potential as her, and she is interested in making them like her. Kyubey points out that he is not surprised that Isabeau is planning to turn her youngest daughters into magical girls, saying that unlike all the other sons and daughters Isabeau had, she spends all her time with them, even taking them on field trips, and deduces that she must really love the three of them. Isabeau tells Kyubey that he is right, and reveals that the real reason she wants to make her three youngest daughters into magical girls is because she wants to keep them by her side forever. Kyubey changes the subject and asks Isabeau if it wouldn't be better to use her own magic to take over France for herself and points out that she doesn't seem to take full advantage of her magical girl powers. Isabeau explains that she actually feels great pleasure in doing all this from the shadows slowly, saying that, in this way, she "savors" the process of gaining control and power. And thanks to her desire, she has obtained a body that has stopped aging for a long time, and by using little of her magic, she will have an eternal life, and rushing to achieve her goals would not be as satisfying as that moment. Kyubey wonders why Isabeau considers this to be true, knowing the inevitable truth of every magical girl... Back in the present, Pernelle says that things really did go in favor of Isabeau: the Argmanacs installed Dalphin Charles, Isabeau's son, as the heir of the throne, and in 1419, he was responsible for the death of John I, being manipulated by Isabeau to get rid of him. Kyubey says that then, to get rid of Charles as soon as possible, she started the rumor that Dalphin Charles was an illegitimate son, and caused problems with his throne succession, signing the Treaty of Troyes in 1420 in order to marry her daughter Catherine to King Henry V of England. Isabeau's plan was to have control over her future grandchild to take control of both France and England, but things didn't happen as she wanted them to... August 31, 1422 October 21, 1422 This is what set Isabeau into a state of despair, as her ambitions would not become true. Kyubey says what happened at that moment was inevitable: Isabeau was slowly turning into a witch. Kyubey states that by this point, Corbeau was the only one of her three daughters to have become a magical girl and shortly after that is when Isabeau started to go insane, and she couldn't recognize her daughters anymore, although she still loved them. She was consumed by her frustration and, in the words of Pernelle, became a monster in the form of a human. Pernelle says that at that moment, Kyubey should have won like he always does, but something else happened... In a flashback, Isabeau is shown turning into a witch in front of her three daughters while in a fit of rage, saying that she couldn't let things end like this because she hadn't taken control of anything yet. Watching everything from afar, Kyubey finally believed he could collect the energy produced by Isabeau and the magical girls she had created, but just as the three girls were crying for the death of their mother, the older sister Lapin screamed that she didn't want things to end this way. While Corbeau fought the witch, Lapin was holding her mother's body and said to the witch that she too would become a magical girl and made her wish: "I want my mother to return to the way she was before". Back in the present, Pernelle says that Kyubey didn't account for Crèpuscule de la Reine to retain Isabeau's powers, so she still was part incubator and this was how she granted Lapin's wish, turning Isabeau's body into a puppet for her witch form. Kyubey says that's true, and the real enemy is the witch born out of Isabeau's despair. Pernelle says that if Isabeau and her daughters aren't stopped, humanity could disappear, so that's why Kyubey wants to stop them as this is inconvenient for him... October, 1428 Back in the present, Pernelle hopes that Kyubey is working on solving the problem, and he says that, thanks to a certain girl (Riz Hawkwood), he has been searching for a girl to stop Isabeau, and believes they might be close to finding that girl. Pernelle says that the prophecy is something invented, and he shouldn't believe it, but Kyubey insists that it is people's belief that can increase the karmic potential of the girl he is looking for. Pernelle says that Isabeau is becoming stronger, and they don't know what wish was made by Minou, Isabeau's youngest daughter, and that it might be a problem. Still, Pernelle wants to save humanity. Kyubey asks her what her plans are, but she refuses to tell him, but she does think that her husband, Nicolas, once told her about the importance of miracles and belief in the human heart. |
Appearances
Event Appearances
Other Appearances
Etymology
Trivia
- Isabeau cannot have a doppel attack because she herself is already a Witch.
- The word "Éclosion" is defined as the act of emerging from the pupal case or hatching from the egg.
- Both Isabeau and Ui Tamaki wished for some if not all of the abilities of Kyubey. Isabeau's final Witch form resembles a butterfly while Ui's final Witch form resembles a moth.
Gallery
Game Gallery
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In-Battle Sprite
2nd Magia Sprite
Full Witch Sprite
Isabeau (Witch ver.)
Isabeau at 14 years old.
Isabeau's Magical Girl form at 14 years old.
Isabeau at 19 years old.
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Official Art
Note the eyes on the wings being the same as Kyubey's.
Isabeau single attack
Isabeau side attack
Isabeau vertical attack
Isabeau dying
Isabeau defeated
Isabeau second magia
Memoria Cards
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| Card | Effect | Cooldown | EN Text | JP Text |
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| **Unique to Isabeau (Witch ver.)** The being who calls himself Cube has told her everything she needs to know. She wanted to find out the truth of the story, and that was all. She pierced him with the candlestick and eliminated that single individual. Without any doubt, without any hesitation, without any emotion, she simply extinguished the light of the candlestick. | キューブと名乗るその存在から、彼女はすべてを聞き出した
話の真偽を確かめる…ただそれだけのために 彼女は燭台を突き通し、ひとつの個体を抹殺した 何の迷いも、何の躊躇も、何の感情もなく、ただ燭台の灯を消すように |
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| **Unique to Corbeau** A shadow lurks on the other side of the flimsy curtain. Though addressed in awed tones as a "benefactor", it can no longer be called human. It was the darkness that cloaked Europe itself. | 薄布の向こうに浮かぶ影を
彼女は畏敬を込めて「あの方」と呼ぶ そこに在るのは、もはや人と呼べる存在ではない ヨーロッパを覆い尽くす「闇」そのものだった |
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| A young and pretty lady from Bavaria...
When the day of her official coronation arrives, she will be the Queen of France. But for those who were given that angelic smile, She was anticipating the day when she would be the "queen" to whom they would have to swear allegiance to. | バイエルンから嫁いできた、若く可憐なひとりの淑女…
やがて正式な即位の日を迎えれば、彼女はフランスの王妃となる けれど、その天使の笑みを向けられた者たちにとって 彼女はその日を待たずして、忠誠を誓うべき“王妃”だった |
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External links
Gameplay Videos
- Recording of Isabeau's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)
- Recording of Isabeau's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)
- Recording of Isabeau's 2nd Magia Video on Youtube (JP)