Esdeath

Esdeath is a high-ranking general of the Empire, and leader of the Jaegers.

Esdeath appears to be quite emotionless and indifferent to the suffering of others. She enjoys torturing her enemies slowly, seen when she used her Teigu to put large blocks of ice in a boiling cauldron so that the prisoners inside would die slower and suffer more. Despite her sadistic actions, she is actually shown to have a compassionate heart when it comes to the lives of her men and others close to her. Esdeath values and respects those whom she deems strong and competent, and will generously reward them without asking for anything in return. She is obsessively infatuated with Tatsumi.

Appearance
Esdeath is slender woman with long blue hair and blue eyes. She wears General Clothes with long sleeves and a blue scarf on her neck. She also has a tattoo on her chest, which is the proof of her Teigu.

Personality
Edeath is a sadist who lacks empathy for people she deems weak, since she lives 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 has no qualms about killing innocent people to get what she wants, and rationalizes her behavior with her father's old creed. Esdeath however is not completely heartless, since she cares about her comrades and adores them, and this in turn inspires their intense loyalty and devotion.

Esdeath has been shown to comfort her comrades when they are in emotional pain, despite the fact that this seems to contradict her views on the strong and the weak. She is deeply and genuinely in love with Tatsumi. Believing him to be uniquely worthy of her affection, she refuses to show romantic interest in any one other than him.

Her kindness however does not get in the way of her desire for only strong fighters, as she orders her soldiers to kill Tatsumi if he refuses to surrender peacefully. She also subjected Wave to light torture as punishment when he failed to prevent Tatsumi from escaping the Jaegers.

Esdeath loves to fight and holds special respect for strong opponents, which she shows when she openly recognizes Susanoo as a warrior rather than 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.

After the events of Run's conversion to a puppet due to Wild Hunt, Esdeath claims that they will not get away with it; despite Wild Hunt's leader being the Prime Minister's son.

Bio
She was born in the Northern Frontier Lands and is the sole remaining survivor of her village, the Partas Clan. She spent most of her childhood in the north with her Tribe and she was very close with her father, the clan chief. She was a skilled and formidable fighter at even such a young age. Whenever she caught prey for the tribe her father would begin gutting the creature without killing it. Due to this she became comfortable with the idea of inflicting pain on living things. Her father told her that in the North "The strong live and the weak die", a creed she kept close to her heart. One day she returned from an outing to find her Tribe destroyed, with everyone either dead or dying. Her father was still alive but mortally wounded, and she vowed to herself to become strong. Later, she joined the Empire's Military, rising through the ranks rapidly, and at some point the Prime Minister allowed her to choose a Teigu, she noticed one that was chained off from the others (Demons Extract) and chose it.

After she chose her Teigu some point later she would become aware of General Liver's incarceration and free him. Later, she would be ordered by The Empire to go with Boss and "Make an example" of the Ban Tribe that had rose up in rebellion against The Empire. Using her mastery over Ice, she froze an entire river that cut her army off from the Tribes' main village and used this makeshift ice bridge to cross over and defeat them, capturing their leaders. She then ordered her army to "violate this town until [they were] satisfied," resulting in the mass rapes and murders of civilians. She forced the leaders to watch their village violated to encourage future insubordination to the Empire. Some time after this she is told to go subjugate the Northern Tribes. Her forces defeated them faster than anyone expected. During this conquest she buried 400,000 of it's people alive, and broke the hero Numa Seika's sanity and will, before killing him. Following her return to the capital, Esdeath has stated that she wishes to try her hand at falling in love. She provides a list of short but incredibly specific qualifications to The Emperor and the Prime Minister.

On a request from Prime Minister she sends The Three Beasts to lure out Night Raid by having them kill his political enemies. After the death of her three bodyguards at the hands of Tatsumi and Bulat, Esdeath forms a new group of Teigu wielders she subsequently names "Jaegers" to hunt down the members of Night Raid and to maintain peace and order throughout the empire.

Following the formation of The Jaegers, The Emperor holds a tournament in order to determine a new wielder for Ecstasy, the Teigu secured from Sheele following her death. Esdeath also takes advantage of this event in order to find a proper lover that will fulfill her requirements. Tatsumi participates in the tournament in order to gather information and hopefully, if he wins, obtain money in order to send back to his village which was ultimately his original goal before becoming entwined in the war between The Resistance and The Empire. His incredible skill and bright, warm smile attracts Esdeath's attention and she instantly falls in love with him, completely oblivious to the fact that he is a member of the opposing force. Snapping a collar on his neck, Esdeath knocks out Tatsumi and drags him back to the Jaeger's headquarters.

Seeing an advantage in her affections, Tatsumi tries unsuccessfully to defect Esdeath to Night Raid. His attempts to convince her to leave the empire fall upon deaf ears, and Esdeath sternly retorts that it is she who will change and control him and not vice versa. After a few days with the Jaegers, Tatsumi manages to narrowly escape from Esdeath, and a hostile Wave, who spotted incursio and recognized it as a Teigu belonging to Bulat, and attacked. Tatsumi's departure only serves to increase Esdeath's longing.

After she lost him, Esdeath begin to feel depressed and noted the change in herself while she was on night patrol (while riding her dragon) and how she went out because of how pretty the moon was. Something that was very out of character for her. When she noted a person on mount Fake, she jumped down to fight him only to find that it is Tatsumi, much to her delight (and his horror).

During their encounter, a mysterious individual clad in a coat appears after Esdeath easily cuts down a group of Danger Beasts. Before she can attack or capture the man however, he activates his own Teigu, Shambala, and instantly teleports both Esdeath and Tatsumi to an unidentified South-Eastern island. On the island, they encounter a danger beast nearly identical to Dr. Stylish's final monster form, and using her Demon's Extract Teigu, she fairly quickly dispatches the colossal Danger Beast. Esdeath later sits down with Tatsumi to discuss their pasts before the mysterious Teigu user activates the previous portal, allowing Tatsumi to slip away into it and back onto the mountain. Esdeath chases after him, but loses sight of Tatsumi after he engages Incursio's invisible ability, and hides behind a rock.

After Esdeath is done reminiscing and wondering where Tatsumi had gone, she received word that Night Raid was spotted on the outskirts of the empire. Along with the Jaegers, she headed toward them in expectations of Najenda and her tricks. The entire ordeal ended up being Part of a rouse by Night Raid as their plan went astray, and even went as far as to lose a member of the Jaegers. Unfortunately for Esedese, she was played skillfully and was used to clean up a large group of Bandits.

Immediately after their battle in the outskirts of the empire, Esdeath & her Jaegers received their new mission of protecting Bolick, an Empire spy in the ranks of the Path of Peace. The Jaegers were assigned to overlook the well being of Bolick under the assumption that Night Raid would attack. Just as predicted, Night Raid invaded. During the Invasion, Esdeath shows exceptional skill which is well beyond the level of a mere soldier (Just as expected of the Empires Strongest). It is during the fight where she reveals her Demon Extract's Trump card "Mahapadma" which can "Freeze" time and space itself. After Bolick was successfully eliminated, Najenda activated Susano's ultimate ability



"Magatama Manifestation", in an attempt to create a diversion for Night Raid to escape, intending to sacrifice both herself and Susano. Esdeath attempted to hinder Susanoo from throwing the Night Raid members out of the building, but fails. After Night Raid's escape, an angry Esdeath strikes down Susano and shatters his core, killing him permanently.

After the conflict between Wild Hunt with Run turned into a corpse, Esdeath returns from the invasion with the Western Tribe Nation, leaving her army there. And from hearing the news about Run, Esdeath is vexed with Wild Hunt and claims that they will not get away with this; despite the close relations Wild Hunt has with the Prime Minister.



A week later, Tatsumi and Lubbock are trapped inside the palace, Tatsumi is agitated by numerous attacks from Wild Hunt causing him to wield Incursio. Esdeath appears and is shocked, finally realising that he joined Night Raid.

Equipment &amp; Skills
Esdeath is the strongest person in the empire and is very skilled in battle. She possesses a powerful Teigu called Demon's Extract that allows her to manipulate ice and create ice from nothing. She uses it to create icicles, freeze things and more. She has been able to freeze an entire lake within moments with her ability. She also possesses a long rapier that she wields with her into combat. She has shown herself to be quite adept with this weapon even without having to resort to her Teigu. She also has a strong sixth sense, being able to sense killing intent even at long distances. She was perfectly able to sense that someone was spying on her. She shows very few weak spots during battle. She is also has notable torture kill. She knows various torture skills and even creates new ones herself. Esdeath is also incredibly talented, because she was able to create her own trump card.

Esdeath also has a pet dragon that she flies around on.

Trivia

 * Esdeath is a play on the phrase "S" desu, which means "I am an S(sadist)".
 * 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.
 * Her Army has its own symbol; a Cross.
 * Her hobby is hunting High-class Danger Beasts.
 * Esdeath is 170 cm tall, her measurements are 87-54-85. Her blood type is O.
 * She will be voiced by Satomi Akesaka in the anime.