Story:Conquest/Maribelle

Maribelle Taebrys is a main character in Conquest of Ivalice. A weapons manufacturer from a notable company who supplies arms to all sides in the great war.

Profile
A natural extrovert, Maribelle has a rotating nature and a fairly high level of confidence. While she is pleasant enough to be around, she is either too serious at times, causing her to completely miss certain jokes and sarcasm and become too easily offended; or too lackadaisical, prone to laughing fits and whimsical flights of fancy. Either way, she is just past the imaginary line of ladylike-ness, where she fails to get gentleman callers yet isn't completely tomboyish. She has a very faint spark of genius (or insanity) that gives way to either wonderful new ideas and further success, or miserable failure, whether in her business ventures or in the field of battle.
 * Personality

Maribelle is a woman of slim and slight athletic build with a slight tan due to numerous outdoor training sessions. She is of slightly taller than average height. Her work forging weapons and training with them has built her up so she is slightly more toned than the average woman. Her long blonde hair frames her face nicely in front and falls halfway down her back and is usually left unbound, unless she is working, training, or in battle. Her brown eyes are piercing yet kind. Her skin is marred in a few places by odd burns received from accidents whilst forging weapons. Maribelle has two main attires: the first being a long sleeved light pink dress with a short skirt and thigh-high boots. Her secondary attire consists of a cream-colored jacket with matching slacks and leather boots.
 * Appearance

Maribelle is the eldest daughter born to a Noble father and a Merchant-class mother. Raised as a Noble due to her father's self-made fortune, Maribelle enjoyed a relatively easy life growing up despite the war, receiving a good education (she finished near the top of her class). After graduating, she set on to be groomed to take over the family business, being the eldest of the five Taebryn girls. For a few years she trained on the making of weapons and the actual business transactions, and continued her diligent weapons training regimen she had been following since thirteen years of age. At the age of twenty-five, tragedy struck: during her parents' routine inspection to an outlying weapons plant, the facility was raided by a traveling pack of highwaymen, who set fire to the place before making off with all the weapons they could carry. Maribelle's parents perished in the blaze, leaving her as the sole heir of Taebrys Armamaments Manufacturing. Her sole goal now is to realize vengeance, not by hunting down the guilty party, but by making her parents' company more successful than they had ever dreamed about. Unfortunately, weapons are not bought and used themselves...
 * Story

Abilities
Due to her upbringing, Maribelle has had sufficient training with numerous weapon types, and is able to wield several of them with a high degree of skill and natural ability. Naturally, her effectiveness in combat is decided upon which weapons she's currently carrying, and dependent upon how many she's carrying. Her fighting style varies greatly with these two factors, and gives her the option to be rather unpredictable in combat with the option of several weapon combinations. The weapon types she can wield are: One-handed Swords, Greatswords, Shields, Knives, Lances, Axes, Hammers, Bows, Incendiaries, and Guns. She also has an odd knack for turning common everyday items into effective weapons.

Later on in the story, Maribelle learns some simple White Magicks.