Legretta
Legretta the Quick is a God-General of the Oracle Knights in the game Tales of the Abyss. She is one of Van’s most trusted subordinates and is often seen being a bodyguard for him, carrying out his most intricate operations, and even occasionally giving commands to the other God-Generals. She also has the rank of Major in the regular Oracle Knights, and she was the instructor for Tear Grants. She has very close ties with both Tear and Van, but she does fight against Tear and her allies multiple times along the storyline. She fights using a pair of fon-tech handguns and Light Fonic Artes. Her Japanese name is Regret, and her Title is Magic Bullet, Regret.
Legretta has a staccato 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. In the Japanese version, she is voiced by Miki Ito, while in the American version, she is voiced by Cindy Robinson.
She explains in Eldrant that people should have their own free will and not be shackled to Yulia’s Score, and Legretta 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 that only what the commandant wants is the right thing. 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 that 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 also the one who taught Tear that only poor soldiers let people see what they feel outright, so Tear’s resolve not to cry or act scared or sad under any circumstances is Legretta’s fault.
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, which is her strongest attack that raises multiple walls of light around her, and ends with her firing a larger version of Rage Laser at the person being attacked after they are hailed with gunfire. Legretta is also resistant to light based fonic artes and strike artes, with her element being light.
Legretta refused to accept being controlled by the Score, the planet’s memory, and 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 at all.
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 Sheriden, 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 is willing to put her life on the line if it were to mean his dream coming true. She stated that this is all she wanted in life and that a world with people that can 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 the Major and Tear once shared a close bond. Thusly, 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 the Quick fights the party a total of 3 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 right in front of their feet. The first time she is fought is at the end of the Deo Pass, right before the party reaches Akzeriuth. After 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 here, 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 revealed that she survives later, 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, and also attempting to get the Sword of Lorelei from him to 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 that 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, and states that even though Tear may think that 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.
Her real name is Giselle Oslo.
