Berthier

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Character Information
Name: Berthier
Name (kanji/kana): ベルチェ
Alignment: Black Moon Clan
Species: Humanoid
Gender: Female
Lives: Nemesis; later Tokyo (anime only, after being purified by the Silver Crystal)
Occupation: Member of the Ayakashi Sisters
Family: Koan (sister), Petz (sister), Calaveras (sister)
Associates: Rubeus
Aliases: None
First Anime Appearance: An Angel? A Devil? Mysterious Girl From the Sky
First Manga Appearance: Act 15 - Black Moon Berthier - Sailor Mercury
First PGSM Appearance: N/A
English Name: Bertie
Actors: Yuri Amano (anime), Kathy Laskey (dub)
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Berthier

Berthier was a member of the Black Moon Clan and the second youngest of the four Ayakashi Sisters. She accompanied Rubeus and her sisters to twentieth century Earth in order to locate Chibiusa and find the Silver Crystal.

Anime

In the anime, Berthier was the quiet one of the four Ayakashi Sisters. She did not often rely on her physical strength, and usually used her Droids to perform her work as opposed to getting personally involved like the other three did. This tended to lead the other sisters to think that Berthier was not very strong in general and that she was even incompetent.

However, Berthier was implied to be very intelligent, and when she used her power, she was capable of brainwashing someone simply by looking at them and speaking to them, whereas the other three must relied solely on Droids and devices infused with black energy. She could also use a freezing power to trap her victims in ice with little effort. She was the least argumentative of the sisters, preferring to let the other sisters fight each other, while she fought for recognition.

Despite her composed demeanor and her own misgivings about how her sisters regarded her, Berthier was nevertheless loyal to them and was distraught when Koan turned over to Sailor Moon's side. Being closer to Koan than the others, Berthier was suspected of wavering, and in an attempt to prove her loyalty to the cause, Berthier went after the Crystal Point of Chess Tower in episode 71, where she learned the identity of Sailor Mercury. Challenging the Sailor Senshi to a handicap chess match in her favor, Berthier nevertheless lost when Tuxedo Mask interfered, and she was then abandoned by Calaveras and Petz.

The humiliation and betrayal drove Berthier to try to kill herself and the Senshi, but Koan's love for her older sister ultimately allowed Berthier to see another chance for herself. She was subsequently healed by Sailor Moon.

Attacks

  • Dark Water - a stream of freezing water which surrounded her and was then blasted towards an enemy, in a similar fashion as Sailor Mercury's Shine Aqua Illusion attack.
  • Dark Water Full Power - an advanced form of Dark Water, used in a suicidal fit of desperation. It had the effect of freezing most of the surrounding area.

Manga

Berthier appeared in Act 15 of the manga as the architect of 002: Operation Remove. An expert dowser, her goal was to find Chibiusa and the Sailor Senshi with her dowsing ability, kill them, and infiltrate Tokyo with Droids. She thus challenged Ami Mizuno to a chess match as a pretext for luring the Senshi to her. She managed to trap Sailor Mercury in a water current before she was killed by Sailor Moon. The water current - with Mercury in it - was then taken by Rubeus to Nemesis.

Musicals

Berthier's only appearance in the musicals was in Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (Kaiteiban) - Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo, and she was played by Manami Wakayama.

Video Games

Berthier appeared as a boss in the video game Sailor Moon: Another Story. She appeared in Chapter Four, and was the second boss to challenge the Sailor Senshi on board the Black Moon UFO.

Attacks

  • Dark Water

Trivia

  • Berthier is named for the mineral berthierite, an iron sulfide.