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| “ | I lost my whole family, everything... But I butchered those f*ckers. My family's killers. That's when I realized... I am a killer, too. And a good one at that. | „ |
| ~ Mistral to Raiden. |
Mistral, also referring herself as the Cold Wind of France, is a major antagonist in the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and the main antagonist of its Bladewolf DLC.
She is also one of three captains of Desperado Enforcement LLC, as well as being the only female member of the Winds of Destruction.
She was voiced by Salli Saffioti, who also voiced Eramis, Kell of Darkness in Destiny 2: Beyond Light and Francesca De Santis in Hitman.
Biography[]
Past[]
Mistral was born in Algeria, during the civil war of the 1990s. She was orphaned but quickly served the French Foreign Legion in attempt to find revenge for the people who killed her family. As the only female member of the French Foreign Legion, Mistral also served on tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, with her kill count being in the dozens. At some point, Mistral left the Legion and began doing PMC work for Desperado, where she became a member of the Winds of Destructions.
Training Blade Wolf[]
Mistral with Blade Wolf.
Mistral was given orders to train the LQ-84i AI, which had previously been deactivated by Sundowner for "lack[ing] man's killer instinct". Mistral and the AI consistently disagreed over the concept of freedom, After putting the AI through various VR training missions, Mistral employed the LQ-84i to assist her and fellow Desperado member, Khamsin, on a mission in Abkhazia to stage a coup against the government. However, the mission went awry after Mistral disabled the LQ-84i's range inhibitors and allowed him to escape, momentarily via a remote. In reality, Mistral had autonomous control of the AI's accessibility and only released it so it could murder Khamsin. After the LQ killed Khamsin near the shorelines of Abkhazia, Mistral reappeared and enabled it's range inhibitors before humiliating it, reminding the AI it did not possess freedom. Little did she knew that would be the last time she abused LQ-84i, as sending him against Raiden would lead to the latter having the robotic canine rebuilt with Desperado' restraining bolt removed thus earning him his well-deserved freedom and worse, she won't live to see it.
Encountering Raiden[]
Mistral blowing a kiss at Raiden.
Desperado became cautious that rival PMCs may show up in Abkhazia to resist the coup, especially after the LQ thinned their ranks during his attempted escape. As a result, Mistral and Andrey Dolzaev, the Chechen terrorist behind the coup, took up headquarters in a refinery off the coast of Abkhazia, in order to avoid any combat. Raiden was eventually deployed into Abkhazia by Maverick Security, and after scorching through Desperado's security, targeted the refinery. Mistral was confronted by Raiden atop the refinery, where she engaged in battle with the fellow cyborg.
Later on, their fight fell down to the main level of the plant. Sensing the end of the battle to be near, Mistral then attempted to smash Raiden with "L'Etranger" with a downward slam.
Mistral fighting Raiden
However, Raiden parried the blow with his sword, and then proceeded to inch closer and proceeded to backhand her. Irritated at Raiden's persistence, she then tried to thrust at him with the L'Etranger. However, Raiden jumped over one of her thrusts and L'Étranger pierced a liquid nitrogen tank instead. Landing on her weapon, Raiden performed a flip and cut open the tank, freezing her with the liquid nitrogen. Raiden then finished off the immobilized Mistral in mid-air. Mistral's final moments saw her finding comfort in fighting for a cause, before expressing love to an unknown individual over Codec to Dolzaev, who was completely engaged by her unexpected demise. Later on, Mistral's pole weapon was reconstructed and copied by Maverick.
A body double of Mistral was also stored by World Marshall, as a final line of defense for any intruders attempting to seize the PMC's main headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
Personality[]
Mistral appeared to be the most level-headed member of the Winds of Destruction. Unlike Sundowner, Mistral adapted to the ideal that killing out of cold blood was vastly overrated compared to fighting for a specific reason or cause. She also shares a parallel life story with Desperado affiliate Jetstream Sam, who also suffered the loss of his family through violence at a young age, also being an avenger against his family's murderer.
She harbored low opinions toward AI, perceiving them as disposable tools hence her lack of compunction in abusing them as shown when dismantling Dwarf Gekkos before fighting Raiden and fooling LQ-84i with the promise of freedom only to humiliate him in the end.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Cyborg Enhancements: Mistral's physical traits are enhanced by cybernetics. She had the ability to take the arms of Dwarf Gekko, a.k.a. Tripods, and attach them to her body. She could attach up to 14 arms of Dwarf Gekko to her body, 7 arms on each side of her body.
- Enhanced Strength: Mistral is strong enough to tear a dwarf Gekko limbs off and crush it in half with her foot. She can throw dwarf Gekko cores at a fast enough velocity to generate flames. She is even capable of throwing Raiden a far distance with her weapon. She was capable of tearing apart a power plant pipe with her strength
- Enhanced Durability: Mistral is able to take physical strikes from others cyborgs like Raiden, even recovering after being kicked towards a far away pipe on a power plant.
- Enhanced Speed: Mistral can quickly disappear from Raiden and keep up with him in battle. She can spin her weapon fast enough to act like a buzz saw.
- Enhanced Agility: Mistral is capable performing agile maneuvers at a superhuman level. she can jump up great heights and even acrobatically move down a collapsing power plant pipe.
- Enhanced Vision: Similar to Raiden, she possessed optical implants in her eyes. Shortly after her arms were inserted into her body, her eye glowed crimson. In addition, she also saw Raiden from afar revealing that her optical implants could also zoom in via AR.
Abilities[]
- Pole-arm Mastery: Mistral is highly skilled at using polearm weapons in combat. She can uses her weapon's different configurations like a spear, a staff, a flail, or a three section staff. She was skilled enough to taken on master swordsman Raiden in a fight, even catching him off guard at a few points, using her weapon's flexibility to throw him off and slip past his guard.
- Whip Mastery: Mistral is also high skilled at using whip like weapons in combat. She can move her weapon in its whip form at great speed and can even use it as a grappling hook to grab enemies or damage the environment.
- Expert tactician: Mistral is a highly capable planner. She was able to help Dolzaev with his terrorist activities and even manipulated Blade Wolf into killing Khamsin. She uses the environment her advantage such as using Dwarf Gekkos as weapons, throwing Raiden to a different location, and damaging a power plant pipe she is fighting on.
- Leadership: Mistral is capable of leading Desperado forces in the field or behind the scenes.
- Bilingualism: Mistral can speak English as well as her native French.
- Stealth: Mistral was able to disappear from Raiden's sight.
Equipment[]
- Dwarf Gekko Pole-arm: Mistral wields a poleward known as L'Etranger. It is comprised of multiple Dwarf Gekko arms linked together holding knife on each end. In addition to using her L'Etranger as a whip and spear, she could also utilize it in addition to a cartwheel to mow people down in a similar manner to a buzz-saw. She could also loosen both ends to act as grappling hooks to damage the environment and her opponents with a slam, as evidenced with what she did with one of the pipes in the plant during the fight with Raiden.
- Cybernetic chassis: Mistral uses a cybernetic body that can attach extra limbs from dwarf geckos. The feet also have metal claw protrusions on the toes. She carries three knife blades on her left thigh which she uses in the construction of her pole arm.
- Dwarf Gekkos: Mistral is accompanied by several of the robots. She uses their arms to make her polearm. She could also use the remaining cores as volleys to bombard her foes with.
Theme[]
A Stranger I Remain[]
