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Ivy
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| Fullname | Isabella Valentine |
| Nickname | Twisting Blade of Solitude |
| Voiced By | Renee Hewitt Lana Minella |
| Weapon Type | Snake Sword |
| Weapon Name(s) | Valentine (Ivy Blade) |
| Fighting Style | Unknown |
| Age | 28 (Soulcalibur), 32 (Soulcalibur II-Soulcalibur IV) |
| Birthdate | December 10, 1559 |
| Alignment | Neutral |
| Family | Adoptive Parents Deceased Father Cervantes de Leon |
| Birthplace | London, England (Present Day - British Empire) |
| Height | 5'10" |
| Weight | 128 lbs |
| Hair Colour | White |
| Eye Colour | Blue |
| Blood Type | Unknown |
Isabella "Ivy" Valentine (イザベラ・バレンタイン - アイヴィー, Izabera Barentain - Aivī) made her first appearance in Soulcalibur and has returned in Soulcalibur II, Soulcalibur III & in Soulcalibur IV.
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[edit] Weapons
[edit] Valentine (Ivy Blade)
A snake sword with the ability to expand and contract at will. Ivy performed extensive research to find a suitable weapon to aid in her quest to destroy Soul Edge. She based her design on an Asian multi-segmented whip. The first attempts were mechanical whips, based on mechanical principles, but she rejected those ideas and began using black magic to create the perfect weapon. She summoned the hand of Nightmare to give life to "Ivy Blade", but she was ignorant that this power was from Soul Edge, the same power she sought to destroy. After she found out her blood and weapon were also linked with the wicked sword, she changed her weapon's name to "Valentine".
[edit] Stages
[edit] Story
Ivy was raised with love in the home of the English nobles, the Valentines. However, her father, Count Valentine, died a madman, driven to insanity by his obsession with alchemy.
The Count squandered the family fortune on the pursuit of alchemy. Soon after the fall of the Valentine family, Ivy learned from her mother, on her death bed, that she was adopted. Ivy had no interest in finding her biological parents.
Ivy eventually learned about her father's search for Soul Edge and began to follow in his footsteps. She became an alchemist.
Ivy learned that Soul Edge was evil and vowed to destroy it. She succeeded in creating a weapon suited for this purpose through ancient sorcery.
[edit] Ending
Ivy defeats inferno, but is surprised to see that her sword is still alive, despite the fact that the evil is gone. She figures out that the evil is running through her blood, so she sets out on a quest to destroy everything associated with Soul Edge.
[edit] Canon Ending
Ivy finds out that her father is Cervantes, so she sets out to destroy him and herself.
When Ivy left on her journey, she crossed paths with Nightmare, who she had previously summoned to breathe life into her blade. She agreed to help him in a ceremony to summon souls, oblivious to the fact that this was all part of the demonic blade's plan.
Ivy discovered the truth on the day that Nightmare was defeated and Soul Edge was shattered. She realized that Nightmare possessed Soul Edge and that her father was Cervantes, who had been manipulated by its dark powers.
Shaken by the horrible truth, Ivy sealed herself away in her laboratory.
After months of soul searching, Ivy returned with a renewed drive to destroy Soul Edge and everything connected to it. She renamed her sword, which shared her fate, Valentine.
[edit] Ending
Ivy destroys all of Soul Edge's remains. With only herself and her sword left with the evil blood, she chooses to live out the rest of her life in obscurity, with only her sword to keep her company.
Her ending description clearly states: "A difficult journey lies ahead of her. Her resolve is stronger and more tragic than any other."
[edit] Canon Ending
Ivy is still looking to destroy Soul Edge.
Ivy was on a quest to destroy everything associated with Soul Edge. In her mission, she often had slain the innocent, but that didn't matter. All that mattered was that Soul Edge be exterminated.
Ivy's sword had begun to change. It was unstable. She decided to return to her alchemy lab in order to investigate this. Once there, she would have access to her equipment. On the way home, she stopped into a certain academic English town. There, she bought some books about the secret arts. Both old and new books had been gathered to the one place. When she returned home, she looked through the books she had bought. One of them stood out; it revealed the nature of Soul Edge. As far as she knew, this was the most detailed information ever gathered on the subject. As she deciphered the ancient text, she discovered the other sword, Soul Calibur. It was a sword that restrained the power of the evil sword, and fought against it. This seemed almost too good to be true, but the precise nature of the text didn't seem to be fiction.
Over the course of a month, Ivy discovered every detail about the sword. The thought that it existed excited her. She closed her eyes in contemplation, but the sound of the door opening startled her.
"Who are you?" She asked in a firm tone.
"Did you read the book?" The man asked in a quiet, cold voice. The man was tall, with dark skin, wearing a robe. In the following silence they both learned the answer to their respective questions. Ivy grabbed the book and stepped back. She drew her weapon. The man drew a scythe, seemingly out of nowhere.
The battle ensued. The man struck very precise strikes with his weapon, but Valentine was able to deflect them all in a flurry of clashing steel.
"Damn it!" Ivy clenched her teeth. She had to concentrate harder than usual to control her sword. This slight distraction gave the man an opening. Ivy was knocked back by the force of the blow. She dropped the book, and the man picked it up.
"This is a mistake from my past," the man said. "The world no longer needs this." The book burst into flames. He dropped the book on the floor. The flames spread with an unusual fervor, separating the two.
"Stop!"
"If you wish to learn everything about the cursed sword and the spirit world, then follow the knight you know well..." With these words the man disappeared behind the curtain of flames.
The wall of flames surrounded Ivy. She was not afraid, but she could not allow it to destroy her precious lab. She gave up her pursuit. Ivy looked into the darkness. She pondered. She had lost the book, but its contents were etched into her memory. And although she was angry at the man for the way he had treated her, she believed him. It was decided. She would set out once more. She would find the truth about Soul Calibur, and obtain it for herself!
[edit] Ending
Ivy is about to destroy Soul Edge, when she is grabbed by... ghost Ivy? She struggles...
[edit] Input Ending
She breaks free of Soul Edge and destroys it.
[edit] Non-Input Ending
She is forced towards it. She drops her sword. It shifts to her, hunched over Soul Edge, crying. "So there's.... no way for me to do this?"
Ivy continued to search for a way to destroy the cursed sword, and arrived at a great empire to the East where she learned of the spirit sword. However, this presented a new problem. The blood of the cursed sword that coursed through Ivy's veins would prevent her from ever wielding the spirit sword. Even if she could find it, she would not be able to use it to destroy the cursed sword.
Ivy interrupted her journey and returned to her family mansion, where she once again delved into her alchemic research. But jsut as she began to close in on success, her experiements were cut short by a sudden attack. Cervantes, her own cursed, inhuman father, had come to rob his own flesh and blood, to take his daughter's soul.
Ivy lost that deadly fight, and the man nearly consumed her soul entirely, but Ivy had one last chance. She had been searching for the means to fabricate a being that could wield the spirit sword. Ivy used the artificial soul that would have animated that being to save her own life instead, but the research had been incomplete. Death would come to her, sooner or later.
Ivy took up the snake sword that was her other half. She had lost much of the soul that connected her to the weapon, but it still responded to her. Yes, she could fight with it. And the new soul she had created, even though mixed with Ivy's own cursed soul, remained pure. Perhaps she could wield the spirit sword now?
Ivy would fullfill her oath and destroy Soul Edge. Resolutely, she set out on her last journey.
[edit] Trivia
- The man that Ivy meets in Soulcalibur III is Zasalamel.
- In Soulcalibur I, if Cervantes isn't unlocked, Ivy's Destined Battle is Taki.
- Ivy helped Nightmare gather souls with Astaroth and Lizardman, by slaughtering people. She wanted to repay him for helping her bring her sword to life. (Obviously, at this point she didn't know that Nightmare had Soul Edge.) However, she soon started to feel guilty for killing people. She also became repulsed by the fact that Astaroth enjoyed it all and Lizardman was "Not of this Earth." When Ivy tried to escape through an underground tunnel at Ostrheinsburg Castle, Astaroth stopped her. When he asked where she was going, she told him. He laughed and told her that the object of her quest was right in front of her the whole time. She wondered why Nightmare let her near him. Astaroth said that it was because the sword wanted her around, just in case something were to happen to Nightmare. It wanted her as a spare host. Astaroth was about to kill her, when Kilik, Maxi and Xianghua arrived at the castle. Astaroth left to go deal with them. He commanded his clay golems to finish her off, but she barely managed to defeat them all. She didn't want to believe Astaroth's words, so she left to talk to Nightmare directly. Before she got very far, she was confronted by Taki. Ivy attacked but Taki blocked. The surrounding trees groaned in pain. Taki told Ivy the same thing that Astaroth told her, that the Ivy Blade was created using the magic of Soul Blade. It was the child of the evil sword. Taki then told her that the evil blood ran through Ivy as well. Ivy attacked again, but Taki dodged and jumped on top of a pillar. She told Ivy that she had felt the same Aura before, when she had fought the previous owner of the evil sword, Cervantes. Taki left. And that's how Ivy learned about her father.
- There is character art called "Schwartztrom" (which means "black storm") of Nightmare, Astaroth, Lizardman, and Ivy; that this could the group's name.
- Ivy didn't see all of Nightmare when she brought her sword to life. Just his hand appeared.
- Ivy was left on the doorstep of the Valentine mansion.
- The first Ivy Blade that Ivy created was mechanical, but she knew that there was no way a gadget like that could stand up to a demon sword.
- The sword, Valentine, has a mind of its own. It chooses to protect Ivy.
- Ivy tried on numerous occasions to destroy Valentine, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.
- Ivy's goal is to destroy Soul Edge, because it drove her father insane. Now, she wants to destroy everything associated with it as well, including herself. She also doesn't care how many people she has to kill to do so.
- One could go through every character's storyline in Soulcalibur, and the only hints that Ivy is Cervantes' daughter, is the picture of him in the background of her ending, and the fact that he is her destined battle.
- Ivy, at 5'10", is the tallest female character in the series.
[edit] Character Relationships
- Daughter of Cervantes de Leon, whom she loathes and was defeated by in Soulcalibur IV.
- Servant of Nightmare in Soulcalibur.
- Defeated by Astaroth in Soulcalibur.
- Defeated by Taki in Soulcalibur.
- Defeated Seong Mi-na in Soulcalibur.
- Future love interest of Raphael.
- Defeated by Zasalamel before the events of Soulcalibur III.
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