Riesbyfe Stridberg

Riesbyfe is a character from the Melty Blood franchise. While she was appearing briefly during Sion TATARI's Last Arc animation since Re-Act, it was only in Actress Again that she became a playable character. She also appears in flashbacks in the Melty Blood manga.

Biography
Riesbyfe is the leader of the knight's heresy persecution group and an official Shield Knight vampire hunter from the Church. She uses a Conceptual Weapon True Apocrypha (正式外典) AKA Spear Key and Gun Shield, a pile bunker shaped like a string instrument. True Apocrypha appears to briefly materialize several glyphs as well as the illusion of a completely deserted ruin bathed in the horizon upon the usage of its power, but details are unknown. It is called the holy shield "Gamaliel" by Zepia and is noted to be the reason behind Ries not obeying Dust of Osiris in her storyline path. She is also a friend of Sion Eltnam Atlasia and died rescuing her from Wallachia during his last manifestation prior to Melty Blood. In the Yumizuka and Sion routes of Actress Again, she continues to live after the destruction of the Dust of Osiris and joins the Back Alley Alliance.

Trivia

 * Up until TYPE-MOON created Sion, Riesbyfe was supposedly the main heroine of Melty Blood and would've appeared as Ciel's rival.
 * In sixth chapter of Kara no Kyoukai, the headmaster of Reien Girl's Academy is stated to be "Mother Riesbyfe" and mentioned to have a large string instrument case in her office.