Ba'al i; Turtle Dove (Bravely Default)

Ba'al i; Turtle Dove is a unique, Lv. 99 boss that can be encountered as a Nemesis in Norende Village. Turtle Dove is a skeletal avian that bears a similarity to the real-life European Turtle Dove which have been known to represent devoted love. It dons a tiara with a white wedding veil and long strands of ribbon flowing behind it. Hanging off of it's lower neck is a heart-shaped bouquet of flowers. It's wings carry a sort of web-like plumage with small, colored baubles sticking out of them. Multi-colored paper chains are wrapped around both of it's legs.

Turtle Dove's attacks include Rake and Seraph Blast, which are it's basic physical and magic attacks, and Sweet Dreams which is a magic attack that afflicts Sleep. When it's remaining HP reaches a certain threshold, it will start using Little Gift, which gives it 3 BP. Little Gift is mostly used in conjunction with it's other moves after braving 3 times.

Turtle Dove specializes in the use of the unique status condition, Love. It inflicts love through Fall in Love, which simply puts one of the characters in that condition. When a character falls in love, a white cloud with a headshot of one of the other characters that they are in love with displayed on it will appear beside them. They are unable to be controlled so they cannot perform any action other than attacking, similar to being afflicted with Berserk. Whenever the beloved character performs an action, the lover will immediately Mimic the exact same action afterwards, regardless if the lover is unable to use the same action when not in love. If one of the characters is KO'd, then any character that loved them would also be KO'd. Turtle Dove also afflicts Love through the use of Love Triangle, which makes two characters fall in love with the same character. If more than one character loves the same character, one of them will attack the other with Love Rivals for high damage. There is no method to confer immunity to Love and can only be cured of either over time or by being KO'd.

One possible strategy for defeating Turtle Dove is to have all the characters be Thieves and equip three of them with the Miscellany Job Command, the abilities Speed 30% Up and Speed 20% Up, and any weapon that boosts AGI, such as Falcon Knives,. Equip one of the three with the Hermes Shoes and a Ribbon and equip the others with Clothespins to prevent sleep. The last character should be given the Spiritism Job Command, Speed 30% Up and Hasten World as well as another Clothespin accessory. The trick here is utilizing Godspeed Strike, which does damage based on the character's speed (AGI) stat. The character with the Hermes Shoes should Brave once, attack with Godspeed Strike, then use Mimic. Then have the other two attacking characters Brave three times then use Mimic four times. The Spiritist should then use Stillness to prevent the party from taking damage as well as any other action to keep him/her at the same negative BP as everyone else. The use of Hasten World should keep Turtle Dove from using it's Love-based attacks as it does not Brave when it uses either of them.