Lebreau

Lebreau is a character from Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2. In Final Fantasy XIII, she is a temporary party member, appearing in the early parts of the game. She fights with a rifle, and has the ability to heal in battles.

Datalog
''Friends with Snow from a young age, Lebreau is one of the founding members of NORA. She runs the café they opened to fund NORA's operations, and her cooking is one of the best-kept secrets in Bodhum.''

With her brusque, no-nonsense manner, the young woman is treated just like one of the guys, and she would have it no other way.

Appearance
Lebreau has shoulder length black hair and light brown eyes.

Personality
Character designer Nao Ikeda said, "She talks and acts much more mature for her age, and sometimes acts as if she's the mother of NORA," giving insight into her personality.

Final Fantasy XIII
Lebreau comes from the seaside town of Bodhum, where she tends a bar near to the beach. She also watches over members of the self-funded monster hunting group NORA, along with Snow, Gadot, Yuj, and Maqui.

When the Purge was initiated to all Bodhum residents due to the discovery of a Pulse fal'Cie at the Pulse Vestige ruins nearby, Lebreau joins NORA, which was turned into a resistance group against the Sanctum.

Lebreau's fate, along with the rest of NORA, is unknown after the events at the Hanging Edge, as they are only seen in flashbacks afterward. However, she comes back along with Gadot, Yuj, and Maqui during the events in Eden, where the team declare they remain loyal to Snow despite him being a l'Cie.

Final Fantasy XIII-2
When a monster attacks Serah, Lebreau rushes in, shooting it down and saving her. She also tells the latter that she has to look after herself now as Lightning is dead, but she is knocked unconscious by another monster, terrifying Serah. After the battle, Noel lays her before the NORA house saying that she needs to rest.

The next day, she catches Gadot, Maqui, and Yuj eavesdropping on Serah, Mog, and Noel when they are about to leave through a Time Gate.

Final Fantasy XIII: Reminiscence -tracer of memories-
NORA members' souls found their way to the new world where they were reincarnated and established a restaurant, the "Nora House". One day, a reporter investigating the stories of people having memories of a past life in another world visits the restaurant and orders the Nora Special. The taste triggers a flood of memories, and the reporter recalls her past life: she was Aoede, a reporter caught up in the Purge who helped expose Sanctum's lies by airing Purge footage with the help of broadcast hacks by Maqui. The members of NORA remember Aoede and Lebreau tells her where to find Serah.

Gameplay
Lebreau is a temporary party member, and she has the exclusive Potion ability to heal all other characters during battle. Potion is shown in the ability menu to cost two ATB segments while during battle it costs only one segment. According to the Ultimania it costs 1.5 segments. She fights with a rifle. Unknown to the player, Lebreau's Attack command costs two ATB segments to execute compared to the main cast, where it costs one ATB segment. Due to her being a temporary character, her status, abilities, and inventory cannot be viewed on the main menu. She has the full ATB gauge, which is six segments. Her HP is shown as ???, but is fixed at 330. Lebreau leaves the party early in the story, so she doesn't receive an Eidolith.

Creation and Development
According to the Final Fantasy XIII Ultimania Omega, Nao Ikeda was inspired by an unused piece of Final Fantasy X-2 concept art when designing Lebreau. Her design was based on volleyball players inspired from the images of butterflies flying along an Asian beach resort. Lebreau's character design and costume is due to the beach location of NORA's base.

Small difference exist between the pre-release model of Lebreau and the retail one, including some shading in her face and her breasts, the blue tassels hanging from her waist are slightly different, and the stockings are made darker in the retail version.

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Lebreau appears in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game.

Trivia

 * By using an Xbox 360 hack, Lebreau can be made playable beyond her stint in the Hanging Edge. This hack exists on the 360 port, and is later possible on the PlayStation 3.
 * In Final Fantasy XII, there is a female NPC in Imperial City of Archades called "Lebleau".
 * The player can get different colored versions of Lebreau's butterfly tattoo as adornments in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.