Lady

The Lady, also known as Girl, is a boss in Final Fantasy VI. It is fought in the third tier of the final battle along with Rest.

Battle
Lady has the lowest HP of all of the final bosses, but she has her strengths. She is weak to all elements but also absorbs them, meaning that all forms of elemental damage will heal her. Lady frequently casts White Wind, healing herself and Rest for several thousand HP. If Rest is killed Lady will cast Arise to revive him. Fortunately, Arise will not heal Rest to his full health of 40,000 HP due to the damage cap, and so he will be revived with 9,999 HP. For these reasons Lady should be defeated first using non-elemental spells like Flare and Ultima.

Note that a Ragnarok can be stolen from Lady, in case the player chose the magicite for the Ragnarok Esper. However, the sword cannot be kept after the final boss in the SNES or PSX version and is only useful for the rest of the battle.

AI Script
If Lady is by itself:
 * Target: All Dead Monsters
 * Arise (100%)

Attack Turns: 1st Turn: White Wind (66%) or Nothing (33%) 2nd Turn: White Wind (33%) or Repose (33%) or Nothing (33%) 3rd Turn: White Wind (66%) or Nothing (33%) 4th Turn: White Wind (33%) or Repose (33%) or Nothing (33%) 5th Turn: White Wind (33%) or Nothing (66%)

Trivia

 * The English SNES version of Final Fantasy VI censored the appearance of Girl, altering her hair slightly to make her breasts less noticeable.
 * Lady's Japanese name is Maria, which is the Italian name for Mary, which carries the connotation that the woman was supposed to be based on the Virgin Mary. However, due to religious sensitivities, the name was changed to Lady.
 * In addition, the fight with Lady (Maria) and Rest was an allusion to the, a sculpture that depicted the recently-deceased Jesus Christ post-crucifixion being cradled by the Virgin Mary, his mother.
 * Tetsuya Nomura's concept art of the tower of gods provides more clarity to Rest's identity. Although the pose is strikingly similar to Michelangelo’s Pieta, the blonde hair, scarf, and pale purple skin tone is relative to Kefka's God like final form, which could mean Rest is Kefka in the final phase of ascension to God. In addition to coinciding to Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, the tier depicts Kefka's complex process of draining the Warring Triad's power with Kefka beside the goddess and above Doom/Fiend & Poltergeist/Demon final forms.

Related Enemies

 * Visage
 * Long Arm
 * Short Arm
 * Tiger
 * Machine
 * Magic
 * Power
 * Rest

Maria (Boss)