Jihl Nabaat



Lieutenant Colonel Jihl Nabaat (ジル・ナバート Jiru Nabāto) is an antagonist in Final Fantasy XIII. She is an officer in the Cocoon army, the commander of PSICOM, and is an enemy of Lightning and her allies. She wears glasses and blond hair reaching all the way down to her knees, and wields a high-powered sniper rifle and a cane.

Jihl was designed by Nao Ikeda, who also designed the members of Team Nora.

Story
Jihl has both political and personal motivations for opposing Lightning's group. She graduated first in her class and quickly advanced in the ranks of the military to the position she holds as lieutenant colonel. She is in charge of daily policy and takes strategic command of the PSICOM soldiers. Jihl is described as intelligent, yet cruel and heartless, and she sees the l'Cie as subhumans. Yaag Rosch is her right-hand man.

Arriving at Nautilus, attempts to play with Sazh Katzroy before sicing him on Vanille, later watching over a captive Vanille being boarded to an airship along with a coffin holding the seemingly dead Sazh. Later in the game, she interrogates Sazh by telling him that Sanctum will use Sazh's crystallized son, Dajh Katzroy as a monument to "the tragic hero who saved Cocoon."

When the protagonist group broke into Paramekia Floating Base, Jihl stood between them and Galenth Dysley. However, Galenth would reveal his true nature as a fal'Cie, fatally struck her down with his magic.