Giselle Gewelle

"It was pretty tough, you know? Turning Bambi-chan into a zombie. With fellow Quincy, I can't do it until they're already dead, so I actually had to finish her off myself! I remember Bambi-chan's face when I did it. That face...made me so wet..." — Giselle Gewelle in "MARCHING OUT THE ZOMBIES"

Overview

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Giselle Gewelle
Race	Quincy
Birthday	December 24
Gender	Female
Height	160cm
Professional Status
Affiliation	Wandenreich
Epithet	Z: The Zombie
Team	Sternritter Bambies
Base of Operations	Silbern
Primary Skills
Spirit Weapon	Heilig Bogen
Signature Skill	Zombie Conversion
Vollständig	Azhalbiora
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 544
Anime	Episode 380
Voices
Japanese	Nao Tōyama
English	Casey Mongillo

Giselle Gewelle (ジゼル・ジュエル, Jizeru Jueru) is a Quincy and a member of the Wandenreich's Sternritter with the designation Z: The Zombie.

Appearance

Giselle has blue eyes and long, black hair extending down to her lower back, with two strands sticking up like antennae. Her attire is a variation of the Sternritter's typical white uniform, consisting of a trench coat with long sleeves, white shoes, and black leggings. She wears a small white cap, which features a black peak and the Wandenreich insignia emblazoned on its front, on the side of her head. She also wears a blue heart buckle on her waist.

Personality

Giselle has a cheerful and nonchalant attitude. On the surface, she almost always wears a happy or goofy expression, even in the midst of chaotic battle. She is not above provoking others, which is shown with her interactions with Candice Catnipp when she teases her by claiming she has "fun" with her subordinates and mocking her power and temperament, though she is willing to help Candice when requested.

Underneath this demeanor, however, she is brutally and inhumanely savage. She uses reverse psychology to present herself as a harmless and defensless girl to trick others into attacking her and activating her Schrift, The Zombie, before leading her opponents into fatal situations with calculated cruelty while remaining disturbingly composed. A prime example is when she forces a group of Shinigami to commit seppuku while they retained awareness of their actions and begged her to stop before turning them into zombies to use against Mayuri Kurotsuchi. She attempts to do this against Ikkaku Madarame and Yumichika Ayasegawa as well, though they easily see through her act. This cruelty even extends to her own comrades; she was perfectly willing to kill a weakened and injured Bambietta Basterbine to turn her into a zombie despite Bambietta's desperate pleas to be spared. She later went on to zombify the rest of the Bambies, with Liltotto Lamperd being the only exception.

Giselle is also a necrophiliac, which is made evident when she hugs Bambietta's dead body after summoning it. Though she claims not to be a sadist, she becomes overjoyed when Candice asks her to regenerate her arm, only to be disappointed when she realizes she's meant to do so without zombifying her. Likewise, she openly expresses how seeing Bambietta's face when she killed her "[made her] so wet," and she later proceeds to suck her blood and fawn over how cute she was, even in death. She is also very abusive towards her zombies when they get on her nerves. When Bambietta begged for more blood, Giselle smacked her and called her a "disgusting mess" before grabbing her by the hair and assuring her that she could have her treat once they dealt with Mayuri. Similarly, when Bambietta asked Giselle not to take too much of her blood out of concern for her own life, Giselle smashed her face into the ground while reminding her that she was already dead and that her blood belonged to her.

Though Giselle displays clear insanity and harshness towards her treatment of her friends, she still cares about them, albeit in her own twisted way. She restored Candice's arm after it was destroyed by Ichigo Kurosaki's Getsuga Jūjishō, as well as Bambietta's during her clash with the Arrancars. After Bambietta's defeat by Sajin Komamura, she tells her that she and the Bambies would be sad to see her go and that they will "take care of her," which, as previously mentioned, happens to involve zombifying Bambietta against her wishes. When she calls upon the zombified Bambietta to come help her, she hugs her and shows appreciation when she tells her that she will protect her. Additionally, when Giselle believes she has beaten Bambietta to death, she tells her that she is very cute when she's dead and that she loves her very much.

Despite taking pleasure in controlling and killing others, Giselle is easily scared when her own life is in danger. When Yhwach used Auswählen on the Wandenreich, killing several Quincy in the process, she repeatedly promised Bambietta that she wouldn't die, showing a rare moment of fear and desperation. She does not take kindly to insults, as she was offended when Yumichika assumed she was a man reeking of semen pretending to be a woman, causing her to call Bambietta to blast him and Ikkaku away in response. She also seems to have a high opinion of herself, expressing annoyance when Mayuri calls her a common folk.

Giselle was initially loyal to Yhwach and was willing to do whatever it took to satisfy him, having at one point fantasized about receiving what she wanted as a reward for killing Ichigo, the Number One Special War Power. However, after Yhwach used Auswählen to empower his Sternritter while purging the weaker Quincy, Giselle felt betrayed and turned against him. She eventually cooperated with the Shinigami to help take down Yhwach and Jugram Haschwalth, even going so far as to slaughter the Soldat opposing her and the Bambies on their way to confront Yhwach in Wahrwelt.

Plot

The Thousand-Year Blood War arc

Giselle and the others chastise Bambietta.

Following the Wandenreich's first invasion of Soul Society, Giselle is present alongside other Sternritter when Yhwach announces Uryū Ishida will be his successor. After Bambietta Basterbine kills a Wandenreich soldier, Giselle, Liltotto, Meninas, and Candice enter her room, with Giselle saying Bambietta made a mess again. When Candice says they should do something about Bambietta killing attractive men when she is annoyed, Giselle notes Candice likes to "play" with her subordinates, prompting Candice to ask her if she wants to fight before being interrupted by Bambietta blasting a hole in the wall. Later, after the Wandenreich invades the Seireitei once more, the wings of Candice's Quincy: Vollständig emerge by themselves. Noting Candice can use Vollständig, Giselle states she will not activate her Vollständig because it tires her, prompting Candice to angrily say she does not wish to use hers either. When Meninas notes Bambietta is using her Vollständig, Giselle says this is scary and states Bambietta is the last person in the world who should use Vollständig before saying Bambietta's fight will end in one second.

Candice, Liltotto, Giselle, and Meninas stand over Bambietta.

After Bambietta is defeated by Captain Sajin Komamura, Giselle and the other Bambies approach her. Giselle says that they'll take care of her and that they'd be sad if she would be gone. Soon after, Giselle kills Bambietta. She and the others later confront 11th Division Captain Kenpachi Zaraki after he defeats Gremmy Thoumeaux. Giselle confronts several unseated Shinigami, whom she tells to aid Kenpachi instead of attacking her. However, when one of them slashes her across the chest, Giselle stands with a deep wound in her shoulder and points out how they have her blood splattered on them before revealing they are now under her control. Forcing the Shinigami to commit suicide, Giselle discusses how Kenpachi should die with Liltotto, Meninas, and Candice before being startled by an explosion in the air above them.

Giselle succesfully tricks the Shinigami into injuring her.

As Giselle and the others feel the Reiatsu of the individual falling from the sky, they turn around and look above. She and the others watch as the individual smashes through a tower, leaving Giselle and the others dumbstruck and questioning how the individual went down with the tower, but are then surprised when Ichigo Kurosaki appears behind them. After Ichigo throws Candice into a building, Giselle, Liltotto, and Meninas attack him, but Ichigo dodges their attacks and throws them into buildings as well. Giselle wonders who Ichigo is, and is shocked when Liltotto notes he is a Special War Power. When an enraged Candice proclaims she will never forgive Ichigo for ruining her appearance, Giselle states she is scary. After Ichigo withstands Candice's Galvano Blast, Giselle summons her bow and prepares to fight him alongside the other Sternritter.

When Ichigo effortlessly repels the Heilig Pfeil of all four girls at once, resulting in a powerful explosion, Giselle crashes into Candice, followed by Meninas and Liltotto. After moving away to avoid Candice's subsequent blast of electricity, Giselle notes Ichigo is very strong before stating he should die. Upon noticing Candice has activated her Quincy: Vollständig, Giselle notes she does not like using it because it is too tiring. Candice explains that Yhwach will grant all of her wishes if she kills Ichigo, prompting Giselle to envision nothing as her wish.

Giselle summons a zombified Bambietta.

After Candice loses an arm to Ichigo's Getsuga Jūjishō, she has Giselle regenerate it with The Zombie after Giselle teases her. She is shocked when Candice is pierced by Burner Finger 1 before getting attacked in the same manner. After PePe Waccabrada, NaNaNa Najahkoop, and Robert Accutrone arrive, Giselle gets back to her feet and prepares to fight Ichigo 8-on-1. Soon afterward, Giselle watches as several more Shinigami confront the Sternritter. After being blasted away by the explosion resulting from Yhwach, Uryū Ishida, and Jugram Haschwalth's departure, Giselle is confronted by Yumichika Ayasegawa and Ikkaku Madarame, the former of whom deduces that she is trying to provoke them into attacking her before theorizing her blood is dangerous. When Yumichika claims she is actually a man because she reeks of semen, an angered Giselle summons Bambietta's corpse and has her blast Yumichika and Ikkaku before proclaiming they will kill all of the Shinigami.

When Yumichika cuts off Bambietta's arm, Giselle picks it up and reveals that Bambietta is already dead, prompting Bambietta to blast Ikkaku and Yumichika away. When Giselle states that killing Bambietta aroused her, Yumichika once again asserts that she is a man, prompting Giselle to state she can easily turn the two of them into zombies by splashing her blood on them. However, Mayuri Kurotsuchi arrives and states that her power is very interesting, prompting Giselle to ask him who he is.

Giselle summons several zombified Shinigami.

When Mayuri states that great opponents always shine brightly, Giselle points out how she did not ask him why he is shining. Bambietta moves in front of her and states that she wants something of Giselle's, only for Giselle to slap her away and state she will reward Bambietta when this is over. Noticing Mayuri is not shining as brightly anymore, Giselle asks him why and is annoyed when he calls her a common person. Giselle has Bambietta launch several bombs at Mayuri, who has Nemu Kurotsuchi throw several spherical devices in response, and is confused when the spheres do not explode right away. After the spheres explode, Giselle wonders why they did not explode immediately, prompting Mayuri to explain the mechanism behind them and how he has completely nullified The Explode. In response to this, Giselle summons several zombified Shinigami, but Mayuri responds by summoning four resurrected Arrancar.

Giselle reattaches Bambietta's arm.

Noting that the Arrancar are essentially zombies as well, Giselle asks Mayuri if he really thinks that his four can defeat all of hers. As she repairs Bambietta's damaged body, Giselle is approached by Charlotte Chuhlhourne, who claims he wants to fight her because of her resemblance to himself. Asking him why, she orders Bambietta to attack him, but the zombie is quickly dispatched. Realizing that Bambietta is not powerful enough to defeat him, she calls out for the zombie of Tōshirō Hitsugaya.

After Hitsugaya critically injures Ikkaku and Yumichika, Mayuri theorizes that he was turned into a zombie before he died, prompting Giselle to confirm this. Giselle lands behind Mayuri and explains how those who are turned into zombies before death have better movement and reaction speeds because they have fresh cells, and can be completely controlled because they have no free will. When Mayuri asks her what fun there is in controlling someone with no free will, Giselle states she does not know because she is not a sadist.

Kensei stabs Giselle through the heart.

After Mayuri incapacitates the now-zombified Kensei Muguruma and Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi, he theorizes that The Zombie takes longer to activate depending on how powerful the Reiatsu of the victim is before asking Giselle if he is correct. When Giselle does not respond, Mayuri explains how he has created drugs that change the composition of blood by using blood samples of members of the Gotei 13 as bases, prompting Giselle to state she does not understand. When Mayuri reveals that he can take control of her zombies, Giselle expresses shock as Kensei and Rose stand up behind Mayuri, who bids her farewell as Kensei stabs her through the heart.

Giselle beats Bambietta for attempting to stop her.

However, Giselle survives this attack and drags Bambietta to a cave formed by rubble, where she begins to drink Bambietta's blood. When Bambietta attempts to stop her from drinking too much of it, Giselle violently beats her while proclaiming she is already dead and should give Giselle's blood back to her. Noticing that she has killed Bambietta, Giselle hugs her and proclaims that she is cute even in death as Liltotto arrives and notes she is still alive. Giselle asks Liltotto what happened, prompting Liltotto to explain how she killed PePe and incapacitated Meninas. Liltotto watches as Robert Accutrone arrives and reveals that Yhwach is going to kill them with Auswählen before being engulfed in a beam of light, which prompts Liltotto to grab Giselle and leap away. Holding Bambietta, Giselle tells the corpse that she refuses to die. Soon after, Giselle confronts the Shinigami trying to get to the Soul King Palace alongside Bazz-B, NaNaNa, and Liltotto. When Giselle summons several zombified Shinigami, Mayuri notes their arrival, prompting Giselle to stick her tongue out at him. After Bazz-B reveals their intention to help the Shinigami in exchange for going to the palace with them, Giselle, Liltotto, and Bazz-B are given orbs to charge with their Reishi and begin constructing the doorway alongside the Shinigami.

Giselle brings out the zombified Bambies to fight alongside her and Liltotto in Silbern.

Eventually, Giselle and the others enter the Royal Realm, now called Wahrwelt, where she, Bazz-B, and Liltotto quickly move to Silbern. Bazz-B notes that the Gate of the Sun is still intact before declaring that they will kill both Yhwach and Haschwalth. Giselle and Liltotto team up and split from Bazz-B, who decides to confront Haschwalth. Entering an arena within Yhwach's castle, Giselle expresses surprise at seeing that it has been brought up from below. The pair is subsequently confronted by a Soldat platoon, prompting Giselle to summon the zombified Bambietta, Meninas, and Candice to their side (whom Giselle intentionally had stay behind in the city so that they would already be at Wahrwelt). The five re-assembled Bambies then proceed to overpower their enemies, though rather than stay down, the Soldat who are attacked rise back up with their faces covered in a black, multi-eyed substance similar to that which covers Yhwach, unnerving Giselle and Liltotto.

Giselle lies defeated at the hand of Yhwach.

Eventually, Giselle and Liltotto, alongside their Zombified comrades, manage to reach and confront Yhwach; however, the Quincy King easily dispatches them, with Giselle being incapacitated and collapsing before her comrades as blood begins to pool around her head.

Powers & Abilities

Great Spiritual Power: As one of the Sternritter, Giselle's spiritual power is on a level comparable to or greater than that of a captain-level Shinigami.

Reishi Manipulation: As a Quincy, Giselle primarily absorbs Reishi from her surroundings and coats it with her own Reiryoku to form weapons. She has an easier time collecting Reishi in environments with higher concentrations of it, such as Soul Society or Hueco Mundo.

• Hirenkyaku (飛廉脚, Flying Screen Step; Viz "Flying Bamboo-Blind Leg") is an advanced Quincy movement technique, allowing the user to move at high speed by riding on the flow of Reishi created below their feet.

Shadow: A Quincy technique that allows the user to move between dimensions using shadows. Giselle uses this ability to travel from the edge of the Wahrwelt to the Silbern.

Enhanced Durability: Giselle possesses considerable durability, withstanding being thrown into a building by Ichigo Kurosaki with only minor injuries.

Enhanced Endurance: Giselle is a particularly enduring combatant, quickly getting to her feet after being pierced by Bazz-B's Burner Finger 1.

Schrift

Giselle withstands a grievous injury and uses her blood to force several Shinigami to kill themselves with The Zombie.

The Zombie (死者 (ザ・ゾンビ), Za Zonbi; Japanese for "Deceased"): Anyone who has Giselle's blood splattered on them falls under her control, effectively becoming a "corpse" (死体, shitai) and doing whatever Giselle orders them to do, such as commit suicide. This aspect of her ability does not work on fellow Quincy unless they have already died. Once a Quincy has died, however, Giselle can summon their corpse at any time and remotely activate their abilities; controlled Sternritter even retain access to their own Schrift. The amount of blood required for a victim's zombification (ゾンビ化, zonbi-ka) depends on the strength of their Reiatsu; if it is low, a mere drop of blood is enough to zombify them once it reaches their brain, but if a subject has high Reiatsu, the invading blood must be diffused at the heart and spread throughout the entire body before The Zombie can take effect; this is why zombified captain-class individuals have reddish skin. Giselle's zombies can speak, although in fragments, and seem to want something of Giselle's; however, their blood does not contain special properties like Giselle's does, so there is no risk of opponents falling under Giselle's control by coming in contact with the blood of her zombies. Those who are zombified before death have fresh cells, so they possess better movement and reaction speeds; additionally, they are the only zombies Giselle can completely control, as their personality vanishes in the process.

Healing: Giselle can use her power to heal her comrades by using the flesh of the deceased to replace their own. She can even replace a lost limb by removing a corresponding limb from a corpse. She can also reattach severed limbs to her zombies by holding the limb in the proper place. Additionally, Giselle can endure and heal herself of any fatal injuries which she may sustain in activating The Zombie.

Spirit Weapon

Giselle's bow.

Heilig Bogen (神聖弓 (ハイリッヒ・ボーゲン), Hairihhi Bōgen; German for "Holy Bow", Japanese for "Sacred Bow"): Giselle uses a bow as her primary weapon. She keeps the short bow in a collapsed state within a heart container she keeps on the side of her belt. When Giselle clicks the heart, the bow pops out above her. There is a heart centered at the middle of the bow with the two arms branching out of it. The arms of the bow are shaped like linked bones. Giselle grabs hold of the heart portion with one hand and pulls back on a Reishi string with her other hand to fire like a normal bow.

• Heilig Pfeil (神聖滅矢 (ハイリッヒ・プファイル), Hairihhi Pufairu; German for "Holy Arrow", Japanese for "Destroying Arrow of Sanctity"): Giselle can fire powerful Heilig Pfeil from her bow. The tips of her Heilig Pfeil are shaped like skulls.

Former Powers & Ablities

Quincy: Vollständig

Giselle had some of her powers stolen by Yhwach, as he had used Auswählen to redistribute the life-force and power of the Sternritter in the Seireitei in order to revive the defeated Schutzstaffel. However, she avoided getting hit by Auswählen's light, so she only lost her ability to use Quincy: Vollständig. Quincy: Vollständig Giselle's base Quincy: Vollständig. Giselle's full Quincy: Vollständig, Azhalbiora. Azhalbiora (神の死 (アザルビオラ), Azarubiora; Japanese for "Death of God"): Giselle's Quincy: Vollständig grants her large, purple Reishi wings shaped like bones, as well as a skeletal tail made of Reishi. Flight: Using her wings, Giselle can fly at high speeds. Sklaverei (聖隷 (スクラヴェライ), Sukuraverai; German for "Slavery", Japanese for "Holy Slave"): A technique that augments a Quincy's most basic ability to gather Reishi by forcibly absorbing all Reishi from their environment. Giselle uses this ability to further empower Azhalbiora and its abilities. Dancing Dead Boys Club (ダンシング デッド ボイス クラブ, Danshingu Deddo Boisu Kurabu): Giselle generates several cartoonish skeletal figures to attack her opponents with. Munchy Munchy Babies (マンチ マンチ ベビース, Manchi Manchi Bebīsu): Forming skull-like constructs in front of her hands, Giselle charges towards her opponent. As this ability was interrupted by Liltotto Lamperd's Golden Crunch, the effects of Munchy Munchy Babies are unknown.

Weakness

The Zombie

Love: Giselle's control over her zombies can be overridden by PePe Waccabrada's The Love, which has allowed him to take control of her zombies several times in the past.

Blood Counter: Mayuri Kurotsuchi developed a drug based on Gotei 13 members' blood samples that replaces the blood within the zombies with blood which he has developed, allowing him to take control of the zombies.

Appearances in Other Media

Novel Appearances
Letters From The Other Side	The Honey Dish Rhapsody	Spirits Are Forever With You	The Death Save The Strawberry	WE DO knot ALWAYS LOVE YOU	Can't Fear Your Own World

• In Ryōgo Narita's novel Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World, Giselle is revealed to have barely survived her fight against Yhwach due to being saved and healed by Haschwalth's aide. Giselle, Liltotto, and the still-zombified Bambietta then attempt to recruit the surviving members of the Jagdarmee from Hueco Mundo to save Candice Catnipp and Meninas McAllon from the Twelfth Division.

Trivia

• Some of her fellow Sternritter address her as Gigi (ジジ, Jiji).

Klub Outside Trivia

• According to Q&A #288 by Tite Kubo on his fansite "Klub Outside", Giselle is biologically male.
• According to Q&A #525 by Tite Kubo on his fansite "Klub Outside", Kubo confirmed that Giselle is the overall second strongest of the Bambies, having the third best fighting skills after Liltotto and Meninas. Her Blut potency is the second strongest after Liltotto. The overall ranking is the following: Liltotto > Meninas > Giselle > Candice > Bambietta.

Quotes

• (To Ikkaku Madarame and Yumichika Ayasegawa) "It was pretty tough, you know? Turning Bambi-chan into a zombie. With fellow Quincy, I can't do it until they're already dead, so I actually had to finish her off myself! I remember Bambi-chan's face when I did it. That face...made me so wet..."

Battles & Events

Quincy Blood War

Events

Participants	Chapter(s)	Episode(s)
Rise of Uryū Ishida	Chapter 544	None
Fall of the Soul King	Chapter 623, 624	None

Battles

Participants	Chapter(s)	Episode(s)	Result
Sajin Komamura vs. Bambietta Basterbine	Chapter 588	Episode 383	Interrupts
Kenpachi Zaraki vs. Gremmy Thoumeaux	Chapter 579, 580	Episode 387	Interrupts
Ichigo Kurosaki vs. The Bambies	Chapter 581, 582, 583, 584	Episode 387	Interrupted
The Gotei 13 vs. The Sternritter	Chapter 584, 586, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 596, 603	Episode 387, 388, 389	Incapacitated
Battle of the Zombies	588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 596	Episode 388, 389	Loss