Nasuverse character
Riesbyfe Stridberg
Japanese name:	リーズバイフェ ストリンドヴァリ
Franchise:	Tsukihime
Appears in:	Melty Blood: Actress Again Melty Blood Manga
Voice actor:	Akeno Watanabe
Character type:	Human
Affiliation:	Church
Gender:	Female
Height:	171cm
Hair color:	Light Gray
Eye color:	Light Gray

Riesbyfe is a character from the Melty Blood franchise. While she was appearing briefly during Sion TATARI's Last Arc animation since Re-Act, it was only in Actress Again that she became a playable character. She also appears in flashbacks in the Melty Blood manga.

BiographyEdit

Riesbyfe is the leader of the knight's heresy persecution group and an official Shield Knight vampire hunter from the Church. She uses a Conceptual Weapon True Apocrypha (正式外典, seishiki gaiten^?) AKA Spear Key and Gun Shield, a pile bunker shaped like a string instrument. True Apocrypha appears to briefly materialize several glyphs as well as the illusion of a completely deserted ruin bathed in the horizon upon the usage of its power, but details are unknown. It is called the holy shield "Gamaliel" by Zepia and is noted to be the reason behind Ries not obeying Dust of Osiris in her storyline path. She is also a friend of Sion Eltnam Atlasia and died rescuing her from Wallachia during his last manifestation prior to Melty Blood. In the Yumizuka and Sion routes of Actress Again, she continues to live after the destruction of the Dust of Osiris and joins the Back Alley Allegiance.

TriviaEdit

• Up until TYPE-MOON created Sion, Riesbyfe was supposedly the main heroine of Melty Blood and would've appeared as Ciel's rival.
• In sixth chapter of Kara no Kyoukai, the headmaster of Reien Girl's Academy is stated to be "Mother Riesbyfe" and mentioned to have a large string instrument case in her office.

Tsukihime characters
Main characters
Shiki Tohno • Arcueid Brunestud • Ciel • Akiha Tohno • Hisui • Kohaku • Len • Michael Roa Valdamjong
Secondary characters
Arihiko Inui • Aoko Aozaki • Barthomeloi Lorelei • Crimson Moon • Gransurg Blackmore • Kouma Kishima • Merem Solomon • Mr. Dawn • Narbareck • Nanako • Nrvnqsr Chaos • Satsuki Yumizuka
Minor characters
Akemi Yamase • Akira Seo • Brainwashing-Detective • Curry de Marche • Forte • Fake Shiki • Hanei Misawa • Ichiko Inui • Keiko Arima • Kiri Nanaya • Magical Amber • Maiko Yamase • Makihisa Tohno • Master Panda • Mecha-Shiki • Neco-Arc Bubbles • Neco-Arc Destiny • Neco-Arc Evolution • Phantas-Moon • Sougen Jinan • Souka Tsukihime • Tokie Jinan • Tonami Kugamine • Tsukasa Shijyou
Melty Blood characters
Miyako Arima • Dust of Osiris • Mech-Hisui • Neco-Arc • Neco-Arc Chaos • Night of Wallachia • Riesbyfe Stridberg • Shiki Ryougi • Sion Eltnam Atlasia • White Len