Isabella

Isabella (イザベラ), also known as Mama (ママ) by the children, is the main antagonist of The Promised Neverland in the first arc and the Mama who runs the Grace Field House.

History
Isabella was born in 2014, and she is sent to Grace Field House a year later in 2015, growing up along with Leslie and several other children.

Isabella was once an orphan herself in one of the orphanages when she was a little girl. There she met a child named Leslie who would become her closest friend. She learned a song from him that instantly became her favorite song. Leslie was later shipped out and killed. Isabella then tried to escape by crossing the huge wall but saw that there was a huge cliff on the other side, this sight crushed all her hopes and she was soon stopped by the Mama of her own orphanage.

Isabella was given a choice: Train to become a Mama or being shipped out, resulting in a certain death. She wanted to live and chose to become a Mama with the thought behind it that she would give all the kids later as much love as she could.

While in training, she became pregnant through artificial insemination and she would always sing the same song for her unborn child that Leslie, years earlier, sang for her. Sometime later, the newborn was taken away from her and she was appointed as the new mama of Plantation 3, becoming the youngest ever chosen to become a Mama.

After a few years being the mama of Grace Field House, she heard Ray singing the same song that Leslie once sang for her. She then came to the shocking truth that Ray is in fact, her own son.

Appearance
Anime = Isabella is a tall woman with dark brown hair tied into a bun that hangs down onto the back of her head. She wears an attire, which consists of a black dress with a white blouse underneath it and a white apron over it, she has the number "73584" on her neck. During her childhood, Isabella wore standard orphanage clothing and her hair was tied in the form of a braid.undefined
 * -|Manga = Izabella.jpg

Personality
During her childhood, Isabella was shown to be an optimistic, comedic and fun-loving little girl, and was very attached to her childhood friend Leslie. But ever since she acknowledged the true motive behind the orphanage's purpose of raising them; to raise them as livestock for the demons, Isabella's personality went through a drastic change. The present Isabella is a sharp-witted and deceiving woman. As a person highly trained as being a mama, Isabella is astute as being one and, in her early twenties, was elected in being the caretaker of one of the top orphanages. In her Mama persona, Isabella was capable in putting on a motherly, selfless and kind-hearted facade whenever she is around the orphans in Grace Field House, and hence was able to earn the trust and love from her foster children, such as Don, who initially refused to believe that Isabella is evil when Emma exclaimed how she has been actually shipping off children to feed the demons.undefined Isabella's behavior is very mercurial, capable of switching between seemingly true affection for the orphans to extreme loathing and threat of violence towards those who defy her. Isabella was unhesitant in taking down those who stand in her way, sometimes even physically, this was shown when Isabella finally dropped her usual motherly facade and stopped Emma and Norman from escaping, she violently fractured Emma's leg without a second thought.

Another few of Isabella's prominent traits are her high cunning and intelligence. As being one of the top Mamas, Isabella uses her intelligence in foiling and sabotaging the orphans' escape plan. She was shown to be quite resourceful, as she depended on her transmitter to track down the orphans. Isabella was unafraid of using her intelligence and position as a Mama to threaten her enemies, as she openly threatens Emma despite knowing it as a reckless and risky move when she seeks to gather information on how Emma and the others are going to escape.

Intelligence
Isabella has shown that she is very intelligent and can notice the smallest of details. She quickly and easily discovered the children's plan to escape and has been able to keep all her children healthy and top of the line. She is also quite adept at chess, further proving her sharp intellect.

Enhanced Strength
From being able to lift Emma off the ground and break her leg with ease of lifting heavy objects, Isabella has proven herself to be physically strong.

Ray
When she first met him, Isabella believed Ray to be just another orphan for her to raise in Grace Field. But at some point, she overheard Ray whistling a tune she learned from her childhood sweetheart Leslie, and very quickly suspected that Ray was her son, the baby she was made to carry and give birth to as a part of her training to become a Mama.

Later on, Ray asked her why she gave birth to him, having somehow figure out their familial connection and Isabella was momentarily shocked to confirm that Ray was indeed her child but coldly responded so that she could live.

Indeed, Isabella has no true love for her son Ray, as she used him as her spy to monitor all the children in her care in exchange for giving Ray simple gifts every now and then, and eventually dismissed his service in lieu of his eventual shipping, showing no remorse or concern.

However, at the end, when Ray, Emma, and several of her children succeeded in escaping Grace Field after she herself had deemed the prospect impossible Isabella secretly hoped and prayed for them to survive, to live, to have the courage she never did.

Leslie
I must live for myself, and to give purpose to Leslie's life.undefinedLeslie is a childhood sweetheart of Isabella's, and the closest friend she had during her innocent years in the orphanage they were raised in.

Isabella was often shown to be free-spirited and chummy when she was with Leslie. When Leslie hummed a tune he composed, Isabella eavesdropped him and later encouraged him to share it with her. The boy was shy with her request at humming his tune to her at first but later decided to after blushing from seeing Isabella's charming smile. The two soon chanted the tune together.undefined In the anime, Leslie did not chant the tune of his to Isabella, he used an instrument to play the tune out for her.undefined Tragedy struck as Leslie was sent off to get killed by the demons – a painful revelation Isabella eventually knew after discovering the dark secrets and evil doings of her orphanage and her caretaker. After Isabella failed to escape the orphanage when she discovered a steep cliff which surrounds the outside of the walls, she was soon sent off by orders from Grandmother.undefined Knowing how Leslie has passed gravely affected her, as she described his death to have unbelievably frustrated her,undefined Isabella is now a shadow of her free-spirited and lively self. This evidently showed how strong her love for Leslie is, to the degree of losing the personality that once defined her. On the flip side of the coin, though Leslie has passed, Isabella's memories of him and the tune they had between them invigorated her and gave her strength and the meaning to live on. Isabella's love for Leslie was also the reason why she chose to become a caretaker instead of getting killed. Leslie's tune, which Isabella still reminisced till this day, was sung during the time when she was pregnant as she shared the tune to her unborn baby as a tribute to Leslie.

Trivia

 * According to Kaiu Shirai, he made the main protagonist a female, because Isabella is the first antagonist, is a female too, hence thinking that the mother-daughter relationship between the two would make the story "more interesting".undefined
 * In an interview, Posuka Demizu mentioned that he enjoys drawing Isabella, and thinks that she is a character that should be drawn beautifully.undefined
 * Isabella is the youngest ever to become a Mama, she was appointed as one for Grace Field House in her early twenties.Citation needed
 * Her name means "devoted to god" in Hebrew, which may relate to her being a servant to the demons.
 * The following are Isabella's rankings in some of The Promised Neverland's official popularity polls.
 * Isabella is ranked 4th in the Popularity Poll that was announced in Chapter 88 of the manga.
 * In Shounen Jump's 2nd popularity poll results announced in Chapter 102, Isabella is in 8th place with a total of 1151 votes.

Interlanguage Wikis

 * Isabella on Spanish Wiki.
 * Isabella on Italian Wiki.
 * Isabella on Portuguese Wiki.

Other Wikis

 * Isabella on VS Battles Wiki. (Manga spoilers ahead)
 * Isabella on Villains Wiki. (Manga spoilers ahead)

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