Beta

Beta (ベータ) (Βήτα) is the second member of Shadow Garden, and one of the original Seven Shadows. Publicly, she is known as Natsume, an up-and-coming author of numerous "original" pieces of literature.

Appearance
Beta is a beautiful young voluptuous Elf with blue pupils and shoulder-length silver hair with a left braid behind her ear, as well as a mole underneath the corner of her eye on the same side.

Her Shadow Garden outfit consists of a low-cut dark slime suit that exposes her cleavage with golden decorations around her chest, shoulder, arms and waist.

While posing as Natsume, her civilian attire comprises a white ruffle blouse that also reveals her cleavage, a dark mini-skirt skirt, black stockings, and high heels. Additionally, she also adorns a pair of glasses and necklaces, as well as a scarf around her waist.

Personality
Beta is a dedicated and loyal subordinate to Shadow Garden. She is both a great analyst, using information presented to her or she has gained from her missions, and a warrior, leading her team members to victory. While conversing with others, she remains calm and responds to them in a sophisticated manner. As Miss Natsume, she presents herself as a calm, humble young woman but won't hesitate to use her beauty to entrap her targets and get what she wants.

Beyond her loyalty to Shadow Garden is her loyalty to her master, Cid Kagenou. Beta is in love with him. She dreams of one day embracing into his arms with the extremest of passions. Because of this, she gets extremely jealous of any girl who isn't from Shadow Garden and attempts to get close to him, particularly Princess Alexia Midgar. While off or during her duty, she has a hobby of writing a book entitled "The Chronicles of Master Shadow".

Her goal is to one day, stand next to Shadow with the power to support him in everything he does.

Powers & Abilities
Beta appears to be the "user of all, master of none" of the Seven Shades. She has shown to be a capable leader, though not at Alpha's level, a strong fighter, though not as strong as Delta, a good infiltrator, though not at good as Epsilon and Zeta, and possesses a great intellect, though not as great as Gamma and Eta.

She can effectively give orders to her squad and reprimands them should they disobey her. She also easily deceives others with her false identity as the meek and shy "Miss Natsume". By the time anyone realizes her true identity, she will efficiently and quickly kill them.

Trivia

 * Beta is secretly writing a book titled The Chronicles of Master Shadow, recording his actions and analects with the following notable alterations:
 * The princess that Shadow rescues is described as an elf with silver hair and a mole under blue eyes.
 * Beta being a blue-haired girl that loves the main character resembles another character voiced by her seiyuu, Inori Minase, Rem from the anime, Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.
 * In fact in Episode 2 of the anime, Beta briefly wore a maid outfit which might be a nod to the character.