| abstract | - The Umbran witches make a big hullabaloo about 'destroying the balance between dark and light' and treat her like some demi-human destroyer of the universe...but I didn't really see any sign of her being influenced by her mixed heritage, with the possible exception of the white hair in the final summoning, and even then Jeanne has white hair in her magic so...did I miss something or was it just a form of Fantastic Racism?
* Just about, both groups, at first, seemed devoted to protecting the balance between Dark and Light, until Balder started plotting the Resurrection of Jubileus, starting by fathering Bayonetta, then, once she grew in power, attacking the Umbra Witches to presumably absorb her and revive said Jubileus. The bit about a sacred rule of not intermixing the two was probably set up to avoid said resurrection in the first place.
* It goes further. Balder is described as being motivated solely by self-interest. He deliberately seduced Bayonetta's mother and set the two groups on their path to mutual destruction purely because he wanted to be the only one with power over his (artificial? it seems to be powered by human sacrifice) Jubileus. The reason the two groups never before intermarried was a mixture of prejudice and an attempt to distribute power so as to avoid this result; a sort of checks-and-balances arrangement to keep any one man or woman from having influence over both Eyes.
* Not to mention the fact that Bayonetta punches Jubileus into the sun and is remarkably more powerful than other Umbra witches. It's noted within the game that Jeanne is something of a major prodigy, and even after Bayonetta sleeps for five hundred years and gets amnesia, Jeanne only catches up for a little while before being surpassed again. B-girl appears to be a Dragonball Z character playing in a lower power-level world.
* This Troper always assumed the white hair that shows up in the final summoning belonged to Jeanne, not Bayonetta.
* Jeanne was floating in space at the time Bayonetta summoned Queen Sheba, so she wasn't there, or else Bayonetta wouldn't be surprised when she showed up later on during the credits. The white hair belongs to Bayonetta, since as shown here, her outfit isn't entirely black.
* If I may, the "white hair" that appears implied that Jeanne was still alive, and helping (or giving a power boost) to summon Sheba and knock out Jubileus. The "motorcycle" incident must've took place before the big summoning, and after Jubileus goes poof, Jeanne makes a full reappearence to help Bayonetta get rid of the statue husk Jubileus left behind.
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