Abigail

Abigail ( アビゲイル ) is an illegal Magical Girl who is subordinate to the terrorist organization Babel Library with the designation Big Scissors (also translated as Pick Scissors and referred to as Barber Scissors in the English dub of the Anime). Of note is that Abigail's Magical Girl Handle replaces her full name with Abby, a shortened version of her full name.

Personality
Abigail is one of the most sadistic characters in the series; she is spiteful, malicious, vindictive and bloodthirsty, traits that seem to originate from her unfortunate childhood where she lost her parents to friendly fire and was forced to fend for herself without any aid and turned to murder in an attempt to cope in her grief. She enjoys torturing and watching the torture of others, be it emotionally, physically and/or mentally as shown by her torturing of Nozomi Makino with unsubtle threats and videotaping her torture by two Russian Mercenary Mages with a smile on her face. However Abigail is capable to demonstrating surprising degrees of restraint in that regard even in the heat of battle, leaving Makino just damaged enough to warrant the need to rush her to medical attention and held back during her fight with War Nurse because she was ordered to capture her. However when Asuka cut off her fingers she lost her temper completely and vowed to kill her for it. Of note is that Abigail is extremely loyal to her "Queen" and prioritizes her orders above all else. While living in Forest Gate, England Abigail was not as malicious as she would be as a terrorist, but she still demonstrated that she was emotionally unstable and in need to aid. Grieving at the loss of her parents and being without any sort of support had caused her to hate the government for taking away her family and not even compensating her with the care and finances needed to survive in a city, Abigail turned to murdering three people and in a state of melodramatic demanded that the government compensate her by giving her her parents back. This implies that the trauma this caused had stunted her emotional and mental development liking leading to the person she is in the present day.

Abigail seems to be capable of being deceptive, cunning and effective when the situation demands it as she posed as a reclusive rich man's secretary and aided in covering up his death so that his penthouse could be used as a temporary base for the Queen and Babel Brigade.

Brigadier
Abigail is subordinate to the enigmatic Magical Girl leading Babel Brigade. Like many members she calls her the "Queen" and is obedient to her to the point that she controlled her blood-lust enough to try and not kill War Nurse and capture her instead. Brigadier for her part sees more value in Abigail than she did in Geiss, as she personally rescued her when it looked like she might not make it, a mercy not given to any other members of Babel shown thus far. The two are also in a romantic relationship.

War Nurse Kurumi & Rapture Asuka
Abigail became enemies of the two Magical Girls of M-Squad after taking their friend Nozomi Makino hostage and torturing her. The two stormed the place and saved her but Abby pursued and engaged Kurumi in combat and dominated the non-combatant Magical Girl comfortably. However Rapture came to her rescue and chopped off some of Abby's fingers causing Abby to develop great hatred towards her.

Nozomi Makino
The daughter of a Metropolitan Policeman who captured and tortured Kim Kanth for information while falsifying his death. Babel Library took his daughter hostage out of spite and also to lure in the M-Squad Magical Girls. Abigail presumably held nothing personal against Nozomi per se but took sadistic glee in terrorizing her with subtle suggestions of torture with a grill and later made good on this promise by videotaping her while two mages tortured her. Nozomi was saved but was traumatized as a result and was forced to have her memories of the incident removed.

Abilities & Powers
Abby is one of the strongest Magical Girls of Babel Brigade thus far shown, her potential was such that the Brigadier herself personally recruited her and valued her enough to save her from M-Squad, (something that the not demonstrated to her other lackeys) and had faith that Abby would be able to retrieve a member of the Magical Five, Kurumi for her. She was even willing to challenge the far more dangerous Rapture Asuka showing her confidence to standing up against the heroes who defeated the Disas King.

Indeed Abby has demonstrated that she could defeat Kurumi very comfortably without exerting herself and was able even able to briefly hold off Kurumi after she used Magical Doping.

As an Magical Girl, Abby possesses magical perception blocking that allows no one she knows in real life to recognize her, a reactive magical shield to protect herself from attacks, and the finishing move 'Magical Calorie Roll-Up'.

Abby's weapon of choice is a large pair of scissors which function as unconventional bladed weapons, primarily cutting people and using the momentary terror as a potent psychological tactic.

Even without her weapon however Abby is a very skilled combatant who could hold off a Magically drug enhanced Kurumi by using kicks and punches. Abby is also quite durable taking such attacks and getting back up to fight without issue.

Abigail is also intelligent, capable of becoming a secretary to a wealthy and successful man at a young age, showing good organizational skills while setting him up to be killed so that Babel could make use of his resources, and lurring M-Squad into a calculated trap by holding someone hostage and with enough damage to warrant enough immedacy that it forced Asuka to get her to a doctor over aiding Kurumi showing her tactical skills, and her ability to accurately inflict damage.

Chronology
During the Disas Crisis Abigail's parents were killed, not by the Disas but as casualties of a bomb used against them leaving Abby an orphan. Wrathful at the government for the death of her parents and for not being able to support her during her vulnarability Abigail would lash out and kill three people before being arrested by two cops, who were indifferent to Abigail's plights and demand for compensation do to not being able to survive on her own. It was than that Abigail noticed that both policemen had suddenly been cubed, and than notices a Masked woman approaching her - the Brigadier herself.

Before Abigail can react any further the Brigadier hugs her and says that while she cannot bring back her deceased parents she should still be compensated for having to suffer, validating Abigail's feelings of grief. It is presumed that this is how she came to join Babel Brigade

Kill Count

 * Three men in Forest Gate, England
 * Japanese Police Officer

Other

 * War Nurse Kurumi (Tried to capture for her "Queen" for unknown reasons)
 * Makino Nozomi (Tortured to provoke a reaction from her targets but otherwise fine; may have attempted to kill her by removing her arm and allowing her to bleed until death)

Behind the Scenes

 * Abby is the only known Magical Girl whose name is shortened when she transforms into a Magical Girl.
 * Because of a translation discrepancy with her title her name can be romanized in three different ways, but is pronounced Big Scissors and is hence used as a default until an official source contradicts it.
 * In the manga Abby's frame is significantly more petite while in the anime Abby is depicted as being quite buxom and well endowed like most of the Magical Girls in the anime
 * Abby is voiced by Ayahi Takagaki and dubbed by Tia Ballard.
 * Her scissor may be inspired by Mamori Totoyama from Magical Girl Raising Project, who also wielded a large scissor as a weapon.
 * Abby and Varvara are the only members of the Babel Brigade who survived the entire manga.