| rdfs:comment | - にゅう (Nyū, Nyu, Nyuu) 楓 (Kaede, Maple) Age Unclear, but assumed to be 15 by Kouta (manga) 18 (anime) Species Homo sapiens diclonius (Queen) Female Mother (deceased) Father (fate unknown) Half-Brother (deceased) Occupation potential mitochondrial eve for Homo sapiens diclonius Chapter 1 Chapter 106 Sanae Kobayashi (Japanese) Kira Vincent Davis (English) Carli Mosier (English, OVA) Julie Basecqz (French) Samia Little Elk (German) Rosa Guillén (Spanish, Buzz Channel) Bárbara López (Spanish, Japan Weekend Anime) No information
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| abstract | - にゅう (Nyū, Nyu, Nyuu) 楓 (Kaede, Maple) Age Unclear, but assumed to be 15 by Kouta (manga) 18 (anime) Species Homo sapiens diclonius (Queen) Female Mother (deceased) Father (fate unknown) Half-Brother (deceased) Occupation potential mitochondrial eve for Homo sapiens diclonius Chapter 1 Chapter 106 Sanae Kobayashi (Japanese) Kira Vincent Davis (English) Carli Mosier (English, OVA) Julie Basecqz (French) Samia Little Elk (German) Rosa Guillén (Spanish, Buzz Channel) Bárbara López (Spanish, Japan Weekend Anime) No information Lucy/Nyu (real name: Kaede) is the main character, protagonist and anti-heroine/anti-villainess of the Elfen Lied series. The so-called 'Queen' Diclonius, Lucy, was an individual difficult to pin down by any standard of "good" or "evil" societal mores. She was both ruthlessly tormented and was also a sadistic tormentor to others, driven to a mental breakdown at an early age by the cruelty that surrounded her. Though she never expected to receive love and acceptance from others, occasionally she got the chance to see that such things were, indeed, possible for someone like her. Her great love was Kouta, a boy she met when they were both children and again when they were young adults. Elfen Lied is, beyond the extreme gore, violence, and otherwise, extremely uncomfortable subject matter defined both by her love for Kouta and her desire to atone for her past sins against him. This goal, while she's dogged by corrupt humans out to either take her life or re-purpose it to suit their aims. As a Diclonius, Lucy possessed power rivaled by very few others of her kind, and her control over her vectors was virtually second to none. She was also capable of spreading the Diclonius mutation to humans via infecting their parents with her vectors, a process capable of gradually replacing regular Humans with her kind, albeit mostly of sterile, rapidly growing Silpelits to serve as "drones" to her as "Queen." This infection process, described as a virus, is used perhaps for lack of a clearer term.
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