| “ | This intuition has many unhappy children. So everyone was always looking for children who are unhappier... And so the children... Made the unhappier ones miserable. They were to cruel. If I was stronger... The worthless animals... Are actually you. | „ |
| ~ Lucy |
| “ | Nyu! | „ |
| ~ Nyuu |
Background
Lucy/Nyuu (real name: Kaede) is the main character, main protagonist, and Anti-hero/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 any form of 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.
Powers and Stats
Keys: Flashback Arc | Reunion Arc | Mariko Arc | Enoshima Arc | End of Series
Tier: 10-C, 9-B with Vectors | 9-C, 9-A with Vectors | At least 9-C, 8-C with Vectors | At least 9-C, High 6-C with Vectors | At least 9-C, High 6-C up to 5-C with Vectors
Dimensionality: 3-D
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Type 4), Regeneration (Low), Resurrection (When Lucy horns got broken, she essentially died, however after the horns grew up again, she came back to life. Supposedly reincarnated as two separated beings by the end of the series), Reactive Evolution (Can "Get used to things" so she survives and lives with genetic failure while others would die. Her Vectors were constantly growing), Biological Manipulation/Disease Manipulation (Vectors carry the Retro Virus that can be infected when cutting someone), Accelerated Development (Passive: Her arms grow in a rate of 0.32 centimeters per day or 10 centimeters per month), Rage Power, Size Manipulation (Can make her Vectors as big as a child, and at her peak she could make her Vectors several times larger than buildings), Natural Weaponry (With her Vectors), Vibration Manipulation/Invisibility/Intangibility/Body Control/Durability Negation (Her Vectors can phase through others, and attack internal organs), Multiple Personalities (Between her Lucy and DNA Voice personas), Enhanced Senses (Diclonius can sense the presence of other diclonius), Telepathy (Diclonii can telepathically talk with others), Resistance to Radiation Manipulation (Diclonii we're born and evolved in radiation for so long that they gain the innate ability to resist radiation), Extremely High Temperatures (Could stand inside of an explosion caused by her Vectors).
All previous abilities, Stealth Mastery, Multiple Personalities (She gained the personality of Nyuu), Pseudo-Flight (Can stay in mid-air for long periods of time with her Vectors), Pain Tolerance, Pain Manipulation (Should be able to induce pain by affecting other nerves just like her underlings does), Shockwave Creation.
All previous abilities, Martial Arts.
All previous abilities, Illusion Creation (Can make others see illusions from their consciouness), Instinctive Reactions (Unconsciously protects Kouta), Fear Manipulation (Caused a Vector Craft to collapse with her sheer presence), Explosion Manipulation (Vectors can generate Nuclear Fusion) Weather Manipulation (Created a storm on Enoshima) Creation (Can recreate her Vectors even after being erased by the Vector Canceller), Forcefield Creation (Can create barriers).
Attack Potency: Below Average Human level, Wall level+ with Vectors (She could easily create a hole in a train cart) | Street level (She can casually rip heads off), Small Building level with Vectors (She could throw a large boulder) | At least Street level, Building level with Vectors (She could blow a hole in a building) | At least Street level, Large Island level with Vectors (She drilled a hole tens of kilometers big through a small island, causing a nuclear explosion and a tsunami 30 meters tall) | At least Street level, Large Island level up to Moon level with Vectors (Her vectors can produce nuclear fusions powerful enough to yield this much energy. She threatened to exterminate the human race and genuinely believed she could destroy the world)
Speed: Below Average Human, Subsonic reaction, travel and combat speed with Vectors (She was able to use her Vectors to move fast enough that Kouta didn't see her) | Athletic Human, Subsonic reaction, combat and travel speed with Vectors | Athletic Human (Can outrun police officers), Subsonic reaction, combat and travel speed with Vectors | At least Athletic Human, Subsonic travel speed with Vectors, Massively Hypersonic combat and reaction speed (She was able to catch a bullet right before it hit her heart after the pain of the gunshot caused Lucy to take control) | At least Athletic Human, Massively Hypersonic+ travel speed (Her vectors reached into outer space and then shot back down in seconds), Relativistic reaction and combat speed (Her vectors could reach up space in a small timeframe)
Lifting Strength: Below Average Human, Class M with Vectors (She tore off a huge chunk of floor prior to her imprisonment) | Class 1 (She tore off Kisaragi's head easily), Class M with Vectors (Superior to before) | At least Class 1, Class M with Vectors (Superior to before) | At least Class 1, Class M with Vectors (She ripped Anna's arm off) | At least Class 1, Class G with Vectors (Due her vectors sizes)
Durability: Street level (Should be superior to lesser Diclonius such as Number 3, who could tank being hit with a force of 300 Joules), Wall level+ with Vectors | Street level, Small Building level with Vectors (She could take hits from Nana) | At least Street level, Building level with Vectors (She could fight Mariko) | At least Street level, Large Island level with Vectors | At least Street level, Large Island level up to Moon level with Vectors
Stamina: Average | Average | Average | Average | Extremely High (Even while melting and dying, she still could fight many soldiers, an army, and other enemies)
Range: Standard melee range, Extended melee range up to Tens of meters with Vectors | Standard melee range, Extended melee range up to Tens of meters with Vectors | Standard melee range, Extended melee range up to Tens of meters with Vectors | Standard melee range, Extended melee range up to Tens of meters with Vectors | Standard melee range, Extended melee range up to Thousand of kilometers with Vectors
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Average | Gifted (Can outsmart military-trained soldiers and is overall very intelligent with her powers, using them in clever and smart ways) | Gifted | Gifted | Gifted
Weaknesses: Lucy is emotionally unstable. Lucy will lose control of her Vectors if her Pineal gland receives any degree of trauma, though she will regain control after a short period of time. It is very difficult for her to use her Vectors while she is under extreme pain. She dies instantly if both of her horns are broken. | Same as before, but she now has the stamina to will herself into using her vectors while in pain. However, during times of great stress or when both of her horns are broken, she may be liable to revert to her more innocent persona Nyuu. While Nyuu is fully capable of using her vectors when in control of Lucy, she is not as skilled and experienced. | Same as before | Same as before | Same as before. Overusing her powers will take so much energy that she will damage her body thanks to entropy, eventually to the point that her body will begin to melt and turn into vapour, with her healing ability notably speeding this process up immensely.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Vectors: Invisible "arms," telekinetic in nature and origin, that most Diclonii appear to possess. They are a Diclonius' primary means of defense and, more commonly, offense against humans. However, it is believed that their real function isn't to kill, but to infect humans with the Diclonius Virus, as pointed out by Kurama.
Others
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