Lala

Lala (ララ Rara) is a Dullahan and the seventh housemate. She speaks with an Irish accent (in the English dubbing of the anime, the accent is missing). Her head is actually detachable from her body (which can act independently, suggesting a symbiotic relationship), which can be quite upsetting for other people (especially Miia) when it accidentally falls off, and she has long pale blue/gray (almost light purple) hair, skin the same color as her hair (in emotionally stressful situations such as embarrassment, her skin turns black),[ch. 38]and yellow eyes with black sclera. She carries a large scythe with a half-circle cutout (the blade is extremely dull as she never sharpens it)[vol. 6: "Secrets of Lala the Dullahan"] and wears gauntlets and a mixture of schoolgirl clothes combined with a long dustcoat of the type used in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.
When she first appears, she pretends to be a "shinigami" (the near-equivalent of the Grim Reaper), and the girls actually believe the story (she initially enters the house without her head — it had fallen off and rolled down a hill into a park).[ch. 23] She declares Kimihito to be "[trembling] on the verge of Death"; in the ensuing chaos, the girls' desperate attempts to save him from her prove considerably more dangerous than her threats.
Despite her frightening attitude, her metaphor-filled language and her air of grandeur, Lala is very sociophobic and has trouble interacting with strangers or talking about her true feelings in public.[ch. 38][ch. 39] Kimihito realizes that she is just having a "middle school syndrome" in which she acts as if she has supernatural powers (though she actually does),[ch. 51] and Ms. Smith has to remind Lala that bad things will happen to her if she really manages to hurt somebody, causing Lala to hide behind Kimihito. She then demands to stay at Kimihito's to be able to "watch over him"; Ms. Smith and the other girls agree, and she becomes part of the household.[ch. 24]
It is eventually revealed that she is a genuine Psychopomp,[ch. 30] and so far Kimihito is the only one aware of this fact. However, her presence is not the reason why Kimihito hasn't yet died from his repeated injuries; she tells him that it's his own inner strength and feelings that keeps him alive. This, coupled with his genuine kindness towards the girls, has caused Lala to fall for him as well, though she refuses to fight over him: by her reasoning, as a dullahan she will take possession of his soul once he finally dies, and they will be together then.[ch. 30] Her powers are demonstrated when she consigns the evil spirit of Kyurii's father (see "Kyurii Drakulya" below) to the afterlife (but she is careful to quickly disappear before the others see that it was her).[ch. 51]
She generally calls other people Mortal (人間 Ningen) and to date has no nickname for Kimihito.
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