Eta

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**Eta** (イータ, *Īta*?) (Ήτα)is the final member of the Seven Shadows and the seventh to join Shadow Garden. As the chief technology officer, she has created many modern technologies through Shadow Wisdom—Cid's ramblings about Earth's innovations—accelerating the Other World’s Industrial Revolution. Her public identity is **Eta Lloyd Wright**, a highly regarded innovator who won Architect of the Year for Mitsugoshi's department store.[WEB NOVEL ONLY]

## Appearance

Eta is a female elf with long puce hair and unkempt bangs above bleary, purple eyes. She frequently presents a bedraggled appearance, a consequence of her slothful activities. A faded, traditional white lab coat over slime clothes stylized in a pleated dress pattern with a black waspie represents Eta's usual outfit for work and sleep.

Outside her work clothes, Eta styles the customary slime bodysuit like a double-slitted keyhole dress, hemmed at the upper thighs and dressed over a lighter bodysuit. The oversized sleeves and long endings tapering to ragged edges make the accompanying loose-fitting jacket look like a cloak. Various frills and minor decorations adorn the jacket. A loose belt dangles off the back of her coat, offering a tail-like appearance.

Eta has a garter on each leg for dark stockings and two decorative belts around her thighs. The position changes based on the adaption—left in the light novel and right in the anime. Simplified black trousers, rather than stockings, cover her legs in the anime. They have riveted fins along the back, from the knee, down the back of her calf, ending at the ankle. Eta's footwear in the light novel are pumps, while she wears wedges in the anime. A strip of gold trim around the vamp of the shoes are present in both adaptations.

## Personality

A quiet presence, Eta derives pleasure through indolent activities. She demonstrates lethargy and apathy, slowly conversing with others and moving sluggishly. Eta's raison d'être is the pursuit and development of Shadow Wisdom. Her manic devotion has helped the advancement of Shadow Garden, but it frequently manifests through petty defiance or unauthorized experimentation. Such antics can disrupt administrative efficiency or harm the physical well-being of others. Threats of reduced budgetary allocations modulate Eta's ethically dubious experiments and rebellious behavior; however, occasional quarrels still occur. The reasons for disobedience are presented as differences in ethics and methodology rather than administrative directives or malice towards her fellow sisters.

## Powers & Abilities

Constant lethargy hinders Eta's battle performance, generally abstaining from confrontational battles or direct combat. If she has the energy and a desire to engage in skirmishes, she can stand her ground against a few of the Seven Shadows—primarily through trickery to undermine her opponent's strengths. Her greatest asset is intellect, enabling her to take vague descriptions of modern innovations and put them into practice.

### Physical Capabilities

Limited by her fatigue, Eta's speed is typically sluggish. She regularly dozes off, not bothered by surrounding noise. A heavy sleeper rousing her can take considerable physical stimulation. Sometimes, walking presents too much of an obstacle, and members of Shadow Garden wheel her around for management on various projects.[ANIME ONLY] For moments of increased energy, her attacks may not be refined like a trained combatant, they can present an obstacle to opposing parties.

### Intelligence

An engineer, architect, and scientist in one mind, Eta's ability is predominantly responsible for creating Shadow Garden's technology and Mitsugoshi Company's products. Her research into Shadow Wisdom has successfully reversed engineered many of modern Earth innovations and inventions merely through Cid's offhand remarks or pilfered items from Earth. She has demonstrated a practical understanding of mechanical engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology through such creations as steam engines, industrial textile production, pile foundations, and human anatomy. Cryptanalysis is another area in which Eta has shown competency; translating kanji, hiragana, katakana, and romaji into the local language of the Midgar Kingdom in mere days. Outside of typical physical science, Eta has shown a mechanical understanding of magic and artifacts. Utilizing that knowledge, she has successfully made artifacts that visualize magic circuitry and devices that interfere with the functionality of magic.

### Swordsmanship

Eta’s combat style revolves around overwhelming combatants with atypical attacks in standard fencing. By creating numerous slime spears and swords, she freely manipulates the weapons through magic. The numerical advantage and awkward angles help keep combatants occupied. Throwing the weapons likewise offers a decisive finisher move that showers the ground with swords.**[GAME ONLY**] Aggressive tactics can limit defense, as counter-attacks are limited. Rather than parrying, her defense comes from slime shields that deflect and mitigate incoming damage.

### Magic

Slime Bodysuits require conscious magical control to be shaped upon the user. Eta magically induced telekinesis to control and create various weapons out of slime.

### Standard Equipment

* Slime weapons
* Slime Bodysuit

## Trivia

* Eta's alias shares surnames with American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
* The telegram that Eta sends out at the season 1 finale spells out "To be continued" in Morse code.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Volume 5 Chapter 3: Case Closed, Let’s Talk About Old Tales!
2. ↑ Web Novel Chapter 200
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Volume 6 Chapter 5: Welcome to Shadow Garden!
4. ↑ Volume 3 Prologue Heading to the Lawless City over Fall Break!
5. ↑ Volume 1 Chapter 3: My Official Beginning as a Mastermind in Action!
6. ↑ Volume 1 Chapter 4: The Two Sides of the Shadow Garden?!
7. ↑ Volume 3 Epilogue: The One to Destroy It All and Start from Scratch—with Fake Bills
8. ↑ Volume 5 Chapter 2: On a Shocking Morning, the School Murder Case!
9. ↑ Episode 20