Lucy Diclonius

**Kaede** **楓,**better known as **Lucy** **ルーシー** and later as **Nyu** **丹生**, is the main character, protagonist, and anti-hero of the Elfen Lied series. Called "**Queen Diclonius**". She is also a Kula Edit in KOF MUGEN by RavenousCrucifix. Lucy is a person difficult to define by any standard of "good" or "bad" social mores.

Her voice was made from clips of Lucy Diclonius herself from Elfen Lied.

## Story

### Lore

#### In Elfen Lied

She was cruelly tormented in her childhood, leading to a mental breakdown at an early age from the cruelty that surrounded her. Although she never expected to receive any token of love and acceptance from others, she occasionally had the opportunity to see that such things were, in fact, possible for someone like her. Her great love was Kōta, a boy she met when they were both children and again when they were young adults.

#### In KOF MUGEN

Here she retains at least her origin as it is and in her state as Lucy Diclonuis, but here she meets who would be her counterpart from the Prototype saga: Alex Mercer. but at that time he didn't recognize him Until KOF: Class C

### Elfen Lied

#### Birth

Kaede's mother was a human capable of giving birth to a fully reproducing Diclonius (unlike the sterile Silpelit children), and was apparently the true origin of the virus that created them. Captured by Chief Kakuzawa, Kaede's mother was used as a guinea pig by Kakuzawa for his experiments, then being raped by the latter, thus explaining her origin; this fact as a consequence, ends up leading her to suicide. Kaede knew nothing of this, believing that both parents had abandoned her. In fact, only her father was still alive, while her mother never stopped searching for her, prior to her capture by Kakuzawa. It is unclear if Kakuzawa knew of Kaede's existence before Kurama and his own son, Yu, so the timing of Kaede's and her half-brother's conception and birth is also uncertain.

She was taken into an orphanage, where she was bullied by the other children there. They used to call her "horns" or "ox" (because of the horns she has), Kaede was aware of this, making her a lonely girl with no friends, with the desire to be accepted by others.

#### The origin of his Killer Instinct

Kaede met a puppy with whom she grew to sympathize. She used to feed him what little she had to eat, she described herself as a weak person, telling the cub that she would protect him if he were strong.

Being a homeless girl, she is taken in at an orphanage; inside, she is bullied by another boy Tomoo and his company as usual, but a girl arrives and finds out what is going on, so she calls the teacher, making the boys leave. The girl manages to socialize with Kaede, that's when the girl tells her that she can tell her anything she wants. Kaede chooses to tell him about the puppy, which would unknowingly lead to a terrible scene.

The next day, Tomoo provokes her, and shows her the puppy, causing Kaede to become alarmed and try to stop the situation, but one of Tomoo's friends grabs her, preventing Kaede from breaking free. Tomoo tells her to cry and beg so they will leave the dog and beat her up, but Kaede kicks him, making Tomoo angry and start beating the puppy. Kaede is terrified to see how they hit her friend, at that moment the girl who knew about the puppy arrives, she tells them to stop and confesses to Kaede that she was the one who told them about the puppy. As a final touch, the dog dies due to the brutality with which they beat him, causing Kaede to be paralyzed for a few seconds, she accepts that people are only miserable, and that they need to make others feel even more miserable. She eventually unleashes her vectors, which ends up killing the children. Kaede consequently escapes from the orphanage

During the nights, Kaede struggled with her Diclonius instincts and ended up murdering entire families to stay in their homes. The murders became more and more publicized, and it was difficult for him to stay in a house for long.

#### Meeting with Kouta

As he stood at the tomb, a young man came up and noticed his horns. Thinking it would only hurt her more, she set out to kill him. However, he surprisingly thought they were cool and immediately wanted to make friends with her. Kaede thinks that he was trying to trick her, and tried to leave, but Kōta insists, promising that he would be there at the same time tomorrow. In a touch of sad irony, Kōta's father does not let him out, because of the homicides occurring in Kamakura caused by Kaede. Even believing that Kōta would never arrive, he hoped against hope and made his way to the meeting place, staying there until night, regretting what he saw as his foolishness in the rain. Kōta, true to his promise, sneaks out during the night, and goes to meet Kaede. When he arrived, he gave her a hat, so that she could hide her horns, which distressed her so much. They agreed to play together the next day. Kōta only arrived three days later, fearing his father had a serial killer in the neighborhood. But since it was the last day of vacation, and since there had been no more murders in the last three days, she let him out. Because it was the last day he could stay with her, Kōta decided to take Kaede to the zoo and spend the whole day together. Kaede's fascination with animals she had never had the chance to meet (such as elephants and giraffes) surprised Kōta, and he reveled in her playfulness. They had fun throughout the day and this created a strong bond between them. It was the best day of Kaede's life, but it hurt her that this was going to be the last day she could see Kōta. When she found out that he was going to a nearby festival, she begged him to go with her, but he mentioned that he promised to go with his cousin. As night fell, as they were returning on the bus, the voice inside her head told her that Kōta was going to the party with another girl, and said that it would be better if she killed him now, in order to avoid suffering later. Then she found herself choking Kōta, and she stopped, terrified. She demanded his promise to kill her if one day she ended up killing a lot of people. When they returned, a fearful Kaede asks Kōta if her cousin was a boy or a girl. Not wanting to hurt his feelings, Kōta lied and said that his cousin was a boy.

She however went to the party, only to feel betrayed by another friend upon learning that that cousin, Yuka, was actually a girl. She mentally saw Kōta saying that he could never be friends with a weirdo like her, and that he had only been nice to her because he loves weird animals. As she broke down further, she saw her fellow orphanagers as hideous, undead creatures, also saying that there was no place for someone like her, and that lying to her was not the same as lying to a real human being. . The voice of her Diclonius instincts took on the mental image of herself, but with a cold and psychotic expression, she called herself Evil Kaede the voice of Diclonius DNA, saying that she could not coexist with humans. The voice proposed to Kaede to join her in order to make a place for them to live. Consumed with fear and despair, Kaede accepted her other self's offer, sealing her fate by making a proverbial "deal with the devil."

Enraged, and corrupted by her inner voice, she began slaughtering various people at the festival. This was later reported as a bomb attack, though Kōta's little sister Kanae, who possibly had the extraordinary gift of seeing her vectors, ran away and told her family (and probably the authorities) that the people were being killed by a girl with horns. Kōta immediately thought of Kaede, but he didn't believe his sister's story. With summer and their visit over, Kōta and his family boarded the train for Hokkaido and said goodbye to Yuka and her mother. Kaede sneered as Kōta comforted a Yuka with tears in his eyes. Kanae kept insisting to Kōta that his story was true, even when Kaede appears in the car of the moving train. Kōta angrily denied Kanae's idea that Kaede could be responsible and slapped her, reducing his little sister to tears when he told her that he hated her. Kaede then split Kanae in half and decapitated her father, telling a horrified Kōta that Yuka was next, but she still wanted to be with him. In pain and rage, Kōta began to assault her, telling her to stop killing. Kaede realized that far from making Kōta love only her, she had managed to do something unforgivable and perhaps put him away from her forever. While on the run, she privately vowed to live for no other reason than to one day return and apologize to Kōta.

#### Capture

A despondent Kaede hides out for the next five years, moving alone at night. Most of its victims would suffer heart attacks after its vectors have damaged their blood vessels. As these murders and the instance of Silpelit births multiply over the years in Kamakura, Kaede's birthplace and one-time home, Kurama and Kakuzawa investigate this information along with information from the Festival and the orphanage murders caused by Kaede. When a photo of Kaede who was listed as missing and probably kidnapped during the orphanage massacre came into his hands, her horns revealed her identity and a direct search was started.

Kaede befriended a girl named Aiko Takada who liked to draw. Aiko was also alone, facing an abusive father and hoping to reunite with the mother who abandoned her. When Aiko accidentally kills her enraged father, the two were framed for murder and flee the scene, hoping that the girl would be able to see her mother, who was having an art exhibit at the nearby museum, once again. After hiding in the museum, Kurama finds the two girls and orders the forces to fire. Aiko jumps into the path of the gunfire to save Kaede's life. In exchange for a promise of immediate medical attention for Aiko, Kaede surrendered to Kurama. After being imprisoned at the Diclonius Research Institute (National Research Institute on the Evolution of Human Innermost Feelings ~ Herzenswärme) Kaede was informed that Aiko had died from her injuries. Kurama stated that she could have lived if they had simply given up, and that the humans only wanted the Diclonius race to co-exist with them. Kaede denies, stating that humans do not want a co-existence. As revenge for Aiko's death, Kaede promised Kurama that if she ever escaped, she would kill everyone she cared about, but in the manga she said or showed a picture of Aiko being alive so chances are it was a hoax. and possibly that in the anime she is also alive.

#### Flight

During her three-year incarceration, Kaede was locked in a metal cage inside a containment chamber, and the name "Lucy" was in general use by investigators. It was also possibly a reference to Lucifer, as she and the other Diclonius are often thought of as monsters and demons. From time to time she repeats her promise to Kurama, which she modifies to say that she would leave him alive to suffer. Sometimes guards or scientists stray too far from their containment chamber, as it would kill them.

One day, during a transfer from one storage area to another (perhaps similar to the one used to hold Mariko), a security guard dropped his mobile phone within Lucy's range and used it to cut off her arm. , and in his panic, he murders him. The man possessed a key to the cell which Lucy uses to escape. The conditions for this opportunity were revealed later, they were part of a plan orchestrated by Professor Kakuzawa. Now free, she was able to escape, killing dozens of security guards. Finally, he encountered Kurama and another group of guards, armed to the teeth and standing inside a perimeter where Lucy's vectors wouldn't reach them. Kurama's secretary, Kisaragi, awkwardly entered the room and was taken hostage by Lucy. Lucy then pops her head out of her body, and uses her body as a shield against the gunshots. The guards run out of bullets, so Lucy takes the opportunity to continue on her way, leaving only Kurama alive, keeping her promise to let him live to suffer. She made her way to the exit, and prepared to jump off a cliff and leave the island. Kurama sends a sniper armed with a rifle that fires .50-caliber bullets to finish off Lucy. However, she turned her head towards the sniper just before the bullet was fired. This resulted in the bullet striking the restraining helmet instead. The force of the projectile knocked her unconscious, and Lucy eventually falls into the sea

#### Nyu and Life at Maple House

Lucy fell into the ocean and drifted to shore. She ended up on Yuigahama Beach near the coast of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, where she met Kōta. By coincidence, she is found by Kōta (unable to remember her and the murders) and Yuka, who were walking on the same beach. Due to the blow to the head she had suffered, she temporarily loses her memory and develops a childish and ignorant personality, only being able to make the sound "Nyū", so Kōta and Yuka decided to call her by the only word she knew. Instead of taking her to the police, Kōta took her to his new home - a Ryokan-style inn called the Maple House. At first Nyu couldn't even change her clothes by herself, but she began to learn little by little over time. On occasion, Lucy's personality resurfaces but only when she is assaulted, as it did during her brutal battles with Bando and Nana, and when she is kidnapped by Professor Kakuzawa, although Lucy also flourishes when she has flashbacks to her childhood. Being Lucy, she found out that she was living with Kōta, her childhood sweetheart. At the beginning of the story, she wants to get away from him and disappears from time to time, always coming back because of the Nyū personality. She has enormous guilt for killing her family, but when she realizes the existence of her other personality, and Kōta's lost memory, she decides that she wants to live in peace as Nyū with the other residents, including Nozomi and Kouta. even Nana.

Lucy resurfaced once more in Nana's battle with Mariko, and it marked the first time she lost her horns (although she regenerates them afterward since she is the Queen). At first, Nana had a hard time adjusting to living with Nyū, as she resented him for losing her limbs in battle, though she finally accepted that Nyū and Lucy are two different people and managed to live with her. For the first time faced with the idea of ​​Lucy's existence, Nyū was finally persuaded to return to the inn, where a merry dinner was interrupted by a strike team led by Nousou, the Agent, and the backup of three clones (Alicia, Barbara , and Cynthia) that were created from Mariko's DNA. With her friends harassed and injured and Kōta shot, Nyū instantly regenerated the horns and gained the ability to use their vectors without turning into Lucy. His actions during this battle had the adverse effect of restoring Kōta's lost memories of how his family died and the fact that Kaede as Lucy had killed them. Angry and heartbroken, she wiped out nearly the entire assault force, but was cut down by the agent and a dying clone of Mariko. From there she was taken back to the center of the island and kept in an underground grotto, and was ultimately confronted by Chief Kakuzawa.

#### The End

This confrontation was the beginning of the end for Kaede's journey. Chief Kakuzawa revealed that he, too, is of Diclonius descent, and that all of his efforts to harm the Diclonius were actually part of a master plan to ensure their dominance and the replacement of the hornless humans by making them the future dominant species. He also introduced Kaede to her half-brother, her own son conceived by Kaede's mother after he raped her, and in her mind, her mate as they will recreate the human race in Diclonius, also ensuring that the new race is under his leadership. . He also revealed that the continued use of his powers was slowly destroying his body. Kaede eventually kills Kakuzawa, her half brother, and apparently the mutated Anna Kakuzawa as well. Speaking to Chief Kakuzawa's corpse, she hatefully rejected his plans, saying that not only were they mere humans after all, but that he and his family had mistaken a minor genetic mutation (for the horns in descendants of his bloodline) for that of a true Diclonius since if it had been a real Diclonius, it would have felt its presence and vice versa. To the corpse of her half-brother, she apologized, saying that even though she had done nothing wrong, her bloodline must end, and she would do so with what she saw as his now inevitable death. Evading armed forces from various parts of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, some equipped with vector-based weapons, she headed for the mainland, determined to see Kōta again before she died. The Japanese Self-Defense Forces, Kurama and Nana, and a convalescent Kōta even who escaped from the hospital, reached Kaede's position who manages to reach the Enoshima lighthouse.

Kaede finally apologized to Kōta for killing her family; she also explained that an inner voice, that of her own DNA, led her to the horrible things she did. Breaking his heart, Kōta explicitly states that he would never forgive Kaede for the murder of Kanae and her father. He also firmly rejected his explanation of the DNA voice (Evil Kaede), saying that all people deal with things like that. But he cared for her as Nyū enough to offer to let her live to stay with them at the inn, on the condition that she never kill again. Kurama's attacks and the armed soldiers made keeping this promise impossible, and because of that, just as Director Kakuzawa warned him, his body begins to literally melt from the excessive use of his powers. Faced with the choice of destroying the world that had caused her so much pain and saving Kōta, whose injuries had worsened to the brink of death, Kaede uses all of her remaining energy to heal him

As her body began to literally dissolve before her eyes, Kaede gave Kōta a gun and urged him to fulfill his childhood promise to kill her before his violent personality emerged and tried to destroy the world again. . Kaede and Nyu's personalities try to convince him, but Kōta found that he couldn't kill his old friend, no matter what wrong he did to her. Before the painful decision, Kaede urged him to return each year to the place where they met, and one day, she would be waiting for him. The more violent personality was now in full control, but the pain was so incredible that he used the vector to place the weapon in Kōta's hands, and in a mixture of mercy and revenge, Kōta then killed the girl he knew. like Nyū from a shot to the head. Even without their Queen and with a Diclonius birth vaccine being distributed amid a worldwide ban on total breeding, the remaining Diclonius took years to wipe out, killing many hornless humans before all would return to normal. In the intervening ten years, Kōta returned to the place where he met Nyu as a child on the anniversary of that day. In one such instance, he arrived in the company of his daughter Nyū, whom he named after his fallen friend, and who bore a strong resemblance to her supposed mother, Yuka. Speaking of playing there as a child, Kōta finds, with a little help from his daughter, a note inside a bottle in the area around the large stone near Kaede's cub's grave. In it was a jade stone given to Kaede by Kōta, and a letter from Kaede, expressing her love and wish from the beginning to marry him.

This finally erased any doubt in Kōta's mind that their friendship was real. It was also the first time he learned the girl's real name: Kaede. Little Nyuu told her father that she had been playing with twin girls in that area, and that one of them was named Kaede. The twins, not fully seen, but looking very similar to Kaede as a child (along with the hair, ribbons that at least indicate that they are possibly Diclonius) smile at Kōta and tell him that they had been waiting for Kōta. his special friend, bringing Kōta to tears of joy. It is strongly implied that Kaede's two good personalities have been reincarnated into these young women. If one Lucy and Nyu count as separate from Kaede, then maybe little Nyuu herself is part of this rebirth.

### Origin of the Rank

#### KOF: Class C

and teams up with Alex Mercer, Ezio Auditore, and Mizore Shirayuki, being the leader of the Dark Dimension Team, But he doesn't know Mercer's intentions and when they lose against Blade's team, Mercer reveals his intentions and tries to get rid of them. Realizing this, Lucy shows her killer instinct and with Mizore they face Mercer in a match without a defined winner.

### Kunsang Story

#### KOF: Omega

Lucy teams up with Mengfei Mu who is the leader of the third and Mercer, but reluctantly because these two already hate each other since KOF Class C, due to Mercer's own betrayal and deception. and the reason why they were forced to team up with Mengfei is because Kunsang.exe wanted to bring the multiverse to a cataclysm, this was a warning from Mengfei who also had to stop his brother Kunsang Mu, (with whom he usually fights for who is stronger) because she supposed that he could not stop it. in the end they face Kunsang.exe and defeat him but he does not accept defeat and decides to go seriously but he is stabbed by Kunsang which calms the situation for a moment. until Kunsang begins to scream losing his sanity and consciousness and when he turns to his companions saying "nice try, but that won't stop me" with his voice a very deep voice, in an instant he becomes diabolical, terrifying and gloomy with eyes heavily cracked red a longer mouth with 78 fangs, two monstrous mouths on each hand, a large mouth on its chest, a white eye with a red broken glass rim on its forehead and all of its very dark gray feet. At that time, merged with Kunsang.exe, it had become Kunsang.worm, to which Mengfei became desperate, and there he had to fight against it. Luckily, they manage to defeat him and tie him up however, Kunsang.worm is easily unleashed and when he releases all his power, he leaves all the members in despair and then adds them to madness and when he prepares to cause the cataclysm, he is stopped by Kunsang's conscience who throws himself into a void that he creates and although Kunsang.exe tells him that it is in vain, Kunsang knew what he was doing, and tells him "I'm not going to kill you physically". With this line, desperate and mad now was Kunsang.exe whose last words were of despair, and fear. From there with Kunsang and Kunsang.exe disappearing from existence, the portal creates a red explosion that sends Mengfei, Mercer and Lucy flying extremely far away from Nagoya. Lucy is found unconscious in the Mediterranean Sea and when she wakes up on the coast of Greece she does not remember anything that happened during the existence of the two individuals and decides to disappear from the place.

### Legend of the Hunting

#### KOF: Oni

Here she is the Sub Boss of the game after Imawashiki who is the Final Boss of the game. here he realized the existence of an individual named Hunter York, who would be a threat to Lucy and was waiting for him in Osaka, Japan, to kill him when he won the final but when Hunter wins the final with his team made up of Luna and Rosmeri Waran and confronts Lucy, she loses to all three and is killed by Hunter after Imawashiki's appearance caused by her death.

## Personality

### Nyu

This is the part of Kaede where she's a good, innocent person who can't even speak. He was born after Lucy was shot in the neck. She was found by Kōta and Yuka on the beach. Nyu has been shown to be too innocent of a person, sometimes even not knowing the names of things, as when Kōta asks for water, she brings him a slipper instead of water or squeezes Yuka's breasts and such. It has also been seen that she does not have her killer instinct at all since when she was challenged to fight by Bando, she starts to cry and runs away.

### Lucy

This is the dark side of Kaede; an assassin without mercy or compassion for the humans whom she has a great hatred due to the suffering they caused her in her childhood for being a Diclonius. Originally her name was Kaede but when she was captive she was nicknamed Lucy, perhaps in reference to Lucifer, since a Diclonius is considered a "monster" or "demon".

### Kaede

Kaede is the original personality. As a child she just wanted to be accepted despite having bony protrusions sticking out of her head. Lucy's personality develops after traumas and sad events experienced in her childhood.

## Abilities

Lucy's abilities are somewhat different from the rest of the diclonius, but despite being the queen, she has few vectors and they are shorter, but despite this they are still totally destructive, at the end of the manga she was able to make her Vectors will reach completely huge ranges with enough force to destroy a planet, in the development of longer horns, but this leads Kaede to melt and use all her strength hurting her. Lucy has also shown that she can cause a huge massacre, being able to dismember many people at the same time causing panic throughout the sector, what she does most when she kills people is to tear limbs from her victim's body. Among the part that performs it the most is the head.

## Fanon Appearances

* *The King Of Fighters: Elite*
* *The King Of Fighters: Class C*
* *The King Of Fighters: Omega*
* *The King Of Fighters: Oni*

## Trivia

* She is often compared by fans to Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki.
* She is one of the strongest Diclonius alongside Mariko.
* Her design in the manga changes quite a bit as she progresses.
* In the manga, his horns look more like elf ears.
* Lucy is quieter in the anime, as her maniacal laughter is absent there.
	+ In addition to the fact that in the manga, Lucy is foul-mouthed, which can be seen in times of fights.
* In the manga she is the same height as Lucy, Nyu and Kaede. In the anime, when she is Lucy she looks much taller, possibly animation errors or an attempt to make Lucy more intimidating than Nyu or Kaede.
* In early concepts of Kaede, she had dark blonde hair and her eyes were black.
* In the manga, her hair is light pink and her eyes are black with a greenish tint.
* At first, she didn't really understand the concept of vectors, so she thought it was magic and called herself a "mage"