Limelda Jorg

**Second Lieutenant Limelda Jorg** **(リメルダ・ユルグ, *Rimeruda Yurugu*)** is a main character in the Madlax anime series.

## Description

**Limelda Jorg** is a fearless, strong-willed, skilled and attractive woman. She was the best sniper of the Elite Guards of the Gazth-Sonika Royal Army. In episode 5 she is hired as Carrossea Doon's personal bodyguard. Besides sniping, she uses handguns and machine guns, and can hold her own in close combat. Throughout most of the series, Limelda Jorg has a love/hate relationship with Madlax.

Her primary gun is an Heckler & Koch PSG-1 sniper rifle.

## **Relationships**

### Carrossea Doon

From episodes 5 to 18, Limelda Jorg was in some kind of romantic or sexual relationship with her employer, Carrossea Doon. She breaks up with him after discovering the truth about the civil war and Doon’s role in continuing it. She went to his office with the intent of killing him, but at the end she fired two shots near his head purposely missing him, showing that she has a merciful side.

### Madlax

Limelda encounters Madlax for the first time in episode 3, during an inspection of the Elite Guards to locate any spots from wich a sniper could fire, on a rooftop where Madlax was looking for a safe spot to assassinate the Royal Army Commander Guen McNichol.

After Madlax assassinated the Commander, Limelda began to see her as an enemy, deciding to kill her. As the story progresses, she starts to see her as a hated rival, becoming increasingly obsessed with her and ending becoming something other than her enemy by the end.

Several times Limelda fights against Madlax, failing each time and becoming madder. After learning the truth about the Gazth-Sonika civil war, everything she believed falls apart, and everything seems fake and arranged. The only reality left to her is Madlax. By episode 20, Limeld still tries to kill her, but talks about her like she’s in love with her. In episode 24, she finds that it’s impossible to kill Madlax, so her life now has no purpose, and she asks Madlax to kill her. However, Madlax gives her a new purpose that fits her obsession just fine: the task of watching over her, to remembering her existence in the event that she ceases to exist.

At the end of the series, Limelda is seen driving towards the sunset with Madlax beside her, saying that she will look after her. Having cut her ties with both the Gazth-Sonika Royal Army and Enfant, she has no reason to see Madlax as an enemy. Madlax calls her an idiot for coming to her side and taking care of her, but she says it fondly.

### Vanessa Rene

Limelda encounters Vanessa a few times after she hires Madlax as her bodyguard. From Jorg’s perspective, Vanessa is an annoying woman who keeps interfering with her attempts to kill Madlax. In addition, Vanessa wounds Limelda twice.

## Trivia

* Some fans of the series thinks that Limelda Jorg truly hates Vanessa Rene: this may because she’s jealous of Vanessa’s closeness with Madlax.
* Limelda is hinted to be bisexual like Madlax, having slept with Carrossea Doon but also being quite obsessed with Madlax herself - and implied to have reached an understanding (and maybe a relationship) with her.

### Name Origin

* Without the L in Limelda's name, it is Imelda which is a feminine Spanish/Italian given name derived from the German form of "Irmhild", meaning *warrior woman*, *universal battle*, or *powerful fighter*. A fitting description for her character.
* Another origin can be in relation to Chloe from *Noir*. Both Limelda and Chloe appear similar by the color of their hair and attire, and the name Chloe being derived from Greek meaning *green sprout*. So, Limelda could have been named similarly in light of that, as in *lime*, even though her name romaji would spell out “Rimerda” or "Rimelda".
	+ Likewise, "Rimelda" is a variation of the name Romelda which is a Tuetonic name meaning *Battle Maiden*.

## Gallery

The first encounter between Madlax and Limelda Jorg, the day before the assassination of Commander Guen McNichol.Limelda seen through the scope of Madlax's M24 Sniper Rifle after the assassination of the Commander.