Unicorn/Amalthea

* Unicorn
* Human

Once, I can't remember, I was long ago, someone strange. I was innocent and wise, and full of pain. Now that I'm a woman, Everything is strange. Once, when I was searching.. Somewhere out of reach Far away In a place I could not fine Or heart obey Now that I'm a woman, Everything has changed. Everything has changed. Everything has changed.—Amalthea singing, *The Last Unicorn* (1982)

The **Unicorn**, better known as her human name **Lady Amalthea**, is the protagonist of the book The Last Unicorn, and the 1982 English-language Japanese film based on it.

## Story

She is the main heroine of *the Last Unicorn.* She is a unicorn who can turn into a human.

## History

She was born in a forest somewhere in Ireland. She leaves the safety of her forest upon learning that she is the last unicorn in the world, with information about the Red Bull as her only clue. When she first encounters the Red Bull, Schmendrick manages to inadvertently change the Unicorn into a human female to confuse the Red Bull and force its withdrawal. Schmendrick calls her "Lady Amalthea" so as not to arouse King Haggard's suspicions. Beagle notes that he took the name "Amalthea" from a Greek deity with the same name. Actually, Amalthea was the goat whose milk was given to the infant Zeus.

## Personality

The Unicorn has a personality that develops throughout the progression of the story. She is free-spirited, open-minded and shows concern and compassion to all around her. She also becomes saddened when she discovers the fate of her kind and is greatly upset by her transformation into a human, claiming that she can feel her fragile human body dying around her. This new form terrifies her to the point where she breaks down in tears, claiming that she is more afraid of it than even the Red Bull. She is very much a lost, lonely, frightened soul who seeks to find what matters most to her in the world.
When she defeats the Red Bull and frees her fellow unicorns, she admits that she is glad that she has had a chance to experience being human, as it allowed her to find love and meaning in her life, something that no other unicorn has or will ever know.

## Quotes

But.. I’m a unicorn….! I’M A UNICORN! What have you done to me?!—Amalthea

I wish you had let the Red Bull take me. I wish you had left me to the harpy! I can feel this body DYING all around me!!—Amalthea breaking down in tears after being transformed into a human being

That cannot be! Why would I be the last? What do men know? Because they have seen no Unicorns for a while, does not mean that we've all vanish. We do not vanish. There's never been a time without unicorns. We live forever! We're as old as the sky, old as the moon! We can be hunted and trapped! We can be killed if we leave our forrest. We do not vanish.—Amalthea as a unicorn.

Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy, save one...and I thank you for that part, too.—The Unicorn to Schmendrick

I can never regret. I can feel sorrow, but it's not the same thing.—The unicorn

## Trivia

-She is 700 years old of age.

-She appears in the 1982 movie *The last unicorn.*

-Ordinary people saw her as mare, except the magician Schmendrick, or Molly Grue who believe in unicorns.

-She turned human thanks to Schmendrick. Her name under this form was Lady Amalthea.

-Prince Llyr fall in love with her, but she has to turn back to her primitive form, and to her forest.

-She has an accent that sounds like a mix of British and Irish.

-She was voiced by Mia Farrow.