Luce Marie

> "*OCT First Lieutenant. Luce Marie. Second Unit, no contacts with the Demon Group.*"
> ― Luce Marie introduced herself to Russell Burrows.
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## Luce Marie

### Name

* Luce Marie (ルーチェ) (currently)
* Elena Droetto (エレナ・ドロエット) (formerly)
* Former 11 identities
* Unknown real name

## Characteristics

### Age

31 (Physically)Unknown (estimate about 200+)

## Personal Status

### Occupation(s)

OCT 1st Lieutenant (formerly)
 2nd Unit Commander of the Lhaplus force (formerly)
Acting Commander (formerly)

### Status

Deceased (in one of the routes of Season Final 1/2)
Unknown (in one of the routes of Season Final 1/2)

### Relative(s)

Unknown

**Luce Marie** is the first lieutenant of the OCT. She was first introduced in Season 8. Due to her actions later in the game, she became an antagonist.

## Appearance

Luce Marie is an attractive-looking woman who is full of life despite her early 30s. A fair-skinned woman who has long bluish hair reaching to her knees with square bangs, her hair styled in the hime-cut style. She has a pair of pink eyes and is always seen with a gentle smile, expressing herself softly and amicably. Russell Burrows describes Luce as having looks like someone who does not fit for the military and combat units like OCT. But later added that he would be sorry if he underestimate her softness looking.

Throughout the series, she always wears a black winter-military uniform with two rows of gold buttons and a pair of white belts. Luce wears white high boots with heels, fixed with pairs of belts on each. Since it's winter so she always wears a pair of white gloves. She always wears a fluffy, soft white scarf. The logo of OCT was sewn on her coat's right arm.

Before becoming the first lieutenant of OCT, Luce tied her hair into twin-tails braids and wear a round-shaped glass in disguise upon becoming "Luce Marie". And she was wearing military training attire consisting of a bluish t-shirt, pants, and a pair of boots.

During her time living as Elena Droett, her hair was much shorter and has a darker shade of blue. She also wears the same training uniform.

## Personality

Luce was described by Russell Burrows as "sensible and gentle". Luce seems to be very gentle, and nice with a positive yet refined manner. Aside from that, Luce is rather amicable and has a good sense of humour. This is also what makes the citizens trust her and like her. According to Russell Burrows, despite her looks, he admits to himself that he can't read what she is thinking and reminded himself that he must not underestimate her.

However, Jino Lorenzi, who has acquainting her a long time ago, knows and is aware of her true nature, describing Luce as extremely scary and dangerous. Underneath the gentle and friendly persona facade, Luce is extremely sadistic and rather cruel, craving violence and a desire to be the strongest. On the surface, she appears to be a mature, gentle woman at first appearance. But eventually, she shows her true colours and turns into a manipulative, self-centered, and haughty monster. A greedy, power-hungry individual, who only looks out for herself.

Her sadism was demonstrated by her attitude when talking about what Burrows is hiding and when she shows no hesitation to kill the guards in Burrows' mansion in Season 9. Later in Season 10, she does show to be excited and smirking when she shot Jino and when she chases Noel's group to kill them. Another example of her cruelty and heartlessness is years before the main plot, she unhesitatingly betrayed her former companion's trust and bloodily brutalized him, later backstabbing Dratton to take his position for herself despite his trust for her. Due to attaining her demonic powers, and skills to follow her aim of becoming the strongest existence, she views everyone as inferior to her no matter their will and objectives and that what they dedicating their life for is nothing compared to her.

Luce is very intelligent and is also stated by some customers in the cafe, which Noel overhears as "reliable and mature", Russell Burrows gave her some respect upon learning about Luce's achievements of leadership in previous missions, which the unit she led completely those missions perfectly without having any casualties. Luce's resourcefulness was later shown further as she somehow knows about the shadow of Lhaplus and its secret and uses what she knows about it along with what she knows about Burrows to corner/threaten him to a compromise of working together. Somehow, in Season 11, Luce seems to have known about Spica's past without the latter's knowledge and used it as an advantage to eliminate the Second Lieutenant and seize absolute control over OCT.

Luce is extremely treacherous, willing to work for whoever she considers the "strongest" and will abandon them if someone comes along who better fits that description. Instantly betraying the OCT in favour of Burrows, later plans to betray Burrows and seize the Shadow of Lhaplus for herself. She isn't scared of her superior as she interrupts Burrows and Dratton's fight. Even claim Dratton's accusation about her action as high treason towards the OCT has no difference to what he's doing and mocked him being a man that seeks fights. She seems to enjoy playing with her enemies and taking them down in a most painful way when they are at their weakest as she did that to Jino and attempted to do the same to Dratton. During military missions and outside battles, she's rather taciturn, but during combat, she takes pleasure in the carnage and bloodshed.

## History

**WARNING: This article contains spoilers about the upcoming season. Read at your own risk!**

### First contract

Not much is known about her past, but about 200 years before the main story, she is a woman who contracted herself to a certain Devil to attain power for an unknown desire. Fascinated by the devil's power to stop time in his self-created realm, she forgot the main reason why she summon the devil and wish for the power to stop time. The devil deemed her as foolish since she valued something he sees as worthless but she declares that a devil who lives too long will never understand and that if humans can stop time then they can grant any desire they have. The devil then granted her **1000 years of life** to live as much as she like and when she died, she will realize that the end is where there is no colour.

As for the price of the contract, the devil takes away her name and she loses her former self, including her original wish. Later, the woman makes another two contracts and attains some power for herself. The powers she attains after each contract are time-stopping glance, pyrokinesis, body-hardening, longevity, and identity-changing. She did what a Demon could do nor a Devil could have thought 150 years before the main story: having her 4th contract. Throughout her life, she has had 12 different identities.

### Joining OCT

Years before the main story, she became a member of OCT under the name **Elena Droetto** who was known for her experience in fencing with a specialty move called **Thrust**. Accompanying her was Jino Lorenzi, who was known to be minor compared to Elena but nonetheless powerful. The pair has been famous for their accomplishment in every mission they have until Elena became someone who never returns after being buried under the debris of a battle with a demon.

However, 3 years later, she returns and rejoins OCT with a new identity named Luce Marie, and the first person who interacts with her was no other than Jino, her former companion as he notices the similarity between Luce and Elena. But nevertheless, he became close to her shortly after their first encounter with her new name.

However, one night in the training ground, she witnesses Jino training for "Thrust". He was training with a baton and told Luce about Elena. Intrigued by her friend's affection for her, she goes to try her hand at thrust training, but after seeing her way of holding the baton resembles that of those who have trained in fencing, and at the same time, resembles that of his old friend made Jino is convinced that she is Elena. He questioned Luce because she didn't find her dead body and wondered if she might have lost her memory. Luce then reveals herself to be Elena Droetto, and she is a demon all along, and that Elena Droetto is an identity among the 13 identities. As Jino refuses to believe that everything was just a lie, Luce then bloodily brutalized him and mocked him, threatening him to leave OCT. This left a mental scar on Jino's heart and mind that could never be erased and prompted him to only rely on himself while distrusting others. Luce's final words about the "**strongest individual"**, and action left a huge impact on Jino that led to his actions many years later.

After this event, Jino left OCT at some point in the past and later became the chief police of Lhaplus. As for Luce, after the event, she became the 1st lieutenant of the OCT at some point.

Before coming to Lhaplus with the OCT, Luce led her unit through a lot of missions. During those missions, the unit has no damage and completes those missions perfectly. Due to this, her name and her intelligence were established to the whole OCT and the public.

## Plot

### **Season 8**

She was introduced as the 1st lieutenant of OCT and was seen in a briefing session with Russell Burrows along with the leaders of OCT. Burrows noted her intelligence and mannerism due to her well-known reputation in the public and likely he read her profile before their meeting. At the end of Season 8, she seems to have a conversation with Dratton Bergman about Noel's return and later was interrupted by an OCT member who notifies them upon having news about Fugo Dressel which Luce and Dratton are interested in immediately and Dratton declares a war in Lhaplus.

### **Season 9**

Luce was shown to visit Burrows' mansion and invited him to have lunch with her while discussing what she had found about Cybilla Becker and what he has been involved in so far, which prompted him to shoot her to silence her but failed as the bullets meet Luce's time-stop glance and make Burrows realize that she is also a demon. Before leaving him, she told Burrows about the mess she made when coming here, which is later revealed to be the dead bodies of two security members who attempt to stop Luce from meeting Burrows.

### **Season 10**

In her attempt to tail Russell Burrows, she snuck on to Le Cercueil secretly along with Dratton Bergman without the latter knowledge. There, she shoots Jino Lorenzi and takes Coffin with her. She interferes with the fight between Dratton Bergman and Russell Burrows on the deck by using her time-manipulated power on Dratton before he could strike Burrows. After she releases her power on the major, he suffered the consequences of the price of his contract. Luce then reveals herself as a demon, berates Dratton's action of causing damage to the city and failing in the attempt to eliminate the terrorists, and despite being the commander of OCT he engaged in a battle on his own accord. Realizing how dangerous Luce is, along with the injury he has taken and that he does not have any power from the military, Dratton has no choice but to escape into the sea and retreat from the cruise ship immediately.

Afterwards, Luce hands out Madame Coffin as something in exchange for her deal to work together with Russell Burrows. However, before he could succeed, Coffin reveals her plan on Le Cercueil, then decided to hand out the secret of Lhaplus to Noel upon the young girl's final decision and persuasion towards her, and then pulls the trigger herself. After failing to take the card that Coffin handed out to Noel but is successful at his plan of eliminating the members of the Elders of Lhaplus, Burrows decided to retreat. Before he left, he then told Luce that if she can escape on her own then she can come to his mansion. Luce, turn her interest to Noel's group and then decide that as a soldier, she should do what a soldier should do since her target is in front of her.

As Noel is in her fatigued state since has used her whole strength to chase the card containing the secret, combine with Coffin's death and the weight that the secret Lhaplus held causes Caron, can not use Mortal Linker to battle Luce. Fugo attempt to take her down using a bomb but is futile as she stops the time of the bomb before it could explode. However, Fugo instead uses a smoke grenade to block her vision and fortunately, Jino came and takes them to the boats to escape. Upon learning Luce's vision-depended power from Jino, Caron stealthily battles Luce and buys the group time to lower the boats. After a while, Fugo came releasing smokes to the hall to prevent Luce from pursuing them, she then realizes that further pursuit is not a good choice as Le Cercueil sank.

After returning from the sunken cruise ship and Dratton disappearing from OCT, Luce as the currently highest in ranks among the organization becomes the placeholder in Dratton's stead. By using her new title of Acting Commander, she gathers members of the former SOLID-7 (now anti-devil unit SOLID-6) to Lhaplus.

### **Season 11**

After being promoted to Acting Commander, Luce immediately seized control of OCT. Now that she is working with mayor Burrows to get her hands on the Shadow of Lhaplus. To accomplish her goal, she has to seize absolute power over OCT, thus the disappearance of two of the three leaders of OCT is required. There she gave Ribelio a mission on the mountain of the ruin of Triela and told him to get Spica and two or three members of the Third Unit to accompany him.

Knowing that SOLID-7 are searching for Ribelio so she contacted them. Using her new position as Acting Commander, she offers to arrange their meeting with their long-searched comrade as long they filled in for the missing Major. Luce at the same time is aware of their plan to take revenge on Spica for what happened to their friend.

On one hand, she uses their history and feelings as an advantage and knows that they came after Spica thus being aware that they will follow them to Triela. On the other hand, knowing Ribelio and Spica for a quite time thus she knows them in her palm. Luce planning on using SOLID-7 to wipe out the pair by starting a war in Triela. She subtly gave them pieces of information about Spica and handed them the classified equipment so they will carry out her plan accordingly. But fortunately for them, Noel and her friends stepped in and prevented her plan to succeed, and later, Ribelio deduced her scheme to wipe them out, with Noel and Caron's information, they revealed her true colour to Ribelio and his friends.

## Powers and Abilities

### Demon abilities

#### Time-related powers

These are the abilities Luce gains from her first contract. Allowing her to manipulate her and the others' time.

##### Time-stopping glance

This is Luce's signature power and she can stop time by using her eyesight. Jino takes note of this power "If she let her sight on you, you will die before even knowing it". However, according to Dratton's deduction, Luce can not stop time with just a mere look, and likely it is a combination of powers triggered by "looking".

##### Longevity

This is the ability she gained in her first contract along with the time-stopping glance. While normal humans only live about 100 years, Luce's life span is much longer as she can live for about 1000 years.

##### Identity Changing

Luce can change her identity every time she wanted and she has lived through 200 years with 13 different names before the story takes place. It is hard to tell her identity unless someone is bonded with her long enough to tell the similarities in the appearance between her identity. It is noticeable that some distinctive parts of her appearance did not change. For instance, her hair colour is always in the shades of blue, her signature light magenta eyes, the shape of her face (eyes, nose, and lip's shape), and her beauty despite the time.

#### Body-hardening

Luce can harden her body similar to Oscar and she often uses this ability for defense.

#### Pyrokinesis

Luce is capable of manipulating fire similar to Fugo but rarely uses this ability to fight.

#### Enhanced Strength

As a demon, Luce's strength is above that of humans. At the same time, she is a member of OCT, making her stronger than the average demon as well. As shown on several occasions, she can take blows from several characters and receive minor injuries while leaving them significant wounds, such as Jino, who was brutalized several years ago and later, she easily breaks Oscar's left arm in the three-way battle.

### Other Abilities

#### Combat Skills

As a member of OCT, Luce was trained in combat and can fight with any weapon upon encountering terrorists and demons alike. Making her a formidable opponent. During her time as Elena Droetto, she was said to be a powerful fencer with experience that could take down a demon with a baton.

#### Intelligence

Luce is extremely intelligent and knowledgeable. She knows many things and can use what she knows to create an advantage for herself, combined with her sensible and mature attitude, making her reliable. She is also cunning and resourceful, for somehow knows the secret of Lhaplus and the truth of the Tragedy of Triela without Burrows or Spica's knowledge to tell her about.

#### Leadership Skill

As the First Lieutenant of OCT, Luce was known for her skill in leadership and she preferred using tactics and scheming for her strategy. One of her achievements in her leadership was the units led by her completed their missions perfectly without any damage to the team members as well as external damages.

## Relationship

### OCT

As the First Lieutenant of OCT and later, Acting Commander, Luce hold great power and influence as one of the leaders. Due to her intelligence and skills, she was well-respected among the leaders of OCT.

#### Dratton Bergman

Dratton and Luce share the same respect for one another as leaders of OCT. Both seem to be on good terms, as demonstrated during the meeting with Russell Burrows and she acted as the peace giver between Dratton and Ribelio whenever they quarreled and later pleaded with the Mayor to accept the Major's attitude. Luce is one of the few members of the organization aware that her superior was a classified demon soldier but chooses not to reveal her power nor provoke him.

Dratton on the other hand did not know that Luce was a demon all along and trusted her as a soldier. However, after Luce reveals her power and stops Dratton's time, their mutual trust came to an end as the shocked Dratton claimed that she has betrayed the organization and her own country and Luce claims that having a demon admin code is quite a nuisance and calls his actions and failures go against the motto of a soldier. Overwhelmed and aware that he can not defeat Luce after she stops his time and subsequently, suffer the impact of his price, Dratton chooses to retreat. His disappearance creates a chance for Luce to seize the OCT's force in Lhaplus as Acting Commander.

Unbeknownst to her, Dratton has filed her actions and proofs to the superiors, and later as he returns and reclaims his position from her, stripped Luce from her title and gave Ribelio the responsibility and authority to capture Luce.

#### Ribelio Strada

Luce has a neutral term with Ribelio. As the First Lieutenant, she is aware that he is a demon among the classified demon soldiers of OCT. Ribelio on the other hand does not have much impression of Luce other than being another older member who underestimates him for his age and thus holds no animosity towards the latter despite her bossing him around. However, Luce is quite intimidating towards Ribelio as he told her "known it better for her age" when they are having a meeting with Russell Burrows.

After Luce seizes control of OCT, attempting to use his former team SOLID-7 to eliminate him and Spica to hold absolute power in the force sent to Lhaplus. But as Ribelio and Spica have made peace in the end, he starts to suspect her and then realizes her true nature through Noel and Caron and decides to team up with Noel to pay his gratitude for her and aid her to investigate the information about the Devil of Beginning and bring Luce's action to light but failed and the whole team got arrested by the First Unit members.

Later as his whole team escapes and Dratton returns to Lhaplus, with the proof in their hands, they strip Luce of her position and title, and later try to take her alive but failed. In one of the routes, Luce manages to escape the underground and plans to summon another devil to regain her lost power after recovering herself from the fatal wound received from Oscar. But before she could do a thing, several soldiers under Ribelio's command along with SOLID-8 waited and cornered Luce, successfully capturing her.

#### Members of SOLID-7

She holds absolute power over them upon becoming Acting Commander. According to Amelia, Luce has always been nice to them, providing the whole team with the necessary equipment and pieces of information about Spica. Knowing that they are targeting Spica while searching for their missing friend, Luce sends Ribelio and Spica along with two members selected by him in the Third Unit to Triela so they will eliminate each other.

However, as Ribelio was advised by Noel and Caron, he decided to confront Spica and speak out his feelings. Successfully made peace with Spica, returns to his friends, and later, realises their true enemy and decided to side with Noel to take back OCT and make Luce Marie pay for using them and help Ribelio pay his gratitude for Noel.

#### Spica

Not much is known about her relationship with Spica but likely it is similar to Ribelio, Luce treats her like a member of the demon soldier of OCT. Spica is unhesitatingly and subtly making fun of Luce for her age and seems to be aware of the latter's identity but chooses not to say anything. However, as much as treacherous Luce is, she unhesitatingly betrayed Spica as she wanted her to be wiped out along with Ribelio. After Dratton's disappearance, she tasks Ribelio and Spica to go to the ruin of Triela, knowing the latter has issues with that place. She then gave SOLID-7 instructions and equipment to dispatch Spica, knowing they will try to eliminate her with or without her order. Her plan is for them to kill each other so she'll take control of the OCT, but it fails thanks to Noel's intervention.

### Allies

#### Russell Burrows

Both share a business-like relationship as Luce is interested in forging multiple devil contracts and Russell focuses on his ambition of creating the Devil of Beginning. Luce offers him a deal to work together and achieve their goals on Le Cerqueil, which Russell accepts as long she survived the sinking cruise ship. According to the deal, Luce will take control over the force sent to the city so that Russell will be able to do anything as much he wanted without being watched or controlled by the nation. Russell Burrows seems to trust her enough to tell her about the Secret that sleeps within Lhaplus and even led her to the disclosed devil vault as a thanks for helping him.

However, Luce does not minded to turn her back on Russell as long she can get her hands on the secret while Russell does not concerned about her condition as he has succeeded the Devil of Beginning as demonstrated in Season Final.

## Trivia

* Her representative colour was the Operational Camouflage Pattern Blue.
	+ Her colour is similar to Jillian Littner's representative colour.
	+ Luce replaced Jillian (in terms of being a demon) and Jino (as a military leader) place upon their disappearance.
* Luce dislikes being referred to by her age.
	+ True to this, it is unknown how long necessary but likely older than 150 years old.
* She has the most positive reputation among the leaders of OCT.
* Luce has the most contracts among the demons and at the same time the only demon with the most price as well.
	+ However, these prices do not affect her as much as other demons. Only in the two routes of Luce being killed by Jino, it falls on her like dominos.
	+ Each price of her contract was revealed to be similar to the ones of the Dressel brothers. Indicating that they might have summoned the same devil. Each contract and price following:
		- For the time-related powers, Luce not only loses her identity but once she is about to die, Luce will lose her vision of colors and can not see anything other than a blackened world as the price the Great Devil bestowed on her. This price somewhat resembles Jillian Littner's price as they contract the same devil.
		- The price for the body-hardening power was that she will have to receive amplified pain, which resembles Oscar Dressel.
		- The price she paid to attain fire manipulation power was restricted breathing, which resembles Fugo Dressel.
			* Once Luce is brutally injured, all of her prices will fall on her like dominos. According to Luce herself, if it falls on her then she won't be able to stand. It is unknown whether this is a condition for her multiple contracts or another price for a contract. Likely, as Dratton speculated, her contracts have hefty prices and conditions.
* Spica is the only devil who is aware of Luce's true nature due to Spica can tell demons and humans by smells.
* Luce planning on using SOLID-7 to wipe out both Ribelio and Spica through these methods:
	+ SOLID-7 will successfully eliminate Spica using the strategy and equipment she gave them. However, Spica retorts by turning on Ribelio's bloodlust to slaughter his friends. As Ribelio is immortal so he can not die but will likely lose himself after realising that he has killed his friends. Since they are the reason why he accepts being Spica's toy and now what he did is now turned into naught thus desperately charged at Spica. Therefore, starting a war in Triela, even if Ribelio successfully defeats Spica, his friends' blood has stained his hand, he will have to live in guilt and no longer be able to return to OCT as the place has contained his fondest memories with them.
	+ Her plan would have succeeded had it not been for Noel's intervention and for Ribelio bonding up with Noel in Season 8, which allows mutual trust and an understanding relationship between them. As they meet again in Triela, after a heart-to-heart conversation with Noel after knowing Spica's past which leads to them becoming allies in later events.