Lusamine

**Lusamine** is the leader of Team Rocket's second incarnation. She was also the co-founder and leader of the Aether Foundation. After being driven insane by the death of her husband Mohn, Lusamine was contacted by the organization Obsidian, who mimicked Mohn's voice and instructed her to capture and wedgie the most powerful female trainers from around the world. In order to do this, she re-formed and reorganized the defunct Team Rocket, seeking to use them to accomplish her goal.

## Biography

Alongside her husband Mohn, Lusamine created the Aether Foundation, an organization dedicating to collecting and healing hurt Pokemon. Constructing a massive island base called the Aether Paradise, the group became one of the world's leading Pokemon research groups, but one day an accident happened that caused Mohn to seemingly be sucked into another dimension. Lusamine was devastated by this loss, and the Aether Foundation quickly fell apart as she retreated into the Paradise to mourn him.

One day, Lusamine began to hear the voice of her husband speaking to her. Not knowing that it was really the voice of Circe, a member of the sinister organization Obsidian, Lusamine began speaking to it, believing it to really be Mohn communicating from another dimension. Keeping up the ruse, Circe told Lusamine that the only way to bring "Mohn" back was to capture the world's most powerful female trainers and send them through the same tear that had initially claimed him.

With subtle guidance from Obsidian, Lusamine reformed the defunct crime syndicate Team Rocket to help her accomplish her new goal. She recruited a number of members of the original organization, like Domino, Annie, Oakley, and Ariana, all of whom she placed in high-ranking positions in her new Team Rocket. She also allied with the Gym Leader Sabrina, who agreed with her mission and joined Team Rocket as well. She did not seek the approval of Team Rocket's original leader Giovanni but he still approved of her mission, receiving consistent updates from Domino. At some point, she learned of the mysterious G.S. Ball and ordered her agents to find it.

After Annie and Oakley were arrested in Cerulean City for wedgieing Nurse Joy and trying to break into the Kanto Power Plant, Lusamine sent Domino to break them out and wedgie both Joy and the resident Officer Jenny. She then sent the three to the Galar region to capture Nessa, and they ended up bringing back both Nessa and her girlfriend Sonia. As a reward, Lusamine allowed Annie and Oakley to keep Sonia as their personal wedgie toy.

Following the capture of several other powerful trainers (including Flannery, Shelly, Clair, Lorelei and Professor Ivy), the Sinnoh Pokemon champion Cynthia began putting together her own alliance to combat Team Rocket. Unphased, Lusamine decided to continue her mission, though she did face a bump in the road when Sabrina accidentally revealed her true allegiance to Cynthia's group. Lusamine also ordered Faba to install several trophy cases in her office so she could admire her captured trainers (whose numbers now included Gardenia), and faced another setback when Sird stole the G.S. Ball for Team Galactic. Luckily, Domino managed to defeat the traitorous agent, and brought her back to face Lusamine's wrath.

As part of her preparations to re-open the dimensional tear within the Aether Paradise, Lusamine ordered her agents to lay siege to Rose Tower in Galar and steal Cyrus's portal-opening machine from Macro Cosmos. While they were there, the agents also captured Macro Cosmos' vice president Oleana, bringing both her and the machine back to Lusamine.

## Appearances

Rocket Damsel Quest
* Nurse Joy and the Pokemon Center Raid (mentioned)
* Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy's Centaur Wedgie (voice only)
* Professor Sonia Taken Prisoner (mentioned)
* No Signs of a Struggle (mentioned)
* Return to the Pokemon Tower
* Tree Hugger (mentioned)
* Defying a Direct Order
* Kanto Stop, Won't Stop (mentioned)
* Emergency Meeting (mentioned)
* Domino's Hisuian Hang-Up (mentioned)
* Reversal of Fortune (mentioned)