Damien Beck Günther

## Background

Damien Beck Günther is born in June, 6, 1936, to Frank Beck and Nordic-German mother with Pleiadian-blood, Rine Günther

a is a "third generation" Diclonius, a Silpelit born from an infected carrier who inherited the Vector virus from a Silpelit who was born from parents infected by a First Generation Diclonius. Mariko was the most powerful of the Diclonii, with some 50 vectors (26 in the anime) and a long range.

She is the daughter of Doctor Kurama and his late wife Hiromi, who made a dying plea that he spare their daughter, despite her horns. He agreed to do whatever was demanded of him by Director Kakuzawa without objection and agreed to be kept away from his daughter, who was kept by a female scientist named Saito in the Diclonius Research Institute.

Despite or perhaps because of this agreement, Kurama became close to another Silpelit girl, Number 7, or Nana, who called him Papa and believed that he really was.

### History

In the anime, Mariko is introduced in episode ten (Chapter 53 in the manga) when she is released from her isolation chamber. Scientist Saito greeted the emaciated girl upon her emergence, believing they had built up a mother-daughter relationship. Mariko proved her naive when she rejected this idea, tearing Saito apart and sending her upper torso through the control station's glass partition to prevent them from stopping her. The dying Saito pressed a button that set off one of the explosives bound into Mariko's body, blowing off her right arm. Deputy Director Shirakawa and Kurama's assistant Isobe then took over her handling, warning her of the other explosives implanted in her body in order to keep her under control. It would later be revealed (though only in the manga version of the same events that closed out the anime) that Saito often told her young charge that neither of her birth parents had ever wanted her, when in fact one died to have her and the other gave up his freedom to save her.

Feeling Kurama's disobedience in not killing the injured Nana broke the agreement to protect Mariko, Director Kakuzawa sent her and her handlers off to exterminate Nana and capture Kaede/Lucy/Nyu. This was also meant to serve as a distraction meant to keep those best able to oppose a pivotal phase in Kakuzawa's plan to supplant normal Humans with Diclonius as it was finally enacted with the enforced aid of Doctor Arakawa.

Mariko was sweet and innocent in some respects and yet had no qualms about lashing out at all Humans, especially those she saw as tormentors, and even fellow Diclonius. She also thought killing was a game, as she demonstrated when she first faced Nana. When Nana extolled the virtues of her 'Papa', Mariko angrily denounced her own and resented Nana for having one, not realizing both were the same man. She managed to manipulate Kurama's assistant Isobe into giving her the codes to the remote that could keep her bombs from exploding, this after maiming him and before beheading him. Though overpowered by Mariko, Nana managed to use her special ability to disable Mariko's vectors. Kurama then showed up, almost ignoring Nana in favor of Mariko, his true daughter. Explaining his past, Kurama tried to kill Mariko, but was talked out of it by Nana. Father and daughter at last reconciled.

A military bombardment followed, which Mariko saved them from while briefly becoming an amnesiac like Kaede, saying 'Myu'. During the fighting, Lucy showed up first as the infantile Nyu, who they tried to use as a bargaining chip to oppose Kakuzawa's master plan. But a desperate Kurama shot Nyu, causing her to re-emerge as Lucy, who wrecked the control device for Mariko's body bombs, making their explosion inevitable. Mariko, accepting her fate and her father's love, urged Nana to take care of him before facing the less powerful but more experienced Lucy for the last time. Though dismembered and finally decapitated by Lucy, the explosion of the bombs inside her also wounded Lucy and forced Nyu's personality back to the surface. Nana later weeps at all the wonderful things in life that Mariko will never know.

In the conclusion, Kurama and Nana are seen at Mariko's grave, burying her ashes.

In the anime, she is killed along with Kurama when they embrace in a memory of the life they could have had together, before Kurama deliberately sets off her bombs. It should be noted that the battle with Lucy in the anime was all-out, with no distractions, and Mariko won this fight handily. Nana has a moment of mourning Mariko very similar to the manga, except in this case, she mourns Nyu as well, when it seemd like Lucy had died in battle.