Ella_Koga

Based on the best-selling manga and anime. The series begins with her memorably violent escape from the research facility that held her captive, and how she is subsequently taken in by two college-bound cousins, Kouta and Yuka. A bullet wound to the head sustained during her escape creates a split personality for her, and in this childlike persona she is found and taken in by the cousins and named Nyu (or Nyuu). Though Nyu is often the dominant personality, Lucy still emerges again at different times, especially when Nyu feels threatened. Lucy's escape prompts the research facility to send out forces, both human and Diclonius alike, to recapture her, which puts a strain on the otherwise peaceful life she comes to find the cousins and their growing "family." As the series goes on, new characters get introduced and past connections, which are often tragic, are revealed among the main characters, especially Lucy and Kouta.

Elfen Lied: The Novel Series

Panicking at the emergence of Lucy, Professor Kakuzawa thinks of a vaccine he had been developing for what he calls negotiations, realizing that whatever advantage he thought it might confer, is largely meaningless in this situation. Lucy smiles as she realizes her vectors, formerly disabled by Nana, have re-emerged. When she asks who he is, he calls himself her 'co-worker,' and reveals that he was the one who engineered her escape from the Diclonius Research Institute. He did this for the purpose of having her mate with him to have Diclonii destroy and displace humans as the planet's dominant species, and although he had backup plans, she managed to utilize that first opportunity thoroughly. When Lucy questions why a Human would want this, he removes his toupee and reveals that he too has horns.


Back at the Institute, Kurama watches Nana test out her new limbs, a situation she has adapted to rapidly, increasing both the power and skill of her vectors. He warns her to be on her guard against the growing power Lucy exhibits. Nana holds him and vows that her life is at his disposal.


The scene shifts back as Kakuzawa tells the story of his family history, in which he claims his clan were the Original Diclonii, despised and hunted for their horns in medieval times. He also purports that interbreeding with humans has removed the power they once also wielded, but in Lucy, the chance to have that power again is reborn, calling this the Lebensborn Project, after a Nazi attempt to engineer a master race. They will, he claims, begin to displace the human race entirely. A calm, quiet Lucy responds to his grandiose notions by casually decapitating him.
