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Lucy Demotivational

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Poster about "Elfen Lied" and it's main protagonist Kaede, better known as Lucy, the Diclonius Queen. As much as I like her, this has to be said.

Folks, "protagonist" does not always mean "good guy." I covered this with Lelouch, and Lucy is a similar case. She's widely regarded as a very tragic figure and a character that can be sympathized with surprisingly easily given she's a mass murderer. And that's entirely valid. But then there are people who say she's "not evil, just misunderstood" or see her as an innocent victim. Which just is not supported by the manga and anime canon, especially the manga. For most of what we see of Lucy in parts of the plot that are not her backstory, she's never the victim and always the victimizer. She resents all humans for how a select few humans treated her. She freaking ENJOYS bringing down lower lifeforms and causing them pain. She gets ecstasy out of maiming, torturing, and murdering others because she feels she's worth nothing to them, so they should be worth nothing to her too, and being the one to deliver pain and suffering helps relieve the pain she's suffered in her past. That is EVIL.

As for said past, to be perfectly honest, she stopped being a total victim upon leaving that orphanage/boarding school, after which she started killing innocent people so that she could crash at their houses, even making up such sensible self-rationalizations for it like "it's not fair that these people should be happy while I'm miserable!", and then stopped being a victim of any sort when she chose to listen to the voice of her homicidal instincts in her DNA and become entranced into slaughtering civilians at the festival (even people who'd wanted to HELP her!) and then doing the unforgivable to Kouta's family right in front of him. There was no going back for her after that. As I've said before, the only atonement and "happy ending" for her could be accomplished through her death, as penance to Kouta and the entire world she'd persecuted.

This isn't to say that Lucy's not ever sympathetic and isn't a character worth loving. She's a great character and a fascinating psychological study - I freaking love this character, as I've made known before. But regardless of your opinion on her, don't go calling her things she's not, and a victim is one such thing (Young Kaede was a victim at a time, and maybe Nyu was too, but Lucy? NononononoNO). That label better fits Kouta, Nana, Mayu, and yes, even Mariko.
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To me, she is a victim. Of unfortunate circumstances that is.