History WMG / ElfenLied

Let's consider the evidence. Psychic arms, hearing voices, their enlarged pineal glands? The Diclonii are definitely some variant of proto-psykers harnessing Warp energy millennia before space travel in the Dark Age of Technology.

Let's consider the evidence. Psychic arms, hearing voices, their enlarged pineal glands? The Diclonii are definitely some variant of proto-psykers tapping into Warp energy millennia before star travel in the Dark Age of Technology.

Let's consider the evidence. Psychic arms, hearing voices, the enlarged pineal glands? The Diclonii are definitely some variant of proto-psykers tapping into Warp energy millennia before star travel in the Dark Age of Technology.

Let's consider the evidence. Psychic arms, unstable emotions, the enlarged pineal glands? The Diclonii are definitely some variant of proto-psykers tapping into Warp energy millennia before space travel in the Dark Age of Technology.

Let's consider the evidence. Psychic arms, unstable emotions, the enlarged pineal glands? The Diclonii are definitely some variant of proto-psykers tapping into Warp energy.

Kamakura has a huge tourism industry in the real world, but in Elfen Lied, many times the characters stand alone in places that should be bustling. The reason? The Kakuzawas wanted to limit the flow of outsiders they did not own, could control or could easily do away with. In actuality, they did nothing so obvious as to try and keep people out. They just made sure no outreach or advertising was done, keeping Kamakura a place not everyone knew of in that universe.

** This makes perfect sense if we factor Lucy's self proclaimed [[HearingVoices DNA Voice]] SplitPersonality, which at least Nana and Barbara (Mariko's clone) had seems to hear it. The DNA Voice could very well be using Lucy and the Silpelits' misery to strenghen its hold on them, making her do all their bidding.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what it says.]] Atavism is the [[TruthInTelevision real world]] genetic trait that can be passed on generations and generations later. Therefore, the reason Lucy's mother was able to give birth to two Diclonius children was the result of a dormant gene being activated in her for some unknown reason which allowed her to do that. But the [[UnfortunateImplications truly scary]] part? There is ''no way'' to know just how many people in the world may still carry this recessive gene, even with the decrease in human numbers, depending on how many humans in the past mated with Diclonii, so their race could rise again someday, and for every Nana that can be born, there's also a [[ThenLetMeBeEvil Lucy]] lurking in the wings, and if mankind doesn't [[HeWhoFightsMonsters learn from their mistakes]], the cycle will start all over again and this time, [[ApocalypseHow both sides may truly wipe each other out.]]

...are Diclonii. Because it would fit with the [[spoiler:metaphorical reincarnation of Lucy and Nyuu]] and they have hair... [[BuffySpeak holding-things]] in the right place. Not to mention one of them is even called [[spoiler:Kaede, Lucy's birth name, by Kouta's daughter.]]

* Theory time! Diclonii have some telepathic abilities and Lucy is a confirmed queen and all other diclonii in the series descend from her and her alone. Maybe as a queen she unknowingly and subconsciously sends mental commands to the her subordinetes? Maybe she is essentialy a telepatic beacon, constantly broadcasting a simple signal: KILL! KILL! KILL! - until it gets deeply ingrained into the receiver subconscious. So in short: she is an insane, murderous racist whose murderous insanity "spills over" unto her brood due to her species innate telepathic abilities.
** This makes perfect sense if we factor Kaede/Lucy's self proclaimed [[HearingVoices DNA Voice]] SplitPersonality, which at least Nana and Barbara (Mariko's clone) had seems to hear it. The DNA Voice could very well be using Kaede and the Silpelits' misery to strenghen its hold on them, making her do all their bidding.

[[WMG:The two girls that greet Kouta]][[spoiler: at Kaede's Dog's grave]]...
...are Diclonii. Because it would fit with the [[spoiler:metaphorical reincarnation of Kaede and Nyuu]] and they have hair... [[BuffySpeak holding-things]] in the right place.

[[WMG: Kaede's mother's ability to produce Diclonius babies is the result of atavism.]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what it says.]] Atavism is the [[TruthInTelevision real world]] genetic trait that can be passed on generations and generations later. Therefore, the reason Kaede's mother was able to give birth to two Diclonius children was the result of a dormant gene being activated in her for some unknown reason which allowed her to do that. But the [[UnfortunateImplications truly scary]] part? There is ''no way'' to know just how many people in the world may still carry this recessive gene, even with the decrease in human numbers, depending on how many humans in the past mated with Diclonii, so their race could rise again someday, and for every Nana that can be born, there's also a [[ThenLetMeBeEvil Lucy]] lurking in the wings, and if mankind doesn't [[HeWhoFightsMonsters learn from their mistakes]], the cycle will start all over again and this time, [[ApocalypseHow both sides may truly wipe each other out.]]

Lucy and Sil both gain superhuman powers from a virus, are treated horribly by humanity and so want to DestroyAllHumans, and they are both feared for [[spoiler: [[MonsterProgenitor their ability to breed.]]]] Also for some reason a side-effect of the virus is FanService.

** [[spoiler: Diclonii age faster than humans, so Lucy's half-brother is older than he looks.]]

With Kouta's life since his first encounter with Lucy being a huge BreakTheCutie ordeal, how hard his life's gotten as a result, and him regaining his memories of the incident as well as his reaction to seeing Lucy's true self years later (including him [[ThisIsUnforgivable not forgiving]] her for killing his father and sister in cold blood), it is any likely that he will [[FaceHeelTurn snap]] and turn to a life of crime and vengeance against the Diclonii?

[[WMG: Kouta will [[BreakingBad Break Bad]] during the Diclonius War]]

With Kouta's childhood since his first encounter with Lucy being a huge BreakTheCutie ordeal, how hard his life's gotten, and his reaction to seeing Lucy's true self (including him not forgiving her for killing his father and sister in cold blood), it is any likely that he will [[HeWhoFightsMonsters snap]] and turn to a life of crime and vengeance against the Diclonii?

That would explain of becoming insane by a secret military experiment as a kid, living in an orphanage as a kid, manipulating people, being compared to TheAntichrist, having ambitions to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt [[spoiler:(in Lucy's case, she almost does)]], multiple personalities, traumatizing their lovers, having an obsessive and murderous love towards someone that cares for them, Biblical and German-related motifs, and trying to commit SuicideByCop.

[[WMG: Elfen Lied takes place in the same universe as Scanners]]
Back in the 1940's Dr. Paul Ruth created Ephemoral as a treatment for morning sickness, but it lead to children being born as Scanners instead. Fast-forward to the early '80's and Darryl Revok is doing all he can to make certain that more and more Scanners are born so he can make an army out of them. It is not impossible that he tinkered with Ruth's formula, just to see what would happen. He also may very well have used his position as the head of a pharmaceutical firm to ensure that Ephemoral saw world wide distribution. Perhaps the Ephemoral variant that saw distribution in East Asia was what lead to the Diclonius mutation. Or,in light o the mutations displayed by [[spoiler: the Kakuzawas]] it caused a reversion mutation in those that were exposed to Ehpemoral.

That would explain of becoming insane by a secret military experiment as a kid, living in an orphanage as a kid, manipulating people, being compared to TheAntichrist, having ambitions to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt [[spoiker:(in Lucy's case, she almost does)]], multiple personalities, traumatizing their lovers, having an obsessive and murderous love towards someone that cares for them, Biblical and German-related motifs, and trying to commit SuicideByCop.

[[WMG: Elfin Lied takes place in the same universe as Scanners]]
Back in the 1940's Dr. Paul Ruth created Ephemoral as a treatment for morning sickness, but it lead to children being born as Scanners instead. Fast-forward to the early '80's and Darryl Revok is doing all he can to make certain that more and more Scanners are born so he can make an army out of them. It is not impossible that he tinkered with Ruth's formula, just to see what would happen. He also may very well have used his position as the head of a pharmaceutical firm to ensure that Ephemoral saw world wide distribution. Perhaps the Ephemoral variant that saw distribution in East Asia was what lead to the Diclonius mutation. Or,in light o the mutations displayed by [[spoiler: the Kakuzawas]] it caused a reversion mutation in those that were exposed to Ehpemoral.

* A British professor of note, Bernard {{Quatermass}}, once spoke of horned insectoid Martians who influenced Human evolution in the distant past. They were known for their telekinesis, self-destructive aggression, and the ability to sense who was and was not of their kind, even in Humans who felt their genetic presence. The brief and savage awakening of their influence in modern Humans caused the eventual birth [[spoiler: of Lucy's mother, the true originator of the virus.]] Another crashed Martian probe like the one found in a proposed London underground station existed in an island off the coast of Kamakura and caused an otherwise wholly Human family to develop [[spoiler: vestigial horns on their heads, mutations which only worsened when the persecuted people of the Horn Valley--or Kakuzawa--fled to this very site.]]

* Theory time! Diclonii have some telepathic abilities and Lucy is a confirmed queen and all other diclonii in the series descend from her and her alone. Maybe as a queen she unknowingly and subconsciously sends mental commands to the her subordinetes? Maybe she is essentialy a telepatic beacon, constantly broadcasting a simple signal: KILL! KILL! KILL! - until it gets deeply ingrained into the receiver subconscious. So in short: she is an insane, murderous racist whose murderous insanity "spills over" unto her brood due to her species innate telepathic abilities.

It would be a logical result of such an extreme trauma, and would explain his diminished mental acumen (apparently he was very sharp as a child), his lack of motivation, and his seeming lack of focus. Granted, it wouldn't have been a massive one, and as his brain was still growing and he had therapy, he was able to overcome much of it, with the repressed memories explaining the rest of his apparent dithering and confusion.

[[WMG: [[{{Species}} The virus is from outer space and there has been an outbreak before.]]]]

* Since [[spoiler:Aiko accidentally killed her father]], Kakuzawa probably offered to cover that incident up as long as she stayed quiet and forgot all about what happened in the warehouse.