Capella Emerada Lugunica (カペラ・エメラダ・ルグニカ) is a Sin Archbishop of the Witch Cult, representing Lust. She is also known as Mother, the individual responsible for assembling and leading the Beloved Children. Due to Capella's control over her collective "children", including Elsa and Meili, she can be noted as a minor overarching antagonist in Arc 1, Arc 2, and Arc 4, while she is one of the main antagonists of Arc 5. ADVERTISEMENT Appearance Because of her Authority, Capella's actual form is unknown, though she has transformed into a giant black dragon with golden horns, a small girl, a well-endowed woman, an honest looking village girl, a multitude of field mice, and an innocent looking young girl with a lewd smile. In her most common form, Capella has short golden hair with a string of hair down her right and a rose attached at the end of it. She wears revealing clothes, hot pants, leggings, a bikini and nothing more. She also has a yaeba that becomes prominent when she laughs. This form also has a great resemblance to other members of the Royal Family of the Dragon Kingdom of Lugunica. Lastly, just above her waist, two larger circular appendages can be seen sprouting out of her body. According to the series' main illustrator Shin'ichirō Ōtsuka's notes featured in Volume 17's additional illustrations page, those appendages help Capella adjust her mass when she's transforming, as well as to make it look as though her entire body were made of liquid metal.[2] ADVERTISEMENT Personality Capella is considered to have the worst personality among the Sin Archbishops. She speaks in a way that sounds like she spits and tramples on courtesy while having a cruel personality to boot. She claims that all the love and respect in the world exists to be monopolized by her. Even among the Sin Archbishops famed for their vulgar personalities and irredeemable actions, Capella is considered a special brand of evil. Lust views people other than herself as mere bags of meat meant to operate as she deems fit. As she sees those around her as little more than animals, Capella cares not for the opinions and feelings of others nor whether or not her actions cause pain and suffering. She also revels in the pain of others, often cackling whilst bringing torment to other people. Like the other Sin Archbishops, Capella has a lack of regard to the lives of others. She changes her appearance so that everyone would come to love her. She plays with the dignity and values of other people by changing their appearances, spitting her brand of ridicule upon those who don't share all of her ideals, and has no qualms toying with corpses to create demi-beasts. In regard to other members of the Witch Cult, she is shown to not think highly of her fellow Sin Archbishops, often referring to them with degrading nicknames when not using their actual names. Befitting her title as the bearer of the Witch Factor of Lust, Capella is obsessed with the concept of love and feels a great urge for every single person in the world to love her. Although, like everything about the Archbishop, Capella's idea of love is severely warped. She presents excessive pride in regard to herself, often citing herself as a kind woman whose beauty is compared to none. Under the moniker of Mother, Capella spends her days gathering brilliant and extraordinarily eccentric individuals who she refers to as her children–underlings so that she can use them for her own benefits and goals. According to both Elsa and Meili, Mother is extremely cruel and unforgiving as even the slightest mistake might result in harsh punishments, such as being temporarily morphed into countless frogs, being slaughtered, or simply getting turned into a shapeless pile of meat for all eternity. According to Capella, her children are individuals who will devote their bodies and souls to make her wishes come true and give her gifts beyond her wildest dreams, no matter the cost. By doing so, they will express their unbounded love for Capella, something she cherishes more than anything else in the world. ADVERTISEMENT History Currently, little is actually known about Capella's past, as her background is surrounded in mystery including how and when she became the Sin Archbishop of Lust. That being said, the author did once hint that Capella is hiding away deep trauma.[3] However, it is known that she has been active for at least thirty years, having been collecting talented people to be a part of her Beloved Children, and over the course of those three decades, she has been silently at war with the Six Tongues as she slowly but certainly replaced certain important members of the government with her own people. At an unknown point in time, Capella destroyed the Kararagian village that was being resided by Reize and her mother, leaving Reize as the only survivor. It is unclear what her goal in doing so was. Nine years before Natsuki Subaru's summoning, Capella tasked a former slave named Reisel with retrieving an object relating to the legacy of the Witches. The object in question was a foxlike artificial spirit created by the Witch of Greed roughly four centuries prior. In order to help him complete his mission, Capella loaned him a magical artifact that would allow him to manipulate shadows in certain ways. However, Reisel's mission was ultimately thwarted, and he was forced to destroy the artifact that Capella had given to him. Mother, in her usual ruthless fashion, decided to punish her failure of a subordinate, pruning him and turning him into a pile of meat without any shape or form. At some point in time, she tasked another one of her children, Sithonia, to retrieve a perfected curse doll for her. To this end, Sithonia infiltrated the Featherrun Sisters under Holosseo Featherrun and became a curse doll. Following Holosseo's death, she attempted to kill Elsa, intending to use the power of a perfected curse doll to betray Capella, but ultimately lost her life to her “sister”. When Elsa departed from the Featherrun mansion, Capella intercepted her, revealing what she truly desired was love from someone who could devote themselves to her. Threatening Elsa with the lives of Ornea Featherrun and Oliver Zeppes, Capella successfully managed to acquire her as a new “child”. Some years later, Elsa brought Meili Portroute to Capella, and she paired the two of them together. It is also implied that Roy Alphard, one of the Sin Archbishops of Gluttony, also became one of her children, as he refers to her by the name Mama. Later, after Elsa was hired during the events of Arc 1, Capella gave them another task, which Meili took on by herself, leading to the events of Arc 2. Yet again, when Elsa was hired in Arc 4, Meili accompanied her despite not being hired by Roswaal, indicating that someone else had been involved with the attack on the mansion. Two months later, after Subaru led the successful subjugations that resulted in the deaths of the White Whale and Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti, Capella began to panic, allowing two of her Beloved Children to defect and join the Six Tongues, which allowed them to prevent more of her plans from coming to fruition. Because of this, Capella orchestrated the Battle for Priestella, where she intended to reveal her face, name, and Authority for the first time in order to combat the Six Tongues and speed up her plans. ADVERTISEMENT Abilities Overall Power Although the full extent of her power is unclear, Capella is an incredibly dangerous individual, capable of easily defeating the likes of someone like Crusch Karsten and keeping her bedridden for months. However, what makes her the most dangerous is her tactical prowess and mind, exhibiting a kind of intelligence unseen by other Witch Cultists. Most notably, she is the only Sin Archbishop still currently active, and she was the only one who managed to escape the backlash of the Battle for Priestella with little true harm done to her. Authority Capella transforming herself into a young girl and Crusch Karsten. Capella transforming herself into a young girl and Crusch Karsten. Capella transforming herself into a black dragon. Capella transforming herself into a black dragon. Transmutation and Transfiguration (変異・変貌, Hen'i Henbō): Capella is the current wielder of the Witch Factor of Lust. She is shown to able to use its respective Authority to transmute her body and the bodies of others down to the very cores, allowing her to turn any living thing into whatever form she desires. Self-Shapeshifting: The most commonly seen use of her Authority, Capella is capable of turning her entire body, or even part of her body, into the forms of others. In combat, she has a tendency to turn her limbs into the body parts of beasts, such as a lion's head, or she can turn herself into a strong black dragon that is roughly the size of Priestella's City Hall. She can also use this ability to turn her body into numerous smaller creatures, such as rats, allowing her to escape most methods of confining her. Beyond that, she can transform her physical appearance to look like other people, as well her voice and even her gate;[4] it is unknown if she can affect the Od. This gives her the ability to torment others by changing her physical appearance to someone they love or adore or give her the potential to be a master of escape, infiltration, and subterfuge. Regeneration: Capella regenerating Capella restoring her whole body from just her head. This ability can also be used as a way of healing herself by transforming damaged parts into uninjured parts, with Al mentioning that Capella was able to heal after he "cut her head off and crushed her heart", and any spare parts generated through healing dissolve on their own. Black Flames: In her dragon transformation, Capella is capable of producing powerful jet-black flames that consume everything and cannot be put out by water. Dragon's Blood (龍の血, Ryū no Chi): Capella - Dragon's Blood Capella infecting Crusch Karsten with her Dragon's Blood. Capella possesses unique blood, which is, according to her, mixed with Dragon's Blood, which contains a great curse.[5] The specific requirements for the curse’s activation are unknown, but merely being exposed to the blood does not activate it.[6] It is unknown whether the Dragon's Blood that runs through her veins is the same blood that's stored away in the Royal Castle. She is able to curse people with it, covering her targets with black veins and making them sick, as shown when she infected Crusch. However, different people react differently after being exposed to the blood. Some fall ill, like Crusch, while others appear to have a symbiotic relationship with the blood's curse, like Subaru. Storage: Capella is capable of carrying objects within her body, and by transforming her flesh, she can retrieve such objects. Any limits to this ability are unknown as she has only shown to carry her Gospel in this way. Battle Form: According to the author, Capella has a yet-unseen “battle form” she uses for combat.[7] Shapeshifting of Others: Capella can also apply her power to any living thing within her reach. She has repeatedly shown to have transformed others into various animals such as flies, frogs, birds, beasts, or even into unrecognizable lumps of flesh without any of the five senses or self-awareness by simply touching them with her hand. It is worth noting that when she transforms a single person into a group of animals, their consciousness splits and every animal shares the same mind. Demi-Beasts (亜獣, Ajū): Capella’s Authority itself is not limited to just transmuting and transfiguring living organisms, but also corpses. Using dead bodies, Capella is able to create any number of strange organisms that are a cross between flesh and inorganic objects, with weapons like axes or spears protruding from their bodies. She has primarily used them as shock trooper fodder for one of her operations. ADVERTISEMENT Intelligence Keen Intellect: Unlike the other Sin Archbishops and despite her vulgar speech, Capella is a rather intelligent person. She managed to successfully trick several powerful and intelligent fighters in each appearance she’s made, utilizing her transformed victims and turning herself into what appears to be a helpless child in order to catch her enemies off guard. She even predicts how her enemy will move and will target them where they are at their weakest, as she displayed multiple times in the Battle for Priestella. Her strategies are so effective that she has successfully evaded the clutches of the Six Tongues for thirty years, and she has even led them around by the nose several times. Keen Observation: Capella’s observational skills are rather exceptional. By combining her behavior with the transformation ability of her Authority, she can draw out different reactions, minute and large, and use them to determine a person’s likes or dislikes in regard to other people. By doing so, she can slowly and surely transform herself into the preferences of the other person, using said appearance and voice to agitate or anger her opponents. She has done this to transform into both Emilia and Priscilla Barielle to agitate both Subaru and Aldebaran, despite having never met either of the former two. Other Beloved Children (愛し子, Itoshigo): Capella has taken in numerous people from various parts of the world to serve her, and she refers to them as her children, while they recognize her only as “Mother” or “Mama”. Their duties span from retrieving certain items, such as a legacy of a Witch, to assassination jobs, to infiltration, among other tasks she may have for them. ADVERTISEMENT Equipment Capella's Gospel Capella's Gospel. Gospel (福音): As a member of the Witch Cult, Capella is the owner of a copy of a Gospel. Each Gospel was a replica of the Book of Wisdom, a book that had been in the possession of the Witch of Greed Echidna. The Book of Wisdom would provide exact details of future events concerning the Witch of Greed, essentially bestowing Echidna with a form of precognition. Unlike the original Book of Wisdom, the Gospels of the Witch Cult were imperfect replicas, meaning that, although they detailed the future of its owner, the events conveyed were subject to change and the information provided was often up for interpretation. The Gospels took the form of small black books that could only be read by their owners. Conversation Mirror: A meteor that allows the user to get in contact with people who hold other such mirrors. All Sin Archbishops have this.