Eelai
Eelai wearing the water pressure converter in Battle 48.
Age	Deceased
Origin	Scrapyard
Affiliations	Desty Nova
Occupations	Desty Nova's assisant
Degree of cyberization	Fully human
Fighting style	Unnamed hand to hand combat style
Weapons	Water pressure converter
Debut	Battle 25

Eelai (イーライ, Īrai^?) was one of Desty Nova's assistants as well as his lover.

AppearanceEdit

Eelai was a tall, light skinned woman with dark hair and a downward-pointing arrow on her forehead. When she first appeared her hair reached below her waist and grown longer ten years later. She wore revealing outfits that emphasized her figure, including a low cut dark tube top, dark elbow-length gloves, a light coloured wrap around her waist, long dark sockings and short black boots. The water pressure converter was both an outfit and a weapon that had a BDSM look.

In Gunnm: Martian Memory Eelai has black hair and the arrow on her forehead is red. She first wears a red top, pink skirt, and red shoes. While the water pressure converter hosing is blue, her bikini and boots are black.

PersonalityEdit

Eelai was characterised by her open hypersexuality and focus on the experiences of the flesh, believing that "flesh is everything".^[1] She displayed both these traits as soon as she saw Daisuke Ido and later asked Desty Nova to resurrect him completely as a flesh and blood man without using any plastics or metal.^[2] Due to the capabilities of Nova's nanotechnology she believed herself effectively immortal and even went to the point of taking reformation baths that would regenerate all her organs and tissues completely, down to the skeletal level. Eelai was somewhat morbid, delighting in Alita's grief when she saw what was left in a box and subsequently relishing the experience of having her throat slashed with the Damascus Blade.

RelationshipsEdit

Like Barzarld, Eelai was completely loyal to Nova and was willing to sacrifice herself if necessary to protect him. Among them both she interacted with Nova the most verbally, as Barzarld rarely spoke. In addition to their close working relationship Eelai was Nova's lover, which he openly disclosed to Ido,^[3] but following her death Nova did not mention her again. She appears to have gotten along with Barzarld although they did not really interact with each other. Although Eelai expressed an openly sexual interest in Ido after meeting him as well as after his death, the nature of their relationship after he was resurrected by Nova is unknown. Given Ido's history with Carol, which is revealed in the side story The Holy Night, it is likely that Ido did not or would not have reciprocated Eelai's interest in him. Eelai would also have known Kayna after she began working in Nova's lab but the nature of their relationship was not revealed.

AbilitiesEdit

Eelai also functioned as Nova's bodyguard and used an unspecified hand to hand combat style that allowed her to easily take down Ido when he tried to destroy Zapan's brain. She was also a skilled wielder of the water pressure converter, although this needed to a water source to function. She was presumably a skilled assistant, as she assisted Nova with his dissections and surgeries.

HistoryEdit

Eelai's origins are not specified, but she may have come from the Scrapyard. Nova only had Barzarld as his assistant when the Den aspect of Kaos' personality emerged and he nearly killed them both when he was 15 or 16.^[4]

PlotEdit

Eelai later appeared as Nova's assistant when Ido visited Nova's manor to retrieve the Berserker Body in ES 580.^[5] As soon as she saw Ido she propositioned him before Nova showed Ido his lab and his latest experiment, which was to see how Zapan's brain would battle its karma. When Ido recognized Zapan's symbol on some nearby bandages, he realized whose brain it was and tried to kill it with a hammer. However Eelai quickly reacted, catching his blow before throwing and disabling him. After Ido was restrained, she injected restorer nanobots into him. During Nova's experiment with Zapan he unveiled the Berserker Body and released its lock, which led to it seeking out a power source and Zapan's brain, wrecking the lab. Eelai saved Nova from a collapsing pillar and along with Barzarld they survived the destruction of the manor.

After Alita arrived at the manor, Eelai gave her the box which contained Ido's remains to see for herself and told Alita to cry for her after seeing her grieve. Alita reacted violently by quickly killing Eelai, Barzarld and Nova, but all three soon revived thanks to the restorer. After Alita left, Eelai asked Nova if they would stay to see his experiment through, but he replied that it was not wise because the Factory Army would be mobilized to fight Zapan. The next morning as the trio headed into the Badlands, a naked Eelai who was lying in the cab of the large truck that Barzarld was driving asked Nova if Zapan had been unable to conquer his karma. She also told him to resurrect Ido as a full flesh and blood man for her.

A decade later Eelai was alongside Nova in the Granite Inn as they listened to the final broadcast of Radio K.A.O.S., remarking that Kaos was just like his father.^[6] She was taking a reformation bath when Nova interrupted her as he was fleeing from Alita. Eelai finished the bath, emerging completely restored and donned the water pressure converter to fight Alita, as Kaos had flooded all of Nova's escape routes, giving her a water source. After Alita killed all of the rejects from Nova's experiments in a storage room, Eelai arrived and began blasting high pressure water streams at supersonic levels at her. She was able to deflect the shots from the TUNED pistol as well as destroy it, taunting Alita with her views on the joys and pains of real flesh. Eelai threw up a high pressure water shield to block the Damascus Blade when Alita unsheathed it, but Alita sliced through it at a speed faster than the shield which cut through Eelai, and she disintegrated from the high water pressure that she had lost control of.

Other appearancesEdit

Eelai appears in Gunnm: Martian Memory. Like Nova and Barzarld, she later becomes a bounty when the story shifts to the TUNED Saga.

ReferencesEdit

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