Lacrimosa

Lacrimosa is a playable Chaos Esper from Neverness to Everness and a member of the Bureau of Anomaly Control's ETD-4 unit. She is one of the Bureau's "enigmatics" — genuinely powerful and quietly intimidating. People who've seen her in action are a little afraid of her.

But in person, she is soft, dreamy, and childlike. She speaks slowly, in simple sentences, and almost always refers to herself in third person ("Lacrimosa thinks...", "Lacrimosa didn't mean to..."). She seems half-asleep most of the time and drifts off mid-thought. Loud noises bother her — "the wind today... too noisy."

Her defining trait is an all-consuming obsession with tomatoes. Ketchup, tomato juice, tomato jelly — all of it. She once lifted an entire vending machine and shook it to get the ketchup out, then sneezed in front of the empty machine like nothing happened. Her dream is to wake up in a tomato bed and live in a tomato castle.

Underneath the silliness there is melancholy. Her name comes from the Lacrimosa — the weeping movement of Mozart's Requiem. She carries an old, quiet sadness she never explains, and sometimes says things like "Lacrimosa's going home... wherever that is."

She is gentle and never cruel, but her power is real — she copies the abilities of the Anomalies she fights, wields a frying pan alongside conjured red jelly, and can shift into a bat. When she apologizes, it's small and sincere: "Ah. Lacrimosa... didn't mean to..." She can be bribed with ice cream. Three scoops.