Lusamine

Lusamine (Japanese: ルザミーネ Lusamine) is a character introduced in Pokémon Sun and Moon. She is the head of the Aether Foundation. She is the only character in the games to have the Trainer class Aether President (Japanese: エーテルだいひょう Aether President).

Appearance

Lusamine has blonde long hair with silver streaks and green eyes. She wears a white dress with a diamond badge on it, black and white leggings, and boots of the same color, with green soles. Her boots have a medium-height yellow heel to them.

When Lusamine fuses with a Nihilego, she transforms into a dark-colored version of the Ultra Beast with her upper torso in the bell, her legs hanging out of the body, and several eyes on her tentacles with gem-shaped pupils. Her hair turns black with blond streaks and her eyes are yellow.

In a flashback she wore a black bikini.

In the games

In Sun and Moon, Lusamine was originally shown to be a kindhearted lady who is willing to "create a utopia for Pokémon". In truth, however, she seeks for beautiful things she could "own". Though her daughter and son both try to warn her about the dangers, Lusamine does not forgive them for betraying her, showing utter coldness, as she does not want anything to stand in her way to obtain the power from the Ultra Beasts. Ultimately, she wishes to live in a world that consists only of her and Nihilego, which she views as a surrogate family that is completely obedient to her. She is also extremely manipulative, taking advantage of Guzma's inferiority complex to befriend him and convince him to serve as a hidden mercenary for the Aether Foundation.

Despite this, it is implied that Lusamine was a genuinely kind person at one time, but, after her husband Mohn was lost in the Ultra Beast's world, grief drove her insane. After her defeat and forceful separation from her Nihilego, she seems to regain some of her sanity and comments that she finds Lillie "beautiful" before collapsing into a coma.

In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, she is shown to be a more decent person than she was in the previous games. First, she is now motivated by a desire to protect the Pokémon and people she loves from Necrozma and a desire to reunite with her husband after he disappeared into an Ultra Wormhole. Thus, her willingness to create a utopia for Pokémon is more genuine. Though her children worry about her disappearing like their father, Lusamine still shows utter disappointment in them for betraying her yet reassures them that she will still protect them from Necrozma, thus showing that, for all her abrasiveness towards her children, she still loves them from the bottom of her heart.

Lusamine is also shown to prove that she is capable of recognizing her errors and feeling remorse for her actions; thus, she is able to reconcile with her children and the Aether Foundation.

Pokemon

• Clefable
• Lilligant
• Mismagius
• Milotic
• Bewear (games and manga only)
• Lopunny (Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon only; can Mega Evolve)
• Salazzle (anime only)
• Absol (anime only)
• Primarina
• Delphox
• Serperior

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Trivia

• Lusamine is the first female villainous team leader in the main game series, as well as the first female main antagonist.
• Lusamine is similar to seven other villains:
  • Ragyo Kiryuin from Kill La Kill. Both are obsessed with beauty, become fully devoted to creatures from other worlds, and they are abusive towards their daughters. The only obvious difference is Lusamine never sexually abused her children.
  • Yellow Diamond from Steven Universe. Both are power hungry, are represented with the color yellow (Yellow Diamond with skin and Lusamine with hair), are leaders of a powerful organization (the Gem Empire and the Aether Foundation), seek to destroy the world, have no compassion or empathy and are willing to betray their subordinates to get what they want.
  • Father Balder from the Bayonetta series. Both of their colors involve white and gold, they are the parent of a protagonist in their respective games (Lusamine is the mother of Lillie and Gladion and Balder is the father of Bayonetta/Cereza), are both driven to evil from another entity (Nihilego intoxicates Lusamine, while Loptr slowly corrupts Balder).
  • Sofia Lamb from the BioShock series. Both are obsessed with creating a world where there is only them and the others.
  • Finé from Senki Zesshō Symphogear. Both Finé and Lusamine have similar designs (white-skinned with long blonde hair in hime cuts, and yellow eyes) and clothes (short dresses with stockings and high heels). Both are self-centered, sadistic to an extent, abusive to the teenagers in their care (though Finé and Chris are not blood-related) whom they throw away when they become useless to them, and whom eventually turn on them and play a crucial role in their defeat; both are obsessed with the idea of another world (Lusamine with Ultra Space and Finé with the world she will rule), head scientists of a large organization that secretly dabble in unethical experimentation, started their research and thus descent into villainy because of the loss of a loved male figure (Lusamine her husband and Finé the god she worshipped), become fused during their final battle with the protagonist(s) (Lusamine with Nihilego, Finé with the three complete relics of Durandal, Nehushtan, and Solomon's Cane), and harness control over their series' mascot monsters (Lusamine Pokémon, Finé Noise).
  • Nergal from Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword. Both lost their spouses beyond a portal to a realm of powerful beings and undertook some very amoral research in order to rescue them. They both went completely insane and forgot their original goals but still wanted to open the portal in order to unleash those powerful beings into the world and obtain their power. They both manipulate the leader of a criminal organization to serve their ends.
  • President Haltmann from Kirby: Planet Robobot. Both are wealthy presidents who serve as the game's Big Bad and are among the darkest villains in their respective series. Both have an antagonistic relationship with their daughters and extremely tragic pasts, in which they lost their loved ones to an alternate dimension while conducting experiments. Both of them intensively studied the boundaries of their respective universes to get their loved ones back, but were eventually controlled by the same thing that took their beloved away (Nihilego for Lusamine, Star Dream for Haltmann) and eventually grew to treat it as their loved ones. By the end of the game, both fuse with the thing they valued so much, which then serves as the game's final boss.
• Lusamine mentioned to Hau that although she looks young, she is over 40 years old. It is possible that she could have absorbed something (such as an elixir) that would make her look young, such as "eternal youth".
• During the second battle against Lusamine, all of her Pokémon except Bewear have an angry facial expression instead of their usual expressions. This is likely due to Niheligo's toxins.