| Lori Knight | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Status |
Alive |
| Gender |
Female |
| Appearance |
Height:Unknown Weight:Unknown Eyes: Blue Hair: Clothes: Build: Thin, Buxom Beauty |
| Species | |
| Age |
17 |
| Origin | |
| Family |
Knights |
| Powers and Abilities | |
| First Appearance | |
| Creator | |
| Hideyuki Kikuchi | |
- "I've heard the sound of the wind and the songs of the birds."
- ―Lori[src]
Lori Knight is the lead female character in Tale of the Dead Town's Volume 4. She was dosed with heavy radiation as her nuclear powered caravan malfunctioned, leaving her unable to speak or hear. She is the only surviving member of the Knight family.
Appearance[]
Lori is a beautiful young girl of about 17 or 18 years old with blue eyes. Her black hair would have hung past her waist if it hadn't been tied back by a rainbow-hued ribbon. The rough cotton shirt and long skirt did little to hide her age, or the swell of her full bosom. She is described to have frail build.
After surviving, she’s got some slight burns on her skin, too, but supplies of artificial skin are limited and, since it’s not life-threatening, they’ll leave her the way she is. Some pink discoloration still remained on Lori’s skin as a extent of her injuries. While being in hospital, the girl was wearing blue pajamas. She seemed embarrassed to have anyone see the marks her radiation poisoning had left.
Personality[]
Lori is a normal girl who struggles with sudden loss of her senses caused by radiation, as well as the loss of her family. After losing both, Lori often wonders about her own fate and sometimes self-worth. Even though Tsurugi tries to cheer her up from time to time. During that time, she felt anger and inescapable loneliness because others seemed more interested in experiments of her parents without caring about her well-being.
But despite that D and Dr. Tsurugi rescue her from the depths of her despair. That made her to go on living despite her loss. The determination to do so burned strongly in her. Being already well aware of what the future holds for her, she has a strong need to be of some use and is immensely pleased to be able to do something on her own. That was shown when she helped Tsurugi after the magnetic storm or when she without hesitation agreed to help D and Tsurugi during the second attack on Mobile Town.
Being a daughter of two chemists, she seems to have some knowledge of the medice and math. She has also been shown to be incredibly brave at times, especially when it comes to people who are close to her. This is seen when Lori pulled the trigger of a shotgun and even put herself in front of the doctor Tsurugi to protect him, which lead to being praised by D who says that not many people would’ve done that. Another example is when she was rescued by D when she was rescued from an unknown body of a man in the hospital, where she easily returned to her senses.
She is also very compassionate, lovely, intuitive and takes care of the well-being of the people around her. Despite being unable to compliment anyone or say a single word to comfort them, Lori gazed at the townsfolk and the numb expressions they wore, there was sorrow in her eyes. The overwhelming sense of loss from the people after they made it through the magnetic storm only served to highlight her feelings. If she hadn’t experienced life in the wilderness, she probably would’ve been just like the rest. Also, seeing how terribly overburdened Dr. Tsurugi was, she’d volunteered to help him out. Maybe she couldn’t hear or speak, but she thinks the strong still had to take care of the weak, no matter who was a man and who was a woman.
She seems to have a strong intuition, knowing there was something wrong with the town as it was now. During her travel with her parents, she’d learned far too well what resulted when action was precipitated by curiosity or fear. She also noticed that a ghastly atmosphere had shrouded the town. Feeling that someone was watching them, she felt, through the keyhole in a closed door, or through a crack in drawn blinds or from a back alley entrance.
Despite her desire to continue living and doing something on her own, Lori will still feel despair over her condition in some situations. When she is in life threatening situations and no one could hear her screams, it leaves her with a feeling of alienation, helplessness, sadness and hopeless. Pluto VIII will use this to his own advantage to bribe her with telepathy knowing Lori wishes it with all her heart.
- "There was something in the gorgeous features of the youth that could make her forget the heart-rending loss of her family as well as the very real danger of losing her own life."
- ―Narrator[src]
D is the first person Lori sees after being rescued from lesser dragons. He will be the primary reason why she felt better for the first time after the accident that befell her. Although he did have a cold approach despite her condition, it created sadness in her, but it empowered her to move on with her life despite her condition. According to Pluto, Lori is the person D trusts the most. This could be confirmed:
- "Surely he never dreamed Lori would reach around from behind him to put a stake in him."
- ―Narrator[src]
Which means that D still somehow cares for her well-being. She feels strong gratitude toward him, which will make her fight Pluto to the very end when he takes over her body. Tsurugi will be the person next to D to whom she will feel fondness and security. She is concerned for his well-being, willing to risk her life to save him and help him in need. Even feeling self-loathing due to not paying attention to his wound at first.
Biography[]
Lori is an only daughter of Franz Knight and his wife Mrs. Knight. She is a former resident of the Mobile Town, her parents had a falling out with the Mayor over the results of their research, and the family set off into the Frontier. But lesser dragons attacked them, and her parents were killed. While Lori was saved, she emerged from the incident with level-three radiation poisoning that left her unable to speak or hear.
The first time D visits her at the hospital, she will be under Radioactivity Removal treatment. She was sitting up in bed covered with the plaster for removing radioisotopes. Despite Doctor Tsurugi concerned, he still allows D to ask her questions. D started communicating with a memo pad and an electromagnetic pen, questioning her about her father's experiments but she constantly shook her head in a negative response. But her body suddenly begins to quake, which is why Tsurugi and the nurse intervene immediately.
After she regains consciousness, she sits and looks out the window. She was visited by a shadowy figure, but disappeared after Tsurugi entered her room and saw it. Apparently the plasters for drawing the radioisotopes and bandages had been removed, D visited her for the second time questioning her what happened to her family before they ran to Frontier. She explained that their last night in town, walking past the lab, she heard her father tell her mother: "This is going to change the world.” Right after that, the two of them headed out somewhere, and while she was sleeping the law came and hauled us off to jail. She also discovered Mayor Ming's involvement in these experiments. While Dr.Tsurugi requested that D stay and talk with the girl a while longer, but D had already left the hospital.
Lori helps patients.
After Magnetic Storm Pass, fire shot from the energy flow control system and five of the safeties, and the now unbalanced flames of nuclear fusion quickly drove the needle toward the dangerous zone. Wracked by the powerful shocks, Lori gave a silent scream and clung desperately to her bed. While Dr. Tsurugi ran to her and pulled her tight to him. After that, she was seen helping Dr. Tsurugi working through an endless chain of patients. Later she stepped out into the hall, suddenly a figure covered in blood appeared but collapsed in a heap after D appeared. D made both Lori and Tsurugi follow him onto the hill height of only about fifteen feet. Through another attack on the town by an enemy ship, D told the two of them to get weapons to fight despite the Tsurugi complaining about Lori's condition. After Tsurugi is wounded, Lori protects him, taking him off to the side and from the second time, she uses a shotgun and pulls the trigger.
After being rescued by D, they both went to hospital. She goes to the examination room to get medice for Tsurugi's wound, but is attacked by a vampire nurse. Then Pluto VIII will appear in his shadow form and save her, but take advantage of her state to bribe and use her to get to her father's formula. When D came to the hospital looking for Lori, he heard from a deathly pale Dr. Tsurugi how the girl had been attacked by the vampire nurse. The two of them entered the old Knight house, going into the lab and finding in the top of the desk her parents's formula. But when D looked over his shoulder, Pluto who posses Lori's body slammed a wooden wedge into his chest.
Pluto, now in Lori's body, intends to sell the chemical and mathematical formula for making Imitation vampire to Mayor Ming. Due to Pluto VIII's stubbornness, the price for this formula goes from fifty million dalas to five hundred billion dalas. While in Lori's body he used his Molecular Intangibility against an Imitation vampire, but after meeting D, he revealed to him about the Mayor's plan. Just as he was in Lori's body, he was about killing Dr. Tsurugi, the jolt of the town landing had dealt a grievous wound to Pluto VIII’s real body wherever he’d left it sleeping. Despite that, Pluto still saved Lori and Tsurugi and brought them to D. When he dies, Pluto admits that he forcibly took Lori's body and that she fought against him to the very end. In the end, she disembarks from the ruined town with them.
In the last scene, she wrote on the sand that she heard the sound of the wind and the song of birds, which could mean that her sense of hearing might be restored. She most likely go to a town mile and a quarter ahead of them together with Tsurugi.
Powers and Abilities[]
Lori is a normal girl with no real physical or mental special abilities or powers. But being a daughter of two chemists, Lori knew the name of the medicine she needed to use in certain situations. Another example noticed by D himself is that she was able to assess that Tsurugi's burns weren’t too bad when being wounded by a machine.
Although it has nothing to do with power, when Lori has lost her sense of hearing and speech, it seems that her sense of sight became more pronounced. When the edges of the mountains had begun to glitter with a rosy hue. Light slipped down the mountainside, becoming a torrent that flooded the plains, and in no time Lori’s entire field of view was tinged in gold. She closed her eyes. Even with them closed, she could see the color of wind.
Telepathy- Pluto VIII tries to bribe Lori Knight with it taking advantage of her inability to hear or talk, making it difficult for her to communicate. It seems that when he is killed and she returns to normal, she no longer has the ability to use telepathy.
Equipment[]
Lori's shotgun.
Shotgun- is a type of fire arms that are used in the Frontier. It can be seen that she is using it after Tsurugi is wounded.
Assets[]
Knight's house- the old house where she lives with her family. There was a labor where her parents work on their experiments.
Transportation[]
Motor Home- the Knight's mobile home. It's powered by an atomic reactor which heats the home. When their heat exchanger in the reactor breaks they are forced to camp outside at night.
Quotes[]
- (About D) "He saved me. Oh, I hope he comes to see me again. Just one more time.".[1]
- (About Dr.Tsurugi) "Okay, but you need to be taken care of first.".[1]
Gallery[]
