Medusa Gorgon (Soul Eater)

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Medusa Gorgon is a female anime and manga villain who features in Soul Eater.

Biography

The Witch Medusa.

Medusa Gorgon (Japanese: メデューサ・ゴーゴン, Hepburn: Medyūsa Gōgon) was a Witch and the middle sibling of the Gorgon Sisters who were born at least 800 years ago. She was somewhat involved in the activities and schemes of her older sister Arachne Gorgon. Medusa was aware that Arachne had used the Book of Eibon to create magical weapons leading to her gaining the title of 'Mother of Demon Weapons'. Around 800 years ago, Arachne ended up attracting the attention of Death where she attempted to convince her sister to aid her in the battle against the Death God. However, when the time came for her aid, Medusa did not join her sister in battle and instead betrayed her leading to Arachne nearly being killed by Death but she survived by scattering her spiders around the world. In the aftermath, Medusa hid in the shadows where she conducted experiments on the Black Blood and the demon weapon Ragnarok. Part of this involved conceiving a child she named Crona where she replaced all his blood with the Black Blood and had Ragnarok implanted in her child's body.

Being in Florence, Medusa sends out Crona to eat the souls of the Humans within the Santa Mario Novella Basilica. She proclaims that they will be a Kishin. When Crona denounces the notion, she uses her Magic to give them confidence. She then listens and watches from afar as Crona kills all the individuals within the church. Later, as she watched Crona's battle with Maka Albarn, she questioned the Meister on their apparent slowness and when Crona asks how to deal with girls, Medusa tells them they should simply kill them. When Crona prepares to finish Maka and Soul off, she urges them to do so. Medusa was then surprised to find the DWMA's strongest Meister and Death Scythe arriving. She then proceeded to wonder how Crona will perform against them. Once Crona and Ragnarok reach their limit and have a rejection response, Medusa then cancels her Soul Protect and reveals herself. Criticizing Crona for their apparent sloppiness and revealing that she will punish them, she seemingly intends to do harm on both Stein and Spirit, attacking them with her Vector Arrow spell. When her spell was countered with Stein's Witch-Hunt, she took the opportunity to retrieve Crona with her Light Serpent, but not before complimenting their Soul Resonance attack. She then escapes with Crona on hand. She later reappeared in her nurse guise, requesting Maka assist her in getting a love-struck Spirit off of her leg, causing the latter to be Maka Chopped. Hearing Maka blame herself for what happened to Soul, Medusa 'reassured' the young Meister that she would get stronger. After Soul has one of his nightmares and he screams out, both Maka — and, moments later, Medusa — arrive. When Soul reassured them that he only had a bad dream, she told both members of the Meister/Weapon pair to call her right away should anything happen. She mused in her head that some of Ragnarok's Black Blood mixed into Soul's own, now finding him an interesting research subject.

At some point in time, Medusa snuck her way into Maba's room to steal the key to the cell door of the Man with the Demon Eye and unbeknownst to her, was witnessed by Eruka Frog. Attending a Witch Mass on the subject of Medusa Gorgon's activities in the DWMA, Medusa herself appears and is granted permission by Maba to continue her research. As the mass ends and she leaves with Crona and Ragnarok, she is stopped by the likes of Eruka Frog and a member of the Mizune family and questions on her intents and purposes as well as inform Medusa they're aware of her sneaking into Maba's room. Medusa quickly shuts them up, secretly implanting a Light Serpent and some of her Snakes into both of them before leaving, chiming in the fact the school nurse could not be late. Later, Medusa is caring for Soul Eater, who recounts his dream experiences and shares them with the nurse as he talks about the Black Room as well as the Little Ogre present. Medusa is surprised, noting the Black Blood having an actual effect but actually tells Soul there's nothing to worry about and that having the same dream often is common. She also notes that his recovery is coming along fine. Just after her examination, Maka interrupts both Medusa and Soul but quickly flees at the sight of Soul's scar. Medusa deduces that the scar is what is causing the awkwardness.

As she walks down a alleyway in Death City, feeling the infiltration of DWMA is worth her efforts and desiring to test Soul's capabilities, she runs into Eruka and Mizune once more. The frog Witch proclaims they're here to kill her. Although she advises that even with Soul Protect, young Meisters can recognize a Witch by appearance, Eruka retorts her "concern" with the fact both of them employ Transformation Magic and can use that to escape, a capability Medusa herself notably doesn't possess and plan to use the Soul Protect limitations to their advantage and should she drop it, she had been outed as a Witch. Cancelling their own Soul Protect, they prepare to kill Medusa. However, having anticipated their eventual altercation, she has one of her Light Serpents she implanted inside them earlier kill Mizune while explaining to Eruka they're Magic Lifeforms and are automatic. Preparing to kill Eruka, she is interrupted by Stein and Maka's speedy reaction, with Eruka escaping. Faking the fact she "sensed" two Witches along with Stein and Maka, she supports the claim from Maka insinuating the "Witch" who "hurt" Soul was present, although Stein quickly rebuffs that notion much to her dismay, but expresses gratitude the school nurse was not hurt. Tracking down Eruka with one of her Snakes sending a signal of her location to Medusa, she tasks the Witch with the releasing of the "Man with the Demon Eye", the man who plucked out Queen Maba's eye out despite the consequences with Medusa threatening her life all the while her feet grovels Eruka in her frog form. With Eruka relunctantly accepting and transforming back as she labels her intentions carefully, Medusa comically orders her to turn back into a frog, remarking her grovelling in her human form did not feel as good as her frog form.

Congratulating Eruka, Medusa informs her that she will remove a Snake for every task she's done, much to the frog's displeasure. Introducing herself to the Demon Eye Man, she seemingly agrees to call him "Free" instead — though she wonders if he could consider himself free with her intentions. She then asks him to eliminate a Meister and Weapon duo, with the Werewolf accepting her request. She later watches as Soul is unable to resonate with Maka through the use of her Snakes within Eruka and Crystal Ball, proclaiming "Let the experiment begin!". Medusa is curious as to how Soul's Black Blood will respond, watching as both Maka and Soul are able to achieve Soul Resonance despite their initial inability during their battle with Free. Medusa notes the Black Blood beginning to take effect as well as its capability for causing the Weapon affected to eat away at the Meister's very mind. Impressed at the results and despite Free's eventual defeat on part of his rustiness, she proclaims that continuing her research will allow the Kishin to evolve.

Giving her medical opinion of Maka's blood, Medusa claims that her blood was black because of it drying, although she saw Maka cough up Black Blood. Medusa gives her a pill which secretly speeds up the effects of the Black Blood. She then asks about Soul's wellbeing and speaks of the dreams involving an Ogre, an occurrence unknown to Maka. When questioned, she claimed he insisted on talking about it. Maka then leaves angrily, with Medusa being amused by her irritation. She then looks for the files on Maka, only to be surprised by their absence. Stein intervenes, questioning Medusa's "worry" about Soul and Maka. The witch states that a lot had happened to them recently, while cursing at him internally. When Stein questions Medusa on Maka's prescription, she claims it is a personal herbal medicine that improves circulation and pulse, which it is in a way. This is while contemplating killing him and wondering how much he knows. Medusa says that she is crazy about herbs and could not just do nothing for Maka and Soul. When he insinuates she's a witch, she has a moment of killing intent but instead claims calling her such could be seen as harassment based on her appearance.

Later, Medusa then instructs Eruka on gathering the case containing the Black Blood with her Snakes. Rendezvousing with her group members later, she tells Eruka to open the case with the Black Blood as well as asking about the status of Free's Demon Eye, who comments he can control an Independent Cube. Medusa is ecstatic, proclaiming she's been waiting for the day in particular to launch her move. Informed by Eruka of their arrival later during the DWMA's Anniversary Eve via her Snakes, she instructs them to await at a location and wait for her signal, though is interrupted by a seemingly drunken Stein wanting to dance, much to her embarrassment. Stein later questions Medusa, revealing he had sent Sid to her laboratory in Libya, deducing her to be a Witch. Though Medusa buffs accusations with claims he's drunk, he reveals he wasn't to begin with and further deduces she is interested in the Kishin under the DWMA. Angered, she expresses intent to kill him if Death wasn't in the same room. She confirms his conclusions, claiming the Kishin's power is evolution itself and the DWMA hinders it and 'maintains the status quo', with her intentions to undo the DWMA's effort. She then tries swaying Stein to come to her side, nearly kissing him. However, Sid interrupts and Medusa makes uses of the diversion, assisting Free with creating a Independent Cube with the Magic Calculation spell along with Eruka. Expressing the group having little idle time, Crona appears with the Mizune Family, trusting them to destroy Death City as her group then moves to resurrect the Kishin underground.

In her final moments, she struck and bit Stein who destroyed her body with Medusa surviving in the form of a single snake.

Overview

Personality and attributes

She also came to be known as the Witch Medusa (魔女メデューサ, Majo Medyūsa). At one point, she assumed the identity of Rachel Boyd (レイチェル・ボイド, Reicheru Boido) after she took over the young girls body. Though wearing various outfits, the most notable and common of these was a black body-length suit with hood, which extended downwards to her knees. The hood itself was adorned with an eye-like marking upon either side which, interestingly, when worn in addition to the shape of her hair, gave it the appearance of a snake's mouth, with teeth and fangs. It was notable that she was barefoot when not in disguise with unique toenail and fingernail polish that was black featuring yellow arrows pointing upwards.

It was said that she was a person full of lies and that in reality she cared little for anyone but herself.

Being a scientist, she viewed others from the point of view of a researcher and that other people were the subjects of her experiments.

As noted by Stein, Medusa had an inability to truly understand the concept of love. However, despite her dark and manipulative traits, even Medusa was said to possess some love within her.

When acting as DWMA's nurse, Medusa presented herself as a caring and supportive member of the staff. This was to the point of even comforting students and displaying 'concern' to the injured.

Though she had a son Crona, she demonstrated no parental attachment to her offspring and had even bred him to be a subject of her experiments. When he could not progress further, she had no issue with abandoning him or having him killed. Medusa was perfectly capable of using Crona's emotional states to her advantage and draw upon maternal instincts to get him to obey her commands.

Despite her own horrendous actions and rather odd tendencies, she find the antics of the DWMA upper brass utterly absurd, and impossible to manage. This is demonstrated during her time in Rachel's body when she got fed up with Death and Spirit, and later during her fight with Justin Law and Tezca Tlipoca.

Powers and abilities

Medusa was one of the race of Witches (魔女, Majo; also "Witchkind") that were manipulators of magic with a natural destructive instinct. It was noted that she possessed an enormous soul and Eruka Frog claimed that no other witch was more powerful than Medusa. As a witch, Medusa was capable of performing various kinds of magics (魔法, Mahō) and was notable for being a powerful witch (上級魔女, Jōkyū Majo) capable of wielding exceptional magic. Her magical power can be boosted when in proximity of a powerful madness wavelength.

As the former nurse of the Death Weapon Meister Academy, Medusa has extensive knowledge of medicine. She has been able to use this knowledge to created substances that expedites the effects of the Black Blood within its carriers, while disguising this substance as herbal medicine, both in its pill form and its effects on regular blood.

After the revival of the Kishin Asura and her defeat by Stein and Spirit, she was forced to take possession of a young child's body. This gave her the same build and frame of the child, while still retaining the majority of her original form's appearance. However, the body did have some practicalities, as she found it particularly useful in deceiving many people. Medusa still attires herself with the usual hoodie but this one has two snake-like extensions that are attached at the neck. Also, like her adult form, she prefers to be barefooted. There is also an apparent white snake head motif on its front. Also, rather than a bodysuit, Medusa sports a knee-length dress, and, unlike her adult form, does not wear nail polish. There was also the absence of the snake tattoos on her arms.

Medusa possessed great physical abilities that enable her to battle the likes of Franken Stein, withstand several blows of his soul menace technique, and be agile enough to dodge attacks from a scythe. She was a very formidable and capable unarmed combatant. Her fighting style is a defensive one consisting of the usage of magic, kicks, skills in blocking, and her tail snake. Her defenses are considerable to the point she usually leaves no openings. Her combat prowess is enough to fend off and place considerable injury on Franken Stein when wielding Spirit. She is also able to hold her own with Justin Law and defend herself of assaults from Enrique, a monkey and skilled in thai boxing.

Her abilities were embodied by her use of Light Serpents (ライトサーペント, Raito Sāpento) that were a Magic Lifeform which took the form of tattoos on Medusa's arms. She had thousands of such snakes within her that were extensions of herself. Through contact, she could send any number of them into the body of a person without them being aware of it. Medusa then could trigger them allowing her to kill the person with the snakes in them. Implanting of the snakes could be done through her hands or with a kiss. She was able to survive the destruction of her body so long as her soul was not consumed and that she was able to place her essence into a single snake. Within this form, the snake was able to escape any threat where she could use it to take possession of a new body. Upon her rebirth, she remained trapped in a weakened state but was able to continue living so long as she retained possession of the host body.

The techniques known to her included:

• Calculation Spells: Magic Calculation (演算魔法:マジックカリキュレーション, Enzan Mahō: Majikku Karikureshon) :
• Vector Arrow (ベクトルアロー, Bekutoru Arō) :
  • Vector Arrow x3 (ベクトルアローx3バイスリー, Bekutoru Arō Bai Surī) :
• Analyze Decompose (解析分解, Kaiseki Bunka) :
• Vector Storm (ベクトルストーム, Bekutoru Sutōmu) :
• Vector Plate (ベクトルプレート, Bekutoru Purēto) :
• Compress Vectors (ベクトル圧縮, Bekutoru Asshuku) :
• Tail Snake (テイルスネーク, Teiru Sunēku) :

As a Witch, an evil Magic User, Medusa Gorgon is thus vulnerable to those who possess an Anti-Demon Wavelength or one of the Great Traditional Techniques of the Scythe-Meister. In addition, although Medusa has an extremely strong defense, Franken Stein explained that her own pride could potentially cause her to let down her guard long enough for a skilled fighter to exploit her opening. Medusa knows her own limits of power, showing genuine nervousness when meeting Death face to face for the first time.

Among her creations included:

• Black Clown (黒の道化師, Kuro no Dōkeshi) :
• Black Blood (黒血, Kokketsu) :
• Purple Clown (紫染の道化師, Shisen no Dokeshi) :

Notes

• Medusa Gorgon was created by Atsushi Ōkubo where he featured in the setting of the Soul Eater universe.

In other media

Television

Appearances

• Soul Eater:

External Links

• Soul Eater Wiki Entry

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