Lusamine

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Lusamine
ルザミーネ Lusamine
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Art from Pokémon Sun and Moon
Age 41+
Gender Female
Eye color Green
Hair color Blonde
Hometown Aether Paradise
Region Alola
Relatives Lillie (daughter), Gladion (son), Mohn (husband), unnamed father
Trainer class Aether President
Generation VII
Games Sun and Moon
Member of Aether Foundation
Rank President

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 Representative).

In the games

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Lusamine appears in Pokémon Sun and Moon. She is introduced after the Akala Grand Trial, when Hau and the player travel to Aether Paradise.

As president of the Aether Foundation, Lusamine claims to love all Pokémon, be they native to the Alola region or not. While the player and Hau are conversing with her in the conservation area, an Ultra Wormhole appears, in which Nihilego emerges. After the player fights it, she claims she will find it and love it like the other Pokémon in her care. Once Hau mentions Lillie, she gives a surprised expression and tries to not acknowledge her, foreshadowing the later events that would unfold.

Towards the end of the game, Plumeria remarks to Lillie that Team Skull are not the only thieves in Alola, and that Lillie ought to return Cosmog. When Hau, Gladion, and the player arrive at Aether Paradise, all the employees are suddenly hostile to them, including Faba, who had locked down Lusamine's office under her orders. There are also a number of Team Skull grunts present, implying an alliance.

When the player leaves Hau and Gladion to deal with Guzma, they find Lillie in the same room as Lusamine, with the former begging Lusamine to come to her senses. Lusamine is not fazed by it, and berates Lillie for leaving her and claims she was never her daughter, before teleporting into another room via a pad hidden behind her mirror. Lillie and the player step on the pad too, and teleport into the room her mother went to. When they arrive, Lusamine taunts them to come closer. Afterwards, Lillie and the player are horrified to see that she has a collection of frozen Pokémon scattered about the room, "protected" for all eternity.

Hau arrives, together with Gladion. Lusamine is disgusted by his arrival, as he had stolen Type: Null and ran away from her. He does not try to reason with her, deciding it is impossible at this point. Lusamine, frustrated, exclaims that she gave all her love to her children, only for them to run away. Cosmog is then revealed to be inside a cube, in which Lillie pleads her not to use its power, as it would die. Lusamine shows no care towards her statements, and uses the cube anyway, opening up a large wormhole in the room, and multiple others on the various islands of Alola. Guzma arrives, asking Lusamine whether the experiment was a success, and Nihilego materializes behind her as well. After being defeated by the player, Lusamine and Guzma jump into the wormhole and disappear with said portal alongside Nihilego.

She is later encountered in Ultra Space, where Guzma has given up working with her because of his newfound fear since Nihilego possessed him, and claims she is immune to reason at this point. Lillie disagrees, and runs off to confront her mother. When they arrive at an open terrace, she is nowhere to be found, only to phase into visibility and appear sitting on a rock in front of them. Lillie continues what she was saying to her mother back at Aether Paradise, along with trying to persuade her to come back to Alola.

Guzma turned out to be correct, as Lusamine says she would rather not come back to Alola, and that Lillie "could not even be that stupid". She boasts about how Ultra Space is beautiful, that Nihilego is all she cares about now, and that Lillie became ugly after leaving her and making friends with the player. Lusamine then turns her attention to the player, in which she immediately battles them, but not before merging with a Nihilego to become a pseudo-beast herself.

After losing, Lusamine becomes enraged and attempts to strike Lillie with one of many large tentacles she has control of. Lillie calls out to SolgaleoS/LunalaM, who proceeds to roar and emit energy at Lusamine, separating her from Nihilego. Before passing out, she asks Lillie when she started becoming beautiful. At the end of the game, Lillie tells the player she believes Lusamine is getting a bit better, having even tried to go to the player's celebration, and that she has been gently trying to help her mother understand the error of her ways. Lillie then leaves for the Kanto region to seek treatment for her mother from Bill (who, like Lusamine, has been combined with a Pokémon before) in the hopes that it will heal her of the last of Nihilego's poisons.

When spoken to after the victory celebration, Gladion speculates that Lusamine's fixation with the Ultra Beasts may have started when her husband (and Lillie and Gladion's father) Professor Mohn vanished during his study of the Ultra Wormholes and, in an ill-fated attempt to find him, she eventually grew obsessed with the Ultra Beasts to the point of monomania. Given Nihilego's parasitic nature and the mention of her being affected by its toxins, it may also be possible that Lusamine's obsession may have been influenced at least in part by Nihilego. Lillie's reminiscences on Exeggutor Island show that she recalls that her mother was once a kind and compassionate woman who genuinely cared for her children.

Pokémon

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Lusamine's Pokémon are kept in Ultra Balls.

First battle



Second battle



Status unknown

Lusamine's Nihilego

Lusamine possessed by Nihilego
Nihilego
Lusamine is seen sending out this Nihilego from a Beast Ball before battling the player, willingly letting the Ultra Beast merge with her. After the combined Lusamine is defeated in battle, Nebby separates the two, and Nihilego returns to the Beast Ball, which falls next to Lusamine. It is unknown if this Nihilego was left behind in Ultra Space as the player and the others escaped.

None of Nihilego's moves are known.

Debut Pokémon Sun and Moon

Quotes

Aether Paradise (first visit)

"My sweet Pokémon... I promise I'll keep you safe... I'll protect you with my love..."
"Ah... You must be <player> and Hau. Welcome to Aether Paradise. The Aether Foundation's own private island. I am the president of the foundation. But please, just call me Lusamine. I’m so glad that we got to meet. I'm glad there are people like you, who travel the islands to learn more about Pokémon... But there are also those unfortunate people who harm Pokémon for their own selfish reasons or even for profit. And that is why I am here. I will be like a mother to all of those poor Pokémon and shower them with love. Even Pokémon from distant worlds, far from the Alola region, are worthy of my love."
"Oh, you sweet boy! I'm already over 40!"
"Oh, you! The right style does wonders, you know. And, Hau, your style is a bit wanting, hm? I’ll have to take you out sometime and help you pick a smashing outfit."
"Oh, don't you worry. You just leave everything up to me. Trust me — children would all be much happier if they'd only listen to the adults around them."
"Did you come... from another world?"
"You poor creature..."
  • After Nihilego disappears
"So, it’s true... I still need that Pokémon. I need to get it back."
"That creature we just saw was undoubtedly an Ultra Beast... An unknown being from another dimension that suddenly appears from the Ultra Wormhole... It looked like it was suffering... Like it pained it to be in this strange place... I can’t bear to see that happen! I will save it. And I will love it!"
"Thank you...both of you... Thank you so much!"
"Wicke. These two are still in the middle of their island challenge, aren't they? Please deliver them to their next island."
"I will go to check that none of our poor resident Pokémon came to any harm. And I need to speak with Mr. Faba about exactly what happened downstairs. And of course... I will have to start preparing the foundation for our newest and perhaps greatest duty yet: the protection of the Ultra Beasts!"

Aether Paradise (after clearing Ula'ula Island)

  • Lusamine's room
"Ah, <player>. It's been a while since we last saw you..."
"Hmm. So you know one another? A gifted young Trainer like <player>... And he/she bothers with someone like you? How disappointing."
"My... You do say such incomprehensible things. Calling me mother? I don't have any children! Certainly not any wretched children who would run off and reject my love! So tell me how you'll save that Pokémon. What can you do, Lillie? You failed to convince me to listen to you. You don't even have the strength of a Trainer. The only thing that you've ever done on your own is steal someone else's research material! You're not beautiful enough for my world... but fine. Since you're here anyway, you can watch me summon my sweet beast. And then... you can leave."
"You're right... it probably will die. Because I'm going to force it to use its power whether it wants to or not!"
"Maybe if you really had been a daughter to me, I would have listened to you... Too bad."
  • Lusamine's collection room
"Hurry. This way."
"What do you think? It's my private collection. My precious babies... They will all be preserved for eternity here."
"But my poor beast... What confusion, what rage must it feel, arriving in this strange world? It would not be right to confine its feelings in such a small case as these ones... It will need to express itself. I think I will let it express all its fury upon the Alola region as it will!"
"Ah. Sweet Hau. So you came, too? Hmph. And Gladion. Must you be so untidy?"
"The daughter who stole my Cosmog from me and the son who took my Type: Null! All I ever did was give you two all the love I had, and all you did was betray me! You have no right to ask for my attention now!"
"Perhaps once we were... Sweet Hau. But those wretches beside you left me. But it doesn't matter now. None of that matters now! I was able to open the Ultra Wormhole using just the gases we'd extracted from Cosmog when it was in Aether Paradise, wasn't I? But now I have Cosmog itself inside this crate here... If I use its entire body, how many Ultra Wormholes will I be able to open? How many sweet beasts will come to me then?"
"Watch... I will open the Ultra Wormhole for you... Come to me, my sweet beast!"
"You see! All over Alola!"
"Ugh... Must you be so noisy, even inside there? What an annoying Pokémon. The only thing I need from you is your power!"
"But I will admit... it looks like that power has served me well. There should be plenty of beautiful beasts appearing all around Alola as we speak! Look! On Akala and Poni... Even on Melemele Island! Ho ho ho ho!"
"Hee hee! My sweet beast."
"You're right... Guzma. Quiet those children for me. I don't want to hear from them again."
  • Before battle
"What a disappointment... To think that you are all so small-minded... You're going to startle my sweet beast! <Player>... it looks like I'll need to silence you first."
  • Upon being defeated
"How...how can you be so awful!"
  • After being defeated
"Hmph... All that I want is my precious beast! I don't care about any of the rest of you!"
"No! The Ultra Wormhole is disappearing... Guzma. With me. We will catch the beast using the Beast Ball that we've developed here."

Ultra Space

"Look at it... The world of my Ultra Beasts... A world where the only thing that exists is the love between Nihilego and myself. So beautiful... So delicious... This is the real paradise!"
"And yet you! Why must you continue to pester me?! I am sick of you. Sick through and through! Who told you that you could come here, to the perfect, beautiful world of my beasts and me?"
"Just leave. I don’t need you here... I don’t need you any longer!"
"Look around you! Look at this beautiful world that I’ve finally come to! You want me to go back to that world? That’s what you’ve come to bother me for? Even you cannot be that stupid!"
"What...? And why shouldn’t I!"
"I can live here in a world filled with only the things that I love! And I will live here!"
"I don’t care if you are my child or not!"
"I don’t care if you were loyal to me or not!"
"I don’t care if you’re the rarest Pokémon there is in the world or not!"
"If you’re not beautiful enough to be worthy of my love, then I don’t NEED you!"
"That’s right! All I need to exist in my world are the things that I want to have with me! Everything else is just a bother to me!"
"Terrible? Me? How am I different from any Pokémon Trainer, like your little “friend” there? What do you do with a Pokémon you can’t use? You remove it from your party, as you please."
"Enough with this useless talk, Lillie! I will never forgive you for stealing Cosmog from me. Never!"
"Back when you were small, you would listen to everything I said, without question. For a time, even you were adorable to me!"
"But you changed. You’ve become ugly. Ever since you met this boy/girl <Player>... and learned to defy your own mother! <Player>! You hateful little Trainer! How dare you intrude upon this world that was meant for Nihilego and me? It is not to be borne! And with Nihilego’s power, I will show you how wrong you were to come here!"
  • Upon being defeated a second time, while fused with Nihilego
"Aaauuuggghhhhhhhhh!!!"
  • After de-fusing from Nihilego
"Lillie..."
"... ... ..."
"Heh..."
"When did you...start becoming beautiful?"

Artwork

Sun Moon Lusamine Nihilego fused.png
Artwork of Lusamine merged with Nihilego from
Sun and Moon

Sprites

VSLusamine.pngVSLusamine 2.png
VS models from
Sun and Moon

In the anime

Lusamine's family photo

Lusamine's first anime appearance was in SM008, where she was shown in a picture along with her children Lillie and Gladion.

Trivia

  • Lusamine is the first female main antagonist in the core series.
  • The merged form of Lusamine and Nihilego may be based on Turritopsis dohrnii, a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal and can revert to a young, immature state if it is too old or stressed.
  • During the second battle against Lusamine, all of her Pokémon (except Bewear) have an angry facial expression, instead of their usual expressions.

Names

Language Name Origin
Japanese ルザミーネ Lusamine From Balsamine (German for garden balsam)
English Lusamine From her Japanese name
French Elsa-Mina Partial anagram of balsamine (garden balsam)
German Samantha From Balsamine (garden balsam) and ἄνθος ánthos (Greek for flower)
Italian, Spanish Samina From balsamina (garden balsam)
Korean 루자미네 Rujamine Similar to Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin) 露莎米奈 Lùshāmǐnài Transliteration of Japanese name
Chinese (Cantonese) 露莎米奈 Louhsāmáihnoih Mandarin-based transliteration of Japanese name
Russian Лузамин Luzamin Transcription of English name
Thai ลูซามิเน่ Luzamine Transcription of Japanese name

Aether President

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 以太理事長 Yíhtaai Léihsihjéung
Mandarin 以太理事長 / 以太理事长 Yǐtài Lǐshìzhǎng
France Flag.png French Présidente d'Æther
Germany Flag.png German Æther-Präsidentin
Italy Flag.png Italian Direttrice Æther
South Korea Flag.png Korean 에테르대표 Etereu Daepyo
Spain Flag.png Spanish Presidenta Æther



President: Lusamine (animeMasters)
Branch Chiefs: Faba (anime) • Wicke
Lower members: Aether Foundation Employees
Former members: Mohn
Anime only: JessieJamesMeowth
Related: Lillie (Masters) • Gladion (Masters)
Ultra Guardians:
(anime only)
AshLanaKiaweLillie
SophoclesMallowGladion
Locations: Aether ParadiseHeahea CityAether House
Aether Bases (Route 8Route 16)


Anime characters
Protagonists Ash Ketchum (Pikachu) • Misty (Togetic) • BrockTracey SketchitMayMaxDawn (Piplup) • Iris (Haxorus) • CilanSerenaClemontBonnie (Dedenne) • LanaKiaweLillieSophoclesMallowRotom PokédexGoh (Grookey)
Rivals GaryRitchieHarrisonDrewHarleyMorrisonTysonSolidadPaulNandoZoeyKennyConwayBarryUrsulaTripBiancaBurgundyStephanGeorgiaCameronAriaAlainMietteTiernoShaunaTrevorNiniSawyerGladionHoracioHauLeonRaihanHoraceBeaLeague Conference participantsCoordinatorsPerformersWorld Coronation Series participants
Antagonists Jessie (Wobbuffet) • JamesMeowthGiovanniButchCassidyDr. NambaMatoriPierceDr. ZagerGozuTabithaMaxieShellyArchieHunter JSaturnCyrusMarsJupiterCharonColressAldithGhetsisBarretMalamarLysandreMableCelosiaAlianaXerosicBryonyTuppZippRappPlumeriaGuzmaVirenRoseOleana
Professors Professor OakProfessor IvyProfessor ElmProfessor BirchProfessor RowanProfessor CarolinaProfessor JuniperDr. FennelCedric JuniperProfessor SycamoreProfessor KukuiProfessor BurnetProfessor CeriseProfessor MagnoliaSoniaProfessor Amaranth
Relatives Delia KetchumDaisyVioletLilyJames's parentsFlintLolaForrestBrock's siblingsNormanCarolineJohannaChiliCressGraceMeyerLana's fatherLana's motherHarper and SarahRangoSimaMimoKiawe's grandfatherMohnLusamineGladionSophocles's parentsMolayneAbeMallow's motherUluWalkerCamilleHalta
Supporting Officer JennyNurse JoyMagikarp salesmanTodd SnapCharles GoodshowCaseyLizaSakuraLanceClairRaoul ContestaMr. SukizoSteven StoneVivian MeridianRobertScottLilian MeridianSolanaBrandonMarianYuzoRhondaCynthiaReggieAngieLookerIzzy and CaraLyraKhouryTobiasDon GeorgeElderAlderLukeFreddy O'MartianIngoEmmetJervisVirgilNAnthea and ConcordiaPorterAlexaSophieCosetteClembotSanpeiMairinAstridDianthaKorrinaGurkinnMonsieur PierrePalermoKeananMalvaSamson OakAnelaHobbesNinaAnnaLakiDanaYansuWickeFabaIlimaAcerolaDiaChloeChrysaRenParkerTaliaLeiDanikaQuillonHopGym LeadersElite FourFrontier BrainsIsland kahunasMany temporary characters
Supporting Pokémon FearowHo-OhSquirtle SquadPink ButterfreeHaunterJigglypuffMewtwoMimeyLapras herdGranbullPichu BrothersLugiaSilverDelibirdWynautLarvitarKyogre and GroudonArticunoDeoxysLake guardiansForces of NatureMeloettaReshiramSuper-ancient PokémonWooperFlorgesSquishyZ2Guardian deitiesBewearToucannon's flockStoutlandOranguruNebbyStuffulUltra BeastsGrandpa ForestNecrozmaLunalaShayminMewRotom PhonesPelipperThievul trioEternatusDrone RotomLegendary heroesLatiasRecurring wild Pokémon
See also: Pokémon Horizons characters


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