Elizabeth Takegawa

Elizabeth Takegawa, (竹川・エリザベス Takegawa Erizabesu) is the first assassin transfer student to arrive at Class 3-E, joining at the beginning of the school year prior to Ritsu and Itona.

Appearance
Elizabeth is a beautiful, petite young girl with long ashen hair and bangs hanging over her right eye, covering the scar on her forehead. In the anime, Elizabeth's hair is given an extra shade of purple at the tips. Karasuma describes her as having clear, piercing slate-blue eyes that seemed to stare out at the world and skin so pale that it was almost transparent to her blood. When she experiences heightened emotions, her eyes glow. She has also been shown to have pominent sharp canine teeth.

She wears wing-like adornments around her ears and a blue earring with the symbol of her family, compromising of the sun, the moon, and stars. It was gifted to her by her mother, Hotaru.

She wears the Kunugigaoka school uniform with a custom bowtie.

Elizabeth is described as the “Quiet girl” of Class 3-E.

Seven years after graduation, Elizabeth looks almost the same, except for a slightly shorter fringe, no longer covering her eye and she has grown taller.

Personality
Elizabeth is a girl of few words: she doesn't talk a lot not out of shyness but simply because she's reserved and polite. She is soft-spoken and quiet and demonstrates most of her emotions through minute expressions. Although it may seem that she's not paying attention, she has a critical eye and is always keeping a close watch on her surroundings.

She seems to be indifferent to certain things. For example, when Elizabeth felt a malicious force coming from the 3-A students, she was not especially worried. She can be quite carefree and reckless. Though playful, she can be quite serious at times. When it came to winning the soccer game, Elizabeth cast aside her smile, adopting a serious persona in which she stated she would lead 3-E to victory, taking charge and giving out orders.

She is surprisingly smart and clever, having brilliant deduction skills which allow her to solve different problems. She is also one of the quickest-thinking characters and often analyzes a situation with great ease and accuracy. Despite being overall brilliant, Elizabeth gets very average grades. Elizabeth can find a solution if she gives it enough thought. She is very objective, making logical decisions rather than giving in to emotions or opinions, taking a calm and strategic approach to situations.

Among one of her noticeable quirks is her apathetic attitude. As defense mechanism, she repressed her emotions and doesn't put much emotion into her words, and to emphasize this conspicuous habit, she often shown as being rather dense. It is a combination of traumatic events she endured at a young age and her own preferences that caused her to develop the habit. During her childhood, she was abused by the Hīragi Family, who trained and experimented on her to make a living weapon. Consequentially, Elizabeth's appearance goes from pure yet elegant to badly broken and disheveled. During her time with them, she grows so accustomed to rarely being fed that her body adapted to gain energy through sleep rather than food, that even when she has freedom to eat food again, she absentmindedly forgets to eat. For these reasons, she could be mistaken as emotionless, or apathetic. Even before she was found and taken in by the government, she is shown to have issues with empathy and difficulty expressing or understanding emotions, only understanding orders to kill. She shows surprisingly little emotions when talking to Nakamura about her parent's death, suggesting that Elizabeth is emotionally detached to people she knows and keeps her friends away at an arm's length.

Despite that, Elizabeth has managed to remain generally positive and does not seem too psychologically affected by the pain she's endured, demonstrating a noble, pure side of her. Another noteworthy element of her innocent and gentle nature is that she entertains a belief that fairies and yokai may exist, after her parents mentioned their existence in a fairy tale back when they were still around. As a result, this eventually inspires her with the name of her album.

Rarely, Elizabeth shows that she can have a scary and manipulating side, though when pushed too far; she can become very violent when provoked, coming off as uncharacteristically sadistic. Her personality while fighting consists of a cruel, but quiet state. This causes her to give off a growling sense.

Although she has difficulties expressing it, she is capable of caring for other people, as she greatly cares for Nakamura who seems to be her friend, and has grown attached to her classmates and others: she is best friends with Nakamura and later Kayano, she gets along with Karma and Kanzaki, and often teases Karasuma. She also forms a bond with Korosensei, breaking down crying when he died.

However, after she is forgiven for the grief she caused, she regains her original good nature and cheerfulness in response to no longer being affected by the antimatter, as she has learned to fully control it. However, there is a noticeable change in her behavior towards seriousness, because of a combination of lingering darkness, guilt, sadness, and regrets hanging over her as she worries about the consequences of her past, the future of her friends, and humanity.

History
Elizabeth was conceived through artificial insemination by using the seeds of Gin Hīragi. Her parents hid her away to protect her from the Hīragi Family but they were eventually found and killed when she was four. As a young girl Elizabeth was subject to experimentation which included scalpels and needles. At one point this took place every day in every part of her body including her head, chest and womb.

She was the only successful antimatter specimin that was developed by the Hīragi Family. Kotaro Yanagisawa saw her and wanted to create his own antimatter specimin thus causing the creation of Koro~sensei. Elizabeth is aware her existance unintentionally cause the death of Aguri Yukimura and the pain of Koro~sensei, blaiming herself for all the grief the experiments caused. While under the control of the Hīragi Family, she became an elite assassin known as Lilith. After her first 6 months, she had already slain 36 people flawlessly. She was later taken in by the government, in which she didn't resist as she hadn't recieved orders to kill them yet. She was taken away by the government and refused to say a thing about the exeriments, as she was trained never to tell even during torture. After Koro~sensei's threat reached world leaders, she was registered as a student in Kunugigaoka, sent ahead of Ritsu and Itona to gain knowledge of their target. When Itona first makes his debut, he is shown to be rather wary of Elizabeth, after joining for good he told his classmates that he said a mistake when he first arrived, Elizabeth was definitely stronger than him.

Time After Time
After a total of seven years after Korosensei's assassination she went on to be a famous music idol in Japan. She has become very popular, coming out with her own solo album, called Mavis, Red Lotus. and even being the singer in Kaede Kayano's morning drama intro. It is mentioned how she would come every year to the old Class E building to pray for Koro-sensei. After seven years, there along with some of her former classmates she reunites with Kayano. She is helping to repair the class back to its former glory.

When Sumire Hara asks Kayano whether she has kept in contact with Nagisa, Kayano blushed and Elizabeth teased her about her little crush. Kayano then retorts whether she had kept in touch with Karma, which Elizabeth replied, of course, with a grin in a calmly fasion. Causing the rest of her classmates to giggle.

Abilities
Assassination: Elizabeth has had a lot of training as an assassin making her highly dangerous. She is able to use an advaced teqnique called Rythm Echo. An assassination art, Rhythm Echo is a motion that creates multiple afterimages of the practitioner's body through a varying cadence of steps to confuse the opponent or create decoys. She is also able to disappear in front of an opponent in an instant and in the blink of an eye reappear behind them and strike before they know whats hit them.


 * Infiltration: As an infiltration assassin, Elizabeth is considered very skilled. She is able to charm/distract her way into her target's inner circles, penetrating the highest security and killing/trapping them when they are alone at point-blank range with little difficulty. Elizabeth often has to adopt different personalities in order to infiltrate into the various situations her missions put her through. Elizabeth is very proficient in hiding, spying, and infiltration. Melody, an assassin renowned for her hearing, commented that she could hardly hear Elizabeth's footsteps even when she was running alongside her. Thanks to her training, Elizabeth has learned how to walk and run without making a sound.
 * Hand-to-Hand Combatant: In spite of her young age, Elizabeth is an exceptional melee fighter and master of innumerable unarmed combat techniques. The difference in experience between assassination and a proper fight initially prevented her from making the most of them, but she soon improved to an astounding degree. She countered Sub's assault despite the latter having a superior output and her own hands being unusable. During their duel, she goaded Sub into striking her in a certain way by pretending to have an imperfect guard. Her fighting style, which is extremely versatile, aims at dealing the maximum amount of damage in the shortest time possible, striking critical points and making ample use of lightning-fast submission holds to incapacitate or kill the opponent. She can knock out a person by striking a sensitive spot on their neck while moving at high speed, a feat which requires superhuman levels of precision. With her extensive knowledge of the human body, she could strike sequences of pressure points, immobilizing her enemies to various degrees. She had the ability to paralyze a single body part or an opponent's entire body. Elizabeth is particularly skilled at finding patterns in the fighting style of her adversary and at figuring out their weak spots, and at using them to exploit or create openings. She rarely resorts to combos, preferring to land single, critical strikes or to maintain a safe distance from more powerful opponents.
 * Agility: Elizabeth is extraordinarily agile. Because of this, she was fast and agile in battle, able to outmaneuver almost any opponent she came across and jump exceptionally high and far, even from a stationary position. Her abilities allowed her to dodge the attacks of powerful assassins, who were unable to land a hit on her. She was also limber; able to twist, bend, and contort herself into positions nearly impossible for an ordinary person to achieve. These abilities also granted her impressive parkour and free-running skills, allowing her to scale almost any surface or terrain quickly and squeeze through most barriers and small spaces with noticeable ease. She is able to defend herself without needing to resort to attacking by simply dodging and avoiding attacks, appearing to flow around her opponents without expending any energy at all, letting the opponent tire themselves out and thus creating exploitable openings. This conservation of energy combined with high stamina gives her an advantage in prolonged combat. This technique was first shown in Elizabeth's training fight against Terasaka. Elizabeth effortlessly defeated him without ever striking him, instead simply dodging his blows and pushing him when he was off-balance.
 * Linguistics: Elizabeth is extremely skilled in conversational abilities, being fluent in 8 different languages. Through these skills combined with her infiltration abilities, she is able to extract information from her targets.


 * Planning: After her infiltration techniques, this is considered to be one of Elizabeth's greatest talents. She can elaborate detailed plans completely on her own, with backups for any complication that might arise, thus giving her targets little to no chance of survival.

Intelligence: Elizabeth is one of the smartest characters in the series, being capable of maintaining top grades with little effort. She is third to Karma and Nakamura. She possesses a gifted mind which allows her to learn and understand complex knowledge in a matter of minutes.

Night vision: She was ranked 1st by Karasuma in the students’ night vision abilities.

Superhuman senses: Elizabeth's sensory perceptions are paramount, and can detect even the most minuscule of changes in temperature, light, sound, and smell. She has shown extremely fine hearing, being able to hear the quietest of sounds and conversations from another room in her range. Her eyes are also quite keen, and can keep track of objects going thousands of miles per hour without difficulty, as well as detect the slightest of movements that occur quicker than the blink of an eye.

Trivia

 * Elizabeth is one of the few people in the entire manga who is referred to by her first name. Another example would be Nagisa.
 * In the popularity poll of Volume 12, Elizabeth ranked 6th.


 * Elizabeth is usually represented by a dragon due to her ability to hide her bloodlust and how intimidating it can be. When she gets angry she is said to be like a rampaging dragon.


 * Her most treasured items are her mother's earing and her father's yokai mask along with the Teddy Bear Karma gave her.
 * Her hobbies/special skills are singing and soccer.
 * Her favorite food is takoyaki.


 * Elizabeth's dislikes sour food, especially umeboshi (Japanese for "pickled plums").


 * Elizabeth wants to become a singer (presumably due to her musical skills) in the future.
 * She didn't belong to any club before joining Class E.
 * She was rarely fed as a child so her body adapted so that she gets her energy from sleep. This is also why she weighs at a unnatural 20 kg.


 * Though right-handed, she is seen battling left-handed, making her ambidextrous as well.


 * Elizabeth was called 'Snow-White' in Chapter 91 during Class 3-E's training in using codenames. The one who wrote her codename was Okajima.


 * In the "Girls you're interested in" ranking made by the boys in Chapter 19, Elizabeth was ranked 2nd, with her singing and beauty listed as her best points. The commentary next to her vote tally said "Amazing voice and super cute looks!"
 * Elizabeth is a pescetarian.
 * Her profile photo online is a fox.


 * She is known as the 3rd smartest student in Class-3E.


 * She has the highest overall statistics out of all of the students.
 * In the tankobon extras, her statistics were listed as:
 * Physical Strength: 5
 * Stamina: 5
 * Mobility: 5
 * Close Combat: 4.5
 * Marksman: 4
 * Academics: 4.5
 * Personal Skill (Singing): 5
 * Ine the Shooting Scores, he's ranked 3rd.
 * According to Irina:
 * In the Kissing Techniques Scores, she's ranked 5th


 * In Karasuma's Assassination Aptitude (out of 6) her statistics were:
 * Strategy/Planning: 6
 * Commanding/Leadership: 5
 * Execution (Ability to carry out plans): 6
 * Technique (Traps, weapons, preparations, etc): 5
 * Scouting/Intelligence Gathering: 6
 * Politics/Negotiations: 5