Ellis

Ellis (エリス Erisu) is a girl wanted as a suspect for Dr. Heinz Schneider's murder. She heads south in order to seek the truth of the incident, as well as to find her birthplace; based on the vague memories she holds and an old fortune teller's advice. Ellis has "Witch DNA", but her abilities are accidental and incomplete. These include superhuman strength, temporary levitation, and heating as well as freezing of physical objects. She cannot control her abilities at will, usually becoming active only in times of need. She speaks whatever is on her mind in an almost expressionless way of talking, she could almost be classified as a comic relief character because of some of the things she does. As the series progresses, it shows that Ellis feels guilty over her belief that she killed the doctor (which she didn't do, at the end of the show it's revealed that Rosenberg is the one who killed the doctor). She was created by Rosenberg, along with L.A. She was handed over to the doctor and after years of being with him, she feel in love with him. She gains immense power when they reach the place of eternity.

Rosenberg tries to kill Nadie to awaken Ellis's powers, while this goes on, Ellis says she's losing her memories of their time together. She tells Nadie to kill her for a job, Nadie tries to refuse, but Ellis tries to convince her. Before Nadie pulls the trigger, Ellis says "I love you, Nadie." Ellis goes first, but Nadie then follows her to death. They are then resurrected by Blue-Eyes, her powers awakened and made known by Lirio, who speaks for the first time. Blue-Eyes resurrects Ellis first, as Nadie is still dead. Ellis resurrects Nadie after rejecting Douglas Rosenberg's "love." They all escape (Nadie, Ellis, Ricardo, Lirio and Blue-Eyes) but not before Ellis sees the doctor's ghost who says "Thank you, Ellis." Nadie calls to Ellis and the leave the preying grounds of the witches. Ellis has now gained the ability to use her powers correctly, bringing tranquility to the original witches's hearts. Afterward, Nadie and Ellis face Rosenberg for the last time. Rosenberg dies, and they are free. The last episode starts with Nadie who thanks an elderly couple for hiring her and Ellis at their shop. Ellis is later found sleeping when she should be doing laundry. The two find that they are happy and their journey seemed far away, and it's discovered that Nadie said she would never again use a gun. It was also said that Ellis could no longer use her powers, when Ellis finally has control over her powers. Peace is disrupted by a visiting Blue-Eyes, who tells them about her new job. The store is threatened by bounty hunters from their past, who are now fat. They fight back and kick the bounty hunter's asses. Ellis goes back on the road because she "Loves that sparkle in her [Nadie's] eye."

Background
Ellis is the recreation of "The Witches", that was the aim of "Project Leviathan", reviving a race of beings capable of, for one thing, raising and lowering the temperature of objects (which was called 'Maxwell's Demon', which was based upon a thought experiment by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell​). There were many subjects created for that purpose, and only two survived; Ellis and L.A. But for some reason, only Ellis had the promise of achieving Maxwell's Demon, and project director Douglas Rosenberg placed her into the care of the project's scientific head, Dr. Heinrich "Heinz" Schneider.

At first, Ellis showed little progress in her powers, but soon began to exhibit them, partly due to her fears about the constant tests Dr. Schneider was doing on her, although she had little progress in controlling them. Dr. Schneider then decided to ease up on the tests, showing Ellis the outside world. Because of this, Ellis gradually fell in love with him. However, Dr. Schneider began to get suspicious of Rosenberg's true motivations about Project Leviathan, and decided to flee with Ellis. But on the evening the two were to celebrate leaving their remote home, Dr. Schneider was shot and killed by Rosenberg from a distance through an open window. Ellis, who was in front of Dr. Schneider, was splattered with blood, and subsequently was made the prime suspect.

The trauma of seeing Dr. Schneider die caused Ellis to subconsciously blot-out the events of the murder, which included her identity. Feeling an urge to travel south, she found herself in a town in Mexico, earning a meager living performing card tricks. It was there she met the bounty hunter named Nadie, her cover is to collect on the bounty on Ellis' head, but in reality she was hired by Jody Hayward (who was one of the surviving Witches) to safeguard Ellis from other bounty hunters. Rosenberg was also watching Ellis, using L.A. to monitor her and the development of her powers - a task complicated by L.A falling in love with Ellis, as well as using Ricardo and Lirio, both to watch the girls - and for Ricardo to discipline L.A. when he got out of line.

Besides Maxwell's Demon, Ellis also has the ability of levitation. She can draw out objects from human bodies (shown when Nadie was wounded one day). However, the use of her powers is involuntary, often done under stress. Ellis is also bluntly honest, and is not in expressing her feelings, not only to others... but also about her growing affections towards Nadie.

Voice Actors

 * JAPANESE - Ai Shimizu (清水 愛)
 * ENGLISH - Maxey Whitehead