Morrigan Aensland
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Morrigan Aensland is a video game character from Capcom's Darkstalkers fighting game series. Her birth year is 1678. She is a succubus.
Morrigan is very vain, and lives for little more than the excitement of battle, although her endings in the games as well as various media show that Morrigan slowly takes up more of her responsibility seriously. She appears as a beautiful woman with long, light green hair, and bat-like wings on her back and the sides of her head. Morrigan can reshape these wings into spikes and blades when attacking her enemies, as well as using them to shield herself from enemy attacks. Her wings can also separate from her, and form into a cloud of bats. She uses a variety of magical attacks as well.
Although Demitri would seem to fill the spot, it is often suggested and implied that Morrigan is the main character of the Darkstalkers series, due to her importance in the overall story as well as her many appearances outside of her game series. She may even be considered the protagonist or something of an anti-hero, since despite her demonic appearance and nature, she is not evil. She is merely what she is, a succubus.
Story
She is the daughter of Belial, one of the rulers of the Makai, or "demon world". She became head of the Aensland family after the death of Belial.Morrigan is a succubus and the adopted daughter of Belial Aensland. When she was born, Morrigan was extremely powerful (an "S Class" according to some Japanese source books), so much so that Belial sealed away part of her power, one-third in himself to be returned upon his death, and one-third in a pocket dimension, which eventually became a being of its own, a succubus named Lilith. Without knowing this, Morrigan grew up. She found her life in the Aensland castle dull, and so she visited the human world many times to look for some kind of entertainment. One night, she was drawn to a strange power (later identified as Pyron) and ventured into the human world once again.
After she returned from the human world, she was told that Belial had died and that she is the next successor to the throne of the Aensland family. Although she is rightfully the ruler of Makai, she keeps avoiding her responsibilities and continues her life as before. But when Jedah created the Majigen, she and her castle were pulled into Jedah's dimension. Sensing Lilith, Morrigan sets off hoping to find some sort of enjoyment. After she met Lilith, the two become one again.
The Succubus Race
It is generally said that the Succubus race absorbs the spirit of the opposite sex and uses it as their own energy source. But the Succubae from Darkstalkers that are a part of the Aensland family are slightly different; they create a special secretion liquid in their body when they are either physically or mentally stimulated. They use this liquid to maintain their life. If one were to be trapped inside a small secluded area, she would die within two days due to the lack of stimulus, this is because the liquid needed to maintain her life can't be secreted.
But to make up for this, they have become able to look into the dreams of others; when a creature dreams, a special secretion liquid is formed within the brain. A succubus can take this liquid from the outside. This liquid is dissolved into the Succubus' body and is composed.
Their blood and saliva has a powerful lustful effect, whilst their body odour causes blood vessels to dilate and causes a large amount of perspiration. If a man is confronted by a Succubus, unless they have a very strong mind, they would instantly be under her spell.
The succubus race lives approximately 400 years. Roughly ten years after they are born, they gain their adult appearance and keep this beautiful form until they die. Their beautiful appearance is kept intact even when they are old. Over the past several hundred years, their ability to reproduce has been in danger. The amount of spirit that can be taken from an individual is limited. Their search for new dreams have caused them to reach into the human world. But it is becoming more and more difficult to acquire a good amount of nutrition.
When Morrigan became the successor of the Aensland family, there were roughly only 200 Succubae left. At this rate, the Succubus race would disappear after one or two generations. But the Succubae themselves do not seem to care about the crisis and are enjoying their everyday lives.
Other appearances
Marvel vs. Capcom series
UDON Comics
In the UDON Comics version of Darkstalkers, Morrigan is a brash 300-year-old succubus who wants nothing more than to visit the human world and have a good time, often at the expense of the men she seduces, and completely ignores her duty as future ruler of the Makai Realm; this annoys her father, Belial, and gets her two servants, Lucien and Mudo into heaps of trouble. Eventually she hears of Demitri's restoration, and goes to her father to warn him, only to find that he is in no position to fight. For the first time, she takes on the responsibility that she has often put aside, and returns to the human world to fight Demitri, and prove herself worthy of the Makai Realm and the power that Belial sealed away many years ago.American Cartoon
DiC produced their own Darkstalkers cartoon in the mid-90s. Amongst the drastic character changes was Morrigan, who was changed into a villain. Morrigan's character in the cartoon was a typical cartoon female villain (jealous, rude, power-hungry, and despised men). She was also stated to be a direct descendant of Morgan le Fay, and not the daughter of Belial or a resident of the Makai (let alone the ruler).Anime
The Japanese-produced Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge anime featured Morrigan more like her game appearances, portraying her as a semi-innocent demon world inhabitant, a member of the royal family who was more interested in going to Earth than in her duties. The picture of idle rich, she would often leave at will out of mere boredom, much to the frustration of her guardians, elder men of the Aensland family. Morrigan's role as a hero was a focus, with her activities as a succubus downplayed; although the OVA depicts Donovan Baine as the main hero of the story, some say that Morrigan was also a little more stoic and pretentious than her usually upbeat personality depicted in the games.Trivia
- Morrigan is 5', 7" tall and weighs 128 lb.
- Within the Darkstalkers series, she is considered a [Shotoclone], with many of the same fighting techniques and controls as other Capcom shotokan characters, such as Ryu from Street Fighter.
- Morrigan has been voiced solely by Yayoi Jinguji.
- Demitri is constantly challenging Morrigan for the right to rule Makai. Morrigan sees him as a nuisance, albeit admitting to having an attraction to him in Darkstalkers 3.
- Morrigan has made more appearances outside the Darkstalkers series than any other character. Despite this, the only times her sprite has been redrawn has been in Pocket Fighter, Puzzle Fighter, Namco x Capcom, and SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium due to everyone being super deformed; and Gunbird 2 due to the nature of the game (a shooter vs. a fighting game).
- Morrigan's Darkness Illusion was the first super move to use the button press sequence (LP, LP, F, LK, HP) that is now commonly associated with the Shun Goku Satsu.
- One of the many running jokes (and points of criticism) among fans is that she has had the exact same sprite as far as Capcom vs. SNK 2 in 2001 as she did in the original Darkstalkers (1994). The sprite looks especially out of place in the Capcom vs. SNK series as it gains a black outline in the series. Although Capcom's fighting game scene has dwindled dramatically in previous years, many clamor to the hope that Morrigan will finally get a new sprite in some game in the future.
- She was rated #3 in GameSpy.com's ["Top Ten Babes in Games"] feature.
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