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Japanese Seiyū
Rie Tanaka
English Voice Actor
Michelle Ruff
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Freya was the first Chobit, who was created before Elda by Hibiya's husband, Ichiro Mihara. Freya was created to be Hibiya's daughter, because she was unable to bear children of her own. Freya's development was kept secret from Hibiya; she did not know of Freya's existence until she was called down to the lab one day, without explanation. In front of her, suspended from a number of wires and cables, was a persocom. Upon awakening for the very first time, she was given the name Freya by Hibiya. Freya's first word was "Mama".
Freya lived happily with the Mihara couple for a time, until Hibiya noticed that her attitude was becoming increasingly melancholy, with no explanation as to why. At this point, Hibiya asked her husband to build a little sister for Freya, in an attempt to make her happy again. From this request, Elda was created. Freya was incredibly happy to have a little sister, and for a time, she seemed to be acting normally, although, as Hibiya would later tell Hideki in the anime, "there were still these odd times when she looked as though she was thinking very deeply about something."
Some time after, Freya suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground. In the anime, the impetus for this event was witnessing her mother and father flirting with each other in the compound's courtyard. It was only then that Hibiya finally realized the source of Freya's sadness; she had fallen in love with her own father, Mihara. Freya knew that her father still loved his wife, and did not want to disturb their happiness, so she pained her heart with efforts to suppress her feelings. Over time, her pain became so great that her she began to malfunction under the strain of her emotional burden. Freya was no longer able to move, and was confined to a bed from that point on. Toward the end, she could not lift a finger or even shift her focus, and began to have problems with her memory.
In the anime, Freya never found the courage to tell her father how she truly felt; in the manga, she resigns herself to the fact that because of the damage to her body, all hope is lost regardless of the outcome, and chooses to tell him her true feelings. Eventually, Freya's pain became so unbearable, that she chose to self-terminate, rather than continue to exist (in the manga's English translation, it seems as though Freya wishes to commit suicide). Before she could do this, however, her sister Elda offered to take her heart into her own, so that she would not disappear completely, and so that her memories would be preserved.
Now that Elda has become Chi, Freya does everything she can to ensure that Chi will find the person just for her. Freya exists as a separate entity within Chi, and is capable of monitoring Chi's sensory input, and will intervene if Chi is in danger. It should be noted that in the anime, nobody knew that Elda had taken in Freya's heart; conversely, in the manga, both Hibiya and Mihara learned of this only moments after it occurred.
(Note about the spelling "Freya": "Freya" actually appears in the Japanese Chobits merchandise. In Norse mythology, Freya was a goddess of love, sex and attraction.)
[b:c1c7a693a0]The more things change, the more they remain the same.[/b:c1c7a693a0][/color:c1c7a693a0][/align:c1c7a693a0]
 Tenshi-Eclipse · Fri Feb 23, 2007 @ 03:45am · 0 Comments |
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