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I'm sorry ,but not for being alive, we're you looking for canon!Gretel as played by Rin Kagamine?

"Hey mother, praise me, I defeated the evil witch."

Gretel is the female twin kidnapped and raised by Adam Moonliy and the sister of Hänsel. Along with her brother, she murdered their parents and later split Adam's Original Sin into the Seven Deadly Sins.

Project 'Ma'
Gretel was born along with her twin brother, Hänsel, in the Levianta Royal Institute as part of Project 'Ma'. After birthed by her mother, Palea Noël, Gretel and her brother were placed in vitro conditions. Celebrated by the people of the Magic Kingdom, their births marked the first year of a new calendar, EC 0. Some time later, they were taken by their mother from the laboratory and hid in Elphegort.

Original Sin
After a year of being hidden by Palea, she carried them to Eldoh's Forest for a stroll. While there, Palea settled them near a tree and left them. Soon after, she and Hänsel were discovered by Adam Moonlit. Believing them to be fruit, Adam took them and carried them through the forest as he fled from their mother and eventually killed her. After being greeted by his wife,Eve, she saw the twins in his hands and became horrified by Adam's action. With Palea dead and the twins orphaned, the two woodcutters adopted the children and raised them as their own.

In EC 013, Gretel and her brother were led by their parents deep into the forest on a moonlit night. The curious twin asked his father if god was waiting for them down their path and later wondered why their parents were looking at them with such gloomy expressions. Eventually, Gretel and her brother realized that they would be lost if they continued on the path and were soon after abandoned by their parents to die, unable to find their way home.

While wandering the dark forest with her brother, holding hands, the two stumbled upon a small glass bottle illuminated by the moonlight and used it to light their path, not knowing whether the direction they headed in was right or wrong. At last, Gretel and Hänsel arrived someplace, recognizing it as "the witch's house". They decided to murder the warlock, believing they would become happy if he was gone. While Hänsel murdered her "hencwohman", Gretel shoved the "warlock" into an oven, gleefully asking her mother if she was proud of her for doing so.

Watching Adam, the warlock, burn to ashes in the oven, they witnessed his body become the embodiment of her Original Sin. Splitting it into seven fragments, they scattered it across the world so that it could be eventually cleansed. Gretel and her brother enjoyed the confines of the witch's house, feeling as if they themselves lived there long ago, and then decided to go out and search for their "real" mother and father.

Legacy
After her death, Gretel's soul reincarnated with her same visage every few centuries. In several cases, her reincarnations maintained some of Gretel's memories and characteristics, including loyalty to patriarchal figures who resembled her mother's former lover, Metam. At some point after EC 611, Grtel's soul merged with the Glass of Conchita and later awakened as the female Servant to the Master of the Graveyard.

Character Connections

 * Palea Noël: Gretel's real mother. Gretel didn't remember Palea, growing up in Eve's care, but she later expressed a wish to go find his "real" mother after Adam and Eve were dead.


 * Metam Salmhofer: A man that Palea loved and could never forget even after she married. She passed on a fanatic loyalty to Metam to all her reincarnations, showing this loyalty to anyone resembling him in order to gain information on where her mother's soul is.
 * Eve Moonlit: Gretel's foster mother. Gretel grew up thinking of Eve as her mother, however, she became convinced she was a wicked henchwoman witch after she and Hänsel were abandoned by her. She later killed her, thinking she was the wicked henchwoman of a warlock, and gave her no more consideration after discovering Adam's Original Sin.


 * Adam Moonlit: Gretel's foster father. Gretel grew up thinking of Adam as her father, however she became convinced he was the wicked warlock after she and Hänsel were abandoned by him. She later considered him to be a pretentious and troublesome man, discovering his Original Sin among his ashes.


 * Hänsel: Gretel's twin brother. Gretel loved her brother and was always beside him if she could help it, holding his hand and helping him defeat the wicked witch and her henchman. She stayed with him after Adam's death and would usually be by his side in their reincarnations.


 * Arte: One of Gretel's reincarnations. Gretel passed on her appearance and soul to Arte's, and with it she passed on her loyalty to anyone resembling Meta, such as Conchita.


 * Lenabelle Abelard: Another of Gretel's reincarnations. Gretel's appearance and soul passed on to Lenabelle Abelard, and with it she passed on her loyalty to anyone resembling Metam, such as "Jules".


 * Female Servant: Another of Gretel's reincarnations. Gretell's appearance and soul passed on to the female Servant, and with it he passed on her loyalty to anyone resembling Metam, such as the Master of the Graveyard.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Gretel is inspired by the character from the Brothers Grimm's tale "Hänsel & Gretel".
 * In the original story, Gretel is depicted as a gluttonous child, strengthening her link with the Demon of Gluttony.
 * Gretel's name derives from German, meaning "pearl" and is a diminutive of the name "Margaret".

Curiosities

 * Similar attire to Gretel is worn by a young Alainrice and, to a lesser extent, the female Servant in Evil's Theater.
 * Gretel's reincarnations tend to be more innocent or oblivious compared to her brother's reincarnations.
 * Elluki Clockworker noted that Queen Alaina child, Alainrice, resembled Gretel