| Labrador | Relationships | History | Trivia |
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SPOILERS AHEAD! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!
| Labrador ラブラドール Raburadooru | |
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| Aliases | Ilyusha Krat (イリューシャ＝クラート) Lab (by Frau and Castor) |
| Characteristics | |
| Species | Ghost |
| Nationality | District 4 |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | In his 20s |
| Birthday | Unknown |
| Height | 170 cm (5'5) |
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lbs) [1] |
| Personal status | |
| Status | Alive |
| Relatives | Profe (paternal ancestor) Labrador's Father (father) Labrador's Uncle (uncle) Lem (possibly an adopted relative) Lirin (possibly an adopted relative) Raggs War Profe |
| Professional status | |
| Occupation | Bishop Acts as Ghost Profe |
| Affiliation | The Barsburg Church Seven Ghosts Krat Family Chief of Heaven The Cuvere Seven Houses of God |
| Appearances | |
| Manga | Kapitel 1 |
| Anime | Episode 1 |
| Voices | |
| Japanese | Miyata Kouki |
Labrador is one of the main characters of 07-Ghost. He serves as a bishop of the Barsburg Church in District 7, where he offers citizens shelter and removes curses inflicted upon them by Verloren's messengers, the Kor. Labrador spends most of his time in the gardens of the Church where he takes care of plants and utilizes them to make tea, medicine, herbal remedies and other products. He is also able to manipulate them using his Zaiphon.
Labrador is a prophet. He can see glimpses into the future and all of his predictions are guaranteed to be accurate.
Appearance
Physical appearance
Labrador is the shortest of the main Bishops, standing at 170 cm, and his build is very boyish and slender. Despite his youthful appearance, Labrador is the oldest of the bishops. He has pale, peachy skin.
Labrador's face is rather androgynous in appearance, and very round with a small nose and a small mouth with full lips. His eyes are very large with no discernible pupils and dark eyelashes. They are a dark purple in color and are usually not fully opened, giving him a sleepy look. Labrador's hair is wavy, usually messy, cropped neck-length, and a pale-purple/white color, with a fringe that stops just above his eyes and longer bangs at each side of his face.
Labrador has been described as beautiful rather than handsome. As a teenager, Labrador's hair was longer than it is at present, and he kept it in a ponytail.
As Profe
Being one of the Seven Ghosts, Labrador appears as a skeleton when in his true form.
Clothing
In his casual attire, Labrador wears something akin to a black, form-fitting, leather catsuit with large shoulder pads. The catsuit has fur of a lighter shade of black on the neck-guard and sleeve cuffs. He also wears a long corset-type piece with a v-shaped/split tail coat and knee-high gothic-style boots.
In his church attire, like other bishops, Labrador appears to wear a dark blue cassock with white trimming on the collar, under a long white outer cassock that hides his arms. The cassock is held together with a loose belt and a large, silver, rectangular brooch emblazoned with the carving of a cross. Labrador wears a plain, white mitre with a cross in the center and a veil that extends from the mitre to fall over his face.
Following the death of Bastien, Labrador and his fellow bishops change into a mourning attire, consisting of a simple black cassock that almost reaches the ground and a gold strip of cloth, that appears to be a modification of a stole, around five feet long, and worn around the collar. He wears a clergy badge on his collar. During the funeral service he also wears a black mitre, not unlike his church one, with a golden cross emblazoned in the centre and a veil that extends from the mitre to fall over his face.
In Kapitel 80, Labrador attends the masquerade and wears appropriately noble, but feminine clothing as part of his disguise as Castor's wife. He removes the feminine attire when he, Castor and Frau successfully infiltrate the masquerade.
Personality
Labrador is very kind and gentle, always speaking softly to those around him, sometimes even his enemies. He is very patient and almost impossible to anger (usually becoming upset instead of angry), and he does not show his frustration on his face. He has a love for gardening and holds extensive knowledge about plants, seeds and flowers; an obsession which sometimes leads him to sleep in the flower patches or under trees. He also seems to be in charge of taking care of the plantations in the Barsburg church.
Possibly due to his precognitive visions, Labrador often appears dreary and behaves in a sleepy or dazed manner. Some of these visions appear to cause him pain[2]. Despite this, he is a capable fighter who is able to defend himself when attacked, and he can be dangerous when he fights seriously. He is also quite intelligent and cunning, guiding those around him, friend or foe, to do certain actions that he knows will lead to a beneficial conclusion.
Labrador is very sympathetic and can be considered a pacifist, as he is very rarely seen in combat, objecting to killing even if his opponent poses a serious threat to his life. However, this quality makes him susceptible to being taken advantage of. Labrador also has a mischievous and sarcastic side, often insulting Frau's intelligence, and may have a sadistic streak, as he seems to enjoy watching Castor beat Frau up, and smiled when he informed Teito and Frau that the promise collar would explode if they (Teito and Frau) are apart for forty-eight hours.
Despite his pacifistic nature, Labrador will not hesitate to kill or gravely injure his opponents under certain circumstances, as shown when he kills the Barsburg Spy, severely weakens Haruse with darkness-eating flowers and gravely injures Ayanami. Labrador is not easily intimidated by even the most powerful of his opponents, shown when he openly challenged Ayanami in mid-air during the fight for the Eye of Michael, and when he sardonically told Hyuuga to cut off "whichever [of my limbs] you like".
Within the group of bishops acting as Ghosts, Labrador is the most patient and calm one. This, alongside his position as the oldest, grants him the ability to openly communicate with and guide the others, who don't get along with each other perfectly well. Given the innate accuracy of Labrador's predictions, his fellow bishops listen to his instructions without question.
Abilities and Attributes
Due to his experience with plants, Labrador shows a talent for making them into food and medicine. He also makes good use of the special effects that some of his plants have, such as putting people to sleep or devouring their dark powers. During the Hawkzile race, he is able to calm and befriend a wild plant which had previously taken out many racers. He becomes such good friends with it that it gives him some seeds, which he uses later in the fight against the Black Hawks.
Zaiphon
Healing Zaiphon: Labrador is an expert of healing Zaiphon, which means he is able to remove Kors without harming patients in any way. Labrador is also able to heal the injuries sustained during battle, even healing Castor's detached arm and lost eye (but not regenerating them).
Manipulation Zaiphon[3]: Labrador is able to control plants and use them as vines to entangle opponents (or possibly choke them, although his nature usually prevents him from doing this). A theory as to how he grows the flowers is by forcing his Healing Zaiphon through seeds and controlling them using his Manipulation Zaiphon. He also uses his manipulation Zaiphon to create a path for Ayanami to follow in Kapitel 20, and for Frau and Teito in Kapitel 25, presumably using the same technique Castor uses to create Teito's training path in Kapitel 12.
Ghost abilities
Labrador's power as the Ghost Profe is that he is able to look into a person's future.
Prophecy
| “ | Labrador's predictions are inevitable. | ” |
—Castor, speaking about Labrador's Ghost ability. | ||
Labrador's Ghost power is that of a prophet, allowing him to see into future events and making proclamations on it. His predictions will always come true. He predicts future events in Teito's life, makes weather forecasts, and it seems he's even seen into what Frau and Teito would need during their travel to Seele (seeing how Frau always manages to have something useful on hand given to him by Labrador).
He foretells that what Ayanami desires the most, Eve, cannot be held in his hands again.
In truth, all members of the Krat family (Labrador included) are said to possess the ability of a prophet. However, as a Ghost, Labrador's prophecies are much more accurate and possibly more detailed.
Like the other Ghosts, Labrador has a higher resistance to extremely low temperatures than ordinary humans, as his heart does not beat and his body does give off heat. This can be seen when he sleeps outside and doesn't seem affected by the cold. As a Ghost, he also recovers more quickly from injuries than ordinary humans, and can shift between his human and Ghost forms at will.
He is probably able to speak the Language of the Gods. Considering that he is from District 4, which was part of Raggs territory until the war, it is possible that he can also speak the Language of Raggs.
References
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