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Daphne, the Witch of Gluttony, emerged over 400 years ago after unethical immortality experiments by an unnamed man. A ritual granted her pseudo-immortality but cursed her with unending, insatiable hunger. Awakening alone in his castle, she consumed everything—including thrones, carpets, and even her own vomit—until her unconscious creation of witchbeasts broke her restraints. These creatures facilitated her escape while spreading worldwide.
Physically resembling a 13- to 14-year-old girl, Daphne has pale skin, ashen hair in twin tails, and golden eyes perpetually covered by a crossed black blindfold. She wears a white bodysuit under a pitch-black straitjacket and is permanently confined within the sentient "Centipede Coffin." This coffin, a witchbeast she spawned, transports her via crab-like legs fueled by her bodily waste.
Her personality fixates solely on appeasing her hunger, prioritizing quantity over taste. She exhibits bulimic cycles of regurgitation and re-consumption, often eating inedible objects like rugs or clothing. Despite childlike speech patterns and nicknaming tendencies—calling Subaru "Subarun" or Echidna "Dna Dna"—she perceives life through a predatory lens, declaring that "those who eat others should be wary of being eaten." She displays negligible empathy, seldom expresses emotions beyond hunger, and explicitly disregards other people, embodying an animalistic worldview detached from human values.
As a Witch of Sin wielding the Authority of Gluttony, her powers include:
- **Life Creation**: Generating witchbeasts from her "Third Mouth" when feeling "woozy." She birthed all witchbeasts, including the Three Great Mabeasts: the White Whale (existence-erasing mist), Great Rabbit (infinite multiplication and consumption), and Black Serpent (lethal curses/diseases). She cannot create entities stronger than herself, implying superiority over individual mabeasts.
- **Consumption**: Devouring nearly anything—spirits or even the entire White Whale in one bite. Physical contact with her induces extreme hunger.
- **Magic Eyes**: Her left eye ("Famine") inflicts debilitating hunger with a glance (driving victims to self-cannibalism), while her right eye ("Apastia") holds a more formidable but unspecified power. Canon sources inconsistently document these eyes, with light novels omitting them.
- **Pseudo-Immortality**: Immunity to age, sickness, and conventional harm, countered only by vulnerability to starvation.
Among Witches of Sin, Daphne kept distant ties, assigning affectionate nicknames without forming deep bonds. She opposed Satella’s destructive nature but accepted Echidna’s preservation of her soul after death. In arc 4, she confronted Natsuki Subaru within Echidna’s dream realm, challenging his resolve to destroy the Great Rabbit and briefly saving him from Typhon to test his capabilities.
Daphne succumbed to starvation in a desert, her body desiccating despite immortality. Conflicting accounts cite Echidna collecting her soul post-death or Satella consuming her during the Witch of Envy’s rampage. Echidna preserved her soul in the Castle of Dreams, later storing it in a pyroxene necklace worn by Omega. Posthumously, Daphne expressed indifference toward permanent destruction.
Her legacy endures through global witchbeast infestations—often misattributed to Satella—and the Gluttony Witch Factor inherited by Sin Archbishops Louis, Lye, and Roy, who command mabeasts. The author implies a battle between Daphne and all three Archbishops would likely stalemate.
Trivia notes confirm her consumption of her own parents, recognition of Subaru as a Sage Candidate, and exceptional mana reserves. Her name derives from asteroid 41 Daphne and the Greek nymph Daphne.
Physically resembling a 13- to 14-year-old girl, Daphne has pale skin, ashen hair in twin tails, and golden eyes perpetually covered by a crossed black blindfold. She wears a white bodysuit under a pitch-black straitjacket and is permanently confined within the sentient "Centipede Coffin." This coffin, a witchbeast she spawned, transports her via crab-like legs fueled by her bodily waste.
Her personality fixates solely on appeasing her hunger, prioritizing quantity over taste. She exhibits bulimic cycles of regurgitation and re-consumption, often eating inedible objects like rugs or clothing. Despite childlike speech patterns and nicknaming tendencies—calling Subaru "Subarun" or Echidna "Dna Dna"—she perceives life through a predatory lens, declaring that "those who eat others should be wary of being eaten." She displays negligible empathy, seldom expresses emotions beyond hunger, and explicitly disregards other people, embodying an animalistic worldview detached from human values.
As a Witch of Sin wielding the Authority of Gluttony, her powers include:
- **Life Creation**: Generating witchbeasts from her "Third Mouth" when feeling "woozy." She birthed all witchbeasts, including the Three Great Mabeasts: the White Whale (existence-erasing mist), Great Rabbit (infinite multiplication and consumption), and Black Serpent (lethal curses/diseases). She cannot create entities stronger than herself, implying superiority over individual mabeasts.
- **Consumption**: Devouring nearly anything—spirits or even the entire White Whale in one bite. Physical contact with her induces extreme hunger.
- **Magic Eyes**: Her left eye ("Famine") inflicts debilitating hunger with a glance (driving victims to self-cannibalism), while her right eye ("Apastia") holds a more formidable but unspecified power. Canon sources inconsistently document these eyes, with light novels omitting them.
- **Pseudo-Immortality**: Immunity to age, sickness, and conventional harm, countered only by vulnerability to starvation.
Among Witches of Sin, Daphne kept distant ties, assigning affectionate nicknames without forming deep bonds. She opposed Satella’s destructive nature but accepted Echidna’s preservation of her soul after death. In arc 4, she confronted Natsuki Subaru within Echidna’s dream realm, challenging his resolve to destroy the Great Rabbit and briefly saving him from Typhon to test his capabilities.
Daphne succumbed to starvation in a desert, her body desiccating despite immortality. Conflicting accounts cite Echidna collecting her soul post-death or Satella consuming her during the Witch of Envy’s rampage. Echidna preserved her soul in the Castle of Dreams, later storing it in a pyroxene necklace worn by Omega. Posthumously, Daphne expressed indifference toward permanent destruction.
Her legacy endures through global witchbeast infestations—often misattributed to Satella—and the Gluttony Witch Factor inherited by Sin Archbishops Louis, Lye, and Roy, who command mabeasts. The author implies a battle between Daphne and all three Archbishops would likely stalemate.
Trivia notes confirm her consumption of her own parents, recognition of Subaru as a Sage Candidate, and exceptional mana reserves. Her name derives from asteroid 41 Daphne and the Greek nymph Daphne.