Larela

"Is it painful to deceive the one you love? You're a kind-hearted man. However, we shall break free of this cycle that only gives us a momentary spring every 1000 years. We will attain eternal spring, Fara. Rejoice: your beloved Promethium II will return to your arms at last."

- Larela to Fara.

"This is the fate of the willful and headstrong..."

- Lalela to Promethium.

Larela, (ラーレラ Rārera), is a major antagonist in the Leijiverse. She is a mysterious humanoid queen and ruler of planet La Metal. She sent her daughter to Earth to abduct millions of Earthlings to turn them into slaves and planned to allow Earth to be destroyed for La Metal to pass for its final time.

She is the main antagonist of the Queen Millennia series and a supporting protagonist in Space Symphonic Poem Maetel: Galaxy Express 999 Side Story

She was voiced by the late Reiko Mutô in the film version, Taeko Nakanishi in the television version and Mika Kanai in Space Symphonic Poem Maetel: Galaxy Express 999 Side Story.

Appearance
in the film, she appears as a small girl with glowing body and eyes, and energy halos at her head and feet. In the side story, she appears to be human-like having white hair, wearing a white dress and purple eyes.

Personality
Larela is a cruel, ruthless, genocidal and cold-hearted tyrannical ruler who has a hatred towards humankind. She seems to have no problem kidnapping living beings and turning them into living machines, even tried to have her own daughter become a servant to her. She can also be described as someone who hates to lose. She has a determination of destroying Earth along with the human race, claiming it is for the sake of saving saving La Metalians species.

Overall, Larela only thinks of herself and sees everybody else as disposable tools for him to use in order to achieve his own goals and shown lack of remorse for her crimes. However, given the affects of La Metal and Queen Promethium's state, Larela's connection to La Metal's machinery maybe the reason for her actions.

In the side story version she is a kind and honorable individual, willing to help Maetel stopping her mother and her evil plans.

Past
Larela is the holy queen whose ruled a humanoid species called La Metalians on planet La Metal. At some point in time, she planned have her daughter, La Andromeda Promethium II, sent to Earth to have a large number of humans enslave before Earth would be destroyed.

Present
When Promethium confronts her mother and refusing becoming her next successor and rebel against her, Larela challenges her to a duel for the fate of Earth. The humanoid holy queen plans to make her daughter into a subservient. Everyone else was against this because of the risks involved. But Yayoi accept the duel at the Black Venus capital. Larela was defeated by Yayoi, but decides not to kill her, and keeps her title as Millennial Queen and begins to make a plan for both La Metal and Earth.

With Yayoi using other ships to protect earthlings to leave Earth, she stayed behind to finish things with Larela as she and her forces approach Earth from the atmosphere bridge. Yayoi protected the people but lost some of her friends, including Yorumori and Selenium. Larela's ship arrives during the battle but survives.

Yayoi blames Larela for not calling a truce for their duel, but realized the problem on how La Metal is and how Larela became who she is. With Larela defeated, a ceasefire was established.