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In the OVA sequel, we are introduced to Louise who looks exactly like Lise in
the _Red Garden_ TV series. Lise is last seen dying the Animus death of
turning into ashes on Roosevelt Island, so it is generally taken that Louise
is a reincarnation of Lise. Later on, Louise revealed her identity as an
android. (Gasp!)

[![Louise the
android](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FDy6q.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FDy6q.jpg)

How could Lise, a human girl turned Animus infected with the cursed Doral
blood, reincarnate as an android? What happened during the 300-year time span
between the end of the TV series and the beginning of the OVA to have caused
this inconceivable transition in Lise's identity?


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How is Louise what she is in the Red Garden OVA: Dead Girls?


The answer lies within the OVA's title, _Dead Girls_. The OVA is a homage to
the 1992 debut [novel of the same
name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Girls) by British science fiction
author Richard Calder, which

> tell[s] the tale of a virus that turns pubescent girls into vampiric gynoid
> dolls called Lilim, and the doomed love affair between 15-year-old Ignatz
> Zwakh and a Lilim assassin called Primavera.

What's more, it appears that the TV series has also drawn inspiration from the
_Dead Girls_ novel, as the Animus-Doral feud and the conditions affecting
members of the two warring clans match well with the rivalry between Cartier
and Kito and the conditions affecting their dolls:

> years ago during a trade war Cartier infected Kito's fake dolls with an
> impotence STD and in response Kito sent her own virus to infect the genuine
> Cartier dolls in Paris - a virus that Morgenstern thinks responsible for the
> doll plague.

To answer my own question, Louise was probably born a human, but was turned
into an android upon contracting a virus similar to that in the novel.


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