001

001, also known as the Princess of Klaxosaurs, is a character in DARLING in the FRANXX. She is a Klaxo-sapien and is presumed to be the last surviving member of her kind. 001 is a blue skinned humanoid klaxosaur with long flowing sky blue-white hair and prominent blue eyes with glowing blue pupils. She has dark lines under her eyes and all around her body. She also has eight spider-like appendages coming from her back and what seems to be a crown on her head, with two blue horns protruding from the center: one from her forehead and another from the back of the head. 001 is shown to despise Papa and the rest of the APE council, calling them “damned human wannabes” as she knows who they truly are. She doesn't hesitate to resort to violence and murder whenever she feels threatened, which is seen by Tarsier's attempted assasination on her. Even when she doesn't feel threatened, she uses violence in order to get what she wants. She also despises humans as they have been attacking and killing her brethren, the Klaxosaurs, for years. She expresses annoyance that the humans use the FRANXX units to kill the Klaxosaurs without knowing the truth; that humanity is being manipulated by VIRM to annihilate the Klaxosaurs, who are the true and rightful inhabitants of Earth, with the FRANXX which are the byproducts of the Klaxosaurs. She does not show any mercy to humans, which is shown when she bit off Dr. FRANXX arm during their first meeting since she smelled that he had laid a hand on her brethren. Her hatred towards humans is shown to be so powerful that she had no qualms of eradicating hundreds, if not thousands, of humans and destroy their plantations to seek revenge for their abuse towards her kind. She holds a degree of contempt for Zero Two, whom she regards as a “fake”, due to Zero Two being her genetic clone. She reacts in disdain towards Zero Two for killing her own brethren in order to protect the plantations and the civilians, despite that Zero Two is indifferent to the welfare of them. In the manga, her hostility for Zero Two is shown to be so profound that she emotionally manipulated Zero Two into attacking Plantation 13 and try to kill her comrades. However, 001 is shown to have some sort of empathy for Zero Two; as she believes it is her duty to set Zero Two towards the right path by annihilating humanity and sparing all Klaxosaurs, including Zero Two, from being used and discarded by the humans. She finds Hiro to be an intriguing human, as she immediately recognizes that he is the only human who has undergone saurification. In the anime, she finds these characteristics of him to be a welcoming necessity to pilot Strelizia and seize Hringhorni; whereas in the manga, she regards him as a nuisance for interfering with her plot to manipulate Zero Two into attacking Plantation 13. 001 is fiercely protective of the Klaxosaurs and of the Earth, and will do anything in her power to keep it safe. She states that she wouldn't even let VIRM lay one hand on the Earth again. She has lived for millions of years for VIRM's rearrival and for the purpose of fighting them. Despite that, she was convinced that victory against VIRM was impossible, though she states that she just wanted to take out as many as she could. She was seen being rather pessimistic about the battle against VIRM and gave up rather quickly when she and Hiro were trapped by them. She also did not understand why Hiro was so willing to fight alongside her when he never even had a part in the battle. She shares a close relationship with Nawabari, her two-headed serpent. She later admits that she and the other klaxo-sapiens believed that by abandoning their ties and embracing solitude, they could make themselves stronger and into a perfected form. However, she later learns from Hiro and Zero Two's bond that that may not always be the case. She comes to believe that people can accomplish things with the help of others. This is why she is confident enough to sacrifice herself and give all of her strength and power to Hiro and Zero Two so they can save the planet.