Lusheeta Toel Ul Laputa (better known simply as Sheeta), is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Pazu) in the 1986 Studio Ghibli film, Castle in the Sky. She is a young princess who is the owner of the volucite stone (levistone in some subtitled version, levitation stone in the original English dub and aetherium in the Disney dub).
She is voiced by Keiko Yokozawa in the Japanese version, Anna Paquin and Debi Derryberry as a child in the Disney dub, and Lara Cody in the Streamline dub.
What Makes Her Pure Good?[]
- Throughout the movie, she demonstrates a soft-spoken, but very kind and compassionate personality, always expresses gratitude when others are nice to or help her and reciprocates in some way.
- After the deaths of her parents, she took it upon herself to take care of the family's castle and farm animals on her own.
- At the beginning of the movie, she knocks out Muska with a bottle while he’s distracted so she can get her crystal back from him and try to escape, but she’s visibly uncomfortable even doing this, showing that she’s reluctant to even hurt her captors in such a situation.
- While they’re escaping from the Dola Gang on a small train, she defends Pazu from Charles and Louis when they try to attack him while he’s uncoupling the coaches to put some distance between them by hurling a shovel at them, which stops and knocks them over in a comedic fashion.
- When the army and government agents catch up with and confront her, she tries to say goodbye to Pazu and run away, then implores him to stay away from her when he keeps trying to defend her out of concern he’ll get hurt or killed just by being around her.
- After being recaptured along with Pazu by the army, who are working with Muska, she agrees to fully cooperate in helping them find Laputa, meaning essentially remaining their prisoner until then, when Muska implies that Pazu will be hurt and possible killed if she doesn’t, and though it hurts Pazu, she personally implores him to walk away and forget about Laputa to ensure he’ll be spared.
- After she unintentionally activates a seemingly dead Laputian robot that the army was keeping at their base and the army initially attempts and fails to destroy it, she pleads for it to stop destroying the base when it starts attacking them back.
- Though she’s initially terrified of the robot when it goes after her, after realizing it was trying to protect her and it gets fatally damaged by an overhead strike from the airship Goliath, she cries for it both when it’s melting and later on when she reunites with Pazu.
- Despite them initially chasing after and trying to kidnap her, she quickly becomes on good terms with the Dola Gang after they help Pazu save her, and she agrees along with him to work hard in exchange for being allowed to go to Laputa with them.
- Despite being put in a very filthy and cluttered kitchen, she single-handedly cleans it up and serves the entire crew a great multi-course meal.
- She confesses to Pazu that she’s scared of and doesn’t want to find Laputa because the robot sacrificing itself to save her is still making her feel awful, and she doesn’t want to see the same thing happen to anyone else as a result.
- Despite Dola insisting she come down from the crow’s nest, she insists on staying with Pazu to help him turn it into a kite so she can be on the lookout for both Laputa and Goliath along with him in spite of the danger involved due to the latter spotting and attacking them.
- After arriving in Laputa, she expresses relief when a Laputian robot greets them and moves their kite to reveal a nest with some eggs in it underneath upon seeing the eggs are unharmed, showing that she cares even about smaller forms of life.
- She saves Pazu from being shot by one of Muska’s fellow government agents by tackling him at the expense of getting captured by Muska.
- After Muska reveals his true identity to her as well as his intention to use Laputa as a means to conquer the world after demonstrating its hidden weapon of mass destruction to General Muoro and the rest of the army, upon realizing he intends to drop them to their deaths, she tries to stop him from hitting the switch to do so and yells for them to run before he overpowers her.
- After watching in horror as he uses an army of robots to destroy the Goliath and send any remaining soldiers plummeting to their deaths, she steals the crystal back while his guard is down and runs away with it. She then passes it to Pazu through a gap in the wall and implores him to throw it in the ocean so Muska can’t possibly get it.
- Upon ending up in the throne room, even though Muska threatens her with a pistol, she still bravely stands up to him and among other things, gives an impressive speech about how their ancestors left the city because they realized that despite being in possession of this impressive technology, they needed to live in harmony with the Earth since that’s how they, and by extension, humanity, is meant to live.
- Upon reuniting with Pazu and being given a minute by Muska to surrender the crystal to him or die, he reveals he still has the crystal and they resolve to recite the Spell of Destruction that she was taught as a child with it to save Laputa from Muska’s grasp, fully expecting that they’ll be sacrificing their lives by doing so (though they end up surviving). This causes all of the city’s weapons and outer walls to crumble, at least temporarily blinds Muska, which causes him to fall to his death offscreen, and allows the remainder of the city, including the garden where the remaining active Laputian robot and some animals reside, to float higher into a stationary orbit above the Earth, safe from misuse.
Trivia[]
- She is one of the two Castle of the Sky heroes to be Pure Good, along with Pazu.
External Links[]
- Sheeta on the Heroes Wiki
- Sheeta on the Studio Ghibli Wiki
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