Talk:Level 5/@comment-174.96.249.119-20131014145634/@comment-11612775-20140111121637

...which, not surprisingly, caused severe emotional damage to the Espers, practically turning them into someone else entirely...

Actually she was one of the first test subjects for the Ability Body Crystal or Crystallized Esper Essence or simply Body Crystal, a(nother) past (mostly) failed experiment by Gensei to create a Level 6.

The negative effects of using the Body Crystal did take their toll, but she also did get better near the end of the original series.

But this wasn't the same project, Dark May was where they used Accel's brain and power up other Espers...

Yes, those were separate projects, but the real objective (and the price the test subjects had to pay) remained pretty much the same as always.