Catherine Ryan

is a character that appeared in Ultraman Gaia, she is a member of Alchemy Stars.
==Personality==
As a member of Alchemy Stars, Catherine has a confident and cheerful personality. In addition to her talented and outstanding technological development skills, which led her to become the developer of the Natural Cycle Assistance System "ENT", she also has a brave side that can fight on the front lines and is proficient in using any medium-sized firearms. Growing up in nature from a young age, she has also developed a strong physique, which led to XIG's Hercules team highly praising her.
According to the perspective of Alchemy Stars, she believes that everyone is born different regardless of their background, so there is no need to consider the same things as everyone else.
Furthermore, Catherine has exceptional observation skills and can quickly identify the key parts of things while remaining calm. Although she initially looked down on Gamu, she gradually recognized his abilities. As a result, she became the third person after Hiroya Fujimiya and Akio Ishimuro to voluntarily learn that Gamu was Ultraman Gaia and later became Gamu's proud assistant in subsequent appearances in the series.
However, because of her special connection with Gamu, her intimate actions with him often make Atsuko jealous.
==History==
===Pre-Ultraman Gaia===
In the past, Catherine lived with her parents in the forests of Alberta, Canada. Influenced by her parents' teachings that "humans are also like forests, following them is a part of nature," she fell in love with nature. However, in an accident in the forest, Catherine lost her parents, which was a huge blow to her.
As she grew up, her hometown lost its vitality due to local deforestation. As an adult, she joined Alchemy Stars and worked with Klaus Eckart to develop the "ENT" natural cycle assistance system. The system can control the increase of carbon dioxide caused by deforestation and restore the forest to its original state. However, Catherine is unaware that due to flaws in the ENT program, if the experiment is forced to continue, it is highly likely that the entire forest will be destroyed. However, she had no intention of participating in the plan to fight against Radical Destruction Bringer.
===Ultraman Gaia===
As the development of the ENT system became more complete, Catherine's actions were protested by her grandfather and local residents. They could not understand her plans and believed that her activities would anger the forest guardian "Syazac". As a result, she began to gradually deviate from the goal of protecting her hometown and instead tried to make the forest residents accept her correctness. She wanted to persuade the residents to accept her plan by attempting to defeat Syazac, thus denying the rumors of "Syazac killing their parents" among local residents and trying to approach the problem with a scientist's calmness.
While walking along a forest trail, she accidentally rescued Gamu who was trapped on the riverbank. However, when she witnessed the battle between Ultraman Gaia and Syazac, she was shocked to see Syazac's child and remembered the teachings of her parents when she was still a child. In the end, when she realized that Syazac's actions were actually to protect his child, she begged Gaia, who was trying to defeat Syazac, to forgive him.
Finally, she and Gamu expressed that after understanding Syazac's feelings, they believed that there are still many things in nature that we need to understand. To coexist with nature, we must work hard to understand both sides, and then she kissed Gamu goodbye. 
Later, she went to Germany to investigate Klaus Eckart's whereabouts and met Gamu again. Upon his invitation, they went on her first date in town together. However, when they visited Klaus's residence, she learned the truth that Klaus had already colluded with the Radical Destruction Bringer.
During the battle, she indirectly learned Gamu's secret identity as Ultraman Gaia from her judgment and went to encourage Gamu on the spot. Later, she understood Gamu's sadness over defeating Klaus, who was once a human, and became one of Gamu's irreplaceable friends.
During the battle against the Shinryoku, Catherine discovered that the internal structure of the Nature Control Machine was identical to her own ENT system after Gamu sent its data to Alchemy Stars. She then traveled to Japan on her own and joined forces with Gamu and XIG Hercules to fight against the Shinryoku, wearing military gear. After infiltrating the Shinryoku, she personally destroyed it with a gun. Afterwards, she and Gamu had a date in a park in Tokyo Bay, and she secretly kissed him. 
During the final battle when Zog intended to destroy the Earth, she started assisting Gamu from the headquarters of Alchemy Stars. Foundation. She and Daniel proposed boldly to gather the monster light on Earth, as well as the power of the XIG Fighter GT and the anti-gravity system, in an attempt to revive the Gaia Project, which would once again grant Gamu and Fujimiya the power of Earth's Light. She said, "I will make sure you regain your light."
==Gallery==
===Ultraman Gaia===
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Catherine_Ryan_21.png|Catherine's mother
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==Trivia==
*Catherine's name is a reference to Princess Katharine who appeared in the 1994 series Gargoyles, as well as American voice actress Kath Soucie.
*In the early concept, there was a female character who was supposed to transform into Ultraman. According to producer Masato Odake, the idea was proposed by Keiichi Hasegawa, the scriptwriter for episode 33, and the script contained descriptions such as "Catherine masters light". However, series creator Chiaki J. Konaka believed that this character would affect the development of Ultraman Agul V2, so the idea was eventually rejected.切通理作 『地球はウルトラマンの星』ソニー・マガジンズ、2000年3月30日、ISBN 4-7897-1539-6切通理作 『増補改訂版 地球はウルトラマンの星 ダイナ&ガイア編』徳間書店、2019年3月20日。ISBN 978-4-1986-4755-1。
*The draft for episode 46 included a dramatic element where Catherine overcomes "her past with her parents" during a battle, but it was ultimately discarded due to the length of the story.
==References==
Category:Ultraman Gaia
Category:Ultraman Gaia Characters
Category:Female Characters
Category:Allies
Category:Alchemy Stars
Category:Human Characters