Swan Swagmire

*"I know what a swan song is, but I'm not doing that; not today, not tomorrow, not ever."* - to Miles about not giving up

## ❈ Biographical Information ❈

### Age

14 (start of Murders in Swan Lane), 16 (Scarlet Swan), 15 (SWAN: Murder in San Fran)

### Nationality

½ Spanish, ½ Filipino; ½ Japanese. ½ Spanish (reboot)

### Aliases

Swan Swagmire (by everyone), Love/Darling/Beautiful/Gorgeous/Doll (by Miles), Dottie/Dot (by Gonzalo), Captain Space Buns (by Langley and Hiro (in the reboot)), Shiratori Hakucho (reboot name), Cuzz (by Hiro)

### Home

Swan Lane, Barcelona, Madrid, Botswana (formerly)

## ❈ Physical Information ❈

### Paraphernalia

Kris knife/dagger, pistol (briefly, from Gonzalo)

## ❈ Relationships ❈

### Family

[Scarlet Swan]: Unnamed parents (deceased), Felipe Gonzalo (father figure, guardian, mentor) [SWAN]: Unnamed parents (?), Hiro Hamada (younger cousin), Tadashi Hamada (older cousin)

### Enemies

Langley Langston (formerly), Jaxon Taylor, Robert Callaghan/Yokai (reboot)

## ❈ Production Information ❈

### Appearances

HM Minis: Murders in Swan Lane, Scarlet Swan, SWAN: Murder in San Fran

### Quote

"You sabotage the swag, you swim with the swan."

### (Voice) Actor or Base

Kit Aguinaldo

Growing up under Felipe Gonzalo's care, **Odette "Swan Swagmire" Suarez Quagmire** is the young detective protagonist of Scarlet Swan, who is the partner of Miles Meyer. She believes her parents were killed by Jaxon Taylor, the clone of Jack the Ripper, and rivals his distant relative, Langley Langston, who's her former classmate.

Swan Swagmire is renamed as **Shiratori Hakucho Hamada** (**白鳥 浜田**) in the Scarlet Swan reboot, SWAN: Murder in San Fran, which also serves as the franchise's crossover to Beyond Worlds. Swan, or Tori in the reboot, is Hiro and Tadashi Hamada's cousin who flew back to San Fransokyo from Spain when Tadashi died in a fire.

Swan is being portrayed by Kit Aguinaldo in both the webisodes and the film.

## **History**

Swan was only a couple of years old when a certain serial killer killed both of her parents for investigating his case, who Swan believes is Jaxon Taylor, a clone of Langley Langston's relative the notorious Jack the Ripper. Unlike Miles, however, she'd seen how her parents were disemboweled by the killer, traumatizing her at such a young age. She moves in to Swan Lane with her mentor who was cryopreserved, Felipe Gonzalo, who's now a veteran detective, and tutors her to know the truth about her parents.

## **Personality**

She's shown to be very smart and professionally trained, albeit her ways are described as "chaotic", being just a young teenager. Swan is determined to do good things even if it means breaking the law and would do especially anything to bring her parents to justice and a lot of other victims. She's often very confident in herself, and she's a multilingual so she could talk to a lot of people when they're giving testimonies.

Swan is also very forgiving, although to an extent; she knows Langley is only a thief and is subjected to follow Jaxon's orders, so she understands where he's coming from. To Jaxon, however, she hesitates to even talk to him because of what he did to her family and countless others, but she just says she'd forgive but not forget.

Despite her independence and hot-blooded nature for the things she loves doing, she's still technically a young kid and would like to do everything to have a fun childhood, even if she's already past that stage in her life. Swan admits she spent her childhood finding for revenge for her parents and missed out on her childhood a lot. This speaks for itself, since she's shown doing childish things even if she's posing as a detective, but becomes serious when push comes to shove.

## **Physical Appearance**

Being portrayed by Amree Aguinaldo in the webisodes and film, Swan is about 5 feet and an inch tall with a rather slender and petite figure, which she thinks is sort of a good thing since she could move easily and quickly than others. She has black hair that reaches a few inches past her shoulders which is usually parted to the left side of her head, her bangs also going the same way the rest of her hair does.

Swan often unties her hair and lets it down as a civilian, and or ties it into a side braid which rests on her left shoulder. In the webisode, she wears a silver swan pendant necklace that carries what seems to be a diamond within its body, but doesn't wear it in the film. She often wears simple shirts and hoodies for her casual outfits.

In her detective self, Swan parts her hair to the middle with her bangs covering her forehead. She ties her hair into either high or low space buns using black scrunchies, sometimes complete with her signature black baker boy's hat. She noticeably sports darker clothing than her casual wear and wears a black detective's jacket over her clothes. Swan is always carrying her Kris dagger inside her jacket pocket, and is also seen using Gonzalo's pistol at one point.

For the reboot, she wears a light purple shirt tucked into denim jeans with a black leather belt around her waist, and her platform shoes are all white in color for her casual wear. Tori's hair is left down with only white hairband on her head. While investigating Tadashi's death, Tori's shirt is a darker shade of purple added with a black leather jacket matched with black jeans and black boots. Her hair is still styled into low space buns with scrunchies, still sporting the black baker hat she always has.

## **Quotes**

* "The name's Swagmire. Detective Swagmire. Now, where do Batman hide the bills?" - Swan's running gag tagline in *Murders in Swan Lane*
* "Don't let the pretty face fool you, I could blow your brains out." - to Langley Langston
* "Oh sorry, I don't know what 'giving up' means, is-is that edible?" - to Gonzalo
* "I'll punch him so hard it'll make his ancestors dizzy and make my parents proud." - to Miles about Jaxon
* "Why did you pick me for this? Pick someone else!" - to Gonzalo

## **Trivias**

* Her nickname "Swan" is from her first name "Odette", which is a character from the Swan Lake franchise.
	+ It's also worth noting that the town she says she lives on is named "Swan Lane".
	+ Her last name is a combination of the slang "swag", and the actual surname "Quagmire".
	+ Her middle name is "Sholmes" in the HM Minis, but it was then changed to "Suarez" in the film.
	+ Her name's pronunciation is an alliteration of S and W; ***Sw**an **Sua**rez **Sw**agmire*.
* "Batman" is Swan's nickname for Langley because he's an orphan, even though she, herself, is an orphan too.
* Because of her chaotic good persona, she steals money from Langley (the money he stole in the first place) to give them back to their owners, or to the needy and homeless.
* Despite what the title implies, Swan's favorite color is crimson, and not scarlet. Both are shades of red, though.
* Swan is addicted to iced coffee, Diet Coke, Pepsi, gummy candies (especially gummy bears and Swedish Fish), and root beer.
* Writers say Swan is a combination of her actress, Amree Aguinaldo, Disney's Raya, and Alexandra Trese from Trese (Amree's "chaotic" personality, Raya's cockiness and confidence, and Trese's determination).
	+ In addition to Alexandra Trese being one of Swan's inspirations, Swan has a Kris dagger as her main weapon of choice as mentioned above. Alexandra wields the same weapon, named Sinag (who is her twin sister).

## **Reboot Trivias**

* Her reboot name "Shiratori Hakucho" isn't an alliteration like "Swan Swagmire"; it's a case of redundancy instead. "Shiratori Hakucho" literally means "swan swan" when translated to English.
* Tori's father is the brother of Tadashi and Hiro's father, making Tori their cousin.
* Her name is usually listed in official articles as "Shira(tori) Hakucho", but in the story she refers to herself as (and responds to) "Shira(tori) Hamada". "Hakucho" is her mother's maiden surname.
* Her outfit's primary color seems to be purple, matching the color of the reboot's cover. Her outfit in Scarlet Swan and Murders in Swan Lane is always red and black.
* Growing up, she and Hiro consider each other as best friends having the closest age gap in the family. Cass knowing that Hiro would appreciate it more if she calls Tori to deliver the news of Hiro being depressed because of Tadashi's death supports this.
	+ With this information in hand, it could mean that Hiro is more comfortable with Tori and trusts her more than Cass.
* She began training in a police academy at 13, the same age Hiro was when he graduated high school.
* Tori most likely learned how to do basic hand-to-hand combat with the help of Tadashi, and later on improved and gained more knowledge as she trained with Gonzalo in the academy while she was in Spain. This is backed up by the fact that Hiro was surprised how Tori can work a pistol when she's back in San Fransokyo.
* She's only an inch taller that Hiro, although because she wears platform shoes, her height is boosted to 2 inches.