Kagami Tsurugi

## Kagami Tsurugi(a.k.a. Ryuko)

* Kagami
* Ryuko
* Riposte/Riposte Prime
* Oni-Chan
* Lies
* Ryukomori

**Kagami Tsurugi** (**剣 鏡** / **Tsurugi Kagami** in Japanese order) is a Japanese student at Collège Françoise Dupont introduced in Season 2 of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*. She attracts the attention of Adrien Agreste as his fencing rival.

In "Riposte", after Kagami misunderstands that she lost the fencing battle with Adrien, she is akumatized by Hawk Moth into **Riposte**, a fencing themed villain.

In "Oni-Chan", after seeing a picture of Lila Rossi kissing Adrien, Kagami is akumatized into **Oni-Chan**, an oni/demon rose-themed villain.

In "Ikari Gozen", after she is made imprisoned by the titular villain, Ladybug gives her the Dragon Miraculous in order to both free her and defeat Ikari Gozen. When the Miraculous is inhabited by Longg, Kagami becomes **Ryuko** (龍子 in Japanese), a dragon-themed superhero who helps Ladybug and Chat Noir "during particularly difficult missions" in the third season and beyond.

In "Lies", after realizing and confronting Adrien about how she thinks he's been lying for not spending his time with her, Kagami is akumatized by Shadow Moth into **Lies**, a ghost-like supervillain with the ability to permanently paralyze anyone who has ever lied in their whole life. The next day, Adrien asked if he and Kagami can still be friends, Kagami says she will let him know when she's ready to see Adrien again.

After the events of "Strikeback", Kagami will temporarily be unable to become Ryuko after Hawk Moth manages to steal the Dragon Miraculous along with all the others contained in the Chinese Miracle Box from Ladybug's yo-yo.

In "Perfection", after being tricked by Lila to think that Marinette doesn't think of her as a friend, Kagami is akumatized by Monarch into **Ryukomori**, a giant supervillain made of clouds that is unable to see or hear anyone and who receives the Dragon Miraculous superpower through her Alliance ring. She also receives a Magical Charm from Ladybug to prevent her from being akumatized again.

In "Protection", when Lila persuades Kagami into believing that Marinette is a liar, Kagami is akumatized again by Monarch into **Riposte Prime**, who receives the Turtle Miraculous superpower through her Alliance ring. She also receives a new Magical Charm from Ladybug after her first one gets destroyed, which she initially refuses to take as it can't protect against Megakumas, but Marinette and Adrien eventually convince her to accept it.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Kagami is a slender, Japanese teenage girl of average height. She has creamy-pale skin, a lighter dusting of light-brown freckles on her cheeks and the bridge of nose, sharp, slanted moderate vermilion eyes, light scarlet lipstick and thick straight black hair with blue reflections (like Marinette Dupain-Cheng's lipstick, but bit darker and her hair, lighter) with bangs swept to the left in a face-framing bob that levels with her chin, with dark blue tints.

### Civilian attire

Kagami wears a white long-sleeved blazer that has black outlines around the collar, running all the way to the bottom to the hem, cuffs and two black accents on the top of the fastened outer pockets. The blazer has two gold pockets around the waist and each side of the cuffs. On the top right of her chest is an attached logo that is shaped as a reuleaux triangle. The logo includes her family's crest, with the gold sign of Japanese kanji for **female** (女) fastened on top of green, white and red fabric with a gold outline surrounding the logo. Underneath, she wears a black collared gold buttoned button-up blouse with a red, white, and blue pleated neck tie.

Kagami wears a red skirt with an asymmetrical texture that has blue and white intersecting vertical and horizontal lines. She wears tight black leggings and a pair of red sneakers with white toecaps, laces, a black logo on the heel counter and black soles. On the ring finger of her right hand, she wears a black ring that has her family's crest, (女) and it has two long outward spikes stretching from the mark.

### As Riposte

Riposte's face, sclerae, and skin is silver with red eyes. She has a silver helmet with angular sides and a red circle on the center of the forehead with the Tsurugi crest. Her body outfit is silver armor; a breastplate, pauldrons and tassets while her arms are solid silver, and she wears silver leggings on her legs. Her dress shoes with 2 downward chevron stripes on her ankles are connected to her leggings, and they are also silver, with cone shaped high heels. Her right hand seems to be or holds a sword-like extension with a triangular guard and a red circle bearing the Tsurugi crest on the center of the guard.

### As Oni-Chan

As Oni-Chan, she has wild, pointy, dark hair, and her face is obscured by a white Japanese goblin's mask, which has protruding tusks. From the forehead protrudes a red unicorn's horn, with black lines along the bottom. The eyes and mouth are outlined by thick, black lines, and her eyes are moderate crimson and she has moderate purple lipstick, just like Juleka Couffaine's form of Reflekta. She has a white super-suit with blue-violetish black vine shaped-stripes and her insignia (a black rose with a red horn) on the chest. Red spikes with black spirals don her shoulders and elbows. Her forearms and legs from the knee down are all black. Her hands and feet are red as well. She wields a bokken with a black and white handle with the blade made from thorny vines twisting together.

### As Ryuko

As Ryuko, she wears a red and black dragon-themed superhero jumpsuit with the image of a black dragon's tail, outlined in yellow, curling from her left leg up to her to her chest. The end of the tail curves around the symbol containing the images that represent the three elements she controls: lightning, air and water. She also has a black collar/turtleneck (where she has her choker), black forearm-length gloves and black legs starting in the middle of her lower legs, both with yellow outlining. On the back of her head, she has four red dragon-like horns with yellow tips with black outlining and, on her back, she has a holder for her sword. On her face, she wears a red mask around her eyes with yellow and black outlining at the base of the sides. Her eyes also become golden with yellow scleras.

### As Lies

As Lies, she is a ghost like creature completely transparent and pale, light grayish cerulean from head, face, whole eyes, nose, lips, hands, and feet. She is holding Marinette Dupain-Cheng's lucky charm on her wrist, her hair is more flattened than her civilian form with curly bangs on her face's sides. She also wears a transparent pale blue turtleneck-less jumpsuit with circular collar around her neck, an almost invisible mask, hidden wedged knee-high boots on her feet, and fingerless gloves on her both hands.

### As Ryukomori

As Ryukomori, she has a gigantic size and her body is completly made of clouds, all while keeping the shape of her body. Normally, the clouds that make her body are white, but they can become dark grey whenever she gets angry.

### As Riposte Prime

As Riposte Prime, she has the same appearance as Riposte, but she now wields a big saber sword with a red edge that is not connected to her hand.

*For more of Kagami's outfits and designs, see Kagami Tsurugi/Designs.*
## Personality

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Kagami is a fierce and thoughtful girl who is dedicated to accomplishing any commitment she makes. Likewise, she can be somewhat reluctant and quite stubborn, willing to go out and take risks regardless of what is at stake for her. However, she learns from her mistakes, knowing there are times she isn't the winner. Despite her wits, Kagami has a small habit of jumping to conclusions, as shown when she saw a picture of Adrien and Lila together quickly assuming Lila was the girl he told her about in "Frozer".

Kagami is an aggressive fencer that will taunt her opponent during a fight. While she doesn't like to lose due to her competitive nature, she downplays her upset feelings and respects her rivals, like Adrien. She can be quite emotive and rage-prone in spite of her composed exterior.

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However, Kagami is a very hospitable person who ironically forms friendships with people after they both approach each other and solve their conflicts, suggesting an understanding side. She comes across as blunt and willing to speak her mind, telling Philippe that she didn't want to take skating lessons multiple times and even speaking for Adrien when asked. This is more evident when she advises Marinette Dupain-Cheng to stop hesitating.

In "Ikari Gozen", Kagami is shown to be a bit lonely as she always wanted friends, and she admitted to Ladybug that she doesn't have any. Yet, she was willing to reach out to Marinette in an attempt to be friends with her. However, much like when Adrien started studying at school and making new friends, Kagami, because of Tomoe Tsurugi (her mother), doesn't know much about how to bond with others. This is shown when she tries to befriend Marinette, only resulting in awkward moments, and using an app about how to make friends. These attempts include traditional Japanese friendship tropes such as blood typing, horoscopes, personality compatibility, and a forced smile when attempting to discuss any of them.

Through having friends and being outside of her mother's strict rules, Kagami has started to become more playful and fun-loving and enjoys being disobedient at times as seen in "Heart Hunter". Just like Adrien, now that Kagami has made friends she doesn't want to hurt or lose them. However, she is aware that going after Adrien romantically would hurt Marinette, and that no matter who ends up with him, someone will be heartbroken over it and, thus, isn't willing to let him go, even for the sake of friendship, showing a realistic side. She would still like to be able to date Adrien and stay friends with Marinette at the same time, though.

As proven in "Lies", in the terms of friendship Kagami still has a lot to learn about it as one needs to accept their friend's flaws and what they like about them. Despite not knowing about Adrien's alter ego, she called him silly when he posed at her attempt at drawing him, calling his civilian self an image of perfection mostly implying like every other fan girl she's looking at him through the image Gabriel created of him.

When it comes to those she cares about being in danger especially against akumatized villains or threatened; Kagami is similar to Alya and Cat Noir being very brave and protective.

In "Perfection", shows how much Kagami treasures her friendship with others especially Marinette. As she was saddened that Marinette kept avoiding her to the point where she hastily believed Lila in thinking if she didn't want to be her friend then no one would be. Causing her feel depressed and alone leading to her akumatization but seeing how much her friends did care about her led to her breaking free from it. After her deakumatization, a talk between the girls made them to realize even though they are from different social classes they have the same problem: striving for perfection out of fear of not being good enough for someone else.
As shown in "Protection", because of the pressure placed on her by her mother to be perfect, Kagami has a hard time understanding and controlling her own emotions. Finding herself in a conflictive position as she loves both Adrien (romantically) and Marinette (as her best friend), but the two of them love each other, making her feel a lot of emotional pain, as she, despite wanting try to conquer Adrien's love, doesn't want to hurt Marinette and lose her friendship. Being unable to deal with her feelings, she represses them, leading her to become very vulnerable to the manipulation of others, like Lila, who was able to turn her against Marinette. After finally opening up to Adrien and Marinette about her feelings and allow herself to feel the sorrow she had been repressing, Kagami was finally able to find an emotional stability.

In "Emotion", even though, Kagami desires her freedom similar to Adrien, she wants it in her own way and time as well as wanting to share with those she loves.

As Ryuko, she is very capable but a bit of a lone fighter as she tries to defeat Ikari Gozen on her own. However, she learns she can't handle everything on her own. Ryuko is understanding and respectful towards Ladybug, giving up the Dragon Miraculous indefinitely because of the fact that her identity was revealed to Hawk Moth which could lead to her loved ones being in danger, showing her protective and caring side. However, she is also a little revealing as she tells her mother in her akumatized form (and by extension to Hawk Moth) her identity.

As Riposte, she is furiously obsessed with getting a rematch with Adrien and winning it, even if he is in no condition to fight due to his injured ankle, and she considers people that she views as not being good enough fighters and not worthy, such as Ladybug. Riposte is also arrogant and doesn't have a problem with outright attacking her opponents when they have no chance of defending themselves. Because of her obsession, Kagami had without possibly knowing it had forgotten one of a competitor's true trademarks is good and true sportsmanship. However, despite this, she follows Hawk Moth's commands without question, even if they conflict with her own goals.

As Oni-Chan, she is obsessed with tracking down Lila and getting her to renounce Adrien in order to have Adrien be hers.

As Lies, after Adrien continuously lies to her to go somewhere else, especially when she had lied to spend time with him, she is decided to get rid the world from lies, even if that means paralyze everyone else, including the ones she cares about, like her mother. It may seem that she has a black and white view about lies and the truth believing lies to be bad and the truth to be good but most know that it's not that simple.

As Ryukomori, she wants nothing more but reach complete perfection. In order to achieve this, she roams around Paris to find the most serene place she can find where she will be able to reach perfection without being disturbed. Because she doesn't want anyone to prevent her from finding perfection, she ignores everyone that is around her, especially because she is unable to see or hear anyone else. However, she will attack anyone that tries to stop her.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Kagami is extremely skilled in fencing, both in defensive and offensive movements. She is also very agile, doing several acrobatic feats while dueling. Her prowess is equal or probably superior to Adrien's. Another sword-based sport she is masterful in is kendo, just like her mother. Her mother also personally oversees her kendo practice.

Kagami considers archery a "noble art" alongside fencing, so it is possible she also excels at it, though it has yet to be shown. According to Marinette, she is very smart and observant, something especially seen during the contest in "Ikari Gozen". She is a quick learner as a superheroine.

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Kagami is notably skilled in ice skating, proficient enough to do a combination spin, even though she only does it "just for fun". Also she is very good at drawing and sketching, even for a girl at her age, moreover she has acknowledge of certain artists like Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

### As Ryuko

Ryuko has super enhanced skills, such as speed, agility and strength, and almost being invulnerable to physical damage. Her natural ability in wielding a sword is enhanced.

Her superpowers, Wind Dragon, Water Dragon, and Lightning Dragon allow her to transform into air, water, and lightning, respectively. However, once all three elemental transformations are used, she only has five minutes before she detransforms back.

### As Riposte

Riposte wields a sword in combat, and as her sword is directly attached to her hand, making it impossible to remove it. She uses the sword to strike at incredible speeds and slice through any material. She can create shock waves with her sword to slice objects from a distance. Also, she is capable of leaping great distances, and she is durable, quickly recovering from having an entire chimney collapse on her.

### As Oni-Chan

Besides possessing heightened abilities, like speed, strength and agility, Oni-Chan possesses a sword that can wield powerful red energy. When she touches someone with it, they grow a horn like hers. The horn seemingly works as a cell tower and sends messages to anyone with a mobile phone that is near the person with the horn, allowing her to trade places with the ones who get her messages and continually track said person as a result.

However, it would appear that Oni-Chan doesn't have full control over this power, as she wasn't able to prevent her from trading places with a firefighter when she was about to take Ladybug's Miraculous or trading places with Ladybug who was tied up to a light post. Another effect of the horn is that, when the person afflicted with it lies, the horn grows bigger.

### As Lies

Lies can create a massive white aural sphere around herself that paralyzes any people who get caught up in it, provided they have told a lie at some point in their life. The aura sphere follows her wherever she goes and victims remain paralyzed or frozen even after they are no longer in the sphere. However, she cannot freeze those who only tells the truth in their life such as animals, like Jagged Stone's crocodile, since they aren’t able to lie, as well as drones since machines can't lie.

### As Ryukomori

Ryukomori has a gigantic size and, because she is made out of clouds, she can't be touched by no one, while she becomes also blind and deaf to the presence of anyone else. However, despite she is not able to see or hear anyone, she is still aware of the rest, like vehicles, such as helicopters.

She also receives from Monarch the superpower of the Dragon Miraculous through her Alliance ring. With it, she is able to manipulate the elements of stome: wind, water and lightning.

## Etymology

* The name **Kagami** means "mirror, looking glass" (鏡).
	+ In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, her name is changed to **Kyoko**, in which the name **Kyoko** means "mirror".
	+ In the Latin American Spanish dub, Kagami's name is changed to **Agami**. According to Tomás Rojas, Adrien's Latin American voice actor, this was done to avoid any association with a vulgar Spanish word for defecation.
		- This change is reverted from season 3 onwards.
	+ In the Italian dub, her name is changed to **Katami**, in which the name **Katami** could possibly mean "memento" or "souvenir".
		- The kanji **Kata** means "martial arts" in Japanese, which is also a reference to "Katana", a Japanese sword. The name **Katami** also has a secondary meaning, which is "remember" or "I remember".
		- Most likely this change was made because the Word "Kagami" has the same sound with Cagami, which means "sh\*t me" in Italian.
	+ In Japanese culture, the Yata no Kagami is a sacred mirror and symbol of truth or wisdom (as mirrors only reflect what is shown).
	+ Her superhero name **Ryuko** means "dragon" (龍/竜) (**ryuu**) and "child" (子) (**ko**), which is a common ending for Japanese girl names.
	+ Part of the name **Ko** part can have multiple meanings depending on the kanji:
		- "Tiger" (虎) (normally read as "tora").
			* "Ryuko" is also the name of the protagonist from the *Kill la Kill* anime series.
				+ Ryuko and Kagami even have similar color schemes, prominently featuring dark blue and red.
* Kagami's surname **Tsurugi** means "sword, blade, saber, bayonet, sting, clock hand" (剣).
	+ **Tsurugi** (劔) is a type of Japanese sword.
		- The Kusanagi-no-**Tsurugi** is a legendary sword that represents the virtue of valor. Both are one of the three Imperial Regalia of Japan, along with the Yasakani-no-Magatama, a sacred jewel that represents benevolence.

## Trivia

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* Due to her proficence and high skills in the art of fencing its highly possible that Kagami is well trained and skilled in the arts of kendo/kenjutsu the trational fighting art of samurais and even possibly she knows to a stent Ninjutsu.
* Kagami was revealed in a season 2 synopsis from TFOU on August 31, 2017.
	+ She was teased as a new inhabitant of Paris in a Brazilian synopsis for Season 2 on O Universo da TV.
* Feri González noted that both Kagami and Luka Couffaine are "charming, rounded characters" who are not limited to roles as alternate love interests.
* Kagami's akumatized form was first revealed in a promotional video for Season 2 from TFOU.
* In fencing, the word "riposte" refers to a quick return thrust following a parry.
	+ A colloquial use of the word refers to a quick, witty retort to an insult or criticism. Another definition related to this is a "retaliatory maneuver or measure."
* Riposte reappears in the two-part special event "Heroes' Day".
* Riposte appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
* All of Kagami's non-civilian identities, with the exception of Lies, wield swords as their main weapon.
	+ She also uses a sword as a civilian in her fencing class.
* Kagami is the fourth known person of Japanese origin to wield a Miraculous, succeeding her Miraculous predecessors Tomoe Gozen, Tentomushi and Sasuke Sarutobi.
* Overall, continent wise she is the 24th person of Asian origins to wield a miraculous.
* Kagami is the second superhero whose civilian identity is known by Hawk Moth with the first being Chloé Bourgeois as Queen Bee.
	+ But unlike Chloé, Kagami's identity is not known by the public.
	+ Despite Kagami's mother knowing her superhero identity as well, she was akumatized when Kagami became Ryuko.
		- Once she reverted back to normal, she forgot all about it.
* Following Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Chloé Bourgeois, Nathalie Sancoeur, Luka Couffaine, and Max Kanté, is the seventh person to become a Miraculous holder and an akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel Agreste, who akumatized himself.
* Ryuko is the second superhero whose eyes are known to change when transformed, with her eyes becoming golden with yellow sclerae, with the others being:
	+ Cat Noir whose eyes are green on green sclerae, and as Aspik his irises are normal but his sclerae are yellow.
	+ Mayura who has eyes with pink irises and scleras that are pink which fade into dark indigo.
* Kagami is the first known character to use the Dragon Miraculous by itself.
* As mentioned in "Ikari Gozen," Kagami's blood type is "O" and her Chinese Zodiac sign is the Dragon, meaning she is a few months or a year older than Marinette Dupain-Cheng whose Chinese Zodiac sign is the Snake.
	+ In "blood type personality theory", a pseudo-scientific Japanese belief, those with type-O blood are said to be "confident, self-determined, ambitious, competitive, and athletic", but also "unpredictable, self-centered, cold, aggressive, arrogant, and envious."
	+ In the French dub of "Ikari Gozen", it's stated that she's a Scorpio in the Western Zodiac. According to one of Marinette's Instagram posts, her birthday falls on the 20th of November.
	+ According to Thomas Astruc, any time the series specifies a date, it is a mistake.
* Kagami is the only temporary Miraculous holder that was given their Miraculous by Ladybug to not receive her speech.
	+ She is also the only one to not have a final pose when she first transformed.

* Kagami has been akumatized 7 times: into Riposte in "Riposte", "Catalyst" and "Mayura", into Oni-Chan and Lies in the titular episodes, into Ryukomori in "Perfection" and into Riposte Prime (a new variation of Riposte) in "Protection". With a total of 7 akumatizations, she shares the third place for the highest akumatizations count alongside Roger Raincomprix and behind Mr Ramier and Chloé Bourgeois.

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* Kagami's running gag is her awkward smile, which is regarded as a meme, and can also be seen in the intro of season 4.
* In "Glaciator 2", it is revealed that she reads mangas.

* In "Perfection", she is the first temporary hero to get akumatized and receive the power of her Miraculous through the Alliance Ring.
* In "Emotion", it's revealed that Kagami is a descendant from a family of samurai and she always follows her mother because it is tradition for her to obey.

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## References

1. ↑ In "Frozer" by Marinette
2. ↑ In "Heart Hunter" by Longg
3. ↑ In "Animaestro".
4. ↑ In "Riposte".
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/tommyrojas\_/status/1001608694776377346
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://pandasuite.com/viewer/2.0.2/59a6c26e48abe6f53a002dc9?t=1 (direct video source here)
7. ↑ http://www.ouniversodatv.com/2017/10/gloob-estreia-novos-episodios-de.html#axzz4ukj8DxGx
8. ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riposte
9. ↑ "Celebrating Kagami’s birthday! It was on Wednesday, but today we had time to get orange juice again. ❤️" https://www.instagram.com/p/B5NwqrigLNI/ posted 2019 November 23, a Saturday
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/1478503927637327872
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/1478503927637327872

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