Agnes

## Agnes Ryuzaki

Lorelai Heinrich

Drum

Nyoka

Mohm

Roscarl

Ayako

Meryl

Lilulu

Atros

Lime

Tobikage

Axis Zeon

Injustice Regime

Guild of the Multiverse

Kazuya Ryuzaki (adoptive father)

Agnes Ryuzaki is a character from Jetter Mars and is a major character in The Knights of the Multiverse, introduced in Season 1. She's an experimental Droid that was created with the ability to convert her Photon power into fire that allows her to release all kinds of bursts of flames from her body. After being taken in & kept safe by Daimos pilot Kazuya Ryuzaki - who eventually took full custody of her as his adoptive daughter - for several years, she would eventually go onto join the Crystal Knights to use her powers for good.

## Personality

Agnes is an optimistic, young Droid with a strong sense of justice. At the same time though, she's a bit socially clumsy when dealing with others, mainly due to her rather grim past and keeping herself in her father's home. As such, she can be somewhat over-eager and naïve, which makes her prone to making decisions without fully thinking things through and making come off as something of an airhead at points. Despite though, she manages to be friendly and kind towards those around her, thanks mainly to the influence of her adoptive family. Kazuya's fatherly care rekindled her sense of hope, as well as endowed her with an aforementioned sense of righteousness. So while she can be noticeably shy and awkward around the rest of the Knights, she can at the same time be very courageous and brave, ready to jump into the face of danger no matter the danger and put herself on the line to help her allies and friends in an electronic beat. Her strong capacity for kindness has allowed her to start making friends with many people, even those who have also been isolated like Meryl.

Under the surface though, in addition to her social awkwardness, Agnes at first didn't know if she'd be able to adjust to being around others outside the family again. After all, she was only born to simply be an experiment, and she had spent more than half a decade hiding from the rest of the world, mostly because she wanted to put her past behind her, so she didn't know if she could adjust to a normal life. She didn't feel like she *deserved* it. Not to mention the latent fear of how extreme her powers could be at times, fearing that she might lose herself someday and harm those she held most dear. Her lack of exposure to the outside world also make her somewhat gullible at times and will easily doubt her abilities without the others there to reassure her. As such, she mostly kept to herself when she moved into the Glomar, acting as somewhat a loner and having a difficult time placing her trust in others. But, after getting to know her new teammates better both while palling around the ship and in the middle of several battles, and she saw how they acknowledged her powers (some of them even admiring how cool they were), she sought to become stronger and control them better both in order to protect Honey better and so she could simply better herself, becoming more outgoing and open to new experiences. She also became extremely loyal to Usagi and the rest of her new friends, and cares a lot about the others who are close to her.

## History

### Pre-Series

Agnes, or A-1 as she was originally designated (as she was meant to be the first in a series of Droids), was created a little over four years ago in an EDC experiment to create a series of androids that possessed elemental powers run by Dr. Blaze. A-1 tested perfectly, but she was treated very poorly by the staff, only being treated as an experiment rather than a living individual. Out of rage, she started a massive fire in the laboratory that destroyed all of the data for the other androids in and left the head scientist scarred. In the middle of the chaos, A-1 managed to sneak out of the facility and fade away into the back corners of the surrounding city. From there, she would hide out in the alleyways and other dark corners to keep herself hidden in case anyone from the old lab was still searching for her, though would sneak Photon Power cells from garbage and convenience stores whenever she needed them.

About three months passed, and as A-1 was trying sneak some old power cells from one such convenience store, she was caught by one Kazuya Ryuzaki. He gave chase and cut her off, leading to a short scuffle. But during the scuffle, A-1 accidentally released a small burst of flames from her fist, causing her to panic. The veteran Mecha pilot/martial artist took notice, and when she explained her story, the famed pilot took pity on the young Droid and offered her a place to stay at his home. There, Kazuya cleaned her and promised to give her a home and help train her to better control her powers. He even gave her a true name: Agnes (it just seemed really cute), and the two would grow close for the next several years.

## Powers & Accessories

* Flower Beads

Given to her by her father as a welcoming gift, Agnes has two flower beads she wears in the front of her hair.

* Enhanced Agility

Thanks to training she received from her father, even without her fire powers activated, Agnes is very agile, able to leap tall distances or perform gymnastics with relative ease.

* Heat Resistant Body

Even when not surrounded by her flame-based energy, Agnes's body was built to be extremely resilient to heat, mainly so as to help maintain her generated flames but also allowing her to withstand near-extreme heat attacks and environments with ease.

### "Pyrokinesis"

In a form of energy conversion similar to Mazinger Z's Breast Fire, Agnes can convert her core's Photon Energy into heat. Said heat can manifest itself from any part of her body, with it commonly seen enveloping her entire body in a red/pink flaming aura that can reach up to 6000 degrees and melt any man-made material, or at the very least severely burn it. The heat generates also makes her impervious to any heat-induced and most laser-based physical harm.

The heat her body releases doesn't affect Agnes's body itself though, allows things on her body like her clothing and flower beads always remain intact.

* Flight

Agnes is able to use her heat to propel herself into the air, allowing her to fly at great speeds. She can even use this to wreath herself in fire and charge at & blast through enemy Giant Robots.
* Strength Boost

Agnes's aura increases her strength dramatically, with her being able to cut weaker robots in half in one blow (leaving them scorched).
* Energy Absorption

Not only does Agnes's heat generation make her resistant to most forms of energy attacks, but it also allows her to absorb the blasts and most other forms of energy (Photon Energy especially) and heat into her body harmlessly. Her flames allow her to project fireballs from her hands, send in whirls of flames and shoot streams of fire. The energy she absorbs also increases her firepower considerably, since that much energy has to go somewhere. She's also able to convert any excess energy she has and transfer it to other machinery and robots, usually to Honey Jr..
* Fire Blizzard

Named after one of her father's main attacks, Agnes unleashes huge bursts of flame from her fists. These blasts will usually either turn enemy robots into molten slag or cause them to explode outright. This technique is even sometimes effective against Mecha-sized enemies.
* Fire Balls

Agnes is able to generate bursts of fire from her hands, in a manner just like energy beams. She often fires a series of them in quick succession, but she's also able to gather energy in the form of a large fireball in her hands and throw it, destroying her enemy in one hit.
* Fire Knuckle

A punch empowered by energy and surrounded by flames.
* Tunneling

Agnes spins while surrounding herself in a spiral of fire energy at great speed, allowing her to tunnel through rock. She frequently uses this ability to launch a surprise attack by springing out of the rocky ground underneath enemies and striking them with a flame-charged punch.
* Fire Shield

The fire that surrounds Agnes's body acts a barrier to protect herself from laser fire and other fire attacks, though she can still be affected by physical attacks.
* Fire Dash

Agnes surrounds herself in Photon fire and crashes into an enemy, blasting through them and destroying them from the inside.
Over the years studying under her adoptive father, Kazuya also taught Agnes a few of his special karate moves.

* Fire Chop

A judo hand chop enhanced by Agnes's flames. She'll sometimes do this technique with both of her hands.

* Shinku Mawashi-Geri

Sweeping kick that's strong enough to dice her enemy in two. Usually does this to take out a large number of surrounding foes.

* Nidan Hien-geri

Powerful dropkick. Although while her father performed this thanks to Daimos's Daimo Cutters, Agnes does this by surroundng her feet in burning Photon energy.

* Reppu Seikensuki

Her father's signature finishing move, Agnes dashes into the air and, concentrating enough Photon energy into her right hand, thrusts a burning fist through her opponent's underside/back, piercing right through its armor and shooting straight through them.

### Combo Attacks

* Burning Mirage Tiara

Combo attack with Usagi/Neo Sailor Moon: Usagi throws a pair of Mirage Tiara Boomerangs while Agnes unleashes two blasts of her fire at them, surrounding them in a flaming aura that increases the blades' speed and impact damage.

* Double Fire Lancer

Combo attack w/ Emily: Agnes and Emily grab each other's hands, bringing the two close to embracing, and surround themselves in Agnes's fire aura and charge forward incredibly fast in a huge tornado of flame, with Emily's sword absorbing much of the fire's strength to deal a huge amount of damage to their target.

* Double Power Flare

Combo attack w/ Drum: Agnes and Drum surround themselves in flames and water respectively and then charge at their opponent, punching right through them.

* Triple Power Charge

One-time combo attack w/ Drum & Lorelai: Agnes, Drum & Lorelai charge at their enemy with their Reppu Seikensuki, Rising Torrent and Spin Tempest Storm attacks.

* Double Reppu Seikensuki

Combo attack w/ Daimos

* Cosmic Moon Crash

Group combination attack: When facing an enemy that's too strong, Agnes and her friends will combine their powers into a ball of pure, combined energy, with Agnes supplying a blast of her flames. It can be formed with only four others, but for the truly powerful foes, all of them will partake in creating the ball, making it even bigger than it usually is.

## Relationships

### Dr. Match

Like most Droids on the team, Agnes resents her creator for treating her like nothing more than a tool to experiment on. She didn't treat him any differently when he returned as a part of L.O.S.R. and only wanted to reclaim her to use her as a weapon again.

### Kazuya Ryuzaki

As the one who took her in and helped her better understand her powers, Agnes loves and respects Kazuya a lot, thinking of her as her adoptive father. He'll often be the first one to turn to when she feels lost or just needs someone to talk to.

### Usagi Tsukino

Usagi is a very good friend to Agnes, acting as a motivator to help her apply her abilities in different ways to help in battles and somewhat of a guide back into the outside world. Since their first meeting, the two have come to trust each other very well, both in terms of their character and in each other's abilities. They have great coordination with each other, allowing them to fight against their opposition with ease. At one point though, she did feel a little awkward about confiding so much to a "kid" while she was designed to look like a teenager, but after a talk where Usagi told her that she shouldn't be embarrassed - as well as her revealed that her body didn't really reflect *her* age either - this feeling quickly passed.

### Emily

At first, Agnes viewed Emily as a good friend. Granted, she was put off by how sometimes she seemed to act rather strange around her, but she usually chalked it up to "pre-battle jitters". But that changed when Emily revealed she had feelings for her. *Romantic* feelings. At first, she was confused and didn't know how to feel, since she hadn't really experienced anything like this before. But at the end of it all, while she was at least flattered that someone could think of her in such a way, she felt she should gently let him down and let her know a relationship couldn't really work between them due to their gap in age (both in how their bodies are constructed and for how long they've been online), but she at least tells her ithat she'd very much like to stay as friends, and they have done so since. And even without romantic feelings, Agnes still cares for her friend greatly, to the point where they've even come up with a couple combination attacks.

### Nyoka

Agnes gets along very well with her "cousin" Nyoka, with the two bonding over being made by mad men but managing to get away from their terrible circumstances & find actual loving families.

### Roscarl & Mohm

Agnes often finds herself amazed by how Roscarl & Mohm - two Droids that were essentially made to be young children - display great acts of valor and courage in the face of danger over and over again, and sees them as friends and comrades she can count on just as much as anyone else in the Knights. She also finds them both quite adorable and treats them like them like her own little sister, but still maintains a polite and formal tone with them.

### Drum

Drum was the first member of the Renegades' 'droids that Agnes truly bonded with. What started out as the water-powered Droid being fascinated by their dueling powers developed into a genuine friendship, with Agnes becoming something of a second big sister to her, helping Drum to gain a better understanding of how to handle her powers. Even when the two were forced to fight each other, they'd often offset it with friendly banter like Drum complimenting her freshly polished helmet. When Drum officially joined the team, the two continued to bond, often being seen together hanging out & talking or coming up with new ways to combine their powers.

### Lorelai Heinrich

When Lorelai first joined the Knights, she was one of the first to truly understand her conundrum of being created to fight, but not having any battle experience. So, she was willing to let her sit out the fighting for as long as she needed, even defending her from Ayako's accusations at one point. Thankfully she found her spark rather quickly, and afterwards - similarly to how her adoptive parent had done for her - she helped train Lorelai in better understanding her strength and powers.

### Atros

As another robot that was treated more like a tool than a living, thinking individual, Agnes was one of the first few members of the team that stood with Usagi in trying to help Atros leave her deranged creator.

### Tobikage

Agnes and Tobikage became good friends quickly, with the two bonding over their stories of being "older siblings" and for wanting to distance themselves from their creators' violent intentions.

## Gallery

Agnes with an aura of fire surrounding her body.Agnes in her training gi
## Notes

Agnes's fire abilities are actually a juxtaposition on her fate in her original incarnation, where she was burned down to her metallic skeleton & shot by a beam trying to save the show's main hero, the titular Jetter Mars, eventually died in his arms. This parallel is drawn even further by the color of Agnes's aura being the same colors of the flames that killed her in the original. However, to give them more definition, Agnes's powers are based off of fire-based comic book heroes like Fire, the Danette Reilly version of Firebrand (though funnily enough, she isn't even the first Firebrand-inspired robot, as seen by Red Inferno in Young Justice) and probably the most obvious choice, the Jim Hammond Human Torch. However, her powers are also slightly based off of Captain Atom with her being able to absorb other forms of Photon energy as a way to change things up a little, as well as DBZ's Kaio-Ken, as it acts as a power boost for her. Her fighting style is also meant to act as a nod to older Japanese heroes that mixed martial arts training with their super attacks, such as her father obviously, Ultraman Leo and Kamen Rider Super-1.

Agnes is one of the admittedly few characters in this series that has essentially an entirely different personality and backstory to her original counterpart. In the original Jetter Mars anime, she was simply created to be a cheerleader and her character really just boiled down to a one-off romantic interest that regretted selling out Mars to the wrong people. Granted, there was a bit of nuance to it with her doing it to help her creator - Tezuka Star System regular Duke Red, here renamed "Red Nose", the headmaster at a school in New York that he's secretly been making robot students for to boost their reputation to get money - get out of a debt he owned the episode's villain - another Tezuka Star System regular Boon from revealing Red's robot secret in exchange for turning Mars into a robot that'll obey his commands - and sacrificing herself via the aforementioned burning to death, but character-wise, she was generally pretty flat (though admittedly, that's not uncommon for female characters in 70's anime, especially one-off ones). Here, she's another of the many robot characters that was originally made to be a weapon or test subject but managed to escape her dark fate before deciding to use her powers for justice. This gives her a personality similar to a character like the titular Kamen Rider Black, Kohtaro Minami, where she can be haunted by her dark origins but finding a new sense of joy & family with the Knights, though with a hint of a hot-blooded streak and can be overly-protective at times; although her personality overall is meant to be something akin to Silver the Hedgehog - particularly how he's portrayed in the IDW Sonic comics - with her being made into someone who's somewhat naïve & very socially awkward due to her upbringing but very much wants to help people and fight evil.

* Funnily enough, Agnes's original episode was most likely the inspiration for the episode of the 1980's Astro Boy series that introduced Nyoka (right down to the titles both being "(main character)'s First Love") in terms of being a one-off love interest that meets an unfortunate end. Although of the two, Agnes is the only one of them to have a romantic storyline; here it's with Emily, which is sort of meant to be a play on the classic "princess and knight" story. Also, rather than taking inspiration from her original episode, it actually takes influence from the teen-crush relationship drama of Anton & Brianna from the 2003 AB series since that just felt a little more appropriate for someone of her "age", with Agnes taking the place of Brianna as the blissfully-unaware introvert. This idea mainly came from wanting to explore how romantic relationships between robotic beings could hypothetically work, and even same "sex" ones (and a little bit of LGBT representation doesn't hurt). However, it actually takes some cues from Dipper and Wendy's dynamic from Gravity Falls in dealing with kids crushing on their "seniors" so to say (which also allows the series to go a little bit into how robots percieve their physical and mental ages).

Unlike the Kabuto family that have some basis on their familial connections - like similar character traits, filling character slots in the original Mazinger series and homages to the original Astro Boy, and even some members sharing artists/behind-the-scenes staff - Agnes's family is not as "tightly knit" so to say, though it does still have a few connections to help hold it together. Her being the adoptive daughter of Kazuya Ryuzaki is mainly meant to tie into the two's more hand-to-hand-based combat and to tie in with Daimos's use of a couple fire-based attacks/powers (plus, out of all the 70's Mecha pilots that are featured in this series (outside of the Mazinger pilots), Kazuya does seem like the one most likely to become a good father). This also helps to give an explanation as to how Agnes has such good control over her powers by the time the series begins.

Agnes's character model has been slightly changed for this series. Her skirt has been swapped out for a pair of shorts (since she's meant to be performing many athletic abilities in this series, including lots of kicking) and, similarly to Milly, her eyes have been made more cartoonish and Tezuka-like - their design itself is taken directly from her home series's secondary lead character Miri - rather than the more "generic" look she had in the original.

Agnes and Drum's combo attack is based off of the "Double Gekigan Flare" from Martian Successor Nadesico, made up as a way to show how far their friendship has come.