Juniper Woods

— Turnabout for Tomorrow
Juniper Woods is an aspiring judge and childhood friend of Athena Cykes. She seems to have a respritory issue, and is prone to coughing fits when she is stressed— which she uses flowers to remedy. She is generally a meek and quiet individual, but is capable of being authoritative when need-be.

## Personality

Woods is a generally shy and introverted individual who is very in-touch with nature, and tries to be empathetic to everyone she meets. She tries to relate to everyone she meets so she can find something in common with them, so they can easily become friends. She's known as very easy-going, but during her time in school, she has learned how to put on a stern and confident persona when she needs it.

Woods is very easily smitten with heroic deeds or justice-focused people. She classifies herself as an almost hopeless romantic, because she usually does nothing to act on her desires— waiting for the other person to catch on so she doesn't have to expose her feelings first.

Woods enjoys gardening, knitting, and sewing; she claimed to have made her casual clothes herself.

## History

### Early Life

In her early years, Woods found herself out of school frequently due to frequent illness. She would frequently visit Athena, as the two bonded outside of school hours at the Cosmos Space Center. Their friendship was torn after Athena's mother was murdered and Athena was sent to Europe to pursue further education.

### Themis Academy

Woods decided to pursue a law career, seeking justice for others. She formed a bond with Robin Newman and Hugh O' Connor, determining that they would be a three person team— a defense attorney, prosecutor, and judge— seeking the truth in the system they saw as broken.

Woods was reportedly very popular with boys in the school, and would frequently turn down love confessions in order to focus on her education. She was labelled an ice queen by the school's news paper, which glamorized the idea of her friend group fighting for her romantic affections.

Their friendship was further splintered due to differing ideologies, which then clashed when Wood's teacher, Constance Courte, was murdered. With Cykes back in America after a long seven years and coincidentally invited to the school on the day of the murder (alongside her boss) she volunteered to defend Woods of any accusations of murder. Charges were dropped against her thanks to a combination of Cykes and Apollo's defense. She found herself smitten with Apollo's defense particularly.

### Bombs and What Not

Two months after her previous aquittal, she sat in on Apollo taking to the defense of Soloman Starbuck, who had been accused of murdering Clay Terran at the Space Center. During the trial, Ted Tonate from police bomb disposal suddenly announced that there was a live bomb in the courtroom. She attempted to escape, but fell. Apollo came to her rescue and shielded her from rubble (in the still unexploded courtroom...?) and was able to get her out safely. However, she left one of her plush dolls behind, thus causing her to become a suspect in the very bombing she tried to run from.

Cykes ended up defending her, with help from Wright, and they were able to get her aquitted once more. She was grateful to all three of them. however, she favored Apollo's the most.

Two days after her acquittal, Woods heard that Cykes had been arrested, suspected of the same murder as Starbuck. To help look for clues, she visited the space center, where she chatted with Wright. She disclosed to him that Cykes and her were childhood friends, and (in her opinion) Athena's mother seemingly abused her by making her use headphones which she disliked. Woods told Wright that Cykes had grown up at the space center with her mother, and that the center's robots were her only real company while she was there. This lead helped Wright to eventually figure out not only the truth behind the current case, but also the murder of Cykes's mother, thus clearing Cykes of all charges.

### Graduation

After graduating from Themis Academy, Woods found a place in a law firm that fit her ideologies well enough. She learned furthermore that she would have to spend more time as a lawyer before she could become a judge, and decided that she would continue on her path in order to eventually, one day, follow through with her promise to Robin and Hugh— even though Robin decided to pursue another career and Hugh lied about his grades.