Forgetter

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**Forgetter** (忘我 *Bōga*), alias **Annette**, is one of the main protagonists introduced in *Spy Classroom* series.

## Appearance

Annette’s hair is long overdue for a haircut and has a strong ashen-pink tone, Having her hair in waves, tied up in two and curled through the force of will. She wears an eyepatch, which made her stand out even further. She constantly had a pure and innocent look to her”. .According to Thea, it's hard to find another spy in Lamplight more instantly identifiable than her.

## Personality

At first glance, Annette appears pure hearted, innocent and adorable--that is mostly true, until she opens her mouth. Annette is innocent to a fault and a true free-spirit that comes with an inscrutable personally.

Annette lives her life without any guiding philosophy her morals, she did whatever caught her interest at the time. Her memories from before joining the spy academy are gone due to her amnesia, thus she either never developed or never retained those values.

When Thea stared into Annette's eyes for three seconds to see her deepest desire, the only thing she saw was that she wanted to grow taller. She has nothing resembling a central guiding philosophy. Her heart was empty.

She has no sense of fear, not to dangerous missions or bizarre orders, and not only does she not falter or question them, she carries them out without hesitation or faltering. But just when you think you've figured her out, she'll reject requests for no reason and go off to do her own thing. Her curiosity is incomparable and is often found in her room working on gadgets and invention that surpass even the best stuff in the Republic. Annette cares very little about privacy, leaving her door completely open regardless of what she may be doing. She constantly keeps her room a mess to the point where her bed became unusable though not showing any signs of discomfort.

What makes Annette so dangerous are two things: her ability to "lose herself" (i.e, become obsessed with one thing) and her unpredictability. As Annette does not operate by any particular moral, religious, political or any sort of guidance or framework. As rare as it is, if Annette's wrath is somehow incited, there is very little that can save you, especially given how difficult it is to understand what is going on in her head in the first place even coming from intuitive masters such as Klaus or Thea. Once Annette forgets herself, there is no stopping her runaway bloodlust.

Even after amnesia, Annette feels as though she's being judged as sick and twisted by others, even if these comments don't stab at her ego, remembering that someone used to say it to her whenever she did anything, that she was sick and twisted to her core.

According to Klaus, Annette remembers nothing before she enrolled in her spy academy, the birth of her Code Name 'Forgetter'.

## Plot

### Prior to Joining Lamplight

Annette was found by Matilda stuffed in a trashcan at a train station. Matilda figured Annette would be a useful prop for her spy work so she adopted her. Annette underwent plastic surgery to pass as Matilda's daughter, crushing her eye in the process, hence why she wears and eyepatch. Matilda regularly beat Annette. Matilda claimed she did this because she creeped her out and could never tell what was going on inside her head. Eventually, Matilda got so scared of Annette that she started hitting her over and over. Matilda hit her daughter with her cobalt-blue toolbox until she beat all the memories out of her and abandoned her daughter.

While her papers list her as 14, her actual age is unknown and she had been taken in by the state with no memories, birth certificate or identity. She had been given the name Annette and was taken in as a ward of the state and from there, she was transferred to a religious boarding school She later joined a spy academy with Erna

## Skills

### Tinkering

Despite having amnesia, Annette excels at engineering and handicraft. Her curiosity led her to becoming a master of machines. With just one look, she is able to reproduce almost anything with extreme accuracy, down to the smallest details. She can do anything from constructing new spy gadgets to constructing electrical lines and painting them in perfect camouflage. Her inventions greatly surpass the level of what The Republic can produce. According to Klaus, she is Lamplight’s final weapon.

However, she mostly uses her ability for pranks and contraptions, though sometimes she'll make something useful when she feels like it.

Annette supposedly inherited her engineering prowess from her mother Matilda

## Relationships

### Matilda

When Annette first held reunion with her estranged mother, Annette had no idea who she was. When Thea explained the situation to Annette she hadn't shown a shred of interest towards her mother. At first, Annette didn't understand why everyone was making such a big deal over her Mom. The two also did not converse when Monika and Thea set up a dinner date for them at a Din Restaurant. However the two of them bonded over their shared love for engineering.

The day after they find out that Matilda is was a spy, she smelled bloody when she showed up by the coast and Annette was furious. She showed up out of nowhere and they were kind enough to get her tools back for her and she just went and killed people as if Thea and Monika's efforts didn't matter. Annette did not turn Matilda over however, fearing it would cause a huge scandal for Lamplight and by extension, Annette herself. The time limit was fast approaching and Klaus wasn't there to get the situation under control At the end of Volume 3, Annette decides she doesn't want to go home with Matilda because she was having so much fun in Lamplight.Annette did not think that Matilda was fit to be her mom.

All these factors led Annette to assassinate her. By pretending to help her escape, she trapped Matilda in a shipping container being loaded onto a freighter headed across the ocean giving her nothing but a broken tool to help her escape. Matilda would have had to spend up to ten days locked inside, long enough to starve to death or die or dehydration before Matilda reached her destination. Annette gave her a small percent chance at surviving, Until the shipping container exploded turning it into a blazing coffin with Matilda inside using the the bomb Matilda made herself. Annette had switched the toolboxes giving Matilda the one with the bomb, and when Matilda detonated it trying to kill Annette, she killed herself instead, In her final moments, Annette saw Matilda as pathetic, blowing herself to bits. Saying that if she hadn't tried to kill her, Matilda would have lived,.

### Dreamspeaker

In Annette's own words regarding Thea before Volume 3: "*I was surprised. I was all, She's such a meddler, and she never actually accomplishes anything, and all she's good for is being a slut."* But it was not like Annette hated Thea. Over the course of the third volume, Annette learns what a Mom is to her. Someone who gets mad at her, praises her sometimes, teaches her and supports her in what she does. When she sees her mom sad, it makes her angry. That's what a mom was. That mom was not Matilda, but Thea. During Volume 4 overhearing Thea's breakdown, Annette told her that she didn't want Thea to disappear. She admits that she had fun last month when Thea helped her. Sometimes it was hard to tell which one of them was the oldest.

Whenever Thea's stories started to get sexual, Annette would cock her head quizzically, but she always seemed to be enjoying herself.

### Meadow

While Annette's actual feelings on Sara remain dubious, Annette claimed that she wanted Sara to become Klaus's bride in the *first Short Story Collection* to pay her back for everything she had and continues to do for her. She said that Sara was 'a bit thick' when it came to her own feelings and it was up to her to give her that needed push. When Sara asked why Annette had asked her to join her team, she said it was a secret and that her "lips were sealed." and she "wasn't gonna say a thing until she stops being so dense."

### Flower Garden

Annette thinks Lily's poisons are useless as they have never worked on Klaus.

### Klaus

Annette is adamant about defeating Klaus along with the rest of Lamplight, she goes as far as rigging bombs around the mansion much to the annoyance of Klaus as she destroys the Mansion regularly. Annette also looks up to Klaus and calls him big Bro and Hugs him occasionally which he has no issues with.

### Fool

Erna is always the victim of Annette's shenanigans which formed a rift in their bond. Annette loves Erna as a sister but Erna dislikes Annette for always blowing her up as Erna's misfortune always leads her to setting off Annette's traps that were set to stop Klaus. Erna claims that Annette is always bullying her even though most of the time it is just Erna's misfortune and not always Annette, as Annette sees Erna as her friend.

## Catchphrase

```
"I'm code name Forgetter--and it's time to put it all together yo." -Forgetter

```

## Gallery

Annette's light novel character designAnnette’s Light Novel character designAnnette's anime character designAnnette's anime character design in her teaserAnnette's anime character sheetAnnette's anime bathing suit designAnnette hugged by Matilda in the mangaAnnette and Erna's profile from Volume 4Annette has accidentally vacuumed to Erna's skirt
## Trivia

* The name **Bouga** means "oblivion, trance, ecstasy, selflessness, enthusiasm" (忘我).
* While Annette's code name, Forgetter, is a reference to her Amnesia, it is also a turn of phrase. "To forget oneself."
* It is unknown exactly what nation she was born in. Her [adopted/effective] mother, Matilda, claims to be from the *Lylat Kingdom*, which implies that she found/adopted Annette in Lylat, therefore making Annette possibly from Lylat, judging from the nature of the incident as described by Matilda. But her, Annette's, Vol. 4 Profile Card states she is a "A young girl from the **Galgad Empire.**" (Japanese; "**ガルガド帝国**出身の少女。"), though it is possible that the card is incorrect, it is more likely that Matilda either lied ab*out the incident in general, where the truth would lie in another incident entirely*, or about where *exactly* she was found, or lied about *all* of her stories and even the discovery line is false.

## References

1. ↑ コードネーム《忘我》（CV：楠木ともり）「スパイ教室」ヒロインPV【ファンタジア文庫】
2. ↑ Spy Classroom Volume 01
3. ↑ Volume 3 page 18
4. ↑ Volume 3 page 37
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Volume 3 page 19
6. ↑ Volume 3 page 17
7. ↑ Volume 3 pages 194-195
8. ↑ Volume 3 page 61
9. ↑ Season 1 Episode 4
10. ↑ Volume 3 page 35
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Volume 3 page 64
12. ↑ Volume 3 pages 189-190
13. ↑ Volume 3 page 173
14. ↑ Volume 3 pages1 91-193
15. ↑ Vol 4 page 132
16. ↑ Vol 4 page 140
17. ↑ SSC 1 page 163
18. ↑ SSC 1 page 182
19. ↑ Vol 4 page 126
20. ↑ Volume 3 page 186
21. ↑ An image of the original, unredacted, example-viewing and firsthand picture of a physical copy in the original and unmodified Japanese can be obtained obtained from
https://tanashin5-blog.com/spykyousitu-4-review, note that the entire source website is in Japanese.