Cynthia

Kamille Bidan

Roscarl

Mohm

Keiko Kamikita

Ruri Saotome

Injustice Regime

Guild of the Multiverse

Cynthia is a character from Bubblegum Crisis and is a major supporting character in The Knights of the Multiverse, introduced in Season 1. She's a Droid created by one Dr. Frederick, made to look like his deceased six-year-old daughter. However, she was primarily made to act as a tool for the evil organization L.O.S.R., as she's been equipped with a special "Black Box" circuit that allows her to synchronize with the powerful Super Robot Baldios. Unfortunately for him, she quickly learned about the evils that her creator's organization were capable of, leading to her wanting to get away from his control and joining the Crystal Knights to stop the organization's dangerous weapons & plans; although while she mainly acted as a Mech pilot, her Black Box would sometimes have the team bring her out for missions that involve infiltration & the like.

## Personality

Initially, Cynthia was very introverted. She was quiet, shy, and reserved due to her "father" keeping her sheltered (so he could manipulate her to use her powers for less-than-ideal purposes). This resulted in her desiring a life in the outside world and greatly valuing any friendship she might make, as seen by how much she cherishes her bonds with the other Renegade droids. Although she has a much different (and arguably more overpowered) ability compared to her compatriots, she never considers herself superior to anyone because of it, since aside from her Black Box circuit, she doesn't have any other special abilities.

Overtime, she's taken her abilities and turned them into a more proactive way to help the team from the sidelines. But even before then, she's always had a good, moral heart, as she's very aware that the weapons her creator was helping L.O.S.R. create are hurting innocent people. Thus, upon hearing that there were people willing to put a stop to their evil machinations, she more than willingly joined the team to protect everyone from his wrath by using Baldios to defeat them and put the end to their tyranny.

## History

### Pre-Series

The real Cynthia was F.G. Frederick's daughter, and the two (seemingly at least) had a very happy life together. She died in an unspecified incident, leaving leaving her heartbroken and in a state of severe depression. This depression soon led him spiralling into to an intense hatred for humanity, and wanting to destroy all life. Eventually, he began to develop skills in robotics to create weapons of mass destruction to direct his newfound rage, which led to him designing the perfect robot to destroy as much as possible: the giant Baldios. However, he still had some compassion left in his heart, as he wanted Cynthia to be by his side when he destroyed everything. So, he constructed a Droid that would be his daughter's perfect replica, but installed with a new synchronizing circuit so she could control the Baldios robot once it was finished.

## Equipment

* Black Box Unit

Cynthia's only main ability, and indeed the reason why she was created, is the Black Box, a specially crafted computer circuit that allows her to synchronize with any type of computer/electronic system. It is primarily used to control Baldios's movements and activate its weapons systems, including activating it by shouting the voice command, "*Baldios! Charge Up!!*" However, she can also use the circuit to connect herself to any type of electronic device, including communication or observational systems - allowing her to see and hear everything within her vicinity - bypass any security system-based code, and take control of any given weapons system, ranging from control of Super Robots, weapon platforms, and even fortresses.

Aside from her Black Box, Cynthia has no other weapons systems or special abilities. She has relatively average strength, stamina and durability.

* Photon Pistol

In the middle of Season 1, Cynthia was given a small Photon-powered laser pistol to better defend herself.

## Relationships

### Baldios

Despite its much larger appearance, Cynthia genuinely thinks of Baldios as her brother and loves him as such. She cares for him a lot, and worries greatly whenever he gets into a fight or is damaged, even if that's technically what he's built for. She'll even sometimes give him little gifts like flower crowns to wear around his horns.

### Dr. Frederick

Despite being her creator, Cynthia feels nothing towards Dr. Frederick. Perhaps she truly did love him as a father once upon a time, but those feelings have all but disappeared after she learned the truth about her creation. She disassociates herself with him outright when he tried to convince her to come back to him, saying that she cannot be what he wants her to be, and is not just his doll.

### Atros

Cynthia was the first of the Knights to interact with Atros in a non-combative state - unintentionally, of course. During their short time togehter, she ended up actually befriending Usagi's (literally) self-made nemesis, and thusly was one of the most vocal about trying to convince her to join their group.

### Roscarl, Mohm & Honey Jr.

When she and the others made a new home among the Knights, Cynthia quickly found friends among the Knights' "junior members".

## Gallery

An X-ray scan of Cynthia's upper torso.Specs on Cynthia's Black Box.
## Notes

In her home series, Cynthia was an android classified as a "Boomer" (yeah, make your jokes), and she was created to control the Orbital Particle-Beam Satellites, a series of satellites capable of destroying an area up to a 1000 km radius. This is what led to her ultimate demise, where she was kidnapped by a band of Boomers. The heroes of the series, the Knight Sabers, tried to rescue her, but one Boomer went crazy and started using nanomachines and started absorbing everything in its path. This included Cynthia, revealing her to be a Boomer, causing her to activate the satellites in an act of desperation, destroying the surrounding area, the Boomer, and herself (with the Sabers getting away, of course). Her KotM incarnation takes this idea and turns into an operating system for Mecha, based off of Super Robots from the "early stages" of the Mecha Genre like Tetsujin 28, Giant Robo and Daitetsujin 17, where the pilot was both a young child and operated their robots from the outside via a remote control and voice commands; here, the remote is just built into Cynthia's head (sort of like how Daitetsujin's controls worked). Although it is played with a little more by vitrue of her "partner" having a conscious of its own, giving them a true Hogarth & Iron Giant-type relationship. Although unlike the young men of the aforementioned shows, Cynthia's demeanor is more similar to characters like Tiffa Adill from After War Gundam X or Eri from My Hero, with her starting out as really quiet due to her upbrining but slowly opening up to the others as the series continues and finding ways to use her powers to help people.

* She also seemed to be unaware that she was a Boomer in the original, judging from her panicked reaction upon getting assimilated. Of course, in this series, she is fully aware of her robotic origins and what her Black Box can do.
* There also wasn't any real reason for her looking like she does when other human-like Boomers in the original BGC series typically have more "mature" bodies, with her in-universe creators in the show even stumbling over their words when trying to explain themselves after she was destroyed. So, she was given the traditional Astro Boy "Replacement Goldfish" backstory, while taking some ideas from how it was done with Tima from Metropolis 2001.

Cynthia using her Black Box to target multiple enemies is visually inspired by the sequence in Gundam SEED whenever Kira would use the Freedom's full burst mode on his opponents. Of course, rather than the projection covering her entire face like it did Kira, Cynthia's targets only appear in her optics.