Carmen

**Carmen Leonold** is a potential character in *Universal Rides* and *Adventure Squad*. She is Charlotte and Seymour's fraternal triplet, and a genetic clone of Carson Lavern. She later succeeds Cecily as the second user of **Cryptotron 7**.

## Biography

Carmen, like her siblings, was born by complete accident, Lysander having built her body simply to practice building technology. She only came to life after an equipment malfunction resulted in the same conditions that gave birth to Thomas, scanning Carson's DNA as part of the mix. While the triplets were welcomed and accepted as part of the Sudrian community, Tom and Lysander elected to hold off on giving them identifying features until they properly developed as individuals. As such, they were only referred to by their signature eye colors. Carmen was later named for her similarities to her late genetic donor, and was later given her current labels. After Cecily opted to retire from active service due to mental depletion, Carmen replaced her as the user of Cryptotron 7, and as the alpha of the Cryptotron Team.

## Personality

Much like her genetic donor, Carmen is cheerful, excitable, and very protective of those close to her. However, while she is just as caring as her predecessor and cousins, Carmen is notable in that despite Carson already having a reputation for being psychotic and sadistic, Carmen *exceeds* him in those regards. Because of this, she scored her first kill only two weeks after her birth, much to Tom's dismay, as he wanted her to wait until she was at least a year old before she did so.

Despite her innocent appearance, Carmen avidly enjoys watching destructive carnage, and she has a particularly soft spot for explosions. Additionally, she has a ruthless fighting style that mimics that of Tom's, particularly the usage of her teeth.

## Appearance

Carmen is based on the NLR crane tank. Originally built in 1858 as an 0-4-0ST by Sharp Stewart and Company for the North and South Western Junction Railway, it was quickly passed to the North London Railway (NLR) who had it rebuilt into an 0-4-2ST with a steam crane carried by the trailing truck in 1872. It was subsequently inherited by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), before ending up with British Railways in 1948. It was the oldest locomotive to be inherited by BR, and when finally withdrawn in 1951, it was the oldest surviving standard gauge engine in service with British Railways. It was scrapped at Derby Works in February 1951.

Carmen has numerous modifications in comparison to the real design, in that she has a visible filler cap and whistle, she has guard irons, she has toolboxes in-between her splashers, her cab is fully enclosed, she has a central column where her crane is mounted, she has a well tank, and she has a more robust trailing truck. Most notably, Carmen is an oil burner, unlike the real locomotive, and as such she has a tall set of fuel tanks behind her cab surrounding her crane, which is a hydraulically-powered telescoping model instead of the real locomotive's short and fixed-distanced steam crane.

Much like Tom, Carmen has a pair of fang-like canines on her upper row of teeth. She also has complete heterochromia; her left eye is purple, which she shares with her siblings, while her right eye is cyan. While her eyes retain these colors under normal circumstances, Carmen at her angriest will instead sport "Killer Eyes"; her pupils become purple, her irises become all black, and her scleras turn yellow with red bloodshot veins. Unlike her default eyes, the "Killer Eyes" affect both of her eyes in the same way, making her eyes symmetrical.

When she was born, Carmen was painted a plain grey with a red bufferbeam and footplate and silver coupling rods. After receiving her name, she was painted charcoal black with periwinkle blue lining surrounding colored panels, painted in white. Her footplate and wheels are also painted black, while her coupling rods are now red. Her crane itself is painted white with a black wheelhouse and blue side bolts, while a blue stripe can be seen on the side of all three segments of her crane arm. Her hook is painted periwinkle blue, while the NWR lettering on the side of the outermost extension uses a darker shade overtop a white drop shadow. She has silver nameplates in the center of her side tanks, while her number is painted on the side of her cab in periwinkle blue with a darker shade as trim.

## Mech

Carmen's Guardian of Nature mech is the exact same one used by Cecily, though it was overhauled as part of the transfer.

## Notes

* Several revisions were made to Carmen's design before finalization was achieved.
* Much like her siblings, Carmen's colors and number are references to *Kamen Rider W*, the former representing three of the titular hero's main 4 Joker forms (HeatJoker was omitted to avoid overloading the family's already extensive list of red-colored members) and the latter representing the series' numerical statistic within the franchise. In Carmen's case, her white and periwinkle colors evoke the FangJoker form, while her number represents the series' status as the 24th *Kamen Rider* television series.