Ruri Saotome

Ruri Saotome is a character from Martian Successor Nadesico and is a major character in The Knights of the Multiverse. Created in an experiment by Dr. Saotome to create an artificial human through a mix between DNA engineering, using a sample of Michiru Saotome's genes and Getter Rays, she's the pilot of her own custom Getter machine, the Getter Robo D2, and later the main pilot of Shin Getter One, as a member of the Crystal Knights.

Personality
Despite being one of the younger members of the team, Ruri is probably the most intelligent member of the team and is seen as something of a "child prodigy". Due to her origins in genetic engineering, she has a special affinity towards electronics, and she's always careful to consider all courses of action before doing anything, something that affects her attitude towards others.

On the surface, she comes off as cold and aloof to the others; she rarely ever speaks, and her outward attitude rarely came close to friendly, with her often disparaging the inane antics of her older co-workers and is extremely blunt about her low opinion of nearly everyone around her, frequently calling them idiots under her breath. However, in reality she's just really shy, having no interactions with anyone outside of her intermediate "family" and the occasional meeting with the Mazinger crew, and her silence is often due to her being tentative to engage in conversation. However, she has softened up greatly over time, due in part to her newfound friendship with her other younger teammates, especially Missnie. Through it all though, she's still a loyal friend, and her technical skills are unmatched, proving to be of great use to the team.

After a good number of battles and growing close to the rest of the team, a chain reaction started occurring inside of her. She's started to become more emotional, like sudden angry outbursts, and even scared when they're in danger. But more importantly, this event showed her that these "idiots" that she associated with were vulnerable and started up a strange need for her to protect them.

Mini-Series
Ruri was doing her usual job as a staff member at the New Photon/Saotome Labs one average day when she was informed that the Getter Team had mysteriously disappeared while they were on patrol, but she figured it was something really arbitrary, like they just stopped for some lunch and didn't want to be disturbed so they turned off their trackers.

Abilities

 * Computer/Technical Skills

Ruri is able to interface directly into most technological equipment, including most mechas.


 * Singing

Ruri has a surprisingly amazing singing voice.


 * Moderate Hand-to-Hand Combat Skills

Being an honorary member of the Getter Team, Ryo and Hayato made sure that Ruri was at least trained in self-defense. She's at least strong enough to toss a full-grown person over her head and can throw a decently mean punch.


 * Advanced Mental/Psychic Abilities

As a being born from Getter Rays, Ruri possesses some sort of psychic abilities, like how being able to detect levels of Getter Radiation, as well as other supernatural occurrences like Kaiju, and can manipulate their flow through mechanics and mechs powered by the rays.


 * Getter Ray Manipulation

Ruri's Getter Ray-based origins also allow her to manipulate the flow of the Getter Rays throughout the robot, able to channel it into many of its attacks. This is best shown by how she's able to generate a Shine Spark by herself.

The Getter Team
All three members of the Getter Team treat Ruri as an honorary fourth member of the team, even if she isn't in the air with them. She acts as the group's tech support, watching the group's backs on the scanners and checking their Getter Machines energy levels. As her sister though, she cares about Michiru the most, and will often go to her to discuss matters which even she doesn't understand.

Dr. Saotome
Though he is technically her father, Ruri and Saotome have never been close.

Emily & Nyoka
Emily and Nyoka were the first true friends that Ruri made outside the "family", and the same is true for them. As such, the three have a strong, sister-like bond (though you'd be hard-pressed to tell by how Ruri acts sometimes).

Usagi Tsukino
Usagi was the first friend Ruri made outside of Emily. Though she didn't take much notice of her at first due to her not speaking up too often (her still being traumatized by the destruction of her home and all), but after she broke her silence, the two became very good friends, with the two of them and Nyoka going often getting up to their own antics when the others are busy. Usagi's newfound courage has rubbed off on her as well, giving her the courage to stand and fight with her friends, especially after Hayato's death.