| “ | Longg, Bring the Storm! | „ |
| ~ Kagami during her transformation into Ryuko. |
Kagami Tsurugi, known as Ryuko is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Luka Couffaine) of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. In season 3, she receives the Dragon Miraculous from Ladybug, which, when inhabited by Longg, can transform her into Ryuko, a dragon-themed superhero.
She is voiced by Faye Mata.
Appearance[]
Kagami is a slender, Japanese teenage girl of average height. She has creamy-pale skin, a lighter dusting of light-brown freckles on her cheeks and the bridge of nose, brown eyes, and thick straight black hair with blue reflections with bangs swept to the left in a face-framing bob that levels with her chin, with dark blue tints, and light raspberry lipstick.
She wears a white long-sleeved blazer that has black outlines around the collar, running down across her waist all the way to the bottom to the hem, cuffs and two black accents on the top of the fastened outer pockets. The blazer has two gold pockets around the waist and each side of the cuffs. On the top right of her chest is an attached logo that is shaped as a rouleaux triangle. The logo includes her family's crest, with the gold sign of Japanese kanji for female fastened on top of the green, white and red fabric with a gold outline surrounding the logo. Underneath, she wears a black collared blouse with many gold buttons. Attached to the collar is a red tie with blue parallel lines that intersects with each other.
Kagami wears a red skirt with an asymmetrical texture that has blue and white intersecting vertical and horizontal lines. She wears tight black leggings and a pair of red sneakers with white toecaps, laces, a black logo on the heel counter and black soles. On the ring finger of her right hand, she wears a black ring that has her family's crest and it has two long outward spikes stretching from the mark.
As Ryuko, she wears a red suit with an image of a black rose with a yellow outlining involving her from her left leg to her chest with the flower holding the images that represent the three elements she controls: lightning, air, and water. She also has a black collar/turtleneck (where she has her choker), black forearm-length gloves and black legs starting at a point in the middle of her lower legs, both with yellow outlining. On the back of her head, she has four red dragon-like horns with yellow tips with black outlining, and, on her back, she has a holder for her sword. On her face, she wears a red mask around her eyes with a yellow and black outline at the base of the sides. Her eyes also get golden with yellow scleras.
As Riposte, her face and skin is silver with red eyes. She has a silver helmet with angular sides and a red circle on the center of the forehead with the Tsurugi crest. Her body outfit is silver armor; a breastplate, pauldrons and tassets while her arms and legs are solid silver, and she wears silver high-heel shoes. Her right hand seems to be or holds a sword-like extension with a triangular guard and a red circle bearing the Tsurugi crest on the center of the guard.
As Oni-Chan, she has wild, pointy, dark hair, and her face is obscured by a white oni's mask, which has protruding tusks. From the forehead protrudes a red horn, with black lines along the bottom. The eyes and mouth are outlined by thick, black lines. She has a white outfit with black tiger-like stripes and her insignia (a black rose with a red horn) on the chest. Red spikes with black spirals don her shoulders and elbows. Her forearms and legs from the knee down are all black. Her hands and feet are red as well. She wields a bokken with a black and white handle with the blade made from thorny vines twisting together.
As Ryukomori, she had a gigantic size and her body was completely made of clouds, all while keeping the shape of her body which seemed to be naked. Normally, the clouds that made her body were white, but they became dark gray whenever she got angry.
As Riposte Prime, she had the same appearance as Riposte, but wielded a big saber sword with a red edge that was held in her hand.
Personality[]
Kagami is a fierce and thoughtful girl who is dedicated to accomplishing any commitment she makes. Taught by her mother to be a relentless perfectionist by placing high expectations on her, she dedicates herself to anything she has an interest in until she masters it without a flaw. This also causes her to be quite confident, while also being somewhat reluctant and quite stubborn, willing to go out and take risks, regardless of what is at stake for her. Her perfectionism also causes her to possess a very strong competitive spirit, causing her to be quite emotive and rage-prone in spite of her composed exterior, whenever she loses. However, she learns from her mistakes, knowing there are times she isn't the winner.
Despite her wits, Kagami has a small habit of jumping to conclusions and/or being quick to judge a person's character with an initial contact, something possible learned from her mother, as seen as Kagami was quick to assume Marinette was uncompatible with her in terms or friendship due to her more unusual nature or when she saw a picture of Adrien and Lila together and quickly assuming Lila was the girl he told her about in "Frozer". However, after learning more about friendship with Marinette, Kagami came to try to look through appearances in order to know about a person's true nature.
Kagami is an aggressive fencer, being unforgivable whenever her opponents show her any opening. While she doesn't like to lose, she is able to downplay her upset feelings and respect her rivals, like Adrien. That competitve nature also causes her to search for bigger challenges, resulting on her to taunt her opponents whenever they show weakeness against her, in this way trying to spice them up and motivating them to do better, so that she can also do better as well. Her agressiveness only increases whenever her emotional state becomes more intense, as evidenced in "Lies", after her akumatization into the titular villain, as she was still upset with Adrien for lying to her and discharged her anger on him during their practice duel.
She comes across as blunt and willing to speak her mind, telling Philippe that she didn't want to take skating lessons multiple times and even speaking for Adrien when asked. However, despite this, Kagami is a very hospitable person who ironically forms friendships with people after they both approach each other and solve their conflicts, suggesting an understanding side. This is more evident when she advises Marinette Dupain-Cheng to stop hesitating.
In "Ikari Gozen", Kagami is shown to be a bit lonely as she always wanted friends, and she admitted to Ladybug that she doesn't have any. Yet, she was willing to reach out to Marinette, someone she was uncertain about at the time, in an attempt to be friends with her. However, much like when Adrien started studying at school and making new friends, Kagami, because of her mother, initially didn't know much about how to bond with others. This is shown when she tries to befriend Marinette, only resulting in awkward moments, and using an app about how to make friends. These attempts include traditional Japanese friendship tropes such as blood typing, horoscopes, personality compatibility, and a forced smile when attempting to discuss any of them.
Through having friends and being outside of her mother's strict rules, Kagami started to become more playful and fun-loving and enjoys being disobedient at times as seen in "Heart Hunter". Just like Adrien, Kagami started to value the new friends she would make, not wanting to hurt or lose them. However, no matter how much it pained her, she wasn't willing to abdicate her own happiness for them. This is seen in her resolution on the same episode in pursuing Adrien romantically, despite knowing that would hurt Marinette, as she knew that, no matter who ends up with him, someone would be heartbroken over it and, thus, isn't willing to let him go, even for the sake of friendship, showing a realistic side. She would still like to be able to date Adrien and stay friends with Marinette at the same time, though.
In "Lies", Kagami showed that, in terms of friendship, she still had a lot to learn about it as one needs to accept their friend's flaws and what they like about them. Despite not knowing about Adrien's alter ego, she called him silly when he posed at her attempt at drawing him, calling his civilian self an image of perfection mostly implying like every other fan girl she's looking at him through the image Gabriel created of him.
When it comes to those she cares about being in danger especially against akumatized villains or threatened, Kagami is similar to Alya and Cat Noir; being very brave and protective.
In "Perfection", Kagami shows how much she treasures her friendship with others, especially Marinette, her very first real friend. As she was saddened that Marinette kept avoiding her to the point where she hastily believed Lila in thinking if she didn't want to be her friend, she came to believe that, if she couldn't have Marinette as a friend, she would not be able to have any at all, what caused her to feel depressed and alone, leading to her akumatization. But after seeing how much her friends did care about her, she was able to break free from it. After her de-akumatization, a talk between the girls allowed Kagami to realize that having more friends doesn't mean the friendship is divided between them, but rather multiplies. It also allowed both of them to realize that even though they are from different social classes, they have the same problem: striving for perfection out of fear of not being good enough for someone else.
As shown in "Protection", because of the pressure placed on her by her mother to be perfect, Kagami has a hard time understanding and controlling her own emotions. Finding herself in a conflictive position as she loves both Adrien (romantically) and Marinette (as her best friend), but the two of them love each other, Kagami feels a lot of emotional pain, as she, despite wanting try to conquer Adrien's love, doesn't want to hurt Marinette and lose her friendship. Being unable to deal with her feelings, she represses them, leading her to become very vulnerable to the manipulation of others, like Lila, who was able to turn her against Marinette. After finally opening up to Adrien and Marinette about her feelings and allow herself to feel the sorrow she had been repressing, Kagami was finally able to find an emotional stability and be able to accept Adrien would possibly never love her the same way she loved him.
In "Emotion", it's revealed that Kagami, similar to Adrien, desires to have freedom to choose whatever she wants to do and break from her mother's influence. However, much like Adrien, she is unable to do so due to the expectations her mother placed on her during her entire life. But when Félix, as Argos, used Red Moon to make her mother disappear, she shows that, despite wanting freedom, she wants it in her own way and time as well as wanting to share it with those she loves.
In "Pretension", inspired by Marinette's decision to talk with Gabriel Agreste to solve any possible misunderstanding between them, Kagami finally stands up to her mother and tells her to stop controlling her behavior and that embracing her own emotions is not a weakness. After she is taken by Argos, Kagami shows how much she had evolved in terms of social interations, as she reprimended Félix for stalking and kidnapping her just so he could get to know her better. She also shows she had overcome her more judgemental side, as she came to learn more about Félix and understand the reasons that led to his actions.
The more she came to know Félix better, she came to fall in love with him and reciprocate his feelings. Now free from the internal conflict between winning Adrien's affections and keep her friendship with Marinette, Kagami came to realize the real meaning of Marinette's talk with Alya in "Perfection" and realize that her best friend was Ladybug. Through Félix, Kagami came to learn about Gabriel being the supervillain Monarch and her own mother was helping him. Realizing that she and Félix would never be able to be together as long her mother and Gabriel would keep on force her and Adrien to become a couple at the eyes of the public, the couple decided to trust on Ladybug (Marinette), revealing to her all the truth and hoping she would be able to put an end to Monarch so they could be together.
After Gabriel made his wish and Bug Noire came to free her and Adrien, Kagami showed skepticism over the superhero's decision to not tell Adrien about his father being Monarch, thinking that her love for Adrien was blinding her. This shows that Kagami was willing to accept the full extention of the consequences of the truth, even if that meant for her mother to face justice due to being Monarch's accomplice. However, due to both trusting and respecting Bug Noire, she decided to accept her decision to keep the lie about Gabriel being the hero that defeated Monarch for Adrien's sake. Also, inspired by Adrien's ability to change and challenge his own father and to also prevent Tomoe from using the truth about Gabriel being Monarch, Kagami decided to talk with her mother and try to help her change as well.
As Ryuko, she is very capable but a bit of a lone fighter as she tries to defeat Ikari Gozen on her own, both due to her innate perfectionism and desire to prove herself. However, she learns she can't handle everything on her own. Ryuko is understanding and respectful towards Ladybug, giving up the Dragon Miraculous indefinitely because of the fact that her identity was revealed to Hawk Moth which could lead to her loved ones being in danger, showing her protective and caring side. However, she is also a little revealing as she tells her mother in her akumatized form (and by extension to Hawk Moth) her identity. During her subsquent tenue as a superhero, Ryuko has showed to be quite competent, mastering her power quickly and effectively, being also able to make quick decisions to protect her teammates.
As Riposte, she was furiously obsessed with getting a rematch with Adrien and winning it, even if he was in no condition to fight due to his injured ankle, and she considered people that she viewed as not being good enough fighters unworthy, such as Ladybug. Riposte was also arrogant and didn't have a problem with outright attacking her opponents when they had no chance of defending themselves. Because of her obsession, Kagami had, without possibly knowing it, forgotten one of a competitor's true trademarks is good and true sportsmanship. However, despite this, she followed Hawk Moth's commands without question, even if they conflicted with her own goals.
As Oni-Chan, she was obsessed with tracking down Lila and getting her to renounce Adrien in order to have Adrien be hers.
As Lies, after Adrien continuously lied to her to go somewhere else, especially when she had lied to spend time with him, she decided to rid the world of lies, even if that meant paralyzing everyone else, including the ones she cared about, like her mother. It may have seemed that she had a black and white view about lies and the truth believing lies to be bad and the truth to be good but most know that it's not that simple.
As Ryukomori, she wanted nothing more than to reach complete perfection. In order to achieve this, she roamed around Paris to find the most serene place she could find where she would be able to reach perfection without being disturbed. Because she didn't want anyone to prevent her from finding perfection, she ignored everyone around her, especially because she was unable to see or hear anyone else. However, she was willing to attack anyone that tried to stop her.
As Riposte Prime, she, motivated by Lila's manipulation, became determined to "save" Adrien from Marinette's influence, believing the latter was deceiving him and everyone so that she could get him as a boyfriend, deciding to trap her inside of Shell-ter forever. Her obsession on her objective prevented her from hearing anyone that tried to dissuade her and she was also not above attacking anyone that tried to protect her target.
Powers and abilities[]
Civilian abilities[]
- Fencing: Kagami's main ability is fencing, and gave Adrien a good battle when they first encountered each other. While she is akumatized, her attacks are super speedy, being quite overwhelming for Ladybug.
- Ice skating: She is known to be very good, being told she had what takes to be a champion.
- Archery: She says it is one of her hobbies.
Miraculous abilities[]
- Elemental mimicry: Her special unnamed superpower allows her to transform into three kinds of elements.
- Air mimicry: Her Wind Dragon superpower allows her to transform into wind and manipulate the air.
- Water mimicry: Her Water Dragon power allows her to turn into water and manipulate it as well.
- Lightning mimicry: Her lightning power, presumably called Lightning Dragon, turns her into lightning and enables her to control it.
- Nigh-invulnerability: While transformed, she is also nearly invulnerable to just about any physical injury.
Akumatized abilities[]
Riposte[]
- Sword arm: Her sword is merged with her hand, so it cannot be easily removed.
- Cutting: She can cut through anything with ease.
- Slash projection: She is able to generate slash waves from her sword hand that can sever buildings in half, such as the glass pyramid.
Oni-Chan[]
- Energized sword: She used her sword to curse Lila with a horn which enabled her to track Lila down.
- Location swapping: Oni-Chan's power automatically sends a message to anyone near her horned victim which allows her to, whenever the message is answered, switch places with that person.
- Tracking Teleportation: Lila's horn allows Oni-Chan to find her near anyone with a phone.
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