Sylvia Ikaruga Misurugi (シルヴィア・斑鳩・ミスルギ Shiruvia Ikaruga Misurugi?) is a supporting character that appears in the CROSS ANGE Rondo of Angel and Dragon television series. She is the exiled empress of the Empire of Misurugi, the younger sister of now-deceased Former Emperor Julio Asuka Misurugi and former First Princess Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi.
Personality & Character[]
Sylvia was paralyzed from the waist down after a riding accident, but now uses a Mana powered floating wheelchair to move around. It's later revealed that it is just in her head and after Ange told her she could walk then giving a 'reason' to get up and run she starts walking again.
She was initially a very kind young girl that cared deeply about her family, especially her older sister Angelise.
However, after Angelise was exposed as a Norma, Sylvia grew to hate her, blaming her for the loss of the use of her legs and the death of their mother, even willing to whip her in front of a crowd and sadistically take pleasure in it all while receiving praise from her people.(CROSS ANGE: "The Hometown of Betrayal")
Several instances show her as dependent and weak-willed, compared to her older siblings (especially after Ange's spirit was completely broken in Arzenal). She fainted after Ange was discovered to be a Norma, quickly turned against her to side with her older brother over her sister from the shock, and even screamed at the sight of Julio's blood. All-in-all a follower, Sylvia follows a leading sibling and the statuesque of her kingdom over any feelings towards other people. After Ange used a shuriken to cut Julio's cheek she showed signs of post-traumatic stress disorder in the form of a nightmare the next night.
However, when she witnessed Riza Randog's true form naked with Julio in his bed she was quickly horrified beyond what the Norma could ever do and screamed out for Ange's help, showing that deep down she still held some feelings for her older sister, if not out of desperation to be saved.
Anything of the sort however completely vanished by the time of her next appearance, now treating Riza Rundog as her personal slave in revenge over the latter putting her under her mind control, and took pleasure to whip Riza and make her known her place, while treating her own position in high esteem. This newfound sadistic behavior, showed that Sylvia had casted aside her regal image of a princess, as shown she made no effort to hide her public abuse of Riza when her family villa was being occupied by several others. Willing to continue Riza's humiliation and mistreatment, even when in close proximity to young children and risking a display that would traumatize them.
Her feelings towards Ange have also completely worsened calling her a monster to her face and despises her greatly. After learning from Riza that Julio hanged their father and Embryo was responsible for her brother's death, Sylvia has started to regain parts of her original personality, starting with crying over the event. With this, she is now regretful in her hatred towards Ange, but she knows that it is too late to repair their relationship with one another. As a result, she is left in the demolished fake Earth to fight and survive with a group on her own.
Skills and Abilities[]
She once had the ability to use the Light of Mana but, once the "space-time fusion" process began and with how Aura was later freed, Sylvia forever loses this power.
Physically, as compared to her older sister, Sylvia has very little capabilities, but shows some competence when using the whip, mainly to satisfy her sadistic needs, when using it on Ange and later Riza; when taking Riza to the dungeon, it can be assumed that Sylvia has some knowledge when using other bondage devices. When Riza escaped she attempted to use a rifle and seemed to have some degree of knowledge in how to fire it.
It was revealed that Sylvia was perfectly capable of walking, but the past trauma had simply caused her to prevent her from doing so. Much later, much like Ange where Sylvia also discarded her royal heritage, she shows some level of proficiency with firearms, possibly improving with the new need of independence on her shoulders.
History[]
She fell off a horse she was riding with Angeliese which paralyzed Sylvia. (CROSS ANGE: "Bikini Escape") When Ange was revealed to be a Norma during the Baptism Ritual ceremony, Sylvia fainted in shock. (CROSS ANGE: "Fallen Princess")
It is hinted that she was the one who assisted Momoka Oginome in locating Ange as she later tries to secretly contact her using her Mana asking her whether or not she has found Ange, yet was caught and taken away before Ange could speak to her. (CROSS ANGE: "Salia's Depression")
After arriving at the Misurugi Palace, Ange was confronted by imperial guards and rescues Sylvia. However, she betrays Ange and cuts her left arm with a knife, blaming her for her paraplegia and the death of their mother. Ange is shocked when she hears Sylvia's resentful words and is captured by the imperial guards to await trial by Julio. (CROSS ANGE: "The Hometown of Betrayal")
After the capture of Ange, she whipped her several times in public, asking her to apologize for being a Norma. After that, Julio announced Ange's execution, Ange starts marching to the gallows while singing, Sylvia recognized her mother's song and says that Ange wasn't allowed to sing it. When Ange is hanged, she is blinded by a strange bright light, when Ange escapes she thanked Sylvia for showing her the true filthy nature of human beings before wounding Julio's face, using a flying blade, which shocked Sylvia who started to cry. (CROSS ANGE: "Goodbye from the Gallows")
The rescue scene, Julio's scarring and Ange's escape is played back to us as Sylvia Screams on coming out of a nightmare, so disturbed she is about what happened she gets into her chair and goes to her brother's room, but upon hearing voices, she approaches carefully, so as not to be noticed, what she sees chills her heart to the marrow, she sees Riza Randog straddling Julio's waist, naked while he acts like a little kid to his mother, But it's Riza's bat-like wings and that she just dropped a liquid from her fingernail into Julio's mouth, causing him great pain while Riza quietly laughs, Sylvia Gasps and is discovered by Riza, Sylvia tries to escape, to seek help, but there is no escape as a long thin tail wraps around Sylvia's neck and squeezes her neck tight, the last thing we thought heard her scream out for Ange to help her. (CROSS ANGE: "Dragon Song")
Riza (actually a spy of Salamandinay) actually drugged Sylvia to keep her quiet on her discovery. Riza kept Sylvia in a drug induced coma which officially to the public was claimed to be psychological trauma caused by Ange. The princess was incapacitated for the duration of Julio's attempt to eradicate all the Normas on Arzenal. Her incapacitated ended when Riza was imprisoned by Embryo who caught onto her spying. Once Sylvia fully recovered from the drug that were circulating in her system by Riza, Embryo informed her of Riza role in her family's downfall as well as Julio's death.
Riza having no more use to Embryo was given to Sylvia as a slave for her to do as she please. Vengeful Sylvia wasted no time in debasing herself and torturing her. At the royal villa, Sylvia was seen whipping Riza for bringing her the wrong volume of an encyclopedia. Sylvia halted her abuse of her slave after Ange and Momoka approached her. (CROSS ANGE: "Tuner of Time")
Sylvia continued her abuse of Riza in the dungeon before retiring for the day. When Riza escaped the princess attempted to recapture the DRAGON herself with a rifle, still blaming her for her brother's death, however, was shocked when Riza revealed that Julio was the one that killed her father and Embryo was the one that killed her brother, forcing her to accept that her brother was a horrible person, using her for his own selfish gains and that he never really loved her.
When Sylvia lost the ability to use Mana thanks to Embryo beginning his plans to merge the two worlds, she was overcome with despair. It was then Ange crashed through the wall. Ange reveals Sylvia's wounds have been healed and that she did not attempt to walk because of the past trauma. She begs Ange to rescue her. However, because of what she did early on in the series, Ange understandably refuses, and calls her out on her selfish attitude, how she blames others but herself and forces Sylvia to walk once again at gunshot. At that moment, Sylvia finally realized what a horrible person she had become and deeply regrets her actions; as Ange leaves forever, she stands there crying, knowing she can never truly reconcile with Ange.
After Embryo was killed and his plan to fuse the two worlds was foiled, Sylvia was seen leading a group of survivors in the wasteland that was created in the aftermath. Her group killed several hooligans who stole food from a little girl, and she personally told that girl that she has to fight or die, mirroring what her sister told her.
Relationships[]
Riza Randog[]
Sylvia spied Riza seducing her brother Julio and at the same time witnessing her drugging him. She was horrified to learn that Riza was not even human when she saw her bat-like wings. To prevent her from remembering what she saw, Riza force-fed her a drug to make her forget. After Embryo took Riza prisoner, he revealed Riza's treachery to Sylvia who was given Riza as her personal slave. Sylvia held a deep grudge against Riza for drugging her and Julio. As part of her revenge on the older woman, Sylvia forced Riza to crawl naked in shackles and had her muzzled like an animal. She forced Riza to serve her, who she referred to as the 'lizard bitch', with frivolous tasks such as fetching an encyclopedia from the library. When she brought the wrong volume, Sylvia whipped her to the ground, beating the fact that she was at her mercy. The treatment of Riza was excessively harsh as the girl left her senior mentally and physically abused, but neglected to water and feed her, leaving Riza in a weaken state to the point of dehydration and being treated with an IV for nourishment.
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Trivia[]
- Sylvia's personality, character traits, and phobia of Norma are all a parallel to Ange's before her induction into Arzenal, only less independent and thoughtful, and it was her whipping that made Ange see who she could have been before she was revealed to be a Norma. She also parallel's Hilda's sister as the younger sister scared of the older one, as well as Hilda's mother believing Ange to be the cause of all of her misfortune.
- Sylvia can walk just fine without her mana-powered wheelchair, but never do so until forced to by Ange. Despite Mana's supposed ability to heal any injuries, Sylvia's wheelchair may imply that such injuries without a way to heal (such as amputation) are not unheard of, but then again do to Sylvia's status as a princess it could be that she had been given a specially made chair just for her use only.
- Sylvia's last words in the series are "Fight" (戦い Tatakai) which poetically and karmically represent everything she and the World of Mana forced on her sister and what she must now do to survive, which is also what she forced on to her sister.
- In Super Robot Wars X, Sylvia gets a conclusion during the game true ending. She meets up with the rest of the 1st Mobile Squadron in the now ruined Misurugi and acting as the leader of the survivors overseeing the forsaken land. She is asked by Ange to give the squadron a patch of land so the whole squadron can open a cafe and live there, which Sylvia gladly complied as a way of making up for her past misdeeds. Sylvia is shown to have a much more stoic and responsible personality which pleased Ange.