Ringo Noyamano

Ringo Noyamano (野山野 林檎, Noyamano Ringo) is the female protagonist, Ikki's childhood friend, and a member of the Noyamano family that adopted Ikki into their household. However, behind her seemingly plain and unimpressive guise of a junior high school student, she is actually the successor and leader of the legendary team, Sleeping Forest. She is the current Thorn Queen of the eight "Kings" in the AT world. She helps Kogarasumaru in times of trouble under the guise of "Croissant Mask" (Croissant Kamen), Kogarasumaru's No. 1 Supporter, though Agito and Simca know who it is. She has since passed this role onto Kururu Sumeragi. Ringo is a King Class A-T Rider, wielding the techniques of Sonia Road; meaning she, using hyperventilation to fill her joints with air bubbles, employs superhuman agility while riding, at the price of suffering extreme pain while she does this. Ringo is a young teenage girl of average height with long red-purple hair down to her waist that she usually has in two pigtails and short fringe in the front. She wears a variety of clothes other than short shirts and mini-skirts or jeans most of the time and sometimes a hat on her head. She has a petite and well endowed figure and large bust. While dressed as Croissant Mask, Ikki saw her butt and thought she was Simca. She frequently wore glasses in the beginning of the series but eventually stopped wearing them. Ringo is usually friendly, kind, and polite towards others and her family. She gets along well with others and tries to help them whenever she can. She's one of the smartest students in her school and regularly studies to keep her grades up. She gets very irritated by others perverted (usually Ikki and his team) antics and responds with violence by punching or kicking, showing she can be quite violent when shown. She can be stubborn and quick tempered when pushed, such as when others upset her or she's embarrassed, she can lash out to others (usually Ikki and company). Ringo has an alter ego called "Croissant Mask" which she dons to help team Kogarasumaru when they are in a tight pinch. Only Agito and Simca know who it is and she seems embarrassed to use her outfit for her alter ego. She only does it so Ikki won't recognize her because of her feelings for him. However, when Simca stole her outfit (and replaced it with a more revealing outfit) she was angry that Simca did it, but Simca pointed out she did it not as a prank, but to teach Ringo a lesson as to not keep interfering with Ikki's team because they never asked for it and it would only keep hurting their pride if Ringo kept secretly helping them. This shows that Ringo wants to help her friends any way she can. Despite her kind nature, Ringo has shown a rather cruel, ruthless, and rather remorseless side when it comes to a fight against her enemies. This was first shown when she (and Sleeping Forest) attacked Simca out of nowhere and left her half dead and crippled for six months. She even fought Ikki to prove a point and almost killed him when she fought seriously and didn't show remorse on her part despite her feelings for him. Ikki considered her a traitor for what she did to Simca and fought to prove Sleeping Forest's true intentions (because she didn't want to be enemies with Ikki). She views A-T as weapons as well as the people who use them. And believes A-T would be so much more fun if she could run without having to risk her life in a battle in the process. She wishes that it wasn't necessary to keep sharpening skills and abilities that can hurt people. She finds it to be dangerous yet so beautiful. Ringo has shown to be in love with Ikki, a theme that has been seen in effect throughout the series. She kissed him after the Wind King Versus Thorn Queen fight (and slapped him afterwards when he left her home), which she initiated to stop his ascension into Kingship, once Genesis offered to be Kogarasumaru's underlings, which would effectively make Kogarasumaru and Sleeping Forest mortal enemies. Later, she confesses her love to him (in disguise, as Croissant Mask). Ikki has shown some reaction to these last two, going as far as to ask her to be his tuner and later kissing her. However, despite her love for him, Ringo has shown some interest in Canon in the beginning because he was her tuner and he has romantic interest in her himself. That seems to have past due to the recent events and because Ringo confessed her love for Ikki and Ikki has seemed to have shown some romantic love for her as well, such as stating she's always been the closest one to him. Ringo is mortal enemies with Simca and Kururu due to all of them also being in love with Ikki. Simca due to Ikki being so strong in so little moments and how she strongly believes in him and Kururu due to her understanding Ikki's feelings towards his friends and how determined he is in fights. Ringo gets rather annoyed and jealous when Ikki is around other girls (usually Simca) and stops it from going too far (again, usually Simca). Ringo was also stopping Ikki from going to be apart of Genesis possibly because Simca was apart of that team and didn't want to see Ikki get close to her due to Ikki showing romantic interest in her such as how he asks Simca out on a "date" after everything was over, leaving Ringo possibly upset and jealous. Whether Ikki will go out with Simca at the end or not is unknown. Ringo doesn't think much of herself but thinks very highly of Ikki. In the beginning of the series, she was concerned about Ikki as well as his teammates. And has even attempted to help them on a few occasions despite the fact she wasn't suppose to as it goes against the rules and laws of Sleeping Forest and the tower. However, she has always stated that Ikki can fly higher than anyone else. Ringo states that Ikki is amazing and impressive. However, she does not think she can do things like Ikki. Being knocked down over and over at the same place and repeating failures again and again thinking Ikki must have been driven crazy and still never giving up. She thinks she has lived a meaningless life. Kilik has even stated that it sounds like she is weeping when she runs and should smile once in a while. She has always been hoping that someone would say "come with me" so that that person could break her meaningless life once and for all. Which Ikki did. Ringo has since truly started running and doesn't want to regret. Doing so stopped her from feeling ashamed of having done nothing all day. And states only she could get rid of the old her who was bored and useless. Simca has stated that Ikki's willpower has gone into Ringo.