Her next relationship was with Sylvie, a biker girl who actually was a runaway 33-S sexaroid, and also ended in tragedy. After her boyfriend was killed and his death declared insignificant by the police (giving her a dislike for the law enforcement), she attempted to hunt down the killers, but she was recruited into the Sabers instead. She is an orphan of the 2025 Kantō earthquake, who joined a biker gang. She shares a budding friendship with AD Policeman Leon McNichol. In Crisis, Crash, and the 2040 series, Priss is a rock singer besides being a motorcyclist her rock band's name, "Priss and the Replicants", is a direct reference to Blade Runner. In the Crisis series, her Hard Suit also combines with her Motoslave (a motorcycle that transforms into an automated mecha or an exosuit) to combat more-advanced Boomers.
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Asagiri, プリス Purisu) is the moody and defiant 19-year-old member of the Knight Sabers, fighting boomers with ferocious abandon in her slick dark blue Hard Suit, which features a railgun in the right hand as well as a laser gun in the original series and her signature knuckle bombers (explosive charges in both hands of her hard suit) in both series in the Bubblegum Crash series the suit becomes a modular core system to which a variety of selective heavy weapons can be attached. Sylia is voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara in Japanese and Jemila Ericson in English in the original series, and Satsuki Yukino and Laura Chapman in the 2040 series. Also, unlike her stoic original self, Sylia is more flirtatious and playful on the surface, but prone to violent mood-swings when not in public. Unlike the original series, in the 2040 story Sylia finances the team completely, and pays the other women double combat pay for tougher enemies.
The first team used more conventional hardsuits and were killed in combat. It is also revealed in the 2040 series that the Knight Sabers are the 2nd team she has led. In the 2040 series, Sylia takes a less active role, only suiting up occasionally for particular tough enemies, or for personal vendettas. In the spin-off comic Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal and the 2040 series, it is suggested that Sylia's brain was augmented by her father with Boomer-related technology, making her a human/Boomer hybrid. Several questions about Sylia and her origins are raised in the series, but, due to the incompletion of the OVA series, never conclusively answered. In the Bubblegum Crash sequel series, she refurnishes her business into a high-class fashion boutique. Her civilian vehicle is a red Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing coupe. Her primary business is the lingerie shop "Silky Doll" she personally runs, housed in her private building, Lady's 633, on whose top is also her penthouse apartment functioning as the Knight Sabers' base of operations. Professionally, Sylia is a wealthy businesswoman whose business ventures, aside from the mercenaries' fee, finance the team.
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She wears a blue and silver Hard Suit equipped with retractable sword blades in the forearms, laser cannons in the palms and wings for full flight capability. Mason, and his death was covered up as an accident, but an unknown individual managed to send Sylia a data unit, providing her with Genom's future plans and the technological means of creating the Knight Sabers' hardsuits. He was murdered by Genom executive Brian J. Katsuhito Stingray, the man who originally created the boomers.
Very calm and cool-headed, she does not show much emotion. Sylia Stingray ( シリア・スティングレイ, Shiria Sutingurei) (spelled Silia in Bubblegum Crisis) is the 22-year-old ringleader of the Knight Sabers.