Appears in: Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crash! (all)

Biography

Priss was born in November of the year 2012. Her family consisted of herself, her mother, and her father. They lived in a middle-class apartment in the Kanto region of Tokyo, Japan. Their lives were not exceptional in any way and Priss was perfectly happy for the first twelve years of her life.

In 2025, when Priss was twelve years of age, the Second Great Kanto Earthquake struck the area in which she lived. Her home was located almost directly on the epicenter of the earthquake. All her material goods were lost to the quake and the fires that resulted. More importantly, her parents died during the earthquake. Priss had no siblings or relatives to turn to so she was thrust into an orphanage in Tokyo where she, along with many thousands of other children, learned the meaning of hardships. She met with little or not individual attention from the men and women working at the orphanage. Her childhood went from wonderful to gloomy and painful in the span of a few days. Without anyone to turn to, Priss began to retreat further and further into herself, building up walls to block out the pain that she met with on a daily basis.

When Priss turned sixteen years old she found an outlet for her frustrations: Music. She discovered that she had a talent for writing songs and her love of singing gradually grew until she went out and began a semi-professional career in the nightclub circuits. She formed a group called Priss and the Replicants, named jokingly after the androids from the movie Blade Runner. When she was seventeen years old Priss joined a biker gang and continued with her singing. She and the leader of her gang became lovers. Priss was finally able to reach a point where she no longer wanted it all to end. Then her boyfriend learned about some of GENOM's more shadowy deals purely by accident. GENOM sent Brian J. Mason out to assassinate him. The AD. Police called the death a motorcycle accident despite the bullet hole in Priss' lover's back. Priss was angered to the point that, with a single gun and a switchblade, she was going to get revenge on the police and GENOM. She was stopped by a young woman named Sylia Stingray and after some of Sylia's own kind of persuasion (ie: the violent kind), Priss agreed to become the Knight Sabers' long range specialist.

Personality

Priss' personality is hard to pin down, but more often than not she seems embittered and something of a reactionary. She does not like to be judged or told what to do and will defy direct, logical orders from Sylia or anyone else if they do not suit her needs, or if she merely feels that they do not suit her needs. Priss is incredibly emotional and the slightest thing can set her off. Instead of bursting into years, however, Priss gets angry and chooses to take action. Nine times out of ten, that action nearly costs her her life.

Despite popular belief, Priss is really a very social woman. She makes the most friends outside of the Knight Sabers and is exceedingly loyal to anyone she considers a friend or a close companion. Priss is willing to give her life for someone else, as opposed Sylia, who would give someone else's life for her own sake. Most of what Priss does, she sees as being for friends, but in her own way she is very naive and foolish to think that anything she does will have any true effect on GENOM. While Sylia, Linna Yamazaki, and Nene Romanova know that they will not change the world drastically by being the Knight Sabers, Priss holds onto a dim hope that somehow, someday things will change because of what she does.

At one point in the series it is implied that Priss may be a lesbian or bisexual, but most people will agree that it happens only one time and is not an honest sexuality so much as an attraction to Sylvie as a person. It might also be useful to know that Sylvie normally throws off hormones five or six times as strong as those that humans do during sex. Therefore if Priss appears attracted to Sylvie, it has less to do with her sexuality and more to do with the way Sylvie was manufactured. Another theory about Priss that has no foundation is one that she hates Boomers with a passion. That is never suggested until Bubblegum Crash!. Finally, the idea that Priss is a Boomer can be done away with because Largo calls her a human ('ningen' in Japanese; you can listen for it), and she is called a human in source books.