Suiren is a character in the Tenchi Muyo! OVA continuity, mainly appearing in Tenchi Muyo! GXP, featuring much more prominently in the novels. She, along with her partners, Hakuren, Gyokuren, & Karen, eventually becomes a wife of Seina Yamada.
History
Suiren is the Fifth Princess of the Kingdom of Suire in the Renza Federation. Her real name is Lady Minamo Rensou Suire.
She, along with her Renza partners, becomes a Lady-in-waiting to Lady Seto. This was initially part of a plan to steal secrets, possibly a Juraian Royal Treeship, so they could gain enough power to battle the pirates in their home territory.
Suiren is a very quiet person, with a very 'thin' presence. It is eventually revealed that she had a bio-enhancement level of 10, the highest possible. This was a dangerous amount, to the point that it damaged her personality and could even damage her astral soul, leading to a sort of brain death. Why this had been done to her is unknown. This was adjusted by Washu, so as to relieve the strain on her. Because of the adjustment, she has become more noticeable and talkative, willing to share her opinions, but she tires easily if she talks for longer periods.
With her high level of enhancement, she has developed an affinity with machines and her anti-ship combat skills are very high. Although still not as good as Amane's.
Meeting Seina
Suiren and the others meet Seina much earlier in the novels than the anime, in fact the four of them escorted Seina and the others to Mikagami after he had gathered the pirates for Seto to capture and she had them follow him almost constantly. She served as a secret guard to Seina at the Academy, crew on his ships and even a maid in Amane's house with the other three.
Before her level was adjusted she could wander into a room with Seina without him noticing and observe him quietly. She was charmed at how hard he tried to keep his attention on her when she pointed out her presence to him.
When Suiren was with Seina on the vacation planet, Imuim (after her level had been adjusted), and each of the girls met with Seina separately to convince him that he could accept being in a romantic relationship, she was surprisingly forceful with him, telling him she was to spend the night together with him, offering to do more than sleep. and explaining in clear terms how strongly the four of them felt about him.
A Scandalous Wedding Day and Escape to Renza
On the day Seina was to marry Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko, and Neju, the girls revealed their true identities to him just as he was about to be married and took him aboard their ship to go to the Federation. The brides, infuriated, chased after on the Kamidake II.
In the anime, to make themselves faster, the girls got rid of their and Seina's clothes, as well as several items on their ship, The brides demanded him back, but they refused, claiming Seina had "eloped" with them and to prove it, proceeded to molest him on video in the full view of the various delegates and dignitaries who had been invited to the wedding. The anime ends with a flash forward of them all working together on the Kamidake II.
In the novels it was a more conventional kidnapping. The quartet escaped to Racepshi, a planet sized entertainment starship that they contracted to jump them from the Galactic Federation to Renza Federation territory, with Kiriko and the girls barely sneaking in before the jump.
Being a neutral area, both they and Kiriko's group can set up their headquarters there without having to commit to one Renza nation or run afoul of Galaxy Federation policies.
Suiren and the others only got a few fruitless trips with Seina and Zinv to find and take out space pirates, (being stopped each time by royal forces who claimed the pirates were their prey) before Seina was lost in a fight with HIMC, having to randomly jump to a location no one else knows the location of.
Suiren and the others now work with Kiriko and company on two fronts, to continue battling pirates and also to search for Seina. Flash forward sections do show all get back together and fight in tandem.
After the still ambiguous end of their time in Renza, Suiren and the others return to Earth and are now married to Seina (presumably done partially to solidify ties with Jurai and The Galaxy Federation).
Trivia
- Suiren has developed a great reverence for Seto, even changing her appearance to resemble her.
- In the anime, after their reveal as Renza Federation Agents, Suiren and the other girls wear nearly identical uniforms with only their sleeves having a different color. The colors are the same colors as the other girls' GP uniforms. Suiren & Kiriko in green, Karen & Amane in red, Gyokuren & Ryoko in orange, and Hakuren & Neju in yellow. In the final scene on the Kamidake the pairs a seating next to each other and appear to be doing the same duty. This does not correspond well with the situation in the novels where their specialties in these pairings do not exactly correspond to the girls they are paired to here.