Rebecca Bluegarden
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Kira Buckland (English) Foreign VAs
Ether Gear: Cat Leaper (original name: Leaper)
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"You can be friends with anyone! It doesn't matter if you're human or machine!!!"
An amateur B-Cuber from Planet Blue Garden who strives to hit one million subscribers for her video account, Aoneko Channel,note by traveling to different worlds and recording whatever interesting thing she can find. As the first human friend Shiki makes, she takes him along with her to explore the cosmos after all his robot friends suddenly turn on them. When Shiki decides to search for Mother, Rebecca eagerly goes along with his suggestion to record never-before-seen evidence of her existence, thinking it's her perfect ticket to online fame.
Rebecca is oftentimes just your average, cheery teenage girl, but turns into a vicious gunslinger when armed with an Ether blaster, her skills forged through countless hours dumped into FPS games. She eventually learns her own form of Ether Gear called "Cat Leaper", which enhances her speed and allows her to rewind time by a few moments, among a few other tricks she has only begun to grasp...
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- Ace Pilot: She's something of a gifted starfighter pilot, enough to handle her own against other pilots like Sylph/Kleene. Like her Improbable Aiming Skills, she gained this from playing games.
- Affectionate Nickname: A few of her fellow B-Cubers take to calling her "Becky" in Kodansha's translation as a sign of their growing admiration for her.
- Almost Kiss: In the Nero 66 arc, she and Shiki compelled to kiss when put under a love spell by one of Ijuna's red strings. Happy becomes a Moment Killer when he cuts the string before their lips touch, thinking it will snap them out of it. Unfortunately, the results are far worse, as it infects both with a Hate Plague.
- Animal-Eared Headband: She keeps a pair of fake cat ears around, which she wears for her videos.
- Animal Motifs: She's often represented by cats or depicted as a Cat Girl, and her Ether Gear is called Cat Leaper. "The Cat" is also an alias for her, referring to her ability to control time.
- Badass in Distress:
- During the Guilst arc, she's captured along with dozens of other B-Cubers thanks to being ambushed without warning. While in captivity, she leads the other women in figuring out a way to escape. She ends up needing to be rescued when Illega spots her, thanks to her having no weapons and falling victim to his paralytic toxin, but the next time they cross paths, she's able to swipe Illega's gun at the first opportunity and take him down herself.
- In the Belial Gore arc, she gets captured by Sylph/Kleene and brought to Drakken Joe after engaging her in a starfighter battle. She's ultimately forced to join Drakken's crew to spare her friends from a Fate Worse than Death, though Drakken has Weisz's arm amputated as compensation, and Shiki gets killed when he refuses to submit. She only escapes when her Ether Gear fully awakens, allowing her to jump into World No. 30 from before any of her friends try to face Drakken.
- Badass Normal: Subverted. Before she awakens her Ether Gear, she simply appears to be The Gunslinger with Improbable Aiming Skills who's fully capable of clearing out a room of enemies so long as she has access to an Ether gun. After that, however, Noah informs her that she always had the power of time leaping; she just didn't remember the times she used it prior to awakening her power as an Ether Gear.
- Bathing Beauty: She spends most of her time on the ship relaxing at the bath.
- Bathtub Bonding: She gets a fair bit of this Happy, and joined later by Homura, since they always share the Spa of Eden together.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She might be a friendly teenager, but she's a friendly teenager with a pair of guns, and she knows how to use them.
- Big Damn Reunion: By the end of the Lendard arc, she finally reunites with her parents, Connor and Rachel, whom she'd been separated from her entire life. It starts out with reservation on her end (her father for being a Dirty Old Man who worked for the Big Bad in at least one Universe, and her mother for being one of The Most Wanted in the cosmos), but after learning how they still love her and each other after all these years, she leaps into their arms crying Tears of Joy.
- Big Eater: She'll eat anything that looks delicious, no matter how much there is or how much she's already eaten. Just saying the word "delicious" will start her salivating.
- Boom, Headshot!: She prefers to deal with her opponents by shooting them in the head with her Happy Blasters. Luckily, these Ether bullets aren't lethal, but she gets her points across by putting a gun up to someone's head.
- Break the Cutie:
- She suffers horribly in the Guilst and Belial Gore arcs, where she's captured and left at the mercy of wretched villains who are willing to do horrific things to her and her friends. In the former, she pulls herself together rather quickly after a brief nervous breakdown, but in the latter, she's left a trembling, fear-consumed shell of her old self over watching Shiki get killed in front of her, which persists for a week before she gets sent back in time to help her friends undo it all.
- During the Nero 66 arc, Rebecca briefly leaps into her future self's body to discover she's lost her legs, and with them the ability to use Cat Leaper of her own will. The sight of her Artificial Limbs causes her to suffer a Freak Out before Future Shiki calms her down.
- Cat Girl: She designs her Digital Avatar on Digitalis to give herself the ears and tail of a cat. She also temporarily transforms into a Little Bit Beastly version when she's in the middle of a time leap or using Overdrive.
- Chekhov's Gun: When her Ether Gear first manifests during the Sun Jewel arc, it seems like little more than a convenient power-up for Rebecca that saves her from a pinch. In the Belial Gore arc, it's revealed to be the reason why Drakken Joe is pursuing the Edens Zero in the first place, and the reason why she or any of her friends are still alive, given that she can rewrite history with it.
- Child of Forbidden Love: Rebecca's parents are Captain Connor and Rachel, the Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire. Because Connor is an outsider of the church, a fanatic faction killed Connor and Rebecca in multiple timelines, with the result never changing as long as Rachel stayed with them. Eventually, Rachel was forced to abandon them both to create a world where they survived.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Downplayed. Her head isn't always in the clouds, but she can get lost in them easily when she sees something adorable or finds what she feels is the perfect video op.
- Damsel out of Distress:
- She's able to break herself free from Naughty Tentacles on two separate occasions thanks to having Happy by her side. The second instance is especially important, as Drakken would have absorbed her Cat Leaper this way if she didn't fight back.
- Invoked during the Miltz arc by Joker Helix, who puts her through an Escape Room Game to rescue Shiki and Professor Weisz, encouraging her to use her gaming smarts to free herself and her friends.
- Die or Fly: She awakens her Ether Gear for the first time when she gets clobbered by one of Nino's Ether fists to rewind time so she can dodge the attack. As she later discovers, she has always manifested these powers whenever she found herself in life-threatening situations over the last ten years, starting when she was about to be hit by the truck that maimed Happy, but she couldn't remember it.
- Double Meaning: She gives her Ether Gear the name "Leaper" because it enhances her leg power to enhance her jumping and speed. By sheer serendipity, she's able to keep this as part of the name after The Reveal that it allows her to perform a time leap.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Her first attempt at using Ether Gear causes her to carelessly fire a Kamehame Hadoken through the Edens Zero's skylight, nearly getting herself sucked out into the vacuum of space.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: To raise the stakes in the final arcs, Rebecca's Ether Gear loses its Time Rewind Mechanic in Universe Zero. She still has access to her Super-Speed and Overdrive, but her more inexperienced younger body isn't immediately adept for it, forcing her to rely on her normal guns once she remembers she carries weapons with her in this new timeline.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Downplayed. She appears to break out of being The Team Normal during the Sun Jewel arc, when her constant bathing in the Spa of Eden leads her to awaken her own form of Ether Gear, giving her great jumping skill and enhanced speed. After this, however, Rebecca learns from Noah that she's always had special powers, namely the power to rewind time, but was unaware of it prior to the Belial Gore arc.
- Feet-First Introduction: In the anime, what the viewer first sees of Rebecca is her legs as she sets foot on Granbell.
- Flat "What": This is Rebecca's kneejerk reaction in the Lendard arc when Connor tells her that he's her father.
- Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: At first, it seems like Rebecca is just the Alpha Bitch Labilia's designated bullying victim because Rebecca is one of the most unpopular and untalented B-Cubers in their guild. Later on, however, Rebecca reveals Labilia used to be her friend before her personality got awfully nasty. This is why, despite the cruel way Labilia insults and humiliates her at any chance, Rebecca can't truly hate her and will come to her aid when she's in trouble.
- Friend to All Living Things: She will accept any friendship whether it's with an animal, a robot, or both, owing this mindset to how she was able to continue her friendship with Happy after he was run over by a truck and revived as a machine when she was just a little girl.
- A Friend in Need:
- After Shiki saves her life from his rogue robot friends on Granbell, Rebecca proves herself to be a true friend by taking him aboard her ship to escape without any obligation to do so, even though he already offered to stay behind and hold them off.
- She proves herself to be this to her former friend Labilia, whom she jumps in to save from Drakken Joe even after all the horrible things the latter has done to her, before realizing Labilia was already saved by Amira to begin with.
- Future Me Scares Me: After Rebecca's second jump forward in time to a Bad Future, she's terrified of the state she find herself in, namely the fact that she's lost her legs and can no longer use Cat Leaper. Avoiding becoming this version of herself becomes a major point of drama and tension in the subsequent battles, as the possibility looms large in her head.
- Gamer Chick: She's a self-admitted gamer who spent most of her time playing with Happy over actually adventuring and working. An omake chapter also shows her dealing with the frustration of being mistaken for a G.I.R.L. in an online game.
- Genki Girl: She can get very excitable at times, especially when she discovers new inspiration for a video, with Happy being there to keep her grounded.
- Girlish Pigtails: She occasionally ties her hair into twin-tails that make look youthful and cheeky.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Rebecca is normally a very feminine Genki Girl who loves fashion and cats, but she adopts a much more masculine and crass attitude when shooting people up with her Happy Blasters.
- Goal in Life: Hers is to become the number one B-Cuber in the cosmos, starting by getting one million subscribers on B-Cube, the in-series version of YouTube. She has a long way to go as she starts out with barely over 100, hampered by her complete lack of aptitude that she never truly improves upon, but she thinks that filming a video of Mother, and later just outright using Mother's wish, will get her there. She finally achieves her goal over the Time Skip thanks to Couchpo's mentoring, which lets her hit triple her original goal.
- Going Commando: She spends the better half of the Sun Jewel arc without panties after they get snatched by Paul. Unfortunately for her, she's also wearing a skirt, leading Shiki to accidentally get a peek when they fight together...
- Guns Akimbo: She's quite skilled at this to accommodate for her twin Happy Blasters.
- The Gunslinger: She hits three of the four categories when it comes to handling an Ether blaster: the the Trick Shot for dishing out headshots against at least a dozen thugs in a row; the Vaporizer whenever a single shot won't cut it; and the Woo not only from dual-wielding, but being able to land headshots while upside-down and in midair.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: Rebecca gets flustered when Xenolith calls her a "girl captivated by gravity", assuming that he means she's "into" Shiki and denying the very thought of it.
- Heroic BSoD: In the Belial Gore arc, Rebecca spends an entire week in a stupor after Shiki is killed by Drakken Joe, not eating or speaking, and unable to feel anything other than overwhelming fear of Drakken to the point of entering a panic the moment her room's doors open.
- Heroic RRoD: The skin on Rebecca's cheek begins to chip like porcelain whenever she uses her Time Rewind Mechanic more than twice in a row, though it heals after a few moments. Using it any more times than that causes more of her body to fracture, and it takes longer for her to heal, as demonstrated when she fruitlessly tries reversing time to a point before Witch's death for two days straight, leaving half her body covered in cracks.
- High Hopes, Zero Talent: Despite her lofty aspirations to be a famous B-Cuber, she is a complete amateur who relies almost exclusively on recording whatever random thing catches her interest. This results in videos that are too scattershot and unstructured, making her an easy target of mockery from Labilia. As for what she considers to be "good" content, it ranges from letting Shiki fly her ship with no experience to having him dance in a bunny girl costume, which gives her friends a firm grasp of why her videos are so unpopular. She overcomes this over the Time Skip when her more experienced B-Cuber friend Couchpo mentors her, not only improving her craft, but boosting her subscriber count to 3 million, three times more than her initial goal.
- Holographic Terminal: Her necklace die contains a B-Cube terminal that lets her record, upload, and watch videos.
- Honor Before Reason: Zig-Zagged. Her pride as a gamer leads her to strongly resist using cheats against Jamilov in the Digitalis arc, despite Young Weisz's sound argument that Jamilov is using cheats to thrash them himself, though she makes an equally strong counterpoint that they'd risk getting themselves banned from the game before they have a chance to save Hermit. In the Nero 66 arc, on the other hand, she uses her Ether Gear to cheat in Lyra's Lost Card game without hesitation, knowing that she could lose her legs along with her time-leaping ability if she fails.
- I Know Mortal Kombat: Every single combat skill she knows, from shooting to starship piloting, was acquired from playing video games for Mother knows how long. The former is Truth in Television, as people who use real guns for the first time after aiming for the head in First-Person Shooter games are prone to do the same in real life; the latter is more of a stretch.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Thanks to her skill in FPS games, she's able to perform no fewer than a dozen headshots within a matter of moments. This is noted as an uncanny skill for a marksman, since a person's head is too small and evasive to serve as a practical target.
- In a Single Bound: Her Ether Gear focuses all of her Ether into her legs, which allows her to jump great distances on top of giving her Super-Speed and superpowered kicks.
- Interspecies Friendship: She is a believer that whether one is human, animal, or machine doesn't matter when it comes to being friends, which stems from her own friendship with Happy, an alien cat who was turned into a machine.
- It's Personal: When fighting Drakken Joe's crew again in Universe Zero, Rebecca decides to go after Daichi to settle the score with him for torturing her in Universe 1.
- Kick Chick: Whenever she isn't armed with an Ether blaster, or when bullets don't work on an enemy, her next option is to kick them. It's partially because of this that she gains a form of Ether Gear that focuses all of her Ether into her legs, making her kicks magically charged and powerful enough to send a grown man flying.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: While she has a mean temper, she's a sweetheart who is dear friends with Happy and melts over anything that remotely looks like a cat.
- Leg Focus: Several of her fanservice shots are centered around her legs. Her official character profile also lampshades this, making "Leg Sexiness" as her custom stat and scoring her a perfect 5-star. In-Universe, Rebecca is known to invoke this: when she wants to draw more viewers in, she’ll break out the really short skirt.
- Leotard of Power: Her Overdrive after the three-year Time Skip transforms Rebecca's clothes into a leotard that fully exposes the Ether Gear on her legs.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: She often gives the impression of an ordinary teen out of her depth, but the instant she takes hold of her Happy Blasters, she turns into a master-class marksman.
- Living Emotional Crutch: She becomes Shiki's main emotional support as their journey gets more difficult. She's the only one who can snap Shiki out of his Heroic BSoD after Witch dies, and comforting him helps Shiki accept that he has to move on from their loss.
- Loser Protagonist: Like Shiki, she's at the bottom rung of the Shooting Starlight guild, and she's spent most of her time either making weird online videos or holing herself up playing games.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Anytime Rebecca activates Cat Leaper, her footwear gets obliterated from the sheer power released and she winds up barefoot, with everything up to the shins in tatters. Rebecca later has the foresight to take off her footwear before using her Ether Gear so it doesn't get ruined.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: Because of her Mental Time Travel power, she is heavily desired by Drakken Joe, who chases after the Edens Zero to extract her power for his own purposes.
- Magical Barefooter: Her Ether Gear is located at her legs. Therefore, she usually needs to be barefoot when she activates it. Her Overdrive also leaves her barefoot.
- Meaningful Rename: Originally, Rebecca just calls her Ether Gear "Leaper" because it enhances her jumping power and gives her Super-Speed. However, it gets redubbed "Cat Leaper" in regards to her true nature as "the Cat", whose actual power is to leap through time.
- Mental Time Travel: Her Ether Gear's true power sends her consciousness back in time to an earlier point whenever she is killed or enters a life-threatening situation. Up to "World No. 29" (the 29th timeline created from her time leaping over the past 10 years), she barely retains anything from previous timelines, but is still able instinctively avoid or change whatever put her in danger. After entering World No. 30 and fully awakening her power, however, she has complete Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory.
- Mercury's Wings: The markings for her Ether Gear are shaped like wings and manifest on her legs.
- Mood-Swinger: When the opportunity to fight arises, she turns from a Genki Girl into a Hot-Blooded Lad-ette and back in the blink of an eye.
- Ms. Fanservice: Shots of Rebecca tend to be set up to emphasize her large breasts, butt, and legs.
- Mysterious Past: Apart from being an avid B-Cuber who was abandoned as a child and grew up with an android cat, Rebecca doesn't know very much about herself, let alone why she has the power of Mental Time Travel. She's eventually revealed to be a Child of Forbidden Love between Captain Connor and Saintfire Nox, the time-manipulating Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, which forced the latter to abandon her to keep her safe from her cult's more fanatical members.
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- Named After Their Planet: Similar to what she does with Shiki, Rebecca modifies the name of her home planet, Blue Garden, into her surname.
- Necessary Drawback: In order to keep her Time Rewind Mechanic from being too overpowered, Rebecca discovers several limits to it. The first is that she can only consciously rewind time back up to a few minutes; the second is that once she's winded back to a "point", it becomes an anchor that she can't go past; and third, she can only use it two or three times in a short period of time, as any more after that not only causes fatigue, but her body starts to crack apart. She also notes this particular application of her power is separate from the week-long jump she made during the Belial Gore arc, which she still doesn't know how to use at will.
- Nice Girl: She becomes quick friends with Shiki after only a short bit of friction, is wholly unbiased in any relationships between humans and robots (largely due to her own experiences with Happy), brings him along on their journey across the universe when he wants to make more friends beyond his planet, and sticks her neck out to save a friend-turned-bully because she doesn't have it in her to actually hate her.
- No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Rebecca gets a huge popularity boost following a shout-out from all the popular B-Cubers she had a hand in rescuing from Guilst. She's not bothered in the slightest that her videos are getting downvoted due to their trashy content, seeing it as the perfect chance to make better videos now that she has the attention.
- Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: Rebecca hates cheating to the point where she doesn't want to cheat even if her opponent is. However, when the stakes are raised in the Lost Card game, she uses Reverse to cheat before she even knows that Lyra is cheating herself. While she does discover Lyra's trick and outsmarts her, Rebecca doesn't reveal the only way it was possible was through her own cheat.
- Obliviously Superpowered: Rebecca is The Team Normal early in the series, but gradually develops her own Ether Gear which grants her brief bursts of Super-Speed. Then comes the Belial Goer arc, where she goes through a Traumatic Superpower Awakening over watching Drakken Joe execute Shiki in front of her, unlocking her power of Mental Time Travel for her to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. Later, Master Noah informs her that she's always had this power, and had been unconsciously using it every time her life was threatened without any memories of having done so.
- Parental Abandonment: She'd been living on her own with Happy since she was just a little girl before meeting Shiki, reasoning that she was abandoned by her parents. It's eventually revealed both she and her father, Connor, were abandoned by her mother, Saintfire Nox/Rachel: Connor when Rebecca was a newborn, and Rebecca when she was a few years older. Rebecca is able to forgive her mother after learning Rachel gave up her family for their protection.
- Power Degeneration: Her Reverse ability damages her body when she tries using it three or more times in a row, suffering an unbearable headache and causing cracks to appear on her face. When she overuses her power in an effort to prevent Witch's death, a huge portion of her upper body becomes fractured.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: Her hair changes color from ash blonde to white when she uses Overdrive.
- Power Incontinence: She briefly has no control over her Ether Gear when she tries using it for the first time in Universe Zero, leading Ether to rocket out of her leg and propel her skyward into the ceiling almost the exact same way she did in Universe 1. She manages to get the hang of it by the time they face Drakken Joe, however.
- Plucky Girl: She's capable of pulling through just about any hardship with a smile on her face in the end. She does, however, come close to getting broken after getting kidnapped and suffering a Trauma Conga Line in the Guilst Arc, though she's emotionally resilient enough to remain strong for the other kidnapped B-Cubers until they're all safe.
- Prehensile Tail: She grows a cat's tail that she can use as an extra limb when she's in her Overdrive form.
- Protectorate: Shiki is very protective of Rebecca, as she's the first human friend he ever made. He's so angry at the mere idea of Rebecca being hurt that he refuses to accept Noah as his friend because he put Rebecca in danger.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": Following a Flat "What", she has this to say in the Lendard arc when Connor gives her permission to call him "Daddy" upon revealing himself as her father.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: She becomes one for Labilia by the three-year Time Skip. Labilia was originally inspired by Rebecca's enthusiasm in making her videos, but once she became popular, Labilia was disappointed in Rebecca for never improving her craft, and started cruelly bullying her to take her frustration out on her. When they meet again on Dahlia, Rebecca's career has become a rousing successful while Labilia has become stagnant, and her incurable disease has compelled her to make amends with Rebecca before she retires her account and dies. Against Labilia's expectations, Rebecca forgives her and invites her to the Edens Zero so Sister can treat her so they can properly start over as friends.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She gets annoyed when her clothes get destroyed or stolen, which happens way more often than she would like.
- Remembered I Could Fly: Because her memories of her life in Universe Zero are jumbled up with her "mainline" self, Rebecca completely misses the fact that, despite Happy no longer being a robot and therefore can't transform into Ether Blasters, she still has regular pistols to defend herself with. She only realizes this when Happy himself desperately searches his own Universe Zero memories of how Rebecca would defend herself while she's being tortured by Daichi.
- Retroactive Precognition: Thanks to Cat Leaper's Mental Time Travel ability, Rebecca can gather information from the future and warn her crewmates about the bad things and unforeseen threats in the previous loop.
- The Rest Shall Pass: While storming the Belial Gore in Universe Zero, Rebecca stays behind to take on Daichi so he won't target the rest of the crew, and so she can get even for what went down in Universe 1.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Zig-Zagged. It's indicated by Drakken that Shiki's Satan Gravity is what causes her memories of World No. 29 to "fall" into World No. 30, as well as to fully awaken her power in the first place. Before that, Rebecca never retained any of her memories from previous time leaps.
- Satisfied Street Rat: She spent her childhood scraping by on the streets of Blue Garden with no family to speak of, but her flashbacks with Happy show that the two were perfectly content living together.
- Shameful Strip:
- She is subjected to this in the Guilst arc by Illega, who disintegrates hers and the other kidnapped B-Cubers' clothes with acid foam as a prelude to turning them into literal furniture.
- In the Nero 66 arc, Lyra forces her to play a card game where the loser of each round also loses an article of clothing, with the loser overall also losing a body part. Rebecca gets stripped totally bare before rewinding time, saving herself from any further indignity.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Downplayed. Rebecca wears a shorter skirt for when she wants to attract viewers for her channel, but she draws the line at unwanted groping and peeping, and she censors her holographic videos for whenever someone tries getting a look up her skirt.
- Shorttank: She's the female co-star in a Shōnen series who wears Fanservice-y outfits that often include tank tops, miniskirts and shorts, is fairly girly and loves cats, yet has a hot temper no one wants to mess with, and is one hell of a shooter.
- Shower of Angst: After her week-long Heroic BSoD in the Belial Gore arc, Rebecca takes an overdue shower as she breaks down in tears over all she and her friends have been put through.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Rebecca starts off fancying herself as an internet celebrity who needs to go Clark Kenting in public, even though she hardly has any views on her channel.
- Story-Breaker Power: Her Ether Gear's true power is that of Mental Time Travel, which allows Rebecca to jump further back than her usual Time Rewind Mechanic and undo deadly outcomes for her and her friends. To keep up the tension in the story, Rebecca is unable to fully this power on her own accord the same way her eventually learns to master her rewind power, which is itself a limited ability that takes a harsh toll on her body through constant use.
- Street Urchin: She grew up on the streets of Blue Garden after being separated from her parents, if not abandoned by them, and used to live in a shack on the outskirts of the city, with only Happy to keep her company.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Rebecca strongly takes after her mother, Saintfire Nox/Rachel, in looks.
- Super-Speed: Rebecca's Cat Leaper gives her greater speed than Weisz's Arsenal Suit, which she can impart with vehicles she operates.
- Superpower Lottery: Rebecca's Ether Gear has a built-in Time Rewind Mechanic on top of Super-Speed, which is considerably more impressive than most of her crewmates' abilities. However, she quickly discovers during a reckless test drive of her powers that using it too many times continuously gives her a splitting headache and causes her skin to crack, revealing that her power has a limit.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Rebecca's Time Ether is inherited from her mother, Rachel, who comes from a long line of powerful time users from the Church of Saintfire.
- Sympathy for the Devil: As much of an insufferable Alpha Bitch as Labilia is, Rebecca is horrified to the point of tears when she sees Labilia reduced to a bloodied mess because of Drakken Joe's Cold-Blooded Torture. Although it later turns out Labilia was actually spared from the torture thanks to Amira, Rebecca still feels responsible for her capture.
- The Team Normal: Subverted. She starts out as seemingly the only human member of the core team who doesn't have Ether Gear, but makes up for it by being a Badass Normal Gunslinger who can fight on equal footing with her friends. However, she spends a good portion of the story working to break out of this by learning her own Ether Gear, which ultimately pays off in the Sun Jewel arc. After that, though, she learns she's had her powers since she was a little girl; she just didn't consciously know about them until the Belial Gore arc.
- Tears of Joy:
- In the Belial Gore arc, she cries out of happiness and relief after she activates her Cat Leaper and is sent back to before her friends boarded Drakken's ship, believing the horrors she went through were All Just a Dream.
- She, Shiki, and Happy share this reaction twice in Universe Zero: once when they gain their memories of past Universes upon meeting for the first time, and again when they relive their first encounter with an alive-and-well Witch.
- Time Rewind Mechanic: Cat Leaper comes with a time-rewind ability she later calls "Reverse", which manifests when she first awakens her Ether Gear after getting dealt a lethal blow during her fight with Nino on Sun Jewel, letting her dodge the attack. While experimenting with this power on Foresta, she learns that a.) it can only rewind time by one or two minutes at most, b.) each Reverse creates an anchor that she can't move beyond, and c.) using it too frequently puts a serious tax on her body. This is treated as a completely separate technique from her one-week time leap to escape from Drakken in the Belial Gore arc, where she feels the entire world move rather than time going backwards.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Invoked in the Guilst arc as she plays the part out of defiance while she's captured. When being blasted by her bindings from Ganoff in an attempt to break her and curb any rebellion from the other B-Cubers, Rebecca endures it pretty well and starts rambling about how she could use this scene for a video, and the potential of this being flagged for "inappropriate content."
- Took a Level in Badass: She turns from a Badass Normal to Empowered Badass Normal when she awakens her "Leaper" Ether Gear during the Sun Jewel arc, which allows her to take down one of the Zaiten Three, Madame Kurenai's most powerful warriors.
- Trauma Button: Simply seeing Drakken Joe's face after he killed Shiki in World No. 29 causes her to freeze up and cry from fear.
- Trauma Conga Line:
- She suffers pretty badly in the Guilst arc, where she's enslaved, sexually harassed, stripped of her clothes, paralyzed, and forced to kneel under Illega's foot. While she seems to pull through it all mostly unaffected, she suffers a brief and sudden emotional breakdown from her experiences once she's safe and sound on the Edens Zero.
- The Belial Gore arc makes her experience on Guilst seem tame in comparison, as she gets kidnapped by Drakken Joe, tortured when one of his men goes Off the Wagon, loses Happy when Drakken pawns him off to a junk shop, and is Forced to Watch in horror as Weisz gets his arm chopped off and Shiki gets shot dead right in front of her. Although she's treated nicely by Drakken after that, it's enough to send her into a Heroic BSoD for an entire week, unable to feel anything besides fear of Drakken until she reunites with her friends in the next timeline.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Two traumatizing incidents in her life lead her to develop her Mental Time Travel ability: the first was nearly dying in the same car accident that almost claimed Happy's life ten years ago, and the second is during a week-long Heroic BSoD that resulted from witnessing Shiki's death at the hands of Drakken Joe.
- The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Captain Connor looks like a fat old man, making it quite unexpected that he's the biological father of the Ms. Fanservice Rebecca.
- Unknown Rival: She serves as this for Universe Zero's version of Daichi, who tortured her in Universe 1 but has no idea who she is in this world because they never met before.
- Unpleasant Parent Reveal: Zig-Zagged between her parents, Captain Connor and Saintfire Nox (a.k.a. Rachel).
- Her father is downplayed. Rebecca was majorly annoyed and creeped out by Connor to begin with for being a Dirty Old Man, and she had misgivings over him fighting on the Big Bad's side in Universe 2, so learning that they're related is hard for her to accept. However, she quickly understands that he was just as much a victim of abandonment by her mother as she was, and loved her enough to search high and low for her for as long as she was alive, leading Rebecca to embrace him as her father.
- Her mother is a full subversion. At first, Rebecca is wary of her for being one of the Oración Seis Galáctica and a cult leader who left both her and her husband. As Rachel explains, however, her position and criminal title were both forced upon her, and abandoning her family was a desperate last resort to protect them after failing to prevent their deaths in other timelines. While Rebecca doesn't fully excuse her for how much better she could've handled it (it's because Rachel entrusted her to shady, self-serving caretakers that Rebecca became a Street Urchin), she ultimately forgives Rachel and accepts her as her mother.
- Verbal Tic: When in full Guns Akimbo mode in Japanese, Rebecca ends her sentences with "zeyo", a comically super-masculine particle. Kodansha's translation opts to capture that level of weirdness by having her call people "ducky", which is essentially the British equivalent of "darling" or "honey".
- Weak, but Skilled: Despite her expert firearm prowess, she still sees fit to recruit Shiki as a bodyguard on account of his superior strength. In terms of Ether Gear, however, she drifts into Strong, but Unskilled, since her Ether Gear can change the laws of the cosmos by rewinding time, but she can't control when it happens.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: She firmly believes Androids Are People, Too, and is brought to tears when she sees people and machines commit terrible acts against each other just because they don't believe friendship is possible between them.
- You Are Number 6: Drakken addresses her as "No. 29" during their first personal encounter, as he is informed of her alias by Noah. This number relates to the amount of time leaps she's made throughout her life, with Drakken calling her "No. 30" when Rebecca makes another leap to prevent the crew's disastrous loss against Drakken.
Tropes exclusive to other worlds (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)
Rebecca's Nightmare
Rebecca Bluegarden (Unknown Universe)
A version of Rebecca from the main Rebecca's recurring dreams of a harrowing future, which turn out to be a real alternate world she travels to in her sleep.
- An Arm and a Leg: This version of Rebecca has lost both of her legs from some unknown cause, taking her ability to use Cat Leaper with them.
- Artificial Limbs: She has metal prosthetics in place of her missing legs.
- De-power: The loss of her legs also comes with the loss of her time-leaping Ether Gear, which manifests in her feet.
- Grand Theft Me: She suffers an unintended version twice from the mainline Rebecca, who initially thinks they're just dreams: first in the Belial Gore arc, where she and Shiki are in the middle of a warzone with robotic drones; and again in the Nero 66 arc, where she's stuck in a coma after losing her legs, making Shiki think for a moment that his world's Rebecca has recovered.
- Real After All: What Rebecca assumes to just be herself in a nightmare turns out to be her Alternate Self in a Bad Future.
The Distant Future
Rebecca Bluegarden (Universe 3173)
Technically Universe 2's Rebecca, she was catapulted 20,000 years into the future of this Universe along with Shiki during the Aoi War. Having died by the time her body was discovered, her preserved body was extracted of its time-travel Ether by the minds who constructed the Edens Zero, who amplified it and loaded it back onto the ship as Etherion.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Zig-Zagged. Rebecca's body was said to be found covered head to toe in radiation burns, but the scientists who recovered her managed to restore her physical appearance to pristine beauty by the time she's shown, leaving the extent of the damage unseen.
- Chekhov's Gun: Her B-Cube, which is seen in Chapter 4 unearthed along with her body 20,000 years in the future. Not only does the engraving of the Edens Zero's name on it serve as a partial inspiration for the ship's name when it's built in the future, but the cube itself is chosen by the ship's architects as the container for Etherion.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She's first mentioned as an unidentified human corpse found by a pair of androids in Chapter 4, with her B-Cube being the only clue to her identity before it's confirmed 200 chapters later. On top of that, she turns out to be the source of Etherion.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: This version of Rebecca did not survive the spacetime explosion that blasted her and Shiki into the distant future.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Although she's dead, her Ether keeps her body from decomposing, leaving her perfectly preserved—and naked—for decades.
- Human Resources: Etherion was created from the last traces of this Rebecca's Ether, which was extracted from her body, amplified, contained within her B-Cube, and sealed behind closed doors aboard Edens Zero as "Code 3173", giving the ship the ability to move through time.
- Recurring Element: Rebecca's connection to Etherion and the number 3173 are elements that Mashima used with the main heroine of Rave Master, Elie, combined with Mavis's connection to Fairy Heart in Fairy Tail, though the overall usage is different from either series. Explanation (Rave Master and Fairy Tail spoilers)
The Final World
Rebecca Bluegarden (Universe Zero)
- Brought Down to Normal: Due to the Cosmic Retcon caused by traveling to Universe Zero, Rebecca loses her Ether Gear since she couldn't use it until after she met Shiki. She gets it back again after regaining her memories from the previous worlds, but it takes time for her body to adjust to it, and she's permanently lost her time-leaping power, leaving her with Super-Speed.
- If Only You Knew: When the Aqua Wing's controls start resisting her directions as she passes Granbell by, she feels as though her ship is being pulled towards the planet, but immediately brushes it off. When she gets her memories back upon meeting Shiki, she realizes it really was being pulled in, specifically by Shiki's gravity, so the two could meet each other.
- In Spite of a Nail: The only truly major change in her life is that Happy avoids his accident that led to the two meeting Professor Weisz. Thanks to the Universe's attempt to maintain some sort of consistency, however, she and the professor wind up meeting anyway under different circumstances.
