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Description
Present is a character from Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas, the side-story visual novel and animated episode set during the Lost Christmas catastrophe of 2029. She is one of three assassins, collectively described as the Christmas ghosts, who are dispatched by the secret organization Da'ath to pursue Scrooge and Carol, the story's central fugitives. Alongside her partners Past and Yet to Come, she is known as the Ghost of Christmas Present. Like Scrooge, she is an experimental subject, created through Da'ath's enhanced genome experiments connected to the Apocalypse Virus, and she bears a notable resemblance to Gai Tsutsugami, a figure tied to the broader Guilty Crown storyline.
In appearance, Present is a beautiful young woman with long blonde hair and blue eyes, usually dressed in a black outfit trimmed with white fur and accented with a red bow. Her gender is presented ambiguously in the source material; despite her feminine appearance, she speaks using the masculine pronoun "boku" in the original Japanese, and different accounts either describe her as a girl or leave her gender unconfirmed.
Her personality is defined by an intense and persistent fixation on Scrooge. She pursues him relentlessly and is described as obsessively attached to him, an attachment that runs deeper than simple professional duty. Her stated mission as a Da'ath operative is to capture or eliminate Scrooge and Carol, but her personal interest in Scrooge, who shares her background as an experiment subject, gives her pursuit a distinctly obsessive quality. She also embraces the ghostly theme of her work, referring to herself and her partners as spirits of Christmas.
In the story, Present serves as the most prominent of the three ghosts, repeatedly confronting Scrooge and Carol as they flee through the chaos of the outbreak. Her connection to Scrooge is central to her role: both are products of Da'ath's experiments, and her fixation on him hints at a shared history that the story only partially reveals. Her relationship with Carol is hostile, since Carol acts as Scrooge's companion and protector, while her relationship with Past and Yet to Come is that of fellow operatives serving the same organization.
Present's notable abilities come from her mastery of the Apocalypse Virus. She can manipulate the virus to transform people around her into a cancer-like state, and she can freely control AP crystals, the crystallized form of the virus, using them for both attack and defense. These powers make her a dangerous opponent even within the devastated setting of Lost Christmas. Because the work is short, her development is limited; she remains a persistent and mysterious antagonist throughout, with her fate closely tied to that of Scrooge and Carol.
In appearance, Present is a beautiful young woman with long blonde hair and blue eyes, usually dressed in a black outfit trimmed with white fur and accented with a red bow. Her gender is presented ambiguously in the source material; despite her feminine appearance, she speaks using the masculine pronoun "boku" in the original Japanese, and different accounts either describe her as a girl or leave her gender unconfirmed.
Her personality is defined by an intense and persistent fixation on Scrooge. She pursues him relentlessly and is described as obsessively attached to him, an attachment that runs deeper than simple professional duty. Her stated mission as a Da'ath operative is to capture or eliminate Scrooge and Carol, but her personal interest in Scrooge, who shares her background as an experiment subject, gives her pursuit a distinctly obsessive quality. She also embraces the ghostly theme of her work, referring to herself and her partners as spirits of Christmas.
In the story, Present serves as the most prominent of the three ghosts, repeatedly confronting Scrooge and Carol as they flee through the chaos of the outbreak. Her connection to Scrooge is central to her role: both are products of Da'ath's experiments, and her fixation on him hints at a shared history that the story only partially reveals. Her relationship with Carol is hostile, since Carol acts as Scrooge's companion and protector, while her relationship with Past and Yet to Come is that of fellow operatives serving the same organization.
Present's notable abilities come from her mastery of the Apocalypse Virus. She can manipulate the virus to transform people around her into a cancer-like state, and she can freely control AP crystals, the crystallized form of the virus, using them for both attack and defense. These powers make her a dangerous opponent even within the devastated setting of Lost Christmas. Because the work is short, her development is limited; she remains a persistent and mysterious antagonist throughout, with her fate closely tied to that of Scrooge and Carol.