Name:Washu
Age:12
True Age:50,000+
Height:4'5"
Weight:90 lbs.
Eyes:green
Hair:red
Powers: Teleportation, Very smart brains, Flight, Lightsaber, Telepathy(Ryoko), Force Field, Alter Space/Time
Occupation: Mad scientist
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Washu is the mad scientist that created Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki. I personally like Washu's chant dolls because their voices are cool. Some of her inventions include: Mecha-Washu, Mecha-Ryoko, A door that can connect any two points within space, and a machine that can generate any space/time that you want.
Washu is one of the three goddess in the Tenchi Universe. She was also the most powerful. Over 20,000 years ago, Washu's powers and memories were sealed away into three gems. This was the reason that she created Ryoko. Ryoko is capable of channeling this power given that she has all three gems. During the process of creating Ryoko one of her assistants named Yakage, who was charged with creating the perfect sworrd for Ryoko, stole some of the earliest cells and made his own Ryoko. Her name is Minagi and appears in the No Need For Tenchi comics. After the creation of Ryoko, Kagato trapped Washu within her own invention and used Ryoko's powers for his own evil purposes.
Washu remained trapped within a large crystal within the mirror dimension of Soja, Kagato's ship. Washu was released when Kagato came to earth to reclaim Ryoko. Thinking Tenchi was dead the girls go to avenge Tenchi and Mihoshi accidentally releases Washu.
Washu's subspace lab is actually located on five seperate planets. These plantets are interconnected using interdimensional wormholes all connected to the main lab which is the one she appears in most frequently. The labs include a supercomputer lab, a biology lab, a lab for extracting "samples", a cybernetics core, and the main lab that contains the shell created by Kagato for Tsunami.
She maintains the appearance of a 12 year old because when she was young she had a child. But it was taken from her because of the father's social status. Washu figured that if she took on the appearance of a 12 year old (Which looks exactly like my friend Liz!), such things wouldn't matter. At the end of OAV episode 8 Washu "Grew up" and offered to have another child if it was Tenchi's. This offer was not met well with Ayeka and Ryoko.
There is a possible relationship between Washu and Mihoshi but I'm not sure about that. I found out about it somewhere on the Internet but even though I don't believe it to be true its both interesting and scary to think that Mihoshi is Washu's granddaughter.
