The military identifies Holland, Talho, Matthieu, Ken-Goh, Hap, Stoner, Hilda, Mischa, and Woz on their wanted posters in that order from left to right.
Renton Thurston
Voiced by: Yuko Sanpei (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
Renton Thurston (レントン, Renton?) is the son of the late military hero Adroc Thurston and co-pilot of the Nirvash typeZERO. He is a very outgoing and emotional person possessing strong ideals and compassion yet is naive and tends to jump into matters before understanding what's going on. Before joining Gekkostate, he lived with his grandfather Axel Thurston in Bellforest, attending school and learning to be a mechanic in Axel's shop. He was heavily influenced by his sister Diane Thurston and believes that he will see her again one day. Though somewhat of a celebrity, being the son of a savior, Renton feels uncomfortable being the son of Adroc Thurston. His surname is recognized everywhere he travels, and he constantly feels as if he lives in his father's shadow. Renton believed Adroc was a poor father and abandoned his family for his research.
After the Nirvash accidentally crashed into Renton's room next to Axel's garage, Renton met Eureka and fell in love with her at first sight. Renton's unusual link with Nirvash and responsibility over his father's Amita drive motivated him to join Gekkostate. He came to Gekkostate to follow Holland, his idol, and to be with Eureka, with whom he fell in love and swore to protect. His time with Gekkostate had been a difficult transition as he was subject to many pranks from crew members (especially Eureka's adopted children). He eventually comes to learn of the origin of Gekkostate and the atrocities that Holland and Eureka and others are atoning for. Renton stayed with Gekkostate to train and in time his skill as an LFO pilot developed on par or above Eureka. That development affected a rift with Eureka as he desires her to return his love for her. His love for Eureka is not secret; everyone on board Gekko interferes in his love life. The crew members constantly want to know his progress and cheer him on. His relationship with both Nirvash and Eureka develops into a deep emotional and mental link that is noticed by Mischa.
Renton has a special link with the Nirvash along with Eureka. Usually, both he and Eureka are necessary to activate the Amita drive, awakening Nirvash and allowing access to the power responsible for the Seven Swell phenomenon. Specifically, when Renton and Eureka achieve emotional agreement and wish for something, Nirvash reciprocates with the power of the Amita drive. If their feelings are in disconnect, the Amita drive cannot activate. However, there are some occasions where Eureka is present yet unconscious, and Renton alone convinces Nirvash to awaken. Renton summons the powers of Amita drive several times throughout the series. His very first time was triggered by an overwhelming need to protect Eureka during his delivery of the Amita drive to Nirvash and Gekkostate, resulting in the second Seven Swell phenomenon ever (the first being Adroc's disastrous experiment with Eureka).
Renton and Eureka's primary antagonist early on is Anemone. During their battles with her, Renton usually ends up using the Amita drive. His first encounter with Anemone was when Gekkostate investigated an Aerial Coralian. He and Eureka traveled to it, and while battling Anemone in her TheEnd LFO, all three enter the Zone within the Coralian. There, all three share a strange "dream", with Eureka trying to find Renton, and Renton eventually meeting Anemone, who tries to kill him. As he is rescued by Eureka, he catches a glimpse of his sister before the dream ends. In the aftermath of the Aerial Coralian's disappearance, Renton and Dominic encounter each other, and although initially distrustful of each other, manage to cooperate to find medicine for the strange pain afflicting Eureka and Anemone. When the military and Gekkostate race to rescue Anemone and Eureka, respectively, Renton's wish to protect Eureka activates Nirvash, flooding the area with trapar, and he pilots the Nirvash back to the Gekko. Several days later, while the damage the Gekko took during the battle is being repaired in FAC-51, Renton meets Eureka and Anemone again within a house in a dream/hallucination. This time, Renton, in the form of Nirvash, defends Eureka from Anemone, in the form of TheEnd.
Renton and Holland are often at odds with each other, with Holland being protective of Eureka and blaming Renton for Eureka's troubles, and Renton not understanding Holland's apparently cold-hearted actions. This is especially apparent during the incident where Eureka is nearly absorbed by the Scub within FAC-51. Holland blamed Renton for Eureka's deteriorating mental state. Holland was in truth partly justified. Eureka was troubled that Nirvash no longer talked to her and that her ability to pilot Nirvash was suffering compared to Renton. Meanwhile, Gekkostate finds an old miner within FAC-51, who is a great admirer of Renton's grandfather. When the miner discovers that Gekkostate has the Nirvash, he betrays them and unsuccessfully attempts to hijack it. When Eureka acknowledges her helplessness and offers to let Renton be Nirvash's pilot, he was still too stunned by the betrayal and shrugs her off. These factors, along with others unrelated to Renton, eventually lead to Eureka nearly being absorbed by the Scub. Renton's desperation to save the injured Eureka triggers another Seven Swell phenemenon, inadvertently saving the Gekko, which was trapped by military forces. To heal Eureka, Holland accepts a mission to rescue a Vodarac high priest - only Vodarac priests can heal injuries related to the Scub. Renton, ignorant of this fact and the fact that Holland regards Eureka more important than his own life, accuses Holland of not caring about Eureka. Renton later discovers that he is mistaken and rescues Holland when Holland's own rescue attempt is botched. In the process, overwhelmed by frustration and anger, he reaches a "rider's high", losing the ability to control himself. By the time he returns to reality and sees the dismembered arm of a pilot he killed, he realizes that he has been killing people every time he destroys a KLF.
Disturbed by this revelation and troubled by the crew's apparent lack of concern for his troubles, he is pushed over his limit after a miscommunication with Eureka, and Renton ran away from the Gekko. After traveling for a while, he encountered Charles and Ray (former squad members of SOF with Holland). During his time with them, he learned that his actions, no matter how good the intentions were, may end up doing more harm than good. Charles and Ray were glad to see that Renton had such a kind heart and began to love him. Renton learned to love the couple in return, and the couple proposed to adopt Renton as their son because Ray could not bear children. However, Charles learned that Renton came from Gekkostate, and Renton learns that Charles and Holland have a serious score to settle, which leads to a complicated altercation, leaving Renton confused and in the middle. He left the couple to return to Gekkostate and reunite with Eureka. On the way back, he encounters William Baxter, who by narrating a tale about his wife and asking Renton if there was anyone he wanted to be with should the world end, hardened his resolve to find Eureka.
While Renton was away, Eureka took over his duties. Eureka missed Renton and eventually left to find him. She left the Gekko on a ref board just minutes before Renton's return, only to find herself in dangerous situation where she encounters Charles and Ray who are part of a large military fleet. Renton launched on Nirvash and rescued Eureka. Upon their reunion, they confessed their feelings for each other and created a new energy band different than the Seven Swell phenomenon. Since Renton knew his previous way of fighting lead to the deaths of people, Renton took a more merciful method of combat of simply disarming enemy units. Nirvash responded to these feelings by releasing an energy wave that disabled every machine in the sky when Renton and Eureka shared this similar feeling. The entire Gekkostate crew eavesdropped on their sentimental conversation.
Renton and Eureka were sent to the brig after returning to the Gekkostate. Moondoggie gave Renton, Eureka, and kids bulletproof vests and a gun while they stayed in the brig because Holland was expecting Charles and Ray. Charles and Ray managed to infiltrate the Gekko and engaged Holland and Talho. During the infiltration, Ray was enraged with Eureka for having the three children call her "mama" and wanted to kill her. Ray's animosity stems from the blame she places on Eureka for making her sterile. Renton, however, was looking after Eureka and pleaded with Ray to stop. Holland and Charles fought in the hangar bay until Charles died of excessive bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. Ray kissed Charles and detonated a bomb in his body. Ray escaped back to her ship and later tried to destroy Gekkostate again. Her second attempt failed and she paid the ultimate price of death. Renton remained confused by the nature of Charles and Ray's vendetta, but made tasty dishes akin to his experience with them in their memory. Eureka and Renton cooked and cleaned the entire ship. Everyone was impressed by Renton's cooking skills, but Talho ruined the moment by explaining the true nature of Eureka—that she is a Coralian. Renton did not care and his desire to be with Eureka continued.
With the Gekko damaged and Nirvash's physical form evolving, the crew decided to head to the very scientists at the Tresor Research Institute that built Nirvash in order to fix it and their ship. Renton, Woz and Jobs argued that violence was not necessary and insisted that negotiation and the nature of engineers in general (stating that any mechanic that had seen the seriously damaged Nirvash would want to repair it, particularly those who had built it) would serve better than coercion. After some negotiation with the Chief of the facility, who Holland had had arguments with in the past, they were granted access to their facilities, where the majority of the scientists knew Eureka and her relationship with the Nirvash. During the watching of a film of the origins of the Nirvash, Renton discovered that his own grandfather had been instrumental in the fabrication of the Reffing board that it used for trapar surfing, and also how Eureka came to be involved with the Nirvash.
In a conversation, Eureka revealed she knew Adroc in his final days before he "died." Renton was upset over the matter, but it left Eureka confused. Renton felt he couldn't communicate with her and looked to adult magazines for advice. Hilda caught him reading the book and suspected he was thinking about sex. Renton knew it looked bad and even said, "It's not what you think!" After Holland ran after Renton and roughed him up, thinking he wanted to have sex with Eureka, he realized he was trying to communicate with Eureka and find out about his father. Eureka revealed to Renton that Adroc released the Amita Drive during the Seven Swell event and vanished. Before he was gone, he said he was doing it to protect his family. Renton always thought Adroc did not care for his family, but knowing his father lost his life thinking about his family gave Renton closure. The whole crew was there to spy on the whole event while Renton and Eureka reconciled.
Renton and Eureka would later reach the Earth's true surface below the outer crust as they passed through the Great Wall with the help of Sakuya and the Vodarac priest Norb. They wandered around Earth for some time, slowly heading toward the Coralian Scub Command Center. Renton superficially injured himself to empathize his acceptance of Eureka's changing body, and his wound was infected. He developed a fever and was hallucinating for a while. During that time, Eureka tended to him but realized her scars started turning bright green. While tending to Renton, Eureka's body changed further, growing butterfly-like wings. Renton saw Eureka was nervous over her form and comforted her by saying that she looked prettier with the wings.
When they finally reach the Scub command center, he encounters his big sister. It was also there that he found his father along with a small group of people constantly reading and learning about the Scub through a "library" that tells the true nature of the Scub. After talking with his sister and meeting his father, Anemone appeared to destroy the Command Center. Renton, along with Eureka and the kids, boarded Nirvash and engaged her. It was then Nirvash broadcasted Anemone's sad feelings and they decided to save her. While attempting this, Dominic appeared and TheEND changed through Anemone's joy. Once the Gekko and the Ginga made it beneath the surface, Dewey ended his life after a confrontation with Holland Novak. Dewey had prepared a countermeasure that would cause either Anemone or Eureka to be destroyed if they attempted to form the new Command Cluster. Eureka managed to avoid the event by rejecting the full transformation, but this still left her encased in a Coralian storm event with herself as the center. Gekkostate planned to engage the Coralian antibodies to rescue Eureka, and it was during this time Nirvash reacted to Renton's will. Nirvash's armor shattered, revealing a very different, evolved form of the archetype, with a single blue, human eye (the same color as Renton's eyes). Renton said he would rescue Eureka himself and used a destructive cannon to eliminate the Coralian antibodies to reach the center of the Coralian storm. There, Nirvash broke through and Renton entered the center to rescue Eureka. Eureka embraced him and they kissed for the first time while Nirvash broke forth through the Coralian storm. The Command Center opened because of Nirvash, and the LFO's right eye opened to become pink (the same color as Eureka's coralian eyes). Nirvash emitted a powerful energy wave that etched "Renton loves Eureka" on the moon and a seven swell-like event that Gonzy said explained it as the "Second Summer of Love." Nirvash thanked Renton and Eureka for the experiences and they parted ways. As the couple wanders the world together, Axel who is now taking care of the kids, examines the documents that confirms Eureka and the kids as the wife and children of Renton Thurston.
Afterward, Renton and Eureka are shown on the shoreline of a lake in a forest together holding hands.
During the previews at the end of each episode, Renton is referred to as "the boy."
Eureka
Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English) Eureka (エウレカ, Eureka?) listen (help·info) is a pale young girl with Aqua/teal hair and lavender eyes and is a pilot of the Nirvash typeZERO. She treats Nirvash not like a mere machine, but as a living being, with consciousness and feelings. However, she can seem distant and awkward to other people - she has trouble communicating with other humans and understanding their feelings. She tends to appear randomly next to people, startling them at times. Initially in the anime, she suffers from frequent headaches, these stop later on, seemingly from the presence of Renton Thurston.
It is later revealed that she is actually a Coralian in human form, sent by the sentient Scub Coral to understand and communicate with humans. The Scub Coral, who had become the largest living mass on Earth, longed to connect with humanity, and created two human form Coralians to reach this goal. Sakuya came first, and she foretold of Eureka's arrival. Eureka was meant to be a blank slate, so that she would be shaped by her experiences with humanity, and bring these experiences to the Coralians. She herself is not aware of her past nor does she have any knowledge of the Coralians even though she's one herself. She is the adoptive mother of Maurice, Maeter and Linck, whose families she killed while in the SOF. Her lack of understanding of her own feelings and the methods by which humans demonstrate and share feelings creates many complications at times whenever Renton tries to bond with her. After she entered the Coralian with Renton, she began to suffer at a subconscious level as a side effect of her proximity to the old dig site FAC51, and the large amount of Scub within. She becomes constantly fatigued and seems to be in either despair or depression. Her negative feelings are further increased as she becomes convinced that the Nirvash no longer wants her as its pilot in favor of Renton. She tries to make things up with Renton, but is rebuffed.
As an attempt to deny the emotional changes in herself and her relationship with the Nirvash, she tries to return things to the way they were when she met Renton, and removes Renton's Compac drive from the Nirvash. She falls asleep and the Nirvash, operating on its own, drives her deep into the mine to the face of the Scub. She is seemingly compelled to walk into the rockface, where the Scub reaches out and engulfs her. Renton becomes worried and rushes out to find her. From her point of view, she feels that she is melting away and wishes to be rescued. Just as she is about to melt, Renton is perceived to catch her in his hand. He pulls her out of the rockface and causes another trapar event in the process of using the Nirvash to return her to the Gekko.
As an indirect result of this incident and Holland's apparent lack of urgency about helping her, Renton runs away from the Gekko. She is still very weak, and the crew conspires to prevent her from discovering that he is gone, especially as she seems to be becoming interested in him. After she discovers this, she confronts Holland who basically states that Eureka is more important than Renton, which she denies. She dresses in the clothes given to him for the Ramen prank, and begins to do the jobs that had been assigned to him, "because he is not here". As she begins to confront Renton's importance to her, Mischa informs Holland that the Nirvash needs Eureka and Renton to function properly.
Eureka attempts several times to operate the Nirvash to go find Renton, and fails badly. The Nirvash doesn't seem to agree even when she asks the Nirvash if she misses Renton too, and doesn't she want to go find him. Confronted with the depth of her apparent feelings for Renton, and with her total ineffectiveness with the Nirvash, Holland promises to bring Renton back to her, and leaves to find him, only to return empty-handed after discovering a trap aimed at the Gekko.
Her faith in the perfect sore of Holland's word (to her, at least) shattered, and realizing how much Renton has come to mean to her, she borrows a board and leaves to find him, ironically just as he is returning to protect her by warning of the threat to the Gekko. Eventually the situation is resolved, and Renton rescues her again. After this, they effectively become a couple, although neither one really knows how to interact with the other.
She discovers a desire to make Renton happy with her, which leads to a disastrous experiment with makeup, and a deeper trust in Renton, as well as a label for the emotion she feels.
Partially prompted by Renton's reaction to the deaths of Charles and Ray, Eureka's feelings start to allow her to understand guilt and regret as her emotions connect with her memories of the massacre at Ciudades del Cielo. She knows that her past actions led to the deaths of many people, and because she is beginning to understand the human impact of killing and loss, she loses confidence in herself and no longer desires to fight with Nirvash. Renton also believes taking lives is wrong so they both begin fighting to only disable enemy units. Renton constantly consoles her as she's trying to deal with her past actions and facing responsibility for the Vodarac people.
After she is revealed as a Coralian, Renton does not reject her as she feared but rather accepts her for who she is, not what she is, which results in a further expansion of her understanding of human emotions.
Sakuya and Eureka are very similar to each other and Sakuya helped restore most of Eureka's superficial damage, but Eureka wishes to keep her scars to remind her of her struggles. She and Renton enter the Coralian realm hoping to change humanity's fate.
After Eureka, Renton, and the children reached Earth, they crash landed on a coastline. Being frustrated for a while unable to figure out their purpose, they resided near the coastline for a while eating the local vegetation. Eureka's scars were a reaction towards the Command Center and Coralian physical attributes began showing throughout her body. She became more and more ashamed of her form as she worried that Renton wouldn't approve or even reject her form. At one point, Renton chased Eureka into the woods, attempting to cover the green on her arm, and even going as far as to take a rock and damage his own arm with it. Maurice also followed, carrying a gun, who he threatened to shoot Renton with but Eureka stopped him. Afterwards, Renton fell into a high fever, and the kids and Eureka had to take care of him. During Renton's worst moment, she grew wing-like structures upon her back (the structures are referred to simply as wings) and her arm became green and pink of Coralian design. After Renton recovered, Eureka was happy to know Renton liked her wings. After wandering the coast Renton spotted his big sister and ran after her. Eureka and the kids went after Renton and were lost in the great library created by the Scub. Adroc Thurston appeared before Eureka and looked after the children and Eureka before Renton returned. After Renton spoke to Diane about the coming attack on the Command Cluster, Anemone appeared.
When Anemone attacked the Scub Command, Eureka and Renton engage TheEND to protect the Scub. After hearing the sadness and pain of Anemone's words, they decided to save her. After Anemone was saved by Dominic's appearance, all was well until Dewey fired his satellite cannon. The Command Center was blown away and Nirvash barely escaped the blast. During this time they managed to enter back to their world and communicate with Holland. Dewey during this time had a confrontation with Holland and in a surprising move Dewey shot himself. Dewey had two devices attached to Anemone and Eureka and his death would activate the devices. Eureka felt a sudden change in her body and, realizing her time with Renton was over, she apologized for a failed dream together and transformed into a Coralian event.
Inside the Coralian event Eureka was in an artificially created plain where Renton forced his way through to find her. After Renton reminded her of his promise to always protect her and be at her side, Eureka and Renton kissed. Nirvash split open the Coralian zone and ejected Renton and Eureka, bidding them farewell. A year later, in the last episode, the Thurston family register lists her and the three kids as the wife and children of Renton Thurston. As their names were changed, this implies Eureka and Renton were married and are off seeing the world, while the children and Axel eagerly await their return. The couple were seen together near a lake.
Her name is usually not pronounced like the word "eureka" in English (pronounced as eau-wreck-uh instead of you-ree-ka). During the previews at the end of each episode, Eureka is referred to as 'the girl.
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