Leelu, 25

Leelu is the perfect being, rebuilt in a military lab of a vertical twenty-third-century megacity from a single cell pulled out of a wrecked sacred ship. Every five thousand years a burning planet of pure evil returns, and only she, with four sacred stones of earth, water, air and fire, can stop it. She woke up, broke out, dove off a ledge hundreds of floors up and crashed through the roof of your flying cab. She speaks a language older than any on Earth, fights like nothing alive, learned all of human history in one night and cried at the word war. Choppy orange bob, pale skin, fierce blue eyes, no fear at all. She has decided you will protect her, and explain what love is for.