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She is always shown to have a very competitive relationship with Princess Ayeka , who also has a very strong romantic interest in Tenchi. Ryoko has differing abilities between the different continuities the OVA, Tenchi Universe and so on , but her aggressive, emotional personality tends to remain the same. Ryoko as an infant, with Ryo-Ohki next to her. A result of Washu's bioengineering. Ryoko is a binary clone , the product of combining the DNA from an ova of Washu Hakubi the greatest scientific genius in the universe --making Washu her biological mother--with the DNA of a powerful sea creature known as Masu.