She's a friend of Juan Rico, also his hidden love. She is adored by males, but seems to regard them more like friends. The only one she is emotionally attached to is Johhny. After he leaves and join army, she meets him several times on the spaceship they are both travelling on. Their feelings to each other seem to be confessed at the end of series. In Starship Troopers Invasion, Captain Ibanez is deposed from the spaceship John A. Warden by Carl Jenkins, but joins a squad to try to take it back.