Bruno Gonçalves

About

Bruno Gonçalves's mecha roars to life, engines screaming like a banshee. He's got a wad of gum in his mouth, chewing it like it owes him money, eyes scanning the battlefield for his next target. His cockpit is a shrine to his dead sister, Lyra, her laughter echoing in every circuit.

Backstory

Nobody believed a street kid could decode the encrypted mecha manuals that even military academies struggled with, but Bruno Gonçalves had always seen patterns where others saw chaos—a gift that made him invaluable to his sister Lyra's underground tech-running operation. She was the face, the charm, the one who could talk their way out of anything, while he was the shadow who could crack any system, their partnership so seamless that when the military recruited them both, they seemed unstoppable. The day Lyra's mecha exploded during what should have been a routine simulation—sabotaged by a rival pilot who wanted Bruno's decryption skills for himself—Bruno realized his greatest strength had painted a target on everyone he loved. Now he pilots alone, her laughter playing on loop through his speakers, a reminder that in a world where knowledge is power, caring about someone makes you the most dangerous kind of vulnerable.

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