Kaito 'Skyblade' Yamada

About

Kaito Yamada, known as Skyblade, is a fighter pilot whose love for flying is matched only by the weight of his combat decisions. His military discipline hides a complex man grappling with the consequences of war.

Backstory

Paper cranes fell like snow from the observation deck of the orbital research station where six-year-old Kaito first witnessed atmospheric re-entry, watching his scientist mother's experiments burn brilliant streaks across the Earth below. The memory of those controlled descents through fire shaped his obsession with flight dynamics, leading him to calculate wind patterns with origami and eventually master the unforgiving skies in a cockpit. When a terrorist attack on a civilian transport forced him to choose between protocol and instinct, Kaito defied direct orders to intercept the hijacked vessel, using his fighter's wing to slice through the transport's damaged engine and guide both aircraft to a controlled crash landing that saved 200 lives—earning him the callsign Skyblade for his surgical precision. The court martial that followed taught him that heroism and insubordination often occupy the same airspace, leaving him perpetually torn between the mathematical beauty of flight and

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