Ryoma Kougami
"Nous ne savons pas encore tout de ces kaiju. Comment savons-nous que ces mesures de sécurité n'échoueront pas lamentablement? Il doit y avoir quelque chose de plus sûr que nous pouvons faire, n'est-ce pas?"
L'œil de Ryoma secoua un peu à cette question, alors qu'il était évident que l'équipe était la première, la plus importante et probablement la seule défense efficace contre les Kaijus, il ne voudrait pas mettre la pression sur eux juste avant une mission importante où la plus petite erreur pourrait causer des milliers ou des millions de dommages. Ryoma devrait dire très attentivement sa réponse.
"Ils sont de l'appui, Hanneman.
Ou pas.
Bien qu'un peu dur et sévèrement sous-estime la valeur de l'équipe de soutien, le commandant Shoruchi a réussi à expliquer de sa propre manière, à l'explosif, l'importance de l'équipe et de sa mission sans rendre la situation moins désastreuse qu'elle ne l'est. Un son en clic a fait Ryoma regarder dans la direction Hazel, qui avait probablement remarqué qu'il était l'un des rares qui pouvait comprendre ses signes. Elle semblait avoir la même opinion que lui en ce qu'ils sont la première ligne de défense, bien qu'elle a souligné les mesures de sécurité étaient plus sur le maintien de la population dans la forteresse et les zones environnantes en sécurité et empêcher toute présence indésirable entrant dans la base et causant le chaos, et contrairement à un incident similaire dans le passé un incident comme cela peut ne pas finir avec un pilote pour la Prométhion. Ce jour-là a été certainement l'un des plus stressants de sa vie, et on pourrait certainement appeler un miracle que sa décision de donner l'offre au pilote de la Prométhion à Hazel a payé, puisqu'il a été assez entaché pour cela au début par les scientifiques de haut rang de la forteresse qui savaient et avaient de nombreuses nuits sans sommeil pensant qu'il allait perdre sa position.
«Ahem, tout comme le commandant et Hazel ici dit, la Prométhion est la première ligne de défense contre le Kaiju avec toutes les caractéristiques de sécurité accrues étant en place pour assurer la sécurité des pilotes, des scientifiques, des mécaniciens, du personnel divers, de l'équipement critique comme les pièces de rechange, et pour s'assurer que la Base est en état de vous fournir un soutien au cas où le besoin se présenterait. Donc, pendant que vous êtes techniquement notre bête du fardeau, mon travail et le reste du personnel est de vous assurer que vous pouvez tout donner » Ryoma a dit à l'automne alors qu'il poussait à nouveau ses lunettes.
Name: Ryoma Kougami:
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Job: Chief Scientist of the Fortress of Vaucanson
Personality: Inquisitive and curious are the two things that Ryoma is characterized for as he does not stop before he can gain an answer to what he is looking for, making him dislike people who aren't honest or keep secrets. Despite how he usually acts Ryoma’s lack of a proper childhood meant that he can usually act in a childish way sometimes, usually when he is with people he trusts. To strangers and particularly seniors Ryoma puts a “mature and serious” persona as most of the adults he met on his childhood paid attention only to the older and more serious students rather than him. This persona has made him maintain his cool in stressful situations, though there are only so many times anyone can bottle out their feelings before they forcibly come out, fortunately, that hasn't happened to Ryoma yet.
As the director of the Vaucanson fortress, he knows that the Promethion is the main force of defense against the monsters that threaten mankind and a such the survival of the robot is more valuable than one of the pilots pragmatically speaking and there may be a time where he may have to make that kind of decision. Still, this kind of thinking has given him more than a few sleepless nights and has made him underestimate the pilots and other staff.
Skills: Ryoma is the foremost expert on Etherion and one of the creators and director of the Promethion project. Able to read and perform basic operations since he was 2 Ryoma is a mathematical and engineering genius, capable of creating engineering marvels such as the Promethion that other people wouldn't have thought it could be done with the help of other intelligent minds. Ryoma was named the chief scientist of the fortress not only because of his role in the Promethion project but also for his ability to keep his cool in difficult times and be capable of handling and overseeing large amounts of people and projects without breaking a sweat. On more action packed abilities tasks such as hand to hand fighting, shooting a gun Ryoma is horribly bad, if not completely hopeless at them, thankfully he has the fortress guards and his pilots for those tasks so he doesn't really care. Another thing to note is his nonexistent sense of direction, that often makes him get lost and wander aimlessly around the fortress if no one is guiding him.
Short Bio: Ryoma made it to national television at the age of 4 as the boy genius who could solve complex differential and integral calculus problems and fluently speak Japanese, English, German and Spanish.Skipping ahead several grades Ryoma attended a prestigious American college at the age of 11 where he would meet Higini Somporn for the first time while he was giving a lecture. Despite their difference in age, both of them quickly became friends and Higini would become a sort of parental figure to Ryoma. After finishing college Ryoma would become one of the youngest persons working for NASA at the age of 19 years old, working with other brilliant minds to finding more efficient ways to reach other planets. Unfortunately, they had to stop looking at the endless sky when the monsters started appearing, funding of space projects was stripped in favor of more military ones since if things continued as they were there would be no humans to colonize the solar system.
Still, the monsters were too strong as easily brushed off most the of attacks, causing lots of casualties and collateral damage before they died, which would occur in time for another of the things to come out and start the cycle anew. Ryoma worked with other scientists united by Higini Somporn to seek a solution and hope seemed lost until something in the aftermath of all the rampages was discovered, Etherion. The Etherion was a strange substance, with many unknown characteristics and properties, but with little info they had about, they knew it was their only tool against the monsters. People around the base started working like crazy, some researching more about the Etherion others starting the planning stages of the components for the Promethion project. Ryoma in the middle of the chaos found himself overseeing and directing the two sides of the project, being able to coordinate the two teams to use their precious time to complete the project as soon as possible.
Now that the Promethion was ready, the only thing left would be to find someone brave and mad enough to pilot its different components. Thought that task was delegated to commander Shourichi, while Ryoma kept his position as chief scientist and oversees the development of new functions for the Promethion along with other less scientific tasks like gaining public trust since he is the face of the MAX FIRE organization along with the pilots.