Ryoma Kougami
Un autre jour une autre réunion à Vaucanson, alors qu'il se souvient encore comment il essayait de contenir son excitation et sa nervosité à sa première réunion maintenant il était devenu une routine ennuyeux. Heureusement, il connaissait déjà la plupart des informations importantes qui étaient dites lors de la réunion et était dans son petit monde pensant à des améliorations possibles à la Prométhion tout en apparemment prêter attention à la réunion. Le bruit d'une fermeture de presse-papiers l'a ramené à ses sens juste à temps pour une question.
-- Y a-t-il des remarques finales que vous souhaitez faire, monsieur?
"Eem... Pas vraiment, à part quelques tests supplémentaires de la Prométhion pour vérifier si tout doit être prêt pour la livraison d'Etherion" Ryoma a donné une réponse rapide et vague pour terminer la réunion, pas qu'il avait vraiment quelque chose de plus à dire même s'il avait écouté toute la réunion, à part la livraison de l'échantillon d'Etherion il n'y avait rien de vraiment important dans le calendrier et toutes les questions de sécurité avaient déjà été prises en charge. Seules les choses qui pourraient mal tourner seraient quelque chose d'inattendu comme une attaque de monstre et même alors les pilotes seraient plus aptes à répondre à cette question que lui.
En entendant la réponse du commandant Shourichi l'a presque enlevé de la garde et un petit rire s'est échappé de lui, il n'était toujours pas habitué à l'attitude directe, confiante et bombeuse de Shourichi. Pourtant, le fait qu'ils n'avaient pas de plan exact l'inquiétait, même si Shoruchi et le reste de l'équipe s'étaient révélés être de bons pilotes et combattants, c'était un environnement complètement différent de celui dans lequel se battait habituellement la Prométhion.
"Mme Stoll semble avoir quelques inquiétudes!"
En regardant Hazel pour voir ce qui l'inquiète, Ryoma vient de voir sa dernière question <Quelles précautions de sécurité sont prises?> Il a ajusté ses lunettes avant de répondre "Évidemment, il y a eu une augmentation générale du personnel de sécurité dans la forteresse et ses environs, les patrouilles ont augmenté, certaines zones ont été fermées au personnel non essentiel, les images des caméras sont vérifiées plus rigoureusement et d'autres choses diverses, d'autres questions?"
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.