Akane "Kiryu" Yashiro
(Colored by me)
Name: Akane "Kiryu" Yashiro
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Race: Android Cyborg
Faction: GDF
Personality:During her life as a child, Akane Yashiro lived a rather regular life as a special forces pilot. She was passionate when it came to doing her job when flying fighter planes and helicopters enjoying being high in the sky and flying at great speeds. While she is usually seen being very serious and silent while working, in outside situations she's usually quite friendly to her comrades, as well as her close friends and family.
However, when her mind was literally transferred into her new android-like body, her personality changed. While her skills and abilities in combat are still in prime condition, her social personality went a slightly opposite direction. She became more cold and reserved, often showing little to no emotion, saving for a few rare instances of anger or faint traces of PTSD. She usually resides in her quarters or workspace, simply doing her job as the chief commanding officer of the Android Division. But secretly, from within the cold exterior of her armor, lies a still beating "heart". A heart that vows to protect the ones she loves and cares, both human and android, from getting crippled and killed by the kaiju forces.... especially towards a certain atomic breathing kaiju.
History:Akane Yashiro lived a rather normal life in Tokyo, Japan. She achieved good grades in school, made many friends, and basically followed in her father's footsteps to become a pilot for the Japanese Self Defense Force (JSDF) to battle the imposing kaiju forces. She has helped take down around four kaiju within her 3 year career, piloting her jet fighter and occasional battle helicopter. However, on one faithful day, it seemed to have been all over for her...
In 2002, Godzilla made landfall in Fukushima in a fit of rage, desperate for some atomic fuel to quench her thirst after a heavy battle with an unidentified kaiju. While she headed towards a nearby power plant, the military was doing all they could to stop the menace of Japan from getting to the power plant, with Akane joining in on the fight. While they did fairly well in stalling the weakened Godzilla for a bit, it suddenly turned a full 180 as she ultimately began to continue her run on the power plant, destroying many military tanks and jets. One of her atomic breath blasts, beamed right in Akane's direction, melting off her jet's left wing and ultimately was sent crashing down into the rubble below, with the ejection button failing to help her get out of the jet. She laid silently in the rubble, bleeding and knocked out in a comma.
The military sent help to carry the body of Akane to the hospital, where they tried to save her life. They didn't seem to succeed, with the parents of Ms. Yashiro waiting days and weeks for her to snap out of it. Sadly, they were forced to put her off life support...
But before she could be left for dead, the military canceled the connection and thought of something that could save Yashiro's life. The plan was a highly risky one, but if it succeeds, not only would she be alive, while still retaining most of her memories, but also a powerful weapon against the kaiju forces. They were going to take her brain... and implement it into an android weapon... all for free. It was a very hard decision to make, but eventually the parents decided to give it a go... thus was the creation of Kiryu... aka "MechaGodzilla Type III".
At first, Akane wasn't too excited about her body, actually a little horrified, but regardless she was thankful for the GDF in helping her to stay alive, even if it mean't that she had to live in this robotic "cyborg". However, this also came at a price of her own expense. Her personality, while still partially intact along with her memories, was not the same as when she was a human. She became more cold and reserved, often showing little to no emotion, saving for a few rare instances of anger or the occasional flashback of that faithful crash almost every night for the past six months until it ultimately went away on its own. More mysteriously, her right eye seems to be permanently blind, which results in Kiryu wearing an eyepatch for it. Weather it was from the crash, or the error in the android, no one knows for sure.
Eventually though, Kiryu quickly became to be the chief commanding officer of the Android Division in the GDF, observing all activities within the sister branches, which includes the Jaeger Program itself. But from within the cold exterior of her armor, lies a still beating "heart". A heart that vows to protect the ones she loves and cares, both human and android, from suffering the same fate she once had.... especially towards a certain atomic breathing kaiju.
Powers/Abilities:- Flight Pack: Akane's primary weapon of choice in both regular and Super Armors is the flight pack on her back and waist, allowing her to fly fluidly in the air for long distances. In addition, the pack also comes with twin laser cannons on her shoulders and two forward firing rocket launchers and four batteries along its back and sides for launching guided missiles. Upon emptying its payload, the flight pack can detach from Kiryu's body and launched to push the enemy a safe distance back before being remotely detonated. It can also be replaced by weapons pods where rockets were fired; leaving the attached thrusters on Kiryu's body to maintain its aerial capabilities.
- Electrical Blade: For close combat, a short blade can be extended from Kiryu's right wrist which was not only able to penetrate a kaiju's hide, but was also able to discharge a crippling electrical surge into the opponent's body.
- Drill-Hand: Kiryu's right hand can collapse into a revolving drill, which allows to tear through hard rock and armored kaiju hide.
- Oral Maser Cannons: Only present when wearing the Super Armor, Kiryu can blast maser cannons for her mouth.
- Absolute Zero Cannon/Triple Hyper Maser Cannon: Kiryu's chest, both as an Android or in the Super Armor, can unleash two ultimate firing weapons behind a trio of folding panels that can deal a great deal of damage towards the opponent, but at the cost of wasting a hefty portion of her energy reserves. The Absolute Zero Cannon fires a ball of energy that flash-freezes its target to Absolute Zero, thereby causing it to disintegrate under the weight of its own mass at the molecular level, but wasting 40% of her energy reserves. The Triple Hyper Maser Cannon can fire a large volley of maser fire and can be fired simultaneously with Kiryu's mouth cannon, wasting less energy than the AZC. Only one weapon can be equipped at a time.
- Size Manipulation: Kiryu can grow up to a height of 60 meters and can then use her super armor. She can only stay up to that size for up to ten minutes at a time, due to the energy it consumes.