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[b]Name:[/b] Minamoto no Ai

[b]Age:[/b] 18

[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[hider=Appearance]Clearly the prettiest student. Her pilot suit is more aptly described as 'motorbike leathers', down to actually being made of leather. Certainly hard-wearing.
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[b]Personality:[/b] Ai is a slacker: completely devoted to the concept of sleeping through school and doing the minimum possible amount of work, even if this means having to do more work in the long run due to occasionally failing tests by sleeping right the way through them. A question about her hobbies earns the reply of 'sleeping, maybe reading'. She's easy to get along with, due to being hard to work up and actually knowing enough to converse on a wide variety of topics.

There is one thing that can make her flip her lid entirely: never, ever hurt her friends or children in her presence. The result will be rather painful.

[b]History:[/b] Hailing from a family that has clung closely to its samurai origins, Ai was trained from a young age to be a pilot--and a capable threat without a mecha, though obviously not* [i]against[/i] a mecha. Though dutiful, she never really put her back into it, despite being plentifully gifted, and coasted through school beneath the radar. With her parents both being military officers, it's entirely unsurprising that she was sent off to this remote school to practice further--where she accidentally got rather a lot of attention when she thought a friend of hers had [i]actually[/i] gotten hurt in a training battle: Ai went from a completely average student with a good Mechanical Frame to clearly being much better than she normally puts forth.
This annoys her. People expect so [i]much[/i] now.

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[b]Mechanical Frame:[/b] "Benkei", a mecha that started life as a customised UEG MF-V1, but with every component having been swapped out at least once, it actually has nothing of the V1 in it. The cockpit and controls are all V3, along with ejection functions, and most of the frame and the power source are V4. The motors and armour, however, have been taken from the unfinished V5: her family's military connections come in handy. The weaponry itself is entirely custom.

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[b][s]Weaponry:[/s] Equipment:[/b]
† [u]Superheated Blades:[/u] Sword, sword, spear; Benkei lacks for nothing when it comes to slicing through enemy mecha. With these as its primary armaments, they were made off a difficult-to-produce alloy to be able to endure higher temperatures, and thus cut through things better than their standard-issue counterparts.
† [u]The Gun:[/u] It fires a spike on the end of a cable, that displays its true function as a grappling hook attached to a powerful winch once it actually penetrates its target. Whilst it can do a sizeable amount of damage by dint of being a metal spike, it's more intended to damage some non-essential (and thus more lightly armoured) body part, then either stop the mecha from escaping or drag it in so that the swords can be put to use.
† [u]Advanced Armour:[/u] With armour yet to go into common production, Benkei has the defensive capabilities of a much heavier mecha, without the encumbering weight. Some of the speed gains were sacrificed for the sake of the more ornamental-looking plates--they actually make getting a direct hit harder, as well as absorbing some blows.
† [u]Agility:[/u] Though it lacks anything in the way of boosters, its lack of extra weight invested into shielding, or much in the way of heavy armament, make the Benkei a fast and agile foe--perfect for a melee-focused Mechanical Frame. Also good when you don't have the second layer of defence that shielding grants...

*Supposed to be. CLEARLY SHE WILL BECOME MASTER ASIA.