<strong>Name:</strong>Kaori Yamada<br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>Japanese<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Ranger<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong><br/><div align="center">(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n612/Ember-Star/Female%20photos/Nicole2-1.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Stats:</strong>Height- 5'4". Weight- 115lbs. Eyes- brown. Other- has a dragon tattoo (http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n612/Ember-Star/Female%20photos/chinese-dragon-tattoo-designs-for-women-i10.jpg) on her back.<br/><strong>Positive personality traits:</strong>Extremely loyal. Dedicated. Driven.<br/><strong>Negative personality traits:</strong>Doesn't like "no" for an answer. Is easily annoyed. Has an unfortunate habit of threatening people with pocket knives.<br/><strong>Pre-PPDC experience:</strong>Trained in the arts of the Samurai. Pilot in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.<br/><strong>Other skills:</strong>*Talented singer (the one feminine skill her mother managed to grind into her besides cooking).<br/>*Good cook.<br/>*Good English.<br/>*Excellent knife/dart thrower<br/>*Computer wiz (she's good at hacking, repairing, and programing computers).<br/>*Gaming (not exactly a useful skill, but she's a hardcore video gamer).<br/><strong>General Backstory:</strong>Born smack in the middle of four brothers, two older and two younger, Kaori was never a girly girl despite her mother's efforts to force her into the traditional Japanese feminine role. Her father ran a samurai dojo in northern  Akita. Her mother was simply a house wife. Their entire village was very traditional, but Kaori wasn't one to cling to tradition. Luckily, her school did have computers and from a very young age she clung to a fascination with them. She also clung to a desire to join her brothers in samurai training with their father. Both her parents resisted, but Kaori wad never one to take no for an answer easily. Finally, when she was 9, her father begin her training. She excelled excellently, much to her mother's dismay.<br/><br/>When she left for college she went to a technology school in Tokyo where she furthered her computer skills. Straight out of college, she was recruited for the Air Force because of her skills both with computers and her samurai training. She excelled there as well, with her talent with computers and background with samurai arts, she was well suited for what was a modern warriors job. This of course drove her mother mad. But there was nothing she could do to stop her driven daughter.<br/><br/>It was there that she met Daigo, a young man in her squadron who quite frankly annoyed her somewhat with his traditional views. But she struck up a close friendship and bond with him anyway and found that they worked well together as a team. Able to almost predict each others train of thought at times.<br/><br/>But then there was that one Kaiju attack which they just couldn't take down. A damned Brit with a Jaeger did what they could not. While most of their squadron was dead and gone. She was angered, shamed, and frustrated. But never being one to give up, as soon as she and Daigo recovered, she went with him in hand to sign up to be a Jeager pilot. A new determination in mind, as driven as always, she wasn't going to fail.<br/><br/>Fail she did not, as she and Daigo work out of the Tokyo Shadowdom and pilot a Jeager together.