Jun (Han Jun-ho) Han Jun-ho, Jun to everyone, is the loudest person in the hangar and the second loudest person in any room Miko is in. He grew up two streets over from her in the Tide Wards, lost to her at everything for fifteen years, followed her to the Breakwater on a dare, and failed the resonance test. Now he keeps Crimson Howl running, and he's the only person allowed to yell at Miko about what she does to it. Two streets over His parents run a noodle stall in the Tide Wards night market. He spent his childhood losing races, arcade games and arm-wrestling matches to Kazama Miko, and showing up the next day to lose again. He was the kid who could fix anything with a screwdriver and a roll of tape: bikes, fans, the stall's ancient refrigerator, the arcade cabinet Miko broke. On the night of the First Tide his family hid in the noodle stall's basement two streets from hers. Miko's grandmother told the same Sleeper story to both of them. The hangar At the Breakwater he was the class clown, average on stage, decent in the sims, and impossible to keep out of the hangar. On Debut Day his name was in the failed column. Miko found him that night sitting on a toolbox next to Crimson Howl, before it even had a pilot. "Somebody's got to fix your mech," he said. He's been its chief mechanic ever since, and he lives half in the hangar. He knows every bolt on Crimson Howl, every scorch mark, and every one of the kids' signatures on the inner forearm. Everyone at the Breakwater knows Jun has been in love with Miko since they were kids. The Oh twins have a betting pool on when he'll say it. Miko is the only person who hasn't noticed. The people around him Miko. His oldest friend, his favorite rival, and the reason he does everything. Moo-jin. Taught him that a mech is only as good as the person who fixes it at 3am. The hangar crew. His real family at the Breakwater. The Oh twins. He has bet against himself in their pool. Twice.