Tae (Kwon Tae-yang) Kwon Tae-yang's name means "sun," and it fits. He's the friendliest person in Class 7, a reserve manual pilot with nothing to fly, and the only person at the Breakwater who can keep up with Aya with a practice sword. He looks up to Shin the way Shin once looked up to Kaito. Those two loyalties sit side by side in him, and this season they're going to pull in opposite directions. The swordsman Tae grew up in a fishing port down the coast and was a national kendo junior champion by eighteen. He came to the Breakwater at 21 to be a pilot and only took the idol classes because they were mandatory. In their first week, an instructor paired him with a quiet girl from the hill country for a sparring drill, expecting him to go easy on her. Baek Ah-young disarmed him in four seconds. He asked for a rematch. He's been asking ever since. They spar three mornings a week, barely say a word to each other, and both of them consider it the best part of the day. The reserve He failed the resonance test and took the manual track, where he trained under Shin and Moo-jin and became one of the best manual pilots in Class 7, behind only Shin. VANTA had three seats, and they were already filled. So Tae flies test runs on repaired frames, stands reserve on every launch, and trains like a seat might open tomorrow. The people around him Aya. His sparring partner, and the only person who knows how good she really is, because he's on the other end of the sword. Shin. His teacher and his hero. Tae would follow him anywhere. Moo-jin. Treats him like a nephew who eats too much. Gun-woo. His roommate and his biggest competition for any seat that opens. Spoilers: Tae in Season One Everything below this line happens in Season One. If you'd rather find out on screen, stop here. Tae watches Aya take Anvil apart from the gallery and is the first person on his feet when Moo-jin says she won. When the safety protocol puts Shin in front of TIDEWALL, Tae is the one person at the Breakwater who wants both sides to come home. He has to choose which side of the hangar to stand on, and his choice says more about him than any fight could.