Windflit

[Code Name] Windflit

[Gender] Male

[Combat Experience] None

[Place of Birth] Columbia

[Date of Birth] Feb 2

[Race] Perro

[Height] 180cm

[Infection Status]

Medical tests have confirmed that no infection is present.

[Physical Strength] Standard

[Mobility] Standard

[Physical Resilience] Excellent

[Tactical Acumen] Normal

[Combat Skill] Normal

[Originium Arts Assimilation] Standard

Windflit has two degrees in engineering and Originium engineering and is particularly experienced in mechanical design. He is currently a member of the Engineering Department and produces mechanical devices to aid our operators in combat.

Imaging tests reveal clear, normal outlines of internal organs, and no abnormal shadows have been detected. Originium granules have not been detected in the circulatory system and there is no sign of infection. At this time, this operator is believed to be uninfected.

[Cell-Originium Assimilation] 0%

Very healthy, but his BMI is a little low for an adult Perro Male; should eat more.

[Blood Originium-Crystal Density] 0.12u/L

Operator Windflit rarely comes into contact with Originium.

Operator Windflit was born to a family of impoverished Columbian workers. Neither of his parents are Infected, but as they were unable to keep up with the rapid progress of technology, they could only keep working the most basic kind of work at the old factories' assembly lines. Windflit's parents had pinned their faith on him: they hoped he would break away from this cycle and not become a workman. Following their wishes, Windflit and his parents scraped together the tuition to get him enrolled in the city's affluent district's high school, though he transferred to another high school about half a year later and finished his studies there. Windflit is a fast learner, and he quickly got the hang of any mechanical assembly line when he helped his parents out at the factories, to the point that he pointed out areas of improvement. He also received excellent grades while he was in school and entered a famous Columbian academic institution to continue his mechanical studies.

After he graduated, he was hired by Rhodes Island after sending us his resume. However, when he first came onboard, he showed some minor introverted tendencies as well as obvious animosity on an emotional level against operators from affluent backgrounds. The Doctor and HR operators should keep an eye out to prevent any internal strifes.

Currently, Windflit is assigned to the Engineering Department, where his main responsibilities include designing and producing Originium mechanical devices as well as providing our operators support during combat via mechanical devices.

New Notice:

All combat operators who team up with Windflit must be aware that any devices enhanced by Windflit could explode.

Now, I'm not saying every device out there could explode! It's just that each mission takes place in a different environment, and although there's not really much of a problem in using Windflit's unified design devices that Windflit brings with him, but all of us think about what we can do to improve our efficiency sometimes. Windflit's got some ideas when it comes to that too, and he often comes asking if an idea is feasible. Of course, the captain looks into his ideas and gives him a decision, and if he gets his approval, he starts modifying the devices on the spot. It actually works really well, too! I asked him where he learned all that. Most teachers and masters teach us to aim for stability when we make things, and they don't often recommend making modifications on the spot. He told me that he learned his ways from a club that he was in back in college.

His school must've been rich, too. He often talks about how they'd buy the hottest gadgets to take apart and mod, and how they'd have competitions to see who would reach the modding goal the fastest... Just listening to him talk about it got my heart stirring!

Come to think of it, he also talked to Closure the other day about signing an agreement to mod old mechanical equipment. Once it's all said and done, he just has to show that agreement and he can mod any old mechanical part lying around in Engineering.

Notice Update:

If Windflit is found to be modifying any mechanical systems, immediately ask to see proof of Closure's permission.

The Infected question is one that all non-Infected operators who join Rhodes Island eventually faces.

In Columbia, the Infected often moves to an Infected community or a frontier city. Even an impoverished family like Windflit's wouldn't live among the Infected if they had the option not to. Windflit, who has always been focused on his own life, rarely ever turned his attention to this group of people that seemed worlds apart.

It wasn't until he moved to the dormitories that he first truly understood what the equality promoted by the onboarding training truly meant. Having been treated harshly because of his family's situation, he knows better than anyone how it feels to be ostracized and discriminated against, which is why he is unwilling to make anyone else feel this way, even if he isn't yet entirely comfortable around them. And so, when Ethan welcomed his new roommate like an old buddy, Windflit simply accepted his goodwill. After the two got to know one another overtime, they started to have a decent understanding of each other's past.

'As a non-Infected, is my existence itself unfair to the Infected?'

One time, Windflit asked Ethan during one of their everyday conversations. Ethan, scared half-dead as he never expected things to turn out this way, immediately told our HR personnel everything. After we learned how the events unfolded, we found that Windflit, who proverbially might perhaps be braindead on all subjects regarding unequal treatment, might have discovered something he had never realized: He always thought that he was on the side of being treated unfairly and that he had never treated anyone that way, but it now seems that this isn't necessarily the case.

'If it wasn't for my hard work, instead of receiving the recognition I now have, I would have become an unaccomplished, laughable man who's jealous of others.'

'It's only because I always give everything my best effort that I have the breathing room to think about this,' said Windflit after his promotion as he looked at the medal in his hand.

This is how we discovered the reason behind Windflit's competitiveness.

Per our observations, aside from reinforcing his knowledge for his day-to-day work, Windflit seems to particularly enjoy reading biographies. Whether the biography is on a political, literary, military, or civilian figure; whether the experiences written therein are from told by the subject himself or recounted by others; and whether the philosophies that can be derived from it are deep or shallow, Windflit will always quietly judge the decisions these historical figures made at the pivotal points of their lives. He once read the story of a scholar who persevered through seven failures before finally achieved success, and we found afterwards that the corners of those few pages of the book were particularly worn out by his fingers' frequent back-and-forth flipping.

When he first came to Rhodes Island, Windflit mentioned he did not have any concrete plans for himself. The reason he decided to work is very simple: his parents are getting older in age. He said that ever since he became an adult, he had always felt a kind of pressure for spending all his time studying instead of helping his parents with their livelihood, even becoming their burden. Which is why, instead of continuing his studies, he opted to look for a job that paid a decent wage so that his parents didn't have to worry about money again.

That said, as he continued to build experience, he's slowly become a professional and dependable engineer.

Lately, Windflit also put together some minor technical patents from our automation technologies and a report on them, both of which Closure has already examined and approved. Windflit is hoping to send these to his parents to make their jobs easier.

Everything is gradually taking a turn for the better, and Windflit also began to wonder whether he should continue his education. The reason that he had a change of mind is that not only has he slowly found the ability to help improve his parents lives, the experiences of the person in the biography also led him to look at things from a broader time scale. The operators of Rhodes Island, with their wide array of experiences, also showed Windflit how everyone never gave up no matter how quirky life gets. All of this encouraged him to take on the challenges he might face and pursue his dream.

Rhodes Island will sail to many more places, and there is much more for Windflit to experience. He is still young, and there are countless possibilities awaiting him.

It gives me great relief to know that he is working for you.

I was actually pretty worried before I got his letter. When I first heard the news, he seemed to have been in quite a bit of shock, so I was going to let some time pass first before introducing him to some similar companies. I certainly didn't expect him to contact your company.

He's a good student, and good students who can stay true to their hearts are hard to come by.

He didn't even look like he had any grudges when he said he would go work at the factory where his parents worked. He truly wanted to use the skills he learned to help workers like his parents. It took both his parents and me a long time to talk him out of the idea.

He never thought of joining a big company as proof of who he is, and he has more ambition than I expected, making the decision to go back home.

That said, I'm afraid my club might've caused some of his bad habits. I mean, no one could bring themselves to fetter a good boy like him in any way. You'll have to forgive him for his eccentricities.

—A letter from Windflit's teacher