VELVET SCARLETINA

Age: 18

Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

Height: 5'4"

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Brown

Coco Adel's girlfriend and hopeful freelance photographer, Velvet is a kind, gentle, lovely girl with a warm smile, shy nature, and passion for taking pictures. Photography isn't just her passion, it's her job, and she loves being around the celebrities, taking pictures from a small distance away while her more gregarious girlfriend mingles.

Though not competing in the tournaments, Velvet does play Gunpla Battle casually and often acts as a recon scout for Coco. Between her data gathering and Coco's installed Zero System, little escapes the watchful eye of Velvet and Coco on the battlefield, and she's taken advantage of her photography skills to adapt her Gunpla accordingly.


NILS YAJIMA

Age: 21

Hometown: San Francisco, California

Height: 6'0"

Hair: Black

Eyes: brown

Title: lead scientist at Nielsen Labs and Yajima Trading

Known as the Early Genius and the Samurai Boy in his youth, Nils Yajima, formerly Nils Nielsen prior to marrying Caroline Yajima, was always destined for scientific greatness. At age thirteen, he had already graduated with three and was a master of martial arts, thanks to training with his mother. His IQ has yet to be calculated, but many consider him to be smarter than any of the 20th and 21st-century scientists of fame, like Stephan Hawking and Albert Einstein.

In the Seventh World Gunpla Tournament, he represented America as its national champion. Using his masterful knowledge of how Plavsky Particles react to Gunpla, he managed to overwhelm opponents with the Sengoku Astray, his custom Astray Red Frame, with a mixture of dual swordplay inspired by fabled samurai Miyamoto Musashi and Chinese martial arts centering around aura control (or in this case, Plavsky Particle manipulation), until he encountered Sei Iori and Reiji in the Star Build Strike, who managed to defeat him.

He retired from Gunpla Battle afterward, focusing on studying the nature of Plavsky Particles after the events of the Mock Battle of A Boua Qu, where he witnessed firsthand the overwhelming capabilities of the Plavsky Particle Crystal. After the battle, with the disappearance of the crystal, he and Caroline Yajima dedicated nearly a year pouring over their findings and eventually, with her father's investments, managed to completely synthesize a new version of the crystal, with greater output and performance than the original.

Since that time, Nils has married Caroline and taken her name as a way to show appreciation for her and her father's contribution. He has become the primary mind in the field of learning how to best use and modify the Plavsky Particles for things outside of Gunpla Battle. Because of his innate knowledge of how the new system works, he no longer plays Gunpla Battle, as he feels he has far too much of an advantage to make it fair for anyone.


RICARDO FELLINI

Age: 31

Hometown: Florence, Italy

Height: 6'4"

Hair: Black

Eyes: Aqua

The Italian Dandy, Ricardo Fellini, is one of the strongest and most prominent members of the singles competition. A proud, boastful, powerful opponent, he has proven himself time and again as the current reigning Italian Gunpla Champion, which he held during the 7th Gunpla World Tournament eight years prior, and earned the last three years in a row. In his twenties, he was seen as a bit of a ladies' man, but since the 7th World Tourney he has settled down, marrying the former Japanese idol-turned-Hollywood actress Kirara, who now goes by Mihoshi. He has been in five of the last seven Gunpla Battles and won the 12th Gunpla Battle World Championship.


SHIA KIJIMA

Age: 16

Height: 5'2"

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

School: Gunpla Academy

Hair: White

Eyes: Blue

Team: Burning Phoenix

A member of the three-person team Celestial Sphere, Shia Kijima is one of the most skilled and accomplished builders in the world. In the year prior, Shia participated in the finals of the Tri Battle Tournament against the Try Fighters, using her custom machine, the G-Portent, alongside her brother Wilfrid Kijima and his Transient Gundam and their teammate Saga Audo and Gundam The End.

After the battle, she traveled with Try Fighters Ace Sekai Kamiki around Japan and elsewhere to hone his building skills, with both of them eventually returning with new Gunpla (much to the jealousy of Fumina Hoshino, Sekai's teammate, and Kauroko Sazaki of the team Song Dynasty Vase, both of which, alongside Shia, have a romantic interest in the oblivious Sekai).

Shia acts cute and innocent but has a quick mind and a diabolical level of mischievousness hidden under her white hair and pale blue eyes. She possesses a level of model building skill that could outshine the Meijin Kawaguchi and Sei Iori, two of the most prestigious Gunpla builders in the world. As such, even a weak, stock machine crafted by her should be considered hyper lethal. Her piloting skills are also close to world level, so she is not to be underestimated in a fight.


WILFRID KIJIMA

Age: 20

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Height: 6'0"

Hair: Pale Blonde

Eyes: Sky Blue

The former leader of the Gunpla Academy's famous Celestial Sphere team, Wilfrid is an intelligent and cunning individual with high aspirations and wanting nothing more than a good fight. He is easily disappointed in people who cannot get his blood pumping, which is why he quickly became enamored and excited when Sekai Kamiki appeared and became his rival.

Wilfrid demands nothing but the best from his foes. He is an amazing and powerful fighter, level headed and calm at nearly every moment of a battle. His goal is to be selected as the Fourth Meijin Kawaguchi when the Third Meijin finally retires. He has followed a similar path to Tatsuya Yuuki, studying in England for several years before transferring to the Gunpla Academy in Japan and rising to the top of the team circuit.

This time around, he has chosen to forgo teaming with his sister Shia in favor of making a name for himself on his own. Joining the World Tournament will be his first step to greatness; winning it and beating the Meijin will be his ultimate triumph.


KOURUKO SAZAKI

Age: 16

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Height: 5'6"

Hair: brown

Eyes: brown

Alias: Gyanko

School: St Odessa's All Girl's School

Team: Shielded Strikers

The younger sister of well-known Gunpla enthusiast and Gyan obsessive pilot Susumu Sazaki, Kouruko, or as she has come to be known as, "Gyanko," is the leader of Song Dynasty Vase, the team that hails from St. Odessa's All-Girls Academy. Headstrong, stubborn, and defiant, but with a soft heart and warm personality to those she considers friends, Gyanko has forged bonds with all of Team Try Fighters and is especially enamored by Sekai Kamiki-much to the annoyance of both Sekai's teammate, Fumina, and rival, Shia.

Her accolades in Gunpla Battle make her a powerful foe in combat. She has a rather sturdy and heavily resilient shield created by her brother, which he has equipped to her redesigned R-Jarja, called the R-Gyagya, which has been customized to have both the look and fighting style of the Gyan, though she has a newer design called the Gyancelot that she has been using with increased frequency. She has proven to be more than adequate in a variety of singles and team competitions since meeting Sekai and vowing to improve her skills to win his affection (something that Sekai has no idea about).


SHIMON IZUNA

Age: 16

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Height: 5'9"

Hair: brown

Eyes: green

Team: Shielded Strikers

Shimon is a powerful junior boxer and former national boxing champion for the 19 and under division. A little dense but with a kind heart, he has become fast friends with Sekai Kamiki after meeting him one time in combat and facing him blow-for-blow on near equal terms. He also became rather close with Gyanko, and as such decided to team with her for the Doubles tournament. Many believe the two are dating, though both adamantly deny it.

Rather than build his own Gunpla, Shimon uses only straight built units provided to him by his little brother, Mamoru, who has been practicing their craft. His brother has been in and out of the hospital for a few years, suffering from illness, and Shimon uses his brother's Gunpla to honor him as a way to fight alongside him when he cannot. Mamoru and Gyanko's little brother Tateo have become friends and rivals in building competitions since meeting at the Meijin Cup a few years prior, which caused Gyanko and Shimon to become best friends and are often seen together.


HATHAWAY NOVAH

Age: 17

Hometown: Sacramento, California

Height: 5'9"

Title: US Southwest Regional Champion

Hair: Black

Eyes: deep blue

Team: MixMasters

Known as the "Master Kitbasher" by many due to his seemingly impossible skill at taking otherwise unmodified parts and mixing them together to form a new machine, Hathaway is as capable of throwing people for a loop with his unique creations as he is piloting them. Never to be satisfied with just a single model, Hathaway has hundreds of kitbashes that he uses, never using the same model twice, which always keeps people on their toes. The only sole piece of equipment shared between his machines is his unique longsword Black Thorn, which he has equipped to every kit. It houses a beam pistol and powerful railgun for additional firepower, ensuring that Hathaway is never without options.

A serious and focused individual, it takes a real challenge to awaken Hathaway from a state some might see as perpetual boredom. He hopes to find that kind of challenge this year in both the singles and doubles World Tournaments, eagerly looking forward to seeing what the best of the best has to offer.


JIM HAWKINS

Age: 24

Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada

Height: 6'2"

Title: US Southeast Regional Champion

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Blue

Team: MixMasters

An ex-US fighter pilot, prior to a debilitating and partially blinding injury on base, Jim is a ridiculous and sarcastic individual, preferring the thrill of a fight over moping over his unfortunate circumstances. His eyesight is gradually improving with time and therapy, but for now, he is legally blind, relying on a special AI he helped develop named Alpha to act as his depth perception and more detailed eyes and targeting sensor in Gunpla Battle. With his win in Orlando, Florida to become the US Southeast Champion, Jim established himself as a contender, disability, or no. He had previously made a name for himself when challenging Ricardo Fellini to a race, which he lost by only a fraction of a second, impressing Fellini in his control and precision even with his limited eyesight.

Serving as Hathaway's partner and preferring the freedom of open-air or space over the confines of the ground, he has chosen a highly maneuverable transforming Gunpla that is primarily based on the Zeta Plus and the Gundam Airmaster Burst as his main unit for the Doubles Tournament. The machine was built by Hathaway two years prior and has seen several aesthetic changes, but overall remains the perfect hybrid of two of the more dominant aerial designs in Gundam's franchise history, and his ever-present companion in a fight.


MINA SEUNG

Age: 21

Hometown: Seoul, South Korea

Height: 5'6"

Title: Korean Dual National Champion

Hair: Black (dyed sky blue)

Eyes: brown

Team: Honorbound

A kind-hearted and carefree individual, Mina is not one to be tied to locations for any length of time. She has traveled the world in search of adventure and excitement, and has crossed paths with several of the people at this tournament at least once.

She met Jim over a year and a half ago, and they hit it off extremely quickly. They have been together ever since, often traveling country to country to improve their skills as Gunpla fighters. Mina went home and competed in both the South Korean Nationals and the South Vs North Grand Tournament, winning both and being crowned Dual National Champion in the process. She hopes to add the Doubles World Championship to her list of accolades next, and if she's lucky, the World Singles Championship, as well.


IRINA SOBOLEV

Age: 20

Hometown: St. Petersburg, Russia

Height: 5'4"

Hair: brown

Eyes: green

Team: Honorbound

A quiet, composed, intense, and wickedly aggressive fighter, Irina has gone toe to toe with Pyrrha in what Pyrrha admits was one of the toughest fights she's ever had. A dedicated and ambitious competitor, Irina chose to partner with Mina in a surprise twist, after seeing that their fighting styles compliment each other.

According to Pyrrha, she uses a custom Gundam Astrea as her main Gunpla, but beyond this, she didn't reveal anything about her machine. If it gave her a tough time, however, it is not a force to be taken lightly.


JACK B. IVORY

Age: 19

Hometown: Blackpool, England

Height: 5'10

Hair: Pale Blonde

Eyes: Sky Blue

Title: English National Champion

Team: JackRabbit

The tomboyish and calculating Jacqueline Ivory is a surprise entrant in both the Doubles and Singles tournament this year. She has won the English Nationals three times over in recent years but has opted to stay out of the world stage for now.

Generally friendly, she and Hathaway Novah are close friends, sparring partners, and rivals. She loves a good fight and specializes in Muay Thai kickboxing to overwhelm her foes. One of the few Mobile Trace System machines used in the tournament, Jack has found equal success in the normal control scheme as well and is just at home firing a rifle as she is throwing her fists around.


EVELYN DAMEROT

Age: 19

Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Height: 5'2"

Hair: Brown (wears a pale pink wig with matching ears)

Eyes: Brown (Purple with contacts)

Title: Canadian National Champion

Team: JackRabbit

Jack's best friend and partner for the tournament, Evelyn has earned the reputation of "The Mad Hatter" due to her outlandish style of homemade clothing in an attempt to merge the Rabbit and Hatter from Alice in Wonderland together. She has an entire persona she wears in public, right down to contacts and a wig with rabbit ears, and is as wild and unpredictable as Jack is calculated and focused.

She bested Penny Polendina for the Canadian National Championship, and though she often says she always knew she'd win, Penny's unique fighting style was perhaps the closest she's ever come to being completely dominated. A powerful and devastating force to be reckoned with, Evelyn's sporadic movements and unrelenting assault is the reason she has made it this far, and is the reason her team is a favorite to take the Doubles Tournament.


SALEM AUTRY

Age: 42

Hometown: unknown, presumed somewhere in France

Heigh: 5'8"

Position: New Owner of Team Nemesis (Rebranded Team Godslayer)

Serious with business and a patient and calculating woman, Salem seemingly came out of nowhere with enough wealth to purchase the banned and defunct assets of Team Nemesis, which had been essentially abandoned after the debacle of the Seventh Gunpla World Tournament. Rebranding the team into Team Godslayer, she has since managed to successfully petition for the team, now under new leadership, to be allowed to once again compete in official Gunpla Battle circuits. However, her true motives remain to be seen, as a simple interest in Gunpla Battle doesn't seem like something a woman like her would have a spark in.


CINDER FALL

Age: 20

Hometown: Detroit, Michigan

Height: 5'9" (in heels)

Hair: Black

Eyes: yellow

Team: Godslayer

Born to an impoverished mother and an absentee father, Cinder has grown up in the dregs. Annoyed by her lot in life, she felt powerless to have any control over her destiny, often feeling like she was floating in a vast abyss of disparity and self-loathing, she only used Gunpla Battle as an outlet. She became extremely good at it, decimating any challenger in Detroit and eventually won the Statewide Championship two years ago with ruthless efficiency, but even this hadn't been enough. That is, until her skills as a Gunpla fighter were recognized by Salem.

Her cunning, manipulative nature did almost nothing for her in Detroit, where she worked at a convenience store for the minimum wage to help pay the bills. Salem's opportunity for a better life and recognition was too good to be true, but it was indeed real. With her resources, Cinder traveled the world, and in a few year's time managed to impress her enough to be asked to join Team Godslayer as their representative in the World Tournament.

Cinder's ambitions are simple, but that lets her focus more heavily on them: win the tournament for Salem, and prove that she deserves the power she seeks. And destroying the best in the world is the perfect stepping stone to achieve that goal.


HAZEL RAINART

Age: 44

Hometown: Berlin, Germany

Height: 7'2"

Hair: Black

Eyes: Hazel

Team: Godslayer

Title: German National Champion

Quiet, muscular, and fairly reserved, Hazel is not what one might call "a showman." Despite his skill in Gunpla Battle, and his reign as the two-time German champion, Hazel often avoids the spotlight. Feeling somewhat uncomfortable in the presence of fame, he nonetheless holds a deep appreciation and regard for the sport, something that has propelled him to the top of his nation and into his first World Tournament, albeit only in the Doubles ranks.

Though he doesn't need the support of Team Godslayer, Hazel decided to use their resources to gain access to better equipment. He fully intends on creating a new Gunpla by the time the tournament ends. For now, though, it's more important for everyone in the tournament to keep an eye on him now, rather than what he is planning to do later on.


ARTHUR WATTS

Age: 47

Hometown: London, England

Height: 6'3"

Hair: Black

Eyes: Green

Team: Godslayer

An exceptionally intelligent man with two in electrical engineering and computer programming, Arthur Watts is a certifiable genius and acts as the primary Operator to Cinder Fall. Arrogant to a fault, he knows precisely how good he is, and knows that selectively few people could challenge his expertise.

Team Godslayer relies on Watts both to handle the modifications to Gunpla and the programming aspects of the computer system in the GP Bases to register what weapons they use. To this end, he has bent the program to his will, allowing his allies' machines to perform feats most wouldn't even dream of. His skill as a Gunpla builder only makes these modifications that much easier, and his models are all top of the line in both building techniques and modifications.


JAMES IRONWOOD

Age: 45

Hometown: Charleston, North Carolina

Height: 6'6"

Hair: Black (grey sideburns)

Eyes: blue

Team: Warmasters

Rank: Captain, US Marine Corps

Sponsored by the US military to join the Gunpla Championships in order to showcase the effective strategies taught to their soldiers, Ironwood is the perfect example of the ideal veteran.

Though he doesn't have a particular love for the sport, he sees great potential in the Gunpla Battle system for training drone pilots and soldiers. Despite his lack of experience, his tactical mind has led him to become a massive threat, and his inclusion in both the battle royale for the Top 16 of the World Championship and the Doubles Tournament has stirred a lot of comments in the community.


GABRIEL FYNN

Age: 41

Hometown: Rotorua, New Zealand

Height: 5'7"

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Team: Warmasters

Rank: Commander, US Navy SEALS

A good friend of James Ironwood and a passionate Gundam fan, Gabriel Fynn never thought he'd be in the position he finds himself in now, on the center stage of the World Tournament. Despite his age and his calm demeanor, he secretly feels the thrill of being among the greats of the sport.

Fynn's passion for tactical battles matches Ironwood's in every way, and the two have developed a tight-knit and easily flexible combat style that perfectly compliments each other. With his knowledge of many of the Gundam series and the basic capabilities of the stock machines in them, he holds a distinct advantage over most of the other contestants.


WINTER SCHNEE

Age: 23

Hometown: Hollywood, California

Height: 5'6"

Hair: White

Eyes: Sky blue

Team: Warmasters

Rank: Lieutenant, US Marine Corps

The older sister of Weiss and a serious, focused woman, Winter is often regarded as the "Ice Queen" for her cool and level-headed attitude and a work mentality some might see as calloused.

Despite initial first impressions, Winter has a gentle side, though few besides her sister and others in the family ever see it. She acts as the Operator for Team Warmasters, repairing their Gunpla and helping Ironwood out when he fights solo. Despite what many might think, Winter is far more competent a builder than many might expect.