Kentaro Randa

Kentaro Randa is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Cate Randa) of the Apple+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. He is the son of Hiroshi and Emiko Randa, and the younger paternal half brother of Cate Randa and the ex-boyfriend of Corah Mateo/May Olowe-Hewitt. He is also the grandson of William Randa, one of the main characters of Skull Island and Keiko Randa. 
Surprised by the sudden appearance of his half-sister and the fact that his father was married with two families. Despite their differences the siblings band together to find their missing father, while developing a close sibling bond as the series progresses.
==History==
=== Background ===
Kentaro Randa was born to Monarch scientist Hiroshi Randa and his wife, former Monarch nurse, Emiko Randa on July 7, 1990. He had one sibling, a half-sister Catherine Randa but remained unaware of her existence for most of his life. 
In 2013, Kentaro had a brief romantic relationship with May Olowe-Hewitt, where they met outside of his art gallery. Their relationship quickly escalated and they stayed together for a while. The night of the gallery is the last time he sees Hiroshi before the latter's disappearance after flying to Alaska. When Kentaro's father disappeared, he ghosted May, causing the two to unofficially break up due t bad communication. 
===Monarch: Legacy of Monsters===
====Season 1====
==== 2015 ====
In 2015 Kentaro and Emiko meet his paternal half-sister Cate, who introduces herself as Hiroshi's daughter. Both mother and son freak out when they find out that Hiroshi had another family in America. He is initally cold towards Cate, putting his anger on his father out on her. Kentaro leads Cate to Hiroshi's office, where they discovers a safe containing files belonging to their grandfather, Monarch researcher Bill Randa. Seeking answers about Monarch's presence in San Francisco and Hiroshi's connection to them, Cate and Kentaro recruit Kentaro's ex-girlfriend May Olowe-Hewitt to decode the files; however May is not thrilled to see him because he ghosted her a year ago since his dad disappeared. 
Kentaro stumbles upon classified documents in Hiroshi's office, shedding light on Shaw's relocation to a care facility in Japan. Tim and Monarch operative Michelle Duvall join forces to locate Cate, Kentaro, and May in order to retrieve the decrypted files. However, the trio manages to elude their pursuers. Determined to uncover the truth, Cate, Kentaro, and May embark on a journey, evading capture and eventually locating Shaw. To their astonishment, Shaw discloses that the supposed care facility is merely a facade orchestrated by the Monarch to confine him. Persuaded by Shaw's revelations, they decide to escape from the facility and pursue Hiroshi, tracing his whereabouts to his last known destination in Alaska.Departure
Cate, Kentaro, May, and Shaw managed to flee Japan by boarding a ferry headed towards Pohang, Korea. Upon arrival in Pohang, they were intercepted by border guards, only to discover that one of them, Du-Ho, was actually Shaw's long-lost friend. Du-Ho then arranged for their transportation to Alaska via plane. During the journey, May deduced from Bill's documents that Hiroshi may have been tracing a series of coordinates provided by Monarch. Upon reaching Alaska, they stumbled upon the remains of Hiroshi's aircraft and a makeshift campsite indicating his possible survival. Du-Ho came to the realization that Hiroshi's plane had been ambushed after landing. Du-Ho is suddenly killed by the Frost Vark creature. "Secrets and Lies" 
The Frost Vark's emergence was detected by Monarch and Kentaro, Cate, May and Shaw outwit the Frost Vark. However, May fell into a pool of water and developed hypothermia. Fortunately, the group sees her and are more determined to find shelter for her. Desperate to save his sister and their companions, Kentaro splits from them and finds a building, where he found a plane tha was an old radio station repaired by his father. Kentaro uses the radio to call for a Monarch helicopter, which comes to rescue the group when they see the bonfire that the trio had created. They are rescued and taken to a Monarch outpost, where they are greeted by Tim and Duvall.Parallels and interiors 
Kentaro and his allies meet Natalia Verdugo, the deputy director of Monarch, who expresses frustration upon discovering that Shaw had withheld information about Hiroshi's activities in Alaska from Cate, Kentaro, and May. Duvall proposes releasing the trio in order to monitor their movements. Upon their return to San Francisco, Cate manages to persuade her mother, Caroline, and Caroline's associate James to assist them in infiltrating Hiroshi's office located in a restricted area of the city's ruins. Despite facing challenges such as evading military patrols and addressing Cate's PTSD, they eventually reach Hiroshi's office. Although they do not uncover any additional hidden files, Kentaro deduces from Hiroshi's maps that he may have traveled to Africa in pursuit of Titans.The Way Out
Duvall breaks Shaw out of captivity, revealing that she joined Monarch after her sister died in the Janjira power plant disaster but has become disillusioned. They take Cate, Kentaro, and May to the Algerian Sahara, where they find Hiroshi using a Titan lure. He warns them to escape before fleeing. Tim and other Monarch agents find the team in Algeria; Godzilla emerges and causes their helicopter to crash. Shaw and Duvall reveal their intent to follow and help Godzilla, but Cate, Kentaro, and May leave to find Hiroshi. Both Randa siblings are confused why they were able to follow them. However, May revealed that she contacted Monarch and allowed them to track the trio, causing them to break from herTerrifying Miracles
Suddenly, when May is kidnapped at the Tindouf airport by her former AET employer who gives her the choice of spying on Monarch or being prosecuted. Cate accosts Tim when he arrives at the airport and asks him to help locate May. Tim, Cate, and Kentaro find May's family in Tacoma, Washington and learn about her past from her sister, Lyra. They trigger a false Titan alert to rescue May from AET, but she chooses not to spy on Monarch and stay behind. Cate convinces Verdugo to relaease May in exhange or help understanding Shaw's plans. She is also convinced by Tim to make Monarch pulic and explain the false alert.Will the Real May Please Stand Up?
Cate, Kentaro, May, and Tim infer that Shaw is trying to rectify the past. Verdugo sends them after Shaw with a small team. Inside, Shaw and Duvall confront the team, where KEntaro and the other people learn that Shaw is actually trying to help Godzilla by separating the hollow Earth. However, as Shaw primes explosive charges around a rift to the Hollow Earth inside the pit, an adult Endoswarmer emerges. Suddenly May, Cate, Shaw, and the Endoswarmer fall back into the rift shortly before its destruction, much to Kentaro's horror at suddenly losing his sister and his alliesBirthright
At the same time, Monarch rescues Kentaro and Tim; however, Kentaro remains grieving and despondant of Cate, May, and Shaw's. However, with encouragement from his mother, Emiko inspires him to keep looking for his sister. He reunited with his father, Hiroshi, but the intense reunion between father and son escalates. Unknown to Kentaro, his sister and allies survived. Shaw and May are in an intermediate realm and Cate is rescued from a Bramble Boar by her surprisingly young grandmother. Axis Mundi
Tim leaves Monarch after clashing with Verdugo over her refusal to investigate Keiko's signal and instead notifies Kentaro and Hiroshi. The trio spend the next two years searching for their lost allies. Beyond Logic
==== 2017 ====
Two years since Cate, May and Shaw's disappearance, Kentaro joins Tim and Hiro bringing the Operation: Hourglass launch vehicle out of the water, where he is reunited with his sister and May and meets his grandmother, Keiko for the first time. They evacuate the Island as they see King Kong approaching.
== Personality ==
Kentaro is smart, quick-witted, and fiercely protective over his family. He is an artistic person with a passion fit art and his family. He initially dislikes his sister, but this is mostly aimed at his deeper resentment for their father for keeping her existence and her mother's a secret.
==Physical Appearance==
*Ethnicity: Japanese
*Hair Color: Black
*Eye Color: Brown
==Relationships==
===Cate Randa===
Kentaro and Emiko first met Care Randa when she showed up at the apartment claiming to be Hiroshi's daughter. The former developed resentment for his half-sister at first but was, in reality angry towards his father for having a secret life kept from him and his mother. The more they spent together, the more that Kentaro started to care for Cate as a person and sibling. They started teasing each other and Cate pulling the fact that she is the older sibling. When he supposedly lost Cate, Kentaro blamed Hiroshi for the apparent loss of his beloved sister and reluctantly worked with him to find Cate.
===May Olowe-Hewitt===
May is Kentaro's ex who broke up with him prior to the series. Despite their strained relationship May reluctantly agreed to help him with finding his missing father.
===Hiroshi Randa===
Hiroshi is Kentaro's father who he is estranged from even before his plane disappeared. When searching for his father with his sister, Kentaro came to resent Hiroshi for being married to another woman and keeping him unaware of his older sister's identity. When he supposedly lost Cate, Kentaro blamed Hiroshi for the apparent loss of his beloved sister and reluctantly worked with him to find Cate.
===Keiko Randa===
Keiko is Kentaro's paternal grandmother who was presumed killed in action. However, he was surprised to see that she was alive and still young when he met her for the first time.
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