Kite

Kite is a in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. He is the lieutenant of under Zeon. In his early terms, he is part of Garvel's gang.
==Appearance and personality==
Kite has red hair parted in the middle and golden eyes. He wears a Kevesi outfit with a black vest with yellow stripes over a black chestplate. In battle, he wields a summoning staff type , similar to Keves Blasters.
Kite has spent most of his life being annoyed at being second-best, jealous of those more successful than him. It causes him to often appear stubborn and antagonistic, especially toward Zeon and Noah. But beneath that shell, he is a good man who takes care of his comrades, earning himself the loyalty of good friends like Trish, Eastman and Fox. He seeks recognition, while being too used to live in the shadow of others to know how to earn it. According to Trish, it feels like he has always been alone.
==Story arc==
===Where The Heart is===
Zeon is bringing Noah, Eunie, Lanz and the rest of the party back to Colony 9 after receiving news of an hostile Agnian colony approaching. Kite updates the commander on the situation when he arrives to Colony 9 Command and ends up clashing with him and the Kevesi members of the party as they discuss how to deal with the situation. Kite feels sidelined by Zeon in favor of Noah and storms out of the room. He ends up defending Colony 9 while Zeon and the party launches an assault on the enemy main force. When Zeon returns, he shows his discontent by refusing to salute Zeon like the others, standing arms crossed until Consul B appears. He stands at attention as the Consul passes and congratulates Zeon, but his posture falls apart in anger as the Consul begins to insult the memory of fallen Colony 9 soldiers.
Zeon and the party defeats the Consul in battle, and Kite asks Zeon for explanations on the situation. He doesn't accept all of it, and eventually leaves, arguing that he should be commander instead of Zeon and intends to prove it.
===Lean Times in Colony 9===
To help Colony 9 with its shortages, Zeon gathers supplies on old battlefields with the party. Kite intercepts them as they deliver the items to the commissary and demands an explanation, believing they took it from another colony while Kite and the other soldiers are forbidden to loot. As Camilla takes Zeon's side, Kite can only leave after warning Zeon he isn't the only one unhappy with his way of doing things.
===A Difficult Transition===
Lanz and the rest of the party approach Kite to ask him about Fox's whereabouts, who is nowhere to be seen and suspected to plot to plunder other colonies to help with Colony 9's food shortages. Trish comments that Fox went on a hunt around , and they realize Fox is planning to attack Colony Gamma. The party departs ahead to stop him, soon followed by Kite's squad. They manage to stop Fox before he can put his plan into motion.
===For Colony 9===
Agnus military activity has been confirmed near Millick Meadows. After arguing with Zeon on how to deal with it, Kite leaves Colony 9 with a few other soldiers. They hide inside the Wraiths' Void caves, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Agnian forces. Zeon and the party find him before, but Kite tells them he doesn't intend to change his ways or return to Colony 9 because he needs actual results, not Zeon and Noah's "hollow gestures". They are interrupted by Agnus Scouts attacking them, and to Kite's surprise, Zeon and the party join the fight. However, as Kite and his squad prepare to kill the last Agnian, Lanz stops them and allows the Agnian to escape. Before Kite can argue with him, Keves forces infiltrate the cave and shoot down Colony 9 soldiers, pointing them as traitors to Keves Castle. Kite is forced to take down people he thought of as allies and can't help but wonder how they can survive if everyone is now against them. Zeon tries talking to him again, explaining he needs his support to help Colony 9. This time, his words go through, and Kite agrees to come back to Colony 9 and help.
===Reasons to Evolve===
Colony 9's attempts at growing its own crops aren't going too well. All they manage to grow are Emetaters, spuds that are causing many Colony 9 soldiers to be ill. When Zeon and the party decide to head for Colony Tau to ask Juniper for advice, Kite chooses to follow them, after briefing Fox and the others so they can hold the fort at Colony 9 in their Commander's and Lieutenant's absence. At Colony Tau, Kite is striken by Juniper's appearance. His mistrust reappears soon when he mistakes the spud Juniper is holding for an Emetater and believes it is a trick from Agnus to poison the Kevesi. The resemblance doesn't bother Zeon, who takes a bite of the raw potato. Confused by his emotions and Zeon and Juniper's ease to trust, Kite runs away.
When Zeon and the party come back to Colony 9 and starts applying Juniper's advice to find an adequate location for the fields, Kite looks from afar with distrust, refusing to talk with Zeon despite his eagerness to be included. When Noah and Zeon come back to him later to tell him they've found a plot for farming, Kite fails to hide his joy at the news and reluctantly agrees to help them. Joined by Trish, Fox and Eastman, they all tend to the fields and plant the seed potatoes. However, Fox waters the sprouts too much, causing them to rot. Kite, Trish, Eastman and Fox take out the rotten spuds and till the soil again while Zeon and the party go gather more seed. They try again, and Kite leaves the fields after he finished tending to them, leaving Zeon and the others deal with the next troubles on their own. But when the spuds finally grow and hungry monsters attack the fields in Zeon's absence, Kite jumps to the defense of the Spongy Spud Patch without hesitation. The monsters defeated, Kite apologizes, saddened by the sorry state of the rampaged crops. Juniper appears and cheers him up, causing Kite to apologize to them too. Zeon tells him he is a good man. Kite, having never been told that, is moved by the words. He then rejoices when Juniper asks for permission to visit Colony 9 more often.
===Crusader for Spuds===
==Quests==
Kite appears in the following quests:
* Where The Heart Is
* Lean Times in Colony 9
* A Difficult Transition
* For Colony 9
* Reasons to Evolve
* Crusader For Spuds
* The New Inspector
==Lore==
* Kite was once heavily wounded while defending Trish during a raid on their colony Trish/Dialogue.
==Dialogue==
==Affinity==
==Collectopaedia Card==
==As an enemy==
Kite (boss)
==Trivia==
* Kite is the only member of Garvel's gang to live past his early terms, prior to their rebirths.
==In other languages==
==Gallery==
Garvel's gang.png|Kite as a member of Garvel's gang
XC3 Where The Heart Is Kite.jpg|Kite
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite.jpg|Kite
Kite Blade.jpg|Kite with his Blade
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite vs Ropls.jpg|Kite defends the fields against Ropls
XC3 Where The Heart Is Kite and Zeon.jpg|Kite and Zeon in Colony 9 Command
XC3 Where The Heart Is Kite vs Zeon.jpg|Kite confronts Zeon
XC3 Where The Heart Is Fox Eastman Trish Kite.jpg|Kite refuses to salute Zeon
XC3 Lean Times in Colony 9 Kite.jpg|Kite confronts Noah about supplies
XC3 Lean Times in Colony 9 discord.jpg|Kite warns Zeon not everyone is happy with him
XC3 Kite Eastman Trish.jpg|Kite, Eastman and Trish
XC3 A Difficult Transition Kite Eastman Trish.jpg|Kite has no idea where Fox is
XC3 For Colony 9 finding Kite.jpg|Noah and Zeon find Kite
XC3 For Colony 9 Kite Eastman Trish.jpg|Kite, Eastman and Trish
XC3 For Colony 9 Zeon fights with Kite.jpg|Zeon prepares to fight alongside Kite and the others
XC3 For Colony 9 Kite Eastman Trish ready to kill an Agnian.jpg|Eastman, Kite and Trish prepare to kill an Agnus Soldier
XC3 For Colony 9 Zeon Kite.jpg|Zeon talks Kite into coming back
XC3 For Colony 9 Kite.jpg|Kite
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite emetaters.jpg|Kite with Emetaters
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite Juniper.jpg|Kite meets Juniper
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Zeon Juniper Kite.jpg|Zeon, Juniper and Kite
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite doubts.jpg|Kite expresses doubts at Zeon's attempts
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite hesitates.jpg|Kite hesitates to join the others
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Manana Riku convince Kite to join.jpg|Manana and Riku convince Kite to join
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Fox apologizes.jpg|Fox, Eastman and Kite
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Trish Eastman Fox Kite.jpg|Trish, Eastman, Fox and Kite
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Eastman Trish Kite Fox ready to help.jpg|Eastman, Trish, Kite and Fox
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite regrets.jpg|Kite regrets his behavior
XC3 Reasons to Evolve Kite apologizes.jpg|Kite apologizes to Juniper
==References==
Category:Kevesi
Category:NPCs (Colony 9) (XC3)