Tiago “El Tigre” Yamada

**Player://** Grinn#1826

**Name://** Tiago “El Tigre” Yamada

**Age://** 21

**Gender://** Male

**Role://** Famous Pop Idol

**Faction://** Civilian

**Special Role://** None

**Physique://** Tiago is in amazing shape thanks to personal trainers, dieticians, and doctors from his music label to ensure he looks fantastic for the crowds. While in fantastic shape (easily passing the army’s physical requirements) he goes more for looks than for practicality.

**Personality://** If there is one word to describe his greatest strength and his greatest weakness it would be “passion”. Tiago is a starry-eyed dreamer who believes that music is a universal language that can triumph over any adversity. He is a quasi-pacifist who thinks everything can be solved with love, understanding, and communication. He is a dramatic believer in the power of romance and will throw caution to the wind if he is moved enough. He wears his emotions on his sleeve and is quite empathetic.

**Likes://** Music, romance, peace, cooperation, fashion, tulips, attention, motorcycles, mobile suits, fishing, and trashy romance novels.

**Dislikes://** War, red meat, country music, authority figures, carrots, cats.

**Notable Skills://** Despite what the tabloids would suggest Tiago is an exceptionally talented musician who is capable of playing over a dozen instruments on a world-class level and is a sought after professional vocalist. He is a consummate performer and has a keen understanding of pop culture and people. While no genius, he is a competent mobile suit pilot and has specialized training in ECM. Despite his appearances he grew up rough and knows how to fight, even if he does so rarely these days.

**Weaknesses://** Tiago is a good leader but a terrible follower; he is driven entirely by his passions and will disregard orders if emotionally moved to action. He takes stupid risks, is all heart and no mind, is brash, and has problems with authority.

**Life Goal://** Tiago wants to end the war through music. He thinks he can unite the various factions though a shared understanding, empathy, and conversation. He’s fond of saying, “If I can save just one person with my music- it’ll all be worth it!”

**History://** Tiago is originally from a small colony on the fridge of Arcadian space known as Star-4-2-1. The colony was a failed business venture by one of the previous Dukes of the system that had gone to seed. After funding was pulled it became little more than an unofficial displaced person’s camp where people went to try to immigrate to or from Arcadian space. Tiago grew up in a family of 16 children whose parents both had jobs in fuel management and acquisitions for Star-4-2-1. His family was musical and everyone had some level of talent but Tiago proved an exceptional singer and musician even when compared to his siblings. He performed at local festivals with his family as a child before getting a few gigs in the many bars as a performer with a band he performed. After a chance encounter with “Fast Cat”, a local loan shark Tiago fell in with a local gang that had connections elsewhere in Arcadian space. Fast Cat used Tiago as an entertainer at some of his clubs and eventually got him a record deal with Hyperspace Records, but he was their lowest billed star. He started by opening for larger acts and doing guest spots on albums of larger groups.

Tiago, now going under the stage name “El Tigre”, was an underground success. He has a small but dedicated following of young girls who put his picture on their bedroom wall. His socially conscious (yet oddly toothless and non-partisan) pop music resonated with a small segment of the younger generations in both the New Empire and Arcadia. Tiago was always political but as the war progressed he decided he couldn’t sit on the sidelines. He enlisted at the age of 18 in the Legion’s security forces and passed both basic training and ECM specialist training. His first few missions went ok as they were uneventful guard duties but he was kicked out after an incident on his first combat mission. Tiago thought it would be a fantastic idea to stand in his mobile suit, arms wide, between a town and an enemy mobile suit so it couldn’t destroy it. This probably would have earned him a medal except he did it without trying to stop the enemy and the enemy instead just aimed around him and destroyed the target anyway. After being drummed out of the peace keeping force he returned to civilian life where he toured again for 6 months before deciding to put his money where his mouth is.

Currently Tiago “El Tigre” Yamada is touring space with his band, the Shooting Stars, with his mobile suit and playing charity concerts for peace while interfering in military engagements with his mobile suit- begging for peace while his guitar shreds. Can Tiago survive the battle of the record industry while fighting for peace among the stars? Only time will tell!

**Family://** Tiago has 5 brothers and 13 sisters as well as a mother and father who still live on Star 4-2-1.

**Note://** Art by Iliakos

**Character Equipment**

* Guitar with inbuilt amp.
* Data pad with uplink to ship and inbuilt recording devices.
* A designer normal suit with tiger stripes.
	+ Note: This is often redundant because his Wild Rose Gundam provides him with a nano-tech mobile trace suit.
* 3 days of rations/water.
* 1 box of Shooting Star Bars.
* Spare business suit.
* Hair ties.
* x6 signed autographed pictures.
* Pen to sign.
* Credit chip.
* A multi-tool.
	+ This brick-sized tool has a screw-driver, trowel, soder, clippers, wrench, pry-bar end, and hammerhead all integrated. It’s not PERFECT for every situation but it fills a gap in any situation.

**Primary Weapon:** His winning personality.

**Secondary Weapon:** His stunning good looks.

## Elite Tier Update

Tiago has gone through some changes since his first deployment.

**Personality Development**

Tiago’s flame of passion burns just as hot as it always has, hotter even than before, though it has been focused into a white hot torch. He has seen the ugly side of humanity though war and betrayal but, despite it all, still believes humans are fundamentally good, romance is everywhere, adventure is just around the corner, and that peace and love can win. He has grown a bit shrewd after being played a few times and can be best described as “clever” and “canny”, though never “bookish”.

**Notable Skill Growth**

Tiago has blossomed as both a musician, celebrity and pilot. While he is no Newtype ace he can hold his own against even skilled military pilots and outperforms most of them with a mix of quick thinking, unexpected nonsense, and creativity. He is extremely proficiency in electronic warfare and ECCM, having had to face everything from the military to pirates and the Old Empire on multiple occasions. He’s grown into quite the fast-talker with a solid understanding of business (particularly fundraising and marketing without learning the finer points of management...), the law, pop culture, and has an oddly specific and robust knowledge of the Old Empire from first hand encounters. He’s no genius but he is wise and highly empathetic, possessing a natural charisma that he’s honed like a knife.