Colossus By Design: Character Bio - Jiro Ifukube

[Subject]: Director Jiro Ifukube
[Working Title]: The Warmonger: The Man Behind the Miracle Machine
[Author]: Lydia Cutter

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[Date of Birth]: July 13, 2003
[Location of Birth]: Sendai, Japanese origin island


[Early History]:

Born in the city of Sendai in the 21st century, Jiro Ifukube was the child of musical prodigy Akira Ifukube IV, best known for the composition of classic pieces in films such as "Fortress in the Clouds" and "Ravine of the Breezes". Thus, much was expected for the young man.

As one would think, Jiro Ifukube began life studying in the musical arts, following in the footsteps of his father. At the tender age of 12, he would enter his first musical concert, winning over audiences in the former United States in the early winter of 2015. But as many would see in the modern day, this was not the fate of Jiro Ifukube.

Despite being a talented musician, being accepted into the prestigious School of Musical Arts in Paris, France, at the age of 17, this wasn't Jiro Ifukube's true calling.

Instead, as early as the age of 6, the eventual director had found true happiness among machines. Whenever he received or found a new toy, he would always take it apart, looking at its components, figuring out what did what, and then putting it back together again. Often, during these curiosity experiments, the end product would be significantly improved in comparison to its original state.

Thus, by the time he was 19, Jiro Ifukube would reject the musical career his father had so carefully planned out for him and decided to take up mechanical engineering.

Luckily for the young man, his natural talent for tinkering and robotics would land him several scholarships and awards, as well as him becoming a member of the prestigious International Robotics Committee at the young age of 24.

It was his entrance into the committee that caught the attention of the higher-ups of Project Warmonger, a secret organization dedicated to the study of and defense against enormous non-standard-evolutionary creatures. By the time he was 30, Jiro Ifukube had become a top researcher for the group and continued moving up the ranks, becoming the leader of the organization in 2053.


[Warmonger Initiative]:

For the next few years as a researcher and director of Project Warmonger, Jiro Ifukube would continue his many predecessors' work, in secret as always, conducting operations to discover these supposed giant lifeforms first documented by Dr. Kyohei Yamane and Dr. Daisuke Serizawa in the late 1940s.

Everything changed when the P.E.M.F.s attacked.

Following the conclusion of the Annex of South America in 2060, just two short years later, the very first Post-Evolutionary Mega-Fauna would emerge from the sea. Although the creature was eventually killed through overwhelming nuclear force, its appearance marked a significant change in the course of Human history.

But Jiro Ifukube stood firm. In the wake of this revelation, the director would immediately step out into the public eye, revealing Project Warmonger, its aims, its goals, everything.

Once the public knew about the group, Director Jiro Ifukube would enter an agreement with the world's governments, intent on studying the creatures and creating effective countermeasures.

It was under Jiro Ifukube's guidance and authority that the secret of the Warmongers was unlocked, whom were named after the project itself. The director himself created the very first prototype non-standard DE energy core, and oversaw the construction of the very first battle-ready Warmonger, Freedom of Justice.

From that point onward, Jiro Ifukube was given full military authority over Warmonger activity, providing tactical command over deployments, repairs, etc.

Despite the increasing numbers of the P.E.M.F.s, Jiro Ifukube remained level-headed, never letting the stress and fear get to his head like it did so many others before him. He continued to run successful Warmonger operations, maintaining an overall successive streak over the creatures.

Eventually, the monsters stopped showing up, and the conflict was officially declared a victory for Humanity. Director Jiro Ifukube became a famous man due to his service in the First Wave. But not all was right. Without a common enemy uniting Humanity, and the powerful mechanical guardians that served as protectors now purposeless, the governments of the world would do what they had always done in the past when confronted with such conditions: War.

It was then, during Christmas Day in 2083, that the governments of the world made one last unified decision: all Warmonger activity would be handled by their respective nations unless in times of P.E.M.F. resurgence. Jiro Ifukube had lost Project Warmonger to the bureaucrats, and would lay low for the majority of World War III.

Over time, in the decades following its conclusion, Jiro Ifukube would become a university professor in 2105. He would perform his job, though not with the same enthusiasm he had when he was leading Project Warmonger. It was the summer of 2124 when tragedy would strike. A massive fire hit the University of Kyoto, and Jiro Ifukube was presumed dead.

However, in actuality, the fire was staged by him and his close friend, President Nigel Mandela, leader of the African super-nation, as a cover-up to allow Jiro Ifukube to slip away from the public and continue his studies into the P.E.M.F. phenomenon. It was during this time that the director would come into contact with the current inhabitant of the last active Warmonger known as Serizawa's Light, Satoshi Yamane, warning him of an imminent P.E.M.F. incursion off the Japanese coast, the first in over 60 years.

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