Aika

Aika is a major character in Skies of Arcadia, a game that released in 2000 for the Dreamcast.

Appearance
Aika has orange hair tied into two distinctive stiff pigtail braids that stick out horizontally from her head tied with blue thin ribbons. Atop her head she wears a set of goggles, and has a pair of teal colored teardrop earrings.

She wears a sleeveless yellow dress, brown short shorts under it and an oversized blue belt loosely around her waist. She wears a single thick yellow leather glove over the hand in which she carries her giant boomerang weapon, and a blue wristband around the wrist of her other hand. She also wears a pair of knee high yellow boots.

History
Aika's parents were killed when she was a small child, and she was temporarily adopted into Vyse's family until she could look after herself with Vyse's father Dyne acting as a foster father during this time.

At the age of ten during one botched rescue mission where she and Vyse were mistaken for attacking the distressed ship, they were attacked in retaliation. The enemy attempted to take Aika's life, but Vyse pushed her out the way, recieving a scar underneath his eye as a result of this heroic act. Aika feels incredibly guilty about Vyse's injury, but Vyse seems undaunted by it.

Aika and Vyse later go on to form the Blue Rogues pirates, a group of air pirates who only attack armed ships larger than their own, and vow to never attack unarmed or merchant vessels.

Valkyria Chronicles
Aika Thompson is a playable character in Valkyria Chronicles alongside Vyse Inglebard. The two are very close and spend a lot of time hanging out with the Sellers triplets.

Trivia

 * Aika fell into a well as a child. This traumatised her so much she never learnt to swim.
 * Aika's hairstyle and weapon style is shared with Sticks the Badger.
 * Aika is the quickest character in Skies of Arcadia.
 * Aika's Valkyria Chronicles counterpart is the only one to not appear in the anime adaption unlike Vyse and Fina's counterparts.
 * Aika is considered to be the second best scout in Valkyria Chronicles after Alicia Melchiott, sharing many of her more positive abilities such as Double Movement and Resist Crossfire which allows her to run further than many scouts and take less damage from enemies. This coupled with orders from Welkin Gunther can completely break the game.
 * All of Aika's S attacks are named after letters in the Greek alphabet.