Hayao Kusanagi

A dreamer from a young age, Hayao always wanted more. His family lived in a small country village in Japan, and there Hayao learned the benefits of working smart. Between school and working with his family, Hayao was a busy boy and found he did not have much time for leisure. This drove him to find ways to maximize the efficiency of all of his tasks. At home he would develop tools and mechanisms to speed things up. He built a small mill along a nearby river when he was 10 years old.
When world war 2 kicked off, Hayao was a young officer working to research new and enhance old machines of war. He worked on the guns used by airplanes, some of the systems used on ships, and almost everything involved in tanks. When the war ended, so did his military service. He took his experience and ideas to the private sector, working on farming machinery manufacture then branching out from there.
In 1949, at the age of 30, he founded Kusanagi Heavy Industries. At the time it was simply a company the used efficient assembly line methods to build a variety of things. Over time, he acquired smaller companies that made the machines he used, and so his company began making and researching those as well. By the time he stepped down, in 1990, KHI was branching into software, at his daughter's advice, and finding ways to program AI and learning into its machines.
Since retiring, Hayao has lived in a gorgeous country house, in a small village in Japan. He is known to occasionally visit KHI in Toyko, but with his age and health that happens less and less.

Current Location

Earth

Species

Gnome

Year of Birth

1919 101 Years old

Eyes

barely seem to open, but he sees everything

Hair

very thin, bald on top, with short bits of black and white on the sides

Height

5'2"

Weight

thin