Desiree Kaufman

Desiree Kaufman is one of the protagonists in Kingdom Hearts: The Unsung War Trilogy. Originally from the far away world of New Venezia, the Leader of the "Lightning Valkries" Sky Hunter Guild mysteriously arrived in the world of Olympus Coliseum. Confused over what was going on and where she was, she was employed by Raven Otsdarva, leader of Task Force 108, with the hope of finding her way home.

Early History
Desiree was born around 85 DC in the City State of Citadel, a part of the Commonwealth of New Venezia, a small nation far away from the jurisdiction of the three superpowers. When she was young, Desiree and her friends would wander across the streets of Citadel, spying on the military while training. The New Venezian military was one of the more powerful military arms within the Universe. However, while her friends wanted to join the military, Desiree would be more interested in the life of a Sky Hunter.

Sky Hunters are what civilians sky farers, who live on ships and live off the sky, whether they be good or bad. All Sky Hunters lose civilian rights of whatever sky city they come from as they cease to be a permanent resident. However, instead, they form a client relationship, usually being employed on tasks that are easier left outsourced.Even though they cease to be citizens, most Hunters retain a sense of national pride to their original home.

Sky Hunters all have ships of their own that they call home. Solo Sky Hunters are rare as they rarely last long in the hostile air. "Guilds" as the public has dubbed them, are sorted through grades, regardless of their morality, from E, D, C, B, A, S to SS.

Desiree dropped her citizenship at around 97 DC when she was 12 to join the S ranking "Thor's Hammer" alongisde ten of her childhood friends. There was initial opposition from her mother, but her father, a former Sky Hunter himself, finally allowed, seeing that her ten close group of friends also will be going with her and that she was joining a reputable S class guild.

Throughout the next few years, Kaufman gained the skills needed to live, even going beyond, showing leadership and talent for the type of works that Sky Hunters receive. It was in her sixteenth year that she decided to leave "Thor's Hammer" and with her ten friends as the core, began the "Lightning Valkyrie". The start was harsh, with many opponents against the young guild. Through luck and several daring and extremely dangerous gambles, they shot from an E class guild straight to B class.

Their final stretch to fame and repute came from the military, where one of her childhood friends offered jobs to "Lightning Valkyrie". Due to the heavy border skirmishes with the neighbouring country, Valencia, guilds have been drafted into a fleet of freelancers to supplement the lines until reinforcements arrived. When they arrived, the border skirimishes turned out to be more like a mini war than small fights. In the following few days, Kaufman led her Valkyries through the thick of battle, downing as many ships as possible through superior speed and tactics. Eight days they lasted before they were relieved.

Due to their extremely good work, Kaufman gained the favour of one of the mightiest military power and was liased with her general friend. It was through this connection that they managed to get their ship Shiva, although in its most basic state. With such powerful allies and fame, it didnt take long before the "Lightning Valkyries" hit their current SS rank. As of now, through trawling the sky seas all over the planet, Kaufman managed to build up an elite force of Valkyries, change Shiva to what it is now and acquire technology and weaponry far superior to the standard of the world.

Weapons & Fighting Style
Sky Hunters live by the gun. They are their partners along with their legs and are siblings to their fingers. Swords are for extremely close quarter fighting and only when they have no other available firearms left. Even so, the fighting style is that of movements. Never ever are Sky Hunters still for more than 5 seconds in combat. They are always on the move, always finding new cover or attempting flanks and maneuvers. With their developed acrobatic abilities, scaling nearly flat surfaces, running up walls for a bit and finding and using the most ridiculous hold on surfaces enable them to move almost anywhere on the battleground. Hitting a fellow Sky Hunter is hard, even with guns. Therefore, it is down to the speed of ones draw, ones trigger finger and ones reaction for that split moment of drawing. Anything after that would probably lead to fighting with swords when the ammo runs out.

But, Kaufman is a SS ranking Sky Hunter. She can easily hit any B Ranking Sky Hunter with ease and deal with mid level A Ranking ones relatively easy. Only S and SS Class Hunters would rival her.

Desiree's weapons loadout varies by mission, and she is capable of wielding and using a wide variety of firearms, many of them native to her homeworld.

Trivia

 * This character was created by Tipsynaruto of Final Fantasy Forums