Gigi Haneda

"A master of the 'flick' and the 'drop shot,' Gigi knows that what you see isn't always what you get. She treats every social interaction like a tactical court placement, waiting for her opponent to reveal a weak spot." Based on the common badminton joke ("Love" means zero in scoring), Gigi is cynical and strictly professional. She views emotional attachments as "faults" that slow down your game. Gigi wasn’t born a prodigy; she was built into one. Her older sister, a legendary badminton player, died in a freak accident (or perhaps a mysterious "falling out" with the sports world) just before reaching the Olympic level. Gigi grew up in a high-tech sports academy that treated athletes like machines. Her training involved returning shuttlecocks fired from specialized cannons at 400+ km/h.