Gaia Chronicles: The Integral Saga

If you ever heard laughter on the wind,it was probably Elaine Synthesis 7.

Born in the glittering skydocks of New Tokyo Arcadia, Elaine was the daughter of weather-engineers—technicians who shaped clouds and controlled city climates for one of Gaia's largest aerial colonies. Her father rode storms with drone wings. Her mother danced with typhoons to keep acid rains from crashing into school districts.

Elaine?

She just wanted to feel the wind in her hair.

Golden-haired and wide-eyed, Elaine was energy in motion.Her eyes were like dawn—bright, warm, always moving.She had the gait of someone who belonged on air rather than earth. She ran everywhere. Jumped over everything. Talked to everyone.

"Don't walk when you can fly," she'd say with a grin that could outshine solar panels.

But not every wind is gentle.

When she was nine, a rogue Rank 9 Abyss swarm breached her colony's outer rim during a maintenance shutdown. Most evacuees made it out in time.

Her mother didn't.

Elaine was in the hallway when it collapsed.Her last memory of her mother was her arms pushing her through the hatch as black, winged horrors tore through the skylight above.

She didn't speak for days.Not until her father found her on top of their broken apartment tower, standing with her arms wide open to the rising storm.

"I want to learn how to ride the wind," she said softly, eyes fixed on the sky."Because it took her. And I want to chase it."

Elaine was admitted to Gaia's Atmospheric Combat Academy at age ten.

Her natural affinity with aerial ether, speed, and Wind Manipulation made her a top recruit in aerial fieldwork simulations. She wasn't the strongest, but no one could catch her.

She made it a point to brighten every hallway she walked into—cracking jokes, spinning through training rooms, giving nicknames to even the grumpiest Commanders.

But behind the joy was a promise.

"No one else flies away from me again. Not while I still breathe."

Her Divine Artifact came to her in a moment of desperation.

During a test flight in Gaia's upper atmospheric lab, a training drone overloaded and ruptured a pressurized gravity pod. Elaine's team was spiraling out of control, plummeting toward the earth.

She could've bailed. Could've waited for rescue.

Instead, she screamed into the wind—

"I said NOT AGAIN!"

The air split.And from the eye of a sudden cyclone, a shining rapier—Aetheris—descended like a streak of lightning.

She caught it mid-fall.

And with one slash, she created an upward current so powerful it turned a nosedive into a flight.

She passed the Trial instantly. No ceremony needed.

Elaine became Synthesis 7, the Gale of Joy.

Among the Integral Knights, Elaine is the heartbeat of the team.

She calls Diane "Big Sis Gravity."She calls Julius "Sparkplug."She calls Cyg "Mr. Eyebrows" (he does not approve).

Her combat style is fast, elegant, improvisational. She dances on the battlefield, uses Aetheris to slice through air currents, and has a signature move called Whirlstep Waltz—a wind-fueled dash that makes her appear in three places at once.

Even hardened Knights like Tryce and Lionel admit:

"When Elaine's in the sky, we all breathe easier."

But beneath the wind and laughter, she carries her grief quietly.

Sometimes, she still climbs to Gaia's highest tower.Whispers her mother's name into the wind.

And waits.

Because maybe… one day…The wind might whisper back.