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Please give us a detailed personal history of your character:
To start off, Kittan was born underground, as were his three sisters; Kiyal, Kiyoh, and Kinoh. While to some this might seem odd, that isn’t so for the cast Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Now, Kittan and his sisters - through some means that has not yet and may not ever be covered in the series - made their way to the surface. They became known as the Black Siblings and for the most part, just tried to survive.
Tried to survive against what? Why, the creatures known as Beastmen and their mecha, known in the Gurren world as “Gunmen”! And they did a pretty good job too, considering they didn’t have much of their own aside from some animals they rode on and some odd costumes. That is, until Kittan and his sisters met Kamina - the first man ever to hijack a Gunmen from a Beastman. After seeing him and his ragtag group of heroes, the Gurren Brigade, the Black Siblings once again went on their way.
It would be a bit of a while before the Black Siblings arrived again, but in the meantime the Gurren Brigade continued on their journey to what they believed was the capital of the Beastmen’s operations, a place where they could stop the Beastman threat once and for all. Unfortunately, as it turned out, the “capital” was merely one of the “Big Four’s” battleships, the Dai-Gunzan. After a battle that was nearly lost, Simon temporarily defeated the Dai-Gunzan and many other Gunmen pilots arrived. Kittan in fact arrived before the Dai-Gunzan was defeated to fight off some drones, but that’s getting a little ahead of where we are.
Sometime before the Black Siblings’ next appearance (which would have much less QUALITY than the first, by far), Kittan split up with his sisters. What he did exactly is somewhat unknown, but by the time he came back he was in a Gunmen of his own, named King Kittan, and raring to kick some Beastmen tail. Upon his return, along with the arrival of many more warriors in Gunmen of their own, he and his sisters ended up joining the Gurren Brigade along with the rest of the reinforcements during the first battle against the Dai-Gunzan.
After all of the men united under Kamina, he came up with a plan to use Simon’s Lagann to take the Dai-Gunzan as the Gurren Brigade’s and defeat the Beastmen there all at once, and it all went as planned. Except for the part where Kamina got killed, which essentially screwed Simon up mentally and put Kittan as the leader of the Gurren Brigade. Simon wasn’t the only one messed up by that, not by a long shot. Everyone was, and with Kittan taking over as temporary leader he was put in the position of trying to be like him, when he wasn’t.
Kittan’s leadership didn’t last long. In fact, not long after finding the Spiral King’s daughter, thanks to some pretty girls, he walked the Gurren Brigade right into a Beastman trap (set by Guame of the Big Four). If not for Simon, who was still utterly depressed over his brother’s death, recovering and defeating Guame, they probably would have died there. Kittan happily gave Simon the role of leader after he finally ‘awakened’ and became his loyal follower and friend.
After Simon took over, things started picking right back up where they left off. After defeating the Big Four and reaching the Teppelin, the Beastmen capital, Kittan and the rest of the Gurren Brigade would battle on the ground while Simon, Rossiu, and Nia, went to face off against Lord Genome, the Spiral King. Simon won his battle, and Kittan and the others successfully stopped any Beastman forces from winning.
All seemed to be well in the world. And for seven years, there was nothing but peace. Miraculously, technology came in a blaze, and soon the Gurren Lagann world began to resemble a world much like our own, filled with technology, betrayal, and of course, politics. Kittan, in fact, was given the title of Chief of the Legal Affairs Bureau in Kamina City, which had become the capital of the world. Simon became the Commander-in-Chief and Rossiu became second in command. At Rossiu’s command, the old Gunmen that they had were destroyed (save the Gurren Lagann) and a new mecha, the Gulaparl, took their place and were used to keep the peace and stop any trouble makers.
And for the most part, aside from the guerilla warfare of the Beastman Viral, the world was at peace. But then the one millionth child was born and all the peace was promptly flushed down the toilet. Nia, formerly a sweet and kind girl, turned into a heartless ‘Anti-Spiral’ messenger and informed the human people that they, the Spiral race, were to die before they became the ‘Spiral Nemesis’ and destroyed the entire universe.
Nia explained (and unbeknownst to Kittan, at the exact time the reanimated head of Lord Genome explained all of this to Rossiu) to the human race, to Simon and through every television on the planet, that each person of the Spiral Race contained Spiral Energy, which is the very essence of evolution. The amount of Spiral Energy a person has is not based on strength, but rather, their emotions - their will to live, their hopes and dreams, and their mental and emotional strength. If too much of it were used, it is said that the very universe would collapse.
And that was where the Anti-Spirals came in. Giving up everything, they made it their mission to drive the humans into absolute despair so it would drain away their hope and their Spiral Energy. And as it turned out, Lord Genome had kept the humans underground in order to prevent them from activating the Spiral Nemesis, so that made it the Gurren Brigade’s fault it was happening in the eyes of the people. Of course, no one wanted to hear that, and Kittan - shocked by all of this - was no exception, as he rushed into the room where Rossiu was, not caring that he was in a “meeting” with Genome’s head, to tell him that everyone saw what happened.
And with that said, Nia disappeared with the Anti-Spirals, the moon began to fall, and Anti-Spiral machines that the humans dubbed ‘Mugann’ started attacking. Simon managed to defeat them this time with the aid of Gimmy and Darry, but shortly after that Rossiu cornered the commander and had him arrested - putting the blame for this all on him. Kittan didn’t support Rossiu on that, and frankly no one seemed to except for Kinon and the others of Rossiu’s gang.
While Simon awaited his trial, Rossiu began his plans for saving as many people as he could. During that time, Kittan answered calls from complaining citizens with the other high ranking members, though he honestly didn’t see the point of it all. The people didn’t have the right to complain, really, considering they had been living underground only seven years ago. But it seemed all was not going to be so easy, because the Mugann attacked again. Simon was temporarily let out of jail, with Kinon riding in the Gurren strapped to a bomb to keep him from running away. He didn’t, of course, and the Mugann were defeated.
Kittan went to talk to Kinon - and yell at Rossiu for doing something so absurd with his sister - after the Mugann were defeated and Simon was sent to jail, but she just slapped him and went away with Rossiu. You can imagine how Kittan must have felt then, the sister who he cherished dearly and helped raise had turned on him. He could only stand there and watch her walk away from him.
Sometime after that, Kittan straight up confronted Guinble, demanding to know what was going on. Rossiu interrupted that little meeting and took Kittan to the control room to show him just how deep they were in. And to Kittan’s shock, he found out that it looked like the earth was doomed. He didn’t like what Rossiu had to say, not one bit, but he also knew that Rossiu was doing all he could; so he accepted it.
Seeing as it looked like the end was approaching, Kittan did what he could. One thing he could do would go down to the hospital and see his niece. He did get to see her, and afterwards he went to the roof with Dayakka - his comrade and brother-in-law - to talk. Kittan remarked how Kamina died in a ‘good time’, and Dayakka told him he’d rather focus on his family than a dead man. Kittan didn’t have much of a chance to reply, because more Mugann arrived.
Armed only with a gun, Kittan helped evacuate all the citizens - including his other two sisters and Dayakka- and began firing at the Mugann. Was it a seemingly hopeless fight? That didn’t stop Kittan. But lucky for him, a vehicle arrived with Kittan’s King Kittan, along with a few more Gunmen. As it turned out, Makken, another Gurren Brigade member, and his wife Reite, who had been the maintainer of the Dai-Gurren’s engine back in the day; had taken the destroyed Gunmen parts and rebuilt them - better than ever.
Back in the King Kittan, Kittan began taking down Mugann and doing what he did best like any Gurren Brigade member - kicking ass and taking names. After a many Mugann were destroyed, Kittan turned around and flew back to the base. He confronted Rossiu again, taking the Core Drill (the power source of Simon’s Lagann) back and, to a lesser part, showing Kinon he was serious about this and, in a way, making up with her. Afterwards, Kittan went to the prison to meet the other Gurren Brigade members and free Simon. Shortly after, they began preparing to destroy the moon and defeat the Anti-Spirals, and it’s from this time before that battle that Kittan found himself waking up in Landel’s.
Had Kittan not arrived at Landel’s, he would have followed Simon into battle, where Simon fused the Gurren Lagann with the Arc-Gurren creating the Arc Gurren Lagann (he has such a way with naming things) and destroyed the “moon”, which as it turns out was actually Lord Genome’s flagship in disguise. After using Spiral Energy to rip through the universe to bring the real moon back, that ability was used again to take the Gurren Brigade, riding the Chouginga Gurren (Genome’s renamed flagship) to where the Anti-Spiral home world should have been.
Unfortunately that turned out to be a trap, and with new weapons and mecha far superior to the Mugann, and one by one the Gurren Brigade slowly began losing their members one by one. Finally, Genome’s head told Simon that the ship could transform into a new form - but just as the Spiral Energy required for that began reaching the peak it needed to be at, the Gurren Brigade sank into a sea in space that led to the Death Spiral Machine, which generated the “sea” and drained away almost all Spiral Energy from the humans.
In a last-ditch attempt to destroy the machine, Kittan would leave the ship - after confessing to Yoko that he loved her and stealing a kiss - in the Space King Kittan, which was the exponentially larger version of the King Kittan he’d been given after the Gurren Brigade left Earth; to destroy the Death Spiral Machine. He was scared of dying, in fact he told Gimmy and Darry that that was only natural. But that didn’t stop him, he knew it had to be done or all his friends and family would die. The Space King Kittan got destroyed, but with the King Kittan still inside, Kittan destroyed the Death Spiral Machine at the cost of his life.
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality:
When Kittan first appeared in Gurren Lagann, he came off as a guy with a big ego. And he does have a bit of an ego, but it became apparent later on that it wasn’t as big an ego as it first seemed. He did, of course, try to prove himself to be better than Kamina at first, showing he was both competitive and, yes, he did have an ego. But he also showed himself to care for his sisters, and as he rode off on the strange animals he and the rest of the Black Siblings commandeered at one point or another, it was clear he’d be back.
And when he came back, he was the same guy; wanting to show off and look cool, but at the same time make sure everybody’s safe. When he took over as leader he did his best to try to be like Kamina, but in the end he gave up the title to someone far more deserving. Kittan proved himself in later battles to not only be a tough guy, but a loyal friend and comrade; and in his final moments with Yoko, he even showed a little of his compassionate side.
Kittan is a more down to earth hero, as opposed to some of his other comrades. He can be the hardcore mech pilot the world needs, but at the same time he can be scared and worry - and then he can push past that fear and do what needs to be done. That’s who he is. All in all, Kittan is a good guy, a great warrior, a true friend, and a role model like no other.