Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam

Synopsis

Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing is a new original tale in the Last Exile universe. It features new characters, new mechanics and an all new story centered around the young ace vanship pilot, Fam, and her trusted navigator, Giselle, as they pilot their vanship, Vespa, through the free and peaceful skies.


Main Character

Giselle Collette (ジゼル・コレット)

Giselle Collette is Fam's best friend and navigator in the vanship's back seat. Compared to the reckless Fam, she is introverted. Giselle collects and stores various battleship- and military-related data and covers for Fam in those aspects. As the eldest daughter of the Sky Pirates chief, Atamora, Giselle can easily handle housework such as cooking and cleaning while taking care of her brothers and sisters.

Fam Fan Fan (ファム・ファン・ファン)

Fam is a 15-year-old member of the Sky Pirates. Flying in a small vanship, Fam looks for aerial dogfights and battleships with her comrades and resells the ships to make a living. Fam has the potential to become a skilled vanship pilot but still lacks experience. From the bottom of her heart, she loves "peace in the free skies". Her signature aerial maneuver is the Split S.

Milia il Velch Cutrettola Turan (ミリア・イル・ヴェルク・クトレットラ・トゥラン)

Milia is the younger princess of Turan. She loves and respects her older sister Princess Liliana completely and constantly strives to be a support system for her.

Alauda (アラウダ)

Alauda is a top intelligence agent of the Ades Federation and reports directly to Luscinia. He supports Luscinia's military rule from the shadows through covert operations, assassinations, and other means.

Alister Agrew (アリスティア・アグリュー)

Alistia Agrew is Tatiana Wisla's trusted confidant, best friend, and expert navigator. She is assigned to the Sylvana, under the leadership of Alex Rowe. She is about seventeen years old.

Dio Eraclea (ディーオ・エラクレア)

Dio Eraclea is the 16-year-old younger brother of the most powerful Guild member, Maestro Delphine Eraclea. People see him as a rare find that will someday take over the Guild. He is very playful and fearless, and treats many things like they were games. His odd nature can be seen in his awe of Claus Valca's skills and giving him the nickname "Immelmann" (referring to the World War I German ace, Max Immelmann and the maneuver Claus frequently used while flying, the Immelmann turn). This strange nature is mostly due to the Guild lifestyle and fear of his sister Delphine. His first appearance in the series is marked by a chess-match with his beloved friend Lucciola and with the Guild's power and surveillance, watches the skies of a skirmish between Guild ships searching for Alvis Hamilton and the Silvana. He finds extraordinary talent in Claus's vanship piloting, and after the Horizon Cave Eight vanship race, he starts to have strong interactions with the main characters. He later joins them on the Silvana in order to escape his sister, but is forced back to the Guild before long, and is brainwashed by a Guild device in preparation for the "Rite of the Covenant". Driven to insanity, he participates in the Rite of the Covenant, where the next Maestro is chosen, and emerges victorious. He escapes with Claus and Alvis soon after and is nursed back to health in the Mad-Thane residence. He flees from there in a vanship and travels to the Grand Stream. Being delirious, his memory resets to the moment of the race in Horizon Cave, and he attempts to pass Claus. At that moment he tells his navi, Lucciola (who isn't there), to jump out so they can get more speed. He crosses a flock of rainbirds believing them to be the finish line and congratulates Lucciola on their victory and invites him to celebrate, but he then turns around to find he is not there. Believing Lucciola had actually jumped from the vanship, he attempts to cross to his seat while crying, but his vanship is then hit by a gust of wind and he is swallowed by the Grand Stream. Despite this, his voice is heard during a later scene in the Silvana's engine room cheering "Ascending!"



There is a scene depicted in the series' official artwork showing Claus, Lavie, and their friends living on the farm turning and smiling at an individual stepping into the frame with them. Though all that can be seen is one foot and a waving hand, the individual appears to be wearing Dio's Guild uniform.

Tatiana Wisła (タチアナ・ヴィスラ)

Tatiana Wisla is the only child of "the proud and noble" Wisla house of Anatoray. At the age of seventeen, Tatiana left home to become a member of the newly-formed Anatoray Military Vanship Corps, a new military division dedicated to using vanships as weapons as opposed to just couriers and transports. She excelled in both piloting and dogfighting, quickly becoming one of the best vanship pilots in the sky, possibly second only to Alex Row. She sent all the extra money she made as an ace pilot back to her family so that her mother could care for her ailing father. Before too long, she found herself on the Silvana as Row's handpicked wing commander for his small vanship fighter fleet. She pilots a twin-engine vanship fighter which she painted red to distinguish herself from the other pilots as well as all other vanships in the sky.

Tatiana is second best to no one in her own mind, but her overconfident self-view is challenged when she meets Claus, whose piloting skills rival her own. From then on, her feelings toward Claus go on a roller coaster, making her feel anger, disgust, awe, respect, fear, and even attraction to the young vanship pilot. Her frosty aloofness is clearly a self-defensive façade; she suffers a mental breakdown of sorts after getting shot down over the desert, but recovers, and from that time she begins to show a greater depth of feeling, especially towards Claus, whom she develops a crush on.