Dakota Lee

Known as Kota.

Kota is the family lead for Team Blackbourneundefined.

Appearance
At first glance, Kota seems to look like a nerd, primarily because of his black-rimmed glasses and preppy clothing style.

He is at least a head taller then Sang, and has a medium build with defined musculature. He generally has an confident upright posture, with shoulders back.

He has fair skin, light brown hair, emerald green eyes and thin brows angled at the edges, and high cheekbones. His nails appear manicured.

He wears a 'spicy' scentundefined.

Biography
Kota lives with his mother Erica and younger sister Jessica at Sunnyvale Court.

Kota, Nathan, Victor, Luke and Gabriel all met in kindergarten, and all went to the same elementary school. Nathan's mother was a friend of Kota's mother.

Kota's father is a US Marine, and Erica attributed his violent tendencies to PTSD, unaware of his long-term psychological abuse of Kota. Kota didn't tell his mother, as he didn't want his father to extend the abuse to her or Jessica. When Kota joined the Academy, and Mr Blackbourne formed the team, they became aware of the abuse and worked out how to get Mr Lee out of the house. At this point, Kota talked to Erica, and she divorced Kota's father and obtained a restraining order preventing him contacting the family again. Kota and Nathan went to therapy sessions togetherundefined.

When Kota was 12, the Academy sent him and the other boys to something like boot camp for eight weeks. [Note: This is probably when he was chosen to replace Dr Green as family lead] When he returned, his mother hardly recognized him. He was stronger and faster, and giving orders like a sergeant. Ever since then they have worked together, played together, become each other's world. Mrs Lee never thought they'd talk to anyone elseundefined.

Kota also understands sign language and can use this to communicate with Sang when she has no voiceundefined.

The brown sedan Kota drives has a front bench seat. Mr Blackbourne told North to find a suitable car for Kota and Nathan, and Kota picked that one. They told Mrs Lee that he and Nathan had pooled their money to buy that car, so that she would have no problem with Nathan 'borrowing' the car whenever he needed it. However, as far as Mr Griffin knows, the car belongs to Kota alone as he would think Nathan stole money to buy itundefined.

When Kota’s stressed, he’s counting. He’ll drop his head or cover it, and he starts counting off numbers. Normally sixty so he gives himself a minute. Sometimes it is a hundred or however long it takes. It’s how he allows himself to stress and then gets over it to do his job

Trivia

 * Likes any sort of music
 * Interested in science and physics
 * Icon on Sang's phone: calculatorundefined
 * Kota's Nickname for Sang is ten (When he counts heads within Academy ranks, he’s One, the others are a specific number, Sang’s last so she’s 10)
 * Kota can use sign language