Solon Kitakaze (G1)
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- Solon Kitakaze is a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> cyborg from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Victory_%28franchise%29" title="Victory (franchise)">Victory</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Generation 1">Generation 1</a> continuity family.
[[Image:|right|300px|thumb|Solon Kitakaze, riding his beloved father.]] Solon Kitakaze (北風ソロン Kitakaze Soron) is the adopted son of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon" title="Decepticon">Decepticon</a> leader <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Deathsaurus" title="Deathsaurus">Deathsaurus</a>. As such, he is perhaps best known for his rivalry with his opposite number, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jean_Minakaze" title="Jean Minakaze">Jean Minakaze</a>, the adopted son of the Autobot leader <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Star_Saber_%28G1%29" title="Star Saber (G1)">Star Saber</a>.
Solon was injured and his parents were killed during a Decepticon attack on Earth, and Deathsaurus—infamous for his weakness for human children—took the boy for his own, turning him into a cyborg to save his life and raising him as a son. As a consequence, Solon considers himself vastly superior to Jean and the other humans he encounters. If that wasn't bad enough, he's one of those types who constantly raves about how brilliant and powerful the Decepticons are, even when they're retreating right in front of his eyes.
The extent of the powers and abilities of Solon's cyborg body is unknown, but he has certainly had a substantial portion of his frame replaced with robotics and covered with synthetic skin. He is able to detach his right fist and launch it on a retractable chain, and he often rides Deathsaurus's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Breast_Animal" title="Breast Animal">Breast Animals</a> as steeds. He briefly controlled his own Transformer-sized mech, King Solon.
<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solon_Kitakaze&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2>
<a name="Victory_comic"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solon_Kitakaze&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: Victory comic">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Victory comic</span></h3>
The armored Solon was perched upon Deathsaurus's shoulder during the
first recorded conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth,
but he played no role in the battle. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Magnificent%21_Our_Friend%2C_Star_Saber%21" title="Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber!">Magnificent! Our Friend, Star Saber!</a></span>
[[Image:|left|180px|thumb|Solon in Decepticon gimp mode.]]
Solon's first major role came during a later battle between Deathsaurus and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Landcross" title="Landcross">Landcross</a>
in the middle of a burning forest, when he spotted Jean attempting to
sneak away through the trees. Pursuing him atop Deathsaurus's
Tigerbreast, Solon snagged Jean with his fist-chain and dragged him
back to the battle site, where Deathsaurus had managed to best Star
Saber and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Road_Caesar" title="Road Caesar">Road Caesar</a>.
When Deathsaurus saw Jean in Solon's clutches, however, he was shocked
and infuriated at how his son was treating the boy, and brutally struck
him. Solon's helmet clattered off, and Jean was stunned to see that
there was a human boy beneath it, but there wasn't much time for
reflection, as Star Saber used this distraction to catch Deathsaurus
off-guard and body-slam him. Wounded, Deathsaurus escaped into the sky,
with Solon riding his Eaglebreast alongside him. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Great_Turn-Around%21_Star_Saber" title="Great Turn-Around! Star Saber">Great Turn-Around! Star Saber</a></span>
A little later, Solon enrolled himself in school Deathsaurus ordered him to study the "primitive humans" and uncover their weakenesses. It was a rude shock for Jean when Solon suddenly turned up in his class, but the cyborg's first day proved an exciting one when <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Leozack" title="Leozack">Leozack</a> attacked the city. Solon and Jean cheered for their respective factions as Star Saber engaged him in battle, but Star Saber was ultimately victorious, and Solon made a note of Leozack's defeat in a notepad. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Leozack_Rumbles_Violently%21" title="Leozack Rumbles Violently!">Leozack Rumbles Violently!</a></span>
During the next Decepticon attack, Solon and Jean ran around the battlefield swapping insults until they were approached by two other humans. This pair proved to be old Autobot allies <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sh%C5%ABta_G%C5%8D" title="Shūta Gō">Shūta</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cab" title="Cab">Cab</a>, who had come to observe Star Saber in action, thinking that their old commander, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ginrai" title="Ginrai">Ginrai</a>, was much better than he was. Solon derived great amusement from Shūta and Cab's criticisms of Star Saber and proceeded to cheer for <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dinoforce" title="Dinoforce">Dinoforce</a> member <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kakury%C5%AB" title="Kakuryū">Kakuryū</a> as he engaged Star Saber in a one-on-one battle. Kakuryū wound up getting thrown over the edge of a cliff, and as Star Saber loomed over him, both Solon and Jean wound up crying (Solon thinking Kakuryū was done for, and Jean thinking that Star Saber was about to finish the job). Both boys were relieved when Star Saber extended a hand to Kakuryū and helped him back up to solid ground, but even as he exited the battlefield, Solon glanced back, unable to comprehend why they thought Star Saber was that great. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Warrior_of_Love%2C_Star_Saber%21" title="Warrior of Love, Star Saber!">Warrior of Love, Star Saber!</a></span>
Jean was later kidnapped by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Yokury%C5%AB" title="Yokuryū">Yokuryū</a> and brought to the Decepticons' <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Thunder_Arrow" title="Thunder Arrow">Thunder Arrow</a>, where Deathsaurus attempted to bribe him into joining the Decepticons with toys, cash, and candy. Despite their rivalry, Solon encouraged Jean to switch sides and commented that he could make himself stronger by becoming a cyborg too. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Watch_Out%2C_Jean%21_Hurry%2C_Star_Saber%21" title="Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!">Watch Out, Jean! Hurry, Star Saber!</a></span> Deathsaurus took a pretty severe thrashing from Star Saber at the end of this escapade, and Solon was left to take care of his wounded dad, resting a giant ice-pack on his head. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Star_of_Friendship%2C_Jean_and_Star_Saber%21" title="The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!">The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!</a></span>
[[Image:|right|180px|thumb|Solon in super Decepticon gimp mode.]]
The next time Jean and Solon crossed paths was in the middle of
another battle, which saw Star Saber bested by the team of Deathsaurus,
<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dinoking" title="Dinoking">Dinoking</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Liokaiser" title="Liokaiser">Liokaiser</a>.
Jean begged Solon to stop Deathsaurus from killing Star Saber, but with
a sad look, Solon reaffirmed his allegiance to the Decepticons and told
Deathsaurus to hurry up and finish the job. Thankfully, the arrival of
Jean's long-lost sister, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Patty_Minakaze" title="Patty Minakaze">Patty</a>, and the mighty <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Victory_Leo" title="Victory Leo">Victory Leo</a>
saved the day, as Star Saber merged with Victory Leo into Victory Saber
and defeated the Decepticons. Escaping atop Eaglebreast, Solon
marvelled at the revelation that Jean had a sister, while
simultaneously being amused that Jean needed a girl to save him. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Strongest_Partners%2C_the_Combination_of_Victory%21" title="The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!">The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory!</a></span>
Deathsaurus wasted no time in developing a way to combat the combined power of Victory Saber and created a Transformer-sized mech for Solon to pilot, named "King Solon". Deathsaurus and Solon plunged into battle side-by-side and revealed their new power when they combined into "King Zaras" to combat Victory Saber on the planet <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Guard&action=edit" class="new" title="Guard">Guard</a>. At this point, however, Patty cried out to Solon to stop, calling Guard a "mother planet," just like Earth. At the mention of the word "mother," Solon's concentration lapsed, and Victory Saber exploited the opening to blast King Zaras with his "Victory Boomerang" attack. The King Solon components were destroyed by the attack, and Solon's flaming body tumbled from the wreckage, his synthetic skin burning away to reveal the robotics beneath. As Patty bandaged his wounds despite Solon's protestations, Deathsaurus took off into the sky, calling Solon his son by fate, and leaving his Tigerbreast behind to carry Solon away. As Solon mounted the Breast Animal, Jean asked him to join the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Victories" title="Victories">Victories</a> (the armored team of Jean, Patty, Shūta and Cab), but Solon refused, claiming that he would be unable to put up with such a cheerful sister on the team. As he departed, however, he continued to think about Patty, remarking to himself that she was just like his own late mother. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mighty%21_Victory_Saber" title="Mighty! Victory Saber">Mighty! Victory Saber</a></span>
[[Image:|left|125px|thumb|He likes short-shorts.]]
During the Decepticons' next attack, Solon was still recovering from
his wounds, but was present all the same, riding Tigerbreast. During
the battle, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blacker" title="Blacker">Blacker</a>
tackled Tigerbreast and plucked Solon off of it, intent on making him
realize where he loyalities should truly lie. Solon continued to
denounce his human heritage, but Blacker made him understand there was
more to being human than simply having an organic body. Blacker then
departed, leaving Solon a suit of Victories armor crafted in Blacker's
likeness. Realizing what he had to do, Solon donned the armor and
entered the battle, blasting Deathsaurus in the face with his gun to
announced his arrival. Telling his "father" that he was a human, Solon
announced that as a human, it was his duty to fight to protect Earth,
not to destroy it. Solon and the other Victories transferred their
energy into their Autobot counterparts, and Road Caesar and Victory
Saber used the power boost to unleash the "Victory Caliber" attack,
flattening the Decepticons with one blast and forcing them to retreat.
Jean welcomed Solon to the Autobot side, but Solon announced that he
would only join on one condition: Patty had to be his sister, too! The
angry Jean chased after him as the other Autobots and Victories watched
and laughed. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shine%21_The_Five_Stars_of_Victory" title="Shine! The Five Stars of Victory">Shine! The Five Stars of Victory</a></span>
Solon and the other Victories were all aboard the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Galaxy_Shuttle" title="Galaxy Shuttle">Galaxy Shuttle</a>
during the final battle between the Autobots and Deathsaurus's
planet-destroying fortress. Solon thought Deathsaurus was destroyed in
the explosion that concluded the battle, but was relieved to discover
that he lived when the Victories and Autobots all boarded the fortress.
Deathsaurus proceeded to reveal that the fortress contained all the
Decepticons' wives and children, and this led to the laying down of
Autobot and Decepticon arms and the beginning of a new age of peace. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Heroic%21_The_Victory_War" title="Heroic! The Victory War">Heroic! The Victory War</a></span>
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- Solon's surname means "north wind", while Jean's surname means "south wind". It's like a metaphor, or something.
