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'''Nedd Strong''' (callsign '''Nedder''') is a cadet in [[DDF]] [[flight school]] and pilot number two in [[Skyward Flight]].{{book ref|sky1|8}}{{book ref|sky1|9}} He is one of [[Jorgen]]'s two assistant flightleaders, along with [[Arturo]].{{book ref|sky1|8}} He isdoes familiarnot withgraduate militaryflight protocolschool, likelyand dueis toremoved his two older brothers who are both pilots infrom the DDF, and his upbring on the surface.{{book ref|sky1|8}}{{book ref|sky1|23}} He grew up in Alta Base where his parents keep the orchards, however, went to school in the lower caverns, where he became good friends with Jorgen and Arturo.{{book ref|sky1|23}} His family is well off, likely due to the risk associated with his parent's work, however, not as rich as the families in the lower cavernsnon-attendance.{{book ref|sky1|3827}}

Nedd is the tallest member of [[Skyward Flight]],{{book ref|sky1|20}} standing at 193 centimeters tall,.{{book ref|Skyward|23}}. He is heavily built,{{book ref|sky1|20}} but has not fully grown into his features yet, with ishis face appearing too large for his head.{{book ref|sky1|23}} Between his height and overall built, Nedd takes up most of the space in his cockpit.{{book ref|sky1|20}}{{book ref|sky1|23}} He is conscious of healthy eating habits and routinely skips dessert during meals to maintain a better physique.{{book ref|sky1|15}} He has a faint accent that is normally associated with those from the [[deep caverns|lower caverns]],{{book ref|sky1|10}} howeverwhich he ispicked fromup Altaduring Base, and only attended schoolhis downpre-[[DDF]] belowschooling.{{book ref|sky1|23}} He is not religious.{{book ref|sky1|38}}

He is good natured,{{book ref|sky1|21}} easy going,{{book ref|sky1|23}}{{book ref|sky1|38}} and friendly,{{book ref|sky1|10}}{{book ref|sky1|21}} easily befriending many of his fellow flightmates during the early days of flight school.{{book ref|sky1|10}} He is quick to joke with others in a friendly manner,{{book ref|sky1|12}} and has no issue with making himself the butt of the joke.{{book ref|sky1|14}}{{book ref|sky1|23}} This is overdone, likely on purpose, by Nedd,{{book ref|sky1|23}} who is actually a very thoughtful{{book ref|sky1|20}} and perceptive person.{{book ref|sky1|23}} He is good at characterizing people and anticipating how to meet their needs, even if these needs aren't something his companions are aware of themselves.{{book ref|sky1|23}} He will often use himself as a target if he notices that someone is stressed and needing to blow off steam.{{book ref|sky1|}}{{book ref|sky1|23}} He is good at understanding how the traits and personalities of those around him can be utilized and will engineer situations to effectively use these traits.{{book ref|sky1|20}} NeddHe does not shy away during conflict and will play the mediator, being very good at diffusing situations.{{book ref|sky1|15}}{{book ref|sky1|23}} Nedd is, in general, very levelheaded, however can act irrationally if he believes someone he cares about is in danger.{{book ref|sky1|26}} Nedd is forcibly discharged from the DDF after he fails to report for duty after the death of his brothers, as instability of emotions, even those caused by grief, are considered a sign that a pilot is unfit for duty.{{book ref|sky1|27}} Although he appears to have returned to his jolly self by the time the remaining members of Skyward Flight graduate, his is still haunted by memories of their deaths.{{book ref|sky1|48}}

Nedd grew up on [[Alta Base]], where his parents keepkept the orchards.{{book ref|sky1|23}} It is unknown where Nedd originally hails from, or where he and his family lived before Alta Base was solidified as a stronghold following the [[Battle of Alta]]. At some point during his upbringing, his parents began to send Nedd to the [[deep caverns]] where he attended school, however, it is unclear whether he lived in these caverns for the duration of the school year or commuted each day via the private elevators.{{book ref|sky1|23}} During his schooling he met and befriended [[Arturo]] and [[Jorgen]] and by the time they join flight school, the three are close friends.{{book ref|sky1|8}} After taking the entrance exam, Nedd was placed in [[Skyward Flight]] under the tutorledge of [[Cobb]]. During his time at flight school, he roomed with the other male members of his flight.{{book ref|sky1|11}}

When the first lesson was interrupted by a [[Krell]] attack, Nedd, along with the rest of Skyward Flight, were ordered to take to the sky and line up close to the battle to deceive the Krell into thinking there were more pilots ready to join the conflict.{{book ref|sky1|10}} When a Krell ship broke away heading towards the cadets and Alta Base, Nedd joined Jorgen as his wingmate to try and ward it off.{{book ref|sky1|10}} The pair engaged the Krell ship using dogfighting techniques, however, Nedd pulled too far away from Jorgen allowing the Krell to tail the other pilot, leading to him falling behind the other two ships.{{book ref|sky1|11}}

The next day, when Cobb asked the cadets to report back to him on his teaching method and style, heNedd was surprised, not expecting Cobb to care about their feelings on the matter. In answer to Cobb's question, he reported he was confused then made a joke about lunch.{{book ref|sky1|13}} Later, the cadets began testing out the weapons functions on their mockpits. Like his fellow classmates, barring [[Kimmalyn]], Nedd performed poorly when first attmptingattempting to hit the targets, not managing to land a single shot. When the class attempted dogfighting following the target practice exercise, Nedd was shot down not long after the simulation began.{{book ref|sky1|14}}

During the [[Starfighter#Light-Lance|light-lancing]] ring game, Nedd intentionally crashed on the third ring of the second run. As a joke, he pulled Arturo into the debris in front of the ring by using his light-lance, causing them both to crash.{{book ref|sky1|15}} After [[Spensa]] deliberately collided with Jorgen, Nedd, along with Arturo, attempted to calm his flightleader down, joking that Jorgen had still beaten Arturo - a comment Arturo did not appreciate.{{book ref|sky1|15}} As a form of vicious retribution, Jorgen told Nedd and Arturo about Spensa's [[Zeen_Nightshade|father]] while the rest of the room listened.{{book ref|sky1|15}}

A few days later, Skyward Flight was once again sent into battle against the Krell, this time fighting alongside full pilots. Shortly after [[Morningtide]] was shot down, Nedd paired off with Arturo, who had initially been Jorgen's wingmate, to prevent the Krell from being able to focus on either of them. Nedd survived the battle, however, both [[Bim]] and Morningtide were killed.{{book ref|sky1|19}}

Following the death of their flightmates, Nedd asked Spensa to give one of her speeches on honor and glory to help the flight process their friend's deaths. Although Spensa was initially reluctant, no longer seeing the point of her bravado, what she eventually says aboutsaidabout their passing has the desire effect that Nedd had hoped for.{{book ref|sky1|20}} As the lesson continued, he joked with Arturo and [[Hurl]], likely in an attempt to also raise their spirits.{{book ref|sky1|21}}

Two weeks later, Nedd was paired with Spensa during a IMP training. While they waited for their run, Nedd told Spensa about his upbringing, what he had observed of the other cadets, and how he thought they were coping. Spensa found his observations of the other cadets interesting, showing that Nedd's projected image of a dumb jokester covered his perceptiveness and intelligence.{{book ref|sky1|23}} Later, after the training exercise had finished, Nedd tried to diffuse the situation between Spensa and Jorgen by complimenting her fighting skills and shifting the situation into an educational display, also reminding Jorgen that he had provoked herthe female cadet.{{book ref|sky1|23}}

When the [[shipyard]] began falling, the first time Skyward Flight had flown since Morningtide and Bim's deaths, Nedd, Kimmalyn, and Spensa accidentally split from the rest of the flight, with Spensa picking up a tail. Nedd and Kimmalyn helped destroy or scatter Spensa's tail before the three went to try and rejoin the others.{{book ref|sky1|25}}

Before they could meet up with the rest of their flight, Nedd peeled away, telling the other two that he would keepcatch up, then followed his brothers, whom were being tailed by Krell, into the broken shipyard.{{book ref|sky1|25}}{{book ref|sky1|26}} Spensa followed him into the bowel's of the ship, the two of them trying to destroy the [[Nightstorm_Flight|Nightstorm]] Pilotpilot's tails. Despite the danger they were in from the falling shipyard, Nedd did not want to leave his brothers, even when Spensa said they should pull back before the giant ship crashed. When he refused to stop, Spensa speared his [[Poco]] with her lightlancelight-lance, pulling him to a stop. Nedd angrily called Spensa a coward for her actions, though followed her when she began to navigate out of the ship. They managed to escape the ship and get out from underneath it before it hit the planets surface, however, with only seven seconds to spare. Back at base, Nedd went to check the Nightstorm Flight line up to discover that neither of his brothers had made it back to Alta and had died in the crash.{{book ref|sky1|26}}{{book ref|sky1|27}}

Weeks later, following Hurl's death, Nedd met up with his former flightmates while they were on leave from duty. They spoke of Hurl, remembering their friend and reminiscing about their time in flight school. When Arturo's girlfriend, [[Bryn]], went to the bathroom, the current and former members of Skyward Flight talked briefly about the strangeness of Krell tactics and the DDF's hesitancy to talk about these things.{{book ref|sky1|38}}

Nedd attended Skyward Flights graduation, however missed the actual ceremony instead running into Spensa during refreshments. He had planned to convince the graduating members of the flight to join the original group for a post graduation celebration, however, he was unable to find [[FM]] and Jorgen between the ceremony and their departure to defend the falling shipyard. Nedd and Spensa went to join the rest of the ex-Skyward crew to listen in to the battle on Arturothe Mendez family's personal radio. Although the group started listening in on the [[NAL|Assembly]] frequency, they eventually changed to the pilot band to hear directly what was going on.{{book ref|sky1|48}}

Wanting to help their fellow pilots after hearing the desperation during the battle, Nedd, Kimmalyn, and Arturo went to the deep caverns to steal the Mendez private fighters.{{book ref|sky1|48}} The three took the Mendez ships and went to join Spensa in fighting off the second Krell attack. [[Ironsides]] ordered Nedd and his two companions to focus on destroying the bomber even if it would destroy Alta.{{book ref|sky1|51}}{{book ref|sky1|52}}

Once the group arrived, Nedd and Arturo went after the bomber on Spensa's orders, in an attempt to drive it away from Alta Base. Ironsides tried to overrule the cadetSpensa's order, however, was ignored by Nedd and Arturo. They attemptedattempts to followattack Spensa'sthe commandsbomber, however, were constantly impeded by the black Krell guard ships which would attack if they got close but fall back if they pulled away. When [[Riptide Flight]] arrived, they joined Nedd and Arturo in engaging with these ships to keep them busy and distracted.{{book ref|sky1|52}} It is unknown how the fight Nedd was involved in ended, but it can be assumed the black Krell fighters pulled back when the [[lifebuster]] was dropped.

Despite his propensity to act otherwise, Nedd is highly knowledgeable about piloting and starfighters[[starfighter]]s, as he would have been required to pass the entrance exam to attend [[flight school]].{{book ref|sky1|23|Is this a good reference?}}

During flight school Nedd trains to pilot a [[Poco]], perform aerial maneuvers, and use its weaponry. He has some prior practical experience in flying and dogfighting from before flightjoining schoolthe [[DDF]],{{book ref|sky1|10}}{{book ref|sky1|41}} however, it was not extensive - he is unused to flying with a wingmate{{book ref|sky1|10}} and not practiced with using his [[Starfighter#Destructors|destructors]].{{book ref|sky1|14}} When he first began in [[Skyward Flight]], he flew well enough when facing a single Krell, but was shot down fairly quickly when pitted against multiple enemies during a battle simulation.{{book ref|sky1|14}} He may have a preference for destructors over the other starfighter weaponry, however, his suggestions to use the weapons more frequently may instead be as a reminder of [[Bim]]'s enthusiasm after his death.{{book ref|sky1|23}}

Nedd has a fun natured and bickering type of relationship with Arturo.{{book ref|sky1|15}} The two often throw insults at each other.{{book ref|sky1|15}} Arturo is used to Nedd's wisecracks and is thrown after Nedd drops out of flight school, still expecting his responses during certain beats of conversation.{{book ref|sky1|32}} Nedd's relationship with Jorgen is more one sided in it's playfulness and Nedd often pokes fun at Jorgen, likely to allow the other boy to let off some steam.{{book ref|sky1|10}}

=== FMOther ===

*FM: Nedd may have a crush on FM.{{book ref|sky1|40}} They have a playful relationship, often exchanging friendly insults and joking comments.{{book ref|sky1|38}}