Though a huge majority of other Gundam pilots were all teenagers and children, those characters all had lives and families prior to becoming pilots, and some had the intellects of Ph.D. Physicists. With Mika, he was pretty much born into his life as a soldier. Setsuna from Gundam 00 may have been a child soldier, but his story and direction are much different from Mikazuki’s. While Setsuna was able to show recovery from his experiences, Mika is still going through the motions since he is still in his pre-teen years.

One notable example of how Mikazuki’s life as a child soldier has negatively affected his development is that he is initially illiterate. In the course of the series, Kudelia briefly teaches him (and the other children of Tekkadan) how to read and write. In addition, due to being on the battlefield his whole life and with most of his interactions being with his peer group within Tekkadan, his basic social skills in regular conditions with other people come across as awkward and he feels out of place. He tends to say things people shouldn't say but on the same token, he gets to the point but his facial expressions and tone of voice tend to exhibit he doesn’t understand he is showing bad manners by the laws of common sense.

Another great quality of Mika and why you may want him to have your six is that he gets down to business. Towards the climax of the first season when he confronts Carta Issue in Alaska, she issues him a challenge and gives him 30 minutes to accept. Instead of 30 minutes, he just needed 30 seconds and he’s on the attack. His attack style is all offense and goes in for the kill and because of it, he is feared as the Devil of Tekkadan from the start of season 2. Though Carta accuses him of playing dirty, to people like him, war only has one rule; kill or be killed (and hopefully get the money).

In the beginning of season 2, while capturing the leader of some space pirates, he admits that fighting to capturing as opposed to killing is difficult for him. It’s not that he enjoys the killing (despite his vicious fighting style), he just sees it as a job he must do and by any means necessary. This quality shows that Tekkadan itself is by no means a military that is state-sponsored and that they are not regulated by any rules of engagement.

Though Mikazuki comes across as socially awkward, he still understands the meaning of being part of a family. He always shows that he is wholeheartedly devoted to Orga, but he is by no means Orga’s lapdog. Orga respects Mika’s value to the team and his companionship as if he were his own brother. He respects Orga’s dream of finding their place in the world as a group and as individuals. His loyalty is not just to Orga but extends to his entire team.

One notable example is one of their most valued members, Biscuit Griffon, who was the literate one. Though Mika and Biscuit may have had their personality differences, they always had each other’s back. Mika in his own way took the loss of Biscuit pretty hard, as did the rest of the team. Due to knowing that Carta was responsible for Biscuit’s death, he exhibits no mercy in his confrontation with her in order to avenge his death. One last example that demonstrates his full loyalty to Tekkadan is when he kills Gyojan (a president of a failed activist group) in cold blood for setting them up in one of their missions and being unable to pay the fees.

As Mika’s time with Kudelia and the rest of Tekkadan and their family members expand, so do some of his horizons for his future. Thanks to his time with Biscuit’s family, he discovers a new interest in farming. He uses Tekkadan’s farm on Mars known as Sakura, trying to grow various crops, but they all fail due to being unsuitable for Mars’ soil. Even so, he is not afraid to keep on trying. He is hoping that when he finds time, he can expand his reading skills so he can read more books about farming. And thanks to his success in the events of season one, he is appointed as the commanding officer of the Commando Unit.

His leadership skills are somewhat of an extension of his social skills, but his personality allows him to be specific with his orders without beating around the bush. Even though he is a leader, he does a bulk of the fighting himself but whenever the new recruits are blunt with him, he puts them back in line by returning the favor with his personality working incidentally in his favor. If given the time and dedication, he can probably learn how to be a businessman like Orga if he is to take over Tekkadan.

Initially, Mika comes across as someone who lacks his own identity as an individual due to his rather one track way of doing things and never questions orders, but he is still someone who wants to eventually live his own life. For starters, deep down inside with Orga and the rest of Tekkadan, they are all trying to find what place they have in the world. With a majority of Tekkadan being orphans and no education, they want to be recognized that despite their backgrounds, they have their contributions to the world and Mika in his own way shares those views by saying he agrees with Orga’s dreams.

If Mika has any dreams for himself, he wishes to become a vegetable farmer out of inspiration from Biscuit’s grandmother. As stated before, he is doing his best to try other kinds of crops but hasn’t succeeded. Due to his time being spent with Tekkadan, he can only pursue farming as a hobby. Even with his some of his failures as a farmer, he doesn’t give up and still has the support of Biscuit’s sisters and his peers.