Akio Nakamura

"Akio's face was etched in stone. 'Noah's gonna carve up your whole world, Ethan. You don't understand.' He rose and walked to the bars, dropping his voice to a stage whisper that everyone could hear. 'I know you're scared. You should be.'"Akio Nakamura is one of the Fire Lake sophomores. He is described as being short and slender with spiky black hair.

In the Program
Akio is a vital part of Noah Livingston's Ski Lodge team, initially assisting with the raid to set Derrick Morris's cabin on fire. He is clearly opposed to this, and does not enjoy the violence that being on Noah's team requires. Soon after that, he is captured by Ethan Fletcher's team and brought to jail, where he stays for over two months. He finds a way to escape when one of his jailers, Tucker Brincefield, leaves a fork on his dinner plate and he uses it to kill his cellmates so that they can all escape.

He tries to recover for a while before returning to Noah's group, but Ethan's team chases him all around the valley before he joins up with Carl Apria and Sam Oatman's group at the quarry. He returns to Noah during an altercation with Chris Nolan, killing him so that Noah can escape and rejoining the Ski Lodge team.

When Noah's team disintegrates, Akio joins up with Min Wilder and stays with her group to join the Life-Trading Team, surviving the end of the Program and returning to Earth with the rest of his classmates.

Chrysalis
Akio, still loyal to Noah and Min, lives in Home Town at the beginning of Chrysalis. He joins the group that rescues the silo squad, as well as the expedition to the Outpost, but returns soon afterward with Richie Lopez. When they are brought onto the space station, he survives all of his trials and the final battle against Sophia. He now lives in Livingston Colony with the remaining survivors and is the father of Rachel Stein's child.