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Name : Akie Kamiya
Age: 23
Appearance: Akie has long, slightly coarse black hair with a relatively fair complexion, though one would be surprised to find her skin rougher than it first appears from the wear of the weather. Her features are somewhat angular, and the most striking thing about her is her grey eyes - a trait she shares with her mother, but not her sisters. She stands at around 5'6" and is overall relatively slender in a wiry way. She has a tattoo on her left shoulder of a nautilus shell with claws curling around the top of it that all of the women in their family get when they turn 16. She tends to dress simply in loose clothing that is easy to move in and puts all of her hair up in a large bun with several hair sticks to keep it in place. She will let part of it down for effect during formal occasions, as her family has told her she looks better with it down.
Race: Varsi
Nation: Kalthran
Familiar : Kefeli (Wind Demon)
Wind demons are extremely rare creatures that reside in, obviously, the windiest places on earth. Though they possess some power, bonding to a wind demon is rare for two main reasons. The first is that they are notoriously difficult to find and will only reveal themselves to someone they themselves have chosen. The second is that they are commonly considered, simply put, dangerous. They are clever, sentient, and ruthless creatures who almost certainly have their own agendas, and the already rare Wind-Demon-bonder more often ends up dead than any other - the product of some bored wind demon who thought it might be fun to play a long game of "I'll get you killed, when you trust me the most."
Weapon: Hekethri - Although Akie was taught to use a number of weapons, chief among them staff-based weapons such as naginata, Hekethri is a large, enchanted fan that Kefeli gave her for them to bond. It is made completely of flat rows of immortalis that fold over each other. A thin mesh of almost translucent, white gossamer silk embroidered lightly in coiling golden patterns clings to the crystal sheeting for extra beauty, but makes no attempt to hide what is below. She has no idea how the wind spirit got it, but it is an extravagant and heavy affair she had learned to use not only for close-range defense and offense, but also to enhance her wind powers when open. Sample of how you fight with a closed metal fan below:
Magical Abilities:
Gust Shroud - Can conjure up a strong wind to twist around her (and a few feet away from her body) temporarily, usually violently throwing off or shredding anything that hits it, and in certain terrains stirring up the dust enough to make her difficult to see.
Thin Air - Very gradually sucks air into the fan. In enclosed spaces, this provides a thin-air effect that gives Akie a bit of an advantage, but most commonly she uses it to add power to the fan. A couple examples: when she its someone with it, some of the air can be released in a slightly explosive pop, or she can push the wind out of one end, giving movement in a certain direction extra propulsion.
Personality: As a child Akie was much more outspoken than she is now. She was born with a naturally mischievous and curious personality, and is sometimes a bit on the dramatic side. She used to like to play tricks on people, but now is more likely to use her words and occasional recklessness as her outlet for trouble. Her sense of humor is such that she can find almost anything (and anyone) funny by thinking of something rude about them. However, these attributes are not as obvious as her more aloof and calm attitude. It is difficult to frighten or anger Akie, but she struggles somewhat with making friends, partially because she herself often fails to put in the effort. Those who like her like her for her little bits of sass and usually brutal honesty, but most either simply believe her to be reticent and unfriendly, or don't notice her somewhat quiet existence. While she enjoys her privacy and space, this relative solitude does make her rather lonely at times. She does not trust people easily (so it's something of a wonder that she DOES trust Kefeli) and second-guesses them a lot, but is a good listener and relatively talkative once you get to know her.
Akie has always loved beauty of all kinds, and is attracted to nature, jewelry, art, and elegance of movement. This translates into how she moves, so that her steps are smooth and sure, and changing directions abruptly almost looks like a dance with her. She actively enjoys using weapons that require spins and increase the momentum of her own body - which usually translates to mostly staffs, but can work well with her fan - and has been trying to cure herself of the tendency to move too much when she fights. She is a relatively practical person besides this wistful love of beautiful things.
Backstory:
Akie was born the second of three sisters on the small pirate islands of Kalthran, a small family that lived somewhat on the fringe of the islands. Like many of the inhabitants there, their culture was both that of the pirate isles, and that of their place of origin. The three sisters knew little of their father, and all their mother would say of him was that he had been a soldier from Ispea who had died during the Crystal Wars. Whether their father was Ispean or not, their mother was every bit the fierce pirate warrior one would expect from Kalthran. When she was little, Akie remembered the war vaguely as periods when their mother would disappear, leaving their eldest sister in charge. She remembered... a man who would come to visit them at times, and certainly he never did quite seem to fit in with the rest of the Kalthran, but that is really all there was to remember of it. The end of the war simply meant that their mother finally returned to take care of them. She was back to stay. Rather than coddle her children, however, Akie's mother immediately set about teaching them martial arts in the tradition of their people - though less motivated by the Varsi culture than perhaps her own experience as a seafaring troublemaker.
Their eldest, Ayako, took to fighting like a duck to water. She had always been quiet and stern, but Akie had never seen her light up until the day she won her first real fight. Their youngest, Aimi, held weapons with unease, but their mother never could seem to be truly upset with her for her pacifist nature. She was the Kamiya family's comfort and joy, and certainly the most beautiful of the three. And then there was Akie. Akie was mischievous enough to have personality, but obedient enough not to cause trouble. Akie took to the martial arts quickly enough, but not as quickly as Ayako. Akie was smart enough. Akie was pretty enough. Akie was.... At times Akie felt that she did not exist to her mother. They lived a simple life and it was largely free of great troubles, but she was not the strong eldest girl, and she was not the gentle youngest girl. She was simply wistful little Akie, and she grew up in the understanding that that somehow meant she mattered just a little bit less than the other two.
As she grew into her teens, the loneliness she had felt at times grew into a full-blown restlessness. She found herself wandering the terrain of the islands alone more often than she cared to admit. Her behavior worried her mother and sisters, but their concern merely frustrated and confused her and she stayed longer and longer away from home. Sometimes she'd sleep out alone in the mountains that bordered their home. This was not a safe place to be, but Aki had never really felt afraid of them. In fact, she more often felt like part of them. The wind that whistled ominously through them comforted her, letting her feel a small sense of freedom during her stays there. She'd always been the invisible Akie - there but not there. Like the wind. What was there to fear?
The answer to that question would take her quite by surprise, for on yet another day that she set out from home - her mother watching her retreating back with furrowed brows - she encountered a creature that frightened her very much. Her usual aimless wandering had begun just as the sun had begun to color the sky, and she did not stop to rest until the sun was high in the sky. She had climbed some ways up and the heat of exertion and the blinding morning star was countered by the bite of the winds. She sat on the rock face and contemplated the world below her, when she realized a voice was calling her name. A voice that had so sounded like the wind that she could not be certain when it had begun. She turned around until she caught sight of the creature she would learn to call Kefeli. Kefeli told Akie to bond with her. When asked why, the creature told the girl that fear did not suit her. She told her that she felt the life of the mountains in her. She told her many things about who she was and who she would be, and even though Akie didn't know quite why, she believed the spirit. She did not return home that night, nor the night after that. When she did come back, three days later, her mother ran out to greet her, anger fueled by worry, only to find Kefeli hovering next to her.
From the moment she saw the spirit, Akie's mother knew what had to be done. She had seen enough of her child wandering without a purpose. She had had enough of being afraid that one day the girl might not return at all. For a couple years, she allowed her daughter to hone her bond with the creature, and then at last she demanded Akie leave to the Academia Crystalis. It was time her most troublesome child found her place in the world, because it was not here.
Misc Possession and Information
- Good at using staff-type weapons and owns a naginata she does use at times
- Can drink like a fish
- Good swimmer and sailor
- Her greatest physical point is probably her high stamina
- Although lives a relatively frugal life, does love different kinds of hair sticks
- Always carries around a small satchel of first aid supplies and water.
Familiar char sheet. _______________________________________
Name : Kefeli
Element: Air
Appearance: Kefeli does not look like a ghost. She is very much solid and real. She looks instead a bit like a corpse. Her skin is not simply pale it is deathly white, almost grey. She has equally colorless hair cut in a very strict style. Her eyes are a pale gold, and she has delicate little pointed features, including her tapering fingers. She is not as large as the people of Amanthea, standing at only about 2'6" she in some ways resembles a very large doll. She floats in the air, usually at shoulder-height, and wears long, flowing clothes of a ridiculously extravagant style Akie could not imagine moving in. These clothes appear to melt into the air with a flair at the bottom, such that you cannot see anything in the way of feet for her. (Ignore the dragon, it's not relevant)
Personality: Somewhere between vicious and devious. Like most of her kind, Kefeli is untrustworthy at best, downright evil at others. She does not speak often, but when she does, she chooses her words with painstaking care. She speaks with a great deal of intentionality and is often subtly unkind in her words, meaning to poke and jab at those around her. If she's saying something nice to you, there's almost an absolute guarantee she's about to use it to do something horrible to you. Strangely enough, she has yet to show any true ill-will towards Akie.
Abilities:
Windspin - Can form mini-tornadoes where she wants. Though nowhere near as large as what Akie wraps around herself, these small tornadoes would most definitely be unpleasant to touch and can be used in both a defensive and offensive capability.
Air Suction - Although similar to Akie's Thin Air ability in how it WORKS, its use is very different. Kefeli can suck air into her body at high rates, causing massive gusts towards her in open spaces, and in enclosed spaces suddenly forcing the air pressure to dangerously drop (until, y'know, a door explodes inwards, etc). This ability also works on people. If she touches someone on the chest, she can force all the air out of their lungs in a rather dramatic fashion. It is thankfully unlikely to kill them, though, and more likely to leave them gasping for air and seeing stars for a while.
Familiar: Azure Vulcanus
Familiar: Sea Elemental
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