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Name(s): Akane Himura
Nickname(s): Flash Blades Akane
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Birthday: 01/01/X759
Sexuality: Bi
Class: Scavenger
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Rank: D-class
Guild: Crime Sorcière
Guild Tattoo: Center of her forehead, Silver
Face Claim: Shuten Ooe-Shikigami
 
II. APPEARANCE
 
Height: 5’8’’
Weight: 145lbs
Hair: Long white hair that goes past her waist
Eyes: Yellow
General Appearance: Akane has an inverted triangle body frame. Her muscles are tight and wiry and her bust is quite large. To maximize her speed she hardly wears much clothing. Usually a sports bra and some short shorts is all that she wears, excluding the occasional leg and arm wrap and her weights. Sticking out of the top of her head is a small pair of sharply pointed horns. On her feet she generally wear only a simple pair of sandals or goes barefoot.
Extra: She has 2 small horns on her head.
 
III. PERSONALITY
 
Personality: Akane is one to rarely smile and when she does 99% of the time it is a forced one she doesn’t actually mean. Her complexion is one of constant weariness. In general terms she isn’t all that pleasant to be around as she is highly judgmental, greedy, and quite often cruel. In truth she is truly none of these things, they are but a buffer against allowing people to get close to her. Having only seen that those around her suffer she prefers isolation so as not to harm anyone else needlessly. Besides it doesn’t take long for many to recognize her from the various wanted posters all over Fiore. Only in the private company of her adopted mother and sword master can she ever let her guard down, but she rarely ever even allows herself that pleasure. Looking at the state her master is in send fresh pangs of guilt surging through her soul and she is reminded of what she didn’t have the will power to prevent herself from doing for the past four years of her life. While this guilt is overwhelmingly there when she looks at her master it is also constantly there staring at her from the faces of everyone she sees. Everyone simply reminds her of the things she has done and people she has killed. The one bright spark of hope Akane has left is Sachiko, her master, who is doing everything she can to bring out the old Akane she knows is stilled with in her adopted daughter, and each and every day Akane improves little by little.

Likes:

• Maintaining her swords
  
• Meditation
  
• Being alone with her master
  
• Sword play
  

Dislikes:

• Large crowds
  
• Seafood
  
• Criminals
  
• Getting close to people
  

Motivations: She lives now only with one mission in mind and that is to give her master an as comfortable life possible and to repent for her deeds. This resolve is what drives her and motivates her to keep going and become stronger.

Fears:

• A slow and painful death.
  
• Being captured and taken away from her master again.
  

 
Positive Traits: +18

• Alertness (+2): You have finely tuned senses.
  
• Agile (+3): You are particularly flexible and poised.
  
• Acrobatic (+3): You have excellent body awareness and coordination.
  
• Diehard (+2): You can remain conscious after attacks that would fell others.
  
• Diligent (+2): Your meticulousness allows you to analyze minute details that others miss.
  
• Fortitude (+3): You are tougher than normal. You can take more hits than the regular Joe.
  
• Swift (+3): You are fleet of foot. When running, you move three times your normal speed.
  

 
Negative Traits: -18

• Allergies (-1): You are afflicted with allergies. These may be something as simple as hay fever, but the reactions to such will result in something like a huge bout of sneezing and gasping. You must mention this allergy in your character application.
  
• Bad Reputation (-1): You have a reputation that angers or frightens people. Examples include being unlucky, petty, or cruel. The rep may or may not be accurate, but in either case, word travels faster than you do.
  
• Branded (-2): You have fled for a crime committed and now have a prominent brand. You may have been a criminal, a slave, or some other such illicit individual. The brand is such that it cannot be easily covered, and a cursory search reveals it each time. Law enforcement agents of any lawful land will immediately take you into custody if they see the mark, for extradition or imprisonment. It is your choice as to whether or not you were falsely accused of the crime.
  
• Colorblind (-2): Though this is a misconception, for roleplay purposes, you see everything in black, white, and shades of gray.
  
• Cruel (-1): You have a sadistic streak that causes you to perform acts of cruelty for no good reason. Of course, this doesn't endear you to others. Most times you are prudent enough to carry out your cruelties on those under your thumb, rather than those you see as equals. However, you carry a constant social stigma, as rumors have their way of getting around.
  
• Dependent (-3): You have a ward or charge that depends on you, usually a young child or elderly relative that needs you to provide for them and devote at least part of your time to them. In money terms, this will cost you five percent of your jewels a month. You may also be required to stay near home often in case you are needed.
  
• Derangement/Insanity- Compulsions (-3): The character insists on performing ritual actions, such as touching a doorway at left, right, and top before passing through it. Though she may agree that the actions are senseless, the need to perform them is overpowering.
  
• Extravagant (-1): You enjoy living in the lap of luxury. Ale is never good enough if you can get fine wine instead. You aren't happy with anything less than the finest room in the inn. In addition, any equipment or services you purchase cost 10% more than the standard rate for the locale you are currently in. The best of the best always costs more, after all.
  
• Greedy (-1): Money makes your eyes light up with joy. The more, the merrier, as long as it spends. Once in a while, whenever you're divvying up shares of the loot, being offered a hefty bribe, or catching wind of some fabulous treasure, the flaw can to convince you to grab for as much money as possible.
  
• Intolerance (-1): You have an irrational dislike of a certain thing. It may be an animal, a class of person, a situation, or just about anything at all. Note that some dislikes may be too trivial or ridiculous to count--a dislike of Bavarian-crème-filled donuts or mechanical pencils, for example, has no real dramatic value and will not be allowed.
  
• Judgmental (-1): You form opinions quickly and change them very slowly. You also have a tendency to judge people on their appearance. A man dressed as a pirate, no matter how gentlemanly, is a scoundrel and a dog as far as you is concerned. A man covered in mud is a peasant, and a woman wearing revealing clothing is a prostitute.
  
• Proud (-1): You don't like accepting help from others. If a gift or offer of aid smacks of charity or pity even the slightest bit, you grow indignant and refuse it.
  

 
IV. MAGIC
 
Magic: Sword Magic: Flash Sword Style {Fire}

Caster or Holder: Holder

Description: It is a sword-style involving several sub-variants which differ each user. However, predominantly, it is a style of speed and efficiency. The user does not waste a single movement, and fluid motions are linked together irreversibly causing immense damage despite weak attacks being the foundation of these combinations. Flash Sword Style is an incredibly difficult, and yet, worthy style of swordsmanship, combining the very roots of an individual's magical power along with the art of the blade to create an unrivaled force which not many can ever be able to keep up with. Most, if not all variants of this style are fast-paced and have very few intervals of pause. Each technique links into another flawlessly as dozens of variants are born from a single technique. The users, not only work on the effect, but the root. Allowing them to change their technique to fit a variety of situations, and thus, Flash Sword is named one of the most efficient brands of Sword Magic to have ever existed. Each variant of this style is dependent on the user and their elemental magic themselves.

Strengths: Akane uses 2 swords, one magical and one enchanted. The magical sword is a sword that bonds to a user until they die and changes form and color to match the element of the user’s soul and never dulls. In the case of Akane it is red and is attuned to the element of fire. The enchanted sword is a normal sword in all regards except that like the magical sword it too will never dull. In addition this magic utilizes attacks that are a blur of quick slashes in successions that are extremely hard to dodge. As it is fire based many wind/air spells used against it of a rank or more below the rank of the current spell being used do little more than fuel the flames and make the attack stronger.

Weaknesses: Naturally being a weapon based magic armors, shields, and barriars will greatly diminish the effectiveness of this magic. Also being attuned the element of fire means that it is weak to water magics/mages, half effective against other fire magics/mages, and wind/air spells 1 rank or higher than the current spell used tend to snuff out the flames reducing the effectiveness by half.

V. HISTORY
History: The name Akane Himura typically elicits the emotions of fear and/or anger. It also brings about stories, and unpleasant ones at that, about how she looks and who she has killed. Many of these stories are not true, in fact there are just as many false stories about her as there are true ones. Akane herself has been known to spread true and false stories about herself to confuse the law which was constantly after her, but before we go any further we should go back to the origins of her life and find out how it became so dark and unfortunate.

Akane’s life started out like any normal girls life should. Her parents had been happily married for about a year when they found out they were expecting and they looked forward to raising their child together. Unfortunately eight months into the pregnancy Akane’s life took its first turn down its dark path. The umbilical cord had gotten wrapped around her neck and both Akane and her mom were dying. An emergency c-section save Akane’s life but her mother died of blood loss from hemorrhaging leaving her motherless. As bad as that was it was determined Akane would be no worse for wear.

Life was once again back to normal and she was raised by her caring father and the worse thing to have happened to them was finding out Akane was color blind when she had been trying to learn her colors and that she had a mild allergy to wood molds. Other than that Akane was doing surprisingly well. In spite of Akane not having received any major damage from the conditions of her birth no one expected that she would thrive as well as she was able to. She quickly learned things when taught to her picking up all the nuances needed for truly understanding and analyzing things beyond her years. She was also swift on her feet and had finely tuned senses, but under the surface though things were not alright as Akane strongly resembled her mother.

This resemblance slowly ate away at her father until he was consumed with grief and became an alcoholic. It was then that her father started to change for the worse. He began cursing her out and blaming her for her mother death. He was fired from his job and then they were kicked out of their home by the time she was eight. After that her father switched from verbally abusing Akane to physically abusing her as he was ravaged by alcohol withdraws. If it hadn’t been for her strong will and sturdy body Akane could have easily died from her father’s abuse.

After a while she learned that as long as her father was drunk she could escape the beatings so she picked up thieving to get food for the two of them and money for her father to go buy some cheap booze. This continued until shortly after she turned 10 when a traveling swordswoman came across Akane and her father in an alley way in one of her father’s worse moods and as soon as her father placed a knife to her throat the swordswoman drew her blade and in a blur of movements, that Akane could only just barely keep up with, her father lay dead at her feet.

She was suddenly struck with a since of shock and slid against the ally wall until she was sitting there and began to silently cry as she pulled her dads  head into her lap and stroked his hair. It wasn’t long before the emotions that had been staved off by shock to slam into her like a train and combined with her hunger and crying she found herself fast asleep.

When she woke up she was outside of town lying on the ground by a camp fire that had a few small birds cooking over it campfire rotisserie style. Immediately her stomach growled from the smell which alerted the swords woman that Akane was awake and she came over and introduced herself as, Sachiko Fujimoto, and this lead to the happiest years she would have since her early childhood. Sachiko and Akane quickly formed a bond that was as close to mother daughter as was possible. After a short 6 moths together Sachiko noticed potential in Akane and decided to teach her the sword magic she used known as Flash Sword Style.

So for the next 5 years they traveled together doing odd jobs to make a living while Sachiko taught the three philosophies of Flash Sword Style (Harmony, Conviction, and Ascension) to Akane until she fully understood them. Now at the age of 15 Akane was finally given a wooden katana and her physical and mental training began and she was presented with a set of weighted gauntlets and grieves she was instructed to wear at all times and that when she got used to their weight she would switch them out to a heavier set. Immediately after strapping them on she was started on an intense workout regimen deigned to increase her speed, stamina, strength and durability, but most importantly her willpower to go on when she felt like she couldn't anymore. But much to her surprise Sachiko told her that she could not teach Akane anything about sword fighting as she could not influence Akane’s style. Instead when they would spar Akane would simply launch attacks and Sachiko would simply react forcing Akane to learn quick if she desired to receive less bruises.

After a few months of this Akane decided to ask for a second wooden practice sword and she started to teach herself to dual wield. Progress was slow and she was clumsy but that was the nature of this sword style, it causes you to think about your action and plan your actions carefully. After another three years, when Akane was 18, she graduated to using real swords and purchased 2 swords with some money she had been saving for her swords.  One sword was made to magically bond with the wielder until they died and would change to match the element of the wielders soul and her style finally had its magical component.

The next  year went by with Akane no longer being an apprentice to Sachiko but rather a Flash Sword novice. While normally at this points the weighted gauntlets and grieves would be removed Akane decided to leave them on and only take them off when she needed to as part of her personal style. Akane and Sachiko continued to spar together and when they entered a town or village Akane would seek out any swordsman/woman of any style that would spar with her to gain experience in fighting against multiple styles of sword play.

When she was 19 and Sachiko was 46 they were attacked by a group of bandits and among them were a couple flash sword style users. Sachiko and Akane had no chance, but they didn’t go down peacefully either. In the end Akane was knocked out. She came two a red hot iron brand was pressed into the top of her right breast. With that simple act the criminals owned her as the brand they used mark Akane as a criminal sentenced to life imprisonment. If she caused to much trouble or tried to escape they would turn her over to the authorities and she would be wrongfully imprisoned till she died.

When she eventually got the courage to ask what had happened to the woman she was with they told her she had died trying to protect Akane and so they left her corpse to rot. They then proceeded to use both physical and mental tactics to break her spirit until she was putty in their hands. Eventually she succumbed to their demands and they had her join their forces. At that point they gave back her weights and swords and she stole and killed for them feeling worthless and blaming herself for Sachiko’s death.

That life continued for the next 4 years, and while she didn’t deserve the brand when they put it on her in the beginning she certainly did now.  Just when she had thought all hope was lost, she suddenly saw a ghost on one of her raids. She was certainly older, missing an arm and had a bad limp but there was no mistake that the woman Akane saw was her master and adopted mother Sachiko. Taken up with joy at seeing her alive Akane raced to her and hugged her. Over many tears and painful memories the two of them pieced together what had happened that day 4 years ago and what they had been doing since…

Sachiko had lost her arm in that fight and sustained heavy nerve damage to her left leg as well. The best they could figure is that with the injuries Sachiko had received was enough for the group of bandits to just leave her for the crows, and if fact if it hadn’t been for a passing carriage that would have been the fate Sachiko would have had. As it was she received medical treatment just in time to live and had been searching  as best she could for Akane when she had heard rumors about a young woman working for a group of savage bandits that fit her former pupils description and came to investigate.

At first Akane had wanted to rush back to the hideout and rip them to pieces for what they had done, nut the council of Sachiko showed the folly of such actions. So instead she wrote a note and paid a young boy to deliver it the city guard with the instruction to describe what she looked like to them so they would know the information was accurate. Akane then bought a horse and buggy with the last of her money and bolted with Sachiko in tow unsure as to where to go or what to do but get far away as fast as she could.