The One Eyed Bandit
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Akiko Fujimoto
Fandom: Akame Ga Kill
Alias(s): "Ignition Princess" (Imperial), "Perdition" (Revolutionary)
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Imperial
Sexuality: Hetrosexual
Marital Status: Single
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 127lbs
Likes:
-Spicy fuckin' food
-Icceeeccrreeaammm
-Probably fire
-Let us not forget the GLORIOUS EMPIRE
-Imperial Loyalists
Dislikes:
-Revolutionary scum.
-Winter
-Probably fire
-She doesn't know how to swim, so, that.
-Insects.
Personality:
Loyalty to the Empire. If ever there were something that Akiko was to be remembered for, that would by far be the greatest candidate. Owing her very life to it, she'll fight to protect it to her last breath, caring not for concepts of good and evil that are so often thrown about by the enemies she faces down in it's name. Her loyalty is one of endless faults. While others may fight along the Empire's side for it's betterment, or even for the simple act of staying with the strongest competitor, Akiko stays by it's side for the simple fact that it is the Empire. It's an unhealthy relationship to be sure, her loyalty being something that can even be guaranteed even in the face of the gravest betrayal.
It's something that can perhaps be equated to a twisted form of innocence., somewhat like a child fervently trying to please the one who raised them. Something that any fool who's known her can notice is the level of effort she puts into pleasing her superiors, placing their orders and desires on a level far beyond that she does her own. Should she be ordered to torch a village, she'll carry out her commands blindly, even if someone she holds close to her were to be branded a traitor, she would likely eliminate them without hesitation. Such is the nature of her loyalty.
Atop this wall of loyalties, Akiko presents herself as an exuberantly... Cheerful individual. Among those droves of soldiers, heavily clad in armor, their gazes lowered by their guilt and worries both, Akiko can oft be found head held high proudly striding into battle with the banner of the Empire at her back. Hers is a life lacking in doubts, it's path hinged on her whims, only her love for her country keeping her where she is. On the field of battle, she fights evenly and without reservations. She considers every rebel equal to each other, regarding both the foot soldier and the commander of an enemy force with the same level of respect. Which is to say, very little. In stark contrast to her usual demeanor, Akiko harbors a level of hate for the Revolutionary Army that rivals the fury of god himself, and she will reduce any who carry it's banner to ashes, indiscriminately, and completely.
Biography:
A town, nothing too out of the ordinary, one with a mill, store and the rest. That, is where Akiko was born. It was almost an idyllic place and it's serenity, one could honestly expect to walk down the street in the dead of the night without so much as worrying about their well-being. Truly, an oasis in the place that the war had turned the Empire into. Situated far from anything of strategic value, it provided little in terms of an advantage for either sides, allowing it to go largely unnoticed by the warfare that ravaged the country. And, with this tranquility, it carried with it a culture steeped deep in the peace-bringing ways of their ancestors. So while the kept it's reach away from them, they too would keep their reach away from the war, sending not even a single man or woman to assist in the war effort of either sides of the conflict.
Raised in that oasis, Akiko heard neither hide nor tail of the war, both her parents and teachers unwilling to taint the minds of their youth with thoughts of what may as well have been strife incarnate. But, such purity comes not without a cost. With the refusal to aid in the war, neither the Revolutionary nor Imperial armies could afford to spend their forces to guard the nameless town, and, the village's own men and woman and nigh but the simplest knowledge on how they would go about protecting their lands. So, when bandits driven into nowhere by the war came across the untouched jewel that the village presented what resulted could barely be called a battle. Within hours, the place had been converted into a blazing pyre, it's men, woman and children cut down without exception. Akiko is the only one who escaped this fate.
Whether by way of luck, or divine mercy, her legs would carry her just fast enough to escape the village raid, slipping away from both the bandit's reach, and the walls of the town she called home. Going wherever her feet would take her, she ended up the same way any child on their own in the world would, hopelessly lost. Worse yet, she'd found herself without the slightest bit of knowledge of from where she'd come, doomed to wander the dark of the woods until she perished to whatever it was that lay waiting in the night. Or, so she thought. As luck would have it, the bandits would not have come alone, an Imperial squad following hotly on their heel, a squad that Akiko, by a rare blessings of the heavens would encounter. Begging and pleading, she convinced them to make their way towards her hometown, in a vain hope that they'd be able to make it there it time to avert the town's fate.
Alas, another blessing would not grace her that night.
Aside from Akiko, nothing remained of it's residents other than their charred, bloodied corpses, and regardless of out efficiently the Imperials cut down the remaining bandits, nothing was going to bring them back. A few hours, that had been all it had taken to change her life irreversibly. Now an orphan, without so much as a town to go back to, it was determined that Akiko would accompany them to their base of operations, Fortress Lanox, and have her decide on her fate from there. Before her, two options were presented. Either she leave the Fortress, and be sent to an orphanage for the rest of her childhood, or she take a place as an apprentice, and dedicate the rest of her life to the Imperial Military. The choice seemed like an obvious one, throughout her entire childhood she'd been taught that the act of violence was one to be avoided at all costs, so clearly she should opt towards the former, shouldn't she? ...But, then again... The people who had taught her that had died because of that reasoning.
Even someone raised in such innocence as she had been could figure that out. So, under both the encouragement of her saviors, and the doubt that clouded her young mind, she forwent the traditions of her people, and entered the Imperial Military.
Under the education of the Imperial Army, that purity her village had so fervently pushed upon it's youth acted as a blank canvas, and within months the ideologies it pushed had been painted over in their entirety. Fight for the country. Follow your orders. Purge traitors in their entirety. Coming from the mouth of the men and women she owed her life to, Akiko took these words in fully, and within months she'd been molded into someone as loyal to the Empire as one could be. For four years she'd be enveloped in their re-education system, learning how to defend herself, play the ideal soldier, all to prepare her to join those forces that worked towards quelling the Rebellion that worked against the country that had saved her life.
Four years. For four years she'd be secluded away in that fortress. And, after four years, that Rebellion would finally reach it's walls. As suddenly as her last home had gone up in flames, Lanox, a place normally reserved for patrols and training came under siege, quickly being surrounded by Revolutionary forces, led by a single man. A man with a spear that controlled fire itself. With him at their helm, Lanox's defenses fell within hours, it's battlements going up in flames, with it's gates falling soon after. It was like witnessing the fate of her first home over again. And it was paralyzing. Even in the face of the enemy, even after her years of training, surround again by that sea of flames, she couldn't do so much as lift a finger. Everything, she was going to lose everything again, all in the face of this unstoppable blaze. Or so she thought. Once again, in the face of adversity, the heavens would grant her a chance. A mistake, one that any reasonable person could make, seeing her youth, the fire wielding leader of the enemy force mistook her for a servant or slave, and extend his hand to her in invitation. One chance. One strike. Taking the chance she saw, Akiko managed to take him off guard, delivering one, swift strike to the throat, felling him before he could do so much as call for help.
In the end, it wouldn't amount to nearly as much as she thought it would, but, it would at least be enough for her to usher out at least a few of her comrades before Lanox fell. And perhaps, more importantly, it was because of that she came into the possession of the enemy commander's spear. That fire controlling weapon. A Teigu, one that, unbeknownst to her, had taken her as it's new owner the moment she picked it from the corpses of the man she'd killed. Even when she discovered it's true nature though, it wouldn't be enough to prevent the fall of the Empire in only a year's time, and nor would it be adequate to bring down the new government that rose from it's ashes. So, Akiko, knowing the chances stood against her, chose to lay in wait, playing along with the new government's plans, and honing her mastery of her Teigu.
So, when the Empire once again rose, she was ready. And with the flames that had taken her life from her twice-over, she annihilated those who stood against the rightful owners of the Empire, finally able to protect the country that had saved her all those years ago.
Imperial Arms: Pyre's Tyrant - Efreet
Much like the fire it controls, Efreet is a weapon of duality.
The first and foremost of abilities, is it's ability to control and produce fire without equal, fully capable of razing villages to the ground with the sheer might of it's summoned flames. Unlike the fires produced by the flamethrower Teigu, Rubicante, Efreet's flames are able to be extinguished through much the same means as any other fire. But, where it lacks in Rubicante's unquenchable flames, Efreet makes up for it with a ferocity that surpasses any fire that nature should show itself capable of producing. Spreading at speeds beyond natural bounds, and burning with a heat enough to make even Danger Beasts cringe, it's something to be feared by any who stand against it. And, as if that weren't enough, allows it's wield control of these flames with just as much precision as the Black Marlin does water, bending to it's will the fearsome blaze that it produces.
Standing to stark contrast to the destructive nature of it's main ability, Efreet also bestows upon it's user the tender, nurturing nature of the sun, allowing them to recover from their wounds with more haste than any one person should. It's capabilities stand in the shadow of that which Lionelle bestows upon it's user, not being able to reach the insane feats of recovering lost limits and eyes, nor being able to pull the user back to the living the plane after sustaining a fatal found, the closest feat to this it being able to produce being the closing of deep stab wounds.
Being taken from it's previous user on his deathbed, Akiko is unsure as to what Efreet's trump card is.
Trump Card - From Ashes
The ultimate incarnation of fire is undoubtedly the Phoenix. Born from ashes, it lives it's life as an eternal cycle of deaths and rebirths, embracing the nature of fire itself as it rises from it's own remains. Efreet, with the peak of it's abilities, allows the user to also undertake this process, obliterating their physical form to allow them birth anew. Should Efreet ever be driven through it's user's heart, they both will erupt into a magnificent blaze, producing a heat so intense that even Efreet itself is presented with no choice but be reduced to ashes alongside it's owner.
Obviously, this makes From Ashes a one time gig.
From their combined ashes, Efreet's wielder will rise anew, now joined with Efreet in much a similar manner to the ever infamous Demon's Extract. Post From Ashes, the user's capabilities to both regenerate and manipulate fire are enhanced noticeably, owing at the cost of now draining the user's stamina, again, much like the Demon's Extract. Rising from both their own remains, and that of Efreet, one can hardly be expected to be unchanged by this process of 'rebirth', but, what this will manifest as however? Who knows? After all, Efreet's very existence is tantamount to the fact that From Ashes is yet to be performed, so all one can really do is speculate.
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