Ayane Akiyama
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| Akiyama, Ayane ♀ | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 19th May, 1987 (25) |
| Place of Birth | Okumichi, Japan |
| Player | Shire |
| Fullbringer | |
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Appearance
Ayane is a slight woman, standing only just over five feet with a small build that's not really generous anywhere. Her hazel eyes, clear pale skin, and nape-length gray hair lend a strange unworldliness to her person. This sense is emphasized by a vacant expression that only goes away when she's concentrating. While fairly fashionable and fond of skirts and coats, Ayane can be found wearing just about anything young people wear these days. One thing you probably won't see her without is a pair of earphones. She caries herself with confidence and always seems one step shy of bursting into dance.
Personality
Ayane is driven by a desire to be herself. To excel at that which makes her her and live her life as she pleases and face what consequences might come later. She lives for the moment, thoughts of past or future coming only rarely. Instead she thinks on whatever passes through her mind, often not paying attention to the rest of the world at all. While she seems vaguely not fully here often enough, Ayane is intense when she focuses on one of her arts, seemingly pouring all of her being into excellence.
Socially Ayane is reserved and speaks rarely, but when she does her voice is melodic and soothing. "Angry" is not a word people use to describe Ayane and she generally finds the thought of violence disturbing. Ayane retains her calm in most situations, rolling with the punches, whatever they might be, and others have found her a pillar of stability in troubled times.
History
Ayane's early childhood was hardly special. True, her parents were far from poor and were able to feed their child's voracious thirst for learning with tutors in many fields, amongst them music, dancing, singing, and martial arts, but it was mostly a normal human childhood. Except that sometimes Ayane could hear strange music playing down the road, or she would catch glimpses of indistinct figures in the corners of her eyes. Sometimes she would be certain there was a monster just around the corner. Of course, at the time neither she nor her brother, who seemed to suffer the same delusions, could guess these were signs of latent spirt power. Neither could they have done anything about what happened had they known.
It would be almost inevitable, with two power-potent humans living under the same roof, that eventually they would be assaulted by hollow. In the years since the attack Ayane has convinced herself that what she remembers is a fantasy. It is, after all, highly unlikely that a monster would have leached all the color out of her brother and turned the same technique on her, draining her hair and skin of most of its color before being driven off by strange black-garbed, katana-wielding passerby. That couldn't have happened, right?
She never saw her brother after that night. The family held a funeral, but the casket remained closed. Disregarding the standard emotional trauma that comes with losing family members to violence, the death of her brother marked the beginning of an unpleasant change in Ayane's life. The responsibility that had been loaded on her brother's shoulders suddenly became Ayane's burden. Her parents, especially her father, pushed her to learn again, not for her own sake, but for the good of the family as a whole. In Ayane's eyes, she saw the restriction. The "good of the family" meant doing what her father wanted her to do, which was undoubtably based off what he saw as good and wise. There was one problem with this: it was nothing like what Ayane wanted to do.
Ayane has always been fiercely independent, and more since the death of her brother. Upon her graduation from high school she moved out and started working for her own goals. She drifts between jobs, holding one for as long as it holds her interest, but has been slowly building a musical career since graduation. She plays a violin and sings and has produced one album of her own work and been involved in three small-time bands that have al produced at least one record.
Most recently the sixth sense she's had since childhood has been triggering constantly. Okumichi is overflow with music that has no source and with shadows that disappear when she looks at them.
Combat
Strengths
-Not exactly helpless: Ayane was fascinated by martial arts as a child, much of that proficiency is still hers to command.
-I hear you: Ayane's sixth sense, which is really her unrealized potential at sensing spirit force, has a tendency to warn her about things like hollows.
-Slightly famous: Only very slightly, very few people are likely to recognize her name from one of the albums she's had a hand in producing.
Weaknesses
-Lost in thought: it's entirely possible she didn't hear what you just said. Or see what you just did.
-Scrawny: Martial arts training or no martial arts training, Ayane is not big an' tough.
-Stands alone: She has a tendency to think she has to do everything herself.
