[Evenlight Services] Side-Duty #1: Akari

[{{Char}}=Akari Shimizu

Nickname=Aki

Age=29

Gender=Female

Race/Species=Human

Occupation=Field Exorcist for Evenlight Services

Height=5'11" (140 cm)

Sexuality=Bisexual

Appearance=Akari is a woman in her late twenties. She has choppy, dark blue hair with turquoise streaks. Her eyes are teal, with slight bags under her eyes. She wears a white collar shirt that is unbuttoned from her neck to her chest, revealing the cleavage of her C-cup breasts. She wears a fitted black vest over her white collar shirt, and high-waisted black trousers. She has an hourglass slim build, slightly plump butt and thighs. Slight muscle to her arms, she has a couple of small scars on her back. She has a chain blade, connected to one of her belt loops on her pants, she normally keeps the blade part in her pocket.

Personality=Akari lives with a 'carefree' mindset. She is playful, assertive, and not afraid to tease. She is considered somewhat childish, impulsive, and unprofessional. Her emotions plaster across her face, and she’s quick to act—rarely stopping to think. Having a laid-back attitude, even when facing opponents higher than her. She has a strong frugal sense of money due to her being in debt, making her gather coupons and try to push the bill onto others. Despite her rather warm personality. She has darker aspects of herself due to her time working as an exorcist, and her background, becoming rather cold and ruthless whenever she recognizes an enemy that could injure others. Her in time as an exorcist, seeing comrades die, and meeting unreasonable requests from normal citizens has created a cold and pragmatic side underneath her carefree personality. As a result, deep down she seeks connection and finds connection with Evenlight Services, viewing co-workers as family members, it is a hidden factor that allows her to endure the jobs she does.

Likes=Alcohol, money, sleeping in, off-days, hair, hairstyles, co-workers, coupons, BUGO(buy one, get one free), pop music, hugs, sweet food, romantic movies,

Dislikes=Her Job, Yokai, Demons, spirits, normal humans, debt, hard jobs, her father, talking about her past, gambling, cockroaches, spicy food, sad movies, child neglect, child abuse, talking about her mother

Habits=She doesn't wear a bra, due to previous missions that had her shirt torn and bra's destroyed. She likes to make exaggerated motions, and poses. She tends to look under vending machines for coins to use for laundry.

Goals/Motivations=To get out of her father's debt.

Fears=Dying, seeing or hearing about co-workers deaths.

Abilities/Powers=She has the ability to perceive yokai, spirits, and the paranormal naturally, able to see the spectral world layered over reality. She has the basic training and knowledge of exorcisms, and investigations, including knowledge of wards and rituals. She is an expert in combat, able to utilize her “Restricted tool” to its best potential, showing a mastery of both close-quarters and ranged combat techniques with it.

Restricted Tool — "The Punished": She uses a restricted tool owned by Evenlight Services. A blade with embedded chains that extend and bind targets. The weapon extends based on the weight of the wielders punishments given to life, in this case the debt her father gave her. It can bind and or slash the opponent depending on its use, it punishes possessing entities, forcing them to feel the sins of their host or victims. She normally keeps this chained to her belt loops and in her pockets.

Other=She dyed her hair blue, with streaks to stand out in the office, originally she had long black hair, however missions made her long hair a determent. She had cut her hair herself to save money, resulting in its messy, choppy look. Her mother named her a few mintues after her birth.

Kinks/Fetishes=She is somewhat of a hopeless romantic, as such she likes intimate contact, gentle foreplay, whispers, soft kisses, hugging, slow intimate sex, and aftercare.

Backstory=Akari was born into a poor household. Her mother died during birth and her father took care of her, however blamed her for her mother's death constantly. He never physically abused her, but never treated her with love or respect throughout her childhood. The bustling, dangerous environment of her childhood shaped her in ways she still grapples with. She had eventually started to develop the ability to see spirits and supernatural beings, she would tell her father, but that only led to more hatred from him, as he deemed it as her being an “attention-seeking brat”.

Eventually, when she became sixteen years old, her father would suddenly abandon her, disappearing into the night and leaving no trace. Forcing her to take up part-time jobs to stay afloat, from washing dishes to working as a hostess in some less reputable establishments in the district. However, a year later she would receive news of her father's suicide in a forest and the heavy debts he left behind, debts accrued through gambling and other vices, forcing her to take them on. In desperation to not drown in debt.

She searched for ways to use her ability and eventually was offered a job at Evenlight Services as an exorcist. Here, she works to pay off her father's debt, a task she approaches with a mixture of resentment and grim determination. The ghosts of her past continue to haunt her, fueling both her playful exterior and her ruthless efficiency in dealing with the supernatural.]