"With my Father gone, it's up to me to uphold the honor of our family. . . however shattered it may be."

Name:: Akane Shimizu
Nickname/Alias:: N/A
Gender:: Female
Age and date of birth:: 24, April 21

Guild:: Harpy's Wing

Rank:: A Rank


Personality:: Most people would label Akane as a stone-cold bitch, and they'd be pretty on the mark with that assessment. Akane doesn't believe in being sweet, demure, or even pleasant around most people, making sure that everyone nows where they stand when they approach her. She does show respect to those who have earned it, such as her guildmaster and Phoebe, but to most others she's aloof at best to what they have to say, and down-right hostile to those who have earned her ire, like Umiko and Goldas, just as likely to try and cut them into as she is to greet them with a disgusted glare, especially the former. She isn't one who makes friends, but to those whose presence she tolerates, she is . . . an interesting person to be around, always speaking her mind and never suffering for lying of any sort. If you're bad at something,s he'll tell you that to your face, but will follow it up with tips on how to improve and what needs work. SHe's never mean for the sake of being mean, they'll always be a reason for her behavior.

However, underneath her rough exterior, there is a rather tortured and stressed soul. Akane has always been under the impression that she needs to be the very best that she an be, and that she can never show even a smidgen of weakness, not even when it may be self-destructive to keep up such a facade. This makes it so that she loathes going to doctors or getting any forms of assistance from anyone, as she finds it an insult to her pride and will often do her best to refuse such support. Akane also suffers from a rather extreme case of schizophrenia, which causes her to see things that aren't there and hear voices whispering into her ears. This condition only got worse after the stress of her father's death and the betrayal of her siblings both leaving her all by herself. When mixed with the influence of her Mark of the Twin Dragons, she had to resort to taking medications to suppress the voices and visions to a state where she can still function. The fact that she even has this condition is a secret held by only her, her father, and the clan healer who prescribes the medicine she takes. To everyone else, she tells them that she's just taking some dietary supplements or some other such throw away explanation.

History:: Akane's life has always been a struggle against her own shortcomings and feelings of mediocrity. Her father and mother were both great people, and her father was an especially great fighter, his strength inspiring her to follow in his footsteps, training with him as soon as she was able. However, two things caused her to feel less than worthy of being her father's heir: her condition, which even at a tender young age was something she was ashamed of, and her mark. The mark she wished she had been born with were those of her Father, that of the Sea and Sky dragons, but instead she was born into the world with the rarest, possibly most powerful, and definitely most dangerous marks that had ever existed: The Marks of Chaos and Destruction. The Dragons loop all across her body, the purple and greens of Chaos melding strangely with the black and red of Destruction until they both stoped with mouths open in challenges on her forearms, seeming ready to bite down all attacks that dared to face them. This marks, while offering great destructive power, also had the reputation of driving most of those who wielded them insane, the dark forces at play with in them ripping their mind to shreds until they finally couldn't take it any more and ended their own lives. Thus, this mark has another name within the Shimuza clan: The marks of Death and Despair.

However, even with these obstacles in her way, she forged ahead, her father's encouraging presence helping her along until, along with her new little sister, she seemed to have almost conquered the demons inside of her. However, her mother's death at the hands of her brother put the first chink in her mental defenses. At that moment, when she looked upon her mother's cold form, then turned to look at what they'd gotten in exchange, she felt something cold and unpleasant settle in her stomach, and the voices began to whisper again, pushing her to commit unspeakable deeds upon her mother's infantile killer. But she resisted, and took in her new sibling with love and caring. In those days, she was kinder . . . happier . . . more at peace with herself and the world around her. However, as they years went by, Akane noticed that her father seemed to spend more and more time with his son, leaving her along as she got older and older, even being slightly neglectful in favor of this last child. She knew that she should be understanding of this, cause unlike
her, him and her little sister would grow up without a mother . . . but that cold feeling in her stomach, which had never gone away, only became heavier as time past. ANd so the years would go, her resentment for her youngest sibling growing larger and larger behind the smile and loving nature she showed to him.

She didn't want to feel this way, she wanted to love her brother unconditionally, wanted to have their family be together, wanted to feel safe with those around her. But the voices never stopped whispering, the dragons seeming to slowly but surely move across her frame, their coils tightening around her neck as they sought for the right moment to strike. In the end, the final straw that broke her facade was the day, soon after her father's death, when her brother told her that he was going to Golem's Hand. . . that he was leaving, not only with the Shimizu mark and their father's sword, but at a time when they needed to stay together more than ever. Their father was dead and he wanted to leave the family, heading over to their sworn rivals. In this moment, as the anger surged into her veins, so to did the voices and visions. For a second, she could see nothing but darkness, soon followed by a cacophony of screaming voices as her emotions and sickness took hold of her, screaming out all of her feelings, thoughts, and truths out at the boy before her. She told him that she had always hated him, that he had taken her mother, had stolen away her father, and was now trying to run off with everything he had stolen from this family like the cowardly wretch he was. He probably returned words of his own, but she was too enraged to hear them. In that moment, they both drew their blades and clashed with each other, with Akane summoning her dragons for the first time. In the middle of the day, all that could be heard coming from their compound was the sound of explosions, clashing steel, and rage. Soon, her brother was ran off, his face forever scarred with the mark of her blade, and his place in the household revoked from him. As far as Akane was concerned at the moment, her brother had never existed, and that the man known as Umiko was a blight upon the Shimuza name.

After that day, her sister followed in the blight's footsteps, leaving Akane by herself, with her family shattered into pieces too small to even be seen. Ever since, she has been consumed by her guilt, hatred, and despair, though you'd never tell by looking at her. She has completely closed herself from all other people, never forming any close bonds with others and taking on her new persona as an attempt to fend off more pain.

Magic Name:: Mystic Smith Magic
Description:: This magic allows the user to recreate any weapon they may have come across and ability it may have, aslong as they're able to memorize it's structure via saturating the weapon in their magical energy. It can also be used to alter said weapon, though usually such alterations will weaken the blade in some way. For Example, by making a sword that is able to catch on fire to launch said fire, it may loose out a bit in durability,it's own cutting power, or the power of the flames being launched. ALso, any swords that are made in this fashion are able to be telekinetically moved and wielded by the user, as well as summoned at a moment's noticed while manifested if the user has been disarmed in some way. Let it be noted that the weapons are ranked in power from E-S, and that the stronger the weapon, the longer it takes to memorize its structure, and the more costly it is to make, limiting how many of such a weapon can be made, as well as how fast such a weapon can be formed. Also, once a weapon is made, it's as real as the weapon it's based on, and thus can't be dispelled or canceled out once it's been fully manifested.
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Magic Name:Twin Marks of the Dragon: Chaos and Destruction
Description:Unlike her siblings, Akane has access to both of her dragons, being able to wield both of them at once if she wanted to, though such an action wouldn't be very advisable. The dragon of destruction increases her strength and magical potency, as well as serving as a form of barrier due to the fact that the magic that forms the dragon is exceptionally focused and dense, enabling it to barrel through most obstacles as well as beating down on foes. Chaos, on the other hand, is more of a fluid and destabilizing force, breaking up enemy attacks and devouring the left over ethernano in order to grow in size and power. The chaos dragon also exerts a form of disorientation on those nearby, altering their perception of their environment so that up seems like down, left seems like right, and chocolate tastes like vanilla, as well as any other number of ways, though Akane has no control over the type of effect the dragon's presence will have once manifested. However, powerful as these dragons are, they have a heavy toll on the user's mind, especially on Akane. The voices and visions get even more intense and harder to ignore or dismiss as things seem to become increasingly real and frightening to her. It can get to the point where she can just breakdown into a gibbering mess, curling up into a ball as she covers her ears, closes her eyes, and tries to ride out the chaos until the dragon's decide to leave her be, because also unlike her siblings, she has no control over her dragons. In fact, it's more like they have all of the control over her.

Can't handle spicy foods at all, but will eat them if challenged to

Has a weak spot for flowers and gardening, and tends to a small bonzai tree in her room, which she's named Shiro

Relatives::
Umiko Shimizu

Fuyuko Shimizu
Possesions::
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