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[center][color=0072bc][h2]Akira Igarashi[/h2]
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While Akira hides himself in a normal cat's body, he has fully grown into what seems to be as big as a horse on four legs.[/hider]
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[color=0072bc][b]Age:[/b][/color] 312; doesn't physically age after initially being turned

[color=0072bc][b]Race:[/b][/color] Bakeneko

[color=0072bc][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Akira has been and is still a mischievous yokai. He is always seen with a smile and is generally a happy being. His smile turns into a sly smirk whenever he's planning on doing something, but it has been quite rare as of late as he just wants to have a good time. He doesn't seek much from life aside from just finding something to have fun with. Whenever he's not in the mood for pranking, he is friendly and approachable. Akira loves interacting with others - and even mingling with humans. He doesn't have a strong opinion on them. He's grown far too apathetic with what they're doing over the years that he only likes messing everything up for anyone out there - when he chooses to.

Akira is far too easygoing and rarely takes anything seriously. However, he is actually a curious being so he often disguises himself so that he could enter human settlements to read books or find out about their new inventions or whatever. Over the years, he's been a scholastic type of being but often gets hindered by his true nature as a Bakeneko. He doesn't have a short fuse, but when he does snap, he goes absolutely ballistic. It's in his nature to do so.

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[color=0072bc][b]History:[/b][/color]Akira started off as a normal cat. He was adopted by the Igarashi family when he was just a kid and was given the name ‘Akira’. He enjoyed his time there as he was well taken care of. However, his master’s husband had died from old age. The family continued on fine but Akira admits that he missed the guy. The next tragedy that befell the Igarashi family was when his master’s son died because of some sort of lover’s rivalry, the killer being part of the Ueda family. Akira was sad, but it wasn’t really much of a problem to him. Humans tend to die easily, just like him.

But the mother had spiralled into depression and kept talking to Akira, pouring all the sadness, hatred and other negative feelings on the cat. Akira had turned fourteen years old when his master committed suicide. He turned into a yokai, a Bakeneko, after licking lamp oil that had been tossed over during one of his master's wife's tantrums.  He began haunting the Ueda household, bringing misfortune and confusing them greatly. They had become a cursed household and they died out. This is also the time when Akira adopted his master’s son’s appearance as his default human form.

Finding no purpose in the world, Akira began travelling all over the country, bringing misfortune on the family that deserves it. He never had a master after the Igarashi family so he was a simply yokai stray, not that many would appreciate having such a cat-yokai in their home. When the fiftieth year passed, Akira had stopped his mischievous rampage and settled down.

Years passed. Wars happened. Akira watched as death and destruction paved its way to peace and prosperity for the human race. He wasn't exactly sure how well they were handling things, or if that they were even doing a good job, but he didn't really care anymore. He was only just more interested in his fellow misfits than those humans who became the 'majority'. More and more years passed and he began toying with his powers, and learning more about everything else. Science and technology, along with magic and the supernatural was very interesting to mess around.

Now that he had gotten the letter that allowed for him to freely practice around the Children of Dawn. Interested, he flew to Luce Prima a bit before it was opened just to talk with the scholars. But now, he decided to stay to act as a researcher along with the scholars because of his keen interest in it.
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[color=0072bc][b]Other:[/b][/color]
- Touching his tail will cause a burning sensation on the part that is used to touch it. It will only grow hotter, the longer one holds it. Brushing against it will cause only a very minor irritation that will quickly pass.
- Akira detests the consumption of human flesh, but doesn't deny that it actually tastes good.
- He actually has quite a number of treasures that he has collected over the years; hence how he was able to afford going to Luce Prima.

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[*][b]Illusion[/b] - He is able to cast illusions onto others which he had learned throughout the years. It's what he uses to mainly mess with people. He's been able to make illusions that can trick the five senses - but never actually bring harm to anyone aside from a little fright.
[*][b]Shapeshifting[/b] - He can change his size when on his cat form and also take a human form - this is for mingling with humans.
[*][b]Stomach of Steel[/b] - He's able to eat anything and even prefers eating poisonous things. [/list]
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