[list][*][u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Honda Akira [*][u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 29 [*][u][b]Gender:[/b][/u] Female [*][u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] [url=https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6313119]Still dresses like a junior high student. Generally gets mistaken for one, too.[/url] [*][u][b]Personality:[/b][/u] "Quiet and keeps to herself" is often the description newer co-workers will come up with, something that's hard to dispute. Akira rarely starts conversations, and doesn't seem to have many friends outside of work (if any), hanging around the office at all times of day and often falling asleep on some out-of-the-way couch in the break room. If spoken to, she's polite--if notably gloomy--and less lazy than she generally seems, helping out without a complaint when asked about the boring parts of the job. Her opinions towards others can actually get pretty vitriolic, although the only one who could possibly repeat this is Andrea. If demons don't have emotions, who better to vent to? Not that she'd ever admit to summoning outside of combat, that would potentially cause a [i]lot[/i] of problems... [*][u][b]Skills:[/b][/u] She's pretty good at baking, and Akira's main contribution around the office is bringing in cookies or other desserts for people to try. Aside from that... well, if you're into mobile games, she might be useful to talk to? [*][u][b]Contracted Shadow:[/b][/u] [url=https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/5986587]Andrea[/url]. Her shadow doesn't seem to quite agree with 'being cast by light', it seems to have quite the mind of its own. [*][b][u]Contract Type:[/u][/b] Summon (Demon) [*][u][b]Contract Rank:[/b][/u] A [*][u][b]Contract Abilities:[/b][/u] Obviously, as a summoning contract, the only thing Akira does directly is... well, summon the demon. Despite the slender appearance, Akira has seen Andrea use those nails to cut through metal, and with enough strength to throw things around that she doesn't even have any business [i]lifting[/i]. She's strong, fast, and has the standard demonic ability to regenerate damage and return from certain death as long as her soul is intact. Mostly, though, she's more noticeable for the lasers. Watching incredibly complicated magic circles--[i]why[/i], Akira has no idea, it's not like a normal person copying them does anything (she thinks, she's tried a few times, but they're so hard to get right)--carve themselves in bright light into the air, or outright onto a solid surface, is entrancing, and the effect is even more so. Mostly, she just fires them off in immediate, sustained salvos. But if the circle is bigger, its construction visibly longer... well, there's more time to avoid it, but the resulting beam is even more devastating. If carved into a solid object, they make for excellent traps, firing only when the demon triggers them. [*][u][b]Brief Backstory:[/b][/u] Seventeen years ago, Akira was a just another schoolgirl--kind of low down the class ranking, but she had a few friends, even if she'd much rather be lazing around at home. Like everyone else, she knew the drill--if the alerts went off, find shelter [i]immediately[/i], there was nothing your ordinary civilian could do against demons except run, hide, and wait for the DDF to come to the rescue. What you never knew was how useless shelters would be if a demon was able to follow your class as it made its way to hide. She should have died there. The DDF weren't going to arrive for another five minutes, and everyone else was already gone. What hope did she have? Maybe if she'd been a bit older, or a bit braver, or had even a slight interest in the occult, she could have made a Shadow Contract in desperation, although if Akira had done that it wouldn't really be [i]her[/i] that was making the choice. Instead, she was saved by that most unlikely of things: another demon, seemingly more interested in going for its own kin than the terrified schoolgirl. Akira was weak. Terrified. Maybe if she'd been less scared, she would have noticed the offer of a contract was an [i]offer[/i], the demon's proud attitude dismissing her as not worth eating compared to the real meal that had just finished. Instead, she agreed, binding to herself the very thing that had upended her life. Her transferral to a DDF academy was immediate, the girl an outlier in her new class: not eager to fight the demons, an entirely passive participant in a fight, and her own contract one under [i]extremely[/i] strict supervision. Aside from the obligatory 'practical exams', Akira started missing more and more classes, to the point she'd barely scrape by in a normal school, and definitely never have gotten into a high school. But the inherent utility of her contract meant she passed, so far as the DDF cared, as long as she could memorise all their rules and showed no signs of wanting to use the contract to her own ends. Attached to Department 247 for the past decade, Akira's deployed far less than you'd expect any A-rank contract holder to be, especially one in such an overstretched department. The DDF is always apprehensive about strengthening [i]any[/i] demon, after all, and her contribution tends to be under strict restriction as a result.[/list]