The Demon Hunter
Name: Akako Surname: Ogawa
Gender: ♀
Sexuality: It's... complex, but we can go for a bisexual with a male preference.
Age: In her late 20's, looks like she is in her early 20's, though.
Height: 5'2 Weight: 84 lbs
Race: Human
Personality: Scatterbrained, escapist, lethargic, short–tempered, sarcastic, introverted, shy, antisocial, selfish
Likes: Food, nature, pretty things
Dislikes: Humans (she finds them evil and stupid), demons (she envies them), dogs (she is afraid of them), insects, heights, noise, feeling vulnerable
Occupation: Demon Hunter Rank: Tsuchinoe
Sword color: Maroon
Breathing style and techniques: Mist Breathing, first and third forms only.
Fighting style: Akako is not too weak to decapitate her opponent (when her sword is sharpened enough), but she is still far weaker and slower than an average demon hunter. She depends on her sneaky strategy and reflexes, if it fails.
Crow: Grumpy male crow, Shou. He secretly loves playing games, eating treats and getting belly scratches.
Additional equipment
Corset — Akako always wears corset under her uniform to regulate her breathing. Without it, she is incapable of using any breathing techniques; her lungs are very weak because she barely survived asthma as a child.
Arrows — She carries poisoned darts arrows in a small bag, attached to her belt. However, said arrows are not deadly, all they can do is paralyzing enemy for a few seconds, which helps Akako to catch up with enemy's speed. Akako does not have any apothecary skills, she cannot concoct strong poisons, she merely crushes wisteria flowers and soaks her darts arrows in the liquid.
Appearance
Akako is a short, skinny woman with dark brown eyes and long, wavy, dark brown hair. She has stitched wounds on her face.
She usually wears dark red or black, floral haori over her uniform, to cover her weapons and avoid walking around with visible blood stains.
Her uniform is designed as a trench coat dress with a capelet, she wears it with knee high black boots and white belts. Occasionally, she wears regular uniform too (shirt and pants), especially when weather is cold.
In her free days, she wears modern, foreign clothes or floral kimonos. She usually goes for cherry blossom pattern when she is buying her outfits.
Backstory
Civilian life
Akako's father left his family when his daughter was still little. He remarried another woman and never contacted his old family again.
Akako experienced intense emotional abuse daily, mainly coming from her own mother. Despite her miserable living conditions, Akako was not thrilled by the idea of arranged marriage, unlike other women her age. She chose to scare away her suitors and stay with her psychotic mother, until she could afford her own house or meet someone tolerable enough to marry.
Things changed after random female demon invaded their house and killed Akako's mother in front of her. Akako tried her best to help her mother, despite always wishing her death deep down. Akako was not saddened, but she felt intense fear, after stabbing her enemy with a knife multiple times and realizing that she was not a human.
Luckily for Akako, the sun had already risen and her enemy was not wise enough to keep her mouth shut, so Akako realized she could easily kill her by opening curtains.
Few seconds after Akako killed the invader, two young demon hunters stormed in, witnessing the demon's last struggles.
Life as a hunter
Akako did not initiate becoming a demon hunter because she held grudge against demons: She already took down the demon who ate her mother.
She was not the type who sacrifices herself for strangers, either.
Akako initiated becoming a demon hunter, because she was fascinated by the creature she killed: Creature that did not need to fear injuries, sickness, bullying, aging and inevitable death that follows it.
Akako needed to become a demon hunter in order to track down more demons and learn the secret of immortality.
She spent two years experimenting on the weak demons she caught, trying to become one of them, while lying to headquarters that she was researching more weaknesses demons could have, in order to destroy them easier.
Of course their blood was not strong enough to turn anyone, so she never made any progress.
Akako became frustrated after countless failed experiments and gave up on her dream to become immortal, she continued hunting demons though, because she could not find more stable job, besides she felt envious rage when she was thinking about demons: If she could not have eternal life, neither would they.
Forbidden love and execution
Akako came across one of the most powerful demons when she expected it least. She was instantly bewitched by his beauty, however, the demon kept attempting to take her life, naturally.
Noticing Akako's interest in him, he subtly flirted back, in order to distract the opponent and catch her off guard. Somehow, the demon got too carried away with his plan to seduce his opponent and accidentally ended up taking a bit of interest in her.
Eventually, the demon realized she did not really mean threat and could be of use as well, so he agreed to meet her sometimes, if she would accept to become his spy.
The demon's plan was to use his eccentric plaything for his deranged schemes and eat her when he would grow bored of having fun with her. Akako was aware of his malicious intentions, but she allowed him to manipulate her like a marionette, anyway. She could not help doing anything just to be around him.
In the end, it did not go as the demon had planned; instead of getting bored of his puppet, he grew more and more attached to Akako to the point that he began developing feelings for her, despite being in denial.
In public, Akako dated a human guy, who was merely there to drive her to her unlikely ally.
Akako kept meeting her demon lover secretly, until he was killed by other demon hunters. After learning that the man of her dreams was no longer alive, Akako tearfully attacked random demon hunters in a blind rage, revealing all of her secrets. She massacred most of her colleagues around, because they were caught off guard, not expecting attack from their ally. In the end Akako was left to die with multiple fatal injuries, they decided that the disgusting traitor like her did not deserve quick death.
Her body was found by the demon king, after her heart stopped beating, however, her brain was still functioning. He decided to save Akako's life by turning her into a demon, thinking that her vengeful rage could be useful to get rid of their mutual enemies, thus, Ningyou was created.
Being an only daughter of a teacher, Akako was taught how to read and write, unlike majority of villagers of the Sengoku period.
Her knowledge however, was not the only thing that made her different: Akako always preferred hunting over typical activities one would expect from the women of her generation, which resulted her to become an outcast. Eventually, after painful years of loneliness, she grew used to solitude to the point of enjoying it and seeing it as an essential part of her life.
When her settlement was attacked by demons, she was the only one to defend herself long enough to be found alive by arriving group of demon exterminators. She was taken under their care, until she could recover.
While recovering, she observed their training and took interest in it, beginning to practice once she was feeling better. Eventually, she became skilled enough with her sword to part her way and earn money by hunting demons on her own, renting a new house after her own was destroyed, not wanting to stay with the strangers she hardly got along with and be a burden. Her desire for solitude was what saved her from the massacre. At some point, she came to notice increased swarming of demons in some areas, interrogating them only to hear about the jewel they were after and grow intrigued by it herself, obsessed with the thought of becoming immortal, even if her plan was to use stealth and deception for obtaining shards, rather than violence, if possible.
The Demon
Name: Akako Surname: Ogawa
Gender: ♀
Sexuality: It's... complex, but we can go for a bisexual with a male preference.
Age: In her late 20's, looks like she is in her early 20's, though.
Height: 5'2 Weight: 84 lbs
Race: Human
Personality: Scatterbrained, escapist, lethargic, short–tempered, sarcastic, introverted, shy, antisocial, selfish
Likes: Food, nature, pretty things
Dislikes: Humans (she finds them evil and stupid), demons (she envies them), dogs (she is afraid of them), insects, heights, noise, feeling vulnerable
Occupation: Demon Hunter Rank: Tsuchinoe
Sword color: Maroon
Breathing style and techniques: Mist Breathing, first and third forms only.
Fighting style: Akako is not too weak to decapitate her opponent (when her sword is sharpened enough), but she is still far weaker and slower than an average demon hunter. She depends on her sneaky strategy and reflexes, if it fails.
Crow: Grumpy male crow, Shou. He secretly loves playing games, eating treats and getting belly scratches.
Additional equipment
Corset — Akako always wears corset under her uniform to regulate her breathing. Without it, she is incapable of using any breathing techniques; her lungs are very weak because she barely survived asthma as a child.
Arrows — She carries poisoned darts arrows in a small bag, attached to her belt. However, said arrows are not deadly, all they can do is paralyzing enemy for a few seconds, which helps Akako to catch up with enemy's speed. Akako does not have any apothecary skills, she cannot concoct strong poisons, she merely crushes wisteria flowers and soaks her darts arrows in the liquid.
Appearance
Akako is a short, skinny woman with dark brown eyes and long, wavy, dark brown hair. She has stitched wounds on her face.
She usually wears dark red or black, floral haori over her uniform, to cover her weapons and avoid walking around with visible blood stains.
Her uniform is designed as a trench coat dress with a capelet, she wears it with knee high black boots and white belts. Occasionally, she wears regular uniform too (shirt and pants), especially when weather is cold.
In her free days, she wears modern, foreign clothes or floral kimonos. She usually goes for cherry blossom pattern when she is buying her outfits.
Backstory
Civilian life
Akako's father left his family when his daughter was still little. He remarried another woman and never contacted his old family again.
Akako experienced intense emotional abuse daily, mainly coming from her own mother. Despite her miserable living conditions, Akako was not thrilled by the idea of arranged marriage, unlike other women her age. She chose to scare away her suitors and stay with her psychotic mother, until she could afford her own house or meet someone tolerable enough to marry.
Things changed after random female demon invaded their house and killed Akako's mother in front of her. Akako tried her best to help her mother, despite always wishing her death deep down. Akako was not saddened, but she felt intense fear, after stabbing her enemy with a knife multiple times and realizing that she was not a human.
Luckily for Akako, the sun had already risen and her enemy was not wise enough to keep her mouth shut, so Akako realized she could easily kill her by opening curtains.
Few seconds after Akako killed the invader, two young demon hunters stormed in, witnessing the demon's last struggles.
Life as a hunter
Akako did not initiate becoming a demon hunter because she held grudge against demons: She already took down the demon who ate her mother.
She was not the type who sacrifices herself for strangers, either.
Akako initiated becoming a demon hunter, because she was fascinated by the creature she killed: Creature that did not need to fear injuries, sickness, bullying, aging and inevitable death that follows it.
Akako needed to become a demon hunter in order to track down more demons and learn the secret of immortality.
She spent two years experimenting on the weak demons she caught, trying to become one of them, while lying to headquarters that she was researching more weaknesses demons could have, in order to destroy them easier.
Of course their blood was not strong enough to turn anyone, so she never made any progress.
Akako became frustrated after countless failed experiments and gave up on her dream to become immortal, she continued hunting demons though, because she could not find more stable job, besides she felt envious rage when she was thinking about demons: If she could not have eternal life, neither would they.
Forbidden love and execution
Akako came across one of the most powerful demons when she expected it least. She was instantly bewitched by his beauty, however, the demon kept attempting to take her life, naturally.
Noticing Akako's interest in him, he subtly flirted back, in order to distract the opponent and catch her off guard. Somehow, the demon got too carried away with his plan to seduce his opponent and accidentally ended up taking a bit of interest in her.
Eventually, the demon realized she did not really mean threat and could be of use as well, so he agreed to meet her sometimes, if she would accept to become his spy.
The demon's plan was to use his eccentric plaything for his deranged schemes and eat her when he would grow bored of having fun with her. Akako was aware of his malicious intentions, but she allowed him to manipulate her like a marionette, anyway. She could not help doing anything just to be around him.
In the end, it did not go as the demon had planned; instead of getting bored of his puppet, he grew more and more attached to Akako to the point that he began developing feelings for her, despite being in denial.
In public, Akako dated a human guy, who was merely there to drive her to her unlikely ally.
Akako kept meeting her demon lover secretly, until he was killed by other demon hunters. After learning that the man of her dreams was no longer alive, Akako tearfully attacked random demon hunters in a blind rage, revealing all of her secrets. She massacred most of her colleagues around, because they were caught off guard, not expecting attack from their ally. In the end Akako was left to die with multiple fatal injuries, they decided that the disgusting traitor like her did not deserve quick death.
Her body was found by the demon king, after her heart stopped beating, however, her brain was still functioning. He decided to save Akako's life by turning her into a demon, thinking that her vengeful rage could be useful to get rid of their mutual enemies, thus, Ningyou was created.
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Being an only daughter of a teacher, Akako was taught how to read and write, unlike majority of villagers of the Sengoku period.
Her knowledge however, was not the only thing that made her different: Akako always preferred hunting over typical activities one would expect from the women of her generation, which resulted her to become an outcast. Eventually, after painful years of loneliness, she grew used to solitude to the point of enjoying it and seeing it as an essential part of her life.
When her settlement was attacked by demons, she was the only one to defend herself long enough to be found alive by arriving group of demon exterminators. She was taken under their care, until she could recover.
While recovering, she observed their training and took interest in it, beginning to practice once she was feeling better. Eventually, she became skilled enough with her sword to part her way and earn money by hunting demons on her own, renting a new house after her own was destroyed, not wanting to stay with the strangers she hardly got along with and be a burden. Her desire for solitude was what saved her from the massacre. At some point, she came to notice increased swarming of demons in some areas, interrogating them only to hear about the jewel they were after and grow intrigued by it herself, obsessed with the thought of becoming immortal, even if her plan was to use stealth and deception for obtaining shards, rather than violence, if possible.
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The Demon
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