Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Jul 19, 2010 4:11:07 GMT -5
Full Name: Akina Hiizumi
Nicknames: Oyakume (really more of a title)
Age: 18
Height: 173 cm (~5’8”)
Weight: n/a
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Sakurashin Town, Japan
Franchise: Yozakura Quartet
Physical Description: Unlike many of his friends, Akina actually looks and is entirely human, despite his powers. His physical appearance actually changes very slightly when he uses said powers, as when he enters “oyakume mode”, his short unruly black hair grows a fair bit longer. He has light grey eyes. As far as an outfit goes, he doesn’t have a particularly consistent outfit, instead choosing to wear various long sleeved shirts, t-shirts, jackets, and jeans.
Weapons: Akina doesn’t carry any weapons on him, and instead uses whatever’s available as a weapon should he need to (Hime’s lacrosse stick in particular tends to be used fairly often).
Abilities/Powers: Since Akina is a member of the Hiizumi family, Akina can perform an ability known as tuning. Tuning has many uses, though the main one used by the Hiizumi family is sending a demon from our world to the Afterworld, their true home, since a demon’s abilities are highly unstable in our world. The Hiizumi family considers this “killing” demons, as it cuts off any connection a demon has to our world, and thus they tend to avoid using it for that purpose. Tuning can also be used like this on objects, not just demons.
One other prominent use of tuning is causing humans and demons to “fall”. This basically forces a demon or spirit into something’s body, and the further someone “falls” (basically, the more latched on a spirit gets to the body), the less likely it will be that they can be saved. Humans that survive this process become half-demons, but it’s almost impossible to save a human that is dropped. Animals and demons have to be killed, though. Just a note: any demon can drop a human, but only a Hiizumi can drop a demon.
The final prominent use of tuning is forcing one’s spirit out of their body. By using tuning on someone’s body and spirit directly, it forces the spirit out of the body. Though this is mainly used by the Oyakume to force whatever demons have dropped a human or animal out of the person’s body.
Just a note: if Akina uses his powers too much in a short period of time, he will become out of alignment with that dimension, which isn’t what you would call a “good thing.” It’s not too good for his health either, and he’ll be in constant pain until someone from that dimension realigns him to that dimension by holding his hand.
Skills: He’s actually quite skilled with an abacus. He’s fairly good at cooking and cleaning as well.
Personality: Akina has a mostly cheerful and carefree personality, and he enjoys spending time with his friends like any normal person. The problem is a lot of his friends are demons who want to “die” as his family puts it and go to the Afterworld. He doesn’t want to say goodbye to any of his friends, which is his entire motivation to fight and protect Sakurashin Town. He spends a lot of his time trying to help others and make them feel better. Akina is also what one would call the tsukkome (straight man) of his group of friends, together with his friend and constant rival, Kyosuke. He tends to make observations and corrects the antics of his friends, and it’s his reactions to things that make them funnier than they already are.
History: Akina was very young when he went to live with his grandfather, Makiharu, after the death of his parents. Makiharu was the head of the Hiizumi family and served as the Oyakume, a person who would tune demons and send them to the Afterworld. However, Makiharu saw the oyakume as a “killer” and tried to avoid tuning demons as much as possible. For this reason, he created the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office, which served to handle several issues in Sakurashin, several of them demon related. One day, the mayor’s granddaughter came to live with her after her parents died. The granddaughter, named Hime Yarizakura, was a demon with unnaturally strong powers. Eventually, the mayor and Makiharu asked the local land god, Yae, to seal away most of Hime’s powers. Yae did so, but the scar on Hime’s neck that formed from the sealing process bothered the little girl. She spent a lot of time crying about it, earning the ire of a local pottery maker named Jinroku. Akina observed this, and got to work sewing a scarf for Hime to hide her scar. When he gave it to her, she initially complained about how long it was, but eventually said it was just fine.
Several years passed, and over that time, Akina became good friends with Hime. He often helped her help attract new residents to Sakurashin Town, while Hime aided with incidents regarding demons, like when a girl named Kotoha Isone fell and became a kotodama user, causing a fair amount of destruction and killing her parents before she was undemonized. One time, Hime and Juri, a human nurse who often examined Akina due to his health issues caused by tuning, brought back two oni from Okayama, named Kyosuke and Touka. Akina developed an incredibly obvious crush on Touka, which Kyosuke didn’t appreciate very much. However, they somehow became friends, though with a very tense relationship.
One day, Hime’s grandmother decided it was time for her to move on to the Afterworld, and asked for Makiharu to tune her. Akina was there during the tuning and was requested by the mayor to take care of Hime. Akina agreed, and Makiharu tuned Hime’s grandmother, thus “killing” her. This was the day Hime became mayor of Sakurashin. That day, Hime requested that Yae seal the memory of her being a demon from everyone’s minds so she could see things from the view of both a human and a demon. Yae agreed, but because of the specifics of the seal, the memory of Hime’s scarf was also sealed. Akina forgot that Hime was a demon and that he was the one who had made her scarf for her.
Time passed, and Gin Nanami and his little sister Ao eventually came to Sakurashin. Gin struck up a friendship with Makiharu and Akina, and eventually the subject of the seven spiritual sakura came up. The reason tuning was so successful in Sakurashin was due to seven giant trees that existed in both their world and the afterworld. The problem was, the veil between dimensions was beginning to weaken due to them, and when they bloomed, the veil would completely drop and the two dimensions would merge. Makiharu, Gin, and Akina began to look into the issue. However, the aging Makiharu eventually died, leaving Akina and Gin as the only ones to be able to do anything about the weakening veil. Because Makiharu’s death left Akina as the only remaining alive main branch member of the Hiizumi family, the title of oyakume was forced on Akina. Akina and Gin eventually decided to ask the branch of the Hiizumi family who had gone to the Afterworld for assistance, and Akina tuned Gin with his own two hands. Gin never came back, even after a year had passed.
Though Akina didn’t know it then, the start of when things truly began to go to hell was when a crazed gun maniac was possessed, lept the wall of the prison he was being kept in, and began to go on rampages around Sakurashin. Hime, Akina, Kotoha, and Ao (the latter two having become employees of the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office later on) left to exorcise the spirit after the gun maniac took Juri hostage on TV. During the fight and several fights afterwards, Akina used none of his oyakume abilities, and Kyosuke, who had become Hime’s “babysitter” in the time since he first arrived in Sakurashin, began to believe that Akina hadn’t succeeded as oyakume after his grandfather’s death, since Akina never tuned anyone. This eventually came to blows after Touka accidentally injured two vampire-mermaid hybrid children while protecting them from a car and Kyosuke blamed Akina for all of the suffering Touka was being put through due to her unstable powers. It was only after Akina revealed that he really was the oyakume, Kyosuke got a chance to punch him without his limiter, and Akina explained his whole reason for not tuning demons that the two of them managed to calm down… which didn’t last very long as Touka made a comment about “damaged goods” near them and Kyosuke took it in that way, if you know what I mean.
Time passed, and eventually Hime’s cousin Kohime came to visit in order to learn how to be a great mayor from her “onee-sama”. After everyone passed out drunk, Akina decided it was a good time to inform Hime about the weakening veil between dimensions. Hime flipped over Akina hiding it from her, and Akina informed her it was because she wasn’t a demon and wouldn’t be affected first. However, at that moment, a giant hulking salamander appeared at Hime’s door and kidnapped Kohime. A mysterious old man controlling a group of fallen salamanders, Morino, a neighboring town’s mayor; and Shinozuka, Morino’s secretary, announced their intentions: hand over mayorship of Sakurashin to the old man and pull Kohime out of the race for Morino’s town. A demon barrier enacted by the old man reduced the power of all of the demons in Sakurashin, and through this it was revealed that Hime was a demon. Yae appeared and lessened the affects of the barrier while simultaneously lifting the seal she had placed on the townspeople’s memories. The memory came back, and while an injured Hime was taken to the hospital by Juri, Akina and the others got to work defending Sakurashin.
Several events happened, but eventually there was a faceoff with the old man controlling the salamanders. Akina noticed several incidents where the old man dropped the salamanders, leading him to realize the old man had to be a Hiizumi. Eventually, the illusion the old man had up was dropped, and his true appearance was revealed… and it was that of Gin Nanami. However, Ao realized when she read his mind that this couldn’t be Gin, and “Gin” revealed that he was in truth Enjin Hiizumi, one of the Hiizumi branch who were sent to the Afterworld to help with tuning, but in truth were made into living sacrifices, and the Seven Pillars were the symbol of his despair he’d made to integrate the two dimensions. He then revealed that he needed Akina’s body in order to fully integrate the dimensions. Akina rushed Enjin, and was stabbed in the stomach because of it. Luckily, the “Hime Memo” he was carrying under his shirt kept him from sustaining any serious injuries, though none of the others realized this before Enjin teleported away right under their noses and told him to wake up. This was the moment Yuuhi, the district mayor and major land god, showed up and reinstated Morino as mayor.
A few days passed, and Hime decided to hold a stamp rally in town, which Akina, as usual, agreed to help with. During the stamp rally, Yuuhi informed Akina that the demon barrier that Enjin had used before had been created by the town council. The next day, Akina received a call from the town council at the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office and dragged Hime with him to the council meeting. Throughout the meeting, Akina continued to get more and more angered by the council’s stance on the demons of the world and the demon barrier, especially on how to stop the integration. He finally lost his temper when the council head suggested he tune Hime, and entered oyakume mode. The amount of energy he summoned left a massive crater in the floor that went down through three floors of the building the meeting had taken place on. He left the building together with Hime still in a generally unpleasant mood, though Hime’s mood at his mood finally led him to agree to take her out to dinner at a soba shop… where he found Kotoha and Ao eating too. Somehow, as usual, Akina ended up treating all four of them.
Something happened at that moment. The amount of tuning Akina had done recently put him out of alignment with that dimension, and halfway through the dinner, Akina suddenly entered oyakume mode and started clutching at his chest in pain. And then, he quite simply disappeared from that dimension. Instead of reappearing in the Afterworld, though, he was taken to another dimension. What he doesn’t realize is that the same moment he became out of alignment with their world was the same moment Enjin became out of alignment with their world, and somehow, they both were sent to the same place: the Dimensional Island.
Other: There is RAMPANT fanon in this thing, mainly due to the part of the manga I am pulling Akina from. His character uses elements from up to volume 6, but the point I’m pulling him from occurs close to the end of volume 4. There will likely be multiple retcons for him as I go on, which can be blamed on the early place in canon I’m pulling him from.
…And no one even suggest the anime is canon to Akina here. D:< No, just no.
Picture: images.amazon.com/images/P/0345510313.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Normal appearance
i27.tinypic.com/15pr8kj.jpg In Oyakume mode
Nicknames: Oyakume (really more of a title)
Age: 18
Height: 173 cm (~5’8”)
Weight: n/a
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alliance: Good
Home: Sakurashin Town, Japan
Franchise: Yozakura Quartet
Physical Description: Unlike many of his friends, Akina actually looks and is entirely human, despite his powers. His physical appearance actually changes very slightly when he uses said powers, as when he enters “oyakume mode”, his short unruly black hair grows a fair bit longer. He has light grey eyes. As far as an outfit goes, he doesn’t have a particularly consistent outfit, instead choosing to wear various long sleeved shirts, t-shirts, jackets, and jeans.
Weapons: Akina doesn’t carry any weapons on him, and instead uses whatever’s available as a weapon should he need to (Hime’s lacrosse stick in particular tends to be used fairly often).
Abilities/Powers: Since Akina is a member of the Hiizumi family, Akina can perform an ability known as tuning. Tuning has many uses, though the main one used by the Hiizumi family is sending a demon from our world to the Afterworld, their true home, since a demon’s abilities are highly unstable in our world. The Hiizumi family considers this “killing” demons, as it cuts off any connection a demon has to our world, and thus they tend to avoid using it for that purpose. Tuning can also be used like this on objects, not just demons.
One other prominent use of tuning is causing humans and demons to “fall”. This basically forces a demon or spirit into something’s body, and the further someone “falls” (basically, the more latched on a spirit gets to the body), the less likely it will be that they can be saved. Humans that survive this process become half-demons, but it’s almost impossible to save a human that is dropped. Animals and demons have to be killed, though. Just a note: any demon can drop a human, but only a Hiizumi can drop a demon.
The final prominent use of tuning is forcing one’s spirit out of their body. By using tuning on someone’s body and spirit directly, it forces the spirit out of the body. Though this is mainly used by the Oyakume to force whatever demons have dropped a human or animal out of the person’s body.
Just a note: if Akina uses his powers too much in a short period of time, he will become out of alignment with that dimension, which isn’t what you would call a “good thing.” It’s not too good for his health either, and he’ll be in constant pain until someone from that dimension realigns him to that dimension by holding his hand.
Skills: He’s actually quite skilled with an abacus. He’s fairly good at cooking and cleaning as well.
Personality: Akina has a mostly cheerful and carefree personality, and he enjoys spending time with his friends like any normal person. The problem is a lot of his friends are demons who want to “die” as his family puts it and go to the Afterworld. He doesn’t want to say goodbye to any of his friends, which is his entire motivation to fight and protect Sakurashin Town. He spends a lot of his time trying to help others and make them feel better. Akina is also what one would call the tsukkome (straight man) of his group of friends, together with his friend and constant rival, Kyosuke. He tends to make observations and corrects the antics of his friends, and it’s his reactions to things that make them funnier than they already are.
History: Akina was very young when he went to live with his grandfather, Makiharu, after the death of his parents. Makiharu was the head of the Hiizumi family and served as the Oyakume, a person who would tune demons and send them to the Afterworld. However, Makiharu saw the oyakume as a “killer” and tried to avoid tuning demons as much as possible. For this reason, he created the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office, which served to handle several issues in Sakurashin, several of them demon related. One day, the mayor’s granddaughter came to live with her after her parents died. The granddaughter, named Hime Yarizakura, was a demon with unnaturally strong powers. Eventually, the mayor and Makiharu asked the local land god, Yae, to seal away most of Hime’s powers. Yae did so, but the scar on Hime’s neck that formed from the sealing process bothered the little girl. She spent a lot of time crying about it, earning the ire of a local pottery maker named Jinroku. Akina observed this, and got to work sewing a scarf for Hime to hide her scar. When he gave it to her, she initially complained about how long it was, but eventually said it was just fine.
Several years passed, and over that time, Akina became good friends with Hime. He often helped her help attract new residents to Sakurashin Town, while Hime aided with incidents regarding demons, like when a girl named Kotoha Isone fell and became a kotodama user, causing a fair amount of destruction and killing her parents before she was undemonized. One time, Hime and Juri, a human nurse who often examined Akina due to his health issues caused by tuning, brought back two oni from Okayama, named Kyosuke and Touka. Akina developed an incredibly obvious crush on Touka, which Kyosuke didn’t appreciate very much. However, they somehow became friends, though with a very tense relationship.
One day, Hime’s grandmother decided it was time for her to move on to the Afterworld, and asked for Makiharu to tune her. Akina was there during the tuning and was requested by the mayor to take care of Hime. Akina agreed, and Makiharu tuned Hime’s grandmother, thus “killing” her. This was the day Hime became mayor of Sakurashin. That day, Hime requested that Yae seal the memory of her being a demon from everyone’s minds so she could see things from the view of both a human and a demon. Yae agreed, but because of the specifics of the seal, the memory of Hime’s scarf was also sealed. Akina forgot that Hime was a demon and that he was the one who had made her scarf for her.
Time passed, and Gin Nanami and his little sister Ao eventually came to Sakurashin. Gin struck up a friendship with Makiharu and Akina, and eventually the subject of the seven spiritual sakura came up. The reason tuning was so successful in Sakurashin was due to seven giant trees that existed in both their world and the afterworld. The problem was, the veil between dimensions was beginning to weaken due to them, and when they bloomed, the veil would completely drop and the two dimensions would merge. Makiharu, Gin, and Akina began to look into the issue. However, the aging Makiharu eventually died, leaving Akina and Gin as the only ones to be able to do anything about the weakening veil. Because Makiharu’s death left Akina as the only remaining alive main branch member of the Hiizumi family, the title of oyakume was forced on Akina. Akina and Gin eventually decided to ask the branch of the Hiizumi family who had gone to the Afterworld for assistance, and Akina tuned Gin with his own two hands. Gin never came back, even after a year had passed.
Though Akina didn’t know it then, the start of when things truly began to go to hell was when a crazed gun maniac was possessed, lept the wall of the prison he was being kept in, and began to go on rampages around Sakurashin. Hime, Akina, Kotoha, and Ao (the latter two having become employees of the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office later on) left to exorcise the spirit after the gun maniac took Juri hostage on TV. During the fight and several fights afterwards, Akina used none of his oyakume abilities, and Kyosuke, who had become Hime’s “babysitter” in the time since he first arrived in Sakurashin, began to believe that Akina hadn’t succeeded as oyakume after his grandfather’s death, since Akina never tuned anyone. This eventually came to blows after Touka accidentally injured two vampire-mermaid hybrid children while protecting them from a car and Kyosuke blamed Akina for all of the suffering Touka was being put through due to her unstable powers. It was only after Akina revealed that he really was the oyakume, Kyosuke got a chance to punch him without his limiter, and Akina explained his whole reason for not tuning demons that the two of them managed to calm down… which didn’t last very long as Touka made a comment about “damaged goods” near them and Kyosuke took it in that way, if you know what I mean.
Time passed, and eventually Hime’s cousin Kohime came to visit in order to learn how to be a great mayor from her “onee-sama”. After everyone passed out drunk, Akina decided it was a good time to inform Hime about the weakening veil between dimensions. Hime flipped over Akina hiding it from her, and Akina informed her it was because she wasn’t a demon and wouldn’t be affected first. However, at that moment, a giant hulking salamander appeared at Hime’s door and kidnapped Kohime. A mysterious old man controlling a group of fallen salamanders, Morino, a neighboring town’s mayor; and Shinozuka, Morino’s secretary, announced their intentions: hand over mayorship of Sakurashin to the old man and pull Kohime out of the race for Morino’s town. A demon barrier enacted by the old man reduced the power of all of the demons in Sakurashin, and through this it was revealed that Hime was a demon. Yae appeared and lessened the affects of the barrier while simultaneously lifting the seal she had placed on the townspeople’s memories. The memory came back, and while an injured Hime was taken to the hospital by Juri, Akina and the others got to work defending Sakurashin.
Several events happened, but eventually there was a faceoff with the old man controlling the salamanders. Akina noticed several incidents where the old man dropped the salamanders, leading him to realize the old man had to be a Hiizumi. Eventually, the illusion the old man had up was dropped, and his true appearance was revealed… and it was that of Gin Nanami. However, Ao realized when she read his mind that this couldn’t be Gin, and “Gin” revealed that he was in truth Enjin Hiizumi, one of the Hiizumi branch who were sent to the Afterworld to help with tuning, but in truth were made into living sacrifices, and the Seven Pillars were the symbol of his despair he’d made to integrate the two dimensions. He then revealed that he needed Akina’s body in order to fully integrate the dimensions. Akina rushed Enjin, and was stabbed in the stomach because of it. Luckily, the “Hime Memo” he was carrying under his shirt kept him from sustaining any serious injuries, though none of the others realized this before Enjin teleported away right under their noses and told him to wake up. This was the moment Yuuhi, the district mayor and major land god, showed up and reinstated Morino as mayor.
A few days passed, and Hime decided to hold a stamp rally in town, which Akina, as usual, agreed to help with. During the stamp rally, Yuuhi informed Akina that the demon barrier that Enjin had used before had been created by the town council. The next day, Akina received a call from the town council at the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office and dragged Hime with him to the council meeting. Throughout the meeting, Akina continued to get more and more angered by the council’s stance on the demons of the world and the demon barrier, especially on how to stop the integration. He finally lost his temper when the council head suggested he tune Hime, and entered oyakume mode. The amount of energy he summoned left a massive crater in the floor that went down through three floors of the building the meeting had taken place on. He left the building together with Hime still in a generally unpleasant mood, though Hime’s mood at his mood finally led him to agree to take her out to dinner at a soba shop… where he found Kotoha and Ao eating too. Somehow, as usual, Akina ended up treating all four of them.
Something happened at that moment. The amount of tuning Akina had done recently put him out of alignment with that dimension, and halfway through the dinner, Akina suddenly entered oyakume mode and started clutching at his chest in pain. And then, he quite simply disappeared from that dimension. Instead of reappearing in the Afterworld, though, he was taken to another dimension. What he doesn’t realize is that the same moment he became out of alignment with their world was the same moment Enjin became out of alignment with their world, and somehow, they both were sent to the same place: the Dimensional Island.
Other: There is RAMPANT fanon in this thing, mainly due to the part of the manga I am pulling Akina from. His character uses elements from up to volume 6, but the point I’m pulling him from occurs close to the end of volume 4. There will likely be multiple retcons for him as I go on, which can be blamed on the early place in canon I’m pulling him from.
…And no one even suggest the anime is canon to Akina here. D:< No, just no.
Picture: images.amazon.com/images/P/0345510313.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Normal appearance
i27.tinypic.com/15pr8kj.jpg In Oyakume mode
