Character's Appearance:
Case File #06226173: 赤 (Aka)
Age: Twenty Three (23) Years Old
Gender: Gender-Fluid, Pansexual
Sex: Female and Male
Eye Colour: Red
Hair Colour: Black
Height: 5'01"
Weight: 200 lbs (combined)
Akane and Akihiko both have pale white skin, jet black hair and bloody red eyes due to their albinism. Their hair are both cut short making them completely identical with each other. Nobody else but their elder brother, Tatsuya, was able to differentiate them from each other before they were surgically joined together.
Due to their abduction by the 最高人民 Saiko Jinmin (or the SAIJIN Guild), the two have been surgically conjoined together in order to survive. From their shoulder down to their hipbone, they are now attached to each other and share one set of major organs while having two hearts. Evidence of them not being conjoined at birth is evident as, without clothing, what constitutes as their center is exposed and deformed (the results of a shoddy and rushed procedure). As such, fresh bandages are required and must be replaced at least three times a day. Loose clothing is also advised.
Character's Personality:
Before they became Aka, the two were proud members of the Shoukyou main branch, dedicated to serving and protecting the lord and heir of their clan. They were considered prodigies in their family though they were not looked upon kindly due to their mischievous and more illicit activities outside of their duties.
They were a secretive pair. Loyal and trusting only each other and their elder brother. Masks of childish innocence and playfulness were their tools, both having been regarded as pranksters, in order to hide their more sinister natures. Their childish, young natures and appearances are only there to fool others, so that they can be underestimated and overlooked. Within these two are rather demonic souls, the darkness in their minds daring to ravish those who stand in their way. Considering that they’ve been raised by the Mist equivalent of a Mafia, they can be ruthless and without mercy to their enemies. They have been trained to be quick and cunning, swift on their feet and with their hands and are not hesitant to use foul play to get what they want – they are not honor bound, goody two shoes after all.
The two liked to play with other people; their minds and their bodies. Often, they had switched identities just to throw off people on whom was who. The short haired twin was polite and soft spoken whereas the long haired twin was loud and rude. Each one could easily be either twin. Phobias were a favorite topic, as they liked the thought of picking people apart based on what they fear and have been known to break people down using mere words. But, most of all they tended to look at human bodies as tools, mere vehicles of the soul and weren’t adverse to experimentation in order to unlock someone’s true potential.
In the present, they are a ghost of themselves. The two flit between extreme paranoia due to their trauma, showing some signs that Akane and Akihiko are still there, or bouts of obliviousness, where they act like wild and wounded children, unaware of themselves and the world around them.
Character History:
Born to the prestigious Shoukyou family, Akane and Akihiko were of the Main Branch, son and daughter to Shoukyou Seiichi and Asami, brother and sister to Shoukyou Tatsuya.
The twins were raised in the belief that their family was superior especially those with tainted blood and were given the task of serving their family, especially their elder brother, the heir. Although loved and given the choice to be individuals, the twins had a strange connection wherein they were synchronized or, at the very least, able to understand each other’s mental and emotional being and chose, at a young age, to train and grow as a unit. As Shinobi, they trained to perform as a team together and, as a result, are hardly seen without each other. As Shinobi, their goals were to serve their family, first and foremost, even before their own country.
Starting at the Academy at the age of seven, on a technicality, they graduated two years later with flying colours in all avenues… with a little cheating on their part. For one twin was better at certain aspects than another, they impersonated each other to make up for the other faults even to the point that during most of their stay in the Academy, their peers believed they were merely one student.
Unlike their elder brother, they were not hesitant to humiliate and debase their peers and even some of their teachers by proving themselves more intelligent and superior in every possible way they could. It had earned the notorious reputations as delinquents, although they could never be punished due to their outstandingly clean records (again, with a little cheating on their part). Because of this, they were fairly disliked by the entire school population except, perhaps, for a select few who could tolerate their strangeness.
To everyone’s surprise, they separated after graduation. Akane joined the infamous ANBU Corps while Akihiko joined the renowned Medical Corps. Akane became a part of the ANBU’s Intelligence squad while Akihiko worked in surgery and at the morgue. Unbeknownst to all but their parents, brother, the ANBU Sennin and the Mizukage (the latter two for their permission), they only chose to do so to be able to receive training from both fields, trading places every so often without anyone else none the wiser.
In between their duties at the hospital and as ANBU, they continued their civilian studies and also took their roles as Tatsuya’s bodyguards very seriously. At the age of thirteen, it was ordained that Akane was to be married to the Isaki clan’s heir to promote unity between the two old and powerful families, much to the sister’s dismay.
They were momentarily withdrawn from active duty to serve their clan and has recently returned to the active roster. Due to their inactivity though, they were removed from the active ANBU roster and had to take a backseat as medic in the Sanatorium.
After the Great Freeze that took over Mist, they joined the rest of their families as nomads of the land, eyes set on traveling to Moon. On the way, they acted as mercenaries, doing the odd job and assassination in order to foster connections and trade.
It was in one of these jobs that Akane and Akihiko disappeared.
They were taken by the SAIJIN Guild a human supremacist group who had once fronted as a mercenary guild. Not much has been uncovered about their goals. Learning of the two’s capabilities and powers, the group believed that the two would help them with the completion or Project 騎手 Kishu. They planned to create an army of the undead in order to wipe the world clean with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at the helms. And, being their creators, only SAIJIN would be able to stop them and act as saviors, heroes and leaders of the future world.
Project Kishu was successful. Utilizing the twin’s innate talents as Dark Sages, they were able to turn three other individuals into vessels of the Horsemen. Before results was attained, however, the two underwent several months of torture and experimentation, eventually forcing that the two be joined in order to survive. Only three of the four Horsemen have been identified thus far: Aka - Death, Shoukyou Aika - Famine and Mizushima Nanami - Pestilence. The identity and whereabouts of War along with the rest of the guild remain unknown ever since their disappearance. Even now, it is difficult to determine who the members and leaders of SAIJIN are due to Project 騎 Ki?, a sleeper agent protocol, and Project 洗脳 Sen'no, a thought reform system.
As Project Kishu was about to enter its final phase, an attack led to the escape of their subjects and the destruction of the false mercenary guild. Shoukyou Aika wound up in Stone, Mizushima Nanami ending up in Sand and with Aka wandering neutral territory with neither mind nor memory.
By chance, they were found by their brother Tatsuya and taken to Moon, left in the care of their mother. Though they showed improvement when it came to their mental state, little was able to be done. Reverting the damage torture and experimentation wrought on the twins seemed impossible. Ironic that their tools of the trade had been used on them. And nothing could hold them back from wandering off into the greater world once they regained enough sense and control to defend themselves.
Akane and Akihiko seek revenge on SAIJIN, though it is Aka who is mostly at the helm.
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