*nanako AKIKO, !

[allielouise]

it's too late baby,
there's no turning around.
i've got my hands in my pockets,
and my head in a cloud.

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NAME

• nanako akiko
  
• fumiko.
  
• shizuka.
  
• masami.
  
• hitomi.

AGE

one hundred and twenty » looks to be in her early twenties.

GENDER

female. occasionally known to forget her gender completely, and act male or as though she's isn't actually anything.

SEXUALITY

pansexual; gender blind, likes anything with a pretty face, or who appeals to her » otherwise her preferences differs from personality to personality.

AFFILIATION

kougi » asamoya » more or less wanders around the nation for the most part.

RACE

demon.

OCCUPATION

part time assassin for rich folk and companies with competitors » trust fund kid.

SOCIAL CLASS

comes from a background that she's mostly forgotten » has a contact, however, who claims to be her grandfather; he's from a very wealthy clan and has the absurd notion that he has to take care of akiko and feed her money » akiko herself rarely uses the trust fund set up for her, because she forgets the details needed to access it and always loses information » actual social classification would seemingly be middle class to those who aren't aware of her actual background.

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POSITIVE TRAITS

• intelligent; while she might seemingly be off with the fairies, drunk, childish, victimized or a complete bitch for the most part, she's actually quite an intelligent woman.
• occasionally humane, as uncommon as that sounds for a demon.
• she's a quick thinker; she has to be. she can't retain information long enough to remember an intricately plotted out scheme. so she has to be able to think up a plan that will work as perfectly as a more thoroughly thought out plan, within almost an instant.
• there has always been one good, positive trait that she has thought herself to have. she has a variety of personalities. so she has more of a chance to connect or get along with a person.
• and if that doesn't work, she's damn good at pretending to be someone else.

NEGATIVE TRAITS

• memory; akiko has a terrible memory. she's constantly forgetting bits of information, whether it's little matters or highly important. she doesn't really notice, either. she'll be partaking in a conversation and will, abruptly, change the subject to something complete the opposite or just totally irrelevant from what she was previously talking about. she's learned to write things down - on her hands, arms, a piece of paper if she can keep track of it.
• paranoid; typically when she's 'masami'.
• temperamental and seemingly bipolar; people don't normally realise that she has a mental disorder at first, and simply believe that she's just one of those average nutters.
• inner conflict amongst herself and her personalities; they argue and bicker and yell at each other and scream, all inside one poor, scrawny girl's head.
• she analyzes situations and people and the simplest things too much, out of caution.
• easily able to kill someone without a second thought, should it so prove that the certain someone proves to be a problem to her and her current lifestyle, also if they're a target she has been contracted to kill. she can turn off her conscious as easily as switching off a light.

LIKES

• rainy days with overcast and lots and lots of clouds amongst shades of gray.
• open minded people, willing to accept differences and abnormalities.
• children games.
• secluded places without many people.
• soft, thoughtful music.

DISLIKES

• stepping on gum.
• people who feel sorry for themselves.
• judgment over looks and first impressions.
• loud, rough music.
• churches.

FEARS

• to lose all the memories that she currently has, scarce as they are.
• to die before knowing herself.
• to have to kill a child; for she is perfectly professional and able to ignore her conscious at any needed moment, and if it was a hunter child she would be unable to stop herself and her instincts.

DREAMS/GOALS

• to remember a large, important piece of information for at least a week.
• it's a distant, far-off dream that she's nearly completely forgotten by now, but akiko has always wanted to remember her past. all of it. she has yet to find someone who will willingly help her, however, and the chances that she will are extremely low.
• to have a family dinner.

HABITS

• forgetfulness.
• biting her nails; chewing on the tip of her thumb.
• sometimes she stutters in conversations, or talks to much, or gets a little nervous and forgets what she's saying and stops talking completely mid-sentence. this normally happens when she's 'masami', however. the other personalities don't talk that much, unless it's shizuka, who really just offends most people.
• akiko scowls and frowns and mumbles too much.

HOBBIES

• reading; anything from newspapers, to the back of cereal boxes and actual books. she finds that it helps her develop skills to retain information better. however, though she doesn't realise it, akiko forgets the means that she's learned to remember things not long after teaching them to herself.
• wandering through the nation; finding odd little tidbits from antique shops and markets.
• akiko likes to practice conversations with frogs. no other animals seem to like staying near the demon for so long, except for a few green tree frogs that she comes across here and there. she uses the frogs to talk to, as if they were fellow beings like her. she's a lonely person, and has an intense want to belong somewhere; to be welcomed and asked how her day was, or what she got from the antique shop.

PERSONAL BELONGINGS

• iPhone; despite being a relatively secluded and lonely person, akiko does has a source to keep herself in contact with the few beings she does know and is on good terms with. it's also used for business.
• pending.
• pending.

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TALENTS

• drinking.
• running away.
• playing an acoustic guitar.
• losing things.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

• speed; demons and hunters are all naturally stronger and faster than any normal human being. akiko, however, as honed her speed to the point of being 'as fast as lighting', as some might describe it to be. she utilizes this skill with her extensive knowledge of taijutsu (hand-to-hand combat) and swordsmanship. she's a fearsome opponent in battle because of her speed, and even harder to catch or hunt down.
• swordsmanship; akiko has, even if she can't remember, always been adept with a blade, and has trained in the arts of weaponry since she was very young. over the many, many years of development and experience, akiko has become to be known as somewhat of a 'master'.
• taijutsu; hand-to-hand combat is, like swordsmanship, something that akiko has been learning for over a century now. she has sensitive reflexes and hearing, as well as her speed, and is quick to react. coupled with being cool-headed and professional, akiko utilizes taijutsu and swordsmanship in a very proficient manner.

WEAPONS

• traditional katana; intricately carved and designed, the katana is a well designed weapon that akiko is rarely seen without. see carries it in a soft case on her back, normally. it's a light weight, agile blade despite it's size, and is well suited for akiko's stature.
• knife; much like her katana, akiko is rarely ever without her knife. it too is light weight, and well maintained; always sharp and oiled. she carries it on her person, usually strapped to her belt or hidden amongst her clothing.

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HEALTH/ILLNESS PROBLEMS

• MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER,

"A highly disputed psychological disorder in which a person exhibits two or more disassociated personalities, each functioning as a distinct entity. Also called dissociative disorder."[

Akiko is an enigma, made up of many twists and turns and sharp corners; she’s a dash of this and a dash of that, and yet she a lot missing from herself. She has many personalities, many kinds of different people seemingly all crammed into her head. Some of them are known quite well, and others are underneath the surface, festering into something ugly or another defense mechanism. Whether her multiple personalities are because of a mental disorder, or if she’s just pretending has become thing that no one bothers to question. The few that actually know her realise that Akiko is neither sane nor insane, yet at the same time she is both. While she isn’t mentally stable enough to be described as sane, she is not as far gone from the state of sanity to be properly classified insane. She stands on the border that separates the two, teetering on the edge of a knife, swaying to one side and the other. At times, she is sane, others she is insane. Her personality’s conflict with what is expected of her; they are what separate her from the real world, and what keep her from a twisted place of an obscured mentality. They keep the scales of her mental stability hazardously balanced.

While she herself, the person who actually is Hitomi – the one behind the rest of her personalities, the real person – doesn’t think of herself as someone who is sane, she refuses to view the multiple personalities that she does have as the effects of a mental disorder. For she is not crazy and there are not voices in her head, she is merely a person who pretends to be different people at different times. She chooses to be ignorant of the obvious facts, to be able to give her peace of mind at the relieving thought that she is not completely crazy. Instead of facing up to the reality that she has a mental disorder, she will lie to herself. And she’ll all too readily believe those lies, eating them up to contain the fear; the fear that she has a large enough weakness which could very well be her downfall as much as her savior. So instead of believing that, she views her ‘personalities’ as different personas that she tends to use when certain situations call for them. No matter that the real person inside hasn’t got enough control over the personalities to be able to use that as an excuse.

Her personalities themselves are individual and unique. Should a person meet one of them, they might never suspect that the personality they saw wasn’t actually the true person that they had met. Her personalities draw themselves to be in control according to the circumstances that Hitomi is in; they have a surprising amount of control over her body and mind as a whole, and have been able to be developed to the stage that they might as well be actual people. For each seem to have their soul. Each one has different opinions on matters, different thoughts, and different feelings. While one is quick to kill, another displays mercy at the sight of death. Some are stronger than others, and have more control over who gets to have authority. In all, there are four personalities – other than Hitomi’s herself – that are displayed frequently. Two are the oldest of them all; the earliest ones to be developed once Hitomi’s state of mind reached that point of instability. They are as opposite to each other as the sun and moon, yet in the same way as those two vital things in the world, the personalities have a few similarities. One is the protector, the other is the keeper. The other two dominate personalities, while like the ones before them are the opposites of each other, play important key roles to the balance. One holds the answers to her forgotten past, and the other holds the questions needed for the desired future.

The very first separate personality that developed is known as ‘Akiko’. She is the personality that is fiery and defensive, with a near uncontrollable temper and harshness towards everything around her. While these qualities seemingly just provide a further barrier to recovery from past hurts, they are also what protect the body and mind safe from the horrors of the world around it. She is also known as ‘the Protector’. Because of that, she is the most dominate personality and is therefore given the most control over the body, which is named after Akiko. She is normally the personality in control when the body as a whole is faced with talking to a stranger, or if they are facing a dangerous situation. She is in charge of missions that involve hunting a target for bounty. Her focus is to protect and to eliminate the things that she thinks are a risk to the body. She is violent and unmerciful, sadistic almost. The majority of her anger and hostility when in a crowd is towards men in their late teens to early forties. Her source of hatred to them lies in a key event that happened in the past, something that is never approached by any of the personalities. Towards males of over ages – old men, very young males – she is wary but mainly indifferent. Akiko, over all, is the most prominent personality.

Fumiko, as she called herself, is one of the two dominating personalities – next to Akiko. She is the one who is wisest of them all, but in a tricky, riddling type of way. She speaks cryptically and because of that is viewed to be the ‘craziest’ of all of the personalities. However, in a way she is the most sane and stable of them all. She is like an old woman, gone senile after living a life of adventure that gifted her with the knowledge of a world. But she is also like a child who has a simple, rather innocent version of knowledge; the type that many seek yet no one finds. Fumiko is the one personality that is capable standing up to Akiko’s temper; she is the only one that can keep a leash on her anger and ensure she stays in check. In a way, Fumiko is Akiko’s ‘superior’ and she could very much as directly take the control from Akiko’s grasp and become the most dominate personality. She however prefers her position as ‘the Keeper’. She keeps the body’s mind in check; she is the security in place which keeps the scales of the mind’s mental stability balanced. As the Keeper, it’s her job to ensure that the flow of sanity and insanity are relatively even. Fumiko’s position is the most vital for the mind to survive.

As the desired future, Shizuka represents both what Hitomi could have been and might possibly one day be. Seemingly the sanest out of all personalities, Shizuka is a mixture of patience and silence. It’s rare that she chooses to be in control of the body, as she prefers to reserve herself to the mind. However, when the situation calls for it Shizuka will be a perfectly balanced mixture of both Akiko and Fumiko. She’s wise yet not on the level of Fumiko so that too much knowledge will conflict with decisions. She is capable of protecting the body and the mind at the same time. It is because of these qualities that she has been pinpointed as ‘the Future’. Out of all of the personalities, even Fumiko, Shizuka is the one that is most unaffected by a male’s presence. In control of the body, she might involuntary shiver should the man brush past her, but she feels only indifference toward them. Neither like nor dislike. Her over all ‘people skills’ are the most civil and acceptable in society. However, even though it would seem like she is the best candidate to therefore be the one with most dominate controls in situations concerning people, her indifference is seen as a weakness. One that could lead to a serious threat to the body, and therefore it is rare that Shizuka is ever permitted much control of the body or mind by Akiko when a male is present.

The fourth main personality is also the ‘youngest’ in the sense that she comes off as a child and because she was the latest to become one of the main personalities. Masami, as she is called, is rather the counterpart opposite of Shizuka. She began developing when Akiko suppressed the memories of Hitomi’s past. Over the years, they grew and festered into the shy, timid and rather fragile personality that is Masami. She is the key to Hitomi’s forgotten memories, and her past itself. Because of that, Masami is treated as an enemy and a threat, on the level of a male, by Akiko; for she believes that the past will inevitably ruin the already delicate Hitomi. Reluctantly, Fumiko is forced to always agree with her own counterparts views. And as such, Masami is normally shut away from the mind, and any contact that she might have with Hitomi, or chance to voice anything along the lines of speaking the past. She is kept safe by Shizuka, however, as the two have an unspoken yet understood bond that helps them to survive. Even so, Masami has been forced to learn to stay cautious; rarely ever speaking to Akiko, and avoiding the chances to have control over the body.

The actual person herself – Hitomi – is a seemingly lost individual. She has little next to no control over her multiple personalities these days, and is rarely ever present. It’s as if she dwindles through ever day, fading completely into the background. The few times she is present, or in control of the body, Hitomi seems to be hollow; vacant, as if there isn’t anything left inside of her. To fill the voids, she fabricates pretty little lies about herself. Because of that, she’s earned her own alias as ‘the Pretender’. She’s pretty good at that, at pretending. It’s like second nature to her, a survival instinct. A lie is just as easy as breathing, and just vital. She craves the pleasure of lying about herself, because she believes it all too readily and for a time, she doesn’t feel as if she is merely drifting from one place to another. Lies create memories, a personality, and a soul and over all, they can create a person. She likes to think that one day she satisfied with her lies enough to stop pretending.

Akiko is the most harsh, severe looking of all and can come off as highly intimidating. She scowls a lot, and is known to snarl at times. She talks bluntly and sugarcoats nothing. Even to a stranger or someone harmless, Akiko is normally hostile towards them. Her facial expressions range from a glare, to a less severe glare, to indifference. Her counterpart, and completely opposite ‘fellow personality’ Fumiko is the type to hold an air to her that makes her seem as though she’s off with the fairies. She tends to stare at things for too long, and verbally ponders over her thoughts. These traits make her come off as, bluntly, crazy. While she isn’t severe, Fumiko rarely ever shows kind or happy expressions. She’s simply wistful.

Shizuka is a generally stoic kind of personality who can come off as a drunk. She indeed does delve a little too much into the wonderful world of alcohol, and whenever she’s dominate in the body and mind, she’ll almost certainly always be drinking or had of been. She tends to smell like vodka and looks scruffy and unkempt, as if she’s just rolled out of bed. Her mannerisms are entirely lacking, and she talks to any person as if they were all on the same level. Her manner of speech is also quite lacking in delicacy and grace. Shizuka’s own counterpart, Masami – like Akiko and Fumiko – is also her opposite. Masami is a naïve, child like little girl who believes in anything all too willingly. She’s the most unguarded out of all the dominant personalities, and also the most affectionate and kind. She smiles too much, yet there is always a looming sadness in her eyes. Her behavior and characteristics are indeed that of a child’s, and she tends to speak like one as well.

Hitomi – the real person in the body and mind – is the kind of person that you would think is entirely displaced in the world. She’s socially awkward, inept at conversation and doesn’t handle being in a crowded place well. She fidgets, a lot, and unless she has taken on a lie of a personality, she’s looks obviously fragile; broken, almost. She’s almost too wary of anyone or anything that she comes across, and is ridiculously suspicious. She hates any part of her being exposed to the world, and covers herself with as much clothing as she can when she’s in control.

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ALIAS

allie, :]

HOW DID YOU FIND US?

i came across an advertisement of your's over at naruto dark rising and ON FACEBOOK ;] thought she recognized 'rea' from somewhere so she snooped around through facebook!friends and found her :D <3 hithere

OTHER CHARACTERS

no, i don't. not at the moment, at least. i think i'd like to bring over mika. actually, i probably will. but i'll just try and settle in with akiko/all of her personalities for the time being.

OTHER

have you got an oreo policy on this site?
oh, and it's rather lovely, by the way <3 i instantly loved it after i clicked on it and read over a few things.

FACE CLAIM
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A C C E P T E D !
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