Akane Takanashi [APPROVED, 5-5]

Name: Akane Takanashi
True Age: 20
Appearance Age: 20
Gender: Female
Height: 5'7
Weight: 120

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Personality: Over time Akane has taken on the personality of a Mother because of her desire to raise her sister in the manner that a Mother should raise a daughter. That is the first and most important thing in Akane's life, raising her little sister right. When it comes to her little sister and even other children, she's like a mother should be. She is strict, but fair. She is playful and loving, but teaches the life lessons that need to be learned. Still, she takes into account that she is Rikka's older sister, not her mother. Rikka still needs that person to talk to and confide in, so she makes sure that she knows when it's time to be motherly over being sisterly. Though at times it can be hard to switch back and forth between the two because instinct can just take over. She's naturally a very protective and possessive person. She has this "If I can't completely call you mine in the manner I want, then I don't want you at all" attitude. This explains quite easily how she was able to just drop her parents the way she did when Rikka was born. If she couldn't have all of their attention, she wanted none of it. And when they tried to give it to her, she got angry and pushed them away to take care of Rikka over her. It's a stubborn and slightly selfish quality of Akane's, but it rarely gets in her way. Most of this is able to move into how Akane treats other people as well. She is a kind person at heart and has other peoples well being in mind, but she has a streak of being a little selfish with them as well. For an example, she has a problem with men. She seems to attract all kinds of them, but her possessive nature has a tendency to push them away. She wants to cook for them, clean for them, show them that she cares, and give all of her attention to them. The problem comes when she doesn't know where to draw the line between being a good friend/girlfriend and being overbearing, obsessive, and actually invading privacy. She doesn't mean to do this to someone. It just happens. Feeling neglected by her parents when she was young, she feels it is her duty to put in 150% effort to making someone she cares about happy. The only person this really changes with is Rikka and that is because the more "motherly" instinct kicks in with her sister.

Character Background: Akane was an only child for ten years and then her parents came up with this marvelous idea to have another child. Akane, being a spoiled brat at the time, was not happy with the idea of being replaced by some whining, crying, smelly baby, and the moment her sister was born nothing changed. She still felt as if she were being replaced and began rebelling against her parents. Any time she was asked to do anything, she'd ignore them. If they needed help, she'd stand there and watch. A repeatedly used line from Akane became, "You wanted another, now you've got her. Don't try to put your choices on me." It took a while, but after her little sister turned two, her parents finally realized why Akane was so harsh and uncaring towards them. Though most thought her a selfish brat the entire first two years of her sisters life, she was emotionally neglected. Her parents did not seem to have the ability to juggle two children and Akane had every right to resent them for it. They assumed that because she wasn't five years old or younger that she didn't need to have her parents there for her. She did, and once they realized this they felt absolutely horrible and began trying to beg for her forgiveness. The problem was, the moment their attention dropped back onto Akane, her baby sister began being neglected and ignored by them. They became so concentrated on trying to get Akane to forgive them that they were forgetting about their baby. Akane angrily and quite loudly screamed at them for how stupid they were. If they had no ability to take care of another child, they should not have had another in the first place! A baby isn't something you have on a fucking whim or because you think they're cute! You have to be prepared to take care of them in every way possible, and not give up the rest of your life to do so! It wasn't long after that when something quite big happened in Akane's life. Just before her thirteenth birthday, her family was visited by an elderly woman she had never met, her grandmother.

"Akane is turning thirteen years in age now and needs to take on the responsibilities of the shrine. By tradition of the family, she is to return to the shrine for training. She will be well taken care of, and since I've heard of your struggles with her and your second child, it'll make it easier on everyone if she were to return with me." The news hit and hit hard. Akane was never warned about this. Once again, because her parents were one track minded in every sense of the phrase, they had forgotten to inform her of this transition when she turned eleven. Out of spite for her parents and the protection of her baby sister, she went with her grandmother. Upon arrival she was given a beautiful room, catered to by a single maid and butler. The estate was quite large in height and covered a small piece of land in the near the edge of the Karakura Forest just a bit passed the city. The day of her thirteenth birthday Akane was immediately told to begin her training, which she surprisingly did not mind. Every day from dawn til dusk she was forced to train her mind, body, and spirit. They soon found that she had little to no connection to the spirit world, which was odd for someone of their family at her age. Their family was known to connect rather strongly to the spirit world by the time they were eleven years of age, so they would always begin training at thirteen! This was very odd, though her grandmother came to the conclusion that the emotional neglect that her parents caused and her resentment of them was the reason that her powers were locked up. They would not stop training in the non-spiritual ways and continue on her training once she was able to let go of her resentment and receive the great power that she was meant for. Five years passed and not once did she ever leave to visit her family. The most contact she had with them was a few calls here and there along with the writing of small letters back and forth. She kept to update on her little sister, but there wasn't much for her to talk about when it came to her family.

One day Akane received a call from a man claiming to be her parents lawyer. She was informed of a tragic accident that took the lives her both her mother and father. After that bit of information, she was given another. Her little sister had no where else to go and she was next in line to take care of her the moment she turned eighteen. Though she accepted the responsibility, she was not sure whether she was the one right to take care of her sister. The next morning she was introduced to her sister who remembered very little to nothing about her, excluding anything their parents might have told her about Akane. For Akane, everything was awkward. She looked at this little eight year old girl in front of her and was completely unsure of who she was. Sure, they were related, but it's hard to be able to connect with someone that you had practically walked out on when they were three. And at that, Akane avoided her when they lived in the same house, so how was this going to go? It was then that Akane's heart sank. That innocent little eight year old girl began to cry and ran at her. Her little sister threw her arms around Akane's waist and cried into her shirt. She was stuck for a moment, but soon loosened up and kneeled down to hug her little sister back. She herself was not able to cry, but she couldn't help but feel horrible about what her sister had just gone through. She picked up her sister and carried her to her room. "Rikka..." she whispered as her sister cried, "I'm so sorry." From that day forward, Akane was determined to take care of and protect her little sister to the best of her ability. Because she needed to take care of her sister, things had to change. For instance, she needed a job and to find a place that was not some old shrine that her sister can live. She wanted to give Rikka a good, normal life and living on a shrine to train was not going to be a part of that. Rikka needed to be a kid while she could, so Akane began job hunting. She found a job as a waitress and began taking a cooking class the moment she started working. It wasn't long after that when Akane received a certificate and became a cook for a restaurant in the area. She had a natural talent for cooking and people began noticing it, so she soon was promoted to head chef and now makes enough money to take care of Rikka without problems at all. Mission Successful... For the moment!


Natural Abilities:

Besides the insanely talented ability to cook large and delicious gourmet meals in short amounts of time, there is only one ability that can really be named. After training at the shrine she became advanced in Taekwondo and Jujitsu. She seemed to have a natural talent for Taekwondo and advanced quite quickly, which is why they moved on to Jujitsu when they did. Her grandmother assumed that her resentment towards her parents allowed her to take out all of her aggression in her training, which is why her strikes all had a fierce strength behind them that someone of her stature would usually not be able to pull off. If her training had not stopped short, she likely would have mastered both of these martial art styles by this time, but things happen! Like having to take care of your younger sister because no one else is around.

Can See Spirits: Yes

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Tier: 5-5

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