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The Brightest Shadow :: Akarui

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Warning: mature themes such as Suicide, Self Loathing and Racism

Edit;; 2015-07-24. Her application is note up to date once more! Please feel free to note me an rp start if you like. 

new art by: Copperhaven 


General Information

Name: Akarui
Past Names: none
Gender: Female
Age: 4 years / Season Cycles
Orientation: Homosexual
Companion: 

Region Information

Region: North
Rank: Crafter
Guide(s): 
Rookie(s): Aya

Element Information

Element: Fire 
Amount of Ability Stones: 10
Which Spells: (Which spells they possess due to the obtainment of ability stones) 

Safe Flame || Fire || 0/5 || Description - Essential for almost all fire elementals, this ability allows the user to reduce a large flame in size, making it smaller and more controllable.

Warm Heart || Fire || 1/5 || Description - A very useful move that can last for a decent amount of time, Warm Heart can warm up the body of the user, and maybe even surrounding cats if they sit close enough.

Smog Breath || Fire || 2/5 || Description - Usually used to get away, this spell allows the user to breath out smoke through their nostrils and/or mouth to create a foggy screen of smoke. This can also choke the enemy.

Tidal Breath || Fire || 3/5 || Description - Not to be mistaken for a water spell, this spell allows the user to produce a blue flame from their mouth. It uses a decent amount of concentration from the one using it, but can be a spectacular site to see for those who haven’t mastered this move yet or have a different element… unless you’re on the receiving side of it in battle.

Warm Bodies || Fire || 3/5 || Description - Very similar to Warm Heart, but a battle move instead. This allows the user to lightly burn the user’s opponent… internally.

Fire Wall || Fire || 3/5 || Description - A defensive move, when activated, the user creates a wall of fire around themselves, keeping other elementals away. If the enemy is not a fire elemental and tries walking through, it can cause great pain.

Iron Welder ||Fire || 2/5 || Description - A common spell used by Fire Elemental Crafters mostly. This spell involves the user to weld any found metal compounds together by placing a claw onto it. From there that claw will glow a blue color and heat up - sort of like a welding machine.

Reign of Fire || Fire || 5/5 || Description - A sort of fusion between Tidal Breath and Dragon Breath, this move is forbidden for only one cat has ever survived using this spell. It is seen as committing suicide if you try using this spell, and crazy if you even own it!  When casted, this spell allows the user to breath blue flames and create a massive, blue fire bird. It is the strongest of the 5/5 fire spells.

Dragon Breath || Fire || 4/5 || Description - The user creates a small flame which grows into a giant dragon-like bird (commonly known as a phoenix in our world) made of fire. With great concentration, the user can control the fiery creature to fly at and attack the user's opponent.

 Absorb || Any || 5/5 || Description - The user absorbs their opponent's attack, gaining the same amount of energy that was expelled (i.e 1/5 attack, 1 energy point, 5/5 attack 5 energy points) However, a quarter of the damage is still taken.


Physical Appearance

 Like her mother was, Aka small in frame, though she doesn't seem to have her mothers relatively stalky build. In stead, it seems she inherited a lot of her fathers body traits, large pointy ears, long thin tail, and some how missed out on her fathers large size.
 How ever, anyone looking at her, see's that of her mother in her. With the same striking heather colored eyes, rusty coloring, and freckles aplenty Aka is often told how much she looks like her mother.
Of course, she knows the differences between her and her mother more than anybody. Her freckles are not only on her rump, but on her cheeks as well (causing her some embarrassment- as she finds them less than appealing) As well, she is a touch darker than her mother, having less white on her pelt. It only just touched on her muzzle and chest, but is on a full, though small, display on her stomach and on the underside of her tail, and the toes on her paws. Her actual fur, although soft, is short making for trouble on the colder days when there isn't a warm body or fire to curl around but on it does mean that on the hottest days she never overheats. 
How ever, she is kind of glad, despite everything, that she inherited her mother's beautiful faded tabby stripes on her legs, something she finds beautiful on her mother. (Though her's are not as striking as her mother.) 


Stats

(Each out of 10)

Strength 3/10
Speed 7/10
Attack 4/10
Tactics 5/10
Stamina 7/10
Defense 6/10


Personality

:bulletgreen: = Positive Trait :bulleteehitw: = neutral trait :bulletred: = negative trait

 :bulletgreen: [ Sweet & Kind ] : Aka loves to make cats smile, even now after everything that has happened. She will always do whatever she thinks best to make that happen. From a flower to say she's thinking of you, to lending a listening ear, Aka is loves the bubbly happily feeling in her stomach when she makes someone smile. She has a strong belief that if she could only do one kind thing a day, at least, then perhaps she could make the cats,all of them, from every region, happier all on her own and without having to be a leader or anything. So she will always, always try and do the kinder thing, even if it hurts her or someone else more in the beginning. She always tends to put herself towards those who look like they need a friend, or to those who seem to be struggling with something. She will always have a compliment at the tip of her tounge if the listener can take it, and the compliments are always genuine. Even if a cat is hard to deal with, she finds something wonderful and special about them and just praises that.

:bulletgreen: [ Loyal ] : Aka is a good friend to have, being that once you gain her acceptance which is way easy to do, she will never turn her back on you. She will stick with anyone to the end, and refuses to be anything she considers even close to disloyal. She is loyal first and foremost to her ancestors, then the region she belongs to, then her family, friends and loved ones. She would never abandon a friend in need, or back out when her region needs her no matter how scared or hurt she is in the moment. To her, loyalty means a lot. In fact, she considers her day unmentionable and almost worthless unless she knows she has done well by those she is loyal to. This makes her a hard worker, a passionate teacher, and anything she needs to be to have whomever she is trying to do well by pleased with her. 

:bulletwhite: [ Friendly ] : Akarui use to be friendly, and so part of her still desires to be. Despite being Anti-social (read below for more info) she still wishes to give in and be her friendly self. Akarui use to give everyone and anyone a fair chance to be friends with her, and she would go out of her way to do the meet and greet to cats she hadn't met, especially if they looked interesting. She desperately still wants to, she just couldn't bear it if her meeting of them ruined their day... So despite wanting to she usually doesn't. However, she still never judges on appearance or if they look like 'trouble'. She just 'knows' (in that way she'll argue) that ALL cats are good cats until proven otherwise... and even then they are rude, mean or whatever she thinks they are probably just hurting or misguided or something. After all, she is pretty much the perfect example of that isn't she? If a new comer enters her region she will always try and be the first beaming smile they see, even if the smile comes out not as beaming as it use to and she no longer has the self esteem to go and greet them. 
Update//:: She is still shy, and this is even worse on her bad days, but with every sun rise she is getting better at reaching out to those within her region. She still avoids those outside her region.

Note:: this trait applies less to those with dark powers, whom she dislikes, and thus judges.


:bulletwhite: [ Passionate ] : Alright, alright, as kind and warm hearted as she is she has high emotional tendencies. This is, for her, mostly in regards to her passions. When she strongly believes in something (whether that be the fact that a cat should Always tell the truth (her biggest one), that one must remain loyal to the tribes and spirits or even something as simple as how the best way is to catch prey) she believes in it with a passion. She would argue to the ends of her life, even knowing she had already lost the argument. So long as it is something she is truly passionate about she will even, when it comes to these things, play dirty by getting snippy or bringing in little snide comments about the character in question that she is arguing with. She will stop an no ends to prove her passions right and make it so everyone agrees with her, and if those around her do, well then she couldn't be more content. It makes her work hard to prove herself and her beleifs, but can also make her really annoying or at it's worst downright mean and rude.

:bulletwhite:  [Emotional] Akarui tends to let her emotions overwhelm her.... It's probably how she got where she is today but at least now she recognized this as a part of her. It means when she's upset she is really upset, and when she's angry she's down right pissed off. However, catch her on a good day, and see how bright and cheerful she is. Of course, this tends to be a trait she considers more negative, because at the moment the good days aren't adding up to the bad ones, and even on her good days, she can tend to be clingy over those she considers friends, annoying with exuberance, and she still gets flashes of jealousy and or envy that can consume her if she isn't careful. 

:new: :bulletred: [ Depressed ] With the loss of her kits Akarui has become sullen once more. This makes her avoid social circumstances where she thinks she will be judged, veen if she is still the friendly cat she once was and desires for friendly contact she just seems unable to stand other cats and their expressions of sorrow and pity, she has far to much of her won sorry and guilt to have to try and deal with the emotions other cats feel because of her. She isn't more moody because of this, but more like a constant shade of grey, losing some of her fiery spirit. She is still passionate, ferociously devoting herself to being the best crafter the regions have ever seen and she is passionate about that, but finds little happiness in other things. 







Brief History

| Prologue |

 Two cats had a spit fire relationship, once upon a time. They where hot and cold in their love for one another but regardless of it they loved or hated each other at any given moment, they where always extremely passionate. Pretty much all the regions new of them and both marveled and laughed at the couple, when they where one. It was definitely not that sort of love a kit dreams about for sure, but it worked for them. Both strong willed and well respected, the west region could always rejoiced when they where getting along and cringed when they where not.

To surprise everyone, the hardworking female that was to be Aka's mother, did end up getting pregnant. It was a healthy pregnancy with no complications, to no one's surprise and in the end four kits where born to her. Aka was the second youngest, along with two older sisters and a younger brother. 


| Kit Life |

 Kit life was a happy time for Aka, one she still remembers will warmth in her heart. If she could go back to that time, she would in a heart beat. Everything was easy back then. Her siblings adn her played well with one another and the other litter that was born a few days before them. They where never bored and had themselves a grand ole time. They got in to trouble a few times, as to be expected from two parents who where known for rebelling when the need arouse to them, but no harm ever came from it and as kits they where quick to apologize and do what was needed to make amends. 

 At the end of their lives as kits was when their father left unexpectedly. Well, unexpectedly to them. Their parents had been going through an "off" time and fighting constantly and in the end their father decided that he would rather take on the easy life without them. Looking back, Aka though she should have reacted differently, but as a kit she never did end up missing the presence of her father all to much. She was always a mother's girl and always had been, and even then part of her just assumed that whatever it was, was normal. 

| Crafting a Life for Me |

 As soon as she found her element and began training under the caring eyes of her mentor she soon began to grow in both ability and maturity. Receiving her first ability stone as she crafted her first metal work piece by braiding two metal wires together into a bracelet. Her mentor through all this was like a second mother to her and Aka loved her more than anything. She was always happy to wake up at the crack of dawn and begin her days, earning her second ability stone when she made a tiny but detailed earing upon request and her third ability stone shortly after for a collaboration project she did with someone of the water ability. This was where mostly spent in the glow of her own fire as she honed in on her skill. She wanted to be someone that could make such crafts as to please anyone and everyone around her. She found pride in her work as well as fulfillment that she was doing exactly what she was meant to.

 She began to explore more as well, meeting more of the cats within her own region as well as even a few cats from other regions. She made friends, mostly, but during this time found that she was slowly growing a fear of those with dark powers. It had started as stories you tell a kit, where easily a dark powered cat can be the one to play the bad cat... but it was festering somewhere deep within her heart. 

 That was, until she met Drew. Drew, who was everything she wanted to be. Like her older sisters, she was confident and didn't take anything from anyone- unless she wanted it in which case there was no stopping her. Drew was beautiful, and the more time they spent together the more Akarui realized that she didn't feel the same way for Drew as she felt for the other close friends in her life. She, she was falling in love. At first, the idea scared her, but the idea of being with Drew didn't. She wondered what others would say, and most importantly, what Drew would say.

 When she confessed, her feelings where returned in kind and for some moons life was blissful. She went about her days unaware of the darkness her mother was having trouble keeping under control, and spent her nights madly in love within Drew's arms. She knew she wasn't perfect for Drew, she was insecure and felt lost without her beautiful dark powered lover. This made her clingy, and she knew she should stop but somehow never managed to. She told herself it didn't matter.

The day after she confessed, she was so ecstatic she used her new found courage to show her mentor a private project she had been working on. Pulling out a full set of amour she earned her fourth ability stone.

 And for some time, it really didn't. Life was seamlessly perfect.

 That is, until everything fell Apart.

| The Downfall |

 Her mother committed suicide. They where just walking, her, Aka and on of her sisters. By this time her brother had long since gone to another region, and one of her older sisters as well. Paws in step her mother just gave up, put her claws to her throat, and pressed until she bled out before them.

 She just, died.

 Just like that.

 Aka couldn't find her breath from then on. She felt her emotions become a whirlwind she couldn't control and she as well as everyone around her knew she was falling apart and fast. The cat that had mentored her once upon reached out, but Aka could no longer reach back and take hold of anything that would save her from this grief. It was slowly consuming her. It was like all the little grip on her security had fallen out from beneath her and as that ground gave way the rest of her life caved in around her and she had no control. She just watched.

 She needed Drew. 

 Running to their meeting place that night her urgency was practically tangible. Her desire unquenchable. She needed to be told that she, and everything else in her life, was going to be ok. But most of all, she needed to get away. She didn't care what others thought anymore, didn't care about her loyalty, she just needed to be free. She wanted to feel safe and wanted again, and knew she could only achieve that through the constant affection of her lover. She would leave tonight, she would never turn back, she would go to Drew's region and live there. Then, maybe, she could breathe just once. 

 As soon as she laid eyes on her lovers expression though her blood run cold and it became apparent that her one chance was not going to happen. Her one hope, sliding through her paws like water. 

 She listened as the love of her life spoke, but it was so far away in the grief of her own mind that she barely heard. She only just grabbed hold to the meaning. Drew was braking it off with her. Drew had fallen in love with a tom cat of all cats. A tom cat from Aka's region. The very idea broke Aka's heart beyond repair. How she longed to give Drew everything the love of her life apparently longed for in a tom... but no dream was going to make her a male.

 She knew she'd never see Drew again, and life grew darker still. She became emotional, bitter and looking for a fight. She got it, in the paws of a dark powered cat from the south region. It was like something finally snapped in her. She just, lost it. She started spreading rumors that the dark powered cats where gaining up, with the plans to take over all the regions as the best power of all.

 One day, one of the few friends she managed to somehow still have through out all this, a tom that was so desperately in love with her that her disregard for such things like love didn't bother him, didn't show up and meet her where he was suppose to. She waited, one moment, two, three. Her mind started to weave in horror stories and whisper the dark tales of what probably happened- and what she needed to do to get him back.

 She believed those whispers of her own damaged mind.

 She waltzed in to the region her lover had come form. She waltzed in and came upon the two dark powered cats almost instantly and attacked. Mind you, not being a warrior nor a cat ever good at strength, she was quickly apprehended and taken to the region so they could hold a trial. She could have begged for her life, could have pleaded they have mercy, that she hated what she had done as much as she hated herself but the grief had long since consumed her and she didn't know how to safe herself anymore.

 She could have.

 Instead she spat on the leader and said that if he was to much of a blind coward to see the evil he was allowing then she'd deal with it herself.

 Who's claws extended first, she didn't know and never would. Was it the leaders or one of his regions members? All the know was no faster then she could blink she felt the claws ripping through her throat.

 She fell to the ground, coughing blood, and soon the world went black.

| Going up from Nowhere |

 Light started to pierce the darkness. It hurt, this light, and Aka closed her eyes tighter and let out a groan that came out more as a gargle, making her cough up some flem in her throat. Wasn't whatever came after death suppose to be painless? Wasn't she allowed to be free of all her demons? 

 Opening her eyes she saw Drew, who's concerned expression slowly came into focus along with everything else around her.

 "what happened?"

 Drew, strong confident Drew, began to cry.

 "They practically killed you. They left you for dead do I, I brought you back here to your region and had you saved from death. You should have been dead Aka, you were in a coma for a moon and I couldn't even be sure you were breathing the whole time."

 "Why?" 

 The face of a lover she once gave her heart to looked at her with surprise.

 "Because nothing I do now can make up for what I did then."

 
----------- time SKIIIPPPPP

 It took moons and moons for her to heal, both physically and emotionally but somehow, Aka managed to. When she began to train once more as a crafter she earned her fifth ability stone. Maybe it was only from the pits of oblivion she could see some sort of reason to keep breathing. She slowly gained back the ability to love herself, but even now it's a little hard and there are days that are better than others. She focuses her whole heart into crafting items instead of relationships, and as she managed to find footing in her own life, her sister died in child birth.

 This time, she allowed herself to feel the grief, but then gave herself permission to move on. Life did always do just that anyway, and she had to move with it or else she'd end up where she had been once before, in the dark whole that one gives themselves to when they fight what is the very essence of life itself.

 She's not the friendly, happy cat she once was, but she's trying.

 She's not the most skilled cat at crafting, but she works hard. She earned her sixth ability stone in a final project she gave to her mentor as a gift, a thank you for everything.

 Even today, she doesn't pretend to have great wisdom or strength from what she has gone through.... but she's alive, and for today she thinks that is all that matters.


| Few Moons Later |

 Akarui has been awake, alive for a while now. She's slowly growing more confident, and has less bad days. She doesn't think they will ever go away completely, but they are more managable. This has been especially so since gaining Glen as a true friend. A healer well known with Aka's case her cheerful attitude and ability to look at her as more than what she has done or her medical miracle, Akarui really trusts and respects Glen. Through this friendship, Akarui has been able to cheer up adn grow a little stronger within herself.

 But Glen isn't the only one she's met. She's gone out of her comfort zone and made friends with a few cats. It was one of those friends that Akarui really wanted to craft an owl feather item for, and instead she ended up crashing through the tree's. SHe now is in the healers den (once more) for a few suns. Her leg has torn muscle, her shoulder and face have deep cuts, but she is healing well and taking it one day at a time. It looks badass now, but it seems Glen, and so her as well, are confident it won't leave scars for the rest of her life.


| Everything is Irony | 

 The world is weird. To say that it loves irony would never encompass it's passionate embrace with the horrid thing. In North region, everything is falling apart. Weather is turning in to snowstorms in the middle of summer and it seems like it's never going to get better. A lot of cats think it's because the spirits hate us, and I can't say I disagree. it's to weird, right? We must have done something. Akarui though out this has dropped her crafting and instead went into healing the cold, sick, frostbitten notheners when the healers became overwhelmed. Six moons of cold is enough to come close to killing a region, but now?  

 And yet, Akarui has never felt better. She doesn't know if she should feel guilty ro not, but as most cats struggle with this snowstorm and life seems almost unbearable Akarui is finding she is happy for the first time she can remember since her kithood.

 She is in love, weather or not Dolorosa feels the same way. It doesn't matter to her, since having close friends and cats she knows she can turn to is more than enough. She could never deserve what she has been gifted in this life, so she feels content. The spirits, while throwing shame on the regions, have certainly blessed her. Will she confess her feelings ever? Possibly not to anyone else but Glen, whose own love life is a nice comfort to Akarui. Things can get better through this, they have to. If this blizzard ever ends Akarui is under the impression that at the very least North Region will be looking to some bright days. 


| Impending Parenthood | 

 As the snows kept everyone in close. Dolorosa and Akarui spoke of what it would be to have a family. Finally they have decided to take the leap, and with Iorek's brother's help, Akarui finds herself pregnant and blissfully exciting as the kits arrival draws ever closer. 


:new: |Tragedy Surrounds Me |

 Her kits died in flower field before even taking their first breath. Akarui struggles not to blame herself for having a body that was unfit to carry them into this world when she was suppose to be keeping them safe. She is defeated, pulling herself away from everyone and everything that once brought her joy. She was an emotional wreck, either sobbing or lifeless for many days afterwords. 

 Her friend, Glenda, finally approached her and the two talked, and things started to heal once more. It's slow going, but Akarui has decided it's ok to feel how she does so long as she uses it to craft the most amazing things in the world, something that would have her be known for generations now that she wont be able to pass on her genes to generations. 
 


Relationships

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Any Extra Information


-- Since becoming a crafter, she's found herself quite the hummer as she works.

-- She ADORES flowers, so she idolizes cats blessed with the earth power, or any of it's secondary powers. (usually you can find her shielding a flower from another cats power. . . )

-- She was a mother's girl, and is more hurt over her mothers death than her fathers abandonment. (typical toms she thinks)

-- Her older sister was her idol. Strong, confident and badass Akarui longs to be that way, especially now that her sister is gone. 

-- Prefers she cats. 

-- Is a morning cat, but loves to watch the sunset when it's at the blue and purple hues

-- Favorite colour is amber

- Talents is metal Weaving and Piercings

:new:
- Hates the flower fields, where her kits died. Instead she's out hanging around the more mountainous area's now -that is- if she ever leaves the crafters den




RolePlay Sample

 --- From when she was in :iconthe-golden-butterfly:

Akarui shifted in her sleep, perhaps almost knowing somewhere in her deep slumber that Palette had left the den. Slowly waking, she was surprised to find the last bits of the sunrise filtering in. It was something she rarely saw, being one who worked hard all day then didn't wake till it was actually morning. 

Lifting her head slightly, her lavender eyes blinking, she noticed Palette's empty nest before anything else. She wiped her face with a well licked paw, trying to get the sleep out. It was more chilly than it had been the past few days, but in Fire Tribe Akarui knew that didn't mean much. It was still hot. She wondered vaguely about the other tribes. Would Air and Water Tribe be already getting the starts of autumn? 

Stretching luxuriously, she yawned off the last of her sleepiness, wanting to be ready for whatever it was Palette was going to teach her. Though, when she had been first made an apprentice, she could think of nothing but becoming a full smith, Akarui now didn't even put the colder weather together with the fact that it would mean she would soon no longer be under Palettes wise wing. It was a good thing though, for if she had known, she probably would have been far to emotional to be worthwhile. She loved Palette like a second mother, perhaps more because not only did she consider Palette a mother figure... but a best friend. Palette was not someone who immediately got that respect and awe that came from being the silver fire, she was friendly and open and could be seen as having faults. Her mother, if she had faults, was both a terrific mother and a terrific leader, making it a little intimidating to try and form a bond of anything more.

She padded, unknowingly, out of the den to quickly recognize the faint outline of Palette deep in the smiths den. She was probably already planning out the days lesson and it couldn't help but make Akarui smile. Especially since she had confessed about her innocent crush, and then how it crushed her, with the green air tom the two had been closer than ever. After all, if it wasn't for Palettes gentle wisdom Akarui might have been much slower in the realization that, thankfully, what she had felt was not love. An idolization of the first tom to charm her, something she'd be less naive about the next time it happened.

"Hey." She meowed quietly, even if rarely any cats got up this early, and even less went right to work. Palette was practically alone in the forge, and as Akarui got closer she could see that Palette was looking at her personal store. After all, each blacksmith got a designated area to keep treasures and such. Akarui was personally hoping to acquire some from her best friend in the water tribes. Then she could craft something especially pretty, beyond a piercing which seemed to be the pink fire's specialty.
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