Arashi Akakichi

"“Let me help! I'm more competent than I look!”"

Appearance
Arashi stands at fairly average height and is usually garbed in an clothes that are colored fuschia. He wears quite a lot of miscellaneous hair decs to accent his long hair. He wears a fuschia-colored yukata on his upper body with rose-colored accents, along with sleeves that reach his legs. His sash is also colored a rosy tone. He wears a red armband with his emblem on it. His hakama on his lower body is tucked into the yukata, and he wears shinobi-tabi on his feet for quick movements.

His nightwear consists of a loose-fitting, rose-colored yukata. His swimwear is simply made up of a fuschia-accented black short shorts.

Arashi has very long hair that’s often done up in a ponytail that is held up by chopsticks. His hair is a very vibrant fuschia color and his wide eyes are a very spirited emerald. His complexion is quite fair and clear, and his build is incredibly limber, though it is sometimes touted as feminine.

Arashi’s emblem is a decorative pink bloom bow.

Personality
Arashi can best be described as someone who works very hard to hone his craft and do his work. He’s incredibly respectful and has immensely high ideals. He is easily impressed and often looks up to people who are on a higher skill level than him. However, that’s not to say that he’s one to be serious. Not at all, in fact. He’s quite quirky and doesn’t notice when things aren’t normal. Strangeness seems to come naturally to him. He doesn’t question when things are out of the ordinary, but reacts to them in a mostly enthusiastic and head-on fashion. He’s very lively; in fact, many make out his behavior to be akin to to someone many years his junior.

He’s also incredibly creative and is amazingly good at solving problems that require a mindset aside from the norm. Though he gets chided as someone that’s quite airheaded at times, he is actually very intelligent. He’s also very good at being sneaky and sly. However, his greatest weakness is his propensity for naivete. To expound on that, he is very easily manipulated due to his overly idealistic nature and he is far too trusting of people, which can lead to his downfall.

History
"“Subdued fuschia, new blood; breathing in a whole new world.”"

Arashi was born as part of a very tradition-oriented family in one of the kingdoms outside of Vale. His parents had an arranged marriage. His mother did not love his father at all, which meant that there was always quite a schism within his nominal family. His family life was always divided between his mother, his father, and their respective families. His father was a hunter who attended the prestigious Beacon Academy, and he wished for Arashi to attend combat school. His mother, who loved him dearly, wished for his life to take a non-dangerous route. This is why she schooled him in the arts of sewing, threading, and etiquette. She also gave him much more love than his father ever gave him. However, his father still enrolled him in combat school regardless of his mother’s wishes.

Early on in his attendance of a combat boarding school, he wished for nothing more but to go home. He didn’t really like the place very much and his enthusiasm for combat was nill. He was quite a mother’s boy, after all, taking after his mother in many key aspects. However, while attending combat school, his father was suddenly struck with a severe illness. He returned home just in time to hear his father’s dying words. And that was to attend the same combat school from whence he graduated, Beacon. And so, at his father’s funeral, he dedicated his days to excelling at combat - though he was hardly the best. He eventually found an enthusiasm for the art of combat, though he still retained the traits which his mother instilled in him. He eventually forged his naginata, Gekido.

His mother was quite distressed by his sudden affection for becoming a hunter, but she respected his father enough to allow him to attend Beacon when the time came - though his transcripts were only just enough to attend initiation. With this in mind, he attended Beacon with the wish of becoming a great hunter.

Abilities
Arashi is a medium to close range fighter. However, he usually fights from a distance even at close range. This stems from his use of the spear-like naginata, Gekido, which nears twice his height in length. Befitting the name, the pole of the weapon is decorated with gorgeous criss-crossing patterns that snake up to the blade, as well as a an intricately designed base that at first seems incredibly oversized but serves a very distinct purpose. In combat, Arashi engages from a mostly safe distance, preferring to let the distance between himself and his opponent to be make up the majority of his defensive strategy. As such, lunge attacks and forward thrusts are habits of his offense.

However, he can also engage targets from a distance using Gekido’s secondary mode. The entire front half of the weapon retracts into the base before the base itself shifts forward and reveals a crank on the side and a barrel on the front. This transformers the naginata into a Dust-powered beam cannon, which is why Gekido is a APBN (Accelerated Particle Beam Naginata). The beam cannon is quite destructive, but has an immense cooldown rate, which means that it takes hours before another shot can be fired, and requires a lot of Dust meaning that every single shot is expensive.

Arashi’s Semblance is activated only in the presence of his own blood. If he bleeds when filled with adrenaline, he enters a blood-frenzy state, which increases his speed and his strength by the same magnitude as the amount of blood that he has lost up until the point where he loses too much and can no longer engage in combat.

Misc.

 * He loves the water and everything about it, including seafood.
 * He has a sweet tooth.
 * He loves lollipops.
 * His favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip.

Trivia

 * “Gekido” means rage in Japanese.
 * “Akakichi” means “red luck” in Japanese.