Akiba Tanegashima

Akiba Tanegashima is the eldest son of the Tanegashima Family and part of Team SAAN. He alludes to Oda Nobunaga.

Appearance
Akiba is a 5'6 tall with long brown hair with red higlights and a red right eye and a grey left eye. He has long bangs on front while on the back is flipped-up, with the rest of his hair tied in a ponytail that reaches his lower back by a bandage.

He wears a tight orange and yellow, long sleeved jacket. The jacket has a zipper that runs up the middle and its sleeves are shaped like arrows being pointed into a triangle at the ends. Attached to his shoulders are two four-layered shoulderguards. Attached to both are capes that are fall into an edge at on side.

Around his waist is a large, golden buckled belt. On the back of the belt is a harness for his weapon while running its sides are holsters for his grenades. For pants he wears a ballooning hakama reaching only to his shins thanks to his modified, armored boots.

Personality
Akiba is aloof and distant yet gentlemanly and kind. Despite being blank-faced he still shows as much range of emotion as any other person, just hidden behind his poker-faced expression.

He is very conscious of his muteness and will try to avoid any unneeded interaction with other people. Even if he fails and gets noticed he will try to dismiss himself as as politely as possible. There are certain situations that he is willing to come out of the background for but for the most part is unnoticed by others.

Despite exemplifying anti-social, he does truly cares for his friends with his family being an obvious given. He isn't afraid of showing this to them, and is willing to help them if needed. He also has a deep respect for the faunus, which only strengthened after hearing about their discrimination outside his country. He also has a soft spot for children or orphans.

Towards his two younger sisters he is the most open, which is exemplified by him showing different expressions other than the poker-face to them. Since he was saved by them when he was young, he puts them above all else, especially his youngest sister, Fuyuka.

Akiba is also very respectful and honorable. Due to his uprising in a country that puts these two at high regards he is very conscious of this fact, even towards people he despises. He shows most of this in battle, like waiting for his opponent to get back up or return his/her weapon if disarmed.

He has lived a tragic and painful past, and remnants of this still show like his unwillingness to socialize. Yet despite this he still puts others over himself, and if needed is willing to get himself in harm's way to do so. This state of mind has pushed him to sacrifice things like his love life for the sake of his friend's happiness. Other times he has done things without other's consent, which has caused him fights with his friends as a result.

Akiba is also very intelligent. This is needed since he works as a part-time detective. He is also sharp, both with his words and with his skills. In the job it is expected that he may take another's life to secure the safety of others. He has grown used to this after the experiencing it during his time in his previous school, as well as looking at corpses or seeing someone close to him die. Even with all this he still tries to capture the criminal responsible, and will only kill if left with no other choice.

Background
Akiba was born in a small country between Vale and Mistral called ''Zen. ''The oriental yet technological country is famous for its laws that allow battle and the annual war recreations. He was born in one of the four noble families, the Tanegashima Family, and lived in a large castle-turned-manor alongside other families that serve alongside or under his family.

For most of his early childhood he was distant and unsocial, with only worsened when he started hearing insults towards his family. Now also hostile to almost anyone who approaches him, he spent most of his kindergarden years alone. This attitude though stopped after losing his parents, and was close to losing his own life as well, to a serial killer that invaded the resort his family vacationed in when he was eight years old.

After that not only was he traumatized from losing his parents, but he also gained Anthropophobia, or the fear of people. He began to fear everyone around him, including his own family members expect for his two sisters, Tempera and Fuyuki.

He was soon saved by his two siblings when they tried to have him befriend someone, a few months after the incident, who happens to be the daughter of his family's bodyguards, the Toyotomi Clan. After the constant urging of his two younger sisters he finally accepted her. This soon enough saved him since after this he soon started to open up more to others, of course with the help his two sisters and his new friend.

Another few months after this he started homeschooling, with his grandfather being his teacher. After just a few days of homeschooling though Natsu also began adding things like physical training and such. He used the homeschooling as an excuse to prepare him if he is ever targeted once again. Akiba never knew his grandfather even before losing his parents but he soon realized that it was by his word that made his two sisters help him with his phobia, which is slowly being cured thanks to the interaction with not only his new friend but with the other family's living in his home. Of course, in a tightly-knitted extended and merged family such secrecy was soon to be discovered, and when they did they also began teaching/training Akiba. During this time Akiba gained a hobby of reading books in his manor's library as well as learning mechanical and electronic engineering.

He was able to enroll back into school when he was 11 years old, thanks to the help of the headmaster of the national school in Zen, Sengoku Academy. Although she was mildly weird, she accepted Akiba into her school with open arms.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) for him he didn't go to his new school alone. A week before the start of the school year he was introduced to a young silver-haired girl named Setanta Lily, and her father Cuhullin Lily. It was then he and his grandfather explained that the two will be going to Sengoku together, with Setanta staying in his home for the duration of her stay in said school.

Akiba and Setanta soon enough gained a love-hate relationship with eachother which started just a day after meeting. Although starting off rough they soon enough became best friends after their first year together. They also made some new friends including a lion faunus named Azsfar Amon Al-Debraan and a photographer named Copper Ventuo.

During his second year Akiba helped out his town's local police in a murder case of a fellow classmate. This was when he met the Vale detective, Douglas Moore. He was sent there to help but soon enough became Akiba's mentor in being a detective. Akiba balanced this with part-time jobs, school, and training.

When he was in in last year the experiences he went through coupled with emotional pains and other personal matters have taken their toll on Akiba. But even though his attitude has changed throughout the four years in Sengoku, he was still able to keep most of his personality and ideals. He has protected his connection with his friends and family, albeit now in a more twisted, self-sacrificial manner.

Unfortunately the nightmare that took the lives of his parents returned to finish the job. The killer appeared before him when he was returning home one day, a month before graduation, on his last year in Sengoku. The killer introduced himself as Fleece White, before attacking Akiba, who was defenseless.

Fleece easily defeated him with a quick cutthroat that somehow didn't kill him. He noticed this and pulled a gun out to finish him off but was interrupted by his two close friends, Azsfar and Copper. The two had luckily brought their weapons but were still tired after coming out of a duel earlier. Yet despite this they were able to defeat Fleece at the cost of being injured themselves.

Akiba was sent to the hospital without a moment's notice and survived. He survived thanks to the a miscalculated cut that wasn't deep enough to cut his arteries but did cut open his esophagus. The trauma was enough to make him mute. Fortunately he had a quick recovery, and was healthy enough to be present on graduation day. After that Setanta left the the Tanegashima Manor, then after that so did his two closest friends.

During his break he started special training with his grandfather. Even though he was trained in a combat school he was unable to discover his semblance, so the training he created was to help Akiba discover his semblance. During this his grandfather secretly sent a letter of enrollment to Beacon. It was only after he received a letter of acceptance into Beacon did Akiba discover his grandfather's doing.