Izusa Shihong Akatsuki

""Learning is a gift, even if pain is your teacher.""

- Izusa Shihong Akatsuki

Appearance
At the current age of 17 years old, Izusa stands at 182 cm tall, which is quite tall for a girl from her region. Izusa suffers from Archromia (Albinism), which grants her a very pale white skin and snow white hair. She has a collection of freckles on both sides of her cheeks. Her eyebrows just like most hair on her body is also snow white in color. Izusa's eyes however have different shades of red, with her right eye being slightly brighter than her left. This is due a disability many Albinists share, Amblyopia; decreased acuity in one or both eyes due poor transmission to the brain. In turn Izusa's left eye started to block out light by darkening as years pass, now she sees a red haze in that eye, but later she'll be unable to see anything with it. Izusa also has many scars on both her arms and legs, but these are hidden from sight.

Izusa usually wears a orange scarf, which harbors a shortened rosary at the bottom. She also wears a orange sash strapped to her hips. With that comes a sleeveless white and orange vest with a zipper in the middle of it. She wears scarlet bandages which are colored crimson with a special paint mixture. Along with that comes the clean bandages she wears on her legs as stockings. Tipping it off with crimson boots adorned with a white line design and a simple orange skirt that is cut open at the right side, allowing easier movement.

Personality
Izusa is a dreamy person, who much nature is much oriented towards phenomena such as nostalgia towards her past friends, family and way of life. Even so her instincts to protect herself form the outer world are highly developed. She tends to experience her life through her feelings rather than logic or her senses. She has a rich and vivid persona, showing unlimited imagination and creativity. Due to the events that occured earlier on in her life she tends to hold security and safety on a far higher level, which in turn limits both her potential and creativity. It a personal rule for her to avoid most, if not, all risks as much as possible. She shows her true face only to people she fully trusts. In order to live her days to her fullest she tends to think deeply back to the fun times in the past, since nostalgia is deeply etched into her heart.

Izusa is a emotional person, who longs for a peaceful life. She also a imaginative person who is protective of those who she calls her friends and often generous to those said friends. She holds faith and belief in god in a fairly high place, shown by the fact she wears a rosary near her at all times, but she doesn't consider herself to be religious. It's a way for her to relieve her vulnerability. As she often questions god why she has her disease, and what the point is to living on in that way. If the situation calls for it she will plant herself firmly in grave danger if it means she can protect her closest of loved ones.

She enjoys drawing a lot and specializes in Calligraphy and is deeply fascinated by Runes as her father is orthodox runic artist. She takes great pleasure our of martial arts, and she's always eager to improve her skills in Bajiquan. She however hates to travel to the city of Vale as the buildings pollute her vision on the horizon.

Flaws
But Izusa also has her fair share of flaws. She's indolent and lazy when it comes to working hard for longer periods of time. Thanks to her colorful nostalgic feelings she has a somewhat unrealistic view on the world, that all people somewhere are good in their hearts and that their evil actions is always with good reason and intention. She's also very evasive and inaccessible to strangers and people she hasn't met due to her insecurities about her disease and scars. She is also dependent and wall flower, tending to stay indoors to avoid both hard work and social interactions. She often uses her disease as excuse to stay inside.

Weapons
Izusa is adept in the use of the DDBG (Dust-Driven Bladed Gauntlets). The weapon is able to transform in two forms.
 * Bladed form
 * Gautlet form

Quotes
- Izusa, defending her taste of combat fashion. - Izusa, defining life. - Izusa, using her Incantation Aria to regain her calmness and readies her body for her semblance. - Izusa, revealing the core of her flawed view on people. - Izusa, Talking about her Dream.
 * Whoa! Hey! Don't you ridicule my combat skirt.
 * Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
 * Mingled of strength and mighty fame; Charms it holds and healing signs, spells full good, and gladness-runes, of runes heard I words, and Runes the sword-cut, Runes shalt thou find and fateful signs, So do I write and color the runes in my humble blood. Sigrdrífumál!
 * I have an unhealthy fixation on Nostalgia.
 * You know, I've always wanted to become a hero, who protect anyone without discrimination.

Arian Grane Zilar III
Izusa can sense that Arian is closing himself off from rest of the team, she relates to that a lot because she does this herself as well. She often tries to bond with him whenever hey are alone. Sadly, he shows no motivation to do so. She pities him since a lot must he happened to him in order to have such a low standard on people, and to have such an negative view on life itself.

Trivia

 * Izusa is a avid fan of martial art movies. She tends to marathon them in the weekends.
 * Izusa's name literally means 'The White stone on the The Red World with The Red Moon'.
 * Izusa is alluded to the Valkyrie Brynhildr of the Norse Mythology also known as Siegdrifa in the Poem of Sigrdrífumál.
 * Izusa has written down all the runes she has knowledge of on the inside of her crimson bandages as reference material.
 * Izusa is prone to fainting if she stands in the sun for too long.