Name: Akemi Tuazon Faceclaim: Manny Jacinto Age: 335 Sexual Orientation: Pansexual Species: Human/Hunter/Witch Coven: Feng-Lindon Power: Metal Occupation: Traveling Blacksmith Hometown: Beijing, China Sexual Orientation: Unknown Relationship Status: Single Personality Traits: Obsessive, Tactical, Silent, Cordial, Observant
BIOGRAPHY
TRIGGER WARNINGS: MURDER
Being an only child posed several problems for Akemi. One, he never had anyone around his age to play with him. And two, his parents rarely gave him attention. He knew, by the age of three, that his parents didn't have him out of actually wanting him. They'd had him out of obligation. Two people get married and then they are expected, by their families, to have children. His parents barely paid him any mind, often voicing their concerns with his "bad" behaviors and punishing him for them. Sometimes, he had no idea what he did wrong. Even talking tended to set them off. So at the age of five, Akemi controlled the one thing that he knew how: his voice.
Quietness settled into the Tauzon household and with it brought calmness. Peace. A time when his parents left him alone, hiring a teacher once he was old enough to start his lessons in the home. Misbehaved children are not allowed to attend school. Akemi was continuously mute throughout the lessons, only giving nods or shakes of his head when he was being taught. It was then when his teacher chose to help him learn how to speak without using his tongue or his voice.
Sign language became his comfort. He soaked up everything that he could about it, using it in every aspect of his life. It allowed him freedom to express his thoughts and how he felt, even though no one could understand what he was saying. As a teenager, he could smile at his parents and tell them off with his hands at the same time. They were none the wiser.
When he left home at the age of eighteen, he chose a trade that he found interesting: a blacksmith. He felt drawn to the metal like nothing he'd ever experienced before. It was as if it was calling to him, begging him to work with it. To touch it and mold it. Akemi had no idea that it was magic that he was actually using until Tetsuya came along.
Tetsuya was like a God that came down from Heaven, specifically for Akemi. The man showed him the attention that he'd never quite had before. Tetsuya saw something in him, thought Akemi was special, and Akemi latched onto it with everything he had.
For ten years, Tetsuya kept Akemi under him as his apprentice. He showed him everything he needed to know about his talents, about the world of magic that Akemi hadn't been privy to before. The younger man was so infatuated and entranced by everything he was learning, everything he was accomplishing, that he hadn't even thought of the potential dangers that came with this form of power.
Towards the end of his apprenticeship, Tetsuya showed Akemi a technique has been etched into his mind, and his body, until this day. A power that he feels no one should have, but whoever had placed them on this earth. Tetsuya carved into Akemi's own skin, placing a rune against his throat that allows him to drain life from dying witches and take that life as his own, extending it.
Akemi stayed for a time. He observed. He learned more about his Master, about his past, and about the Feng coven. This caused him to seek them out and to join them, just so that he could learn more about himself as a witch and how the world for witches was. This, though, only caused him to have even more firm believes about the power that some Witches held. There were days when he managed to talk himself out of his thoughts, telling himself that he was wrong. That Tetsuya, along with a few other Withces, weren't monsters. But those thoughts only increased in loudness in his mind the more he saw from the elder man. He was powerful. Too powerful. And he had to be stopped.
Knowing that he was no match for Tetsuya, not in that moment, Akemi fled. Not only that, but he disappeared from the Coven, turning his back on them. Within a couple of years he formed a group called The Voiceless. People of all species -- mainly those that weren't witches -- who believed in his vision. He ensured that they were aware that he had managed to convince a Coven to let him join. He told them that he knew techniques that could lead people to believe he was a Witch, even if he wasn't. And they believed him. Not only that, but they agreed with him: witches were too powerful and those that decided to impose too much of their power onto the world had to die.
Using his own magic, and the rune carved into his skin, Akemi and his group hunted down dangerous Witches, tearing them down and disposing of them. Each of them drained of their life just to extend his own. Families and entire generations were killed. Villages were burned to the ground. All while trying to hunt down the most powerful Witch himself, the one that opened Akemi's eyes to the reality of the world: Tetsuya Myazaki.
He'd managed to capture him once, a hundred years ago, but it ended in Tetsuya killing all of his people. He watched as all of them died around him, unable to tear his eyes away from the people that mattered to him the most. But not again. Never again. He swore an oath, on that night, that he would make sure that his people did not die in vain. Akemi would kill his former Master, even if it kills him as well.
Akemi has come to Port Leiry to find his old Master, and has also discovered that the Feng coven has since become Feng-Lindon. He remains estranged from the Coven, quietly using them for power, and if he must, to find and take down Tetsuya Miyazaki.
HEADCANONS
Akemi has such an attunement to metal -- an affinity -- that he can enchant them to have certain effects, and they could sing a tune of his fabrication. He uses them mostly with swords, daggers, and traps, often enchanting them to remain silent while moving through the air in search of the target.
Within The Voiceless, Akemi teaches basic sign language to anyone he allows to join. They use sign language to communicate while hunting; using signals and expressions in order to remain silent.
There are Humans, Vampires, Werewolves, and even Witches in the group. The Witches, however, are watched and monitored heavily. Akemi ensures that they are not very powerful and reminds them that if they ever try to become more than what they already are, they will be cut down.
None of the Voiceless know that Akemi, their Leader, is actually a Witch. He has made it so that he does not use his magic in front of them. His abilities are so subtle and silent that no one has ever caught wind of anything he's ever done. They just think that he's a brilliant Blacksmith.
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