this is my default for all interactions in a modern setting , please ask specifically for K/DA if youāre looking for idol akali.
name:Ā akali jhomen tethi
nickname:Ā kali, rogue
age:Ā 23
birthday:Ā may 11
star sign:Ā taurus
gender:Ā cis female
pronouns:Ā she/her
orientation:Ā bisexual
ethnicity:Ā japanese & korean
nationality:Ā japanese
height:Ā 5ā²3
build:Ā athletic / muscular in the arms & legs
hair colour:Ā black
hair length:Ā tailboneĀ
eye colour:Ā deep brown, appear red in some light
skin colour:Ā tanned, olive undertones
scars:Ā Ā
education level:Ā home schooled until 16
occupation:Ā assassin / mercenary , affiliated with the tokyo yakuzaĀ
[ bracketed is for modern fantasy verses only ].Ā tw. for implied sexual assault.Ā ( not the case but worded in such a way that it could trigger someone ).Ā minor tw for alcoholism at the end.
you grow up under the keen eye of the kinkouĀ :Ā an organisation with balanceĀ as its core tenet. [ balance between mankind and spirits, thatās how itās painted to you as you grow up. ]Ā you exist to enforce this balance, to maintain it without judgement. under your motherās wing you donāt question itĀ --Ā you just want to make her proud. but you donāt, you canātĀ be what she wants when her eyes are elsewhere, caring more for the girl she wishes you would be.Ā
at just nine years old you lose everything. a wayward acolyte returns to the kinkou and slaughters your peopleĀ --Ā your friends, the people youāve come to call family. you donāt understand. how could a child understand? you close your eyes and try to forget. youāre brought to safety in the mountains beyond the temple, accompanied by your mother and a handful of other acolytes.Ā
the kinkou try to rebuild, with your motherās expectations building tenfold in the wake of your fatherās death. you push yourself to your limits, forcingĀ yourself to be good enough to inherit your motherās title. at fourteen you start your official training, and your talent soon becomes clear to those who matter. your handiwork with both kama and kunai is second to none, [ even regardless of your lack of magical talent. ] each passing day is spent not only training but studying, though it is through these lessons you learn just how complacentĀ the kinkou have been.
mortals die every day and nothing is done to stop them. balanceĀ seems to be less about saving people and more about being complacent. you canāt stand it. everything youāve trained for seems like a lie. at sixteen you confront your leader, denouncing the kinkouās ways and leaving everything youāve known behind. itās a mistake, but you refuse to listen to more of their precocious lies.
the outside world is tougher than you first imagined. thereās no safety to be had in numbers, and no familiarity in these cold, mean streets. with not a penny to your name you rest wherever you can, using the skills youāve trained since birth to steal whatever you can without getting caught. you slowly begin to realise that without violence,Ā thereās nothing left of you. a weapon is all you are.
and so you decide to use violence to your own advantage. you lie in wait outside the most popular clubs, waiting for the rich and inebriated to come stumbling out. you corner them, a knife to their throatĀ --Ā even with a clear disadvantage in build, you know how to end things quickly. the only thing your mother taught you was how to kill.Ā
a year goes by with little change: you make just enough money to survive, and frequent an apartment that lets you stay there for cheap. itās a far cry from the comfortable life you lived before, but it makes you feel more alive.Ā
eventually, your luck runs out. you threaten the wrong man, and youāre forced to make a choice: put your skills to good use for him, or die nameless in a ditch somewhere. your immediate answer makes him smileĀ --Ā a sickening image thatāll never burn out of your mind. you see it in your dreams, sometimes.
he drags you by the arm to his car, breathing his liquor loaded breath all over you for the entire journey. youāre handed booze, cigarettes, who knows what else.Ā youāre in no position to refuse, so you do as youāre told. the rest of the journey and whatever happened that night remains a mystery.
you awaken branded,Ā a fresh wound on your hip to remind you who you belong to now. a cell phone rings beside you and you fumble to pick it up, answering with a slurredĀ āwhaddayawantā only to be reminded whoĀ is on the other end. he gives you your first job, instructions spelled out clearly and concisely. youāre to put an end to a rival, quick and clean.Ā just like that, years of learning to kill are finally put to the test.
when you stand over the body, you feel nothing.Ā no remorse, no sadness... only relief. you only did what you were born to do, after all.Ā youāve earned your keep, impressed those that matter. itās all you care about. what a far cry from the balance youād set out to uphold.Ā you spend your first pay recklessly, hoping the dopamine rush will distract you from the life youāve fallen into.
and it does, for a time. until you awaken the very next day on the same floor with the same cell phone beside you. your particular set of skills seem to be highly in demand for those who need them, and it pays.Ā this, you suppose, is better than being forgotten in the dirt somewhere without a chanceĀ to climb out of the hole youāve dug yourself. one day,Ā you promise youāll turn the tables. until then youāll keep your head down and obey, be the perfect little assassin youāve been bred to be. maybe one day youāll become so numb to it all that you wonāt have to drink yourself to sleep every night. maybe one day it wonāt haunt you any more.