Complexity: 2

Summary & Strategy: 

TBA

Bio

Had Akanami entered this world centuries ago, life would have been far different for the oni - but in the modern era, those enclaves of inhuman beings were few and far between. Most had long-since fled - or been driven to - the world beyond, removed from the midst of humankind who had ceased to believe in such creatures.

When Akanami was yet young, the otherworldly tyrant Gozu snatched away her parents and siblings into the fold of his followers and forces - but Akanami was small for an oni, such that she was deemed a runt. To be rid of her, the wicked oni's underlings discarded across the threshold to this world, lest food be wasted on a wretch without promise.

Forced to fend for herself, Akanami endured the elements and terrible hunger, with neither kin nor kindness to be spared to her. Worse still, among those humans still savvy to the likes of yokai and otherworldly beings were those who hunted oni and their ilk to rid the land of 'monsters.' It was while faced with such 'slayers' that Akanami was rescued by a formidable fox and dragoness - and taken under the wing of what she came to know as the Wardens of the Peak.

Fed and sheltered, Akanami gradually recovered - and given the opportunity, began to grow and flourish again. In the kitsune Inari and Maki, Akanami found herself fostered by elder siblings - and trained extensively with their tutelage. Strong as she became, Akanami was still 'small' for an Oni, despite eventually coming to tower over her benefactors - at least whilst the dragoness, Yulan, wore the form of a human.

Forever grateful and fiercely loyal, Akanami served as the brawny arm of the Wardens of the Peak, leveraging her staggering strength to obliterate those who would threaten her newfound kin.

Though she could never match the grace or speed of the others, nor achieve impressive techniques or martial arts - Akanami could level stone and crumple steel and bore a remarkable endurance and resiliency owing to her heritage. Regrettably, most arms and armor prove insufficient to match Akanami's might, necessitating the Wardens of the Peak to regularly restock their armory.

When not faced with perilous foes (and sometimes, even when she is) Akanami is an affable and gregarious woman fond of contests of strength, festivities and partying - and, most recently, a fiendish taste for an energy drink marketed towards monsters (or so she believes in earnest.)

And when it's time to fight? You can be certain she'll be there front and center, ready to take on any foe - and safeguard her smaller, squishier companions.