Aika Kaminari

Name: Aika Kaminari

Race: Shinigami

Affiliation: 4th Division

Age: 600

Appearance: Aika has a pale brown coloured complexion, with wild, curly black hair, which reaches down to her shoulder blades. Her onyx eyes are almond shaped. She is slender and lithe, which belies her strength and muscles. Her bust is of an above average size but is often kept bound so as to not impede her work. Aika is 5’3 in height, which often frustrated her in her youth. Despite her age, she appears to be in her early to mid-thirties.

Her shihakushō consists of a short shitagi, kosode and hakama, to better aid her movement and fighting style. Because of this choice, however, Aika’s legs and arms are covered in pale scars, which she keeps as badges of honour and refuses to get healed properly. Instead of a white obi, her sash is instead a carmine red scarf, which was given to her by her girlfriend. A black, velvet choker is always around her throat.

When not in uniform, Aika can usually be found in a tailored suit. The suit is usually black in colour, with a red blouse, however, the colours do vary depending on the day. When she needs to work out, she will wear black three-quarter length leggings and a crop top.

Personality: Aika tends to fixate on her problems and will not stop until she solves them. She can be kind, though she has little patience for people who she deems to be idiots, or those who treat her as such. Impatience and anger come quickly to her, though they also can fade in the blink of an eye and turn to mirth and warmth. While she seems to be trustworthy, she will not hesitate to betray those around her if doing so will provide any kind of advantage towards her goals.

Biography:

In her human life, Aika worked in espionage, playing off rival shogun against one another. She was trained by her parents from a very young age, being taught to disguise herself and how to sneak in and around the busy compounds of warlords without being detected. By the time puberty hit, she was proficient in many of the skills of assassination and espionage. When she was of an age to marry, she ran off, unwilling to submit and subject herself to the domination of another. She threw herself wholeheartedly and single-mindedly into her work, until the day she met the gaijin.

The gaijin was the most beautiful woman Aika had ever seen. She had long, straight blonde hair, blue eyes, and flawless pale skin. Their first meeting was a chance encounter in a hallway, where Aika nearly dropped to her knees, thinking that the gaijin was a goddess in mortal skin. As it became quickly apparent, the woman (Estrid) had been given to the warlord who employed Aika (Ashikaga Yoshinori) as a token of good faith and gratitude. Estrid’s beauty alone had been enough for Ashikaga to immediately take her as his chief concubine and slaughter the man who had given her on the spot.

As Aika and Estrid grew ever closer, the platonic friendship which grew between them quickly grew romantic and physical. It became quickly apparent to Aika that she was going to kill Ashikaga, consequences be damned, and run away with Estrid so that they could be together in peace. This, however, was not to be. Ashikaga was assassinated during a play by a rival, and Aika capitalised on the opportunity to steal Estrid away. Travelling, it turned out, would not go well for them. Ambushed on the road, Aika managed to fend off her attacker, but was not fast enough to save Estrid. Furious, Aika tried to avenge her love, but it was no use. She died on the spot, with only the strength to move to her love’s arms.

Upon awakening in Soul Society, Aika was overjoyed to reunite with Estrid. Their first hundred years together were full of love, laughter, and happiness; however, it was not to last. Estrid was kidnapped in the middle of the night by an unknown party, and Aika once again was not fast enough to save her. She signed up for the Shinō Academy the next morning. Her focuses while in the Academy were on speed, hand-to-hand combat, and her ability to harness the technique known as shunko. Upon graduation, she has served once again in the role of espionage. At any given moment, however, she is looking for a lead to find her lost love.