Difference between revisions of "Akemi Ohashi"

"I- I mean, I don't think I can just sleep through this while there are monster roaming around and there's a tappable source of magic in the world!"

Profile: Akemi Ohashi is mundane no longer. She sought the truth, and power. She got just what she wanted. Still determined to stop death at any cost, she's come to understand that her Fra Mauro neurology classes aren't going to give her the answer- she's set her sights on the poorly understood capabilities of Persona to solve the problem. She is no longer a passive observer of strange sights and horrible monsters, but an active participant in the world. Above all, she strives to protect her ailing brother from the threat of death both mundane and paranormal.
Skills:Selectively Oblivious, Socially Crippled, Only Technically Passed Ethics, I Wear My Hair This Way For A Reason, Sticking Her Nose Places It Doesn't Belong, Moral Relativists Are Capable Of Anything, That Goes Double for Neuroethicicists.'

• Weapon A
  Textbook: Akemi's favorite, it's borderline ruined and in English. Heavy.
• Weapon B
  Novels: They're light and usually ineffectual but Akemi lugs around a bag full of them to toss at the enemy just in case.
• Weapon C
  Notebook:It's so unbelievably flimsy it doesn't even count AND is so important it's impossible to think of why she would chose to use it in combat.
• Body
  Lab Coat: The true hallmark of a mad scientist, it contains many pens, pencils, and smaller notebooks, just in case.
• Eyes
  Standard Glasses: She can't see without them. Her one weak point.
• Accessory
  The Bag: A gray messanger bag that contains an implausibly large amount of material, including everything she could conceivably need to do SCIENCE, or take more notes, or translate between any one of fourteen languages... she'd probably be served better with a smartphone, but, that'd be so not her style.

• In a more advanced educational system Akemi would likely not be allowed to continue being a scientist because of her horrible disregard for common scientific ethics. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
• She's a crazy miser and will never ever spend more money than the bare essentials so as to conserve funds. She's not actually broke, getting a stipend from not one not two but three adults who work well paying jobs, but she acts the part.
• Consequently her home computer runs Windows 97 and her cell phone has ten keys and runs off of a prepaid card.
• She's a bit of a Europhile, having spent much time there as a kid, which conveniently explains away her inability to use honorifics effectively and some of her mores which run counter to the Japanese culture (the rest is just the mad scientist talking)
• She was raised in part by her aunt who has no children or romantic entanglements and would be a crazy cat lady except that she can't be bothered to take care of the pests. This led to Akemi's social ineptitude.
• Akemi's mother is also an occult-interested mad scientist. Her dad is a regularly-minded sane scientist. Akemi is not aware of how occult her mother has gotten.
• Her brother spent almost a decade in the hospital for some unidentifiable illness. Magic may have had something to do with it.
• Magic totally had something to do with his recovery. Akemi is also unaware of this. For now.
• She likes to call everyone who disagrees with her a Luddite.
• H-h-has a massive stutter, which she finds horrifyingly embarrassing, which usually just results in the strengthening of her stutter, which leads to a vicious cycle.

Akemi loathes violence. Not from a philosophical point of view, but because she's a weak, weak little sparrow and is godawful at it. When pressed into combat she likes to use books for some reason. Maybe she thinks they contain magic spells?

Special: Literacy -Akemi claps the foe's head in between two very large textbooks while imploring it to read.

Shi Huangdi was the first Chinese Emperor, unifying from a tiny powerbase a region only slightly smaller than Europe with his superior administration skills. However, towards the end of his life he was beset with a fear of death, leading him to burn all books and kill all scholars not relating to the pursuit of immortality, and to take alchemical mercury pills that ironically ferried him off to an early grave. His fear of death is held to the same extent by Akemi, and deep inside she knows she would be willing to go to the same horrific extents to see herself immortal. Shi Huangdi is thin as a board and easily eleven feet tall- he makes a mockery of Akemi's own proportions. His limbs are very, very long, easily twice the length of his torso, and they bend at roughly four places each. A long, thin moustache cascades down his face before tapering to two points at about his mid-leg. He wears long, concealing robes, still not even long enough to cover more than two joints of each of his legs. He carries, in his bizarre arms, a porcelain basin full of mercury, and wears a rusty sword on his belt.

Akemi's a spotter. She hears resonances as sounds in the back of her head which are amplified if she sticks her head in Shi Huangdi's bowl full of mercury. Sometimes, she'll perceive resonances that aren't even there because as it turns out being a step away from having voices in the back of one's head can be bad for one's sanity- obviously she's not infallible, and resonances that are subtle and/or hidden will likely be overlooked in favor of other resonances, real or imagined. Her resonance is the sound of a hospital heartrate monitor, the smell of antiseptic, bright light, or a feeling of existential dread mixed with pity, depending on your particular relationship with Resonance. She also tends to more-or-less scream out with her Resonance at all times like some sort of psychic flare.