Name: Akika Mido/Sohma
Gender: Female
Age: 5
Relationships:
Akito Sohma - Akika cannot really understand whether she likes the head of the family or not. She gets very scared when Akito gets even a little annoyed, but often tries to be friends with her by offering sweets.
Isuzu Sohma - Isuzu is like a big sister to Akika. Although Isuzu ignores her most of the time, Akika always stays by her side and follows her around.
Her Family - Akika's family includes her adoptive mother and father, and her non-related baby brother, Kiseo. Her adoptive parents basically lack in providing her the needs to live, so in order to survive she gets all the needs from Akito. Kiseo is just a baby who twisted Akika's life around, but they are very nice to each other.
Physical Appearance:
(x3 HIGURASHI L-O-V-E!! xD!)
Long, blue straight hair and purple, dark round eyes. She is usually wearing her onepiece green shirt. She can also be seen in her school uniform (white shirt, pink ribbon around neck, black strap-on skirt) which Akito has gotten for her to put her into a special school to learn about the shrines so she could stay working as the priestess of the Sohma House. She goes to a private school. On new years and a few days before, she can also be seen in a Miko outfit. She is the priestess that is responsible for doing a few dances and summons on New Years hoping for a new great year. The maids dress her up for this, and the clothing is very old; used for generations of Sohma mikos. Her hair is always down and straight, never anything else except maybe a very rare case of having braids and a few bells on her side bangs. She also is only about the size of a two or three year old.
Personality: Still being a child, Akika thinks and says straight foward the truth. From this, she has gotten in lots of trouble for telling some people about the Sohma curse. Akika is often just lonely and is begging for attention and to see the outside world away from the Sohma gates. If done so, however, she gets in trouble from her parents. Therefore, Akika is always seen bound inside the Sohma estate. She dislikes water and somehow has a deep haterd for the curse of the cat, Kyo. She loves strawberries and cookies and attention. Akika also loves to draw. She is scared of time.
Character Goals: Akika wishes to live past the age of ten. She just wishes for a normal life to grow up and have her own family, though, she knows it will never happen. (More info in 'History')
History:
The Sohma's miko gene has been passed down for several generations along with the Sohma Curse. The miko child can be identified by having troubles talking properly and tend to have blue hair. They are also very short compared to people of their age. When they reach the age of ten, they are to be disposed of; they cannot be allowed to start having their own ideas and education to know how to live on their own. Parents with the Sohma's miko shall have one more child biologically in order to keep the genes going for the miko (The non-miko child will have the gene, but will not have to die at the age of ten. When twins, only one child should be carrying the gene; usually can be easily determined by the size and hair color. The non-fated child must again produce two more children, since one would be another miko). When the last miko child was killed from reaching age of ten, Akika was born...Akika was born between her very young teen Sohma mother and father. The mother's older sister had the miko gene, having blue hair, and was killed when she was ten as well. Akika was suppoed to be born as a normal child only with the gene of the miko, however, when the father noticed that his girlfriend's tummy was getting big from the baby and not from eating too much, he ran off and was never to be seen again. By that time, the mother was already 5 months pregnant, and couldn't get an abortion. Three months later, Akika was born, being given birth in the deep woods so her mother could hide her from the mother's parents (Akika's biological grandparents). From there, Akika was raised for two years in the woods.
One day, Akika was staying in the woods playing with sticks, when her mother came home late. She brought her child to a new house she borrowed from a dear friend, and Akika and her mother lived there for a few weeks, until Akika started to notice another lump in her mother's stomach; another baby.
As the lump continued to grow, Akika started to get excited of being an older sister. But then one night her mother had a miscarriage, and due to too much stress, she died. Akika was then taken into her neighbor who babysitted her while Akika's mother was at work. The problem, however, was the fact the one who took her in was a fourteen year old with a mother and father.
Akika lived two more years with the teenager, until one day when they were walking home together after shopping, a burgular killed the teen. Having no where to go, Akika was then taken into the teen's family once more, but only under the teen's father's care. The father's wife then walked out on her husband, leaving Akika and the man alone. Akika recieved serious abuse from the man, getting hit, kicked, and neglected and whipped. After a few months, Akika's preschool teacher got concerned and called the police. The man was then taken into prison for child abuse.
After taken up and away to the Sohma estate, Akika was then put under the Main House's care temporary, though, most of the maids cared for her. After a while, Akito soon noticed that the little girl was the gifted miko child. She immediately made Akika practice for the new years banquet's dance and vaptizing for the curses to make them want to come to Akito at all times. After a few weeks, however, Akika was adopted again. This time into the Mido family that sweared they'll care for her well. The Mido couple that adopted her needed a child to take over their family line, but could never make children no matter how hard they tried. By this time, Akika was exausted by all the adoptions and the events that always made her end up somewhere else. Akito allowed the adoption, saying she's tired of taking care of a child.
As soon as Akika was adopted into the Mido family, the mother got pregnant. The couple threw Akika to the side as if she was just a temporary toy. Akika went through neglect again, though she was happy enough that there was no physical abuse. As soon as the baby was born, Akika was shocked. It was a baby boy. Boys easily earned the way to take over the family line and name when he grew up. Akika then, was even more neglected. The Mido family never even provided food or water for the child.
At first, Akika hated the little boy that was born. But as soon as she turned five, she got used to the baby. Even though her parents wanted Akika to stay away from their only son, Akika and Kiseo still got along well. Kiseo's first word in fact was "Sis", what he called Akika.
But as the neglect continued, Akika went too weak to even walk. That's when Akito came in and took Akika away once again, leaving her at Hatori's office. After she was healed, Akito returned her to the Mido family, still saying she didn't want to care for the child, saying it was too 'hard' on her body. Now Akika lives with the Mido family, but often visits the Sohma house to take in her needed things in order to live.
Also, since the gene cannot be passed on, due to the fact that Akika was an only child and the mother died without making another one to pass the gene on, it is thought now that Akika might be the last miko the Sohmas would ever have.
((Left out and changed alot of violence and details due to the board-rated style and the inability to have the character animal-curse. For the correct and more detailed information and the truth behind Akika, go here:
www.fanfiction.net/s/3417385/1/Chinese_Panda )
Sample Role Play:
“Aki too tired…” Akika complained as she was dressed in her priestess outfit. Her pale cheeks puffed out slightly in anger and stress. The maids laughed lightly as they started to tie her outfit tightly to make sure it won’t fall off the overly-skinny girl. Another maid started braiding her side bangs that covered her ears. She put bells at the very end as a hair tie, and everytime Akika moved her head ever so slightly, the bells rung a beautiful harmony. As Akika was handed the staff to dance along with like she has for the past month practicing, she sighed softly. The maids smiled encouragely at her and mumbled to eachother, “She’s so cute” and “Aww…”. Some even thought of her as their very own grandchild, and started to pat her head and give her small candy. The drums then started, and Akika jumped. It was time for her dance show. She bowed slightly and held tightly onto her very heavy staff, then walked out. The maids bowed back, all smiling, taken up by her innocence.
As Akika walked out from the curtains, claps were heard. Akika glanced down to the head of the family and gulped on stage. Under the strict eye from Akito, she started to dance along with the calm music. Sweat rolled down her cheek as she lifted and swung the staff around carefully, letting her bells ring along with the song. Her purple eyes narrowed as she felt her arms ready to give out any second, and it was only half way through the song. The five year old then took a deep breath before continuing, twirling around in her red and white miko dress.
Her legs gave out suddenly towards the end of the song. Everyone, even the people who didn’t watch her during the practice, noticed it was a mistake. The legs that gave out forced Akika onto the stage floor, whimpering. She breathed heavily as she slowly pushed herself back up. She could feel the stares from both the room and from behind and beside the curtains. Putting a bright smile on her face, Akika started again, catching up on what she missed. Her legs ached. Her arms felt as if they were carrying a huge rock for construction, when right before her was just a huge staff.
After the song finally ended, Akika took a moment to catch her breath. As soon as she heard even the slightest clapping, the five year old bowed, sweat still dropping onto the floor. Outside was middle of the winter, but inside the building was like an oven now. After bowing, she slowly walked back to behind the curtains, and collapsed. The maids all rushed to her and sighed in relief when they noticed it wasn’t such a big deal, that Akika was just extremely tired. The song was fifteen minutes, the staff was twenty pounds, more than half of Akika’s weight. Her miko outfit also added another three to five pounds onto her; no one could blame her now that she collapsed. As Akika was taken up to the resting room, she was placed on a bed, where she slept for most of the banquet. She couldn’t enter anyway. Though, at the very end, she was awoken once again; this time to wash off the curse’s evil feelings and hatred towards the God.
Akika, this time not having to bring a staff, slowly reached up to each of the zodiac members, rubbing their heads and smiling. She moved her hand in a circular motion three times to the left, two times to the right, then once more to the left. Then it was over. It was Akika’s favorite part in all her jobs, didn’t take much to practice. Now the banquet was over. Akika was dressed back into her normal outfit and she returned home to go to bed. Now it was to wait till next year to be done again, until she reaches the age of ten.
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