Akage & Sorairo

Akage & Sorairo are community characters created by the Fantendo community, with their main design being drawn and finalized by Shadow Inferno. They represent, both of them, the seventh community character on Fantendo. They were conceptualized in April 2021.
Nicknamed respectively Rufus & Aʒura, Akage and Sorairo are two beings from the planet Cassalia who arrived or Earth during the 60's, precisely in Tokyo, Japan. They formed there their own racketeering gang the "Toki Tsume".
== Story ==
Akage & Sorairo (nicknamed Rufus & Aʒura) are beings from the planet Cassalia, a not too distant planet from Earth where the dominant populations have wildly divergent characteristics resembling mammalian, avian, reptilian & amphibian animals, although all share various traits including a relatively slow metabolic rate. Akage & Sorairo arrived on Earth during the 1960s in Tokyo, Japan, ending up in a rather low-end region of the city where they grew up during the era of the Bosozoku's rising prevalence within Japanese culture.
After having been part of various other gangs prior, the duo decided to start their own group known as the "Toki Tsume" (Ibis Claws) and began operating out of the south side of Tokyo during the late 1970s, generally serving a three-pronged approach to their behavior which evolved into the three claws of the Ibis; Protection Money, Intimidating other Gangs & Racketeering.
While both serve as leaders of the Toki Tsume, each serves a different role within. Early on the two's differences in methods for handling situations caused tension within the gang, and lower-level gang members believed the Toki Tsume was going to disband within a year of its creation. Akage's brutish attitude meant he would often get taken out by the police, forcing Sorairo to either have the gang's operations go quiet for a while or bail Akage out. Eventually, however, Akage and Sorairo decided to split the roles of leader, with Akage focusing on the main groundwork (thanks to him really just wanting an excuse to look cool strutting around with a gang and being able to beat the crap out of people without issue). As such Akage became the gang's head intimidator, frequently teaching new recruits the techniques of intimidation and forming a metaphorical iron wall around their territory with Toki Tsume members keeping low profiles throughout the territory, and being able to step in if they saw another member being attacked.
By contrast, Sorairo's level-headedness and calmer demeanor allowed her to be more shrewd with the gang's operations, being able to be much more diplomatic about agreements and disputes than Akage. She was able to forge alliances and maintain loyalty for subordinates through Akage's various displays of destruction and should favor to cooperative targets. The Toki Tsume's operations also managed to evade the ire of the Yakuza thanks to Sorairo's forward-thinking and forming a makeshift alliance with one of the local Yakuza families, ensuring they wouldn't be targeted while also appearing to significantly bolster the Yakuza's power. Generally however, Sorairo avoids getting too close with the Yakuza as she believes their traditions don't mesh well with the Toki Tsume and so prevents the Toki Tsume from being absorbed into the Yakuza.
== Abilities ==
Being from Cassalia, the duo possesses some superhuman abilities. 
Akage, being a Takadoren, possesses a degree of psychokinetic abilities, although his lack of proper training and just general indifference to his own abilities means he rarely uses them. 
Sorairo, by contrast, is generally more adept, although lacking training her skills are unrefined; as a Datheros, she is capable of a degree of elemental kinesis. Usually, this is Hydrokinesis to align with her sub-species' aquatic nature, although Sorairo primarily uses Pyrokinesis due to the general lack of water relative to her sub-species' natural environment.
== Artwork ==
File:A4C.png|Akage by 
File:B4C.png|Sorairo by 
AkageCC.png|New art of Akage by 
SorairoCC.png|New art of Sorairo by 
=== Community Character Process ===
All sketches here were done by Shadow Inferno. The full character creation blog can be viewed here.
Category:Community Characters