Akira Raiden

### Secret Heart's Desire

"I'd love nothing more than to *not* repeat Father's legacy. I mean sure, I want to continue his legacy but to repeat it, in the same telling, no thanks. I want to find what *I* want to do with my life."

### My "Magic" Touch

"From *Otōsan* I inherited his powers over storms and lightning, though it's nowhere near Kiyomi's... uncontrollable state. I'm glad I don't have that kind of power, but at the same time, I wish I could help Kiyomi."

### Storybook Romance Status

"I was never one for any type of romance. But, I managed to get someone very special, Titania Zenith Archimedes. She is one of a kind and def not someone you want to mess with. That's what I lo-like about her."

### Oh "Curses!" Moment

"I hate it when I accidentally shock someone. While my powers are nowhere near the strength and power of Kiyomi's, mine can still give someone a nasty surprise shock. You'd think, me being alone would clue people in that I'd like to be alone."

### Favourite Subject

"I enjoy my *Ancient Arts* class. I find it relaxing allowing me to work on other things *besides* schoolwork."

### Least Favourite Subject

"*Mythology* - I hear enough of the stuff *Otōsan* deals with at work, I don't even want to think about the other myths."

### Best Friends Forever After

Zain Chaostorm & Kiyomi Raiden

**Akira Raiden** [*he/him*] is a 2018-introduced and all-around character. He is the son of **Raijin** and **Otohime** (also known as *Oto-Hime*) from *Japanese Mythology* and set to inherit his father's legacies.

At the time of the **Rebel Movement**, Akira is attending his **Legacy Year** and currently rooms with Zain Chaostorm. Though destined for his father's legacies, Akira honestly wants nothing to do with them and only sides with the **Royals** out of respect and duty. He honestly doesn't give a damn about the Royal-Rebel conflict.

## Characteristics

### Personality & traits

* Seen as quiet, stoic, and silent, usually seen with a neutral look on his face, or sometimes, a scowl.
* Doesn't talk much or show a lot of emotion; things not worth his time, he finds pointless in showing emotion.
	+ He surprises people when he shows emotion to Kiyomi.
* Akira *does not care* about the Royal-Rebel argument but aligns himself with the Royals only **out of duty**. He would rather do something on his own than become the next God of Thunder and Lightning.
	+ Unfortunately, he doesn't know what he wants to do with his life yet.
* Despite his hard, stoic, silent personality, he has a soft side for his younger twin sister, Kiyomi, whom he is highly protective over.
* Akira isn't a big people person and doesn't like to go to large events. At the age of eight, he was diagnosed with a mild form of social anxiety and has been working on overcoming it since. Despite that, Akira can talk with others, being able to befriend his roommate.
* He has one fault; very quick to anger. It doesn't take him long to get angry at anyone or anything. When it involves Kiyomi, his anger appears much faster and it makes it harder for him to calm down.

His later revealed maternal half-brother, Hawker Tide, is someone else that can push Akira's buttons. The little kid just *annoys* Akira to the day's end. He tries to understand him and get to know him, but he just can't. Once, the little guy annoyed Akira so much, he ended up electrifying him (not enough to seriously hurt him but enough to make him stop).

### Physical appearance

Akira is a male teenager of Japanese descent, inheriting his form of beauty from his mother, Otohime. He has thick, silky black hair with midnight-blue and dark purple highlights, silvery-gray eyes, and a slightly tanned skin tone. Whereas Kiyomi is on the short side, Akira is on the tall side, inheriting their father's height; he stands 6'3".

### Hobbies & Interests

Because he's not a people person, Akira doesn't have many interests or hobbies. He does admit to enjoying watching Kiyomi work with the dragons, but that's about it.

### Powers & Abilities

As the son of Raijin, God of Lightning, Thunder, and Storms, Akira inherited his power of Storms, Lightning, and Thunder. Though, like other young children of Gods, he is still in training with his powers before he can attain the Divine Level in power. However, when he gets mad, Akira's lightning amplifies a bit, not to the range of his sister's, but pretty close.

#### *Powers*

* **Electricity manipulation:** As the son of Rajin, Akira inherited the power to control lightning. He can control, absorb, conduct, generate and store electrical energy.
	+ **Electricity generation:** He can generate electricity out of nothing, which he has full control over this and can decide how much lightning he releases. He can make his lightning appear with the snap of his fingers, which often gets people to back away from him if he is annoyed.
	+ **Electricity projection:** He can project his lightning in various attacks, such as beams, bolts, blasts, waves, balls, and scattershot.
	+ **Electrokinetic constructs:** He can create constructs out of lightning. Any construct he makes contains a lightning-aura, which can and cannot shock people, all depends on the creator.
	+ **Electricity Immunity:** Akira is immune to electricity and thus can't get hurt by it. Should he get struck by lightning, he'd most likely get a power surge.
	+ **Electricity absorption and redirection:** He can absorb electricity and redirect it.
	+ **Shocking:** As he constantly is generating lightning throughout his body, Akira shocks anyone who touches him. He sometimes forgets that touching him can shock people. Since he isn't much of a people person, it doesn't bother him.
	+ **Electric conductivity:** Akira's body is naturally electrically conductive. He can also induce electrical conductivity in external targets by charging them with electricity.
	+ **Electrical energy manipulation:** Like Kiyomi, Akira is also able to generate and manipulation electrical energy and use it for various things.
		- **Electrical energy-telekinesis:** Akira can utilize his electrical energy powers in the form of telekinesis. Whenever he uses this power, any item or object is surrounded by a dark teal aura.
* **Storm manipulation:** In addition, Akira also inherited Raijin's power over storms. He constantly works with Kiyomi to try to help her control this power, sometimes with little to no success. Akira rarely uses this power, as it's one of the stronger bits of his powers.
	+ **Storm generation:** He can generate storms, but due to its power doesn't use it as much.
	+ **Thunderstorm generation:** He has the potential to generate thunderstorms. But, since his storm powers are more than he can handle right now, he doesn't use them as much.

#### *Skillset*

* **Multilingualism:** Akira can speak and write in Japanese.
* **Electrokinetic combat:** From training by Rajin, Akira is skilled in infusing his powers into combat, allowing him to defend and protect himself, and also his sister when she cannot. Between him and his sister, Akira is more skilled in lightning combat and combat itself.
* **Extensive knowledge of dragons:** With his sister having a pet dragon, Akira has learned some knowledge in caring for dragons. It later comes in handy when he bonds with Hidden Aurora.

## Myth - *Raijin of Japanese Mythology*

### How Does Akira Fit Into It?

Akira was born long after the first telling of the Myths of Rajin was finished. His parents met up once and about nine months later, he and Kiyomi were born but were shortly later left with their father. His mother, Otohime, vanished shortly after, never to be seen again.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Parents

Akira is the son of Raijin, the Japanese God of Lightning, Thunder, and Storms, and Otohime, the daughter of Ryujin, the Guardian of the Sea.

Akira has a good and strong bond with his father, Rajin. He respects and loves him very much and is very attached to him. As the only parent in his life, Akira grew very attached to him and did everything Rajin wanted. Rajin is protective of his children and debated telling them about their mother for a long time. Rajin taught them both to work for what they wanted and to never have anything just handed to them.
Akira's relationship with his mother is unknown as she left when Akira and Kiyomi were a few days old, leaving Raijin a single father to twins. Sixteen years later, Akira still isn't sure how to feel about his mother leaving him and his sister with their father.
#### Siblings

Akira is the oldest of Raijin's children, his younger sister, Kiyomi, is his fraternal twin sister. He is also the oldest of Otohime's children, his younger siblings are, Kiyomi, Hawker and Falcon Tide, the children of his mother's second partner, Hoori.

Akira is extremely close to Kiyomi and like some twins, finishes each other sentences. They help each other with practically everything, Kiyomi helping Akira with his mild social anxiety and Akira helping Kiyomi deal with her past issues. In their adulthood, their strong relationship continues, even when Kiymoi falls pregnant with her daughter, Ruri. Though Akira worries for Kiymoi especially not knowing the name of the baby's father, he still supports her.
Hawker is Akira's younger maternal half-brother, the son of his mother, Otohime, and Hoori. Akira honestly didn't even know about him until he came to Ever After High. Right away, Akira found Hawker quite annoying and tried to get away. Kiyomi helped him out, even though she was unsure about Hawker too. Now, the twins are slowly trying to get used to Hawker, though he can be too much at times.
#### Future Family

In the future, Akira remains with Titania, but not marrying. They have three children together, adopting two of them. Akira first met Atsuko when he was traveling in Japan and meeting his father. He was extremely shocked to find a little girl with the ability to manipulate lightning. After talking it over with Titania, he adopted her and brought her back to Titania were the three bonded. A few years later, Akira and Titania adopt another child, Camille, who later comes out as non-binary. Before the adoption of Camille, Akira becomes the uncle of Kiymoi's daughter, Ruri (with no telling who the father is). After Kiyomi has her twins, Gemma and Onyx, Akira and Titania welcome their son, Kiyoshi.

### Friends

Due to his social anxiety, Akira has some issues making friends. He's slowly trying to overcome his anxiety but it's slow progress. Though, he has managed to befriend some people on his own, which Kiyomi counts as a plus.

#### Zain Chaostorm

Through the group and also being roommates), Akira became more acquainted with the son of Set, who also has storm and lightning powers. Aside from his sister, Akira considers Zain one of his closest and possibly best friends. Akira was the first person Zain confided with on his growing feelings for the Valkyrie, Braelyn.

At first, Akira and Zain did not interact, not even doing "hellos" or "goodbyes" when leaving their dorm. It was thanks to both joining The Super Strikers did they begin to talk and get to know each other (Kiyomi fully supports their *bromance* along with Zain's girlfriend, Braelyn Warbringer).

#### Ragni Stormbringer

Originally meeting through The Super Strikers, Akira developed a friendship with the daughter of Rota while helping her train with her powers. Their friendship turned into a close friend one, to the point Ragni went to him if she wanted someone to talk to that wasn't part of her group.

As adults, their relationship is still pretty much the same, close and friendly. When Ragni reunites with Kiyomi (who had vanished for a while) and her daughter, Ruri, Akira is slightly worried, mostly for Ruri's sake. He watches Ragni (with Titania rolling her eyes at him most of the time) interact with his niece and sees how the former Valkyrie enjoys spending her time with Ruri. Akira later approves of Ragni's relationship with his sister and niece and gives her his blessing for them to marry.

### Pets

#### Asuna

Asuna is the offspring of Raijin's companion, Raiju. Her exact appearance is unknown, but Asuna takes the appearance of an azure blue wolf with lightning always surrounding her.

#### Hidden Aurora

Hidden Aurora is Akira's pet dragon and the mate of Kiyomi's dragon, Black Beauty. Like Black Beauty, Hidden Aurora is a Japanese Dragon with dark, midnight purple scales, with lighter purple accents and stunning amber eyes, which she shares with her mate. Originally a wild dragon, Aurora stayed clear of all humans. During a mating season with Black Beauty, Aurora met Akira for the first time and it was like an instant connection between the two.

#### Raiju

His father's beastly companion, the Raiju also acts as a family pet. Akira and Kiyomi take turns caring for him and in turn treat him as a family member. They have nicknamed him "Rai".

### Romance

Akira identifies as **asexual demiromantic**.

## Education

### Class Schedule

* Period 1: Mythos Magic
* Period 2: Mythology
* Period 3: FEL
* Period 4: Ancient Arts
* Period 5: Marksmanship
* Period 6: Biology

### Dorm Room

Akira shares his dorm room with fellow Lightning/Storm legacy, Zain Chaostorm, the son of Set. There's not mucho n his sid

## Alternate Universes

### Supernatural/Superhero

Akira is the older child and only son of superhero Sparking (civilian name: Raijin Ryusaki) and civilian Hana Akagi and the older twin brother of Kiyomi Ryusaki. Akira inherited his father's powers over lightning and storms. With Kiyomi's underdeveloped/slightly out of control powers, Akira worries for her safety and also mental health, knowing they could cause a lot of stress to her.

### Pokémon World

Born in the Johto region, Akira was born into an Electric-type specialized family. Akira had an idea of what he wanted to do with his life, but when Kiyomi voiced not knowing, he supported joined her on her journey to find that out.

## Etymology

As a child of Gods, Akira has no true last name. While attending Ever After High through the Mythology Program, he goes by *Akira Raiden*.

The name Akira is a Japanese unisex name meaning "Bright" or "Clear". The surname Raiden is a Japanese name meaning "thunder" and "lightning".

## Trivia

* At the age of eight, Akira was diagnosed with social anxiety. He talks to someone weekly to help overcome it.
* His birthday is October 29th, making him a Scorpio.
* His Social Media name is *@AkiraRaiden*.

### Notes

* Akira's hairstyle was inspired by Keith from *Voltron Legendary Defender*, mainly in Season 6 and 7.

## Timeline

* 16 June 2021: Akira undergoes major editing
* 12 December 2020‎: Akira Raiden is posted on the Ever After High Mirror Portal Site.
* 25 December 2018: Akira Raiden and Kiyomi Rai are made twins.
* 3 July 2018‎: Akira Raiden is posted on the Ever After Mythology High Site.