Aki

## Overview

**Aki** is a character on the Fell SMP, written and portrayed by akiandalock. She is a bounty hunter who recently moved to Oleander. However, she has quickly made her mark, both by joining the Oleander Council currently overseen by Noel, and by tricking Salt into a marriage contract.

## Appearance

With a rough height of 5'5", Aki has a sort of quiet prettiness about her. She has black eyes, brown hair she keeps in a braid, and usually wears clothing that are both practical and easily blend into a crowd. Often, this includes boots, pants, and t-shirts all in neutral, earthy colors.

On her left hand, she wears a gold wedding ring engraved with her name on it. She likes to travel light, but carries her sword and a small pouch of food with her everywhere she goes.

## Personality

She comes off as very intent and well-meaning, however she’s anything but. There is also a certain...itchiness about her that means she can’t stand still for too long. However, she’s reliable and can be counted on if she promises to do something. She considers herself as being helpful and is always willing to do a favor for someone if they need it, no questions asked. If she sees a chance to make someone indebted to her, she’ll take it. After all, it’s always useful to have a few return favors in the cards.

She's quick-to-action and responsible. She’s one of the sorts who doesn’t have to sort out who they are, where they are, or what is going on before jumping into action. She also takes responsibility for those under her watch, even if she repeatedly argues the opposite. However, she is always on guard because she is always watching, analyzing, and calculating. This is partially why she likes being in control. Whether in a conversation or fighting a mob creature, there’s nothing like the feeling of being powerful and holding advantage over another. One of her favorite hobbies is fighting mobs (and *winning*). There’s nothing quite so exhilarating as a sword in hand, slicing through a spider or a skeleton, and watching them *poof* as they die. It’s a rush.

Despite her good (?) qualities, she detests genuinely nice people. As she doesn’t believe anyone is capable of doing something for another without selfish reasons, it disgusts her to encounter individuals who want to help another just for the sake of helping. She is also impatient. She never learned very well how to be patient, and because she’s always ready to fight, her tolerance for patience got even worse. This is also why she hates tasks that require waiting, such as cooking or fishing. Additionally, she also hates staying in one place for too long. As a hunter herself, she knows that it’s much easier to hunt someone if they settle down in one place. As such, she likes to have one base of operations, but spend little time there.

## History

Abandoned directly after her parents bred, she was left to be picked up by a wandering trader. Kept watch over by the trader, she grew up to be naturally suspicious, untrusting, and slightly manipulative due to watching and learning the trader do business.

Around the age of 16, she set off on her own with dreams of being a mob boss/bounty hunter. After a few months of sleepless nights and tough on-the-job training to fight mobs, she met up with a bounty hunting group and joined them. Over 1-2 years of doing favors and coercing her teammates to like her better, in addition to gaining skill and occasionally asserting dominance, she found herself as the leader of the group, with the previous leader displaced. Confused and angry at what happened, the previous leader left the party.

For 10-12 years, Aki successfully led the group, driving them with nearly an iron fist but enough emotion and effectuated “care” that they never sought to depose her. Then, the previous leader showed up with a new band, and proceeded to wipe out all of Aki’s group. Narrowly escaping, she made plans to take out the group and the previous leader someday.

For the next 3-4 years, she returned to solo bounty hunting, much better at it now. Occasionally, she would join other parties for a hunt or two, but never long-term. She has never been quite able to shake the guilt she feels for her band being killed under her watch, although she still quite adamantly denies that she ever cared for them. She insists they were simply “pawns” and “tools” for her.

She went traveling, looking for a new town to place as her base of operations. This led to settling in Oleander as her current base of operations and joining the Oleander Council to oversee the goings-on in town, although she recently moved her primary residence to the Underworld. Although she has no intention of settling down, she wants a home she can return to in-between bounties. It has also been more pressing on her lately to track down the previous band leader who killed her group. However, she has also set her sights a little higher and is working to establish herself in a position of power in the region. Rather than seeing the Oleander government as her sole route for this, she pursued a partnership with Salt, the previous second-in-command of the Depth Pirates, and established a rocky marriage with him.