Harumi Akatsuki

**Harumi Akatsuki**, born as **Kumi Tataru**, was a female Human doctor from the planet Nokori. She was the adopted daughter of Seiya Akatsuki, captain of the *Berdema Nova*. As Seiya's daughter, Harumi was raised as a crewmate aboard the *Berdema Nova* and lived through her childhood going on many adventures throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy. She was the biological daughter of Gekido and Kyōhan Tataru, who were two members of the Faceless.

In the year 5957 ASA, Harumi served the United Cassiopeian Republic as a medic during the colonization efforts of the moon of Bekhasni.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5935 ASA, Harumi was born on the planet Nokori under the name Kumi Tataru. She was the only biological daughter of Gekido and Kyōhan Tataru, the two of which eventually became members of the Faceless after being introduced to the group by the manipulative Symmerian Mimette Tapa.

When Kumi was still in her infancy, Gekido and Kyōhan went on a mission off-planet and participated in the Battle of Pastatha, where they lost their lives to the United Cassiopeian Republic's forces. Kumi was orphaned, left back on Nokori with no real guardian for an entire year.

### Meeting Seiya Akatsuki: The Berdema Nova Takes Form

By 5936 ASA, Kumi was taken care of collectively by the members of her community for almost a year, but none of the Nokorians took it upon themselves to adopt Kumi officially. One day, Seiya Akatsuki—a human that fought alongside the UCR against the Faceless—came to planet Nokori, alongside the Penumbrian war veteran Beobarado and his privateer boyfriend Io Trotz, in search of information on potential Faceless hideouts throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy.

Instead of information, the three visitors found Kumi, a very young girl who was being raised in a Nokorian village orphanage for the past year. To Seiya, Kumi reminded her of her late fiancé Yugure Usagi, who died in service of the UCR against the forces of the Faceless. Kumi looked so much like Yugure to Seiya, and so in what appeared to be a spur-of-the-moment decision, Seiya adopted Kumi and took her in as her own. She was given a new name, Harumi, which was a name that Seiya and Yugure often tossed around when brainstorming for potential names of their future children.

While Beo initially had reservations about Seiya taking in a young child during the midst of a war, he quickly grew attached to Harumi as if she were a niece. Unlike his boyfriend, Io quickly grew a sense of protection for Harumi and immediately treated her as a member of the family as well. Despite the challenges that would come with raising a baby during a heated war, Seiya, Beo, and Io all accepted that adopting Harumi was the right move.

### Comfort in War

Throughout the waning years of the Faceless Wars, Harumi stayed on the *Arma Nova* even as a toddler. However, whenever Seiya and the other Novas had to traverse to dangerous locations during missions, Harumi was left in the care of Monina Cozina and her family on the culinary space station Bonbon Station. Monina and her family were friends with Seiya and were more than happy to babysit Harumi every so often. This babysitting deal continued even after the war, whenever Seiya and the Novas had to take on risky assignments as privateers. This being said, Harumi grew to greatly appreciate Monina and her family, considering them family friends.

Sometime after the war, she met and befriended the Moranian smuggler Burke Odasi from a young age, growing to consider him family along with Seiya, Beo, and Io.

### Meeting Minerva Vomisa

When Harumi was around 8 years old, she and the Novas arrived onto the shores of Jullanar, a planet in the Aetherian Worlds. During their time on Jullanar, Harumi and the Novas met a young Aetherian girl named Minerva Vomisa, who had lived on the oceanic planet without any parental guidance for quite some time.

Minerva spent much of her time with this crew, to which they eventually befriended her and offered her a spot on their ship as she had no one there to take care of her on Jullanar. To Minerva, these four privateers were some of the only adults in her life that genuinely cared about her and showed that they cared about her, up to that point in her life. On top of this, Harumi was one of the only other kids her age that were willing to befriend her. Because of all this, Minerva gladly accepted their offer, becoming a crewmate aboard the *Berdema Nova* and accepting the crew as her new family.

Growing up on the *Berdema Nova* brought Harumi closer with Minerva, and soon the two of them came to consider themselves sisters. As they often were babysat by the Cozina family on Bonbon Station, Harumi and Minerva would become well-acquainted with not just the Cozina family, but with the other merchants and inhabitants of the culinary space station as well.

### Studying on Wish

When Harumi was 16, in 5951 ASA, she decided that she wanted to study medicine on Wish. For one, she heard about Wish's excellent health systems through her mother and wanted to learn all she could as a future physician. The other reason she wanted to study on Wish was to connect more with her aunt Suzume's family.

Seiya happily supported Harumi for wanting to pursue this path, and her aunt Suzume even pulled a few strings to allow a foreigner such as Harumi to be able to get into Wish's medical school programs so easily, given Suzume's position in the Planetary Government of Wish. While this meant Harumi's departure from the Berdema Nova, this did not by any means damage her relationship with her former crewmates. Even during her schooling, Harumi would always check in on the crew of the *Berdema Nova* every so often for years to come, always keeping in touch with her mother and her friends.

While Harumi familiarized herself more with her aunt's family as she initially set out to, she never got too close. The only members of the family she was more familiar with were her aunt Suzume and her cousins Flint, Randall, and Edith Magna. Harumi stayed on respectful terms with her uncle Cassius Magna, along with her other two cousins Terrance and Imogen Magna, but she quietly disagreed with their worldview and their stances on Wishian politics.

## Personality and Traits

Harumi was a Human woman with dark skin, pink-colored eyes, and brown hair. Her pink-colored eyes were a common trait among those born on the planet Nokori.

Even as a young girl, Harumi was a person of few words, and often not too outwardly expressive. Some saw her as somewhat of an introvert because of this, deeming her the quiet type. Contrasting against this apparent reservation was Harumi's genuine passion for helping others and strong moral compass, which can be attributed to her being raised by a genuine soul like Seiya Akatsuki. Harumi applied this care for the well-being of others by studying health and medicine, with many thinking her to be rather astute and knowledgeable because of her persistence in academics. She had a special warmth and love for those she grew up with, like the Berdema Nova whom she considered her closest family, and was known to have a great deal of empathy for others.

## Skills and Abilities

Growing up as a Nova, Harumi learned valuable life skills from her mother Seiya, as well as by her close family friends like Beo, Io, and Burke. This included a degree of self-defense and a good deal of street smarts that would help keep her afloat in a galaxy of wild life. Harumi was also professionally trained as a medical practitioner.

## Trivia

* Originally, Harumi was going to have gold-colored eyes instead of her pink-colored eyes.