Takahashi Akira

**Takahashi Akira** (たかはし 明) is a dodomeki and interim nurse and alumn at Hyakki Academy.

## Appearance

In his human form, he has dark brown hair that falls over one side of his face. He has red eyes and he wears a striped purple button-up, black tie, with a white lab coat over it and black slacks. He often has a needle or scalpel in his hand. Whenever he gets curious or excited about something, a blush tends to cover his cheeks and his pupils turn into hearts. On occasion, his arms and face will grow multiple eyes if he's trying to investigate something.

In his relaxed state, he is a little chubby humanoid creature with three eyes stacked atop each other and two horns poking out of his head.

## Personality

Takahashi is dedicated doctor, always trying to find ways to improve medicine and treatment in anyway possible. Though he's very dedicated to his job, he can get a bit too interested, finding it almost arousing to find more information about different types of youkai or humans. He gets very excited to learn new things, and he believes that knowledge is power, and thus that inspires him to find out more information.

His dedication to taking care of his patients can be scary to most others, considering he'll go as far as he needs to in order to treat his patients, including throwing his needles at them to numb them so they can't run away. He also has had to resort to using violence on his patients in order to keep them from being unruly and to take their treatment. This causes many of the students and teachers to find him terrifying. Due to his terrifying nature, his brother, Kurai, also dislikes him, having been traumatized as a child from Takahashi tying him down and trying to cut him open.

However, despite his terrifying nature, he can be very caring. He adopted Utagawa and the Zashiki-warashi who Haruaki found in the mall due to the fact that he's very wealthy and that neither Utagawa or the Zashiki-warashi had homes, and thus, took them in out of the kindness of his heart. Along with these two, when he was a child, he took in Yamazaki who was also left without a home, so that he could have a place to live, despite the people in their village disliking Yamazaki, and his home doubles as an orphanage for youkai children without homes.

## History

As a child, he was an outcast and feared by his village. He was known as the Takahashi's Oldest Troublemaking Son, and the people were terrified when he was near. When he saw everyone telling Yamazaki to turn into Akira to curse him, Akira went over to see what they were talking about goaded Yamazaki into turning into him. Afterwards, he begged his dad to let him bring Yamazaki in. As a kid, he was incredibly interested in medicine, wanting to make a youkai anatomy book, starting with a dodomeki, using his brother to help him.

When he reached high school, he became somewhat jaded when it came to the medical state of the youkai world. He distrusts the medical authority at the school, and he somewhat lost his passion to go into the medical field. He is often invited to oni parties whenever his parents are invited, in order to meet fancy people and such.

## Abilities

Akira has the ability to grow multiple eyes along his body in the case he wants closer inspections of people when he wants to inspect his patients. He can also touch surfaces and grow eyes along the walls and ceilings of different buildings. With these eyes, unlike his usual two eyes, he can see different things in a person, including their spirit energy, the status of their body, or other features that aren't usually noticeable. He can also allow other people to see what he sees so long as they hold onto him and his nor their eyes open

## Relationships

### Haruaki Abe

Takahashi and Haruaki get along relatively well. Haruaki is terrified of Takahashi, like most people, and he even managed to operate and execute a plan to trap him in a locker and shoot him out of the atmosphere, though Takahashi didn't mind it when he did that.

### Amaaki Abe

Amaaki and Takahashi met when Amaaki was visiting Haruaki after the mall incident. Takahashi scared Amaaki, due to him chasing him around the school, wanting to inspect him. During the Renren Arc, he once again scared Amaaki by punching a hole through Kuniko.

### Izuna Hatanaka

Hatanaka has disliked Takahashi since he first got his check-up by him, due to Hatanaka's fear of doctors. Hatanaka is very scared of him and dislikes it whenever he's mentioned or even brought up as a possibility for Hatanaka having to visit him for any reason. Takahashi was also the nurse when Hatanaka was in high school.

### Kurai Takahashi

When Kurai and Akira were younger, Akira tied down Kurai, saying he wanted to make the youkai anatomy book. This interaction, and most likely others, has made Kurai harbor a distain for Akira. Akira, however, doesn't understand why Kurai dislikes him, since he says they've never had a "sibling fight".

During the Renren Arc, he realized he and Kurai never had a proper fight ever, and thus is rather excited to have a fight with him finally.

### Makoto Yamazaki

When Yamazaki and Takahashi were children, Yamazaki was shunned and kicked out by his village. Akira, upon seeing this, decides to question Yamazaki and the full extent of his abilities before taking him in. He and Yamazaki are childhood friends, both of them going to Hyakki Academy at the same time. When they were students, Yamazaki advised Takahashi to stay away from Karasuma due to him asking students to borrow money and Takahashi being rather wealthy. They remained friends into their adulthood, though, Yamazaki wishes that Takahashi was more proper.

### Kuniko Utagawa

When Ruri died at the human hospital, Takahashi had recently taken a job there. During his short time there, he found Utagawa when she was in her youkai form and after being able to learn about how she was created and learning about a bit of her past, he decided to take the core so that he could bring her back to life. After she learned about everything regarding how she came back, she decided to want to make up with Nyuudou and try to catch up to her high school years. Takahashi offered to help her study for the years leading up to her first year and raised her from there

In Kuniko's first year, he wanted to attend her Parent-Teacher Conference due to them not being around when he attended high school. However, due to him doing something to Hatanaka when he had asked Kuniko if he could go. Kuniko was upset was this but allowed him to go if he disguised himself. He decided to disguise himself as a psuedo-gangster, claiming that he "mostly works with drugs" and "has a close relationship with the cops" (referring to Yamazaki)

### Douman Ashiya

Douman and Takahashi get along very well, going out to drink on occasion together and Douman paying for his drinks. Douman also showed Takahashi his face, knowing that he would do anything to see his face.

## Trivia

* He tends to draw out his vowels whenever he's particularly excited
* He has amazing hearing
* He knew Rensuke's father and mother
* He runs all of the youkai hospitals in Japan
	+ Because he runs all the youkai hospitals, he has a lot of money, so his house doubles as an orphanage
* He is a Dodomeki and in many tales, Dodomeki are portrayed as women. Due to Akira being a man, he looks rather "pretty" due to the youkai he is being a woman usually
* His first love was the skeleton in the science lab, he claims "it's a beauty"
* He lives next to Yamazaki's apartment and finds the fact that he doesn't have a lot of belongings funny
* He owns a lot of books and is not good at tidying up
* He excels in every subject, except Japanese Literature because he comes up with weird ways for how a character feels. He ranks 4th overall when it comes to intelligence
* He describes his parents as normal and Kurai as a "slightly odd younger brother"
	+ He and Kurai mostly take after their mother, implying that she's a dodomeki as well, due to her exceptional beauty
* He rarely gets angry, with Yamazaki having said he gets angry on the same time as Haley's Comet (About every 70 years)
* When it comes to alcohol, he's a heavyweight and prefers fancy wines
* His moral compass and a lot of his actions are based off what gets Yamazaki mad
	+ Such things include not being able to date more than two people at once, breaking into a research facility to see an alien, and anyone who wants to have a relationship with him needs to go through Yamazaki first