Watanabe Akane

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### **"I have no ambition or whatsoever, so I'll accept whatever you offer."**

Akane Watanabe (Kanji: 渡辺あかね) is a student in Shiratorizawa Academy. She is a first year Wing Spiker in Shiratorizawa Girls' Volleyball Club. She has no great passion and love for volleyball like others, she just simply want to do something after school. She enrolled in Shiratorizawa Academy, while being childhood friends with Tsutomu Goshiki.

## Appearance

Akane has long, silky black hair that's usually being tied to a ponytail and dark black eyes. Due to her bad eyesight, Akane wears a pair of glasses. She's 170.4 cm tall (5'6), and she seems to be stopped growing in height after joining high school. Akane was built rather odd with eerily pale but rough skin. Her hands might looks small and thin, but its force is great. Her legs are thick, probably because of her running habits.

Akane often found wearing her Shiratorizawa uniform with an open vest and a pair of headphones, showing her love for music. During her club activities and matches, she wears the Shiratorizawa Girls' Volleyball Club uniform, with number 15 at the front and her name in Kanji at the back.

## Personality

Akane is overall smart, calm, and collective. She watches and slowly collect information and figure out how to react properly. This is one of the reasons why she often hear a full story before commenting, because she's afraid of making false comments towards people.

Akane seems to be an introvert from everybody's view. She's silent and quiet, and would rather spend time with herself other than people. The fact is, she's just scared of people's opinion about her if she turns into an extrovert like everybody else. So, she'd rather playing it safe and stay quiet other than showing her talkative and otaku side.

She only takes things she have interest in seriously, such as online activities, gaming, anime/manga. She never considered volleyball as something she have ambition for in her life, even though that perspective changes throughout her year with her team. Akane is caring and have empathy towards others, since she can put herself in anybody's shoe just by imagining it. Even though, she never does any action to help them getting out of that situation.

## Background

Akane was born in a wealthy family, with her mom working as a lawyer and her father as the CEO of a family business. They were overly busy with their work and didn't really have time for their daughter, resulting her personality being squeezed in a box and her addiction towards the internet/ anime. She studied the same elementary school with Tsutomu Goshiki, which leads to their friendship later on in the year. She was shown to have some mental problems, but she always shake it off as a joke.

She joined the volleyball team right after being offered by Ririka Hirai (captain of the volleyball team), due to her lack of personal opinions and indecisive nature.

## Skills

* **Stamina and speed:** Akane is fast and somewhat long-lasting. Her legs are strong and flexible, allowing her to spike at numerous different positions. This was probably because she often woke up late and have to run to school while dodging things on her way. However, if she runs out of stamina, she can no longer function properly and has to be replaced. Reportedly, during one match against a power house from Osaka during Nationals, she fainted due to weariness.
* **Reflexes and Flexibility:** Akane is quick to adapt and change strategies. When going against powerful opponents, unpredictability and flexibility is incredibly important according to her.
* **Jumping:** Akane has a fairly good jumping skills. This is also because of her weirdly built thick legs, and also because her jumping habits. Even though, she cannot control her jumping perfectly. Akane sometimes went overboard and either land on somebody or smash into the net.
* **Receive:** Probably the worse person you could trust to receive a ball. Akane's receiving abilities are incredibly awful, no matter how easy the spike is to receive. The ball would either go straight up to the air, or go backwards. Either way, it would still hit the ground. Chloe Sakurauchi, the volleyball's team libero, noted that this is an absolute waste since Akane's legs are very flexible and fast, and how she would make an incredible libero if her receiving skills are better trained.
* **Feint:** Akane loves using feints, especially when her opponents are too comfortable with blocking her spikes. The unpredictability of her feints is what makes it dangerous, sometimes she'll even use it at the start of a match.
* **Spiking:** Akane's main weapon, spiking. Opponents usually consider her weak because of the look of her hand and the lack of skills, but she's quite intimidating when you are facing her. Her calmness is incredibly scary, since it's hard to know what will she do and where will she spike. She doesn't easily fall for blocker's tricks. However, when Akane's very comfortable and proud of how she's performing, it's the time when she's the weakest and can fail to read traps.
* **Back Attack:** As described, she can spike from various angles. Back attacks is also one of her powerful moves.
* **Serves:** Fairly good enough to land the ball on the other side, but not exact and accurate. Her serves aren't formidable enough to push the opponent into a hard situation.

## Other Information

* Akane likes Tonkotsu Ramen.
* Her favourite anime is Violet Evergarden.
* Akane's bedroom is way to small with her position in a wealthy family, but it's because she's afraid of big spaces.
* The reason why she's afraid of big spaces is because she's afraid of ghosts (spiritual things).
* Aesthetic addict.
* Often refer to Tsutomu as "bowl-hair" or "dumbass". She doesn't have romantic feelings towards him though.
* She might not look like it, but her favourite color is pink.
* Good at languages, especially English.
* Her V/As are made up by me, they do not exist in real life.