Akui Yawarakai

**Akui Yawarakai** is a rising member of the Red Scarves with a dark heart and a predator's approach to everything he's a part of. His only redeeming qualities are his protective spirit and his tendency to sympathize with people who have been through the same kinds of hell as himself.

## Appearance

Akui wears a white coat on top of his standard-issue Scarf suit reflective of his rank. His fur is similar to that of a normal Serval cat, but is paler than the norm.

## Personality

Akui is, as his name would imply, malicious almost to his core. He wants nothing but to rise to the top, and he'll do damn near anything to get there. He's used his talents in constructing complicated pranks and traps countless times to impede the progress of rivals to his rise in influence, often times setting them up in a way to make Scarves fight each other while he makes off with a promotion. He's generally intolerant and rude to everyone but superiors, and certain, strangely specific personalities and backgrounds.

He has a protective spirit, despite his malicious nature, and he can at the very least tolerate grim, determined types, similar to his own. Another weakness of his is people with a background similar to his: Forced into the Scarves or into hiding due to a lack of choice. He can be incredibly sympathetic with just the right mix of these traits, and that's why he has a boyfriend.

Akui's primary goal in life is to climb the ladder in the Scarves until he can overthrow the leader and take over. It is unknown what he plans to do with the organization if and once he achieves this goal, but it will definitely not be anything good. As of recently, he’s also been helping his boyfriend (who he publicly refuses to acknowledge as such).

## Skills and Abilities

Trained by the Scarves, Akui caught onto everything quickly, down to the *modus operandi*. He's talented in and loves to set up pranks, and he jokes around often too. He has an emotional weak spot for people who are honest and determined, as well as for softies who need protection. In that regard he's the fool to those who can fool him.

Akui is also a natural at devising schemes and pranks. Very motivated and dangerous, if provided.

## History

### Backstory

Akui wasn't much of a remarkable kid. He was creative and fast on his feet, but not much else. Tragedy struck when he witnessed a solitary Scarf in the middle of a "payment" and barked to the police about it. The police arrested the scarf, but that only placed a target on Akui's head. He was relentlessly chased, until he decided that the only way to stop it was to go into witness protection and change his identity.

But he ended up joining the Scarves instead. They begrudgingly accept him onto the group, but not without handing him to the roughest trainer they have. It turned out that the Scarves member that Akui squeaked to the police about was that trainer's friend, and as punishment, Akui went through physical and mental hell during his training. He however pushed on, though not without a permanent scar.

His training corrupted him deeply, turning him into what he is known for now: a "Being of Pure Malice", as he so eloquently puts it (though most just call him "fucked up"). He quickly established his presence when his twisted personality took sights of the rankings. Like two glowing eyes in the dark, he keeps his eyes trained on his prey, slowly approaching, ready to go in for the kill at any opportunity that may present itself, no matter how briefly.

Shortly after training, he was placed on guard duty with another Serval Cat, Kazuma. They became great friends (though not without some bumps), and after one particularly interesting night of guard duty, boyfriends. Akui only admits his romantic feelings in private, never publicly, opting to call Kazuma "just an associate" or "a simple stepping stone to the top", and a lot are fooled, but those that aren't no longer look at him the same way. They no longer see a "Being of Pure Malice", they see a scarred kid with too much motivation and a really good eye for pranks and boyfriends.

## Other Info

His name is an accident, he swears. That being said, he does not remember much of his life before the scarves.

He often wears a different scarf than the standard issue red. He wears a blue, checkerboard-patterned black-and-white and purple scarves, which often turns heads. Nobody has the guts to tell him to cut it out though, if only because they don't want to come back to a bed covered in honey that night.

Akui is no stranger to botching missions on purpose if it means it's in his favor. If his rival is a leader on a mission, you bet he'll be on the team, and you bet that mission is ending in failure (one that can't be traced back to him, of course).