Seiya Akatsuki

**Seiya Akatsuki** was the female Wishian Human captain of the *Berdema Nova*, as one of the privateer group's founding members. Seiya was the daughter of Gramariya of Valiantia and Kichiro Akatsuki, who previously adventured throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy before she was born. She was also the twin sister of Suzume Akatsuki, a governor on Wish, and the adoptive mother of Harumi Akatsuki. Seiya was one of the many people who had fought alongside the United Cassiopeian Republic during the Faceless Wars and was well-respected among the inhabitants of Solitude Plaza.

During the Faceless Wars, Seiya was the fiancée of Yugure Usagi, a former bounty hunter from Nokori who lost his life during the Faceless Wars.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5905 ASA, Seiya Akatsuki was born on the planet Wish, along with her identical twin sister, Suzume Akatsuki, who was younger than Seiya by only a few minutes. Her parents, Gramariya and Kichiro, were not Wishian by blood but settled on Wish to give Suzume and her sister peaceful lives. She and Suzume were the only children of their parents Gramariya and Kichiro.

Seiya spent most of her childhood and adolescent years on Wish. She attended school with her sister, eventually befriending another student named Cerrile Neborra.

Growing up, Seiya and Suzume were told stories by their parents about the wonders and sights beyond Wish, found in worlds all throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy. As Seiya continued her life on Wish, it was clear to her that she wanted more than what her homeworld had to offer. She disapproved of the policy that forced non-humans to cloak themselves as humans through the use of technology in order to even step foot on Wish. She also wanted to learn more about the ways of magic, which her homeworld taught and encouraged little to none of.

### Starting a New Path

Eventually, Seiya's disdain for her homeworld's xenophobic and isolationist policies, as well as for the people within society that helped perpetuate these policies, grew too strong for her to bear any further. With a goodbye to her mother, her father, and her twin sister, Seiya took flight off-world into territories unknown to her.

As somewhat of a foolhardy youth, Seiya traversed the Cassiopeia Galaxy while going off of little knowledge regarding the universe outside of Wish given to her by her parents. Some considered her actions to be reckless, especially Wishians. But with every mistake she made and every accident or conflict she found herself in (or got herself into), Seiya learned. She continued to learn throughout her many years travelling around the stars, always maturing as a person in some manner. She did not accomplish this alone, as she had made countless friends on countless worlds, all who helped her discover herself and teach her more about the wider universe, and all who were helped *by* her in some intrinsic way that only Seiya could provide.

### The Faceless Wars

By the time Seiya was around 26 years old, she saw the start of the Faceless Wars, which pitted the powers of the Cassiopeia Galaxy against a massive anarchist cult that called themselves the Faceless.

As privateers, Seiya and her partner Yu would aid the United Cassiopeian Republic in their fight against the dark forces of the Faceless. Seiya and Yu would endure many arduous battles together over the course of several long years.

#### Losing Yu

In 5934 ASA, Yugure Usagi died in a battle against the Faceless, leaving Seiya as a widow. The death of Usagi contiued to affect the lives of Seiya and their close friends and allies for years to come.

#### Meeting Harumi

One day, Seiya, Beobarado, and Io Trotz travelled to the planet Nokori on the inner edge of the northwestern Central Expanse, in search of information on potential Faceless hideouts throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy.

Instead of information, the three visitors found Kumi Tataru, 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. 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.

#### Meeting Minerva

By 5943 ASA, the Berdema Nova had five members: Captain Seiya herself, Beobarado, Io Trotz, Harumi Akatsuki, and Burke Odasi. The Novas traveled to the shores of the planet Jullanar. There, Seiya and her crew met a young Aetherian girl named Minerva Vomisa.

Seiya and her crew spent quite some time with Minerva during their stay on Jullanar. The four privateers befriended Minerva, offering 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 this, Minerva gladly accepted their offer, becoming a crewmate aboard the Berdema Nova and accepting the crew as her new family.

## Personality and Traits

Seiya was a Human woman with dark brown-colored eyes, light-colored skin, and brown hair. She had a relatively shorter stature than others for most of her life. Her left hand was mechanical, as her original left hand was severed during the Faceless Wars.

Unlike her sister, Seiya loved the thrill of adventure, much like their parents in their youth. Seiya loved to travel around the stars, visiting new places and going on dangerous yet exciting journeys. She shared this thrill-seeking attitude with her fiancé Yugure Usagi, who she often traveled with. Seiya had an innate sense of optimism, which greatly helped those in need see brighter paths in life. Many considered Seiya to be a quick thinker and a clever, observant woman who perfectly fit her role as the captain of a privateer crew.

Despite her adventurous heart, Seiya was a rather calm, understanding, and composed person in her later adulthood. She rarely got overly and outwardly passionate about anything, yet she still expressed her gratitude for the positive aspects of her life. Losing Yugure taught Seiya to further appreciate what she had at any given moment, and so she grew to be a sentimental person with many long-lasting friendships. The death of Yugure also emboldened Seiya to take more risks, as she did not believe anything else could hurt her further than losing her beloved partner.

Many considered Seiya to be a positive role model, teaching valuable life lessons and life skills to her daughter Harumi and her crewmate Minerva as they grew up. She was known to be supportive when her allies and her loved ones were in places of doubt or negativity, and did her best to lead them to the paths they wanted to follow in life. In contrast, some of her relatives on Wish thought her to be a negative influence, since Seiya preferred the adventurous life rather than a more conventional, quieter lifestyle.

## Skills and Abilities

Having been a well-traveled woman, Seiya was a person of many talents. She knew how to pilot spacecraft and how to tinker and build Automatons, and she also knew a great deal about the Cassiopeia Galaxy as a whole. She learned self-defense and a general skillset for hand-to-hand combat, as well as training for automated weaponry. While she and her twin sister learned basic combat training from their father, they also learned some very simple magic spells from their mother.

Some other members of the Berdema Nova occasionally remarked in awe at how there supposedly wasn't anything that Seiya *couldn't* do, because of her variety in life skills.

## Trivia

* Originally, Seiya's surname was going to be Coretta instead of Akatsuki.