Akihito Tsukishima

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Akihito Tsukishima** (Japanese: **月島 秋人** *Tsukishima Akihito*) is a 1st-year student from Riverstone Military Academy, serving as Squad A`s on-field captain in the International War Games; a series of events hosted by countries from all over the world. He is a member of Tempest`s "family", a group loosely affiliated with her that considers Tempest to be their leader.

## Appearance

He is the shortest member of his adoptive siblings, standing at 5`9 and a half, while Kei stands at 6`2.1 and Akiteru stands at 6`0.9. However, he is the tallest person among his squad, possessing short, messy pink hair and reddish-brown eyes. He wears black, thick-framed glasses and has two piercings in his left ear. He wears a military uniform consisting of a long-sleeved black coat with light green details including the shoulder epaulettes which has a brown Sam Browne belt passing diagonally over his right shoulder and two rows of gold buttons on the front. Along with that, he wears a pair of white gloves and a white web belt with a gold waist-plate. He also wears the uniform trousers with two white belts around his right leg and knee-high black boots which goes over his trouser legging.

## Personality

As a student, Akihito is shown to be a very diligent and smart, scoring 100% in his Latin, English, and Japanese tests. When he was first introduced in the story, he wasn't even listening to class, and instead was sleeping with a book covering his face and his legs resting on the chair in front of him. He is also shown to be talented in a variety of things, such as being able to fix and drive cars, and shown to be an excellent cook as well. Among his squad, he is the jack-of-all-trades, being the most helpful one when the squad runs into trouble or gets trapped in another squad`s trap. Due to this, he was given the position and elected as the squad`s on-field captain. He is hot-headed and tends to get in fights with both Akiteru and sometimes Kei.

Compared to members in his squad, Akihito appears to be more standoffish and detached to them. When his squad formed, the members are quick to familiarize themselves with each other and referred to each other on a first name basis, but when talking to Akihito, they only refer to him by his surname, which indicates a level of unfamiliarity between them.

Despite his faults, Akihito still have a gentle side. He doesn't show affection publicly, but as the story goes on, he is shown to be kind to his squad members and cares for them. One of the display of his kindness in the story was that he stripped off his jacket at night and covered Tempest with it, stating that he doesn't want his friend to catch a cold due to falling asleep without a blanket. The only things that he gets fired up by are Akiteru and sometimes Kei. What really gets him fired up the most is when people call his captain, Tempest a "monster" as he threatens them without hesitation and does not hesitate to defend her honor when it is in danger of being tarnished.

## Background

Akihito was a lot more cheerful when he was younger and his younger sister wasn`t sick or in danger of dying. As a young child, Akihito seemed to really like volleyball, arguably due to his adoptive older brothers’s own love for the sport. However, Akihito’s attitude towards volleyball (and club activities, in general) changed when Mahiru was hospitalized after breaking her bones playing volleyball and went into a deep coma from how hard her head hit the floor. After learning that Akiteru had lied to Kei, Akihito became completely detached from his adoptive family and was never found in the house when both of his adoptive older brothers were home. Eventually, he ran away from home unable to take living with his adoptive older brothers anymore and was accepted at an orphanage near his current middle school, Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High. After graduating from Kitagawa First, he encounters his entire adoptive family waiting for him but ignores them in favor of going back to the orphanage, as he has already found a family there.

## Powers and Abilities

### Natural Abilities

Akihito is very intelligent. He was the top of his class in all subjects and regularly earned perfect scores. He earned 100s on each of his Latin, English, and Japanese exams. In fact, he's so smart that he doesn't even listen in class, and instead sleeps while the others are listening to their teacher during the lesson. Like Tempest, he is trusted with strategies for the War Games as their on-field captain and usually leads the offensive tactics for the squad itself. In terms of fighting skills, Akihito is shown to be very strong. His swordsmanship skills are on par with Tempest, and he's able to dodge and deflect the sword slices from Tempest's katana easily. In his squad, he's one of the melee fighters and have the role of the vanguard. Akihito is shown to have excellent cooking skills, and is shown to fry an omelet perfectly as opposed to Mahiru, and Irabella.

#### Mahiru

Mahiru named after Akihito`s hospitalized younger sister has the appearance of twin swords connected by chains, described to be the twin swords of legend. Due to the sharpness of the blades, Akihito wears gloves like the rest of his squad and employs a style of swordsmanship that uses a quick-draw method and a preemptive strike as a cautionary measure to gain the advantage in battle.

### Stats

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

## Relationships

### Family

* **Biological Parents**:
* **Adoptive Parents**:
* **Akiteru Tsukishima**:
* **Kei Tsukishima**:
* **Mahiru Tsukishima**:

### Riverstone Military Academy

* **Tempest Tsuchiyu**: Akihito meets Tempest on the first day of classes for the Academy, after Tempest crashes into him. Their relationship at first was at first a two-sided rivalry where the two constanally riled each up other, resenting each for selfish reasons. Although they fight often outside of team building exercises, practices, and the venue for the War Games, they deeply respect each other and Akihito actively defends her seeing her as a worthy person to put his trust in. Although, they are quite evenly matched in terms of their level of skill in the sword, Akihito yields to Tempest in sword duels. He protects her whenever somebody brings up her past, knowing how sensitive she is to it.
* **Mahiru Tsukishima**:
* **Marie Riverstone**:
* **Alice Honda**:
* **Guren Amaterasu**:
* **Shinoa Ichinose**:
* **Undi Tsuchiyu**:
* **Riverstone Military Academy**:

## Quotes

* (To Tempest) "*You`re small, are you sure you`re a High Schooler?"*
* (To his teammates) "*We won`t know until we try, right?"*
* (To himself) "*I refuse to let Mahiru die! My team understands that selfish desire, and nothing will stand in my way of accomplishing that goal. Anybody who does will be completely crushed by me."*
* (To teammates) "*My biological parents were Government Officials, and were assassinated by a rival faction. I have no contact with my adoptive family as of now, and I never will unless it concerns Mahiru."*
* (To Mahiru) "*I`ll bring my Squad Leader, Tempest here to visit you tomorrow. She`s willing to indulge my selfish desire to keep you alive."*
* (To Kei) "*Hello Kei."*
* (To Guren) "*I`m more concerned with your state right now? Are you sure that you`re not going to puke Guren?"*
* (To Kei) "*I assume that you came out to see us."*
* (To Ushijima) "*My Squad Leader goes nowhere without us, we are her shields, her swords. So if you want to talk to her, you`ll have to go through us and believe me, you`ll be cut to shreds."*
* (To teammates) "*Keep calm! Don`t lose your composure and defeat them all in non-fatal combat! Am I clear, Squad A?!"*
* (To himself) "*Good none of them are losing their composure.*

* (To Karasuno High School`s War Club) "*Ah. I thought you weren`t going to make it and we would pass the first round."*
* (To Shinoa) "*Are you sure that you have it under control? You seem a bit stressed Shinoa."*
* (To teammates) "*If one is not calm, then they automatically lose. You should never lose your composure underneath any circumstances."*
* (To himself) "*Grief is the price we pay for love."*

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Cream puffs
* Current Concern: Upon entering high school, he once again had to put up with various people asking if he was related to Kei Tsukishima from Karasuno High School.
* Despite being tall, and possessing natural libero-suited abilities for volleyball, Akihito shows no interest in volleyball and instead prefers the War Games that his current school hosts every year.
* He has the third-smallest appetite in the series, often making his teammates and upperclassmen worry for his health.
* His BMI is the lowest of the male characters in the series.
* He is a capable singer, as shown during the War Games where he distracted two squads of enemies by singing along with them.
* Akihito appears to be good at studying, as he belongs to Class 1-5, known to be a college preparatory class.
* Akihito is one of the few males in Squad A, there having been once three males in the squad.
* Despite sharing the same last name as Kei and Akiteru Tsukishima, he is not their younger brother or even a blood-relative to them. His only real blood-related relative is his younger sister, Mahiru Tsukishima.
* **Nomenclature**:
	+ Akihito (秋人) - *Bright Person*
	+ Tsukishima (月島) - Moon Island
		- Fukumoto (福本) - *Blessed Origin*