Akyo Gadarik

## **General Information**

One of Apate’s younger sisters and Atore’s twin, Akyo was arguably one of the most affected by her family breaking apart, eventually finding herself isolating from the rest of the world and creating the *Hypernet*, Hyperborea’s major network, as a form of escapism.

## **Background / History**

Growing up in Re’Gross like the rest of her siblings, Akyo was 14 years old when they had to escape and get to Hyperborea.

At that point she doesn't know what's happening, her youngest sister is gone and presumably dead, her planet just exploded, everything smells bad and she's hungry and everything is so scary, but she has her sisters and her big brother to protect her.

When they first got to Hyperborea, her bond with Apate was what made her a little more optimistic: things were difficult, but then she looked over at her brother, who was so cool and dependable, made the food taste a bit better and would even bring her cool little gadgets to tinker with and sell to people.

She was fine, everything was fine enough to make it work somehow. All she needed was her family, and they were still with her.

Until they weren’t.

In the span of a few weeks they find out their sister Akari had been killed, Apate disappears and nobody knows where he is and her twin Atore, who’s furious at him for it, goes after him.

In the span of a few weeks she lost the people she cared the most about, one after the other, and she didn’t really know how to deal with it. She stopped smiling, talking and avoiding any contact with what was left of her family until she eventually locked herself in her room and barely left it for the following 8 years.

Losing every source of comfort she had so quickly had brought her to suffer from what we call today as Hikikomori syndrome.

## CHARACTER INFO

### Location(s)

- Re’gross (age 0 - 14)
- Hyperborea (age 14 - present)

### Relatives

- Arita (oldest sister)
- Amari (older sister)
- Apate (older brother)
- Akari (older sister)
- Atore ( twin sister)
- Assio (youngest sister)
- Her Mother

## STATUS

**ALIVE**

If she ever left her room it was only during the quiet hours of Hyperborea: she had figured out how to move around through rooftops, weird nooks and tunnels so she spent her time outside by exploring these places and finding ancient electronics (what 2022 technology was on Earth) to bring back to her room.

She started studying and tinkering with these pieces of ancient technology.

She figured out that small groups of people had already built some form of network connected to each other so that they could communicate (like some group of friends had pulled wires across buildings so they could talk with each other within the city).

Mostly for fun, she started intersecting these lines to mess with people at first, but then it started quite a bit of speculation around the city: people started gossiping about this ghost that keeps messing with the power lines so the concept of using wires to have connections to people starts spreading quite quickly.

That only encouraged Akyo, so it didn’t take long before she used her time outside her room to build up an entire network around Hyperborea in **Layer 2**, which later will take the name of Hypernet, and build and distribute the devices (comparable to our current smartphones) to connect to it.

All of this while being incredibly anonymous. No one even suspected that it was Akyo Gadarik behind this sort of technological evolution.

Word spread even more quickly and she pretty much raised a cult around herself, even if indirectly, because of her work.

Working on the Hypernet and only talking to some people online was her way to escape from her own dreadful life.

Until one day, someone knocks at the Gadarik’s front door: exactly 8 years after he had left, there stood their long lost brother Apate, terribly wounded and barely keeping himself on his feet.

Akyo only found out when she moved her earphones for a second, recognising her sister Amari’s enraged screams directed at him.

Her heart stopped for a second, she just couldn’t believe it.

And it was exactly because of him that she opened her door outside of her comforting quiet hours for the first time in years.

Day after day she would get down one more stair while she looked at Apate, the majority of his body bandaged as he tried to sleep, his brows furrowed almost as if he was still in pain.

The first social contact she makes after 8 whole years of loneliness is with him, and she can’t help but try to get closer, longing for the comforting peace they once had.

## **Fun Facts**

Akyo is a trans woman. She knew she was trans from a very young age.

Apate started growing his hair with her and they've had similar length hair ever since. Even when they didn't talk for many many years in Hyperborea, their hair lengths still stayed the same because neither of them cut it.

When they were reunited they got their hair cut to a more manageable length again.