Akkaz

Akkaz is the name of the Pulsekaw who found The Soaring at the end of the Pulsekaw Era. He is the single most important entity within the context of current events, as the Mint Gardens, the naming of all Humans before their births, and the trapping, killing, and corruption of all Pulsekaw (thus ending their Era) are all due to his influence. He is the tenth known Soaring and is highly worshipped and feared by many cults due to his very observable influence over Reality, which many prior Soaring simply do not have for one reason or another.

Akkaz was subject to the pain, torture, and study of an incredibly rare disease called Lymibody that likely contributed to his overall mental state.

## Appearance and Personality

Akkaz was a young Pulsekaw male In life, and was described as a quiet, cautious, and simple child. He was about average height for his age, and his fur was more darkly colored than most of his Pulsekaw peers, with bright spots of white along his jaw, chest, and the tip of his tail. His eyes were not naturally red, though they quickly became permanently stained with his own free-flowing blood due to his illness. Akkaz's hair was kept relatively messy, and somewhat uneven, with a lot of extra growth spilling over the right side of his face.

He suffered from Lymibody, an incredibly rare disease left his matter constantly shifting, roiling, and melting off. Everything from his bone structure, muscles, skin, fur, even blood would continuously melt into a gel-like substance and drip off his body at most hours of the day. Strangely enough, this matter would always slowly wriggle and writhe its way back to the boy, and reform with the rest of his body no matter where he was. Sometimes this spilling of matter would be violent and sudden, most of the time, though, it would be slow but consistent. This changed his appearance, height, and shape in plenty of unsightly ways, though he would consistently have a large amount of matter pooling around his neck, and jaw, covering them.

In his mortal life, Akkaz was a very cheerful inquisitive, and gifted child. He showed clear signs of prodigy in certain areas, including his study of translating the ancient Pulsekaw texts, and general athleticism. He was sheltered and somewhat naïve, however, willingly giving his name to Mershaw without even recognizing how dangerous that could be. He had a small tempter, but was quick to apologize and was generally a very friendly and affectionate child who enjoyed the small things. His affection for mint was notable.

Akkaz the Soaring is currently taking on the form he had while he was alive. Strangely enough, even in his chats with Goal, his disease still clings to him beyond the mortal life in Reality. Whether or not this is by choice, due to trauma, or some other force keeping him like this is unknown. As The Soaring, Akkaz is much more malicious and thoughtful than in his life, having an infinite amount of time to overthink and drive himself into the darkest corners of sanity. He appears to be highly self-conscious, refusing to even come out of the dark to talk with Goal face to face, and calling himself "unsightly" and wishing to never be looked at again. He also appears to be trapped in a state of trauma, screaming at Goal to stop piercing him and removing his flesh, even though she didn't understand what he was talking about. Moments of lucidity do occur with Akkaz, though they appear rare and fleeting.

## Story

Early on in his youth, Akkaz was discovered to have a horrible disease that was incredibly rare and impossible to hide. He was kept at home and pulled from all scholastic activity by his mother immediately, trying to keep him hidden from the mercilessly curious Pulsekaw who would seek to study him and his rare disease. Trying to provide him a decent and free life, she relented and allowed Akkaz to play outside, thus eventually leading to his discovery and seizure from his home by a Deid named Mershaw.

Akkaz was taken to a very secluded underground facility in Numbiie called The Deid's Pits, where he was to be contained and tested on within its darkest depths. It was here the researchers would mercilessly apply negative stimuli to the young Pulsekaw in an endlessly cruel amount of ways, as they learned that negative reactions caused a massive amount of matter loss quickly. The Deid was very interested in not only the documenting of Akkaz's condition, but stressing it, and seeking to harness his reforming attributes for regular Pulsekaw flesh and blood.

It was during these experiments Akkaz met two of the more dutiful researchers who would take the most initiative: Uocali and his partner. These two Pulsekaw would put Akkaz through large amounts of pain, stress, fear, and discomfort daily for many cycles, due to being under the threat of Mershaw's Pulse, which was rumoured to rip the names straight out of a Pulsekaw's mouth without their knowing. After one particular event which would leave Akkaz scarred for the rest of his young life, he snapped and learned seemingly overnight how to control his slipping matter, and use as a weapon to begin a slaughter of every last Pulsekaw in the facility.

Uocali was able to hide himself from Akkaz's presence due to his Erasure, but this left him in the horrifying position to watch his beloved slaughtered right in front of him by Akkaz's lethally gorged hand. Assuming every last Pulsekaw had been killed and vengeance was finally delivered, Akkaz fled the facility to whatever freedom Soly could offer him.

## Quotes

"It does not matter what you are, so long as you are not Pulsekaw."

"I do not want to be here either, Goal. My head spins, there is so much darkness, and nothingness here. Sometimes I forget who I am, and what I must do. You have not been here long enough to feel it, but when you do... we will be enemies."