Akio Akimitsu

> I saw it all and I know it for myself. The part where they said I was granted all of these by the heavens was never real, not at all. As a child, I was experimented, and forced to keep this smile forever, unable to lash out, show fear, cry, and even show anger in exchange for the "blessings" and talents I have right now. So, I wouldn't really think that I'm someone to envy."
> Akio Akimitsu to Ryuga Chisaka in "Truth of Everyone's Envy"
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Akio Akimitsu is the current Crushing Nature Kosho of the Defenders of the Light and is a major supporting character of the *Warped Eternity: Living Destruction's Abyssal Remnants.* He is highly regarded as the strongest Kosho during the Thirteenth Age, and the strongest in six eras due to the experiments placed upon him. He is also one of the ancient gods of Cruor, with him actually existing since the Fifth Period, and thus being 4,800 years old. He is also the ancestor of Gabriel Calijan, one of the characters in Sorceress and the Sea series who has inherited his Divine Blade and is trying to figure out about Adriel Cruz, also known as the Blood Rain. Akio is known to be one of the earliest victims of the everlasting Smile Curse, which forces it's victims to eternally smile in exchange for the offer of insane amounts of strength and combat capabilities. He is known as the Lord of Nature, and the Grounds and is highly ranked amongst the Harmonious Deities as the Third Lord as well as just being below Nathaniel Divon, who is the Divine Traitor. He also summoned the Nature Dragons of Oblivis through a Numen Contract with one of the fellow deities of harmony, thus granting him a bigger advantage against Daiki. He is also the creator of Crushing Nature Style, which he created and mastered all those five dimensions to compensate for his lack of mobility and flexibility.

## Personality

Akio is a very outgoing, composed, and friendly man who always seems very enthusiasthic and cheerful. He often gives off very positive vibes, and is seeming to be very carefree and an airhead at times. He also seems to be overhyperactive, and can occassionally do disruptive things during the Kosho Meetings, which is something Rei looks at disdain with. His overhyperactive nature causes him to be known as the loudest Kosho, as his voice is often so loud due to his intense feelings. Akio also seems to be very cheerful and sometimes immature, as he struggles on focusing on one single task and often does multi-tasking even if the situation doesn't call for it. His tendency of not focusing on a single task is due to his excessive activities. Akio is careless and impulsive too, causing him to be rash and reckless with his mistakes. Due to his rash mistakes he cannot control, he falls into quite a deep depression when seeing the negative impact on others and often leads to more self-criticism and hate. Due to his unwillingness to open up about his rash mistakes and his desire to never show vulnerability as a deity, this condition of his rash mistakes and his depression got slowly worse as it was beginning to become more suppressed. Despite this, Akio was in reality, very depressed and sad inside due to the ongoing conflicts happening on the Thirteenth Age alongside the judgements of ungrateful civilians. He was also very distrustful and cynical of others, even far more afraid of forming very close relationships with others due to witnessing the betrayals and the power struggles during his time and how often others would probably use him and take advantage of him. This cynical mindset of his caused him to actually form friendships with others, but these actually never seemed like friendships at all as he never opened up to anyone at all. His cynicism is due to hating himself for his rashness and having a feeling of worthlessness due to others having to suffer the impulsivity of his uncontrolled actions. As he doesn't want others to be even more bothered, he actually doesn't express the reason why he does those rash decisions and pretends everything is alright with him. This was considered to be something that maintained with him throughout his four thousand years of living due to the experimentation's effect.

His lack of focus on a single task makes him do multiple tasks on a multitude of times without any rest, and he often overworks himself to the point of not giving himself time to rest. This is due to his excessive activities and how he wants to do everything to actually be useful to others, alongside the way he overcompensates for his lack of flexibility, agility, and fluid footwork which can lead to extreme amounts of exhaustion. His uncontrolled behavior causes him to also become very blunt and rude with his speech, due to his skepticism and hyperactive nature although this was too hard for him to realize. He is mostly blunt especially when he handles frustration and is very low at frustration tolerance. He often has a more cold-hearted, cocky, taunting and a passive-aggressive attitude when frustrated and is often very sarcastic. He also talks over people sometimes, as he doesn't ever want to deal with being ignored. He also is very talkative and verbally sassy, and this also contributes to one of the reasons why he talks over people sometimes as his extroverted nature caused him to be frustrated when someone took too long, something Naree is frustrated about despite him being her favourite Kosho. This was evident by him talking over some of his fellow Kosho, such as when he talked over the Shockwave Kosho and thus, greatly annoyed him due to the interruptions he usually causes. Despite this, he is actually the smartest Kosho out of the dozen due to finding more information and having far more experience in those centuries as an ancient god. During his time as a Kosho, Akio held the most hate and disdain for the creatures for the Warped Domain's Lords. However, he was like Kazuo Yasahana as he did have lots of struggles with his internal feelings towards the creatures. As one of the deities who is tasked to protect the innocent like Nathaniel Divon, he hates the creatures for murdering innocent people but actually somehow understood their omnipotent rage towards humans due to the unrepentant and heinous actions humans committed through the centuries. This conflicting and contrasting feelings were really making it difficult, as he was torn on two sides despite being dutiful towards his job as a Kosho. Akio also had immense struggle with his responsibilities as a deity probably connected to his impulsivity, recklessness, and restlessness and how countlessly he works.

Akio could be quite verbally harsh, and spouts out insults at times where he didn't ever mean to or times where he couldn't control his rage. This was evident by his sarcastic, and rude mockery towards Kujaku Haga and the other courtesans conceived from the abyssal mirrors of Mortemterra. This is also due to his impulsive nature where he mocks a lot of his opponents and taunts them, despite being clearly overpowered, which was a testament to his laidback demeanor. While speaking with them to distract them, Akio devised efficient and unpredictable strategies and attacks to further increase his damage, which was considered an unconventional manner of distracting and confusing opponents without agility or flexibility.

Despite this, he holds extremely complex philosophies about the system of life in the world which pointed out his wise, distrustful, distant and cynical demeanor. Although Akio could be forgiving towards those who truly showed their regret, he himself believes that those humans who committed crimes and haven't regretted a single thing are no different from the fiends and the creatures who have killed enormous amounts of humans. According to his mindset, their job as the Defenders of the Light is to protect only the innocent and increase the amount of lives saved for a better future and to ensure those lives have not committed extremely heavy crimes and have hurt others for their own benefit. He also believes crimes which were too heavy couldn't be forgiven as there were times where it was too late to make amends or to apologize and those who committed such crimes without guilt is to be eradicated without question. His philosophy has a condition where those who have committed crimes should

Although Akio is rather laidback, there are times that due to impulsitivity, he accidentally goes into acts of self-destructive revenge and violence due to not being able to control much of his sanity. This lack of control over sanity due to the immense pressures he has due to his immense power, alongside the immense responsibilities and the extreme depression he has due to his condition causes him immense sorrow and loneliness. He is considered to not be the most mature of the Kosho despite his intelligence due to his impulsive, laidback, carefree and restless nature.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** As a Kosho, Akio is actually very powerful, managing to become the strongest and the most superior in six ages and eras of the Defenders of the Light even far surpassing the most talented Kosho in those eras despite his bodily restriction which didn't allow him to possess flexibility and agility to any enhanced or superhuman levels due to his excessively heavy amounts of strength, speed and power alongside being one of the five strongest users of Still Foundation.

## Quotes

*"My, my, what makes you think I'm the perfect Kosho? The perfect god? Those are such foolish things to say. In fact, I'm not anyone perfect despite the displays of my strength and achievements. Astar is actually right, as I am just one of the mentally troubled people in this world trying my best to be useful atleast." Akio Akimitsu to Natsu Anchali and Ryuga Chisaka*

*" Now, please stop whining. So disgusting and immature honestly, I'm even surprised you became a member of the Warped Domain's Lords with such an idiotic, uneducated, and immature mind. I know now what that disgusting master of yours thinks about you, he often thinks you're an annoying brat who just got lucky to become a goddess of forest spirits. You're quite unnecessary, aren't you?" Akio Akimitsu to Okura Shiori in a fit of rage*

*"As the Kosho, we are the pinnacle of the Defenders of the Light and I am actually pressured the most due to having the most strength and power out of our dozen. We aren't traditional role models, nor are we perfect in any sense despite what our achievements might suggest as all have a weakness they cannot erase. Despite how everyone sees me as the Kosho with the Absolute Power who does things effortlessly and nonchalantly, I actually face a lot of troubles and pressure. The position is so restless and has heavy pressure, though you shouldn't let that deter you though. It can still be rewarding for you as you can play a major role in stopping and decreasing the amount of deaths in this world full of war. You actually have lots of potential and talent to become one of the people who could become just as magnificent as what they think of me." Akio encouraging Ryuga Chisaka and Ayumu Ishioka*

*"May I ask why do you need to feel so orderly, strict, and disciplined? I do mean that life's not something to be too serious about, you can only live once, you know? All things will eventually come to an end, even us deities. Matsuoka-san is right, time flies by too quickly and we can leave this world anytime." Akio Akimitsu to Minjun Hua*

## Trivia

A line made for him by the author is "You may have dexterity and flexibility but I got, got the power. You make rains but I make it, I make it shower."

One of Akio's descendants was corrupted by Kali and turned into one of the pirates

Akio is known to actually love the moon, and this was one of the weird traits no one knew about. This was passed onto his reincarnation and descendant.

In reality, Akio has symptoms of ADHD, although it was not figured out. He was treated as an outcast for this.

His quotes are inspired from Toji, and Hisui but he has far larger amount of original quotes than the ones inspired from Toji and Hisui.