Ballari Akerman

Setepenmeretseger

Little Cobra (by Menler)

36 (as of 4023)

**Ballari Akerman**, nicknamed **Silent Walker**, is the Setepnetjeret of Meretseger (Setepenmeretseger). She was trained as an assassin from an early age who works with the Smaiu. Ballari is famous for her efficiency and her ability to stay completely silent. She has a temporary home in Philae, Sepat of Isis, and is in a relationship with Joshia Mephres as part of a mission.

She is a transgender woman.

## Biography

### Early Life

Ballari Akerman was born on the year 3987 in Leontos, Sepat of Shu, product of an accident. Her mother, a young woman that worked as a maid, who is only known for her surname Akerman, wanted to get an abortion, but she could not afford it. When her baby was born, she was claimed the Setepnetjeret of Meretseger by Renenutet and the Seven Hathors, giving her the amulet and naming her "Ballari", a female name although the baby was a boy. Her mother, who was afraid of the Setepnetjeru, resented her. Planning to leave her at an orphanage, her boss, Menler Bienekes, a secret Smai and mafia lord, offered to buy her. The mother accepted, and with the money she fled.

### Life as an assassin

She was raised in the Bienekes household, where her mother used to work. At age 8 her adoptive father made her train as an assassin by a former Medjay. Menler with time became a strong father figure to her, accepted her fully. After nine years training and working on secret missions for various Smaiu and errands of Menler's business, she became a renounced assassin known as the "Silent Walker" (which is the meaning of her real name) because of her ability to not make any sound.

She moved with the Bienekes to Khalem when Menler became the new representative of the Smaiu there and later a Senator. She kept working on missions for years, even becoming a Smai herself, and ignoring Hector Ankhaf andMonique Egyps's summons to Setepnetjeru meetings, who knew she existed but had never seen her. There she helped with the training of the Zamonth children, as well as Thana Roven. There she fully transitioned into a woman.

From her childhood she has had a repeated dream, where she is in front of Ta Dehent, a triangle-shaped peak overseeing the Valley of the Pharaohs in Waset. Sometimes a female figure that Ballari relates to her mother guides her to a tunnel under the peak, but she always wakes up before knowing what was there.

She keeps a secret apartment in Philae as a temporary home.

### Last mission

In 4020 she was given the mission to spy on the Setepnetjer Joshia Mephres in Memphis and extract information on how he creates weapons and machinery.

Disguised as a girl named "Mery Unas", Ballari seduced Joshia until he fell in love with her and they began a relationship, where she was close to his work. Ballari even received two machetes with thin blades from him as a gift, which she called Ta Tehnet. However, after many years of spying, she fell in love with him for the fact that he accepted who she was even though he described himself as heterosexual and was disgusted to even think about men (or former men for that matter) in any sexual or romantic way. For him, she began to alter the information she was sending the Smaiu.