Akiyama Kazama

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## Status

### Fighting Style

Master Martial Artist, Weapons master

"*You selfish, egotistical, fame seeking bastard."*

-*Akiyama towards Captain Celebrity*

Akiyama Kazama, also known by his official self-given Villain name **Bishop,**is a former hitman, villain and occasional vigilante and anti-hero whose presence is a myth and a legend towards both the general community and the underground society. Those that believe his existence are only those that have engaged in direct combat with him, and as for those who know him he is way, way more than just a one-dimensional villain.

He is currently a member of Overseer due to shared ideals.

### Appearance

Beneath his mask, Akiyama has Spiky black hair, with pure and serious black eyes, and a normally calm and composed, sometimes even cold expression on his face.

### Personality

On the surface, Akiyama could come off as a rather calm, composed yet serious and sometimes even distant and cold person, yet when one gets to know him better this is not really the case.

In reality, hidden deep below the ice-cold exterior personality this self-decleared villain puts on lies the base personality of a rather surprisingly thoughtful, empathetic and sometimes even kind person. Akiyama holds his ideals deep to his heart, hence his cold personality, yet he genuinely wishes the general society to change for the better. By creating such a persona and such an image he wishes for the world to come together against the very thing they fear, which would be himself, and therefore at least allow to people to come to a general understanding and successfully live together. His upbringing and experience as an assassin for the mafia in the past has left him extremely traumatised regarding the filth of society and he wishes for that to go away.

The only 2 things that Akiyama absolutely detests are heroes that only perform heroic deeds for superficial needs such as wealth and fame, and villains who fight heroes only for the sole purpose of wrecking havoc. In the scenario of the latter he will not hesitate to take their life if they refuse to change and continue with their actions. In the scenario of the former however the furthest that he will go is to put them into intensive care and leave them seriously injured or maimed, as he recognises the need for heroes in order maintain the image of a stable society and keep innocent citizens at ease. When facing down said people in both categories, he will sometimes explode into an unrivalled rage when recounting their deeds and motivations--he regards this state as his *berserker* state and absolutely hates it when he has to tap into his rage to fuel his determination to fight. The only reason that he is classified as a villain in the first place is the fact that he has injured and defeated more heroes that villains.

Despite his intentions, Akiyama's methods to achieve said goals are extremely questionable, benefitting of his classification of a villain. He will not hesistate to manipulate and swindle his way towards his goals, sometimes brushing off casualties as collateral damage despite his remorse towards the people involved. The mentioned beating and maiming of both heroes and villains alike are also showing of his more brutal side. This shows off a more hypocritical side of him--he wants good for the citizens of the world, yet he is willing to allow them to die and sacrifice them for his goals.

Against heroes or villains with similar ideals and goals with him or just people whom he deems as a worthy opponent, he will attempt to cease fighting and commend them on their skills or beliefs and invite them to work with him to his goals. If they refuse then he will hesitantly yet surely cut them down if they are villains, or injure or cripple them if they are heroes. At times when he sees potential in a person he will even attempt to offer training to said person, showing a more honorable side of him when it comes to things.

This contradictory element of himself has left him internally torn and tortured over his very being and overall status as a human, leading him to repeateadly ponder the reasoning behind his own existence and his purpose as a human being, this leading him to be diagnosed with clinical depression, and in turn leading to the presence of suicidal thoughts within him. Yet his drive and determination to see his goal achieved has led him to fight on with this self declared wretched existence of his, and after his goal is accomplished he plans to take his own life as a means to end his suffering and as a way to free himself from his existence.

In all, Akiyama is a fundamentally complex yet flawed person, in a sense a vicitm of society itself. Well meaning, yet forced to take the negative and brutal route to complete his goals and in the process creating a feared and negative image of himself, wishing for the protection of the innocent, yet forced to sacrifice the very thing he wishes to protect at times when nesscary, despite his unwillingness. Idealistic yet hypocritical. Wanting to die, yet not allowing himself to. To this end, he will not allow anything, and not stop his methods and ways of living until his ultimate goal is achieved, the very thing he calls "world peace".

### Quirks and abilities

**Overall abilities:** Akiyama is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous villains in history, with the damage that he has done considered to be on par with All For One. His rather unique quirk is extremely powerful in raw power and might, and when used appropriately and strategically his power can have the possibility to reach infinity. The last time he fought against America's top superhero, Captain Celebrity, he was able to easily overpower the hero and hold the upper hand in the fight against him, eventually defeating the number one top ranked hero in the US. When fighting against knuckleduster it took him around 5 seconds to defeat the quirkless vigilante, but he still stated that knuckleduster was a good fighter. When fighting against a berserk Dark Shadow, he was initially overwhelmed by the monster, yet as the fight went on he was able to match and even physically overpower Dark Shadow, eventually defeating it through combination of raw might and technique. However, he is not invincible, as Prime All Might was able to defeat and get past him with ease, although Akiyama was only a starter at that time on his journey to become a villain.

**Evolution:** Akiyama's quirk is split into 2 sections:

* **Regenerative Healing factor:** Akiyama possesses an extremely potent healing factor, to the point where most wounds recieved from him regenerate within a matter of seconds. A cut takes around a millisecond to heal, while gunshot wounds take around a few seconds to heal. Internal damages such as bone fractures take longer to heal, with the average healing time being around an hour or so. He can regenerate lost body parts such as limbs, but those take around 2 days to heal and he will have a scar on the site of impact. He can be reduced to a skeleton and his healing factor will mean that he will come back perfectly normal, with the exception of a few scars. The only factor limiting his healing factor from being near unstoppable is the fact that his healing factor is directly linked to his stamina-the less tired and fatigued he is, the faster he could heal. The more tired that he is, the less faster that he could heal. Hence it is possible to overpower his healing factor and kill him, yet that would take a significant act of power to do so.

* **Damage-scaling power boost:** When Akiyama takes damage and regenerates, his physical attributes grow and increase relative to the damage he receives. For instance, if he is beaten to near death, then when he regenerates the power he gains is relative to the power used or required by the being that beat him to death. In other words, the more damage he recieves, the more powerful he becomes. Yet after a fight, only 25% of the power boost he recieved during the fight will stick with him permanently. This quirk has led Akiyama to gain tremendous physical attributes due to the sheer number of fights that he has been in.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Akiyama possesses extreme amounts of strength. A single, nonchalant kick from him was able to split a tree cleanly in half, and the air pressure that he generates from his punches is strong enough to send a person flying. As mentioned before, his strength has the possibility to grow infinitely, given that he dosen't die.
	+ **Superhuman Speed and Agillity:** Akiyama can move faster than the naked eye can perceive, and sometimes even reach the speed of sound. His top speed has been recorded at around mach 2. He can punch fast enough to shatter a cliff face, and his reflexes are also enhanced to superhuman levels. He is also extremely agile, able to easily change direction mid jump
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Even though Akiyama has a healing factor, it is rather hard to injure him in the first place, as his durabillity has been exponentially enhanced beyond human levels. He can take blade strikes simply by extending his hand to block them.
	+ **Superhuman Endurance:** Akiyama's stamina and endurance is well beyond peak human levels. He once participated in a 125 hour fight without taking breaks in between, although after the ideal he was left extremely exhausted.
	+ **Enhanced Senses:** Akiyama is quite a sensitive sensor. He can pick up disturbances in the wind around him and use that to predict his opponent's location and moves in battle.

**Master Martial Artist:** One of the, if not the most skilled and dangerous martial artist in history, Akiyama's mastery in martial arts is near unmatched. He has mastered every current martial art form on earth, but his fighting style is unique in itself, specialising in speed and accurate nerve strikes, and also accurate counterpunching. Eraserhead noted that Akiyama's techinical precision far surpassed his. His skill in martial arts is so great that he is able to accurately manipulate the air pressure created from his punches and use them as a powerful concussive force and a form of ranged combat. His daily training rountine consists of him fighting against a dozen highly trained and lethal martial artist assassins and defeating them by knocked them out. He is also, with a glance, able to dicern and counter the martial art that his opponent is using, or read their body language to easily predict and counter their next move.

**Weapons Master:** Akiyama is a master of a lot of weapons, but his main preferred weapons in combat are his katana and throwing knives. His mastery of the former 2 is greater compared to the other weapons such as bows, spears and axes, yet he is still more proficient than most.

**Keen Intellect/Master Strategist/Master Manipulator:** Akiyama is an extremely keen and intelligent individual. His true strength intellectually is in manipulating others into performing deeds for him, due to his unique was of negotiation and swindling. His proficiency with warfare and tactics is so great that when the mafia tried to lure in into a trap, he was able to effortlessly dicern the trap and defeat most of the mafia within a matter of seconds.

**Extreme Pain Tolerance:** Akiyama is highly indifferent to most forms of pain, mostly because of his abillity to simply endure it and move on, and also due to his healing factor.