fuyume — 31 — she/her — mst/mdt

ㅤbiography.ㅤ Akira Kirxaa's earliest memory is of the calamity, when Dalamud fell and Bahamut laid waste to Carteneaux and the effects changed Eorzea forever. Akira, along with a handful of adventurer friends of hers, had decided to fight as well, but most of her companions fell in the battle, and protecting the last, Akira took a hit nearly head on from the dragon. The massive blast of aether wiped her memories of anything before, including her name, where she lived...and the fact that she was not the hyur she appeared to be. Oblivious to all of these things, she eventually made her way to Ul'dah.Once there, Akira made her way to the Adventurer's guild, still unnamed. While there, Momodi helped her choose a new name to use to sign up for the guild. The proprietress had suggested Akira as a name she'd heard from a traveler that had stopped in one day, and said it 'just fit her'. Akira accepted that and continued on, pursuing the black magical arts.Along the way, through her adventures fighting primals and running errands, she of course became close with the scions, the sultana of Ul'dah Nanamo, and several adventurers she met along the way. She also began to nurse a crush on the handsome commander of Camp Dragonhead, Haurchefant Greystone.But all was not well as she felled primal after primal. During a celebration banquet, during which Nanamo planned to reveal her intention to step down from the throne, not only was her dear friend Nanamo seemingly assassinated before her eyes, a powerful magic broke the enchantment on her, revealing that the hyur she believed herself to be was actually an Au Ra. Not only did she have to struggle to accept this, but in the ensuing chaos she was separated from her adventuring friends and the Scions. Together with Alphinaud and Tataru, she fled to Camp Dragonhead, to the only person she could be sure was still trustworthy.Of course Haurchefant was willing to help, and didn't shy away from Akira's new appearance. He took the three to shelter in Ishgard, with his family, who Akira came to care for as if they were hers. She also chose to take up the mantle of the Dark Knight, determined to never let someone else fall protecting her again. As they sought to clear their names, Akira and her companions uncovered a long standing plot by the Heavensward that was the root of the war against the dragons. However, when trying to capture the Archbishop at the top of the Vault, Haurchefant was struck down. Akira was far beyond broken hearted, and hunted the Heavensward with a single minded pursuit of vengeance.After defeating the Heavensward and, subsequently, defeating Nidhogg and saving Estinien, she numbly makes her way through the events of Stormblood. Akira is devastated at her defeat at Rhalgar's Reach at the hands of Zenos and starts to believe she's incapable of saving anyone. Depressed and lonely, she accepts Hien's proposal of a casual relationship, attempting to let her heart heal. However, when he's nearly killed at Ghimlit, she breaks things off and flees to the First.On the First, she's hesitant to trust the Exarch but something about him makes her want to. She doesn't hesitate to fight the Lightwardens on his behalf, and knows in her bones that she has to do everything she can to save this world. While there, she meets Emet-Selch, a man who she by all rights should despise and yet, somehow, doesn't. She listens to him when the Scions want to write him off and in return he treats her with something adjacent to kindness. And when she learns the truth of Hydaelyn and Zodiark and the little bit of the world that once was, she can't help but wish she could help him too, even if she knows that to do so would doom her own world. Despite how much she really knew she shouldn't, Akira started to spend more nights with him than without him.And that's what made his betrayal, despite knowing it was coming no matter what happened with the Light, sting so sharply. And doubly so when she started to learn about Azem in the aftermath, and knew without knowing that they had loved each other, and that Azem's loss was a major catalyst in his suffering. Then he saved her against Elidibus, and it was nearly too much. When G'raha turned to crystal afterwards, she was terrified to even leave the shard, worried that she would lose yet another person she cared for. She retreated to the Tempest before leaving, confiding her fears to the shade of Hythlodaeus, and taking a few moments to speak to her imagined ghost of Hades before daring to return to the Source.During the Final Days, Akira ran herself ragged trying to protect the ones she loved, including and above all G'raha and her newborn daughter with him, Stella. But when she was sent back in time to discover the true cause of the Final Days, she was nearly tempted to give it all up for the sake of preventing the tragedy altogether, her existing feelings for Hades and her new feelings for the real Hythlodaeus clouding her judgement enough that, despite Elidibus' warnings, she could hardly fathom leaving them to their fate. But that choice like so many others was made for her, and she was forced to leave them behind.-will be completed later-