Kira Ayakii

KIRA AYAKII

And you're dragging me into this because . . . ?

BIOGRAPHY

HOME LIFE

Her life at home was . . . mediocre. Her parents weren't the best, but they also weren't the worst. Yes, she does still hold some childhood grudges from her parents taking away her phone and her books and her tablet when she did something they didn't like, but it goes beyond that. Her parents were very paranoid. Not in the sense that they wouldn't let her go 5 seconds out of their sight, but in the sense that they made making new friends sound like a terrifying thing. She stayed quiet in school. Kids thought she was weird but no one had decided to bother her. She's had her cold stare ever since the beginning of middle school and it made people scared to go near her.

It wasn't until she was almost in high school that she finally decided to make the effor to make friends. It worked, and it wasn't as scary as her parents made it out to be. She could've had something awesome back in kindergarten, but her parents prevented it. It's something she's been trying to change about herself, but old habits die hard. So yeah, maybe she resents them a little.

HIGH SCHOOL

Despite the fact that she could make friends now, she couldn't make very many. After running into the same person multiple times because of matching schedules, she became the extrovert that picked her up and brought her to her group. She wouldn't talk very much since she didn't know what to say, but when the two were alone, she couldn't stop the words from flowing out of her mouth. She didn't know what it was, but of course Isako, the extrovert, wouldn't mind. Isako tried to get Kira to talk more around their other friends, but nothing seemed to work, Kira just never knew what to say. Or if she did, it was a very short response. Sure enough, Kira and Isako were best friends. Isako gave her a gift one day. It was a locket and she had a matching one too. "Forever Friends" was etched inside of it.

One day, she looked up what it meant that she could talk for hours to someone. Multiple websites suggested that she was in love. The amount of heat on her face was immeasurable. She even asked her parents how they were when they first met, and they said that they would talk to each other a lot too! Maybe she really was in love . . . .

THE CRATER

Curiosity killed the cat, and while Kira isn't a cat, holy fucking shit did her curiosity kill her hundreds of times. On her first day of participating in Turf Wars, she noticed a weirdly placed manhole by the steps before the lobby. She didn't think to much of it at first, but she kept seeing it every time she went to play Turf. Why was it there? How was it there? Kira's always been the kind to ask questions she most absolutely wants the answer to. She figured no one else would be able to give them to her, so she decided to find out for herself.

Worst. Mistake. Ever.

She got dragged into some secret agent work that the old man she met wouldn't really let her say no to. She was good at keeping secrets, there was no problem there, but she definitely was not the best at using weapons since she had only recently started doing Turf War. She wasn't even the right candidate for the job. But the old man insisted, so she agreed. He had her walking through some weird looking ink with her little buddy Hook, who she met right before she started doing Turf Wars, and fighting strange octolings. Couldn't be the worst thing, right? . . . right?

ALTERNA

She fell. After fighting that octoling with that huge machine, she fell. She thought it was over. She thought she couldn't say goodbye to the people she loved. She thought she couldn't even try to get better at the Tri-Stringer. After landing, she opened her eyes, thinking that the brightness of the place meant that she was in heaven, and that Hook came along with her. She blinked a couple of times, soon realizing that she was still alive, but was too out of it to celebrate. She had landed in Alterna. Meeting five other squids that also seemed a bit fucked up, she realized that she was definitely outnumbered now.

The experience wasn't as bad as it could've been, though. She had a companion. Yes, she had Hook, but she had met a lionfish that also seemed to be doing these missions against their will. At least that was one thing they could bond over, and at least Kira wasn't alone. Kira didn't like her at first because she got pickpocketed, so she gave her the silent treatment for a bit. She realized, though, that they were going to be together for a while, so Noriko was lucky enough to get a second chance from her.

After dealing with that whole ordeal, reading about the culture, reading about the past, fighting the members of Deep Cut, and having to get launched into space to make sure a lonely ass bear doesn't destroy the fucking world, she never wants to go into Alterna again. Though, every now and then, she's curious about the logs she's unlocked from O.R.C.A., and has thoughts about rereading over them again. There's something about the past that's so . . . fascinating to her.

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