Name: Akira Tanaka
Alias(es): "BG"
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Race: Human (was once a half-demon-angel)
Height: 5'07"
Weight: 110 lbs.
Armor (if any): None
Weapons (if any): Sword that has two sides: a Light Side (which allows it to use Light Attacks), and a Dark Side (which allows it to use Dark Attacks). The side chosen depends on the mood of the user. Sword will glow white for Light, and glow a deep crimson if Dark.
Physical Attacks: Can throw powerful punches and kicks; was trained in the ways of martial arts when he was young.
Magical attacks: Sword can create reactions in the air that allow attacks to travel distances -- normally a good 100 feet -- without the sword ever touching the opponent. (Sword can transfer magic powers through the air. Powers differ on strength of wielder.)
Resistances: Can take normal blows to the face and chest easily, as years of training have allowed him such brief invulnerability. However, the blows to face/chest become progressively stronger as this "invulnerability" is weakened. Also completely resists anything that deals with Darkness.
Weaknesses: Almost anything a normal human would hate (though he has more resistance against them). Light attacks do fair amount of damage, as do other magical attacks (except those related to Darkness).
Appearance: Of decent height; charcoal-black hair that is somewhat untamed; emerald-green eyes that seem to glow at night; wears a black shirt with a simple white "bolt" streaking down the middle, and matching black pants.
Personality: Quiet, but enjoys engaging in conversation; prefers not to fight unless circumstances allow no other options; hates people that enjoy causing pain on others, and will bring justice to them if need be; somewhat naive.
Family (if any): Father - Keiji Tanaka (deceased); mother - Serena Tanaka (deceased); Noll Tanaka (older brother, deceased); Boswell Tanaka (older brother, twin of Noll, deceased); Sari Tanaka (younger sister)
History/Bio: Akira Tanaka has a long history behind him -- and was once regarded as the Earth's savior.
Akira was the third born in the family known as the Tanaka's -- the father being a demon, and the mother being an angel. During the period when his parents met, Angels and Demons were at war on the Earth. However, this pair fell in love, and as the war came to an end with no victor proclaimed, the pair married and settled down together. Eventually, the couple had two sons -- the twins Boswell and Noll. Almost fifteen years later, the couple would have another son: Akira. And, finally, one more. Akira's sister, Sari. During Sari's birth, Boswell and Noll had grown to become troubled young men, getting into things that brought their parents pain. Because of this, Sari turned out to be a half-demon, and she was so ruthless towards her parents that she was set up for adoption (during the adoption period, Sari calmed and the demon supposedly left her).
During this time period when Akira was growing up as a child, his father -- Keiji -- was going through a life crisis. Demons had learned of his whereabouts, and were going to kill off his entire family and torture him for the rest of his life for marrying an angel (something that was strictly against a demon's code). Akira's mother, Serena, found out about this, and dropped off the young Akira at a begotten dojo in Tokyo, Japan, where her son would spend the next several years hiding from the maddening father.
To prevent his inevitable punishment, Keiji killed Serena. Boswell and Noll were on vacation during this time, and when they heard news of their mother's death they came running back home. Keiji deceived them and told them she had been murdered by an unknown perpetrator. Keiji consoled his sons, and went in secret to look for the lost Akira. Finally finding him in the dojo, Keiji allowed his son to live as he couldn't find it in his heart to kill him. As a memento, he gave Akira a "birthday gift" -- his sword, the same one used to kill Serena.
Years passed, and Keiji was again founded by the demons he had been running from for years so to escape trial. This drove Keiji insane, and he was forced to find Akira again. During this time, Akira was being trained by the man he would come to know as "Sensei."
When a certain night fell, Sensei ushered Akira out of the dojo to run away, as he saw Keiji (along with Boswell and Noll) approaching the house with the intent of killing Akira. Needless to say, Sensei and Keiji fought, but as the fight was near conclusion, Keiji killed Boswell and Noll, and proceeded with burning the dojo down to the ground, bringing Sensei down with it. With more fuel added to his unquenchable fire for death, Keiji sought out Akira, who had traveled to the outskirts of Tokyo. Lost and bewildered, and seeing his Sensei die before his very eyes, Akira collapsed just outside the city, his sword still in his hands...
By morning, he was in a house, being cared for by a happy, rich young couple. The man's name was Greg, who was well-known in Tokyo for being a retired miner, while the wife was known as Bianca. Akira quickly formed a relationship with the couple, and would stay with them for several more years.
At this point, Keiji had been captured by his fellow demons and was standing trial... but had managed to redeem himself for killing off a majority of his family. He was released several years later after completing his term, and went out again to find Akira...
When Akira was 17, he received a gift from Greg. It was the sword he had had with him as a child. Greg told Akira that he had hidden it off for years because he wasn't sure if Akira was ready for it. But, in the end, he gave it back to "the rightful owner". Then, as an added gift, he brought Akira outside and whistled. With that whistle, a giant, half-man half-bird creature flew down from the skies. Greg called the creature "Garuda," whom he had found during one of his mining expeditions. He explained that when he found Garuda, it "clung to him like a kitten" and would not allow anyone else to harm him. Because Garuda would never leave him, and as it was an ancient creature and would possibly be a threat (unless tamed), he was given big bucks to keep the creature a secret (which explains his wealth). Only three people know of Garuda: Greg, Bianca (before they were married, Greg shared his secret about Garuda to her, but she learned to accept it), and now Akira.
Greg gave Garuda to him to be a new "pet" (but Akira saw him more of a friend), and Garuda has seen Akira as his new master eversince.
A tragic day fell Akira, and that day was the same day after he received the sword. It had been wrapped in brown wrapping paper, and after unwrapping it and holding it for the first time, the darkness within Akira (as he was a half-demon, inherited by his father) finally awakened. The demon took over Akira's actions, and by doing so it killed Bianca and Greg, and destroyed their home. This also beaconed Keiji, as he was able to sense Akira's newfound demonic powers.
After gaining control of himself, and seeing the bloodshed he had caused to his family, Akira fled the world. He found himself on a mountain (Mt. Fuji), and was followed by Garuda. Taking precautions for Garuda's safety, Akira sealed Garuda away within a chamber in the mountain, telling the guardian "not to answer to anyone except him, whenever that would be", "do not mention a word of my past whenever... if I ever wake up and find you unless I ask you to speak," and to "wait for him no matter how long it takes." Garuda did as he was commanded, silencing himself and sealing himself inside the mountain, awaiting the day his master would return to free him.
Akira traveled higher up the mountain, and after finding a suitable cavern, he, too, sealed himself. Then he prepped for a meditation that -- he hoped -- would erase his memories, and rid him of the demon.
Before he started, he pulled out of his pocket a picture he had always carried with him, a picture of Bianca and Greg that he treasured. On the back of the picture was written:
BIANCA
Greg
in their handwriting. Akira could not look at their faces, so he flipped the picture and kept it beside him. The sword he had placed right beside the picture would also remain idle.
Then the years began to pass...................
One scream from a nightmare and many years later, Akira Tanaka reawakens from his slumbering state. Suffering from amnesia and not knowing what to do with himself, Akira tries to get himself together as he notices by his side a well-crafted (but aging) sword, and... a picture. The front of the picture was completely erased (due to age), and the back of it was slightly smudged. There appeared to be handwriting, but the only letters Akira could make out were "B" and "G". Not even knowing who he was, from that moment onward Akira referred to himself as "BG", not knowing that the letters stood for two people he loved.
Escaping the tavern, he made his way down the mountain -- picture and sword in hand. He eventually stumbled across a cave (as he was directly above it to begin with), and by a stroke of luck, resummoned an old friend he didn't remember: Garuda. The divine beast took to Akira lovingly, although "BG" did not know who Garuda was. Because of this, Garuda never spoke as he was ordered to.
After guiding his master away from Mt. Fuji and towards civilization, Akira (or "BG") found himself at an inn in the outskirts of Tokyo, and because of his loss of memory the manager of the place let him live there (in exchange for daily duties).
About a year later, BG was adopted by a kind old man he called his "uncle." And since then, BG's new life had been leading pretty good. The uncle was rich, and had miraculously managed to get BG into college (though he was picked on by other collegues for a time for such an awkward name).
BG's life went pleasently. Garuda would stop by occassionally at night and check on his master, then depart. The uncle, too, would make frequent visits, as he had lost his wife some years ago and was alone by himself in Tokyo. And the manager of the inn checked on BG now and again. For some reason, the boy never left the inn, even when requested by his uncle to go to his place.
At the age of 22, almost 5 years after he awoke in the mountain side, BG was preparing for class the following morning (as it was the weekend) and he had just started up his computer to chat to some college buddies online, when out of the blue a portal formed within the monitor and sucked him in. Unbeknownst to him, an amazing new adventure would unfold, and his life would ultimately change from then on.
BG, after awakening from his transportation (and coincidentally hanging onto his sword), found himself on a vast, beautiful island in the middle of an endless ocean. There, he met many people. One of them, named Warrier1 (or "Eric") befriended BG after taking a dislike of him, as Warrier1 thought of BG as "the enemy". What BG didn't know was that on the island, a war was going on between to sides: the side BG was on was led by a young man named Demon Eye, and the other side being led by Husher, a confused but honorable man who only wanted best for his side.
One death of a leader and the freedom of his captives later, BG was on a morning walk up a mountain of the island (the only mountain of the island) to visit the graves of those who had fallen... when a strange old wizard appeared, and gave him a "gift." The gift happened to be a stone made of ice, which BG dubbed the Ice Stone. And after a freak accident some days later left him in a coma, he found himself in a mansion, where people who have lost themselves on the road of life come to retrace their steps and follow the path they were destined to follow.
In his stay, BG gained the trust and love of eight beautiful women (and the strange companionship of an alcoholic man), and during this time period he enjoyed himself, but missed his new friends on the island and back home in Tokyo. When the time came for BG to leave, he used his Ice Stone to bring the women -- and the mysterious mansion -- out of wherever it resided (what the mansion owner considered a "parallel dimension").
And that's where his adventures truly began.
BG found himself in scheme after scheme: A notorious alien from the reaches of outer space had come to Earth to collect the "Elemental Stones", which had been scattered across the world by the old wizard -- the old wizard that gave BG his Ice Stone. After all the stones had assembled -- coincidentally on the island, and inside the mansion -- the mansion returned to its other-worldy realm, where the alien gave chase. (During this point in time, Garuda had managed to find the island and escape with BG and the rest of the mansion's residents.) The alien sent two powerful monsters into the realm of the mansion, where a stronger BG and many of his companions (SlimeyX, Muigi, Warrier1, M.O.A., Neo Link, Dark, Master Yoshi, Elio, Garuda, and a mysterious masked warrior from another world... just to name a few) clashed in a bloody battle... and during the battle, Warrier1's sword unlocked an awesome power: when all the stones were placed in specific openings in the side of the sword, they would fuse together their powers and unleash a devastating surge of energy! In the end, BG's side prevailed, and the plot of the evil alien seemed to come to an end... But, in fact, this only fueled the evil alien's desires to regain his lost Elemental Stones, and recreated an army of clones of his fallen monsters...
Before the alien entered the realm of the mansion, however, a dark entity known as Dark Boss had come to the mansion to find a lost "friend": Muigi. Muigi's darker self, dubbed Dark Muigi, had originally killed off Muigi's family, and Muigi had been running from his darker embodiment all his life. Only recently when coming to the island and the mansion was he able to rest. With Dark Boss, Dark Muigi, and an assassin calling himself Dark Spark came to murder Muigi and the rest of the mansion residents, Warrier1 stepped in to the challenge, to face off against the assassinator Dark Spark. The duel went on, and it ended in a tie -- with both Dark Spark and Warrier1 killed in an explosion. Hearing the mourning of their strong ally, a god-like force from above allowed Warrier1 to return to the world of the living, and he was allowed to bring another with him from the dead. Warrier1 picked Husher, and Husher was transported back to the island (as Warrier1 and Husher had been the best of friends before they became brutal foes during the war).
With Warrier1 alive and well, an unwary team of mansion residents thought the defeat of Dark Boss would cause him to run off... Instead, they were greeted by an old friend: the evil alien, and he had brought his army of cloned monsters with him! Luckily, unknown to the alien, a band of people had infultrated his alien ship and had weakened the clones "by accident." The team consisted of a gorgeous but hot-headed young lady, her bodyguard (whom she called a "military maniac"), and a wandering swordsman who was once a ruthless killer. The three joined forces with BG's team against the clones, and the clones were defeated easily. Not one to give up, the alien sent out his trump card: a massive crystalized beast with telekinetic powers, brought in from a black hole...
As a handful of the fighters took on the space beast, Warrier1 (leading a group of the fighters, including BG and the mysterious masked warrior from another world) breached the alien ship, and reached the core to destroy the aliens once and for all. However, they were greeted by none other than the ship's commander, and he and the masked warrior fought on another. But a certain mishap caused the core to malfunction, and the ship was due to self-destruct! Pulling out all his friends, BG watched in sorrow as the ship exploded with the masked warrior still inside... however, a lone pod managed to escape just in time!
As the team reassembled (because the space beast had been knocked unconscious due to the massive explosion), the lone pod opened and revealed... the alien commander! He taunted BG, stating how the masked warrior was a coward and lost to his might, and in the end the alien commander had won. Fueled by nothing but rage, BG began a startling transformation: he became a demon! With his half-demon side awakened at last, BG killed the alien commander in a short and brutal battle. BG even went so far as to take down the space beast with his tremendous power! However, when BG saw the sword of the masked warrior in the debris of the ship, he blacked out...
Some time later, after the space beast was killed and BG had gone back to his senses (not remembering a thing of his transformation), two more women entered the scene: both were sisters, and one of them was actually the lover of the fighter Master Yoshi. (The other sister eventually formed a relationship with Neo Link, one of BG's closer friends.) And during this same time, another event occurred: an overweight plumber and his brother, followed by a blue hedgehog and a fox, had entered the mansion... along with a yellow-capped man who was accompanied by a skinny, purple-capped man; an enormous turtle with an attitude (and a grudge against the plumbers); and an egg-shaped, scientific genious (with a grudge against the speedy hedgehog and fox). The odd group of individuals made their reasons for being in the mansion clear: there was a rip in the dimensions, and someone -- or something -- was throwing all realms out of whack! By finding the mansion via the eggman's equipment (they homed in on the mansion due to the strength of the Elemental Stones), they hoped to find the reason... but all of them were left pondering once again, as it wasn't the mansion ripping the dimensions apart.
As the days went on, one of the mansion's women discovered a hidden room in the mansion. One lever pull later, the mansion became infested with horrible creatures that BG and his team fought valiantly against. Their only hope was to untrigger the flow of creatures by putting the lever back to its rightful position, which they were able to do, and by doing so, the blue hedgehog, the fox, the plumbers, the capped men, the turtle and the eggman disappeared...
But that wasn't the end of it. Before anyone knew it, a huge black tower came out from under the ground, and stood erect before the mansion. The tower was owned by none other than Dark Boss, who made the tower specifically for the fighters, and requested that they come, or else "everyone will die." Not backing down from his challenge, the band of warriors -- BG, Warrier1, Muigi, Neo Link, SlimeyX, Dark, Master Yoshi, and Elio -- made their way into the tower. There were rooms for each of the men to separate into, and each had to fight their own individual battles.
Before long, the group was rejoined (and they were even rejuvenated by a certain nurse and an pink, egg-hoistering creature)... and together, they conquered the tower till they reached the summit, where Dark Boss and Dark Muigi awaited them. Little did any of them know, another person was with them...
Reaching the tower's peak, a storm brewed, and a new battle was about to begin. Dark Boss explained the reason he wanted to fight the fighters: he wanted to retrieve the Elemental Stones. In secret, he had been watching them during their many battles against the alien, even going so far as to spy on them when fighting the monsters! He saw what powers the stones possessed, and he craved such powers. He also explained that he had been in contact with a certain man, who had been a "friend" of the alien. If it weren't for that man, Dark Boss would have never found the stones. The man... turned out to be BG's long-lost father! Because he was a demon, BG's father -- Keiji -- still looked as young as he did in the past... over 70 years ago! Keiji stepped in and said he had been searching for BG for almost 70 years, but had no luck as he couldn't trace his powers anywhere (because BG was trapped in the mountain). Only when BG held his sword again from reawakening from his slumber was he able to pinpoint his location... but even then, it was almost impossible to find him, as BG's powers had faded due to all the years of meditation.
After BG had reached the island, Keiji "joined forces" with the eager alien commander, and the two tried to get the stones -- and BG. However, Keiji found the alien commander unsuitable for such a task (when he failed against BG's crew when his monsters were destroyed), so he made an allegiance with Dark Boss. Keiji served both sides -- that is, until the alien commander was killed by BG. Then Keiji took to hiding, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
After the death of Dark Spark, Keiji became the new replacement, and suggested that they lure the mansion's fighters into one final duel. Using his dark powers, Dark Boss created the tower -- and that is where everything connected.
Keiji even went so far as to explain BG's past, being born of an angel and a demon, and what happened to him -- even mentioning he had a sister somewhere in the world! Then Keiji said his name: Akira. And at that moment, both BG and Keiji's powers began to awaken... and both started their demonic transformations. However, because Keiji was used to using his powers, he was able to transform first, into a twenty-foot-tall behemoth with is eyes set on killing his son, and taking his powers once and for all! As Akira struggled to complete his transformation (even battling himself in his mind against his demon), Keiji used an incredible beam of energy against his son, to steal his powers...
Then Neo Link stepped in.
One misdirected blast and the sacrifice of Neo Link later, BG snapped. He grabbed his sword, which began glowing a deep crimsion, and fought against his father. The other fighters went against the team of Dark Boss and Dark Muigi, and the epic battle ensued... Blood was spilled, and Dark Boss was eventually defeated, with Dark Muigi retreated. BG continued to battle against his crazed father, and as each side began to weaken, BG was able to find an opening in his father's defenses -- and killed the power-hungry demon once and for all. Upon doing so, his sword shattered, and the gateway to Heaven opened... where BG saw his mother for the first time in many, many years. After a touching reunion with his mother, two older brothers, Neo Link and the masked warrior, and even Bianca and Greg, BG forgave his father for what he had done against him, as he saw in his father a good that had been clouded by his demonic lust for power. Keiji's soul was set free, and he was able to enter Heaven. Also, BG's mother -- Serena -- gave him a special orb, tellling him that the orb held his powers, both demonic and angelic (though BG had yet to tap into his angelic side). BG treasured the orb from then on, and saw his family off... but was unable to find out who, or where, his long-lost sister was.
A funeral was held for Neo Link and Keiji, and life continued for the heroes...
Finally, a day came when BG -- Akira -- was once again allowed to leave the mansion once and for all. The first time BG was allowed to leave, he had used the Ice Stone to bring everyone out of the mansion. But, as the mansion's caretaker put it, "the mansion wasn't going to be as careless as before." Fighting against his thoughts, Akira ultimately chose freedom... but he had forgotten a gift he recieved from one of the mansion's residents! (The same resident whom had pulled the lever earlier.) Going back into mansion grounds before its gates closed forever, the mansion grew impatient with Akira and had him swept out by force... but when Akira continued to refuse, the mansion struck down Akira with a bolt of powerful lightning... Akira eventually made it back into mansion grounds, but at a cost... His life... He died in the hands of one of the mansion women, the first woman he befriended there.
Almost a month later, Akira awakened... in his old room of the mansion! Piece by piece, it was explained that Akira was saved by the mansion's caretaker, but her condition was unknown.
Almost a month after escaping death, Akira confronted the mansion's caretaker once again -- the "mistress" of the mansion -- and was shocked to learn that she still wasn't fully recovered. As the maid put it bluntly, "she should have been okay by now." In a rage, Akira spitefully cursed the mansion... to which the mansion's caretaker was able to respond. And by doing so, her recovery picked up.
Some time later, Akira devised a plan to free everyone -- everyone -- from the mansion. And as the plan was set into motion, he was able to leave the confinements of the mansion... leaving behind the caretaker, one of the mansion's women who was once cursed by a demon, and the no-more-alcoholic man.
After over a month, Akira had built himself a new home in Tokyo, where all his fighter friends and mansion women could rest easily. Also, he became more into a relationship with one of the mansion women (named Yukina).
But his duties were not yet over. Akira managed to find the mansion once again (with the help of an old resident), and he was able to set free the once-demon-controlled woman resident, named Sari, and the mistress from her pact from the mansion. The three left the mansion with a new caretaker -- the sober, once-alcoholic man.
Upon their return, the person who had led Akira to the mansion (a man who had actually been in the mansion once, and formed a relationship with the mistress) became a frequent face among everyone. Eventually, some months later, the mistress and the man were wed... and some months after that, after Akira finished up his classes in college, he, too, was married to Yukina. All the women were able to find their families... except for Sari, and another woman named Yura (whom Akira's uncle adopted).
And life... continued..........