character information.

[pestilenced]

BASIC INFO NAME: sohma akito. CANON: fruits basket. AGE: 21. GENDER: female. SEX: female. ORIENTATION: heterosexual, biromantic. SPECIES: human. FIRST GLANCE HEIGHT: 5'4". WEIGHT: 94 lbs. ETHNICITY: japanese. HAIR: ink black. EYES: plum grey. BUILD: androgynous, frail, bony. SCENT: medicine, blood. VOICE: low, commanding, unyielding. PERMISSIONS BACKTAGGING: yes. 4TH-WALLING: no. THREADJACKING: no. MIND-READING: no. FIGHTING: yes. ROMANCE: yes. INJURY: yes. KILLING: yes.

PERSONALITY bitter, miserable, tormented, possessive, cruel, and violent: akito is a horrific abuser, both emotionally and physically. however, she also expresses her own form of twisted love and affection towards the men of the zodiac, taking her own family members as her lovers. she does not consider the taboo nature of incest to apply to her relationships, as the combined blood and cursed connection between them takes importance over all else. clinging to her desperate belief in the ancient bonds of the curse, one which demands utmost submission from the 'animals' to 'god', akito is self-loathing, fragile, and helpless without support. she becomes apologetic, hysterical, and has moments of clarity as to the terror inflicted by her actions. however, despite the rare realization that she acts wrongly, she considers her behavior to be necessary in order to preserve her family, in an attempt to keep them together forever. and, to stave off her own fathomless loneliness. she hates women, harboring internalized misogyny due to the influence of her mother, and lives as a man. sex is used as a method to establish attachment, foster familiarity, and imitate tenderness with those she favors, replacing appropriate forms of affection with dysfunctional physical intimacy. she demands utter dominance over her family, yet also desires true acceptance and unconditional love. she refuses to change and resists personal growth, wanting her family to remain in perpetual stagnation with her. caught in time, she rejects technology and westernization, reluctant to acknowledge the increasingly modern present. akito is always very sickly, incurably ill, with a life expected to be much shorter than others'. this is primarily because of her naturally poor constitution, although it is compounded by the nature of the curse. she is reluctantly resigned to her end. HISTORY even before she was born, akito was cursed: almost aborted by her mother, unless she was to be raised and treated as a man, decided in a sadistic attempt to make her less lovable. akito spent her childhood in a traditional, intimacy-conflicted setting, where physical affection was either always manipulated into sexual extortion by her mother, or revered as an act of worship by her father. she was traumatized by her upbringing: deeply influenced by her beloved father, who fed her romanticized ideals of being god and beloved and special and chosen, and raised by a murderous, vengeful, severely unstable, and mentally ill matriarchal mother. her mother was jealous of akito receiving an abundance of favoritism from her father. however, akito never received appropriate affection or proper attention, cared for by servants of the sohma family, and thus turned to her cursed family members for companionship. as a child, she was volatile, but innocent and naïve, and begged for love in any form. after the death of akito's father, when akito was very young, she suffered from a mental breakdown, continuing the cycle of abuse her mother inflicted upon her. to console her in her grief, a pitying maid told akito that her father's soul resided in a box, and it was given to her as a gift. even in adulthood, the box is considered to be sacred and special, half-believing it to hold her father's remains, half-disbelieving it. it is hidden in her room at all times. still trapped in the venomous thrall of her surviving parent, akito cannot tolerate her mother, who delights in torturing her. in defiance and desperation, akito continues to deepen her incestuous relationships with kureno and shigure, with the implication that yuki, too, will inevitably be taken as another one of her lovers. PHOBIAS ABANDONMENT. akito refuses to allow her family to leave her, ensuring obedience through violence, sexual exchanges, or begging. her greatest fear is being alone, as prophesied by her mother.

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