Thirst of knowledge sometimes doesn't lead you into a peace of mind.

Name: Souma Akira
Date of Birth: January 27th
Age: 42 years old
Height: 193cm
Weight: Unknown
Blood Type: AB
Occupation: High school History Teacher, (formerly) member of Japan Secret Agent
Skills: Photographic Memory, Oblivion


Hobby: Sits on an empty and quiet place with less people around, reading books, enjoying the nature, drinks herbal tea
Favorites: Dogs, chocolate cakes, bright and colorful flowers
Dislikes: Being forced by someone, coffee, using his powers

Current Wish: A family


Face Claim: Hellagur (Arknights)

Behind The Story: a gender bender version of @sangpenelaahmasa written by the same person



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Personality

A quiet one, sometimes he looks cold and only talks when he needs to. Although it is a complete opposite inside his heart. Akira is too shy and hard to gather his courage to speak up freely. He was taught to accept orders and hold his behavior when facing his superior in his last workplace.

Eventually he has improved, still being a loner, Akira now can wear a rather natural smile when having conversation with others. Though he tend to keep a distance, not being too close with people around him. After all, he's still afraid of people getting hurt because of him again.

Still, he has high confidence when it comes to his special abilities. He can do nothing with his Photographic Memory, but he will do his best to prevent himself using Oblivion. After all, he has practiced it since forever--though sometimes he really can't control it, making him to be more cautious whenever he touches something.

In all honesty, he has a big ambition: to be a calm and steady elderly, helping young generation to face the future. He also wishes for him to spend times with people whom he could call family.



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Past

Thirty four years ago, the first time Akira found out whereabouts of his power--Oblivion--when he accidentally touched his mother's clothes from that time. Akira saw and heard it, every passing moment right before his mother and father met their tragic fate. Everything was recorded into eight years old Akira's head and remaining as his most terrifying memories. He screamed, cried all his eyes out until the tears were no more. It brought him into bottomless pit of darkness, and he remained in that state for almost a week. Even after then, his grandfather had to face Akira's uncontrolled and scarce emotions which lasted for six months. His photographic memory had worsened the boy's state of mind. Akira will always remember, haunted by the memory of his parents' death.

In the end, his grandfather--the only family he had left--was the one whom nursing Akira ever so patiently until the boy could walk into his life again.

At twelve--while Akira had successfully regained his lively life and became quite a cute boy--his beloved grandfather faced an illness and went to the hospital for intensive care. Time kept moving on, the boy that lived together only with his grandfather eventually having his own crisis. Without no one else in his side, he had to face daily needs, groceries, and bills. And his grandfather had yet regain his consciousness. In the middle of his panic and frustration, Akira met a kind person whom allowed him--still a twelve years young boy--to work at their cake shop. Around that time, Akira started learning to control his power. He didn't want to accidentally see any person or things' past, it was enough. (Though it was a futile attempt, because in the end he couldn't control his power, Akira could only prevent and minimize the use of it.)

Even so, his payment from working at cake shop didn't cover the hospital's bills. It drove him crazy. Until one day, a very beautiful woman came into his place, told him that she will pay everything--including his daily needs--until his grandfather awoke and healthy again. Of course, it wasn't that simpe. He had to write a pact, an agreement that making him working for that woman. He didn't know at first, but the woman was actually a member of Japan Secret Agent.

(...to be continue.)

Present

Enjoying his retirement, he takes a course to teach young generation and enters a high school in Tokyo as History Teacher. Sometimes there's calls came from the headquarters and extra missions he never wanted to join but don't have a power to decline it.

He just want a peace, spending times with children and animals and honestly he doesn't want to go back to his old self.

(...to be continue.)

Future

(Not found...)

(....)



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Photographic Memory

A rare one, though it's there and exist in this world. Akira learns about this power when he still a grade one student at elementary school. His parents and grandfather knows about this talent. At that time, Akira is happy. For him, life and everything becomes more easy because he can remember everything without leaving out even a smallest detail.

As he growing up--after his hatred for this talent of his prior watching the truth behind his parents' death--Akira wishes for this talent to be gone. Although Akira himself fully aware that a such a thing would never comes true. No matter how much time has passed, until his death, Akira will be always remember that night, painted on his mind and still carrying it wherever he goes.

Oblivion (Dive Into The Past)

A strange, mysterious power without any scientific reason could define it. Akira never wished for such a power. Who in this world want to watch and experience other's past regardless happy or sad it has to be? The past is the past, nothing will carry out from there, at least that's how Akira thinks. So, he wonders, for him who doesn't want such a blessing, why he still having it anyway?

The only thing that can help him to control Oblivion, is for him to stay calm and focus with his mind clear from negative or overly positive emotions. In other word, he has to keep the balance of his own emotions. Sounds easy, eh? But this is the hardest thing to do for Akira. Not to mention his broken mind and nightmare that always comes in his sleep.

The limits within its power isn't absolute. With random encounter, whenever there's a direct touch, it's enough as a trigger to activate the ability. There's no telling which far the past will shown to the power user, everything is random.

The thing is, if the user could control the power (balancing the state of mind), then it is not impossible for the user to choose which past event of the thing/people he's touched to see. But of course, his energy will get drained, hunger and exhaustion will come to him. In the rare case, if he overdo it, Akira could be fell into a state of comatose and ended up dying.



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Trivia:

✣ His current physical condition is the one which prevents him to do any dangerous missions hence the sudden retirement.

✣ He think of himself as cute elderly whom loves sweets and dogs.

✣ The thing he wears on top of his head is an ornament taking a shape of random animal's ears so that way he can become closer with nature.

✣ Wearing a pair of hand gloves everytime, everywhere.



Disclaimer:

Akira's Oblivion is borrowed from a manga tittled Mekakushi no Kuni written by Sakura Tsukuba. In the original version, there's two different powers existed: one is able to see things'/people's past within a single direct contact, whilst the other one is seeing the future of it. In this case, Akira adopts the first power; an ability to see the past.



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