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/ by the way, though I’ve been away I’ve still been developing character ideas! I’ve decided to mesh my nuclear apocalypse world with Sam and Aki’s world kinda. I’ve basically decided that around the time Aki’s in his late 20’s, shit hits the fan and the nuclear war that causes The Alliance to form (if you don’t remember, The Alliance is a rebel force in the apocalypse founded by Joshua & friends and is lead by Joshua, and they are working against world gov’ts and trying to end the nuclear war), and after he and Dakota and Sam have been surviving on their own for a while, Sam gets sick with radiation poisoning, and a helpful stranger lets them know about the alliance in attempt to help. They find it and stay there a while before finding out there’s a need for assassins there, and so they end up staying and aki becomes an assassin for them (and Sam ends up becoming a looter, someone who goes out and looks for supplies basically, and also manages the stable and trains most of the horses). By the time Aki’s in his 30s he is one of the most trusted assassins, along with Kazimir, and a few others I haven’t made names and stories for yet. The small group of particularly trusted assassins are in charge of leading missions in which there are multiple assassins, and they also train younger folks who want to become assassins. Though other assassins are trusted by folks in The Alliance, Kazimir and Aki are the ones any younger ones go to when they’re having a hard time.
Though Aki’s mental health does start to improve now that he is actually doing something that, to him, is morally justified for a living (as it’s for a good cause), he becomes a slight bit of a workaholic also by his 30s. He starts to go a bit grey from stress (the silver looks good on him ;) ) and I’ve debated having him get an injury to the eye that he sometimes wears an eyepatch for even after it’s healed, but I haven’t decided on that last bit yet.