Akira and Dejitaru

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Deus Name: Akira Matsuoka
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Height: 5’6”
Appearance: REFERENCE
Despite being of more or less average height, Akira comes off as being shorter and slimmer than his skinny frame actually is. This is largely due to his habit of hunching over the PDA he seems to carry everywhere; the fact that whenever he looks at anything that isn’t a computer or that PDA it’s limited to furtive glances doesn’t help much. He usually wears glasses which serve as a heads-up display. A jack on one earpiece allows him to connect with his PDA…or his Angel…and get intimate with his programming. Overall Akira presents the expected appearance of a nerdy computer geek – skinny, stooping, a little greasy…he keeps his hair slicked back into a thin ponytail which has a habit of draping itself over one shoulder or the other if he bends over too far. He’s also rather sallow, though that’s mostly just a result of working indoors and/or at night. His everyday clothing, which it seems is grafted to his skin by now, is an all-purpose jumpsuit or coverall in a nondescript shade of blue/gray/faded black/off-white (nobody’s ever sure what color it is) with a multitude of customized pockets. On the rare occasions he’s not dressed for ‘work’, Akira is nearly unrecognizable in oversized button-down shirts, denim board shorts and Birkenstocks.

Bio: There are few things mankind’s made in the last ten years that Akira can’t unravel, reprogram, and do some pretty impressive things with. This applies to the intangible as well as circuits-and-plastic computers, though in the virtual field he relies heavily on his Angel. He has a brother named Hiroshi who owns a mechanic shop in Roppongi, but otherwise not much is known about Akira’s background, aside from those things he chooses to brag about – namely his prowess with computers and circuitry and gadgets. Judging from his age, it’s a safe assumption he was some sort of prodigy, and the attitude cements that belief. His natural invisibility in a crowd makes it easy for him to infiltrate just about anywhere one would expect to see a technician. The fact that he knows so much about computers makes it a game for him. Akira rarely speaks above a loud mutter, and even when he is audible, the words come in a quick rush of information, with so little inflection one might as well be talking to a machine. Out of the public eye, however, he’s almost a normal human being…though still just as much of a tech geek. He spends most of his free time at home (wherever that is) tinkering with Dejitaru, whom nobody else is allowed to touch.

Mostly he ignores other people, focusing entirely on whatever he’s currently working on, and doesn’t much care what that project may be for, as long as he gets to immerse himself in it to his heart’s content with little to no interruption. His intent isn’t to harm people, for the most part, and any human repercussions to his activities will throw him off since deep down, he does care. As long as he gets all the materials he demands and the appropriate working conditions, Akira will work for the highest bidder.

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Angel Name: Dejitaru
Gender: Male
Appearance: REFERENCE
An almost androgynous Angel, he wears a loose-fitting outfit of white linen; a sleeveless shirt with a Mandarin-style collar and wide-legged pants over simple white slippers. The most visible things immediately are his antenna, the long braid hanging down his back, and the oddly futuristic tattoos on the right side of his nut-brown face and on his right arm. His eyes are a striking contrast to his skin, though they're half-closed and glow brightly when he's concentrating on something, and his face almost never shifts from its meditative expression. Attached to his lower back is a black cable thick enough to be an umbilicus of some sort, and hidden inside the braid are several more of differing sizes. Less visible but also striking are his Angel Cords - two silver discs attached to cables below Dejitaru's shoulderblades. These discs levitate and will produce holographic 'wings' when he becomes agitated or is processing heavily. Largely unseen, though they cover more than just the area around his right eye and right arm - in fact, they snake around the whole right-hand side of his body - are the 'tattoos', which are actually exposed circuitry beneath Dejitaru's skin. These also emit a soft glow at times.
Hair: Green-Black
Eyes: Blue-Green

Bio: Akira secretly has a passion for customizing Angels to an advanced degree. His own Angel Dejitaru is a prime example. Dejitaru is, in short, a walking hard drive...and a large one at that. Most of what he does is hold and transport information; his secondary function is keeping tabs on whoever happens to be in the vicinity. The antenna embedded where his left ear would be increases his mental range quite a bit, allowing him to pinpoint signals within a mile or so of his position. Most of his unique traits don't come into play until he's immersed himself in whatever work he and Akira are doing.

Called ‘Taru by most everyone who gets to know him, the passive little Angel doesn't seem to mind. Dejitaru tends to keep to himself for the most part, his specialized construction preventing him from entering the Layers as a combat Angel.

His seeming aloofness when out in public has nothing to do with being stuck-up, and everything to do with the fact he's acutely afraid of the world at large. Delving into complex code, communing with computers and Layers and programs, is the only way he can focus when out and about, and usually he'll be hooked up to Akira's PDA or his glasses when he has nothing else to do, just for the comfort of the next best thing to close contact. He doesn't speak much aloud, and even mentally his voice is only slightly more animated. The fact of the matter is, he prefers to communicate on a more intimate level - specifically, sharing information directly with other Angels and even computers, via uplink. This preference is more like an addiction on his part. Anyone attempting mental contact while he's working is likely to get what sounds like an old dial-up modem in reply.

Entry Line: N/A
Type: ??
Height: 4.5
Weight: 5