EMP-540: Akari

In her young years, Akari was a skilled artist, devoted to her passion of creating small sculptures of all the friends she had and collecting them like jewelry. During the happy years (or so she calls them), Akari's parents worked as merchants and had a generally decent economy, never lacking a warm dish of food over the table. Her father soon met a group of friends that caused a great influence over him, pulling him away from his honest life by inviting him to Fafnir's Treasure. Soon he got addicted, spending the family's money in bets he had never won. Akari's mother's salary couldn't even keep up with tje debts caused by her husband, so continued months of poverty and malnourishment led to illnesses, illnesses that couldn't be medicated, and soon Akari's family fell. Out of five family members (two brothers and her parents), only two survived. 

On top of this disgrace, great debts were accumulated, and the huge debt that weighed Akari's family was paid by forcing her to work for Fafnir's. Akari's father escaped after choosing this fate for his daughter, unwilling to face the consequences and somehow relieved because giving her away had solved the problem. 

Of all the entertainment activities she could choose from, the one she'd decided to join was the dragon dance group, which consists of a group of four Grifix that dance with a huge paper dragon during events.

 

Now she belongs to the group, even though she's the clumsiest member. In her limited spare time she continues secretly with her sculpting hobby, considering this form of entertainment a refuge from all the stress she goes through.