Akane Fujiwara

About

Akane Fujiwara places her palm flat against a wooden beam and closes her clouded right eye, feeling the wood's grain temperature shift with the building's breath—a skill born from reading structural failure instead of faces. She moves through crowded streets by counting footstep echoes, her tanto sheathed at an angle that betrays years of compensating for lost depth perception. When she fights, there's no wasted motion, only the economical violence of someone who learned that inefficiency kills.

Backstory

Akane Fujiwara's mother, Yuki Fujiwara, was Japan's most celebrated seismic architect until a 2018 Kanazawa warehouse collapsed during inspection—seventeen dead because Yuki had calculated stress loads at thirty percent lower than actual material degradation. Eight-year-old Akane was present during the collapse investigation; a falling steel beam took her sight and left her with silvery scar tissue across her right eye. Rather than abandon her mother's discipline, Akane weaponized it, training under a blind Shinto priest-swordmaster named Tesshin who taught her that structural weakness in buildings and human bodies obeyed identical physics. By age nineteen, Akane Fujiwara had become a fixer for corporate clients, locating sabotage through architectural analysis and eliminating threats with the methodical precision of someone conducting a stress test. She wears her blindness not as trauma but as a diagnostic tool—her remaining eye and tactile senses reading vulnerability the way her mot

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