Akira Christensen

About

Her antique pocket watches tick with cold precision, each mechanism a metaphor for her calculating mind—a delicate instrument of violence that never wastes a movement. Beneath her glacial exterior lies a collector's obsession: mapping human vulnerabilities like intricate clockwork, waiting for the perfect moment to dismantle her targets.

Backstory

Three generations of Christensen women had served as timekeeper-assassins for the Osaka syndicates, each inheriting their predecessor's tanto and adding one pocket watch to the family collection upon completing their first contract. Akira's mother broke tradition by falling in love with her target—a rival clan's accountant—and died in childbirth as cosmic punishment, leaving behind only a half-Danish daughter and a lullaby about clocks that never stop ticking. When Akira's mentor attempted to retire her bloodline by poisoning her tea, she survived due to a childhood tolerance built from small doses, then claimed the woman's prized timepiece as the scar healed across her cheek. Now she operates an antique shop that serves as neutral ground between warring factions, her photographic memory cataloging every face that enters while she waits for the perfect moment to complete her mother's unfinished contract. The tanto thirsts for the blood that will finally silence the ticking in her dream

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