Aika Akagawa

Aika Akagawa is a hitwoman from Earth-47.

Appearance
Aika's most defining feature are her eyes. Due to testing on her by Benedict Malton and Altruistic Solutions, she has no pupils. Also due to this testing, her body is covered in scars. Due to a general lack of care for her life, her dark brown hair is often in a state of constant bed-head. With the bags under her eyes and her tendency to slouch, her appearance adds up to be a woman who is tired...which she is.

Aika often wears a yellow sweatshirt and torn jeans, but due to her profession is known to wear many different disguises.

Powers and Abilities
Most of Aika's abilities derive from testing done on her by Benedict Malton.


 * Heightened Perception - Despite the fact the testing caused her to go blind, it also heightened her other senses, especially her hearing. Her hearing is so good she can hear "someone coming from as far down as Room 259" from her own apartment, 279. Her hearing also lets her navigate just as well as someone who is able to see.
 * Agility - One of the actually intended effects of the testing done on Aika, she has agility that can only be described as 'superhuman'. Combined with her heightened perception, she is able to dodge bullets, and most other attacks.

Weaknesses

 * Sound - Aika's self-described weakness is sound, or rather, her reliance on it. If there is no sound, she cannot navigate. Conversely, if there is too much sound, she also cannot navigate. Any loud and/or high-pitched noises are also painful to her to the point of immobilization.

Alice
Aika's relationship with Alice is one of fondness. In a time of strife Alice took the time to understand where she was coming from. On top of that, when Alice became Aika's roommate in an effort to ease everyone's fears, the two became close, to the point Aika has developed feelings for the other. Aika, while protective of others, is very Alice, to the point she is willing to die to protect her, even before her work is completed.

Even Alice was not spared Aika's wrath once her breakdown occurred, though it took longer for this to boil over, since Aika believed the other to have died during the Christmas party fight. Once Alice came forward to prove she wasn't dead, Aika believed she was working with the Phantom Thieves to change her heart - something that was not entirely untrue.

Ben Tennyson
Aika's and Ben's relationship can only be described as shaky. Initially the two were friendly with each other, until Aika revealed her occupation and world view. However, according to Ben, Aika "got cooler while I was gone" in Malton's Palace, and they formed a semblance of a friendly relationship, even going out to get smoothies together. Their relationship was so great at this point that Aika told Ben her name - however she still used only an alias, intending to correct the lie after she saw the Phantom Thieve's alternative.

However that all fell apart, as well as Aika's mental state, after Aika witnessed Malton's confession at the Christmas Party. Reaffirming her intentions to kill and torture Malton, Aika and Ben got into a battle that destroyed the Pocket Dimension's lobby.

Protoman
Protoman and Aika's relationship is one built on mutual distrust. Once she revealed she was a hitwoman, the two had many a quarrel. This reached its peak when Aika left her apartment and mysteriously ran into Protoman, who was claiming he had found out she left her apartment merely on a hunch. This led Aika to believe the Robot Master was spying on her - which he was, with the Search Snakes.

However her opinion of Protoman changed after the Christmas Party. Due to their newfound mutual dislike of the Phantom Thieves, Protoman soon became the only person Aika trusted.

Victoria Wynn
Aika's handler at the Agency. The two share a relationship akin to a mother-daughter relationship, and that is often the lie the two told whenever they were seen in public together. Aika has lived at Wynn's house from time to time, most prevalently for the period of time after the Christmas Party.

However, Aika's relationship with Wynn, like most of her relationships, soured when she realized Wynn was helping the Phantom Thieves in their goals to change her heart.

Quotes

 * “But there are people out there, and out here. Like Monokuma. That Wily guy I offered to kill awhile back. Like Malton. That anything non-lethal won’t stop their villainy. They’ll just slither their way back into the action and hurt more people than they would’ve if someone had just done what should’ve been done the first time. A bullet between the eyes."


 * "Did you actually think he could make up for everything by confessing? That he'd be forgiven my revenge by going to jail? Prison doesn't begin to equate the suffering he caused me and everyone else on that list. Prison won't make him scream in pain, won't make him feel the pain we've felt. All prison is doing is being another obstacle for my wrath...that's why he's confessing. To save himself. He's wrong though. It won't save him."


 * "You dislike me. I hate you. As far as I'm concerned you've been working with those traitors from the beginning. So...why. Why do you suddenly want to help me? What can you possibly hope to gain from this? Cause all you're going to get is what I've gotten - hate and pain."