30 days - day 1
Okay, well, my mun says this is a good way to "flesh out my character", whatever the fuck that means, so here I am. Introducing myself.
My name is Axel. I was born on August 16, during the hottest part of the year back home. I was born in Sunagakure, one of the five major shinobi villages, in Wind Country, which is almost entirely desert. My parents were both ninja, and both died when I was still little, but I'll talk about that in a couple of days. I lived with a few other orphaned kids under the care of a civilian couple in the village, until I was about seven, maybe a little older.
To introduce myself, I also have to introduce Hachibi. He's my bijuu, a bigass demon-thing with enough chakra to flatten most of a small country in one hit. He wasn't always that way. He told me once that he had family, and was young himself at one point. But much later on, once people started turning into shinobi, and wanted more power, they started learning how to capture things like him.
Hachibi's fourth host died suddenly, couldn't handle the strain anymore. I know it happens, but not often, and usually because whoever selected the host was a dumbass. I know the previous Kazekage was a little... dismissive, I guess, and I think just selected some random kid to play host until someone else could deal with it. Anyway, the host was a kid a bit older than me, and he just sort of gave up on life in the middle of the night. A couple of ANBU guys came and woke me up, hauled me out of bed and across the village, and next thing I know... I've got a bijuu. Neither of us was happy about it, Hachibi especially. I thought for sure he was going to kill me trying to get out. But I made it, and I learned to live with him, and he learned to get along with me alright.
I got moved to my own place after that, even though I wasn't even eight years old yet, because most people were too afraid of Hachibi to even look me in the eye. I got a weekly allowance from the Kazekage to live on, but it wasn't really enough, and fuck, I had no idea how to take care of myself, BY myself. I ended up stealing food a lot of the time, though there was a nice old lady with a yakitori stand right across from my apartment, and she wouldn't have been able to tell me apart from a rock if I stood still, so she mostly thought I was a sad case and gave me free meals once in a while and leftovers if I caught her at the end of the day.
I wasn't too good with personal care, like I said. People in Suna didn't take baths all that often anyway, but I was a lot worse. Most of the time I was running on instincts that were coming from Hachibi, so for a long time I didn't even sleep in the bed I had. Right from the start, he was broadcasting really strong images of a den being the safest place possible, and I tried a couple of things but finally put stacks of books under all the legs of the bed, and moved all the pillows and blankets I had under there. It was pretty nice, actually, but kind of sad, if you think about it.
There was a caretaker assigned to me until I was about twelve, just to keep me sort of on track with my studies and keep me from outright leaving the village, or killing someone randomly. He didn't do a very good job, since he only came by once every other day or so. He was this big jounin, long scar up the side of his face, lots of combat experience, but I could tell whenever he was around me that he was terrified of Hachibi.
It was all pretty much the same for a while. I made genin at age ten, and got put on a team with a couple of the kids I'd been living with before Hachibi, and the same guy who'd been my caretaker. For missions, they all treated me pretty decently, but it was like working with a trio of cactus. You could tell none of them wanted to be around me, which just pushed me to work harder to get better at being a ninja so I could work with different people, or by myself. I guess I did alright, since I made chuunin at twelve, and then jounin at the tender age of fifteen. By then I'd started to figure out what they were really training me for, trying to turn me into, and between that and the fact that almost everyone in the village was afraid of me and/or outright hated my (Hachibi's) guts, I really had nothing making me want to stay there. So I left. I had no idea where I could go, or what it would really mean that I was leaving my village. I got attacked near the border of Wind Country, but I got away in one piece.
The Organization found me after that. I was with them for four years, give or take a little. Roxas left right near the end, and they were about to send me out to bring him back - preferably alive, but almost-dead would work too, as long as they could still get his bijuu. But then I got sucked into the Room of Requirement. It's sort of like the dressing room, but sort of different. It's not really worth talking about, except that I first met Kai there, and the Sora from my own world. If I hadn't met Kai... well. I'll go into that tomorrow.
I got pulled into the dressing room from the Room of Requirement, and I'm unspeakably happy that it happened. This place has been even better for me than the Room was. It's got its fair share of assholes and rapists and sadists, and it's kicked me back home twice now, but I keep coming back, fortunately. If I didn't... it's not worth thinking about.
So that's me. I summarized as well as I could, since this is just an introduction, and not my life story. My mun says that questions and "requests for elaboration" are welcome. Like she doesn't have enough to do.
((ooc: but really, if anyone wants deets on anything, or realistically what was actually going on at any time, since Axel's obviously a bit subjective about it all. feel free to ask, ICly or not. might as well wring as much backstory and personality out of him as I can with this, right? :Db))
day 01 - introduce yourself
day 02 - your first love
day 03 - your parents
day 04 - what you ate today
day 05 - your definition of love
day 06 - your day
day 07 - your best friend
day 08 - a moment
day 09 - your beliefs
day 10 - what you wore today
day 11 - your siblings
day 12 - what’s in your bag
day 13 - this week
day 14 - what you wore today
day 15 - your dreams
day 16 - your first kiss
day 17 - your favorite memory
day 18 - your favorite birthday
day 19 - something you regret
day 20 - this month
day 21 - another moment
day 22 - something that upsets you
day 23 - something that makes you feel better
day 24 - something that makes you cry
day 25 - a first
day 26 - your fears
day 27 - your favorite place
day 28 - something that you miss
day 29 - your aspirations
day 30 - one last moment