YESS GIVE ME A LORE DUMP FOR THE BOY, tell me about himmmm
Akihiko Arakan, a tale to be told boy oh boy!
Akihiko Arakan was originally born in the U.S. under the name Marquis Jones. He was the product of a small fling between his father, Akashi Arakan, and his mother, Imani Jones, while he was at a business trip in the U.S.
He lived with his mother and didn't know about his father. Even Akashi didn't know of Akihiko's existence up until his business partner in the U.S. told Akashi about his suspicions about Imani (who worked for him) and Akihiko. Akashi was skeptical at first since Akihiko shared little to no resemblance to him, but still his business partner was insistent, he even offered a DNA test.
Begrudgingly, Akashi flown down to the U.S. when Akihiko freshly hit the age of 5 with the task in mind to find his "son" and to also work a bit.
When Akashi and Imani met again, she told him the truth about Akihiko. The only reason why she didn't tell Akashi about Akihiko being his son was because he soon flew back to Japan after Imani found out that she was pregnant and that she had no way to communicate with Akashi.
Akashi was angry of course, he had a son he never knew about so of course he had a right to be mad! And what makes matters worse is that Akashi needed an heir for his company, and yet his first son ended up being an illegitimate child. One of the only fortunate sides to this is that Akihiko seemed to be quirkless, so Akashi sprung up an idea.
He wanted to take Akihiko back to Japan so he could raise him himself. Imani was against this of course, but Akashi told her a list of reasons as to why Akihiko would be better there such as he'd be in better living conditions, more financial stability, etc. And Imani and Akihiko didn't have that much money, so the thought of Akihiko coming back to a better house with better food sounded better to Imani.
So rather reluctantly, Imani gave up her custody of Akihiko towards Akashi, who soon took him back to Japan and changed his name from Marquis Jones to Akihiko Arakan so he could fit in better and to fit in better as Akashi's son.
When Akihiko gotten to Japan, he was confused and scared- his life changed so much and everything was different, he didn't know what was going on. Right away he was introduced as Akashi Arakan's son, the man told the press that he wanted to hide Akihiko away from the public up until he was old enough to handle it.
After a couple of tests to see if Akihiko's quirkless in which he is, his father immediately began to put him through training at the ripe age of 6 so he could learn how to inherit the company, be an influence on others, and weaponry and combat use.
Training was hell for Akihiko at first, he was scared and confused- he just barely adjusted to life in Japan and yet he has to do so many big things now. With him being cooped up inside the house to train, he wasn't able to develop much social skills, not even when he went to school. There's been countless times as to when Akihiko's gotten injured or even scarred during training, but his father told him to just suck it up and continue. His reasoning behind this was because society perceived quirkless people as weak, and he didn't want nobody to fucking think of his son as weak and helpless when he's the heir to a powerful company with a strong influence over Japan.
After a couple of years, Akihiko soon learned more and has gotten used to this shitty lifestyle. He's grown cold and closed off towards others.
When Akihiko turned 15, his father made him participate on the U.A. entrance exam. Akihiko was confused, he knew full well that Akashi didn't like heroes at all, or just people with quirks in general (In which Akihiko never could grasp).
His father explained that he noticed that heroes have a strong influence over society and how it works, they could practically shape it themselves. Akashi wanted Akihiko to get into U.A. so he could become a hero and to grow their influence over the public, he has a good enough chance since he was skilled with combat and weaponry.
Akihiko couldn't say no to his fathers orders and tried out the U.A. entrance exams, he was barely even able to pass the physical exams due to the robots being hard to take apart (though it's likely that since this is into the future, it'd be different maybe?).
After a couple of months, Akihiko soon found out that he got accepted into U.A.'s mixed hero course- which was surprising to Akihiko to say the least.
And now Akihiko attends U.A. and is a member of Class 1-X. :)
