HIBIKI KAZAMA / EIJI AKERO.
full name. eiji akero ( real name: hibiki kazama ) .
age. 28.
height. 5'11.
gender. cis man ( he / him ) .
species. human.
notable physical characteristics & features. chin-length shaggy white/gray hair. dark gray eyes. bags under his eyes. lithe body, lanky. burn scar up his left calf & on his left shoulder-blade.
misc appearance. wears prescription glasses. bluetooth headphones usually around his neck.
current residence. originally from olivine city, now based in goldenrod, as that was the residence of the real professor akero.
occupation. pokémon professor specialized in steel type pokémon study ( real occupation: freelance coder ) .
team. main partner is a porygon, with a secondary rotom. "inherited" akero's pokémon of beldum, magnemite, klinklang.
lore. hibiki was mistaken for professor akero a number of times throughout his visiting other johto cities, & eventually decided to play along & actively pretend to be the professor for the benefits this gave him ( popularity, special sales, access to restricted areas, the like ) . however, a few months ago, he ran into the real eiji akero sneaking around in what hibiki had assumed was a regular tech auction. the auction ended in a fire in which eiji was crushed under debris & rubble, mutilated beyond recognition, while hibiki hastily grabbed whatever items he could find on the body & ran out burned but more than half-alive. he attempted to explain to authorities & emts that he wasn't eiji akero, but his two years of forging efforts & possession of eiji's belongings told them otherwise, & he was assumed to have simply suffered partial amnesia as result of head trauma & smoke inhalation. hibiki has given up trying to tell people the truth. he continues to exist as hibiki kazama largely only in digital format.