Rai Akibara

Rai Akibara, also known as Raa Raa, is an electric type magic user.

Background
Rai Akibara grew up in a poorer arear in Japan. He lived with his father and older sister in a small house with only 3 rooms. Rai had to work hard for his family to keep food on the table and had to earn money by helping out in the neighbourhood with chores. He ran his own shop where he sold tissue packs and embroidered handkerchiefs. Rai earned 2 yen a week.

His sister, was a maid in some houses down the street and she was a chef, cooking amazing dishes. She often came back late, tired and exhausted from all the work she had put into her cooking and chores. she often earned 20 yen a week.

Ria's father, was old and frail. He spent most of the time sleeping on the furniture, otherwise, drinking stale ale and wasting their hard earned money on selfish goods. Rai and his sister often saved secretly to buy treats such as donuts or sweets with the spare money they had. They ate plain meals such as bread and cheese with water from the towns fountains.

When Rai started getting magic symptoms, her sister was surprised that he had magic in his DNA and they both decided not tot tell their father or he would expect more from him. Rai trained his power secretly. Practising in the small shared room with his sister, creating electricity at his fingertips.

However, one night, Rai was about to go to bed when the whole neighbourhood had a power cut. Immediately, Rai ran out into the streets and touched the pylon and the neighbourhood illuminated again. Unfortunately, his father had been out drinking that night and had seen Rai do his magic. He stared at him in shock.

Rai was forced to lock himself in the room to get away from his father's shouting. He felt sympathy for his sister who had to go through his pain. But forever grateful. His sister was forced to do extra work for more money but supported Rai as much as she could.

But hope sparked when she ran into the room, waving a filler in the air. She explained to Rai that there was a Supernatural Institute in Tokyo where he could study and improve his magic to become stronger. But Rai said that they would be unable to pay to get into the institute, but her sister said that there is an exam opening next week to get a scholarship to the school. So for days and nights, Rai studied all he could at the local school and at home to prepare for the exams.

His sister came back waving a ticket in her hand and it was a ticket to Tokyo. Rai asked her where she had gotten it, but she said that she had saved up to get herself a new scrunchie but used it to get him a ticket instead. Rai was grateful once again.

He travelled to Tokyo and took the exam in the great town hall. A few days later, he received a letter from Supernatural Institute. It stated that he had gotten a scholarship and was starting school in September.

It took a lot of guts to leave his family and he promised to write to them when he could. He hugged his sister, blinking back his tears and walked onto the train, never seeing his father again.

Personality
Rai is a low self confident guy who is very thoughtful. He tend to think about things deeply and zooms out quite often. He is friendly and caring towards his classmates but can be emotionless and not give away any of his feelings.

Rai's alter ego personality a little more confident and more chaotic as he throws his electricity powers around and isn't as careful, He sometimes forgets that manipulating electricity is harder than shooting it out of his body so its a slight chance of him accidently electrocuting his classmates.

Rai spends most of his time playing basketball or just hanging out with his friends.

Relationships
friends

Arakaki is one of Rai's best friends. But Rai is pretty much friends with anyone because of how agreeable and friendly his personality is. Rai is considered one of the students you could trust.

enemies

Rai has no known enemies but he doesn't like Succubus and Incubi Hunters.

romance

Rai has a slight crush on Kiyota as her looks are stunning. But he tries to conceal his feelings for her. Rai tries to confess to Kiyota but is constantly interrupted.

Appearances
Rai has heterochromia in his iris. This means that there is a difference in coloration and he has one yellow eye (right) and one blue eye (left). Rai has purple hair and is average heighted.

He wears the standard school uniform and is blue belted. Rai likes to wear loose shirts and trousers outside of school hours.

Rai's electricity is usually generated as a blue purple color; however, after unleashing his full potential, his electricity turns into a blood red color. This is shown in episode "Red lightning".

Quotes
"'Are you crazy? I could be arrested for arson!'"

Trivia
Did you know that this Rai means thunder in Japanese.