Editing Akiyama Akari

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|gender= f
|age= ~50
|occupation= Charity worker (??)<br>[[MHD]] member (??)<br>[[Soul Guard]] member (?? - 2067)<br>Physicist (2068-2071)
|color= White 
|SG= Belly
|weapon= None
|class= [[Soul Mage]]
}}

Akiyama Akari was a [[Magical Girl]], member of the rare Soul Mage class, researcher of the energetical aspects of magic use, and girlfriend to [[Tomoe Mami]].

They became enamored as Akari used her magic to lift the love spell that [[Seoyun Choi-ssi]] had casted upon Mami and to transfer it to herself, but afterwards they voluntarily developed a romantic relationship. She then became Mami's mentor on [[telepathy]], which made their bond even tighter.

As a researcher of "fundamental topics like corruption, the soul-body link, the despair spiral", she carried on the scientific work of [[Mikuni Oriko]]. She was a direct subordinate of the then head of the Science Division of the [[MSY]], [[Chitose Yuma]], but she had relative autonomy as to the topics of her studies. Her subordinates included [[Sadachi Shiori]] and other Magical Girls.

She died in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack targeting Mami. It was orchestrated by a stray group of North Korean Magical Girls that were dissatisfied with the advance of the MSY over their territory. As the power of her [[Soul Gem]] ran out, she and Mami were in close telepathic communication, which allowed Mami to witness firsthand the decay of a Soul Gem and so gain great insight into the working of the [[Law of Cycles]]. Her wish was "I just want to make a difference. I wish to. All of this, all of our suffering, all our experiences. It must all be worth it.", and so it was fulfilled at the moment of her death.

==References==

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/23965614 Chapter 50: Sub Rosa]

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/101176659 Interlude III: Manifest Destiny]