Akane Otogisha, Commander of the Heavens

Final picture of the day, last picture I’ve colored. Woot! Drew this last month, colored it yesterday.

This is how we’ll do this: character bio/introduction, explanation for the title, discussion of technicalities.

Mini character introduction before I go onto the bio. This is my D. Gray-Man OC, Akane Otogisha! She’s not as developed as some of my other OCs and I haven’t really done much with her before, but I couldn’t help but make her. We’ll see how long she sticks around.

Name: Akane Otogisha
Age: 17 (I know she doesn’t look it, remember, I don’t do age well)
Height: 5’6”
Race: Japanese
Family: Parents, older brother, two younger sisters (none of them have names right now), all of them were slaughtered by akuma when Akane was 12
Love Interest: Allen Walker
Innocence: Equipment type
- Sky Evolution – necklace with silver gemstone charm, transforms into 2 ft long silver staff, round disc at top with picture of cloud in center, light blue with silver rim, attack is Raindance Light
- Sun’s Eternity – necklace with gold gemstone charm, transforms into 5 ft long gold staff, round disc on top with picture of sun in center, gold with gold rim, attack is Heaven’s Fury
Short Background:
- General Cloud Nyne found her after her parents were slaughtered and brought her back to the Asia branch. Komui heard about her and since Akane and Lenalee were close in age, suggested Cloud Nyne bring her to his branch.
- After being put into Komui’s care, Akane was signed up to train with General Tiedoll since Cloud Nyne was currently placed in the Asia branch.
- Akane and Lenalee became close friends, and Akane trained with Kanda. She was sent on missions with Kanda a lot of the time, though she often went with Lenalee as well, until they were old enough to go on solo missions, though Kanda reached that age a lot earlier than everyone else.
- Because of their similar heritage, Akane feels she connects better with Kanda than most people, though she thinks he only tolerates her while she views him as a very close friend.
- While not the best, she’s a very good exorcist and prides herself on being able to help those in need in ridding the world of the akuma. One of her greatest goals in life is to avenge her family by ending the war. She dreams of finally living a life of peace.
- She has a talent for hiding her true feelings and avoiding uncomfortable questions.
- After Allen arrives at the order, she finds herself spending a lot of time with him.
- While she likes Lavi from a distance, at first she finds him a little intimidating and doesn’t find herself in his presence too much, but once things get complicated, she finds herself with him quite a lot and gradually grows to love him as a friend.

Alright, now that that’s out of the way, I can kinda sorta explain the title. As I said, Akane is pretty good at using her Innocence and being an exorcist. I think that warrants at least some sort of title. Commander just seemed appropriate for the occasion. Now, I say she is the Commander of the Heavens because her Innocence is connected to the sky—Sky Evolution, Raindance Light, Sun’s Eternity, Heaven’s Fury, you get the picture. So yeah, Akane is my Commander of the Heavens.

Now for the technicalities. I’ve always wanted a character with double colors in the eyes. Not like one eye one color and the second eye a different color. No, I wanted two colors in both eyes. I decided that since D.Gray-Man was a fairly normal place to play with colors (that’s why Akane’s hair is lavender, the pink tips are dyed though), so I went with it. I’m happy with it. Her skin wasn’t originally that dark, but since she’s Japanese, I thought I’d make it darker, be somewhat accurate. I don’t like the legs or the hand very much, but hey, I tried. I’m proud of the hair and eyes, though.

This time, I gave up on making the background realistic. I went with the heavens theme and used a galaxy brush to make the background (I don’t remember who it was on DA I got them from—I’ll look it up later when I’m not tired). I’m happy with it.

It’s not my favorite picture, but it’s not bad either. It only goes to show that SOMETIMES, the poses straight out of my head don’t look very good. But not all the time. So yeah.

Please leave me comments. I know you all don’t like OC pictures (because if you did, you’d comment on all of mine). Maybe I’ll try to do a Merpeople or Fairy theme with some canon characters to make up for it, or something. We’ll see.

Akane Otogisha, Sky Evolution, Sun’s Eternity, Raindance Light, Heaven’s Fury, Art © KelekiahGaladrian
Allen, Kanda, Komui, Lenalee, General Cloud Nyne, General Tiedoll, Lavi, akuma, D. Gray-Man © Katsura Hoshino