Akiza Izinski

Akiza Izinski, known as Aki Izayoi in the Japanese version, is a main character in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's and was one of the Signers. She is also called the Black Rose, or Black Rose Witch in the Japanese version. Akiza possesses an extremely strong special ability which sets her apart from the rest of humanity, and even the rest of the Signers. This psychic ability enables her to materialize and bring to life monsters and the effects of Duel Monsters cards, allowing her to freely control them similar to Yami Bakura and Jaden Yuki. Akiza is a teenager of average height, with fair skin, brown eyes, and dark burgundy hair. Her hair is mostly chin-length with the addition of elbow-length bangs that frame both sides of her face. She rolls her front bangs with a device similar to a hair curler on top of her head, which helps her restrain her powers, while a bit hangs down on each side. Her wardrobe appears to have Victorian influences, and typically consists of a high-collared, low-cut red corset with short, light green puffy sleeves worn underneath a sleeveless, magenta trenchcoat that flares behind her, being shorter and pleated in the front, and black, elbow-length, fingerless gloves with gold bracelets above them; below that, she wears red high-heeled pumps and black thigh-high stockings connected to a skirt by suspenders. (In the dub, her cleavage is either covered or made smaller and her stockings are edited to remove the suspenders). In addition to this, she wears a red neck choker and an emerald crested, golden cross-shaped medallion. Akiza's first Duel Disk has pink, purple, and red trim with purple jewels. Later on, she uses the hybrid Duel Disk attached to her Duel Runner, which has the same color scheme as the previous one. For Turbo Duels, Akiza instead uses a form-fitting, red motorcycle suit which shows her cleavage, along with an enclosed helmet, and boots. When at school, she wears the Duel Academy girls uniform. It consists of a burgundy coat, white button-down shirt, same stockings as her usual attire, a medium-length skirt, and a green tie. On formal occasions she wears a short red dress with long white gloves and red high heels. After Yusei's Duel against Z-one, Akiza had longer hair and had her bangs cut. She also wore a red headband. During the dinner party in the last episodes, she wore a white top and brown sandals, and, in the final episode, she wore a red shirt, stockings, and red high-heeled pumps. Due to having been rejected by her parents as a child and treated like a monster for years on end, Akiza was initially a very insecure, unstable, and spiteful individual who viewed everyone around her as an enemy and took sadistic pleasure in deliberately hurting people with her powers. At the same time, however, she also suffered from immense self-hatred and was miserable in her personal belief that she would never be able to live a normal life no matter how hard she tried. Although Sayer gave her hope in her life again when he took her in and showed her compassion, he also deliberately manipulated her for his own agenda, causing her sorrow and rage towards the world to only increase day by day. After meeting Yusei, however, Akiza finally started to question whether she had made the right choice to give up on herself and as a result, her focus started to slip and her performance started to decline. When Sayer was seemingly killed by Carly and her parents tried to make amends with her, Akiza (with help from Yusei) was finally able to find peace and obtain the normal life that she had desired from the beginning. After reconciling with her family and finding her place amongst the Signers, Akiza became a much more selfless, sweet, cheery, and heroic person, causing her to develop a habit of jumping up to help her friends whenever possible. She also grew close with Leo and Luna, who came to see her as an older sister figure, and developed romantic feelings for Yusei, as displayed by how she would always get easily worked up whenever he was in some sort of danger.