Akon (Ash)

Akon (阿近, Akon) is a member of the Twelfth Division within the Gotei 13, and currently its Lieutenant underneath Taiga Jinkō. He is an accomplished scientist, enough so that he is labelled as the Vice-President of the Shinigami Research and Development Institute.

Appearance
Akon is a tall man with short, spiky brown hair, which has a jagged, hairless area running through it. He has three small horns protruding from his forehead. He wears a laboratory coat over the standard Shinigami shihakushō. 110 years ago, Akon has more of a child appearance. He also did not have the three horns on his forehead and did not have that hairless area, which is assumed to have been due to an experiment with the race known as.

History
101 years ago, a young Akon acted as one of Mayuri Kurotsuchi's assistants in the Shinigami Research and Development Institute. When the captain of the 9th Division, Kensei Muguruma, needed a Shinigami researcher to investigate the possibility that a pathogen is causing souls to break down, he sent Izaemon Tōdō to retrieve one. Upon receiving the news, Captain Kisuke Urahara decided to send the division's lieutenant, Hiyori Sarugaki. She complained about the assignment, asking why he does not give the assignment to somebody less important, such as Akon. Akon retorts that all she does is complain, and that she should just give up the lieutenant rank if she hates its duties so much. Hiyori attempts to kick his face for the remark, but he effortlessly avoids it.

He, alongside his Captain Mayuri, Hiyosu and two other Shinigami, experimented on Quincy, including Sōken Ishida, Uryū's master and grandfather.

Powers and Abilities
High Intelligence:
 * Expert Scientist:
 * Expert Strategist and Tactician:
 * Highly Perceptive Combatant:

Kidō Expert:

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