||Name:|| Jae Won Choi

||Age:|| 18

||Alias:|| Sonic

||Appearance:||


||Abilities:||
Audiokinesis
Jae's powers are unusual and many would consider them useless in battle, as he has yet to learn how to use them correctly. Any form of sound, as in the vibrations that flow through the air, unable to be seen by the eye and sometimes the ear, Jae is able to see, hear and manipulate. Sounds show up in clouds of color for him, so they are easy to spot and easy to manipulate as well. He can make a sound louder as he wished by making the cloud bigger or can make a sound disappear completely by shrinking the cloud down to a manageable size. His screams or yells can be supersonic and he can project any form of sound that he creates himself toward someone else as a physical attack, as he makes the vibrations of the sound he projects so hard that they become physical tremors. With this, he has the ability to speed up sound as well as slow it down. Lowering and upping the frequencies of certain sounds can be deadly to humans, especially if it goes too low. If he fires off sounds quickly enough, he has also found out that he can create a barrier of sound, protecting himself, but sounds do not last very long.

Mimicry
Jae has the ability to mimic any form of sound he can hear, whether it is an animal, human, bug, anything that makes a noise. However, in order for him to mimic it, he has to have heard it beforehand. Once he hears a sound, he is able to store it in his memory and mimic it again at a later point. When he hasn't heard something for a long time, he is unable to copy the sound right off the bat unless he hears the sound again. The easy item to mimic for him are other humans, as it takes him one try to copy someone's voice. Animals and others take two to three tries before he can truly copy it perfectly.

||Skills:||
Because of his powers, Jae has a heightened sense of hearing, which allows him to figure out when someone is nearby. His footsteps have become quieter and this allows him to sneak around a lot easier than most humans. He is in good shape, giving him good endurance with anything physical. Speed is key when it comes to thieving, so he is fairly fast on his feet. With his background, he has developed quick reflexes and a decent athletic ability. Having to live alone and raise his sister has made him intelligent and a swift learner. He is able to immediately come up with solutions for certain situations whenever they arise, whether someone is ill, something bad has happened or otherwise.

||Personality Traits:||
Athletic, Clever, Casual, Tough, Dishonest, Rigid
Being the oldest in his family and having to take care of his younger sister since they moved to the US, Jae is a leader, which gives him a stubborn personality. He believes that was he does is what he should do, and rarely takes advice from anyone else on what he should be doing. Growing up with barely anything and becoming a thief to be able to survive turned lying into a habit for him. Even when he doesn't need to lie, he tends to lie anyways. His sister hardly trusts him anymore because of it as well. He tends to be on the more dishonest side when it comes to things, especially if it gets himself or his sister into any danger or trouble. He is very protective of his sister and growing up without anyone guiding him turned him into a tough person.

Underneath all of this tough, lying exterior, he is actually quiet intelligent in clever. He has a quick wit and doesn't take crap from anyone. He may give out his own lies, but when he knows someone is lying to him, he doesn't take it. Once a person gets to know him, it is easy to tell that he is very casual and laid back. He is very distrusting when it comes to meeting people for the first time.

||Backstory:||
Jae was born in South Korea in 1928 to a pear farmer who worked on the outskirts of Seoul. He was the oldest of three children, one of his younger sisters being born two years later and the other four years later, and considered to be a "miracle child", as his parents had been told that they would not be able to have any children. His father had been in the first World War and had been lucky enough to come back with only losing two of his fingers. Growing up, Jae had heard horror stories of the war and he put his father on a pedestal, believing him to be a war hero because he was able to come back alive. He was proud of his father, not knowing that his father had hid when his unit had charged into battle, getting slaughtered.

In his childhood, Jae was working in the fields from age five. He was a quick worker and was able to climb to the highest parts of the trees to shake down pears for his father. He was athletic from a very young age, but he was also ignorant of the brewing war that was going on around them. His parents, however, were not ignorant. Having seen the lead up to World War 1, his parents were noticing the signs of another oncoming war. By the time Jae was eight years old, his parents were already figuring out a way to get them out of the country and to America, where they believed they would be safe.

Within the next year, when Jae was nine years old and a year before World War 2 officially began, Jae's parents put Jae and his younger two sisters on a trade ship heading for the United States. They used almost all of their money to bribe the captain to take the stowaways to a safer place. The captain was moved more by pity than by money, so he took the children anyways. Reaching the United States was easy, as they just had to remain hidden on the boat, but actually getting onto land was a little more difficult. The captain devised a plan to hide each of the children in a cargo box and sneak them onto land that way, allowing them to come out when they got on land. Finally reaching the US, they continued as planned and Jae and his siblings were able to sneak into New York City, to be safe as their parents had hoped.

What their parents seemed to have forgotten was they were only children. They had no way to make money, no place to stay, no way to survive without their parents there. Their parents had given them food for only a month, if they used it sparingly. The children had to resort to staying in an alleyway between a lawyer firm and a clothing store. A box was used for cover when it rained and ripped clothing from the clothing store that was thrown away was used for blankets and warmth. Within a month, Jae's youngest sister fell ill, due to malnutrition mainly, but being cold all the time and not having proper clothing didn't help. She died within two months, leaving Jae alone with his younger sister. This was when Jae realized there was not much that he could do for his sister without breaking the law. He wasn't going to let this sister die, as the younger one had.

Jae started thieving small things, an apple from a fruit stand, an umbrella from a tourist shop, those sort of items. He gave his sister most of his food, only taking little bits for himself. This kept up for about a year until World War 2 began and all of the men left for the war. Women became shopkeepers and Jae found it easier to steal items without anyone noticing, especially when he brought his sister along to distract the female shopkeepers. He began picking up English from listening to conversations that were had near the alleyway and began speaking to the shopkeepers to distract them away from what he was doing.

His first big thieving was when he was fifteen years old. Before then, he had been mainly stealing food, but he finally figured out that he was quick handed. He began learning how to pickpocket and managed the steal an expensive pocket watch, which he sold for enough money to buy more food for his sister and buy both of them new clothing. The rush of thieving such items and getting money for them filled him and he began going bigger, stealing rings or watches as he shook hands with people, and soon, he wasn't stealing for money or food. He was stealing just for the fun of it. His sister began getting worried and tried to get him to stop, but he wouldn't. He went too far when he was sixteen and stole the expensive ivory cane of an important official. He was chased back to the alleyway and he and his sister hid. This was where he saw his first sound cloud, which happened to be his sister crying silently, though it was still loud enough for people to hear. He told her to be quiet, but she couldn't. The cloud still floating there, and he willed that she would be quiet. The cloud disappeared suddenly. Though she still moved as if she was crying, no noise came from her. He had figured out his powers.

From then on, wherever he went, he saw sounds floating in the air as different colored clouds. The louder the sound, the bigger the cloud. The different colors he couldn't figure out. He knew that there was something different about him, but he never used his powers again. Purposely. Sometimes, he would get so frustrated with his younger sister that he unintentionally shot off a sound wave, but he never injured her.

He got caught by a mysterious man when he was out pick pocketing. He had no idea who the man was, only that he knew a lot about Jae that he definitely should not have. The man knew about his powers and wanted to help him. He gave him an address that he needed to go to, telling him specifically to bring his sister as well and they would be given a room and good food. Though distrusting, Jae went along with it, doing what he thought was best for both himself and his sister, taking help from a stranger for the first time in over nine years.

Other:
Jae never purposely used his powers to harm anyone. Every unintentional firing of a sound knocked some rock loose, but he had never actually tried it on another human being.

Jae always walks in front of his sister, making sure that he is protecting her as much as he can.

Jae can hear almost every sound, no matter how low or high. The higher the frequencies, the more irritating it is to him as well. He has never gotten into much pain because of his powers though. This is also a warning to never talk behind his back, because he will most likely hear you.