Takahashi Jin.

15

Manhattan, New York, USA

Jin is about 5’0 and dark skinned, with black eyes and short black hair. She is petite and wiry, and usually frowning.

Blunt
Intelligent
Snarky
Anxious
Boyish

Jin’s parents, Richard and Yumiko, met at an international university in a political science course. Despite a myriad of personal, cultural and social differences, they fell tumbling into love and married after graduation. Richard became a detective and Yumiko worked with the the city’s mayor. They were happy and successful, and together nearly 7 years before having a bouncing baby girl named Jinayah.

Another 5 years saw tragedy strike. A break in occurred at their home one winter night, and Richard and Yumiko were found dead, shot by an unknown assailant. Their daughter, who had just started kindergarten, was nowhere to be found. It was another year before they found Jin, who was caught trying to break into a convenience store. With her father having no living relatives, Jin was sent overseas to live with her mother’s brother.

Jin’s uncle Tairo, and aunt Misaki were both happy to take in their niece, and yet hurt by the circumstances. They did their best with the little girl and tried to help her fit in. They changed her name officially to her their family name, they took her to theme parks and festivals, and tried to be the best parents they could. It took a very long time for Jin to be able to open up and trust again.

Jin was never quite sure of the first time she understood she was different. Maybe it was elementary, in a class photo, where she was far too easy to pick out. Maybe one summer when someone told her that she didn’t have to worry about tanning, or when she overheard someone referring to her as “Hafu” for the first time, and she had to go home and look it up online.

Whatever the cause, her personality shifted dramatically in her first year of middle school. She went from trying to fit in to actively going against the grain. She stood up for the outcasts, and didn’t even try to pretend she was “normal”. In her mind, someone had to defend the people on the outside. The ones who weren’t like everyone else, the ones who didn’t fit in or fall in line. Those people, too, needed a hero.

This behavior caused no end of worry from her aunt and uncle. When it came time to pick high schools, Ishin was suggested as a place that could hone her spirit into something proper. Jin did enough reading to understand the school’s reputation, and what she read burned her up. She knew, that this school would be her first test. She’d make Ishin understand that she belonged, just as much as anyone, and she would be a great hero of ALL of Japan.

I wanted to play with the idea of a character with a chip on their shoulder and a lot to say about it. Jin is as close as I can write to a bully, and I want to push the idea of someone who constantly lashes out in a place where that isn’t tolerated. Either she learns to bend, or she breaks entirely. I want to know what lies beneath that kind of personality, behind all the anger and snapping.

Also, Jin feels like a fish out of water. She doesn’t feel American anymore, and there are some who will forever treat her like she isn’t Japanese. She expects everyone to hurt her, eventually, and while she’d be loathe to admit it, she is constantly waiting for that pain. She’s used to being alone, and to have that challenged would bring her to an unknown point.

Finally, I want to see if I can make a hero out of someone without the usual personality. All Jin has is raw stubbornness. She’s not naturally kind or gentle, most of her would rather not start a fight- because she knows that fight has to end with her winning, no matter the cost. Can someone lonely, angry and afraid have what it is to be a hero?

Emitter

One Shot: One Shot: She can hit anything she can see within 50 yards, but only with objects about the size of a ping pong ball and larger. Jin can curve her shots to hit her target. This takes time, however, and she has to concentrate to hit a faster moving target. If she can’t see her target, she will hit the next closest thing. Without a set target, One Shot is rather useless. The objects she throws or launches are still many of the laws of physics. Heavier objects take more force to throw and aim, while lighter ones are easier but not as forceful.

Overuse of her Quirk causes severe migraines. Jin can tell they're coming when her color vision starts to distort. Usually she can't push herself past that point, as migraines cause all of her senses to go out of whack. The more she pushes past the initial symptoms, the more she will pay for it later. Her worst migraine lasted 3 days.

-Intelligence: Jin, despite her unfavorable personality, is rather intelligent. Her high test scores were part of what got her accepted. She loves math and mechanics, and if she burns out as a hero she’ll go to university for an Engineering degree.

-Side Job: Jin fixes computers and phones for money, and she’s quite good at it. Most things require a reboot or a drive cleaning, and she also takes requests for custom builds. This may turn into something she does in the summer, now that she’s entering high school.

-Natural Aim: Jin was in the archery club in middle school, and could have been Captain if she’d chosen to apply for it. She took up the sport because it was a challenge to not use her Quirk – like most sports teams, most Quirks had to not be used, or be harshly vetted to prevent unfair advantage or cheating of any kind. She had to rely on her own eyes and arms and skill, and she loved it. Even without her Quirk, she understands where and how something needs to go to hit a target.

-Big Eater: Jin likes food. She's got a quick metabolism, and always seems to be hungry.

-Bilingual: Despite being away from America so long, Jin still maintains her English with weekly practice. She has a habit of tossing foreign words into her speech when she’s particularly excited.

Asakura Fuyumi

14

Roppongi, Tokyo

Fuyumi is a shorter than average student, standing at only 4'9''. Despite this, she manages to look rather imposing, in no small thanks to her beautiful looks, and somewhat exotic features, such as luscious silver hair and haunting blood-red eyes, bringing her close to an albino, but actually being a byproduct of the awakening of quirks among the populace. Despite her rich doll-like idol looks, Fuyumi does pack quite compact muscles underneath the baby fat and curves. Her voice is also sweet and singsong, like that of a songbird. But that's where the cuteness ends. Fuyumi tends to dress in a delinquent, aggressive fashion, has bad postures and manners in overall, and quite a foul mouth.

Fuyumi radiates a highly prickly and cynical persona, always sizing up people and delivering verbal lashings to anyone who catches her attention. She is by self-admission a lone wolf sort of person because people are scum and are not to be trusted at all. She loves to defy expectations and more than often, the best way to make her do something is to tell her not to do it. She also likes to tug people's strings and cause mischief for her own amusement. She also can be quite ruthless when it comes to trading blows, as she considers everything fair game, and being throughout a norm. Beneath this rotten attitude, lies dormant a champion of justice, someone who will do whatever it takes to uphold the weak with all her might, and who will do the right thing just because she has to, not because of the potential reward and fame. She also has a soft spot for freaks, little children and injured animals.

To explain Fuyumi's personal History, one must trace back at both of her parents. It was like the old tales of love. A well-off citizen met with a lady of the night, and they decided to brave all hardships together. However, it did not go like the tale. After Fuyumi was conceived, her father suffered a severe mental breakdown. Unable to cope with the stress of his work and seeing how many heroes and villains clashed in the streets only for people like him to have to sort out the wounded and the dead, he snapped. And then the murder incidents began. One after the other. Quirk individuals corpses flooded the news in Roppongi. More was the shock when her father was uncovered, a seemingly mild mannered, run of the mill doctor, who had seemingly executed at least a dozen of serial killings.

When Fuyumi was born, her father was already in prison. Her mother could never marry him, and she had to take up her former job to pay the bills of the baby girl. Young Fuyumi spent her early baby years among drugs, night-life, gangsters and debauchery, up until her mother, who never gave up on her father's innocence caved in and gave her away... But by then she was old enough to remember.

Thus, her first years , little Fuyumi experienced loss and abandonment, and when the rumours reached her fellow orphanage dwellers, despite the administration efforts, she experienced rejection and bullying. A bad seed. A cursed child of a prostitute and a serial killer. Fuyumi's heart dried little by little. It also didn't help that unlike her colleagues, nobody could figure out what her quirk was, adding "quirkless trash" to the long list of insults she suffered. Others would've been destroyed and reduced to apathetic shells of themselves, but Fuyumi would not tolerate such a thing. She wanted to live, to feel alive. And she fought back with all her might and wits. It was then when she realized. Her quirk. No matter how grievous the injury, she would always bounce back.

A golden thread appeared before her, and she seized it with all her might. She used her regeneration skills to wear down her bullies one by one in a scuffle of attrition, as her newfound confidence and defiance found that her grades soared. Then, at some point, her handlers asked what she would do later in life. They advised that given her quirk, she could have a good shot at being a heroine and erase all doubts people had about her.

Fuyumi didn't want to be a hero. She didn't want to become that which had driven her father to madness. Like him, she wished to be a doctor and help alleviate people's suffering. But she had little choice. Swallowing her pride and putting her best face, she lied through her teeth, declaring that her dream in her life was to be a hero. Hook, line and sinker. She wasted no effort and aimed for the top, and her choice was Ishin Academy. She wasn't even deterred the slightest when she learnt about the hard line the institution had. It was all for the better.

Well, to be fair, the character was made with the idea of a cynical person who was exposed to a lot of things that are... well, not ideal for minors, and as a result developed a rather thick coat of cynicism. She was based probably on the concept of some sort of immortal princess kind of time, like Evangeline mashed up with Wolverine.

Her development will of course show that even if the world is imperfect, and many people indeed are wicked and twisted, many others are good people when given half a chance to prove themselves. I also toy with the idea that heroics come from within rather than being taught from outside, and that sometimes, all it takes to be a hero is to be in the wrong place at the right moment.

Mutation

Eternal Blossom is simply put, super regeneration. Seems boring? Yes. Looks plain? Yes. Is it useful? HELL YES. This ability to bounce back from grievous injury and grow back body parts in minutes, leaving no blemish nor scar in the body guarantees that Fuyumi is very hard to put down, short of massive injuries like blowing her into tiny pieces or decapitation. Furthermore, her regeneration seems to have also tampered with her telomeres, granting her potential eternal life. (She has inherited her quirk from her mother, and she doesn't look past 20 in any regard). However, regeneration can be temporally spent by suffering a lot of injuries in a short period of time, and it can send her into a state of unconsciousness or death. Fuyumi, much to her chagrin, can't control her regeneration at all.

Her blood is also imbued with regenerative properties, and upon topical application or ingestion, it will quickly heal someone's elses wounds. Abuse of this miracle drug can however, lead to temporary quirk loss.

Peerless all rounder
Fuyumi's hostile upbringing has made it so she wouldn't neglect neither mental nor physical development and aggressively taken her to the next level. As a result, her grades are excellent on average despite her delinquent reputation, as well as she picks up new skills and talents with frightening ease, both inside and outside school. There's little she cannot learn or do if she puts her mind into it, and while many others may best her in their respective fields, few can claim that they are the same as her.
The Doctor is In
Her true calling. Fuyumi is a medical otaku, and she can deal with most injuries a student usually has. She is skilled enough to perform emergency surgeries, although this is more of a last resort kind of thing, since she obviously has no medical license or equipment. Furthermore her knowledge in anatomy gives her some leverage in fighting opponents.
Songbird
But nobody has heard her singing voice yet...
Street fighter
Fuyumi knows none of fancy schmancy moves of Karate, Jiujitsu, Sumo or Turbo XXL MMA Vale Tudo, but she has picked a mashup of dirty moves in her life, as well as knowing how to use the varied urban terrain to her advantage.