Name: Laurence Harken

Nickname/Alias: Calmer

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Appearance: Laurence would best be described as "fit." He works out in a general sense, without much of an emphasis on one area over another. His love of sweets prevents him from hitting "sculpted" but he can wear skinny jeans with the best of them. The twenty four year old's wardrobe could best be described as "charmingly fashionable." It's not exactly what one would normally consider cutting edge high fashion but he makes it work. Lots of warm colors, warm sweaters and warm smiles.

Biography: As with many people around the world, Laurence was drawn to Academy City by the Power Curriculum Program. However unlike most it wasn't what it could give him that fascinated the young adult at the time. It was how it worked. Specifically the psychological sections. How was it that triggering certain reactions in a person's mind could give them the ability to warp reality around them? So after graduating highschool at eighteen he moved to Academy City, enrolling in one of their psychology degrees. Paying through a combination of scholarship money, some help from his middle class parents and a lot of personal hard work. Oh and a significant amount of student loans.

Part in order to help pay for his school and living expenses and partly to see what he could find out about it Laurence joined the PCP shortly after arriving at Academy City. It was an odd experience to say the least. Most everyone else in the program was good bit younger than him and the amount of poking and prodding he went through wasn't what he would consider to be at all pleasant. It payed off in the end though. He got his ESPER powers and a tidy sum to help keep him afloat during his time in Academy city.

There was something he noticed while interacting with other members of the program however. Thousands of kids were being given almost random superpowers. It had an extremely distinct chance of messing them up. Not so much driving them insane or retarding their development. But you give a twelve year old mind control powers and the results will tend to follow a certain theme. That's to say nothing about the kids who given a chance a greatness but were never able to develop their powers. Laurence couldn't help but feel for them. His empathy soon changing his study path from something oriented towards research to one more focused on therapy and that of young ESPERs in particular.

In the six years since then Laurence has gotten his Masters Degree and is about to move onto his Doctorate. To aid with ever increasing amounts of money needed he currently works at a clinic designed specifically for treating ESPERs. Kids dealing with the thousand and one problems of childhood that have only been amplified by superpowers. His training and potent personal powers has resulted in him being called on by Anti-Skill from time to time. Not quite at the level of a formal consultant but there are several officers within the organization who know and respect his ability to talk down or contain criminals capable of blowing out walls with their minds.

What those officers don't know is that he basically does the same thing in his off time. Wandering the streets of Academy City in attempts to stop events from reaching the point where they require police intervention. Or dealing with it early if such action is needed.

Personality: A sweet guy. Always ready with a friendly word and bits of advice he's picked up over the years. Would probably make you chocolate muffins if you were sick. Laurence also has a strong sense of right and wrong. It's what drives him to wander the streets at night when he could be studying or sleeping.

Esper Power: Guardian Light- Level 4
Laurence recently broke through to level 4, a product of both his not insignificant amount of time working on his abilities and a better understanding than most about the mechanics behind their function. Guardian Light in particular allows him to create and control shapes of pure light. While at first he was limited to simple barriers the complexity and strength of his constructs have risen with time and effort. At Level 4 he is capable of making semi-detailed objects, nothing as complex as a piece of machinery but he can manage a suit of cool looking armor easily enough.

The constructs are powered by Laurence's will. The more effort he puts in the stronger the construct. However using it is physically draining with the creation, manipulation and possible destruction of his objects resulting in mental and physical feedback and stress. In addition while he always has some idea of the position and movement of his constructs he gains no external awareness from them. He needs to be able to see them to move them around an environment properly.

Skills: After six years in Academy City Laurence can speak fluent, if accented, Japanese. In that time he has expanded his basic knowledge of cooking into a genuinely enjoyable repertoire of recipes. In order to avoid gaining too much weight from said food Laurence has taken up a variety of forms of exercise. Most pertinent to the question at hand are his free running and MMA training regimes. And as previously mentioned he has extensive training in the realm of psychology, mostly mixed between the mechanics of the Power Curriculum Program and child/teenage therapy.

Ambition: Learn more about the Power Curriculum Program and how it works. Help the many young ESPERs of Academy City with formative years at least as confusing as those of the rest of the planet. Get his annoyingly expensive Doctorate.

Extra: Laurence has acquired a collection of anti psychic equipment both through his work at the clinic and with Anti-Skill. He usually works a piece into his wardrobe just in case.

Name: Onishi Akari

Nickname/Alias: “Red Oni”

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Appearance: [see image above]

Biography:

Akari was born into an Academy City family of some wealth, her father being a noted researcher at one of the many labs in the city, and her mother a lab assistant at the same place her father would work at. With a proud tradition of education that had brought her grandparents to Academy City in the first place, the same ideal was placed upon Akari and her four other older siblings in turn. Several of Akari’s elder siblings also were also espers, a thing her parents took pride in, and all of her siblings were considered highly intelligent people. Though whilst she was the “runt of the pack” in her family, Akari proved to be....unique, in more ways than one.

From a young age she showed a certain “spark of genius”, as her parents called it. Simply put, she seemed to learn rather well, good on the uptake and called a “genius” from a rather young age in terms of her education. By the age of five she was able to perform complex mathematical equations with little thought involved, a thing that actually surprised her father when he tested her abilities in this area on a whim one night. This high intellect only seemed to be exasperated by the fact that she was found to be a Level 1 esper upon entering the Power Curriculum Program, bearing a rather unique ability at that which only seem to extend her educational capabilities.

At the age of 9, she rose to a Level 2 esper. This is where the exponential growth of her ability was first discovered, as her learning capabilities accelerated from here rather notably. By the age of 11, her ability and hard work and talent placed her at the intellectual level of a graduate student with a Doctorate. Further, 3 months after turning 11 she finally achieved Level 3 as an esper. This only seemed to accelerate her learning even beyond this level, as the combination of a “child genius” became astonishing. However, she never was the star, outshone by those who had higher esper levels...especially the infamous “Railgun” who was in her same generation.

Though she worked as hard as she could educationally and as an esper, aiming to become a “Level 5” in the latter, her genius was always accredited to “her ability” and “her parents’ money” generally by peers of the same age. Even some adults have assumed that, without just her ability, she wouldn’t be anywhere near her current levels of intellect. This is something Akari has loathed to the furthest of her being, having worked hard to get to where she is and wanting this to be recognized. It wasn’t her fault that she had an ability like this...much less she couldn’t choose how her mind just worked as it had all her life. She loathed it, but at the same time wanted to keep working hard to prove them wrong.

Albeit, designing a security system for her dorm room at school did admittedly draw some attention. Especially when part of the carpet did need to be replaced after it was soiled by the poor sap who tried to barge in her room to steal stuff as a prank. She reflects fondly upon the incident, at least. She has also gained the moniker “Red Oni” at school, due to her red hair color resulting in rumors that she “has a terrible temper” of some kind that she supposedly hides.

Personality: Akari is someone whose mind and ability in combination has left her somewhat “disconnected” from normal people in a sense, between her mental speed and her resulting educational intellect over the years. While it is something that she has adjusted to for the most part, she also feels some desire to be “acceptable” somewhere and wants to be able to get along with fellow peers. This being said, efforts to be able to seem “normal” for her have paid off well enough, and her usual demeanor overall is calm and collected. Albeit, like anyone else her age and such she can get excited, giddy, flustered, sad.....even a little shy and a little embarrassed when it comes to romance specifically.

A bit of a geek, though, she does enjoy learning about certain fields and things such as robotics and computers and lasers, on occasion getting “giggly” about it and rather visibly excited. Yet aside from educational pursuits she does enjoy other things, such as hot baths (her favorite way to relax) and certain comforts such as her favorite blend of coffee (keeps a bit much stashed in her dorm room) or favorite anime to watch. In these things, if one were to see her, she seems very much to fit some standard of “normal” that isn’t some “eccentric nerd with a laser and robot fetish” as she was once called in the past. However, when a situation does get serious, so can she, and when it comes to those close to her she is....”doggedly protective” if she feels she needs to be.

Yet if one were on her bad side...well, what is the worst that could happen? No one really has seen the worst come out of her yet, at least publicly. So the rumors about her anger being hidden and ferocious are just stories....right? ...Right?

Esper Power:



Skills: Chemistry, Robotics, and Engineering are the main sorts of subjects she is best at, with a level of startling fluency in them that she is able to use proficiently. She is great at crafting and design various things, usually on the fly, and occasionally enjoys tinkering about. She also has good expertise generally in Computers overall as well, possessing even a noted competency in hacking after a stint of boredom last summer.

The best way to summarize up her primary skills for the most part would be just calling her an “avid technophile”....albeit one who happens to be able to learn things really, really well.

Funny enough, she is terrible at explaining anything she can do well, making an impossible tutor funnily enough in those areas.

She can also make a very good cup of coffee....not bad at all with tea either. However, cooking beyond this is not her forte. At all, actually. Seriously. Don’t eat any food she cooks otherwise, for the love of everything good and holy.

Ambition: (What drives them? What is their goal in Academy City? What do they want to do? How will they go about doing this? How will they achieve it? How will they achieve it in the timeframe of this RPG? Eg. do they want to steal fragments of Tree Diagram and learn how to uplift dolphins? Is there a plot you wanna run to achieve this goal? Send me a message there as well)

Several sorts of things help drive the girl known as Akari Onishi, one of those being her continued participation and rigorous training within the Power Curriculum Program to reach Level 5. She desires to attain this level to prove her hard work will pay off, and that it isn’t just “talent” that got her this far.

However, she has had the idea that, if she could get key fragments of the Tree Diagram, it might be possible to create a miniaturized supercomputer to act as the “core” of a project she’s dreamt of for a little while. The nature of this project? She hasn’t told anyone, really, about it either...

Extra:

-Attends “Kirigaoka Girls' Academy” as a student

-Her ability was named because it reminded the person naming it of the “Tree Diagram”

Name: Haruma Gotou (後藤 悠真)

Nickname/Alias: Haru-Kun (Friends/family), Lucky (Classmates/Clients)

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Appearance:
Haruma is 5'9, 160 pounds, and possesses a rather bland appearance - he typically is dressed in his school uniform, and the only other clothes he owns are dress clothes and formal-casual attire. He typically tries to make his voice sound cooler than it really is, and puts a great deal of effort into his hygiene. His most noticeable characteristic is that the path he walks is usually cleared before he takes a step - rocks are swept to the side, bills and coins find their way to his hand, and falling objects narrowly avoid hitting him.

Biography:
Haruma lived his entire life inside of Academy city - his parents were a pair of delinquents who didn't take their schooling very seriously. After his father was expelled from high school, and his mother dropped out, Haruma was born - neither of his parents could keep a steady job, and spending a night without food was not uncommon. He never really acted up, and was a normal, B-student most of his life, until his third year of primary school - after staying back to help his teacher clean the classroom, he was given a crisp 500 yen bill. On the way home, he used this bill to buy his first real possession. Upon eating the Lemon Cupcake, he realized that there was only one way to truly live.

Anywhere but in the throes of squalor.

Haruma continued to do mediocrely in school, but he did everything he could to earn the slightest bit of spending money - he worked whatever jobs he could, he offered to do some of the janitorial work for only a few hundred yen, and he regularly scavenged for useful items that he could use rather than simply buy new ones - this led to a slight hoarding problem. Every single yen he earned, Haruma hid in his mattress, preparing for the day he could open his own bank account, stash it all away, and move out. His father passed away when he was 13 years old, but by this time, his mother had gotten a steady full-time job as a waitress.

Upon entering Noriaki North High School, Haruma successfully managed to increase his esper power to level three - while he knew he had a power before, it was too weak at level 2 to have any real effect on his life - occasionally helping him avoid stepping in garbage or moving his hand towards the right answers on tests. When the coins started to roll towards him, Haruma finally realized that maybe esper powers were more important than he gave them credit for.

With his power providing a steady income, subsidized by his part time job, Haruma achieved his dream and moved out at the age of 15, moving into one of the many student dorms that littered district 7. It was small, but it was his. And cheap - that was the best feature. Since then, Haruma had continued his habit of making money, investing it into the stock market, or simply saving it. His largest purchase had been his truck, which he is quite fond of, and uses very often to collect the lost bills and coins from the city.

Now, at the age of 18 and in his final year of high school, Haruma simply wants to gather as much wealth as he can, so he doesn't need to end up in a similar place to what he grew up in.

Personality:
Haruma is a smooth talking, scummy, and greedy person. He does his best to weasel the most out of people whenever possible, particularly when it comes to finding lost items such as keys. He is manipulative, and while he is very insistent on always keeping his word, he has no problems whatsoever with using details and specifics to get things his way. He rarely works for nothing, years of labor having taught him the value of a helping hand, and he is keen on keeping to his own interests. He is somewhat overzealous while thinking of plans and ways to solve a problem more efficiently. One of the characteristics that he prides himself on is his cowardice - or, as he calls it, his "Survival instinct."

Still, despite being a scumbag, Haruma has a soft spot in his heart for people who are willing to make the first kind move. He rarely explicitly states his friendships or people he holds dear, instead showing his affection by doing work for free or by buying a gift or lunch. He only really mentions his truthfulness, but Haruma does have a set of principles he follows very closely - never tell a lie, always offer help when needed (at a price), and to never leave someone unsatisfied or upset if he can help it. These principles have cause him, on several occasions, to help complete strangers who were desperate for no charge at all. He refuses to tell anyone this, however.

Haruma cares a great deal about appearances and he will try to look happy, well-off, and generally positive under any circumstance - this is mostly due to his upbringing in poor, unpleasant conditions. Speaking of unpleasant, Haruma has a mild case of hoarding, and anything that costs more than a few dollars is generally kept in a cabinet or box 'just in case.'

His favorite food is Lemon-flavored cake.

Esper Power: Subconscious Telekinesis - Level 3

Haruma subconsciously uses telekinesis to alter his surroundings within a 500 meter radius, doing it's best to satisfy his desires and goals. It can use up to 10 pounds of force at one time within the radius, but this can be split in multiple places to allow multiple tasks at one time. Haruma's power tries to defend him in any situation, but otherwise, it is mostly bound by his desires at that time.

Subconscious Telekinesis is, as the name implies, completely indirect - it can only vaguely follows what Haruma wants at that time (He can basically decide what he wants his power to do, but his subconscious controls all the details and fine movements, making subtlety and dexterous use of his power impossible). This means that, while it can be used in combat, it is similar to weak, blind punches rather than concentrated attacks. Additionally, it is ridiculously weak in terms of raw power, making it mostly only useful for day-to-day life.

Due to the large range and passive nature of his power, Haruma possesses a massive AIM diffusion field, which has little benefit other than making AIM resonance possible at much further ranges and detecting other telekinetics easier.

Skills:
Haruma's most notable skill is his proficiency behind the wheel of most vehicles - ironic considering he doesn't know how to ride a bike. Haruma is also good at basic survival and budgeting, AKA, being an adult. Considering he has had to live alone for several years, this is an expected trait to possess. Other than this, he is very perceptive to details, and while he may sometimes miss the big picture, small changes and movement rarely fail to be caught in his eye. Finally, he is a fairly smooth talker, able to twist his words to the point where he "isn't really lying" so he doesn't break his personal code too often.

Ambition:
Haruma's goal is to become rich enough that he will never have to spend another day in squalor - and that no matter what happens, he'd be able to keep friends from similar conditions. To this end, Haruma's goals merely extend to generating more wealth for himself - whether that be from using the stock market, starting his own business, or finding a well paying job. While this would be extremely easy if he simply used his power to steal anything, his strict principles keep him from stealing. If he did, he'd be no better than the filthy people that lined the streets.

While his power currently provides enough wealth to keep him well-off, Haruma's primary goal is to increase in level, preferably to the point where his power can start dragging in lost bills and coins from across the whole city. By then, he'd hopefully have raised his grades to get a good job, or at the very least have found a good company to invest into.

Extra:
Haruma sends around a fourth of the money he earns to his mother at the end of every month.

Absolutely hates bugs - the mere mention causes his power to stop what it's doing and start killing insects within his range. At the very least, this could make him an excellent exterminator.

Has never actually experienced abuse or homelessness - his hatred for poverty is mostly a fear of true lack of wealth rather than anything done to him in his childhood.

Regularly is hired by classmates to find important lost items, such as keys, wallets, assignments, and credit cards. He never takes anything he finds, and is always quick to start looking.