Name: Youko Wakahisa (若久 陽子 Wakahisa Youko)

Nickname/Alias: N/A

Age: 16 (b. August 17)

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Her height is 1.60m and she weighs around 50kg.

Biography: A scion of the Wakahisa Conglomerate, the young girl given the name of "Youko" was born on the 17th of August in the city of Kyoto, where her family had run its businesses for several decades. As the heiress to the family fortune, her early upbringing was one of sophistication, instilling in her a foundation of propriety that would influence her massively over the following years, particularly after her parents chose to relocate to Tokyo when she was merely nine years of age. It was the wish of the Wakahisa clan that she participate in Academy City’s Power Curriculum Programme, viewing esper abilities as a great boon for their child.

Thus, it was with little fanfare that Youko prepared herself for the experiments that would transform her from just another simple little Japanese girl into a superpowered being, enrolling in a school within the walls of Academy City. It should have, in ideal circumstances, been a particularly simple state of affairs, but to much misfortune, a group of unscrupulous bad dudes, intent on grabbing cash from her family, kidnapped her not long after her tenth birthday when she was trying to buy a cheap boxset of her favourite superhero television show. However, another young girl had been in the store at the same time as her, and due to the inability of her kidnappers to differentiate between them, that girl was too held captive.

And so she found herself in shock and full of tears, trapped in a dark room with a remarkably unphased hat-garbed girl (whose hair had yet to turn blonde) as her only company.

However, it was truly the presence of that other girl that brought Youko salvation during those two weeks of captivity. The two found themselves bonding, discussing all sorts of random bits of kids' TV shows and arguing who was the cooler Disney princess. For the first time in her life, the Wakahisa scion had met somebody who resonated with her emotionally, and who she could talk to so easily. She soon grew to appreciate the hat-garbed girl as a great friend, relishing in the comfort her companion so readily provided. So it was unsurprising that they parted with great sadness upon Anti-Skill’s discovery of their location, but Youko vowed to someday return the kindness her new friend had shown her.

Indeed, by the time of her twelfth birthday, the Wakahisas had contacted the hat-garbed girl once more, setting her up as a ward of one of the family butlers to repay her for the company she had provided to Youko. The two would begin attending the same middle school together, deepening their relationship over the next few years until graduation, when they were forced to split ways. Youko had been accepted into the posh, all-girls Shidarezakura Academy in District 7's School Garden, while her friend instead left for the more mundane Noriaki North.

Though they remain in contact, Youko still misses her friend's presence in her life. With the everyday stress of schoolwork and her own relationship issues, it's no wonder that she wants a shoulder to lean on.

Personality: As the characters in her name would suggest, Wakahisa Youko is for the most part a warm and kind hearted girl, waking up every morning to face the rising sun with a smile and good cheer. She’s polite and friendly, doing her best to try and get along with most people she meets, whether it be cracking jokes or making casual gossip. It’s a generally amicable demeanour, as expected of a Wakahisa heiress, but sometimes one can notice that there isn’t really a deep amount of substance to her relationships, or what she says about herself.

Indeed, despite her friendliness to all, it can be hard for her to really connect properly with others, and that has become a growing source of dissatisfaction and pain to her. Youko doesn’t trust herself to be really open to anyone, nor does she trust her ability to be a true friend. She doesn’t know if she’s good enough, a problem that also intersects with her questions of who she really is. Although her relationship with her rather hands off parents is perfectly fine, sometimes she feels constrained by the identity of the Wakahisa heiress, but also tries her best to repay them for all the care and affection they’ve showered on her. She doesn’t want to be a burden, but her growing identity crisis makes her think that she’s already become one.

Youko is a nice girl who hates having to trouble others.

Thus it isn’t particularly rare for her to grow quiet and introspective even if she had been laughing and cheerful mere moments before. Her struggle to find herself and gather her feelings, whether they be about love or the future, have become a defining aspect of her interactions with others, and the substance of them suffer as a result.

While it may not be as obvious to some, it’s also pretty clear that she’s a massive geek, particularly towards sentai shows. There’s a childish enthusiasm to her love for the small things, but even despite her adoration she tends to refrain from showing it off to too many people. She doesn’t want to overwhelm others with her enthusiasm, and she tries her best to be interested in what her classmates like instead.

The sun is supposed to shine for everyone.

Esper Power: Level 3 - Seamstress
Wakahisa Youko is capable of producing ‘threads’ made up of whatever substance she has on hand, as well as manipulating them to carry out her will in a myriad of ways. Her production cares little for what the threads are made of, but her power works with greater ease the more flexible the substance is. The amount she can produce every day is limited to a tenth of her mass, and doing so is also particularly energy intensive, necessitating her to eat large portions. The maximum range for her control over the threads is a half-kilometre radius.

Skills: Well-educated and well-informed, Youko is a particularly knowledgeable individual (although you’re more likely to hear her spout trivia on kids’ tokusatsu shows), and also a very sharp student. She is proficient in cooking and sewing due to the lessons of her traditionalist mother, and is also quite familiar with first aid (having actually attended some classes on a whim with Hat-chan during middle school). She’s also decently athletic.

Ambition: Wakahisa Youko does not know who she is. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, how she should act around others. But she does know that she doesn't want to be the person she is right now; she wants to find a way to get past her complicated, adolescent emotions and to find herself. And so, she's following in the example of her friend, throwing herself into any activity that might give her some purpose.

Right now, that's helping out with costumes in some student theatrical production, because that's a way for her powers to be of some use, right?

Extra: She carries around a sewing kit everywhere she goes, as well as small camping medical kit in case of any issues. Youko’s fondness for reading also means that she can be found time to time with her nose in a book outdoors (such as when waiting for her tutor at cafes).

Name:Yamada Hisui (山田 翡翠)
Nickname/Alias: Bakuretsu, Hatsu
Age:15
Gender:F
Biography: Obviously, having such a low level meant she couldn't go to any of the real big schools, the ones that commanded respect with just their names. Thus, for quite some time, she struggled with the fact that she had been sent here, to be some sort of famous esper, but ended up to be just a lowly level 1. After a bit, she gave up, and decided to pursue money instead, where power would undoubtedly come. For that purpose, she had started on making machines and hardwares, using her intelect to actually rigg a cnc machine in her room.

With that, she caught the eyes of a small company with oddly deep pockets, which Hisui did not at all mind, and was sponsored by them, as long as she continued to create machines and advanced in certain research machines they sent her to make and perfect. She cared little of what it was made or used for, as long as she received money.

Thus, as long as she wasn't directly involved in anything strange, she was content to simply go on earning money making the things she did.

Personality: A silent intelligent individual who seemed to not bother with anything, devoting no effort into anything, but yet manages to just pull through. Her first passion was money, her second was material goods, and third was the machines she make. An introverted individual who doesn't feel the need for companionship, leading to her having little to no friends at all, with perhaps acquainintances at her part time jobs. While she seemed not to put effort into anything, once paid she do almost any job, completing them with all her efforts.

Esper Power: Burst Rondo - Level 1

She can generate small concussive blasts anywhere near her body at will(or not). Often activates involuntarily when she sneezes, blowing away her papers, homework or dinner. Happens often enough that she has special plastic sleeves for her papers, and tries immediately to redirect it somewhere else. The tragedy of her exploded ice cream was never forgotten.

Has enough control over it that she could make it explode on contact, leading to her sometimes generating smaller explosions during bug season, destroying any mosquitos that comes near. The shock of a sudden bang was also useful to prevent unwanted contact.

Skills: Making money, multitasking, cooking, sewing and inventing machines.
Ambition: Money.
Extra: Lives alone in a large discreet warehouse in district 17, where she is free to do her business in peace. Surprisingly strong and fit, perhaps due to her handling machines and heavy objects all the time.
Theme: Hitchcock

Name: Shinjiro Karasawa (唐沢 進次郎, but he's more partial to the Western Order)

Nickname/Alias: Kara-han

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Closing in on 5'9", and in good shape, Karasawa's appearance is generally dominated by his strangely unfitting purple hair and eyes. When not in school uniform, he tends to dress very casually, favoring simple shirts of solid colors, jeans, and white sneakers, all made out of special materials which are resistant to autoignition. Has a bit of a resting glare and frown, perhaps brought upon by his volatile temperament and tendency to be doing those things when hounding petty criminals.

Biography: A large part of his rough and straightforward nature can likely be traced back to his place of birth, none other than New York, New York. For the first five years of his life, while his father worked a high-end position at a tech company out of the Big Apple, Shinjiro was a rough and tumble son of the closest thing America had to Tokyo, A first-generation Japanese-American in a nice, but still tough neighborhood. Standing out a bit with his asiatic heritage and small smatterings of Japanese mixed into his English (Thanks, mom), Shinjiro quickly found himself at the center of scraps that erupted from bullying. And he found that he took to them like a fish to water. Soon garnering a reputation as not one to be trifled with, up til first grade Shinjiro found himself making fast friends.

Then Dad had to move back home, and little Shinjiro was tossed into Tokyo, and the process started anew. Now brash and headstrong, he quickly made a name for himself by habitually standing up to any sort of bullying or injustice he'd seen, eschewing the guiding principle of "mind your own business" for "that shit ain't right, quit bustin' my balls". Soon enough, just as many tried to make a name for themselves off of him (especially after hearing he'd taken up karate to boot) as found themselves defending their egos against his casual lack of taking shit from anyone he disliked.

One tumultuous year later, and our boy'd found himself living in Academy City, having shown great potential as a dormant esper. Living on his own for real for the first time, he admittedly found himself lost in the freedom of it all. These days he is enrolled at the unremarkable Noriaki North High School, where through some inscrutable ploy by his peers (or perhaps the president himself), he has been elected as the Student Council Secretary entirely without his permission or understanding until it was too late.

Personality: Karasawa is a man of classic New York brashness, unafraid to speak his thoughts and dig his heels in on any ideas he has. He's rough around the edges at his most polite, and at worst he's a steaming tower of unwavering self-confidence and bluntness that border upon braggadocio and aggression. Those incurring the young grape-flavored punk's ire are always sure to know about it, and his hotblooded nature is quite prone to getting the better of his good sense. These are all integral parts of who young Shinjiro is at his core, and just as integral are his loyalty, his sense of right and wrong, and even his same bullheaded stubborn nature— it's just as easily applied to helping out people in need. He is simple and straightforward, and cuts right to the heart of the matters he deals with, be it friendship, a fight, and what's right and wrong. What's the holdup about complicating these simple-ass things? He's walkin' here.

Esper Power: Burning Blood: Level 3. Whereas most espers externally control the elements, Shinjiro's power comes from within in the form of Burning Blood! Able to naturally control his body temperature by exciting his bloodstream, he uses 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit as a standard, everyday operating setting, but is capable of overclocking it from there! This produces the effect of raising his body temperature to heights of 1000 degrees, hot enough to weaken steel beams on contact! Additionally, he is effectively immune to a wide range of dangerous temperatures due to his body's natural resilience against his own power, making him a pinch hitter in the dead of winter or a housefire!

Skills: Karate, English, Moving through a crowded city and crowded city life quickly, secretarial work, cleanliness (fire hazards are never a thing in his home or the student council room), Sylvester Stallone impressions, being a free space heater in the winter, not dying of heatstroke in the summer, strong swimmer, getting into trouble, chasing trouble through school grounds, making enemies, never once fearing enemies, and studying in groups. Only groups.

Ambition: At this point, Shinjiro Karasawa is still something of a wayward young man. Grand life plans? Fuhgeddaboutit, he can barely handle keeping track of the zaniness of simply living in Academy City along with his own grades half the time. Be it an upcoming math exam, one of his friends' schemes, or a night spent ducking Judgement because of an ill-advised brawl or chase scene, he is eternally concerned with just here and now. He knows for certain that he's gotta make it through school unscathed and he's gotta keep his school's turf safe for others, so if something nasty comes a 'knockin, he'll knock it the fuck out. But past that? Not much beyond seeing his buds succeed.

Extra: The Noriaki North High school student council is, for a such a mundane school, surprisingly well-kept and competently run. As such, Karasawa's rough demeanor and flinty gaze amusingly clashes with the group's combined capability as gracious hosts, respect for inter-school decorum, and staunch discipline when dealing with official matters. Even though he may not understand half of why they do what they do, he doubtlessly understands that him making a fight over it gets in the way of them getting things done. One might surmise a large part of this as due to his strange yet tight friendship with his smug ikemen President, who would seem almost his complete opposite.

He also owns a halberd, won as a prize at some Renaissance Fair he attended during vacation, but never really uses it because blades would make his delinquent justice way too messy. Looks cool as hell, though.

Name: Beppu Aya
Nickname/Alias: Nya-aya, Bepp (add as many chans or variants to taste.)
Age: 16
Gender: F
Appearance: Aya stands at about 5’7”, when not slouching which is her usual posture. She tends to wear a minimal amount of foundation, anything more would just be over-doing it or too much time. While she prefers just tossing on a pare of neon colored jeans and some manner of long-sleeved apparel, Aya will occasionally go for some skirts and stockings and a short sleeved blouse.

Biography: Beppu Aya is a latchkey kid from District Six of Academy City; whose folks were constantly busy maintaining performances for visitors to keep themselves afloat. Due to that Aya never really had much monitoring, but that isn’t to say she never had to deal with responsibility after all she was the one who tended to Ken. Her parents struggles to maintain a roof over their head made Aya realize that, she didn’t want to do any of that. Aya quickly learned that working hard was a suckers game, so she began to make lots of friends to mooch off of and enjoy life with.

One of the ways she found was a useful way to make some easy change and amuse her friends was by utilizing her gift, namely by just watching pirated movies and allowing herself to be used as effectively a drive-in movie theater. But this didn’t last for too long, namely because she was too lazy to be super discrete about it so word passed on and many theaters started banning her from showing up. However this did have the side benefit of netting herself in one of Academy City’s school programs easier than she intended to get in with.

Now Beppu does, well more or less the same thing she has always been doing, seeking new avenues for amusement.

Personality: Aya is a real laidback and rather chill individual who just seeks a happy life. She is quite sociable and is willing to chat about damn near anything, never taking things all too personally and is quite open about near everything. Of course part of that openness is due to the fact that she well, she can’t hide things very well so might as well just be honest about it. Few things can ever really get her angry, one of which being not caring for cats, but when they do she can hold onto a grudge for damn near life until it gets paid off. She lives in the moment and drifts onto things that seem neat at the time.

Esper Power: Mental Show – Level 2
Aya has the ability to essentially act as a moving film projector by placing her own thoughts, day-dreams and so on, onto physical surfaces for others to watch. She is able to control the projection of how big or small it is, with the largest being that of a movie screen, which requires that large of an object to project it onto, or as small as a tiny flip-book. Generally Aya has somewhat decent control over her power but wavering emotional states can cause her to project the images out unwillingly.

Skills: Pet-ownership, multiple forms of dancing, singing, cinephile, mooching off others, making friends

Ambition: Having fun via any means necessary, well as long as not too much effort needs to be expended.

Extra: Is almost always with her pet cat Ken, who is rather cantankerous even among cats.
She often visits the various local arcades to make sure she has a top ranking score in DDR.
Beppu is a member of many, many clubs which she probably has forgotten about.
Asking her for her 'favorite' film is an unwise idea as it sends her off into a tirade about all sorts of different films.

Name: Braonán Ailill Griese

Nickname/Alias: Brennan, Irish Bastard

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Appearance:


Biography: Brennan is clearly not native to Academy City; he lacks any Japanese ancestry to speak of. In fact, when he arrived in Academy City eight years ago as a young trust fund lad with a bottomless pit of a savings account and a rowdy temper, there were rumors that he was somehow connected to the still-burgeoning Irish organized crime scene. Brennan himself is mum on his family's money or his history in the old country. What is important is that, for all his endless attitude issues and bratty nature, he proved himself highly adaptable and even eager in a classroom setting. His grades soared in the competitive district he attended middle school in, and this intellectual prowess, combined with his financial resources and his zealous love of aviation and spaceflight, led to him attending school in District 23 when it came time for his high school years.

His academic supremacy found itself threatened, however slightly, upon arrival in District 23 however. Sharing his first year and second year classes with his rival, an otherwise-friendless robot otaku by the name of Kawaguchi, proved to be one of the highlights of Brennan's stellar high school career. It was only in the third year, when their homeroom teacher genially suggested that they work together on an entry for the worldwide Venus Probe Contest, that their differences finally came to a head. Brennan, as the lifelong space enthusiast and charismatic lynchpin of his year, obviously felt entitled to being called head researcher on the probe; the friendless otaku disagreed, and the passions and differences between the two flared up within days of working together. They haven't cooled since.

As of now, the probe is nearing completion faster and faster by the day. Brennan’s round-the-clock work ethic and nighttime activities (usually assumed to have something to do with the project) also boosted him to another long-coveted goal - Level 4.

Personality: There is clearly something ticking the wrong way in Brennan Griese. He seems to act as if he's the centerpiece of his own gangster movie, a hypercompetitive jock living by a strict code of honor in his personal and academic lives but reacting with frothing, white-hot rage when he is treated with dishonor in turn. A fiercely proud individual who will react to the faintest of slights with vandalism and butchery, Brennan has been a rough-and-tumble individual who possesses the charm to turn enemies into friends but lacks the emotional self-control to refrain from beating them into a bloody heap first. Renowned in his high school as a violent force of nature, it's a moniker he owns proudly.

Internally, however, even the violent youngster has a privately tender nature. Brennan has a precocious fascination with science, particularly technology and space. It was this passion that united him with his greatest rival, and the person closest to him in Academy City; both students, obsessive and competitive as they are, made common cause and grew close while working on their design for the Venus Probe Contest (Sapphire Jubilee Blue Destiny SAPPHIRE JUBILEE), and the Irishman's glee in provoking both ends of the tsundere's mood is generally palpable whenever the two are together.

The positive relationships he's formed in Academy City, especially with this student in particular, have dulled the razors at the edges of his personality. In these calmer moments, Brennan has honed his natural mile-a-minute tendencies into the less violent art of the sales pitch, proving himself to be an open and gifted communicator in groups - if a bit terrifying and overly brash when asserting himself against foes.

Esper Power: Moon Walk. Brennan is able to absorb the kinetic energy of objects or attacks being thrown at him and store it within his own body. For a time, he will appear to be physically supercharged, resulting in a slight increase in his natural capabilities, but in short order he will release that kinetic energy into another object, overclocking it and supercharging its own natural motion.

Skills: Gifted with the silver tongue of a born salesman and promoter, engineering acumen, and the leadership skills necessary to survive in the battle royale of the boardroom. Will probably end up a tech entrepreneuer in his own right someday. Loves to fight. Loves to scream. Getting tsunderes hot under the collar.

He's spent much of the last year learning how to cook for himself.

Ambition: Brennan wants to be on the forefront of space exploration in the 21st cebtury. Whether through satellite research or pimping out his know-how as an intern for one of Academy City’s private spaceflight companies, he wants to be involved in the new space race somehow. Reaching Level 5 factors partially into this puzzle of motivation and idealism. He also plans on buying out every seat in the theater when Gothicmade first airs in Academy City, in the hopes of achieving mecha date night bodhi.

Extra: Lives in a newly acquired, more spacious student apartment with room for Kawaguchi Umeko and her plamo in District 5. Seeking internships in District 23.

Name: Yu-Ri Yun
Nickname/Alias: Yuri, Nora, Peach
Age: 14 (b. May 4)
Gender: Female
Appearance: Five feet tall and pale to the point of almost being translucent, Yu-Ri’s countenance alternates between doll-like beauty and doll-like eeriness, her large eyes the deep gray of a cloudy afternoon. Sinewy and thin, her frame is still relatively boyish, lines rather than curves dominating her figure, while her fingers are similarly slender and small. There is something intrinsically delicate about her, as if Yu-Ri was crafted out of sugar and would break at a single careless touch, as if each strand of her glossy, black hair was intentionally sculpted. Her clothing too, is often one size larger than it needs to be, further accentuating just how small she is. But for all her fine looks, one would be hard-pressed to compare Yu-Ri to a flower.

No, rather than something that blooms, perhaps it’d be apt to liken her to something that can be honed.

Biography: Yu-Ri Yun came from a poor farming village in the Yuanyang county of China, and that sort of hardship early on in her life became central in molding her into what she is today. The daughter of a rice farmer, she subsisted off rice and vegetables, had her own little garden for year-round veggies, enjoyed the few days of the month where meat was available, and had a nice stroll through the rice paddies whenever her father went drinking with his friends. Her mother coached her in chores and skills, her father built up her character by having her help with every aspect of work, and she kept her head in old school textbooks when she had time, scratching out calculations or characters in the dirt. The closest school was still a good day’s drive away, and without a son to help around the house, it came to Yu-Ri to pick up the slack.

All things considered, no matter what outlandish dreams she had, the young girl had no real expectations on her future, and it was only on a whim that she signed up for some charity scholarship thing that offered a couple lucky kids from low-income backgrounds the chance to study at the greatest (and only) Academy City in the world. With the chance of actually winning the scholarship akin to winning a lottery, Yu-Ri certainly didn’t expect anything to come out of it…until it did. Her parents had mixed feelings about it, but when the fancy black helicopter came and a dashing young AC alumni stepped out to present her with an extra-large check she had no way of cashing, Yu-Ri didn’t think twice before taking the offer and kissing her old, railroaded life good bye.

It certainly made a good story, didn’t it? A rice farmer’s child, launched out of her agricultural misery and into the shiny lights and high-tech environment of Japan’s Academy City. Certainly made a better story than years spent trying to master a new language and making up for all the subjects her old textbooks didn’t manage to cover, all while taking Power Development sessions over and over again until she wasn’t sure who her mind even belonged to.

But Yu-Ri survived, even as her story fell into obscurity, even as her funds grew incrementally smaller with every year that passed. She survived and she clung on as tightly as she could to her place in Academy City, because even the worst ‘here’ was paradise compared to ‘there’.

Personality: Yu-Ri is a realist who augments her worldview with a dash of optimism and a pinch of utilitarianism. She’d certainly like to think that everyone wants to be a good person, but she also knows better than to expect that out of the average empty-headed teenager on the streets. With eyes wide open and facial expression set to ‘alert’, she doesn’t let her emotions show often, keeping everything restrained and small. A small, toying smile or a slight, disapproving frown is usually all she needs to get through her daily life, while inebriation might encourage a chuckle or two from her before she clams up and feigns sleep. Yu-Ri is far from an emotionally repressed psychopath though, and while she can’t replicated the hot-blooded or passionate outpourings that others have, it’s certainly fun to watch them try. In a comedy duo, she’d be the straight man. If she were an oni, she’d be blue. If she were a sibling, she’d be the detached eldest.

And when it comes to getting things done, there’s no one more reliable than Yu-Ri. When the world calls for wet work, she answers, and she’ll only do it with the slightest show of disgust and disdain. Service with a smile is for stupid sons of sluts who support superficiality over solutions, after all. Yu-Ri prides herself in being productive and efficient and not wasting time trying to appeal to the tastes of human pigs.

Esper Power:
Level 2 – Random Point
A low level psychic power, Random Point is a contact-based teleportation ability that allows Yu-Ri to randomly displace five liters worth of volume that she’s come in contact with. Her calculations are often faster than other Teleporters around the same Level, due to her only needing to calculate the initial shift from the third dimension to the 11th dimension, but as it stands, her utility as a Teleporter is sorely lacking.

Skills: Yu-Ri is fluent in Chinese, regularly takes boxing lessons, is quite knowledgeable in ‘primitive’ agriculture, and is a pretty good shot with handguns, if her modest fame in VR Combat Sim Arcades counts towards that. Outside of that, she regularly ranks in the top 20 students academically in her school, has accumulated a rather wide amount of experience through working temporary jobs around the city, and somehow managed to get herself a driver’s license at the age she is, enabling her to drive around the city in a spiffy AI-assisted neon blue and black motorcycle. And if one really wanted to go deep, Yu-Ri is just as skilled under the sheets as she is on the streets.

Ambition: Yu-Ri would love to graduate from a good university in Academy City with a useful diploma, before immediately grabbing herself an enjoyable career that offers her a six figure salary to start with. Failing that, she’d like to score herself a spot on Academy City’s Board of Directors as well, or sharpen her Esper Power to the extent of becoming a Level 5. Overall, it would be absolutely wonderful if Yu-Ri could make herself indispensable and irreplaceable to the world at large, and to that end, she certainly would like to gather as much ‘value’ unto herself as possible.

Extra:

• Yu-Ri’s contact list is filled with older men, from high schoolers to Anti-Skill members.
• Her favorite type of food is the type she can eat on the go. Of note, Lawson’s nikuman are wonderful.
• Though she has a larger network of acquaintances and friends than others, she doesn’t have anyone she considers to be a close friend.
• She prefers the heft and leather of bulky headphones over earbuds or slimmer headphones.
• Her theme is R.

Name: Shion (紫菀) (No family name)

Nickname/Alias: Fourth

Age: Unknown, presumed 13

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Biography:
Much of Shion's past is unknown due to various circumstances beyond our control. However, what we have been able to piece together of her early life indicates that it is highly likely that she was a subject of an experiment similar to that of the Dark May Project. While no records exist of such a project, the likelihood is high. What records of her life do exist show that she was a Child Error who was found alone by members of Judgement in District 19 at the presumed age of five. Simple testing showed that she had a much higher than average knowledge base for someone her age and that she has the barest hint of an ability, barely even Level 1. Interviews with the girl revealed that she had few memories leading up to her being found, and what she did remember strongly supports the theory that she was experimented on by an unknown group within Academy City. According to the reports filed on the incident, she was found wearing a broken electronic bracelet baring the number four on its face and with what appeared to be a broken IV needle on its opposite side.
After being discovered her background check was unable to reveal any familial information, leading her to be placed under the care of an orphanage for several years. While there her ability slowly developed to the point that it was noticed by the caretakers and she began basic testing for the purpose of discovering and improving her ability. During her time at the orphanage she was able to quickly learn whatever she was taught with the sole exception of history, which she seemed to have no end of trouble with. Her precociousness led her to partially learning and then abandoning several instruments that the orphanage has available for their older charges. By age eight she had found herself helping the caretakers with the younger children, something that they greatly appreciated and began paying her small amounts for. According to them, the only three items she ever bought were a portable music player and two pair of headphones.
At age eleven, despite being a Child Error with only a year of attendance at formal education and being a year too young to officially do so, she successfully passed the entrance exam for Kirigaoka Girls' Academy. This year her official rank was raised to Level 3 due to her performance is the System Scan and marks her first year at Kirigaoka Girls' Academy in District 18. She is only able to attend due to a rather generous scholarship she received upon the Academy's discovery of her System Scan results, as well as a nearly perfect score on the entrance exam. She quickly obtained the title of "Fourth" due to a combination of her KGA Level Ranking, her name, and the fact that she told the story of how she was found when introducing herself in class. While it is used both affectionately and maliciously by many of her fellow students, she has no particular opinion on the name.

Personality:
Shion is something of a mixed bag of emotions. While she has no-one that she would call a "friend," there are several girls in her class who consider her one and each of them know exactly when to avoid interacting with her moodiness. The most obvious facets of her personality are her strange sense of humor and her tendency to either be extremely extroverted or, more commonly, extremely introverted and reflective. She is slow to anger when provoked but will easily fly into a rage at her own inner thoughts, and though this is rarely directed at anyone in particular, any who cross her path too closely at such a time will find themselves a target. Due to her stunted youth and frantic childhood she has few truly applicable social skills. One could surmise her general attitude as "somewhat cranky," a fact not helped by her unusual sleep schedule. She often stays up well past any reasonable hour of night listening to or writing music.
She has a somewhat unhealthy obsession with snakes and an equally unhealthy hatred of insects which have only grown with time. Given the chance she would gladly spend her days in the company of as many snakes as physically possible, simply watching them in their day to day lives. A possible cause of these obsessions is that at age ten she was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which manifests itself as many odd quirks and a irrational fear of dirt and grime.
Shion has a notably strange way of speaking, referring to herself with "boku" rather than "watashi" for unknown reasons. She has no interest in changing this habit.
She is a fan of mostly early 21st century music, most notably western music and vocaloid generated music, something she finds fascinating. She considers it incredibly useful that people who may otherwise not be able to make music can with said programs. Thanks to this, she knows a small amount of english, though not enough to hold a conversation and so little that she does not know the correct usage of most words or phrases, only knowing them in context of the songs. She has no real specific taste when it comes to western music, but she tends to dislike songs about partying or romance.
To Shion, "interesting" is the highest form of praise. She dislikes boring and tedious things, but anything that can catch her interest will find itself near constantly under her observation.

Esper Power:
Cryokinesis, coded under "Ice Age." Academy City rating Level 3; Kirigaoka Girls' Academy rating Level 4.
Removal of heat energy from an area and generation of frozen material. (Most often run of the mill ice.) The process by which this happens is still undergoing study as the ability develops. Unlike standard cryokinesis, frozen material is not only created from the surrounding elements, but also often seemingly appears from nothing. The only material generated entirely not from surrounding material seems to be H2O ice. Studies of the ability's effect on heat energy have resulted in both dispersion and removal of heat from the closed system of the testing environment.
This ability has a strong tend to shift from more easily altering heat within an area to more quickly and solidly generating frozen material when Shion is placed under duress. In such situations the tendency appears to be both rapid generation of H2O ice and the solidification of elements in the air simultaneously. Often the present elements from a sort of frame that the H2O is then built from, though this process is nearly instantaneous, further suggesting that Shion has little, if any, understanding of how her own ability actually functions.

Skills:
- Singing
- Intermediate skill with several instruments
- Intermediate survival techniques
- Surprisingly potent street-fighting

Ambition:
Shion's only goals in life are to learn about her past, make music, and surround herself in as many interesting things and people as possible. While she wishes to uncover the secrets of her early life, she makes little effort to do so, considering it something not likely possible and therefor not worth her time despite how much she wishes to know.

Extra:
She is almost always wearing headphones. In the rare case that she is not, she is almost certainly in a foul mood. She is also a fan of Gekota, though specifically the standard version almost exclusively. She still collects rare versions of merchandise, but only because of their rareness rather than for the item itself.

Name: Jun Takachiho

Nickname/Alias: Junebug

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Appearance Description: Standing at 5’5” with dark hair reaching down to the middle of his nape, his appearance doesn’t scream “strong, unique and confident.” He can often be seen wearing a light grey shirt and blue jeans, though he often wears a hazy grey jacket in colder weathers. His appearance can often be affected by events and people around him, however.

Biography: Seven years ago, Jun held a solid object in a room, standing still. Its glimmer showed the reflection of him- a conflicted child- and the child’s bed. There were four outliers in the memory that he still could not make conclusions of- another child of his age standing at the door, an oddity he could only call a “translucent stain,” a figure that lay in front of him, and a figure nearby the window. The child knew nothing to make of from these things.

But a long gap remained in his memory, starting again only at the memory of two adults smiling hopefully for him in front of a house.

Since then, life moved on, time following along hastily. With loving parents who took him in, encouraging him to discover what he wants to be in the future, he learned of the same normal life many others had lived. He had a sister, a mother, a father- all the while attending a small, but fulfilling school. Life was normal, and it seemed like it would remain so if he let it be.

As of recent events, however, he happened to find a small piece of paper that seemed to be related to him. It seemed rather harmless, so he told nobody else about it. After all, it was almost as if his memory never happened, so he figured he shouldn't bother anyone about it. He aims to piece together his life in hopes of moving on with everyone else.

Personality: Soft-spoken and quite literally possessing a soft voice, Jun seems anything but confident- yet, he is. Though his voice is soft, his actions and expressions often speak volumes for him on their own. Whether he snaps his fingers in approval or visibly looks like he’s trying to look like he’s not associated with anybody who’s embarrassing him, his expressiveness makes him more talkative than he seems. Sometimes, his Esper Power is used to simply to change the emphasis of his actions' sounds. He often amuses or teases his family in various wordless ways.

Despite his expressiveness, one of the critical weaknesses in his personality is that he is rather inconsistent with getting whatever point he wants to make across. He also makes it rather hard to tell whether he’s lying or telling the truth in a matter.

Jun seems to have a larger-than-life appreciation for takoyaki. If Jun were presented a free meal at either a five-star restaurant or a takoyaki stand, then Jun would pick the takoyaki stand without any hesitation. He has a history of being ripped off occasionally this way, as his simple nature can be taken advantage of when his guard is down.

Esper Power: Level 2 (Wavelength) – Jun can manipulate sound vibrations near him, as well as traveling wavelengths to certain degrees. For instance, he can silence his own footsteps while speeding himself up or climb walls with more ease. The most he can do in a combat situation is push people or create a thin, invisible barrier nearby him, or use defensive arts in conjunction with his power.

While the power itself has high potential of being much stronger and almost lethal, it is held back by Jun’s own lack of interest to extensively hone it.

Skills: One of Jun’s most distinctive features is his ability to cook exceptionally well, though it is occasionally hampered when he gets experimental with his food. He also happens to have some talent in rock climbing, Judo, and running. Jun is rather good at memorizing things, though the complete opposite seems to happen in very high temperatures.

Ambition: Jun has several ambitions that can be considered normal, such as opening a food stand one day or wrapping up loose ends with his memory. He can often be seen wandering around in Academy City in his free time unless his family wants to spend time together with him.

Extra: Jun doesn’t sleep that much.

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), Scrounger (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.

Name: Rica Miteris
Age: 16
Gender: Female



Level: 3
Esper Ability: Firework
Power Description: Rica has the ability to alleviate injuries of any individual with whom she comes into direct physical contact. Once she touches the individual in question, damaged tissue immediately undergoes rapid cellular division and begins to restore itself to a "normal" state, as specified in the DNA of the target. However, due to the nature of cellular division, the telomeres attached to the target's DNA will be subsequently shortened at a greater rate than normal aging throughout the process of the healing. As a result, the lifespan of healed individuals will be shortened proportionally to the severity of injury sustained. As Rica is always in contact with herself, her ability is perpetually self-active and will be activated upon injury—Rica is exempt from the primary drawback of this ability. Firework exclusively operates on physical injury and cannot heal diseases, including viruses, bacteria, prions, and cancers. Upon activation, the energy input into the cells to allow them to divide as rapidly as necessary will occasionally cause electrons to jump to a random energy level, emitting a photon as they settle into their original stable state; this leads to a myriad of dim multicolored lights flashing at the site of healing that serve no particular purpose—this side effect led to the ability being labeled Firework.

Personality: Rica is a bubbly and excitable girl with a generally positive outlook on life. She is active on the track team and while moderately competitive, prefers competition for the sake of fun rather than for the sake of winning. She is a decent student, her best scores in English and Writing and worst in Biology, but has to study hard to excel. Unfortunately, she detests studying with a passion.

Biography: Throughout her life, her ability has proven useful to her family and friends, leading to an overexposure to injuries, great and small alike. Because of this history, she has developed an aversion to heavy wounds and develops minor nausea at the sight of someone else's blood; however, she will push through the discomfort if someone is in danger. Because her ability automatically activates upon damage, she has become somewhat desensitized to pain throughout her youth; as a result, this has led to some sloppy habits when handling sharp objects—she has more than once ruined foods she was preparing due to careless knife usage. Her greatest pet peeve is when someone suggests or assumes that she is going into the medical field, and has been shamed in the past for her decision to forgo that career path. Rica is currently pursuing her passion to open a bakery.

Skills: Running, baking, eavesdropping, knife throwing, Halloween costume making, and a series of very scary pranks.

Ambition: Rica is primarily at Academy City for networking opportunities. She wants to be able to get in touch with someone who will provide the resources to create her first bakery and eventually establish a major chain throughout the country. Until then, she is studying to eventually get a degree from culinary school.

Trivia: If Rica were to use Firework on an elderly person with significant injuries, they would quickly suffer necrosis, massive tumor growth, and/or death.