Name: (What is your character’s name? Last, First) Nicknames: (Does your character go by any nicknames? Ex. One-Way Road, One Eyed, Meltdowner, etc) Gender: (Are they male or female?) Age: (How old is your character?) Birthday: (DD/MM) Height: (Centimeters pref) Weight: (Kilograms pref) Nationality: (What nationality is your character? If you get into quarters I will be sad though) Appearance: (Prefer a picture placed at the top of the application in a hider titled "Appearance", though standard text appearance descriptions are just as good)
Personality: (How does your character act?) Biography: (Short history of your character) School: (Do they go to a particular school?) Grade: (What grade is your character in?) Skills: (Abilities not relating to their ESPer or magical ability, but still outside the scope of a normal person. Are they top in academics? Skilled at particular sports or athletics in general? Can they cook exceptionally well? Etc) Faction(s): (Are they a member of any sort of faction or gang? Examples would include Judgement, Necessarius, Roman Catholic Church, DRAGON, etc. If it is a faction you created, I would want to see a short description of who they are, what they stand for, who (if at all) is their leader, and approximate size)
(Mage: Mage Name: (Latin Word and three numbers, along with the deeper meaning behind those. Example: Dedicatus545: "The dedicated lamb protects the knowledge of the strong" would be Index’s title. Though this tends to be a Western tradition, I am going to require it from every mage.) Magical System: (What sort of belief system is their magic based off of? Examples of systems would be Runes, Kabbalah, Onmyoudou, etc. Most people tend to specialize in specific systems, though outliners such as Izzard do exist.) Description: (What effects does your system tend to have? This isn’t a spell list, but rather a general idea and description of what the magic can accomplish)
(ESPer: Ability name: Level: (0-4) Premise: (What scientific principle(s) is(are) your ability based upon?) Description: (Explain the applications of the ability, and how it relates to the science behind the power)
Name: Westerson, Claudius Caligula Nickname:"That Guy" Gender: Male Age: 19 Birthday: 08/30 Height: 182 cm Weight: 81 kg Nationality: Japanese
Personality: In a world of ESPers, where combat, medicine, and research all pivot around those powers that transcend human mundanity, those without such abilities are forced to the delegation of side characters or faceless individuals who only exist as a means of moving from point A to point B. This is an absolute fate, and it is this absolute fate that Claudius wages war on. He is an unsalvageable chuunibyou, an outspoken buffoon, and a mad scientist who has dedicated his life to turning the magical into the mundane. Claudius believes himself to be a "protagonist", a being destined to defeat the ESP-archy that he perceives the world around him to be. In the face of tyranny, he stands tall, an unbending oak to weather the storm. In interactions with others, he is recklessly ostentatious and loudmouthed, a ridiculous jester without peer who is prone to monologue at the slightest opportunity. Viewing all others as subordinates, inferiors, lesser beings, jesters, and the like, he proclaims himself as a being of a higher standing. Even with regards to those who are objectively above him in ability, such as otherworldly monsters from a higher dimension, transcendent gods who exist outside of time, or his elementary school principal, he does not change this demeanor. For those rare individuals who either believe his words or pretend to play along though, he treats them as valued "sidekicks", though they are still of course disposable pawns. As one could imagine, he has the concept of protagonism so hammered into his soul that it cannot be divorced. Probably great at parties.
Biography: Claudius descends from a relatively long line of ESPers (read: one of his ancestors was a Gemstone and the rest are just normal people), but was born without ESP himself. His parents were not unreasonable people, and did not view him as lesser for this unfortunate circumstance, raising him as they would any other child. The trouble came when Claudius was seven and his parents had their second child, a girl, who was blessed with a talent currently assessed as rank 4 (read: she went to Academy City and was assessed as a rank 4 after the usual treatment of hard drugs). While Claudius's parents were not the type to show overt favoritism, they couldn't help but show a trace more attention to their prodigy of a daughter (read: they wrote letters to their daughter who was over in Academy City instead of going to Claudius’s science fair). This was Claudius's turning point; refusing to accept the reality around him, he proclaimed that he would overcome ESP as a concept, and become something greater. The next decade was filled with Claudius moving to this endeavor. Neglecting his studies to the point where he just barely scraped through school, shutting out all others and immersing himself in his work, he tinkered endlessly to realize his dream. His parents, not wanting to dissuade him from his passions, helped fund his projects, and every so often Claudius actually managed to churn out an invention that worked relatively well and even earned some money thanks to it. While not having the most familiar sibling relationship, he did get along rather well with the sister that had caused him all of this grief, mainly because she was just a little kid who didn't realize that her brother was a fucking weirdo (read: because she lived in a different city and has not seen him face to face in four years). In the process, he shattered the binds on his own fate, and through coming across an ancient text, a grimoire of old, broke through his own mundanity to become a being wrought from magic. Regardless, even this was not enough. Proclaiming that he could not stay at home forever, Claudius abandoned his family name and replaced it with a new one, "Westerson" (as well as adding a middle name for reasons unknown), before leaving home to travel to the heart of the ESP-archy: the tyrannical place known as Academy City (read: he kinda just wanted to visit his sister for a bit and laugh at ESPers). He told his parents that when he saw them next, he would have conquered all ESP. He asked them to keep sending him money, though.
School: N/A (Dropout Vagrant)
Grade: N/A (Dropout Vagrant)
Faction: "ESP-archy- CHANGE HIERARCHY" (ECH for short) (Only has one member) (The member is Claudius) (Just in case that was unclear)
High-Speed Calculation: Self-explanatory. Also extends to reading.
Improvisation: Capability to create tales and ideas that make the Silmarillion seem tame, all in the span of a second and a half. A ridiculous existence who can weave complex narratives that not even he can follow.
Monologuing: Capacity to deliver hour-long monologues at the drop of a hat, seemingly without ever pausing to take a breath.
Tactless Physical Force: Can defeat a small swarm of five year old children in ritual combat through skillful employment of 'punching'. Surprisingly powerful.
Running Like a Bitch: By placing one foot in front of the other, a form of high-speed transit through the first three axes of the world is achievable.
Mage Name: Innovare515- 'The world starts, the world ends.'
Magical System: Imagination Materialization
Description: Subset (read: useless premature result) of Alchemy which appeals to the actualization of form. In terms of theory, it is perhaps more similar to ESP than magecraft. From an outsider's perspective, it is simply the materialization of objects through expenditure of mana. To put it in terms more conducive to magic, the 'referent' of a word within human understanding is used to access the meaning attached to that 'referent', thus generating a catalyst by which phenomena can be formed. Naturally, this scales as one would imagine.
Personality: Hayden seems to be a carefree person who is always looking to do something that dulls his boredom. He enjoys hitting the town whenever he can and seems to be a likable person who’s decent to hangout with. He can be handful of times, but in the end he's created the perfect image of an average guy. To keep up this image he has average grades across the board and offers his fellow classmates help whenever it's needed while not sticking his nose to deep into anyone else's business.
When he’s working though he seems to become a completely different person. Thanks to a year and a half of being surrounded by criminals, committing crimes in secret and witnessing several horrors of the underground communities he's becomes cold to others misfortunes and always focuses on his job, doing whatever it takes to get it done. In his line of work the price is always right. He seems to even become a bit unstable, finding new ways to put his life in danger with a smile. On many occasions he's nearly gotten himself killed, though a few days in the hospital always seems to be the cure for that. It’s no fun unless you almost lose an arm or leg apparently.
Biography: Hayden was born within decently small village in Germany and grew up with his uncle, an ex-mercenary who decided to retire early and raise his nephew after the death of his parents. At a young age it was discovered that he had a power that would only belong to an Esper. His uncle saw this as both an opportunity for his nephew and an issue for him since he was a wanted criminal in the one place that would help Hayden grow into a stronger Esper, giving him a brighter future. After some planning he entrusted Hayden with an old friend that still lived in Academy City, though he would be moving into District 10, the most dangerous place for an Esper. Though he was in a new hostile environment he quickly grew tough enough to keep himself alive.
Now he attends school to improve his skills and offers his abilities as an Esper for hire in secret. It’s not an ideal way of living, normal student by day and a hired criminal by night, but he prefers it honestly. Besides, he may have or may have not destroyed a very expensive shipment of weapons that were owned my his uncles friends other friend who just so happened to run a underground private arms business. The only reason his head isn't rolling is because his uncle managed to make a deal with the owner of the those insanely expensive weapons. Do whatever jobs he sends his way until the price of those weapons have been paid. It's a pain, but after a year and a half he's half way there. He's even made a small name for himself with doing a few side jobs and is well known in the underground community as someone who can get any job done. He's had many offers to join some high-end crime groups, but he's turned them down since he believes he has a good thing going already.
School: Eiri Highschool
Grade: A third year within high school.
Skills: A good fighter thanks to his uncle's combat lessons, which has even given him an understanding of basic weaponry, has a certain knack for slipping out a quick lie or two to get out of trouble and is a master thief! Well he likes to call himself a master, but honestly just decent enough to hack his way into low security terminals or lockpick a few things. Finally he's nearly perfected his acting skills, being able to be the good guy one second and then a complete bastard the next.
Faction(s): None, he prefers the lone merc lifestyle. Being part of some big criminal group while being a student seemed like a pain that he didn’t want to deal with. Though he's stuck working off his debt with one such group, he's counting down the seconds until he's free.
Ability name: Ignition, or officially known as Pyrokinesis.
Level: 4
Premise: A type of esper ability which involves the creation and manipulation of flames.
Description: Pyrokinesis involves inducing or increasing the movement or vibrations of a target's molecules through Telekinesis to the point of ignition. In cases where fires are started with no combustible materials present, there may also be a realization factor involved besides heating power
Personality: While normally gentle and soft spoken, she absolutely dislikes doing unnecessary things, or things that annoys her, especially anything that disrupts her normally peaceful life. Once something like that happens, she turns into someone so far removed from her usual personality that one would be hard pressed to associate that with her usual self. Brash, loudmouth, and foulmouthed, Himiko becomes a rather impetuous individual, while still having the same morals and kindness, could and would be described as cruel, bad or irritated.
It was a good thing that doesn't happen much in Academy City, and most would know her to be the only shrine maiden in a small shrine in a corner of the city.
Biography: She was born into an old family with traditions older than themselves, one that was particularly religious. From her mother, she learned of her duties, becoming a shrine maiden in training almost as soon as she could walk. From her father, she learned of the world, of how people worked, its wonders, as well as his own brand of magic.
Himiko had never really liked tedious things, and started developing shortcuts for everything. While tradition dictates she must carefully write the meaning of each paper talisman on them, she could simply slap one out with the kanji for money on it and it would work just as well as it would with more carefully written words. Her exorcisms included her outright punching the ghosts out of someone, her divinations were just her plucking out a card and finangling a divination out of it, and their ill attempted effort to get her into a magicians team of hunters as a support lead to her coming back dragging the rest of the injured team back after she punched out the target by herself. While her methods were direct and inelegant, it always yielded results.
While her parents never really minded, the family's main branch were displeased at the utter disregard for tradition, and sent her to manage a small shrine in Academy City, reasoning that there, she would do the least damage to the family's reputation.
School: -
Grade: -
Skills: Her amazing health and athletism, honed through the various traditional defense arts included in her trainings, almost indefatigable stamina, a loud voice strong enough to make one's ears ring, as well as an offertory box that remained mostly empty for some undiscernible reason.
Faction(s): -
Mage Name: Sumire, after the flower that signifies Honesty
Magical System: Shintoism
Description: It is a system often needing specific arrangements of certain items to activate their magical effects. For instance a simple square of four(less or more depending on the size of the boundary) paper talismans could be used to create a boundary to invigorate anyone the caster targets as long as they are within it, or a small table, a cup of sake and a two candles could be used to hold a seance. Calling upon the dead, or even kami to talk to was normal for her. Even the future can be divined through various methods, though almost all were time consuming methods. More direct methods would just be throwing a paper talisman that explodes, or sweeping a gohei around to dispell negative energy.
Personality: In a world where it seems as though “power itself” is the end goal of every curriculum or activity undertaken by students of Academy City, she looks down on such views and considers the very idea ridiculous.
To begin with, power is meaningless without direction — without a “logic” that commands, it might as well not exists. Among other reasons (also relating to the fact that she was raised better than that, come on!), this is why she does not see lower-level ESPers as inferior, though she holds an expected amount of pride in her abilities and the effort she put into improving.
Regarding her general attitude, she can be described as a “tomboy” type. While she tries to put up a dignified act, she can easily lose herself in the heat of the moment, being the kind of girl that likes to live “hard”. Fight hard, laugh hard, party hard — and work hard. If you aren’t giving everything your 100%, you might as well not do it.
A loudmouth that nonetheless has a certain charisma to her. A woman whose emotions burn hot and lasting.
If you make a comment about her “lacking front”, you should be prepared to face execution.
Biography: Born to parents that could not be expected to comprehend her daughter’s twisted tastes, she was nonetheless provided for and went through a childhood as normal as it could be expected in Academy City, sent to the dorms of Tokiwadai at the start of middle school and currently living in her own apartment.
From a very early age, she was possessed by a certain passion — that is to say, she was one that tasted ambrosia in her early years and sought to make it her life’s goal to “replicate that feeling and surpass it”, which was her main motivation to join Academy City’s programs, and also the project that takes up most of her funds. She has called it “independent research”, though it garners odd looks from colleagues. . .albeit it seems that the administration will consider it valid so long as it helps her ability develop, so it can be said that it is a perfectly fine venue, if twisted in the eyes of the normal public.
In simple terms, she has dedicated her life to create “the ultimate form of ice-cream pizza”.
Acquisition of a space where she can perform her experiments (parlor). Acquisition of assistants that can help expedite the process (employees). Acquisition of external funding that can help with expenses (clientele, research grants).
Because of the nature of ice-cream, she has staked her livelihood in the belief that “she can find the key to “the greatest ice-cream”, and combined such with pizza so as to create “the most delectable food” through hot-cold contrast. Her studies and achievements are all for the sake of this one thing, and she sees her ability as a means to heighten efficiency.
School: Academy City’s Applied Sciences Institute, Physics department.
Grade: First year university student.
Sense of Balance: Pretty honed, particularly helpful when ice-skating.
3D Spatial Visualization: Capacity to visualize objects accounting for such things as angle, height, weight, etc. If the ESPer thing doesn’t work out, she might have a future as an engineer, too.
Athletic: She can exert herself for quite a while. Her strength score, however. . .
Pizza Cooking: ERROR.
Hand-Eye Coordination: Surprisingly decent.
Faction: 0 Degrees Lounge — Pizza Parlor. Adds up to a moderate number of members for its size — that is to say, it is effectively a normal pizza parlor with all that implies. Generally uninvolved in street violence barring cases that hit too close to home, since it would otherwise prove “bad for the business”. Its “turf”, thus, can be said to extend 2 blocks from its headquarters, though they’re lax about things so long as no problems are caused.
It does not boast any particularly notable ESPers in the city scene beyond Yukiru herself, seeing as it generally operates as a normal business. Criteria for selection naturally includes abilities that would be useful in a parlor, but due to the manager’s eccentricities, it seems that an unspoken rule in order to enter is “your name must relate to cold in some way”. . .isn’t this still kind of discrimination?
Anyway, prices are to die for, open from 2 pm to 10 pm for clients, 11 pm on weekends. Also offering delivery service.
Ability:
Absolute Zero Freeze Matrix
Level 4.
Technical name “Isolated Cold Field Formation”.
The ability works by delineating a section of space through an AIM field and allowing Yukiru to control the temperature scalar within such space, though as it should be guessed by its name, it is more suited to low temperatures, being able to go as low as the double-digits in the Kelvin scale. Naturally, this means the name she has given it is actually a complete misnomer at this point in time, but she chose it on the basis that “it sounded cool”.
General application is obviously the capacity to freeze whatever is inside, with the lowered temperature consequently causing slowed particle movement and all it implies — even gas can be deposited at this stage.
Furthermore, owing to the characteristics of the AIM field, she can also choose whether the hot-cold interaction with the outside occurs or whether the system is truly isolated, and she always keeps a field around her with the equivalent temperature of “a comfortable summer evening”. Handy in winter.
Incidentally, that she can choose to allow interaction (heat transfer) yet maintain the temperature of the system constant with her own power was a key factor in the self-proclaimed nickname “Maxwell’s Demon”.
Name: Dirigibile, Riccardo Nicknames: Two-Thread Tarantula, Mint Choco-Chip Gender: Male Age: 14 Birthday: 11/19 Height: 187 cm Weight: 83 kg Nationality: Italian
Personality: As an "Executioner" of the Roman Catholic Church, Riccardo performs his work with the diligence of a clear professional, accomplishing the tasks given to him in a clean and efficient matter. He is meticulous about every single mistake he makes, going so far as to spend a vast quantity of his time preparing for a task divining all possibilities in order to figure out the best possible path to follow. Riccardo keeps the same work ethic into his new employment as a delivery boy, ensuring that his deliveries are met with the same dedication as if it were a task given to him by the Church. Outside of work, Riccardo is quite a strange fellow who could almost be called a hypocrite. He calls himself a devout member of the Church, yet he believes science and progress has some sort of place in this world; a belief likely borne from his time spent away from the Church and in Academy City, reminiscing about his home while enjoying the commodities of such a modernized metropolis. Riccardo also has a rather odd, almost obsessive interest for spiders, yet he is afraid of other bugs, especially those without any legs. Even his general demeanor could be described as both casual and laid back, a far cry from the cold professionalism he sports when on the job.
Biography: Born and raised in the countryside of Italy, Riccardo was born to a long and renowned line of druids. Following his family's traditions, Riccardo had trained to become a druid as well, finding a particular interest in his chosen spiritual guide, the spider. While he didn't show any particular talent, it was the fact that he was adept enough at his family's arts which lead to him being brought to the Vatican and inducted by the Roman Catholic Church at a young age as they believed having a magician from such a well-established line would serve them properly. And so, Riccardo was trained by the Church itself to serve their needs of controlling the world. It just so happened to be that the young druid's particular talents made him an ideal assassin. After being taught various methods of infiltration, self-defense, and- most importantly- target elimination, Riccardo has shown great potential so early into his career. It was decided that his training would further commence by infiltrating the City of Science and Technology. It has now been a year since Riccardo has been dispatched into Academy City and already has he established a secret identity- that of a pizza delivery boy.
Factions: Roman Catholic Church - Executioner (basically an assassin, but Riccardo doesn't like that word), 0 Degrees Lounge - Delivery Boy
Target Elimination: Riccardo's expertise lies in the art of death, knowledgeable in a myriad of ways to kill a human being. He specializes in using the garotte as well as poisoning his target. While this would also entail training in hand-to-hand combat, because Riccardo's method of attack involves killing rather than fighting, he is only able to fight defensively against targets who actually know how to fight.
Danger Avoidance: Because his line of work involves being isolated in hostile environments, Riccardo has worked meticulously in various methods of minimizing danger to his own self. A sort of caution that places Riccardo into a position that would be considered "ideal", its chance of success increases based on how much preparation Riccardo has taken against a particular hazard.
Yo-Yo Expertise: The ability to perform advanced tricks with the "Yo-Yo", Riccardo's method of direct combat also involves the use of two Yo-Yos in order to confound his opponent. If Riccardo was to enter a Yo-Yo competition, he'd probably win, like, second place.
Knowledge of Spiders: Riccardo knows a rather concerning amount of facts and trivia regarding spiders. Uh... do I really have to get into that?
Vehicular Expertise (Moped): Alright, get this: Riccardo can drive a moped.
Interpretor709 The Piglet That Understands The Spider's Web
Magical System: Primarly Druidism, but Riccardo has began to branch into Runes due to their affinity with his particular system of magic.
Description: A system of magic that involves a specialization into the concept of a "spiritual guide." In Riccardo's case, his chosen spiritual guide is the spider. Allows him to utilize spider familiars, utilizing them as scouts and infiltrators. This specialization, however, does not rely much on the use of the spider, itself, but of the materials it provides. In druidism, the spider is considered to be an ancient teacher, and its webs are also associated with one's own fate. This allows Riccardo to utilize the webs of a spider in order to cast divination-based spells, which he uses to both track and determine the "best possible route" to his target. Riccardo is also skilled in the art of "Spider Medicine", though he only really knows how to extract and utilize a spider's venom. Because the spider is also viewed as "the guardian of ancient languages and alphabets", Riccardo has recently delved into learning the runic alphabet due to its compatibility with his primary system of magic. At this time, Riccardo only knows four individual rune characters, and utilizes them mostly to enhance his physical and cognitive abilities. He is currently reading up on a way to use them in conjunction with the webs weaved by his spiders, though he never has found a good opportunity to put his research to practice.
Nicknames: N/A Gender: Male Age: 21 Birthday: (08/09) Height: inconsistent Weight: inconsistent Nationality: Japanese
Appearance: Due to the nature of his powers the actual appearance he takes is never consistent for longer than a few days, as his body can be altered at whim and given animal/insect features or shrink/grow. Everything from the tip of his hair to the bottom of his feet is within his capability to alter. The only consistency is his eyes, sporting a harmonious rainbow of colors that shift out of his control. Decorations and adornments of any kind often hang from his strange choice of head attire.
Personality: Often lax and unconcerned where his own well being is concerned but overprotective of his little sister, Adrian is about as relaxed the rest of the time as a person could really be. Stressful situations do nothing to hinder his genuine good cheer and optimism but does have a tendency to come off as uncaring or cold despite his disposition, often making light of tragedy with an ill-timed joke or comment.
Has a bad habit of becoming an insect-humanoid and haunting his own home. Specifically his sister and her friends, especially the male friends.
Biography: With his powers having blossomed at a young age, Adrians skill with his transformations has been rapidly growing in ease and speed over the years. At the age of 15 he could actively control transformations both minor and major with barely any concentration at all, often performing small mutations without meaning to. It was due to these rapid mutations that he developed a habit of merely roleplaying as whatever he had subconsciously given himself parts of. Most of the time it was insect wings or a chitenous exoskeleton commonly found on insects, sometimes a rams horns or even just a long tail. Tailoring his clothes to his rapid transformations was often a chore but it was a skill he learned due to necessity.
Adrians powers aside, his habits in school was labelled a distraction and the powers only made it worse as children referred to him as something of a class clown. Forced into isolation to continue his studies it was clear the boy possessed a strong mind and excelled in structured, but lonely, environments. Teachers were worried about it making Adrian a loner or pick up poor communication skills with other children but those fears were short-lived. Outside of a classroom he was a total social butterfly.
Sometimes a literal butterfly.
School: Center of Biology Grade: 2nd year student Skills:
Exceptional Athlete
Cooks for himself and his little sister when parents are out of town. Has taken multiple cooking classes during highschool. Excels at breakfast foods.
Seamstress - The nature of his powers made it a necessity. Adrians wardrobe has been manipulated or resewn depending on what 'form' he chooses to take or animal/insect parts to grow. Does all the modifications himself and has dabbled in making his own clothes.
Faction(s): None
(ESPer: Ability name: R.B.A - Rapid Body Alteration Level: 4 Premise: Creatures can adapt over the course of hundreds of years and subsequent alterations or unexpected mutations to their genetic code that can hinder or help the species adapt to their surroundings. Description: Kai is capable of altering his physical form and taking on aspects of different animals, insects, birds, or aquatic life at will. Some alterations take longer than others with multiple alterations making his body extremely weak. Overusage reverts his alterations back to a regular human form but is extremely painful as the body forcibly detaches grown limbs/features at a microscipic scale. This process was described bluntly as "the single most painful experience you can have".
Body mutations or alterations are rarely as profound as a natural bred animals would be. Example would be giving himself a spiders ability to spin webs. Even with proper alteration the string would be castly inferior to a real spiders. Example 2 would be giving himself gills. Unlike the previous, the process would be quick and efficient. The nature of the alteration being relatively uncomplicated in comparison to creating poison sacks or other such specially bred defensive mechanisms.
Gender: Male Age: 17 Birthday: 3/11 Height: 179.8 Weight: 65
Nationality: Japanese
Personality:
An absolutely self-centered, self-assured individual. While not even necessarily meaning to be arrogant or superior, it’s a natural line of thought that’s central to him. His existence and self could be said to be a filter that his thoughts start on.
Perhaps it could be best said that he believes that he has the ability to effect the world, and that for better or worse, his life, and the events around him hold a relation to his own actions. One who is a master of his own destiny, and is in turn supported by it.
Proud, he holds himself up to a self-set standard, and to the responsibilities of his (overinflated) position. The eldest male, and therefore heir to his prestigious family. Supported and encouraged to go to the famous Academy City (so the unsuited failure could be gone for a while), he lives a life full of blessings and fortunes to live up to his family name and status.
Ah, if only if they’d raise his level. Someone like him can’t be a 0!
With the feelings of a not understood genius carrying the secret knowledge of, and crusade against those who wield magic due to his sister (and unknowingly the rest of his family.) It could be said that his petty vengeance is the cornerstone to making him feel extra-special instead of merely gifted..
Biography: A beautiful gifted child born to a wealthy and affluent family. The life of Senki was certainly one that was destined to be blessed.
If not for one problem. His blessings, his special ability, his abnormality from birth made him ineligible as a true member of his family. The Kayne were a family of magic practitioners. Due to Senki's status as an Esper making him unable to utilize magic he was kept in the dark and was, unknownst to him, looked upon as a black sheep, with his younger sister coming to inherit the path of his family and their knowledge. Consequently to get rid of him he was sent to Academy City. Senki for his part saw this as an extreme show of trust and the fact that he was worthy of his family legacy and status as the eldest son. After all what young child is sent to the famed city of advancement and science to live alone as a student? Obviously the gifted and special.
With his ability excelling at his studies, doing well with other kids and various other obstacles in life for a young boy were a breeze to get through. Although he still continues to fume about his (in his opinion) completely undeserved level of 0.
While he never discovered his family's true background, he eventually discovered the fact that his sister practices something strange and barbaric like magic, and so has come to shun and despise her, calling her, ironically, a black stain upon the Kayne. This distaste has caused him to hold a great dislike for mages in general, even if he accepts his sister to an extent due to the obligation of blood, and finds her presence (after she decided to move in and live with her brother at some point to keep her eyes on him and spend time with him) more than annoying.
School: Eiri Highschool Grade: Second Year Highschool Skills:
Academic top, skilled scooter rider (eventual plans to upgrade to a motorcycle. Has a license.) skilled at wasting hours at video games, tech savvy in comparison to an average user. That is to say, someone who’s googled up a few things and keeps up with trends.
Krav Maga (False [Karate True]): He’s looked up a lot of books and internet guides. He has never actually met a person who practices it. He considers himself an expert.
In truth he learned Karate at a local dojo growing up. Talented enough at it, he reached the level of a black belt.
But Karate just isn’t all that cool or hip, especially when one is at a place like Academy City which is the cutting edge of cutting edge.
Good at karaoke and holding his liquor (It’s cool to drink as an underaged student)
Faction(s): Academy City Student
ESPer: Ability name: Centerpiece (BlessedFocal Point) Level: 0 Premise: N/A: Attraction (Fortune) : Gemstone Description: Theorized to be a strange ability with a limited form of AIM Diffusion Field Resonance that causes other ESPers to gather to him and notice him. In a sense an AIM that forces itself to imprint and focus the attention of others onto him. It is thought that his large AIM is due to the nature of this ability.
In truth an in-born natural supernatural quality to Kayne Senki. His ability makes him into a nexus of fortune and blessings. A recipient of all the good in the world, and where they all intersect.
Another way to look at it is that he is one where those with talents (Magic or Espers) gather to. This ability is part of why he’s managed to become so popular, and partially why he’s able to continue his secret strange petty vendetta as he’s accosted by, and is able to find magic users.
Both as a matter of a blessing and fortune, as a wish, a lucky thing and as a divinely ordinated fate, along with his ability to draw others to him, his already pretty good looks are made to look stunning and it’s said that many girls fall in love with him.
Truly the heartthrob of Eiri High School.
Naturally such an ability has interesting possibilities when it comes to interacting with other Espers and various phenomena, but at its current stage, and his current knowledge and ability it's primarily a matter of attracting things, people and supernatural luck/fortune.
Personality: Viktoriya is a very introverted and anxious position who although does enjoy spending time among friends prefers to keep conversation to a minimum, always worried she may say the wrong thing or make a fool of herself. However by no means is she aloof or distant, she is very observant and appreciative to those around her and tries her best to share a little kindness with whoever she meets. She will occasionally join in if she feels she has something important to say although her nerves still get the better of her at times. Ironically enough, while she is regarded as a very good listener she is deaf in her left ear, this was caused by a nasty infection when she was an infant, which is something she has always been self conscious about.
Due to her struggles to express herself in conversation, Viktoriya can be left in a rather sulky and downcast mood. However there was always a quick and easy remedy to this. Exercise. Viktoriya loves sports (particularly baseball) and will put all of her energy into what she does whether it be athletics or team based games. Despite being as sporty as she is, Viktoriya rather hates confrontation and weirdly enough isn’t a very competitive person. Instead she strives to improve herself both physically and mentally to the best of her abilities so that she can be the best version of herself possible and stand proud (at least she would if she didn’t always find something to bring herself down.)
Viktoriyas favorite thing in the world would have to be animals, dogs in particular. Although it should be noted she has a fear of spiders and other creepy crawlies. This is also something she is very self conscious about and feels bad for them as she does not know why she reacts to them how she does.
Biography: Victoriya was born to a family with a Japanese father and Russian mother, she was taught from a young age that she should welcome all people with open arms, no matter where they came from. They raised her with great kindness and care, making it a point to never pressure her into doing things but rather encouraging and motivating their daughter to improve herself at whatever she had her sights set on. Of course Viktoriya had been gifted with talent that many would be envious of from birth, but it was always made clear by her parents that talent without hard work and dedication to go along with it is simply talent wasted. This way of thinking allowed her to easily enter Academy City and eventually attend the prestigious Tokiwadai Middle School. Viktoriya has fully adopted her parents way of thinking and lives by the motto of “to achieve perfection, is to stop growth.” Believing that there is always something that she can improve and reach new heights, she only has to work hard enough to attain it.
School: Tokiwadai Middle School Grade: 2nd Year Skills: Athlete - Viktoriya has a natural talent for sports, she has always competed at the top level of her age group and shows great potential for the future. Through her years of playing baseball she has very impressive reflexes, speed and power for her age.
Studious - While sports come natural to her, academia doesn’t. However over the years she has shown great discipline and conscientiousness, which can be shown through her above-average grades at school.
Friend of Dogs - Viktoriya is convinced that she has a special connection with dogs, and attempts to befriend those she spots (although she rarely manages to approach them as she is scared to interact with its owner.)
Senses - Viktoriya has excellent vision along with peripheral vision, this has helped her a lot when it comes to sports and in her mind makes up for her troubles with her hearing.
Faction: N/A
Ability name: Nitrogen Bomb Lance Level: 3 Premise: Manipulation of Nitrogen in Air Description: Allows for the creation of Nitrogen Lances which she can fire at opponents. Furthermore she can manipulate airflow to allow herself to float (more like falling slowly) and to enhance her speed. This also allows for the creation of gusts of wind which can vary in power.
Name: Park, Eun-Oh Nicknames: Muscles Maniac, Little Kid Gender: M Age: 10 Birthday: January 16 Height: 146 cm Weight: 40 kg Nationality: Korean
Personality: Young, naive, and easily impressionable. A lifetime isolated from modern society has left him clueless as to how the ‘real world’ works and is as such completely oblivious to things such as the current war between magic and science. Though he desires autonomy, he is still just a child, and thus clings fervently to nearly anyone.
Biography: Raised in a secluded mountain village where electricity was more of a luxury then it was a utility, the Park family served as a pillar of the community, providing spiritual guidance to an isolated town. From the moment of his birth, he was groomed to be his mother’s successor, a somewhat odd choice given how traditionally the role was passed on to daughters rather than sons, but not anything to be outraged over.
And so he idyllically lived his life out in the backwaters, unaware of the advances of modern science and busy studying the rituals that he would eventually be performing in the place of his mother.
However, there comes a day where every young fledgling must learn to fly. That day just so happened to be a outside excursion to Seoul. Shocked by the unfamiliar environment he found himself in, he went out in search of anything that would remind him of his home.
There he found himself in the company of some other shamans. Vulnerable, young, and naive to a fault, they filled his head with some rather unconventional thoughts. As a young adolescent in search of affirmation and sense of self, Eun-Oh took to their beliefs like a fish to water, even procuring a fetish fashioned from a single hair of his new god.
When he had come back, armed with new knowledge and even stranger beliefs, his parents were at a loss. Hoping he would grow out of this new distressing phase, they simply catered to his whims, enrolling him in some martial arts class in hopes he would be placated. And while it did for a while, he had grander ambitions in mind for himself. In a strange string of events, he was able to convince his parents to let him out into the world. Utterly baffled at how their child could end up this way, they acquiesced and let him under the watchful eye of a family friend.
He agreed, and on the second day of his travels, he promptly escaped his new guardian to go to Academy City, hoping that with modern science he could attain the musculature required of a true man. Unfortunately, he would most likely never grow into his ideal body type.
His parents are currently panicking and wondering what to do.
School: - Grade: -
Skills: - Dancing: Many rituals and traditions often require the shaman to dance for hours if not days at a time, as such from an early age he has been instructed on the individual steps required for the myriad of rites he would have to perform. - Korean Martial Arts: Though he was enrolled into a school and fervently practiced in hopes of attaining manliness, his instructors would often note his size was not well built for martial arts. That did not, however, stop him from kicking their shins. - Swordsmanship: Nothing noteworthy, at the level of a child copying moves from live-action superhero shows. - Horticulture: Surprisingly has a firm grasp on this subject. Enough to arrange a bouquet on the fly. Faction(s): -
Facies 163 Through Discord I Bring Harmony
Magical System: Muism
Description: The various traditions and beliefs that originate from the Korean peninsula dating back to prehistoric times. Also known as the ‘religion of the shaman’, the role of the practitioner is to serve as an intermediary between the spirits or gods and humanity to solve various problems that arise in life. There exists a myriad of rituals, each differing from region to region and dependent on the character and ability of the individual shaman. As such, while still capable of performing the traditional duties required of them, Park has an affinity towards the Hahoe Pyolshin, a ritual drama that consists of stock characters and unique masks.
He has black hair, and possesses a fairly muscular build.
Name: Jun Sakuma Nicknames: Smog Gender: Male Age: 20 Birthday: 29/06 Height: 175cm Weight: 77kg Nationality: Japanese (Zainichi Korean)
Personality: Jun is a stoic man with a no-nonsense attitude towards life. As far as he’s concerned, there’s only one good way to live your life, and that’s by being honest and hardworking. It doesn’t matter if you’re desperately poor or amazingly affluent, as long as you meet his basic criteria, you’re good in his books. Otherwise, prepare to be treated with disdain if he considers you a liar or a leech. A man of few words, Jun prefers to express himself as simply as humanly possible. You won’t find him waxing poetic about the nature of the universe or contemplating the dichotomy of good and evil. Jun reckons if there’s something worth saying, it’s worth saying in as short a time as possible.
Biography: Born to a Zanichi Korean family of a povertous disposition, Jun was exposed to a life of stress and worry from an early age. His parents spent a lot of time working, and when they weren’t working they were arranging life around the house to facilitate the next day or work/school. Jun had next to no free time, and so he developed a lifeview that revolved around work, work and more work. If you weren’t working, you were doing something wrong, as far as he was concerned. Even when he managed to find time for himself, he would usually be shoehorned into some form of work by his parents. Due to their high stress environment, his parents were huge smokers, and their house always reeked of tobacco. Jun almost relished being out the house, given how nasty the place smelled.
Unknown to Jun at the time, his parents were always thinking of his future. They didn’t want him to go on to be just another low paid worker like them, so they were always thinking of where they could usher him in order to escape this life. They discovered the Power Curriculum Program through a family friend, and decided it provided a decent avenue for Jun to get ahead. When he was first sent away to Academy City, Jun really didn’t enjoy the transition, although not for the reasons one might think. The fact that he was provided money through the program meant he did not need to do a great deal to sustain himself, nor was he subjected to the high stress environment of his old home life. Instead of finding this comforting, it just made Jun restless. He felt like he needed to do more than just participate in studies. This was when he got involved in Judgement. It seemed to him like the perfect outlet for his excess energy, and his straight-laced demeanour fit in well with a semi-law enforcement style organisation.
Jun has been a fixture in Academy City and Judgement for some time now. He has a reputation as something of a hardass and a stickler for the rules, but anybody in Judgement knows they can rely on him to do a good job.
School: Nagakute University Grade: 2nd Year University Student
Skills:
-Athletics: Jun works out every day and pushes himself as far as he can. His primary focuses are on strength and long-term endurance.
-Multitasking: Jun is used to working under pressure and doing a great deal all at once. If he ever finds himself with little to do, he’s likely to try and find something to occupy him if only for the sake of it. Multitasking is practically his natural state.
Faction(s): Judgement
ESPer: Ability name: Monoxokinesis Level: 4 Premise: The ability to manipulate Carbon Monoxide in a similar fashion to other “-kinesis” style powers.
Description: This power involves manipulating the basic elements of carbon monoxide to increase its velocity and/or density in a specific area. Using this ability, one can incite a powerful gush of gaseous vapours to knock down an opponent or concentrate a cloud of it around a specific person.
"What will you be remembered for? Are you satisfied with your current life? A lot of people are not. I haven't found the solution to their conundrum. It seems to me that only Human life desires immortality,"
Gender: Male
Age: 24
D.O.B: 1/7 - January 7th
Height: 6’2”, 187cm
Weight: 135lbs, 61kg
Nationality: Japanese
Ethnicity: Caucasian, and Eastern Asian [mix of Korean and Japanese]
This is the infamous Rapunzel, you supposed he probably couldn’t have chosen his name it isn’t like he’s the one who came to the news reporters and told them what he wanted to be called. People only started calling, well you suppose him Rapunzel because of the strands of hair left at the crime scenes. He’s rather tall, freakishly tall, is he really a Japanese man? He’s also rather lean, thin, though formal in a unkempt suit and canvas shoes. The canvas is fading away and you can tell the suit has been well worn. Blond hair, lots and lots of blond hair. Though it oddly seems to have a mind of its own or maybe he’s controlling it because it’s not necessarily touching the ground. The tips of it just barely above the ground. He’s emitting a strong field around him.
“You’re the infamous Rapunzel?” you say in disbelief.
"I don't care for things like that, names are labels given by others in ways to categorize you for themselves. Most have never seen nor spoken to me, so all they have to go by is the label they gave me"
His voice is light, in fact it’s a lot more airy than you expected. At times he lowers his octave just a tad lower like someone who doesn’t speak a tone much higher than a whisper. There are noticeable, but barely visible scars on his hand, even around his neck. His focus is steady and never wavering, it’s almost unsettling the way he looks at you with red irises that drag you inward. Like they have their own gravitational pull that keeps you engaged.
He also seems much calmer of a person than you expected to have committed the crimes he did. He’s pale, near albino, but his hair is just enough snow blonde to keep him from washing out entirely. His energy seems warm, almost inviting even if he seems to be looking past you like you are made of glass.
Personality:
At most some people would sign off Ren has merely a delusional killer, and few would likely interact with him due to that association. It doesn’t help that Ren is paranoid about others and equally distrusting of their intent. In fact that likely makes Ren come off as a someone who isn’t a team player and at most someone who wouldn’t get along with others, though that isn’t entirely true.
Ren’s rarely the type of person to lash out without reason, even if his reasonings are warped and not quite something others could make out. While he can be fickle with others, he is likely nonviolent unless someone has struck a particular nerve with him. He seems to have some discontent with those who sell lies and falsehoods. Discontent might not be the word, but an obsession is more like it. An obsession to prove to others with hope, that all they will discover is despair and a nagging Silence. A Silence he describes as a nagging white noise in his thoughts.
It might be more true to say that Ren suffers at the hand of his own psychosis than he does at the hands or desire to murder. They say a true villain believes they are the hero in their own story. Though Ren’s never risen from that point of view, in fact in some enigmatic sense of his mental state he prefers the tabloids that hate him, that detest him. Who spite him and defame him.Because he believes there is no living in a world of lies.
To him Smiles, Hope, and Optimism are the world’s greatest lies. We smile when we’re angry, we smile when we’re sad. We force optimism and hope down the throats of those that have been victims of trauma and those victims lie with a smile. Why be the hero people praise, when there is someone among the group who feels bitter envy towards the hero? Their praise, their loyalty a lie. We lie with Happiness.
And if that’s the case then, shouldn’t the world be more aware of its own miserable state? Happiness is a currency as valuable as actual money. To show people the truth behind it all, is to expose how this world uses Happiness to control you, your thoughts, your emotions, what you do and don’t buy? And when Happiness fails you, for some it hits them harder than others and they solve their unhappiness in a world that tortures them with this concept - with a gun or a noose.
With that said Ren doesn’t reject all forms of Happiness. It’s usually the ones sold and exchanged like credit that usually bothers him. He can enjoy task, he calls them the difference between Purity and Corruption. There are pure forms of happiness, ones people don’t sell, package, and distribute like it has some kind of meaning behind it.
Considering Ren’s unemployment, and his current living situation, he enjoys hiding at the public library. Reading books on philosophy. Sometimes enjoying historical fiction as well. He can have a conversation with people who prove themselves more pure of heart than others. Though that doesn’t mean he necessarily sees himself as pure of heart. Aware that his heart and soul is fading in obscurity. If he gets the chance, he enjoys tonkatsu. Even takoyaki. Though that often requires money he rarely has.
Ren rarely denies his flaws, in fact he might be more aware of his flaws than most people would be lead to believe. In truth he’d like to see a world without people like him or the Corrupted.
Esper Ability: Silky Weaver
Level: 4
Premise: Mentally linked hair acts like a pseudo program given by the user, Ren, to perform task with his hair. The hair is reinforced by a frequency that mentally links Ren's hair to his mind like pseudo wires. Description:
Description: Fundamentally this means the hair is programmed with a task. Each task is stored mentally by the user. While Ren has an infinite amount of task he could program his hair into performing, task are limited to the users' knowledge and are individually learned, and programmed before being applied. Ren's hair currently can be applied in these ways; Passive; Ren's hair when not being manipulated in some physical way, acts like a radar within a small zone around him. This radar allows him to sense, not directly know, movement in the area around him. Sudden shifts in the atmosphere or may be aware to someone's given presence. Active; -Ensnare - hair used as a trap, like strings or invisible wires that an enemy can be restrained by. While they are delicates to blade or sharp objects, they only grab on tighter the more an individual struggles to break free by hand.
-Molded - Ren can mold his hair into shapes, these shapes are what he uses to spy around the city. They don't tell him specific information, but they relay back to him like a form of radar or some kind of ping to be located. Other parts of his hair pick up this single and they allow him to decipher what's up. It will never be concrete information, for example "oh an evil girl is blowing up a building with blonde hair". Backstory:
“Hiro-kun grab me a highlighter,” an elderly man is looking at a stack of papers, he frowns slightly at a wrong answer. Kids these days, never pay attention in class. Hiro-kun a scrappy kid with a mop of hair, with an expression that reminds him of a puppy dog, is digging through his drawer for a highlighter. He’s a good kid, though even he admits he can be a teacher’s pet. Yet, here there after school hours and he was treating him like a friend not a student.
“Kobayashi-sensei, do you remember all your students?” Hiro ask.
Kobayashi takes a second, the truth is that very few of his students leave an impression on him. The few who do end up running this city. He’s generally good at calling those students out. Now he’s getting to that point where he’s thinking of retiring, he wants to live somewhere quiet, maybe see his grandchildren more. Spend more time with his family.
“Why do you ask Hiro-kun?” Kobayashi replies, trying to scoot the conversation away from the truth.
“I found these photos in your desk,” Hiro says, taking out an envelope he had hidden underneath his pencil holder, “You use to teach elementary?”
“Yes, I did,” Kobayashi replies, “Now I teach middle school, though not for long.”
Hiro shows a young girl smiling, showing him a worm she found in the schoolyard. Watanabe Hana, last he heard she’s now working in some lucrative business. But she was a bright young girl with a bright future. Three boys are all wrestling each other. He doesn’t remember their names, just that they were troublemakers.
“Watanabe Hana, she’s fairly important these days, from what I hear,” he tells Hiro.
Hiro flips through a picture of a boy who looks surprised. He’s dropped his book. Kobayashi remembers when Nakamura-san had surprised, oh what was his name again Mistugane Ren. That boy was a tragedy. He hadn’t heard anything since, well when Mistugane Izumi was found dead. That boy would have been, what sixteen at the time?
“Mistugane Ren,” Kobayashi says, “I remember him because he was a brilliant student, not that he was a genius, but he paid attention and got good enough grades. But the truth of why everyone remembers him-
-Mistugane Ren, isn’t that the kid who killed his mother and then himself?” Hiro ask, “Read it in some of the old news articles my dad keeps around.”
Kobayashi grumbles firstly.
“It was more complicated than that, everyone has said he was a tragedy in the making and that’s probably the reason why he is remembered,” Kobayashi replies.
“What is something people don’t know about him?” Hiro ask.
“He was a quiet kid, avid reader at the time, read just about any book you gave him, would come into the school library begging to keep books longer than he was allowed,” Kobayashi sort of smiles. He seemed desperate for those books, like they were his only salvation from something. As if the books were the only thing protecting him. Now though, he thinks that might have been true.
“Doesn’t sound at all like the person they portray him as,” Hiro says.
“That boy’s mother was unkind, I don't’ want to speak ill of the dead, but I think he only really began to change in junior high,” Kobayashi says, “He was six when his mother threw him out of their apartment window. I don’t know what possess the city to allow him to live with her once again after he recovered. But I think that incident weighed down on him, haunted him. I think we pushed him away. I think he thought no one cared. I can’t speak for him, but I think that’s why he killed her. And I think that’s why he’s dead now. Because we told him it get better. We told him to keep his head up. But Mistugane-san her mind was slipping and I don’t think it ever got better. Just worse and worse and worse. It’s exactly what I told the authorities when she ended up dead. I supposed I remember Ren because I regret not being able to help.”
“You did what you could,” Hiro tries to comfort him.
No, I did not. Kobayashi thinks to himself, he forced that boy to smile even when he wasn’t happy. He like everybody else ignored his trauma, his fear, his nightmare. They tried to combat it with forced optimism. And now he’ll never be able to tell Ren how wrong he and the other teachers were for that.
Personality: A very quiet girl that rarely talks, she tends to keep at her own but means no ill harm towards anyone. Her self centered attitude does result in her belief of her being able to do anything alone like she had done all her life. It does result in awkward situations where Kaede tries to grab things on way to high shelves and ultimately fail.
Kaede does always try to face anyone cheerfully and enjoys to see others smile in return. Kaede sees herself as less valued then anyone else and puts her own life on the line if it means saving someone else.
From her work she has learned to be social quite a bit and how to hold a conversation, it also motivated her to wear awkward costumes so she doesn't easily get embarrassed anymore but, some specific things that she does find awkward do get her.
Her ability had lead to quite a change in her behavior in the past, she isn't afraid to talk about it but does rather not use her powers without a good reason. When someone asks her to she doesn't find it as much as a problem.
Biography: At the time when she was still practicing her ability a lot she had a reality check for a bit of her life. She used her ability so much that she couldn't believe for her own voice to have really existed in the first place. It was just another copy of someone else voice she thought. Why would she need a voice anyway if her vocals could produce any sounds known to this world. That is why she doesn't talk much longer with the voice she had always been using. She tends to stay quiet or softly use a substitute for her own voice from a famous voice actor.
Her outstanding marks on school had given her a bright future in the to come life yet, her parents chose her school for her. off course it made her quite angry that she couldn't just simply chose the school she wanted to attend to but eventually it came down to that her parents would be the ones paying it. The only choice she had was to stay at home or sleep in the dorms, her choice was crystal clear to keep at home and walk to school everyday. She didn't want to be completely isolated from the rest of the world. Eventually she did learn to adapt to the school but never returned to the good terms she had with her parents like she had before. She chose not to focus on them too much any more untill she passed this school.
School & Skills
School: Nagatenjouki Academy Grade: Second Grade Skills: Singing - Being so busy with ones own voice she had practiced a lot to perfect her use and way of her own voice. Drawing - Very proficient in copying from real life and likes to draw her own characters and stuff as well, her basic understanding of human anatomy. Learning - Has had excellent grades up till now, has the top 5 grades of school in math and psychics. Seducement/trickery - Uses her voice or other means in order to get what she wants. Serving - Kaede has learned how to help and serve costumers the correct way from her work. She does do requests with no bad intentions in mind. Faction(s): N/A
Ability
Ability name: Soundboard Level: 3 Premise: Voice Manipulation Description: Kaede her ESP ability is through her voice as her energy is bounded to her vocal cords. She is able to change her voice as quick as a heartbeat to whatever her mind can think off. If she was to change it to a famous singer her voice would be sound perfect but when she signs she still has to get the vocals and text right. She is not only bound to voices, she can also emit sounds and frequencies. The sounds will be affected by her practice of the sound, it is difficult to replicate something exactly but a gunshot would be pretty close to an actual gunshot.
Her voice manipulation allows to: change their own voice to any sound/voice from their own memory, change the volume of their sounds, change the frequency of their sounds, project their sounds to come from different directions.
Changing her volume can be either higher or lower. She can talk really softly or ear shattering loud. That is why she keeps a pair of earprotection near.
The tones can be changed as well so that her voice can sound really deep or really high.
Frequency of the sound can go to extreme hertz. It can cause shockwaves and annoy basically any animal on the spectrum that can hear above 20k hertz.
Her voice can be projected as well in which case she would need surfaces nearby to make it easier. The sound will come from any direction she wants without her moving.
Nicknames: “The Hot Chocolate Queen of Judgement”, “Protagonist-chan”
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Birthday: (14/02)
Height: 170.7 cm
Weight: 56.699 kg
Nationality: ½ Caucasian (American), ½ Japanese
Appearance: (see top hider)
Personality: A person with energy to spare when she gets worked up, excited even, over various things, though whom can be relaxed and even lazy in her personal time. She is the sort who would drag off a good friend on a “grand adventure” over buying a new cookbook or seeing some cute new swimsuits in a store window. Someone who would get bored and occasionally drop in on friends unexpectedly or out of the blue, even climbing fire escapes and scaling walls without blinking an eye at the craziness of it. Further, she is somewhat clueless of the true potency of her cooking skills, save that this originates from a sense of humility she maintains about this area of her skills.
This being said, she absolutely adores her favorite local place to get ice cream pizzas, set into a delicious chocolate chip or sugar cookie crust. The one time it was closed close to her birthday two years ago, she cried due to how emotionally attached she’d become to the place. She one day wants to get their recipes even, to make her own one day.
Her tenacity is such that she will pursue a “target” of her interest all over the place, should she remain interested or feel it is worth doing. Chunni tendencies are also a given for her at times. Yet whilst in all of this she comes off as a “pretty annoying but energetic person”, her intelligence is actually not bad. Actually, the opposite of what some people joke about her. Her grades are stellar, her mind like a whizzing machine when it comes to learning and acting and processing information overall. In fact, she can come up with plots and strategies and such, even go through with deceptions with shocking ease.
Biography: Born the daughter of Akari Takahashi and Jason Sterner, scientists who moved to Academy City, worked in the same lab, and eventually fell in love and married, Hanako was always around an educational and vividly bright environment. Her parents were always excited about their scientific passions, but were not always the best socially despite their skills. Hanako turned out similar in that she was awkward at times yet incredibly smart, though from “as young as possible” her parents had her get involved with the Power Curriculum Program. For years she went through school, always ahead of most peers but not wanting to “skip grades” for the sake of enjoying being around people her age.
She eventually joined Judgement when she could, fascinated by the idea of getting involved with a group of students to keep the city safer. In fact, upon joining she became one of the more “notable” faces in Judgement due to her hot chocolate and her at times unorthodox nature of parkour-ing about to get to suspects or pursue things. This being said, whilst many think her dumb and annoying, many others among Judgement members have become fond of “our little smart goofball” in a sense as if she was their beloved younger sister. Regardless of the various opinions about her, some she is aware of but hasn’t spoken about, Hanako has continued to pursue her desires and dream towards the horizon, not ceasing even in the face of adversity.
Question is, where will she ultimately end up in this city full of dark sides and threats unseen to the general public?
School: Tokiwadai Middle School
Grade: 7th Grade
Skills:
Cooking – Skilled in matters of cookery, her abilities are only surpassed by the Great Demon Lord (her mom)! Truthfully, it is a hobby of hers that turned into some pretty high-tier skills over the years. She’s never put them to the test or fully realized how good she is at this, but unbeknownst to her the “gourmet hot chocolate” she can make is a sensation among many Judgement members. Some who have heard rumors of it have even traveled to taste it, somewhat to her welcome but sincere confusion.
Swimming – Her Middle School’s Star Swimmer on the Swim Team, or at least one of the top two, she can swim fast and skillfully when in the water. From this she has also built a very notable breath-holding capacity, in part from....stupid dares to hold her breath at the bottom of the pool for a long time. With the latter thing once almost causing her to drown when someone jumped into the pool and landed on her head as she was coming up to finally get air.
Parkour – She has spent many an evening moving about the city, doing her work as a member of Judgement. Albeit, in a manner that has led to her being rather lean yet very physically active. She boasts a high physical stamina for someone her age, and a level of robust-ness from...accidents she’s had over the years.
Faction(s): Judgement
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ESPer:
Ability name: Breakdown Bomber (due to its conversion effects and resulting applications)
Level: 3
Premise: The fact that matter and energy are two sides of the same coin, essentially one and the same, with matter being able to be converted into energy.
Description:
When making physical contact with other things/objects, the user uses this power to destabilize the molecular structure of them, essentially alter the state of the matter to be "riding the line between matter and energy". This is basically priming the matter composing affected things to be transformed into and unleashed as energy in a heartbeat. This in effect generates an explosion, and results in the targeted thing's complete destruction due to it having been now fully converted into energy. Affected things do not visibly seem different or strange, even with physical contact, retaining enough of matter's solid state to not stand out oddly. This being said, these affected things essentially sit about as bombs, and scientific equipment used to detect energy can get strange readings from these affected things.
Then, at the user's will alone the affected things can be detonated manually, or alternately at the time of creation can be set on a "timer" after which the transformation occurs. Likewise the manner of detonation can vary as well.
This user at times has taken to closing their fingers in, and press their thumb down as if pressing the button of a small detonator in their hand in order to "detonate" affected objects. This has led to the rumor and general belief among peers of hers that this is required to make her power work. Of course simply willing to detonate affected things works equally as well and faster, and other actions could be used as an imagined catalyst for "detonation" to boot. Multiple objects can be affected at the same time, even, and detonated at different times at the user's will. The user can also blindly choose to "detonate" everything they've made into a bomb (which is dangerous).
This being said, mentally keeping track of the location of everything they've affected becomes...harder and harder the more things they use this power on. Simply put, affecting a few objects that are easily remembered by the user would be better than priming a lot of objects (unless one wants to mass detonate at once).
Making physical contact with an affected object allows the user to revert them back to normal again as well if they want to.
Name: Hosokawa, Maki Nicknames: End of the Line, the World's Biggest Loser. Gender: Female Age: 15 Birthday: 11/04 Height: 161cm Weight: 53kg Nationality: Japanese
Personality
Maki is an interesting creature. She is no less the bright, studious little thing she was for most of her earlier years, but has changed over the last year and a half or so to adjust to her changing circumstances and world view. Coloured by a disdain for authority, she has taken her innate sass and energy and directed it towards less constructive activities. While she still values hard work and self-improvement, she has grown to dislike the person she once was, directing her annoyance at herself at others who come from similar walks of life to her. Now, she aggressively accosts other pampered, rich little things, looking down on their success as "dancing for the establishment".
Biography
Hailing from a wealthy, traditionalist family out of the Kantō region of Japan, Maki has always been the subject of high expectations. Her family did their best to be constructive about it as they pushed their eldest daughter to greater and greater heights, tutoring her in all subjects of academics and even martial arts. Some people might have collapsed under the pressure, but Maki was inspired by it. She pressed on, and excelled in every challenge her parents put in front of her. Before long, she was ready for school - here, she found herself faced with the greatest challenge of all. Living away from home, as she attended a prestigious elementary school in Academy city.
Living away from home taught Maki a lot of things. Like how to be self-sufficient, and how to ask others for help if she couldn't handle something on her own. But most importantly, it taught her the taste of victory. An honours student through Elementary School and going into Middle School, she felt like nothing could stop her as she fully enriched her mind with power and knowledge. But all of that was soon to come to a halt.
While attending Middle School, something changed. Maybe it was just how she perceived others, or maybe it was a difference in the education staff or social environment of her new school. Whatever it was, it nagged at Maki. The establishment she had once sought to improve began to seem antagonistic, the peers she once associated with grew to feel distant. This feeling of discomfort grew worse over time, eventually culminating in frustration in school life and in herself. It was at the height of this, that Maki decided "screw school", and dropped out.
As for how she formed a gang of delinquents, well, that's a long story.
School: Tokiwadai Middle School Grade: Third Year (Dropout) Skills
Skilled fighter with experience tussling "on the street".
Knows Kendo, and Judo - but almost exclusively uses simple, improvised techniques as opposed to traditional forms.
Familiar with a few weapons - Knives, Blunt Weapons, and the Katana to name a few. Excludes guns.
Academically gifted. Excels, particularly in English and the Sciences, while also possessing the skills to study and understand more difficult subjects if she tries.
Hides a passion for karaoke, which she has taken to practicing extensively out of the public eye.
Has a top 10 scoring record on nearly every arcade machine in Academy city.
Faction: Her delinquent gang (as of yet unnamed) of fellow Middle School dropouts. She's worshiped by them, having dropped out from the prestigious Tokiwadai Middle School. They value strength, and dislike pampered rich girls. At the end of the day, she's also somewhat aligned to Academy City - if something bad were to happen to her city, she would probably support it.
Esper Information
Ability name: Zero Sign Level: 3 Premise: Electromagnetism is used to interact with neurological activity in the brains of human beings. Because it's a function entirely tailored towards humans, they are the only subjects affected. Description
Maki's power manifests as passive suppression of the "danger sense" in relation to actions she takes, within a radius of 10 meters. Even with context, it can be very hard to see her as little more than a harmless girl going about her daily business. This power is amplified greatly once she begins to focus it actively on a single individual. Soon enough, it becomes impossible to see any action she takes as harmful - she could literally be holding a gun to somebody's head, and they would laugh it off as if it were nothing.
Because her ability essentially re-brands one's perception of events, even if one leaves the radius and begins to consider her actions after the fact, the human brain can't possibly classify anything she did as "dangerous".
"Yes, this is it. I must release my power now, lest it consume the entire world!"
Name: Kodomo, Chie
Nicknames: Cursed Ruler of the Atomic Realm, Macroscopic Ruler of the Atomic Plane, The Chuuni
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birthday: 14/12
Height: 152 cm
Weight: 45 kg
Nationality: Japanese
Personality: A girl who never quite grew out of the phase of believing she's more special than others, her own self belief reinforced by her especially potent ESP powers. Indeed, while she may consider herself the coolest and most mysterious person on the planet, anyone else who talked to her for more than five seconds would immediately recognize her as a massive chuunibyou. While not necessarily cruel or rude to others, it is quite clear from interacting with her that she believes herself to have a very important destiny that must be fulfilled. Whether these are just the delusions of a girl who never learned how to make friends or genuine claims is unknowable, but it's probably the first. On a rather unrelated note, her favorite flavor is sweet and she claims that sugar is the ultimate fuel that powers the universe.
Biography: A rather unremarkable history for a rather remarkable girl, the only important event of Chie's life was when she was 6 and tripped over a rock while playing in her backyard. At that moment she inexplicably fell and cut her eye, pouring massive amounts of blood all over the grass. She was fine in the end, no actual damage done was done to her eye and she didn't actually lose that much blood, she was just overreacting due to being a 6 year old. But that moment would stick with her for the rest of her life, for that moment was when she awoke to her true potential. Those ultimate powers that would change her life forever.
No, not her ESP powers, this was the day when the Earth itself chose her to become its dark champion and protect the future from the dark magic that threatened to consume it. A blood pact was made between herself and the very planet, marking her as someone special. The delusions of a child, but delusions that lead her to Academy City. Her ESP powers were awoken, coincidentally they happened to be quite powerful and useful. This only further cemented those wild fantasies, she was now positive that the world had chosen her to save it from a dark fate that awaited it. Delusion upon delusion piled on top of one another, a secret society of mages were after her life in order to stop her from achieving the Perfect Zenith of Interspace, the world was guiding fortune her way to further her quest, time itself bends to her will to help her get this essay done at the last minute.
Indeed, the life of a savior is full of excitement and wonder, danger and intrigue, yet Chie will bear that cross until she can save the world from the Order of the Dark Akasha.
School: Nagatenjouki Academy
Grade: 3rd Year
Skills: Chie excels in a variety of tasks including but not limited to, summoning the arcane powers of the Euclidean Plane (math), hyper acceleration of 10th Realm weaponry (throwing things really hard), melting into the shadows of the netherworld (sneaking around), bearing the weight of the world's future upon her shoulders (carrying heavy stuff), and inscribing her collected history of past missions into historical documents (creative writing).
Faction: She belongs to no faction, for any group to hold the power she possesses would forever tip the scales and cause global war on a scale unknown to mankind.
Ability Name: Particle Space
Level: 4
Premise: An atom is composed mostly of empty space between the atomic cloud and the nucleus.
Description: Particle Space has less to do with particles and more to do with the space in between the nucleus and the atomic cloud. By altering that space and either reducing or increasing the space in between the atomic cloud and nucleus, Chie can effectively alter the size of any object. Mass is retained however, so objects will be just as heavy as they were pre-size alteration.
Birthday: 16/05 Height: 182cm Weight: 86kg Nationality: Japanese
Personality: The rules are ironclad. The motto by which Koudou lives, his faith in the laws laid by Academy City has not wavered. Those with authority lay down rules, and rules must be upheld. Thus, the highest authority has the strongest rules, and take precedence over all.
Follow the rules. Or be made to.
Biography: Transferred into Academy City via proper channels after learning that his town didn’t allow underage students to be a part of the police force and that vigilantism was against the law. Instantly joined Judgment on his first day in the city, made his way to where he is now.
School: Nagatenjouki Academy
Grade: 11th grade
Skills: Needlework and Metalwork: Fixing and modifying his clothing to help him do his duty requires him to actually be able to do more than basic patchwork. Good Memory: Has memorized lots of laws. Theoretically could get into law school as he is but he prefers his current life. Martial Arts (Judgment): Has undergone all of Judgment’s CQC courses, in addition to optional course with weapons training such as the use of a riot shield and more. Also has experience with street brawls from his youth.
Faction(s): Judgment member.
Ability name: Iron Rule Level: 4 Premise: Metalkinesis Description: Capable of controlling things that are made of metal, irrespective of alloys and such. The maximum aggregate mass he can control at one point in time is 5000kg, but he starts experiencing major strain once he hits a fifth of his cap, with the strain worsening if he goes further past that value. His maximum range is 250 meters and in that range he can freely sense the form of metals and control them. Similarly to his weight cap, the further out the item he tries to control is, the power he has over it decreases exponentially.
On his person, Koudou generally wears his steel-plated boots and his jacket that has a few nuts and bolts in the pockets that he keeps there to listen to them rustle when he walks. When on duty he carries three pairs of handcuffs and one Academy-City issued Smart Handcuffs, along with a length of chain, and a 1kg discus made of a steel alloy.
