Minako
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Minako
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Full Name |
Minako Ikeda Slater
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Nickname |
Doesn’t have one, but won’t protest if someone else gives her one
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Birth Date |
May 16th, 1998
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Age |
18
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Classification |
Freshmen
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Gender |
Female
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Sexuality |
Closeted homosexual
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Alias |
Remix
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Role |
Undecided
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Loyalty |
Undecided
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In Depth Appearance |
Minako’s eyes are a dark purple, which glow when her power is active. She also has a variant of a triskelion tattooed in silver and black on her left shoulder. She has a large bite scar on her left arm from when she was little.
For clothes she tends towards t-shirts, skirts and boots. She is also usually seen wearing a wireless headset, and always wears an amethyst pendant around her neck (the exception is when she is training, where it is safely tucked into a pouch at her waist).
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Habits | Quirks | Oddities |
-Minako tends to become aroused when she uses her powers. Whether this is caused by or results in her fantasies is unknown
-She loves to dance while listening to music
-She is utterly fascinated by gems
-She lives by a code of honour, which she will not compromise for anything
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Hobbies |
-Gaming online (both shooters and strategy)
-training and sparring
-Meditating
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Likes |
-Listening to people tell stories
-Relaxing in a hot shower and hot tub
-Listening to music, particularly anything with a strong rhythm
-Shiny gems
-Shibari
-sour candies
-Animated music videos
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Dislikes |
-Anybody who messes with her stuff
-People making fun of her
-People who are unnecessarily cruel
-Anyone who breaks their word
-Spicy food
-Needles
-Mind Readers
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Fears |
-People finding out about her fantasies and thinking her a freak
-Her parents discovering her orientation
-Dogs, especially large ones
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Personality Traits |
-Shy
-Easily embarrassed
-Very respectful towards authority figures
-Suppresses a lot of her desires
-Becomes loud and crass when playing online
-reasonably confident in her combat skills
-Becomes frighteningly focused while training, her mind becoming entirely blank and empty
-tends to space out and fantasize about the people around her
-Can be very determined and iron-willed when she wants to be
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Personality |
Minako comes from a wealthy, but very rigid household. For this reason, she supresses a lot of her desires, for fear of dishonouring her family. She gets nervous around people she doesn’t know very well, particularly since she is so far from her family. She is also very fond of her little sister and often sends letters back home to her. She is fascinated by her powers, which tend to tie in a great deal to her more perverse interests.
Her family life and martial arts training has instilled in her a very simple code: one’s word is their bond. As such, Minako takes promises very seriously and gets very angry when one is broken. She believes that everyone has to have a code of some kind; without one, they will not be able to make their life meaningful.
She is very unsure and a little frightened of her sexuality, particularly in regards to how her parents might react. This, along with her more… personal interests, is another reason why she is so nervous around people she doesn’t know. She is also extremely interested in developing her powers; some might say a little too much.
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Abilities |
Minako’s primary power is that she can take control of other people’s sensory perception, allowing her to amplify, reduce, or outright turn off their senses. This ranges from the traditional five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell), to lesser known senses such as balance, temperature, pain, kinesthetic and time.
Additionally, she can also induce a trance in other people, making them extremely and willfully compliant to her commands.
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Limitations |
Both of Minako’s abilities are based on eye contact. Her primary power requires only a brief moment of close eye contact, and the connection is signified by a jolt running through both herself and her target. Once the connection is made, she must consciously maintain it, or it will wear off and she must make eye contact again. While she could technically apply her power to multiple people, this places great stress on her mind.
Her trance ability requires extended and unbroken eye contact; at least thirty seconds to bring a single person under her full control. Additionally, it is not complete mind control, more like a hypnotic trance. If she were to give a command that the target finds particularly anathema, their revulsion will disrupt her control and potentially allow them to break free.
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Place Of Origin |
Kobe, Japan
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Family |
Father: Devon Slater (unpowered)
Mother: Yukiko Ikeda (unpowered)
Little sister: Mei Ikeda Slater (unknown)
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History |
Devon Slater is a wealthy American shipping magnate and the current CEO of Ikeda Global Shipping, based in Kobe, Japan. He is a man of exceptional determination and discipline, and the sort who tended to get his way. A shrewd businessman with a global network of contacts, he orchestrated the acquisition between Dollahan International by Ikeda, moving to Japan to ensure a smooth transition. After marrying into the Ikeda family, who had been the majority shareholders for generations, he eventually rose through the ranks to CEO of the company.
As the eldest daughter, Minako is heir to her family’s fortune and the company. Born into wealth, she was fully expected to take over from her father, and as such grew up learning about the ins and outs of the industry. If there was any concern over the fact that Devon and Yukiko did not have a son, they were rapidly squashed; as far as Devon was concerned, there was no one more suitable to inherit the family’s legacy then his eldest, regardless of their gender.
Devon is also a strong believer in the idea that a person should be able to defend themselves. As a result, Minako was enrolled in a martial arts school from a very young age. With a goal in mind, Minako proved that she could be just as strong-willed as her father, and became very proficient.
As Minako grew into her teens, her sensei noticed a strange and reoccurring pattern. While Minako had always been one of his top students, other students who had once been able to fight evenly with her began to have an unusually hard time. Some even swore that her eyes, already one of her most striking traits inherited from her father, would glow in battle. This led to the instructor to make the unprecedented decision to test his pupil himself. It was equally unprecedented for a martial arts instructor, with decades of practice and military experience, to wind up flat on his back because he could no longer tell which way was up.
Consequently, he recommended to her parents that Minako be enrolled in Mayweather Academy, to both ensure that she learned how to control her abilities and to use them responsibly. Seeing no issue, and thinking that her powers might make her an even more formidable businesswoman, Devon agreed, and Minako was enrolled as soon as she graduated high school.
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Extra |
She keeps a locked suitcase hidden in her room, which she is very protective of.
She owns a pair of carved wood tonfa, which were a gift from her former sensei.