[CHAR] Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

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Akiko

Name: Akiko Futeki

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Personality: Akiko is very energetic, highly motivated, idealistic and has an optimism that is infectious. She's also stubborn, scrappy, impulsive, simple minded, naive and a bit of a brat

Her optimistic nature developed from her parents, who were very poor and always struggled to get by but always found a way to manage doing so. Through this she was taught that when you're handed a bad situation you don't have to lie down and take it, and has made it her goal in life to become successful at something in order to make money so she can help her parents and give them an easier life. All this makes her quite positive and optimistic, which is not something that you'd expect from a person like her

Her bratty, impulsive nature originates from the environment she grew up in. Living in a sketchy neighborhood full of thugs and bullies molded her into a rough and tough girl that is no stranger to a fight. When the bullies picked on her, she would take it as a challenge and stood up for herself physically. This lead to her becoming a little stubborn and easily frustrated when something got in her way that she couldn't deal with. She is also not one for rules and regulations, often seeing them as barriers to letting people achieve their goals, and will usually actively go against a rule that she sees as pointless and unnecessary

Akiko is the dictionary definition of book dumb but street smart. Partly due to her poor school experience, she is very slow to understand complex things like math and science, and is easily confused and dumbfounded when presented with those types of things. This, combined with her tendency to be somewhat spacey and empty headed at times, gives her the appearance of being an idiot. However, Akiko can also be a great practical thinker sometimes and can often come up with a simple but clever solution to a problem that no one else thought of but seem obvious in retrospect

Backstory: Akiko grew up in a very dangerous and bad neighborhood. Every day of hers was filled with fighting off vicious bullies that just wanted to make her feel awful, dealing with teachers that didn't give a damn about her and saw her as a hooligan, and living in a house that could just barely hold 3 people and was practically held together with paperclips and duct tape. This life, as harsh and unpleasant as it was, hardened her and taught her perseverance and determination. She learned to defend herself after getting fed up with getting beat up by bullies, and became good enough at it that she gained a bit of a reputation around school as a person not to be messed with. This, combined with the fact that she didn't really pay that much attention to her schoolwork, naturally caused her to get in trouble with her teachers on the regular

Appearance: Akiko is slightly shorter than an average girl her age, reaching around 4'8, and has a thin, athletic build. She has short, light red hair which is unstyled, messy and constantly in her face, as well as a line of freckles scattered across her cheeks and nose. Obviously not one to care about fashions, Akiko wears very basic clothing. Her common attire is a red zip up hoodie over a white tank top, along with worn out jeans

Equipment: An aluminum baseball bat. She intended to use this bat to play baseball with friends, but ended up using it a lot more to fight off thugs and bullies. She also hopes to get some kind of fire proof gloves or something because, as it turns out, creating explosions right next to your hands really hurts!

Abiltiies: Due to the environment she grew up in, Akiko is a great hand to hand combat fighter, especially for her age. She is self taught and developed her fighting style based on first hand experience and watching others as opposed to formally in a class, which makes her style very wild, unrefined and something of a mish-mash of random existing fighting styles. She also commonly uses a baseball bat as her weapon of choice

Channeller category: Wavecaster

Description of power: Akiko has the ability to control and produce fire from her body. She discovered this very recently, and hasn't learned much about it yet at all. In the future, she will learn to use explosions as her main method of attack along with fire

Names/descriptions of moves:
Lion Punch: Akiko reels back and then puts all of her physical energy into unleashing a huge punch at her opponent, creating a large explosion right in front of her fist as the punch connects
Tiger Kick: Akiko performs a double jump kick and creates explosions at her feet when each connect with the opponent
Tiger Panther Uppercut: Akiko performs an uppercut with an explosion at her fist, intending to send the opponent flying upwards
Leopard Leap: Akiko jumps up into the air and then immediately creates an explosion under her in order to propell her as far into the air as she possibly can, and then attempts to land near the opponent and perform a punch similar to the Lion Punch. This attack is devastating if it hits, but due to the unpredictability of it and how it's fairly easy to dodge, it's not a move to be used often

Character theme:

Other: She likes to eat a lot. She's also a nicknamer, due to her being bad at remembering names. She will rarely ever refer to someone with their actual name and just go with whatever nickname she came up with instead

Hana

Name: Hana Kakusareta

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Personality: Hana is the perfect example of a shrinking violet. She is incredibly passive, soft spoken and timid, she lacks any kind of self confidence whatsoever and is awkward in all social interactions. This awkwardness and lack of confidence stems from her childhood, as she was a pretty sheltered child with not much social interaction

Hana is also a very kind hearted girl, never wishing ill will on anyone and prefering to forgive someone if they wronged her or did something bad. This is due to how her parents raised her, who valued politeness and compassion and feared that she would become bratty and spoiled (because of her privileged lifestyle)

Hana will always choose to shy away from any kind of intimidating situation, never being able to stand up to the things that she finds scary. She hates this about herself, always worrying and complaining that she's "running away", but she's stuck in that way of thinking and can't ever break that habbit

Backstory: Hana came from a fairly privileged background. Her parents were pretty famous channellers who were even teachers in the Institute at one point and never had to worry about money. Most people would expect a child growing up in that environment to be spoiled and bratty, but luckily Hana's parents foresaw this possibility and did their best to teach her to value kindness, compassion and understanding throughout her life

Unfortuantely, due to her parents' overprotective nature, Hana lived a very sheltered lifestyle. She didn't really interact with a lot of people throughout her early life, which caused her to fear social interaction and become incredibly nervous around other people since she didn't understand how to act around them. She never really connected with anyone in her classes, and pretty much became the wallflower of her (regular) school. She didn't gain any friends, which lead to her staying indoors reading and gardening rather than going out to hang out with people. This lack of socialisation lead to her picking up some self esteem and confidence issues - developing a low opinion of herself

Hana discovered her powers at age 10, the earliest a channeller can possibly discover their powers. When her parents learned about this, they wasted no time teaching her how to use her powers. They did intend for her to eventually go to the Institute, but they wanted to make sure she was as prepared as she possibly could be first

Appearance: Hana is shorter than the average girl her age, only reaching 4'7. She has an incredibly skinny body type, and is pale as a ghost. She has long, violet hair that she wears down in order to intentionally cover her face. She has a light pink pullover hoodie (which was originally her mother's) that she wears with the hood ALWAYS up. Due to it being her mother's, the hoodie is also a size too big for her, which causes the sleeves to go past her hands most of the time

Equipment: None

Abilities:

Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power: Hana has the ability to accelerate the speed that her body moves, causing her to run and attack at incredibly high speeds. Her top running speed before entering the institute was 50 mph (almost double the speed of the fastest man alive), but she will likely become even faster than that over time (her personal goal is to reach the speed of sound). She can also throw attacks in the blink of an eye, which logically also have a lot of force behind them due to the speed at which they're thrown

Names/descriptions of moves:
Red Balsamine: Hana throws a regular punch at high speed
White Balsamine: Same as Red Balsamine, but a kick instead of a punch
Yellow Rose: Also similar to Red Balsamine, except she delivers a large flurry of high speed punches instead of one
Dahlia: Hana runs at someone as fast as possible and delivers a running punch as she reaches them

Other:

Asa

Name: Asa Mayonaka

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Personality: In most situations, Asa is the sweetest woman you will ever meet. Everyone who knows her would describe her as incredibly kind, understanding, compassionate, almost nurturing and motherly, and overall just the most pleasant person you could ever want to be around

...However, that all changes when she starts doing her job. She takes her job INCREDIBLY seriously, and when she starts teaching her students, it's almost like she switched brains with a completely different person. As a teacher she's extremely harsh, demanding, unappologetic, and nearly Drill Sergeant-esque

Backstory: Asa was the eldest child of three, and she lived in a family with a housewife mother and a father who was in the military. When growing up, she was mainly raised by her mother, who was a very kind soul and raised her children to be very compassionate and loving. Her father, when he was around, naturally took more of a tough-but-fair approach to his parenting, but Asa loved and looked up to them both equally

Unfortuantely, when Asa was 17, her mother died in a car crash. It was fairly sudden and none of the family had much time to react. Not only did this leave Asa heartbroken, but it also meant that due to her father's obligations, she had to be the dominant figure in the household. She was hesitant, unsure if she really had it in her, especially as her siblings had acting-up and lashing out since their mother's death. However, after watching her father control her siblings, she got the idea of using her father's style more than her mother's and it worked as well for her as it had for her father. She continued doing it more and more, and even started developing a fondness for it

Fuyu developed her first channeller power when she was 13, which was healing. She had learned how to use it pretty well, especially with the help of her mother. However, around the time her mother died, she started developing a second power, the ability to harden any area of her body. She was able to develop this ability as well, and soon became practically an expert at wielding them both

Many years later in Asa's life, once her siblings started getting old enough to where they didn't really need a parent any more, Asa decided she wanted to be a staff member at the Institute. When she applied, the staff of the school were incredibly impressed by her ability to wield her two powers at the same time. Having two different powers was fairly common, but the fact that the two were so opposite from each other and her ability to wield them so expertly at the same time was not. She was accepted into the Institute fairly easily, and has been there ever since

Appearance: Asa is fairly tall for her age, reaching 6'2, and has an athletic build. She has long, raven black hair that she normally keeps straight and unstyled, and wears a dark purple turtleneck sweater. When she wants to get into her "Drill Sergeant" mode, she takes off her sweater to reveal her black tank top, ties her hair up in a ponytail and puts on her military cap (given to her by her father)

Equipment:

Abilities: Asa is fairly skilled at hand to hand combat, due to both picking up a few things from her father and while developing her channeller powers
Channeller category: Augmenter and alternative

Description of power: Asa's first power is the ability to heal herself. She has mastered this ability very well, and can do it fairly quickly while doing pretty much anything. She can heal others as well, though she needs to make physical contact with them in order to do it

Asa's second power is the ability to harden any part of her body. This is most commonly done to prevent something from hurting her, but can also be done to increase the damage of her attacks. This ultimate defense of hers is incredibly powerful, but it has weaknessness. No matter how tough she makes it, her body will never be invincible and can always be broken through with enough power. She's also completely vulnerable to attacks that she's not expecting, since she has to harden her body preemptively

Names/descriptions of moves:
Beretta: Asa delivers a straight punch with her fist hardened
Garand: Asa delivers a roundhouse kick with her foot hardened
Double Barrel: Asa delivers a punch with both of her hardened fists towards the opponent's stomach area

Character theme:

Other:

STAFF CHARACTERS ONLY

Institute role: Teacher of the Power Training class. It's a class that focuses on practicing their powers in a hands on, practical way (instead of sitting down in a class). She also does a lot of mentoring as well

Why they were chosen for the Institute: Amazing talent for controlling two powers at once and much experience with handling children

[Hammerman]

Freyja Leden

Name: Freyja Leden

Age: 25 years old

Gender: Female

Personality: Calm and collected would be the best way to describe her. Her usual expression is her normal face, as she doesn't smile while teaching to her students. She will smile though when she congratulates her students on a job well done. Or frowns and turns stern-looking when they fail. She is always happy to help a struggling student but she doesn't tolerate a slacker who's simply too lazy to study properly.

Backstory:
She was born in a remote mining village in the mountains, with her father working as a miner. Since she were little, she had taken interest in all things mining related, particularly on the bombs they made to blow up the wall of rocks inside the mines. The job to make the bombs fell to the females of the village, so she was welcomed to learn as much as she wanted on how to make them.

However, tragedy stroke one day, when a cluster of mining tunnel collapsed, trapping the workers inside including her father. Quickly, the females of the town used all the materials available to make bombs in order to dig through the rubble quicker, but even with all the bombs they had made, it was still not enough. And the next batch of gunpowder shipment wouldn't come until the next month. Sure, they had sent a help request to the nearest town but who knew when the help would come, if at all? So all the women in the town ended up digging through the rubble day and night in an effort to rescue their men before it was too late.

11-year old Freyja was naturally consumed with worry. If her father were to die, she wouldn't know what to do. Her mother would certainly be stricken with grief as well. Thus, she thought hard and long for a way to make more bombs without any gunpowder. And at that lowest point in her life, her power manifested. When she woke up after falling asleep due to tiredness, she was grabbing a bomb inside her right hand. At first, she didn't know why it was there, but she remembered that she dreamt about the bomb, how it was made and how its composition and structure should be. So she did the same once more and to her surprise, another bomb manifested in her left hand.

Thus, with this power, she managed to save the miners at last. The villagers didn't even ask any questions at first as they were that desperate for some miracle to happen.

And so she became known as "The Bomb Girl", one who could make bombs out of thin air. Instead of being suspicious against her, the villagers welcomed her ability instead, thanks to their closely knit community.

However, one day, another channeler arrived, thanks to the rumors about this "bomb girl" spreading to the nearest town. He was the headmaster of the Institute, and he saw the talent hidden beneath Freyja, who was 14-years old at that time. Without anyone to teach her, she had managed to expand her ability to create miniature bombs as small as a pebble. She could also set them to explode whenever she wished, unlike ordinary bombs. So the headmaster approached her parents and told them about their daughter's ability, and how he wished for her to be taught at his school. Of course, her parents were reluctant at the prospect of letting her daughter go with some stranger, but Freyja herself insisted to go, as she wished to learn more about her ability herself. She told her parents the truth she had been hiding that she felt stifled staying in the village for all this time and she felt her life could be better than just being a bombmaker for the village. After some more persuasion, they finally let her go.

So she was trained in the institute as a student. And she graduated with flying colors. The headmaster asked her if she had any idea what she wanted to do after this. If not, she could stay here and become a teacher as they were quite short on mentors with the typing of architect. She agreed, in exchange for the institute's resources as she still wished to develop her skills even more. And besides, she enjoyed teaching others as back when she was a student, other students came to her for advice as she scored the highest in most of the exams.

Appearance:


Equipment: She had many chemistry-related equipment in her room, and she would use it daily for her study and experiments.

Abilities: She is very well-versed in chemistry knowledge, as it was certainly needed for her to make better bombs. She is also somewhat knowledgeable in the art of gears and pistons, as she needed the knowledge to create her walking spider bombs.

Channeller category: Architect

Description of power: Bomb creation

Names/descriptions of moves:
1. "Tiny Tim" = Her basic combat bombs. Creates five miniature bombs in one hand and throws it towards the enemy.
2. "Spider on The Wall" = Creates a pair of bombs with legs in both of her hands. The bombs can walk autonomously on their own towards the enemy or she could control them with her mind as well. They could also stick to the walls and ceilings, so they could prove effective as an ambush
3. "Sticky Hands" = Creates a bunch of nigh-invisible, microscopic bombs on her hands. If she grabs an enemy with them, they would stick to their clothes/skins. Then she can detonate them remotely.
4. "Breath of Death" = Only works when combat happens inside a closed space. Creates microscopic bombs inside her lungs that she breathes out, making them spread around on the battlefield unseen by the enemy. She cannot control their movements, but she can bait the enemy to stand in a spot where a decent amount of them gathered and let them breath them in. Then, she detonated them once they were inside their own lungs.
5. "Land Mines" = Creates miniature bombs under her shoes that would stick to the floor as she walked. They are tiny pebble-sized, not microscopic but still could be really hard to notice.

Character theme song:

Other:
She is now learning medicine making in hopes of expanding her architect ability to create them too.

STAFF CHARACTERS ONLY

Institute role: Architect mentor

Why they were chosen for the Institute: She had been proven capable both intellectually and mentally to be a mentor. She had a calm and responsible demeanor that befit her position. She had deep knowledge on the art of architect, thanks to her constant strive to create better bombs.

[VitaVitaAR]

Clarabelle Halloway

• Name: Clarabelle Halloway
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Personality: Clarabelle is often seen as creepy or strange. She is quiet and frequently alone, talking to her dolls. She surrounds herself with the dolls she creates, utilizing them for a variety of purposes. Her voice betrays little emotion, and she often has nearly no expression on her face. Indeed, it's rare to see her smile at all. Few people can claim to have seen such a thing. She rarely speaks to others at all, and comes across as cold and emotionless. However, the reasoning behind her behavior is in fact due to a loneliness spawned by her own unapproachable attitude. Her tendency to eerily stare, smile worryingly when discussing sharp objects and what her dolls can use them for, and the eerie threats she tends to dispense during fights have not helped her make friends, but she also fears attempting to approach others in general. For all her apparently eerie behavior and actions, she quite simply fears rejection. Clarabelle's dolls cannot reject her, and therefore she surrounds herself in them, coming off as antisocial and cold due to her fear of others. It's easier to reject others then to be rejected herself, after all. Unfortunately due to her extremely lonely nature, Clarabelle is also liable to become clingy and overprotective of anyone who doesn't reject her, as she has no idea how to handle having relationships with other humans aside from having a fear of losing them. At the same time, she is likely to exhibit intense loyalty to anyone who actually manages to become her friend.
  
  In combat, Clarabelle usually maintains expressionless nature. However, she actually quite enjoys utilizing her dolls in a fight, and as such it can actually bring a smile to her lips. In these circumstances, Clarabelle somewhat embraces her eerie reputation and often makes disconcerting comments. She is, in actuality, quite an intelligent strategist and highly capable of manipulating multiple dolls independently in order to meet success in battle.
  
  Clarabelle deeply enjoys fairy tales and nursery rhymes, and dresses her dolls as different characters from her favorite stories.
• Backstory: When Clarabelle was very young, she fell deathly ill. Her family, the incredibly rich Halloway family, was desperate to find a cure. But there was little they could do until enough research was conducted. As such, Clarabelle spent much of her childhood confined to a bed in her room, unable to leave and barely able to walk. The illness stunted her growth and sapped the color from her skin and hair, leaving her pale and with pure white hair. She was never able to leave her room even on her better days, and as such she was never able to interact with others as a child. Eventually, with extensive treatment and recovery, Clarabelle was cured. But she had spent years of her life locked away with little to no human interaction, surrounded by soft toys and dolls. When she was let out back into the real world, she had no idea how to interact with others. Her weak attempts to make friends were met with confusion and rejection, and she was labeled strange and creepy. Clarabelle was unable to understand how to interact with others, and this lack of understanding lead to her growing fear of rejection for reasons she was unable to understand. More and more, she locked herself away and interacted only with her dolls. Her eerie behavior became even more apparent, especially after her ability to control and manipulate her energy was discovered. Her created dolls became her only friends. After all, they couldn't reject her.
  
  Now, at the academy, things haven't changed much at all for Clarabelle. She still surrounds herself in her dolls.
• Appearance: Delicate and doll-like, as fragile-looking as the things she creates, and yet somehow eerie. She is very small and frail, the size of a child.
• Equipment: Clarabelle carries a variety of doll-sized dresses, and a pair of scissors. She also equips her dolls with a variety of sharp objects, such as knives and lances. She wants to get some form of explosive to place inside of her dolls as well.
• Abilities: Clarabelle is actually quite competent with needlework, and can multitask rather effortlessly, using dolls to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. However, she is very poor at food preparation. Clarabelle is also very physically frail and unable to stand up against any blows to her body, due to her past illness. However, she is an excellent strategist and very willing to set up nasty traps to deceive her foe.
• Channeller category: Architect
• Description of power: Garten der Leeran Jungfrauen - Clarabelle can create and control dolls, manufacturing their components utilizing her energy and, usually, manually assembling them. She can generate them fully assembled but claims she feels less attachment to dolls created in that manner. The dolls are not particularly durable on their own, but are armed with various sharp objects and are capable of flight. She can control their slightest movements independently, and they are all under her total command. She stores dolls inside her skirt and sleeves as well for rapid deployment.
• Names/descriptions of moves:
  • Leere Jungfrauen - Clarabelle's basic ability to create dolls.
  • Hohle Seele: A copy of Clarabelle herself, a life-sized doll as identical to the real thing as she is capable of. Her intent, at least, is to use it as a decoy, and stock the interior with explosives in order to be used as a trap.
  • Großes Mädchen aus Stahl: A huge doll wielding an enormous lance. Far more durable and strong then the other dolls, standing a little over six meters in height. A very dangerous enemy, Clarabelle rides upon its shoulder when in combat. In appearance, the Grand Maiden resembles Alice from the famed fairytale, with long, flowing blonde hair and blue and white clothing.
• Character theme song: Hartmann's ... Doll... Using... Girl?
• Other: N/A

[Yuuta]

Ryuuto

Name: Ryuuto Koriyama

Age: 15

Gender: M

Personality: Ryuuto is smart, knows he’s smart, and wants everyone to know he’s smart. Because of this, he comes off as arrogant and condescending. However, he is not mean-spirited. He’ll criticize others for their reasoning, or more often, lack thereof, but doesn’t resort to personal insults. Ultimately, if you can prove him wrong, he’ll begrudgingly admit it rather than continue to argue.

Ryuuto would rather be your friend, but those who make an enemy out of him, or try to hurt him will have a very hard time getting back on his good side. He will help his friends when he can, but ultimately believes that people should take care of themselves. He won’t go out of his way to bully his enemies, but he does get even, and he is very patient in getting back at people. In conflict, Ryuuto is calm and tactical, preferring creative uses of his powers rather than overpowering his opponents.

Ryuuto has all the stereotypical nerd hobbies. Between getting straight A’s in all his classes, he’s reading, playing video games, or browsing the internet in a dimly lit and cluttered room.

Backstory: Ryuuto never saw much of his parents. They were both wealthy businessmen, traveling around the world for their companies and spending very little time at home. He knew more about his babysitters than he did about his parents. He learned to be independent when he was in elementary school. He did his own laundry, washed his own clothes, cleaned the house, and even ordered groceries online.
His primary interactions with his parents were his report cards. They expected good grades. They hired tutors, that he saw more than them, and gave him all the resources he could possibly need to succeed in school. One of the few times he got to interact with his parents was when they came home to check up on his grades. He wanted more than anything to make these positive interactions, and so he forced himself to be a diligent student, getting perfect scores on everything.

Ryuuto discovered his powers when he was 12. As far as he was concerned, it was just another thing for him to excel at to impress his parents. Ryuuto’s parents weren’t particularly shocked to find out he was a Channeler. They almost seemed prepared to send him off to the Institute as soon as they all found out. This will be his third year at The Institute.

Appearance:

Not So Swirly Glasses

Equipment: A smart phone with mobile hotspot and unlimited data. A credit card with a $5,000 limit.

Abilities: Academics, studying, and research. Keeping a level head in a crisis. Tactics. Video Games, particularly rhythm games.

Channeller category: Architect.

Description of power: Threads of Fate – In short, Ryuuto can make strings. It has proved to be a difficult ability for a young person to master, as it requires an understanding of molecular structures and forces to produce a viable string. By learning more about chemistry and physics, Ryuuto can make strings of tougher, or more versatile substances as he needs. His two years in the academy have given him the ability to create strings of various metals, and also carbon fiber. The strings extend from his fingertips and can be attached to any surface they come in contact with, but once broken, they fall limp.

In addition to expanding his moveset, Ryuuto’s goals with his power involve making more subtle substances, like yarn or silk. Also, twining his strings into more complex structures, like a rope, is in the realm of possibility. His mentor has also brought up the medical possibilities of learning to stitch a severe wound on the spot.

Names/descriptions of moves: Tripwire – The most basic application of Ryuuto’s power. He attaches a string to two surfaces. His training thus far has allowed him to make them so thin as to be nearly invisible.

Reel In – Another basic move. Ryuuto can attach his string to an object and use his power to pull it towards him. Effective use of this technique requires clever manipulation of momentum.

Razor Wire – Ryuuto can make his strings razor-sharp. He can lash at his opponents with them like a whip, or can attach them to surfaces to set up a trap. Razor Wires require more time and concentration to generate than a standard Tripwire, and are more visible due to their more complex physical structure.

Cat’s Cradle – Much like the children’s game, Ryuuto interlaces his fingers, and then pulls them apart to make a web of string. This can act as a small shield to block against enemy attacks.

Garotte Grip – Ryuuto launches his strings at his enemy, and wraps it around their limbs, where he proceeds to constrict them. This technique requires precise control and concentration, he cannot make these strings as sharp as his razor wires, but he can make them sharp enough to break the skin.

Future Moves

Marionette – Ryuuto attaches strings to his body and another surface. He can reel himself in with a thought, allowing him to move faster than his body would normally allow in unnatural directions. This technique requires clever string placement and careful calculation.

Cocoon – By studying more complex string structures, Ryuuto can make a weave around himself, a body part, or an object. This technique’s applications are limited only by the creativity of the user.

Spider Silk – Ryuuto uses advanced chemical knowledge to recreate spider silk on a scale that can affect things the size of humans.

And perhaps more if these become exhausted…

Theme Song:

[MacDuffy]

Hondo

Name: Hondo Shigeki
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Personality: Hondo is a grouch through and through, typically avoiding social interaction with his fellow students, and being quite blunt in his speech. Easily annoyed, and quick to complain, Hondo has a list of pet-peeves a mile long, the very top of which is excessive noise and loud people. Second on that list is physical activity: Hondo is quite lazy, to the point that he often uses his own power to carry himself around instead of walking. If he had his way, he'd never leave his room. His grades are nothing impressive either, which gives him a reputation around the school as a fat, whiny oaf.

Where he shines, however, is his tactical brilliance and nerves of steel. Hondo has always had a quiet, burning interest in arts of strategy, which he showcases in battle. Even in the most tense, horrifying situations, he maintains a calm, focused attitude....with plenty of complaints thrown in, of course.

In spite of his constant, petty grumbles about the people around him, he does have a conscience, and detests the idea of all the irritating people in his life getting hurt. Beneath the sharp stare and grumpy exterior lies a self-conscious young man who's simply afraid of making friends.

Backstory: Hondo was born to a relatively lucrative and loving family, a middle child among ten brothers and sisters. The constant cacophony and chaos within the Shigeki household took its toll on the relatively introverted Hondo, who began to seclude himself more and more often into his room and his personal interests, in lieu of spending time with his family. This deteriorated his relationship with his siblings, who grew to dislike him for his frequent withdrawals, and began to bully him relentlessly throughout his youth, pushing him further inward. As he began school, the cycle of resentment and bitterness persisted among him and his peers: Making friends was difficult, and any friendships found were very quickly lost. Hondo's mental state deteriorated to the point that he simply wished to create an everlasting wall between himself and the rest of the world. An eternity of solitude, of peace and quiet. Perhaps it was through these thoughts that his channeller powers manifested the way they did when he was twelve. When the offer of the Institute came to him, he did not protest the thought of leaving his miserable old life behind to something more proactive and productive.

Now, at the academy, Hondo has no intention of seeing history repeat. Already, he has begun to build a wall around himself...

Appearance:

Equipment: A worn copy of "The Art of War", which he reads in school whenever there's a dull moment, as well as a notepad and pen, which he uses to take brief notes.

Abilities: Hondo is a very talented tactician and strategist, well-versed in the ever-shifting ways of the battlefield. His defensive channeller power suits him very well in this regard, as it enables him to safely analyze and formulate strategies in the heat of combat. Avoiding needless confrontation, using the terrain, exploiting weaknesses, manipulating and misdirecting the opponent....these are all pillars of warfare, and Hondo knows this well. This strategic knowledge also makes Hondo very good at board games. He has yet to be beaten in Go, Shogi, or Western-style Chess....though he has lost a game of Monopoly before.

Channeler Category: Alternative

Description of Power: Hondo has the ability to create transparent, impenetrable barriers of solid psychic energy, and telekinetically move them around at speeds of up to 40 km/h. The size and amount of barriers he can produce has a cap, symbolized by the size and area of a Wall he can erect in front of himself. In his current state, Hondo can only make use of a 100 square feet wall's worth of Barrier at a time, though with extensive training, he can bump that limit up to at least a 300 square feet wall. Through the practice and study he's had with the 4 years he's possessed this power, Hondo has learned how to bend and fold barriers he creates into basic shapes, such as domes and cylinders. With much more training, Hondo could potentially learn to mold the barriers into much more complex shapes, such as weapons, armor, or even a giant mech.

Names/Description of Moves:

Barrier: Basic move. Produces a barrier of varying size or shape. Barriers typically last only five seconds if Hondo is not directly focusing on maintaining it, which he can currently only do for one barrier at a time.

Barrier Shot: Telekinetically fires a created barrier towards the opponent. In his current state, Hondo can only move one Barrier at a time. Though with training he, can increase both the number he can move around, and the speed he can move it.

Barrier Surf: Creates a flat, disc-shaped barrier underneath himself for him to stand or sit on and fly around with. His primary method of locomotion.

Barrier Sculpt (Basic): The ability to create and or alter existing barriers into a basic spherical or cylindrical shape.

Barrier Sculpt (Advanced): [NOT YET LEARNED] The ability to shape barriers into much more complex forms: Swords, Giant Shuriken, Suits of Armor, etc.

General's Tent: Creates a dome around himself, expending his remaining available barrier to make the dome as thick and sturdy as possible. Nothing penetrates this dome, not even sound or air. In this state of absolute peace and quiet, Hondo takes his time to analyze the situation and form a strategy. However, he cannot stay in the dome indefinitely, as within it he has a very limited supply of oxygen.

Barrier King: [NOT YET LEARNED] The pinnacle of his training. Hondo creates a gigantic, fully "armed" mech suit out of his usable Barrier, with him as the psychic pilot in the very center.

Character Theme Song: youtube.com/watch?v=PZUxTsoO8Wo

[SaberClass4242]

Chiaki Tsukihana

Name: Chiaki Tsukihana

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Personality: Chiaki is cheerful, direct, and confident young woman. She is not necessarily the most studious, always prone to taking naps and finding opportunities to lay around rather than study. That being said though, she is very witty and cunning. Chiaki can also be very caring and compassionate, willing to easily help a friend when in need with no personal gain in the end. She is known to be strong willed, not one to be “carried” by others for not being capable enough. It should also be noted that Chiaki can have a bit of a temper, often easily provoked and easy to fluster. She is not above breaking the rules either, never going out of her way to do so, but if the situation allows it why would she go out of her way to avoid the easiest solution?

Backstory: Chiaki had a relatively normal childhood growing up. She was always a little bruiser from a very young age, often taking interests in playing sports and roughhousing. She often joined many clubs growing up, though after a while the appeal would ware off and she would grow bored very easily. As she got older and began to discover her true potential, she became more and more mischievous, getting herself into all sorts of trouble. It was because of this that Chiaki’s parents felt it was best to send her to The Institute for Young Channellers so that she may better hone her skills to both allow her to gain the discipline she needed as well as put her around those who would understand her better.

Appearance:

Equipment: Metal marbles

Abilities: Acrobatic – Despite her brute and aggressive nature, Chiaki is actually a rather talented gymnast, which she uses in battle to maneuver around the area quickly and skillfully.
Sports – Though Chiaki is a skilled fighter, she is a very athletic girl in general, often picking up sports rather quickly and being relatively good at the ones she takes interest in. Other than gymnastics, however, she does not participate in any other clubs or extracurricular activities. She is the key example of someone who has the skill, but not the drive.

Channeller category: Architect/Augmenter (Maybe?)

Description of power: Chiaki is a bludgeon type architect, her specialty being blunt objects both large and small. Her favorite weapon to create is a large war-hammer, though on occasion she will summon mallets, bats, or maces in the heat of the moment. She can also change the density and size of the small metal marbles she carries around with her. This may not seem like much, but with the right utilization, Chiaki can use them as one devastating force.
Chiaki also seems to have a sort of enhanced strength compared to most girls, nowhere near the level of true augmenters, but enough to allow her to wave around her giant hammer with great control and skill. Whether this is due do channeling or merely through practice and training is unknown to her, though she never really concerned herself with it.

Names/descriptions of moves:
.Vulcan- The name Chiaki has given her warhammer
.Babe and Ruth - A pair of large, metal bats she often calls upon(usually together).
.Sherry - A large, spiked mace that Chiaki can summon, usually summoned when flustered or angry.
.Dairokkan - (Not Yet Learned) A pair of tonfu Chiaki can summon, though this requires great fighting skill and discipline she does not yet have.
.Home Run – Chiaki uses her metal marbles like baseballs, hitting them at target then changing them into, essentially, cannonballs.
*More to come*

[Mercurial]

Delinquent Girl

Name: Yasu Hirabayashi

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Personality: Yasu is not the most pleasant person to deal with. She’s blunt, crass and coarse, and largely irreverent of any authority. She’s highly selfish, and finds it difficult to see past her own whimsy. She is type to live in the moment, and cares little for “long term investments”, preferring to indulge herself when she can. She’s also highly materialistic, placing great importance on having “nice stuff”, like clothes or jewellery. While she could be described as having a temper, Yasu is less inclined to explosive bursts of anger, instead favouring to reply with a cold, icy glare. If Yasu is angry with you, you’re more likely to realise it when you come home to your windows having been smashed in.

Contrary to first impressions and common belief, Yasu is neither a bully nor a sadist. She is sure as hell vindictive, but it’s unlikely to find her chasing around people that haven’t crossed her in some fashion, though she can decide you’ve “crossed her” for fairly trivial reasons. She actually has a bit of a soft spot for “underdogs” and will stick up for a person she thinks is being treated unfairly. Granted, she’s usually too busy indulging herself to be going around looking after people, but if she happens to see someone being picked on, she’s more likely to try being a hero than a villain. She’s even capable of being perfectly friendly with someone, only they have to be someone willing to get past the selfishness and the foul language and the braying about the awesome piercing she just bought and the fact that she has committed crimes…

Backstory: Yasu was not born in the gutter, but some would say she ended up there in spite of it. Yasu’s parents were in fact fairly well off; not filthy stinking rich, but wealthy enough that Yasu was handed enough cash regularly to sustain a fairly self-indulgent lifestyle. The only hiccup was that since both of them were working rather demanding jobs, Yasu found herself on her lonesome more often than others. While she had a nanny as a child, as she grew older she began to tire of sitting around at home and started sneaking out to broaden her horizons. This is when she got introduced to the wrong crowd and fell in with a band of delinquent kids. She came to enjoy the odd sense of freedom she felt among them, and they encouraged her to be more and more rebellious. Eventually, after realising their child was almost at home less than they were, they stopped hiring nannies and started looking into how to correct their wayward daughter’s behaviour.

The funny thing about Yasu’s band is that they weren’t an needlessly violent lot. They were definitely a shifty lot that had many habits that weren’t palatable to society, and they certainly had truancy records as long as their arms, but they tended to react to provocations more than they instigated anything. For instance, a passing salaryman once mad an offhand quip about Yasu’s new tattoos, so she tailed him for two blocks and stole his briefcase while he wasn’t looking. Another case occurred when the building they were using as a meeting place was going to be torn down by an expanding business. That prompted Yasu and the gang to visit said business and help them ventilate the place by smashing their windows open. Yasu’s lot were without a doubt trouble, but they tended to keep to themselves if they had no reason to look for trouble.

But living a life like that couldn’t possibly continue without more serious incidents. One day, a far more violent band of delinquents moved into the area and provoked Yasu’s band into a fight. While they weren’t afraid of a scrap, they weren’t quite prepared for how vicious these people would turn out to be. One of them pulled out a switchblade and lunged at Yasu. It was at this moment her power awakened; a bolt of electricity lurched out from her hand and scorched the attacker’s face. Yasu ran away from the battle after that, but it wasn’t the last she would see of the events that day. Her parents saw how banged up she had gotten that night, and now they weren’t about to sit around and hope they could correct her behaviour passively. Fortunately for them, the people from the institute soon turned up and gave them their out. They figured Yasu couldn’t possibly get up to half as much trouble at an institution packed with super powered staff members. They made it exceedingly clear that Yasu was going to go to this place, threatening to never let her see a single yen of their money if not. Being far too shallow to stomach living without her expensive vices, Yasu agreed to go. Even though she was worried about her friends, she didn’t feel like she had much choice here. Besides, she was partially interested in exploring these weird new abilities too.

Appearance:


Yasu’s natural hair colour is a raven black, but she took to using dyes during her time as a delinquent, and has stuck with a vibrant pink colour for some time. She is 5’7”, being somewhat tallish for a woman. She has a number of tattoos that can’t always be seen due to being under her clothes, but one clearly visible one is on the back of her neck done in the pattern of two thorns entwined in a heart shape. She also has piercings in both ears.

Equipment: Yasu used a simple steel chain as a weapon during her time on the streets. She also tends to carry around a lot of completely useless but fairly pricey accessories, such as a silver bracelet on her left wrist and a golden hoop attached to her phone.

Abilities: Yasu is familiar with the art of the scrap, even if she didn’t always go seeking out random fights. Her fighting style is unrefined, but she is a tough girl through and through. She has also exercised her sticky fingers on more than one occasion and has a knack for grabbing stuff from other people without getting caught.

Channeller category: Wavecaster

Description of power: Yasu’s power is the ability to manipulate and produce electricity.

Names/descriptions of moves:
-Zap: Just a simple electric bolt that travels in a linear fashion, though it does have a fair range to it.
-Crackle: This unleashes a dangerous spray of electric energy over the immediate area, making it hard to get near Yasu, though it has a limited range and area of effect. It gets pushed out in a forward facing cone, so it doesn’t defend her at every angle.
-Pop: This is a close quarters technique that sees Yasu flow an electric current through the opponent’s body, giving them a nasty and continuous shock. Naturally, she has to actually touch the opponent to put this into effect.

Character theme song: youtube.com/watch?v=OEHLuXIM09Y

Other: She happens to possess a lot of random knowledge about clothes and fashion from the amount of time she’s spent fussing over such things.

The Big Guy

Name: Alexei Pavlov

Age: 44

Gender: Male

Personality: Alexei is a big man with an equally big personality. He is loud and prone to speaking in an exaggerated fashion, as if determined to make full use of his vocal range. He has a big heart and is a strong believer in a strong community. He believes the institute is not just a place of learning but a community in of itself, and he always goes out of his way to reinforce that idea with his students. In spite of his hard muscles, Alexei can be a bit of a soft teacher, and is reluctant to use overt discipline on anyone, preferring to believe in the power of positive reinforcement.

Backstory: Born in a tiny hamlet nestled in the Siberian Taiga, Alexei was always guaranteed to live a life of hard physical labour in his early years. Fortunately for him, he was always a big strong lad, and he took to manual tasks quite well. Even if he was a huge man himself, his community was always small, and everyone had to work together closely to keep things going. Alexei developed and iron clad belief in the power of the community during his time at home. As he matured, Alexei settled into the position of carpenter in the village, being more than physically capable as well as having developed an affinity for working with a hammer. Besides, a big strong man needed an equally big strong house, and he learned the hard way what happened when he sat on chairs that couldn’t support his mass.

It was after one long hard day of building work that Alexei discovered his powers. A freak bolt of lightning happened to strike a tree near the house he was building, causing it to fall onto the site and make the whole thing collapse. Alexei managed to hold up the collapsing mass, urging those working with him to escape the house. Those that escaped were at first expecting that Alexei would be trapped within the house, but much to the surprise of the whole village, Alexei managed to make his way out, keeping the place from collapsing on top of him the whole time. They all assumed it was a miracle at work, those in the know knew better. Not long after that event, people from the institute came to collect Alexei. Although he did not relish leaving his family and friends behind, his parents urged him to seize the opportunity, and thus he agreed to go.

Alexei quickly took to learning more about his abilities. His talent as an augmenter and his astonishing raw strength was exemplary during his time. At the end of his training, he was theoretically free to go back home, but although he would certainly visit the place often, he made up his mind that the institute was too big of an opportunity to make a difference to turn away from. He wanted to become a mentor there to train others as he had been, and to foster a greater community spirit among this channeller community he found himself a part of. With his talents and affinity for working with others, he was quickly made a mentor and became a fixture at the institute ever since.

Appearance:


Alexei stands at the vast height of 7 feet tall.

Equipment:

-Alexei’s primary weapon is his greathammer. As a large and unwieldy weapon, it serves as a testament to his strength that he can whip it around like a toy.

-For a ranged alternative, Alexei carries around a number of smaller hammers to use as throwing weapons.

Abilities: Alexei is strong and powerful even without his magic, capable of preforming feats at least on a par with a world class body builder. He’s also a very skilled carpenter; if you need a house built, you better believe he’ll make you a good one.

Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power: Alexei’s one and only ability is one that allows him to strengthen his muscles in a way that gives him strength well beyond that which he already possesses. It not only allows him to overcome the sheer weight of his weapon and increase the force behind his strikes, but also allows him to move at a decent speed while fighting. His increased muscle power does not make his muscles any more resistant to damage, however, and they can still be damaged as easily as they usually might.

Names/descriptions of moves:
-Herculean Swing: An augmented attack with Alexei’s hammer, with enough force behind it to crush through solid walls.
-Earthshaker: An attack that sees Alexei slam his hammer into the ground with great force, fragmenting the immediate area and more than likely to cause those nearby to lose their footing.
-Olympic Toss: Alexei tosses one of his throwing hammers, propelling it across large distances with his might.

Character theme song:
youtube.com/watch?v=YRX79ZcNUoM&index=..

Institute role: Augmenter Mentor

Why they were chosen for the Institute: Alexei is effectively an augmenter specialist, as well as accustomed to working with others and trying to impart team spirit wherever he goes.

[Dragonsinc]

Leo Akers

Name: Leo Akers

Age: 16

Gender: male

Personality: Leo Akers is an... interesting person. From first meeting, he can seem very reserved, mildly antisocial. He appears to be a person to sit back and watch constantly and not bother with human interaction. His piercing eyes studying the world around him, giving him an eerie look.

He can come off hard and cold, a air lack of respect for the general rules, and he does not show a care towards the authority of others. If he wants to do something, he will do it without a care of what others could say in regards.

Leo has some anger issues, and is very protective of himself and his items. Corner him or anger him and he could quite easily become a nightmare and difficult to get under control. His emotions have been running deeper and stronger after his ability has revealed itself Despite all of this, Leo would prefer to be calm, and not be confrontational, but his lack of control over his emotions has been making that difficult. However, get him on your good side, and you will have a loyal partner for life and he would not hesitate to risk his life to protect others. After interacting with him, it will be found that he is really someone who is trying his hardest to be kind and nice to others.

He's quickly becoming rather standoffish around the other students, quickly discovering the fact that alternatives are looked down upon by most other channelers.

Backstory: Leo was born into a middle class family, his father with a decent job while his mother spent most of her time home. His parents looked after him the best they possibly could, and Leo never thought of any lack of money or the newest toys. However, when he was 12, the unheard of happened. His father became sick, passing away relatively quickly. His mother became depressed, not having the motivation to really try at the jobs she managed to get, but it ended up that the funds were unavailable to be able to raise her son on her own, let alone keep their house. They moved to the poorer side of town, but everything was still a struggle. So, Leo did what he believed was best. He began stealing, breaking in to stores and grabbing everything he possibly could before managing to escape.

This was how he and his mother survived for nearly three years, Leo's skills growing and growing with time. There were close calls as always, but he continued to get away. He taught himself how to move in the shadows, keeping unseen from prying eyes before waiting to pounce on his prey, and disappearing afterwards.

One day, he had returned home after his latest nightly excursion, slipping inside through a back window. He had noticed someone approaching his and his mom's place when he was returning. He heard a knock on the front door, which his mother answered. A man immediately forced his way into the house, threatening the only person Leo could truly hold dear. Rage and fear boiled up inside of him, and a sound he had not heard before came from him. It was a snarl, sounding from deep in his chest before erupting from his mouth, while feeling his body changing, his hearing and eye sight sharpened, claws had replaced what were once his fingernails, and his teeth gaining sharp points with pronounced canines.

In a split second he attacked the male that dared to threaten his mother, injuring the person quite possibly to the point of no return before the man managed to have fled. A few days later, the men from the school came to talk to him, where his mother insisted that he go to learn about himself, despite his only desire being to protect her. Since then, he has had more sudden outbursts of emotions, where he struggles to reign this animalistic side in. He has also began to notice what seems like a second voice, that almost speaks for the energy, or his animal side.

Appearance:
Leo, standing at approximately 6 feet in height, appears to be of an athletic body type. He is in no way bulky, but there is a definite show of muscle built up over the years. He tends to not focus on becoming big and bulky, simply wanting the strength while able to keep light on his feet. His eyes are a striking gold green color, standing out on his tan colored skin and amongst his dark hair. He prefers to wear dark colored, snug clothes. He dislikes extra fabric getting in the way of what he is doing.
The tiger pictured is what his fully transformed self would look like.

Equipment: A small lock picking set, several pocket knives tucked into various places on his body, a set of sunglasses, and a simple black backpack

Abilities: free running, climbing, lock picking, camouflaging himself, as well as very basic hand to hand combat and making anything a weapon

Channeller category: alternative

Description of power: Eventual shape shifting into a tiger, but currently only changing small details

Names/descriptions of moves:
Full shift: His full body change into that of a tiger, giving him increased strength, as well as the ability to fully attack as a tiger
Half shift: Stopping the change part of the way through, giving him a large majority of the features of the tiger but leaving himself on two feet. Increases his general strength and speed, allowing a mixture of the tiger type attacks and the kicking and punching of a human.
Slash: the simple action of changing simply his hands, giving him access to the claws that allow for deep cuts
Sense: changing simply the sense of smell, hearing, or sight, allowing for easier tracking purposes

Character theme song: Eye of the tiger

[Dblade26]

Musashi Sakai, totally a ninja!

Name: Musashi Sakai

Age: 10

Gender: Male

Personality: Musashi has a very odd and excitable personality most of the time, as in addition to being an often hyperactive ball of energy he has the unusual quirk of insisting to everyone in the academy that he's really a ninja and was raised in a secret village of ninjas, even though that's far from accurate. Overall, he's an odd kid with an obsession with and love of ninjas, and cobbled together his outfit after being told he was going to the Institute to 'learn to unlock his true potential and become awesome'. Despite his often cheerful, carefree and sunshine-y attitude, during fights another side of him refined through his training comes out and he becomes much more focused with all of his usual energy and nonstop high-speed thought turning towards analyzing the situation at hand. He's very determined to become a strong fighter despite his small size, young age and numerous eccentricities, both to make his parents proud and because frankly, it sounds like a cool and fun goal to become the strongest fighter in the Institute and make friends doing it.

Backstory: Despite all claims to the contrary, Musashi is not actually a ninja, but instead the son of a pair of instructors at a modern day martial arts school specializing in koryu, traditional Japanese martial arts. As a result, he'd already been training for years to one day inherit the family business and become a martial arts instructor himself one day by the time his powers as an Augmenter manifested. Aside from the incredibly strict training reigmen he was put through daily, his parents allowed him to lead a fairly normal life most of the time, or at least as normal as anyone's life can be when they spend most of their day training with sharp implements and joint locks. The exception to this was an annual training excursion, where once a year they would go out into the wilderness and 'exploit traditional training and survival methods.

Musashi's power first manifested during one such trip, when he was briefly separated from his parents and accidentally ran into a bear. With his perception of the bear's movements massively enhanced, he was able to avoid the bear's attacks and defeat it without a scratch barehanded, to the relief and astonishment of his parents when they came upon the scene. Given such a shocking development it was only natural that his parents were thrilled if a little apprehensive when representatives of the Institute arrived claiming they could properly hone his talents. Musashi was even more thrilled and much less nervous, convinced that this meant he was going to be either a superhero or a real ninja, rather than just a martial artist. His insistence on the unusual outfit and enthusiastic enrollment at the academy were the dual results.

Appearance: I'm totally a serious ninja

Equipment: one shorter sword and one longer one, occasionally wielded together, are his primary weapons when it comes to armed combat, although he also has a jitte, plus a number of shuriken that are meant more as a distraction than anything else, though his powers allow him to throw with superhuman accuracy.

Abilities: Despite his young age, Musashi is a surprisingly skilled martial artist in excellent physical condition for a child, with years of constant private training by two extremely skilled martial artists to draw on. He's skilled in both old-style jujitsu when it comes to unarmed combat and numerous classical styles of Japanese weaponry including the use of swords, spears, the jitte, the bow, and unusually and likely at his own insistence, shurikenjutsu. He also has incredible reflexes even without using his power and can keep up with his own enhanced sense of sight purely through training, although there are naturally still things that happen too quickly for him to relax. As a result of his training, he has a decent knowledge of human anatomy and biology, though focused through the lens of martial arts. At his mother's insistence, he's also learned to cook, though he's much less interested in cooking than fighting.

Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power: Ultimate Iris-Musashi's only current power, he enhances his eyes in order to greatly speed up the amount of visual information he's capable of processing at one time, or from his perspective, is able to see things in slow motion and in great detail. Eventually this might expand into being able to see an opponent's pressure points, or seeing the structural weaknesses of objects in order to exploit them. It could also theoretically allow him to copy an opponent's physical movements to learn the physical components of their fighting styles, and have numerous indirect applications.

Names/descriptions of moves:

Shuriken Surprise!: Musashi uses his ability to precisely track the motion of his shuriken to deflect one with another, causing them to strike from unexpected angles.

Precision Paralyzer!: If he can learn to see pressure points and strike fast and precisely enough, Musashi might eventually be able to weaken or temporarily paralyze a person's limbs by striking their pressure points quickly enough.

Bushido Breaker!: Musashi would have to study a target for an extended period of time after developing his power to a high level, but might be able to find the weak-points in any object in order to shatter through it or cut it in a single strike.

Character theme song: I haven't found a themesong for him yet, but I'll definitely take suggestions!

Other:

[Sodium]

Skyblue

Name: Skyblue "Blue" Uchida

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Personality: As far as heroes go, Skyblue is most definitely not a paragon. If not for his super strength and his sentai-style helmet, he'd just be another bum on the streets. Skyblue is best described as rude, impatient, and impulsive, and has a tendency to get violent quickly. He has been unable to hold a dayjob longer than a month before becoming a mentor at the Institute. Skyblue is not without his good side, though, but it takes a bit of digging to find it.

Backstory: Skyblue first discovered his powers during an attack by the evil organization FlowerShine, which sought to bring channellers to the public eye and, eventually, the ruling class. He immediately put the powers to use laying the smackdown on their agents, instantly making himself the prime target of the organization. Skyblue, however, found himself mostly annoyed by the organization's attempts to subdue him in order to secure world domination.

A small group dedicated to the secrecy of channellers saw this as an opportunity for them. They reached out to Skyblue, offering to make him a hero, while taking news footage of his fights and preparing a coverup. Soon, Super Sentai Skyblue became a hit children's television series. The constant fighting hardened Skyblue, honing his control of his abilities through endless abuse. The show served as the perfect smokescreen, keeping FlowerShine's activities out of serious speculation and giving an explanation for the destruction of public property. Of course, most of the destruction was caused by Skyblue himself, but the papers were all too happy to leave that part out.

Finally, FlowerShine gave up its goal of world domination, leaving Skyblue without his free paycheck for protecting the secrecy of channellers. Skyblue took to living in his girlfriend's apartment like a bum. Occasionally, thugs hoping to make a name for themselves on TV would challenge him to duels as he walked down the street, but overall his life became that of a boring, everyday loser with a bright blue helmet.

Appearance: Skyblue stands 5'8" tall, barely scraping 5'10" while wearing his white sneakers. He dresses simply, usually wearing a slightly wrinkled white t-shirt and plain blue jeans. His hair and face are always hidden beneath his blue sentai helmet, the last remainder of what once was his superhero outfit - which he only wore for a few months before changing to more comfortable attire. His body is slim and toned, as befits a sentai hero.

Equipment: A bright blue sentai mask equipped with a toxin filtration system. He never takes it off, not even to eat or smoke. It also has a long-range hearing enhancer and a (currently broken) telescopic vision tool.

Abilities: He can cook and clean apartments. He's also got a few skills that apply to day jobs he's held, but not kept.

Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power: Skyblue's strength is greatly enhanced. Unbeknownst to him, it also reinforces his body to take the strain of his increased strength while in use.

Names/descriptions of moves: Skyblue never took the time to name his moves, as he normally just improvises to improve his strength while brawling. His one named ability, Fist of God, creates a shockwave around his fist that transfers the force of his punch to distant enemies.

As part of his agreement for his job at the Institute, he will make up names for all the moves he uses in front of students.

Character theme song: youtube.com/watch?v=gi-c65ys5k4

STAFF CHARACTERS ONLY

Institute role: Mentor

Why they were chosen for the Institute: Skyblue is an exceptional strength-focused Augmenter and, despite his personality quirks, having him on staff is a great PR boost for the Institute.

[Azereiah]

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Students

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John W., Friend to All

Name:
Jonathan Walker

Age:
17

Gender:
Male

Personality:
Jonathan is polite, friendly, and helpful. He is, however, not easily taken advantage of, as he always pushes for his relationships to be a healthy give and take. He demands that in exchange for favors and gifts, he be allowed to work off his perceived debts, and to him, carrying a healthy balance is everything.

Jonathan is a deep thinker despite not being particularly bright. He always eventually comes around to the same conclusions other, smarter people come to - though it may take hours, or even weeks and months. He is painfully aware of his lack of brains and prefers to let others do the thinking for him in the short term, only questioning things if they go against his values of respect and balance.

Jonathan always pushes himself, and will gladly step up to any challenge presented to him, including those that are far beyond his abilities. As far as he's concerned, getting himself beaten to a pulp is a learning experience. He is an ambivert, and is just as happy alone as in a crowd. He tries to understand what loneliness is and pushes for those who seem alone to join him, but it just sorta comes off as being annoying to some.

In battle, he is enthusiastic, even when being torn to pieces. Good sportsmanship is a part of his soul to a fault, and he doesn't seem to recognize the concepts of "good" and "evil" or "right" and "wrong", beyond showing respect to one's opponent and treating everyone fairly.

Backstory:
Jonathan comes from a relatively wealthy family living in rural New York. While his childhood home was no mansion, it was fairly large, with more than enough space for him and his four siblings to explore the world safely. He took mixed martial arts lessons with his two brothers for years, which developed his sense of respect, and with his family's encouragement, he became the model of good citizenship. A number of 'awards' were granted to him for his 'leadership skills' - which basically amounted to trying to stop arguments between classmates in school, and nothing else, so his ability to lead is questionable at best.

In his earlier teens, Jonathan found and lost love on a regular basis. Relationship after relationship failed because he gave too much and was taken advantage of. Instead of hardening beyond reason, though, his experiences pushed him gently towards confidence and self respect. At one point there was a rivalry with the boy he considered to be his best friend - Carson McDougall, who had a bad habit of trying to take advantage of Jonathan's kindness. The friendship ended in a fistfight after Jonathan's girlfriend at the time was discovered behind the school stadium bleachers with Carson.

His constant sparring with his friends led to the discovery of his strange manifestation of Wavecaster powers, and he transferred to the Institute after his discovery by local police. It was a peaceful conversation, only prompted by a neighbor being worried by Jonathan suplexing his brother.

Appearance:
Jonathan stands at 6'4", and weighs nearly two hundred and eighty pounds in nearly pure muscle. He has a clean-cut square jawline and shallow cheekbones standing beneath a short Roman style nose and hazel eyes. Bushy black eyebrows sit low on his face, with wavy and curly black hair slicked back with an almost comical volume of hair gel. His arms and chest are comically oversized compared to the rest of his body.

Jonathan generally dresses nicely, as he took his fashion stylings from his father, who took his style from his father before him. As such, he wears old-style sporting gear - a tweed sporting jacket over a button-down shirt, with brown slacks supported by suspenders. He wears a differently colored English flat cap upon his head every day.

Equipment:
A fine ballpoint pen.
Numerous hats and tweed jackets.
A briefcase with all of his study supplies and copies of important paperwork, including a passport and birth certificate.
Coins. Lots of them.

Abilities:
Jonathan can bench press up to 400lbs., and can deadlift up to 600. He is physically monstrous.
He is a disciplined student and almost never misses a day of class or an assignment.
Overwhelming optimism.
Agility. Jonathan can turn and move his own body surprisingly quickly for a man of his size, though running isn't an option due to sheer mass -- it would wreak havoc on his knees.

Channeller category:
Alternative

Description of power:
Kinetic energy modification. Jonathan can expend energy to change the momentum of any object he comes into direct contact with. His current lack of understanding of his power means that he can only propel entire objects, however, rather than propelling individual parts. If he were to try to propel, say, someone's arm, the entire person would be launched, though this may change in the distant future.

While the applications are extensive, his power is limited by his own endurance and reaction time, and it takes a degree concentration to pull anything off. Calculating the appropriate path for his energy to impart a force takes roughly one second, including his base reaction time, though years of practice are slowly improving this. Annoyingly, he has discovered that imparting a force to another living creature takes significant extra effort if they aren't mentally willing to be moved (which they generally aren't).

Names/descriptions of moves:

Catapult: Jonathan touches a large object - a person, a car, whatever - and sends them flying in whichever direction he pleases. The more massive the object is and the greater the difference between current and intended momentum is, the greater the energy required to throw it.

Coin Toss: A penny, held between his thumb and forefinger, is flung at a variable velocity, dependent on how much energy he puts into it. He's getting surprisingly good with his aim, though wind and air friction throw his shots wildly off course and limit effective range.

NOPE: He catches an object hurtling towards him and either slows or completely halts it. So far, he's discovered that this applies to anything physical, as well as any solid blasts hurled at him such as fireballs, so long as he can wrap his head around it as being one coherent object - and can actually react to it quickly enough. Mass and momentum influence energy requirements.

Future Techniques:

Collapse: Jonathan, having learned to think of objects as the sum of their parts rather than entire objects, grabs an object with both hands and propels the two parts towards one another in a crushing motion.

Rip: Similar to Collapse, Jonathan instead propels parts away from one another.

Bombing Run: Jonathan has finally figured out that, yes, he himself is an object that he can throw. He does so and bombards a target from above with whatever he can get his hands on.

ABSOLUTELY NOPE: Instead of merely slowing down or stopping an energy blast, Jonathan focuses his efforts on flinging it back at its owner against their will. This takes an enormous amount of concentration to do, and as such, he only does it with truly massive attacks.

Dustbowl: Jonathan stomps on the ground, flinging a section of the ground upwards to distract his opponents.

Character theme song:
youtube.com/watch?v=_F5459jCtuM

Other:
Jonathan is a would-be artist. He's too clumsy with his hands to make anything particularly pretty, but that creativity comes out in other outlets, such as in combat.

An Asshole of Ice and Fire

Name:
Brock Van de Vate

Age:
19

Gender:
Male

Personality:
Brock is not kind-hearted, and gets a genuine rush out of kicking people while they're down. He actively goes out of his way to prove that he is the best at everything and is not above using cheap, dirty tricks to do so - up to and including turning a simple sparring match into a near-lethal fight simply to gain an edge. Brock feels the intense urge to lead and stands up to take control of any group activities he is involved in in order to feed his own ego.

He is a malignant narcissist of the worst type - specifically, a competent malignant narcissist. He plots, he schemes, and he genuinely believes himself to be better and smarter than anybody else. The concept that he may merely be an equal is offensive to him, and suggesting anything of the sort turns him towards relentless bullying. He is, however, not hot-tempered. His hatred runs deeper and colder than that. Failure is his greatest fear, followed shortly by public humiliation. Everything is a competition, even when it very clearly shouldn't be.

That said, he isn't evil, per se. His worldview is merely twisted, and redemption is definitely possible, provided he can be convinced that not being a massive asshat is somehow good for him.

He has a soft spot for small, furry animals. Animals can't shit-talk him, after all.

Backstory:
Brock's biological parents were decidedly not good people. They were drug addicts and thugs with a penchant for petty squabbling and ruining one anothers' lives over perceived injuries. Brock was saved from growing up as an even worse person by their arrest in Chicago, prompted by an anonymous tip and drug dogs revealing the presence of a meth lab. They were declared unfit and Brock was sent into the foster care system.

His personality problems made it difficult to fit him into a family for more than a year or two, and his headstrong nature often resulted in foster parents sending him back to the State. There was no stability, and oftentimes, no love in his childhood, as he was constantly thrown from one group to the next. Without the support of a stable family, Brock's academics in school suffered horribly, and he was held back in the third grade and sixth grade respectively. At 14, he ran away from what were arguably the best foster parents he had ever had, in search of something that worked - and he joined a gang of local hooligans.

His powers developed shortly after he joined the group, and Skinny, Fat Vinny, Bart, and Trey began to look up to him as a sort of leader. The group moved into extorting local families and drug dealing for money in inner Chicago. At 16, his group encroached on the territory of the Gangster Disciples, leading to a low-grade turf war in which his powers came to a head, pushing his group to the forefront of criminal activity in the area. At 18, he was finally apprehended by police, and the group was disbanded. Given his power, he was sent immediately to the Institute, as rehabilitation was vastly preferable to having a Channeller organizing others in prison.

He is older than the majority of students due to his academic failures in the past and his relative lack of power development.

Appearance:
Brock is tall, slender, athletic. Not particularly handsome, though, due to the scars covering his body from years of crime. Cuts from broken glass and knives and some gunshot scars cover his torso, with a slight indented line running across his forehead from having taken a baseball bat to the head without medical attention years back.

He is blonde, with wavy, long hair pulled back in a ponytail, and wide ice blue eyes. High and sharp cheekbones sit on either side of a wide nose, and he wears a rough blonde beard at all times - shaven down to a few millimeters.

His dress style is inspired by his 'hood' activities - a blood red hoodie over black skinny jeans, and heavy leather boots. On occasion, he's seen wearing a baseball cap and Douchebag™ aviator sunglasses.

Equipment:
A broad sheet newspaper, a full water bottle, and a bag of pennies.
A switchblade.
Deep pockets.
Expensive running shoes.

Abilities:
Brock is very athletic. He runs fast, jumps high, and climbs well, due to his experience as a Chicago gangster - though not nearly to the degree of an Augmenter.
Moderate strength - Brock hits the gym sometimes, so while he isn't a total meathead, he isn't exactly unhealthy.
Emotional manipulation - less socially aware people seem to be somewhat enamored by his flashy style and charisma. He twists this to his advantage.

Channeller category:
Wavecaster

Description of power:
Brock drains thermal energy from the environment to fuel his attacks, and he has turned that drain of energy into a technique of its own. Temperatures drop sharply in an area when he 'charges' up, and he unleashes a torrent of pure heat at will. He can only pull directly heat out of the air, at the moment, though he may learn to drain heat some other way.

The more heat he sucks from the area, the brighter his veins glow.

Names/descriptions of moves:
One: The space surrounding Brock frosts over as the temperature drops well below zero degrees, and his body begins to glow. The longer he performs this technique, the larger the space grows, and he can theoretically completely freeze an entire room if given enough time.

Two: Brock's heat has built up sufficiently for the air nearby to shimmer. Touching him without insulated clothing is extremely inadvisable at this point, and he's starting to lose heat rapidly. This is often a setup for a third stage, though he can and often has chosen to simply tackle people to expose them to the burn.

Granny's Oven: Brock's heat is released as a narrow, directed stream, heating air up. Nearby air along the stream ignites in a beamlike burst of light, but convection carries the remaining heat much further at roughly ten to twenty meters per second, dependent upon the strength of the heat. Focusing the field is difficult without concentration, so if distracted or in severe pain, it may balloon out to a wider and less intense cone.

Given the nature of the attack, anything that disrupts the air along the stream's path will bleed heat away from it, potentially rendering it harmless (if uncomfortable).

Conflagrate: Brock releases his built up heat and pressure in a large, unfocused blast wave. It flashes out from his body in all directions, potentially charring nearby objects out to ten meters, and dropping in intensity to nothingness over twenty further meters. The more energy he puts into it, the more intense the heat is, but no matter what he does, he can't seem to increase its effective range.

Piggy Snack: Brock spins his heat into a tiny, self-sustaining, shimmering toroid of blazing plasma and throws it at a target. The size of the burning donut is dependent upon how much energy he puts into it. On impact with anything, the donut is disrupted and splashes into an intense burst of non-concussive flame, capable of causing severe burns at the point of impact. More energy leads to a larger donut and a bigger blast at the cost of being easier to disrupt or blow off course.

Future Techniques:
Freezerburn: Brock narrows his field of cold to a single line, extending from himself to his intended target. Temperature sharply drops and freezes the point of impact, followed by Brock reversing this drain into a flash of fire. With sustained concentration, Brock can change the direction of this beam and continually pulse between freezing and burning in rapid succession. Do not watch Brock during this technique if you have epilepsy - the constant flashing isn't very good for the eyes.

Flash Storm: Brock extends the concept of Freezerburn and rapidly alternates the temperature of a large field. This is by far the most intense technique that he has, and the rubberbanding between freezing and burning takes a massive toll on his own health.

Character theme song:
youtube.com/watch?v=vkOJ9uNj9EY

Other:
Brock is one of the top sources of illicit substances in the school, yet somehow he's never where the evidence is.

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Staff

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An Ancient Dreamer

Name:
Daler Ghumman

Age:
88

Gender:
Male

Personality:
Daler Ghumman is a cranky old man in the real world. All he wants to do is have his three meals a day, meditate, and sleep. Politics and cataclysms aren't his problem and he'd much rather simply turn over and go back to sleep than interfere in worldly problems.

When he's not being a grump, he's rather kindly and both listens and grants advice to those who come to see him. This is usually during his meals. Even when he's upset, though, he listens to others and mulls over their words in his head until he can come up with a suitable answer - and an apology for any misbehavior on his part.

His youth is long behind him, but he still remembers it well, along with all of the drama, love, and pain that came with it. Despite decades of meditation, he hasn't reached enlightenment and as far as he's concerned, the day he reaches that point is the day he dies. He's completely okay with that and as such does not fear death.

Backstory:
Daler Ghumman was born to a poor farming family in the Doaba district of Punjab, India. He had twelve siblings, all of whom assisted with labor around the farm. An abusive father drove them to work as hard as possible at all times at the cost of their feelings of self worth, and by the time Daler was twelve years old, he was completely broken. In his depression, Daler regularly found himself sleeping rather than playing with other children, and over time, his dreams came to feel more real than the outer world.

At fourteen, he fell asleep and never completely woke up. In his endless dream, he carried on his daily activities, but found that if he listened carefully, he could hear the thoughts of his friends, his family, his family's livestock. Two more years of his waking dream passed and one day, while he was listening, he found that he could speak back to the voices of those around him. Rumors of Daler's witchcraft spread around his home village quickly and he was thrown out by his family to preserve their image. Those same rumors made their way back to the Institute, who sent a single representative to investigate. The search took months, during which time Daler had converted from his family's Sikhism to Mahayana Buddhism.

The conversation when they finally met was a short one. Daler was offered a place to stay, food to eat, and a new family - and he accepted with no strings attached.

Years passed at the Institute in which his telepathic abilities were honed to a razor sharp edge, and he became an instructor. Twenty years of teaching students went by uneventfully, and he retired from that position in good standing to return to his meditation and dreaming.

The Institute permitted him to stay. Eventually he discovered that he enjoyed conversing with troubled students and returned to a staff role at the Institute as the head of discipline.

Appearance:


The most striking things about Daler are his thinness, his beard, and his turban, in that order. The man is nearly skeletal but otherwise appears to be in good health. A long grey beard sweeps downwards from his old, weathered face. The purple turban sitting atop his head is slightly large, indicating that he hasn't cut his hair in a very, very long time. This is more of a personal choice, as he is no longer bound to Sikh beliefs but never bothered changing his style. He is and always has been too set in his ways to even consider changing his fashion sense.

Equipment:
A very old hardwood stick which he uses as a cane.

Abilities:
Shaking his cane at bothersome youngsters.
Intense meditation.
Sleeping.
Listening.

Daler makes the best curry on campus when he can be bothered with getting up and cooking.

Channeller category:
Alternative - Telepath

Description of power:
Daler is an immensely powerful telepath. While he prefers not to speak physically, he is perfectly willing to speak through others' minds. Provided another willingly enters Daler's mind, he has total control over his 'headspace', including all powers present in that world.

In the real world, he is only capable of projecting an image of a doorway, which another must walk through to enter his world.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Headspace: Daler creates a psychic projection of a doorway in the real world, and anybody who intentionally touches that doorway momentarily lapses into a deep sleep where they stand as they enter his world. Perception of time in Daler's headspace is accelerated dramatically as with any dream and 'classes' within this world are typically over within five minutes of real time.

Daler is unable to directly harm another's real body, but within his headspace, all things very much feel real, and he actively pursues gifting new understandings of the world to others. Those who are knocked unconscious or given a mortal wound in his world wake up in the real world with no lasting consequences beyond the memory. Daler himself is not exempt from this, though in this world he appears as a much younger and more athletic man and is more than capable of defending himself.

In this world, those who enter are presented as their image of themselves, rather than as their physical bodies - for instance, a large, bulky, yet cowardly man may appear as a small child, or one who feels a need to escape may appear as an eagle or wolf or any other form. Powers and physical strength are dependent entirely on mental fortitude, and emotional weaknesses are clearly visible as flaws in their self-image. Egotistical or narcissistic people are bloated, bulky, and enormously powerful - though failures and weaknesses in their sense of strength are visible to the naked eye.

It's Time to Stop: All powers within Daler's world cease to function, including those of Daler's conjured images and characters. Movement is still possible, and should one wish to continue fighting, they are still able to use their own bodies as normal - but special abilities are completely cut off until Daler chooses to resume normal activities.

Headache: Daler, using his telepathy to an extreme extent, provides the target within his headspace an understanding of his experiences and emotions. It is overwhelming to most and a sensory overload disrupts their ability to focus.

Understand One Another: Daler forces the dream to deepen and become more bizarre. Targets of his choice are forced into one anothers' bodies and minds, granting one another some insight into their motivations at the time. Upon release of this technique, all targets swap back to their own minds and bodies, waking them up from the deeper dream with new insight into their swap partner. This requires active consent as minds are extremely difficult to reposition, even in Daler's world.

Conjure: Daler imagines a person, a creature, an object, whatever - and in doing so it pops into existence within his headspace. It isn't fully conscious no matter the form, and can only react in ways that Daler instructs it to. These conjured images can vary wildly and carry their own powers as Daler understands them from years of observation of students and teachers at the Institute. They are not an adequate substitute for a real person in the fields of Channelling that they can take (predominantly Wavecasting), but they are potentially numerous.

Class is Over: All people within his headspace are ejected back into their bodies in the real world with no lasting negative consequences beyond memories. The door is always present, though, and if a student can reach it, they are permitted to leave early.

Character Theme Song:
youtube.com/watch?v=lUDT6EuGSqM

Other:
His arthritis prevents him from taking part in strenuous physical activities.

Institute role:
Detention Counselor

Why they were chosen for the Institute:
As a teenager, Daler came to the Institute to learn. He never bothered leaving, and when he reached the age of twenty-four, he was selected as an instructor due to his expertise in the ways of the mind.

A Malpractice Lawsuit Waiting to Happen

Name:
Alexis Cartwright, M.D.

Age:
47

Gender:
Female

Personality:
Doctor Alexis Cartwright is a tweaker. While she doesn't resort to stealing to feed her addiction, she does dedicate an unusual amount of her annual income to feeding her Adderall prescriptions, which she continually refreshes at a 'doctor's office' (in reality a pill mill) out of town.

Dr. Cartwright is not a very pleasant person to be around, if only because she's constantly bugging out and roping people into her experiments when she's not sleeping or attending to patients. 'Hand me that scalpel', 'Screwdriver, please. Small Philips-head,', 'Bottle of stump remover, please,' and other phrases of the like make up the bulk of her conversations. Talking to people is a means to an end, not a pleasantry she usually takes part in.

Frankly, it's amazing that she's still alive given the amount of failed experiments, the volume of smoke continually pouring out of her personal laboratory, the adderall addiction, and the constant exposure to diseases she experiences on a day to day basis. It's been suggested that she's managed to pick up every bloodborne disorder known to man over the past couple decades, and that she's merely using her powers to keep herself from keeling over.

Interestingly, her weight fluctuates wildly. At the beginning of a school year, she's generally packed on an extra hundred pounds, which steadily falls over the year while treating injured students and rises again whenever nothing bad happens.

Backstory:
Doctor Cartwright was born to a middle class family in Miami, Florida, where she lived a hectic childhood with an otherwise normal family. At 7, she was diagnosed with severe ADHD-C and Bipolar-1, which prompted routine trips to therapists' offices and at least two separate instances of psychiatric hospitalization. During her teens, she was very much a danger to herself (though not to others), and would frequently take incredible risks just to push forth her knowledge of the world. Rodents routinely disappeared around her, and rumors circulated that she was somehow abusing them, which were of course completely true. Even with all of the chaos in her life, she was somehow able to graduate from high school with honors and a 4.0 GPA.

At twenty, her powers began to manifest while working on working her way through medical school, and with intense experimentation, she discovered that she was able to facilitate structured cellular growth by producing empty lattices. She never revealed the source of her unusual resources for research, though, and the Institute never heard so much as a whisper about her tricks. By twenty-four, she had graduated from the Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine with her M.D. in internal medicine, followed by a further five years of medical residency.

Eventually, she got out as a fully qualified surgeon. Rumors of the Institute made their way back to her through the grapevine and she decided to investigate the source of her powers as a fully qualified adult. Periodically a person would disappear from detention centers or psychiatric hospitals never to be seen again, with the explanation that they were going to a secure facility for greater care.

At thirty, she walked across a grass field on the Institute's opening day and handed her resume and a job application to the head instructor at the time. She's been there ever since.

Appearance:

Alexis Cartwright is short, at only 5'1", with warm-toned skin and reddish brown hair of variable length. Her face is very wide and round, slightly snaggletoothed, and gaunt. Nobody has ever seen her without the signature bags under her eyes, and her hair is usually unkempt and messy, though never beyond shoulder length. She is the closest thing to an 'old' hikikomori that anybody has ever seen. Were she to take care of herself, she would easily look as though she were in her mid thirties, but between her stimulant abuse and her tendencies to forego personal hygiene in favor of constantly working on her failed experiments, she appears closer to 60.

Thankfully, whenever she is called upon to save a life, she cleans herself up perfectly and dons scrubs of variable color (blue, red, or black). She never wears gloves as those simply get in the way of her delicate work. Keeping unnecessary bacteria and viruses away from students is rather important, after all.

Her weight fluctuates wildly over the course of the year due to the addiction and the nature of her power.

Equipment:
A comprehensive set of surgical tools - predominantly scalpels. Catgut and other suturing equipment are notably absent.
Copious quantities of caffeine and adderall.
Life support equipment of all sorts, including a modernized iron lung and an artificial heart.
CT scan and MRI machine.
An axe and a circular saw?!

Abilities:
Surgeon. Expert surgeon.
Insomnia.
Getting angry over seemingly nothing.

Channeller category:
Architect

Description of power:
Wholeness of Body: Alexis, at one point in the past, was only able to form completely inanimate lattices for healing purposes - rebinding damaged tissues and bones. More recently, though, she has picked up the skills and detailed knowledge necessary to replicate and lightly modify individual cells. Doctor Cartwright must come into direct contact with the tissues that they are attempting to replicate, and healing takes quite a lot of time (to the tune of several hours to completely reconstruct a single organ disrupted by a gunshot). As such, she must cut into the body to perform her 'miracles', then heal the wounds inflicted to create an access pathway on the way out.

She cannot fully reverse brain damage, as the blueprint for one's brain is based on both genetics and life experiences. However, she can bring people back from the brink of death, so long as the body is still warm and the majority of tissues are still alive. She is incapable of removing microscopic foreign contaminants from the body such as poisons and bacteria, though she can and will refer students to any staff members capable of prescribing medications. Doctor Cartwright requires large volumes of food and drink to perform her healing arts because her materials cannot be created from nothing.

Names/descriptions of moves:
N/A. Doctor Cartwright is neither a teacher nor a combatant, and speaking the name of her powers only distracts from the extremely precise nature of their work.

Other:
Do not bother her with meaningless questions.

Institute role:
Resident Surgeon.

Why they were chosen for the Institute:
Students can't learn if they're dead or dying. Doctor Cartwright facilitates education by ensuring that students can return to class as quickly as possible.

Also, she unpacked her things before her application was even accepted, and it was more trouble than it was worth to tell her to go away.

[Western Robot]

Shinichi Saito

Name: Shinichi Saito

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Personality: Shinichi is generally quiet and subservient. In one word, a doormat. He's not shy, just not vocal. He'll do what others tell him to, if it's not detrimental to himself or to someone innocent. However, if he's insulted, he will try to defend himself (usually unsuccessfully, before he got his powers).

Shinichi loves art. He'll sketch during classes, which has made him a bad student in the past. He generally draws in a realistic style, with little to no fantastic elements.

When it comes to his powers, Shinichi is hesitant to use them actively. He'll use them to defend himself, but if the situation doesn't call for them he won't channel. He's not very good at naming his moves.

Backstory: Shinichi grew up in a poor household in the Greater Tokyo Area. His parents were in debt to his sleazy uncle, and he made life hard for the family. This was where Shinichi learned to keep his head down and do what he was told. Most of the time, he retreated into his drawings. Eventually, his parents were able to pay off the debt, but Shinichi kept the lessons he learned.

About a month ago, Shinichi was mugged at knifepoint while with a friend. While the mugger was focused on Shinichi's friend, Shinichi tried to surreptitiously call the police. However, the mugger noticed, and stabbed Shinichi. Then, when Shinichi got back up, stabbed him again. And again. And again. This was when Shinichi first Channeled. The mugger was understandably spooked when the kid he stabbed got better right away, and ran off. Shinichi swore his friend to secrecy and tried to forget what happened.

Obviously, that did not work out. The Institute took notice and offered Shinichi a place at the school. Shinichi figured that if his friend, a mugger, and The Institute all knew about his ability, he had no chance at living a quiet life. He accepted.

Appearance:

A short, slight Japanese teen. He wears baggy or otherwise ill-fitting clothing.

Equipment: School clothes, cellphone, various books and writing utensils

Abilities: Good at sketching and painting, below average in pretty much everything else. He generally draws He's not a very good student.

Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power: At first, he has basic regeneration. Wounds slowly heal themselves, quickly if he concentrates his energy on one spot. Eventually, when he concentrates he will regenerate as he is injured, and use that to push his attacks to the maximum. He also has minor super strength.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Wholeness of Body: Shinichi focuses his energy on his injuries, quickly healing them. Once it's developed, it will be able to heal even mortal wounds if they are not instantly fatal, and re-attach severed limbs.
Furious Blow: Shinichi focuses his energy to his fists, striking with super strength. It's weaker than somebody with pure super strength, but definitely stronger than a normal person, to the point of breaking stone.
Starfish Gambit: Shinichi capitalizes on his regeneration, letting out a series of punches and kicks that go beyond his usual strength, but shred his muscle and shatter his bones.

Character theme song: Bright Idea

Other: Nothing.

[Silver Carrot]

Hiyama Mako

Name: Hiyama Mako

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Channeller category: Alternative

Description of power: Mako only possesses one power; In nature, all animals, humans included, can sense when they're in danger from a larger threat. Mako has the ability to increase or decrease her own intimidation, so that small, easily-frightened animals don't run away from her, or, more usefully, she can make humans fear her as an extremely deadly threat. Due to this, she tells none of the students her real power. They just feel a strong sense of danger from her and come to their own conclusions about what deadly and terrible power she must have, and from there, behave very well in her classroom.

Personality: Mako is smiling smiling, eyes closed in a cheery facade, and is very kind and patient, teaching with a subdued passion about her subject, but misbehave and with one even slightly disappointed glance, she becomes a whole ifferent story, even if just for an instant. Out of the classroom, she actually has a playful side, will crack jokes and enjoys the occasional drink.

Backstory: Mako actually lived a fairly normal life. Friends with troublemakers throughout her childhood and high school years, she was never caught making trouble herself, but was secretly always the antagonist of said trouble while receiving non of the blame. She stuck up for her friends, however, by using her power to intimidate their bullies. Amongst teachers, she was a star pupil, and even became the student council president, a role she didn't let go to waste, working hard to oversee her duties. Amongst students, however, she was known as being truly scary behind her smile.

When she graduated, she studied teaching at college, and this was when she started to experiment and hone her power, which up until now, she had only used to intimidate teenagers. The ability to make herself not scary to kids who thought they were in trouble was just as useful as the ability to make them sit up straight and behave with a single open-eyed glance.

This was when she was first contacted by the institute. She was having a hard time finding permanent work as a teacher and they had full-time spots to fill. They could also answer questions she had about herself, and the nature of channelling. After researching this topic, she was now fully informed, and strove to make sure as many young Channellers as possible are as informed as possible from an early age.

Appearance:

Mako

Abilities: Mako is simply a good teacher, mentor, councillor, listener and friend.

Names/descriptions of moves: She has no moves. Combat with her will never come to either of them making a move, unless that move is the other person running away.

Institute role: Teacher of the Channeller Theory and History (CTH) class. This is a class that teaches of the different channelling categories and abilities, as well as the history of channelling and notable channellers of the past. She is also a mentor.

Why they were chosen for the Institute: Mako was more than qualified to teach history, and was trusted to safely keep the kids in line.

Mina

Name: Kasuke Mina

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Personality: Mina is quiet, mature and serious. She carries herself with an air of superiority. Though she would not admit to having a high-and-mighty attitude, she does, but if you asked her, it's everyone else who has the attitude problem. She's simply minding her own business. She does take a subdued pride in maintaining her academic reputation, and is very studious.

Due to her nature, she doesn't have many friends, though she may occasionally get a girl who thinks that people will think that they're smart if she follows Mina everywhere and bullies people, or a guy who thinks he's Prince Charming, and falls for her beauty. Do they really think they're actually being charming when they talk about roses and moonlight like they're rehearsing Shakespeare? Shrugging these leeches off has only worsened her reputation as a stuck up "too-good-for-everyone-else" type, while making Mina herself more cautious about making new friends.

If there's one thing she can't stand, it's the loud, obnoxious mouth-over-brain type. Because of this, she has a slight bias against Augmenters. Stating that you're an Augmenter will not make a good first impression if you don't want Mina to look down on you.

Backstory:Mina is the only child of a very wealthy and prestigious family. Raised to meet her parents' lofty expectations, she not only met them, but surpassed them. She was nothing short of a child prodigy, and her family was very proud. Then, shortly after her 15th birthday, her powers manifested, and all the plans that had been made for her went out the widow once she received the offer to study her new abilities at then institute. She had to put her foot down and oppose her parent's wishes to pursue a higher education. She was still going to pursue a doctorate (though she hasn't decided in what field yet) but her newfound channelling abilities come first. She was given them for a reason, she she was going to find out what.

Her first year at the institute was unsurprisingly a good year. She scored highest marks of the class in every academic subject. There were students with more impressive powers than her, but she still received very high marks in her physically classes for clever combinations of her light manipulation and her hand-to-hand fighting, honed from years of private self-defence classes. She made a fair few enemies that year, apparently. She didn't notice. She had no time for that sort of thing. Let the other kids be jealous. It wasn't her fault they cant' apply themselves well enough to match her grades.

Appearance:

Mina

Equipment: A plentiful supply of fountain pens and quality notebooks inside her designer satchel. Also a smartphone.

Abilities: Mina was taught self-defence based martial arts from a young age, for the purpose of protecting herself. She's also incredibly intelligent and a very quick learner. She can also play piano like an expert and cook like an adult.

Channeller category: Wavecaster

Description of power: Mina can create and manipulate light, currently only being able to light up her body and 'glow', or project it from her hands in torch-like beams, though she has the potential to be able to concentrate her light to create laser beams, and to remove light from a lit area, effectively making her able to manipulate darkness.

Names/descriptions of moves: Mina does not give her abilities special combat names. That's an immature waste of time.

-Glowing body
-Torch beam
-Blinding Flash

-A ball of light that she can shoot from her hand, propel and control the direction of, and even have it explode, causing a remote blinding flash (eventually)
-Laser beams from her eyes and index fingers (eventually)
-Blackout (eventually)

Character theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUbmbXC99q8

[Cu Chulainn]

"The name's Bradley."

Name: Bradley Drake Jr.

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Personality: Bradley is a brash young lad who tends to say how he feels with little tact. He lived at sea most of his life, and isn’t use to interacting with other non-sailors. When he talks, his language is very foul, as if he was raised that cursing is just part of normal conversation, with a bit of nautical jargon here and there. He also enjoys telling well exaggerated stories of his experiences at sea. Still, though, beneath his brazen, foul-mouthed exterior is a bit of a good-natured lad who appreciates a job well done. He has a work-hard-to-play-hard mentality.

Because of his extensive time spent on a boat, Bradley is a very team-oriented person. When there’s a chain of command, it’s always clear to him who he should follow, and where his place is. Bradley respects his elders and superiors, and doesn't try and cause trouble. Hard-working and reliable are good words to describe him, and he’d make a great and loyal friend. Because of this, however, he looks down upon those who are lazy or don’t want to contribute to a common goal. He tends to have a bad first-impression on most people, thinking they’re all just “lazy good fer nothin’ landlubbers who can’t do jack s**t.” Inversely, Bradley looks very highly on those who break a sweat and work hard on their work, or at least try their very best to.

Despite his headstrong personality and little tact, he’s quite intelligent as well. When he wasn’t working around the boat or practicing with his cutlass, he was always reading many different books. He considers himself an expert at navigating, being inspired to learn the trade from his late mother. He’s also well read in math, sciences, some history (mostly pertaining to exploration), and naval military tactics.

Bradley tends to get flustered easily when it comes to some things, from being flirted with, to accidentally seeing a female’s undergarments. This is because Bradley’s lived on a boat most of his life. Full of men. He’s very inexperienced when it comes to women.

Backstory: Bradley was born at sea, in the middle of a mighty and terrible storm. At least, that’s what he normally tells others when asked about it. Really, aside from a minor drizzle, the waters were quite calm when he was born. He was born on the Odyssey, a crab boat owned by his parents. In truth, while they do fish, it’s mostly as a front to hunt down rogue channelers who operate as pirates and other unsavory folk in the ocean.

Bradley’s father, Brad Sr., is a burly, stereotypical sailor of a man, who was rather jolly, but also a stern leader when he needed to be. Bradley’s father is also a talented architect who could create an entire artillery fit for a military vessel. His mother, Anne, was an augmenter who used her powers to increase her sight and physical abilities, being a skilled navigator, and a strong fighter when she had to be. Bradley’s father and mother served as captain and first mate of the Odyssey, respectively. The crew of the ship are military veterans who stayed loyal to his father, even after he retired from the United States Navy.

Bradley was raised with a mentality that he should always work his hardest for the betterment of the crew. Or at least, his father tried to instill that mentality in his mind. Bradley would rather prefer to read stories of great and legendary sailors, often acting out these stories with his mother, who encouraged this hobby. He was even inspired to take a cutlass as a weapon. In order to read more, Bradley always looked for shortcuts in his work. This put him at a bit of odds with his father, but aside from the poorly tied knots here and there, it wasn’t really detrimental to the ship, so he didn’t scold his son too much about it. He was worried that his son would be too absorbed in a fantasy world from all that reading, however.

While Bradley was eight years old, his family was going after a group of illegal whalers, lead by a channeler who was strong enough to control the weather to some degree. Because of his young age, Bradley’s parents had him as a sort of powder monkey, giving more ammo to the crew and otherwise working around the ship, staying as far off from the fighting as they could keep him.

This time, however, Bradley somehow left their sight for just a moment, rushing headlong for the whaler captain, cutlass in hand. He bravely commanded the whaler to stand down, but he just laughed at the child, and sending a thundering bolt of lightning towards him. Luckily for Bradley, his mother caught sight of this, and jumped in the way, sacrificing herself so that her son wouldn’t get hit. Before she died, she told her son how proud she was to have raised such a brave boy. A moment after her death, Bradley’s father had seen what had just happened, and unleashed a barrage of cannon fire for his wife’s killer. After the smoke cleared, however, the channeler was nowhere to be seen.

After having watched his mother die right before his eyes, this changed Bradley’s point of view in the world. He started to see things much more in a realistic sense, and his work ethic began to improve. Bradley gradually became the hard-working man he was today. He also began to read into navigating more, in order to fill his mother’s shoes. It was eight years after his mother’s death when his powers awakened, and his father had arranged him to go to the Institute, being an alumni himself. Bradley was about to enter a strange, new world...

Appearance: Height - 6'0 (182 cm), Weight - hah no


Equipment: A cutlass, compass, sextant, and a nautical almanac.

Abilities: Bradley has worked in a boat his whole life, and as such, is pretty athletic. He also has a general understanding of how to sail, knowing how to do things such as tie knots. As mentioned earlier in his personality, Bradley is a well-read individual, who knows how to navigate very well, among other things. In terms of combat, Bradley knows how to use his cutlass, and when he does fight, he fights with a bit of a swashbuckling style.

Channeller category: Wavecaster heh

Description of power: Bradley can control and manifest water. While he is able to manifest water, he can’t manifest a whole lot, and his abilities are more effective when he has a source of water available. They are most effective around large bodies of water, such as the ocean.

In terms of how he can control water at his current level, he can walk (not run) on water while concentrating, hurl orbs of water at people, or just splash some in their face to give them a bad time. Later on, he could fire jets of water with the power of a fire hose, create water whips, which can possible grab some things, and make the act of splashing water into someone’s face a whole lot painful, and make walls of water to shield against projectiles to some degree. At higher levels, he could create enough water to sort of surf on while on land, using it to propel himself around, and could also create jets of water strong enough to blast through some forms of metal.

And no, he will not use pee. That is gross.

Names/descriptions of moves: (I’ll only be describing Bradley’s currently known moves, and add more onto it as he learns more. You get the gist of what he can do in the future above)

• Tidebringer: Bradley's signature ability. Sheathing his cutlass in water, Bradley shapes the water into a large blade, making a cleaving slash with his cutlass. At his current level, this allows him to give a painful splash along with his normal cutlass slash, and can use this to hit multiple targets. At higher levels, he can make a larger blade, and can even enhance his cutlass’s cutting power.
• Poseidon's Kiss: Bradley puts his hand in front of someone’s face, rudely splashing some water into it, and briefly stunning them. If you’ve been
  splashed hard in the face before, you’d know this feel pretty well.
• Sea legs: A situational ability, Bradley fires an orb of water to a slippery piece of ground, for his enemies to slip on. Comic relief, mostly.

Character theme song: maybe later, not now.

Other: He prefers being called Bradley, and considers Brad to be his father’s name only. Also using Wave as his appearance because I'm lazy and unartistic yay

DnD Alignment: Lawful Neutral

[VitaVitaAR]

Natsuki Sumiko

• Name: Natsuki Sumiko
• Age: 15
• Gender: Female
• Personality: Sumiko is a friendly, cheerful girl with a very outgoing personality. She enjoys meeting new people and making friends, and could even be described as rather aggressively friendly, eager to introduce herself to others. She believes that people can solve any kinds of problems if they can just get through to one another, and so naturally she wants to build relationships with everyone in order to ensure that it's easy to solve problems for others. Sumiko likes helping people and will go out of her way to do so, even if it's to her own detriment. Even if it seems nearly impossible. Even if that person is seemingly her enemy, she'll try to talk to them and see what's wrong. This cheery, friendly demeanor seems to be nearly unbreakable... nearly. While Sumiko is determined to try and talk out any problems, even those of her enemies, she also won't hesitate to fight and attempt to defeat them in order to get through to them. And if someone is truly terrible, she'll try to beat them as hard as she can. Truly heinous acts can make her truly angry. In most cases, however, Sumiko is friendly and easygoing, just wanting to make friends and help people out. However, she has a bad habit of charging into things without thinking them through.
  
  Sumiko absolutely loves food, as well, eating a great deal more then anyone would ever expect she can pack away in her body. In fact, it seems almost impossible that anyone could eat as much as she does and still remain healthy, but somehow she manages this astounding feat. Perhaps she somehow stores it away somewhere inside her. Regardless, Sumiko loves good food and eats a huge amount of it. She claims this recharges her energy.
  
  She also has a strong sense of justice, refusing to allow innocent people to get hurt.
• Backstory: From an early age, Sumiko loved stories of heroes. She loved hearing about justice, about the people who fought for the innocent, to protect others. Sumiko wanted to help people like that. To help everyone, everyone she could. Even people who called themselves villains, if she could. Growing up, she constantly volunteered to help people, constantly jumped to the defense of people being bullied, and generally tried as hard as she could to be a hero like she wanted to be. To help people in need. However, this often got her in trouble, or even bullied herself. In spite of all of this, she wanted to keep helping anyone she could. Even the bullies when it came down to it. When her abilities awakened she was overjoyed.
  Now, she wants to be the best hero she can be.
• Appearance: "Oh, did you want one? Uhhh, do you mind that I already took bites out of both?" She's about average height for her age and ethnicity.
• Equipment: Sumiko doesn't carry anything out of the ordinary for a schoolgirl.
• Abilities: Sumiko isn't exceptionally athletic but she does decently well enough, and can fight remarkably well in hand to hand with an unpredictable amateur style featuring a lot of kicks and punches. She's actually quite a good cook when it comes to Japanese food, as well.
• Channeller category: Augmentor
• Description of power: Star Shiner - Sumiko has a baseline amount of energy, which she usually splits evenly between her four limbs. This results in twenty-five percent of her energy being in each of her arms and legs, increasing her strength greatly and causing each of them to glow slightly when in a fight. However, she can divert this energy to enhance any of the limbs' strikes more, producing much more powerful strikes and a more brilliant, flame-like aura around the limb being enhanced. Without any other augmentation, she can shunt a hundred percent of her energy into one limb for an attack. However, she has some abilities that allow her to do more then this, and she may learn even more.
• Names/descriptions of moves:
  • Star Igniter! - Sumiko's basic ability to channel energy into her limbs.
  • Stellar Impact Punch/Kick! - Sumiko increases the amount of energy in her fist or foot at the expense of her other limbs, up to fifty percent.
  • Super Stellar Impact Punch/Kick!! - Sumiko goes up to seventy-five percent in one limb, increasing her strength further, but only for that one limb and at the expense of more energy for one or more of her other limbs.
  • Meteor Justice ~ Supernova Buster!!! - Sumiko focuses all her energy into her fist, causing it to ignite like a star. On impact, it erupts into a small explosion.
  • Starburst Overdrive - Sumiko temporarily breaks her limits and manages to channel a hundred percent into all four limbs. Her entire body blazes like a star while she does this, but it's extremely exhausting to the point of collapse.
• Character theme song: Emotional Skyscraper~Cosmic Heart
• Other: N/A

[blumenk]

Daisuke Kanzaki

Daisuke Kanzaki

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Personality: Daisuke strives to be the best at what he does, mostly because he fears being useless and forgotten. Daisuke has a massive inferiority complex, often trying to do complex tasks alone since he wants to prove he is capable, and sinking further into his complex when he inevitably fails. He has little interest in making friends, hardly speaking with his brother with the only people he could talk out of his will are his superiors or seniors since they are in a higher position than him. The two things Daisuke hates with fiery passion are those who take the easy way to do something or manipulate people into doing it for them; for Daisuke, this means that the person doesn't have the resolve nor the strength to solve their problems which mean they are useless.

Backstory: Daisuke was born to a low-income family, and sickly nature didn't help his family already difficult way of living. Not wanting to be a burden to them, he forced himself to do house chores around the neighborhood with the help of his brother with the objective to bring at least enough money to buy their lunch at school. While initially preoccupied with the idea his little brother Taiga managed to convince them, and once they weren't bringing much money to the table, they were proud their sons for doing their best to help. Eventually, with effort and a bit of luck, their situation started to improve, with his parents managing to send both of their sons to a private school.

Daisuke quickly began to rise in the top of the school academically speaking, managing to obtain a 90% scholarship. Daisuke pulled all-nighters, hours and hours into studying to be able to earn a scholarship. Which made him kind of pissed with his little brother, since he failed subjects kept putting off homework to watch TV and when he was in the mood to do it, Daisuke had to help him in the parts that he didn't understand, wasting time that could be spent studying. Decided to teach him how to be a responsible student, Daisuke arrived home expecting only his brother to be there; instead, he found him with two other men watching TV.

Upon asking the two of them, what the hell was they doing in his house and what did his brother did, they gave him a quick explanation of what channelers were and what did this mean for his brother who just recently awakened his ability. Daisuke waited a few moments for the men to show him the hidden camera. The fact that his scaredy cat, harmless and lazy brother had achieved something so amazing by pure chance bothered him to no end. It was not something he could blame him for, so he bottled his feelings to himself and gave a half-assed goodbye to his brother as he went to the institution.

Daisuke would spend the next three years trying to find a way to be a channeler, through physical training, using “verified” methods to awaken one's aura or chakras, and other unsuccessful methods. A growing feeling of desperation and defeat grew on him as his attempts failed, Daisuke had to prove that he was able to become a channeler with his will and effort and not by chance. His power would manifest after a very stressful day, where he was mugged and beaten up on his way home to top it off, the feelings of rage and impotence against them manifested as an armor suit with a strange kind of brass knuckle as its weapon. The armor gave him enough strength to be able to stand up against the now surprised muggers which he knocked out without much effort.

Know that he had awakened his power, Daisuke knew that the men from the institute would come for him and his brother would probably be there. Not wanting to lag behind his brother, who would have likely mastered whatever power he had; Daisuke decided to practice his ability in the little time he had before they took him away. Trying to summon his armor Daisuke only managed to summon it for a short period before exhausting himself, since summoning the armor at once tired him out he tried to do it bit by bit, which proved impossible as the rest began forming immediately. The only thing he could make independently of the armor was its weapon; the strange brass knuckle that apparently served as its primary weapon.

Deciding to make do with his current limitations, Daisuke began to practice with the brass knuckles learning that he could store his energy in them to release it later. His parents were as overjoyed to find out that their two sons were channelers as the men who went to pick him up were surprised.

Appearance:

Hider

Equipment: Cellphone

Abilities: As a model student, Daisuke is very knowledgeable in regular school subjects. He is also in good shape, thought nothing superhuman. He is capable of thinking of strategies on the fly, although he tends to underestimate his capabilities and overestimate his enemies.

Channeller Category: Architect

Description of power: Paladin Armor: Much like architects Daisuke can create something from nothing, albeit in a more limited way. Once he concentrates he can create a set of armor from scratch, the armor boosts his physical ability depending on how much energy he gives to it. Using the armor is a problem for Daisuke as it requires a lot of energy to prevent it from disappearing, energy Daisuke doesn't have, so it ends up dissipating fairly quickly. The only thing he can use without these restrictions is the primary weapon of the suit, apart from being a conventional blunt weapon it stores the energy that Daisuke gives it and is capable of releasing it in energy blasts.

Names/descriptions of moves:

Rise up: Upon saying this, Daisuke is covered in a flash of light for a brief moment as his armor surrounds him.

Fist On: Raising his fist into the air, he summons his weapon by saying the name of the move, then a flash of light appears on his fist before revealing the knuckle.

Critical Strike: By pressing his fist against the person or object he wants to attack, and releases all the energy he has stored on his weapon. This can range from merely doing as much damage as a small firecracker, and a bomb explosion thought he still has to deal with recoil and collateral damage, so Daisuke tries not to do the latter too much.

[NOT LEARNED]

Exceed Charge: This is a ranged version of "critical strike" with the energy stored becoming small blue and quick energy projectiles or a big (basketball sized) red and slightly slower ball.

Leap Hand: By releasing his energy into the air in a particular direction he uses the recoil to propel himself in the direction contrary where he released the energy.

Absorb: By reversing the process in which he shoots out his energy balls, he can absorb other energy based constructs or attacks, though the process is not an easy one as he does the equivalent of swimming against a water stream. Combined with the fact that he has to be in close range to absorb the attack Daisuke doesn't consider to use it unless he is certainly sure it is going to work to his favor or he has no option left.

*There is one more move I want to add.

Character theme song: youtu.be/pdnTkH-IT4w
Other: Approved via pm

[clanjos]

Terri Bronco, of the Texas Broncos

Name: Terri Bronco

Age: 10

Gender: Female

Personality: She's rough, and she talks with a whole lot of 'y'all' and 'yeehaws.' She's just a sweet little country girl who happens to be able to tear people in half. She's also a massive fan of shows such as Skyblue, but she'd never admit that. She describes her fighting style as "The Strongest and Nastiest" due to its potential for permanent harm to her foes- submission holds even get past tricks like armor and regeneration.

Backstory: Terri was, in fact, born in a barn. Well, more of a stable, really. Specifically, that of the Bronco family, one of the world's longest-standing wrestling families, dating back to the lion-strangling gladiator Gaius Bronchus in the days of ancient Rome. Since she could walk, she was trained in the art of grappling. At the age of three, she was able to wrestle large dogs into submission. By six, she was able to lift a grown man off the ground- though not easily, due to her complete lack of leverage. At nine, she discovered the best way to hone her skills: by wrestling the charging bulls on her family's cattle ranch. Her grandfather, Terrance Mann Bronco, seeing her unusual strength- even beyond the freakish might of the Bronco Clan- decided to send her somewhere she could learn to control her strength- and stop piledriving his steers for a while.

Appearance: In the red corner, standing at four foot four and weighing in at 95 pounds of muscle... and shedding 600 pounds of clothing...

Equipment: She has a set of weighted training clothes. There's a full three layers, culminating in a frilly sundress, with a total weight of over six hundred pounds.

Abilities: Coming from one of the world's oldest wrestling families, Terri has been taught the techniques her family has passed down since ancient times. She's a surprisingly good physical trainer, and can even cook- she handles that at home for her older brothers.

Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power: For now, Jackie's power is incredibly simple- enhancing her strength to ludicrous levels. Because of her weighted training clothes, she moves normally outside of battle, but she's more than willing to drop them- increasing her speed and agility by a good deal- at the cost of leverage. Over the course of the RP, she'll learn more about applying that strength- and hopefully grow into it, since her small size makes it hard to use more advanced grapples.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Spinning Toe Hold: Her family's signature finishing move, this is a submission hold involving grabbing an opponent's leg while they're on the ground and spinning in place, pulling the foot beyond its normal range of movement. It's incredibly painful, but with Terri's enhanced strength, it can rip a victim's leg out of its socket.

Pallo Special: The signature technique of Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, this is a combination leglock and double-arm hold. By pulling the opponent's arms, it becomes a submission hold. Pushing the arms forward, it's possible to dislocate both the opponent's arms at once.

Sleeper Hold: Terri, standing behind her foe, wraps her arm around their neck, pressing the biceps against one side of the neck and the inner bone of the forearm against the other side. The neck is squeezed inside the arm very tightly.

Romero Special: Terri stands behind a fallen opponent, who is lying stomach first to the floor. She places one foot down just above each of the opponent's knees and bends their legs up, hooking them around her own knees; at this point she grasps both of their opponent's wrists (usually slapping the opponent's back in an attempt to bring the arms in reach), and falls backwards while compressing the opponent's shoulder-blades and lifting them off the ground. This can see the wrestler fall to a seated position or go onto their back, lifting the opponent skyward, which will increase pressure on the opponent but put the wrestler in risk of pinning their own shoulders to the mat.

Character theme song: youtu.be/71KIl65Ucw4

Other:

[Western Robot]

Dr. Shin Maxwell

Name: Dr. Shin Maxwell

Age: 35

Gender: Male

Personality: Dr. Maxwell has what he calls confidence, and his colleagues call arrogance. He will refuse to listen to any interruptions or objections to what he is saying, even if they are valid. When they are valid, he will accept and internalize it later on, but still hold to his previous position as long as possible. He is generally dismissive of who he thinks of as less intelligent than him.

When Maxwell runs into something of interest to his studies, he will examine it as soon as possible. If it's a person, he will pepper them with questions and be visibly disappointed of they cannot answer. If it's an object, he will examine at closely as possible, taking it apart if he thinks he can put it back together.

When it comes to those he mentors, Maxwell will help them to the best of his ability, as it is part of his job. Even if he personally dislikes them, he will put his all into advancing their abilities.

Backstory: Dr. Maxwell comes from a middle class American family, with an American mother and a Japanese immigrant father. They were comfortable, but not particularly wealthy. Maxwell was gifted from a young age, and graduated high school at the age of 11. When he reached the university level, he found it much more competitive than he was used to. The stress caused the activation of his powers, and he was taken to the Institute at the age of 12.

At the Institute, Maxwell was placed under Sakura Yasuda, the inventor of the device that enhances a Channeler's natural sensing ability, allowing the institute pinpoint accuracy in finding new talents; and the creator of the categories the Institute uses for Channelers. Under her tutelage, Maxwell quickly mastered the technology of the Institute, even introducing several improvements while still a student. When he left the Institute, he left with a confidence that he had lacked in the past. He was able to earn his doctorate in physics in three short years.

With his degree in hand, the now Doctor Maxwell turned to the biggest mystery in his life: channeling. He set out to find and catalogue as many Channelers as possible. Not every Channeler appreciated this, and this is when Maxwell developed his skill and efficiency in the use of his power, something he had let rust since his time at the Institute.

Eventually, Sakura Yasuda died, and Maxwell was approached to take her position at the Institute. He accepted, as it was the best place to study many different Channelers. He's now been employed by the Institute for 6 years.

Appearance:


Dr. Maxwell is a half-Japanese man. He is 5'6" and 160 lbs. He generally wears a lab coat over a suit while working and while not. He always wears his glasses.

Equipment: Labcoat, glasses, clipboard, notebooks, sleeping gas canisters

Abilities: Expert knowledge in physics, technology, and study techniques. Some Aikido training in avoiding attacks.

Channeler category: Wavecaster

Description of power: Control over air. He's doesn't have much raw strength in Channelling, but he makes up for it with high skill. He's expanded his range of control and senses to an unprecedented 300 meters. He uses surgical strikes to disable any enemies before they even reach him, as in close combat he's extremely vulnerable. He loses his grip on his energy when hit.

Names/descriptions of moves:

Mind's Eye - Maxwell creates a slight wind in his entire area of effect, feeling everything in his range and creating a mental map of his surroundings.

Sightblinder - Maxwell guides sand or other powder into his opponent's eyes.

Vacuum Edge - Maxwell creates a tiny vacuum, then collapses it near his opponent, creating a small cutting edge. This can be used repeatedly to bleed an opponent out. It causes a popping noise each time it is used.

Mazuku, the Evil Wind - Maxwell stops the cycling of air around his opponent, leaving it deoxygenated and suffocating them.

Touch of Morpheus - Maxwell releases sleeping gas, then delivers it to his opponent using his power. This can be switched with poison gas for a lethal attack.

Character theme song: Colress Theme

STAFF CHARACTERS ONLY

Institute role: Teaches Mechanics of Channeling, a high level elective, and maintains the equipment dedicated to locating new channelers. Also, due to his high level applications of a generally weak power, he is a great mentor for those who struggle to use their Channeling creatively.

Why they were chosen for the Institute: Dr. Maxwell has the greatest understanding of the technology the Institute uses, and is at the forefront of the study of Channeling.

[Azereiah]

Edit: Removed, moved updated and edited CS to my main post. Will keep CSes on the same post from here on out.

[Cu Chulainn]

YUKIYUKIYUKIYUKI

Name: Yuki Blakesly Hisakawa

Age: 19

Gender: Male I assure you.

Personality: Yuki has an air of nobility surrounding him. From the way he walks to the way he conducts himself, Yuki always seems to move with grace and eloquence. He gives a cool smile at anything that pleases him, and can keep his cool at the most dire of times. This does not mean he is gentle in any respects against those who wish to do his loved ones harm, as he will rain down icy hell upon those who threaten the lives of his students and friends.

It is because of this, as well as the fact that he looks like a beautiful woman, that he is a bit unapproachable. In truth, he is a very caring, down to earth individual at heart. Yuki wishes to teach his students to find their true potential, and to use their powers to bring happiness in both themselves and others. Yuki appreciates beauty in all things, and prefers to use his powers as a form of art rather than for battle.

Some believe he doesn’t take his work serious at times, being a bit carefree with things such as lessons, but this is not true. He takes the time to perfect his art, and his channeling abilities come to him naturally. Yuki tends to make channeling look easy, to most. He isn’t very strict when it comes to discipline, and he’s a bit lax in his mannerism while teaching. Still, though, he does encourage his students to make true beauty out of their powers, believing that all powers capable of being admired as art.

Yuki is quite used to being mistakened as a woman, and he takes the time to kindly correct those that he is a male.

Backstory: Yuki is a child to a woman from House Blakesly and a man of the Hisakawa clan, both very accomplished channelers in their own right. He was raised in the Blakesly manor, living a very pampered life. His abilities manifested at a very young age, and he was tutored by the most accomplished of mentors before he was old enough to be sent to the Institute.

At the Institute, Yuki’s capabilities were amazing for his age. He passed many of his classes with flying colors, and graduated from the Institute at the early age of 14, returning to his home. While his family wished for him to be trained to be the future leader of the Blakesly household, Yuki live a more carefree lifestyle, and wished to pursue the world of art. He made many beautiful sculptors, his talents not only being limited to his powers, and hosted a few art exhibitions. He wished he was able to show the art he could make with his powers to the world, though he was still content with what he could do, at the least.

It was during one of his visits to the Institute that Yuki had an idea. He could teach other channelers that art could be made of their powers. He volunteered to be a teacher of the Institute, to instill upon his students that they can make something beautiful out of their abilities.

Appearance: Height - 6’0 (182 cm), Weight - light af. Very effeminate


Equipment: A brush for his hair, and a handheld mirror bearing the crest of the Blakesly family on the back.

Abilities: Yuki is a very artistic individual, and is very skilled in sculpting. Yuki is also well read in different assortments in fine literature, and is also well taught in swordsmanship, although he cannot wield a sword normally. This is because physically, he is quite weak.

Channeller category: Wavecaster (His power's reached a point where it could also be considered by some as in the realm of an Architect)

Description of power: Yuki can manipulate and create ice, chilling water vapor in the air around him at high speeds. He can also manipulate cold, being able to create things such as small blizzards, similar to how a Wavecaster can manipulate and create energy. The most impressive part of his powers is how he can also control weapons and constructs he’s made out of ice, like an Architect. The things he can create, however, are only limited all the way to Medieval era craft, and anything higher than that would need closer inspection and research.

The amount of power Yuki can utilize and maintain is amazing, and many consider him a prodigy because of this. This also, however, puts a major toll on his body. As a result of this, Yuki is very frail.

Names/descriptions of moves:

• Presence of the Ice Queen - Yuki chills the air around him, creating an aura of cold centered on his location. This ability activates automatically as a result of Yuki beginning to channel his powers. Those within this aura feel a foreboding nip in the air. Whoever is too close to Yuki while this aura is active starts to slowly feel the sensation of being in an extremely cold environment.
  Yuki can also focus the cold to a certain area within this radius, freezing whatever is within this area. With this effect, Yuki can do things such as freeze the air at is feet to walk onto it, creating a floating platform of ice for him to walk and stand upon.
• Royal Armory - Yuki is able to create weapons and shields of masterwork craftsmanship out of ice. To him, these weapons feel weightless.
  
  • Blades of the Queen’s Knights - Yuki creates seven broad-bladed rapiers out of ice, one in his hand, and the rest floating around him. Yuki can control these rapiers by swinging the rapier he holds in his hand, conducting them like an orchestra.
  • Royal Frozen Lance - Yuki creates a beautiful lance that stings anyone other than Yuki who touches it with frostbite. Yuki can swing the lance like a greatsword, or throw the lance like a javelin, resulting in it shattering with ice and chilling air once it hits its target.
  • Call of the Queen’s Rangers. - Yuki creates a hunting horn and blows into it, pointing at an enemy, or a group of enemies. A volley of icy arrows rains upon the target.
  • Royal Aegis - Yuki manifests a heater shield frozen and strapped onto his forearm, strong enough to block most ranged attacks, and can block the mightiest of blows with little injury to Yuki. Weak to fire-based attacks, which will block the attack to a lesser extent and cause the shield to melt.
• Frozen Knight, Ransarottu - Yuki creates a seven foot tall suit of armor out of ice which wields the Royal Frozen Lance and the Royal Aegis, under his control. Maintaining this knight requires a fair amount of concentration, although he can command the knight to keep guard, limiting its capabilities and strength. While the knight is manifested, Yuki is unable to call upon his Royal Armory.
• Trump card, March of the Royal Guard - Yuki puts his full concentration on creating an army of thirty six-foot tall knights, with longswords and shields. These knights fight with unflinching ferocity, and are hard to take down. Yuki requires his full concentration to manifest this, and if it is interrupted, the knights all shatter and melt away. Yuki can only manifest this ability for a few minutes. Any longer and the ability feeds off of his vitality, possibly even killing him if maintained for too long.

Character theme song: (just for fun, not mandatory)

Institute role: Architect and Wavecaster mentor (He’s bad at it.) Art club advisor. Really pushing to be an Art and Humanities teacher for the Institute

Why they were chosen for the Institute: Yuki volunteered, and is a living prodigy born from a long line of respectable channelers, many of which came from the Institute. While his actual mentoring skills are lacklustre, his strong channeling capabilities were hard to deny.

Other:

dramatic music...

DnD Alignment: Chaotic Good