[OOC] My Hero Academia: Evolution

[Demon Shinobi]

@GodOfWar@Pirouette
Well so far I've already imagined Kazuo butting heads with and being fairly snarky towards characters who are more bossy and just overall jerks.

So, I didn't initially have plans for how he'd act with either Namie or Ume.

However, where Ume is concerned, I imagine him and her becoming friends relatively quick. Aside from a bit of snark and sarcasm he's a good guy and even if the quirk made him uncomfortable at first he would still want to be supportive and get her to see how great she is considering how hard it is to get into ishin. Although an encounter like this wouldn't be the first. It's probably build. Because he'd still be like "that's kinda creepy dude."

As for Namie, I think they would hit it off fairly easily. and Kazuo is, to me anyway, a character who should be likeable and easy to click with as far as friendship goes. And you know, he probably would wanna spar with her on a friendly basis.

If I had to discuss a scenario I wanna see, I kind of want a showcase of quirks.

[mickilennial]

Meanwhile, Shiori is all--

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[Demon Shinobi]

Clearly she'll be an amazing person lol XD

[Grey]

@Inkarnate@DruSM157

The Man, The Myth, The Meme

N o b u N o b u

“Time to show these scumbags a real hero!”

Theme

_{N A M E}

Noboru Nobunaga

_{A G E}

15

_{O R I G I N}

Tokyo, Japan

_{P E R S O N A L I T Y T R O P E S}

Attention Whore
Boisterous
Chip on Shoulder
Code of Honor
Inferiority-Superiority Complex
Tsundere

_{D E S C R I P T I O N}

Noboru is a short boy whose stature belies an imperious presence; he barely reaches 153cm, but everything from his posture to his expression, and even to his hairstyle are suggestive of a lion. As a result, it’s often said that he has a Napoleonic complex. It should be noted that he actually does, but those who say such a fact to his face would also come to learn that he possesses a well-developed physique, a pair of well-worn knuckles, and a skillset well-suited for “taking down people trying to catch these hands”, as it were. Generally though, he isn’t out to look for a fight--even if the cocky look in his maroon eyes makes him seem like he deserves to get in one. Other notable facets of his appearance include his mop of blonde hair, which is always slicked back, and his style of dress, which is the variety commonly associated with edge lord teenagers trying to look cool and features many long coats, hoods and collars in various combinations.

_{Q U I R K T Y P E}

Emitter

_{Q U I R K D E S C R I P T I O N}

Noboru’s Quirk is known by the name of Forcefield, and bears a largely self-evident function: the creation and manipulation of forcefields. These forcefields begin as a small mote of light that quickly expands into an ultrathin plane of solidified energy, either shaped into simple two-dimensional Euclidean geometries or used to construct three-dimensional structures via interlocking fields. They also radiate a red light at approximately the same intensity as a glow stick. At his current level, Noboru can create forcefields within six centimeters of his body, manipulate and sustain forcefields within three meters, project approximately three square meters of forcefield total, and reach a durability equal to steel. He cannot yet alter what the forcefield allows through and what it does not. Attempting to surpass his limitations without proper training will result in onset of migraines and the associated signs and symptomes; however, simply breaking a forcefield has no effect.

_{C A P A B I L I T I E S}

Noboru bears a well-rounded array of natural talents that have contributed to his almost effortless success throughout life, his complacency, and his subsequent frustration with hard work. He is the dilettante who is notable in all aspects, but not dedicated to reaching the realm of mastery--relatively speaking, at least. Of course, that isn’t to say he’s been completely coasting on his talents; he’s only been mostly coasting on his talents.

Without formal training or any sort of dedicated practice, Noboru’s most notable capabilities tend to come from his time as the delinquent protector-cum-benevolent dictator of his middle school’s student body. Many days spent duking it out with bullies, challengers, and other delinquents have granted him no small degree of combat experience and environmental awareness, and have laid the foundations of a rudimentary fighting style incorporating his Quirk. In addition, he displays a surprising proficiency at handling administrative duties. In his own words: “It’s not as if I can entrust these duties to anyone but myself. Besides, it’s only natural that a hero know how to lead the people in times of need.”

_{C H A R A C T E R G O A L S}

Character Arc
Noboru is a character who has lived a very charmed life due to his natural gifts. He is a super strong special snowflake who is good at everything and has a powerful Quirk and is respected by his classmates and is never challenged to succeed. And the point of his character arc is to show that such a thing cannot and should not exist - a deconstruction of the “natural-born ace” archetype seen in many shounen works.

This is why Noboru begins the roleplay with his worldview shaken and his pride irreparably damaged by a very public failure at the U.A. High School entrance examination, followed by forced enrollment into Ishin Academy, a hero school that is “only” one of Japan’s best. He is the genius who has encountered the power of hard work... and the strength of the genius that works hard. Yet despite being made fully aware of his flawed approach, he is still stubbornly clinging to his old ways and putting up the front of a cool and pompous ace. It’s not that Noboru doesn’t know what he has to do; he’s just too frustrated with not knowing how to work hard that he defaults on his standard coping mechanisms.

Beyond the aforementioned character conflict, Noboru must also address the friction between his personality and his motivation, a friction which is bolstered by the new challenges he is encountering and will continue to encounter as a student of Ishin Academy. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he aspires not to become the strongest of heroes, the most celebrated of heroes, or even the most well-paid of heroes, but rather the most heroic of heroes. However, his personality clashes with this goal in a myriad of ways. But other than the obvious issues that come with having a socially-problematic personality and a predisposition to aggression, the most important reason is that he isn’t being a hero for its own sake, but he’s being a hero for the sake of being seen as a hero - a fact which should be challenged time and time again in a prestigious hero school like Ishin Academy.

Among suggestions for augmenting his character arc, I would like to see a confrontation or series of confrontations with an individual from his middle school who has successfully made it into U.A. despite being inferior to the naturally talented Noboru. This can either be an amicable childhood friend/rival he underestimated, a nobody from middle school who looked up to him, or something else entirely so long as they can act as a thematic foil to Noboru. Whether he would win or lose is largely irrelevant; either option has significant implications for his character arc.

With that said I hope to have created a versatile framework by which to mold Noboru and his actions from these foundation blocks. While I cannot predict how exactly he will end up as a character, the intent of Noboru’s arc is to tear him apart and build him back up into a much more grown-up Noboru, who has learned to understand himself, the world, and what it means to be a hero through his comrades and the trials they face.


Character Interactions
The impetus for Noboru’s personality was a joke about making a “salty U.A. reject” and extrapolating details implied by an attitude like that. As a result, he bears a very volatile personality and an equally large ego - a far cry from the genuinely heroic characters of Ishin Academy’s first year class, and one that definitely needs some working on if he’s to become the most world’s most heroic hero. Of course, his personality is not without his merits, but it is just approachable enough to make the bad parts that much more off-putting.

Beyond taking a joke way too seriously, the goal for Noboru’s personality is to fill an underrepresented personality archetype, and through that archetype open up opportunities for mutual character growth. More specifically, Noboru’s assertive and cavalier nature is likely to be beneficial in facilitating others’ growth, as it allows him to function as a rival to surpass, a source of unexpected inspiration, or a much needed kick in the butt. At the same time, the externalization of his ego provides the motivation for people to challenge his preconceptions about the world around him. Another important contribution to character development via interaction lies in the more subdued aspects of his personality, and the way others can draw out the parts of him that he’d like to keep under wraps - whether they be good aspects, like a staunch dedication to his friends (he doesn’t have any :C), or bad aspects, like his underlying envy over his “inferiors’“ qualities.

On a less serious note, Noboru is also capable of acting as perfectly serviceable comic relief. There is, of course, the comedy that can be derived from his disgruntledness at not being accepted by U.A. and the shortness of his height, but his personality also lends well to snarky banter and egotistic rambling.


Quirk Progression
The design philosophy behind the Forcefield Quirk is to use a multifaceted power with a few immediately obvious applications in order to create a thematic tie to Noboru’s arc, namely his overreliance on the capabilities immediately available to him rather than expanding his versatility with a given degree of effort. Through this connection, it is my hope that the growth of his Quirk will reflect his growth as a character, as opposed to the two being largely unrelated existences.

Insofar as actual improvable aspects of the Quirk itself, there are three key parameters to address: the first is the capacity of his fields, which governs not only how much force or weight they can sustain before they fall apart, but also the total surface area that Noboru can manifest during a given period of time; the second is his control over his fields, which includes his ability to move them faster, shape them more elaborately, and regulate their filtering capabilities to create esoteric effects; and the third is his range of jurisdiction, which would determine how far from his body he can control and sustain their existence.

Although general improvements to all of these aspects are to be expected given the framework of the roleplay and setting, I intend for the particular permutations of these improvements and the ways he utilizes them to be an extension of his character dynamics and other significant milestones in character development. A rudimentary example of this would be working to expand his range based on newfound relationships with others; a slightly more nuanced one would be adopting Quick-compatible tactics used by his mentor.

[Raijinslayer]

@Inkarnate@DruSM157
Took me a week, but I finally got a character down. I usually say something about how much I'm looking forward to the rp and how I can't wait ti join y'all, but if you'll excuse me, I need to get my ass to bed.

Isabelle-'Isami' Yumi

I S A B E L L E

“Hmmm. Do you need something? If not, then could you perhaps leave me be, I have to get to the Gym for practice.”

_{N A M E}

Isabelle Yumi, tho her father liked to call her 'Isami', which is what he wanted her name to be

_{A G E}

16

_{O R I G I N}

New York, United States

_{P E R S O N A L I T Y T R O P E S}

Reserved/Shy
Self-conscious
Intuitive
Quiet
Athletic
Courageous(in a fight)

_{D E S C R I P T I O N}

Isabelle is rather tall for her age, ranging somewhere between 5'8 and 5'10(she hasn't taken the time to check recently), with a frizzy cascade of dark brown hair that she often styles so it billows down over the left side of her face. Her warm chocolate brown eyes compliment the dark caramel-like coloration of her skin tone, echoing much of her mother's appearance, though you could see a bit of her father in the angular nature of her face and the slight almond shape to her eyes. As far as body structure goes, Isabelle is well built due to both a constant an somewhat intensive training regimine and a general love for exercise and sports. She is a bit on the leaner side, however, due to the energy demands of her quirk leaving little room for much excesses of fat, making her muscles look fairly defined for her age. This side effect has also led to her having a rather small bust that, while rather helpful in combat situation, often made her the target of no small degree of jokes from some of her crueler female peers, along with her above average height.

When it comes to her choice of clothes, it often depends on the situation she is preparing for. When it comes to more casual affairs, such as going for a walk around the city or laying about the house, she often wears plain, loose-fitting clothes in an attempt to stand out as little as possible, as well as a distinct preference for comfort over any sense of style and fashion. If she's prepping for any kind of exercising, training, or intense activity, then she switches up to tight, unrestrictive athletic-wear such as shorts, tank-tops, and the like, with her hero training wear having an emphasis as showing as much skin as decently possible so that she can use her quirk without risking the destruction of her outfit. She also makes an effort to tie her hair behind her head, so as to keep it out of her face and enable her an unhindered field of vision.

_{Q U I R K T Y P E}

Emitter

_{Q U I R K D E S C R I P T I O N}

Quirk: Dual Anima
Isabelle's quirk is one of the stranger ones in that it's not simply an ability to her, nor just an odd biological that she has grown to live with. Her quirk also constitutes as two of her closest, most loyal friends and confidants, allies that have been by her side since the very beginning of her life on earth. With Dual Anima, Isabelle is able to summon two sentient beings from an ever shifting tattoo-like tapestry of red and black that dances upon her skin, each with it's own distinct style and personality to them that also reflects a bit of Isabelle's own nature.

Akira stands for Isabelle's more passionate and headstrong side, having a short temper that can be easy to ignite and little patients for fools. Akira's base form, similar in shape to a Panther but with much more pronounced and dangerous looking claws and fangs, is composed of a bright crimson energy that seemed to glow with such intensity, almost as if it could burn you with a mere touch. Alas, while Akira bears no innate powers over fire, she could very well be a representation of it's destructive power and ability to quickly spread devastation all around, as speed and power are the traits that Akira prizes the most about herself. With a quick and savage barrage of rending claws that was often followed by an evasive leap away makes her great for hit and run tactics to harrass and slowly weaken a foe.

Isabelle's other ally is Noir, a gentle soul the represents Isabelle's determination and strong will to become her own hero. As his name would suggest, Noir is made entirely out of a strange black mist-like energy. While Akira is swift and vicious, Noir is imposing and stoic, the bulwark that helps to defend Isabelle from danger and provide much needed support in her weaker moments. While his form bears a greater appearance to a burly scaled reptile, to say that he is cold-blooded would be a very inaccurate observation. While his stoic and unbending personality is an example of her strong sense of will externalized, with his skill lying in not only withstanding punishment but giving it back twice as strong, he also tends to be in touch with the girl's more tender and compassionate side, leading him to be the more friendly of her beasts.

In terms of their abilities, on top of their own specialties, each beast has the ability to 'imprint' the impression of an animal into their base forms, though gathering the data in order to make use of it requires that they infuse them selves into a beast first. This process can take anywhere from minutes to hours depending on the size of the beast, and is shown to be in effect when the representative color marking of either Akira or Noir transfer from her skin over to the creature in question. During the whole of the process, she must remain in contact with the creature, so it's best collected from sleeping or otherwise incapacitated/pacified subjects. Even when collected, for the more complex features a creature has, they still must learn how to use such appendages properly, such as wings, as well as learning how to reliably integrate these new parts into their base forms with zero delay.

In combat, Akira and Noir assist Isabelle in two ways. First, she can choose to only manifest parts of them instead of their full bodies, with the proportions of said parts being very changeable due to them being completely made out of energy. This offers her a great deal of enhanced mobility as she's able to move about the battlefield in a variety of ways with their assistance. They also help to diversify her CQC by adding in extra attacks of their own in time with her own attacks, as well as offering up a solid defense as well. While far from unbreakable, this combo makes for a very versatile and hard to predict quirk that keeps her foes guessing.

The other way that her loyal companions help her in a fight is that they can both separately manifest in their full base form outside of her body, adding another dimension to their ability to combo off each others capabilities, greatly increasing their effective combat ability. You see, unlike some other quirks, Isabelle's quirk comes with a severe drain on her body's energy reserves. As such, she can't simply use them willy nilly as others do, lest she burn herself out. In a normal fight, her reserves can last her, at her current level, anywhere from 10-15 minutes if she simply uses base manifestations, or half that if she fully manifests either one(or both) of her companions to fight by her side. This makes it so that she needs to focus on quickly taking down her foes, as a long and drawn out confrontation will only ever work against, which also makes her bad in situations where she has to face multiple foes or those with quirks that can easily stall her out.

Another way that full manifestation is dangerous for Isabelle is that in order for Akira/Noir to deform, she needs to touch them. If someone where to trap one or both of them while fully manifested, then it'd simple be a waiting game till she passes out from exhaustion to claim victory. Not only that, but Akira and Noir do not deform even when she looses consciousness, nor do they cease in draining her energy, so if they aren't allowed back to her side soon after she passes out, then her body would soon start to rapidly self-cannibalize itself in order to continue providing energy for, leading to severe internal damages and even death.

List of animals:
Akira: Falcon(for some better claws and cool options in combat), Dog(specifically Husky and Bloodhound, for mostly search and rescue), Spider(most recent, still working on it)
Noir: Tortoise(for dat Defense), Rhinocerous Beetle(for dat strength and armor)

_{C A P A B I L I T I E S}

Isabelle has spent her entire life training with her Father, a hero known simply as Sidestep by the public, in how to be a hero as it had been her goal ever since she was little. However, while it would be wrong to say she had been 'slacking' before, an event that took place 2 years prior added the necessary motivation for her to start taking her dream much more seriously and coming at it with everything she could, and then some more after that. As a result, she is a adept combatant for her age, with a style that focuses on redirecting her opponents attacks in order to create openings for Akira and/or Noir to attack from an unpredictable direction.

Aside from fighting, she's a well-rounded athlete, having played a little bit of everything, though she finds her greatest joy outside of being a hero is that of scoring a winning shot in a heated game of basketball. She's also a bit of an avid outdoorsy-type, a trait she gets from her mother, always eager to go out and rough it in the wilderness. In her more quiet moments, however, she tends to be a reader of fiction, preferring things set in more realistic settings, but also being a bit of a sucker for romance stories, even the cheesy ones.

Her skills in academics are well above average, though this is more due to her taking to her school work with the same dogged sense of determination and drive as she does her father's training sessions then any natural academic talent, though she does struggle a bit in understanding higher level math. She also has an interest in Zoology, both for it's benefits to her quirk and her own love and interest in animals.

_{C H A R A C T E R G O A L S}

I have quite a few goals with Isabelle, none of them being that much more important than the other, i feel, as each one helps not only build her up in my mind, but also motivates me to further working on her, wanting to discover more and more about her through my writings of her. One such goal is getting more in touch with my own racial identity since I realized that I just don't make that many characters of color, not just because I don't feel like it or that trying to find faceclaims for black characters in anime rps that actually look black is by and large an infuriating task(though that is part of it) but because I'm kind of hung up on my own distance from my black heritage and kind of fear it. As such, with Isabelle and a few other characters, I'm hoping to change that a bit. That doesn't mean I'll make a focus on her 'black' traits, as that's not the main point or drive of her character, just one of the facets that make her what she is and not a really major one either, but I feel it helps me find a better mind state.

Next is the story I want to tell with Isabelle. At first, I wished to have her discover the darker, grittier side of American Heroism, as well as current heroism in general, and have her be cynical and cold to it all. However, now I'm looking instead to have her story being one of constant struggle against one's own weaknesses in order to improve and become more complete individuals, as well as dealing with the aftermath of losing a friend to their pain and despair when you had the chance, but not the strength, to help them. For Isabelle, her weakness isn't in her combat skills, which are in fact her crutch in this scenario, but in her ability to socialize with others and properly convey her feelings and emotions. While not currently aware of this struggle, having grown to see these things as distractions from her ultimate goal of strength(and beyond that strength, the desire to find and save her friend from the darkness he's found himself in), Issabelle needs to come to learn that even she needs to accept and let other people in, and that before she can help anyone with their problems, she needs to learn to help herself.

Another thing I want to explore with Isabelle is having a poor self-body image, as well as general anxiety of sorts, as Isabelle was often bullied by girls in school for being too tomboy-ish, too tall, and when she grew up, for having a small chest, for not dressing up, and for simply being different then what others expected her to be. Despite having two supportive parents, Isabelle has grown to be very self-conscious of herself, and copes with it by trying to hide herself from the world and sink into the background, which inly served to make for a bigger target by those around her.

Her fears and paranoia, of being strangely different, of being ugly, and having little self worth, are things she often keeps locked up inside of her, and while at first it was hidden behind a shy, easily cowed facade, now she only seems to stare at everyone with a distance, uninterested glare, a sign of how much the pain of a close friend's betrayal has made it so she refuses to connect with others. A frigid ice queen, she is actually terrified by the fact that she's so far from home, staying with her aunt in a strange land where she now can't help but feel as if she stands out a bit. It's as if all of her fears have been given life, and whether or not it's true or not, she feels the eyes of everyone always on her, always watching, always waiting for her to show them a single shred of weakness to tear into.

(Sorry if this is rambling, but it's, like 3:30am as I'm writing this and it' s starting to hit me.)

[mickilennial]

>>asks for an extension
>>is only a day late, barely

You and Grey are silly.

[Leaves]

@Inkarnate

I'll be gone for the rest of day for the convention. If there is anything, please shoot me a pm.

[DruSM157]

I'm in seat ten. GWWAAAHAHAHAHAHHAA

[Ebil Bunny]

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@Inkarnate

Congratulations on the three that have been accepted, your characters are awesome!

Though Ink, if there is something you or Dru don't like my character, could you tell me? I don't mind changing or remaking applications, as character creation is one of my favorite parts about roleplays :)

And I really like these new characters coming in as well! The quality of characters submitted to this RP is really high in my opinion. I can see @Raijinslayer's character, Isabelle, and Peter becoming pretty close friends.

[mickilennial]

I'm in seat ten. GWWAAAHAHAHAHAHHAA

@DruSM157

For the memes to be more than dreams it must be.

[mickilennial]

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Congratulations on the three that have been accepted, your characters are awesome!

Though Ink, if there is something you or Dru don't like my character, could you tell me? I don't mind changing or remaking applications, as character creation is one of my favorite parts about roleplays :)

And I really like these new characters coming in as well! The quality of characters submitted to this RP is really high in my opinion. I can see @Raijinslayer's character, Isabelle, and Peter becoming pretty close friends.

@Ebil Bunny

I believe me and Drew are quite happy with what you applied with, though you can use this time to “thicken” your sheet if you really want to. The GM team’s only concern right now is that we have three gaijin applications to what essentially is the #2 school in Japan. That’s thirty percent of the class being non-native Japanese! I don’t find this completely immersion breaking, but it does propose the idea of us being choosy with the gaijin-oriented characters once we look over the non-gaijin applications and determine what players make a good fit.

Drew is online now, so maybe he has a public reply he could make regarding this, but I think we're on the same page.

[DruSM157]

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I believe me and Drew are quite happy with what you applied with, though you can use this time to “thicken” your sheet if you really want to. The GM team’s only concern right now is that we have three gaijin applications to what essentially is the #2 school in Japan. That’s thirty percent of the class being non-native Japanese! I don’t find this completely immersion breaking, but it does propose the idea of us being choosy with the gaijin-oriented characters once we look over the non-gaijin applications and determine what players make a good fit.

Drew is online now, so maybe he has a public reply he could make regarding this, but I think we're on the same page.

@Inkarnate

Just to add on to it: this was something we mulled over for several hours last night as we discussed all the prospective characters. We both agreed that one or two non-Japanese would be okay. I haven't had a chance to check out the newest apps just yet, since i'm about to take my sisters and their kids to the Okfeefenokee Swamp this afternoon, but i'll be back on this evening to hash stuff out with Gowi and see if there's any more CS's that need an extension before we decide on these final slots. If you haven't been accepted yet, look over your CS, see if there's any more sprucing/additions you can add to make it shine!

[mickilennial]

Just to add on to it: this was something we mulled over for several hours last night as we discussed all the prospective characters. We both agreed that one or two non-Japanese would be okay. I haven't had a chance to check out the newest apps just yet, since i'm about to take my sisters and their kids to the Okfeefenokee Swamp this afternoon, but i'll be back on this evening to hash stuff out with Gowi and see if there's any more CS's that need an extension before we decide on these final slots. If you haven't been accepted yet, look over your CS, see if there's any more sprucing/additions you can add to make it shine!

@DruSM157

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I’m a little zany.

[Demon Shinobi]

Gotta keep the hype alive guys! We're getting closer by the minute! And I do mean this for everyone! I think just about every character submitted is awesome. I'm honestly surprised I made the cut lol

[mickilennial]

I cannot wait to discuss this with Drew later in the evening.

[Demon Shinobi]

@Inkarnatediscuss what? O.o

[mickilennial]

@Inkarnatediscuss what? O.o

@Demon Shinobi

The applications we haven't looked at yet? I mean outside of Asura's extension, everyone's kinda ready to be looked at.

[Demon Shinobi]

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The applications we haven't looked at yet? I mean outside of Asura's extension, everyone's kinda ready to be looked at.

@Inkarnate

I spaced XD

[Aerandir]

It would seem you have enough players applied at the moment, do let me know if something changes and you need another!

[Raijinslayer]

@Ebil BunnyPossibly. The only issue is getting past her outer persona, though the fact that they're both from America and fairly new arrivals might help alleviate that a tad. Just a tad tho. The way I'm planning to play Isabelle is someone who comes off as cold and distant, though not rude.