[OOC] A Certain Unique Academy

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Is it alright for me to take the violence doughnut ability from the magic light novel?

[Suku]

Is it alright for me to take the violence doughnut ability from the magic light novel?

@liferusher

if you wish than feel free

[Crimmy]

Is it alright for me to take the violence doughnut ability from the magic light novel?

@liferusher

Violence Doughnut continues to be the best-named Esper ability bar none.

[NaraK]

I'll be updating this CS later! (make it look prettier and all, y'know)

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Appearance

Gemstone

Etsuko Yagami

Nickname/Alias: “Suko”

Position: None

Faction: (Optional) None

Seat Number: 2

Nationality: Japanese

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Blood Type: O

Biography: Born in a dirt-poor household, Etsuko first lived with a very small wish. She wanted warmth to bless her mother, father, and little brother. She did not want to know why she lived in a warehouses and storage containers, or why they would have to run about and oftentimes abandon their newfound homes. Warmth was what she wanted.

When she discovered her ability to generate electricity, Etsuko’s dream came true. She brought a lovely warmth to her family. With her warmth, the family felt stronger together. She was happy. With her small wish having come true with a staggeringly powerful answer, the girl wished to make her parents happier. The electricity she was gifted with gave her enough strength to work for countless hours to pay off certain debts that threatened her parents. She worked endlessly, but her family grew happier and happier, so she felt satisfied with her work.

As the family grew brighter, soon, things became better for the Yagami family. Her father fended off the rest of the unknown entities that threatened his business life and eventually started to earn money once more. With less and less mean people going after her family, her mother started working at a bank. Her little brother was able to go to school, and so was she.

When she was identified of her unique features- both physical and moral- the girl decided to immediately accept an invitation that came from Hybrid Academy.

Personality: Etsuko Yagami lacks a lack of confidence. Overflowing with energy, she enjoys shifting through random phases of enjoying serenity and participating in physically demanding activities. She is a generally normal person… until one gets to know more about her. Despite being a bit of a looker, she sometimes exhibits strange actions that make others wonder if she’s a woman or simply a very pretty man.

Likes: Carbonated drinks, bittersweet foods, music, video games, sports, exercising, funny videos, spiders, people (in general)

Dislikes: Extremely sweet foods, any kind of drinking alcohol, class tests, being locked up in a single room, crickets

Skills: Athletics, playing video games, an unknown form of procrastination, cooking

Ability

Volt Driver (Electricity Manipulation): Level 4; Macro

Special Skill – Shock: Yagami can naturally energize her speed and power through generating electricity for her own body to use. The amount of shock given to herself changes the amount of speed and power she receives, as well as how long the enhanced effects last. In addition, she can exert electricity. Water does not harm Yagami because she can absorb electrical damage.

Signature Move – Brain Cleaner: Yagami punches the ground, causing a massive burst of electricity to erupt from the ground in a large cone towards wherever she is facing. Alternatively, if there is a ceiling above her, she can jump and punch it to cause a bolt of lightning to strike objects around her. The thunder that falls from the ceiling is noticeably stronger than the electricity that erupts from the ground.

Disadvantages: Yagami’s electricity is not that effective against ice. In addition, snow decreases the range of her electricity-based attacks in general. Unlike most powerful Espers, she does not have actual ranged attacks aside from her surface-reliant attacks, which she makes up for with her ability to enhance her speed.

Themes

Regular Theme
Battle Theme

Extras: Etsuko sometimes names random things a bit differently for no real reason. Sometimes she may call breasts “lumps of fat,” and other times she may call bread “lumps of digestible dairy things.” This occurs only once in a while, though.

[Crimmy]

Non-Gemstone Espers get their powers through the Power Curriculum Program rather than discovering that they're naturally superpowered.

[HereComesTheSnow]

yeah

well

yeah

so there

[chukklehed]

Non-Gemstone Espers get their powers through the Power Curriculum Program rather than discovering that they're naturally superpowered.

@Crimmy

Being an esper means owning your own version of reality, which often happens during a child's developmental years. Many espers DO gain their powers in school, but usually the basis is already in place, and it's not unheard of for a child to learn to use it themselves. Notably, Accelerator could use his ability since before his school years because of Reflection's instinctive nature.

[Crimmy]

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Being an esper means owning your own version of reality, which often happens during a child's developmental years. Many espers DO gain their powers in school, but usually the basis is already in place, and it's not unheard of for a child to learn to use it themselves. Notably, Accelerator could use his ability since before his school years because of Reflection's instinctive nature.

@chukklehed

Pretty sure Accelerator went through the PCP as well. He just didn't go to school normally like everyone else.

Ever since the power development course had caused his ability to awaken, he was drafted into a special class.

Index Volume 05, Chapter 1, Part 7

[chukklehed]

Either way, if something can be taught, it can be learned by accident. Espers aren't given drugs or otherwise forced to manifest, so developing your power without help is more than just posible.

[Crimmy]

Either way, if something can be taught, it can be learned by accident. Espers aren't given drugs or otherwise forced to manifest, so developing your power without help is more than just posible.

@chukklehed

Actually, the artificial Espers are drugged, have stuff done to their brains, and get hit with all sorts of hypnosis stuff.

That's the Power Curriculum Programme. It's not actually something that is being taught, but scientific experimentation that modifies people to a point where they can obtain their own Personal Reality. That's why only Academy City had Espers. They had the scientific know-how.

“Shut up. If you couldn’t bend a single spoon after having various crazy things done to you like have drugs injected directly into your blood vessels or have electrodes stabbed in through your ears and into the brain, what could it be but lack of talent?”

Mikoto Misaka, Volume 1, Prologue

That's how non-Gemstone Espers form.

Gemstones just happen to be ... monkey on typewriters.

If a certain phenomenon has been caused artificially, then, as long as the same circumstances in the experiment are recreated in the natural world due to some factor or other, the same phenomenon will occur with no help from humans.

SS2, Chapter 6

That's why there's only fifty or so of them running around. Sogiita Gunha, Academy City's seventh-ranked Level 5, being one of them.

Oh yeah and Aisa, but she'll always be irrelevant compared to the guy who beats people up with an "Amazing Punch".

[chukklehed]

so you're saying that they took the entire framework they established in the first half of the series, where they clearly described how Espers gained their powers, and then said "No, we're just fucking with you, it's drugs"

that sounds so incredibly dumb that I can't believe the same person would write it.

[Crimmy]

so you're saying that they took the entire framework they established in the first half of the series, where they clearly described how Espers gained their powers, and then said "No, we're just fucking with you, it's drugs"

that sounds so incredibly dumb that I can't believe the same person would write it.

@chukklehed

No? It's always been drugs.

“Shut up. If you couldn’t bend a single spoon after having various crazy things done to you like have drugs injected directly into your blood vessels or have electrodes stabbed in through your ears and into the brain, what could it be but lack of talent?”

Mikoto Misaka, Volume 1, Prologue

That's from the first light novel. The one that started it all.

It's drugs, New Age hypnotism and brain rewiring.

That's how they get their Personal Reality, and where they go from there depends on their potential.

[NaraK]

Guys

I can easily edit the thing you know lol (particularly the reason why I stated that the CS was a WIP rather than immediately touching it up). The Wikia states that all (real) Espers come from Academy City, so I can edit things accordingly to that information.

[Plank Sinatra]

sorry for the delay on the brook intro, should get it up today

[Crimmy]

Guys

I can easily edit the thing you know lol (particularly the reason why I stated that the CS was a WIP rather than immediately touching it up). The Wikia states that all (real) Espers come from Academy City, so I can edit things accordingly to that information.

@NarayanK

Unless you want to go the Gemstone route.

[NaraK]

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Unless you want to go the Gemstone route.

@Crimmy

I'll go with the Gemstone route. Too many things to change if I go with a regular Esper x_x

Edited the CS. I think it's complete now (Aside from wallpapers I might make for her)

[HereComesTheSnow]

muffled retconning noises

[Grey]

TL;DR: A Certain Kawaii Blacksmith

Magician

Name: Smith, Sella
Nickname/Alias:
Magic Name: Veritas584 - "the one who renders fantasy unto reality"
Position: Student
Faction: Part-Time Research Assistant
Seat Number: 13
Nationality: Indeterminate Eurasian Blood, Finnish National
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Blood Type: A

Biography

Sella is one of those increasingly rare occurrences in which an occupation-based last name actually indicates the family members' occupations. Naturally, it comes as no surprise that her family consists of skilled smiths. She was born and raised in a port town in Finland, among the families of the other members of her family's magic 'cabal' of sorts. Different from traditional cabals, rather than devote their efforts into devising spells based off of a specific mythos, they specialize in the construction of magical tools for other cabals around the world. So instead of magicians, really it would be more accurate to say that they're a bunch of magical arms dealers. Naturally, Sella's upbringing included the necessary training in order to initiate her into the magic side and mold her into a capable member of their group. In that regard, their expectations had been completely exceeded.

From a young age, Sella displayed great talent in the cabal's craft and, as the years passed and her talents were refined. However, she had also become a bit more than a simple prodigy: she had become a zealot obsessed with constructing tools. Her alien mindset born from idee fixe alienated her from her family and peers, but that didn't bother someone who didn't think much of others in the first place. What bothered her was her own dissatisfaction with her capabilities in spite of her prodigious skill. The efficiency of a traditional forge was insufficient, the accuracy of hammered metal was insufficient, the quality materials was insufficient... There had to be a better way to bring forth the ideal result envisioned by her mind. So she kept refining her skills. Mastery born through endless repetition. But even that wasn't enough. It seemed that no amount of crafting skill could reach perfection.

But that was fine. A mortal may despair, but a magician could adapt. So, drawing from the power of mythic blacksmiths and the properties of magical forges throughout legend, Sella devised a personal magic format by which she could achieve the ideal products, albiet not in the way she would have preferred. A few years passed and, despite showing no interest in joining Hybrid Academy or really any schooling at all, Sella was enrolled into Hybrid Academy. However, that's just a side-effect of her real purpose here: her family owes somebody in Academy City and didn't want to send anyone normal.

Personality

Absentminded, Stoic, Workaholic
A girl who possesses a complete, singleminded devotion towards (or perhaps obsession with) the concept of creation. A metalsmith from birth who forever forges not for the sake of battle or profit, but simple, selfish reason of "because I can and want to". A mentality that's hard to read and almost wholly indifferent to most outside stimuli. Yes, Sella is definitely somebody who possesses a personality that's difficult to deal with.

She's oblivious to social cues and what's going on around her and, being largely unable to read the atmosphere or understand the feelings of others, she isn't all too good with most-if-not-all social situations. Unsurprisingly, she's pretty terrible at expressing herself and mostly just says whatever comes to mind when spoken to, which often doesn't help her properly convey herself. It's probably for this reason that she both loves and cannot understand the concept of using abstract images while still having others understand the underlying meaning. A passionate artist who doesn't get art at all, basically. Either way, she isn't really opposed to socialization and doesn't go out of her way to avoid conversation, even if she doesn't go out of her way to start it ether. She's introverted, not reclusive. So yeah, it's definitely hard to talk to her, but not impossible. But let it be said that inviting her to an art gallery is a terrible idea.

If Sella does have anything going for her its her meticulous, hard-working nature. Even outside her area of expertise, she displays fastidous efficiency along with an absolutely insane work ethic in her dealings...Although, that's probably just so she can get back to what she really wants to do: working metal. Naturally, she takes pride in what she makes and, despite not asking for it, absolutely adores when others validate their worth. If something like that does happen, though, she'll just work even harder in an attempt to one herself up and earn even more praise. Basically, an endless loop of satisfaction and dissatisfaction that only stops once Sella forgets why she was forging in the first place and just resumes hammering out metal for its own sake.

Likes

• Arts and crafts
• Cars
• Crisp, cool weather
• Food, especially fast, delivery or spicy
• Hard work
• Scandanavian death metal
• Trite stories about the virtues of brotherhood and the powers of friendship
• Well-made fanworks
• Blacksmithing
• Blacksmithing
• Did I mention blacksmithing yet because blacksmithing

Dislikes

• 3D printers
• Absurd international shipping fees
• Debt
• Low quality plebiean weaponry
• Modern art
• Overly complex social situations
• Piracy
• Rude interruptions
• Sleeping
• Those filthy dvergr

Skills

Combat Skills

• N/A

Utility Skills

• Blacksmithing - With countless hours worth of experience hammering out metal into something pretty to look at under her belt, Sella possesses savant-like command of the forge and superior expertise in most subsets. Specialty lies in creating and repairing tools and weaponry. Lacks sufficient knowledge of coinsmithing to reproduce currency, thus avoiding economic inflation. Only capable of folding Nippon steel 10^34 times, just barely matching the capacities of traditional Japanese swordsmiths. As a side effect, engineering knowledge prerequisite for the creation of tools is also possessed.
• Cooking - Sella possesses extreme proficiency in the art of putting ingredients together and making the result not taste like crap. Although it's something trained mostly out of necessity, there is definitely a non-zero chance her interest in the activity is based off its similarity to making things at the forge.
• Lifting - Capable of carrying up to around 300 pounds because metalworking is really strength intensive. Does not actually lift, so the fragile masculinity of Academy City's male student population has been preserved.
• Mythological Knowledge - Knowledge of myth, legend and folklore, natch. A necessary ability for someone like Sella, who takes commissions from a multicultural magical customer base. It goes without saying, but her specialty lies in information regarding magical tools and their abilities. With her expertise, Sella is capable of recognizing and remembering a tool's function with a few looks at it. The difficulty part is actually getting her to see it in the first place.

Innate Traits

• Germanic Efficiency - Efficiency stereotypically possessed by full-blooded native Germans. Not actually 100% German nor in Germany raised, so in that respect this trait ought to be called 'False Germanic Efficiency' or 'Only Like 7% Germanic Efficiency'. Through sufficient application of self-discipline, either time taken or materials used are halved. In addition, it is possible to maintain focus and shut out distractions, and continue even when the body has begun to fail.
• Memorization - Ability to remember important things, like phone numbers, lessons, and that horrible thing you did that one time five years ago. However even with this skill, Sella is a pretty abstracted gal. But while it's true that she might not remember your name the next time you talk to her, when it comes to things relevant to forging or magical items, she can recall it in an instant.

Magic

Attendant of Iron
A ritual, or more accurately a series of bodily modifications, that draw power from three concepts found in myth and legend, channeled through a magic circle engraved on her back: the 'archetypical artificer that creates heroic arms', the 'special forge used by a legendary smith', and the 'act of using human sacrifice(the soul) as a component to improve the quality of an artifact'. As a result, Sella's mind and body take the role of the smith and smithy in order to expedite and optimize the manufacture and enchantment processes for the construction of tools, both magical and mundane.

The ritual grants Sella the capability to apply magical energy in order to mold component materials into a desired product based on a blueprint stored in the mind. However, mana only replaces the construction process and imprints the necessary magic formulas; it does not create from nothing. Thus, external materials are required to create the physical form of a product. While human modification is possible under the purview of this magic format, but efficacy of higher-tier modifications is outmatched by the dvergr due to Sella's lack of technical knowledge.

The cost of the ritual is roughly equal to half of what it would take to create the object without the assistance of magic. Therefore, to make the spell more efficient, one must refine their mortal rather than magical aptitude. If the cost becomes too great or one wishes to preserve energy, the user can stop the process and continue later to no detriment. Because it applies simplified magic formulas rather than configuring effects via ritual, it is possible to create objects of a system the owner has no applicable magical knowledge of. Objects still require the relevant knowledge in order to be used though and the mana cost remains the same as enchanting an object nromally.

The ritual is broken down into five stages:

• An image in the mind is formed of the desired object.
• Mana is applied to the magic circle and modifies the body to withstand high temperatures and metal-warping impacts takes place. This is a sustained effect.
• Materials are analyzed and prepared. Metals are heated, wood is shaped and cut, etc. In conjunction with the previous step, it is possible to stop the ritual here and shape the object manually by using the body as an anvil.
• The physical framework of the object is formed and refined.
• The object is imbued with the appropriate magic formula

Naturally, when it comes to the power of magic items, Idol Theory still applies: the closer the component materials to the original, the more effective the resulting replica. But if this is the case, one can't help but wonder...

Hlaejandi Volundr
A pair of mechanical wings based on the ones that Volundr used to escape the wrath of King Nidhad after impregnating his daughter, Bodvildr. They grant the wearer the ability to fly at speeds slightly faster than that of a contemporary projectile. In this case, 'faster than a speeding bullet'. In addition, it grants protection against projectiles and deploys an illusion of being shot down after mounting a successful defense. The wingspan is roughly equal to Sella's armswidth, but it folds into a conveniently carried backpack-esque form.

Theme Song(s)

• Maybe some other time

Extras

• Carries around a suitcase full of metal bars
• Speaks antiquated Japanese
• That line about forgetting other peoples' names wasn't a joke by the way

So here's a thing I got around to finishing even though I said it would be finished by a few days ago. Overall I like how it turned out, even if she's consummate support and the magic system isn't as neat as the one I planned for a certain someone else who might be showing up eventually.

[Suku]

@Grey@NarayanK both your chars are accepted

[Onarax]

Got bored, figured we could use this.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CQuPIi..

As of current both Etsuko and Anderson have the same seat.

So they'll have to fight it out.