Name: Amaya Yamada
Alias: Kickassstart
Age: 18 (barely)
Gender: Female
Personality: Amaya is an honest and trustworthy girl, and a big sports fan. Her favorite sport is soccer, which she liked well before her powers developed. Rarely one to think about decisions or their consequences, Amaya can be expected to crash often and hard. She believes, however, that the only way to ensure the chance of bouncing back from absolutely everything is to tough it out with a can-do attitude and plenty of determination. Despite all her good traits, she can have a bit of an attitude problem if she's irritated.
Powers: Super strength, but only in her legs. This does grant some secondary almost-powers, such as greater speed and acrobatic abilities than normal humans, though not quite at the level of a superhuman. More like the level of a well-trained Olympics athlete. Amaya has been thoroughly training her upper body to see if she can get full-body super strength. So far, she's failed.
Equipment: Aside from her costume, Amaya's only form of equipment - for a very generous definition of equipment - is the first soccer ball she can get her hands on in a fight for use as a projectile weapon. She's considered requesting one that has a radio-controlled return button so she can keep using the same one and not scatter soccer balls all over the place
Other: Obviously, she doesn't go all-out in sports.
Appearance: -images removed by GM's request-
History: Amaya's origins are foreign, in a little suburb in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Father was a high-pay businessman, and mother was a stay-at-home mom. Pretty nice life, actually. Upper-middle class income, plenty of friends, got along with both parents, nothing Amaya can really complain about. Oh, except the Black Fang gang. Those guys were nasty.
Initially elementary school bullies at about the time Amaya was in kindergarten, they were becoming a real pain-in-the-ass gang made of barely-graduated thugs by the time she reached Grade 10 (the start of high school in Japan.) Taking kids for their lunch money, roughing up student and teacher alike for protection money, and occasionally targeting a convenience store. Turns out their boss - Akira Kobayashi - was getting more dangerous. He personally made the lives of people who stood up to his gang miserable. Amaya was the first, and him breaking her legs sent the message in town. For a time.
Five months later, Amaya was walking just fine again. The next day at soccer practice, she kicked a soccer ball across the entire field, through a chain-link fence, all the way to the school building where the ball almost broke through a brick wall. Then she started running faster. Ridiculously faster, given how much speed she'd gained in just a few days. And she was jumping much higher, too. Amaya's best friend - ever a comic book nerd - saw only one conclusion. She was now a superhero. The two spent some time working together on a costume, and agreed to just go with a ninja outfit from a recent anime convention with red colored contacts. Not much, but that was the birth of Kickstart.
Their plan was to wipe out the Black Fang, but Mr. Yamada had gotten a big promotion and the family had to move to a new country to some place called Bay City. Amaya at least managed to give Akira Kobayashi a good kick which ensured he wouldn't reproduce on the way out of Japan. This move was all of four weeks ago, coinciding with Amaya's birthday and graduation from high school. She actually wound up joining the Guild unexpectedly by following a superhero once she realized she wasn't the only one in town. There wasn't any reason to deny her membership, so here she is.
Alias: Kickassstart
Age: 18 (barely)
Gender: Female
Personality: Amaya is an honest and trustworthy girl, and a big sports fan. Her favorite sport is soccer, which she liked well before her powers developed. Rarely one to think about decisions or their consequences, Amaya can be expected to crash often and hard. She believes, however, that the only way to ensure the chance of bouncing back from absolutely everything is to tough it out with a can-do attitude and plenty of determination. Despite all her good traits, she can have a bit of an attitude problem if she's irritated.
Powers: Super strength, but only in her legs. This does grant some secondary almost-powers, such as greater speed and acrobatic abilities than normal humans, though not quite at the level of a superhuman. More like the level of a well-trained Olympics athlete. Amaya has been thoroughly training her upper body to see if she can get full-body super strength. So far, she's failed.
Equipment: Aside from her costume, Amaya's only form of equipment - for a very generous definition of equipment - is the first soccer ball she can get her hands on in a fight for use as a projectile weapon. She's considered requesting one that has a radio-controlled return button so she can keep using the same one and not scatter soccer balls all over the place
Other: Obviously, she doesn't go all-out in sports.
Appearance: -images removed by GM's request-
History: Amaya's origins are foreign, in a little suburb in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Father was a high-pay businessman, and mother was a stay-at-home mom. Pretty nice life, actually. Upper-middle class income, plenty of friends, got along with both parents, nothing Amaya can really complain about. Oh, except the Black Fang gang. Those guys were nasty.
Initially elementary school bullies at about the time Amaya was in kindergarten, they were becoming a real pain-in-the-ass gang made of barely-graduated thugs by the time she reached Grade 10 (the start of high school in Japan.) Taking kids for their lunch money, roughing up student and teacher alike for protection money, and occasionally targeting a convenience store. Turns out their boss - Akira Kobayashi - was getting more dangerous. He personally made the lives of people who stood up to his gang miserable. Amaya was the first, and him breaking her legs sent the message in town. For a time.
Five months later, Amaya was walking just fine again. The next day at soccer practice, she kicked a soccer ball across the entire field, through a chain-link fence, all the way to the school building where the ball almost broke through a brick wall. Then she started running faster. Ridiculously faster, given how much speed she'd gained in just a few days. And she was jumping much higher, too. Amaya's best friend - ever a comic book nerd - saw only one conclusion. She was now a superhero. The two spent some time working together on a costume, and agreed to just go with a ninja outfit from a recent anime convention with red colored contacts. Not much, but that was the birth of Kickstart.
Their plan was to wipe out the Black Fang, but Mr. Yamada had gotten a big promotion and the family had to move to a new country to some place called Bay City. Amaya at least managed to give Akira Kobayashi a good kick which ensured he wouldn't reproduce on the way out of Japan. This move was all of four weeks ago, coinciding with Amaya's birthday and graduation from high school. She actually wound up joining the Guild unexpectedly by following a superhero once she realized she wasn't the only one in town. There wasn't any reason to deny her membership, so here she is.
