[NAME]Mori Yasu
[GENDER]Male
[AGE]16
[APPEARANCE][PERSONALITY]Typically a calm, relaxed person, Yasu very intentionally goes with the flow in life. In friendly conversation he tends to play the quiet listener, but can become quite chatty if a topic comes up that excites him. Moments in which Yasu is moved to anger provide a stark contrast to his usual demeanor, displaying a side of him that is violently emotional. Recognizing this flaw, he avoids confrontation and tries to ignore rudeness in others. He tries his best to give everyone he meets a fair chance, but he has trouble tolerating what he sees as stupidity.
[BACKSTORY]Yasu was raised in an ordinary middle-class family, with two working parents and a younger sister. His childhood was unusual, although his interactions with other children in his early years were often difficult and emotionally charged, and trouble with schoolwork often left him more stressed than his parents knew how to handle.
On a hot, sunny day in his fifth year of life, Yasu’s quirk manifested for the first time when, playing with friends in a park, Yasu accidentally tripped and fell, leaving a number of cuts and scrapes on his back. Although he was in some pain, Yasu brushed it off, and continued to play. Later on, he and his friends played a game of hide and seek, and Yasu wormed his way between some shrubs. There, pressed against the viney plants, he felt a series of pulses, and a number of vines fused with his back, healing his injuries in the process.
Yasu didn’t dwell too long on his quirk, as aside from leaving him with foliage to occasionally prune, it didn’t seem particularly notable. When Yasu was 12, his family went to Texas for a summer vacation. There, during a particularly sunny day, the vines on Yasu’s back began to grow out of control, violently trashing the area until a local hero managed to restrain him. At that point, Yasu’s parents realized his potential, and he was sent to hero school when he turned 14.
Yasu has been a student hero for two years now, and he has gained a lot more control over his quirk. As part of his particular training, Yasu helps tend to the school’s garden, a careful, controlled exercise that sharpens his control over electrical pulses while also proving quite useful for his own peace-of-mind. He doesn’t have very many close friends, but he also hasn’t made any real enemies at school.
Yasu isn’t too worried about his future. While being a hero would be nice, he wouldn’t mind the more ordinary existence of an architect or gardener, either.
[QUIRK]Green Tongue - Yasu is capable of manipulating plant life, altering a plant's development and behavior to his whim. This occurs as a result of Yasu’s ability to “speak” to plant life, exploiting the electrical pulses florae already use to communicate simple information. The quirk can facilitate plant growth in hostile environments, enhance growth speed, alter the form in which a plant grows, and even animate plant life.
[SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES]Symbiosis - By embedding vines into his body, Yasu is able to communicate far more efficiently with those particular plants. As such, Yasu is capable of using vines as rapidly growing animated tools, capable of restraining and stinging enemies or being used as ropes to pull Yasu to otherwise out-of-reach locations.
Capability’s Touch - In direct contact with plants, Yasu can issue commands to influence development, allowing him to shape the plant’s form, speed the plant’s growth, or facilitate the plant’s growth in imperfect soil.
Photosynthetic Surge - On extremely sunny days, Yasu’s powers are amplified, increasing the durability and sharpness of his vines via Symbiosis and allowing Capability’s Touch to drastically speed plant growth(for example, causing a sapling to grow into an adult tree in a matter of hours).
[LIMITS]Foreign Tongue - Green Tongue’s efficacy is dependent on proximity. At Yasu’s level of experience, this means that any combat-viable manipulation requires a direct connection via Symbiosis. Communication via touch is slow, relegating Capability’s Touch to the role of a gardening cheat on all but the brightest days. If Yasu isn’t touching a plant, he is currently incapable of issuing commands, even under the effects of Photosynthetic Surge.
Photodependency - The flip-side to Photosynthetic Surge, Yasu’s abilities are dramatically reduced in darkness. Under moonlight, Capability’s Touch ceases to function, and Yasu’s vines are slower and weaker, to the point where they would be incapable of restraining anything larger than a small child. In full darkness, Yasu’s abilities cease to function.
because of his limitations, the vines he can produce are as strong as a tough piece of rope, so they can't simply be ripped through by a restrained villain. Without Photosynthetic Surge, he can cause plants to grow up to three times bigger and faster than they normally would, and under a bright sun and with plenty of stamina to draw on he could instead cause them to grow five times bigger and faster. By expending enough energy to exhaust himself this could be increased, and of course he'll grow over time.
