Kalas

Hikari Academy

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^{TIME: Present Day - Morning | LOCATION: Hikari Academy - Front Steps | INTERACTION: None}

Aster stood atop the steps leading up to the doors of the Academy. Or rather, he had positioned himself just off to the left where he was leant against the wall, fully immersed in his newest smartphone game; EvoMon III, of which the volume was on full and blaring out some random chiptune battle-theme. He had been chosen as the one to usher the new arrivals into the Academy and lead them to the Great Hall for the Head Magister's welcoming speech, a punishment for the destruction of his classroom that occurred some weeks ago which had also endangered the lives of some of his students. Whilst the Head Magister had been furious at the time, they had decided against firing him from his teaching position. It was a decision that Aster had actually found himself grateful for, which came as a surprise for him since he'd never really intended to teach at the Academy.

The only reason as to why he felt grateful was naturally because of his students. Whilst he held no time for those who didn't want to learn, Aster was deeply committed to his pupils. They each shared his own passion after all; the urge to study and discover new properties of Mana. Mana itself was the basis of all abilities, so to study it's properties was essentially to study everything else that remained tied to it. The spectrum for new discoveries was vast beyond compare and Aster, followed eagerly by his students, was determined to unearth them all.

So far, Aster's punishment had been rather uneventful, he'd paused his game by now and was watching people milling about all over the place. The new members of the Academy carried on around him without interrupting Aster from his video game at all, although this was probably due to his complete lack of interest in being there. Just because the Head Magister had ordered him to be an usher doesn't mean he had to like doing it. In fact, he hated it. The majority of these kids probably didn't have the faintest clue about Mana and would more than likely prefer to spend their time here banging their heads against one another in the Combat Arenas. Now Aster appreciated the importance of Combat training for potential Dawn Slayers, but training without study wouldn't amount to much. Practicing a technique a thousand times sounds great for most people, but studying the technique in-depth, learning its strengths and weaknesses, developing new and more efficient ways of performing it was what interested Aster more. With his methodology and approach to studying, even a mere human could become a great Martial Artist.

Aster had beseeched the Head Magister many times to promote his class: Mana Manipulation 101, to a mandatory class for new students but his request had always been denied over the years. And after his most recent reprimanding still fresh in the Magister's mind, he very much doubted that things would change this year too. He sighed quietly, before pocketing his smartphone and pushing himself away from the wall. 'Time to usher these kids inside, I guess...' He thought.

"Good Morning everyone!" He began, raising his voice to address the crowd of new students that hadn't yet ascended the stairs. "If you would like to start making your way inside. Please follow me to the Great Hall." Without waiting to see who followed, Aster spun on his heels and strode towards the large wooden doors that stood as the entrance to the Hikari Ryodan Academy before coming to a stop just a few feet in front of them. He then began to raise his arms in an outstretched fashion towards the doors and used his Mana to do the rest. Raising the density of his Mana so that it would become visible and morphing it as he did so, Aster conjured what looked to be a flaming, sapphire giant that stood nearly as tall as the entrance. Then with relative ease, Aster puppeteered the giant to force open the doors which enabled the new arrivals to finally catch a glimpse of what lie in store for them. With the heavily lifting done, Aster dispersed the giant into a display of brilliant blue flames in an attempt to wow his audience before carrying on inside the Academy.

'A little bit of flare never hurt.' He smiled to himself.

Hikari Academy

@TheWindel

Alright, my post should be up soon.

Hikari Academy

@KoL or @TheWindel

Is the Head Magister planning on making a welcome speech to the new students in some grand hall or something? Or are they going straight to classes?

Hikari Academy

Looking forward to starting this, but I won't have my post up until later today.

Hikari Academy

Aster Javian - Professor

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

Basics

Name: Aster Javian

Title: The Mirror Magician

Age: 437

Gender: Male

Race: Demon Prince

Sexuality: Hetero

Abilities

Neutra Magic: An exceptionally rare type of magic. Aster has the ability to manipulate his own Mana in its purest form which he calls; Pure Mana. Over the course of a few centuries of training, Aster's Pure Mana actually shows itself as a blue flame-like essence due to its sheer density. He uses his Pure Mana to shield and reflect most other forms of Mana which may be directed towards him. For instance, an Explosion-type attack would be shielded initially before being reflected back towards its' origin, though the reflected spell would be considerably weaker than the original. Illusions would have a weakened effect, being unable to simply pass through the density of his Pure Mana. Low level Illusions would be easily reflected back towards their origin, though they would have little effect against the one casting them.

Aster may also choose to focus solely on shielding or reflecting Mana.
- When focusing on shielding, Aster may increase the area that is being shielded in a dome-like manner, essentially being able to protect an area the size of the Academy from magical attacks for a limited time.
- When focusing on reflecting, Aster completely foregoes his shield in order to return spells back toward their origin almost instantly.

Alchemia Magic: Another rare form of magic, discovered and developed by Aster whilst teaching at Hikari Ryodan Academy. After mastering how to manipulate his own Pure Mana, Aster discovered that you could change the properties of all Mana. Based on the fact that Mana contained far more properties which could be altered in its' pure form than it did after it had been used to cast spells. As such, Aster has theoretically invented a way to change the density of Mana in his surrounding area, essentially strengthening or weakening spells by injecting his own Mana into a spell or withdrawing the Mana from it.

Practically, however, Aster has only been able to inject his own Pure Mana into other spells, strengthening them. He has not yet found a way to withdraw Mana, an issue which has remained a mystery to him.

Other

Personality:
Nonchalant - As a teacher at Hikari, Aster is rather laid back when it comes to teaching. He refuses to become agitated by those who are not willing to learn or better themselves and only dedicates his efforts to those who try. The prospect of failure never bothers him, as he believes failure is just another hurdle one must overcome. His many years of experience have shown him that nothing is truly worth overworking yourself for.

Perverted - Like the old man that he truly is, Aster is secretly perverted. However, his young looking appearance does a lot to help him out where women are concerned. And although he is not as vivacious in his attempts to woo women or 'catch-the-odd-glimpse' as most other perverts, he most certainly will take up the odd opportunity to sate his debauchery tastes whenever he can. Above all, four-hundred years has blessed Aster with the uncanny ability to guess the age of nearly every female he comes across and, so long as they are of the legal age, he can quite often correctly guess their various measurements.

Backstory:
One of the few remaining Demon Princes born of the Demonic Realms, a sub-race of Demon who have proven themselves far more intelligent and civilized than the majority of their cousins. He came to the Earthen Realm hoping to study more about the properties of Mana and thus traveled to the only place where he'd heard would help him find the answers he sought: Hikari Ryodan Academy. Upon arriving, he requested to be able to study in solitude, stating that he had no intention of teaching kids. His request was denied, being told that he would only be allowed to stay at the Academy if he became a teacher, he accepted begrudgingly. During his time at the Academy, Aster finished an extensive thesis on his findings of Mana entitled, 'Properties of Mana: The Force Behind Magic.' His studies into Mana has garnered him popular renown throughout the world of magic.

Classes:
- Demonology 101: A Study of the World's Most Misunderstood Race
- Mana Manipulation 101: Managing Mana
- Mana Manipulation 201: Advanced Study & Combat Application

Trivia:
- Aster is addicted to candy, specifically lollipops. He makes sure to carry at least three on his person at all times.
- Whenever he isn't busy teaching students, studying new theories about Mana or interacting with his fellow teachers, Aster will often hide himself away to play Pocket Monster mobile games.
- He is currently one of the world's leading experts on the study of Mana.

Sample

"Don't move!" Aster's voice silenced the boisterous class. He had initially tasked them with trying to develop their personal Mana into a visible state, much-like his own blue flames. It was proving to be far more difficult than he'd anticipated, especially given that this was his Advanced Study Class. Like him, this collective of students had all been enthralled by the idea of studying Mana. A fact that had excited him to no end, given that more than a few of his colleagues had long grown tired of Aster's numerous and frenzied outbursts about some new theory regarding the properties of Mana and how it could be applied. With these kids he was able to discuss and expand upon his passion; Mana.

His furor expelled within these classes, however, often gave rise to a certain level of competition amongst his students, especially those from this particular 201 class. Which, more often than not, resulted in many a heated debate and certainly more than one fireball launched across the class room in anger or jealousy. This happened to be one of those instances. But rather than scolding the two students who had, mere moments ago, been exchanging spiteful expletives followed by spells, Aster stood behind his desk, eyes wide with bewilderment and an expression of elation.

Amongst the spat between two of his students, Aster had, by pure coincidence, stumbled across the perfect testing conditions for his theory regarding the withdrawal of Mana from an existing spell. Where one student had launched a medium-sized fireball across the room toward the target of his anger, another student in her defense of the target had managed to stop the ball of flames in mid-air. Had he not momentarily glanced up from his latest Pocket Monster game to witness the erupting argument, the scene in front of him may have passed as quickly as it had begun.

"This. Is. Perfect." He whispered, holding his hands out as if to freeze everyone in their place. The students suddenly realized the look of excitement on his face, rather than anger, and decided to roll with it. Aster regarded the girl, who was still maintaining her force-field around the fireball that had stopped it initially. "Keep it going for as long as you can." He said, nodding with approval. She struggled to answer with a hampered nod of her own. Clearly the act of stopping the spell in the first place had taken a lot out of her and maintaining her field was continuing to drain her Mana reserves at an alarmingly fast rate. He would not have long to act.

He reached towards the floating embers with his right hand and began to extend his own Mana towards it, invisible at first but he soon decided to raise the density to allow his students to witness what he was attempting to do. This would be a learning opportunity for them all. His Mana flickered and lashed out at the orange flames suspended in mid-air. He could sense the two separate types of Mana that were already present in the air; the force-field's and the fireball's. Aster attempted to envelope his Mana around the ball of fire and, as he did so, he could feel the blue and orange flames start to reach out towards each other as if attracted like magnets. It was only brief and the feeling soon drifted away before his Mana began pouring itself into the fireball, strengthening it.

"No, no, no!" He growled. Before he could retract his Mana, however, the force-field gave out and the girl fainted. Horror quickly became Aster's expression as the enhanced fireball flashed across the room. He tried to release his Mana in order to cast a shield but he wouldn't make it in time. "GET DOWN!" He yelled, diving towards his students to protect them in a last-ditch effort.

If not for the caster directing it upward into the ceiling at the last moment, Aster was certain someone would have died. He had been fortunate that the explosion of ceiling and the resulting collapse of the floor above had not caused any serious injuries. Even so, he was about to be in for the ass-chewing of his life. 'Dammit!'

Hikari Academy

Very interesting. I believe he's fine with me. Wait for KoL's opinion.

@TheWindel

Glad you like him. I'll be heading to sleep now though, so if I'm required to make any changes they won't happen for a few hours at least.

Hikari Academy

Aster Javian - Professor

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

Basics

Name: Aster Javian

Title: The Mirror Magician

Age: 437

Gender: Male

Race: Demon Prince

Sexuality: Hetero

Abilities

Neutra Magic: An exceptionally rare type of magic. Aster has the ability to manipulate his own Mana in its purest form which he calls; Pure Mana. Over the course of a few centuries of training, Aster's Pure Mana actually shows itself as a blue flame-like essence due to its sheer density. He uses his Pure Mana to shield and reflect most other forms of Mana which may be directed towards him. For instance, an Explosion-type attack would be shielded initially before being reflected back towards its' origin, though the reflected spell would be considerably weaker than the original. Illusions would have a weakened effect, being unable to simply pass through the density of his Pure Mana. Low level Illusions would be easily reflected back towards their origin, though they would have little effect against the one casting them.

Aster may also choose to focus solely on shielding or reflecting Mana.
- When focusing on shielding, Aster may increase the area that is being shielded in a dome-like manner, essentially being able to protect an area the size of the Academy from magical attacks for a limited time.
- When focusing on reflecting, Aster completely foregoes his shield in order to return spells back toward their origin almost instantly.

Alchemia Magic: Another rare form of magic, discovered and developed by Aster whilst teaching at Hikari Ryodan Academy. After mastering how to manipulate his own Pure Mana, Aster discovered that you could change the properties of all Mana. Based on the fact that Mana contained far more properties which could be altered in its' pure form than it did after it had been used to cast spells. As such, Aster has theoretically invented a way to change the density of Mana in his surrounding area, essentially strengthening or weakening spells by injecting his own Mana into a spell or withdrawing the Mana from it.

Practically, however, Aster has only been able to inject his own Pure Mana into other spells, strengthening them. He has not yet found a way to withdraw Mana, an issue which has remained a mystery to him.

Other

Personality:
Nonchalant - As a teacher at Hikari, Aster is rather laid back when it comes to teaching. He refuses to become agitated by those who are not willing to learn or better themselves and only dedicates his efforts to those who try. The prospect of failure never bothers him, as he believes failure is just another hurdle one must overcome. His many years of experience have shown him that nothing is truly worth overworking yourself for.

Perverted - Like the old man that he truly is, Aster is secretly perverted. However, his young looking appearance does a lot to help him out where women are concerned. And although he is not as vivacious in his attempts to woo women or 'catch-the-odd-glimpse' as most other perverts, he most certainly will take up the odd opportunity to sate his debauchery tastes whenever he can. Above all, four-hundred years has blessed Aster with the uncanny ability to guess the age of nearly every female he comes across and, so long as they are of the legal age, he can quite often correctly guess their various measurements.

Backstory:
One of the few remaining Demon Princes born of the Demonic Realms, a sub-race of Demon who have proven themselves far more intelligent and civilized than the majority of their cousins. He came to the Earthen Realm hoping to study more about the properties of Mana and thus traveled to the only place where he'd heard would help him find the answers he sought: Hikari Ryodan Academy. Upon arriving, he requested to be able to study in solitude, stating that he had no intention of teaching kids. His request was denied, being told that he would only be allowed to stay at the Academy if he became a teacher, he accepted begrudgingly. During his time at the Academy, Aster finished an extensive thesis on his findings of Mana entitled, 'Properties of Mana: The Force Behind Magic.' His studies into Mana has garnered him popular renown throughout the world of magic.

Classes:
- Demonology 101: A Study of the World's Most Misunderstood Race
- Mana Manipulation 101: Managing Mana
- Mana Manipulation 201: Advanced Study & Combat Application

Trivia:
- Aster is addicted to candy, specifically lollipops. He makes sure to carry at least three on his person at all times.
- Whenever he isn't busy teaching students, studying new theories about Mana or interacting with his fellow teachers, Aster will often hide himself away to play Pocket Monster mobile games.
- He is currently one of the world's leading experts on the study of Mana.

Sample

"Don't move!" Aster's voice silenced the boisterous class. He had initially tasked them with trying to develop their personal Mana into a visible state, much-like his own blue flames. It was proving to be far more difficult than he'd anticipated, especially given that this was his Advanced Study Class. Like him, this collective of students had all been enthralled by the idea of studying Mana. A fact that had excited him to no end, given that more than a few of his colleagues had long grown tired of Aster's numerous and frenzied outbursts about some new theory regarding the properties of Mana and how it could be applied. With these kids he was able to discuss and expand upon his passion; Mana.

His furor expelled within these classes, however, often gave rise to a certain level of competition amongst his students, especially those from this particular 201 class. Which, more often than not, resulted in many a heated debate and certainly more than one fireball launched across the class room in anger or jealousy. This happened to be one of those instances. But rather than scolding the two students who had, mere moments ago, been exchanging spiteful expletives followed by spells, Aster stood behind his desk, eyes wide with bewilderment and an expression of elation.

Amongst the spat between two of his students, Aster had, by pure coincidence, stumbled across the perfect testing conditions for his theory regarding the withdrawal of Mana from an existing spell. Where one student had launched a medium-sized fireball across the room toward the target of his anger, another student in her defense of the target had managed to stop the ball of flames in mid-air. Had he not momentarily glanced up from his latest Pocket Monster game to witness the erupting argument, the scene in front of him may have passed as quickly as it had begun.

"This. Is. Perfect." He whispered, holding his hands out as if to freeze everyone in their place. The students suddenly realized the look of excitement on his face, rather than anger, and decided to roll with it. Aster regarded the girl, who was still maintaining her force-field around the fireball that had stopped it initially. "Keep it going for as long as you can." He said, nodding with approval. She struggled to answer with a hampered nod of her own. Clearly the act of stopping the spell in the first place had taken a lot out of her and maintaining her field was continuing to drain her Mana reserves at an alarmingly fast rate. He would not have long to act.

He reached towards the floating embers with his right hand and began to extend his own Mana towards it, invisible at first but he soon decided to raise the density to allow his students to witness what he was attempting to do. This would be a learning opportunity for them all. His Mana flickered and lashed out at the orange flames suspended in mid-air. He could sense the two separate types of Mana that were already present in the air; the force-field's and the fireball's. Aster attempted to envelope his Mana around the ball of fire and, as he did so, he could feel the blue and orange flames start to reach out towards each other as if attracted like magnets. It was only brief and the feeling soon drifted away before his Mana began pouring itself into the fireball, strengthening it.

"No, no, no!" He growled. Before he could retract his Mana, however, the force-field gave out and the girl fainted. Horror quickly became Aster's expression as the enhanced fireball flashed across the room. He tried to release his Mana in order to cast a shield but he wouldn't make it in time. "GET DOWN!" He yelled, diving towards his students to protect them in a last-ditch effort.

If not for the caster directing it upward into the ceiling at the last moment, Aster was certain someone would have died. He had been fortunate that the explosion of ceiling and the resulting collapse of the floor above had not caused any serious injuries. Even so, he was about to be in for the ass-chewing of his life. 'Dammit!'

Naruto: Revival

Pretty sure we're still accepting.
As long as you don't start talking about bnha with Syn and Kal. Last time they started with the theories it fucking suppresed all the other conversations happening in the discord server.

@Spanner

Sorry, not sorry. xD

Naruto: Revival

^{Iwagakure | Chūnin | Hunter-nin}

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^{TIME: Present Day - Morning | LOCATION: Unknown - Lightning Challenge | INTERACTION: @yoshua171@Ganryu@Spanner}

Renji hadn't spoken since exiting the tiny janitor's closet alongside the rest of his team mates. As he looked around the light-filled room, he felt humbled by the enormous Buddha statue located in the center of the massive space they'd walked into. Hundreds of lights illuminated the statue which made sense, given Buddha's true meaning. He noticed the drums too, frowning as he inspected them from afar. Why were they placed so oddly? Nothing came to him, so he figured he'd wait for someone else to speak first.

"Anyone else religious or have any ideas what Buddha here means?"

"The Enlightened One." He spoke softly, his voice barely echoing off the walls of the room. He knew this from his time spent at study back at the monastery. The monks of Shinkai Shūdōin had tutored him in the ways of both Shinto and Buddhism, to compliment his combat training. He hadn't realised he'd spoke until after the fact - when the others had turned to regard him, their inquisitive eyes almost urging him to continue.

"His great light of knowledge is said to have illuminated all the lands in ten different directions." He continued, referring to one of the many scriptures he'd been forced to memorize as a child. He looked again at the placement of the drums, squinting this time.

"Maybe the drums represent the ten directions and we're supposed to figure out which of them are the correct ones?"

Naruto: Revival

^{Iwagakure | Chūnin | Hunter-nin}

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^{TIME: Present Day - Morning | LOCATION: Konohagakure - Exam Stadium | INTERACTION: @yoshua171@Ganryu@Spanner}

"Hey, you two, want to team with me?"

Renji was stirred from his thoughts by the random question. When he turned to see where it had originated from, he was met with the bright and cheerful visage of a young, female shinobi who'd introduced herself by the name, Ai. His memory gave him no recollection of ever before seeing her face, though he could tell by the Iwagakure symbol on her clothing that she was a fellow Chūnin from the Hidden Stone. Renji had listened to the Hokage's speech and winced when it was suggested that they choose their own teams. In truth, he was very much a lone wolf, thanks to his past eight years of isolated service. Had it not been for this girl's forwardness, Renji would likely have chosen the combative route - though that's not to say collecting the aforementioned scrolls wouldn't involve any conflict.

By the time he began formulating his reply, the girl was joined by another referring to herself as Ayame - the supposed fourth member of their would-be team that Ai had briefly mentioned earlier. Another unrecognized face, though he was quick to notice her headband tied around her neck - Iwagakure again. He wasn't entirely sure but he thought he could see an uncanny resemblance between the two as they stood side by side. Renji frowned a little, dispelling the useless thought that had popped into his mind at that moment. It wasn't long afterward that a third voiced chimed in.

"I'm Hikaru, no fancy clan name in spite of me being a Kekkei user."

This face he did remember - or what was shown of it at least. Red hair with a bandaged face, it was none other than Iwagakure's Crimson Fiend. Renji had been tasked to shadow the young shinobi whilst the ANBU brass had considered recruiting him after the disbandment of the Explosion Corps. Their ultimate decision not to enlist him being based on the fact that his casually mentioned Kekkei Genkai meant that he was extremely proficient in blowing things up. And after shadowing him briefly, Renji was entirely inclined to agree with their assessment. Hikaru had never known he was followed of course - the ANBU Black Ops always made sure to scope out any potential members before inviting them to join - it had been one of the other few occasions that Renji had been permitted to remove his mask.

He allowed the others to finish talking, before finally introducing himself, "I am Renji." He began, pushing himself away from the post he'd been leaning on to stand and face them. "And I'm not surprised that you don't recognize me. Back home, it's my job to stay invisible." He stated, making direct eye-contact with Ai. Though he didn't explicitly want to reveal his position as an ANBU member, Renji thought it prudent to at least give his new teammates a clue. Maybe this small trusting of information would pay him back in kind later.

"Regarding the scroll, I'm not entirely fond of lightning." He said, recalling the element as one of his Kekkei Genkai's main weaknesses. "But this Exam is all about challenges. And challenges are made to be overcome." Renji finished, trying his best to give a friendly smile.