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Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

I added the tag so there was no confusion with whom Tommy was talking to at the end and the title and image is a personal thing that I've done in a lot of RPs recently. If there's an issue with any of this I'm happy to edit

Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Tommy Sparks

Tommy was holding two brown paper gift bags, bulging with plastic toys and the like from a recent day of work. If he was being honest he really just wanted to go and cash them in, but the wall of flashing bulbs and jostling reporters prevented him from escaping. Given that he was standing alone away from any guardian or authority figure, Tommy was a prime target for the carrion feeders otherwise known as journalists.

“Hello, boy! What’s your name?” suddenly a microphone was shoved in his face and a journalist that was pretty enough for television broke his reverie. Putting on his game face Tommy slouched slightly and looked as shoes and shyly looking up at the lady.

“U-um, I’m Tommy!” the chipper tone and a smile that he had practiced to melt hearts was plastered across his face, his bags swinging by his side.

“And how do you feel about the hero Tumble taking you on?” the woman kindly smiling in response to Tommy’s show.

“Wow, I don’t know what to think. A hero wanting me? I have nooo idea why she’d want me. Everyone else seems just so amazing! How can I possibly compare~?” Looking towards the doors, Tommy although not hating the spotlight wouldn’t mind being out of it.

“And what do you have in your bags Tommy?” looking down the journalist saw the two bags filled with… well, almost garbage. Plastic masks, toy dinosaurs, a firetruck, and other assorted bits of plastic junk all filling the bags to the brim.

“Oh, they’re prizes! I better go now; my ear still hurts from being dragged here! I don’t want to get in trouble on my first day~.” Dodging the question, Tommy with his grin also began dodging the reporters, lightly activating his Quirk to push away from all of them, or more accurately him away from them. Like a fish swimming through a river, Tommy slipped away through the crowd, brushing shoulders with another candidate who’d just finished her interview. Rubbing his cheeks from the smiling, Tommy raised an eyebrow at her

“Gotta hate these vultures don’t ya? They’ll pick you to pieces if they think you’re easy prey. Easier to throw them a bone to fight over and then run like hell while they’re occupied. I’m Tommy, nice to meet you. If you don’t mind, I’ll save the handshaking for inside” the doors to the hero agency less looming in front of him

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Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Tommy Sparks

[APPEARANCE]

[NAME]

Tommy Sparks

[GENDER]

Male

[AGE]

14

[PERSONALITY]

Tommy is a bit of a paradox as he is simultaneously incredibly lazy and clever, mostly being clever enough to find a way to keep being lazy. It's either all or nothing for him. He is a lover once he gets attached to someone he truly and dearly cares for them. It is this tendency to do all he can for those he cares for that gets him in hot water so to speak. He acts younger than his age as a way to lower other people’s guard. Tommy tends to voice his worries and opinions out loud irrespective of others around him, when people take offence he grumpily tells them not to eavesdrop.

[BACKSTORY]

Tommy didn’t initially bother with cultivating his quirk as it was more of a hindrance than something good. Deadbeat parents sending him out each day to collect loose change or lost treasures as if they were using a metal detector on a beach. Eventually though he felt frustrated at home, everyone looked twofaced, half-starved Tommy just went out one day and didn’t return. Incidentally Tommy Sparks isn’t his real name. Tommy deliberately forgot his real name to help run from them.

Cultivating an ‘innocent and adorable’ appearance and mannerisms allowed Tommy to get away with a lot, eventually Tommy realised his quirk could be used in a highly profitable way. Namely winning at pachinko. Making little metal balls fall where he wanted? What better way to fine tune control over a quirk? Slowly Tommy began earning a profit by just sitting down in front of a noise maker and having the metal balls land where he wanted. Still a barely 14 year old kid playing pachinko all day? Even the most neglectful person would start to care sooner or later so he eventually just went to a different parlour each day so they all thought he came once a week.

Now with a sizable amount of pocket change, Tommy rented a room in an internet café and then lived out of there, going to a pachinko parlour during the day for ‘work’ to earn some money and then going back to the internet café at night to educate himself online. He had Sunday ‘off’ to go buy clothes and such. With his relatively stable living Tommy eventually just wanted a long comfortable love with people that won’t use him as a walking ATM to withdraw money from.

[QUIRK]

Pinball Wizard - Tommy has a power loosely connected to magnetism as his quirk. Able to attract and repel any metal object. Tommy can even imitate rudimentary flight, especially in a built up area like a city full of skyscrapers, however in practice it would appear closer to him either swinging from an invisible rope or as if he’s being dragged in a direction.

Currently Tommy’s control and strength of his quirk is a bit low. If Tommy is heavier than the item he’s manipulating, he’ll move it. If Tommy is lighter, he’ll either be pushed or pulled towards it depending on what he’s attempting to do to it. As an example; if Tommy “pushes” a coin into the ground, the coin will fly as fast as Tommy can manage until it hits the ground. Then the force he’s pushing the coin down with will send him upwards. If he tries to “pull” a car, he’ll likely fly towards it instead. If the vehicle was moving he would be better off slamming the brakes on the vehicle than lifting it. Perhaps later with training he’ll be able to manipulate things heavier than him and move things faster.

[SKILLS]

- Persuasion
- Cooking
- Although it's not photographic, his memory is strong

[SAMPLE POST]

Tommy was sitting in a pachinko parlour using his quirk to occasionally influence a jackpot, he couldn’t be as blatant as he used to be as the next town over they almost called the cops on him. There was no proof, but being 14 years old and spending all day playing pachinko? Well, it was already stretching it and cops would just try dragging him to school or worse, home. So when he left the pachinko parlour with his bags to toys to exchange for money and was tapped on the shoulder by an official looking woman the fear in his eyes was likely visible.

“Can I help you miss?” putting on his best deer in the headlights look and laying on the sugar in his voice before he was dragged by the ear, bags of toys in hand, all the way to Tumble's agency

[OTHERS]

Tommy keeps a small fortune in coins on his person ready to use as a makeshift weapon or escape tool with his magnetism

Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Here's my character for public input

Tommy Sparks

[APPEARANCE]

[NAME]

Tommy Sparks

[GENDER]

Male

[AGE]

14

[PERSONALITY]

Tommy is a bit of a paradox as he is simultaneously incredibly lazy and clever, mostly being clever enough to find a way to keep being lazy. It's either all or nothing for him. He is a lover once he gets attached to someone he truly and dearly cares for them. It is this tendency to do all he can for those he cares for that gets him in hot water so to speak. He acts younger than his age as a way to lower other people’s guard. Tommy tends to voice his worries and opinions out loud irrespective of others around him, when people take offence he grumpily tells them not to eavesdrop.

[BACKSTORY]

Tommy didn’t initially bother with cultivating his quirk as it was more of a hindrance than something good. Deadbeat parents sending him out each day to collect loose change or lost treasures as if they were using a metal detector on a beach. Eventually though he felt frustrated at home, everyone looked twofaced, half-starved Tommy just went out one day and didn’t return. Incidentally Tommy Sparks isn’t his real name. Tommy deliberately forgot his real name to help run from them.

Cultivating an ‘innocent and adorable’ appearance and mannerisms allowed Tommy to get away with a lot, eventually Tommy realised his quirk could be used in a highly profitable way. Namely winning at pachinko. Making little metal balls fall where he wanted? What better way to fine tune control over a quirk? Slowly Tommy began earning a profit by just sitting down in front of a noise maker and having the metal balls land where he wanted. Still a barely 14 year old kid playing pachinko all day? Even the most neglectful person would start to care sooner or later so he eventually just went to a different parlour each day so they all thought he came once a week.

Now with a sizable amount of pocket change, Tommy rented a room in an internet café and then lived out of there, going to a pachinko parlour during the day for ‘work’ to earn some money and then going back to the internet café at night to educate himself online. He had Sunday ‘off’ to go buy clothes and such. With his relatively stable living Tommy eventually just wanted a long comfortable love with people that won’t use him as a walking ATM to withdraw money from.

[QUIRK]

Pinball Wizard - Tommy has a power loosely connected to magnetism as his quirk. Able to attract and repel any metal object. Tommy can even imitate rudimentary flight, especially in a built up area like a city full of skyscrapers, however in practice it would appear closer to him either swinging from an invisible rope or as if he’s being dragged in a direction.

Currently Tommy’s control and strength of his quirk is a bit low. If Tommy is heavier than the item he’s manipulating, he’ll move it. If Tommy is lighter, he’ll either be pushed or pulled towards it depending on what he’s attempting to do to it. As an example; if Tommy “pushes” a coin into the ground, the coin will fly as fast as Tommy can manage until it hits the ground. Then the force he’s pushing the coin down with will send him upwards. If he tries to “pull” a car, he’ll likely fly towards it instead. If the vehicle was moving he would be better off slamming the brakes on the vehicle than lifting it. Perhaps later with training he’ll be able to manipulate things heavier than him and move things faster.

[SKILLS]

- Persuasion
- Cooking
- Although it's not photographic, his memory is strong

[SAMPLE POST]

Tommy was sitting in a pachinko parlour using his quirk to occasionally influence a jackpot, he couldn’t be as blatant as he used to be as the next town over they almost called the cops on him. There was no proof, but being 14 years old and spending all day playing pachinko? Well, it was already stretching it and cops would just try dragging him to school or worse, home. So when he left the pachinko parlour with his bags to toys to exchange for money and was tapped on the shoulder by an official looking woman the fear in his eyes was likely visible.

“Can I help you miss?” putting on his best deer in the headlights look and laying on the sugar in his voice before he was dragged by the ear, bags of toys in hand, all the way to Tumble's agency

[OTHERS]

Tommy keeps a small fortune in coins on his person ready to use as a makeshift weapon or escape tool with his magnetism

Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

This might be an odd question, but how... 'criminal' would a character have to be to get picked up by Tumble?

Crash Course Recruitment! - A My Hero Academia RP

I've been looking at Tumble's pic and been thinking "What's her quirk?" and I came to the conclusion she's either self-healing based leading to the personality of someone willing to take on the world's problems and take street rats as sidekicks, or if she's something more weird maybe she can absorb kinetic energy and convert it to power.

As I was about to his post I realized the second one might need explanation: for example she gets punched and then the force of the hit is added to her strength. So if say, All Might punched her (and somehow survived) she would have the strength of that blow. Then she gets punched and punched and gets stronger and stronger which she can then unleash all at once.

EDIT: And now this may all be missed. Good timing me :P

Crash Course Recruitment! - A My Hero Academia RP

Tumble seems rather fitting of her name, bloody nose really completes the image.

Crash Course Recruitment! - A My Hero Academia RP

@Jabber I have no problem with that whatsoever, magnetism it is. I'm sure that by this point you've already started work on the plot for the RP, but just so you know I have no particular preference with which plot the RP takes.

Crash Course Recruitment! - A My Hero Academia RP

I'm kinda interested in this. I have two preliminary ideas for quirks. The first being a quirk that is similar to a video game's inventory system, able to store and remove things from a hammerspace meaning they will have to store things that assist with hero work/villainy rather than having actual super human attributes.

The other is less creative, but I like the name "Pinball Wizard" for a guy with Magneto powers :P