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>Klarion
You mean that personification of chaos? Fun times.
I sure am interesting how people here are going to handle magical powers without them stealing spotlight from the rest of the team.
@Weird Tales, I have a character idea of my own. Basically, a daughter of a Medics Sans Frontiers activist that was killed in the armed raid on his clinic in South America that discovered her powers trying to save her father, that was later "rescued" and taken in by a local walrlord styling herself after "Lady of the Dead" image who became her mother figure and teached her how the world is the "dog eats dog" place where only power matters. Her power would be genius-level practical intelligence, super-powered creative intuition, possibly to the point of likeness of CAD system in her head(especially when it comes to things related to biology), and improbable to the point of being seemingly supernatural practical medical skills.

Her alias, for a given value of such(it's rather informal, since she preferred to keep out of spotlight) would be "Sawbones".


If that's ok with you, I'd write a detailed charsheet.
@banjoanjo Um, guys? I think I specifically mentioned that Gloria tries to collide with as little "runner" people as possible, mainly targeting taggers.
@TheHangedMan If Gloria's intention is unclear, let me clarify it: she's using Takumi as a kiting bait attracting everyone's attention to himself to barrel into them/sweep their legs from under them while they're distracted and quickly run to the next target. The idea is that Gloria being much heavier(and durable) than most of the people on the quadrangle could topple most everyone, sowing confusion and forcing them to spend time getting back up, reorienting themselves and generally slowing them down by knocking the air out of them, so they will be less effective as pursuers after that.
Gloria was unfamilliar with the rules of this "freeze tag" game.
Truth be told, she was unfamilliar with most of the "normal" childhood games - there was no games where she has grown, only physical drills. Though this "freeze tag" game was passibly familliar to some of them - evasion training or free for all brawls came to mind - incapacitating your opponents appeared not to be the main goal of it.
So Gloria spent a few moments rapidly absorbing the situation around her, which almost cost their team Takumi - wait, no, apparently he had some sort of plan, which was.....leading everyone on the merry chase behind him? What was even the point? Gloria frowned, then shrugged - she could certainly adapt and use the line-up of targets he created for her.
Her plan was rather simple, being based on two details: first, rules said nothing about holding the teammate to have constant "unfreeze" state; and second, apparently rules did not forbid bumping into and/or tripping each other.
Funny thing is, most people underestimate the value of keeping a good footing in a fight - whereas bad fall could leave you winded or even strain something in your body, and most people does not know hot to get back up without wasting precious seconds - and Gloria, with her large size and very dense bones and muscles(courtesy of Ship of Theseus), weighed just about over a hundred and thirty kilograms, making her a living battering ram akin to many of heavy-weight american football players, only in much more compact compact(if tall and well-developed) frame.
So she grabbed the forearm of the King with a grip like iron vice and prepared for the charge, lowering herself and tilting her body slightly forward.
- Vatch our backs, and don't get separated. Try to stay behind me and not get caught. - quickly hazarded she before bolting after Takumi, weaving left and right to "accidentally" collide with or yank their legs from under the maximum number of pursuers while simultaneously avoiding collisions with other runners. While doing that she used her free hand to shove those trying to catch her away from her and generally clear the way, charging in the complicated curved line through the crowd that Takumi attracted to himself. While doing it she yelled at the top of her lungs, timing her yells so they happen just before the collision with someone to startle and disorient them:
- Coming trough! Coming trough! Make vay! Vatch it!
>getting appointed as a head of security comittee
You do realize that student council already has wardens patrolling the school(well, if HM won't retcon this bit of lore from the previous game) who are just buried with paperwork and stuff at the first day, right?
Gloria mostly sat through clasees of Math and English trying very hard to do one thing - not fall asleep. It will be extremely bad form to be found sleeping on the first day of the class, especially since it was promising to be a short one anyways. Not that she cared about teachers or anything - it was more of a traditional value to her. You should at least try to be alert at something you start, after all. Still, neither piqued her interest(just as she expected), and so she was rather relieved to move on to something that was interesting in the past, groups of underclassmen or no(and they were not that much younger, in her personal opinion - what's a year or two, after all?).
On the way to the lockers(with those two slowpokes with her, Gloria did not arrived first, as she did before meeting them, but she didn't mind, not being that competitive) she briefly considered to ditch PE clothes and instead arrive in her "combat" attire, but decided against it - this was not sparring and will probably be more about pacing and advantages of groups of different sizes and stuff like that, and teacher seemed not like the one who would be lax on the rules, so arriving in shorts and tanktop will get her singled out....not a welcome disruption, not at that time of day - she just wanted to get things done as expediently as possible, for now, and get out of school and to that workshop mentioned earlier by an instructor. She smiled mischievously at the thought of trolling said teacher later in the year.
Then came the thing Gloria have waited for and patiently keeped nearby Takumi and King - division of their class into the trained group. Acting without much(if any) hesitation, she grabbed both of them at the same time into the crushing hugs.
- No freakin' vay I'm going to be paired vit someone else. - she announced loudly enough for everyone interested to hear - If I'm going to vork vit someone - it's gonna be tose tvo. - she snorted, realaxing her hold - For one, I don't vant to scrap all the shit ve came up vit and re-make it all over again.
To the Takumi, Gloria for a moment became the towering inferno of light, not unlike to the incandescently glowing ball of plasma - not unlike the sun. Two bright tendrils enveloped around himself and the King, warm to the touch. Those were not the only tendrils - there were a few more, but the ones between him, girl and the King was by far thickest and brightest.
Gloria nodded, producing her ID with a flourish and offering it to the instructor. Light patterns tracing her skin slowly began to dim.
Gloria was sitting beside Takumi for the whole fight, intently watching unfolding battle. Golden-white sunburst pattern flickered in and out of existence on her brow several times in the course of the sparring, but for the large part, she was content to let Takumi do his thing. Besides, it was not like King was going to lose - in her humble opinion, his power, when properly applied, could easily rank as one of the top-tier powers - and he excercised with it.
Battle went more or less as expected and she dug into her PDA in search of their next class when teacher happened. She prepared to put on her best charm and bullshit their way out of there when Pablo opened his mouth and started blabbing.
Gloria was acting more on reflex than on something else. Golden swirls traced her skin, manifesting in an elaborate tattoo pattern, and sunburst simbol blossomed into existence on her brow, surrounding her head with a faintly glowing golden-white halo.

Striding forward with sudden confidence and magnetism in her body language, Gloria interposed herself between other students and the teacher and addressed him while he was still some distance away.

Booming, resounding voice filled the stadium, drowning out any other attempt at conversation. Gloria did not shout, but her voice somehow gained that piercing quality usually associated with professional speakers or commanders of old; men and women who could cut through the clamour of a raging mob or a battlefield without even raising their voice much.
- 'ello, sir. Ve're doing exactly vhat it looks like: sparring off shedule, to gain some extra practice vit our Noble Arms. Ve are terribly sorry to use school's facilities tat vay, but you 'ave to understand: neiter of us is witin rank range tat vould allov extra training, and vitout it ve'll never get tere. Also, some of us don't vant to make mistakes before teir peers, so tey vanted to train off te books. - Gloria's voice was filled with supreme confidence in herself and her words - she talked about what has happened as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, not even deserving any thought about it. - Sir....may I ask you to not report us on tis? Ve honestly vant to improve ourselves. - she seriously looked in the eyes of approaching man.
Gloria wanted to suggest going after the militant group to crack their skulls into shape, but then someone proverbially caught the King red-handed.
She hissed:
- Shhhit! Takumi, cover me, I'll go and try to pull tat idiot out of the pit he dug 'imself into. - she stood up and quickly walked to the gamblers - Guys, let's keep tis civil enough for nov, director's said teacher vould be here in a moment. 'ov much did 'e cheated you for, anyvay?

Takumi nodded and started paying attention.
@Eklispe
If I recall correctly, HM asked LB to post every day at least once. So, well, he's pointing out he cannot do that without HM's post.
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