Riegal

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP) — Take 2!

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Nice, I have enough time before my shift starts to reply. I'll make edits later tonight.

I'll need more of an explanation on why Origins are irrelevant. I haven't read much Type-Moon related stuff in a while, and I don't know Grand Order as well as I know most other TM stuff, so I could be missing something obvious. Because she shows her origin outwardly far more strongly than normal, it's dictated much of her life's path. It's the reason why she's strong enough to be an Executor, as well as being her biggest weakness, so I thought it was worth as much of mention as it got while I was writing her.

The edgy comment was more off-hand and not serious haha. I agree, I don't think she's 'edgy' at all in terms of personality. Just, you know, I feel her backstory qualifies a bit, what with the whole 'seeing my family killed by my possessed father' as well as living the life of an Executor.

I was going for humans that the Church didn't like, basically. I'm imagining most of them being people getting themselves knowingly involved in demon-related activities.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP) — Take 2!

Well, I need to sleep so I'll stop staring at this and post it for review. To be honest, I don't even know if the Holy Church is a thing in GO, so there's that haha. Little bit edgier than what I usually do, too, but eh.

Master

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Name: Nanase Amano

Age: 20

Personality:
Despite being a rather soft-spoken girl, Nanase is surprisingly outgoing. She's quiet and tends to not say too much, but she does say enough to keep conversations going, and very much enjoys being around people. Due to her Origin, she's incredibly loyal to those that appeal to her, and can easily be convinced by such people.

That trait of hers was happily used by the Holy Church to turn her into a first-rate Executor, and underneath her surface personality hides much of the damage that comes with such a life. Capable of murder without so much as the blink of an eye, Nanase finds she scares even herself at times. In times of conflict and stress, she acts like more of a machine than a person, her Origin taking over and driving her to do her duty no matter the cost. Certainly a good person at heart, only incredible mental fortitude bolstered by her Origin has allowed her to keep her sanity throughout all the atrocities she's committed in the name of the Church, though there are deep cracks. She's a terribly conflicted individual, believing in the teachings of her religion but uncertain that she's not an evil person simply due to the fact that she does all she does in the name of God, as directed by her superiors.

She's an excellent ally, especially to those who realize how completely she can be manipulated. Even to those who don't--or won't--her loyalty and extreme desire to not disappoint makes her good to have around. With her past, it's no surprise that she's more than willing to do any necessary dirty work, and would rather she bear any weight and sin rather than others--after all, it's only a drop in the bucket for her at this point. While she may be considering herself irredeemable, there's no need for anyone else to get to that point if she can help it.

Abilities:
On the surface, Nanase appears unexceptional. She has no elemental affinity, and as with the majority of members of her birth family, she has an impressive number of magical circuits, but that are individually significantly weaker than average.

Her Origin is Faith. It pushes her to have belief and trust in things more easily--from herself, to other people, to religions, and beyond--and as long as she has some sort of faith, she can accomplish feats that would otherwise be impossible for her. It grants her a resolve near impossible to waver, a seemingly mad drive to push herself beyond limits as much as necessary, and causes her magic circuits to convert Mana and Od into magical energy at a much higher rate than they should.

She has the incomplete Magic Crest of her birth family, due to the previous owner, her father, being killed before it could fully be passed to her. The loss of the Crest itself wasn't very significant to Nanase personally--with no affinities, she would have been unable to use most of its spells. The portion that had been passed on first were the ones more relevant to her, relating to material transmutation.

That sort of magecraft was what was focused on during her upbringing in her adoptive family, and as a result, she's extremely proficient in reinforcement especially, and it is what she uses nearly exclusively in combat. Talented with many kinds of blades, they're often the first target for her reinforcement, with her own body being the second most common. Along with the Mana and mindset given to her by her Origin, and the training and years of experience of an Executor, Nanase can reach near superhuman-like physical capabilities for short bursts of time. While obviously a far cry from Servants, at the least she has yet to meet a demon or magus in combat that could put her down.

History:
Born into a small-time magi family, Nanase's early life was uninspiring. Between herself and her two siblings, she was by far the most receptive to her father's magecraft-related teachings and as a result, despite having no elemental affinity, was chosen to be his heir. Before much of her father's knowledge could be passed down to her, however, he suddenly began to grow distant. It wasn't clear what was wrong to the young Nanase, but something was obviously off about him whenever she saw him--which was less and less often.

It wasn't until it was too late that the family realized that Nanase's father had been possessed by a demon. Executor's of the Church were called in, and hours later, before they had arrived, the slaughter began as her father lost it. The family's estate was quickly turned to little more than burning rubble. If not for the struggle of the man beneath the demon, Nanase would have surely been killed like the rest--but that struggle bought enough time for the Executors to arrive, after which Nanase's father was quickly brought down.

Nanase herself can hardly remember what had happened before her father had been killed--the slaughter of her family seemingly naturally removed from her memories to protect herself--but something caused one of the Executors to take interest in her. Fast forward a few days, and the still shocked Nanase had been officially adopted into the Amano family, the Executor that had taken note of her being the head, Hibiki Amano. The family was heavily involved with the Church, so Nanase was brought into the religion quickly. The young girl noted a new compulsion deep within her, and it helped push her to accept the sudden changes in her life. She took to the teachings easily, finding comfort in them. She even came to love Hibiki as a surrogate father. Despite his tough love, and how he almost immediately began grooming her for the life of an Executor, he had saved her life. She would have been nothing if not for him, so she owed it to him to live up to the expectations he began to place on her. Besides, she could recognize that he truly did care for her, in his own way.

And because of that, she became all he had hoped for and more. Officially an Executor at the age of fourteen, her unnatural knack for the murder of both demons and heretical humans was readily apparent, as was her convenient, complete obedience to those above her. She did as she was told, taking care of messes the Church wanted to be rid of, and she worked to convince herself that her actions were justified.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP) — Take 2!

I figure I should check in as well. Having some trouble with both my Servant and Master, which is why it's taking me a while. Have a couple ideas for both but nothing I immediately love, so I'm just working on all of them right now to see if anything clicks for me.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP) — Interest Check, Take 2!

I played a lot haha. With all the main story quests being half AP during the event I never ran out due to level ups. I was up to like 1400 at one point.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP) — Interest Check, Take 2!

Expressing interest! Finally started playing Grand Order because of the recent CCC event, so I think now would be as good a time as any to participate in a Fate roleplay.

Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Nori Azami & Reina Mori

_{Collaboration with @addamas}

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Nori's laughter took Reina by surprise, and her natural reaction was to glance at the other girl with sheepish confusion; as though she assumed she had said something stupid to garner the reaction, but didn't know exactly what. Had she really already made a fool of herself in front of her group?

When she saw Nori's expression, however, the unpleasant doubt she felt dissipated--the smile the girl wore was bright and comforting, and it made Reina notice how nice her laugh was to listen to. Her speaking voice, as well; it was confident, and composed, and--

Reina caught herself. Why... was she thinking so much about Nori? Why was she noticing so much about her on their first meeting? Why did she find herself really wanting to spend more time around her?

The black-haired girl felt her cheeks reddening as she dwelled on the implications of her thoughts.

Enough. You're stupid. That's not--

Nori addressed Reina, saving her from her inner voice. "Your plan to rig the votes would’ve been a good one if you actually knew someone here, let alone everyone.”

Reina looked to the girl, considering her words for a moment before giving a sheepish smile as she scratched at her cheek. Nori was right--to do that she'd have to get everyone on board with the idea, and Reina wasn't exactly adept at speaking, especially to people she didn't even know the names of. She thought it over some more, realizing there was an element of trust needed for the plan as well; if anyone didn't like it, they could simply vote for anyone that already had one vote against them. Doing so probably wouldn't make the person very popular with the rest of the kids, but it was another flaw in the idea.

“I’m not gonna vote on you, I’m not even gonna vote at all. I haven’t even seen anyone’s capabilities yet, so I don’t want to, it’s easy really,” Nori said.

Reina nodded in agreement, wearing her own faint smile. Her eyes widened slightly and she tensed up as she suddenly noticed Nori taking confident steps towards her. Her instincts told her to move away, though she managed to fight against the natural reaction and stop herself.

If it had been anyone else approaching her, she would have taken a few quick steps back due to her quirk... but she didn't have to do that around Nori, as was made evident by the increase in the strength of the girl's breeze against her. It was the first time Reina had ever had someone stand so close to her and appear completely unaffected by her quirk; it was a strange thing for her to experience. The realization took Reina by surprise--somehow, it felt significant in some way. All she could do was meet Nori's close gaze, struck by a measure of quiet awe by the whole situation. She tried to keep her mind from focusing on exactly how close Nori was to her, but she still felt her cheeks and ears slowly flushing pink.

“I challenge you to a game."

With her heart beating too quickly, she listened intently to Nori--her expression and tone commanded attention, but it's not like Reina wouldn't have hung on to her words if that wasn't the case. In Reina's mind, there was no refusing Nori, even before she said she wouldn't be taking no for an answer to her bet. Reina nodded quickly, as if scared that Nori would take back her words.

"O-okay," was all she dared to say.

If Nori was trying to motivate and settle Reina's worries, she was succeeding, to say the least.

Reina's widened eyes finally began to narrow, an expression of quiet determination beginning to replace any uncertainty. She nodded slightly again, more to herself this time. The last person she wanted to see go was Nori... and, well, the promised reward was more than a little appealing. She stuck her hands back in her pockets as she did what she could to fight back the dumb smile that was trying to force itself onto her lips.
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"Um, thank you, Nori," she said with that subdued smile, glancing towards the girl. She paused before adding "I... I'll make sure you won't have to take my place."

The first step Reina could think of to not get any votes: at least act like she belonged, despite whatever she may have thought of herself. She'd focus on fixing her weaknesses once she got through this.

That was what Nori wanted to hear, confidence and determination; Reina would turn into a formidable opponent if she kept this up, and that excited Nori.
But before she could further her interaction, Boro spoke up; he was asking for volunteers and it was the perfect opportunity for Reina to doubt herself again, so Nori instinctively looked at her.

Even before Nori's motivation, Reina had banished the thought of ousting herself. There was no chance she was going out like that now. Feeling Nori's gaze on her, she glanced over at the girl to confirm the thought, suddenly feeling a little self-conscious. Though she looked away again quickly, it was clear by her expression that Nori had nothing to worry about.

"I'm assuming he means volunteers to leave the program," she said with a shake of her head. "I think that'd have to count as a loss for me, so... not happening." The reserved but genuine smile that Nori seemed to constantly elicit from the girl played on her lips again.

Nori couldn't help but return the smile, she was happy that Reina was taking the challenge seriously. But that Boro, he was pro-actively trying to get rid of the weak and doubtful minds without even giving them a chance to develop themselves. It was a cruel thing to do, especially after sending an invitation that gives them hope. It annoyed Nori more than she'd like to admit, enough to spiral her into action.

"Hey Reina, Fenrir; cover your ears." Nori said softly yet a bit agitated, she inhaled deeply, closed her pores and with all her might released as much air out of the pores as she could muster. The result was a screeching whistle emitted from every part of her skin that was uncovered, and it should get everyone's attention.

Reina blinked in curiosity at Nori's command, but followed it without much hesitation--blinking again in amazement and disbelief as the loud whistling took over the noise in the room.

"Boro! What is your problem? Aren't you supposed to be our teacher? What does it take for you to get serious? You know what, I'm annoyed by your attitude-" Nori spoke quite loudly, and in her agitated state, emotions took over as she pointed a finger towards Boro, "I challenge you to a duel! If I lose, I instantly get all the votes, but if I win... you let everyone stay!"

Reina tensed up as the girl addressed Boro as she did. As the initial shock wore off, she found herself having to fight back a small laugh--seeing Nori getting heated was captivating. The confidence she had been demonstrating since the moment they had met shone through brightly, mixed with only a little bit of endearing brashness.

Reina's quiet giggles subsided at the mention of a duel, her eyes widening as uncertainty mixed with her amused expression. While she echoed Nori's sentiments, a fight with Boro seemed like maybe not the best of ideas at the moment. Nori had very likely saved Reina from removing herself from the program, so... maybe she could manage to help the girl in return, in a smaller way.

Her hand reached out, fingers gently tugging on the base of Nori's shirt as a way to help rein the other girl in without making too much of a show out of it. She took a half-step forward, looking from the two who had volunteered themselves--a black-haired boy and a... plant-girl, judging by her voice--to Boro himself.

"Why... are you wanting to kick some of us out already?" she asked him, managing to look him in the eyes. "Is it something Tumble asked you to do? What's the purpose of it?" The girl assumed the reason was along the lines of weeding out any who were obviously not hero-material, but it seemed unnecessarily harsh to do that so soon. They were all kids, and they were all still growing--making such quick judgments on them as they were just seemed unfair. She wanted to hear Boro's own thoughts on the whole thing... and, hopefully, distract him from getting too bent out of shape about Nori's challenge.

@Leotamer @Jabber

Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Reina Mori

Nori's welcoming smile was having an effect on Reina--while the black-haired girl was trying to tell herself it was just a regular polite smile, she couldn't help but find it more sincere than that. Maybe she just wanted to see it as sincere; it was a really nice smile, so much so that Reina had to keep herself from stealing glances at the other girl, using her brief explanation of her quirk as an excuse to look directly at Nori for more than a moment.

Reina watched Nori wordlessly pulling up her sleeves and crossing her arms, before feeling a light wind against her cheeks. The girl blinked in mild confusion, looking down at herself for a half-second before looking back to Nori, the air seemingly coming from her.

“If you don’t mind a constant breeze in your direction, then I don’t mind that gravity well of yours-” she said, still wearing her comforting smile.

Reina swore her heart skipped a beat. For what felt like the dozenth time, she quickly turned her face away from the girl, her hand moving up to play with the hair by her ear--an attempt to hide the faintest blush that appeared on her cheeks. There was no stopping the subdued, genuine smile that was brought onto her lips by the tickle of butterflies in her stomach.

"Th-that's fair," she said with a nod, glancing to Nori. It felt like an understated response, considering how the girl's gesture had made her feel, but Reina figured Nori couldn't know how much it meant to her and wasn't expecting any other reply--besides, Reina wasn't even sure she could explain why herself, and certainly not in the heat of the moment.

Waiting for her blush to fade, the girl threw a look around the room, meeting Tommy's eyes. He gave her a grin and a double thumbs up. The humour she found in the gesture helped settle her thoughts, and she returned a more subtle thumbs up of her own with a playful head shake.

Reina looked back to her group, finally letting go of her hair to stuff her hand back into her pocket. She noticed her own smile still hadn't left her face. The girl may not have been able to fully explain why she felt so comfortable with Nori's breeze against her, gently ruffling her hair, but just being as comfortable and happy as she was even in such a new situation was enough for the moment.

“So now that our team is whole, what are your takes on that vote?”

Reina tensed up a bit at the mention of the vote, having briefly forgotten about it. Her smile finally began to wane. She hadn't wanted to leave a few minutes ago, and even less so now. A pang of guilt swept through her at her renewed selfishness--she wanted to spend more time with Nori. Tommy as well, for that matter. She wanted to see what the two were capable of, along with the rest of the kids. She wanted to grow with them all and learn from them, and do what she could to help them, if anything.

But if she wasn't good enough, she didn't have the right to do those things.

"I..." she hesitated, unsure if she should voice her thoughts. After a long second of mulling it over, she decided she wanted to hear Nori's and Fenrir's input. She could trust them. "I think it should be me, at least out of this group." She had to pause again, the words difficult for her to say. "I'm not really skilled or anything. I think Tumble... slipped up or something by sending me an invitation."

The girl's brow furrowed as she retreated into her thoughts for a moment, her gaze shifting to the floor. She focused on Nori's soothing wind for a moment, before looking up again, her next words decided on.

"But I don't want to go," she said with more conviction than either of her group members had seen from her thus far. "I want to improve quickly and properly earn a spot here."

She bit her lip, glancing around the smoke-encased room again.

"I don't really want to see anyone go--if there has to be someone, it'll be me, but..." She paused for another moment of thought. "If we can't just refuse to pick someone, could we sort of... rig the vote? Make sure everyone gets one vote each--they can't kick us all out on a stupid poll."

Reina caught herself, realizing she was being presumptuous in an uncharacteristic moment of what she felt was overconfidence. Nothing good ever happened when she let herself get like this, so she quickly reined herself in and tempered any forming expectations, her gaze shifting off to the side in some measure of shame and embarrassment.

"I mean, unless you two--you know--think that me or anyone else should be gone and all..."

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Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Fenrir Williams & Reina Mori

_{Collaboration with @Leotamer}

The small interaction Reina was having with Tommy was cut short by a blast of smoke coming from the building. The girl turned her back as quickly as she could react, squeezing her eyes shut and covering her nose and mouth with a hand. The thought of using her quirk to push the smoke away entered her mind, but she immediately dismissed it--fearful cries reminded her with no uncertainty that she was surrounded by people, who would be equally affected by her quirk. Before she could think anything more, she felt herself grabbed and pulled from behind. Just as suddenly, before any real panic could set in, she was let go to find herself inside the hero agency along with her peers.

Her heart pounded from the shot of sudden adrenaline, and the girl kept her guard up as she noticed a smoking man--the cause of the sudden interruption, evidently. Her furrowed brow only let up as he spoke.

Boro. Her superior here. And someone who liked to flaunt the fact that he was kind of a dick. He seemed to have a rough way of doing things, but it was clear to Reina that there was a reason why he was Tumble's second as he claimed.

She listened intently, finally relaxing a bit; no longer was she surrounded by a crowd or being blinded and dragged around out of the blue. The girl smiled to herself at the mention of groups. Just like any regular old first day of school, they were doing some sort of exercise to help introduce themselves to each other.

Boro turned, seemingly finished speaking his piece, but stopped and glanced to the group.

"Whenever any of you feel like you're done, pick someone who you think doesn't deserve to be in this program and head over to me. We don't need any liabilities."

Reina froze and felt her heart sink. She glanced around the room, shrinking back into herself as her thoughts began to run out of her control.

That's me.

She watched the others beginning to group up, seemingly unaffected by Boro's last words. A group of four was formed.

The undeserving.

Tommy being asked by a girl to team up. Reina hadn't had any time to improve herself and her second chance would be over. It had to be obvious to everyone in the room that she was the one to nominate to Boro. Her eyes fell to the floor as she felt the anxiety start to grip her. There wasn't any way she could ever say that one of the others weren't deserving of being in the program. They had been chosen by Tumble. She didn't want to nominate any one else, anyways. So she wouldn't, unless...

The liability.

If she was told she had to, she'd name herself. Even just the thought felt like a punch to the gut, but her mind worked against her wishes to convince her that that was right. Even if she didn't have to name someone, she was beginning to think she'd still fess up to Boro. That would be the right thing to do. Like he said, she didn't think she deserved to be in the program. As she was now, she was convinced she'd be a liability. It wasn't fair to the others here that she get to stay. Despite knowing she wasn't good enough to be under Tumble's tutelage, she had accepted the hero's invitation with the goal of improving herself quickly to meet the standard of her peers. She had had some confidence she could do it, too.

But now, that seemed like a stupid thought--it wouldn't be the first she'd had. What if she didn't improve fast enough? What if in that time, something happened to her peers that she could have prevented had she not been worthless? Taking up their time as well as Tumble's was idiotic, disrespectful, and--worst of all--dangerous.

What am I doing here?...

Fenrir continued to walk up to Reina and immediately felt a pull towards her, a literal force causing him to be drawn towards her, however he seemed unphased by it. He called out, "Hey, my name is Fenrir, want to join the team I am setting up? You seem like you can handle yourself."

The girl started slightly, finally glancing up from the floor towards the voice directed at her. She stared for a moment, before looking around the room at the others with an uncertain frown.

"You..." she started, wanting to tell him he'd be better off with someone else. There was a pause as she couldn't bring herself to say it, and she bit the corner of her mouth in frustration at herself. Why did she still want to convince herself to stay? She'd only bring him and the others down.

Reina's gaze shifted back to the ground. Boro's instructions had been to group up first, then picking someone out as a weakness. If she was going to out herself, it'd be soon, but not right now. She couldn't help but give herself a mocking smile, knowing the justification was just an excuse for her to continue being selfish for a little bit longer. So she nodded to the boy who had introduced himself as Fenrir.

"Alright." She paused, realizing she had been too caught up in her self-destructive thoughts to give her name. "I'm... uh, Reina." She finally stood a little straighter. She shouldn't be here, but in whatever time she had left, she'd do everything she could to not screw anything up for anyone else.

Fenrir paused. You could clearly see a moment of hesistation before he put back on his persona of bravado. "You're nervous aren't you. I am not sure what your defect is, but be like everyone else and hide it a bit better than you are now."

Reina tensed up a bit at being caught, a faint sheepish smile appearing on her lips. Defect. Good way of putting it, she thought. "Maybe not exactly 'nervous,' but something like that," she said with another bite of her lip. "It doesn't matter."

She noticed that she had been letting her control over her quirk slip in the past few minutes. Stupid, but nothing bad had come of it. Her gravity began to weaken as she focused on steadily making it neutral.

"Oh," she said, looking to the boy and then to their peers. "Did you have a third person?"

He replied by nodding his head over to Nori, "Yeah, her name is Nori." he said, shaking his head and wondering if he made the right choice. He then took a quick look around and sighed. He turned around and walked back towards Nori without a word.

Reina followed the direction of his nod, seeing the girl with two-coloured hair. She paused, catching herself staring for a moment. Nori. The attractive girl radiated confidence even when she was doing nothing at all. Reina looked away quickly, more uncertainty suddenly piled on her.

Fenrir's sigh stung her a bit, and she watched him walk away. Her hand reached up to play with her ear. Now was not the time to mess up. She had to follow Fenrir's advice and hide her weak emotions better, and she had to not let him or Nori down.

After a deep breath, she followed the boy, taking a hand out of her pocket for a moment to give Nori a small wave as she approached.

"Hi, I... I'm Reina," she said to Nori, stumbling over her words slightly but not nearly as bad as she had been fearing. The girl stared for a moment at the other's heterochromatic eyes, finding them pretty, but quickly looked away, worried about coming off as weird as well as unreliable.

After a brief second to compose herself, she addressed both members of her group. "My quirk tends to pull people towards me--more so if I'm not careful--so I'm sorry about the annoyance." For good reason, the short explanation had been a staple of her introductions for as long as she could remember. It helped to make her a little less insufferable to be around.

@addamas

Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Decided to steal McFazzer's look, I like it.

Crash Course! - A Boku no Hero Academia RP

Reina Mori

The girl kept her head down as she made her way to the doors, but what she could only describe as the ravings of a lunatic caused her to glance up. She found the source of the voice--a boy around her age, apparently another of Tumble's chosen judging by his very loud answers to the same sort of questions she'd just suffered through herself. Reina couldn't help but eye the boy in disbelief as he pushed through the crowd. Was he the norm for Tumble's recruits? She could only hope not, or she'd be dealing with constant headaches, along with feeling even more out of place.

Not fully paying attention due to her thoughts, Reina lightly bumped into someone. She opened her mouth to apologize, stopping when she noticed the person was a younger boy, and very likely another recruit, judging by his apparent age and the way he was carrying himself.

“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," he said to her.

Reina paused for a moment, realizing he was talking about the reporters. Vultures. That was a nicer way of putting it than what she had in mind, and it elicited a faint but genuine smile from her. She nodded in agreement, throwing a glance over her shoulder at the crowd and the flashing cameras.

"I’m Tommy, nice to meet you. If you don’t mind, I’ll save the handshaking for inside,” he said. She looked back to him as they continued towards the building. She was impressed with how easily social he seemed to be, dealing with the crowd without any visible discomfort. It was a personality trait she often wished she had a bit of, especially in this moment.

"Reina," she replied, eyeing the other apparent recruits that had found themselves gathering at the front of the hero agency. An interesting bunch, that was certain. While there was no shaking the feeling of not belonging quite yet, no one really seemed to 'belong.' Reina wasn't sure how she felt about that--but at the very least, Tommy seemed easy enough to be around.

"I'm not big on shaking hands," she added with another half-smile.

@McFazzer