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Name
Haruko Hayashi
Age
17 years old
Personality
Many people tend to see Haruko as rather moody or perpetually bored, which isn't helped by the fact she rarely smiles. She normally comes off to others as somewhere between aloof and at worst caustic, but it betrays her inner nature. At heart, she is actually rather shy, putting up a front as though to prevent people to get too close, and to that end, Haruko is actually much more good-hearted than she might let on.
Her desire to become is an Abyssal Hunter is genuine; she truly wants to be able to protect other people. All that said, Haruko is a bit stubborn as well when she's already made up her mind about something, often finding it difficult to consider other people's points of view in situations. Despite that, she actually is aware of how unsociable she comes off, and wants to better herself, not just in that regard, but in many others as well.
Ability
Negation (Rank B) - The ability to nullify the abilities of other people, as well as their effects. With a touch, she can instantly disable most other people's powers, be it an element, projectile, energy bursts, personal enhancement, and so on.
Her ability is not automatic or passive; she must consciously activate it to make it work. When her power is in effect, her eyes glow a light shade of red (as opposed to her naturally blue eyes) to indicate its effect. Her power can only be active for a short while at most before needing to "recharge."
She can also transfer the effect of her power across objects, similar to an electrical current. In other words, if both she and her target are in contact with the same object, her ability can still affect her target without the need for physical contact.
There are also certain powers and effects she simply can't undo at all, but that's a case by case basis deal.
It is believed that, given the link between the appearance of the Leviathans and the development of Diver abilities, Haruko's power of Negation is able to have on adverse effect on such creatures.
Short Background
Born to an American father and a Japanese mother, and raised in the states, Haruko is an only child. Though she enjoyed a financially comfortable life in the earliest years of her childhood thanks to her father's occupation, it mattered little as her parents separated when she was at a young age due to irreconcilable difficulties, most prominently physical abuse and infidelity on her father's part.
Following that incident, Haruko's mother retained sole custody and moved away with her. For the following several years, Haruko lived with her mother, a working-class woman, having essentially "downgraded" in class, though Haruko never bore any ill will toward her mother for her decision. Some years later, Haruko's mother passed due to illness, and so, just like that, custody of Haruko transferred to her father, whom she'd previously had no contact with for many years.
Though she was born with her powers, due to the nature of her power, her power went unnoticed and undeveloped until Haruko's adolescence, shortly before her mother's death. In the time since Haruko had been separated from her father, he had gotten a new occupation of sorts that prompted her to move with him to a new home in The City, where she was enrolled into Endymion Academy in hopes of becoming an Abyssal Hunter. -
Name
Kylie Heidrich
Age
17 years old
Personality
Kylie has a serious, no-nonsense attitude. She is coarse and rude, almost resembling a punk or schoolyard delinquent. The only emotion she does seem to be comfortable expressing outwardly is anger or any degree of irritation, her face often twisted into a scowl. However, she does take her work and training at the institute seriously. In that regard, one could describe her as someone with the academics of a model student, yet the personality of a delinquent.
Despite her efforts to fancy herself a person who acts logically and rationally, Kylie can be an easy target to get a rise out of, especially if one knows what buttons of hers to push.
Ability
Enhancement (Rank B) - The ability to "enhance" certain properties, whether in herself, others, or objects. The term is broad and refers to many different implications, but the basic idea is that she is able to make herself stronger or her abilities more potent in some manner to an unknown extent (as none of her limits have ever been properly tested yet due to more enhancement requiring more concentration) in different ways or "classes," the effect being visible and demonstrated through the "enhanced" area taking on a more metallic, almost armored look.
Kylie can use Enhancement to make any part of her body stronger and / or more efficient, which can include enhancing her arms to provide her with superhuman strength, her legs to provide speed and jump at great heights, or evenly distribute her power all around her body for enhanced durability. In this regard, her power manifests in the form of a sort of metallic "armor."
On top of Kylie's power being able to tire her out if she overuses it in a given time, depending on how much energy she outputs, she is generally able to only able to significantly enhance one area at a time, as in, she can either be strong enough to pick up a car or be fast enough to outrun a car at a given time, but she can't have both. However, she can easily distribute her power in this manner if the degree of enhancement is not as intensive, essentially striking a moderate balance if needed and able.
Also, if faced with enough external resistance, a given reinforced part of her body may end up shattering and her powers are susceptible to being disabled for a short period of time. For example, Kylie may enhance her body to the degree that she can withstand bullets, but if she were blasted with something stronger like an explosion, the "armor" built up around her body would shatter and be disabled temporarily. On top of that, as her enhancement acts as an additional layer of skin, or it can be described as such, her "armor" can be bypassed by those who might be able to target her internal systems.
Short Background
Details are sparse about Kylie's past; not much is known about her at this present time, as she is very secretive about her background.
What is known is that Kylie was born in a normal household, growing up alongside an older brother, raised by their two parents. Both Kylie and her brother quickly turned out to be Divers, developing their powers at an early age. From there, however, whatever became of her family is unknown at this point in time, as she doesn't speak of it.
Currently, she is under the custody of her maternal uncle, Christian Heidrich, who works as a teacher at Endymion Academy. -
Name
Akari Saito
Age
16 years old
Personality
Akari is, by nature, not a particularly aggressive or even violent person. In fact, she normally detests bloodshed and conflict, opting instead to always pursue a peaceful resolution. She considers violence and battle to be an absolute last resort, and ironically, a last resort she finds that she has to resort to often.
Day to day, she is demure, soft-spoken, docile, patient, respectful, and the like, but has trouble emoting.
Ability
Spatial Manipulation (Rank B) - The ability to manipulate space as the wielder sees fit. Conceptually, it is an extremely powerful ability in of itself, especially with the right mind behind it, and just having this power makes Akari one of the lucky few to possess the potential to reach S-Rank, but her lack of control and understanding of what she is even capable of hold her back, landing her at B-Rank instead.
Due to the abstract nature of her power and the aforementioned lack of complete understanding she has in her own ability, Akari is barely able to even use it, as manipulating space requires a great deal of concentration for her to even manifest. To facilitate her ability to use her power, Akari requires an object to help her "anchor" and visualize her ability into existence. While she can theoretically use any object to anchor her, her "object" of choice is a sword; perhaps an antiquated weapon in modern sensibilities, but it is the most familiar to her, and thus, the most comforting for her to use. Specifically, her personal sword, which she calls Sensou.
She has a great amount of applications at her disposal by manipulating space with just a sword alone. Some such techniques she has learned to hone include:
- Flash Step - Akari can temporarily "erase" space by slicing the air and cutting through it like paper, causing a tear appears in the air, taking the form of a white void underneath. If Akari (or anyone else, for that matter) were to try to step toward this "non-existent" space, she would simply suddenly appear in front of the tear, essentially "teleporting" right in front of it. By doing this in rapid succession, she is able to move swiftly as she pleases like a mad dash. When using this technique in particular, the space she "erases" only remains as such for a brief period of time before space essentially repairs itself on its own. If she were to reach A-Rank, she will be able to unlock extra properties concerning this ability.
- Distant Cut - Akari can also use the application of "cutting space" in an more directly offensive manner, cutting her enemy from a distance so to speak. In contrast to Flash Step in which the torn space takes the form of a white void, Distant Cut takes the form of a black void instead. She can essentially "teleport" a slash from her sword toward any position she can visualize, as its name implies, able to slice an enemy from afar.
- Barrier - Self-explanatory. For a defensive application, Akari can also manipulate space to temporarily "solidify" it, preventing anything to bypass the area in which she cuts. Though its area of effect is invisible, this ability is characterized by Akari using wide swings to maximize her area of effect, though the main downside is that -- like the other applications -- the time of effect is a short window, so to maintain the barrier, she would have to continuously swing widely at the air, which she likens to calligraphy in a way.
Short Background
Born to a well-off Japanese household, her father is a respected, high-ranking officer in the JSDF. It was her father that instilled a sense of national pride in Akari, and though her father has made little secret that he would have preferred a son, Akari worked tirelessly in her youth to live up to her father's expectations, training in swordsmanship (initially as a simple hobby of sport), excelling notably in iaido.
When Akari's Diver powers began to develop in her adolescence, her father wasted little time in sending her to Endymion Academy, pleased in a way that she had potential to be a useful asset for the good of mankind. Obliging her father's wishes, Akari works tirelessly to become an Abyssal Hunter that can protect the free world at large, claiming her father's will to be her own will as well. -
Name
Vera Crusher
Age
17 years old
Personality
Vera is a very haughty girl with a strong personality. Self-absorbed and overbearing, she is the spitting image of a spoiled rich girl, stuck up, entitled, and arrogant, often speaking in a domineering tone. She considers herself to be above most others at first impression, considering them "commoners" and believing she is above Endymion Academy as a whole.
However, despite all that, she is actually rather easy to fluster. Having had little actual human interaction outside of her family, servants, and friends of equal social standing, Vera possesses a poorly defined view of the common world, oblivious to certain norms in a "common" life and what exactly such a life entails.
That said, Vera is capable of being nice; among those who have "earned" her respect, she is actually polite and well-mannered like an "ideal lady," and she is not entirely oblivious to the fact that her privileged upbringing has granted her a distorted lens far removed from the sensibilities of others, only vaguely aware that her experiences differ from many others, but unable to express such sentiments.
Ability
Fire Manipulation (Rank C) - In a way, it's rather self-explanatory. Vera can manipulate fire at will, conjuring it practically out of thin air so long as oxygen is present. Being so self-explanatory means her power is less complex than the abilities of others, but also means less constraints for her to keep in mind, aside from having to manually activate her "powered form."
When in her powered form, characterized by her hair changing color from black to red, on top of being able to conjure fire at will, Vera is also immune to fire damage, and is able to manipulate pre-existing fire as well.
She uses a lighter to facilitate the usage of her power, though she dislikes even having such an object on her, considering it an object of commoners.
Short Background
Born to an aristocratic family in England, Vera enjoyed the fruits of privilege since birth, wanting for nothing, and enjoyed her youth counting down the days until she would inherit the full fortune of the Crusher estate once her eighteenth birthday came. However, the manifestation of her Diver powers threw a bit of a wrench in those plans, startling her family quite a bit.
Given her volatile personality and her equally volatile power -- especially uncontrolled as it was -- Vera's parents had decided to delay their daughter's inheritance, believing that having an untrained Diver as the sole heiress of the family would tarnish their reputation and standing unless Vera otherwise proved her "worthiness" of her inheritance and the extra power she suddenly had. Thus, Vera was enrolled into Endymion Academy, tasked with learning the value of discipline and becoming a reputable Abyssal Hunter. Though she has no actual interest in becoming a Hunter, she reluctantly agreed to it, hoping to prove her worth as the up and coming heiress of her family. -
Name
Nancy Waller
Age
17 years old
Personality
Nancy is, perhaps, best described in one word as a ditz. As happy-go-lucky as a girl if there ever was one. A bit dim at times and slow to pick up on certain details, more of a "big picture" kind of person instead.
Nancy likes to consider herself the go-getter of her circle. She is outspoken, bubbly, playful, upbeat, cheerful, and friendly, perhaps to an overbearing degree at times. As ditzy as she may come off though, she is not entirely dim, able to prove perceptive to a surprising degree, and might even come off occasionally as a "wise beyond her years" kind of person, according to herself at least.
Ability
Shapeshifting and Mimicry (Rank C) - The power to take the form of other people, perfectly mimicking their appearance, voice, and clothes, regardless of factors such as height, weight, and race. Nancy can even mimic other people's powers if applicable, to a limited degree, as well as their innate physical attributes. However, for Nancy, this ability comes with many stipulations.
- Nancy is not always in complete control of her ability; she can sometimes be prone to shape-shifting without meaning to, especially depending on her mood.
- On top of that, a half-baked shapeshift can result in an incomplete transformation if she's not careful (for example, might sometimes end up only mimicking someone's head or limb, or something else).
- When assuming someone else's form, provided they have powers, the copied power she inherits is only approximately a third as strong as what the real person can do (for example, if a person with super strength can lift up to 900 pounds, Nancy can only lift up to 300 when borrowing their power). This can be circumvented if the person in question becomes stronger over time and Nancy observes this however.
- To that end, when mimicking someone else, Nancy will also inherit their weakness even if she is not particularly weak to that in her normal state.
- Her shapeshifting is limited mainly to what she observes, or in other words "scanning." Nancy cannot normally morph into someone she's never seen or "make someone up" to change into, and she can only mimic someone's powers if they see it in action. The same goes for clothes; if Nancy sees someone wearing a white t-shirt for example, their clothes will always only be able to change to that white t-shirt if she choose to morph into that person, until she sees that person wear something else.
Nancy has had a rather simple life, born into a relatively well-off middle-class family and raised by two, normal parents. Her life was certainly what one could describe as normal, or at least, as normal as could be before she realized she was an Diver. Otherwise, everything was "normal" about Nancy's life; her nuclear family, her environment, the people she knew, and her hobbies. She life was, to put it in one word, traditional. And despite living in relative comfort, she had always felt out of place there.
Such comforts didn't last for long though, as Nancy eventually developed the power of shapeshifting come puberty, suddenly finding herself able to copy other people's forms, which caused quite a stir in the "normal" family who were unnerved by her developments. These abnormal powers and her lack of control over it alienated her from her parents to a degree, try as they did to understand her situation. It was then that her parents had agreed that the best thing to do was to send her to enroll her into Endymion Academy to help her hone her power and help instill in her a stronger sense of who she is, and maybe even use it for the betterment of humanity.
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- Supporting Character Repository
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Christian Heidrich
A seemingly mild-mannered teacher at Endymion Academy, he is the maternal uncle of Kylie Heidrich, as well as her current guardian. Though his cheery demeanor and level disposition gives him an air of youth, coupled with his soft appearance, he is actually well into his 40s.
A much younger man studying abroad in Japan when the Leviathans first appeared and terrorized the country, Christian was among the first Divers to manifest, though he is far from the strongest, sporting a B-Ranked ability called Boost which is said to be able to enhance the performance of his mental faculties, in a similar vein to what his niece can do to her physical body, able to improve a given sense or reflex at will for a period of time. Despite his lack of an impressive power though, he makes up for it with his decades of experience honing his ability, making him fit to educate and mentor the younger generation. -
Isaac Hughes
One of the current members of The City's General Board, Hughes presides over not just the internal workings of Endymion Academy, but also The City at large, answering only to the Chairman of the Board. Otherwise, Hughes is -- for all intents and purposes -- among the top authorities of The City, not unlike a local politician. In particular, his "specialty" is overseeing the Academy, while others oversee the military aspect of the registered and graduated Abyssal Hunters, making him among the more well-known faces of the General Board, at least among the Academy.
Otherwise, other than the fact that he is not a Diver, very little is known about Hughes, preferring to keep his personal affairs just that; personal.
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