To Aru Kagaku No Sekai

A Certain Scientific World

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Half signup, half interest check, I'll start this RP if enough people are interested. Initial premise is based on The To Aru verse (As in academy city and the esper levels) but will be diverging from the plot relatively early on because I myself am not familiar with the non-anime plot. So yay, no spoilers. Read the page for details on the basic setting.

You won't be playing the canon characters, though I may NPC them into the story. Only esper characters will be allowed as I'm focusing on the science side, though I may make exceptions on case-by-case basis. And again, canon is not necessarily applicable to this RP as I don't know what happens beyond the anime and don't want to conflict with it.

And I apologize but Nick the Swing will not be allowed in this RP due to past issues.

Academy city is a gathering of students. Extraordinary students dubbed espers, who wield supernatural psychic powers. Academy city strives to maximize the potential of these espers. The espers are ranked from 0-5, with zero being those with no measurable power, and five being those with those with the most extraordinary power and mastery over it. There have been only seven individuals to reach the level 5 mark. Until now.

A new Academy City initiative, labelled, Project Firefly, has brought together individuals with potential, ranging from level 0s to level 4s. These individuals have been noted by the city beforehand and have been granted admission into Project Firefly. For the project, they are brought together into a testing facility with some of the best and brightest (though perhaps morally ambiguous) scientists. Through a series of tests (sometimes involving things that look like cat scans and at other times, a few pills here and there) over the course of two and a half months, all the test candidates have achieved immense power. These newly empowered espers generally range from level 4 to 5 in power, but are yet unfamiliar with their abilites. You are these espers.

This RP will be relatively open but I'll have a few antagonistic forces at work to serve as a goal for all of you. With such powerful characters, I expect lots of action =). And most of all have fun.

This is probably insufficient information but I'll add more as requested.

CHARACTER SHEET (shamelessly copied from previous To Aru roleplays)

• Name:
• Age:
• Gender:
• Nationality/Home Country: (I’m going to be lax, and say that foreigners could be brought to Academy City and turned into Espers. Keep in mind, however, that espers newer to the city are less likely to be chosen by Project Firefly. Those selected should have at the very least potential and are familiar with the city.)
• Appearance: (I’m not going to be a Wordcount Nazi here, but I’d at least recommend something that would allow us to figure out what your character looks like. Please give a basic description of facial features, build, and clothing, at the least.)
• Personality: (Again, I hate to be a prick about it, but if you don’t put much here, it’ll be hard to really get a focus of who your character is. If you’re going to focus and develop your character IC, then that’s great, but we should at least know what type of person they are.)
• History: (This I’ll be less strict about. I mean, yeah, if you write me a novel you’d have both my respect and my gratitude, but it’s not necessary, as such. I want to know how they became involved in Project Firefly, how they became as powerful/skilled as they initially are, and a justification for their actions and personality. Please use common sense in doing this.)
• Affiliations: (Aside from Project Firefly, who do they take orders from?)
• Weapons/Equipment: (If any)
• Training: (Other than the project itself)
• Skills:
• Esper Rank: (We should only have around three level fives (not including my own character). First come, first serve. Technically, most of your Espers should be level four, but lesser levels will be accepted if they have a unique/useful ability)
• Esper Name: (The name of your ability. Preferably English, doesn’t have to have a Japanese double meaning unless you feel that awesomely badass.)
• Ability Description: (Be sensible but creative and use as much scientific knowledge you have.)

Also shamelessly copied from To Aru Kijin. More what you call guidelines than actual rules. Don't have to be this comprehensive but it is appreciated.

Dual’s Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Character Appearance

Hello, and welcome to the hit talk show, “Dual’s Roleplay Rules!” Today, we’re going to be talking about how Dual usually makes a character appearance, in all its over-descriptive glory!

I typically start off by splitting up my bio into four sections: Body, Face, Clothing, and Presence. Usually, I write and post the character appearances in that order, although you’re free to mix it up as you like.

To begin with, you need to describe your character’s body. How you go about doing this often depends on the character’s gender, but for the sake of brevity I won’t specify yet, and instead explain, at the appropriate time, what I would do in the case of either gender. First, you’ll want to describe your character’s build. This is not the same as their body, for a variety of reasons—body refers to how they appear, whereas build refers to just their basic structure—the template, so to speak, of their body. Several factors go into this: Height, weight, physique, and, of course, shape. Height and weight are easy—just choose some numbers (Preferably in the measuring system that best applies to your character) and you’re done. Remember, someone who’s six feet tall probably won’t weigh ninety pounds, unless they’re really, really, skinny, so keep it reasonable, ok~? Now, the next two things, physique and shape, are directly related to the height and weight, so kindly keep it consistent. Physique is a bit more complicated than plugging in numbers—you need to describe how muscular they are, how fat they are, and just where that fat and muscle is concentrated. Most characters are going to be fairly average and healthy, in the sense that they’ll have a reasonable amount of fat and muscle, but nothing too extreme. Frequently one will find a really scrawny character, and less frequently you’ll find a large character—both in fat and muscle. Rarely, if ever, will the fat and muscle relationship be at all unbalanced—you’re almost never going to find a really muscular but skinny character, or an overweight character without much muscle. Almost always are the proportions equal. Also, if you’re planning on going really into detail, I’d suggest including their BMI and other such facts!

Now, onto shape. This one varies between genders—males are naturally more triangular shaped early in life, then thick rectangle shaped in the middle of their life, then trapezoid shaped at the end of their life, assuming they only put on a little weight. Females vary, although the typical standard for, “Beauty, ” is hourglass shaped early in life, then sort of skinny-rectangle shaped for the rest of their lives, if I remember correctly. Naturally, all males and all females don’t follow this pattern, and the standards for beauty or attractiveness vary by culture. I’d suggest either describing the body in comparison with a polygon or physical object, or just flat out describing it in detail, without a metaphor.

Now, girls are often referred to physically by their three sizes, although this is less common in western culture when it’s not in a roleplay based on eastern culture, for some reason. Don’t be afraid to talk about how your character appears physically, when they’re wearing clothing, even if it would be considered rude in real life—in short, so long as it can be seen normally, then feel free to describe it. It might be a little embarrassing, but it’s a fact that you can often see a person’s basic shape in real life. It’s actually probably a bit sexist, but meh, you can blame the idiot advising you if anyone complains (Id est, me.)

Skin is the final body descriptor. What’s their skin tone? Do they have any scars? Moles, pimples, freckles, et cetera? Is there skin marred by anything, in short. Remember to describe their race and such, although most characters will be either Caucasian or Asian due to how the typical roleplayer’s brain works. If you do choose to pick another race, odds are everybody will naturally assume that you, the roleplayer, is of that race. Humans are kind of weird.

And that’s it for body~ Now let’s move on to face.

Face is, perhaps, the most important descriptor for a character—and the most often ignored, the least often described. It makes sense, in a way—we don’t really have a common vocabulary for describing a person’s face, and thus frequently limit our descriptions to eye and hair color, beauty, and hair length, with the occasional additional feature, usually when it’s something odd or attention grabbing (Missing a nose, for instance, or having fangs. Not that I’ve ever roleplayed with a character who didn’t have a nose.) This isn’t bad writing, as such—but it can be improved.

First off, let’s describe face shape. There are a number of face shapes, but the most common are Oval, round, square, triangle, reverse triangle, rhombus, and reverse tear drop. Look in a mirror, and figure out which one yours is~! Unless you’re horribly deformed~! In which case, get out of my sight, mutant~!

I truthfully don’t really know how to describe the face shapes to people, so I’d suggest using Google images or something to figure out what type you want.

Next up is the facial features. Let’s start with mouth, shall we?

The mouth is deceptively easy to actually describe. One might think that it requires a lot of thought, but really, no. Big mouth or small mouth? Thick lips or thin lips? What colour lips are they? Are the teeth white and strait, or yellow and crooked? And…that’s about it. I don’t have much further advice, and to be honest you can skip most of that if you want, but it can help to be thorough in some cases.

Move up a bit, and you’ll find the nose. Big or small? Wide or thin? Long or short? And…that’s about it. Again, feel free to skip all but the first one if you want—just say, “Small nose, ” and most people will be more than happy.

Now, the eyes! Yay, eyes! I’d recommend giving your character a natural eye colour, unless either they’re an anime character or you have some excuse for having eyes that change with their mood. Which is stupid, for the record. Dual will deny any character that has a mood ring for eyes immediately. Also, are the eyes large and wide? Narrow and suspicious? Do they have a twinkle, or are they dead and cold? How large are your character’s pupils, if it’s noticeable? Are the eyes set strangely on their face (Too high, too low, et cetera.)

Just above the eyes are the eyebrows. Feel free to skip this if you want, but I’d recommend at least saying if they’re thin or thick, and how they’re angled. The angling of the eyebrows can make any character look perpetually angry and thuggish, giving off a very nice Angel Densetsu vibe. Can they raise an eyebrow dramatically? Say if they have a unibrow if they have one, but otherwise, don’t mention it.

Move a bit below, and we have facial hair~! I’m going to leave this up to you, as for the most part there are so many different varieties of facial hair that me going off and trying to explain to you what to write would consist of telling you where males grow facial hair to begin with, so please deal with it yourself, you hideous mutant~!

Now, describe the face itself. Beautiful? Handsome? Cute? Ugly? Bland? Boring? Thuggish? What are their cheekbones like—prominent, or hidden in a layer of chubbiness? Do they have a pointed chin, or a round one? Anything interesting about their ears? Do they wear glasses? And so on, and so forth.

Hair is, perhaps, the most frequently described—and easiest to describe—of all the facial features. Simply, tell the reader your character’s hair colour and style. Simple as that. (Be sure to include length in the style, by the way.) You might want to add if they have any hair ribbons or anything, or if their hair is greasy or silky, but…for the most part, hair is easy. This doesn’t mean that a hell-load of description can’t go into it—you can describe the hair style for pretty much ever—but I wouldn’t recommend it, especially if you left most of the other stuff blank.

And now we’re done with facial features~! Yaaaaaaaaaay~!

Clothing is important, as most characters wear it. Describe their usual clothing, their combat clothing, their favorite clothes, whatever. If you do choose to describe more than one type of clothing, be sure to include a description of what scenario the clothing would usually be worn in. Additionally, include a note at the bottom or something if the clothing in the description is just what they’re wearing at the beginning. Remember, most people change their clothes!

I like to start from the bottom up. First, shoes, including how tight the laces are. I usually don’t spend much time on them, because honestly, who cares? Maybe people with a feet fetish, but to hell with them.

Pants are next. What type of lower-body wear are they wearing? A skirt? Jeans? Formal pants? What’s it made out of? How durable is it? Colour and texture? Pockets? Belt? Tears and rips? Et cetera. If applicable, describe how much ankle or leg is showing, and if they’re wearing socks or other form of legwear.

The torso is next, and usually the most likely to be described. Again, describe the type of clothing, the fabric type, durability, colour, texture, and pockets. Remember to include any multiple layers (Jacket and whatnot) and the sleeve length, along with whether or not they’re wearing gloves. Do they have a collar? Et cetera, et cetera.

Next, the hat. Do they have a hat? If so, what kind? What’s it look like?

Finally, include any additional details I missed. Do they have a sword across their back? Some gum in their pocket? A gun in their holster? Describe the appearance of their weapons and other equipment, and where they’re placed. Some of this can be done in the equipment section as well, but it’d be nice to have it all in one spot.

Let’s move on to the final section: Presence. What do I mean by this, exactly? Well, basically, how they appear.

What’s their voice like? Deep, high pitched, soft, loud? Share a VA who suits what you’re thinking of if you feel like it, or give an audio clip you found on the web. What’s their gait like—long or short strides, confident or meek, et cetera? Do they slouch? Are they confident? What’s their usual expression? Do they have any tells (Things they do when they lie, for those not in the know), tics, odd actions, or anything of the like? Do they have an aura (Not the supernatural kind—it’s hard to describe, but it’s essentially like, do people like them due to their charisma, or do they have a killing intent, or something)? Do they have a noticeable personal bubble?

And that concludes Dual’s happy happy fun fun Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Character Appearance~! Tune in next time, when we discuss how to write a character personality~!

Bye bye~!

edited 18th Apr '13 9:17:32 PM by neobowman

FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSS. DIBS ON LV. 5.

edited 16th Apr '13 9:01:05 PM by KSPAM

Boom, dereted.

edited 16th Apr '13 9:22:16 PM by neobowman

• Name: (Family)Takada (Given)Konoe
• Age: 17
• Gender: Female
• Nationality/Home Country: Japan
• Appearance:
  • On the short-side, around 155cm. Slim build, would be around 95 pounds and not much muscle. Slim bust, waist and hips. Average breast size. Overall, she's a pretty small girl but still realistic.Her complexian would be asian but with anime standards in the To Aru verse, it's all the same.
  • Since again, it's anime, I don't really see how well I could describe her. Long blue hair down to her waist with a small pink bowtie clip on his bangs. Kept generally straight but ends up wavy near the bottom. Small rounded face and big blue eyes. Her eyes have very noticable corneas with a bright shade of blue. She has a thin mouth and a small nose. Overall cute.
  • Wears a school uniform most of the time, Serafuku with a pink colour scheme and a tie. Miniskirt (YEAHHH) and white stockings with Zettai Ryouiki in full S grade effect. Dress shoes that go with the uniform as well. When she's not wearing that, she usually wears formal men's clothing: Dress shoes, and a black suit.
  • She has a relatively high pitched voice normally, but shifts into deeper tones when she's serious. She walks briskly and with a straight back and appears like a normal girl. When fighting, she'll still look like an average girl and doesn't change into a battle stance or anything. She stands up straight as normal.
• Personality: If you don't know her, then she's nice and polite, a girl who seems to be an average student. Once you get to know her, she has a tendancy to be rather sarcastic but is still overall normal. Sharp tongue gets her in trouble every now and then but she tries to keep it in check. Doesn't mean to be rude but can come off as disrespectful. If she acts uncaring to you it means she cares. Realist over Idealist and on the lawful neutral side of things. She's not exactly the brightest person around and can act impulsively. She can come up with plans, but will likely abandon them halfway through. Somehow manages to maintain good study habits. I'd like to go into things a bit more but I feel that the way I present my character in the RP could deviate too much from the personality I write down here.
• History: A typical esper in academy city who worked hard but never got pst level 3. Lives on her own in an apartment getting financial support from her father living outside of the city. Goes to a random school (if it's really important then I can create a name) and lives normally. Was chosen by Project Firefly as a result of her work ethic and promising ability.
• Affiliations: Her school and her father. Her father doesn't actually get to see her much, as he works outside of the city. Her biggest influence at school is her homeroom teacher. The strict beast known to students as "The Wolf".
• Weapons: None
• Training: Academy Power Development Program watchemcallit
• Skills: Gravity Manipulation. She can cook very well but not so good at other housework.
• Esper Rank: Five =)
• Esper Name: Black Hole
• Ability Description: Manipulates the mass of objects around her. She can choose which objects to manipulate and control. As the mass of the object changes, so does its kinetic energy, momentum and general scaryness. With the new upgrades, Konoe can manipulate the constant by several magnitudes, up to around nine, enough to make large everyday objects have a noticable impact on, say, a human. An example of her power, she can decrease her mass to nearly zero, so she can effectively super jump around the place. Her power decreases exponentially with distance so the effective maximum of her range is around 10 metres, but objects at that distance are hard to manipulate significantly.

Interest.

I have an idea for a Lv.5, but I'm waiting on your go ahead, neo.

Interest.

Also asking for permission to create magical chinese girl specialized in "Holy"-type magic from an Annihilatus-equivalent of the Chinese orthodox church.

edited 17th Apr '13 1:33:07 AM by PBlades

Interest.

Maybe.

• Name: Takei Yukari
• Age: Likely late teens, exact age unknown
• Gender: Female
• Nationality/Home Country: Academy City
• Appearance: "Hellooooooo~"◊
• History: Originally a Lv.3 with a simple healing ability, Yukari volunteered for Firefly in the hopes of increasing the spectrum of her powers. Having slightly more sway as a member of Judgment, she was accepted readily into the roster.
• Affiliations: Has numerous connections within various Academy City medical institutes. Used to be affiliated with Judgment
• Weapons/Equipment: HER DAMN BARE HANDS (also a coat a couple sizes too large for modesty's sake should certain conditions require it).
• Training: Enough to be a member of Judgment, although she primarily specialized in sickbay care, so aside from some basic martial arts, all her combat training with her new powers is recent.
• Skills: She can cook, act, has well-rounded knowledge of martial arts and CQC, and is an expert in biology
• Esper Rank: 5
• Esper Name: Regenerator
• Ability Description: At its most basic and simplest, Regenerator... regenerates. By controlling DNA synthesis on the molecular level, she can freely catalyze the production of new cells. Originally, all she could use this for was to heal herself and others through the production of stem cells, but once she was given a better grasp on her ability, its true applications became clear. Through manipulation of the basic chemical structure of DNA, she was given complete control over all biological functions. In essence, life itself. She could create new cells on the fly, adjusting her own genetic structure at a rapid pace in order to garner useful mutations, regenerate from seemingly fatal wounds, or even change her own body completely. Her new mastery over the ability was so extensive that she could not only change herself and others, but even form complex organisms within her own body, detach them and have them behave autonomously. Even she does not know the extent of these abilities though, which is why she tries to be as creative as possible when using these powers in order to fully test their limits.

edited 18th Apr '13 1:30:09 PM by KSPAM

• Name: Shiki Kamakura
• Age: 17
• Gender: Male
• Nationality/Home Country: Japan
• Appearance: This guy.◊
• Personality:
  • Dark. Brooding. Mysterious. Or so he’d like you think. Shiki is a fairly normal high school delinquent most of the time. Due to his close brush with death, he is not overly concerned about dying, and instead seeks to cherish every moment of his life. He's entirely capable of being serious in a serious situation, and just as often flustered or embarrassed. Those around him say he exudes an uncomfortable aura that reminds them of death and thusly stays away from him. Others posit that they don’t want to be near him because he acts like a childish, lecherous, insensitive, rude, lazy, reckless prick. Even those he’s nice to, he enjoys teasing and acting mean at.
  • If one were to ask another person about Shiki Kamakura, they would be told this: ‘He’s an asshole.’ If they were to send a request for his services to his handlers at Firefly, they would be told: ‘Please reconsider or sign this waiver.’ If a girl were to ask Shiki Kamakura for a favor, she would be told: ‘Only if you repay me with your body.’ If a man were to ask Shiki Kamakura for assistance, he would be told: ‘I get to punch you in the face once for every hour of my time you waste.’ He has not said ‘thank you’ for 2 years and intends to see how long he can stretch that record. He does not have a motto, because he thinks mottos are for idiots and idealists.
  • Shiki Kamakura is also a pretty cool guy. While he’ll deny it fervently, he’s also a ninja geek.
• History:
  • Shiki doesn’t remember most anything between his formative years to roughly 8 years old. He claims, straight-faced, however that he is a descendent of Ninja Demon Hunters, through by the time of his generation they have settled down to lives a quiet life in a village in the middle of the mountain. Further, he purports that he was the sole-survivor of a massacres that killed the entirety of his family but himself by a red demon, and that he was saved at the last minute by his ninja father.
  • At this point, most doctors simply nod politely and smile obligingly. While it is true that records of the boy was hard to come by, he was clutching a knife and wearing bloodied- old style hakama, the truth is self-evident. Such tale was most like fabrication- a coping mechanism, fiction invented by the young boy to process the tragedy he must have suffered. After all, there are holes to the story- for one, how could he evades wild animals in the forest and make his way to the hospital, 20 miles, away on his lonesome?
  • Time passes, become Level 1 Academy City student, is selected for the Firefly treatment due mostly to clerical error, noted for being particularly skilled in light manipulation, particularly in regards to its speed.

• Affiliations: Sorta ally to low-lifes and no-goods of Academy City. Best friend with a certain red-headed delinquent and has interfered on behalf of thugs and Level 0 when he perceives Judgment as overstepping their bounds. As he is careful and doesn’t participate in any overt crime, he usually flies under the radar of most Judgment.
• Weapons/Equipment: Nanatsu-Yoru- A beautiful, yet simplistic looking, engraved knife that belies uncanny sharpness and toughness. The blade retracts into the handle, and is sharp enough to slice chairs to pieces. He carries it around mostly as a utility tool/good luck charms hybrid. Several pouches of irritant dusts, Sunglasses.
• Training: Many years of hard living, street brawls. As a ninja geek, he have working knowledge of ninja weaponry. His academics suffer and his power, barring the Firefly project, is underdeveloped.
• Skills: He is adept at CQC – able to beat most normal people in a straight fight, through will require trickery to beat martial artist and full-on combat specialist. Further, he is extremely agile- a natural parkour, acrobat and contortionist. Done physics and chemistry homeworks.
• Esper Rank: 3
• Esper Name: Time Cloak
  • The ability to control and manipulate photons freely. From the displays seen in combat, the main uses of this power are multiple luminescent shapes capable of dealing damage to either electromagnetically active objects or biological matter and basic visual illusions, such as invisibility cones, color shifts, image displacement and shape aberration.
  • While there are great potential to the power, Shiki personally sticks with “Time Cloak”- through manipulation of the speed of light, Shiki creates a “lens” of sort that encompasses the immediate area around him. The lens modifies temporal- rather than spatial- distribution. In layman’s term, he creates a hidey-hole time gap and hides within both space and time, granting him complete invisibility and intangibility. Through firefly’s treatment only bumps him from a measly Level 1 to Level 3, researchers are keen to make him advance to Level 5, or even 6, in hope that he may develop full blown time manipulation power.
  • It is then highly ironic, yet perhaps fitting, that his time cloak ability has a time limit.

edited 17th Apr '13 9:59:00 PM by PBlades

KSPAM: Looks pretty good. Can you give me some reasons of why she was chosen to be a part of Project Firefly? It can be a simple reason. And can you give me some examples of her power? What sort of mutations can she create on herself? What organisms can she form?

P Blades: I don't really see how she could fit in with the rest of project Firefly. You could probably fit her in after the intial introduction. I recommend you use an esper character just because I want more focus on them, but if you're adamant on Shuri, I'll allow her. I'd just like some more info on her powers and how it relates to the tablet she found.

Something like that. Although I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not to make her mutations more fantastic or more down to earth. The former would be more like transforming parts of her body into stuff like Alex Mercer and The Thing, whereas the latter would be enhancing and improving the human body in more subtle ways, like increasing muscle density, sensual acuity, and transforming her entire body into a thinking organ instead of concentrating neural activity in the head. Also, just to clarify so we don't run into issues down the road, if she can get direct contact with living organic material, she can force the same kind of mutations. Basically, to break it down to the simplest possible terms, she can control and alter all biological functions in herself and anything she touches. But she has no effect on inorganic material like plastic or metal.

All things considered, I'd prefer to use Shuri, mainly because I didn't get to use her before in another forum.

If you can't fit her into the plot, through, I'll make a psychic charactr. Maybe boson manipulation...

Refitted for this RP, an Electromaster I didn't get to play much.

• Name: Sakai Kyou
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Nationality/Home Country: Japan
• Appearances: Here she is!
• Personality: Sakai Kyou wants to be a heroine of justice. She's very easily impressionable and quite prone to have great feelings of admiration for those who catch her attention. From her idols she draws inspiration to push her ever onwards on her goal of being the greatest person she can possibly be. She deeply loves the Academic City, to the point where she feels like all of those living within form part of a great family. She is a generally good girl, though she has conflicting feelings about becoming stronger. Kyou wants to become stronger by things she can consider her 'own means' but her desire for power and to go beyond her means is so great as to become a powerful temptation. Furthermore, Kyou really likes things that are 'cool' instead of 'cute'.
• History: Sakai Kyou entered the Academic City as a perfectly normal level 1 child and pretty much stayed that way without significant progress until her early puberty. It was during this time in her life that due to one of Misaka Mikoto's heroics which saved her life without the Railgun even realizing it. That event forever marked Sakai Kyou, leaving a deep impression on her personal reality and granting her the drive to start pursuing her true potential. Thus, taking inspiration from the girl who rose from Level 1 to one of the strongest beings on the whole city, Kyou trained and put herself to the test... eventually being able to rise through the ranks at a great speed. Five years later, Kyou has just barely crossed the threshold into becoming a Level 3 from a completely unremarkable Level 0, getting lots of diverse idols during the ensuing years... plus more than a little trouble due to her curious nature and her uncanny ability to attract trouble. Due to her remarkable progress in developing her abilities nearly on her own, Kyou was selected to participate in project Firefly, which gave her the amazing results of becoming a fully fledged Level 4 in record time. Finding such progress, Kyou has become more motivated than ever and looks forward to finally catching up to her idol.
• Faction/Affiliations: Citizen
• Weapons/Equipment: Rolled over copper wire, a pair of magnetic stones, some arcade coins (Not that she can actually use them) blue tinted goggles and a pair of metal handles. She also carries a heavily insulated tablet with a great deal of research and general information on it.
• Training: None at all besides the basic Power Curriculum and Project Firefly... and when we mean basic it is basic. Aside from that she has done a lot of independent research on her power and other such topics in order to get further control of it by means of understanding.
• Skills: Nothing far too incredible beyond a good deal of physical fitness. Beyond that, she has above average knowledge of electricity and magnetism and some knowledge of electric circuits, programing and the such.
• Esper Rank: Level 4
• Esper Name: Electromaster
• Ability Description: Electromaster, the ability of those who can control electricity, magnetism and Lorentz force., the same ability of Misaka Mikoto, the third ranked Level Five in the Academy. This manifests in a great number of different abilities, which range from manipulating magnetic fields, discharging great electrical charges, directly interfacing with machines and the like. Unlike Mikoto, however, Kyou's energy production isn't nearly limitless... indeed, in after using her abilities a handful of times she either has to rest for a couple hours or find a power outlet to recharge herself. Furthermore, she doesn't have access to the Railgun skill, her attempts at making an iron sand sword have only resulted in cuts all over her body and in general her overall abilities are more limited than those of Tokiwadai's Ace.

Looks good. Miss level 4 is in.

ESP'd

P Blades: Looks good. How long does the time cloak ability last? And what exactly is half blind?

What about me, neo?

(hay gaiz how do I no punctuation-ify my handle- it was supposed to show as either P Blades or Pblades)

Let's say at a 1:2 scale. If he stays inside the time cloak for 1 minute, he can no longer uses it for 2 minutes. As for upper limits, I'm not sure. Maybe a couple of hours, up to at most, currently, a day?

For being half-blind, I derped. Retconning away now.

• Name: Ashley Tanaka
• Age: 16
• Gender: Male
• Nationality/Home Country: Academy City
• Appearance: Trying to be cool in front of the mirror again◊. Also loves taking a black fedora on for extra "cool" points.
• Personality: Enjoys life with theatrics, namely acting like a hero like on TV. Nearly everything that comes out of him is loud, from simply talking, to posing dramatically every so often. He also seems to have no fear of anything, and would face anything with a wide grin of his face. This gives the sense of cockiness about him. Lastly, he seems keen on trying to get a harem, as in his own words: "All protagonists have a few love interests on their arms!"
• History: Born to a mother who very much loved action films and Tokusatsu series, Ashley enjoyed being a hero, much to the worry of his father. He was just a Level 2, and was able to only launch small objects with what seemed like telepathy to him. However, after somehow managing to be part of Project Firefly, it appears to be something else entirely.
• Affiliations: Friendly with students and other citizens.
• Weapons/Equipment: A sling, a slingshot, and a couple rocks in his pockets.
• Training: He's capable of various acrobatic maneuvers and sharp marksmanship.
• Skills: He has a high amount of endurance and flexiblity, but that's about it.
• Esper Rank: Level Five
• Esper Name: Ex Nihilo
• Ability Description: A very odd skill, the name of the skill references how Ash seems to conjure things out of "Nothing". He can "make" anything. From ropes to climb to weaponry, it seems to be only bound to his imagination. It also has another property; Being a literal take on the idiom "Next to none" it seems whatever he makes is invincible. A sword of "Nothing" can cut through anything, a shield of "Nothing" that no weapon can penetrate, etc. The most complex things Ashley has made currently are armor covering himself entirely while letting him breath, and stairs, making him look like as if he was flying.

Anything too much, or too little?

edited 18th Apr '13 12:00:55 AM by Runekn

I'd say too little.

Yeah, that's barely Lv.3, maybe Lv.2. A Lv.5 is someone like Accelerator, who is basically a telekinetic on crack who can freely control any vectors he can touch, or Mental Out, who makes Aizen look like he's pussfyfooting around when it comes to mind control. To put it simply, the series itself classifies Lv.5 espers as individuals who are capable of taking on military superpowers by themselves and win.

edited 17th Apr '13 11:28:30 PM by KSPAM

Alright, was thinking about this skillset anyway. If it's still too much/little, I guess I could just try reverting and lowering the level.

KSPAM: I'd go with the more down to earth mutations. But I'm not entirely sold that she can classify as a level 5. Her powers are extreme but in combat, might not be at the level of Railgun or the other level 5s. That said, I'm being contradictory. I'd make her more powerful but with more realistic mutations. Somehow.

Rune KN: Yeah, seems a bit tame for level 5. And it seems a bit too magicky for this verse. Rather than "Nothing into something" Maybe do something along the lines of matter manipulation of oxygen atoms to an extreme degree, being able to change its states to liquid, solid, and plasma, while being able to control its form. With a maximum manipulation range of course, but hey, suffocating others would be well within a level 5's abilities.

P Blades: Sounds good.

I'll be starting the RP sometime early afternoon or tonight if I don't have time.

edited 18th Apr '13 11:14:04 AM by neobowman

>Make her more powerful

Alright, I can work with zis

I'll make some changes and have a name before the RP goes up.