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Name: Noriko Yamada, "Nori" for short

Age: 17

Hometown: Tokyo

Side: Rebels

Power: Animal manipulation/communication

Weapons: None really, maybe a fishing rod somehow?

Bio: Nori grew up with her father and older sister in Tokyo. Her father was a biologic researcher of some sort, but that was as specific as it got for her because her interests lied elsewhere. A little later, her father died of natural causes. Nori's sister aspired to be like her father and achieve groundbreaking achievements in altering human genetics to develop the "perfect" human being. She would go to great extents for her dreams.

That being said, eventually Nori's sister became so consumed with her crazy goals that she kidnapped her own little sister to conduct traumatizing experiments on. Nori was physically altered to somehow gain the ability to communicate with animals. She managed to escape the facility with her new ability and go into hiding. The police didn't want to believe a word she said and she held the fear that revealing her power would only return her to the underground lab. That, and she's a lazy coward who enjoys exploiting her power in fishing competitions.

Nevertheless, Nori wants to expose what's going on in the lab.
(She also hangs around with a cat who decided to name himself Albert)

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Name: Natsumi Yamada

Age: 20

Hometown: Tokyo

Side: Scientist (New Breed)

Weapons: None as of yet.

Bio: Natsumi was always extremely intelligent. Because of connections through her father, she began working in the labs straight out of high school (which works to explain how she's such a young scientist). Personality-wise, she externally appears kind and approachable. Nobody would assume immediately how her true personality was, which could generally be described as quite deranged (having experimented on her own sister). For now, she works to hunt down her little sister and any other rebel as well as to continue empowering the New Breed.