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[color=a187be][b]Name:[/b][/color] Mari Haruishi
[color=a187be][b]Age:[/b][/color] 15
[color=a187be][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Female

[color=a187be][b]Appearance Description:[/b][/color][indent]Height: 184cm. Weight: 82kg. Mari has purple lightningbolt-shaped streaks in her otherwise straight, black hair. Her calves and feet are unusually large. Mari also wears noticeable hearing aids.[/indent]
[color=a187be][b]Personality:[/b][/color][indent]Mari is severe and judgmental, with a tendency to be condescending to those who she thinks are wasting her time.  She is a perfectionist and places high value on individual effort and independence.  She doesn't believe that systems, environments, institutions, or fate can truly stop a motivated individual and won't accept that excuse from anyone.  Mari is driven when it comes to her goals and will do whatever it takes to achieve them, though she is too straight-forward to be a schemer.[/indent]
[color=a187be][b]History:[/b][/color][indent]Mari was raised by a typical deadbeat father; her mother had left before she could remember. Mari has the same quirk as her father, and his words to her were always, "You can't outrun me." An abusive drunk, Mari's father made her life a stoic hell. At school she struggled to hide the details of her home environment while trying her hardest to secure good grades. At home she did chores and tried to placate her father's sporadic wrath. All attempts to escape failed. Except for the last time. Mari discovered a previously unknown aspect of her quirk, something her father had never discovered, Thunder Road. In her final attempt to escape him, she abused Thunder Road, an effort that has rendered her deaf. Now she lives on her own, taking care of herself, and trying her hardest to become a hero.[/indent]
[color=a187be][b]Talents:[/b][/color][indent]Mari knows sign language and is fairly decent at reading lips. She is good at track and field activities. She is highly organized and takes great notes, and works part time at a convenience store, so she has the basic money-keeping and managerial skills that such a job would require.[/indent]
[color=a187be][b]Quirk (Born to Run - Thunder Road aspect):[/b][/color][indent]Born to Run is a pretty lackluster 'superspeed' quirk, allowing Mari to run significantly faster than the average human. This also makes her legs and feet slightly tougher than average. In a moment of desperation, Mari unlocked the Thunder Road aspect of this quirk, allowing short range teleportation. She must teleport 10 meters, no more and no less, in the direction her face is pointed, and must see the exact spot where she is teleporting to. There is a one second refractory period before and after Thunder Road in which she cannot use Thunder Road, nor can she use Born to Run. The devastating part of Thunder road is that the straight line between where she was and where she arrives becomes superheated, turning the air momentarily into plasma and creating what is essentially a lightning strike. Overuse of Thunder Road has rendered Mari deaf.[/indent]
[color=a187be][b]Others:[/b][/color][indent]Mari wears a harmonica on a chain around her neck, a gift from her father and a memento of a time before he started taking his frustrations out on her. She can play "Red River Valley" from memory.[/indent]
[color=a187be][b]Theme:[/b][/color][indent][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGBXnw86Mgc[/youtube][/indent][/HIDER]