I am very interested in this and my friends are in, so... trying my luck, eheh. ^^. *Name: Ran Hokuto *Codename: Stryker Grey *Age: 21 *Gender: Female *Place of Birth: San Francisco, California *Affiliations: She knows Eldritch Knight Shiranui somewhat and is apparently involved with a group of people called Strykers, who seem to operate the most in Japan. *Occupation: Electrical Engineer *Appearance: [url=http://imgur.com/p43SWIf]Kinda had my hero done in an anime style, um sorry.[/url] *Powers: Stryker Grey is a person whose body was modified with mechanical parts and nanomachines to bolster her natural abilities somewhat, the most noticable being her endurance and healing factor which is ten times faster than an average human's. She can also hit harder and run faster than the peak of an ordinary, but it's not too much. All in all, the tech inside her body is just one half of what enables Grey to use her true abilities, dubbed the Stryker Frame which needs to be used in conjunction with the Stryker System attachments to fully activate her powers. *Skills: Ran is rather good with her hands and creative, able to draw and create various electrical devices (though nothing too outrageous, mostly tracking and communications devices) due to her tendencies towards inventing. She is also well versed in the art of aikido and self defense, which serves to help her out during her bouts as a hero. *Equipment/Resources : Stryker Grey carries into what is perhaps the most important things that she could bring; the Stryker System and Cartridges- armor and casings made of a strange metal that is much tougher than regular steel. These are blackbox level tech attachments that fit over her hands and feet, allowing her to achieve superhuman strength and reactions as well as the ability to levitate and manipulate electricity in various ways by inserting the Cartridges into it and releasing the respective "ability" that the system is capable of, called "Stryker Drives". They are... [b]Shusui[/b]: Channels the power of electricity into a blade for the wielder. This can easily cut through normal stones and metals. [b]Hyaku-Shiki[/b]: Compresses plasma around the fist to give the impact power of a Stryker to the equivalent of a heavy tank gun. [b]Shinden[/b]: Gathers ambient electricity in the atmosphere and concentrates it about a general target or area in the form of a giant lightning strike. [b]Tenrai[/b]: Fires off bolts of plasma at the enemy with adjustable power outputs ranging from stun to much stronger. [b]Senden[/b]: Increases transmission of electrical signals about the body to achieve a state that allows quickens reaction times and overrides muscle activities' limits to perform at a higher level. Stryker Grey also believes that there are Drives she has yet to unlock, which means she is unable to currently use the Stryker System to its fullest potential. *Weaknesses: Grey is rather reliant on the Cartridges she has on hand to activate her respective abilities, which means whenever she changes to another mode she has to use up another Cartridge. Seeing as she has a finite amount, she has to be very careful of what she uses. Without the Stryker System, Grey cannot access her flight or superhuman abilities above a certain level, and certainly not her electricity manipulating techniques. *Psychological Profile: Grey is a person that while has several faults, generally wants the best for both herself and people around her. She is rather blunt and somewhat stubborn with certain ideals, but she's also able to realize whenever she's at fault. Her dream is to eventually find out how to duplicate the Stryker technologies she gained from Dr. Tanegashima and use it to better the world, since they are pretty miraculous things that can do things that normal equipment cannot do. Peppy and cheerful most of the time, she tries to inject positivity into everything she does. *Biography: Grey was a person who grew up in an average family with both parents and two younger siblings, being a third generation Japanese American. Her grandfather served in the much vaunted 100th Infantry Batallion of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War 2, which was what made her want to be a hero due to the tales she heard upon his lap growing up as well gave her that strong sense of morality and justice that was rooted deep in her psyche. Due to this, she doesn't hesitate to call out things she doesn't find quite right, though she will apologize if she found that she was mistaken. Her heroes are strangely enough inventors such as Albert Einstein and Tesla and movie stars with martial abilities such as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. It was around her twentieth birthday that she legally died when she pushed someone out of the way during a psychopath's bullet spewing rampage and took the hit instead. When she came to again, she found that she was in a strange room and that her body was now part machine and that she was gifted with incredible powers as well as technology that was so far beyond her comprehension that it almost seemed magical. In reality, the Stryker System was pioneered by one Dr. Toru Tanegashima during World War 2 after he escaped Imperial Japan and migrated to Europe where he fixed up his prototype of the Stryker Package, allowing an ordinary human to become an extraordinary fighter. Having beem close friends with the girl's grandfather and the one who operated on the very first Stryker, the good doctor took it upon himself to save the life of his blood brother's descendant and repay his many debts to the man since too much of the girl's organs were damaged for normal surgery to be a success. With that done, good doctor then proceeded to mentor the girl in the ways of a Stryker, like her grandfather fifty years ago.