[color=limegreen][b]VERTHAVEN-BAYBRIDGE SAGA
[indent]< The Takashiro Family >[/indent][/b][/color]
[color=slategray][list][*][hider=Akemi Shinoda][color=darkgray][b]NAME[/b][/color]
[indent]Akemi Shinoda
(篠田　明美, [i]Shinoda Akemi[/i])[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]AGE[/b][/color]
[indent]46[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]APPEARANCE[/b][/color]
[indent]Like any native Japanese, Akemi is short and 'yellow'-skinned, further accented by her voluptuous build. She has straight, shoulder-length chocolate-brown hair which she either ties up into a single ponytail or twirls the locks into a bun behind her round head; her eyes were darker, with barely visible wrinkle marks at the corners. She has button nose and thin lips, and thankfully she doesn't have double chins despite her body size. She'll wear light, simple makeups sometimes. She has a preference for one-piece dresses, and they are mostly light- or warm-colored. Her favorite footwear is sandals - she doesn't like covered shoes much as those make her toes feel cramped.[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]BACKGROUND[/b][/color]
[indent]Aunt of Haruka and Shizuka (younger sister of their mother, Asami), and the godmother of Daphne. After moving to Baybridge, she chose to discontinue her laundry service and decided to try out gardening, which later expanded into a small farm with the help of the rest of the family - Daphne with her superpower, Shizuka with money (that he got from Quentin), and Haruka with labor. However, due to the rise of another series of terrible events in America, Shizuka has made arrangements sending her back to Japan and is currently placed under the protection of the Suzaku Butai (in which Shizuka has close ties with).[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]POWER[/b][/color]
[indent][b][i]Force-Field Generation & Manipulation[/i] |[/b] Akemi is able to create an invisible, psionic shield around herself, which can vary from a layer of shimmery coating mere inches beyond her body frame to a sizeable sphere that can go up to several feet in radius. When she activates her power she would emit a faint, violet hue around herself. There's very little information about the true extent of her ability as she's determined to live a quiet normal life.[/indent][/hider][/list]

[list][*][hider=Daphne Hope*][color=darkgray][b]NAME[/b][/color]
[indent]Daphne Hope[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]OTHER NAMES[/b][/color]
[indent][i]Holly[/i] -- callsign[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]AGE[/b][/color]
[indent]29[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]APPEARANCE[/b][/color]
[indent]Daphne has a fair complexion (with a slight green tinge) and a willowy build - you know, tall, ideal slim waist, nice ass at the back - what most women dream to strive for, but it's a pity about her almost flat chest. She keeps her hair in an asymmetrical light auburn bobcut; her eyes are sea-green, and she has an oval-shaped face with full lips. Obviously Caucasian, with her ancestry tracing back to Irish and French. Always in blouses and long pants, never a fan of skirts and dresses. Footwear is strictly limited to flats, and maybe just a handful non-killer heels. (Hell no to stilettos!)[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]PERSONALITY[/b][/color]
[indent]Soft-spoken with a drawl - her manner of speech may irk most people, especially those impatient ones. She also likes to come up with names for pretty much anything and everything - from her personal belongings to her powers, sometimes even to strangers when she only just met them for the first time.[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]BACKGROUND[/b][/color]
[indent]Previously a trainee under Dana Alcott, Daphne has now become a full-fledged mission controller. She became Akemi's goddaughter after the Verthaven Disaster and a sister figure to the twins; sometimes she's also a mentor figure to Shizuka.[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]POWER[/b][/color]
[indent][b][i]Chloropathy & Plant Manipulation[/i] |[/b] Daphne has unmatched telepathic link with any living plantae within a few miles of her; her range is much wider in the day than night. As most people do not see plants as a threat to them compared to animals, she's able to make good use of their ignorance to her advantage - all greens act as her eyes and ears, easily allowing her to spy on her targets and no one will be any the wiser.

She's also able to control leaves and vines to her bidding, but more limited than her chloropathy side. Also, her powers won't work on dead plants, duh.[/indent][/hider][/list]

[list][*][hider=Yuuichi Takashiro][color=darkgray][b]NAME[/b][/color]
[indent]Yuuichi "Yuu" Takashiro
(高城　悠一, [i]Takashiro Yuuichi[/i])[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]AGE[/b][/color]
[indent]47[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]BACKGROUND & APPEARANCE[/b][/color]
[indent]The father of Haruka and Shizuka. Yuu's job as a diplomatic agent means that he has to travel around a lot; the demand from his work coupled with the tension in his family have put him under tremendous stress - graying hair and balding head, deep wrinkle lines, and dark eye-bags are just the few obvious signs that he no longer has the energy (and health) to keep going on like this.[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]POWER[/b][/color]
[indent][b][i]None[/i] |[/b] Baseline human.[/indent][/hider][/list]
[list][*][hider=Asami Takashiro][color=darkgray][b]NAME[/b][/color]
[indent]Asami Takashiro
(高城　浅美, [i]Takashiro Asami[/i])[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]OTHER NAMES[/b][/color]
[indent]Asami Shinoda
(篠田　浅美, [i]Shinoda Asami[/i])[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]AGE[/b][/color]
[indent]48[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]APPEARANCE[/b][/color]
[indent]Everything about Asami is the complete opposite of Akemi: she's a tall and slender brunette, with her hair kept short to just below her ear. A no-nonsense and stern woman, who wears a poker face pretty much 24/7.[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]BACKGROUND[/b][/color]
[indent]The mother of Haruka and Shizuka, the older sister of Akemi, and a diplomat just like her husband Yuu. She's so obsessed with her career that she even extends her professionalism beyond her job - to her own family. Her neglection (or even rejection) of the twins not only has affected their social-emotional well-being negatively, it also placed more psychological pressure on Yuu who has been trying very hard to hold the broken family together.

It is later revealed that she was a former member of the Asian cult Polaris who had undergone a certain 'treatment' to gain superpowers... But the experiment went awry and the energy was transferred to her unborn twin sons instead.[/indent]
[color=darkgray][b]POWER[/b][/color]
[indent][b][i]None[/i] |[/b] Baseline human.[/indent][/hider][/list][/color]