[hider=Reina Mori] [CENTER][img]http://i.imgur.com/dzRpF95.png[/img] [/CENTER] [b][color=b16edd][NAME][/color][/b] [indent]Reina Mori[/indent] [b][color=b16edd][GENDER][/color][/b] [indent]Female[/indent] [b][color=b16edd][AGE][/color][/b] [indent]17[/indent] [b][color=b16edd][PERSONALITY][/color][/b] [indent]Reina is reserved due to a lack of self-confidence and deep-seated general feeling of inferiority brought on in recent years. Her quirk has naturally led to her being left alone most of her life due to the trouble it tends to cause, and she's become quick to snap lightly at those who suggest anything she might not like. When she speaks, she tends to be blunt and to the point, mostly in an effort to not take up too much of other's time. This mildly abrasive personality is more of a defense mechanism than anything, and it's not difficult to see her more 'true' nature beneath it after spending a bit of time around her. The girl finds genuine interest in other people, and while she hasn't made many real friends in her life, it's not for lack of want. She has an overwhelmingly strong sense of justice, naturally wanting to help people for as long as she can remember, and will absolutely go out of her way to do so however she can. She's the first to admit she's not totally selfless, though, and she often finds herself feeling guilty over the fact that she craves recognition for anything she does--these feelings don't help her surface-level abrasiveness and leads to her often pushing people away in attempts to convince herself she doesn't need that recognition, making it hard to become close to her. Contrary to her quiet persona, Reina also has a usually well-concealed fire within her. When something catches her interest and she acts like she has something to prove to the world, for better or for worse, it takes [i]a lot[/i] to get her to focus elsewhere. This trait is one of the reasons she can sometimes act like a bit of an endearing dork, moreso around people she's grown comfortable with due to her dropping her guard without realizing.[/indent] [b][color=b16edd][BACKSTORY][/color][/b] [indent]Reina is an only child from a very ordinary family--something strange in such a world. With a quirkless mother and a father with the ability to weakly adjust the gravitational field of a single object at a time, it took no one by surprise when it seemed that Reina was the owner of a weak quirk that caused her personal gravity to be strong enough to annoy her and those around her, but not strong enough to do anything useful beyond getting food off the top shelf without having to grab a chair. As Reina went through her formative years, like most children her age, she took an interest in the profession of heroes. For several years, she aimed to be accepted into a top hero school, putting everything she had into preparing herself for that. It wasn't enough. Unable to make progress with her quirk without any guidance, she was rejected by schools with good reputations one-by-one. Those few who had been supporting her made excuses for her--[i]'your's was a tough, hyper-competitive year'[/i] and the like. It didn't change the fact that she wasn't good enough. Having always been a quiet girl, she began to close up even more. Deciding she simply shouldn't be a hero, she chose to listen to her parent's advice to avoid any of the smaller, no-name hero academies and instead go to a more prestigious traditional school. [i]'There's no shame in it, the world needs lawyers and business owners as much as it needs heroes,'[/i] her parents would say. But there [i]was[/i] shame in it. Reina had tried--she'd done everything she could, and it wasn't good enough. The next few years went by, various obsessions that grabbed her attention coming and going, but through it all her interest in heroes stayed true. She kept up to date on the scene, and despite hating how it hurt to know she couldn't become one, she couldn't stop herself. It was the one obsession that had never faded from the day it had taken her, and she couldn't shake it if she tried. Never admitting it to herself, deep down she knew she harbored the faintest hope and longing that she might get a second chance. Only a month ago, Reina made a sudden breakthrough with her quirk. revealing it's potential to be far greater than previously thought. A harmless late-night trip to a convenience store turned into a terrifying experience when a gun-toting, regenerating villain made an appearance, on the run from heroes. Reina was grabbed to be used as a hostage, but before anything else could happen, in her panic, she had used her quirk to push away the villain through the glass door he had come from. The dazed man was quickly apprehended and the heroes on scene had apparently taken note of Reina, one even coming up to speak with her while she was being tended to and calmed down by a paramedic. The next few weeks went by uneventfully after that incident, though Reina began to experiment more with her quirk, the desire to become a hero burning stronger within her than it had in a long time. On the surface, she continued to go to school, study as much as she could stomach, and help her parents keep the house in order. [/indent] [b][color=b16edd][QUIRK][/color][/b] [indent][b]Solar System[/b] - Reina's personal gravitational field is far stronger than normal, and she has some control over it. In the quirk's default state, when Reina isn't making any effort to consciously manipulate it, its pull can be felt at least weakly up to several metres away. Standing directly next to her in this default would feel like a constant firm push towards her. Reina can increase and decrease the force of this pull, and during her encounter with the villain, discovered that decreasing the force enough will cause her gravitational field to repulse instead of attract. Like most quirks, this manipulation is similar to any other muscle in her body in that she can train it to increase her maximum strength and endurance when using it. Due to the indiscriminate nature of this ability, it can be detrimental to use in team situations without proper coordination and communication. Finally, Reina has exactly seven black-coloured orbs lazily orbiting around her, each only about an inch in diameter. She's spent her life thinking of them as only a useless inconvenience, but that was shown for the first time to not be entirely true during the villain incident. In her panic, she had managed to 'activate' one of the orbs, an ability she had never even considered as a possibility. The active orb grew to the size of a volleyball and gained its own strong gravitational field. Like her own gravity, Reina had been able to adjust the push and pull the orb exerted, as well as telekinetically control it within her personal gravitational field's sphere of influence. Since the incident, however, she hasn't been able to use the ability again at all in her experimentations, and the orbs are back to being for show. It's a point of great frustration, but the knowledge that there's more to her quirk than she had ever previously thought only strengthens her drive to become a hero. A side effect of her quirk is a 'greying' of her skin and clothes as she uses it, the effects reverting after a while of no use. The more force she's exerting, the darker she becomes, appearing to literally lose any visible colour on her body. Presumably, this will end up with her appearing as nothing more than a pitch-black silhouette.[/indent] [b][color=b16edd][SKILLS][/color][/b] [indent][b]Productive obsessions[/b] - When something grabs her interest, Reina will focus on it and learn everything about it until she reaches a competent understanding and she gets bored of it. Anything goes--from fighting games, to chess, to volleyball, to math--it just has to be something she can impress people with. [b]Multitasker[/b] - Unable to dedicate all of her time to the single thing that has her attention at a given moment (lest the rest of her life falls apart), Reina has become adept at focusing on multiple things at once. Important homework due but she's completely absorbed in teaching herself animation? Doing both at the same time is the correct option. [b]Athletic[/b] - She's made a habit of working out from the time she became interested in becoming a hero, and it's stuck despite her failures. Along with the occasional obsession with specific sports, Reina is deceptively athletic for her small frame.[/indent] [b][color=b16edd][SAMPLE POST][/color][/b] [indent] Reina stood just outside her home's front entrance, heavy drops of rain battering her umbrella loudly. She took in the smell of the rain, letting out an almost content sigh--poor weather by most people's standards, but it seemed to help keep her in a relatively good mood despite a long school day. She looked down at the envelopes in her hand, given to her not thirty seconds earlier by the mail man--she had coincidentally gotten home right as he was heading up to her door. One of the envelopes caught her eye, looking fancier than the others. Careful not to drop her umbrella, she flipped through the bills and advertisements to bring the interesting envelop to the top of the pile. And her heart stopped for a moment. [i]Tumble.[/i] The letter was from the hero's agency. Reina stared, wide-eyed, unsure what to make of it, telling herself not to hope for too much. She [i]ordered[/i] herself to not expect anything. She wouldn't let her stupid fantasy hurt her like that. She stuffed the rest of the mail into her sweater's pocket, taking one more look at the envelope in her shaking hands. She swallowed hard, scolding herself as she began to open it. Despite everything she was telling herself, she couldn't keep from hoping for something. Reina Mori simply wasn't good enough. And painfully stupid too, if this hope of hers was any indication. It was probably just a request for information on the villain she had encountered. That made sense. Her eyes began to scan the freed letter, and she could only stare and re-read it again and again, not believing its contents. Finally, it seemed to sink in, and the girl found herself beginning to cry. Weak in the knees, she let herself fall to her rear, fighting back tears and wiping away any that managed to escape. She couldn't keep herself from smiling to no one as she read the letter again, gripping it tightly as though it were her dream itself. A hero as great as Tumble was offering to take someone like Reina under her wing. The teen paused, mulling that over, some of the euphoria she was feeling fading a bit. All it had taken for an invitation like this was a random chance breakthrough with her quirk, revealing it as one with potential to be strong--but all the work she had put in years before hadn't been enough. There was an unfairness to it, and on top of that the girl felt like she didn't truly deserve this invitation. She swallowed hard, reading it one more time. She hadn't done anything in three whole years with the intention of preparing herself to be a hero. This letter was something she no longer deserved--it belonged to her younger self. Reina wiped away another pair of tears, hanging her head as she sunk deeper into her thoughts. Anger at herself flared, and she bit the corner of her mouth hard, the pain focusing her. She didn't deserve the letter, but she had it now. She owed it to her younger self--and to Tumble herself--to accept the offer and do everything she could to retroactively deserve it. The girl climbed slowly to her feet, finally opening the door to her house and escaping from the rain. She felt it--the fire of her obsession being stoked. She had been given her second chance, and now she just had to ignore the fear of not being good enough again. [/indent] [b][color=b16edd][OTHERS][/color][/b] [indent]- Reina's been hit in the face by small objects often thanks to her quirk. All it takes is a moment of forgetting her surroundings or a split-second lapse in keeping her gravitational field weak and [i]bam.[/i] - [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD9-Xtt64aI]Her favourite song at the moment, a character theme of sorts.[/url][/indent] [/hider]