[hider=The Protagonist (False)] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Kw8xjCg.jpg[/img][/center] [b]Name:[/b] Westerson, Claudius Caligula [b]Nickname:[/b] [i]"That Guy"[/i] [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Age:[/b] 19 [b]Birthday:[/b] 08/30 [b]Height:[/b] 182 cm [b]Weight:[/b] 81 kg [b]Nationality:[/b] Japanese [hider=Character] [b]Personality:[/b] In a world of ESPers, where combat, medicine, and research all pivot around those powers that transcend human mundanity, those without such abilities are forced to the delegation of side characters or faceless individuals who only exist as a means of moving from point A to point B. This is an absolute fate, and it is this absolute fate that Claudius wages war on. He is an unsalvageable chuunibyou, an outspoken buffoon, and a mad scientist who has dedicated his life to turning the magical into the mundane. Claudius believes himself to be a "protagonist", a being destined to defeat the ESP-archy that he perceives the world around him to be. In the face of tyranny, he stands tall, an unbending oak to weather the storm. In interactions with others, he is recklessly ostentatious and loudmouthed, a ridiculous jester without peer who is prone to monologue at the slightest opportunity. Viewing all others as subordinates, inferiors, lesser beings, jesters, and the like, he proclaims himself as a being of a higher standing. Even with regards to those who are objectively above him in ability, such as otherworldly monsters from a higher dimension, transcendent gods who exist outside of time, or his elementary school principal, he does not change this demeanor. For those rare individuals who either believe his words or pretend to play along though, he treats them as valued "sidekicks", though they are still of course disposable pawns. As one could imagine, he has the concept of protagonism so hammered into his soul that it cannot be divorced. Probably great at parties. [b]Biography:[/b] Claudius descends from a relatively long line of ESPers (read: one of his ancestors was a Gemstone and the rest are just normal people), but was born without ESP himself. His parents were not unreasonable people, and did not view him as lesser for this unfortunate circumstance, raising him as they would any other child. The trouble came when Claudius was seven and his parents had their second child, a girl, who was blessed with a talent currently assessed as rank 4 (read: she went to Academy City and was assessed as a rank 4 after the usual treatment of hard drugs). While Claudius's parents were not the type to show overt favoritism, they couldn't help but show a trace more attention to their prodigy of a daughter (read: they wrote letters to their daughter who was over in Academy City instead of going to Claudius’s science fair). This was Claudius's turning point; refusing to accept the reality around him, he proclaimed that he would overcome ESP as a concept, and become something greater. The next decade was filled with Claudius moving to this endeavor. Neglecting his studies to the point where he just barely scraped through school, shutting out all others and immersing himself in his work, he tinkered endlessly to realize his dream. His parents, not wanting to dissuade him from his passions, helped fund his projects, and every so often Claudius actually managed to churn out an invention that worked relatively well and even earned some money thanks to it. While not having the most familiar sibling relationship, he did get along rather well with the sister that had caused him all of this grief, mainly because she was just a little kid who didn't realize that her brother was a fucking weirdo (read: because she lived in a different city and has not seen him face to face in four years). In the process, he shattered the binds on his own fate, and through coming across an ancient text, a grimoire of old, broke through his own mundanity to become a being wrought from magic. Regardless, even this was not enough. Proclaiming that he could not stay at home forever, Claudius abandoned his family name and replaced it with a new one, "Westerson" (as well as adding a middle name for reasons unknown), before leaving home to travel to the heart of the ESP-archy: the tyrannical place known as Academy City (read: he kinda just wanted to visit his sister for a bit and laugh at ESPers). He told his parents that when he saw them next, he would have conquered all ESP. He asked them to keep sending him money, though. [b]School:[/b] N/A (Dropout Vagrant) [b]Grade:[/b] N/A (Dropout Vagrant) [b]Faction:[/b] "ESP-archy- CHANGE HIERARCHY" (ECH for short) (Only has one member) (The member is Claudius) (Just in case that was unclear) [/hider] [hider=Skills] [i]High-Speed Calculation:[/i] Self-explanatory. Also extends to reading. [i]Improvisation:[/i] Capability to create tales and ideas that make the Silmarillion seem tame, all in the span of a second and a half. A ridiculous existence who can weave complex narratives that not even he can follow. [i]Monologuing: [/i]Capacity to deliver hour-long monologues at the drop of a hat, seemingly without ever pausing to take a breath. [i]Tactless Physical Force:[/i] Can defeat a small swarm of five year old children in ritual combat through skillful employment of 'punching'. Surprisingly powerful. [i]Running Like a Bitch:[/i] By placing one foot in front of the other, a form of high-speed transit through the first three axes of the world is achievable. [/hider] [hider=Mage] [b]Mage Name:[/b] Innovare515- [i]'The world starts, the world ends.'[/i] [b]Magical System:[/b] Imagination Materialization [b]Description:[/b] Subset (read: useless premature result) of Alchemy which appeals to the actualization of form. In terms of theory, it is perhaps more similar to ESP than magecraft. From an outsider's perspective, it is simply the materialization of objects through expenditure of mana. To put it in terms more conducive to magic, the 'referent' of a word within human understanding is used to access the meaning attached to that 'referent', thus generating a catalyst by which phenomena can be formed. Naturally, this scales as one would imagine. [/hider] [hider=Theme] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxrFhCl2wI[/youtube] [/hider] [/hider]