Second character! Pending approval from [@Shard]. [hider=Cinnamon Hailstride] [h3][color=green][b][u]Basic Information[/u][/b][/color][/h3] [color=green][b][u]Cinnamon Hailstride[/u][/b][/color] - Something of an irony, given her buff appearance, but somewhat fitting when it comes to personality. - Her father was the one who gave her this name, when Cinnamon smelled cinnamon rolls and smiled. [color=green][b][u]Titles/Nicknames[/u][/b][/color] - White Strider - The Cat with Fists [color=green][b][u]Age[/u][/b][/color] 16 years old [color=green][b][u]Species[/u][/b][/color] Mutant [color=green][b][u]Gender[/u][/b][/color] Female [color=green][b][u]Ethnicity[/u][/b][/color] American-Japanese [color=green][b][u]Nationality[/u][/b][/color] American [color=green][b][u]Occupation[/u][/b][/color] Construction Worker Secret Agent (for the Raiders of the Lost; she says she is a Professional Hero instead) [color=green][b][u]Alignment[/u][/b][/color] Chaotic Good – She helps people if she could, although she would rather save people closest to her as opposed to total strangers. Even so, it would hurt her if she actually stands by. [h3][color=green][b][u]Detailed Information[/u][/b][/color][/h3] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/4X0Vwir.png[/img][/center] (Credits to 'waka (shark waka)' for their character, Ichika.) [color=green][b][u]Appearance[/u][/b][/color] Cinnamon is a young woman around 5’8” (172 cm) and 143 lbs (65 kg). She boasts a lean figure with several apparent muscles, mostly her abdominals, and faint scars that came from fighting constantly on the streets. Her face is often a blank frown, where her left green eye and right yellow eye would stare ahead (or close, or intensely focused) when she is calm, but quickly change upon some situation. The worst one for people would be on the end of her tooth-gritted glare. She often wears a dark black (or brown) coat, white shirt, equally dark trousers or grey sweatpants, combat boots, and a belt pack. Her gloves, matt black and studded with special alloy, are normally kept in her pockets until she has to fight or work. Sometimes she ties up her hair with a green scrunchie or cuts it at neck length in hime-style. Whenever she is called upon for agent operations, she wears a black beanie to tuck her hair into, a red oni mask, more dark clothing, and a special coat. [color=green][b][u]Personality[/u][/b][/color] Traits: Stubborn, family-oriented, cool, rude, and indecisive. Cinnamon is good-natured, but the type who would call themselves your friend and still call you names anyway. She admires mutants in general, although she is aware of how good and bad they can be from an early age. As such, she can be prickly towards people, and friends are rare for her despite her open demeanor. She does not readily stay true to her feelings, leading her to feel conflicted when such moments come and ultimately try to avoid it or run away. She cares for people, especially when they get hurt, but she had received hard lessons in trying to fix things herself and has been receptive to other people. [color=green][b][u]Origin[/u][/b][/color] Cinnamon was born to mutant parents Bosley Hailstride, an American psychokinetic magician, and Ran Hayashi, a Japanese mutant born with the ability to control wind, and lived in America before settling down in a city. Six years later, her mother died giving birth to her baby brother, Bailey, leaving it up to Bosley to suddenly take care of his children. Despite this change, and living in a rather rough part of a neighborhood, the three lived happily, if not at risk with the several shady organizations based around the city. At some point, Cinnamon met Sheffield and thought they were going to be good friends until her father suddenly disappeared, reappearing in public crazily declaring himself to be Betta Bill, and began a psychokinetic rampage on a level very unlike him or his powers. It killed civilians, Heroes, Vigilantes, and bounty hunters alike by the dozens, until Sheffield, known as the Red Striker at the time, was the one who finally killed Betta Bill. Horrified, angered, and grieving, she was later sent to an orphanage where she met Sheffield again. Having heard his confession as the Red Striker that killed her father, their relationship plummeted, and slowly mended with Sheffield’s constant visits, Cinnamon understanding that the destruction her father caused had to be stopped, and her brother and the little orphans simply being there to distract them. Even so, distraught that her father, rough but kind, turned into a mad Villain without an explanation, she went to Azure City to search for such a source. When one night got her into fighting Villains, and winning, she was invited by a member of the Raiders of the Lost into their ranks, whom she knew from Sheffield. Joining the Raiders, Cinnamon has since then acted as a guard for certain facilities located around the city or as assault, in which she would be one of the first fighting Heroes on the scene. [color=green][b][u]Notable Relations[/u][/b][/color] • Bailey Hailstride Her younger brother, who is 10 years old. She cares for him dearly, especially when he became her last living relative. • Sheffield Dusk Complicated. They had met two weeks before Betta Bill’s rampage, at a mixer in which Cinnamon was forced into, and Sheffield was supposed to meet an arms dealer. They met, got along, got annoyed by each other, got along anyway, and got each other’s contact number before realizing they attended the same school a few days later. But then Sheffield killed her father. It had been half a year since Sheffield confessed himself as the killer, whom she viewed as a justified sort of killer, but still the one who did it anyway. It took time for them to talk normally again, until Cinnamon had enough of her orphanage and ran away with her brother. Though, one of her reasons was Sheffield himself, who grew on her despite what happened. • Bosley Hailstride and Ran Hailstride née Hayashi Her American and Japanese mutant parents respectively. She knew her mother for six years until Bailey, whom she gave birth to and died despite her mutant constitution, leaving it up to their father to raise them. They enjoyed their years together as a family in America until Betta Bill rose up as a criminal. The reasons as to why Bosley went berserk were lost on her, and she could not believe he happened to kill without reason, which factored into her decision to find out why by joining the Raiders of the Lost. • Raiders of the Lost The low-profile vigilante organization that Sheffield was once a part of, which had now partnered with some shady organizations. Cinnamon was scouted by the Raiders after she ran to Azure City with Bailey, in which she acts as a forward scout and (occasional) security for some of the Raiders’ and their partners’ facilities. Of course, she was only in it for some sense of payment for her father’s crimes, to find out why her father became a Villain, a job, and a want to do good, even if it was somewhat at odds with her sense of freedom. [color=green][b][u]Resources[/u][/b][/color] Decent, having an ordinary apartment to live in with her little brother. Her daytime job (construction) and nighttime job (secret agent) provide the two with more than enough income. She also has a ‘Hero’s’ license that would justify her work in protecting the peace (and avoid whatever trouble she has to do in public). She also became the leader of her own gang, though unnamed, which is composed of many mutants and a few humans who had lost homes or are looking for friends. They act as an information network, but more importantly as backup for Cinnamon and each other, at least when it does not involve work. [color=green][b][u]Everyday Skills[/u][/b][/color] • Cooking (mostly meat and vegetables) • Taking care of children • Throwing • Mapping (as in navigating, drawing maps, and including important places) • Cleaning [color=green][h3][b][u]Combat[/u][/b][/h3][/color] [color=green][b][u]Fighting Style[/u][/b][/color] Rush in, fight, and win, sometimes not in that order. She works straightforwardly, however impulsive she acts, but is not a fool, especially having walked through many unfair streets where she sometimes had to fight (or purposely gets into fights). She is far from adverse to using weapons and tactics, but the reason she would resort to fists would be when she wants no deaths. She has knowledge of several Asiatic schools of fighting, most of which includes disarming and posture; that would include Japanese aikido and South Indian Kalaripayattu. However, she has a preference for boxing and (her more brutal form of) taekwondo. [color=green][b][u]Strengths[/u][/b][/color] - Roughhousing. - Any crowded fights. - She has above average education. - Her body is incredibly tough due to the nature of her power, to the point a knife would barely get past her skin. - Her reflexes are very on point, particularly adjusted for her power to work efficiently. - Doing mathematical calculations (or pure instincts) are also a condition for her if she wants fine control over her power and throwing strength. - She has incredible willpower. [color=green][b][u]Weaknesses[/u][/b][/color] - Something like a Xanatos Gambit (planning for each and every outcome to be beneficial) is beyond her, including avoiding being caught up in such machinations. - She is an impulsive person. - Her brother is a sore/weak point for her, along with any mention of her family or friends. - She is a loner by nature, and is unused to teamwork. - She is more of a human with their natural resistances multiplied, hence the wounds she takes are still significant over time. [color=green][b][u]Equipment[/u][/b][/color] Her best clothing is incredibly tough, designed with her powers and fighting style in mind. Her black gloves and boots are studded with metal alloys that can endure nearly anything she punches and are made of threads resistant towards heat, burning, corrosion, and other ailments. Her special black coat is interwoven with titanium, also with the same resistances. A whip is often at her side to use to lash onto enemies or objects, whether to pull at them or herself towards them. Her packs are often full of small gadgets and items, including cinnamon sticks that help her focus, tracking beacons the size of quarters, and a retractable baton. [h3][color=green][b][u]Psychokinetic Enhancement[/u][/b][/color][/h3] [color=green][b][u]Strengths[/u][/b][/color] - This ability entails adding forces acting upon Cinnamon, or an object or a person she is in contact with, using her mind. - A punch she throws can have the force of a speeding bus, or comparable to that of a meteor if she exhausts herself. A feather as light as ever could be dropped and suddenly have the weight of a bull. Anything that leaves her will still have the power-added force until it disperses for any reason. - One technique is to add on the force she has on her arm delivering a punch; in the instant she makes contact with her target, she adds onto the force pushing the target back, sending them flying. Another is that whenever she falls, she can act upon resistant forces to slow her fall enough to at least not take damage. - She can immediately remove the force she adds and add on the resistant force of whatever is in her hand, allowing her to stop an attack of hers in time (if she processes the thought). - The power also resulted in Cinnamon’s high endurance, which adapted to the rigors of using it. - It is theorized she can emit a personal forcefield or on whatever she holds onto, or strengthening her body, though she has yet to be able to do so. - It is also theorized her power can mutate to subtract forces upon anything she is in contact with. [color=green][b][u]Weaknesses [/u][/b][/color] - The power only activates when Cinnamon comes into contact with the target. - It cannot ‘subtract’ or remove a force. - While she can add force onto multiple objects at a time, she can only do it on one force acting upon each object (e.g. she cannot add on gravity combined with kinetic force for her punches). - The mental strength required to interact with an object/mass is proportional to its size. If the object is smaller than Cinnamon, then it would take next to no cost. If it is larger, then the mental strength exerted would be more noticeable, added onto the amount of force she wants to add. - The enhancement is dependent on Cinnamon’s mental strength, which can be interfered with through mental means, putting her in depression, or such that conflicts with her mind and will. - Cinnamon can mentally exhaust herself using her powers too much, sometimes putting herself into short comas lasting up to a day. - There are no long-range forms of this ability, such as lifting an object with the mind. [color=green][b][u]Extra[/u][/b][/color] - Likes: Sushi, close people, fighting, and TV. - Dislikes: Villains, coffee, bad ink, and the police. - She likes TV dramas, particularly Korean ones. - She can speak basic Japanese. - She won a competition in knife throwing and another in eating spaghetti. - She has a verbal tic where she gets high-pitched when flustered, nervous or emotional. - Her heterochromia were often a source of tease and insults. She ends up getting into fights this way too. [/hider]