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[b][NAME][/b]
Ara Aster

[b][GENDER][/b]
Male

[b][AGE][/b]
19

[b][PERSONALITY][/b]
Ara often finds himself wondering why he has a quirk. He’s sure that it can be useful, else Michiko wouldn’t have chosen him - he must have potential but he isn’t sure that he’s up to the task ahead. He’s always ready to play and have fun. He takes too few things seriously but he can’t stand around and do nothing when someone needs his help - he’ll try to find a way even if he is powerless.

[b][BACKSTORY][/b]

Ara was born in upstate New York and lived a fairly normal life for a kid. He noticed his quirk when he was three. Or that’s what he tells people. His parents said that they had noticed it at four. Once they’d realized what it was they had tried to mold him into someone who might find the ability to notice and read other people’s body motions pretty useful. His mother had the ability and she was an investigator; Ara had never liked the police movies they showed him as a kid. They thought he might do as a lawyer; his parent’s realized that he wouldn’t make the cut into law school. 

They had enrolled him in taekwondo really early on as a self defense mechanism and he excelled. To him, all of the openings were obvious. It was like someone was holding up a neon sign reading “STRIKE HERE! THEY’RE OPEN!”. He wasn’t always quick enough to take advantage of it because, frankly, the others could also see openings. Though, they were much more obvious to Ara. 

After five years he’d earned his youth black belt. That was when his father, a businessman, got accepted for a job in Japan. They moved, leaving everything behind. His friends, his extended family, his school and his dojo. There were plenty of taekwondo schools in Japan but he only spoke English. He couldn’t understand what was being explained. Even though he’d earned a black belt, it was from an American school so he’d been forced back into a white belt - having to earn his way through the ranks again. Ara wasn’t very interested in that so he figured if he had to earn his way again, he might as well start another art. 

Where Taekwondo harnessed the body’s power and applied it for maximum damage, Aikido harnessed leverage and body mechanics. Applying it in ways Ara hadn’t even considered before. Also, in America his dojo only held class twice a week, Hombu dojo holds classes throughout the day so within his first year he’d met the requirements to earn his first blackbelt with the second following a year later. 

He’d only recently earned his third one, three years after the second. He was in the middle of the road for progress at Hombu, there were a few who had started with him who had stuck around, who were working on their fourth as he had received his third. Though there were some who hadn’t earned their second or even their first.

Ara had graduated highschool at seventeen and was accepted to a private university to study Japanese history. He wasn’t sure what he would do with the degree but he knew that it interested him greatly. He had also recently found himself fighting in the streets in the vigilante movement. Ara wasn’t sure that he had what it takes to be a hero but he knew he could stop petty crime easily enough and did his part.


When Ara graduates in a few years he has plans to move back to the states and open dojo while teaching history. He figured that would be a good way to give back to the community that took him in. He hadn’t really considered where he would do any of this but that was still a ways away.  


[b][QUIRK][/b]


[b]Infinite Eye[/b] 
Ara’s quirk allows him to see even the most subtle changes in a fighter’s stance. When he activates it his eyes glow as white as winter snow and even the slight angle change of your lead foot or the fact that the right side of your hip shifted backward by a millimeter all become as obvious as the sun in the sky. It is as though an opponent is explaining what they are doing in great detail to Ara in real time. It is important to note that this ability does not allow Ara to see the future or perfectly predict an opponent’s move. It simply does not allow any movement to go unnoticed. It is still on Ara to decide what to do with the information, in real time.

[b][SKILLS][/b]
[b]Skill[/b]

- Kenjutsu - Ara has studied Aikido at Hombu Dojo since he was fourteen. In the five years he’d been there he had earned his third degree black belt. In his study, he’s focused on swordwork and is respected among his peers for it. Of course his swordwork isn’t really anything compared to the head of the dojo, the doshu, but he is one of the more advanced students who focus on swordwork.


[b][SAMPLE POST][/b]

[i]Why me..?[/i] Ara couldn’t think why he would be chosen for this. Surely she saw something in him that he didn’t but… [i]Are there no others..?[/i] His quirk wasn’t speed or power oriented. Sure, it would be useful to tell what an opponent might do next but if all he had to work around that was a sword and his fists then that wouldn’t be too useful… [i]Would it..?[/i]

He decided that he would find out. He knew she wouldn't choose him randomly so she had singled him out. That meant she saw something he couldn't. He wanted to know what it was. 

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