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[b][color=ec008c]Name |[/color][/b] Kasumi Steward
[b][color=ec008c]Alias |[/color][/b] Senbonzakura
[b][color=ec008c]Age |[/color][/b] 23
[b][color=ec008c]Gender |[/color][/b] Female
[b][color=ec008c]Appearance |[/color][/b] 5’8”/172 cm - 135 lbs - curvaceous and athletic build - pale clear skin with no distinguishing markings or tattoos - chin-length, wavy pink hair (dyed from black, she claims) - brown eyes.
[b][color=ec008c]Notoriety |[/color][/b] None. (has taken pains to conceal her powers from N.O.V.A.)
[b][color=ec008c]Danger Level/Variant Type |[/color][/b] Class 3 Mentalist/Architect

[b][color=ec008c]Abilities |[/color][/b]
[indent][b][i]Spectral Guardian[/i][/b]
Kasumi can conjure a flying spiritual humanoid projection, which issues forth from her body up to 5 meters from her position and acts according to her telepathic commands and desires. This "spirit" is semi-sentient to some degree in that it can act to fulfill its user's will even without her conscious input, defending her even when she is otherwise unable to personally command it according to both what it knows of her desires and what it can personally perceive. The spirit knows everything Kasumi knows and vice-versa, the two flawlessly sharing senses and perspectives at all times. One must not mistake the spirit for a personage, however, as it is merely an extension and expression of Kasumi's own selfhood. The spirit is extremely fast and dexterous, enough to perceive and react to supersonic targets. In terms of raw core strength, it is not incredibly strong but is still notable to a dangerous degree, sitting at peak human. It has enhanced senses and has protection against those senses being overwhelmed by overstimulation and sensory attacks.

The spirit is pseudo-physical and can selectively interact with the world according to Kasumi's desires. The spirit is unable to be affected by any non-spiritual phenomenon and has a high resistance to even those, able to tank the equivalent of diamond-shattering force with only a "bruise" to show for it. This selective tangibility is arguably its most underrated strength, allowing it to interact with the insides of objects without being waylaid by the outside, turn invisible, act as pseudo-armor by overlaying Kasumi's body and even allow her to fly using the same "overlaying". This, in effect, can make either the spirit itself (or Kasumi while "wearing" it) a borderline immovable juggernaut. While "overlaid", Kasumi benefits from her spirit's brand of inviolability and is subsequently shielded from exotic effects like mental manipulation and power manipulation.

[b][i]Senbonzakura[/i][/b]
The spirit has the ability to transform anything it directly, physically touches into Sakura petals under its telekinetic control or remotely revert them. "Direct" in the sense that it can't touch someone's arm and transform their whole body, only the surface of the body that the spirit makes immediate contact with. This is not directly deadly so much as disabling, as severing a leg doesn't cause the victim to bleed out, just leaves the limb mystically detached. Even if reverted without proper reconstruction, it doesn't cause deadly severance, merely leaving a victim/target nonlethally dismembered in a fate arguably worse than death, their body/form somehow functioning normally despite the spacial difference/disconnection. Although, they can be manually reconstructed by being picked up and pieced together like a living puzzle, the parts automatically fusing back once correctly oriented.

That said, any wounds upon severed body parts/target portions still affect the whole. A remotely reconstructed and crushed heart will kill the person it was removed from at range, for example. Transformed targets remain in a form of "stasis", which allows wounds and damage to be temporarily prevented from affecting a victim, granting time for treatment to be delivered. It can also be used to "fuse" broken parts back together to heal wounds by deconstructing something, "pinching" it together and reconstructing it. More indirect uses of the power can be deadly, like drowning someone with petals shoved down their throats.

The petals have the same non-interest in physics as the projection proper and can be destroyed only by spiritual phenomenon, reverting back to what they originally were in a destroyed state. The petals aren't individually strong, but their "mostly inviolable" state makes them very effective barriers if positioned in mass well, even deadly ones depending on how hard they are impacted and if the petals are hit along their flats or edges. They also can thus be used as midair footholds or for pseudo-flight. The spirit is passively aware of the position of every created petal under its control but has no direct sense of their surroundings beyond an ability to "feel things out" with physical contact. Petals automatically revert to what they were transformed from upon getting more than 10 kilometers from their creator, but they do not automatically reorient themselves to reconstruct what they were prior.

One particular technique of Kasumi's is to turn portions of her body into petals and send them away, thus seeding "anchors" from which her spirit can manifest and bypass her normal range limit.
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[b][color=ec008c]Attire |[/color][/b]
[indent]Kasumi's wardrobe is one that rides a line between casual and luxury. While on the work daily, she dresses to impress in smart bright tops and black pants and shoes, under more casual (or clandestine) settings, she is prone to comfortable darker clothes. Sweaters, hoodies, men-style jeans and sneakers all have their place and time, favoring navy blues and greys. No matter what her business, she is inclined to cleanliness. Even so, when practicality calls for it, Kasumi is far from adverse to shedding the trappings of wealth for the sake of convenience, and she expresses a preference for sufficient numbers of pockets no matter her garb.
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[b][color=ec008c]Armament/Equipment |[/color][/b]
[indent]A fairly paranoid sort due to her wealth and training, Kasumi is nearly always ready for trouble, carrying on her person a concealed pocketknife, extendable baton, pepper spray, taser, hand lighter and her smartphone. As a fairly wealthy heir to upper 10% individuals, Kasumi has access to a variety of resources in the financial, technological, legal and business spheres that she can make use of within a certain reason. Her position demands she not be overly wasteful and financially irresponsible, but she has access to potential bases of operations/safe-houses along with access to a private security team and the ability to catalyze (re)armament efforts. Her family has estates in Midtown, Uptown and Lakeview. Remainder of personal inventory subject to change.
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[color=f7941d][Temperament & Lifestyle][/color]
[b][color=ec008c]Affiliation |[/color][/b]
[indent]Independent. Generally avoids the Variant "culture" but has had some occasional interactions with the Pariah Underground.
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[b][color=ec008c]Personality/Habits |[/color][/b]
[indent]Growing up rather isolated and mostly self-dependent, Kasumi is a prideful young woman with a repressed bleeding heart, who seeks to catalyze her personal freedom and security first and foremost. Self-interested and heartless towards those that obstruct her goals, she head-strongly pursues her own well-being and fortunes above and beyond all else, the goal being to achieve a peaceful, stable life in a world of insanity. She is plenty willing to kill for her goals and feel not the slightest hint of remorse after the fact, so long as she can get away with it. A consummate liar and social chameleon, she is nonetheless quickly tired by socialization. An introvert in nature, she has little patience for playing a role contradictory to her selfhood long-term. Her loner tendencies are in large part fueled by her desire to conceal her powers, seeking the path of least resistance by avoiding attention and the resulting trouble.

All that said, buried within her blackened heart is something approaching redeeming qualities. She does have a sense of empathy for the misfortunate... in spite of able to kill her emotions for her own sake. She is not needlessly cruel, and when it wouldn't seriously inconvenience her in a truly unacceptable way, she is willing to put her neck out for others, particularly the helpless or innocent. She despises drugs and other addicting substances, seeing them as net drains on society and human productivity... to say nothing of how they can twist the mind. In spite of her isolationist tendencies, she is also fairly charismatic when she wants to be and capable of rapidly adapting to changing circumstances. Her analytical mind makes her a dab hand at finding the best ways to synergize her abilities with any allies of convenience she encounters.
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[b][color=ec008c]Occupation/Trade |[/color][/b]
[indent]Banking Computer Manager working from home.
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[b][color=ec008c]Skills/Talents |[/color][/b] 
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[*]Martial Arts: Practices the brutal art of Muay Thai to a black-belt proficiency and subsequently has a high pain tolerance.
[*]Firearms: Can handle most firearms safely and competently. She's not going to forget to use the safety.
[*]Swimming: A strong swimmer capable of towing another person safely.
[*]High spacial awareness: Misses very little in her vicinity and easily grasps potential environmental assets.
[*]Resourceful: Has a talent for creativity in combat and can generally intuit her way around most weaponry with a little trial and error.
[*]Social chameleon and skilled liar.
[*]Multilingual: For the convenience of her profession, has English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Russian under her belt.
[*]Financial Guru: Has a very good head for numbers and is very good at identifying market trends and handling finances.
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[b][color=ec008c]Family |[/color][/b]
[indent]Jason Steward (father). Nodoka Steward (mother).
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[b][color=ec008c]Background |[/color][/b]
[indent]Raised in New Haven's Uptown, Kasumi's early life was filled with luxury. Born to the upper 10% to a pair of bankers and investors, financially, she wanted for nothing. The best food. The best clothes. The latest fads in entertainment and electronics. She was educated away from the "common masses", homeschooled for the majority of her life by the best tutors. All these privileges and more would have been easy to take for granted, but Kasumi's parents -even as often absent as they were for business matters- were the practical sort and had no intention of raising a useless lay-about. Kasumi's upbringing, therefore, put much focus on making her feel as though she must earn what she had, and it stuck, churning out an heir that was doggedly hard-working and utterly ruthless when it came to business once she was deemed old enough to begin being involved in matters of family finance.

Kasumi's life was good, and she had no interest in rocking the boat. The matters of Variants did not concern her in the slightest insofar as they were uninvolved with her family's business dealings. (Un)fortunately, she'd not end up with a choice in the matter. As a daughter of fairly wealthy individuals and generally perceived non-Variant, Kasumi at 16 found herself the target of an attempted kidnapping and hostage situation, presumably with the intention of using her to extort money from her family. Those "enterprising" criminals counted among their number both mundanes and Variants alike, and in spite of giving nearly as good as they got, Kasumi's security was lax due to complacency from a lack of incidents and subsequently insufficient. A captive Kasumi was drugged out of her mind to keep her docile, dragged out to an isolated area in the Warehouse District, and nearly subjected to some... far more unfortunate circumstances in her near-insensate haze.

And then there was an explosion of noise and sensation, sending the girl into fits... and that was around when her long-dormant powers chose to wake up, her body exploding into a cloud of petals and freed of the drugged state she had been wallowing in. The girl had no idea what she was doing, flailing in her practically disembodied state, but she managed to mildly contribute to the ensuing chaos. Her captives were entirely caught off guard by the intervention of a vigilante and the formerly non-Variant girl they had grabbed suddenly become a whole lot less containable. Between the two allies of circumstance, the criminals were soon laid out unconscious, and the vigilante was helping the panicking girl quite literally pull herself back together. In the wake of this, the shaking girl found that her hair had turned a violent shock of pink, and to her dread, she could not deny what had occurred. She... was a Variant now, possibly always had been.

Stranded without an easy way to return to the safety of her family's property, Kasumi was forced to swallow her pride to accept the aid of the vigilante as escort and protection for the fledgling Variant. What ensued could have been movie about a wealthy individual getting reality-checked by misfortune, as Kasumi was forced for once in her life to interact with the poor and criminal aspects of New Haven, shocking her with the true depth of the criminal rot that oozed beneath the surface, strangling the light above. Self-centered and apathetic as she was, Kasumi began to feel a sensation she'd not truly developed at length, a conflicted squirming in her head and gut that she could only scowl at. It wouldn't be until long after she finally was returned to her home, till she was swaddled away within her bed that night after a stressful time spent lying her ass off to the police and her parents about her own part in the events of her rescue... It wouldn't be until long after that when she realized that what she was experiencing was a quailing form of empathy and strange guilt, a desire to do something but not about what or for who. There was a rot in New Haven, and it needed to be dealt with. She really didn't want to be the one to do it...

But would she have a choice? She had just been shown that her disinterest and apathy weren't worth the air it took to convey them if those she was set on ignoring weren't keen to return the favor. That damning thought, among others, is what would see the girl suddenly developing a feverish drive to learn self-defense, to hone her body as much as her mind had already been. She was determined to never again be helpless the way she had been. Her parents humored her newfound drive. Pleasantly surprised, they even humored her desire to attend a more public education soon after gaining her high school diploma. So it was that Kasumi would begin to interact with the masses a bit more in depth, developing social and physical skills to go with her intellectual ones. She would eventually graduate with honors and then smoothly integrate herself into her family's banking business.

Throughout this time to the present, her disinterest in the plights of Variants in general had not changed, not with a lifetime of habits behind her. And yet, even so, she managed to further soul-search and discover she wasn't entirely as aloof from the issues of the lower class as she might have liked to be. An anorexic sense of empathy and altruism was stoked and developed, and the girl found herself indulging it on occasion when and where it wouldn't inconvenience her ends. She didn't engage in "vigilantism" so much as aid those she happened to be in a coincidental position to. She kept her powers hidden from everyone, aside from -eventually- her parents, lying shamelessly and without hesitation. She had no intention of being on N.O.V.A.'s radar in an official sense, and she had every intention of continuing to catalyze her financial success in life, free of annoying scandals and meddlesome prejudices.
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