Jojo

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Kenji Ito

Quirk: Beetle!

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Kenji felt absolutely exultant during his exchange with Tanifuji. At that moment he could take solace in the fact that at least the teachers were normal here. Protective, wise, guiding hands who would show him the path to his destin--

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! SHE CAME BACK TO FINISH THE JOB!"

Kenji turned to see a very frightened student fleeing from the mere sight of the sweet woman he had just met, utterly confused. Then he remembered something that stirred him up a bit. During his own entrance exam, him and some other students were taught a very good lesson about picking your battles when they faced the croc teacher. If that man wasn't really a teacher it was wholly possible that none of them would have made it out alive. A horrifying thought occurred to Kenji that a fear response like that would likely be tipped off by something of the same scale, and that she could do just the same. His eyes widened almost imperceptibly, and Kenji wasted no time following the instructions of Tanifuji and continuing on inside.

These guys might not be as famous as All Might was, but they're heroes all the same. Strong ones. They could pull these bunch of misfits into something greater.

Another student bumped into him, strange as he had carefully avoided being in a cluster. Was it on purpose? He apologized, but the look on his face wasn't convincing as he walked past. Then, he overheard what he had said. Yep, it was definitely on purpose. Another competitive student trying to convince everybody that they were the best of the lot. But Kenji, all but completely used to the notion of antagonizing students by now, only wondered if that boy hurt his elbow.

Though, they have their work cut out for them.

tl;dr

Kenji recalls his own entrance exam after witnessing a student flee from the sight of Tanifuji, then wonders of the state of a student's elbow after being bumped into.

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Kenji Ito

Quirk: Beetle!

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The encounter, thankfully, was over. The blast of wind in Kenji’s face came as a bit of a surprise, but if it wasn’t for the tension of the situation he might have laughed. The cold air suddenly going from slight breeze to a short gust pushing on his exoskeleton at most gave him a shiver. He understood that the fiery student hadn’t intended on hurting him, but he might have equated it to a warning shot.

“His quirk is so cool…” Kenji thought to himself as Akeno wordlessly left his side and windboy was carted off by more confrontational students. Now that he had thought about it, he had been so wrapped up by the school and the one-sided screaming match that he hadn’t at all scoped out the other students save for someone he had already met at the exam. He hoped that soon he would get to meet all sorts of interesting people.

Then, finally, the teachers intervened in the situation. As if by magic the previously aggressive student was completely pacified by the smiling man. He didn’t recognize him exactly, but something about him was oddly familiar. It was finally starting to calm down outside as people were being let into the building. Kenji shuffled in with the rest of the students, keeping his distance from denser parts of the crowd.

He was stopped by a taller woman, much taller. The very same that called the students into the building. Not to his surprise, she very kindly checked up on him after witnessing the event preceding. Very teacher-like.

“Heh. I’ll admit he gave me a jump, b-but I don’t think he’s all that bad. I think he’s just as excited as I am, and he just has a different way of showing it than I do. I’m-- I’m sure we’ll get along eventually.” Kenji smiled, his antennae re-positioned themselves in a slightly upward angle.

I hope.

“You’re a teacher, right? I’m Ito Kenji, I look forward to attending this academy.” Kenji bowed briefly before standing up straight and heaved his hiking pack higher up to adjust it once again before marching inside with the rest of the students.

tl;dr

Kenji, now having an out from the previous ordeal, marches in with the rest of the students. Curiously avoiding more dense pockets of students. He his stopped and checked in on by Tanifuji, a teacher he hadn't met before, and expresses his high hopes for the coming school year.

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

I hope everyone is on the discord by now because this OOC is prob gonna be desolate because of it lmao

Character Sheets: Where do you stand?

wut i think

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Character sheets are an important medium of reference for authors writing for a personality that goes beyond just a self-insert. What you want to think is "what, based on my character's unique history and motivations, would THEY say or do here". Having a character sheet there for you to fall back on helps to follow that line of thinking and not have the character gradually become an idealized version of the writer behind them.

Also they help with consistency for all parties. Did this character have blonde or black hair? Is my character comparatively shorter or taller than them? I don't want to write that I'm gazing up at them after forgetting that my character is actually 6 inches taller! Where was that scar at? What was their siblings name again?

Writers can forget a lot of these things over the corse of dozens of posts, but we shouldn't make that mean that our character somehow "forgot" whether they met their best friend in 3rd grade or 4th grade. It just isn't realistic.

I should also mention my position on overly complicated character sheets. It is good to leave some of these things a secret to your group/partner so that there can still be a shocking reveal later in the narrative. And also we shouldn't forget that making character sheets is ultimately useless when we abandon the stories they were for and just move on to the next character.

Making a character sheet is fun, but the real fun is what comes next.

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Kenji Ito

Quirk: Beetle!

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"Yeah, I'm fine. I got a few bruises but that's nothing new. No worries there." Kenji assured, rather quickly. He knew more than anybody that his quirk wasn't exactly obvious. To everybody else he just looked like an unassuming overweight dorky kid. The beatdown he received while trying his best to stop the efforts of the mock villain probably looked like a lot more than he could actually handle. It didn't matter now, soon he'd have the chance to change that view.

Taking the advice of Akeno, started wordlessly following the teacher. He was relieved to see that he wasn't the last up the mountain after all. Students were still following in, some even got a ride all the way up the mountain. It wasn't really a competitive thing to him, well, not entirely anyway. It was more about his own need to show that he was up to the challenge, and a driving desire to improve upon himself. He believed that chance was here. And that feeling that further cemented by seeing the building up close for the first time.

This academy was new, underfunded, underdeveloped, and underwhelming. It was like looking into a mirror. In that moment he saw the building for the first time, he knew that coming here was the right choice. If any place could help him grow, it was this academy. Kenji felt the tingle of excitement running up his legs under his chitin, or maybe that was just the cold morning breeze. Either way, he couldn't help but smile here.

Suddenly, over the low roar of the other students, one voice called out much louder than the others. Someone was at the doors leading inside, shouting into the sky like the world needed to hear what he had to say. Kenji didn't quite catch all of his monologue as he was lost in his own thoughts about the school, but what he did hear was that the number one hero had arrived. That was a new kind of excitement all together for him. He had never seen her before except on tv, so he eagerly called back to the voice with his antennae suddenly perking up straight as if trying to sniff her out of the crowd.

"Magical Miracle Purity Light?! Where?!" Kenji buzzed, his eyes filled with starry wonder.

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Interactions: @King Cosmos @ShwiggityShwah

tl;dr

Kenji assures Akeno that he is more or less unharmed after the exam and mentally processes his own optimism for the school's and his own future. Then naively assumes that Hiroki was talking about Japan's actual number 1 hero, accidentally making a mockery of his statement.

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Kenji Ito

Quirk: Beetle!

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The sudden small playful punch to his shoulder jolted Kenji out of fighting with his breath, and he turned to find the culprit was Kudo Akeno. He was surprised yet oddly relieved to see that she made it in too. During his entrance exam he took quite the beating to defend other students rescuing the hostages, but never got any of his own. If they were going by a simple one dummy equals one point rule he would have failed spectacularly. Despite this they had both been invited here, and Kenji had the chance to shed his damaged skeleton before he even made the trip. By appearance now, one might think he had never done the exam in the first place.

"Ah Kudo-san. It's good to see a familiar face up here, haha." he laughed, though it might have just been the last efforts to catch his breath. He couldn't wait to remove the hiking pack he had brought up the mountain with him, it was almost comically huge and getting heavier the longer he had it on. "It's great to finally be here but I hope we get to where we're staying sooner rather than later." he admitted while adjusting the weight on his back.

Kenji's antennae moved about on his head and he almost wished he could turn off his sense of smell right about now, while others probably didn't notice it the stench of all these kids fresh from a mountain scaling was a bit much for him.

You guys smell...
@King Cosmos

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Kenji Ito

Quirk: Beetle!

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Somewhere in the forest at the base of the mountain a sleeping bag hammock was tied firmly between two trees, the mustard yellow color of the thick insulated fabric made the sight reminiscent of a huge cocoon. Inside was the sleeping form of a young student, Kenji Ito.

Kenji woke from the sunlight seeping through the fabric of his sleeping bag that cold morning. Day 3 of his personal journey to Jigokuraku Academy, for the past days he had walked by himself from an entirely different prefecture to finally reach Kirisama. It was a self-imposed challenge to turn the transit into it's own workout regime. The night before he had reached the base of the mountain, but decided to set up camp and wait until morning to make the climb and see the academy itself. This morning he would be expected by the staff, but as far as he knew none of the students even knew about him yet. Suddenly the realization that he was far behind schedule dawned on him just as the sun had and he began to panic. Suddenly trashing about inside the bag caused a supporting branch to snap on one of the trees and he tumbled out of his slumber.

He had been planning to be one of the first, if not the first to arrive at the academy, but as he reached into his pockets to retrieve his old flip phone those hopes were dashed. The phone displayed the time 7:35, enough time to reach the top by 8:00 but by the time he would make it up most of the other students surely would have been there. However this gave him no reason to slow down on his way up the long stair climb to the top.

“Pathetic!” Kenji shouted at himself as he quickly rolled up his sleeping bag and went into a full sprint to reach the stairs. “I wont be known as the first tardy student in Jigokuraku Academy’s history!”

Unforeseen to Kenji however, was how he appeared as he finally reached the top of the stairs. He was on time, sure, but when he got there he had run out of stamina and was barely moving at the top steps. To students already waiting at the top, what they might have seen was the sight of an overweight chump that only barely survived stairs.

What a hero.

tl;dr

Kenji, tired from the several day hike from his home prefecture to the base of the mountain, woke up later than he intended and nearly made himself late for the first day. However, determined to not be the first tardy student in the school's history he carried himself nearly all the way up the mountain in a full sprint, before nearly collapsing at the top.

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Beetle boi ready for some sick wrestling action

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Bug Might!

"Let's all do our best, okay?"

Name:
Ito, Kenji

Age:
15

Height:
5’11’’

Weight:
200lbs

Build:
Stocky thick skinned

Quirk:
Beetle! Kenji shares unique traits with some species of beetles, granting him a tough exoskeleton that is produced from his pores, smell sensitive antennae and super strength!

Description:
Kenji is a timid yet friendly young man. He tries to stay out of trouble and conflict but parodoxically lands himself in those situations by pure happenstance. Kenji is a bit air-headed to a fault but tries very hard to work with his peers, thus he prefers being around a stronger personality that can call the shots for him in a difficult spot.
Coming from a rather sheltered background, he is a bit naive about the world and sees hope even in situations where all seems lost. Similarly when faced with a person of less than good intentions he would rather try to talk them down than solve the conflict by force.
Kenji has a long history of being bullied and treated as an outcast for his appearance, and will often take things said to him in the worst way possible. Still, he wont judge them for it.
The only area he shows strong motivation for is the road to becoming a pro hero, and all the training and experience that comes with it. However there is always a small lingering sadness in his expression when he is forced to use his quirk in a violent way.

Support Class 1-B, the Puppeteer

"Ohohoho~ It's been so much fun watching you heroes."

Name: Kamei, Meisa
Age: 14
Height: 5'5''
Weight: 117lbs
Quirk: Puppeteer! Meisa can animate small objects and control them like her own body, activated by kissing the object. Usually done on toys due to the ease of movement they offer.
Quirk Details: The animated toys can sense just like a person can, that information is layered on top of her real senses and gets more chaotic and hard to focus on with the more toys she tries to keep active.
Description: Meisa is short and petite in stature and keeps her hair cut short. The most memorable trait about her is her smile, a mouth full of shark teeth that would give anyone a hint of the sadistic personality behind it.

She is a shut in and avoids other people, not because she’s shy but because she has a general dislike for others. Meisa even goes as far as to make it appear that her dorm is vacant and dark at all hours of the day. As long as she can help it she will opt to never leave her space and sends her toys to fetch whatever she needs for her.

Meisa has a fixation on watching people without their knowledge, placing unassuming toys throughout campus to watch and listen through. She insists that it’s to better know the students in the hero class, but won’t argue that she does get a lot of entertainment from it anyway and is not above blackmailing a classmate with gossip to put the game in her favor. On top of that, she gets a kick out of testing her various tools out on human subjects and never seems concerned with potential injury.

Despite this, has mostly innocent goals and wants to become a professional designer for hero costumes and tools with a focus on weaponry. She seems eager to help the hero class succeed... but maybe from a distance.

Voice Actor: youtu.be/qfhzKPqpIlg

𝕁𝕚𝕘𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕜𝕦 𝔸𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕒 | A 'My Hiroaki-demia' RP

Pretty bare bones currently as I'd like to develop him through natural game playing. But here he is.

Tank Hero, Kenji Ito!

I’m not fat, I’m thick skinned!

Name: Ito, Kenji
Age: 15
Height: 5’11’’
Weight: 200lbs
Build: Stocky THICK SKIN
Quirk: Beetle! Along with his normal skeleton, Kenji is also protected by a thick insect-like exoskeleton surrounding his body. He can also lift several times his own body weight, a true strongman!

***Quirk Details: His quirk, Beetle, grants him a tough exoskeleton made of chitin that looks natural enough that it could fool anyone into believing he is just overweight. The biggest giveaway is the elytron splitting his back down the middle like beetle wings. He is also much stronger than he looks, capable of lifting up to 5 times his own bodyweight. (1000lbs!) However, if he sustains too much damage to his exoskeleton it will harden and make it impossible for Kenji to move without molting and revealing his vulnerable second form.

***Quirk Development:
With training, Kenji hopes to reach the full potential proportional strength of a rhinoceros beetle and be able to lift 850 times his own weight! It’s not very realistic though, he admits. He sets his sights on 100 times his own weight.
The possibility of further increasing the strength of his natural armour through method of repeated forced molts has been discussed but it is inadvisable due to the physical and psychological turmoil of shedding his skin.
As Kenji has not yet reached adulthood, doctors theorize that he could further develop his quirk much like an adolescent beetle entering its final molt. His elytron may one day develop semi-functional insectoid wings.

Description:
Kenji Ito is by first glance a plain looking overweight high school student. He has shaggy dark brown hair and shady brown eyes. He wears glasses for reading sometimes but doesn’t really need them otherwise. While fully dressed his mutation type quirk is not immediately obvious until you realize that those two strands of hair sticking up and flicking around aren’t exactly hair but antennae. A quick tap on the shoulder would reveal that his skin is actually very tough, very smooth and absolutely unyielding to any attempts of pinching. If he were to take off his shirt you could see the seams of his exoskeleton around his joints and down his back separating at the spine.

Those that don’t know him well enough would assume that he is a very formal, studious, and even shy young man. Kenji is self-conscious of his appearance due to his quirk leading people to assume he is overweight, even though he prides himself on his healthy diet and workout regime. Any prodding based on this assumption is met with a demonstration of his raw natural strength, though he usually apologizes for making a scene shortly after.