Moyai

Heroes of Azure City 🎫 Always Open

Marionette
Location: Rocktech Warehouse
Interacting with: @DocRock

A mantle of red covered the sky as the sun was setting, another day was ending, another boring, eventless day for Patrizia Binari. The mutant girl looked over the golden necklace she stole from a store at the beginning of the week and sighed, carelessly throwing it behind her.

“I am tired of that!” the girl complained, it was shiny and the diamonds sparkled, but there was not much to do with that boring out thing. The problem, she assumed, was that it was too old! People in the 15th century did not have anything to do, but she was a modern girl with modern needs.

The TV had been on for a while, as usual just showing mundane things, but then… Her eyes widened and she rose from the couch, paying close attention to the programming. It was an interview with Serene Light, CEO of Rocktech Industries. The host went on and on about the latest inventions of the company and even showed some pictures. They looked so sleek and stylish, plus according to them, they were the latest tech around.

“Ohhhh! I want it!” she said, a grin starting to develop on her face. “I want all of it. This will be so fun! No more dusty museums and stores for me!”

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It was now deep into the night, guards surrounded one of the Rocktech Industry warehouses, a day as uneventful of others… for now.

From the balcony of a nearby building, pale blue eyes watched each man intensely, a plan quickly brewing inside Patrizia, no, Marionette’s head. Suddenly her eyes shone, “Now, now, be careful my dears! We don’t want the boring men to figure us out.” she whispered.

Bellow, one of the guards tilted his head. “I heard something moving,” he told to his partner. “Stay alert, I will go see what it is.”

Not too worried, but still cautious, the other guard rose up his weapon and paid close attention as the first one moved into the alleyway to see if there was anybody in there... Just to find himself pointing his weapon to a bunch of mannequins. The laugh from the other guard was heard behind him. “Guess you are a bit paranoid, eh?”

“Crap, must be from one of the clothing stores nearby. They should dump their trash somewhere else. Stupid things.” he resisted the desire to kick down the whole crowd of plastic figures, that would make too much noise and cause worries to even more guards.

“Let’s get back to our positions.” the other guard said, and the one inspecting the mannequin nodded… though as his partner left, he would hear the sound of movement again, cold plastic hands moving over his mouth before he could yell.

Even before returning to his position, the other guard noticed the absence of his partner. Instinct told him to go back into the alleyway to call him, but strict Rocktech training told him to stay alert and move close to one of the alert buttons of the warehouse. The closer he got to the outer walls of the warehouse, the weirder the absence of his colleague became.

A plastic bag flew into his face, causing him to stop and take it off. “Stupid thing,” he grunted, weirdly enough there were no strong winds, but these things flew with the smallest of breezes, he thought. A couple more bags brushed against him, this time not even stopping him, he was upon the alarm system’s button, ready to press it. His finger touched the big red plastic circle and did nothing, soon the man found himself punching the thing but even with all his strength the button would not bulge and the alert would not be sent out.

Sweat dripping from his face, the man reached for his pocket to try to grab his keys, they were missing, in fact, everything was missing, his wallet, his cellphone… another plastic bag hit his face, an enraged hand flying upward to remove it. “Dammit! Now is not the time!” the man said in an enraged tone.

“Why I disagree! I would say now is the perfect time~” a voice said behind him, the guard turned around to face a girl, clearly not a normal girl, she did not seem have flesh, instead, she seemed to be some sort of robot or doll, he could not tell what, but he knew she creepy. To her side, flying in the air, were his keys, hoisted up by the plastic keychain given by Rocktech. Behind her, the mannequins they had inspected.

“M...Mutant bitch… !?” before his rage could turn into a yell more plastic flew against him, this time, stuffing his mouth, the man started to cough, but now all the trash from nearby alleyways was alive, moving towards him like a horde, plastic tying itself to plastic until countless ‘ropes’ of plastic bags had him immobilized.

“Curious no? You and your friend ended up caught by what you called ‘stupid things’! Makes you think, no? About who is really the stupid one.” she had a blank stare and a satisfied smirk, clapping to her mannequins to hoist the man up and hide him with the other captured guard. Then she extended her hand and took the key to the warehouse, the fun of the night had just started.

Heroes of Azure City 🎫 Always Open

Location: Festival Grounds
Interaction: @DarkRecon

Under the cacophony of screams and bullets, a group of people, a mix of strangers, friends, and families, ran through the park in search of help, of escape, of anything. They found the opposite of that, ominous armed figures, smoke still rising from their rifles indicating recent use, no doubt having claimed the life of innocents. They were reloading and setting up other weapons, a crate of ammunition on their feet, but as soon as they saw the civilians they rushed to get their weapons ready, and in moments, the first bullet had been fired.

It never landed, more followed, but all took a stray path, at first, with so much chaos around them, it was hard to listen to the sound, but there was something close to a vortex of wind near them, a sound like that of a vacuum cleaner or hair drier. The attention diverted from the civilian targets and was now on the direction of the weird sound, though the source was hidden by rustling bushes.

Then all of the sudden came Asuka, a ‘black hole’ like thing right between her extended arms, the terrorists panicked, but now the pull of the void was even more intense, bullets as fast as they were could not outrun the absorption. As she stepped closer, the attackers had to hold their weapons tightly, having to watch as the crate of ammunition started making scratching noises, being dragged closer to Asuka until it opened, its contents spilled and consumed. The rifles were next, and not knowing the woman, the terrorists feared they could soon meet the same fate.

But that was not what happened, instead, the silver-haired mutant closed the vortex. Immediately her body produced a strong blinding flash, when the attackers recovered their sight, the woman, now with cloud-white hair and a slight blue-tint to her skin, was upon them. She rose her feet up and stomped, creating a strong wind blast right in the middle of the group of terrorists, sending all of them flying into nearby trees and structures.

“You!” she said, staring at the civilians who had witnessed the event. “Run! To that direction! I will make sure you are safe!” with that she jumped high into the air. She did not expect this day to turn like this, it was once pleasant, but her second feast had been interrupted by the worst atrocity she had ever witnessed. Her mind had a lot to process, but seeing unarmed civilians being killed had triggered some sort of instinct in her, first, she would save others, then she would think about what she had witnessed.

The terrorists were aiming for total carnage, they moved in small groups such as the one she fought and shot at random unless there was a huge crowd of ‘targets’ for them to deal with. Asuka spotted a group in the route the civilians she saved were taking, she needed to act fast. Quickly she burned out the air matter she had absorbed and as she started to fall, her hair turned platinum and her skin gained a grey overtone. It was time to put those bullets and weapons she absorbed to good use.

The terrorists were caught by surprised as from nowhere something heavy and metallic crashed against their equipment stash, a cloud of dust rising from the spot. Before their instinct to shoot could kick in, the first of three was hit by what was clearly the shape of a woman, yet the impact was as strong as that of a car crashing against someone. “Surrender quickly. Avoid further pain.”

Despite her clear instructions, they decided to shoot. The random bullets made it past the cotton clothing but ricocheted against the metallic armor beneath as it grew from the very skin of the mutant. No further words would be said, she launched her hand forward and grabbed the rifle of the second terrorist, the man fought to get it back and achieved what he desired, as the weapon returned to him at a high speed, hitting him on the head.

The third had been shooting during all the time, and seeing his two accomplices down made it clear to him it was not working well. He grabbed his knife and tried to hit the mutant on what seemed to be one of her less armored spots, but before his blade could land she would react with a hug. Naturally his body forgot about stabbing and instead tried to struggle, all logic giving away to a desire to stop the pain, but nothing seemed to stop the mechanical strength of the tightening hug, and soon the cracking sounds had started. Asuka would feel bad if she had allowed the man to die without facing his terrible actions in a proper manner, but she felt no personal responsibility for his ability to continue walking. When the pain had knocked out the final attacker, she dropped him, stomping their weaponry, and moving to the aid of the fleeing civilians.

“This direction. Come. I will open a gate in the iron fence.” she told, as they were approaching the borders of the park. Still enhanced by the absorbed metal, she made one last effort to bend the iron bars of the tall fence until the civilians had a route out. Her skin turned back into normal flesh, and she looked at that exit she had made… and turned around, back into the carnage.

She ran below a bridge and saw a logo she had become very familiar while doing the paperwork when moving from Japan to the US. They were on the clothes of two figures hiding within a booth, it was clear they were hiding from an attacker and Asuka decided to help. “MSU!” she yelled. “Asuka Ehime, 825220-17, Mutation Protocol Type MB-3, Enhanced D-S-V.” she recited what was in her identity card, many words she did not know the exact meaning. She had waged her life on this little play, thankfully, she opened the vortex right as the bullets arrived. It would not be enough to get a metal form, but she was not aiming for that, instead, she was taking note of sources of fire and at the same time, absorbing some of the loose bricks of the old decorative bridge’s walls.

This obviously started to cause bits of the bridge to collapse, a large chunk falling over Asuka, who closed the vortex, shone bright and absorbed the earth matter. Hair a sandy-beige, she sent the fallen bridge chunk flying across the open field in front of her, in the direction of the tree where shots had come from. Curses were followed by a large crash, she would not try to inspect further to see if she had hit the terrorist. Earth power burnt out, she took wind and burned it fast to enhance her speed as she skated from the bridge to the booth, taking cover with the two within.

“I have engaged assailants in self-defense. Requesting right to aid law enforcement during a crisis situation.” She really did not know what else to say except the protocol, her mind was in a battle lockdown.

Heroes of Azure City 🎫 Always Open

Aeira Ketsueiki and Asuka Ehime

_{Festival Grounds
Interaction: soph and Moyai}

The silver-haired woman almost choked on her fries when she noticed someone not only looking at her but approaching her, for a moment she thought this was it some sort of fan who had recognized her and was about to bother her, and she was already brainstorming how she would deal with such a situation. However, to her surprise, that was not the case. Despite the eager look, she asked a simple question.

"Hi! Are you waiting for anyone?"

This made Asuka even more confused, but relieved, she finished to chew and swallow her fries before addressing the stranger.

"Huh…? Uhm… Not really! Was it rude that I took this table all for myself?”

"Oh my gosh," the head stomper gasped, "You really were going to eat it by yourself!" Bursting with innocence and excitement and completely unaware of if she sounded rude or not, she continued. "No, it's not rude! It's so cool!" She exclaimed, looking like she'd just hit the jackpot. Not taking the precaution of asking if she could sit down, she took the seat across from the woman.

"What's your name?"

Asuka was one to be easily embarrassed by many things, but she was not shy about her mutant powers, so she nodded with a soft smile at the statement, glad the girl had found it to be cool. She blinked rapidly when the stranger took a chair but did not say anything, after all, she seemed interested and Asuka was hogging a lot of space.

"My name is Asuka,” she said, picking up her hotdog. "What is yours?”

“A-su-ka,” she sounded out, turning around and looking at the other girl upside-down, “That’s... Japanese, isn’t it? I’m Aeira!” She placed her hand on her chest for emphasis.

“Are you Japanese?” Pointing at Asuka, her mouth was wide open in shock. It definitely wasn’t everyday for her that she potentially found someone from the same country as her (adoptive) mother. Then again, it also wasn’t everyday that she went outside during the day.

“Yes, I am from Japan, in fact, I have only been in America for a few months,” Asuka answered, her head tilting as much as she could to follow the upside-down Aeira, her expression even showing a side-smile despite its tendency to default to a blank stare.

“Really? My mom is from there! She’s so cool, just like you! Anyways,” Aeira said, her expression turning the slightest bit more solemn, “She always told me if you wanted to know a city, you have to ask the rats. But,” her face turned back to the friendly one that it was before, “if you don’t want to ask some scary looking people, you could always ask me. I’m a rat!” She exclaimed. She looked incredibly enthusiastic to call herself such a thing, but it was a title she wore with pride.

“You smiled!” If she didn’t look incredibly proud of herself already, she definitely did now.

Asuka nodded and then smiled a bit more widely. “I guess I did. It is a beautiful city but many seem to always be a bit down… I guess that is common to all metropolises, actually. So it impresses me to find someone so energetic.” by the time she finished the phrase, it had to be noticed that the whole table had been emptied. “So, miss… rat? Would you like something? There are still some stalls with food that is of my interest, I could get something for you as well. Perhaps, in exchange, you could tell me Azure’s secrets.” she told in a straightfaced tease.

“I know. Everyone’s so boring.” Aeira sighed, but both her mood and her wings perked up when she heard mentions of food. She hoped that nobody noticed them.

“Yeah! I’ll eat anything.” She approved, jumping out of her seat and behind Asuka. “But first, what part of the city do you want to know about?”

Asuka led the way, getting food from the stalls she missed on the first run. Fried chicken, tacos, a variety of fruits, milkshake… unfortunately some stalls were too crowded so she had to skip on them. “Hmm. What part of the city… Any area you would consider to be unwise to visit should you not be looking for trouble? The local media says it's all safe, but I don't quite buy that.” it was clear she was not talking about avoiding at all.

She got an extra serving of cake for Aeira when all of the sudden there was a commotion, some celebrity had started to make ruckus, but Asuka was too busy juggling plates to pay attention, instead just going to her table.

Aeira was constantly spinning and skipping behind Asuka, only stopping to occasionally admire the food. "Rule number 1 of Azure City; I never lie. Rule number 2; everybody’s a liar," she said, her voice turning more serious than before, "which means you probably are looking for trouble. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the local media wasn't telling the truth. Azure City is a big place, though. Crimes are committed everywhere, even in places you don't expect. The reason why the city is, unfortunately, not a place where everyone just does what they want is because the police is pretty good at stopping it. If the police can't handle the criminal because of a mutation, the MSU does. Which means it's pretty hard to find trouble. But..." she stopped to think for a second. "Certain individuals take it upon themselves to seek out evildoers and take them down in the name of justice. They're a pretty big help to the police, as you can imagine. Most of them are mutants themselves, and many of them target other mutants. They also help keep the people's spirits up. Heroes are idolized here. They help distract the citizens from all the evil. Without the Batmen and the Robins of America, I think this place would be a whole lot more depressing." She stopped spinning, and instead put her hands behind her head.

"The reason why I told you that last part is to make sure you knew that the city is as safe as you make it. If you want to live a life of safety and security, you can. If you want to find trouble, you can. It might be in the slums. Could be in your neighborhood. Or it could be in plain sight, making and executing plans right beneath our noses. It's everywhere, but it can feel like it's nowhere." Like before, Aeira's serious expression turned right back into a silly one. "But if you're me, you could just piss everyone off and make angry men come running at you." She finished talking when Asuka got her some cake. She was curious about that voice. It sounded so familiar, yet she wasn't able to put her finger on it since it was so far away.

Sitting down on the table and spreading the second round of meals across, this time taking into consideration the space Aeira would need for herself, Asuka digested all the information that had been given for her. “Idolization of heroes really has its role, albeit it helps to give people hope, it can be quite stressful to live under the shadow of people who appear to lack the failings of mortal life. I guess this is where the idolization of villainy enters, the big bad, the one who makes you think ‘well, I might be bad, but at least I am not this bad’. This is very common in other cities, with every minor mutant criminal being somewhat, uhm… hyped? But in Azure, it is not so common. I wonder why.” she spoke, the bit about villainy being somewhat personal to her, despite it just being her role on a TV show, albeit she recognized her explanation of that fascination was truly too optimistic, she guessed there was also a side of frustration against society or just a desire to see things burn.

“But ah, let’s leave this topic behind. I guess it is just me itching to let my power flow a bit, it has been a year or so since I last used it for anything, it starts to become somewhat uncomfortable. To you… it would be like having to stay still all day, for a year.” she had deduced she was speaking to a mutant, and even more, that the talk she heard while buying the second serving, about some ‘mutant delinquent’ jumping over people’s head, was likely related to this person.

“I don’t even stay still when I sleep,” Aeira laughed, “but I’d always be moving, even if I was just a human. What is your power?” She asked, looking even more interested in Asuka than she was before.

“I guessed the, uh, theme of yours from the way you act, the mutation, in my experience, can be a bit addictive, leading to some personality quirks and compulsions.” she tilted her head slightly. “With that said, can you guess mine?"

Aeira looked to be in deep thought. Looking at the food on the table, she found her answer. “Oh! You eat a lot of stuff, so maybe you draw power from taking in stuff? But if you eat like that you should look like thiiiis,” she spread her arms apart as far as they could go, “But you don’t! So you can release it somehow?”
She smiles at her simulating what shape she should have and nods approvingly. “Very clever. Yeah, I can, uh, consume things and then use them to enhance my body… like, uh, I can eat metal and make my skin feel like armor for a while... It isn’t eating like I am doing right now, though it does affect how much I need to eat and how efficient I am in burning calories. It… is a bit hard on my bills, but it cannot be helped.”

Aeira froze, the gears turning in her head. “Wait… you can do that? Huh? How?”

It was just too good of an opportunity not to play the old joke. “Why? Maybe I should showcase it right here? I could use… you!” she made a silly face and rose her hands and then couldn’t help but to laugh. “Just joking! Can’t do it to people, just materials… Ugh… I wish I could show you, but its a quite noisy and area affecting power, I would end the festival here and now and I would be the one with an angry crowd after me. So here, this is my number, call me later and we can set up something, find a better place for me to use it… Oh! And speaking of angry crowds…” discretely, she pointed to the nearby stalls, on the walkway behind them an angry crowd was approaching, delayed by the mess the singer was causing, but clearly about to enter the area.

“Are you fucking serious?” She sighed. “Well, whatever.” She stood up from her seat and stretched before slowly walking in the opposite direction of the crowd. “I’ll text you later, metal-eater!” She said. Her walking-and-waving quickly turned into a full blow run when the crowd got closer. Aeira wondered where she would go. Maybe Nico was here already?

Heroes of Azure City 🎫 Always Open

Had this idea for a villain to be used sometime later, as a side-character, kinda. Here is the CS for review.

Marionette

Basic Information

Name
Patrizia Binari

Vigilante Name
Marionette (as nicknamed by the media)

Age
17

Species
Mutant

Gender
Female

Ethnicity
Italo-American

Nationality
American

Occupation
Spoiled daughter.

Alignment
Chaotic Evil

Detailed Information

Appearance
It is impossible to not recognize Patrizia because of the drastic changes the mutation caused to her body, slowly taking away flesh and replacing it with synthetic materials. There seems to be a distinction between some softer and hard bits, but Patrizia’s body is not exactly hard, it is, however, steel cold. She never blinks and her expression is always somewhat vacant. Despite the nature of her body, she kept growing and looks like her age instead of when she first transformed.



Personality
The keyword of Patrizia’s personality is spoiled. She was a sickly child for half of her life and a disfigured mutant for the other, adding that to the early death of her mother, and the girl was never thought the meaning of the word no, always getting what she wanted and being extremely shielded from the world outside and it's common sense. She is very childish and will often refer to people trying to stop her as “mean”. If a person does not try to challenge her, she can be quite friendly, especially if they show interest in things she likes, she could be even described as easy to manipulate.

Being from an increasingly rich family, she likes luxury, and is often amazed by concepts of royalty and wealth (this shows in action with the ‘royal’ guard of dummies and the plastic throne she likes to sit in while using her powers.). That is however an exception to her personality, as she really likes natural and calm places, with an abundance of birds and plants, despite being a master of synthetic materials.

Origin
Born from a problematic pregnancy due to her mother’s illness (which would later turn fatal), Patrizia was a weak and sickly child, living with her father, the CEO of one of the many failing toy companies in the turn of the millennium. This did not stop him from pampering his daughter, hiring many tutors and showering her with gifts. He also would try to introduce her to other kids, but even in her tired form, she was a bit of a troublemaker, often throwing tantrums over minor things, and since she was weak, it was not uncommon for the other kids to bully her in retaliation.

Things took a new turn when she turned 12, as her body started to change, and not in the way most humans experience around that age. Synthetic materials started to substitute her skin, and it was clear to her father that she was a mutant, yet he feared to contact the government because he thought they would take her away. The power awakening and body shift also took away Patrizia’s sickness, she could now run and jump and was no longer bound to her bedroom. The first thing she did was to help her father’s company by using her plastic manipulation to sabotage many of the rival companies’ products while helping with the production of her father’s company. He did not like his daughter doing such things, but seeing her smile in so long made him falter.

With newfound vitality, however, Patrizia would soon replicate the tantrums of her childhood, this time however using her mutant powers. Her first crime was stealing a t-rex skull from a museum simply because she found it cool, unfortunately, a hero showed up and beat her back, recovering the fossil and forcing her to escape. It was from that moment Patrizia decided heroes were lame and mean and wanted to hog all the cool things for themselves, starting her path as a villain.

Notable Relations
-Marcello Binari
Her precious father.

Resources
Comes from a wealthy family, made wealthier by her actions. However, his father doesn’t really know much about mutant related items and has not contacted anyone that could help.

Everyday Skills
She is a superb pianist and is great at memorizing patterns, really good at video games, but only enjoys simple ones without stories.

Combat
Fighting Style
She does not fight herself, never being trained and using her powers to do all the fighting for her.

Strengths
All her strengths are limited to her power. Despite being a bit broken mind-wise, she is awfully crafty when it comes to developing answers to new threats.

Weaknesses
She is a small girl with no fighting training at all, if neutralized she is as helpless as some small kid. Her body alterations are merely aesthetic and do not provide her with extra strength or defense, she also has extremely low resistance to pain, panicking when she is hurt.

Equipment
Plastic dummies/mannequin that she crafts herself, notably more sturdy than the typical plastic she throws around. Two of those are dressed in royal attire and act as her last stand ‘royal guard’. She also has a plastic throne she keeps for style points.

Power

Plastic Manipulation
A very straightforward power, she can move plastic with her thoughts, bending and shaping it (but not changing its nature). She can do it to a wide range around her, provided there is nothing blocking the path (even a simple cardboard box blocks the power).

Strengths
Azure is a city full of plastic, as are most modern cities, as such, while in concept the power might sound pathetic, it becomes less so when toys, tables, chairs, and mannequins come to life to hunt you down whilst tornadoes of plastic bags and bottles block all the exits. Patrizia is also great at recognizing how to use her power to deal with a threat, using plastic that will melt into thick goo against fire powered heroes, clogging water pipes against a water one, spreading out projectiles against an agile one or focusing it all in one large ball against one of strength.

Weaknesses/Limitations
But in the end, it still lacks the firepower to make good out of the amazing area control she has. Her whole battle plan is not so much to knock out a hero, but to tire them until they make one mistake too many. Often being described as ‘victory by nuisance’. She cannot change the nature of plastic, meaning, for example, she can’t make vinyl out of plastic bottles. She can’t melt or fuse plastic herself but can shape plastic during its production.

Extra

• As twisted as her mindset is, she wants to beat heroes, but she does not desire to deal with them for good, meaning she doesn’t aim to kill anyone and, in fact, so far has not done any serious harm, just minor injuries.
• Whenever she defeats law enforcement or a hero, she likes to do it with style and humiliate them by making it look as if they were captured by little plastic toys.
• So far no one has linked the mutant to her real identity.

Heroes of Azure City 🎫 Always Open

Location: Festival Grounds
Interaction: None

Asuka let out a short sigh of relief as she entered the festival grounds, for a moment, she thought she would be stuck out of it as crowds were quick to gather and she, of course, had managed to wake up very late... and forgotten to set aside a good outfit so she could just quickly dress up for the day... but that was in the past now.

It had been a few months since she moved into Azure and she was still adapting to life in a new country, an event such as this was a good opportunity to integrate and it was also charity focused. It was not easy to be in a crowd full of strangers with no one she knew to accompany her, but if she didn't force herself into these sort of situations, she would be stuck as a loner in foreign lands.

"Maybe I will have something to eat." she whispered to herself, she had to skip breakfast as she was too busy shuffling through her messy wardrobe for something to dress. It was hard to decide with so many stalls offering such a myriad of snacks, and unable to pick something, Asuka just started to get one of each, on the first trip she had bought a pizza, a hotdog, two sodas, one yakisoba plate, and french fries, all spread out in a table for four. While eating such a banquet, she was already eyeing the other stalls for more.

Heroes of Azure City 🎫 Always Open

Asuka Ehime

Name
Asuka Ehime

Vigilante Name
N/A

Age
22 (December 8 1996)

Species
Mutant

Gender
Female

Ethnicity
Japanese

Nationality
Japanese (aiming to switch to American)

Occupation
Unemployed Ex-Actress

Alignment
Good

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Appearance
Many describe Asuka as “elegant”, at 1.70cm with a thin frame with sharp facial features. Due to her powers, her weight changes a lot, so does her hair and even how pale/tanned her skin is, though she does like to keep her hair on a down to earth short cut, perhaps to dissociate her with characters she played in the past.



Personality
Unlike many of her characters, Asuka is a reserved and good-natured person, intelligent but lacking self-discipline (as seen in her often messy room and problems with keeping a proper schedule.) She had trouble dealing with fame and yet felt jealous and inadequate in comparison to her more popular friends, and while that has stayed in the past, her issue continues the same, she is just happy when she is living in a simple environment but is too ambitious to not aim for something greater.

As a mutant, she is a romantic thanks to the influence of her mother and friends. She thinks mutants should act as paragons, first as a symbol of good, setting the bar and drawing lines in the sand even if other more ruthless paths seem more efficient, second on an aesthetic level, thinking mutants should be like the living version of the ancient paintings of deities.

Origin

► Early Life

Born in 1996 in a small Japanese fishing village to a family that had ties to ancient mutant lines, often called ‘kami’ in the past, albeit none to a truly relevant line. She lived a simple life with her mother and father in a temple, many mutants had had trouble with the cultural and scientific changes brought in the 50s and 60s to Japan, but Asuka’s family always had developed a modest and sincere relationship with the village, thus maintaining their status, and even increasing it, as they often used their powers to help the locals on a more clear way.

To Asuka, however, there was a desire for shinier things than the life in a humble village, she had always been interested in pop culture and media, in particular, hero stories that used real mutant actors. Of course, studios in Tokyo were always ready to take in a new potential mutant actress, especially a young one, so when producers caught wind of Asuka, the opportunities started to rain.

► Cute Combat

At the age of 8, in 2004, Asuka finally got her first role. She had to move away from her home but thankfully had an aunt in the metropolitan area that took her in. She was to play a minor villain in the magical girl show Cute Combat, albeit a recurrent one, this was due to her powers being unclear, even if it was obvious she was a mutant. This was when she was introduced to the thriving culture of mutant pop culture of Japan that had started in the 60s. Jun Uramoto, the actress who played the protagonist of the show, Cherry Pink, was, in particular, a strong influence, since despite only being 10, the girl had a clear fascination with the history of the media.

Asuka’s role, Princess Saikuron, was popular with watchers thanks to her smug and often over the top reactions, this popularity only increased when she finally developed her powers, around season three of the show, especially since it was so versatile and useful for a weekly format show. It was no surprise that when the format got a bit stale, around season seven, she joined the good girls team as Cloud White, though while a useful asset to the team in the last two seasons, she ended up being good at helping the other girls stand out, but was somewhat overshadowed herself.

► Career issues and America

As a mutant actress, Asuka would keep trying to get other roles even as Cute Combat continued, in particular, she sought roles that felt calmer and ‘good’ in comparison to Saikuron’s outlandishness, in particular, because she did not want to be a one trick pony. She got a few lead roles, and many minor roles in romantic comedies, but nothing that really stood out the test of time like Cute Combat, this situation became particularly problematic starting 2015, when Cute Combat ended, while the finale was loved, most agreed it was time to end it.

While many of the CuteCom actresses would land important roles in society, Asuka was definitely not someone who did that, her powers were not useful for anything but combat, yet not exactly of the interest of the Japanese police force. Life in Tokyo was also made not too nice by the constant gossiping and requests to go to talk shows merely to talk about her struggling career and what was her opinion on her friend’s latest actions.

In 2017 she had had enough and decided to move away back home, but that did not work out well either, it was still too slow for her. It was then that she considered leaving to the US. Cute Combat had never got popular there despite the love for Japanese media due to a preference for darker shows, meaning she wouldn’t need to deal with no one’s shadow.

And that leads to now. An ex-child-actress with more than enough money living in Azure City. She still doesn’t know what to do with her life, but at least its quiet now.

Notable Relations

-Jun Uramoto
The lead actress of Cute Combat under Cherry Pink. A mutant with strenght powers. Took the role of some sort of mentor and political influencer when Asuka was new in the big city. Spends most of her time curating museums and leading groups that fight to keep the relative freedom and autonomy of mutant pop culture back in Japan.

-Gin Maekawa
Actress who played Cobalt Blue in Cute Combat. A cold person to talk to, but still someone caring, who will have others’ back. After CuteCom she focused on joining the police as her powers are all related to observation and deduction.

-Irisa
Actress who played Carmine Red, a mutant with blinking powers. Has since focused on fashion, and was the one who suggest Azure City to Isuga, even if she had lived in Italy for a while.

Resources
Pretty well off due to years of acting on a popular show with no habit of overspending, but not exactly swimming in cash.

Everyday Skills
She is actually a pretty good cook, able to tell apart each aspect of a meal.

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Combat

Fighting Style
With a mix of a strong tradition in martial arts and a booming mutant culture, Japan developed quite a few new philosophies of combat, many quite extravagant. Asuka’s preferred methods are mix of “Overwhelm” style, which is all about field control and incessant response to actions to mess with an enemy’s mind and “Elegant” style, which focuses on a few decisive ‘finisher’ blows.

Strengths
In the middle range, she is a very hard foe to overcome, making it hard to approach her but too dangerous to disengage and run. The training she had received for the shows were not just theatrics and she has a good response time.

Weaknesses
Long range has been a known issue for her, she can move fast when using certain absorbed matter, but that also means leaving behind the defenses. Her style is very front focused, attacks from the sides or the back are an issue. If the range is too close, one can deny the use of her powers by simply holding her arms, she is not untrained but far from strong enough to avoid a grapple. All of these are natural weaknesses but also a result of all her training being based on group combat for a TV show, she is simply not trained to be a lone fighter.

Equipment
Most of her equipment was studio property, so as useful as they were, she hasn’t seen it in years. The one exceptions are sets of clothes, gifts from Irisa, who are resistant to most elements, saving her from the awkwardness of returning home in the nude.

Power - Absorption

Simply put, Asuka absorbs matter which is then used to change her body. When she places her arms in a parallel position a space-bending vortex appears in the empty space between both wrists, this creates a sucking vacuum in front of her that will absorb any loose matter. This matter is then deconstructed and used by her body, one at a time.

Known forms, from most common to least common
Air: Makes her lighter and faster, able to blow out gusts of winds.
Earth/Rock: Makes her heavy and stronger, forms a great combo with Air.
Water: Makes her slippery, enables water breathing, she can blow out water but it burns her matter fast.
Ice: Makes her very cold, leaving a trail of ice behind. Also slippery.
Metal: Resistance and armor, not as strong as earth but still strong.
Glass: Makes her body hard to grasp thanks to the sharp blades of glass covering it. Also really sparkly.
Dew/Honey: Makes her body sticky and somewhat gooey.
Fire: Giver her an aura of fire, she cannot throw fireballs or any projectiles. Will consume other types of matter such as air and plant.
Thunder/Electricity: Increases speed and enables stunning electric attacks.
Chitin: Armor with decent speed, basically impossible to attain right now due to the nature of her powers.
Feather: Speed and gliding, basically impossible to attain right now due to the nature of her powers.

Know things that when consumed will not result in a form:
Vegetable organic matter: Is simply consumed as if it was food, produces some heat but that is it.
Dead animal organic matter: The same as plants, is merely consumed as food, even if it contains Chitin.
Metals: Mercury, Uranium, Lead, Gold, all of that if consumed produces no special effect but feed the metal form.
Carbon-related materials in general: From coal to diamonds to plastic.

Know things that cannot be consumed:
Living animals: Of course, many small animals and even people if they happened to try to dive kick right into the vortex can be taken into Asuka, but cannot be fully deconstructed. Without medical aid, Asuka cannot keep anything living “in her” for more than a minute before her ‘gag reflex’ forces her to spit it out and burn all of her matter.
Light: It will immediately escape her body in a flash when the vortex is closed.

Any sort of mammal, reptile or fish life produces no effect, insect life produces the chitin form and bird life produces the feather form. During the show days, she would be given sedated and bound animals, which would make it possible for her to hold them for an hour or two before the gag reflex kicked in (all animals being brought back safely.) however, as an independent person without studio help, there is no way she could get 30 kilograms of sedated animals in time for combat.

The mutant question: What happens if a mutant falls in? Nothing. She does not gain or copy a power from the mutant, if they had some sort of matter considered external to them (such as summoned ice armor, for example) then that matter would be consumed, but it does not matter since she cannot possibly hold a living entity for more than one minute without medicine, and forcefully creating a vortex to expell things she consumed (the gag reflex) causes her to be unable to absorb or use matter for hours.

The strength and limits of the vortex

-Asuka can create a vortex to absorb matter between arms (or by pressing her cheeks, this was how she did it on the tv show days, but its very embarrassing).
-The vortex will suck in a cone-shaped range in front of it.
-It has space bending properties so objects that near it distort so they can fit into the marble-sized black sphere.
-It can only consume loose objects that are caught in its vacuum, pressing the vortex against a wall or a chain does no damage.
-Most persons are able to resist the vortex’s pull simply by standing up with sure footing. Taking steps forward or firing projectiles however are not good ideas.
-It is unknown where the vortex leads to, it is typically referred to as being ‘within Usage’ as it does look like she is eating things, however, there is no signal of the consumed matter in her body. The few who fell into the vortex have no memory of after the fall. Recent experiments have shown the ‘flash’ her body produces when she closes the vortex are indeed the photons she consumed escaping from within her body, but this has not done much to explain the mystery.

Matter absorption’s and form shift limits and rules

-Matter absorbed (with exceptions) is deconstructed, meaning it loses many of the proprieties it once had. A bullet, for example, just becomes ‘metal’, and cannot be recovered.
-Asuka can only use one type of matter enhancement at a time. This is known as taking a form (see list above)
-Matter doesn’t interact, having consumed thunder and fire won’t make them manifest while in the metal form.
-Once a form is taken, it cannot be reversed until all of the related matter is consumed.
-She cannot hold matter for later, all matter must be consumed before she goes back to normal and can open the vortex. Consuming anything with the vortex forces her to take a form.
-Different actions consume matter at different speeds, just swimming around with water is a low-cost action, but spitting out a torrent of water is something she can only do once or twice before she runs out of the water.
-There is a minimum of matter before she can take a stable form, eating a pot of honey won’t enable the honey form, it takes a barrel or a whole supermarket shelf. If usable material does not reach the threshold when she starts to take form, it is lost.

Average power and combat usage

-Individually, the forms cannot beat a hero of the same area, obviously. It would take hours for Asuka to be able to consume enough air to produce a whirlwind, for example, and that would be a one time use of the matter.
-Its strength is in combos. From something as simple as going up in the air with wind and falling down like a meteor with earth to using electricity to set a place ablaze and then taking a fire form so she is immune to the heat.

The “Gag reflex” and the limits of consumption

-Asuka can consume up to 100kg of matter. Size and density not mattering.
-There is matter that won’t result in a form and matter that cannot be consumed, see the list in the forms section.
-If she eats something that she cannot digest, the ‘gag reflex’ which is a forced vortex to spell that matter, will be open.
-She is very resistant to things she absorbs, but she cannot simply slurp toxic sludge forever, the gag reflex will kick in.
-Once the gag reflex kicks in, not only she will expel all unabsorbable matter, she will also consume all absorbable matter she is holding, leaving her ‘empty’. This generates a very small explosion of energy, not an issue unless you are within arms reach of her.
-She will be sick after such an event and unable to open the vortex to absorb matter for a few hours to a couple of days.

Extra
-Unlike Jun, who focuses only on the heritage of mutants in Japan, Asuka is interested in it as a whole, this is in part why Azure City interests her.
-Is very susperticious.
-Taking forms doesn't change her looks that much and has not effect on her personality, but, due to all the acting, she has a habit of changing her tone.
-In fact, she is far less shy when using her powers.
-Is incredibly embarassed of all that appears if you search for fanart and fanfic on the web.

Marionette

Basic Information

Name
Patrizia Binari

Vigilante Name
Marionette (as nicknamed by the media)

Age
17

Species
Mutant

Gender
Female

Ethnicity
Italo-American

Nationality
American

Occupation
Spoiled daughter.

Alignment
Chaotic Evil

Detailed Information

Appearance
It is impossible to not recognize Patrizia because of the drastic changes the mutation caused to her body, slowly taking away flesh and replacing it with synthetic materials. There seems to be a distinction between some softer and hard bits, but Patrizia’s body is not exactly hard, it is, however, steel cold. She never blinks and her expression is always somewhat vacant. Despite the nature of her body, she kept growing and looks like her age instead of when she first transformed.



Personality
The keyword of Patrizia’s personality is spoiled. She was a sickly child for half of her life and a disfigured mutant for the other, adding that to the early death of her mother, and the girl was never thought the meaning of the word no, always getting what she wanted and being extremely shielded from the world outside and it's common sense. She is very childish and will often refer to people trying to stop her as “mean”. If a person does not try to challenge her, she can be quite friendly, especially if they show interest in things she likes, she could be even described as easy to manipulate.

Being from an increasingly rich family, she likes luxury, and is often amazed by concepts of royalty and wealth (this shows in action with the ‘royal’ guard of dummies and the plastic throne she likes to sit in while using her powers.). That is however an exception to her personality, as she really likes natural and calm places, with an abundance of birds and plants, despite being a master of synthetic materials.

Origin
Born from a problematic pregnancy due to her mother’s illness (which would later turn fatal), Patrizia was a weak and sickly child, living with her father, the CEO of one of the many failing toy companies in the turn of the millennium. This did not stop him from pampering his daughter, hiring many tutors and showering her with gifts. He also would try to introduce her to other kids, but even in her tired form, she was a bit of a troublemaker, often throwing tantrums over minor things, and since she was weak, it was not uncommon for the other kids to bully her in retaliation.

Things took a new turn when she turned 12, as her body started to change, and not in the way most humans experience around that age. Synthetic materials started to substitute her skin, and it was clear to her father that she was a mutant, yet he feared to contact the government because he thought they would take her away. The power awakening and body shift also took away Patrizia’s sickness, she could now run and jump and was no longer bound to her bedroom. The first thing she did was to help her father’s company by using her plastic manipulation to sabotage many of the rival companies’ products while helping with the production of her father’s company. He did not like his daughter doing such things, but seeing her smile in so long made him falter.

With newfound vitality, however, Patrizia would soon replicate the tantrums of her childhood, this time however using her mutant powers. Her first crime was stealing a t-rex skull from a museum simply because she found it cool, unfortunately, a hero showed up and beat her back, recovering the fossil and forcing her to escape. It was from that moment Patrizia decided heroes were lame and mean and wanted to hog all the cool things for themselves, starting her path as a villain.

Notable Relations
-Marcello Binari
Her precious father.

Resources
Comes from a wealthy family, made wealthier by her actions. However, his father doesn’t really know much about mutant related items and has not contacted anyone that could help.

Everyday Skills
She is a superb pianist and is great at memorizing patterns, really good at video games, but only enjoys simple ones without stories.

Combat
Fighting Style
She does not fight herself, never being trained and using her powers to do all the fighting for her.

Strengths
All her strengths are limited to her power. Despite being a bit broken mind-wise, she is awfully crafty when it comes to developing answers to new threats.

Weaknesses
She is a small girl with no fighting training at all, if neutralized she is as helpless as some small kid. Her body alterations are merely aesthetic and do not provide her with extra strength or defense, she also has extremely low resistance to pain, panicking when she is hurt.

Equipment
Plastic dummies/mannequin that she crafts herself, notably more sturdy than the typical plastic she throws around. Two of those are dressed in royal attire and act as her last stand ‘royal guard’. She also has a plastic throne she keeps for style points.

Power

Plastic Manipulation
A very straightforward power, she can move plastic with her thoughts, bending and shaping it (but not changing its nature). She can do it to a wide range around her, provided there is nothing blocking the path (even a simple cardboard box blocks the power).

Strengths
Azure is a city full of plastic, as are most modern cities, as such, while in concept the power might sound pathetic, it becomes less so when toys, tables, chairs, and mannequins come to life to hunt you down whilst tornadoes of plastic bags and bottles block all the exits. Patrizia is also great at recognizing how to use her power to deal with a threat, using plastic that will melt into thick goo against fire powered heroes, clogging water pipes against a water one, spreading out projectiles against an agile one or focusing it all in one large ball against one of strength.

Weaknesses/Limitations
But in the end, it still lacks the firepower to make good out of the amazing area control she has. Her whole battle plan is not so much to knock out a hero, but to tire them until they make one mistake too many. Often being described as ‘victory by nuisance’. She cannot change the nature of plastic, meaning, for example, she can’t make vinyl out of plastic bottles. She can’t melt or fuse plastic herself but can shape plastic during its production.

Extra

• As twisted as her mindset is, she wants to beat heroes, but she does not care for dealing with them for good, meaning she doesn’t particularly aim to kill anyone and, in fact, so far has not done any serious harm, just minor injuries.
• Whenever she defeats law enforcement or a hero, she likes to do it with style and humiliate them by making it look as if they were captured by little plastic toys.
• So far no one has linked the mutant to her real identity.

Heroes of Azure City 🎫 Always Open

Failed teen actress goody two shoes who doesn't know what she wants but is sure she wants something

Name
Asuka Ehime

Vigilante Name
N/A

Age
22 (December 8 1996)

Species
Mutant

Gender
Female

Ethnicity
Japanese

Nationality
Japanese (aiming to switch to American)

Occupation
Unemployed Ex-Actress

Alignment
Good

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Appearance
Many describe Asuka as “elegant”, at 1.70cm with a thin frame with sharp facial features. Due to her powers, her weight changes a lot, so does her hair and even how pale/tanned her skin is, though she does like to keep her hair on a down to earth short cut, perhaps to dissociate her with characters she played in the past.



Personality
Unlike many of her characters, Asuka is a reserved and good-natured person, intelligent but lacking self-discipline (as seen in her often messy room and problems with keeping a proper schedule.) She had trouble dealing with fame and yet felt jealous and inadequate in comparison to her more popular friends, and while that has stayed in the past, her issue continues the same, she is just happy when she is living in a simple environment but is too ambitious to not aim for something greater.

As a mutant, she is a romantic thanks to the influence of her mother and friends. She thinks mutants should act as paragons, first as a symbol of good, setting the bar and drawing lines in the sand even if other more ruthless paths seem more efficient, second on an aesthetic level, thinking mutants should be like the living version of the ancient paintings of deities.

Origin

► Early Life

Born in 1996 in a small Japanese fishing village to a family that had ties to ancient mutant lines, often called ‘kami’ in the past, albeit none to a truly relevant line. She lived a simple life with her mother and father in a temple, many mutants had had trouble with the cultural and scientific changes brought in the 50s and 60s to Japan, but Asuka’s family always had developed a modest and sincere relationship with the village, thus maintaining their status, and even increasing it, as they often used their powers to help the locals on a more clear way.

To Asuka, however, there was a desire for shinier things than the life in a humble village, she had always been interested in pop culture and media, in particular, hero stories that used real mutant actors. Of course, studios in Tokyo were always ready to take in a new potential mutant actress, especially a young one, so when producers caught wind of Asuka, the opportunities started to rain.

► Cute Combat

At the age of 8, in 2004, Asuka finally got her first role. She had to move away from her home but thankfully had an aunt in the metropolitan area that took her in. She was to play a minor villain in the magical girl show Cute Combat, albeit a recurrent one, this was due to her powers being unclear, even if it was obvious she was a mutant. This was when she was introduced to the thriving culture of mutant pop culture of Japan that had started in the 60s. Jun Uramoto, the actress who played the protagonist of the show, Cherry Pink, was, in particular, a strong influence, since despite only being 10, the girl had a clear fascination with the history of the media.

Asuka’s role, Princess Saikuron, was popular with watchers thanks to her smug and often over the top reactions, this popularity only increased when she finally developed her powers, around season three of the show, especially since it was so versatile and useful for a weekly format show. It was no surprise that when the format got a bit stale, around season seven, she joined the good girls team as Cloud White, though while a useful asset to the team in the last two seasons, she ended up being good at helping the other girls stand out, but was somewhat overshadowed herself.

► Career issues and America

As a mutant actress, Asuka would keep trying to get other roles even as Cute Combat continued, in particular, she sought roles that felt calmer and ‘good’ in comparison to Saikuron’s outlandishness, in particular, because she did not want to be a one trick pony. She got a few lead roles, and many minor roles in romantic comedies, but nothing that really stood out the test of time like Cute Combat, this situation became particularly problematic starting 2015, when Cute Combat ended, while the finale was loved, most agreed it was time to end it.

While many of the CuteCom actresses would land important roles in society, Asuka was definitely not someone who did that, her powers were not useful for anything but combat, yet not exactly of the interest of the Japanese police force. Life in Tokyo was also made not too nice by the constant gossiping and requests to go to talk shows merely to talk about her struggling career and what was her opinion on her friend’s latest actions.

In 2017 she had had enough and decided to move away back home, but that did not work out well either, it was still too slow for her. It was then that she considered leaving to the US. Cute Combat had never got popular there despite the love for Japanese media due to a preference for darker shows, meaning she wouldn’t need to deal with no one’s shadow.

And that leads to now. An ex-child-actress with more than enough money living in Azure City. She still doesn’t know what to do with her life, but at least its quiet now.

Notable Relations

-Jun Uramoto
The lead actress of Cute Combat under Cherry Pink. A mutant with strenght powers. Took the role of some sort of mentor and political influencer when Asuka was new in the big city. Spends most of her time curating museums and leading groups that fight to keep the relative freedom and autonomy of mutant pop culture back in Japan.

-Gin Maekawa
Actress who played Cobalt Blue in Cute Combat. A cold person to talk to, but still someone caring, who will have others’ back. After CuteCom she focused on joining the police as her powers are all related to observation and deduction.

-Irisa
Actress who played Carmine Red, a mutant with blinking powers. Has since focused on fashion, and was the one who suggest Azure City to Isuga, even if she had lived in Italy for a while.

Resources
Pretty well off due to years of acting on a popular show with no habit of overspending, but not exactly swimming in cash.

Everyday Skills
She is actually a pretty good cook, able to tell apart each aspect of a meal.

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Combat

Fighting Style
With a mix of a strong tradition in martial arts and a booming mutant culture, Japan developed quite a few new philosophies of combat, many quite extravagant. Asuka’s preferred methods are mix of “Overwhelm” style, which is all about field control and incessant response to actions to mess with an enemy’s mind and “Elegant” style, which focuses on a few decisive ‘finisher’ blows.

Strengths
In the middle range, she is a very hard foe to overcome, making it hard to approach her but too dangerous to disengage and run. The training she had received for the shows were not just theatrics and she has a good response time.

Weaknesses
Long range has been a known issue for her, she can move fast when using certain absorbed matter, but that also means leaving behind the defenses. Her style is very front focused, attacks from the sides or the back are an issue. If the range is too close, one can deny the use of her powers by simply holding her arms, she is not untrained but far from strong enough to avoid a grapple. All of these are natural weaknesses but also a result of all her training being based on group combat for a TV show, she is simply not trained to be a lone fighter.

Equipment
Most of her equipment was studio property, so as useful as they were, she hasn’t seen it in years. The one exceptions are sets of clothes, gifts from Irisa, who are resistant to most elements, saving her from the awkwardness of returning home in the nude.

Power - Absorption

Simply put, Asuka absorbs matter which is then used to change her body. When she places her arms in a parallel position a space-bending vortex appears in the empty space between both wrists, this creates a sucking vacuum in front of her that will absorb any loose matter. This matter is then deconstructed and used by her body, one at a time.

Known forms, from most common to least common
Air: Makes her lighter and faster, able to blow out gusts of winds.
Earth/Rock: Makes her heavy and stronger, forms a great combo with Air.
Water: Makes her slippery, enables water breathing, she can blow out water but it burns her matter fast.
Ice: Makes her very cold, leaving a trail of ice behind. Also slippery.
Metal: Resistance and armor, not as strong as earth but still strong.
Glass: Makes her body hard to grasp thanks to the sharp blades of glass covering it. Also really sparkly.
Dew/Honey: Makes her body sticky and somewhat gooey.
Fire: Giver her an aura of fire, she cannot throw fireballs or any projectiles. Will consume other types of matter such as air and plant.
Thunder/Electricity: Increases speed and enables stunning electric attacks.
Chitin: Armor with decent speed, basically impossible to attain right now due to the nature of her powers.
Feather: Speed and gliding, basically impossible to attain right now due to the nature of her powers.

Know things that when consumed will not result in a form:
Vegetable organic matter: Is simply consumed as if it was food, produces some heat but that is it.
Dead animal organic matter: The same as plants, is merely consumed as food, even if it contains Chitin.
Metals: Mercury, Uranium, Lead, Gold, all of that if consumed produces no special effect but feed the metal form.
Carbon-related materials in general: From coal to diamonds to plastic.

Know things that cannot be consumed:
Living animals: Of course, many small animals and even people if they happened to try to dive kick right into the vortex can be taken into Asuka, but cannot be fully deconstructed. Without medical aid, Asuka cannot keep anything living “in her” for more than a minute before her ‘gag reflex’ forces her to spit it out and burn all of her matter.
Light: It will immediately escape her body in a flash when the vortex is closed.

Any sort of mammal, reptile or fish life produces no effect, insect life produces the chitin form and bird life produces the feather form. During the show days, she would be given sedated and bound animals, which would make it possible for her to hold them for an hour or two before the gag reflex kicked in (all animals being brought back safely.) however, as an independent person without studio help, there is no way she could get 30 kilograms of sedated animals in time for combat.

The mutant question: What happens if a mutant falls in? Nothing. She does not gain or copy a power from the mutant, if they had some sort of matter considered external to them (such as summoned ice armor, for example) then that matter would be consumed, but it does not matter since she cannot possibly hold a living entity for more than one minute without medicine, and forcefully creating a vortex to expell things she consumed (the gag reflex) causes her to be unable to absorb or use matter for hours.

The strength and limits of the vortex

-Asuka can create a vortex to absorb matter between arms (or by pressing her cheeks, this was how she did it on the tv show days, but its very embarrassing).
-The vortex will suck in a cone-shaped range in front of it.
-It has space bending properties so objects that near it distort so they can fit into the marble-sized black sphere.
-It can only consume loose objects that are caught in its vacuum, pressing the vortex against a wall or a chain does no damage.
-Most persons are able to resist the vortex’s pull simply by standing up with sure footing. Taking steps forward or firing projectiles however are not good ideas.
-It is unknown where the vortex leads to, it is typically referred to as being ‘within Usage’ as it does look like she is eating things, however, there is no signal of the consumed matter in her body. The few who fell into the vortex have no memory of after the fall. Recent experiments have shown the ‘flash’ her body produces when she closes the vortex are indeed the photons she consumed escaping from within her body, but this has not done much to explain the mystery.

Matter absorption’s and form shift limits and rules

-Matter absorbed (with exceptions) is deconstructed, meaning it loses many of the proprieties it once had. A bullet, for example, just becomes ‘metal’, and cannot be recovered.
-Asuka can only use one type of matter enhancement at a time. This is known as taking a form (see list above)
-Matter doesn’t interact, having consumed thunder and fire won’t make them manifest while in the metal form.
-Once a form is taken, it cannot be reversed until all of the related matter is consumed.
-She cannot hold matter for later, all matter must be consumed before she goes back to normal and can open the vortex. Consuming anything with the vortex forces her to take a form.
-Different actions consume matter at different speeds, just swimming around with water is a low-cost action, but spitting out a torrent of water is something she can only do once or twice before she runs out of the water.
-There is a minimum of matter before she can take a stable form, eating a pot of honey won’t enable the honey form, it takes a barrel or a whole supermarket shelf. If usable material does not reach the threshold when she starts to take form, it is lost.

Average power and combat usage

-Individually, the forms cannot beat a hero of the same area, obviously. It would take hours for Asuka to be able to consume enough air to produce a whirlwind, for example, and that would be a one time use of the matter.
-Its strength is in combos. From something as simple as going up in the air with wind and falling down like a meteor with earth to using electricity to set a place ablaze and then taking a fire form so she is immune to the heat.

The “Gag reflex” and the limits of consumption

-Asuka can consume up to 100kg of matter. Size and density not mattering.
-There is matter that won’t result in a form and matter that cannot be consumed, see the list in the forms section.
-If she eats something that she cannot digest, the ‘gag reflex’ which is a forced vortex to spell that matter, will be open.
-She is very resistant to things she absorbs, but she cannot simply slurp toxic sludge forever, the gag reflex will kick in.
-Once the gag reflex kicks in, not only she will expel all unabsorbable matter, she will also consume all absorbable matter she is holding, leaving her ‘empty’. This generates a very small explosion of energy, not an issue unless you are within arms reach of her.
-She will be sick after such an event and unable to open the vortex to absorb matter for a few hours to a couple of days.

Extra
-Unlike Jun, who focuses only on the heritage of mutants in Japan, Asuka is interested in it as a whole, this is in part why Azure City interests her.
-Is very susperticious.
-Taking forms doesn't change her looks that much and has not effect on her personality, but, due to all the acting, she has a habit of changing her tone.
-In fact, she is far less shy when using her powers.
-Is incredibly embarassed of all that appears if you search for fanart and fanfic on the web.

Azure City - Another Superhero RP.

I am interested, been in the mood for a super powers RP.

Although I will just be able to make a sheet Monday. It also won't be the same character as the other RP

Principalities & Powers

Seems like an interesting a RP. I have played in a few before, in another forum, and decided to make a person who can't quite be the hero herself in contrast to the typical 'in your face' types I made in the past, basically, the quirk is that she needs someone to fight with her to use her full power. I took some inspiration from the old 'magical power giving mascot.' trope of magical girl anime, which is why I added Shapeshift (I can do away with it if three powers is too much.) but that doesn't mean she will actually recruit kids to the fighting, in fact, I think that is unlikely considering her morals.

First Concept

Name:
Prisca Flaim

Age:
22

Sex:
Female

Appearance:
Reference. At 161cm tall and 52kg of weight, she is thin and small woman. She has pale skin, copper colored eyes and dark brown hair, typically messy. She always looks a bit stressed, but in truth she is a bit lazy when it comes to keeping her looks.

Personality:
Prisca is somewhat shy but very clever. She often has a strong opinion about things but doesn't like confronting others, as she is easily intimidated. She is one who keeps her distance and who keeps quiet, yet, she is far from passive, Prisca likes to ponder over people's reactions, trying to understand how they work and she does use it to manipulate social situations in her favor. For example, once a new manager moved over, she quickly noticed the things she was nostalgic for and 'by coincidence' brought a few of them over, which resulted in Prisca not being quite safe when the layoffs hit the company later in the month.

She is not a mean person however, never openly trying to cause harm and pain to others, though she does like the feeling of things going exactly as she predicted. With the nature of her powers, Prisca will be free from the root of her shyness, what effects this will have in her personality are yet to be seen.

Powers:
♦ Psychokinesis: The power to move things with the mind. Far more delicate than one would expect, this power can move many objects at once and do quite sensitive tasks at times, but it is not great for throwing things as the farther away from the user the weaker it is, result in a loss of momentum and aim unless she really focuses all of her power for a while. Things near her, however, can still be repelled, so it's more of a defensive barrier. Prisca herself can be affected by her own powers, but its quite uncomfortable.

♦ Shapeshifting: She can change her shape temporarily, however, she can only take the shape of animals that have half her body mass or less, however, it is much more comfortable to be smaller animals, as such, the preferred size is 20kg or less.

♦ InFusion: While the two other abilities are quite limited, when used together cleverly they form what makes Prisca hero-worthy. Overcharging her shapeshift, she temporarily fuses herself into another person, completely vanishing while the target does not. This allows Priska to use her Psychokinesis without the limits of her body. It is still mostly a defensive ability, not increasing in reach, but within someone, Priska can perceive all of their surroundings, meaning she can manipulate objects in a 360 radius. She can manipulate the body of the person she is in using her psy abilities to make them move fast and with precision, hit a bit harder without having to worry about knockback... and look quite elegant while doing so if they wish to appear on the media. She cannot possess and overtake the mind of someone, so this power can only be used on someone willing.

Biography:
Priska's life is quite... simple. She was born in a loving family that stayed healthy and alive, the youngest of three girls. In her early life, she was not so reclusive, better known for being a creative girl who loved to draw. Once bullying started, however, she became an outcast, however, she also learned quite early to not play into other kid's mean motivations, and by high school, she was no longer picked on by anyone and even had some friends, though this was all at the cost of being very quiet and passive.

Leaving high school, she got an internship in a media producing company, first as yet another teen working on social media, but quickly becoming a full-fledged worker and marketing planner, climbing the career ladder as far as a hardworking person with no creativity could, the latter has been what truly holds her back, she is trend savvy, but not a trendsetter.

Other:
Lives in a messy apartment, has a pet dog and a pet frog.

Spliced

As I said before, I will need to be away for a bit, too much college work. I need a week to get back.