Basic InformationName: Jun (short for Junichi) Ikaido.
Nickname/Alias/Etc: “Joshua.”
Gender: Male.
Age: 21.
Height: 5'7
Weight: 149lb.
Home District: Estella Isle, in Chinatown.
AppearanceHair Color:Black.
Eye Color:Grey-ish blue.
Ethnicity:Japanese.
Physical Appearance:Jun has a rather scrawny appearance, although that largely has to do with his Japanese genes. He's small for American standards standing at 5'7, and his lack of height has also lead to a lightweight appearance in comparison to the Americans he finds himself surrounded by. This has also lead to a rather easy time in the gym acquiring muscle - it doesn't take long for his work to show. He finds himself having a light sixpack, one that he refers to as 'skinnypack' since it's not due to hard muscles, more so that he simply has barely any fat there. His arms on the other hands have some defined muscles from hard work, nothing over the top, just something you expect from a dockworker.
Facially he's nothing exactly special. All he has going for him is his well defined, handsome jawline, but asides that there's no particularily good-looking features that he possesses. His eyes are slanted in typical Asian manner which has given others reason to mock him for having slanted eyes on occasion. His hair is, typically, styled slightly upwards in a forwards manner. However if he doesn't style it it's generally all over the place (typical bedhead).
He looks, to others, generally like a friendly-looking person although whether that is true remains to be seen really. He looks approachable but not too much, like a person that you'd ask for directions and then get away from again. However at the same time he does have some sort of 'thuggish' air hanging around him - especially at night, he looks like a pretty typical low rank criminal especially in his typical 'youngsters' apparel.
Attire: Typical attire consists of skinny jeans of varying colours (all in the grey, black or dark-blue tints), paired with whatever top Jun feels like throwing on. This is mostly a low V-neck t-shirt, a baseball t-shirt or an A-shirt of some dark tint. Ofcourse this goes paired with a jacket of some sort, usually either his navy colored felt-wool coat, or a black lightweight cotton jacket. Furthermore he has one single eyebrow piercing which is a simple round metal ball stuck through his eyebrow, and he has an industrial piercing in his left ear.
PersonalityInnate & Outward Personality:Innate, Jun is quite a calm man. He fancies himself respectful to a degree, as long as he's being treated well. These two qualities have made him quite a cool guy to be around. Jun is also a hard worker, someone that won't quit working until the job that he's been tasked to do for the day is done. This has made him invaluable to his boss, but has also made him quite prone to exploitation by superiors, if they can keep the over-working part subtle enough to go unnoticed. However anyone that pushes his buttons is bound to face Jun's wrath sooner or later.
Despite being a cool guy, calm and respectful, there is a breaking point for Jun as there is for any person. Jun doesn't anger that quick compared to others, however when he does get angry it takes him a while to calm down again. Furthermore he is someone that really believes in karma, and someone that will always hold a grudge. It can be 4 years since someone did him wrong, when he sees that person again he will feel anger and annoyance welling up inside, although obviously not to the point of ignition right away. Angry looks, a general downer on his mood and daggers being shot out by means of eyes are to be expected however.
Jun wouldn't go as far as to call himself an introverted person, but he does tend to stay to himself and his inner circles, his friends and family. He can have a talk with a stranger for a time, say 1 hour, but after that he'll have to excuse himself and get away. There is simply nobody that can hold his interest for so long if he doesn't know them well enough. With friends however, he can kick it, meaning they sit in an Asian nightclub together, enjoy a few drinks, maybe some ladies are interested and then they go home. However inside his group he is generally still regarded as the quiet one, the one that more or less sits around doing nothing, hanging, looking around and still enjoying themselves without saying much. Every now and then he might make a joke, or join in on an ongoing conversation, but he won't be the one that fills the air with words.
Hobbies/Interests:Jun doesn't particularily take an interest in anything mentionable. However he does spend a large amount of time with his dog. In essence that could be an interest or hobby he has. His dog ain't anything special though, it's not a cynerkinetic dog that can chew men's arms off. It's a simple husky that stays indoors whenever Jun goes out.
He also enjoys going to the bar with his gang of friends, but that can also be accredited to social pressure. Most of the rest of his time is spent working at the dogs or traveling to and from work.
Skills/Talents: You wouldn't expect it but no, Jun isn't a martial artist expert that can beat five opponents at once with a single kick. Nor is he Jackie Chan with crazy escape sequences. Most of his skills pertain to his job - his lazy, cheap boss doesn't want to pay to fix equipment so most of the time Jun spends repairing the forklift trucks or the machines inside. He's become quite able at that so far but, well, it's not like he can dismantle a bomb or anything. He probably also couldn't fix up an entire car.
Besides that Jun has learned how to get around, meaning he can fit in pretty much everywhere if he wishes to - this amounts to simply picking your words and doing the bare minimum to keep people from getting annoyed or angry at you. Mostly, it also means following orders of people that you need to follow. He frequently hangs with the Yakuza thugs (his friends) and has learned through that who to listen to, who to ignore, who are all bark and who are actually going to bite. It's a valuable skill to have in Verthaven, he reckons.
Quote(s): “Damn, that's a heavy crate.”
History/Bio:Jun grew up in Ōta, Japan where his father worked in the local Subaru factory that was there, taking great pride in it since after all Ōta was the home of auto industry in Japan. His mom was a stay at home mom, who took care of him and his younger brother, as well as his older sister. However with shifting economies (and, quite frankly, the meagre wage his father earned in the Subaru factory) came new focuspoints, which for the Ikaido family meant moving to America.
It was here they decided to settle themselves and build a future - ofcourse they lived in Chinatown, they wouldn't want to abandon their own culture. As such Jun is still ingrained largely with (much less Japanese) Asian culture. His time spent in Japan hadn't given him a great deal of time to learn Japanese fluently (he spoke it like a child, obviously, when they left) but he is now trying to keep up with his language skills in Japanese whilst also working his job.
His family is all still well and doing okay, although ofcourse there's the trouble with money - a recurring problem for the Ikaido family. They're not exactly poor by any means meaning they get by. But they are not exactly affluent, barely able to afford high school for the youngest, and it goes without saying that the youngest spends more time ditching school than actually being in school. Jun's sister works a fulltime job at a local Chinese restaurant (humourous, given the difference between Japanese and Chinese food.. all she does is serve food, so it doesn't matter) much to the dissapointment of her parents who'd hoped she'd go to school, then college, perhaps university to be a doctor. As for Jun, this was never a problem. His father had always anticipated Jun turned out like him - brought up with the flat hand hovering near your head in case you did something wrong. It was a traditional way to bring up kids like Jun, who was troublesome in his youth, but it has set him straight. He was never destined to be a doctor anyway, and his father and mother acknowledged this and accepted him becoming a dockworker. 'As long as your family is fed' his parents say. Not that Jun has a direct family of his own to speak of.
As for things not directly related to his family, Jun has been at terms with his 'meta human powers' for quite some time. He's known of it's existence for about five years, but has only been able to directly control it for four years. His power pertains to the selective high-speed evolution, or SHE. This acronym means that he generally refers to his power as 'her' as a joke. Other's have also called his power Darwinesis, but more about that later. Four years of experience isn't all that much but his power isn't that hard to use - it's not something he directly controls. He merely activates it and what happens afterwards is beyond his control. As such he didn't have much to learn about it and every experience is new for him. He has however learned to gain greater control over his ability, helping him hide the ability (it's not visible when not in use) and constrain it when he didn't want it to appear, due to not all people enjoying the company of meta humans.
RelationshipsFamily: Akimichi Ikaido -~- father, 'old man'. Guy doesn't do much these days anymore, besides working at a local repairshop. His expertise with car manufacturing allowed him to get a pretty good position there (though obviously repairshops don't pay much) so he's just sitting out his days, really. Most his time is spent working, the remainder is spent pestering his kids about the future.
Mika Ikaido -~- mother, 'mom' spends most her time taking care of Chun, getting him to school and doing generally cleaning things after that. She doesn't lead an interesting life.
Chun Ikaido -~- Chun is generally not the 'good kid' his parents think him to be (well, that's changed a bit lately) as he's barely 15 and already involved in theft, robberies and running errants for local Asian gangs. Mostly he's trying to fit in with them, to be cool, and as a result has picked up a habit his brother has also picked up, smoking.
Amy Ikaido -~- okay, so Chaya isn't her real name, it's just the name she took on. Her real name is Ame, but that kept getting changed by Americans to Amy, so she just decided to roll with it. At the age of 25 (currently) she still works in a local Chinese restaurant (she betrayed Japan, hehe).
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AbilitiesPower Class:Supersystem, biological.
Power: Selective High-speed Evolution, SHE,, Darwinetism.
A power that allows the user to utilise the 'power of evolution'. In normal people, this evolution usually takes years, centuries, many many generations of people for even the slightest change. For Jun, this is not the case. He is able to undergo a situationally adapted version of evolution at times he selects (hence, it's selective). This power then utilises exterior situations by monitoring them through analysing the users vision, but also interior chemicals like adrenaline, blood pressure and even chemicals released when feeling things like love, anger, pain, hatred, anguish or fright. Upon activating the power the power will manifest itself using the chemicals and exterior situations, to come up with an evolutionary solution for 'situational problems' so to say. This way he undergoes a change in body, be it internal or external, that is in most cases a match to the situation. Take for example, he is faced with a poison. After activating the power his body will rapidly adapt to the poison to come up with a way to deal with it (such as, filtration in nasal areas, internal immunity or changed respiratory systems). This power works best for things like poison or such, because it's easy to adapt to those.
It's a different thing when dealing with more physical threats such as a man that wants to punch you. There's no real way to 'adapt' to this so to deal with this the power analyses the incoming threats and will adapt to it by making a defensive mechanism (a tail with stinger, claws, a hammer-like hand..) however this is where it's weaknesses really come into play. More on that later.
Limits:The limits pertain to the intake of chemicals and situational circumstances. As such his power is limitless, except for the fact that the effect is sometimes not so useful, and sometimes very much so. Besides that, the effect is almost always random, save for the healing. This means the limit it has is that the effects are not always as intended or as wanted by Jun.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks: The progress between normal and evolution is a short, but noticeable, time period. It usually takes five seconds on average but that ofcourse depends on how big or small the change is going to be. For example, a small change to the arm might take two seconds to mutate, but a large change to the overall body could take anywhere from 8 to 10 seconds. That's not that long of a time, but long enough to get shot, stabbed or beaten to death.
Furthermore the transformation can also be quite painful, again depending on size. A small change could range from a small, needle like pain to a stabbing pain in that region, where as a big transformation can feel like you are being electrocuted, or dying from the inside.
Sample Post:“Ksu...” Jun said to himself as he hung over the railing of the ferry he took to get to work. His cigarette hung from his lips, it all somewhat dramatical, like something out of a bad movie. Especially an Asian drama. Egh, who gave a shit anyway. Jun was tired, hadn't had his coffee and furthermore the morning had been cold, filled with fog over the water and to top it off he'd missed his first ferry. Like this day could get any worse in any way. Well, it could. Jun turned around and walked over to his (crappy) motorcycle, but before he got there he felt a heavy brush of wind in his back, and like that the motorcycle fell over despite the standard he'd put his motorcycle on. A fit of rage started to fill him, but Jun contained himself as he stepped closer. He kicked the motorcycle's tires, knowing it wouldn't do anything, but helping him release his anger at this morning. “Fucking piece of garbage metal..” he whispered whilst grabbing the motorcycle and pulling it back upright.
With a foot hoisted in the air he threw himself into the seat and got ready to ride to work. Luckily he was in front of the ferry, so he wouldn't have to wait for all the slow people to get out. That'd be bad. Especially cause he was late already. He took a final drag of his cigarette before grabbing it and throwing it towards, and over, the railing. With that done, he started up his motorcycle and drove off the ramp, the roar of the engines behind him all starting up at once. Luckily he was only 15 minutes late, not a big deal if you asked Jun.
CLANG! The metal door to the foreman's office rammed shut as Jun exited. Boss wasn't happy, but atleast Jun got to keep his job. He got told to work overtime tonight, and not paid either. He walked down the metal stairs with quick steps, approaching the rest of the workers whom he'd soon join. They were carrying crates outside, again. That'd be about the fifth time this week they'd been doing that since all the forklifts were broken again. “Fucking Ricardo.. never wants to pay to repair anything, never wants to cut us some slack, always workin' overtime..” The words went silent under the loud noises the other men were producing, which was probably best for Jun lest he wished to get fired on the spot.
Sighing, he got started with the task at hand, carrying those stupid fuckin' boxes outside and into a truck. It was a shitty job but it paid the bills. Sometimes. Recent unforeseen expenditures have caused Jun to be behind his monthly rent payments by about a month but he was slowly getting back up there. And really, there was nothing he could quite do about those costs. Hospital bills are usually not something that came cheaply and in this case it cost Jun most of his saved up money and a little on the side too to be able to afford them.
