Silver Carrot

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

This is my third attempt to make the jump from casual to advanced. Maybe this one, I'll finally get to the stage where I finish a CS and get it accepted.

Third time lucky. I'll start a CS now.

The X-Pendibles

@Burning Kitty

At least this has a good, character-driven reason, unlike when everyone had to go and get Rose and bring her back to carry on the rp

♦ A New Era ♦ - A My Hero Academia RP

Kasuke Mina

Mina sat and listened to everything Dulga had to say. She wasn't even sure she disagreed with it. She did go alone, and she could have waited for help, or gone to get help at any point. But this was where Dulga and Mina were fundamentally different. Dulga went hunting with family, and learned the value and important of teamwork at an early age. Mina's mom spent most of her career fighting the bag guys alone, and Mina herself was so desparate to escape her mother's legacy, she even outright refused when her mom offered to take her out to fight crime as a sidekick. The prospect of being a sidekick to her famous mother mortified Mina at the time. She didn't want to be 'The Heroine Mina; Daughter of Seductress'. In fact, she didn't want anyone to ever think of her and Seductress in the same sentence once she was a Hero, unless it was to remark that they were surprised to find out Seductress was the mother of a Heroine twice more famous and well known than Seductress ever was.

Mina wasn't even comfortable with the idea of even taking on a sidekick herself when she was older, because one day they might overshadow her too, and it will be her fault. Besides, they'd be slowing her down. Waiting for Lysander today would have also slowed her down. If she was to overtake her mother and train to become a better Hero in just three years, Mina could not afford to be slowed down.

"My mother, Seductress, never needed help to defeat a criminal," Mina started to tell Dulga, a newfound fury in her eyes, though it didn't seem to be directed at Dulga, "and I plan to break out of her shadow, and climb higher than she ever did. If I ever needed to rely on the help of other heroes to beat an enemy, when my mom didn't, that would be the day I quit being a Hero. I don't want to be almost as good as my mom. I don't even want to be as good."

Mina was now standing, looking down on the sitting Dulga. Maybe it was a little directed at her.

I'm going to be better, or die trying." Mina ended her speech abruptly, and marched off towards her dorms.

@Norschtalen

♦ A New Era ♦ - A My Hero Academia RP

Kasuke Mina

Mina was understanding of the choice not to fight today. Mina was actually still drained from her battles with Donny and Roy. Plus, she had to read the handbook too. Instead, she was asked to give her account of events. She sat down at the window ledge. She gave a nod to Roy upon hearing his parting challenge. There was fire in her eyes too as she smirked back. She'd won that round, and he'd improve his skills between now and the next time they fought. But Mina now knew the nature of his quirk. She didn't have to be cautious next time. She could give him everything she had, and if he wants his word to hold true, he'd have a lot of training to do.

"Alright, Dulga," she started, "I'll begin at Point B. So, myself and Lysander were stationed there, and after a while, I began to suspect that our foes were either above us, below us, or invisible, so I lit the place up, looking for shadows. That's when Donny sent his warning that you heard about in the briefing. So, I cut a hole in the floor. crawled into the pipes and went to find and stop him. I...won't talk about that fight as much for several reasons. Suffice to say that Donny has secrets, and there are things that happened in that fight that I don't want known either. Though I was distracting him from doing more damage to the building's supports, he'd done enough, and the fight above us was enough to bring the building down on us. We escaped together, formed a truce, and headed off. Instead of heading back to B in case that's where Donny went, I headed to A, to find it deserted and battle damaged, so I took it.

A few minutes later, Roy showed up with the same idea, and we squared off. You've seen the fight so I won't go into detail about what I actually did. Besides, I can't quite remember everything. I was running on Adrenaline. I do I know that my thought were always on trying to find out his quirk, making assumption, attacking him based off those assumptions, and if they were proved true, adding them to things I knew about him. In the end, though, I beat him by blinding him, and martial arts, which is the same tactic I started the fight with, so it all felt a bit futile, really. Still, when we fight again, I'll be more prepared."

Mina then looked up as Jett approached and gave her some actually nice encouragement, which took her off guard. She didn't get real encouragement from people besides her mom very often. She actually had to take a few seconds to get the words to form in her head before she responded. "I know that's the case, and he wanted to try and give everybody some constructive criticism, but I've been called that too many times to think he was just pulling words out of nowhere. He has a problem with my attitude. Maybe he doesn't think it's hero-like. I don't know. I can't help it. I won't pretend I'm not as talented as I know I am. I can't lower myself to have whatever the 'right' amount of confidence is without lying to myself."

@Norschtalen@pkken@Aerandir

The X-Pendibles

@pyroman

Once they were given authorization to let loose, Heidi uncharacteristically started storming straight forward, ditching her 'scared French girl' persona and actually looking angry. A guard approached her with a baton and swung it, though Heidi grabbed the man's arm, turned on her exoskeleton and punched him in the chest, knocking him back with such force that he had made a crater in the concrete wall he'd smashed against. Three guards all tried to apprehend her at once, and she avoided the swings of all three with total ease as she systematically started delivering blows to their heads and necks, aiming to knock out instead of kill.

They reached the office and confronted the president of this company, and the adults needed no help from the students to pacify him. In fact, so far, they could have done this whole thing themselves, which was worrying Heidi. Something very bad must be on the horizon.

Hearing the president speak a very similar philosophy to her own unnerved and angered the Scottish teen in equal measure and she leaned over his desk at him. "How is this helping anyone? You're locking mutants away, and running tests of them? Why do you even want to figure out the X-gene if it's so dangerous. You just want power and control to yourself. You don't care about society. You don't care about helping create a world where everybody's happy and safe. Because those young mutants back there? They'ere not happy. Or safe."

Heidi, in the back of her mind, was beginning to wonder if her inclusion on this mission wasn't because it would fail without her, but simply to put her face to face with this man. Maybe they need to change the opinions of her future self. Heidi did not imagine her plans for the future would go down well with the majority of mutantkind, but seeing this man didn't change them. It only made them stronger.

♦ A New Era ♦ - A My Hero Academia RP

Kasuke Mina

Mina listened to Dulga explain her quirk. She assumed it was the six arms, but wouldn't have guessed they had super strength, or that Dulga wasn't exactly untrained. Mina herself did not know how to use a gun, or how to hunt. Not even fox-hunting on horseback, which was a practice that she violently opposed despite her bourgeoisie upbringing.

Bit what did get Mina's attention was Dulga's offer to fight. Straight and to the point, and Mina knew that there was no ill will in that request. In fact, Mina shared the sentiment. Now she knew what Dulga's quirk was, she didn't need to hold herself back, and because it was just friendly sparring instead of a battle to win, she didn't even need to use her quirk.

"I would too," she responded. "Want to head to the training room now, later tonight, or do it tomorrow?"

The support student, who she now knew as Roy passed them, and held out his hand, which Mina shook. He spoke a rhetorical question; ""Lack of thinking outside the box?" Which Mina responded with "Overconfident?" in the same manner, a small grin appearing on her face as she did so, and watched him pass.

@Norschtalen@pkken

♦ A New Era ♦ - A My Hero Academia RP

Kasuke Mina

Mina was indeed looking back at Donny when the report covered him, and gave him a slight emotionless nod. There may have been a subtle twitch of a smile there, but it was hard to be certain. What was certain is that her manner wasn't mocking, which must mean it was meant to be supportive, though Mina wasn't very good at that.

Unfortunately, her mood was still soured once class had ended and she'd been given the book. She'd read this tonight, sure. That's when she felt somebody approach her. She turned to see that it was Dulga, who asked her how she fought, and then walked away. Um. Okay. Mina got up, and followed her, unsure whether to answer the question now, reprimand her for just walking away, or just to wait until she stopped. She picked the third option, and when Dulga did finally stop, Mina answered.

"That wasn't me fighting well. I didn't want to rush into a fight without knowing what Roy's quirk was. That was me testing and feeling for information. You haven't seen me fighting well," Mina stated simply, while smoothing a stray strand of hair back into place.

As for how I fight; I've been trained in MMA and self-defence since I was three years old. I could beat my teacher by the time I was twelve. What about you? You don't get in through recommendations for nothing. Can you fight?"

@Lucius Cypher@Norschtalen

The X-Pendibles

@pyroman

As they went through the complex, Heidi kept up babbling in terrified French and occasionally trying to make a futile run for it, only to be caught and thrown back with the group. Despite these theatrics, nothing escaped her attention From the monitors displaying information about the X-gene, to the reaction they got from the lab staff.

The more disturbing part to Heidi was when they entered the maximum security area. This time, she didn't have to act terrified and sickened. She saw children being experimented on, and even the ones that weren't didn't look happy to be here. What she was seeing was particularly horrible to Heidi, who's secret Pro-Registration standpoint was incredibly offended by the idea of taking ordinary kids, turning them into mutants, and for what? Weapons? Mutants weren't weapons. They were real people! These kids probably wouldn't even get trained how to use their mutation safely in here, but that's what we could do, if we helped them get out. On the way back, of course. There was a mission to finish first.

Heidi started waiting. Tataina started attacking some guards but was quickly incapacitated. They were trained for this. It wasn't unusual. It only made their backstory more believable. If they'd all behaved like school kids on a field trip tour, that would have been very suspicious. The truth is that children, when they think something bad's going to happen, often fight back. Heidi didn't yet, though. The character she'd decided to play was a coward, hence the attempts to escape. This young French girl, probably from a well-off family, certainly wouldn't try and fight.

♦ A New Era ♦ - A My Hero Academia RP

Kasuke Mina

Mina listened to Mamoru's story with a stupefied glare and glazed eyes, and fer face frozen into a look of scorn. 'Unimpressed' would be the wrong word, though 'impressed' still somehow became the exact opposite of what Mina was feeling for the pink haired girl right now. At the end of the story Mina showed a slight, wry grin that was almost a grimace, and muttered "Well, at least you'll easily find work as a storyteller when you fail this Hero course."

Not even 'if' she failed. 'when'. Ouch.

It was at trhat moment when Donny came over, and Mina visibly relaxed, and no longer looked cold or on her guard. She stood up and whispered in his ear. "The gym clothes I borrowed under Point B. There's only one boy in this class who wears clothes that size. I'll wash them and give them to you tomorrow morning,

Darkmatter."

Sitting back down, she was about to tell Mamoru her accounts of events, then the teacher walked back in , and proceeded to explain the result of the exercise and everybody's actions. Well, that saved her the trouble, and gave her a more complete picture of what had happened AND everybody else's quirks. Of course, on part visibly irked her, and that was getting called overconfident. She didn't almost lose because she underestimated Roy. She was on her guard the whole time, trying to figure out his quirk. That's why she almost lost. Not because of 'overconfidence'. Knowing exactly how good you are is not 'overconfidence', and Mina knew that everybody else would have to step up in order to keep up with her if the only negative point Mina had received on the entire exercise was the same thing she'd heard from teachers and classmates her entire life; 'We can't fault your ability, but we don't like your stuck-up attitude.'

She'd almost been looking forward to becoming a small fish in a big pond, that could let her grow into a massive fish, but this was just...more of the same, and she wasn't going to slow down just to let everyone else catch up. She wouldn't become the number one Hero like that.

@Lucius Cypher@pkken

♦ A New Era ♦ - A My Hero Academia RP

Kasuke Mina

"Huh? Kenichi? No, I fought the boy from the support class at Point A...No wonder he looked fresh. He didn't fight Fumika. Kenichi did."

Mina was taken off her guard by this, and was now starting to get a better picture in her head about what happened at Point A. She barely noticed Dulga leaving, but she did, caught her eye, and gave her a weary nod, as if to say 'I don't blame you. three's a crowd.' With Dulga gone, Mina turned her attention back to Mamoru. "What about you? You weren't attacking Point B while I was there, and you weren't at Point A, so that leaves C. What happened at C? Seems to me that's where most of the action was."

Mina had been half-paying attention to the interaction between Jett, Donny and Elvira. She'd have to make friends with Elvira herself. 'Everybody else is," she thought bitterly. But...why was that a bitter thought? Mina decided to ditch that train of thought completely. So that girl was chummy with both Jett AND Darkmatter. So? That didn't bother her. That didn't bother her at all.

@Norschtalen@Quebexy@Lucius Cypher@Aerandir