|
|
Post by Jinx on Aug 1, 2024 19:36:36 GMT
Swords at Dawn, Texts at Dusk. One can only guess at what tomorrow will bring~
Great thread you two!
+ 5,000 EXP!!
Enma: 5,000 // 10,000
Masao: 10,500 // 15,500
|
|
|
|
Post by Jinx on Jul 23, 2024 9:49:32 GMT
Well, you better go catch it!
Great thread you two!
+ 7,500 EXP!!
Rem: 7,500 // 15,000
Jouma: 7,500 // 15,000
|
|
|
|
Post by Jinx on Jul 19, 2024 1:15:38 GMT
Spider King, Spider King, does whatever a spider can do~
Create your LOCKER!
[div align="center"][div][div align="center"][font size="1"]credits to @rx for the template[/font][/div]
[attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header1"]FUJIMORI, AKITA[/div][img style="max-width:100%;" alt="" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/dbdtvByM6xwTPRFpfBBAKcJcnA215Q3CgzwzUUu46C2695O0SS28z_ovhznom2DyzGuR_aOplcElyZbtXsgSV0oN2-TtDBXXKGDax7Jl-nMHuzfy1t-ub9HGeLF3uf0y_Q"]
[div][attr="class","header2"]OVERVIEW[/div]
[b]» NAME:[/b] Fujimori, Akita
[b]» AGE:[/b] 26
[b]» GENDER:[/b] Male
[b]» AFFILIATION:[/b] Villain
[b]» ALIAS:[/b] King Spider
[b]» OCCUPATION:[/b] News Photographer/Reporter; Thief; Odd Jobber; Muscle for Hire
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]PERSONALITY[/div]
[table style="width:450px;"][tbody][tr][td style="padding:3px;"][b]» POSITIVE TRAITS:[/b][blockquote][b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Loyal/Reliable (if you manage to get on his good side, anyway)
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Optimistic
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Pays back his debts
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] He CAN grow as a person. He just does so slowly most of the time and needs a real reason to do so. His ability to grow is the only reason he forgave his mother.
[/blockquote][/td][td style="padding:3px;"][b]» NEGATIVE TRAITS:[/b][blockquote][b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Lacking empathy/uncaring
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Manipulative
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Mean
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Judgmental
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Recusant (defined as: a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation.)
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Emotionally unstable when he isn’t able to commit crime regularly like he wants; the the thrill and emotional release of perpetrating violence against others or leaving them defenseless when he wants to steal from them has become a very problematic crutch
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Vengeful
[/blockquote][/td][/tr][tr][td style="padding:3px;"][b]»LIKES:[/b][blockquote][b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Skincare & saunas
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Hiking
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Hero culture/hero fandoms. He never grew out of liking them as much as he liked his old American comic book superheroes, like Superman.
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] his fans, which are delusional and basically a cult at this point
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Working out/exercise
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Akita Inus
[b][font color="1A7E4C"]✔[/font][/b] Fishing & making sushi with his catch
[/blockquote][/td][td style="padding:3px;"][b]»DISLIKES:[/b][blockquote][b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] The wealthy
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Systemic poverty
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Boredom; to get rid of it he’ll do just about anything for a buck, even if he has to team up with some random weak villain who has money and a bad Quirk to be their muscle
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] Being separated from his birth family
[b][font color="c93232"]✘[/font][/b] The guilt surrounding getting lucky with a wealthy placement when the rest of his family ended up much worse off.
[/blockquote][/td][/tr][/tbody][/table]
Akita Fujimori is a threat to anything and anyone that stands in the way of his goals: solving his boredom, expressing himself, and stealing cool stuff. Akita wasn’t destined to be like this, though. Really, it was government mismanagement that would cause issues for him. He was born a Philipps, in slums that don’t exist anymore and have been replaced by a shiny new housing addition. With him being adopted by the wealthy Fujimori family in the way that he was, his poverty was replaced with affluence, his family was replaced with strangers, and his privilege in the world skyrocketed. That has an effect on the adolescent mind: one that leaves you feeling in a constant state of flux and adapting the same way other rich kids that don’t adjust well handle things - poorly. Akita didn’t get his fix and adapted by drink or any other method, though. He chose violence and crime, which should open up your eyes enough to the type of mind we’re dealing with here.
Akita is the type of person that needs somewhere to put all of his energy and negative emotions. He does that through the gym, and through fixing his boredom by all sorts of methods. He simply can’t do without it. Nonetheless, when you’re in the type of business that Akita is involved in as a villain, you are likely to develop a couple of passions. As long as you can pay a fair value for what you’re hiring Akita for, he’ll do it. This is the closest to any sort of truly impactful charity he’s ever gotten to. Akita will do just about anything for a buck. It’s not really the money he’s interested in, though he is “solving” his childhood money flow through this behavior, but the thrill, the disorder, the showing up in unexpected places, and the rumor mill about Spider King. Holding power over people, getting to decide their fate by choosing whether or not to take a job, and then implementing what they think is justice or simply their desire into the world is a massive ego boost.
Akita isn’t one-dimensional though. Even when things are unfortunate, he always manages to find the silver lining. If he got imprisoned, for example, at least he’d learn how to survive life on the inside and hopefully learn how to escape or manipulate people into helping him escape. He has strong dislikes for certain failures of society, and is self-aware enough that he wouldn’t be the type of person he is if the government had avoided failing him. He also enjoys taking care of himself and being taken care of, things he got accustomed to whenever his new “parents” gave him his allowance. He’s definitely someone that’s gotten used to his lifestyle, and will do just about anything to keep a hold of it.
This particular spider doesn’t care much about casualties. If they happen, they happen. If they’re necessary to get something done, they’re necessary to get something done. It doesn’t matter how old someone is, what type of person they are, or what goals they have: if they’re in the way or they’re a target for a job, they have to be handled. Akita is nothing but an efficient and ruthless mercenary, and amongst the best assassins in the world.
Regardless, Akita is charismatic enough to catch people’s attention with his gentle smile and his ability to sway moods with carefully selected words, but he’s not certain he sees himself as much of a leader and might be hesitant to take up leadership positions unless he’s been hired to do so or there’s a lot of confidence put in him. The only exception here is his family company, where he’s more than happy to fill in for his dead step daddy. Akita is definitely the Shego to somebody’s Doctor Drakken: sure if he was in charge he might have conquered the world by now, but he isn’t, and he doesn’t want to be. Becoming a villain was never about becoming the world’s best villain: it was about survival; using his skillset to cope will be something he’s never apologetic for, but you don’t need to give him a crown for it.
Akita is a man of conflicting attributes. He is a nepo baby and a victim of what equates to cultural eradication. He is the leader of a cult he didn’t mean to become a part of, and benefits from the guise he’s fighting the man - something he’s even managed to, at least, partially trick himself into believing - while his corrupt businesswoman of an adoptive mother hands out cash like candy to other corrupt individuals and to criminals to clean up his issues, keep an eye on him, and make sure he can keep up his masquerade. It doesn’t take a genius to see that he benefits from everything that he claims to stand against; it does however take someone with the right kind of access. Regardless, Akita is selfish when he doesn’t owe someone anything, doesn’t have a crush on them, doesn’t seem them as a friend, and doesn’t owe them his loyalty - which, as you might imagine, is difficult to get a hold of. Additionally, Akita has access to heroes through his job that allows him to ask questions about certain things in a way that doesn’t stir any suspicions, and is competent in deluding himself that, maybe, causing chaos and hurt to help himself out is somehow helping out people like him, and will somehow stop people like him from being made by the government's mistakes when he’s not actually doing anything that would affect the government at all. He is open to taking down the government, and making big change; there’s just not a good avenue to that right now.
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]APPEARANCE[/div]
[b]» HEIGHT:[/b] 5’5”
[b]» WEIGHT:[/b] 140 pounds
[b]» EYE COLOR:[/b] Brown
[b]» HAIR COLOR:[/b] Black
[b]» SKIN COLOR:[/b] Dark brown
[b]» FACE CLAIM NAME:[/b] Miles Morales
[b]» FACE CLAIM SERIES:[/b] Spider-Man/Marvel
Akita is a pint-sized descendant of American soldiers and their Japanese wives. With his mixed heritage, he has dark skin, and some but not many features of the rest of the Japanese population. He is, after all, mostly of African descent. He takes good care of his hair, often keeping it braided or in locs - it’s always styled somehow, and never messy. He’s short, of course, but because he’s athletic he has a pretty good build. Akita is, to say the least, fashionable and possessing great skin on account of the dermatologist and med spas he’s constantly at. He tends towards streetwear, but his mom insists on him having a lot of formalwear so he has that as well. Akita’s dressing style is relatively masculine, and he tends towards rare and expensive textiles like spider-silk.
[url=https://images2.imgbox.com/60/67/6HoyeiYo_o.jpg]The suit[/url]
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]HISTORY[/div]
Akita is descended from the children of American soldiers abandoned when the United States military pulled out of Japan. Part of an ethnic group that formed in the aftermath of that, Akita was left ostracized by the majority of Japanese society as a child and grew up in the slums surrounding what used to be an air base in Okinawa. When the social services eventually came to “rescue” these lost children and integrate them into society, he was ripped away from his family - the Philipps - and placed with a wealthy family that wanted someone with a powerful Quirk to raise and produce children for them. Akita’s life ever since then has been anything but what he wanted, and he resorted to secretly committing crime as a way to escape his powerful family’s oversight and rebel against them.
Akita was happy with the Philipps. He remembers them still, since he was taken away when he was 8. That was too old to forget them, but young enough to still have a chance of “integrating” him into the broader Japanese society. Food was rough to get, and fights were something Akita often got into - though as he got older and his venom got stronger thanks to his family giving him as much of their food as possible since he and his little sibling needed it to grow the most they became less common as word of what he was capable of spread. Unfortunately for him, it spread far enough that those responsible for sweeping in and cleaning up this area of Japan to prep it for wealthy settlers knew about. A bribed figure here or there in a government left the powerful Fujimori family with the perfect way to find some kid they could get somewhere with the type of Quirk they wanted since his new adopted “parents” themselves were infertile.
Akita had three siblings. One older, one younger. They were both ripped away from him when the bad men came to take him away and take him to his new family. They’re still out there somewhere, and Akita knows where the younger one is at least. The younger one became a Student, and Akita kept an eye out for them. The older one, though, he wasn’t sure. Sometimes, money would make its way to his younger sibling from anonymous donations but he was too scared to approach them just yet. His younger sibling probably didn’t need the issues he would bring into his life just yet, but that’s beside the point: back to Akita’s childhood.
Akita’s family would hire private tutors for their kid as he grew up, providing lessons through a retired Pro Hero who would willing to look the other way when it came to the Fujimori family’s
“Unique” child rearing style. Corporal punishment was just one method by which Akita was punished. Whenever he would speak the dialect of Japanese mixed with English that he grew up with, he’d be punished - quite brutally. Nonetheless, his parents were happy because by the time he was 16 he seemed to have “grown out” of his bad habits and conformed to what they wanted. It was a lie, of course. He didn’t conform; he just started swiping things from skyscrapers with his webbing from passers-by and, after not getting caught for a while, he felt safety in this new outlet for all the emotions and impulses and unresolved anger that left him more of an outcast in society.
When they were happy with him, at least, Akita noticed they were loving - almost sickeningly doting over him and fawning over everything he accomplished while they tried to find someone for him from a “proper” family to get into an arranged marriage with so he could produce the next generation of Fujimori for them. It’s not that Akita wasn’t into women that was the issue. He was - just enough to have kids, but he really preferred men and when his parents realized that he thought all hell would break lose. The Fujimori tradition of only producing heirs through blood already broken though, and with his adoptive father dead of a heart attack by 43 his mother was fine with yet another generation being adopted if need be - as long as their legacy was continued and he could inherit the family company.
His habits as a thief would only grow, and they’d escalate. It wasn’t long before he ended up having to defend himself against an old shopkeeper that came at him with a baseball bat. He defended himself instinctively, paralyzing the man’s throat with his hands and running away. He was lucky he didn’t get caught. The old man Akita was stealing from was too stingy to pay for cameras. After that, Akita started wearing a black and green suit emblazoned with a spider symbol that, sure, he could use his quirk through but that also removed his vulnerability to being spotted and identified.
Over time, he would warp into more of a villain. His mom caught on, eventually. She sat in on his tutoring sessions frequently. Whenever his tutor was found dead after a conversation between Akita’s tutor and herself about him potentially turning him in unless he was paid extra, Akita was listening in. His mother suspected as much, and looked the other side. Akita would be lying if he said he only did it because he wanted to protect himself. As an older teen, and without his adoptive dad around, he came to appreciate his mom deeply and came to love her like he did his old mom. He’d never truly forgive her, but he realized what happened to you as a person when you married the type of man his adoptive dad was. He forgave her for allowing him to do the type of corporal punishment that was committed against him as well.
With his mother’s wealth, and allies in law enforcement and the political community, Akita was safe as long as he didn’t get caught. Becoming a mix of Peter Pan and a more homicidal Pied Piper, Akita’s people of origin and those in society left behind would come to look up to the Spider King as a sort of folk hero. He wreaked a wicked justice when needed, but often times his fans on the Internet would justify any killings they couldn’t explain as saying that the person must have deserved it. The truth was, though, Akita wasn’t a vigilante. He did what he believed was right within his own twisted morality, and that included stealing what he wanted, killing who he needed to, and taking whatever odd jobs people could hire him for.
He took [i]all[/i] jobs, though. That was part of why he was a folk hero. If you knew the right avenue, some 12 year old kid could feasibly scrounge up enough money to get Spider King to show up and convince their bullies to leave them alone. You didn’t need much for that. Stealing emeralds or killing a hero, though? Getting rid of a witness? That took a lot more money. Thus, Spider King became something of society’s boogeyman. Within a few years of activity, it wasn’t uncommon for him to be hired to handle someone’s Internet beef, or get revenge against a person who beat up someone’s kid, or leaked pictures someone didn’t want leaked.
With this kind of smokescreen and the willingness people had to look away because they had been led to believe it was all for a greater cause and not for Akita’s own enjoyment, and with the conspiracy his mother had perpetrated, it left law enforcement frustrated as witnesses didn’t often come forward. Nonetheless, the truth is that his hatred of society’s wealthy and elite, those who were celebrities, those who had it easier than he did growing up was not only irrational, but fuel for a lot of his actions. The type of victims he had that led to people rooting for him just happened to be to his benefit, and the work he did for cheap for people as his only real charity in the world led to popularity rivaling that of some top heroes. Nonetheless, Akita is still a villain. Most of his motivations are selfish, but he is definitely looking out for the little guy when it comes to the type of work he’s willing to accept. It’s the least he can do.
He kept up the facade well. He was “Fujimori, Akita, sir!” at work to his bosses. He got a job as a photographer and reporter at his family company - a massive news media organization - after graduating college for journalism, media, and communication. His ability to stick to the sides of skyscrapers was useful, and something that let him take shots like no one else could. Plus, he was ballsy enough to get close enough to some villains to snap pics, and he never seemed to have issues snapping pics of Spider King.
Akita Fujimori might not be a household name, but his photographs? The most poignant were certainly as well known as some pro heroes. He hadn’t won a Pulitzer yet, though, so that’s his current goal for his more normal, mundane life.
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]ITEMS[/div]
+ Spider Suit
+ Debit card
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]ATTRIBUTES[/div]
[table][tbody][tr][td style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:225px;"][b]» AWARENESS (B+)
[/b][/td]
[td style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:225px;"][b]» SPEED (B+)[/b]
[/td][/tr]
[tr][td style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:225px;"][b]» DEXTERITY (C-)[/b]
[/td]
[td style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:225px;"][b]» STRENGTH (B+)[/b]
[/td][/tr]
[tr][td style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:225px;"]
[b]» DURABILITY(C-)[/b] [/td]
[td style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:225px;"][b]» VITALITY (C-)[/b][/td][/tr][/tbody][/table]
[div align="center"][b]Limit Breakers:11 Available | X/45 Used[/b][/div]
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]EQUIPMENT[/div]
[b]EQUIPMENT NAME:[/b] Venom Bomb
[b]EQUIPMENT RANK:[/b] C
[b]EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER:[/b] N/A (paid for with XP)
[b]EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION:[/b] The venom bomb is a spherical device roughly the size of a baseball and functionally equivalent to a grenade that contains Akita’s venom and nails/shrapnel. One of three buttons on the venom bomb can also be pushed to decide how it will detonate: on a long timer, remote-activated, or on a short timer/impact like a regular grenade. If no mention of a button being pushed is mentioned, consider it to be using the last option.
[b]EQUIPMENT NAME:[/b] Stinger
[b]EQUIPMENT RANK:[/b] D
[b]EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER:[/b] N/A (paid for with XP)
[b]EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION:[/b] A simple, spiked Kenabo about the length of Akita’s body with an extremely sharp, point on the other end that allows it to be used as a spear. Akita can use this in a way functionally similar to a more extended baseball bat, and tends to coat it in his poison.
[b]EQUIPMENT NAME:[/b] Duct Tape
[b]EQUIPMENT RANK:[/b] D-
[b]EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER:[/b] N/A
[b]EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION:[/b] A simple roll of duct tape that Akita can use to tape his venom bombs to other items. Technically he can just use his webbing, but I’m not sure he’s caught onto that yet.
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]QUIRK[/div]
[b]QUIRK NAME:[/b] Envenom
[b]QUIRK RANK:[/b] S-
[b]QUIRK TYPE:[/b] Hybrid (Mutation/Emitter)
[b]QUIRK DESCRIPTION:[/b] Envenom is a quirk that allows for the generation and manipulation (note to self: venombending a la waterbending in avatar but without the turning things to ice/steam; meaning I can ABSOLUTELY fling a giant ball of venom at someone, but can’t make an armor of venom that is actually capable of protecting against anything) of Venom. He can emit the venom from either his hands/wrists, or his mouth. This means he can spray it, or spit it if need be. Potential use cases include covering himself or something else in liquid venom, essentially making himself or something else poisonous to the touch. While he can’t shape it into constructs or form shields or anything, he can move around the venom once it’s outside of his body so he can fling it at people if need be. Akita’s venom is mainly paralytic, causing the side effect of a speed reduction (-1 rank per quirk tier in speed; note to self this means that if someone has A-rank speed it would go to B-), and will paralyze whatever limb/area of the body it hits first as well as spread to up to 2 adjacent limb/area given sufficient time to do so. Player consent is needed to cause paralysis.
+ Akita can generate and manipulate venom.
+ Properties of venom include (consented) paralysis.
[b]QUIRK DRAWBACKS:[/b]
+ Akita’s venom wears off after a few minutes - which is good for heroes who have a paralyzed hand, and less good for normal civilians that just got gassed because a few minutes is too long to wait for your lungs to stop being paralyzed
+ He cannot make constructs with the venom (note for myself so I don’t accidentally do this IRP)
+ Generating too much venom causes dehydration and an inability to produce more, meaning that in prolonged fights he may run out
+ Antivenoms made from funnel-web venom, while expensive and difficult to get a hold of, can act as an antidote to Akita’s venom.
+ When exposed to cold, Akita’s venom decreases in potency
+ Manipulating his venom takes focus, the more he has to move while doing so the less precise it will be
+ Akita’s venom is incapable of killing through poisoning alone unless he manages to paralyze the right parts of a person
+ Akita needs a higher amount of copper than the average person thanks to his spider physiology. This means he has special dietary needs, and can suffer from severe malnutrition without it. While this seems like a flavor weakness, if he’s unable to pay for the right groceries/supplements or steal them realistically this could start to affect his quirk and its strength directly by reducing the strength of the toxic effects his venom, its durability in solid form, and how much venom he can produce in a day. The easiest way for Akita to keep access to what he needs in a diet is simply to have a secret identity and have a day job so he can afford these things.
+ If damaged, the venom gland take a significant period of time to recover (4 venom glands total; 2 in mouth, one in each wrist)
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]SKILLS[/div]
[b]SKILL NAME:[/b] Baseball Maestro
[b]SKILL RANK:[/b] D+
[b]SKILL DESCRIPTION:[/b] Akita is a former high school baseball player, and with his skills he can engage others in combat using club-shaped weapons or confidently strike opponents with his baseballs - or, in this case, his venom bombs.
[b]SKILL NAME:[/b] Gymnastics
[b]SKILL RANK:[/b] D
[b]SKILL DESCRIPTION:[/b] Akita is athletic and flexible enough to do basic gymnastic maneuvers consistently, especially when using them in tandem with his club to, for example, use it as a pole vault.
[div][attr="class","body"][div][attr="class","header2"]SUPER MOVES[/div]
[b]SUPERMOVE NAME:[/b]
[b]SUPERMOVE RANK:[/b]
[b]SUPERMOVE TYPE:[/b]
[b]SUPERMOVE DESCRIPTION:[/b]
[b]SUPERMOVE DRAWBACKS:[/b]
[div align="center"][b]PLAYED BY [i]KAI[/i][/b][/div][/div][/div]
[newclass=.body]width:450px;margin:auto;text-align:justify;font-family:arial;font-size:14px;[/newclass]
[newclass=.body b]color:#c93232[/newclass]
[newclass=.header1]font:bold 40px Arial;width:390px;background:rgb(25,25,25);color:rgb(254, 254, 254);text-align:center;padding:30px;[/newclass]
[newclass=.header2]font:bold 30px Arial;width:420px;background:rgb(25,25,25);margin:auto;color:rgb(254, 254, 254);text-align:center;padding:15px;[/newclass][/div][/div][/div][/div][/div][/div][/div][/div]
|
|
|
|
Jul 17, 2024 16:56:17 GMT
Post by Jinx on Jul 17, 2024 16:56:17 GMT
A wonderful conclusion to the past and a bright future ahead, what more could one want?
Great thread you two!
+7,500 EXP!!
Freja: 10,000 // 17,500
Sumi: 15,250 // 22,750
|
|
