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Post by alias on Apr 30, 2024 17:36:20 GMT

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» NAME: wouldn't you like to know, weatherboy?
» TITLES: Locke (public); The Illusory Hero (as Locke), Spoiler (Informant), Moniker (HPSC), Alias (Agent Designation)
» THEME: international superspy

» AGE: anybody's guess
» BIRTHDATE: classified.
» SEXUALITY: ✨ plot ✨

» AFFILIATION: civilian[/PTab={tabwidth:400;tab-selected-color:#fff}]

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» HEIGHT: 5' 5" or 165 cm
» WEIGHT: 176 lbs or 80 kg

» COLOR:

» EYE: varies (naturally violet)
» HAIR: varies
» SKIN: brown

» FACE CLAIM

» NAME: Hapi / Abigail Jones / Giovanna
» SERIES: FE: 3H / The Great Pretender / Guilty Gear

She has one of those faces. With facial structure and features ambiguous in race as well as gender, — enough to be taken for either a sharp-featured young woman or a pretty, bare-faced young man — and the range of possibilities only expanded when one brings makeup into the mix, she couldn’t count on all her fingers and toes how many times she’s been asked by both strangers and former targets alike whether or not they’ve met before. With the right products and the right lighting, she could be just about anyone.[/PTab={tabwidth:400;tab-selected-color:#fff}]
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» POSITIVES: ♠ observant ♠ adaptable ♠ creative ♠ clever	» NEGATIVES: ♥ dishonest ♥ lazy ♥ spiteful ♥ self-serving
»LIKES: ♥ off days ♥ music ♥ pillow forts ♥ boba	»DISLIKES: ♠ hero rankings ♠ boredom ♠ bg checks ♠ insects

A clumsy, well-meaning assistant, or a ditzy, bombastic new neighbor; a clever and flirtatious vixen, or a dry and sarcastic colleague; or, perhaps, a shallow, flighty socialite. With a million different names and aliases, all these personas, believe it or not, are worn, shed, and worn again as necessary with ease by one person — the clumsy hero known as ‘Locke’ to the public, ‘Spoiler’ to knowing colleagues in the world of heroes, and as the underground Alias Hero, Moniker, to the ones behind the screens of the HPSC.

“I’ll keep all my feelings right here, and then one day, I’ll die.”

Her strengths primarily lie in singing, the visual arts, writing, gymnastics - and lying her ass off at the drop of a hat.

A charlatan and a fool and a trickster all in one who trusts other people about as far as she can throw them on an individual basis, this is above all else a deeply flawed (and maybe in that, deeply human) person. Chock full of about as many personas as there may be cards in a deck, it’s also hard to tell when or how much she’s being honest at a given time, especially during first impressions. On top of that, it’s very possible that no one actually knows what her true personality is, as she presents a different front to everyone (and may or may not have been doing it for so long that not even she is sure who her ‘true self’ is anymore).[/PTab={tabwidth:400;tab-selected-color:#fff}]
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She learned to lie young, always scared of the truth and what it might bring from her parents -- a father who was fun and understanding most of the time but snapped at so much as a toe out of line; a mother who sighed when asked for affection or attention, then got offended when it was remarked that she was less physically loving than her husband, and reacted only with disapproval and dismay after her middle child took the wrong bus home and forgot about after-school activities one too many times, on the grounds of what would her friends and colleagues think? Unmotivated, forgetful, disobedient, a child who made too many mistakes and tried to cover them up with more.

Her fear-driven lies were discovered. Her father yelled, her mother shook her head, her sister covered her ears, her brother wasn’t home, she was locked in her room to think about her behavior.

(I mean, she also got the shit kicked out of her a couple times, but you get how it is, you live and you learn, you know?)

She told better lies.

She was caught less, and hurt less. She learned -- the wrong lesson, maybe, but at least she learned. She got good at it. The better she got, the more often she did it. Lying became second nature, an easy way to make sure she never got hurt, because her parents only hurt her when she gave them a reason to (right?). All she had to do was get rid of the reasons, and hiding the reasons seemed to work as well as anything else.

And when you get good enough at something, and your late-blooming quirk just seems to help you get even better at it - might as well get paid for it, am I right?[/PTab={tabwidth:400;tab-selected-color:#fff}]
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EMITTER | (B-)

tl;dr: She can turn thing into other thing.

𝔼ℚ𝕌𝕀𝕍𝔸𝕃𝔼ℕ𝕋 𝔼𝕏ℂℍ𝔸ℕ𝔾𝔼

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» AWARENESS (C+)	» SPEED (D-)
» DEXTERITY (C-)	» STRENGTH (D-)
» DURABILITY (D-)	» VITALITY (D-)

Limit Breakers: 1 Available | 8/45 Used

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CARD TRICKS — (A)

Her lack of being built like a brick outhouse or juggernaut, such as some other notable young heroes, does not make her less of a pain to get your hands on. How do you fight someone you can’t pin? The answer, if Locke gets her way, is that you don’t. And when she isn’t playing Locke, when it comes to Moniker, there might as well be no such thing as fair fighting - she’ll take any available opening, and if someone does get their hands on her, she, uh - this spy bites. Literally.

LIAR, LIAR! — (C+)

♪ She's not a saint, and she's not what you think - she's an actress! ♪ In the business of spying and gaining information, no one gets far without a penchant for at least one of two things: instilling fear or charming the pants off of whomever you meet. Your best bet’s probably having one of both, and after her life’s worth of practice, Locke would like to think she can be pretty confident in a claim to both sides of the manipulation coin.

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DANGER SCARF — (D)

A capture weapon made of carbon fibers and a special metal alloy. It reacts to the energy of her quirk when she uses it, and is handy for many purposes - but most especially the purposes of yoinking and yeeting, which are her primary uses for the thing.

QUIRK LICENSE — (D-)

Rare as it is that she needs to show it off, she does have a spiffy little identification card that lets The Authorities know that she is, in fact, licensed and qualified to make use of her quirk out in the open should the need arise.

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Post by alias on May 30, 2023 18:13:44 GMT

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Post by alias on May 30, 2023 4:40:42 GMT

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⌜≘ A L I A S ≘⌟
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OVERVIEW

» NAME: Wouldn't you like to know? 😉
» A.K.A.: Locke (public); The Illusory Hero (as Locke), Spoiler (Informant), Moniker (HPSC), Alias (Agent Designation)
» AGE: Anybody's guess :DD
» GENDER: Female-presenting-ish? Pronouns are whatever
» SEXUALITY: ✨ Plot ✨
» AFFILIATION: Civilian
» THEME: international superspy

PERSONALITY

» POSITIVE TRAITS: 🔒 Assertive 🔒 Observant 🔒 Adaptive 🔒 Clever	» NEGATIVE TRAITS: 🎭 Compulsive liar 🎭 Lazy 🎭 Personified identity crisis 🎭 Spiteful
» LIKES: 🎭 TickTock during breaks 🎭 Surprise off days 🎭 ✨ Pillow forts ✨ 🎭 Anything boba	» DISLIKES: 🔒 Hero rankings 🔒 Boredom 🔒 BG checks 🔒K-Pop, supposedly

A clumsy, well-meaning assistant, or a ditzy, bombastic new neighbor; a clever and flirtatious vixen, or a dry and sarcastic colleague; or, perhaps, a shallow, flighty socialite. With a million different names and aliases, all these personas, believe it or not, are worn, shed, and worn again as necessary with ease by one person — the clumsy hero known as ‘Locke’ to the public, ‘Spoiler’ to knowing colleagues in the world of heroes, and as the underground Alias Hero, Moniker, to the ones behind the screens of the HPSC.

“I’ll keep all my feelings right here, and then one day, I’ll die.”

Her strengths primarily lie in singing, the visual arts, writing (both analytical and fictional), gymnastics - and lying her ass off at the drop of a hat.

A charlatan and a fool and a trickster all in one who trusts other people about as far as she can throw them on an individual basis, this is above all else a deeply flawed (and maybe in that, deeply human) person. Chock full of about as many personas as there may be cards in a deck, it’s also hard to tell when or how much she’s being honest at a given time, especially during first impressions. On top of that, it’s very possible that no one actually knows what her true personality is, as she presents a different front to everyone (and may or may not have been doing it for so long that not even she is sure who her ‘true self’ is anymore, lmao).

The main identities she currently dons are as follows:

LOCKE, THE ILLUSION HERO
Overworked and overtired and just this shy of outright clumsy, but Locke is nonetheless a UA assistant hopeful who is always doing her best! Her quirk may not be the best suited for battling and brawling, but it does certainly have its uses, and she’d like nothing more than to illuminate the way for other young hero hopefuls who, while they may not have the most conventionally combat-affiliated powers, still want to be of help and make a difference to society. She’s sweet, in spite of her undeniable hints of ditziness, and always happy to lend an ear.

MONIKER, THE SPY
She's blunt, observant, and perceptive by nature. However, 'Moniker' nonetheless always prefers to keep her cards close to her chest. She presents as a very ‘dry’ personality, mostly no-nonsense and focused except for the occasional sarcastic comment or joke. While she’s not exactly passionate about her job, she doesn’t slack when it comes to actually getting her part of the mission done and dusted… because she saves all the slacking for break times and pit-stops where she can mindlessly scroll through her social media for a smidgen of dopamine or serotonin.

“I go where I’m needed and I do what’s needed of me. Isn’t that the job of a hero in the first place?”
“You’re twisting things, and you know it!”
“. . . Duh. That’s my job.”

SPOILER, THE INFORMANT
Sly, 'suave', and able and willing to switch between masks at a moment’s notice, Spoiler is a tricky individual who's never been seen in person by most heroes, and never will be, if they can help it. Their job lies in delivering information throughout the private grapevine as necessary or as ordered. Where their information comes from can only be presumed, because they certainly don't care to tell you!

MIRI HASEGAWA, THE CIVILIAN
Miri Hasegawa is casual and playful at the surface level, and easy enough to superficially befriend. But she’s quick to become defensive if you get too close to her sore spots or if she feels called out, is deeply cynical beneath the easy smile and wall of sleep-deprived memery, and doesn’t trust pretty much anyone (okay, except for her pets). She’s also rather quick to turn on most people outside of her siblings, has a hard time admitting when she’s in the wrong if the issue strikes close enough to her vulnerabilities, and if outright called out on any of this, is prone to shutting down or shutting the other party out to avoid things entirely for a while.

'HOTARU' AND THE OTHER FLEX IDENTITIES
A free space, essentially, for the varied number of faces, appearances, roles, and personalities she'll take on whenever she needs to get the job done.

APPEARANCE

» HEIGHT: 159 cm (5'3")
» WEIGHT: 80 kg (176 lbs)
» EYE COLOR: Varies (naturally violet)
» HAIR COLOR: Varies
» SKIN COLOR: Tan
» FACE CLAIM NAME: Hapi / Abigail Jones / Giovanna
» FACE CLAIM SERIES: FE: 3H / The Great Pretender / Guilty Gear

“You’re a manipulative piece of sh**.”
“Sure. But at least I always look good while I’m doing it.”

The young woman who calls herself ‘Locke’ has one of those faces. With facial structure and features ambiguous in race as well as gender, — enough to be taken for either a sharp-featured young woman or a pretty, bare-faced young man — and the range of possibilities only expanded when one brings makeup into the mix, she couldn’t count on all her fingers and toes how many times she’s been asked by both strangers and former targets alike whether or not they’ve met before. With the right products and the right lighting, she could be just about anyone; she really does just kinda have one of those faces.

Hair-wise, she’s got a shaved undercut for the sheer immaculate ✨gender✨ of it. Whether she wears her hair down to cover it or not depends on the role she’s assuming, but she usually wears it down to conceal the undercut when assuming ‘Locke’s life.

Her "hero outfit", as Locke, consists of a fancy-looking white cropped jacket over a high-necked purple crop top and matching white pants, completed with black thigh-high boots and a gray utility belt full of things she can easily use her quirk on in a pinch (as well as sticky pads and extra pens and pencils for doodling and making scribbles or prank notes when she’s bored, but shhhh). A hairband with a little mini-top hat attached to it - to ensure it'll stay on Locke's head when she wears it - 'tops' off the outfit. The hairband is seemingly adorned with little metal triangles for some flair, but those triangles are much more dangerous than they look. Usually they lie flat as decoration, but they can flip up to stand straight, spiky, and sharp in case of emergency or need of some slashing.

Outside her happy little masquerade as ditzy little Locke, she wears whatever she needs to when undercover, and whatever she wants the rest of the time. Her fashion sense spans from casual bodycon dresses to princesscore to varsity jackets and ripped jeans to athleisure to boho chic, so her style is about as predictable as her sense of self - as far as she's concerned, she wears what she wants when she wants and that's about the end of it.

LOCKE / MONIKER (FIELD) / MONIKER (OFFICE) / MIRI

BACKGROUND

There is no heartbreakingly tragic backstory.

SPOILER: Click to show

She’s a normal girl from a normal household who’s lived a horribly normal life. She has two loving parents who want the best for her, a cluster of energetic baby siblings with heads full of dreams, a caring older brother who checks in whenever he can and reminds her to take care of herself, an adorable puppy with shepherding in his blood, a dramatic cat who’ll yowl at any closed doors with a person on the other side of it, and a hamster with a perpetual case of the zoomies.

It wasn’t the most interesting upbringing, sure, but it wasn’t awful either. It was fine. It’s fine. She’s fine.

Her father, a diplomat of a foreign nation, who abused her when she failed to meet his standards or stepped outside the bounds of his control. He was overseas more often than he wasn’t, though. A small mercy.

Her mother, an overworked and inflexible professor who loved them but had barely wanted one of her children much less three, and often simply pursed her lips and looked away while the hurt was happening -- it was happening for a reason, right? If the child just behaved, if she was honest, if she kept up with her schoolwork, if she didn’t hide things, if she talked to them, if she obeyed, if she didn’t make her father angry, if she trusted them, then this wouldn’t happen, right?

She had siblings. They were okay. An absent older sister who might as well have been an acquaintance. A geographically distant—for university’s sake—but caring and understanding and devoted older brother even if he was more often than not too far away to do much of anything (though not because he wanted to be; e’d gotten out of their house as soon as he could, which, honestly, was smart, and honestly, who could blame him? He loved his family, he just didn’t want to be anywhere near them, most of the time). Three younger sisters, a protective younger brother, and an innocent baby brother.

And then there was her.

She learned to lie young, always scared of the truth and what it might bring from her parents -- a father who was fun and understanding most of the time but yelled and snapped and slapped her (‘lightly’) upside the head when she asked him for homework help but guessed too much at the answers instead of solving them the way he told her to; a mother who sighed when asked for affection or attention, then got offended when it was remarked that she was less physically loving than her husband, and reacted only with disapproval and dismay after her middle child took the wrong bus home and forgot about after-school activities one too many times, on the grounds of what would her friends and colleagues think? Unmotivated, forgetful, disobedient, a child who made too many mistakes and tried to cover them up with more.

Her fear-driven lies were discovered. Her father yelled, her mother shook her head, her sister covered her ears, her brother wasn’t home, she was locked in her room to think about her behavior.

(I mean, she also got the shit kicked out of her a couple times, but you get how it is, you live and you learn, you know?)

She told better lies.

She was caught less, and hurt less. She learned -- the wrong lesson, maybe, but at least she learned. She got good at it. The better she got, the more often she did it. Lying became second nature, an easy way to make sure she never got hurt, because her parents only hurt her when she gave them a reason to (right?). All she had to do was get rid of the reasons, and hiding the reasons seemed to work as well as anything else.

And when you get good enough at something, and your late-blooming quirk just seems to help you get even better at it - might as well get paid for it, am I right?

(Other than THAT minor familial shitshow, though, her life was pretty normal! You know, girl is born, girl grows up, girl goes to school, girl graduates school, girl goes to college and falls into deep depression because the world’s kind of fucked actually and now there’s not even the comforting toxicity of her home turf to distract her from it, girl flunks a few classes, girl gets connected through a family member to a potential mildly shady job that doesn’t require a college degree, girl goes in for interview, girl gets job, girl becomes ~~indentured servant of the very sus government~~ government worker in the middle of a world that’s 🎶falling to pieces, oooo, all of the pieces, one by one🎶.

Nothing you’ve never heard before. Right?)

ITEMS

Cellphone: Her HPSC-issued cellphone. It’s got a cute lil Gudetama phone charm attached to it, but she’ll deny any substantial fondness for the lazy little egg mascot until she’s on her goddamn deathbed.
Utility belt: Never leave home without your trusty utility belt, chock-full of uhhhhh definitely not snacks and sticky notes, just things like a taser, a pocket knife, miscellaneous materials... that kind of thing. Possibly also a wallet and keys. Who needs a purse?
Bunny-ear headphones: For music and being lectured by your bosses without being subjected to the embarrassment of having everyone in a ten yard radius listening in on you getting chewed out, of course.

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Post by alias on May 30, 2023 4:32:45 GMT

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QUIRK

SMOKE & MIRRORS

SILVER | APPRENTICE | EMITTER

The quirk legally recorded as 'Smoke and Mirrors' is supposedly that of simple but convincing hallucinogenic-induced illusions. Its user makes physical contact with what she wants to transform, pink-red smoke billows forth, and abracadabra, suddenly everyone in the area is seeing something that wasn't there before!

It's a neat little party trick.

If only that was what the quirk actually is.

(Life would probably have ended up a lot easier.)

DESCRIPTION

al·che·my
/ˈalkəmē/
noun

a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.

Origin
late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al ‘the’ + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia ‘art of transmuting metals’).

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In reality, Locke's quirk is one that's all about trade. Upon contact with her skin and the addition of a little mental effort, one thing is traded through transmutation for another of equal mass, albeit not necessarily size.

For a pro hero, even one that doesn’t work in the limelight and whose work has more to do with personal skill and intelligence than the aptitude of her quirk, her control probably isn’t gonna be what you’d expect. But for having only finally popped up in the midst of her teenage years, her control over it also still isn't something to scoff at: she can transmute any object or area so long as their mass is less than or equal to that of an average-sized car.

To transmute anything at all, though, Locke first requires two things:

1) Skin-to-surface contact, as stated,
2) Intimate knowledge and understanding of the original substance, exactly what she’s changing, how she’s changing it, and of what it will become. The more nuanced her understanding and knowledge, the better, with the atomic level being the best you can get.

In the same vein, her quirk also relies on Locke’s intelligence and creativity, because transmuting the damn thing’s only half the work - she’s also going to need to come up with a plan for how to make use of whatever she’s trying to end up with.

Her favorite ‘party trick’ is turning water into different alcohols (it gets the BEST reactions at parties).

[ COOL-DOWN: She’s not quite at the point where she can pull off permanent transformation - the most she can manage at a time is FOUR straight posts of sustained transmutation before she has to tap out and reverse whatever transformation she triggered, recuperating energy for at least TWO posts before she can go again. ]

DRAWBACKS

- Every transmutation Locke does pulls energy from her in order to trigger it, leaving her a little more drained/tired. She doesn’t get it back from what she transforms either, the transformed thingamajig holds onto and absorbs that energy, and when the metaphorical timer goes off, disperses, reversing the transmutation back to square one.
- The bigger the object, the more energy it takes, with truck-size being the hardest she can push herself before going into risky territory. She COULD push her limits through the use of energy drinks or an adrenaline shot, but the kickback would be a bitch - and the story behind why she knows that ain’t a fun one.
If Locke isn’t familiar enough with any part of the process of a given transmutation (starting substance, how it’s being changed, or the end result), any kind of ‘side effect’ could occur during the process to impact the final product. And the more or less she knows, the greater the degree of the side effect. For example, the first time she tried turning an apple into copper. Having only been half as familiar enough with the structure of the metal and the fruit as she could have been, she ended up with a strange incomplete result - from the outside in the transformation seemed to only have worked partway, and the part that had turned metal still retained the squishy, crunchy traits of the apple. On top of that, the side effect/defect is different each time, so there’s really no way or predicting what she could end up with if she doesn’t know enough.
... At least it’s pretty convincing incentive to always go into things fully prepared.
- Locke always carries materials on her that are either simple or that she knows well and can easily transmute into things she also knows well, as well as things that can be also combined to increase their mass (silt and water into clay, for example). If those materials are taken away from her and she’s left in, say, a street with nothing on it, or trapped in a really big empty room, she wouldn’t be able to transform anything: no materials and the room itself is way too big.

OTHER ABILITIES

LIAR, LIAR -

PLATINUM | ADEPT

(-- you get the gist.)

I mean, again, if you’re doing it, and you’re good at it, might as well get paid for it. Right?

In the business of spying and of gaining information, no one gets far without a penchant for at least one of two things: instilling fear or charming the pants off of whomever you meet. Your best bet’s probably having one of both, and after her life’s worth of practice, Locke would like to think she can be pretty confident in a claim to both sides of the manipulation coin. At this point, if Locke were to look at a person and tell them that their shoes had suddenly turned pink, they’d more likely than not find themselves actually convinced for a split second and have to check in spite of the absolutely bizarre nature of the notion itself. She could look someone in the eye and tell them she was actually a twelve-foot-tall elephant giraffe hybrid with a fur pelt of bright fuchsia, and it might actually make someone question their own sanity.

Practical joke uses aside, she could probably incite a crowd to fight someone on her word alone if she tossed some effort into it, and she’ll definitely have better luck talking herself out of tricky situations than anyone without the same lifetime’s worth of experience in pulling the magenta wool over others’ eyes.

ZERO TO HERO -

PLATINUM | ADEPT

("-more or less," as Locke likes to describe her hero training.)

For all that the self-professed gremlin has a secret love for sewing chaos (of little consequence) in others' lives, she likes her own life to be kept nice and easy as possible. That extends to her hero training - HPSC-handled-and-endorsed, of course. Nothing fancy or showy, though she does have a binding cloth/capture weapon on her person that she's proficient enough with for yoinking and yeeting purposes; just enough to do what needs to be done.

Her lack of being built like a brick outhouse or juggernaut, such as some other notable young heroes, does not make her less of a pain to get your hands on. How do you fight someone you can’t pin? The answer, if Locke gets her way, is that you don’t. And when she isn’t playing Locke, when it comes to Moniker, there might as well be no such thing as fair fighting - she’ll take any available opening, and if someone does get their hands on her, she, uh - this spy bites. Literally. Thankfully, her wits and weaseling are usually enough for a sneaky agent whose job is mostly more focused slipping away and on playing a coin with a thousand faces.

TLDR; she’s not meant for the limelight or the show-stopping or the big names or city-busting battles, but she knows the rules and she can handle herself in a pinch - though if she's ever caught in a game of over a dozen to one, she might start to sweat a little.

JACK OF ALL TRADES ;

PLATINUM | ADEPT

(-- but master of none, makes for far better than a master of one!)

She ain't a genius, but she could definitely be called a smart cookie. Locke picks up things pretty fast, adapts quick, and it doesn’t take her long to get decent at what she does pick up. At worst it’ll be passable, at best she’ll be able to keep up with someone that actually does have experience in the given area of expertise. Locke retains information at a higher rate than people without her affinity for learning, has an easier time than the average person by leaps and bounds when it comes to remembering things - maybe even close to a photographic one when it comes to gaining information. She’s also a lot better at face memory and word association than your average joe. This all helps a lot with her quirk, too, seeing as half the journey there tends to be relying on her knowledge and her quick-thinking.

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Credits to @rx for the template

⌜≘ A L I A S ≘⌟
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OVERVIEW

» NAME: Wouldn't you like ta know? 😉
» A.K.A.: Locke (public); The Illusory Hero (as Locke), Spoiler (Informant), Moniker (HPSC), Alias (Agent Designation)
» AGE: Anybody's guess :DD
» GENDER: Female-presenting-ish? Pronouns are whatever
» SEXUALITY: ✨ Plot ✨
» AFFILIATION: Civilian

PERSONALITY

» POSITIVE TRAITS: 🔒 Assertive 🔒 Observant 🔒 Adaptive 🔒 Clever	» NEGATIVE TRAITS: 🎭 Compulsive liar 🎭 Lazy 🎭 Personified identity crisis 🎭 Spiteful
» LIKES: 🎭 TickTock during breaks 🎭 Surprise off days 🎭 ✨ Pillow forts ✨ 🎭 Anything boba	» DISLIKES: 🔒 Hero rankings 🔒 Boredom 🔒 BG checks 🔒K-Pop, supposedly

A clumsy, well-meaning assistant, or a ditzy, bombastic new neighbor; a clever and flirtatious vixen, or a dry and sarcastic colleague; or, perhaps, a shallow, flighty socialite. With a million different names and aliases, all these personas, believe it or not, are worn, shed, and worn again as necessary with ease by one person — the clumsy hero known as ‘Locke’ to the public, ‘Spoiler’ to knowing colleagues in the world of heroes, and as the underground Alias Hero, Moniker, to the ones behind the screens of the HPSC.

“I’ll keep all my feelings right here, and then one day, I’ll die.”

Her strengths primarily lie in singing, the visual arts, writing (both analytical and fictional), gymnastics - and lying her ass off at the drop of a hat.

A charlatan and a fool and a trickster all in one who trusts other people about as far as she can throw them on an individual basis, this is above all else a deeply flawed (and maybe in that, deeply human) person. Chock full of about as many personas as there may be cards in a deck, it’s also hard to tell when or how much she’s being honest at a given time, especially during first impressions. On top of that, it’s very possible that no one actually knows what her true personality is, as she presents a different front to everyone (and may or may not have been doing it for so long that not even she is sure who her ‘true self’ is anymore, lmao).

The main identities she currently dons are as follows:

LOCKE, THE ILLUSION HERO
Overworked and overtired and just this shy of outright clumsy, but Locke is nonetheless a UA assistant hopeful who is always doing her best! Her quirk may not be the best suited for battling and brawling, but it does certainly have its uses, and she’d like nothing more than to illuminate the way for other young hero hopefuls who, while they may not have the most conventionally combat-affiliated powers, still want to be of help and make a difference to society. She’s sweet, in spite of her undeniable hints of ditziness, and always happy to lend an ear.

MONIKER, THE SPY
She's blunt, observant, and perceptive by nature. However, 'Moniker' nonetheless always prefers to keep her cards close to her chest. She presents as a very ‘dry’ personality, mostly no-nonsense and focused except for the occasional sarcastic comment or joke. While she’s not exactly passionate about her job, she doesn’t slack when it comes to actually getting her part of the mission done and dusted… because she saves all the slacking for break times and pit-stops where she can mindlessly scroll through her social media for a smidgen of dopamine or serotonin.

“I go where I’m needed and I do what’s needed of me. Isn’t that the job of a hero in the first place?”
“You’re twisting things, and you know it!”
“. . . Duh. That’s my job.”

SPOILER, THE INFORMANT
Sly, 'suave', and able and willing to switch between masks at a moment’s notice, Spoiler is a tricky individual who's never been seen in person by most heroes, and never will be, if they can help it. Their job lies in delivering information throughout the private grapevine as necessary or as ordered. Where their information comes from can only be presumed, because they certainly don't care to tell you!

MIRI HASEGAWA, THE CIVILIAN
Miri Hasegawa is casual and playful at the surface level, and easy enough to superficially befriend. But she’s quick to become defensive if you get too close to her sore spots or if she feels called out, is deeply cynical beneath the easy smile and wall of sleep-deprived memery, and doesn’t trust pretty much anyone (okay, except for her pets). She’s also rather quick to turn on most people outside of her siblings, has a hard time admitting when she’s in the wrong if the issue strikes close enough to her vulnerabilities, and if outright called out on any of this, is prone to shutting down or shutting the other party out to avoid things entirely for a while.

'HOTARU' AND THE OTHER FLEX IDENTITIES
A free space, essentially, for the varied number of faces, appearances, roles, and personalities she'll take on whenever she needs to get the job done.

APPEARANCE

» HEIGHT: 159 cm (5'3")
» WEIGHT: 80 kg (176 lbs)
» EYE COLOR: Varies (naturally violet)
» HAIR COLOR: Varies
» SKIN COLOR: Tan
» FACE CLAIM NAME: Hapi / Abigail Jones / Giovanna
» FACE CLAIM SERIES: FE: 3H / The Great Pretender / Guilty Gear

“You’re a manipulative piece of sh**.”
“Sure. But at least I always look good while I’m doing it.”

The young woman who calls herself ‘Locke’ has one of those faces. With facial structure and features ambiguous in race as well as gender, — enough to be taken for either a sharp-featured young woman or a pretty, bare-faced young man — and the range of possibilities only expanded when one brings makeup into the mix, she couldn’t count on all her fingers and toes how many times she’s been asked by both strangers and former targets alike whether or not they’ve met before. With the right products and the right lighting, she could be just about anyone; she really does just kinda have one of those faces.

Hair-wise, she’s got a shaved undercut for the sheer immaculate ✨gender✨ of it. Whether she wears her hair down to cover it or not depends on the role she’s assuming, but she usually wears it down to conceal the undercut when assuming ‘Locke’s life.

Her "hero outfit", as Locke, consists of a fancy-looking white cropped jacket over a high-necked purple crop top and matching white pants, completed with black thigh-high boots and a gray utility belt full of things she can easily use her quirk on in a pinch (as well as sticky pads and extra pens and pencils for doodling and making scribbles or prank notes when she’s bored, but shhhh). A hairband with a little mini-top hat attached to it - to ensure it'll stay on Locke's head when she wears it - 'tops' off the outfit. The hairband is seemingly adorned with little metal triangles for some flair, but those triangles are much more dangerous than they look. Usually they lie flat as decoration, but they can flip up to stand straight, spiky, and sharp in case of emergency or need of some slashing.

Outside her happy little masquerade as ditzy little Locke, she wears whatever she needs to when undercover, and whatever she wants the rest of the time. Her fashion sense spans from casual bodycon dresses to princesscore to varsity jackets and ripped jeans to athleisure to boho chic, so her style is about as predictable as her sense of self - as far as she's concerned, she wears what she wants when she wants and that's about the end of it.

LOCKE / MONIKER (FIELD) / MONIKER (OFFICE) / MIRI

HISTORY

There’s no heartbreakingly tragic history. She’s a normal girl from a normal household who’s lived a horribly normal life. She has two loving parents who want the best for her, a cluster of energetic baby siblings with heads full of dreams, a caring older brother who checks in whenever he can and reminds her to take care of herself, an adorable puppy with shepherding in his blood, a dramatic cat who’ll yowl at any closed doors with a person on the other side of it, and a hamster with a perpetual case of the zoomies.

It wasn’t the most interesting upbringing, sure, but it wasn’t awful either. It was fine. It’s fine. She’s fine.

Her father, a diplomat of a foreign nation, who abused her when she failed to meet his standards or stepped outside the bounds of his control. He was overseas more often than he wasn’t, though. A small mercy.

Her mother, an overworked and inflexible professor who loved them but had barely wanted one of her children much less three, and often simply pursed her lips and looked away while the hurt was happening -- it was happening for a reason, right? If the child just behaved, if she was honest, if she kept up with her schoolwork, if she didn’t hide things, if she talked to them, if she obeyed, if she didn’t make her father angry, if she trusted them, then this wouldn’t happen, right?

She had siblings. They were okay. An absent older sister who might as well have been an acquaintance. A geographically distant—for university’s sake—but caring and understanding and devoted older brother even if he was more often than not too far away to do much of anything (though not because he wanted to be; e’d gotten out of their house as soon as he could, which, honestly, was smart, and honestly, who could blame him? He loved his family, he just didn’t want to be anywhere near them, most of the time). Three younger sisters, a protective younger brother, and an innocent baby brother.

And then there was her.

She learned to lie young, always scared of the truth and what it might bring from her parents -- a father who was fun and understanding most of the time but yelled and snapped and slapped her (‘lightly’) upside the head when she asked him for homework help but guessed too much at the answers instead of solving them the way he told her to; a mother who sighed when asked for affection or attention, then got offended when it was remarked that she was less physically loving than her husband, and reacted only with disapproval and dismay after her middle child took the wrong bus home and forgot about after-school activities one too many times, on the grounds of what would her friends and colleagues think? Unmotivated, forgetful, disobedient, a child who made too many mistakes and tried to cover them up with more.

Her fear-driven lies were discovered. Her father yelled, her mother shook her head, her sister covered her ears, her brother wasn’t home, she was locked in her room to think about her behavior.

(I mean, she also got the shit kicked out of her a couple times, but you get how it is, you live and you learn, you know?)

She told better lies.

She was caught less, and hurt less. She learned -- the wrong lesson, maybe, but at least she learned. She got good at it. The better she got, the more often she did it. Lying became second nature, an easy way to make sure she never got hurt, because her parents only hurt her when she gave them a reason to (right?). All she had to do was get rid of the reasons, and hiding the reasons seemed to work as well as anything else.

And when you get good enough at something, and your late-blooming quirk just seems to help you get even better at it - might as well get paid for it, am I right?

(Other than THAT minor familial shitshow, though, her life was pretty normal! You know, girl is born, girl grows up, girl goes to school, girl graduates school, girl goes to college and falls into deep depression because the world’s kind of fucked actually and now there’s not even the comforting toxicity of her home turf to distract her from it, girl flunks a few classes, girl gets connected through a family member to a potential mildly shady job that doesn’t require a college degree, girl goes in for interview, girl gets job, girl becomes ~~indentured servant of the very sus government~~ government worker in the middle of a world that’s 🎶falling to pieces, oooo, all of the pieces, one by one🎶.

Nothing you’ve never heard before. Right?)

ITEMS

Cellphone: Her HPSC-issued cellphone. It’s got a cute lil Gudetama phone charm attached to it, but she’ll deny any substantial fondness for the lazy little egg mascot until she’s on her goddamn deathbed.
Utility belt: Never leave home without your trusty utility belt, chock-full of uhhhhh definitely not snacks and sticky notes, just things like a taser, a pocket knife, miscellaneous materials... that kind of thing. Possibly also a wallet and keys. Who needs a purse?
Bunny-ear headphones: For music and being lectured by your bosses without being subjected to the embarrassment of having everyone in a ten yard radius listening in on you getting chewed out, of course

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