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PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Ashley
ARE YOU AT LEAST 16 YEARS OLD?: Yes.
CONTACT: ashleywr @ plurk
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Azusa Kannagi
CANON: OC
CANON REFERENCE: N/A
AGE: 16
GENDER: Female
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: Grade 10
APPEARANCE: Azusa is pretty easy to spot in a crowd. She’s got shoulder length blond hair, usually with some sort of pretty clip in it to keep it out of her face. No matter what, her hair is always brushed, and her clothes clean, doing her best to appear well kept. Even if she doesn’t have the money others have, she tries her best, often fixing her clothes on her own. When not in her uniform she likes to dress a bit outrageously, when she can. She’s not afraid to wear a maid dress for a Meetup, or goth loli to go shopping in the city. In her closet she has so many different cosplays that she’s either made or acquired second hand, and is always looking for an excuse to wear them. Otherwise, her clothes are fairly typical for a girl her age, preferring short skirts, strapless blouses, and low heeled shoes.

PERSONALITY: Like any good reporter, Azusa has an insatiable hunger for news. Though, her interests lie more in the news of a student breaking two girl’s hearts at the same time, rather than the cafeteria using day old meat to save costs. She’s the nosy type of girl who likes to know everything she can about the people around her. Azusa has a great memory, and a smile that seems to make people trust her.

It might not be apparent, but Azusa is the type who likes to take care of others. While she may be a nosy girl, she takes care of the friends she has made. Going to a new school means she is leaving many of her friends behind, she still is the type to keep in touch no matter what. Aside from her friends, she has her siblings that she’s been in charge of for so very long, and will likely have a difficult time being away from them.

As a reporter, Azusa loves rumors and gossip. She tries her very best not to spread harmful ones around the school though, not wanting to actually make people hate her. However, if there’s a rumor about a haunted stairwell, or a secret spot in the courtyard that is said to bring true love to a couple that kiss beneath a certain tree, you can be almost certain that Azusa has had a hand in the rumor. She’s a romantic at heart, most of her spells in middle school that she pretended to do, were usually focused on love and people’s crushes, helping her classmates the only way she knew how.

Because of her chuunibyou days and her love of rumors, she has a certain admiration for Shinto traditions. She loves all kinds of superstitions, often taking them seriously, while at the same time being known for pretending at one point to have been a long lost descendent of a head miko at the Ise Grand Shrine.

Azusa has always been a girl with a lot of energy. She used to run around with her friends in the neighborhood pretending to cast spells with them, or just staying at home while watching her siblings and sewing new costumes for her magician persona. As she got older she started to grow out of her delusions, which mostly meant that instead of pretending to be a magician in the real world, she would go online and roleplay and play fantasy games. She still loves to go cosplay meet ups, and check different message boards for new patterns to sew, though she tries to keep her power level in check around new friends.

Beneath her playful exterior, her crazy thoughts that magic actually exists, or that a special charm can really bring you good luck, Azusa understands more than she may let on. She knows right from wrong, she knows that she’s strange to other people, that they might talk about her behind her back. She’s just odd, but only because she wants to believe that she’s special, not that she can’t understand people. As she’s gotten older, sometimes she finds herself trying to hide behind her delusions by calling them all a game, or an act, while at the same time starting to realize that some of the things she does is really embarrassing.

When it comes to school work, Azusa tries her best, but has never been an excellent student. She gets by in her math and sciences, though she could always use more help. Her writing courses are her favorite and thus her best, though she has a bit of trouble not writing about real people she knows and how they would be the perfect couple, which has gotten her into a bit of trouble in the past.

Given her love to gossip and the lengths she will go to get it, she can be a little shameless. She’s not afraid to be undressed or wearing costumes that might embarrass others. At a party she’ll be the first one on the dance floor, and pulling others to join her too. In gym class she’ll be the first one undressed, commenting on other’s choices in underwear, asking where they got it.

Azusa is very proud of her powers. She had always thought she was special, but when she finally realized just how she was different she took it as a sign of something greater. Not that she has problems with non-mutants, she’s just never really grew out of her delusional 8th grade syndrome, and has yet to really put much thought into how different her life really will be now that she’s a mutant.

POWERS/ABILITIES: Photokinesis - The ability to bend and distort light. Azusa can use her ability over light to camouflage herself and objects close to her, such as making an apple appear to be an orange, or covering her skin and clothes with a pattern to match her surroundings. She can create images out of light, but they are only images, and she has to practice them for sometime. Her favorites are things like making little stars appear when she winks dramatically, or covering herself in a fake rain cloud when she is sad.

Her power is quite limited though, only things in a few foot radius from her can be affected, and the more complex or realistic the image the harder it is to maintain. She could stand perfectly still against a brick wall and blend in, but trying to be invisible in the middle of a crowd of people would be near impossible for her at her level.

The things she creates with her ability are only illusions, holograms of a sort, and have no physical properties. Changing a cube to a sphere may fool someone’s sight, but as soon as they touch it they would realize it’s fake. But on a flat surface, she could easily fake a report card (changing a ‘C’ to an ‘A’) or an ID (changing names or ages) and no one would be able to tell the difference.

AU HISTORY:
Azusa comes from a small family in Japan. She has one younger sister, and one younger brother, and two loving parents. However, since she was little, her parents had left her in charge of her siblings, to take care of them while her parents worked jobs that had them overseas and away from home. Her father was an American engineer, who fell in love and moved to Japan to marry Azusa’s mother, a CFO for a small but international corporation. They lived in a small house outside Tokyo, though more often than not Azusa would take a train into the city to meet friends and spend time window shopping.

During middle school, her childhood love of anime, magic and things. She fell into pretending to be a 400 year old magician character. She wrote a magical tome with all different spells and everything, putting it online as her “original work, do not steal”. She’d go to meetups in the city with her friends she met online, wanting to meet in the real world, as she believed magic didn’t work over the Internet. Even as a middle school girl she had a minor following writing a blog as her magical persona. The popularity only made her believe in her ‘specialness’ more and more. Azusa knew that she had magic inside of her, she believed that she wasn’t an ordinary girl, long before her mutant powers started to appear.

In her last year of middle school in Japan, while playing a game with her friends, Azusa did something she hadn’t been expecting. Someone upset with a rumor that Azusa herself may or may not have helped spread, was chasing down Azusa in the halls of the school after classes. Finding herself in a dead end, things were going to get bad. Azusa had really upset the wrong person, and feared that she was going to get hurt. Pushing herself against the plain concrete wall, she wished that the girl wouldn’t see her, that she would just look into the well-lit corner and see nothing. Miraculously, the girl went right past Azusa, and didn’t see her at all. When she opened her eyes, Azusa found that her skin and her clothes looked like she had been painted like the wall, indistinguishable from the real thing. ...She had found her power.

Trying to keep it a secret from her family (after seeing far too many shows about magical girls and the like) Azusa practiced by herself, learning more about her abilities. At the same time, she loved writing, deciding to join the journalism club at her school. Between the club and her powers, Azusa started spending more time writing and less time on the Internet playing games and pretending to be her character.

Her parents eventually found out about her ability, walking in on her practicing how to create a glowing lightbulb in her hand. Worried about what to do with new powers, and having none themselves, they decided to send her to Xavier’s Institute in America. Her father knew about it from the time he spent in New York City, and thought it would be the best place for Azusa to learn to control her ability best, as well as giving her the chance to grow up a little.

SAMPLES

NETWORK SAMPLE:

My spiritual power is telling me....it's time for this week's news!

[Dressed into something which can only be described as a magical girl cosplay is a young blonde girl, complete with a magical wand. She just taps it and suddenly the background she's standing against changes from a simple drab wall to suddenly being outside the school. It's a pretty amazing magic....called a "greenscreen", and "editing". Usually.]

First up is the rumors that there is a ghost on campus! They say she wanders the library crying at night, waiting for someone to talk to her. If you see her try to get me her number because I hear she's cute!

Then there's talk about a new entrepreneurial merchant among the students here, someone selling charms that are supposed to make someone fall in love with you. No one knows who's selling the charms, they simply buy them online and they appear in your locker the next morning. Of course, I've bought ten, but I haven't been able to read any prominent energy coming from them. It could be just another scam, but I'll give it some more time before I believe it's worked or not!

[Terrible, this whole show is terrible, it's not news at all but gossip and rumors most which amount to having to do with spirits, magic, and love, as well as the hostess's inability to feel shame, which must be her mutant power.]

And now, I'll open up the karmic distortion wavelengths...I mean, open the phone lines to let you weigh in on the news!

LOG SAMPLE:

Looking at the price tag for a new dress in an expensive store in town, Azusa thought of stealing it. She couldn’t afford it, not without saving up her money for another year...but she loved how it looked. With the pink frills at the hem of the skirt, the puffy sleeves, she knew it would look amazing on her. Worse, she knew she could do it. She wouldn’t walk out with it hidden in a bag or anything, but she knew she could just change a couple $1 bills into $20’s, and fool the salesperson long enough for her to put the money in the register and for Azusa to walk out with a receipt even.

As much as she wanted that dress though, as foolproof her plan was in her mind...she just couldn’t do it. Looking up at the sales girl, who noticed Azusa and smiled back at her, Azusa couldn’t do that to her. She couldn’t do that to girl, she couldn’t do that to Mutants like herself. What if the girl got fired because her cash register was short hundreds of dollars? What if someone found out that Azusa had used her powers to steal? It was just too many risks that she couldn’t reasonably take. Even if she believed herself to be special, someone with a power that other people didn’t have, she didn’t think that made her better than anyone, at least not in that regard.

Sighing, she turned away from that dress, not wanting to look at it anymore. She wasn’t a thief, and she didn’t want to keep thinking like one. But there was an idea that popped into her head, one that made her feel a little less bad about her previous thoughts.

Quickly pulling out her phone, she took a nice clear picture of the dress. She would study it. She would learn exactly how to picture it in her head. She could use her power to make one of her dresses at home look just like that picture, just like the dress in front of her.

On her way out, the sales woman told her to come again, which only made Azusa feel better about her decision. She would be back though, she would come again until she learned that dress, and could mimic it with her powers. Hopefully before the next dance came up. If she could find anyone to ask to go with her...