Post by Angel Surami on Jul 4, 2020 21:02:42 GMT -4
Haruka Watanabe
BASIC INFORMATION
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias:
Player Name: Jazzy
Faceclaim/Series:Barbara Gordon/Batman Beyond
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Civilians
Height: 1.7 meters/5,7
Weight: 54 kg/120 lbs
Hair/Style: Her hair is rather simple. It is a rather short cut so that she doesn't have to do much with it and is pure white due to her advancing age
Skin/Scars: Haruka's skin is both paled and wrinkled due to her advancing age. The only scar she has is from a C section where she had her grandchildren Natsuko and Tadashi's mother many years ago. the scar is pale and faded
Eyes: Her eyes are a narrow oval shape with pale blue irises.
Notables: She has recently as of this year had to begin to walk with metal quad cane in her left hand due to her advanced age and failing legs.
Player Name: Jazzy
Faceclaim/Series:Barbara Gordon/Batman Beyond
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Civilians
Height: 1.7 meters/5,7
Weight: 54 kg/120 lbs
Hair/Style: Her hair is rather simple. It is a rather short cut so that she doesn't have to do much with it and is pure white due to her advancing age
Skin/Scars: Haruka's skin is both paled and wrinkled due to her advancing age. The only scar she has is from a C section where she had her grandchildren Natsuko and Tadashi's mother many years ago. the scar is pale and faded
Eyes: Her eyes are a narrow oval shape with pale blue irises.
Notables: She has recently as of this year had to begin to walk with metal quad cane in her left hand due to her advanced age and failing legs.
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Appearance:
Haruka is an elderly woman with short weight hair,Narrow Oval pale blue eyes and large framed glasses. She has pale thin yet wrinkled skin due to her advancing age with a scar on the underside of her stomach from the C-section she had in her early years to have her daughter that is now faded and pale. She stands at a slightly hunched 1.7 meters or 5 foot 7 inches and weighs a modest 54 kg or 120 lbs. Due to constant wear and tare Haruka as of this year has had to begun to have to walk with a three pronged metal quad cane,but she doesn't let this stop her of performing her duty of care. She often keeps a small yet pearly white smile on her face for the children though if one looked into her eyes when she is alone they could see how truly physically and emotionally tired she is.
POSITIVE
✔ Kind,motherly,gentle yet demands respect.
NEGATIVE
✖ over protective, often secretly feels lesser to the quirker kids she looks after thanks to her old age,carries her grief for her husband,daughter,son in law and grand daughter tight and refuses to let go.
LIKES
✔ How the kids at the orphanage have found a hero to look up to in The Angel of Mercy,feeling useful,but also having help in a full staff including Sue Surami and Rose Nikos, Quite tea breaks.
DISLIKES
✖ That she couldn't save her daughter,her son in law or her grand daughter,getting old,when one of "Her" kids gets hurt physically,mentally or emotionally.
Personality:
Haruka Watanabe is an incredibly kind,loving,motherly and gentle woman even in her advancing age. Despite being gentle however she demands respect from those she works with as well as the children she takes care of. Haruka takes her duty of care extremely seriously to the point where if she feels as if she has failed in any way then she takes it incredibly hard such as when she was helpless to save her daughter,her son in law and her Grand daughter Natsuko. She is however grateful to not only have a brand new state of the art facility and home for the children to live in,but that she has met the amazing Surami Family and that the kids whom she thought had lost hope long ago had found a brand new spark of joy and hope in their new personal hero Angel Surami aka the Angel of Mercy. She is equally glad that she finally has a full paid staff to help her with all of the new kids arriving including the equally as loving and motherly Sue Surami and her sister the regionally famous painter Rose Nikos who will be teaching the children art as a coping mechanism.
Speaking of coping mechanisms Haruka has one that she holds above all else which is her three times a day solitary tea breaks where she gets time to reflect and calm herself as well as remember those whom she has lost so she can let some of her grief out as well as reflect on her slowly worsening physical health. Luckily the Surami family has promised her that after three more years of service and Angel Graduates from U.A.,a full pro hero and legally an adult she can officially retire and that they would buy her or have built a nice comfy home to retire too of her very own that would still be near the orphanage and youth center so that she can visit the kids whenever she likes. That is something that Haruka Watanabe after all her years of childcare is looking quite forward to.
Haruka is an elderly woman with short weight hair,Narrow Oval pale blue eyes and large framed glasses. She has pale thin yet wrinkled skin due to her advancing age with a scar on the underside of her stomach from the C-section she had in her early years to have her daughter that is now faded and pale. She stands at a slightly hunched 1.7 meters or 5 foot 7 inches and weighs a modest 54 kg or 120 lbs. Due to constant wear and tare Haruka as of this year has had to begun to have to walk with a three pronged metal quad cane,but she doesn't let this stop her of performing her duty of care. She often keeps a small yet pearly white smile on her face for the children though if one looked into her eyes when she is alone they could see how truly physically and emotionally tired she is.
POSITIVE
✔ Kind,motherly,gentle yet demands respect.
NEGATIVE
✖ over protective, often secretly feels lesser to the quirker kids she looks after thanks to her old age,carries her grief for her husband,daughter,son in law and grand daughter tight and refuses to let go.
LIKES
✔ How the kids at the orphanage have found a hero to look up to in The Angel of Mercy,feeling useful,but also having help in a full staff including Sue Surami and Rose Nikos, Quite tea breaks.
DISLIKES
✖ That she couldn't save her daughter,her son in law or her grand daughter,getting old,when one of "Her" kids gets hurt physically,mentally or emotionally.
Personality:
Haruka Watanabe is an incredibly kind,loving,motherly and gentle woman even in her advancing age. Despite being gentle however she demands respect from those she works with as well as the children she takes care of. Haruka takes her duty of care extremely seriously to the point where if she feels as if she has failed in any way then she takes it incredibly hard such as when she was helpless to save her daughter,her son in law and her Grand daughter Natsuko. She is however grateful to not only have a brand new state of the art facility and home for the children to live in,but that she has met the amazing Surami Family and that the kids whom she thought had lost hope long ago had found a brand new spark of joy and hope in their new personal hero Angel Surami aka the Angel of Mercy. She is equally glad that she finally has a full paid staff to help her with all of the new kids arriving including the equally as loving and motherly Sue Surami and her sister the regionally famous painter Rose Nikos who will be teaching the children art as a coping mechanism.
Speaking of coping mechanisms Haruka has one that she holds above all else which is her three times a day solitary tea breaks where she gets time to reflect and calm herself as well as remember those whom she has lost so she can let some of her grief out as well as reflect on her slowly worsening physical health. Luckily the Surami family has promised her that after three more years of service and Angel Graduates from U.A.,a full pro hero and legally an adult she can officially retire and that they would buy her or have built a nice comfy home to retire too of her very own that would still be near the orphanage and youth center so that she can visit the kids whenever she likes. That is something that Haruka Watanabe after all her years of childcare is looking quite forward to.
HISTORY
Haruka Watanabe was the eldest child of a family of five. Her parents were both successful businessmen and, in unfortunate reality, they spent most of Haruka’s life away from the family. Alas, she could want for nothing but for time with the people that supposedly loved her. For a while she had a nanny, but then she got older, and not ones to waste money on things that they did not ‘need,’ that, too, was eventually taken away from her. By the time her parents had decided to have more children, the girl had already learned to take care of herself.
It had never been her love in life. By the time she was in high school she already had to take care of herself and her siblings. She received nothing but endless praise for a diligence that she never asked to burden, a diligence that her parents themselves never seemed to hold.
Much to the chagrin of many, she never did well in school. Whether it be a simple lack of time to study or unwillingness to perform, she consistently found herself below the average in her class’s marks. She did not care. Even when she failed to pass university entrance exams, she felt more a sense of relief that her parents no longer shoved so many expectations on her.
Against the better wishes of her family, Haruka quickly managed to find work as a contractor, in which she remained for several years before an unfortunate fall would spell the end of her short-lived career. It was lucky for her that she had kept her old friends close. A foot in the door for something else.
Crime scene cleanup was never the most glorious aspiration she ever held, though admittedly those were never many. She thought she had the stomach for it on that fateful day. Murders. Several. The idea of it was mind-boggling, no word could have prepared her for what she witnessed on the site of the Blood Massacre. No one could have. She had, at once, began to doubt the messages of equality she had been taught in her earliest years of schooling, a cruel spiral that would stick to her mind for many years.
The trauma from that day and the requests from her aging parents would lead her to once again departing from her work in order to take care of them. She found irony in the fact that she took more care of them than they ever did of her.
Both of her parents died within a month of each other, leaving Haruka with enough wealth to simply do nothing for a good year or so. Soul-searching, painting, writing. Of course, she was practiced in none of those things, but it gave her time to meet the love of her life. Shu Watanabe was a quiet and reserved man, much like Haruka. They met only by chance at a bar, Haruka there to perhaps drown out the voice in the back of her head telling her she had to make something of herself, Shu merely strung along with his boss and coworkers for a night of celebration until the caught sight of the beautiful redhead across from him whom seemed to be limping whenever she walked to retrieve her drinks. As she walked he couldn’t help but be entranced by her icy blue eyes and flame like hair. She was an absolute vision and piece of living art,and yet she looked so lost and lonely.
Shu quickly excused himself from his boss’s gathering and made his way over to the woman with a shy and nervous smile not only because he thought the woman was beautiful,but because he had mostly kept the fact that he was a quirker a secret his entire life from everyone except his parents and so to use his gift of healing touch in a public setting especially a crowded one filled him with anxiety, As he reached her Shu sat his drink down,bowed to the woman respectfully and told her his name before asking if she would like to sit with him for a moment and talk. Once a few moments of awkward silence passed the two by they both sat down on the bar stools and began to talk. He asked about her interests and the man to Haruka’s surprise seemed hung on her every word instead of just her body. What he asked and offered her next however would flip her entire world and her view of it.
The shy man told her that he was actually a quirker with the ability to heal people’s injuries through touch and that he had noticed her limping. He then offered despite his own fear of being discovered and persecuted to heal her leg for her so that she could walk. This after all of the horrible things she had seen quirkers due with their gifts knocked the air out of her lungs as if she in a world of pressure and coal had somehow found a diamond,and yet she could speak not these words or any words for that matter. Haruka instead gently took the nervous man’s shaking hand and placed it on her leg and as she watched his hand begin to slightly glow green she quickly in a moment of impulse used her napkin to cover it to repay the man. Shu then while looking in her eyes would say the words that would forever completely shatter her quirkist beliefs.
“We’re not all monsters. Just humans trying to coexist just like you.”
As Shu focused his quirk on Haruka’s leg he began to open up to her about himself. He told her that he had been born to a household of quirkers though his parents were of the mutant variety. His father had been born with rubber like skin which allowed him to stretch his limbs to a small degree while his mother had the ability to grow an extra layer of bone outside of her skin like an armadillo though she couldn’t turn it off and so bone shards poked harmlessly from her cheeks,knuckles and forehead.
Shu went on to explain that one night when he was very young,around the age of 7 or so his house was broken into by a group of quirkist thieves who had heard that a couple of mutants lived nearby. Their home was a reasonable two level two bedroom,and it had been late and so Shu had been asleep in his bed when the robbers broke down their door startling him awake. He would quickly run to the stairs to see what made the sound only to see his parents dead on the floor with a bloody crowbar and an emptied blow torch by their bodies. This hadn’t been just a robbery,but a targeted hate crime.
As Shu finished telling this part of his story he went to move his hand away from Haruka’s leg,but quickly found it being taken into her own followed by being pulled into a deep hug. How had Haruka been so wrong for so long? She implored Shu to finish his story where she learned that he remained in a rather run down orphanage for quirkless children as he had chosen to hide his quirk only using it to heal himself when the orphanage bullies would pick and beat on him for being meek and shy. He did tell her however that he wished to one day have enough money to start his own orphanage where quirkers and quirkless could live together and that he longed for a world where a 7 year old boy wouldn’t lose his parents to such brutality just for being different. He longed for a world of not just equality,but true unification.
Haruka’s heart truly moved by the man’s compassion and his story invited him out on date after date until the two truly fell in love for one another and during that time she finally decided to make something of herself so that she could help her love with his dream taking to her carpentry once more to help build or repair homes for those affected by quirker incidents or natural weather events. Before long all those she had helped began to chip in and before they knew it Haruka and Shu had the money to buy a small plot of land where they built not only their new home together as husband and wife,but an orphanage for both quirkers and quirkless children who had lost their families. Sure it wasn’t perfect,but it made them happy!
The pair’s happiness would only grow as Haruka would grow pregnant and give birth to a beautiful baby girl whom they named Hoshiko which meant “Star Girl” because she was the star light of their lives. Haruka’s family would actually go on to live relatively normal lives with normal problems like Hoshiko’s quirk of limb flattening manifesting around the age of 5 which allowed her to slide through doors or cracks as if she were made of paper. It was a nice happy life and Haruka and Shu were content, Shu using his severance from his original job to keep the orphanage floating as well as the odd donations they got trickling in.
As the years passed them by and Haruka,Shu and Hoshiko got older and orphanage kids either adopted or aged out of the system Haruka met a nice quirkless young man by the name of Ida and the two began to date throughout high school and college getting married shortly there after and in that time having two children named Tadano and Natsuko,a boy and a girl respectfully.
Sadly Shu would not live long enough to meet his grandchildren which saddened Haruka,but she found peace in the fact that she saw them in her grandchildren’s eyes. Tadano had been quirkless while his baby sister had been born with a hybrid quirk of allowing herself to puddle her body including her internals. Before the family could discover the harm this was causing however tragedy struck when Hoshiko and her husband were in a fatal car accident leaving their children under their grandmother’s care. As the family grieved, Haruka and Tadano found out what Natsuko’s quirk was doing to her body,as well as the money for the orphanage beginning to run out their silent prayers seemed to be answered as one day the new hero school U.A. High School gifted upon them a literal Angel by the name of Angelica Surami who along with her great physical power had a strong,loving and unyielding heart. Her family not only helped repair,feed and refurnish the orphanage with their wealth and generosity,but adopted two of its own in young Leo Sinclair and Mushiko Kuwagata.
The true miracle this Angel brought to Haruka however was a chance at a fresh start at her late husband’s dream late into her life as she too shared such a view for a better world and unlike Shu and Haruka before her had the means to make it possible. Haruka together with this young angel who had broken herself and her mother free from bondage and her famous Painter Aunt Rose would fund,build and run a New Oasis available not just to quirker and quirkless orphans,but all young people who needed a safe place to go after school to practice their talents or simply do their homework. Haruka though her story long and winding, found herself with the energy to write a brand new chapter and thankfully she wouldn’t have to do it alone like she had feared. The Surami family promised her that not only would she have a full paid staff to help her as well as Sue and Rose themselves, but once Angel was of legal age to take the reins from her they would have a nice home built for her nearby so that she could come and go as she pleased. Sadly right before that dream became a reality fate would have one final twist for the old girl to endure.
It has been three years since New Oasis had been formed by the Surami/Nikos family, and quirkers with similar beliefs came from all over the world to aid the young Angel of Mercy in her mission to build a bridge between the quirkers and the quirkless, and as the young now pro hero promised she had Haruka built a nice home near the Orphanage for her to retire in now that her years of service were now complete. Now she could just sit back and watch as the world she dreamed of became a reality.
It had never been her love in life. By the time she was in high school she already had to take care of herself and her siblings. She received nothing but endless praise for a diligence that she never asked to burden, a diligence that her parents themselves never seemed to hold.
Much to the chagrin of many, she never did well in school. Whether it be a simple lack of time to study or unwillingness to perform, she consistently found herself below the average in her class’s marks. She did not care. Even when she failed to pass university entrance exams, she felt more a sense of relief that her parents no longer shoved so many expectations on her.
Against the better wishes of her family, Haruka quickly managed to find work as a contractor, in which she remained for several years before an unfortunate fall would spell the end of her short-lived career. It was lucky for her that she had kept her old friends close. A foot in the door for something else.
Crime scene cleanup was never the most glorious aspiration she ever held, though admittedly those were never many. She thought she had the stomach for it on that fateful day. Murders. Several. The idea of it was mind-boggling, no word could have prepared her for what she witnessed on the site of the Blood Massacre. No one could have. She had, at once, began to doubt the messages of equality she had been taught in her earliest years of schooling, a cruel spiral that would stick to her mind for many years.
The trauma from that day and the requests from her aging parents would lead her to once again departing from her work in order to take care of them. She found irony in the fact that she took more care of them than they ever did of her.
Both of her parents died within a month of each other, leaving Haruka with enough wealth to simply do nothing for a good year or so. Soul-searching, painting, writing. Of course, she was practiced in none of those things, but it gave her time to meet the love of her life. Shu Watanabe was a quiet and reserved man, much like Haruka. They met only by chance at a bar, Haruka there to perhaps drown out the voice in the back of her head telling her she had to make something of herself, Shu merely strung along with his boss and coworkers for a night of celebration until the caught sight of the beautiful redhead across from him whom seemed to be limping whenever she walked to retrieve her drinks. As she walked he couldn’t help but be entranced by her icy blue eyes and flame like hair. She was an absolute vision and piece of living art,and yet she looked so lost and lonely.
Shu quickly excused himself from his boss’s gathering and made his way over to the woman with a shy and nervous smile not only because he thought the woman was beautiful,but because he had mostly kept the fact that he was a quirker a secret his entire life from everyone except his parents and so to use his gift of healing touch in a public setting especially a crowded one filled him with anxiety, As he reached her Shu sat his drink down,bowed to the woman respectfully and told her his name before asking if she would like to sit with him for a moment and talk. Once a few moments of awkward silence passed the two by they both sat down on the bar stools and began to talk. He asked about her interests and the man to Haruka’s surprise seemed hung on her every word instead of just her body. What he asked and offered her next however would flip her entire world and her view of it.
The shy man told her that he was actually a quirker with the ability to heal people’s injuries through touch and that he had noticed her limping. He then offered despite his own fear of being discovered and persecuted to heal her leg for her so that she could walk. This after all of the horrible things she had seen quirkers due with their gifts knocked the air out of her lungs as if she in a world of pressure and coal had somehow found a diamond,and yet she could speak not these words or any words for that matter. Haruka instead gently took the nervous man’s shaking hand and placed it on her leg and as she watched his hand begin to slightly glow green she quickly in a moment of impulse used her napkin to cover it to repay the man. Shu then while looking in her eyes would say the words that would forever completely shatter her quirkist beliefs.
“We’re not all monsters. Just humans trying to coexist just like you.”
As Shu focused his quirk on Haruka’s leg he began to open up to her about himself. He told her that he had been born to a household of quirkers though his parents were of the mutant variety. His father had been born with rubber like skin which allowed him to stretch his limbs to a small degree while his mother had the ability to grow an extra layer of bone outside of her skin like an armadillo though she couldn’t turn it off and so bone shards poked harmlessly from her cheeks,knuckles and forehead.
Shu went on to explain that one night when he was very young,around the age of 7 or so his house was broken into by a group of quirkist thieves who had heard that a couple of mutants lived nearby. Their home was a reasonable two level two bedroom,and it had been late and so Shu had been asleep in his bed when the robbers broke down their door startling him awake. He would quickly run to the stairs to see what made the sound only to see his parents dead on the floor with a bloody crowbar and an emptied blow torch by their bodies. This hadn’t been just a robbery,but a targeted hate crime.
As Shu finished telling this part of his story he went to move his hand away from Haruka’s leg,but quickly found it being taken into her own followed by being pulled into a deep hug. How had Haruka been so wrong for so long? She implored Shu to finish his story where she learned that he remained in a rather run down orphanage for quirkless children as he had chosen to hide his quirk only using it to heal himself when the orphanage bullies would pick and beat on him for being meek and shy. He did tell her however that he wished to one day have enough money to start his own orphanage where quirkers and quirkless could live together and that he longed for a world where a 7 year old boy wouldn’t lose his parents to such brutality just for being different. He longed for a world of not just equality,but true unification.
Haruka’s heart truly moved by the man’s compassion and his story invited him out on date after date until the two truly fell in love for one another and during that time she finally decided to make something of herself so that she could help her love with his dream taking to her carpentry once more to help build or repair homes for those affected by quirker incidents or natural weather events. Before long all those she had helped began to chip in and before they knew it Haruka and Shu had the money to buy a small plot of land where they built not only their new home together as husband and wife,but an orphanage for both quirkers and quirkless children who had lost their families. Sure it wasn’t perfect,but it made them happy!
The pair’s happiness would only grow as Haruka would grow pregnant and give birth to a beautiful baby girl whom they named Hoshiko which meant “Star Girl” because she was the star light of their lives. Haruka’s family would actually go on to live relatively normal lives with normal problems like Hoshiko’s quirk of limb flattening manifesting around the age of 5 which allowed her to slide through doors or cracks as if she were made of paper. It was a nice happy life and Haruka and Shu were content, Shu using his severance from his original job to keep the orphanage floating as well as the odd donations they got trickling in.
As the years passed them by and Haruka,Shu and Hoshiko got older and orphanage kids either adopted or aged out of the system Haruka met a nice quirkless young man by the name of Ida and the two began to date throughout high school and college getting married shortly there after and in that time having two children named Tadano and Natsuko,a boy and a girl respectfully.
Sadly Shu would not live long enough to meet his grandchildren which saddened Haruka,but she found peace in the fact that she saw them in her grandchildren’s eyes. Tadano had been quirkless while his baby sister had been born with a hybrid quirk of allowing herself to puddle her body including her internals. Before the family could discover the harm this was causing however tragedy struck when Hoshiko and her husband were in a fatal car accident leaving their children under their grandmother’s care. As the family grieved, Haruka and Tadano found out what Natsuko’s quirk was doing to her body,as well as the money for the orphanage beginning to run out their silent prayers seemed to be answered as one day the new hero school U.A. High School gifted upon them a literal Angel by the name of Angelica Surami who along with her great physical power had a strong,loving and unyielding heart. Her family not only helped repair,feed and refurnish the orphanage with their wealth and generosity,but adopted two of its own in young Leo Sinclair and Mushiko Kuwagata.
The true miracle this Angel brought to Haruka however was a chance at a fresh start at her late husband’s dream late into her life as she too shared such a view for a better world and unlike Shu and Haruka before her had the means to make it possible. Haruka together with this young angel who had broken herself and her mother free from bondage and her famous Painter Aunt Rose would fund,build and run a New Oasis available not just to quirker and quirkless orphans,but all young people who needed a safe place to go after school to practice their talents or simply do their homework. Haruka though her story long and winding, found herself with the energy to write a brand new chapter and thankfully she wouldn’t have to do it alone like she had feared. The Surami family promised her that not only would she have a full paid staff to help her as well as Sue and Rose themselves, but once Angel was of legal age to take the reins from her they would have a nice home built for her nearby so that she could come and go as she pleased. Sadly right before that dream became a reality fate would have one final twist for the old girl to endure.
It has been three years since New Oasis had been formed by the Surami/Nikos family, and quirkers with similar beliefs came from all over the world to aid the young Angel of Mercy in her mission to build a bridge between the quirkers and the quirkless, and as the young now pro hero promised she had Haruka built a nice home near the Orphanage for her to retire in now that her years of service were now complete. Now she could just sit back and watch as the world she dreamed of became a reality.
