Post by Hotarubi Deguchi on Apr 29, 2019 23:20:39 GMT -4
Hotarubi Deguchi
BASIC INFORMATION
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias: None, civilian.
Player Name: Aim
Faceclaim/Series: My drawing
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Civilian
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Hair/Style: Mostly white with red stripes and tips. Word is it used to be more red than white, but it looks inverse of that now. The ends curl up in thick tangles, in a way that makes it all look greasy, even when she tends it. The shape is like a thick mop.
Skin/Scars: Very pale. The obvious "scar" is that she is missing her jaw and throat, which were replaced when she was younger by a metal prosthetic, running from just above her collar and around her neck to her lower lip and just under the cheeks.
Eyes: Her eyes are a dull red color, often shaped like happy crescents, with creases underneath from smiling too much. Her lashes are long and she often goes heavy on her make-up. Rather than making her look young, it just makes her look evil.
Notables: Besides the earlier mentioned steel jaw, other aspects lend her an air of villainy: her lanky features, slumped shoulders, slightly ill-fitting suit, the way her tongue is often left hanging out her mouth, the creased eyes, the wide curve of her smile, her way of wringing her hands when she talks... It would be difficult not to mistake her for a villain of some kind when laying eyes upon her. Additionally, as a result of her mutation, her tongue is a peculiar, glowing red and white color. As the light fluctuates wavelength, it can go from white and red striped like a candy-cane to full pink.
Player Name: Aim
Faceclaim/Series: My drawing
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Affiliation: Civilian
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Hair/Style: Mostly white with red stripes and tips. Word is it used to be more red than white, but it looks inverse of that now. The ends curl up in thick tangles, in a way that makes it all look greasy, even when she tends it. The shape is like a thick mop.
Skin/Scars: Very pale. The obvious "scar" is that she is missing her jaw and throat, which were replaced when she was younger by a metal prosthetic, running from just above her collar and around her neck to her lower lip and just under the cheeks.
Eyes: Her eyes are a dull red color, often shaped like happy crescents, with creases underneath from smiling too much. Her lashes are long and she often goes heavy on her make-up. Rather than making her look young, it just makes her look evil.
Notables: Besides the earlier mentioned steel jaw, other aspects lend her an air of villainy: her lanky features, slumped shoulders, slightly ill-fitting suit, the way her tongue is often left hanging out her mouth, the creased eyes, the wide curve of her smile, her way of wringing her hands when she talks... It would be difficult not to mistake her for a villain of some kind when laying eyes upon her. Additionally, as a result of her mutation, her tongue is a peculiar, glowing red and white color. As the light fluctuates wavelength, it can go from white and red striped like a candy-cane to full pink.
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Appearance:
Hotarubi is a tall, stringy woman with pale skin and several unnerving features that make her look more like an undesirable one might avoid by crossing on the other side of the street than a trusted politician. Her hair stands out at a distance, white and bushy, tangled like a mop, with red stripes throughout and massing at the twisted tips. She combs it every morning and it pops back out of place within an hour.
Her face is frequently described as terrifying, with tense eyebrows over smirking, crescent eyes, with beady, faintly red pupils. Her eyes are creased underneath and at the corners, likely because she is always smiling. She wears light makeup around the eyes that doesn't hide the dark bags that have developed from bad sleeping habits. Her face has angular features, with an aquiline nose and sharp cheek-bones. Especially sharp is her jaw, primarily because the lower part of her face, from beneath the cheek bones and lower lip, down to the chin, all the way down to the base of her throat just above the collar bone, has been replaced with a metal prosthesis.
As a result of her quirk, Hotarubi's tongue is red and white striped in an alternating pattern, glowing with an eerie light. The stripes fluctuate in width and frequency as she flexes the muscle of her tongue. If the wavelength contracts to the point that the red and white mix together and become pink, a laser is emitted. Because of her quirk, she has a tendency to let her tongue hang outside of her mouth, sticking out from beneath her upper row of teeth in a frightening expression.
Hotarubi's body is thin and lanky, with her features seeming a little stretched, like her neck and the length of her fingers. Suits don't fit her well, but she tries hard to get them tailored. She dresses in eye-catching colors like red or purple, always with a striped tie, albeit in various colors. Seldom ever is she seen in public out of suit. Despite her thinness, she actually has fine musculature and a decent bust, though all of that is hidden by the suit.
This politician's unfortunate nervous ticks only make her seem more untrustworthy to her constituents. She has a tendency to slouch her shoulders and sneak around with light footsteps. She's always grinning in a frightening manner and rubs her hands together in a way that either seems obsequious or as though she's scheming something.
POSITIVE
✔ Ambitious
✔ Eager to foster peace
✔ Always puts in overtime
✔ Crafty and calculated as a politician
✔ Values health and safety
NEGATIVE
✖ Inflated sense of self-importance
✖ Tends to over promise
✖ Tends to use people
✖ Doesn't take steps to "look the part" of a politician
✖ Has a violent delinquent side that leads to bad press when it slips out...
LIKES
✔ "The Youth" (Children)
✔ Civil service
✔ Titles, awards, and ceremony
✔ Quirks, especially marketable ones
✔ Heroes, UA, and the hero program
✔ Black coffee
✔ Wide open spaces
DISLIKES
✖ Civil unrest
✖ Truancy
✖ Reckless use of quirks
✖ Laziness
✖ Pepper
✖ Any food that is supposed to be enjoyed for its texture
✖ Tight spaces
✖ Her history and any mention of "The Striped Snake"
Personality:
Hotarubi is a model civil servant, in terms of work ethic and outlook. Her zeal for her work colors most aspects of her behavior. Her dream is to gather more and more influence in the Japanese political scene and become a mover and shaker, eventually becoming a member of the Diet council like her father. Her commitment is to aid the betterment of Japanese society by promoting healthy relationships between quirkers and those without quirks. Bubbling under the surface, all of this is guided by something of a paranoia, that without public approval of quirkers and the hero initiative, Japan, if not the world, could end up in a civil war, pitting those with against those without. To avoid this disaster scenario, she is convinced the best option is for quirkers to all live exemplary lives, free from reproach, by serving their communities and abstaining from wanton violence. She is very serious about this conviction and will take every opportunity to further her agenda.
To her credit, she is hard-working, a go-getter, and always on the move. To her detriment, she can be described as calculating and in many ways obsequious, always angling to find the best way that she can serve others, but just as importantly, that others can serve her. For all of her genuine interest in quirks and the betterment of Japan's quirkers, especially mutants, there is also a manipulative element. Knowing that politics is dog-eat-dog, she is always looking for opportunities to further her own brand, spread awareness of her cause, and maneuver quirks into a positive light, even if it requires a little bit of a spin to get there. At the same time, she understands she must avoid anything that would be illegal, both due to her ethical core but also because she can't have anything coming back on her and damaging her cause more than she helped it.
Beyond that, another important part of Hotarubi's life is controlling her quirk. Hotarubi's quirk is particularly inconvenient, requiring her to often "air out" her tongue and make undignified expressions. Worse, if not properly controlled, it can unleash destructive laser-beams. As such, wherever she can, she tries to spend time outdoors and come up with back-up plans in case she accidentally releases a beam. She wants to avoid conflict and using her beam for violent purposes wherever possible, because of how it may blow up on her in the press... and how it blew up on her in the past. She is quick to tell her life story to anyone who wants to hear it, especially to edify "the youth." She is fond of young people in general, especially students in the hero courses at UA.
The hero project is one of her fondest championed causes, providing a sexy, marketable way to show the civil service that quirk users can provide, while also holding tight reins on how they use their abilities. She herself is perhaps not aware of the hypocrisy there: even as she applauds the efforts of the children and the exciting situations for them to exercise their quirks, she campaigns for stronger and stronger regulation on how they are expected to use those quirks.
Hotarubi doesn't get angry often, but when she does, a bit of her old personality comes out: rash and reckless. Few things will cause her to lose her cool in public, however. Her personal life is not a huge factor for her. She lives "modestly", or embarrassingly, some might say. The back of her campaign car is actually where she keeps most of her daily necessities; her apartment is mostly empty. She prefers to wear this as a badge of honor, showing her dedication, rather than something to be pitied.
Because her mutation prevents her from really savoring food, she prefers to eat very simply, more for nutrition (or caffeine) than for taste. There are certain foods she can derive no pleasure from at all, because the hot-space and tickling lasers inside her mouth will destroy it before she has time to taste it. She can enjoy the smell of foods more than the taste of them. She harbors a bit of jealousy regarding people who can enjoy the proper texture of foods as they were intended.
Hotarubi is single, with no family outside of her parents. With her freakish look and her freakish dedication to civil service, it's unlikely she's getting hitched any time soon.
Hotarubi is a tall, stringy woman with pale skin and several unnerving features that make her look more like an undesirable one might avoid by crossing on the other side of the street than a trusted politician. Her hair stands out at a distance, white and bushy, tangled like a mop, with red stripes throughout and massing at the twisted tips. She combs it every morning and it pops back out of place within an hour.
Her face is frequently described as terrifying, with tense eyebrows over smirking, crescent eyes, with beady, faintly red pupils. Her eyes are creased underneath and at the corners, likely because she is always smiling. She wears light makeup around the eyes that doesn't hide the dark bags that have developed from bad sleeping habits. Her face has angular features, with an aquiline nose and sharp cheek-bones. Especially sharp is her jaw, primarily because the lower part of her face, from beneath the cheek bones and lower lip, down to the chin, all the way down to the base of her throat just above the collar bone, has been replaced with a metal prosthesis.
As a result of her quirk, Hotarubi's tongue is red and white striped in an alternating pattern, glowing with an eerie light. The stripes fluctuate in width and frequency as she flexes the muscle of her tongue. If the wavelength contracts to the point that the red and white mix together and become pink, a laser is emitted. Because of her quirk, she has a tendency to let her tongue hang outside of her mouth, sticking out from beneath her upper row of teeth in a frightening expression.
Hotarubi's body is thin and lanky, with her features seeming a little stretched, like her neck and the length of her fingers. Suits don't fit her well, but she tries hard to get them tailored. She dresses in eye-catching colors like red or purple, always with a striped tie, albeit in various colors. Seldom ever is she seen in public out of suit. Despite her thinness, she actually has fine musculature and a decent bust, though all of that is hidden by the suit.
This politician's unfortunate nervous ticks only make her seem more untrustworthy to her constituents. She has a tendency to slouch her shoulders and sneak around with light footsteps. She's always grinning in a frightening manner and rubs her hands together in a way that either seems obsequious or as though she's scheming something.
POSITIVE
✔ Ambitious
✔ Eager to foster peace
✔ Always puts in overtime
✔ Crafty and calculated as a politician
✔ Values health and safety
NEGATIVE
✖ Inflated sense of self-importance
✖ Tends to over promise
✖ Tends to use people
✖ Doesn't take steps to "look the part" of a politician
✖ Has a violent delinquent side that leads to bad press when it slips out...
LIKES
✔ "The Youth" (Children)
✔ Civil service
✔ Titles, awards, and ceremony
✔ Quirks, especially marketable ones
✔ Heroes, UA, and the hero program
✔ Black coffee
✔ Wide open spaces
DISLIKES
✖ Civil unrest
✖ Truancy
✖ Reckless use of quirks
✖ Laziness
✖ Pepper
✖ Any food that is supposed to be enjoyed for its texture
✖ Tight spaces
✖ Her history and any mention of "The Striped Snake"
Personality:
Hotarubi is a model civil servant, in terms of work ethic and outlook. Her zeal for her work colors most aspects of her behavior. Her dream is to gather more and more influence in the Japanese political scene and become a mover and shaker, eventually becoming a member of the Diet council like her father. Her commitment is to aid the betterment of Japanese society by promoting healthy relationships between quirkers and those without quirks. Bubbling under the surface, all of this is guided by something of a paranoia, that without public approval of quirkers and the hero initiative, Japan, if not the world, could end up in a civil war, pitting those with against those without. To avoid this disaster scenario, she is convinced the best option is for quirkers to all live exemplary lives, free from reproach, by serving their communities and abstaining from wanton violence. She is very serious about this conviction and will take every opportunity to further her agenda.
To her credit, she is hard-working, a go-getter, and always on the move. To her detriment, she can be described as calculating and in many ways obsequious, always angling to find the best way that she can serve others, but just as importantly, that others can serve her. For all of her genuine interest in quirks and the betterment of Japan's quirkers, especially mutants, there is also a manipulative element. Knowing that politics is dog-eat-dog, she is always looking for opportunities to further her own brand, spread awareness of her cause, and maneuver quirks into a positive light, even if it requires a little bit of a spin to get there. At the same time, she understands she must avoid anything that would be illegal, both due to her ethical core but also because she can't have anything coming back on her and damaging her cause more than she helped it.
Beyond that, another important part of Hotarubi's life is controlling her quirk. Hotarubi's quirk is particularly inconvenient, requiring her to often "air out" her tongue and make undignified expressions. Worse, if not properly controlled, it can unleash destructive laser-beams. As such, wherever she can, she tries to spend time outdoors and come up with back-up plans in case she accidentally releases a beam. She wants to avoid conflict and using her beam for violent purposes wherever possible, because of how it may blow up on her in the press... and how it blew up on her in the past. She is quick to tell her life story to anyone who wants to hear it, especially to edify "the youth." She is fond of young people in general, especially students in the hero courses at UA.
The hero project is one of her fondest championed causes, providing a sexy, marketable way to show the civil service that quirk users can provide, while also holding tight reins on how they use their abilities. She herself is perhaps not aware of the hypocrisy there: even as she applauds the efforts of the children and the exciting situations for them to exercise their quirks, she campaigns for stronger and stronger regulation on how they are expected to use those quirks.
Hotarubi doesn't get angry often, but when she does, a bit of her old personality comes out: rash and reckless. Few things will cause her to lose her cool in public, however. Her personal life is not a huge factor for her. She lives "modestly", or embarrassingly, some might say. The back of her campaign car is actually where she keeps most of her daily necessities; her apartment is mostly empty. She prefers to wear this as a badge of honor, showing her dedication, rather than something to be pitied.
Because her mutation prevents her from really savoring food, she prefers to eat very simply, more for nutrition (or caffeine) than for taste. There are certain foods she can derive no pleasure from at all, because the hot-space and tickling lasers inside her mouth will destroy it before she has time to taste it. She can enjoy the smell of foods more than the taste of them. She harbors a bit of jealousy regarding people who can enjoy the proper texture of foods as they were intended.
Hotarubi is single, with no family outside of her parents. With her freakish look and her freakish dedication to civil service, it's unlikely she's getting hitched any time soon.
HISTORY
Hotarubi grew up in a dark part of Tokyo as exactly the kind of quirk-using ruffian that she now tries to either lead to the path of civil service or otherwise sweep under the rug. The daughter of a low level politician and stay-at-home mom, the girl showed none of the zeal for exemplary living that she now exhibits. Specifically, as she entered her teenage years, Hotarubi took on the life of a delinquent, disappearing from school to hang out in the alleys, smoke, and get into fights. She wasn't a boxer or a martial artist, but she had two things: a devil-may-care disregard for her own health and a quirk that fires laser beams from her tongue. These factors allowed her to enjoy all of the ass-beatings that she cared to take and dish out as a youngster. She was briefly known as the Striped Snake for her misbehavior and violence, and gained notoriety as someone to avoid.
Things took an unfortunate turn for Hotarubi at the age of 18, though one may argue it set her on the path to a more positive lifestyle. During a particularly nasty fight, Hotarubi flexed her tongue, releasing a pinpoint laser towards her opponent. The opponent dodged and grabbed her throat. Choking was the least of her worries; instead, she lost control of her tongue, releasing a shotgun blast of laser beams from her tongue that hit her foe's eyes, wounding and blinding them. She got it just as bad: with no moderation, the beams cut open her own jaw and tore her throat. Civilians later spotted her bleeding and rushed her to a hospital for treatment.
The loss was an embarrassment and a major inconvenience, leading to surgery, prosthetic implants, and medical expenses, but on the bright side, it opened her eyes to the truth: she was wasting her life. She understood how much she owed to not only her father, but also to the people of Japan; if the common man had regarded her with the same indifference as she did them, she would have died in the streets. With heroes not yet a twinkle in anyone's eye, she could still follow in her father's footsteps and serve the people in another way: as a civil servant and an agent of the government.
With new fervor, Hotarubi dedicated herself to her studies, catching up on the schooling she'd missed and attending government meetings with her father, until she learned the ropes. By the age of twenty-five, she had made civil servant. Since then, she's mostly spun her wheels, working to build up a campaign that can elevate her to some sort of office. The slow progression from government-sponsored quirk-possessing watchdogs to widely known and accepted heroes has been especially exciting for her to watch, and she is eager to gain the influence needed to advance and expand the hero project, both in terms of its scope and also its popularity in the public eye.
If the hero project is something to look forward to for Hotarubi, it has been balanced by an unfortunate serving of curses: the Semper Fi incident, which pit quirk-users against the government, as well as the TV tower incident, which revealed a smoldering disdain for the quirkless in a violent and public way, nearly collaborated to give Hotarubi a series of heart attacks. Since then, she's refocused her campaign around these issues, angling to repair the damage and bring Japan's people together by any means necessary. Her scope expands rapidly: she must plan on using the foundation set by the hero project and make it solid, force Japan's citizens to reckon with villainy and remove all appeal that such actions may carry, and also have quirkers recognize the government as a useful entity that they have the desire to obey.
"The campaign trail" for Hotarubi consists of anywhere she can get a platform, especially places like parks and event venues. She goes from place to place in a white van with a beacon on top that looks a bit like a white and red striped barber pole, with a megaphone attached. Her campaign slogan and website is plastered across the side of the van. Inside the van are all of her living essentials; if her van was ever totaled, she'd lose untold amounts of campaign notes, as well as about half of her worldly possessions.
Things took an unfortunate turn for Hotarubi at the age of 18, though one may argue it set her on the path to a more positive lifestyle. During a particularly nasty fight, Hotarubi flexed her tongue, releasing a pinpoint laser towards her opponent. The opponent dodged and grabbed her throat. Choking was the least of her worries; instead, she lost control of her tongue, releasing a shotgun blast of laser beams from her tongue that hit her foe's eyes, wounding and blinding them. She got it just as bad: with no moderation, the beams cut open her own jaw and tore her throat. Civilians later spotted her bleeding and rushed her to a hospital for treatment.
The loss was an embarrassment and a major inconvenience, leading to surgery, prosthetic implants, and medical expenses, but on the bright side, it opened her eyes to the truth: she was wasting her life. She understood how much she owed to not only her father, but also to the people of Japan; if the common man had regarded her with the same indifference as she did them, she would have died in the streets. With heroes not yet a twinkle in anyone's eye, she could still follow in her father's footsteps and serve the people in another way: as a civil servant and an agent of the government.
With new fervor, Hotarubi dedicated herself to her studies, catching up on the schooling she'd missed and attending government meetings with her father, until she learned the ropes. By the age of twenty-five, she had made civil servant. Since then, she's mostly spun her wheels, working to build up a campaign that can elevate her to some sort of office. The slow progression from government-sponsored quirk-possessing watchdogs to widely known and accepted heroes has been especially exciting for her to watch, and she is eager to gain the influence needed to advance and expand the hero project, both in terms of its scope and also its popularity in the public eye.
If the hero project is something to look forward to for Hotarubi, it has been balanced by an unfortunate serving of curses: the Semper Fi incident, which pit quirk-users against the government, as well as the TV tower incident, which revealed a smoldering disdain for the quirkless in a violent and public way, nearly collaborated to give Hotarubi a series of heart attacks. Since then, she's refocused her campaign around these issues, angling to repair the damage and bring Japan's people together by any means necessary. Her scope expands rapidly: she must plan on using the foundation set by the hero project and make it solid, force Japan's citizens to reckon with villainy and remove all appeal that such actions may carry, and also have quirkers recognize the government as a useful entity that they have the desire to obey.
"The campaign trail" for Hotarubi consists of anywhere she can get a platform, especially places like parks and event venues. She goes from place to place in a white van with a beacon on top that looks a bit like a white and red striped barber pole, with a megaphone attached. Her campaign slogan and website is plastered across the side of the van. Inside the van are all of her living essentials; if her van was ever totaled, she'd lose untold amounts of campaign notes, as well as about half of her worldly possessions.
