Post by Hikari Mkali on Oct 3, 2020 9:26:25 GMT -4
HIKARI MKALI
BASIC INFORMATION
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias: None
Player Name: SG
Faceclaim/Series: Jasiri from The Lion Guard (Anthro)
Age: 15
Gender: Demigirl (She/They)
Affiliation: Civilian
Height: 1.78m (flat-footed) / 1.85m (on toes)
Weight: 91kg
Hair/Style: Black and gray streaked, voluminous and swept back or to one side, medium length
Skin/Scars: Dark pinkish brown, covered by gray fur
Eyes: Blue, bright and round
Notables: An anthropomorphic hyena
Player Name: SG
Faceclaim/Series: Jasiri from The Lion Guard (Anthro)
Age: 15
Gender: Demigirl (She/They)
Affiliation: Civilian
Height: 1.78m (flat-footed) / 1.85m (on toes)
Weight: 91kg
Hair/Style: Black and gray streaked, voluminous and swept back or to one side, medium length
Skin/Scars: Dark pinkish brown, covered by gray fur
Eyes: Blue, bright and round
Notables: An anthropomorphic hyena
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Appearance:
The first thing one notices about Hikari is that she is a hyena, though she doesn't fully resemble any exact species, being closest to a spotted hyena but gray and black instead of tawny. Where some girls get lucky with their cute cat ears and pretty human faces, her full head is that of a hyena, aside from having eyebrows and generally more expressive capability, and she has a medium length tail. She is tall and muscular with defined biceps and abs, and is covered in fur. Even her hands and feet are somewhere between humanoid and paws, with paw pads and claws. Her legs are mostly humanoid, but her feet are also longer than usual, and while she can walk plantigrade, she is more comfortable on her toes, which adds a little to her height. Her most humanoid features, aside from her general body shape and being bipedal, are her medium-sized breasts and her deep blue eyes.
POSITIVE
✔ Optimistic
✔ Friendly
✔ Compassionate
✔ Dedicated
✔ Protective
NEGATIVE
✖ Insecure
✖ Paranoid/anxious
✖ Stubborn
✖ Can be indecisive
✖Can be reckless
✖ Sometimes blunt
LIKES
✔ Dressing up
✔ Compliments
✔ Exercise
✔ Physical Affection
✔ Jokes / bad puns
DISLIKES
✖ Her appearance
✖ Storms
✖ Feeling helpless
✖ Hot weather
✖ Horror movies
Personality:
Hikari may not be the most outgoing person, but she definitely isn't shy either. She is happy to befriend almost anyone as long as they aren't rude or cruel to her or her other friends. She likes looking for the best in situations and people alike, and tries to avoid making assumptions, especially those based on quirks or looks. She knows what it feels like to be seen as a monster, and never wants that for anyone else. Once she's decided someone is part of her "pack", she sticks to them through thick and thin, sometimes whether they like it or not. She is very protective over any perceived threats, which combined with her paranoia can make her a bit meddlesome in her friends' lives at times, but she means well.
When Ari sets her mind on something, there's little changing it. On one hand, this is good for achieving goals, but she can also be needlessly stubborn and have trouble letting go of things when it's really in her best interest to stop. Some part of her is afraid of failure and sees giving up as a form of failing, even though logically she knows better. Anxiety tends to frame things in the worst light though. Knowing she can be like this, there are plenty of times especially under pressure where she can have trouble deciding what she wants to do or whether she should try something, etc. It's not failing if you never started trying, after all, so she'd rather make that choice beforehand, but if she also really wants the end result of trying she can become paralyzed with indecision. In the heat of combat, she tends to alternate between recklessly decisive, especially when more feral (see Quirk), and nervous panic.
Overall, she has a good heart and a strong desire to help and protect people. She's honest, if sometimes to a blunt fault, and loyal to the bitter end.
The first thing one notices about Hikari is that she is a hyena, though she doesn't fully resemble any exact species, being closest to a spotted hyena but gray and black instead of tawny. Where some girls get lucky with their cute cat ears and pretty human faces, her full head is that of a hyena, aside from having eyebrows and generally more expressive capability, and she has a medium length tail. She is tall and muscular with defined biceps and abs, and is covered in fur. Even her hands and feet are somewhere between humanoid and paws, with paw pads and claws. Her legs are mostly humanoid, but her feet are also longer than usual, and while she can walk plantigrade, she is more comfortable on her toes, which adds a little to her height. Her most humanoid features, aside from her general body shape and being bipedal, are her medium-sized breasts and her deep blue eyes.
POSITIVE
✔ Optimistic
✔ Friendly
✔ Compassionate
✔ Dedicated
✔ Protective
NEGATIVE
✖ Insecure
✖ Paranoid/anxious
✖ Stubborn
✖ Can be indecisive
✖Can be reckless
✖ Sometimes blunt
LIKES
✔ Dressing up
✔ Compliments
✔ Exercise
✔ Physical Affection
✔ Jokes / bad puns
DISLIKES
✖ Her appearance
✖ Storms
✖ Feeling helpless
✖ Hot weather
✖ Horror movies
Personality:
Hikari may not be the most outgoing person, but she definitely isn't shy either. She is happy to befriend almost anyone as long as they aren't rude or cruel to her or her other friends. She likes looking for the best in situations and people alike, and tries to avoid making assumptions, especially those based on quirks or looks. She knows what it feels like to be seen as a monster, and never wants that for anyone else. Once she's decided someone is part of her "pack", she sticks to them through thick and thin, sometimes whether they like it or not. She is very protective over any perceived threats, which combined with her paranoia can make her a bit meddlesome in her friends' lives at times, but she means well.
When Ari sets her mind on something, there's little changing it. On one hand, this is good for achieving goals, but she can also be needlessly stubborn and have trouble letting go of things when it's really in her best interest to stop. Some part of her is afraid of failure and sees giving up as a form of failing, even though logically she knows better. Anxiety tends to frame things in the worst light though. Knowing she can be like this, there are plenty of times especially under pressure where she can have trouble deciding what she wants to do or whether she should try something, etc. It's not failing if you never started trying, after all, so she'd rather make that choice beforehand, but if she also really wants the end result of trying she can become paralyzed with indecision. In the heat of combat, she tends to alternate between recklessly decisive, especially when more feral (see Quirk), and nervous panic.
Overall, she has a good heart and a strong desire to help and protect people. She's honest, if sometimes to a blunt fault, and loyal to the bitter end.
HISTORY
Being born in Japan in the age where Quirks were becoming rapidly more common and more acceptable, it might have been possible for Hikari to have a pretty normal upbringing. It might have, except that her quirk was one of the more obvious ones from the very start, and people, especially children, could be cruel. Her parents had mixed feelings about her appearance. Her father, a man from Kenya, saw it as an omen that she would grow up fierce and strong. Her mother, a native to Japan, was less convinced, and while she loved her child in theory she sometimes had trouble hiding her repulsion at the girl's appearance. Ari would take a long time to consciously notice this behavior, but would quickly internalize it.
Once school started, reactions were once again mixed. Some kids were naturally just nice. Others figured Jousuke in Ms Fujiwara's class was blue and had horns, and so-on, so she wasn't the only oddball at least; other kids who themselves had very visual quirks tended to be nicer in general too. Still, there were plenty who either genuinely feared her monstrous appearance or thought it was funny to pick on her and treat her like an animal, offering her bones to chew with a snicker or trying to get her to play fetch or the like as some of the milder examples. It was dehumanizingly embarrassing, and worse when, for instance, she discovered she genuinely had a taste for bones or did like when someone would brush her coat, etc. What if they were right and she was more beast than human?
Still, for all the mockery, she did have friends, and they helped her make it through. But when she was 10, her love for her friends and anger toward her bullies would reveal the real extent of her quirk for the first time. She could handle herself being picked on, but one day a boy was mercilessly teasing a few of her friends for being with her, and made one girl cry. Something snapped in Ari, and she lashed out with a ferocity she didn't know she had. She started to transform a bit, becoming even more monstrous, and ultimately kind of blacking out. When she came to her senses, she'd find she had nearly ripped the boy's arm off and torn his flesh badly mostly with her powerful jaw. He was hospitalized, and Ari, while not criminally charged due to her young age and the clearly accidental nature of the attack, was put under close watch and into counseling.
Over the next few years, incidents where she started to bulk up and lose control became more common, but a mixture of quirk counseling and her own terror when she felt herself start slipping kept her from raging as bad as the first time. In time, she'd gain a bit better control of her more feral shifting as well, though she's still a long long way from having it fully under wraps.
Other kids feared her more than ever after the incident, too, and while the teasing lessened, she found she would have preferred it to fear and avoidance. She maintained a few friends, though. Notable among them was a boy named Casper, who had also hospitalized a bully the first time he truly tapped his quirk. Living in fear of what they could do if they weren't careful was a strong bonding point.
Was it any wonder, then, that when Pro Heroes started to surface, Ari would quickly grow to idolize Redhorn? A hero, no, the number one hero! Who was a lot like her! And just look how well she controlled and wielded that power for the greater good. Ari was starstruck, and resolved she wanted to become a hero too. Even better? Once Redhorn had been number one for a little while and Ari had started learning to control herself, others started considering the parallels too. A few, not a lot, but enough folks to feel nice, began being nicer to her out of interest in her "strong" quirk that vaguely resembled such a popular hero's.
Annnnd then things went to shit again. Early in her last year of middle school, Redhorn had an incident where she completely lost control, leveling a few city blocks. Ari was devastated for multiple reasons. She felt almost betrayed by her hero. She felt bad for her at the same time. But also, every fair weather friend and a few longer term ones immediately turned on her. If even the top hero could lose control like that, what chance did the hyena girl have of ever taming her own quirk? They were probably right, too...
It's been months since then, though, and as much as it hurt her emotionally and socially watching not only the immediate aftermath of Redhorn's blunder but seeing her drop down the hero list later, Hikari does hold onto some kind of hope and even admiration. That Redhorn persevered and continues to serve the public is an inspiration, even if Ari is no longer quite as starstruck as she once was. That Casper maintains his dreams of being a hero helps encourage her too, and she hopes at the beginning of the next school year they can get into Yuuei together.
Once school started, reactions were once again mixed. Some kids were naturally just nice. Others figured Jousuke in Ms Fujiwara's class was blue and had horns, and so-on, so she wasn't the only oddball at least; other kids who themselves had very visual quirks tended to be nicer in general too. Still, there were plenty who either genuinely feared her monstrous appearance or thought it was funny to pick on her and treat her like an animal, offering her bones to chew with a snicker or trying to get her to play fetch or the like as some of the milder examples. It was dehumanizingly embarrassing, and worse when, for instance, she discovered she genuinely had a taste for bones or did like when someone would brush her coat, etc. What if they were right and she was more beast than human?
Still, for all the mockery, she did have friends, and they helped her make it through. But when she was 10, her love for her friends and anger toward her bullies would reveal the real extent of her quirk for the first time. She could handle herself being picked on, but one day a boy was mercilessly teasing a few of her friends for being with her, and made one girl cry. Something snapped in Ari, and she lashed out with a ferocity she didn't know she had. She started to transform a bit, becoming even more monstrous, and ultimately kind of blacking out. When she came to her senses, she'd find she had nearly ripped the boy's arm off and torn his flesh badly mostly with her powerful jaw. He was hospitalized, and Ari, while not criminally charged due to her young age and the clearly accidental nature of the attack, was put under close watch and into counseling.
Over the next few years, incidents where she started to bulk up and lose control became more common, but a mixture of quirk counseling and her own terror when she felt herself start slipping kept her from raging as bad as the first time. In time, she'd gain a bit better control of her more feral shifting as well, though she's still a long long way from having it fully under wraps.
Other kids feared her more than ever after the incident, too, and while the teasing lessened, she found she would have preferred it to fear and avoidance. She maintained a few friends, though. Notable among them was a boy named Casper, who had also hospitalized a bully the first time he truly tapped his quirk. Living in fear of what they could do if they weren't careful was a strong bonding point.
Was it any wonder, then, that when Pro Heroes started to surface, Ari would quickly grow to idolize Redhorn? A hero, no, the number one hero! Who was a lot like her! And just look how well she controlled and wielded that power for the greater good. Ari was starstruck, and resolved she wanted to become a hero too. Even better? Once Redhorn had been number one for a little while and Ari had started learning to control herself, others started considering the parallels too. A few, not a lot, but enough folks to feel nice, began being nicer to her out of interest in her "strong" quirk that vaguely resembled such a popular hero's.
Annnnd then things went to shit again. Early in her last year of middle school, Redhorn had an incident where she completely lost control, leveling a few city blocks. Ari was devastated for multiple reasons. She felt almost betrayed by her hero. She felt bad for her at the same time. But also, every fair weather friend and a few longer term ones immediately turned on her. If even the top hero could lose control like that, what chance did the hyena girl have of ever taming her own quirk? They were probably right, too...
It's been months since then, though, and as much as it hurt her emotionally and socially watching not only the immediate aftermath of Redhorn's blunder but seeing her drop down the hero list later, Hikari does hold onto some kind of hope and even admiration. That Redhorn persevered and continues to serve the public is an inspiration, even if Ari is no longer quite as starstruck as she once was. That Casper maintains his dreams of being a hero helps encourage her too, and she hopes at the beginning of the next school year they can get into Yuuei together.