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Just gonna... close my eyes and pray..../-\

Name: Tatetsu Moriko 盾津守子
nickname(s): Mori, Riko

Age: 15
Birthday: August 13th
Gender: Female

Height: 166 cm | 5’5 (around there?)
Weight: 52 kg
Blood type: O+
Nationality: Japanese

||PERSONALITY||

+ves: Chivalrous || Ambitious || Adventurous || Adaptable || Resourceful
-ves: Stubborn || Unrealistic || Dependant || Arrogant || Grudging
=ves: Dramatic || Enthusiastic || Idealistic || Childish

Inspired by both childhood heroes and initially sugar-coated tales from her mother’s experience, Moriko is a dreamer. Her life’s her stage and she doesn’t need reminders that she stars in her own story. In fact, she embraces it wholly. She’s got every intention to go out into it and grasp her dreams with her own hands no matter how bleak it seems. Moriko’s view of the world’s almost childlike, fostered through a semi-sheltered childhood and her own penchant for seeking the ideal. It keeps her dreams wild and aims her ambitions high, gives her hope and fuels the stubborn child in her to keep pushing through. Impossible isn’t something she accepts without first trying her all to break through, and sometimes, she doesn’t actually know when to give up and listen to reason even if those ideals go as far as unrealistic. This almost absolute confidence stems from her rose tinted outlook on life and feeds into some of her arrogance. She’d rather believe that she can do things on her own, that she’s as capable as she thinks she is.

With her naïve outlook of the world comes a stubborn child that doesn’t want to grow up and keep dreaming. The side that wants to cling tight to believing that things are as black and white as she thinks it seems. Any one person is good in her opinion till proven otherwise. It’s a side of her that strives to keep up a good atmosphere, that’s fun loving and exaggerates lots because it sounds like it makes for a good telling. She pursues thrill and excitement with what’s new as long as her mind deems it good. Yet, despite her inclination for peace, her patience runs short when it comes to her faults. The smallest things can have her grumpy or ill-tempered when it crumbles her expectation, sometimes she even gets spiteful if it stabs her pride too deep. Words may spill harsh and blunt without control but even then, it’s unlike that she’ll find fault in herself for it. She doesn’t forget once she’s been slighted and tends to cut out anyone who leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.

While her childish earnest nature makes her seem like the sort that rushes through things, Moriko actually takes her time with life and thinks things through before executing them. She doesn’t panic easily on abrupt changes, in fact the thrill of the challenge almost always comes welcome since she’s the sort that thinks on her feet. Because of her personal belief that nothing’s impossible, she can stay rather level-headed and resourceful even under some pressure, unhesitant to test anything she can to make things work whether it be regarding others or her environment. If it works, then it works. But while she can hold her own and seem reliable on her passions, she falls short when it comes to the smaller things in life, the day to day buzz; work. Her memory and motivation on things that aren’t in her immediate interest can get quite scattered, with some moments of her having bursts of energy and the next clinging to a poor victim for help. Once she begins to rely actively on an individual, they become her go to for even minor problems. It’s one among many of her deemed faults she wishes to kick aside and hide. Moriko is all too aware of them but tends to either choose to bury hew flaws or try to prove to herself that she can overcome said parts of herself. The thirst to prove her own maturity and growth feeds into her arrogance and believing that she can manage well on her own.

||HISTORY||

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Tl;dr: Child dreams of being a hero after first rescue of a toy but finds out she has a spiteful side which she wants to keep under wraps. Follows the path of a hero because it’s in line with her ideals and as if to show herself that her spite isn’t there. Hello Kyuusai-High.
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Moriko’s the youngest child of small town pro-hero, Momoi Chizuru, and the head of a medium sized guard agency, Tatetsu Shuuichi. With a large portion of her life positively filled with tales of hero grandeur and high self expectation, she’s dreamed of being a hero ever since she could remember… And the dream burns ever so strong since her own quirk discovery.
Many describe her childhood self as a cheerful rowdy young girl; One who doesn’t shy from staring starry eyed and amazed at kindergarten mates when their quirks reveal as she imagines how her own would go. She’s pictured it perfectly in her head many a time, different combinations of her parents quirk that could work hand in hand just like how she’d been told by various of her parents friends. Her father’s quirk, Aegis, would give a reflective edge to her mother’s bubblegum quirk where she could bend and mold bubblegum to her will. Though the two married for love and not quirk matching, many of those around them would envision their children’s quirks for the sake of fun, small, friendly bets. Those “for-fun” guesses would easily rub off Moriko whenever it’d be brought up.
They’d done the very same thing when her older sister, Mamori, had been expecting her quirk at any time, boosted the first child’s sense of self worth up only to have it crash when she finds out later that she’d only gotten a different form of their mothers quirk. While their parents never played favourites, the envy drove a rift between the two siblings, a quiet bitterness in the older sister as she watches Moriko gain the exact same attention from the others around them, watches her get her hopes up the same way. She didn’t hate her, but it rubbed her the wrong way; As if she were looking back at her past. What had initially been a usual sibling relationship turned to openly spouting negatives where Moriko would dream, shoot down hope the moment it rears its head without thinking. In her own way, she didn’t want the younger’s feelings to crash as she had. The petty fights eventually turn to silence. And as Moriko’s ignored by the older, she does so in turn. She doesn’t understand why she’s treated that way till she overhears the adults talking. A discussion on the possibility of jealousy. There’s a small sense of superiority in the young girl’s head, that she’d never stoop as petty as her older sister. Those feelings weren’t “hero-like” and she’s aiming for just that! Their parents may try to help them along but the two refused cooperation. Their sour relationship eventually gets written off as a phase, with hope that it’d grow better with time.

Moriko’s quirk manifests itself when she’s just about three years old. A regular daycare day with some bumps and noise from a hero-villain fight nearby. Between the fight, there’s been some bouts of earthquakes large enough to shake the building. The magnitude causes some bouts of panic, a gathering of kids once it ends but it’s not something the teachers can’t handle. They manage to keep the kids safe as they try to evacuate out, within sight and all accounted for... Save one rascal.
A kid had decided to run back into the class the moment he’d seen an opening in the teachers’ attentions, a quick rescue for his beloved plush that’d accidentally gotten left behind. Moriko’s on it before the teachers get to finish their headcount, stubby legs take her as fast as she can toward the school building with intent to look for the missing child. She’s almost a foot into the building when an arm snags around her waist, pulls her backwards and away as she struggles. She refuses to listen when she’s told to leave it to the teachers, opens mouth wide to try to bite but stops as her eyes catch sight of the kid that’d been missing, toy safely in hand heading right for them. She stops struggling then, gets placed down by the teacher so that he may retrieve the kid and escape quickly. He manages to grab hold of the child, and run back with a quick turn. But the villain fight nearby doesn’t wait. The ground shakes beneath their feet once again, cracked windows cave under pressure as the teacher makes a dive for the exit with boy in arms. In that flash of a moment, with the instability and bump in the teacher’s step, the young boy in his arms accidentally lets go of his beloved plush.
Moriko’s focus zooms in on the plush, the shatter of glass that might possibly impale it and her hand reaches over for it even though she knows she won’t make it in time to save it, feet step forward but stumble with the shake in the ground. It happens on impulse, a thoughtless act to save the object even if it’s not alive and energy crackles through her fingertips. What forms before her eyes can barely be seen, a small round surface just above the plush that has a light sheen to it. Her eyes widen as shattered Glass bounces harmlessly off it, saving the plush, and once the tremors stop, she dares to run just a few steps into the building for it. She’s scolded sorely later once she gets out.
What might’ve been insignificant effort to most was big enough to the young girl that it made her eyes sparkle with pride, filled her with a sense of fulfillment. After she’s quietly thanked by the young boy, there was no stopping her from pursuing that feeling. Even if she’d only inherited her dad’s quirk, the power at her fingertips feels more than enough to help people like she’s always dreamt of!! Her antics begin after, an active self given mission to stop all that’s no good in her eyes!! A goal to grow strong. The young girl would deliberately get into dangerous situations to test her quirk, from climbing and jumping off trees to provoking neighbourhood dogs and pitting friendly quirk vs quirk matches with her friends. She was starved for some visible improvement. While she’d stay away from meddling villain fights on her mom’s advice, it doesn’t stop her from jumping in on smaller fights between those around her age. Especially those that involved bullies.

It’d be a stretch to say that she’d won lots of her early fights. With sticking her nose everywhere, the girl would often get hurt regardless if she’d win or lose. But the moments where her effort actually results in a save feels more than worth it for her to keep at it. Her parents would advise against her actions when they could, chide her when they find her coming home more than a little sore and even try to enforce some measure by picking her straight from school but the young girl stood far too stubborn. At the end of all the squabbles, they compromised. She could defend people, but she can’t hurt them. And they’d teach her how to go about doing that. Her efforts to step in on such fights and hunt bullies calm down by the time she’s in her first year of middle school. From fake calling a teacher to ambushes to hit and run rescues, it’d been enough to keep her out of real trouble yet quell her childhood habits.
With her constant meddling, one particular group of delinquents soon had enough of it. Their efforts go quiet, subtle and away from her eyes; a plan to wipe that smug smile off her face and with some luck, teach her to mind her own damned business. They begin by picking off one of her friends, a quiet girl named Shiori. Shiori had been an initial victim, someone Moriko had constantly stepped up for and believed that she’d permanently driven the bullies off of, a friend she’d hang around with at times during lunch. They weren’t the closest of friends, but they had a share or love for manga. Shiori would indulge Moriko with listening to her hero manga rambles while Mori took some interest in the sports mangas she loved. They were quiet yet excitable exchanges.
The delinquent group would strike after school hours, herd Shiori aside for money, leave threat notes in her locker, stalk and scare her home… It was dreadful but the sole reason she wouldn’t seek help was for her own want to change. She’d listened to Moriko’s hero rambles enough times that it sparked a desire to grow, a need to feel more self worth. But with each of the delinquents advances, the reason slowly turns to fear… She dared not share these problems with Moriko, felt ashamed of herself for not having the courage to. They drift apart slowly, to Moriko’s puzzlement.
When friends drift some ways apart, it’s a little awkward speaking once again, but Moriko grabs at the after-school tea invite from Shiori the moment the girl blurts it out two months later. She’d chalked the hesitance and avoidance of her gaze as a sign of nerves, doesn’t question the weird route cause she doesn’t know where they’re going. It’s in an alleyway when the two come to a stop, where there’s a shuffle of footsteps and a quiet mutter of sorry before Shiori takes off, bitterly grabs a moving bag from the delinquents and escapes on her own. It's an ambush. Moriko couldn’t help the disgust that crawls up her throat then, a seething rage as she spits venom words to air, as she’s closed in on and forced to fend for herself. The following fight’s a workout, a release of blind anger and frustration. While she’d do alright with one or two, she could never match up with a handful of people sporting varying quirks. She’s beaten bloodied and bruised before help arrives in the unexpected form of her older sister.
The next time Moriko meets Shiori, her anger comes back up in its full force, fuelled by the sense of betrayal and the sting in her limbs, she doesn’t think twice before exploding on the other in the middle of the hallway. Insults fly, words expose deed; She doesn’t listen to the attempts to quiet her anger nor Shiori’s half attempts to explain herself, she doesn’t even question her for why she’d done it, she’s all too focused on the implication behind the betrayal, that she’d been betrayed. Her anger roars loud enough for a teacher to step in, when Shiori’s in tears. By the time her anger settles down and she’d reflected on it, the feeling at the back of her throat tastes like bile. She wasn’t wrong. She tells herself that but feels a sore sting with each repeat of the thought.
The rest of her middle school years pass quietly. The incident fades from the minds of many save the main two. Though she doesn’t stop being her meddlesome self, she’d cut Shiori out of her life completely, grimace when she’d pass, glower even after all that time. Keeping with her childhood dream, Moriko aims for Kyuusai Academy.

||ABILITY PROFILE||
Hero name: Sentinel
Quirk name: Aegis

Description:
Moriko’s quirk allows her to gather energy from her surroundings and compress it through her own into a semi translucent reflective surface that acts as a shield against tangible attacks. Any physical force pit against it will be reflected off and away from those standing behind the shield’s range as long as it’s within a manageable magnitude. While Moriko can create surfaces as large or tall as a human person, her smaller shields can absorb more impact and last longer. She can keep them up for an indefinite time until whatever impact on it wears away at the compressed energy put into these shields. Control on the direction which the reflected force is propelled toward relies on Moriko’s own understanding of angles and reflection. The size and shape of her quirk varies depending on her focus and energy level, how she thinks to use it and of the quantity she intends to conjure up. The larger the area protected, the more energy and focus it takes, especially on a mobile target, thus constantly keeping a shield up tends to get more draining. It’s not impossible for her to keep up a shield on a moving target but it takes more mental strength keeping it in shape than if it were mobile. As of recent, she may only form these shields within five feet of herself.

Ref
Applications:
[Bubble Shell]
Moriko forms a semi spherical shield in order to cover against general attacks. She can’t cover a full 360 yet but she can make up for it by conjuring more than one. On the down side, the efficiency of the shields are divided through its numbers else it takes up more energy. Manning more than one also drains at her mental focus. Moriko doesn’t necessarily create a bubble-like structure but may also use panes or plano-convex screens instead. She usually ops to use smaller shields if she can as its more durable and takes up less mental energy to keep up.
[Liftoff!]
Instead of using her quirk to protect against attacks, Moriko can create flattened surfaces to act as platforms and propel herself(or others) in any direction momentarily to boost mobility. A jump upon these surfaces creates an impact that’ll boost the range of their reach as the impact on the surface is projected back to its source. It's easier for her to create multiple surfaces and emulate walking(or jumping) upon air as each platform requires less energy than it would to shield from an attack.
[Phantom Jab]
She creates two mini shields upon her fists to act as protective boxing gloves for close combat. Punches dealt through this have double the weight of her original punch as any impact sent toward the gauntlets from contact gets sent again to the target like a second hit. As it still takes her some concentration to keep them following her fist, she doesn’t use this skill as often and would rather save it for a last resort. Sometimes, she just ends up using a big shield like a battering ram.

Drawbacks:
While Moriko can shield from impact and redirect it, her quirk lacks its own offensive power as it’s heavily reliant on Moriko’s own strength or the opponent’s attack strength. While predicting where attacks are redirected based on angles works easy theoretically, it’s harder to perform as well in the field during rush moments. During the rebound, the energy reflected back at opponents may not necessarily a 100% copy of what’s been directed at the shield as some power gets lost along with the shield’s integrity. The impact redirection of her quirk does not function against quirks that do not carry magnitude, while it may still act as a shield, Moriko has to rely on weapons or other heroes to take offence. [e.g. if someone uses an ice quirk it doesn't deflect the ice back but the impact of the ice hitting the 'shield' will shatter the ice since it's rebounded back. But if one uses a fire quirk, it will only cover from fire damage unless there’s some explosive power. Her quirk does not redirect quirks.]
Her quirk’s also ineffective against quirks that aren’t tangible or physical. It leaves Moriko vulnerable to quirks that involve manipulation of thought, body, memories, warp, etc.
Keeping focus on holding her quirk up uses up her own energy and needs a ton of her mental focus to keep it together. Once her focus on them gets broken or diverted, they’re easy to break through and shatter. If Moriko uses her quirk too often or creates too larger of a barrier, it’s easy for her to fall into a dazed state from feeling too brain drained or faint from fatigue. She takes from a few hours to half a day to recover from that fatigued state and usually chugs energy drinks once she wakes.

class: Tank - Support

Strengths:
- Imagination:
There’s no end to what’s possibly in Moriko’s mind and she’s not afraid to explore where others haven’t tried. She’s a quick thinker and doesn’t condone herself to her quirk, that leaves her options wide open to what she could do to fix problems or deal with situations. On the down side… Sometimes her plans can get a bit too unrealistic.
- Close Combat:
Having aspired to be a hero since she’s known her quirk( and even before it), Moriko has trained in aikido and boxing for a long time in preparation. She uses it to make up for her quirk’s defensive nature but also to work with it.

- Defense:
Its her best quality quirk wise and combat wise since she’s been training in it forever. (A short forever)
- Multi-tasking:
As much as her attention may scatter in daily life, she can keep a number of things in mind without falling apart as long as she isn’t using her quirk in some large way. She’s grown to rely less solely on her quirk and keep her environment and other things in mind, even in the heat of the fight.

Weaknesses:
-Ranged attacks:
Due to the nature of her quirk, Moriko can’t deal well with long ranged attacks. While she can protect against them, it’s hard for her to attack in turn. If the opponent manages to keep up a long distance between them, she’ll be at lost for ways to attack and will probably retreat.
- Non tangible attacks. AOE. BIG attacks:
Moriko can’t defend against attacks that boast massive power or affect an entire area, doing so drains her energy pool far too quickly so she’d rather avoid such fights alone if she can. She’ll defend against heavy brute force if there’s no choice but it’s far smarter for her to escape.
- Offensive power:
As much as she trains herself, she knows there are many others more suited for an offensive role so she doesn’t work on her strength as much. She’d rather spend her time working on her quirk or techniques. The offensive power of her quirk’s also far too reliant on the nature of her opponent’s.
- Easily Influenced by the flow of battle:
Often, Moriko finds herself swayed by the mood of the moment and it’s easy for enemies to take advantage of her moods. It’s not hard to fire her up and this usually makes trouble for those around her when she acts on her own accord.

Stats:
Power: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○○ [3]
Speed: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○○ [3]
Defense: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓 [5]
Technique: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○ [4]
Intelligence: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○○ [3]
Cooperativeness: ●󠄓●󠄓○○○ [2]
Total: 20

||TRIVIA||

Likes:
- Colours. Collecting small things.
- Bubblegum
- Spicy food.
- Praises
- Cats
- Stories of adventure and friendship; of chivalry and fantasy.
- Pool/Billiards

Dislikes:
- Being treated like a child
- Having her flaws pointed out
- Roaches
- Feeling Useless
- Stagnation
- Losing
- Bad Ends

Fun facts:
- ENFJ-T

- Loves colours. She has a whole collection of colourful trinkets in her room that range from scrunchies, nail polish, accessories, pens, highlighters, papers, etc.
- She has an array of different flavoured bubble gums in her pocket. Many of them. She’ll offer one to friends or anyone around who seems sleepy.
- Plays the acoustic guitar p well. Sings average.
- 6 piercings. She got them cause she thought they were cool;;
- Enjoys pop, techno, rock. And occasionally R&B
- Demi-sexual. Doesn’t really understand this stuff. Romance looks sweet but she’d rather a heart pounding adventure!! That’d be a good date.
- Actually does read books(and manga) in her spare time. Some are romance, some are thriller. Mostly fiction but some biographies.
- A horrible artist. But it’s fun so she doesn’t mind. She doodles whatever she feels like and no one can stop her
- She can cook u a salad.//NO but for real she can make only a certain few things. Her specialty’s Omelettes.

- She carries a collapsible Bo staff around as a weapon for heroing. It's something she's working on but hasn't mastered.
- Actually a brunette. Her sister has natural pink hair so Moriko dyed it before school. She actually does admire her sister quietly despite their shaky relationship.

- She picked up billiards because of a comment her father’s colleague made when comparing her roundish shields to them. There’s a table in the building where her father works.
- 盾津守子 || 盾 - Tate, shield. 津 - Tsu, harbour, 守 - Mori, protect. 子 - Ko, child

Relationships: [WIP]
Family
Momoi Chizuru || Mother || 46 || Retired Hero now Journalist || Moriko used to admire her mom greatly. Still does but it’s toned down in recent years once she’s heard her mom’s heroing stories enough times.
Tatetsu Shuuichi || Father || 50 || Professional Trainer || Her goof of a dad and mentor.
Tatetsu Mamori || Sister || 20 || University student, Material Engineering Major || Since her quirk discovery, their relationship’s been lukewarm at best. While they don’t speak often, Moriko has a quiet respect for her sister’s abilities.

Rp info

Timezone: +8 GMT
Rp style: Lit. Short lit. HCs... Depending on content.
Platform: Discord | Skype | Gdocs

Description

Just gonna... close my eyes and pray..../-\

Name: Tatetsu Moriko 盾津守子
nickname(s): Mori, Riko

Age: 15
Birthday: August 13th
Gender: Female

Height: 166 cm | 5’5 (around there?)
Weight: 52 kg
Blood type: O+
Nationality: Japanese

||PERSONALITY||

+ves: Chivalrous || Ambitious || Adventurous || Adaptable || Resourceful
-ves: Stubborn || Unrealistic || Dependant || Arrogant || Grudging
=ves: Dramatic || Enthusiastic || Idealistic || Childish

Inspired by both childhood heroes and initially sugar-coated tales from her mother’s experience, Moriko is a dreamer. Her life’s her stage and she doesn’t need reminders that she stars in her own story. In fact, she embraces it wholly. She’s got every intention to go out into it and grasp her dreams with her own hands no matter how bleak it seems. Moriko’s view of the world’s almost childlike, fostered through a semi-sheltered childhood and her own penchant for seeking the ideal. It keeps her dreams wild and aims her ambitions high, gives her hope and fuels the stubborn child in her to keep pushing through. Impossible isn’t something she accepts without first trying her all to break through, and sometimes, she doesn’t actually know when to give up and listen to reason even if those ideals go as far as unrealistic. This almost absolute confidence stems from her rose tinted outlook on life and feeds into some of her arrogance. She’d rather believe that she can do things on her own, that she’s as capable as she thinks she is.

With her naïve outlook of the world comes a stubborn child that doesn’t want to grow up and keep dreaming. The side that wants to cling tight to believing that things are as black and white as she thinks it seems. Any one person is good in her opinion till proven otherwise. It’s a side of her that strives to keep up a good atmosphere, that’s fun loving and exaggerates lots because it sounds like it makes for a good telling. She pursues thrill and excitement with what’s new as long as her mind deems it good. Yet, despite her inclination for peace, her patience runs short when it comes to her faults. The smallest things can have her grumpy or ill-tempered when it crumbles her expectation, sometimes she even gets spiteful if it stabs her pride too deep. Words may spill harsh and blunt without control but even then, it’s unlike that she’ll find fault in herself for it. She doesn’t forget once she’s been slighted and tends to cut out anyone who leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.

While her childish earnest nature makes her seem like the sort that rushes through things, Moriko actually takes her time with life and thinks things through before executing them. She doesn’t panic easily on abrupt changes, in fact the thrill of the challenge almost always comes welcome since she’s the sort that thinks on her feet. Because of her personal belief that nothing’s impossible, she can stay rather level-headed and resourceful even under some pressure, unhesitant to test anything she can to make things work whether it be regarding others or her environment. If it works, then it works. But while she can hold her own and seem reliable on her passions, she falls short when it comes to the smaller things in life, the day to day buzz; work. Her memory and motivation on things that aren’t in her immediate interest can get quite scattered, with some moments of her having bursts of energy and the next clinging to a poor victim for help. Once she begins to rely actively on an individual, they become her go to for even minor problems. It’s one among many of her deemed faults she wishes to kick aside and hide. Moriko is all too aware of them but tends to either choose to bury hew flaws or try to prove to herself that she can overcome said parts of herself. The thirst to prove her own maturity and growth feeds into her arrogance and believing that she can manage well on her own.

||HISTORY||

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Tl;dr: Child dreams of being a hero after first rescue of a toy but finds out she has a spiteful side which she wants to keep under wraps. Follows the path of a hero because it’s in line with her ideals and as if to show herself that her spite isn’t there. Hello Kyuusai-High.
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Moriko’s the youngest child of small town pro-hero, Momoi Chizuru, and the head of a medium sized guard agency, Tatetsu Shuuichi. With a large portion of her life positively filled with tales of hero grandeur and high self expectation, she’s dreamed of being a hero ever since she could remember… And the dream burns ever so strong since her own quirk discovery.
Many describe her childhood self as a cheerful rowdy young girl; One who doesn’t shy from staring starry eyed and amazed at kindergarten mates when their quirks reveal as she imagines how her own would go. She’s pictured it perfectly in her head many a time, different combinations of her parents quirk that could work hand in hand just like how she’d been told by various of her parents friends. Her father’s quirk, Aegis, would give a reflective edge to her mother’s bubblegum quirk where she could bend and mold bubblegum to her will. Though the two married for love and not quirk matching, many of those around them would envision their children’s quirks for the sake of fun, small, friendly bets. Those “for-fun” guesses would easily rub off Moriko whenever it’d be brought up.
They’d done the very same thing when her older sister, Mamori, had been expecting her quirk at any time, boosted the first child’s sense of self worth up only to have it crash when she finds out later that she’d only gotten a different form of their mothers quirk. While their parents never played favourites, the envy drove a rift between the two siblings, a quiet bitterness in the older sister as she watches Moriko gain the exact same attention from the others around them, watches her get her hopes up the same way. She didn’t hate her, but it rubbed her the wrong way; As if she were looking back at her past. What had initially been a usual sibling relationship turned to openly spouting negatives where Moriko would dream, shoot down hope the moment it rears its head without thinking. In her own way, she didn’t want the younger’s feelings to crash as she had. The petty fights eventually turn to silence. And as Moriko’s ignored by the older, she does so in turn. She doesn’t understand why she’s treated that way till she overhears the adults talking. A discussion on the possibility of jealousy. There’s a small sense of superiority in the young girl’s head, that she’d never stoop as petty as her older sister. Those feelings weren’t “hero-like” and she’s aiming for just that! Their parents may try to help them along but the two refused cooperation. Their sour relationship eventually gets written off as a phase, with hope that it’d grow better with time.

Moriko’s quirk manifests itself when she’s just about three years old. A regular daycare day with some bumps and noise from a hero-villain fight nearby. Between the fight, there’s been some bouts of earthquakes large enough to shake the building. The magnitude causes some bouts of panic, a gathering of kids once it ends but it’s not something the teachers can’t handle. They manage to keep the kids safe as they try to evacuate out, within sight and all accounted for... Save one rascal.
A kid had decided to run back into the class the moment he’d seen an opening in the teachers’ attentions, a quick rescue for his beloved plush that’d accidentally gotten left behind. Moriko’s on it before the teachers get to finish their headcount, stubby legs take her as fast as she can toward the school building with intent to look for the missing child. She’s almost a foot into the building when an arm snags around her waist, pulls her backwards and away as she struggles. She refuses to listen when she’s told to leave it to the teachers, opens mouth wide to try to bite but stops as her eyes catch sight of the kid that’d been missing, toy safely in hand heading right for them. She stops struggling then, gets placed down by the teacher so that he may retrieve the kid and escape quickly. He manages to grab hold of the child, and run back with a quick turn. But the villain fight nearby doesn’t wait. The ground shakes beneath their feet once again, cracked windows cave under pressure as the teacher makes a dive for the exit with boy in arms. In that flash of a moment, with the instability and bump in the teacher’s step, the young boy in his arms accidentally lets go of his beloved plush.
Moriko’s focus zooms in on the plush, the shatter of glass that might possibly impale it and her hand reaches over for it even though she knows she won’t make it in time to save it, feet step forward but stumble with the shake in the ground. It happens on impulse, a thoughtless act to save the object even if it’s not alive and energy crackles through her fingertips. What forms before her eyes can barely be seen, a small round surface just above the plush that has a light sheen to it. Her eyes widen as shattered Glass bounces harmlessly off it, saving the plush, and once the tremors stop, she dares to run just a few steps into the building for it. She’s scolded sorely later once she gets out.
What might’ve been insignificant effort to most was big enough to the young girl that it made her eyes sparkle with pride, filled her with a sense of fulfillment. After she’s quietly thanked by the young boy, there was no stopping her from pursuing that feeling. Even if she’d only inherited her dad’s quirk, the power at her fingertips feels more than enough to help people like she’s always dreamt of!! Her antics begin after, an active self given mission to stop all that’s no good in her eyes!! A goal to grow strong. The young girl would deliberately get into dangerous situations to test her quirk, from climbing and jumping off trees to provoking neighbourhood dogs and pitting friendly quirk vs quirk matches with her friends. She was starved for some visible improvement. While she’d stay away from meddling villain fights on her mom’s advice, it doesn’t stop her from jumping in on smaller fights between those around her age. Especially those that involved bullies.

It’d be a stretch to say that she’d won lots of her early fights. With sticking her nose everywhere, the girl would often get hurt regardless if she’d win or lose. But the moments where her effort actually results in a save feels more than worth it for her to keep at it. Her parents would advise against her actions when they could, chide her when they find her coming home more than a little sore and even try to enforce some measure by picking her straight from school but the young girl stood far too stubborn. At the end of all the squabbles, they compromised. She could defend people, but she can’t hurt them. And they’d teach her how to go about doing that. Her efforts to step in on such fights and hunt bullies calm down by the time she’s in her first year of middle school. From fake calling a teacher to ambushes to hit and run rescues, it’d been enough to keep her out of real trouble yet quell her childhood habits.
With her constant meddling, one particular group of delinquents soon had enough of it. Their efforts go quiet, subtle and away from her eyes; a plan to wipe that smug smile off her face and with some luck, teach her to mind her own damned business. They begin by picking off one of her friends, a quiet girl named Shiori. Shiori had been an initial victim, someone Moriko had constantly stepped up for and believed that she’d permanently driven the bullies off of, a friend she’d hang around with at times during lunch. They weren’t the closest of friends, but they had a share or love for manga. Shiori would indulge Moriko with listening to her hero manga rambles while Mori took some interest in the sports mangas she loved. They were quiet yet excitable exchanges.
The delinquent group would strike after school hours, herd Shiori aside for money, leave threat notes in her locker, stalk and scare her home… It was dreadful but the sole reason she wouldn’t seek help was for her own want to change. She’d listened to Moriko’s hero rambles enough times that it sparked a desire to grow, a need to feel more self worth. But with each of the delinquents advances, the reason slowly turns to fear… She dared not share these problems with Moriko, felt ashamed of herself for not having the courage to. They drift apart slowly, to Moriko’s puzzlement.
When friends drift some ways apart, it’s a little awkward speaking once again, but Moriko grabs at the after-school tea invite from Shiori the moment the girl blurts it out two months later. She’d chalked the hesitance and avoidance of her gaze as a sign of nerves, doesn’t question the weird route cause she doesn’t know where they’re going. It’s in an alleyway when the two come to a stop, where there’s a shuffle of footsteps and a quiet mutter of sorry before Shiori takes off, bitterly grabs a moving bag from the delinquents and escapes on her own. It's an ambush. Moriko couldn’t help the disgust that crawls up her throat then, a seething rage as she spits venom words to air, as she’s closed in on and forced to fend for herself. The following fight’s a workout, a release of blind anger and frustration. While she’d do alright with one or two, she could never match up with a handful of people sporting varying quirks. She’s beaten bloodied and bruised before help arrives in the unexpected form of her older sister.
The next time Moriko meets Shiori, her anger comes back up in its full force, fuelled by the sense of betrayal and the sting in her limbs, she doesn’t think twice before exploding on the other in the middle of the hallway. Insults fly, words expose deed; She doesn’t listen to the attempts to quiet her anger nor Shiori’s half attempts to explain herself, she doesn’t even question her for why she’d done it, she’s all too focused on the implication behind the betrayal, that she’d been betrayed. Her anger roars loud enough for a teacher to step in, when Shiori’s in tears. By the time her anger settles down and she’d reflected on it, the feeling at the back of her throat tastes like bile. She wasn’t wrong. She tells herself that but feels a sore sting with each repeat of the thought.
The rest of her middle school years pass quietly. The incident fades from the minds of many save the main two. Though she doesn’t stop being her meddlesome self, she’d cut Shiori out of her life completely, grimace when she’d pass, glower even after all that time. Keeping with her childhood dream, Moriko aims for Kyuusai Academy.

||ABILITY PROFILE||
Hero name: Sentinel
Quirk name: Aegis

Description:
Moriko’s quirk allows her to gather energy from her surroundings and compress it through her own into a semi translucent reflective surface that acts as a shield against tangible attacks. Any physical force pit against it will be reflected off and away from those standing behind the shield’s range as long as it’s within a manageable magnitude. While Moriko can create surfaces as large or tall as a human person, her smaller shields can absorb more impact and last longer. She can keep them up for an indefinite time until whatever impact on it wears away at the compressed energy put into these shields. Control on the direction which the reflected force is propelled toward relies on Moriko’s own understanding of angles and reflection. The size and shape of her quirk varies depending on her focus and energy level, how she thinks to use it and of the quantity she intends to conjure up. The larger the area protected, the more energy and focus it takes, especially on a mobile target, thus constantly keeping a shield up tends to get more draining. It’s not impossible for her to keep up a shield on a moving target but it takes more mental strength keeping it in shape than if it were mobile. As of recent, she may only form these shields within five feet of herself.

Ref
Applications:
[Bubble Shell]
Moriko forms a semi spherical shield in order to cover against general attacks. She can’t cover a full 360 yet but she can make up for it by conjuring more than one. On the down side, the efficiency of the shields are divided through its numbers else it takes up more energy. Manning more than one also drains at her mental focus. Moriko doesn’t necessarily create a bubble-like structure but may also use panes or plano-convex screens instead. She usually ops to use smaller shields if she can as its more durable and takes up less mental energy to keep up.
[Liftoff!]
Instead of using her quirk to protect against attacks, Moriko can create flattened surfaces to act as platforms and propel herself(or others) in any direction momentarily to boost mobility. A jump upon these surfaces creates an impact that’ll boost the range of their reach as the impact on the surface is projected back to its source. It's easier for her to create multiple surfaces and emulate walking(or jumping) upon air as each platform requires less energy than it would to shield from an attack.
[Phantom Jab]
She creates two mini shields upon her fists to act as protective boxing gloves for close combat. Punches dealt through this have double the weight of her original punch as any impact sent toward the gauntlets from contact gets sent again to the target like a second hit. As it still takes her some concentration to keep them following her fist, she doesn’t use this skill as often and would rather save it for a last resort. Sometimes, she just ends up using a big shield like a battering ram.

Drawbacks:
While Moriko can shield from impact and redirect it, her quirk lacks its own offensive power as it’s heavily reliant on Moriko’s own strength or the opponent’s attack strength. While predicting where attacks are redirected based on angles works easy theoretically, it’s harder to perform as well in the field during rush moments. During the rebound, the energy reflected back at opponents may not necessarily a 100% copy of what’s been directed at the shield as some power gets lost along with the shield’s integrity. The impact redirection of her quirk does not function against quirks that do not carry magnitude, while it may still act as a shield, Moriko has to rely on weapons or other heroes to take offence. [e.g. if someone uses an ice quirk it doesn't deflect the ice back but the impact of the ice hitting the 'shield' will shatter the ice since it's rebounded back. But if one uses a fire quirk, it will only cover from fire damage unless there’s some explosive power. Her quirk does not redirect quirks.]
Her quirk’s also ineffective against quirks that aren’t tangible or physical. It leaves Moriko vulnerable to quirks that involve manipulation of thought, body, memories, warp, etc.
Keeping focus on holding her quirk up uses up her own energy and needs a ton of her mental focus to keep it together. Once her focus on them gets broken or diverted, they’re easy to break through and shatter. If Moriko uses her quirk too often or creates too larger of a barrier, it’s easy for her to fall into a dazed state from feeling too brain drained or faint from fatigue. She takes from a few hours to half a day to recover from that fatigued state and usually chugs energy drinks once she wakes.

class: Tank - Support

Strengths:
- Imagination:
There’s no end to what’s possibly in Moriko’s mind and she’s not afraid to explore where others haven’t tried. She’s a quick thinker and doesn’t condone herself to her quirk, that leaves her options wide open to what she could do to fix problems or deal with situations. On the down side… Sometimes her plans can get a bit too unrealistic.
- Close Combat:
Having aspired to be a hero since she’s known her quirk( and even before it), Moriko has trained in aikido and boxing for a long time in preparation. She uses it to make up for her quirk’s defensive nature but also to work with it.

- Defense:
Its her best quality quirk wise and combat wise since she’s been training in it forever. (A short forever)
- Multi-tasking:
As much as her attention may scatter in daily life, she can keep a number of things in mind without falling apart as long as she isn’t using her quirk in some large way. She’s grown to rely less solely on her quirk and keep her environment and other things in mind, even in the heat of the fight.

Weaknesses:
-Ranged attacks:
Due to the nature of her quirk, Moriko can’t deal well with long ranged attacks. While she can protect against them, it’s hard for her to attack in turn. If the opponent manages to keep up a long distance between them, she’ll be at lost for ways to attack and will probably retreat.
- Non tangible attacks. AOE. BIG attacks:
Moriko can’t defend against attacks that boast massive power or affect an entire area, doing so drains her energy pool far too quickly so she’d rather avoid such fights alone if she can. She’ll defend against heavy brute force if there’s no choice but it’s far smarter for her to escape.
- Offensive power:
As much as she trains herself, she knows there are many others more suited for an offensive role so she doesn’t work on her strength as much. She’d rather spend her time working on her quirk or techniques. The offensive power of her quirk’s also far too reliant on the nature of her opponent’s.
- Easily Influenced by the flow of battle:
Often, Moriko finds herself swayed by the mood of the moment and it’s easy for enemies to take advantage of her moods. It’s not hard to fire her up and this usually makes trouble for those around her when she acts on her own accord.

Stats:
Power: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○○ [3]
Speed: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○○ [3]
Defense: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓 [5]
Technique: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○ [4]
Intelligence: ●󠄓●󠄓●󠄓○○ [3]
Cooperativeness: ●󠄓●󠄓○○○ [2]
Total: 20

||TRIVIA||

Likes:
- Colours. Collecting small things.
- Bubblegum
- Spicy food.
- Praises
- Cats
- Stories of adventure and friendship; of chivalry and fantasy.
- Pool/Billiards

Dislikes:
- Being treated like a child
- Having her flaws pointed out
- Roaches
- Feeling Useless
- Stagnation
- Losing
- Bad Ends

Fun facts:
- ENFJ-T

- Loves colours. She has a whole collection of colourful trinkets in her room that range from scrunchies, nail polish, accessories, pens, highlighters, papers, etc.
- She has an array of different flavoured bubble gums in her pocket. Many of them. She’ll offer one to friends or anyone around who seems sleepy.
- Plays the acoustic guitar p well. Sings average.
- 6 piercings. She got them cause she thought they were cool;;
- Enjoys pop, techno, rock. And occasionally R&B
- Demi-sexual. Doesn’t really understand this stuff. Romance looks sweet but she’d rather a heart pounding adventure!! That’d be a good date.
- Actually does read books(and manga) in her spare time. Some are romance, some are thriller. Mostly fiction but some biographies.
- A horrible artist. But it’s fun so she doesn’t mind. She doodles whatever she feels like and no one can stop her
- She can cook u a salad.//NO but for real she can make only a certain few things. Her specialty’s Omelettes.

- She carries a collapsible Bo staff around as a weapon for heroing. It's something she's working on but hasn't mastered.
- Actually a brunette. Her sister has natural pink hair so Moriko dyed it before school. She actually does admire her sister quietly despite their shaky relationship.

- She picked up billiards because of a comment her father’s colleague made when comparing her roundish shields to them. There’s a table in the building where her father works.
- 盾津守子 || 盾 - Tate, shield. 津 - Tsu, harbour, 守 - Mori, protect. 子 - Ko, child

Relationships: [WIP]
Family
Momoi Chizuru || Mother || 46 || Retired Hero now Journalist || Moriko used to admire her mom greatly. Still does but it’s toned down in recent years once she’s heard her mom’s heroing stories enough times.
Tatetsu Shuuichi || Father || 50 || Professional Trainer || Her goof of a dad and mentor.
Tatetsu Mamori || Sister || 20 || University student, Material Engineering Major || Since her quirk discovery, their relationship’s been lukewarm at best. While they don’t speak often, Moriko has a quiet respect for her sister’s abilities.

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