Individual-Character's full name: Shinbo Kokoro (westernized: Kokoro Shinbo “Koko or Koko-chan,” )
-Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: Safeguard
-Gender: Female
- Age: 15
-Birthday: December 22
-Nationality/ Ethnicity: Japanese
-Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Kyoto, Japan
-Appearance:
-Hair colour and style: Her natural hair is dark brown, reaches down to her mid back. However she prefers to keep it dyed blonde.
-Eyes: dark brown
-Height: 4’9
-Build: lean, athletic build sculpted through regular exercise (106 lbs)
-Visible mutation: None
-Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: 2 piercing on her ears.
-Other features: Nope.
-Everyday clothing style:
Kokoro doesn’t have one set style because she loves to mix it up bit. Monday she may go for a prep look. Tuesday-sporty, Wednesday-gothic Lolita, Thursday-punk, Friday-retro, and ect.
A casual outfit would consist of a black sports top with a white outline. She wears a red sweater on top that exposes her stomach, with a white large stripe on each sleeve, outlined in black. For her bottoms, she wears white jogging pants with black stripes going down the sides of her pants and pink, white, black and red sneakers. She wears black and white fingerless gloves with a pink symbol in the middle topped of with pink hair bands and bracelets.
She will also wear a school uniform that consists of a green and white checkered skirt with brown shoes and white long socks. For her top, she wears a white shirt with a white collar which has one green stripe on each side of the collar. On top, she wears a black vest. Her white collar is connected to a blue ribbon which hangs out on top of the black vest.
-Uniform:
This. Black leather sports top, longer than the one shown in the pic that stops right above her navel and pants with matching gloves and boots. She also wears a yellow leather jacket and knee pads. A yellow belt around her waist with the X logo and a pair of yellow shades just for the cool factor.
-Sleepwear: a tank top and underwear or a night shirt.
-Miscellaneous clothing: Dresses, shoes, hats, jackets, hoodies, gowns, swimsuits, her sailor fuku, her costumes for cosplay ect. She has a full closet ranging from an elegant ball gown to a Kunoichi outfit.
Character: -Personality:
Kokoro is a restless teenage girl that is always on the look out for some action or a good brawl to prove her skills and feed her ego with victories. She loves to fight, but Koko isn’t always out to open a can of whoop ass. She’s actually well meaning, determined and cares a lot for friends and family. She generally tends to follow her heart more than her mind, which unfortunately for her doesn’t gain the praise and acceptance she wants from her parents because what they want for their daughter is something completely different than what she wants. Her parents would like Kokoro to follow the tradition of being a bride to some guy with a nice job so she can be well taken care of. You know, the standard cooking, cleaning, having babies, the normal house wife gig. Kokoro loathes that idea completely and would rather walk the path of a martial artist, although most of her hobbies and interests are a far cry from screaming “warrior” unless you know any warriors who like to decorate with rhinestones and glitter. She wants to live her own life and choose her own path, not have it plotted out already for her.
Kokoro is generally upbeat and when she’s happy, she’s a very bubbly person who loves to laugh. Unless she has a reason not to be, Koko is kind towards anyone much to the annoyance of those who rather not be bothered by her attempt to spread her joy, but she can usually bring a smile to even the sourest of people. When things don’t go her way, she pouts and is highly irritable, often leading her into saying blunt and hurtful things. Along with her emotions, her thoughts are openly stated too. If she’s walking by a hobo, she will blatantly state how stinky he is, but will apologize and hand him a bit of money for food and give him her best wishes on finding a job and a shower. She’s really not afraid to give her opinion to anyone and more often than not, it is her mouth that usually lands her in trouble.
Many would suspect Kokoro of having exceptional marks in school because she is Asian, but she is just an average student whose report cards have A’s but they are also littered with B’s and C’s. As much as her parents crackdown on her for not studying, Kokoro just shrugs it off and tosses the text books on favor of her manga and fantasy novels. She is a kid at heart, so she loves cartoons, anime and comic books. Besides, she prefers sparring and training over books any day.
-Hobbies/ Interests:
*Working out
*Sparring and fighting
*Tea
*Sweets
*Food in general
*Texting her BFF Jun
*Collecting stuffed animals
*Cosplaying
*Fashion
*Fairy Tales
*Cute Guys
*Manga
*Anime
*Video Games
*Pestering Shin
*Watching the sunset and the moon
*The beach/ocean
*Music
-Job or part time job and description: Student
-Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Although she has a optimistic personality, Kokoro feels conflicted inside about who she is and what her parents want her to be. Whether she should fulfill their wishes to satisfy them or if she should continue to live her own life and be content with herself. Also, she doesn’t like defeat. She hates losing and has a hard time coping with it. She’s also afraid of clowns, poodles, Rosie O’Donnell and that guy on the Quaker Oats Oatmeal box; reasons being that they’re all creepy to her.
-Special talents:
*Annoying Shin
*Trained in martial arts
*Fluent in both English and Japanese
*Annoying Shin
*Dancing
*Karaoke
*Playing innocent
*Dance Dance Revolution
*Annoying Shin
*Making clothes
*Styling
*Popping caps in zombies heads playing Resident Evil, beating up hookers in Grand Theft Auto, and pulling off Flawless Victories in Mortal Kombat….she’s REALLY good at video games.
*Annoying Shin
*Making friends
*Annoying Shin
Morality-Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: She stands for love and justice; fighting evil by the moonlight, winning love…whenever she can.
Mutations-Mutation description: Invisible Dilatant Psionic Force Projection
This ability allows Kokoro to produce and manipulate
invisible dilatant psionic energy. The energy has properties of a liquid until it is acted upon by stress. Once a stress is applied, the viscosity of the energy raises and the energy exhibits the properties of a solid becoming rigid. When her powers are in action, they allow Kokoro to do the following things:
Force Fields: The primary use of her abilities. Kokoro can use this energy to form protective barriers to block attacks. How rigid the barrier is depends on the amount of stress acted upon the shield.
Examples :
High levels of stress: If a car going 60mph ran into her force field, the impact and high inertial force of the car would raise the shield’s viscosity to an extreme level. Hitting the shield would be like hitting a brick wall and the car would repel.
Low levels of stress: If a person swung a bat at the force field, it'd be like hitting a thick wall of gel. The bat would penetrate the shield one inch for every 3 inches, so it would penetrate one inch to a 3 inch shield. The bat would become trapped in the energy. Eventually lack of stress and movement from the bat would allow the viscosity of the energy to lower and the person through slow movements would be able to remove the bat. If the person struggles and thrashes about to remove the bat, the stress from their thrashing raises the viscosity of the energy, and the bat remains trapped.
Projectiles: Since her energy has properties of a liquid, it is possible for Kokoro to manipulate and shape it as such by moving her hands to control the flow of energy. She can project it like a pressured stream that acts as a battering ram hitting targets like a fire hose or she can create a wave of psychic energy that strikes her targets with blunt force like a crushing wave of water.
Kokoro has a third potential to use her powers for Aerial Mobility. Projecting a rising barrier beneath her feet and simultaneously project her energy in the air to create another barrier to hop on while shrinking the barrier from before and then repeating the process. By doing that, it is possible for Kokoro to move through air and can also take others with her if she expands the size of the barriers to accommodate them. She could move in the air by ramping up barriers upwards or downwards traveling on them like steps or laying them parallel to the ground and moving across them like a sidewalk or bridge. She has to move quickly across the barriers, by jumping or running to apply the proper stress or else she can't walk on them.
-Strengths:
* Kokoro can reshape the size of barriers. The smallest size she can project is the size of a marble; the largest is about 25 ft in diameter. She can make the thickness of force fields ranging from 3in to 4ft.
*Kokoro can mold and shape her energy. She usually does so by wrapping a force field around herself or an object giving it 360 degree coverage, creating a flat plane which she uses to create walls or use as steps when she's moving through air, or to create a battering ram or wave of psychic energy for projectile attacks.
-Weaknesses:
* Kokoro cannot see the projections she makes so she has to mentally visualize and keep them in sharp mental focus. Once she stops concentrating on a projection, it ceases to exist. Any projections made by her also dissipate if she knocked is unconscious.
* If traveling on top of her energy, Kokoro or anyone else traveling with her has to move quickly, whether it's jogging, sprinting, or jumping across it to create enough stress on the barriers or else they'll sink into it. Kokoro can dissipate the energy and allow escape, but she would be unsuccessful with traveling through the air.
*If focused enough, Kokoro currently holds potential to project up to 4 barriers.
*If enough stress is not applied onto the psionic energy, it remains like liquid, meaning someone or something that's not exerting a lot of stress could get through her force fields, but their momentum would become sluggish considering their movements within the energy would raise the viscosity and it'd be like swimming through a pool of gel.
*Kokoro has to use her hands to control the flow and shaping of her energy into projectiles. If her hands were bound, she would be unable to use projectiles. They also have a 15 second cool down time. Like her shields, her projectiles only have a 25ft radius.
*Use of her powers is mentally fatiguing. The more she exerts herself by repetitively releasing energy blasts or creating barriers, the more quickly she becomes fatigued, often to the point of becoming very drowsy and becoming comatose for at least 2 hours for her body and mind to recharge.
Fighting Style Pi Qua Quan and Ba Ji Quan
-Explanation: Kokoro has only learned two martial arts styles from her father, but put together, it gives Kokoro a full range of techniques and combos to use.
-Pros for fighting style: Piguaquan's power is from the accelerational force of the arms which are often in rotation allowing for long-range power. Ba Ji Quan is a fighting style that features short range power and is famous for its elbow strikes.
-Cons for fighting style: Kokoro has an athletic build but doesn’t have that much muscle to go behind her physical strikes so she lacks in power. Her lean build however allows her to make up for her lack of physical strength with speed and defense.
Faction Allegiance -Unaffiliated
History of Your Character: Kokoro Shinbo was born in Kyoto, Japan to parents Ichiro and Reika Shinbo. Ichiro is the younger brother of Yosuke Shinbo, making Kokoro and Tetsuya first cousins.
She was born into a traditional family where her father was the breadwinner having a career in the field of Optometry and her mother a house wife tending to her gardens, chores and of course raising Kokoro. From early on, Kokoro was noted for how cute she was and was forced by her mother to enter in many baby pageants and she earned many trophies in ribbons for winning them. The pageants would continue through her childhood and Kokoro enjoyed the attention and praise. Kokoro was also being taught martial arts by her father, who doubled as a sensei and master of the wushu arts, Pi Qua Quan and Ba Ji Quan, aside from being an Optometrist. He trained her in order to teach Kokoro discipline. He never intended for her to actually take serious dedication into becoming a martial artist.
Over the years Kokoro continued to train, proving to be an excellent fighter, but her arrogance held her back from her full potential. Kokoro wanted every chance to demonstrate her skills. Like her elder cousin Tetsuya, she became very fond of street fighting, which has unfortunately led her down a rather troublesome path. Now she tends to pick fights at school and likes to sneak out at night to challenge gang leaders to street fights. Not only that but, Kokoro started focusing more on martial arts, a path her parents didn’t want her to go down. They wanted her to focus on her studies. Meet a nice young man and settle down to raise a family. Her behavior has caused her parents to grow very concerned for their daughter. However, there’s more to Kokoro to be troubled about than just her passion for a good battle. Add the little street fighter with potential psychic powers that lay dormant within her waiting to be released and you have quite the handful of a child….
Roleplay Where did you learn about this site?: Google
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Sample RP:
*WAM!!!!*
A whirling leg spun through the air and made impact with a young man’s face, leaving him with a black foot print and bloodied broken nose. As the 20 something year old fell back to the ground holding his wounded face, the owner of that whirling leg stood over him, glowering while standing over him as she cracked her knuckles…wait. She? Yes…she. This grown man had just been assaulted by a woman. Not just a woman, a 15 year old girl in a sailor fuku wearing a hello kitty sweat band. 15 year old Shinbo Kokoro, or Koko-chan as she is affectionately called by classmates and loved ones had the honor of dishing out a beat down on her way home from school. “
You want to try that again, you pig!? Or do you have any other girls you want to press up on!?” she asked with a heated glare.
“I told you, it was an accident! The subway was crowded!” the man screamed crawling backwards.
“
I don’t take kindly to excuses! You want to apologize for copping a feel or do I have to beat it out of you? WHAT’S IT GONNA BE!?” she demanded raising her foot and aiming it for his face once again.
“I said I was sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Just don’t hurt me!!!” the man screamed, now groveling at the girl’s feet. She lowered her foot and raised a hand, setting it on top of his head, petting him lightly. He looked up confused and even more puzzled when he saw her angry look had been replaced by a wide grin.
“
It’s ok. Accidents happen.” Koko smiled with a bubbly giggle. “
Hey, you were kind of cute before you had blood all over your face. You feel like going to grab a milkshake?”
The man blinked. Was this girl serious? Was she bipolar? Or Schizo? Maybe she was just crazy. He assumed the latter and immediately bolted away from her while the opportunity was present.
“
….Well that was rather rude. A simple no would have just been fine! JERK!!!!” Kokoro screamed and with a couple of deep breaths, found herself content once more. She gathered her book bag and continued her walk back home, with a little bit of pep in her step. Her phone vibrated and she reached into her bag to see she had gotten a text message.
LOL she texted back to her BFF Jun.
And by idol I do of course mean only in Juka's own mind haha