Sept 3, 2020 14:24:59 GMT -5
Post by Iwatori Arata on Sept 3, 2020 14:24:59 GMT -5
Okuma Shuichi
OVERVIEW
ALIAS: Slip
AGE: 19
GENDER: Male
ROLE: Villain
ALTER EGO: Slip
CHARACTER SUMMARY
More than a little annoyed with the man's death and the money he'd failed to pay back, most of his assets would be seized and his apartment raided by interested parties before the police force and hero association could identify his corpse and locate his place of residence - it would be at this point that Shuichi would effectively disappear from public record, listed as missing at the age of four in a case that would go cold and remained unsolved into the current day.
Unknown to the police Shuichi would not simply be abandoned or lost - rather, he had been acquired with most of the possessions in the apartment as "collateral" to pay off his father's debts. At only four years old and with a Quirk that had only begun to emerge - more importantly, one that had not yet been registered with the government - Shuichi would be a near priceless commodity in the human trafficking market both within and outside of Japan. Even more so when the emerging Quirk was one that allowed him to nearly escape confinement on multiple different occasions despite its still untrained nature. Seen as a potentially valuable investment so long as the proper precautions were taken, efforts were made to train his Quirk into a semi-usable state. Enough to make a compelling sales pitch, but not to the point of becoming a nuisance or aiding in more substantial escape attempts. Cooperation was rewarded, typically through better living conditions - resistance and refusal was met with the opposite. Six years of Shuichi's life would pass under these conditions before he would eventually be "bought" by a man who would see in the boy the potential for a wide variety of uses, nearly all of them illegal.
While it would become quickly apparent that his new "owner's" reach would far exceed his grasp and abilities, the man was not without certain talents. The first and foremost being that he had an eye for the worth of others. The second, fittingly, was a penchant for manipulation and psychological conditioning. While neither involved his Quirk which was considerably lackluster by comparison he knew how to use others and how to tie them to himself, ensuring loyalty through either fear or respect - oftentimes the former when he didn't need to worry about appearances. In Shuichi's case this would involve letting him form emotional attachments for the first time in years among three other individuals acquired in much the same manner he himself was. Ass additional efforts were made to improve his Quirk and teach Shuichi additional skills that would be useful for the work he would be doing this created a situation where, yes, he could have easily escaped if he had chosen to.
But doing so would have meant leaving behind the others he had grown close to, with a clear threat of reprisal at their expense.
The next eight years of Shuichi's life following that would be busy ones. To say that he would form a reputation with the hero association over this time would have been an understatement. While far from the "big time" villains that would regularly threaten harm and extreme loss of life with their antics Shuichi's career would notably begin with how little he would leave to identify him by. Starting off with high class theft, Shuichi would operate for nearly three entire years during which neither the police force or hero association would manage a direct face to face encounter. When the confrontation finally did occur the teen would prove nigh impossible to corner or capture with his Quirk, one that would not exist in any government registries - and due to this lack of identification he would only be known by the label applied to his Quirk. Following that Shuichi would only improve, learning from each encounter and providing fewer and fewer opportunities with which he could be encountered.
To say that his employer was both pleased and amused by these developments would have been an understatement. While all of the children under his "care" were being employed in similar roles Shuichi's Quirk afforded him a unique advantage in that regard, and with that growing infamy came tools to be used and exploited. Soon he would graduate from simple theft to more difficult targets - physical objects were easy to steal, information not so much, and the tasks assigned to him would only grow in variation as his employer sought to push his limits and see exactly how much he could get away with. As the man began to become less and less stable whilst drunk on the perceived power granted by his charges this would eventually elevate itself to assassination come Shuichi's 17th birthday. The emotional aftermath of this would not be pretty, nor would its lasting effect on him going forward.
Eventually all of this would come crashing down during the last year of Shuichi's employment. Emboldened beyond the point of reason the more difficult tasks assigned to his charges would begin taking their toll, one of the teens captured during an assignment before later found dead in confinement, the security footage missing. The second and third would be killed during a similar sting operation months latter, leaving Shuichi as the sole survivor. Deeply impacted by the losses, he would eventually go missing during another such assignment two months afterwards - albeit not captured by the hero association or police. A handful of unsolved deaths would occur over the following month, culminating in that of Shuichi's former employer.
Quirk AND SKILLS
QUIRK TYPE: Emitter
QUIRK DESCRIPTION: Slip is a simple Quirk at a glance - using it allows Shuichi to "slip" from one point to another over a relatively short distance, bypassing any and all space between the two points as well as any physical barriers between them.
PLAYED BY Spartan
