Kyoko Sumida
Kyoko Sumida
Kyoko is a busy body, and also usually has her eyes fixated on headlines of all kinds both on paper, tv, and her phone. The newsy type of person that can't help but dig for information. This, and her steadfast loyalty to friendship, has driven her to try and find out what happened to her best friend Jade. A more neutral type person with a deep respect for her own abilities.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Kyoko is mostly a plain clothes wearing type of girl that has a few parts of her wardrobe from the more expensive stores to be exact. She likes monochrome colors and natural earth tones. She has reading glasses, probably from how much she reads wearing on her sight. She has dark brown eyes and straight cropped black hair cut mid shoulder length.
Special abilities
Cyclone
Her control of air via compression and expansion to conjure up sharp blasts as well as churn out vortexes and small whirlwinds.
Sandblast
Kyoko will rapidly compress and then expand a spance of air to throw items or people with air pressure or “wind”. This short blast works more like an air cannon: its over instantly with the most damage done in the first second. However the blast is strong enough to send a sedan rolling sideways for six feet. It's a close range attack best to gain distance in a fight, as it only has a 15 ft range. The farther back the less force. At 15 feet, you're likely only to be staggered by a 200mph blast.
Hover
Kyoko will hover herself by forcing the air under her to extreme stress from rapid compression and expansion to generate a circulating cushion of air. So long as there is a surface 5ft under her, a person close by, or an object, she can float. However, she can only hover things and people as close as five feet
Trampoline
Generating a dense cushion of compressed air, either under her as she floats, another person or in a designated spot, she can then expand it, vaulting herself or the target ten feet up. Jump as you hit the apex for a tiny bit more height. This can also create openings by tossing unwary enemies.
Cyclone Blast
A charge up attack that takes focus and three seconds. Kyoko will start by creating a vortex around her arms, either one or both. Once started, she will begin to compress the air around her arms more and more into a dense cyclone of compressed air. Once she hits a certain speed, she can then use a second blast with a release of the compression to send a swirling vortex over her target, and hold it for twenty to thirty seconds by constantly funneling more air into the releasing compressed air. It takes too much concentration to move aside from sweep her arms, and she gets outpaced by it and cannot fuel it after thirty seconds at the most. The Cyclones have a reach of twenty five feet, and a wind speed of 150mph trying to push you back and thrash you.
Maelstrom Barrier
A swirling vortex similar to what she can coil around her arms to launch is generated around her. It's powerful enough to knock people off balance and hold them at bay 5 feet from her. However, she can't hold it longer than a minute, or if she must focus on something intensely. Projectiles have the ability to punch through with varying degrees of success given velocity. To that extent, anything traveling over 90mph has the ability to hit her on target through the maelstrom.
Ace Cutter
It took some training but Kyoko has learned how to change the density and shape of her compressed air, albeit into very bland shapes. Not that it needs to be fancy; Kyoko can shape a band of condensed air with a sharpened edge to circulate around an arm. She can only generate one at a time, about three feet long extending from the tips of her fingers. The constantly moving highly pressurized air acts as a blade, and can weather through all forms of mass, but it may take literal years for it to actually cut through some materials such as rock or metal. It is far more instantly effective on flesh and fabric.
Aerial Bullet
Kyoko can fire off a single quick shot of finely condensed air. No wider than an inch in diameter, this blast hits with barely any penetrative ability, more focused on a blunt force effect. The rapidly expanding air used to set this off sounds like a low caliber gunshot. However, it's dreadful against moving targets, and takes a second to aim, collect, and fire.
Weaknesses
Changing Air Pressure Kyoko can only handle so much fluctuation in air pressure before she can't adjust fast enough and looses control. Lighter gases are a no go, especially in high percentages. Thus high elevation and thinner air is a bad thing to. It breaks up her compressed air. Human Mortality if it kills a human, it'll kill Kyoko. Bullets don't need to be silver. Even a small bleeding cut may develop an infection that could kill her.
Changing Air Pressure Kyoko can only handle so much fluctuation in air pressure before she can't adjust fast enough and looses control. Lighter gases are a no go, especially in high percentages. Thus high elevation and thinner air is a bad thing to. It breaks up her compressed air. Human Mortality if it kills a human, it'll kill Kyoko. Bullets don't need to be silver. Even a small bleeding cut may develop an infection that could kill her.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Kyoko was sent over from her home country to help bolster the ranks of Yakuza in a growing city. Once in America, she made quick friends with Jade Mori, the supposed heiress of the branch Kyoko was sent to. For the past years she has been the only person Kyoko really knew in the country and considered a friend. She had basic control over wind and air pressure. She taught herself how to control it, strengthening it and molding to her likeness to be able to knock people over, out of her way, and to hover over the ground by a few inches. About a half year ago, during the bombing crisis, Kyoko was effected by the scattered virus. It strengthened her ability, and she quickly adapted to use it more than just to float. She fully weaponized it, making her combat capable by a high degree. Because of this she was entrusted as Jade's body guard in lieu of Alex when he was incapable of entering where Jade went.
As time went on with Jade's hasty retreat from Narsuss and the Yakuza, even her family, she left Kyoko friendless and with a message urging her to do the same. These efforts to find a new path lead her on a quick revenge strike on The Hound, demanding answers and believing him to be the demise of her friend and why she disappeared. When The Hound revealed to Kyoko that she was very much alive and safe, he proposed to help her by erasing all tracks as well if she would join the compound. Kyoko agreed, shifting all her classes to the system at Rush's facility as she entered the hero training courses there.
She is now a trusted ally of The Hound, a pro hero working out of Rush's facility, and a rather straight forward fully neutral force.
Sexuality
It is summarized that Kyoko is straight.
Education
Kyoko has her high school diploma and is studying further education.
Intellectual Characteristics
Kyoko is very inquisitive. Her interest in keeping up to date means she spends a lot of time reading about the same thing from many angles to get the best and most accurate view. This may make her come off as insensitive when people deny stuff she knows is true.
Morality & Philosophy
Kyoko worked for the yakuza out of necessity to study abroad. Now free of them, she shows an almost blind loyalty to the law.
Relationships
The newsy type of person that can't help but dig for information.
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Age
24
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Gender
Female
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