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We did?! Crud.

Okay, I'm all right with a smaller game.

Likewise. Toshi won't keep shooting if his attacks did bupkiss, so I guess I'll give it another shot and see what's happening. I think I did something though, cause I have high penetrating, but we'll see.

Toshi squints at the thing as he scoots to the side to strafe the target. Neon afterimages trace his path as he brings a hand up and fires another high-powered neon ray of light!

Moving to strafe to its side. I should be able to move the distance since I can cover 1 mile in a round. Firing another Neon Ray, at the same mecha he hit before.
Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21 DC 23 toughness, Penetrating 8.

Toshi raises his hands, the fiberoptic lines shining bright indigo as he grins. "I hope you have these insured!" he shouts.

He cups both hands together and thrusts them towards the closest giant mecha. Between his palms, indigo light swells until suddenly it bursts forth with a single thin stream the width of a pencil.

Neon Rays: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13 DC 23 toughness, Penetrating 8.
O.o Obviously Toshi needs to practice on his aim!

I didn't *roll* well, I'm just really knee-jerk fast reflexes.

Toshi snaps into combat mode, ready at an instant.
Initiative: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 31

"Can you make me some earmuffs or something?" he asks.

"What the heck?" Toshi blips away from the dome as the shriek affects him and starts cracking his goggles.

Stopping back at Komaba, he looks at his partner. "What do you think?" he asks. "Sonic, or some kind of mind-whammy?"

Toshi skids to a stop, absently reaching a hand out to catch Komaba before he crashes. "Woah there." he says. "Survivors?" he zips over to one. "Hey, what is the line for?" he asks.

Given the holidays, and what Komaba and I are doing, I can't help but think of this scene in regards to what's about to happen.

Once Komaba is hooked on, and the teacher calls start, Toshi takes off at half speed, ramping it up to full throttle over the course of a few seconds. With Komaba making super slick skis, he's able to cover ground without being dragged down much, though he would likely not be able to keep it up for extended runs like he normally could.

Komaba will discover an interesting side effect of Toshi's powers: he can pass harmlessly through his afterimages, though they hum like the true electric lights do. Touching an afterimage causes it to disperse like they were made of thin lines of glowing gasses that lose coherence upon being interacted with. Whenever he has to make a maneuver or move around something, Komaba will see his neon afterimages make arm waves in the same way that a bicyclist does when they're signaling turns. Surprisingly, Toshi's reflexes are astounding when he's running.

I technically can 'see faster' while Toshi's using his run powers, and can see things happening around him 1000x faster than normal. This is how he can see obstacles and opponents while he's moving faster than the normal eye can track. He runs and can see things in bullet time, if you will.

Toshi grins. "Sounds good. Now I'll be trying to get there fast so you'll have to hang on. If you fall off or a fight happens out I'll circle back to grab you. If there's trouble like mines or something... well, I'm usually fast enough that they go off after I'm out of the danger zone but I'll have to see how fast we are together."

Approaching from the north, Uryu gives a cool whistle. "Really pulled out all the stops on this one. Still, nothing too out of the ordinary. Regardless, its an urban environment. A little on the dark end, but still."

He turns to Neon. "You could get to the center no problem, but unfortunately, I have to get there too. And we're up against teams that can get there rather quickly. So..." He trails off, as his arms begin to drip liquid. "We'll have to be a little more smart about this."

"How much can you carry... or drag without losing much speed?"

Toshi shrugs. "I can probably go about half my normal speed, maybe a little faster. Depends on how lubed up you can get? Thinking what, sweatskis?"

Not Toshi. He's pretty cool, but he's not got the diligence or scholastic skill to be rep.

During his ordinary classes, Toshi seems to rapidly oscillate between being hyper-attentive and being incredibly lax and perhaps even on the verge of falling asleep. He keeps meticulous notes though, often recorded the very moment the speaker is finished talking.

He keeps breaking his pencil though, and by the time the first day is done, he'd gone through half a box of pencils.

The next day, he shows up in his costume, testing the material and stretching as best he can in the outfit.

"All riiiight!" he cheers enthusiastically at the announcement. "Who's my partner!? This is gonna rock!"

His suit seems to pulse with a neon hex pattern across the surface in time with the beat of him hopping in place. Assuming this is the costume design we talked about in the discussion, right?

Excellent, Komaba, let's rock.

... Anyone wanna team with me?

"That's cool!" Toshi replies enthusiastically. "I can't actually fly or anything, so if I want to get high up I gotta run up a wall or along a ceiling. Once I start moving, though, I fall!" he shrugs. "But I'm not really that strong. I could barely carry a full -sized adult. I did figure out how to cover my body with my neon energy, which seems to take hits for me and can make my punches or kicks kinda awesome." he rambles on. "But... you can fly. Or chomp on stuff. I saw this anime once about a dragon who turned into a maid and she was really badass... It's... kinda lame when I say it like that... Your uniform changed to fit you, is that part of your ability? Are all your forms girls or can you turn into guys too?"

You sense no guile in his rapid-fire questions, just enthusiasm and respect for other quirks. Also, he has no expertise skill for quirks or other heroes.

Toshi had made the mistake of looking back to see where Setsuna was behind him and was caught off guard when she snapped past him. Scrambling, he almost caught up to her, but with so little distance to cover it was over in a split second.

Since your shapeshift power is called 'scale to threat', does that mean you can only change forms to match someone's powers? Either way really strong as far as powers go, though I'm surprised you had points for anything else with a VPP that big... I can't ever get VPP's to work right

After the sprint, Toshi will trot over to Setsuna and grin at her until she changes back into her human form. "Wow! That's the first time I've been outraced!" he tilts his head a little as she makes her admission. "What do you mean you've never gone that fast before? You sure fooled me. Did you not know how fast your dragon shape could go?" he asks.

If she can get a speed 8 with her 'Scale to Threat' power, then yeah, we'll need to roll off.

That lone 20: 1d20 ⇒ 12

"Actually, Neon, since wings are allowed, I think I can race you," Setsuna says with a toothy grin.

The vampiress' physical form again distorts, grows, and stretches. A few seconds later, what appears to be a horse-size dragon with obsidian black scales stands to her full height and (somehow) gives Neon a knowing smirk. However, upon closer inspection, this new Setsuna is actually a wyvern - her front limbs double as wings, albeit folded ones since she is currently grounded.

(More strikingly, her gym outfit again adjusted itself to fit her Setsuna's form; while functional, a tracksuit on a discount dragon is silly sight to behold.)

Setsuna utters a chirp and gestures her head toward the starting line.

"Whaaaaat?!" Toshi exclaims. "That's freaking awesome! TWO shapeshifters in the class?! Halloween's gonna be EPIC!"

He will joyously trot over to the starting line and get into a sprinter's position, albeit a very inexperienced one. "Hope my shoes hold out!" he says to no one in particular. He looks up at Setsuna in her drake form and chuckles, shaking his head and grinning as he turns back to focus on the track. "Best. Day. Evar." he crows, taking off as fast as he can the instant the teacher says 'go'.

I would apologize for being boastful, but Toshi literally is a big neon sign saying LOOK AT ME!

Toshi looks back at the divot of dirt in front of the throwing line where he had stopped. Then laughs to himself as he follows them to the track.

"Uh... sure. I guess I could do a short hop." he says. "But I don't know if you'll have someone fast enough to time me."

Okay, so I cover 1 mile in a round. 1 mile=1609 meters.1/6'th of a round is 1 second, and 269 meters. I can do the 100 meter dash in 1/3 of a second! :D

Dang. I mean, according to wikipedia, the fastest Jai Alai throw was 188 mph. That's... 2 to 3 times that.

Also, hey, fun facts.

Toshi just pulled a 'human ballista ball launcher' maneuver. :)

Toshi's all flash and glitz. Let me look over your character and see if there's something you can change up a bit.

You have a decent amount spent into your powers, you just have some drawback issues with using your alternate form which would have made you be able to lightning blast the baseball into the sky.

Besides, your characters personal interactions with his quirk are very amusing to read and you can eventually have it do stuff like have CICADA possess YOU if you get knocked unconscious or something. Who knows, it gives you some extra thematic/story leeway to play with.

When Toshi's turn comes up, he picks up the ball, bounces it in his hand, and looks down at the line where he's supposed to throw from. He looks at the teacher. "Is it all right if I back up a bit?" he asks. If given permission, he backs up... to the far back of the field.

All right, Toshi, show them the boom. he thinks, winding up.

There's a flare of brilliant neon blue light as Toshi accelerates to full speed as he brings his arm back, releasing it into a spiral throw just as he brakes to a full stop just at the line. As he dashed forward, he seemed to blur into outlines of his form as if rendered by the neon lights in some kind of holiday display, showing different 'frames' of his motion every few feet or so trailing back about 50 feet as they fade away.

There's a shower of sod and dirt as Toshi's feet come to a stop on the line, but his shoes grind into the field and sink a few inches into the ground by the time he stopped. The ball, however, rockets out of his hand at ridiculous speeds, being propelled not just by his running start but also a greatly diffused ray of light coming from his hand.

That ball should be going somewhere around 400-600 MPH and be landing somewhere hot, smoking, and scorched black.

"Well isn't that part of our classes?" Toshi asks aloud. "Like, push our limits and figure out what we are capable of?"

He grins to himself. "Heck, maybe we can find out ways we can combine our powers into something cool?"

"Well, sorta?" Toshi says. "I haven't clocked how fast I'm going, but I've been told that it's fast, and it looks awesome." Toshi says, stretching his legs. "Still get cramps if I don't stretch though, which is weird. I mean, if I'm light then I shouldn't be able to do that."

Toshi stares at Robert in amazement. "You can transform?! Awesome!" he exclaims. "I can project neon light beams out of my body. I can push my powers and turn into neon, which makes me lighter and faster, but it's really, really bright."

Toshi will head to the locker room once he gets directions. Getting changed takes him practically no time, and he will wander his way to the athletics field. He will make conversation with whoever is nearby, mostly just introductions and getting to know some of the other classmate's quirks.

Here is my costume sketch. It took a little longer than I wanted as the weekend got busy and I'm a bit rusty at drawing. LINK

Hey that's cool! Is there a male base that I could use to try doodling with a costume? I'm not a phenomenal artist, but I have a bunch of photoshop experience.

Toshi had only put the name "Neon" on the seating chart.

When Fae pops off her seat and falls, Toshi winced but is quick to put the book down on the chair so she can sit higher when she gets back in it. He goes to help her up, but is surprised to see Setsuna helping already.

"Psst. I'm Toshi. Call me Neon." He whispers to the taller of the two.

Do any of us recognize him from TV?

"Sure thing, Mr. Frank!" Toshi says, filling his part out and passing it back, unless it seems obvious that he's supposed to just handle it himself.

"Hey. Hi." A voice from in front of the desk says, Toshi waving and smiling at Fae from where he twisted in his seat. "You, uh, need a book to sit on? I got the Heroe's Lexicon of One-Liners, if you're needing something." he holds out a massively thick book, which has been earmarked and tabbed with what you think are categories of puns and other stupid hero humor.

Toshi watches the group interact with a high level of enthusiasm before heading into the classroom and taking a seat near the window and to the front.

Cotton Metal must be the reason Steel Wool exists. :P

I like each person's themes and inspirations. This is going to be interesting!

"Oh I run. Can't fly, but I am pretty fast!" the neon kid exclaims.

To clarify, my flight power only works while in contact with a surface. This means I can essentially 'run' up walls, across water, etc. But I can't actually 'fly' through the air (I plan on taking a separate flight power to take gliding later). I know you were talking to Teruo, but I just wanted to make sure that's clear for everyone.

So many people, and some came to talk to him!

"Yeah! Nice to see you too! You two fly? That's awesome! I'm Toshi." he exclaims, grinning brightly. On his arms and legs where they're not covered by clothes, you can see stripes of dark plastic-looking stuff faintly hum as they light up with a neon blue color. The kid notices and takes a deep breath, focusing for a few seconds until the lights flicker and fade away. "Sorry about that, happens when I get too excited." he says, changing the subject quickly. "Are you two first-years too? This is going to be an awesome class! I wonder who else is going to be here."

This is what his trail looks like when running. It leaves behind split second afterimages of him in neon light.

Toshi skids to a stop in front of the school gates, the treads on his sneakers smoking from the friction. His too-long limbs gave him a gangly appearance like he still had much growing to do. He was in khaki shorts and a pale blue collared shirt, both looking like they had been pressed this morning, and still looked clean and sharp. His hair was black, cut short, and ruffled from wind. Only the smoking shoes and the goggles seated on top of his head really stood out.

Grinning to himself, he trotted into the gates, adjusting his collar and checking the time on his phone. "Okay Toshi, you're here on time!" he says to himself. "Cutting through that industrial block was definitely a short-cut! Gotta keep that route in mind. I wonder who else is going to be in my class?" he looks around at the people drifting in. "Maybe the guy with the horns? Oh, is that Negaton's kid? What about that kid with the lightning bug? Are those wings?"

He's seemingly unaware he's running his mouth.

Toshi has some heroes he respected, but he held Max Bright as his idol. Max Bright, a flashy hero with solar powers, is an Arizona hero who is extremely popular in Phoenix. Toshi was enamored with Max Bright's flashy entrances and shining smile.

Coincidentally Toshi brushes his teeth often. He, of course, uses Max Bright brand maximum brightness toothpaste.

Oh, that's cool!

I like how you're having your character's different parentage's quirks pull at each other, whereas my character's parent's quirks blended together to make his the way it is.

Toshi is kinda an everyman in the group. He's about equally skilled in duking it out hand to hand as he is shooting at range, but that's only because he's not top-tier at either (yet). I was trying to go for a balanced hero, but not high on the immunity thing. Maybe later I'll give him immunity to dazzle/light based blindness, but his powers should be relatively static until he gets more training on how to use them creatively.

Wow, we have a vampire, a glitter fairy, a guy who turns into electricity... and here I am just a kid with window sign lighting growing out of his limbs! :P

Just kidding, this is an interesting class assembled! I look forward to working out power stunts with the rest of the group! (like making a disco-ball laser blast by refracting my shot off Fae's glitter)

Setsuna only has a vampire-like quirk, right? Not any actual vampire weaknesses right?

I can draw the costume over the weekend. I'm imagining something in green, with a skirt and a Celtic knot motif.

I look forward to seeing it!

Toshi's costume would be an abrasion-resistant, graphite-gray colored bodysuit that is laced with a fiber-optic hex grid on it. The neon stripes of his body are exposed via flexible transparent material starting from the wrists to the palms of his hands and across the bottoms of his feet to his heel on his feet. The part where his neon lights are covered is lined on the inside with the intake ends for the fiber-optic threads, so that lighting up to use his powers causes the hex-grid to light up the same colors.

This bodysuit is streamlined for speed, though he has a utility belt for holding restraints, gadgets, and communicator. He has a full cowl with goggles and breathing mask to keep from getting debris/bugs in his eyes and mouth while running. The soles of his feet (other than the clear strips) have high-grip treads.

References
Hex Fabric
Glove
Shoe
Visor
Breath mask

Bang!

Then I think I'll do a small change to my background and be from Chinatown in Los Angeles.

I would think so. The safety laws and everything is a very Japanese concept and the academy is set there in the manga (of course). I wouldn't mind if Radavel changed that, but it would require me to change my character's hometown a little to match up.

Okay, so I can't use my lasers or anything, but would I get in trouble if my neon lights on my body turn on? I kinda don't have 100% control over that if I get emotionally invested in something. It doesn't do anything but make lights like a neon sign would.

In that regard, would there be a problem with me running to school? I move pretty quickly. Of course I understand if I'm going to be required to have a speedster's license or something to prove I'm able to be responsible.

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As far as alternate powers go, they can only be improved when the base power it's an alternate of gets more points spent on it. That improves your threshold and therefore you can boost that one too.

Student Tally:
Toshi Neon - Scrapper/Blaster/Speedster
Shu Q Megami - Blaster/Controller
Nishiwaki Teruo - Blaster/Flyer
Zackary "Zephyr" Agnes - Blaster/Flyer
Joseph Longtree - Face/Controller

Toshi Neon enters the scene!

Okay going to build Toshi's Alias and include a description and background.

And it's done!