Sorawo Kamikoshi

== Summary ==
Sorawo Kamikoshi is a university student and paranormal enthusiast who spends her spare time exploring urban ruins and reading about ghost stories. After stumbling into a mysterious world she labels the Otherside, Sorawo nearly dies, saved only by the intervention of one Toriko Nishina, an erratic yet beautiful girl who she finds herself compelled to follow back into the Otherside again and again, despite the danger.
On their second trip together, Sorawo's exposure to a Kunekune and the strange, alien logic of such monsters turned her into one of the Fourth Kind - someone who had come into contact with the Otherside and returned physically changed by the experience. In her case, Sorawo returned with her eye now a piercing, unnatural shade of blue, alowing her to see the true forms of the supernatural.
Armed with knowledge of the 'true ghost stories' the Otherside mimics to terrify unfortunate humans, Sorawo returns to the Otherside at Toriko's side, seeking to not only protect her from the threats lying within, but to make the space their own.
== Powers and Stats ==
Tier: , with firearms
Name: Sorawo Kamikoshi
Origin: Otherside Picnic
Gender: Female
Age: 20-21 years old
Classification: Human, Fourth Kind
Powers and Abilities: Extrasensory Perception and Information Analysis (Using her right eye, Sorawo can see through the true forms of supernatural entities and detect supernatural phenomena,Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 49Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 93 including the invisible.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 112 With more complex phenomena, Sorawo can cycle through different levels of perception,Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 210-213Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 217-219Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 247 and she can peel back these layers of perception to look even deeper and deeper, past even some thicker layersOtherside Picnic: Volume 7, File 23, chapter 2), Mind Manipulation (By focusing on someone with her right eye, Sorawo can affect their mental state and drive them temporarily insane.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 402Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 2, pages 99-100Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 2, pages 188-189 She also could restore Akari's memories by focusing on her with her eye, exposing her to the Otherside's influence once more,Otherside Picnic: Volume 6, pages 65-69 and she later overpowered T-san's own powers as they took effect to do so againOtherside Picnic: Volume 6, page 180), Limited BFR, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3), Dimensional Travel, and Transmutation (Sorawo's eye lets her switch through layers of perception, changing the forms of phenomena under certain circumstances; when affected by this, Kozakura was turned into a plant and simultaneously shunted to another layer of existence, and a similar ability changed the framework of Satsuki Uruma's ghost story and altered her definition,Otherside Picnic: Volume 7, File 23, chapter 4 something Sorawo speculated was possible for her if she modified her perception), Power Nullification (Once she recognizes them with her right eye, supernatural entities normally impervious to attack can be injured by herself and others, including the true forms of Otherside entities, which are the rules of the ghost stories they embodyOtherside Picnic: Volume 7, File 22, chapter 5)
Attack Potency: Human level, Street level with firearms
Speed: Average Human with Transonic to Supersonic attack speed (The Makarov's muzzle velocity is around 315 m/s, while the M4 CBQR's muzzle velocity is 788 m/s).
Lifting Strength: Average Human
Striking Strength: Human level
Durability: Human level
Stamina: At least Athletic. Due to her habit of urban exploration, Sorawo is deceptively athletic.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 189 Her pain tolerance is also exceptional, allowing her to maintain the use of her right eye even when the Kankandara was actively focusing its efforts on disabling her, the pain of which had still taken out many of the soldiers around them,Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 300-302 as well as when the Kotoribako was attacking her and tearing something seemingly non-physical from her being.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 461-469Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 2, page 16
Range: Standard Melee Range, tens of meters (Her pistol is a Makarov, which has a firing range of about 50 metres) to hundreds of meters with firearms (Her rifle is an M4 CQBR, which has a firing range of about 300 metres).
Standard Equipment: A Makarov pistol, a modified M4 CQBR, and a knife.
* Optional Equipment: A crowbar and various other pieces of survival equipment.
Intelligence: Sorawo is a clever, inventive woman good at thinking on her feet, rapidly coming to an understanding of the Otherside's mechanics in order to properly deal with and defeat its inhabitants, such as when she concluded that the only way to defeat the Kunekune was to allow it to drive her slightly insane so that she could act on its wavelength. Throughout the rest of her and Toriko's adventures in the Otherside, Sorawo acts as the main troubleshooter and strategist, directing Toriko in how to deal with the Otherside's paranormal threats, often improvising with the both of their powers to do so and rapidly finding her way out of problems. When in dire straits, her tendency to disconnect from her emotions and think logically makes her an excellent problem solver, and she's escaped a number of dangerous situations, such as being drugged by her grandmother, chased by dogs in the mountains, and being kidnapped by Runa Urumi's cult.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 2, page 145 She's not as actually skilled in action as Toriko, however, and is dependent on her and Akari for physical assistance and backup, given her rather average aim and a tendency to panic.
Weaknesses: Prolonged use of Sorawo's right eye causes her pain and tires her out, and she on, occasion, panics under pressure. Her right eye's abilities don't necessarily render all beings killable through ordinary means, even if they can be harmed, and if the being's true form does not overlap with its apparent physical form, others may not be able to properly harm it even if they fire accurately.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 141
Notable Attacks / Techniques:
- Right Eye: As part of Sorawo's close call with her second Kunekune, she underwent a Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind and returned physically changed, with her right eye now an unnatural shade of blue. This right eye allows Sorawo to perceive the 'true forms' of paranormal beings, which in turn, renders them vulnerable to attack from conventional means, such as her and Toriko's firearms. These true forms are visualizations of the ghost stories that Otherside entities embody, representing their very framework and reflecting their functions. It allows her to see other supernatural phenomena as well, such as the invisible 'glitches', Otherside gates,Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 143-146 the Kotoribako's birds,Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 459-462 and Runa's Voice.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 2, page 162Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 2, pages 149-150Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 2, pages 194-195 Sorawo can do this because her right eye operates on the same wavelength of such beings, making her slightly not-sane, which is necessary to properly understand and harm the supernatural.
Even if the supernatural phenomena is contained within another person, Sorawo can see through their body and identify it,Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 475 though when she did this to Akari, it caused her to briefly lapse into insanity. On another occasion, using it on Akari allowed her to properly harm Sannukikano in a burst of insanity, thanks to Sorawo keeping her eye on her. She can use it even through something like a phone screen, driving members of Runa's cult insane and leading to them attacking each other. In addition, Sorawo was able to use her eye to restore Akari's memories and connection to the Otherside after her encounter with T-san, and she later overpowered T-san's own powers as they took effect to empower Akari again. It also allows her to read the garbled text produced by the Otherside even when outside of it.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, page 455
In her encounter with the Kunekune, Sorawo describes the being as being 'projected' onto something between them and reality, and once she recognizes this surface, it was rendered vulnerable. Kozakura, afterwards, theorized that it had entered Sorawo's cognition itself through some sort of connection, and by recognizing this, it was rendered vulnerable.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 64-65 While Sorawo seems to be capable of recognizing all supernatural beings in this way, not all of them can be easily dispatched, even if they can be harmed. Other beings may be difficult for others to harm even when they're recognized by Sorawo if their true forms are not visible and located at a target recognizable to them. With the Kotoribako, Sorawo was able to use her eye to guide Toriko in "opening" it.Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 1, pages 465-471
When entering into the ghost town that was part of the Time-Space Man's phenomena, Sorawo was able to move through several layers of perception, transforming the Time-Space Man into a harmless plant and changing the town as a whole into a plant-filled environment, transforming even Kozakura into a plant from her perspective. From Kozakura's perspective, however, she had simply walked up to a blank-faced Sorawo. After using this ability again, Sorawo concluded that her right eye's ability was not to see through to the true forms of things, but to cycle through different aspects of a phenomenon's existence. As a result of using this ability on Kozakura, she was transmuted into a plant on Sorawo's layer of perception, but on her own, she was transported into a field of flowers, immobilized and helpless. Later on, Sorawo speculates that her ability allows her to peel back various different 'layers' of perception until she reaches a different form, underneath the rest, and that some entities have 'thicker', tougher layers of perception that are difficult to get through. She believes that, through this ability, she could alter the forms of Otherside entities and change their rules by modifying her own perception to manipulate the ghost stories behind them, ultimately accomplishing something similar through the use of Toriko's left hand to change Satsuki Uruma's definition.
==Notable Matchups==
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== References ==
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