Araminta Hollansworth

**Araminta Hollansworth** is a pro hero living in Japan, she was born and raised in London, England before traveling the world and becoming a philanthropist, avid historian, historical preservation figure and book-keeper.

## Appearance

Clothing:

Most of the time she wears casual but classy and professional clothing that usually includes blazers, button ups, ties and bows with the occasional gem attached, pencil skirts, tights, short heels, pants, and the such. For more casual occasions she usually dons loose clothing that are usually monochrome or neutral in color. She also wears round reading glasses with radiation protection.

Costume:

## Personality

**Personality:** Araminta is a calm and level-headed woman with great manners and a soft smile. She’s a caring and non-judging person who enjoys making friends and helping others whenever she can. She enjoys talking to other people about novels, history and actively seeks to educate others and bring them to treasure knowledge and logic the same way she does. Speaking of logic, one can also call her a control freak, with not a hair or stitch out of place she enjoys cleanliness and order above all when it comes to her work and goals, going so far as to push it on others even through her charming and warm outside.

People she sees intriguing, interesting, or generally close to her will find Araminta talkative and a bit of a nerd, as they may find her educating them even when not asked and incredibly inquisitive. It seems as though no detail goes unnoticed by her even when concealed cleverly, her cunning and careful thinking has gotten her far within the hero community and she holds that trait with people she holds dear.

Though a control and rule freak at times, she doesn’t always enjoy being the goody two shoes many see her as. If push comes to shove and given a chance, she won’t care much about others’ opinions if it means she does her job and accomplishes her goal. She has the knowledge and smarts to get it her own way.

**Good Traits:** Sly, intelligent, well-mannered, calming, agile, punctual, strong sense of judgment, curious

**Bad Traits:** Can be seen as cold or pretentious, drops people often if she doesn’t see them as a good enough person or uninterested in her interests or uninteresting themselves.

**Likes:** History, books, ancient languages, admiring architecture, live music performances, vintage objects and tools

**Dislikes:** Bad movies, people who lie, not understanding a language, fiction getting worse, cars

**Hobbies:** Learning new languages, reading and analyzing novels, playing board games, painting, dressing up, taking walks, playing multiple instruments

**Fears:** Libraries burning down, loss of knowledge, her own memory fading, others becoming more ignorant and destroying the planet

**Habits:** Taps her fingers a lot, playing with her accessories

**Dreams/Goals:** To open a university(s) in different countries, hold patronage to as many organizations as she can, become the best teacher as she can to others

## Abilities

**Physical Strengths:** Incredibly fast and agile, good at dodging any incoming attacks

**Mental Strengths:** Does not care for taunts or insults, never loses her temper or lets her emotions take control of her

**Physical Weaknesses:** She is just another normal human being, a bullet or stab wound will do

**Mental Weaknesses:** Will internally break down if you threaten those close to her or if you destroy anything of global significance, historical or cultural. If you have a mind manipulation or distortion quirk that’ll work as well

**Skills:** Great memory and organization skills, diplomat and good at de-escalating situations and emotions, questions everything and always looks for different ways to approach situations, incredible intelligence, a polyglot

**Fighting Style:** Usually does not directly fight herself, prefers to let her quirk to most of the work, but she is knowledgeable in basic hand to hand combat and weaponry

### Quirk

**Well Read** (よく読む, *Yoku yomu*?): Araminta can manipulate any paper with written information on it so long as she is aware of it, knows of its contents and understands it to the best of her ability. The paper’s manipulability also depends on the quality of the information written on it.

She can shape the paper and distort it depending on its volume and limits, shape it to different forms, even manipulate the internal structure and properties such as hardening it to the point where its stronger than quartz, turn it into an almost liquid state where it acts like water, make it so that it’s as thin and sharp as a needle or pin, or even shift the ink or writing on the paper (though possible is extremely risky.) The changes she makes to the paper is also permanent after using them, even if she stops manipulating it to her will, making it both riskier to use after but will come in handy at utility.

## Equipment

By the daily she carries the following in a bookbag: Copies of Game of Thrones, Silence of the Lambs, a thesaurus

## History

Born into wealth in London, England, Araminta was raised by her Japanese mother and caucasian father, who spoiled her with endless amounts of education and knowledge with their library, inherited by her father. Through her childhood, she has shown exceptional intelligence and was praised by her family, eventually joining spelling bees, trivia contests and the likes in her early educational career. Though this proved her potential in academics, it drained the young girl of her energy as she was put to more work by her family, this only increased as her quirk manifested at 7 years old, which concerned her parents at first since her quirk came up a couple years beyond average, which struck Araminta’s ire. At this age her parents also made her take multiple language classes, which annoyed her as well, but proved to be a useful skill in the future as she gained the ability to learn multiple tongues very quickly.

Growing into her middle school age, her parents had decided to send her to a boarding school in Canada after Araminta had begun to display signs of rebellion as she began to sneak out of their estate and played with the books in her library in the backyards and near ponds around their house. The boarding school was hell to Araminta as she was now put under even more pressure to excel and conform. She did have outstanding grades but quickly got bored of her life in Canada. She did however grow a fondness for history and literature, part of which was influenced by her quirk. There was another interest she had grown during this time however, and that was professional heroism, after picking up a book in the library about heroes and the different types, their duties and courage, the young Araminta was fascinated and began research, barely able to balance schoolwork and this new interest of hers. At first, she thought of this as just a side hobby, to research heroes and their jobs, but it grew to her trying out heroism herself; training with her quirk (which gave her a lot of scars), doing small time things such as reporting school bullying and even defending a girl she saw being berated by a teacher. Though she didn’t raise a finger, only her voice, the school took it as an insult and punished her by taking away her books, this angered Araminta to the point where she challenged the teacher who was scolding her classmate and demanded that her books be returned and the girl she defended be free of punishment. She won, actually, the argument at least, but was sent back to Britain for her moment of rebellion.

She was about 15 when she was sent back, undoubtedly sad that she had to leave what few friends she had behind but promised to see them again when she had the chance to. But that would have to wait as her parents were obviously disappointed with her, shocked that the boarding school had managed to turn their little girl even more rebellious than calm her knack for getting into arguments. The biggest shocker to her parents was when she insisted on enrolling into a hero school in the UK, baffled by this, her parents objected, but Araminta told them if they didn’t allow her, she’d never join a competition or any extra curricular work again, this worked, not that it surprised Araminta, but she was relieved, and so she began her studies in (currently unnamed hero school), Britain.

Getting into Hero School would probably be the best thing that happened to her, during her stay, she learned about professional heroism and participated in many extracurricular activities, notably their Debate Society, Literature, and History Club. Ironically enough, the one place where learning how to fight and deal with rescuing civilians from stressful situations was the thing that managed to calm her temper, and she learned how to hold her mouth and get the job done efficiently at this point in her life. After graduating from this school at 18, she was now a mature woman, who knew how to use her wits wisely and how to bring justice swiftly and cleanly. But she wasn’t done yet, and enrolled into university and then law school after, both because she wanted to learn about the law just in case her hero career brought up some legal issues, and so she has a backup if ever she retires or needs something else to lean on.

After that and into her adulthood, Araminta became a figure for historical preservation, literature, and philanthropy, using her family’s wealth to become a patron for multiple organizations and even helped in educating children and volunteering at libraries as side jobs. Now, she’s chosen to connect with her Japanese roots and is currently living in Japan, where she volunteers often at the library.

## Trivia

* + She can understand the following languages: English, Old English, Celtic, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Latvian, Romanian, Arabic, Japanese, (Currently learning Hindu, Thai, and both traditional and simplified Chinese)
	+ She is half Japanese from her mother as she moved from Japan to Britain in the late 60’s.