Master Saku

Saku at the moment of the Justice incident.

> "I already know. I can hear your thoughts."
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**Saku,** also known as Master S, is the head of technology and chemical development for the Silver City Syndicate, and a Tier A outlaw wanted for the destruction of the Justice guild. Her crimes against nature as of thus far have been undiscovered, due to her working conditions.

## Personality

Saku is quiet, reserved, and doesn't express herself that much. Nothing comes as a surprise to Saku due to the nature of her abilities, detailed below. She can have a quick temper around certain people. When Saku does express herself, she is capable of an unstoppable, murderous rage when angered.

She is exceptionally driven; she used to work under the supervision of the Giga Impact boss, with research directives such as IV-editing, personality-editing, and even Pokemon fusion. (Not to be confused with **hybridization**, the result of two different species of Pokemon breeding.) Fusion is the process of *forcing two living Pokemon into one host*.

After the effects of the Giga Impact arc, Master S and the Syndicate are currently no longer business partners, nor affiliated with the underground fighting organization.

### Methods

Saku conducts all of her work in the Underground Fusion Facility, a personally constructed laboratory to accommodate her extraordinary psychosensitivity. She aids in the communication of her underlings through the use of her specially invented "feedback collars," which must be held down to relay speech, and are equipped with explosives in the event that the machine is stripped, either by its user or by an enemy. Her psychic power is above average for a typical Meowstic; her level is estimated to be in the early 60s.

She can construct her underground hideouts by unfolding her ears, which completely erase rubble from the earth by teleporting it into the atmosphere. A majority of meteor shower sightings in the Silver City area are actually Master S expanding her headquarters, right under everyone's nose.

### Abilities

Saku possesses an active **psychokinetic ability** (the manifestation of psychic energy to create physical forces) and a passive **telepathic ability.** (involuntary, more like overhearing thoughts of people within a radius).

Her psychokinesis ability can be used to move objects, create psychic barriers, or even teleport matter. The accuracy of teleporting matter decreases linearly as distance increases, making it unsafe for her to teleport organisms long distances. The ability to teleport matter is how she constructed the Underground Fusion Facility. The more force she exerts with her psychic powers, the more exhausting it is for her. She can circumvent this by performing the task in smaller pieces; for example, instead of teleporting entire hallways of rock into the atmosphere, she can divide it into a lattice of a million tiny pieces and teleport them individually.

Her telepathy ability is both a blessing and a curse. Being able to hear thoughts is useful to prevent an ambush, but when the ability is not needed, the noise can quickly drive her insane. She can hear the thoughts of any non-Dark type Pokemon capable of thought. The effectiveness of her telepathy ability depends on proximity and emotional expression of the target. The closer and more expressive the target is, the louder their thoughts are.

At the cost of all this psychic development, Master S is extremely frail physically, but her psychosensitivity lends to a capacity to use psychic powers for extended periods of time without exhaustion. Her psychic powers are comparable to the Mew residents of Origin Island, developed almost entirely from sheer willpower.

## History

Saku was born in Silver City to neglectful parents. She has had telepathy for as long as she could remember, but did not understand the information being relayed into her head until she understood language at 1 month old, due to constant exposure. This cognitive growth accelerated quickly, and Saku soon became too smart for school. She became self-sufficient at an early age, not needing parents for anything other than shelter.

Due to her psychosensitivity, she developed a fondness for Dark-type Pokemon, as they were the only Pokemon she could not hear the thoughts of. The only friend she had who was not Dark-type was Rachel, who was a Pancham at the time. This was because her thoughts were much quieter than everyone else's. She commonly would visit Rachel's home and be treated well by her parents. Saku became like a sister to Rachel, and Rachel's parents were always impressed with Saku's developments.

At the time that Saku and Rachel were young, the Iron Enforcers guild had not even been established yet. The major governing guild over Silver City was **Justice**, which was founded at around the same times as the major guilds of the other regions (namely Everhope, La Casa Monstro, and Puerta de la Muerte).

Rachel's quiet thoughts were due to her father, whom she loved dearly. Rachel's father was wanted for illegal drug trade by the Justice guild, which he had to do in order to support their household. One day, when Rachel and Saku were about 10 years old, they visited Rachel's home and saw the Justice guild outside of her home. They watched as Justice guild workers executed her unarmed father, who had fallen victim to a sting operation during a drug deal. This event would permanently shape their vision of guilds. The death of Rachel's father was quickly swept under the rug. Rachel and Saku were enraged by this, developing an intense distaste for guilds and a burning hatred for Justice.

Over the course of the next 5 years, Saku had committed herself to a plan to take out Justice for good. She would hone her psychic powers for 5 years, voluntarily staying in the form of an Espurr so as to appear unassuming and undangerous. A result of this was that she had to train harder in order for her to see herself getting stronger. She had managed to level herself to A-tier over the course of that time, choosing to focus entirely on her psychic abilities.

When Saku was 15 years old, she finally evolved into a Meowstic, which dramatically increased her power. The time would come for her to cement her status as an outlaw with this act of terror. She set up an appointment to join the Justice guild in order to get close to the guildmaster and everyone important to Justice's operation. When she strutted into the halls of the Justice guild and was in position, she opened her ears, releasing a psychic explosion that killed all of Justice's administration instantly. She walked through burning rubble with unfathomable wrath. Her psychic powers made her practically untouchable, covered in a force field that reflected projectiles. She used psychokinesis to rip steel infrastructure beams from the initial blast and beat any survivors to death. The Justice guild had been exterminated completely.

Then, she and Rachel went into hiding and formed the Silver City Syndicate together. Chaos unfolded and crime skyrocketed in Silver City due to lack of guild influence. The Iron Enforcers rose afterwards in response to this, and is the youngest of any active guilds in Astrea.

Saku is quite possibly the brightest genius in all of Astrea for her age, having harnessed steam technology and electromagnetism and wireless networks in her modern inventions.

This character is currently not in use. (Subject to change.)