Toshiki Chinen

### Relative(s)

 Unnamed Parents (Estranged)  Minegishi Toshiki (Adoptive parent)  Shimazaki Ryo (Adoptive father)

## Professional Status

### Affiliation

 Claw (former)  Black Vinegar Middle School  The Awakening Lab

### Occupation

3rd Year Middle School Student

**Toshiki Chinen** (知念 利基, *Chinen Toshiki*), is a third-year student at Black Vinegar Middle School and the a member of the school's co-ed volleyball club and works at Spirits and Such Consultation part-time.

## Appearance

Toshiki has dark brown eyes and black hair with a barber's cut with a longer top meant to be styled in a slicked back way with hair wax; unstyled it lays on his head in an uneven bowlcut with a slight side part. He has fair skin with numerous beauty marks, is above average height.

They wear the standard black vinegar male uniform, for first few days of school he was reprimanded and told to wear the female uniform after checking his gender marker but the day after they were also reprimanded as they were thought to be crossdressing. He changes in the classroom when changing into the gym uniform after everyone's gone; uses a compression sports bra (high impact sports bras) most of the time, has a chest binder for days when dysphoria is worse.

Outside of uniform, they have a wide variety of clothing but they swear by straight or wide legged pants, preferably high-waisted ones, likes turtlenecks, cropped tops, tucked in shirts; some of his outfits are character-inspired or oc-inspired. Likes wearing platform shoes/boots. They wear numerous accessories, some handmade, and loves to make dangling earrings and necklaces but wears rings more often.

## Personality

Toshiki is known as the quiet, smart, and art kid at school. He's usually put as the props maker or artist during projects and act as a co-leader. They have trouble socializing with others, but will offer to help anyone if they could but only when outright asked or in blatant need for help. They'll teach anyone on a subject when asked, and will answer questions truthfully unless it puts him in a bad light. In chat, he's a lot more expressive and talkative, feeling more comfortable texting rather than talking as they don't have the problem of overthinking what he says, people he talks to on a regular basis are baffled at the difference in-chat and in person Toshiki, some thinking that he's just putting up a false front, but in-chat Toshiki is unrestrained and open while in person Toshiki is guarded and unsure.

They have a tendency to overthink or to not think as well; he takes things a little too seriously. he likes to make schedules, lists, and plan ahead and has spectacular time management skills and had never passed something pass the deadline.

He is a big fan of some anime & manga series as well as other cartoons like Avatar: The Last Airbender to the point of being able to talk paragraphs about them and his other interests. He has quite a few hobbies and has a a handful interests due to curiosity and fixations but don't do them as often like his hobbies.

* **Hobbies**: bookbinding, arts and crafts

* **interests**: anime and manga, embroidery, bass playing, skateboarding, jewelry making, writing, sewing, cosplay

## History

Toshiki went to Black Vinegar Elementary School as a child and blended into the background very easily, often forgotten or unnoticed and mainly known as the quiet smart art kid. He got his powers at age 9 and was soon being pursued by claw, and by age 10 he got recruited and a few months after his contact with his parents get cut off.

First year middle school, they attended black vinegar and was in the same class as Teruki Hanazawa. He doesn't remember much from this year except for the time Teruki asked them out due to a dare, and they said ok because *the* Teruki asked him out in front of a large crowd and Toshiki didn't want to become known as the girl who turned Teruki Hanazawa down. They went out on a date, but mid-date Teru called them boring and left mid-date. Toshiki continued on with life with a small band-aid on his heart because while they did expect that to happen, it did still hurt.

A few months before the end of the school year, they cut their hair very short and it was a big change for him. At the start of his second year, he manages to convince his teachers to get him to wear the male uniform (may have had some minor brainwashing involved, read as definitely) and he attended school like normal and it wasn't until a month or two into the year after he got established as a smart quiet kid who's helpful where he also got noticed to be 'handsome for a girl.'

He became semi-popular in general as well, not enough to be known by name but known by 'what' he was; the student who's helpful and nice and good-looking. Soon after he was appointed as his class's male representative. They did not acknowledge their popularity and just moved on with their life, mainly because he doesn't believe people could like them at all, with incredibly low self-esteem and self-confidence, he doesn't like to think about being Somebody in his school.

## Powers & Abilities

Toshiki is a very powerful esper in terms of technique and mastery. He is a quick learner as he can watch and study various powers and techniques in person or in media and apply it to his own abilities. Due to his unique way of applying psychic powers, imbuing it into himself (invisibility and pyrokinesis) or into an object, his aura is invisible and other espers are unable to feel his presence as an esper. He himself is also unable to see his aura unless he consciously wills everyone to see it. His aura color is yellow and blue with gem-like patterns, sharp and unstable.

## Etymology

* The name **Toshiki** means "interest" (利) (**toshi**) and "basis" (基) (**ki**)
* Toshiki's surname **Chinen** means "know, wisdom" (知) (**chi**) and "wish, sense" (念) (**nen**)

## Notes & Trivia

* He is a slight contamination germaphobe regarding food.
* His favorite color is yellow.
* He was a part of the girl's volleyball club in his first year of middle school.
* They created special shoes like the metalbending police uniform where the sole is retractable after swiping some scrap metal from a junk yards, he rarely wears them.
* His haircut doesn't look the same every time they get it cut, they don't mind as it's a good way to spice things up in his life in a small way.
* He loves listening to music and can't go on long periods of not listening to anything, his music taste varies.
* They get headaches when drinking milk but oddly not almond milk.
* They don't watch movies.

## Plot

### Pre-Canon

When he first got his psychic powers, Toshiki showed them off to his mom when he was around 9 years old after watching Avatar, saying "Mom look I can do the same thing as Zuko!" and his palms ignited. His mom screamed and doused his hands in water and checking them for any sort of flammable liquid and burns and Toshiki went and bent the water too. His mom is simultaneously amazed and afraid for Toshiki because 'holy fuck my child has powers,' so she makes them promise that they won't ever show their powers to anyone else and they say okay due to his mom's scared expression, and reasoning it as that there has to be an important reason as to why they shouldn't show it off.

They still practice their powers in their backyard every now and again when there's no people around, taking a liking to the possibilities of earthbending but preferred the flames of firebending, they did this on days where he was sure the neighbors were out and there were no people walking by to catch him. Unfortunately he didn't know his aura was visible to other espers due to not knowing there were other espers.

At age 10 and a half, Toshiki nearly gets kidnapped by Claw when they were walking home from school, they narrowly escaped because he ran to a largely populated area and doing his best to get the attention of any competent adult to walk him back home. A month later, another attempt happened and Toshiki managed to fight back with a handful of injuries sustained, managing to burn and suffocate a handful of lackeys in retaliation, he starts to learn how to heal with waterbending. Two months later, Claw decided to change their tune and stalked Toshiki back to his house and blackmail his mom to give him to them through outing his powers, and blackmail Toshiki with the threat of hurting his mom. Toshiki agrees and he gets taken away by Claw.

He and his mom have contact with one another but are heavily monitored, so they don't talk much due to the growing distance and distrust. Toshiki's semi-well treated during their time at claw, as an already powerful esper regarding raw power, they didn't go through the pain of the awakening experiments, but they were however exposed to heavy and rough training to get into their top performance. Claw pays well enough even as a trainee, and the organization helped support Toshiki financially and got him a studio apartment near his school after Toshiki manages to talk Ishiguro into it by saying a kid going through a forest daily after school and leaving the forest in the morning is suspicious enough and bound to get the base location outed. In his apartment he finally gets to pursue his hobbies and gets into a variety of things, and soon he starts to do commissions and get extra money.

He makes contact with his mom unsupervised, trying to form a plan with her and escape to another place; his mom learns about the studio apartment and how Toshiki's managing his own finances at 11 years old and sends him money every month to help with rent and groceries. Eventually Claw finds out and he gets punished. They don't make contact again after getting caught.

Before turning 12, he changes his pronouns and name and made it known that he's not 'Hanemi' and wont respond to it anymore, and he would beat up any lackeys who didn't use his name or pronouns. The scars didn't care and Ishiguro just said that this change should not affect his performance in Claw. He gets close with Matsuo with gender bonding, he was already close to Tsuchiya as the the minority gender pre-transition, and frankly he's still uncomfortable with men pre and during transitioning. He and Koyama became acquainted, as Koyama's a strong dude who knows a bit of martial arts that Toshiki can take a few lessons from. It took a while for him to get adjusted to Sakurai because he was the one who threatened his mom and outed his unsupervised contact. All the other scars he doesn't interact with by his own violation (Terada, Muraki) or because he doesn't like them as much (Miyagawa, Muto).

* 9 - power reveal
* 10 - recruited at claw, cut contact
* 11 - trainee status, mid-way starts socially transitioning
* 12 - not trainee, not higher-up status, kinda-respected
* 13 - already in claw, well-integrated, spiteful, well-respected
* 14 - weapon status, well-respected, slightly feared
* 14 - canon timeline

## Other Timelines/Universes

* Mairimashita! Iruma-kun AU
* Haikyuu Crossover
* Post-Canon Universe (8 years later)
* Born Earlier AU