Ayame Kuriyama

["...Power supplements, not defines; you."]

Ayame Kuriyama

## Power, Abilities, Skills

* Quantum - Total Energy Manipulation, Creation and Erasure. Ayame is able to Create, Store, Change the form of, Erase or otherwise manipulate energy through touch, extending her control to be also short range around her by keeping in contact with air particles around herself.

* Hermit Purple - A stand that extends the use of Ayame's "Quantum" ability to a range of 66 feet via the multiple vines it is made of. These vines serve as extensions of her body and can be used to block blows, grab people or other tasks.

* "Omni Adept" - Having trained and studied magic in many forms, Ayame is able to use all of the basic elements of arcane affinities, with few exceptions.
* An Exceptional Artist, Sweets Maker and Singer/Musician with a custom instrument. She cannot play any others save this instrument, thought it is similar to a few traditional ones.
* Able to use and understand Sign Language, Alternian, Avalonian, English, Japanese and Chinese. Has a rough understanding of Northrendian, but cannot speak it.

### Stats:

* +4 to Speed
* +5 to Medical, Magical or Chemical Rolls.
* +6 to Power Use (Hanshin or Stand, not Magical, does not stack.)
* +6 to Perception/Charisma(Voice Only) and Arts.

* -4 to Strength
* -2 to Offense (Stacks with any offense attempt.)
* -1 to Damage Given
* +1 to Damage taken.

## Character Backstory

Ayame is the culmination of a person who will try to do good regardless if she believes it’s hopeless or not, regardless if she has powers or not, and regardless if it doesn’t fit the established standard or not. Her main goal is to teach and instill in people that they can make a positive difference, regardless of where they come from, what species they are, or what abilities they have or don’t have. Born in a trailer park and abandoned by her mother in a fire at the age of four, Ayame took the name Hidey after forgetting her original one from trauma. Living on the streets she defaulted to running and hiding until being sick of her own cowardice and helplessness, she tried to change it.

## Storyline:

Ayame played several roles during her first season, including being an accomplice in gathering info and being a thief to help her guardian, who was also a thief; to being a demon hunter in response to her guardian and friends' desires to end demons and the cults that summoned them, to being a mage student in the hopes of again being useful to demon hunting before finally joining Munogen Academy after being rejected multiple times to follow a desire from herself to help others. In the course of trying to help or protect others, Ayame has nearly died more than once, and gained a sort of apathetic attitude towards her own life after over hearing months prior to the Third Impact that an unavoidable world ending event would occur, and thus anything she did had no meaning.

Being told early on and made to internalize the world was hopeless and preordained warped her determination into a: “ If it’s all the same, I’m going to do my best anyway, no person left behind.” mentality. After the third impact, she spent some time soul searching and healing from that damage done, and is now less self destructive, but no less determined to help and show the meaning of spirit over natural born gifts.

During the time between S1 and S2, Ayame founded a school with four others focused on teaching people magic, regardless of their race, upbringing or social standing. She now works as it's groundskeeper and maintains the dimension it resides in.

Due to how busy she is however working multiple jobs, she rarely gets the downtime to visit many friends unless it's for work, and so most of her interactions with school friends after school were literally work interactions dealing with a villain.

In hero work, Ayame fills the role and name of *Facet*, a support hero who prefers to kept a sort of physical anonymity, speaking very little if at all above a whisper and wearing a costume that purposefully disguises and disfigures their body shape.

It is Facet's belief that a hero's appearance and image should matter little in comparison to their deeds, and keeps their image as small and ambiguous as possible to illustrate this point. Due to said point however, many don't even know what Facet looks like under the costume.

Ayame made peace with her past and is no longer averse to utilizing the entire elemental tree. Where as prior she was actively afraid of fire and would never use it. She spent her time in hero work, support item development or preparing for the new school semester to teach at Heritage Academy until events within the Association spurred her to try and create a group called: " The Watchmen" to attempt to help bring to justice heroes who were abusing their positions. The Watchmen were ultimately defeated in battle by the association itself, and Ayame gave up herself to spare the other members any backlash. As such, she is actively banned from the association, but as her group had legal rights to operate, no other actions could be taken against her. The Watchmen themselves do not operate much due to the possible threat of continued incurrence of the association's wrath.

She currently spends time working on expanding her support item line and candy shop, finding the abundance of time she used to spend in the hero association being funneled into the business turning a large profit. She has recently opened up a theme park that has been dubbed by the general populace to be: "CandyLand" which, upon it's inception, has begun to be a strong success.

ACW soon began a steady decline in popularity due to it's owner being a 'known vigilante" as bad press and continued pressure from the association caused a spiral downwards for the business. Board members sought to remove Ayame from leadership of the company in efforts to salvage it. She refused, but more chose to disappear from public view.

Ayame is currently a member of the "Jump Force". A Pseudo on call team of members recognized as "Earth's Strongest." who work as a unit to handle high level threats from this or other dimensions.

## Fun facts/Trivia

* Ayame is highly flexible, originally believed to be due to her early upbringing requiring her to run and hide in small spaces, or due to her poor early on diet, making her tendons in many joints less firm than they should be. It was later discovered this was not the case, and instead was due to the fact she was an Okutsuki. A near extinct family line of humans whose magic melds directly with their bones, granting them powerful "Bone Magic" but also making said bones and tendons very lose for the purpose of their manipulation.

* Ayame has a very beautiful voice, but she was originally mute due to fire damage to her throat. She still prefers to be silent most of the time and knows sign language. One of the reasons she is an excellent artist is her need to draw things early on to communicate.

* Due to the fact Ayame has spent a substantial amount of time practicing Pocket Dimensions and tier applications, Ayame is younger than she should be due to exposure to slower world clocks. She is approximately 20 years old, where she should be 24.
* Ayame is the Sage of Space Magic, but is currently \*unaware\* of this fact as Space Magic is a nigh extinct branch of magic. She uses it in a branch of magic she calls "Artcraft", due to this ignorance.