Asuma Shinohara

**Asuma Shinohara** (四乃晴 明日真 *Azuma Shinohara***?**) is the 3rd ranked Level 5 esper in Academy City, and has been nicknamed *Graviton* due to his esper power.

## Appearance

Asuma is on the tanner side of complexion due to his Filipino heritage. His hair flows freely in every direction, covering his eyes even though he attempts to pull it back into a ponytail. His eyes are light brown which compliment his skintone.

Despite his Japanese and Filipino heritage Asuma is rather tall, standing at 188cm, as well as possessing a defined muscular build.

## Personality

Asuma is a somewhat complex individual. He is normally seen to be nonchalant and playful towards his classmates and friends. However, he is unsympathetic and cruel towards Academy City's higher ups, he hates the dark side of the city.

Asuma is shown to be highly intelligent, both emotionally and logistically. He promotes a carefree and jovial attitude, while his constant vigilance often hides under layers of serenity and equanimity. Asuma acts laid-back while being on constant alert, seeming to look quite rude at times.

Asuma dislikes formalities, often acting in an unpredictable way while being cocky and taunting. He acts nonchalant and jokingly submissive since he does not care about social status or recognition. Asuma uses a lot of sarcasm and he reacts with ironic adaptation when someone claims him to be lesser, he has nothing to prove and could not care less for his ranking.

## Abilities

### Esper Abilities

Asuma's power is known as **Graviton** ( *重力子 Jūryoku-ko***?**, lit. "Fundamental Law of Mass"). The ability is named after gravitons, an hypothetical quantum of gravity, an elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction. Asuma is one of few gravity manipulators in Academy City as well as undoubtedly the most powerful one.

While most gravity based esper abilities allows its user the control of a certain aspect of gravity, such as increasing gravity, decreasing gravity, change the center of gravity and much more, Asuma's ability allows him full control of the gravity and gravitons in his vicinity on a much larger scale than anyone else.

As one of the Four Fundamental Forces gravity is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. So powerful in fact that Asuma ability, when in his **Awakened State**, has been described as **The One Outside the Grasp of God** as the ability directly manipulates aspect of the universe itself.

### Repulsion

After a run in with Academy City's rank 1 Esper, Accelerator, Asuma got inspired by the former's ability to redirect/reflect any attack coming his way and developed his own variant of it.

Asuma uses this passive ability of **"Repulsion"** to push away any oncoming physical objects coming towards the field that protects his entire body, most likely his AIM Diffusion Field, which covers the clothes he wears and select objects he is holding. "Repulsion" is a lot simpler than Accelerator's redirection and require less calculations, all which can be done by Asuma subconsciously. For defensive use, Asuma subconsciously establishes a filter that analyzes everything as harmful or not, and uses his repulsion to push away anything that could harm him. Examples of these would be high-velocity objects that are pushed away.

Asuma can extend the perimeter of "Repulsion" and use it in a more offensive manner.

### Weaknesses

The repulsion barrier has a very clear weakness that being it only works on objects that abide the laws of gravity. The barrier is an absolute defense for anything physical, such as bullets, cars and even light, but it cannot block things such as fire, electricity or sound waves.

### Gravity Manipulation

**Gravity Control** allows Asuma to manipulate the gravity of any object or individual in his vicinity. As such, he can change the direction and force of gravity from its standard downward 1*G* force.

Asuma typically uses his ability for offensive purposes. He can manipulate physical matter from the surrounding area, such as the ground he is in, to use as his weapon and launch at his opponents, crushing them with the force-enhanced matter. Regardless of its size, the object can inflict massive destructive force when its gravity is altered to a greater strength and force. He can also stop bullets shot at him and deflect them back to their sources.

Moreover, Asuma can directly control people's physical gravities. When manipulating his opponents' gravities, he can immobilize their movements by making their bodies heavy or light enough to render them incapacitated. For instance, he can make them levitate by lightening their masses and immediately plunge them to the ground with a heavy force.

He can also manipulate his own gravity as he deems fit. He can decrease his body's gravity to lighten his mass while attacking at high speed; as a result, his kicks released at high speed can pierce through his targets with the weight of an iron ball. In addition, he can control his gravity and allow himself to sprint at overwhelming speeds and reflexes without losing momentum. Asuma can also manipulate his gravity that can allow him to stand upside down on the ceiling, ride his motorcycle sideways on the face of a building, and even walk on an airborne plane's flap with relative ease.

By increasing his own density, he is capable of crushing a tank with his bare hands. He is also able to shoot balls of compressed gravity that act like black holes that swallow anything.

**Fake Black Hole Generation**: Asuma manipulates gravity in order to create miniature black holes that swallow and obliterate everything on contact. Despite their destructive abilities, the black spheres can be broken apart if the amount of energy they are absorbing is too much or if a force in opposite direction to the gravity is applied.

**Flight**: Asuma can fly, glide and/or levitate through his manipulation of gravity. He can fly at varying speeds, levitate, or propel himself without taking flight, including enhanced jumping by a short burst of flight. This is achieved by gathering amounts of gravitational energies as a propulsion system, decreasing his gravitational pull/weight, and pull his own mass through the air while repelling gravity simultaneously.

**Gyrokinesis**: By controlling gravitons and gravitational force fields in hi vicinity Asuma is able to use a form of telekinesis.

**Gravitational Downforce**: Asuma can drastically increase the gravity in a given area, making moving or even standing difficult for anyone in it, even causing damage to the targeted area/targets, prompting the ground to crack and cave in, crushing the targets.

**Graviton Blast**: By rapidly projecting gravitons in a cohesive beam, Asuma can generate a force blast with a maximum concussive force equivalent to the primary shock wave of an explosion of 20,000 pounds of TNT.

**Personal Gravity**: Asuma can manipulate his own gravitational field.

* **Enhanced Strength**: With the help of gravity manipulation their is almost nothing that Asuma cannot lift, from cars, tanks, airplanes and even large buildings.

* **Enhanced Speed**: Asuma can increase his speed several folds by simply decreasing the gravitational pull on his body. He can also increase his speed even further if he combines it with his repulsion ability and uses it to **push** himself forword.

* **Enhanced Agility/Mobility**: By decreasing the gravitational pull on his body, or redirecting it, Asuma can traverse a multitude of environments with ease.

* **Enhanced Leap**: By decreasing his own gravitational pull Asuma is capable of leaping several miles without touching the ground a single time.

### Gravitational Energy Manipulation

Asuma can not only manipulate gravity but he can also shape and manipulate the gravitational energy, i.e., the energy a body with mass has in relation to another massive object. This energy is connected to gravity or gravitational force and kinetic energy. An object has its own gravitational field that draws it to a larger object, like the Earth. As an object is positioned high above the ground, its gravitational energy increases while its kinetic energy decreases. As the object plummets towards the ground, its kinetic energy increases while its gravitational energy decreases.

Asuma can harness the gravitational potential energy in his immediate area and turn it into kinetic energy and in the process temporarily lower the gravitational pull in that area.

### Wings

* Asuma in his awakened form
* Asuma's Wings and Halo
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**Awakening** *(Person with Near-Absolute Powers 覚醒 Kakusei, lit. Awakened)* During the Academy City Invasion Arc Asuma encountered magic for the first time and learned about the more esoteric side of gravity, that single encounter accelerated his evolution and jump started an awakening. In this form, he loses all form of thought and opts to act on instinct alone. He gains angelic characteristics such as wings and a halo. In this form he has six golden wings in multiple square shapes, while also bearing a glowing golden halo in the shape of an horned crown that seem to be made out of pure energy, and he speaks the **Angelic Language**.

His body is coated in a dense AIM Diffusion Field, as well as his wings erect an large, multiple kilometers, circular field that is capable of detecting gravitational fields of any kind, such sensing organisms by the strength of the gravitational field or the presence of a planet in the naked vacuum. The wings also do all the complex computation process for Asuma's Esper Ability **Graviton**.

**Gravity Construct**: Because of his increased calculation capabilities his ability to manipulate gravity becomes a lot more powerful and complex. The increased calculation capabilities allows Asuma to manipulate gravitons on an sub atomic level, shaping said gravitons into tools, objects, weapons and other items of varying permanence.

**Gravity Singularity Generation**: Asuma can also create gravitational singularities, where matter is compressed to a point of zero size and space-time curvature is infinite. This usually creates a black hole, where the singularity is "cloaked" by an event horizon (the boundary where the escape velocity equals the speed of light). The black holes produce a strong gravitational field that destroys and devours all matter.

It is theorized, by Aleister Crowley, that if Asuma is ever successful in fully controlling his **Awakened Form** he will be able to harness and create gravitational waves, disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, generated by accelerated masses, that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light.