Kagemaru Kuramori

* Civillian
* Hero Costume

**Kagemaru Kuramori**, also known as **Aeon**, is a student in Class 1-A at Mukari Academy, training to become a Pro Hero.

## Appearance

Kagemaru has a lean muscular frame that gives him an athletic physique. He stands slightly taller than the average height for his age. His skin tone is fair and pale. His most distinctive feature is his long white hair, which he keeps slicked back away from his face. The hair on the sides and back of his head is long and flows down to his shoulders. His eyes are reddish-orange in color.

At school, Kagemaru wears the standard Mukari uniform, however he leaves off the customary necktie that most other students wear. He leaves his blazer casually unbuttoned, and underneath it he wears a plain white t-shirt rather than the formal collared dress shirt.

His hero costume consists of a long, flowing black trench coat that drapes around his body, left open at the front. Underneath the coat he wears a slate gray turtleneck made of a stretchy athletic material that fits snugly across his chest and arms. The turtleneck is tucked into tailored black pants, the legs of which fit closely to his skin without any sagging fabric. He wears a black belt that has a designed hourglass shaped buckle at the front. On his feet he wears black boots, the heels and toes reinforced with tougher material for combat.

## Personality

Kagemaru frequently comes across as quite cynical and sarcastic in his interactions with others at school or home, usually making snarky remarks laced with his signature sardonic wit. He maintains an overall apathetic and dismissive attitude, rarely concerning himself with people that don't interest him or rules that he sees as senseless to follow. This dismissiveness ties directly into Kagemaru's openly defiant nature--he seems to intentionally disobey societal expectations and directives purely for the sake of rebellion itself, rather than out of pragmatism. This is prevalent in the fact that he continues smoking herbal cigarettes on school grounds just because it's seen as forbidden, even though he knows it serves little tangible purpose. Having grown up under the guardianship of Natumiyo Toki after his parents criminal incarceration, Kagemaru failed to pick up on many traditional etiquette and manners norms that Toki may have aimed to instill within him. Kagemaru has retained, even into his time at Mukari, an exceedingly blunt, uncensored personal communication style fitting for someone constantly bucking societal expectations.

When it comes to his ambitions, once Kagemaru sets his sights on a particular goal or course of action, he pursues it with an iron self-will that leads many classmates to see him as stubborn or bullheaded. However, Kagemaru sees these goals as central to who he wants to become--so once he decides on a path, very few can hope to deter him through logical persuasion. He is unwaveringly determined to fight for what he believes in at any moment in time, even in the face of overwhelming hardship or opposition from peers and guardians like Toki. When enacting his plans or pursuing his interests, Kagemaru despises when unforeseen obstacles arise to impede his progress. When faced with impediments getting in the way of his goals, he often enters foul, irritable moods where snaps at anyone unlucky enough to be nearby. Some classmates see these temperamental outbursts as childish overreactions, but in Kagemaru's mind the world seems to conspire specifically to undermine him at every turn--so anger is the natural response. While these moods burn hot, they generally pass quickly enough once Kagemaru regains his focus on circumventing the obstacles newly strewn about his pre-determined path.

The byproduct remains Kagemaru's reliably antagonistic relationship with guardian Toki, as explosive arguments flare up in their household over Kagemaru's behavioral defiance on an almost daily basis. While their words are often harshly stated, an appreciation for Toki's guidance in shaping him may continue existing beneath the surface tensions.

After being accepted into Mukari Academy's hero program, Kagemaru adopted an even more fiery, openly defiant persona befitting the unconventional lone wolf hero he envisions for himself after graduation. He strives to walk his own path regardless of peer pressure or surface-level societal conventions--chasing the exceptionalism of his imagined family history. While this alienates some classmates, to peers like Karma who already has history with Kagemaru, he's not all that bad.

## Abilities

### Quirk

**Pendulum** (振り子 *Furiko*?): Kagemaru's Quirk gives him the ability to control the personal timeline and motion of objects or living things through physical contact.

By touching a target with his left hand, Kagemaru can force it to rewind along its timeline, reversing its previous movements and retracing its steps backwards along the exact path originally travelled. Once activated through left hand contact, the target will revert to mimicking prior recorded motions in reverse chronological order. The speed of this rewind is also controlled by Kagemaru. Pendulum also enables progressing targets forward. Through right hand contact, objects and persons can be pushed ahead along their timeline, resuming intended motions as if never interrupted. As with rewinding, the rate this occurs can be controlled, slowly incrementing forward or vastly accelerated. Physical contact is required to manipulate subjective timelines, which can prove difficult with evasive or long-range opponents.

Kagemaru tends to use this ability mainly on himself to speed up his movements. By constantly keeping his right hand charged with the acceleration power of Pendulum, he can hyper-stimulate his personal timeline to give the appearance of enhanced speed. Kagemaru can speed up his brain, giving him a faster reaction time.

In its current state, Kagemaru can only reverse living things up to 30 seconds back, and can only send them 30 seconds forward. This means the ability only proves useful in on-the-whim plans. With objects, though, Kagemaru has found himself able to reverse them 2 hours back, and 2 hours forward.

If Kagemaru overuses Pendulum's timeline manipulation on himself, he risks dramatically accelerating or decelerating his heartbeat to dangerous degrees depending on direction of overuse.

### Ultimate Moves

* **Peregrine's Pace** ( *Perugurin Pēsu*?): Kagemaru accelerates a target's personal timeline to hyper-speed. Targets lacking mental acuity to handle this swift timeline perceive merely disorienting blurs. He uses this move in all of his battles, and in everyday life, essentially granting him superspeed. He has grown reliant of this to get around, always ending up exhausted afterwards.
* **Snail's Pace** ( *Suneiru Pēsu*?): By decelerating a target's timeline with his left hand, Kagemaru forcibly slows their movements to a crawling pace. From their perspective, the world seems unchanged while their bodies lag behind relentlessly.
* **Rush Hour** ( *Rasshu Awā*?): By making physical contact with multiple opponents, Kagemaru accelerates their personal timelines to speeds beyond human control. From their perspectives, the entire world abruptly moves in a disorienting blur. The extreme dissonance induces crippling nausea and vertigo that leaves them incapacitated. Some have shown to remain in control.

Kagemaru's stats, according to the creator.

## Equipment

**Flowing Black Coat**: A long black leather duster coat with loose sleeves. Allows for exaggerated arm movements to disorient opponents in close combat. The loose fabric also hides the arms' motions for stealthier Quirk activation.

**Silver Wristwatch**: A digital wristwatch specially calibrated to Kagemaru's physiology. Automatically adapts to temporal changes in Kagemaru, and is never affected by the ability. Other than that, just a normal wristwatch.

**Reinforced Gloves**: Padded, fingerless gloves with protective outer plates functioning as lightweight gauntlets. Allows for protected hand-to-hand combat. Cushioning reduces harm to hands from repeated rapid strikes. They are fingerless with a hole on the palm to allow for quirk activation.

## Notes

* His favorite food is crab rangoon.
* Raigo Pawn, his place of work, is owned by Toki's friend. Toki got the job for Kagemaru to teach him discipline after getting fired from his previous job. He favors the grandfather clock and has been trying to repair it for weeks.
* His quirk "Pendulum" has been used by characters in other instances, and serves as a form of signature for his creator. This version of Pendulum in the most balanced.
* He only ever smokes herbal cigarettes. He buys them from an unnamed friend.
* Toki knew Karma Queen’s brother, Johnny Queen, as they worked together in the military.