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Character
Name: Hisako Ichiki/Armor
Fandom: Marvel Comics
Gender: female
Age: 16
Time Period: Post Astonishing X-Men #41Because I'm not getting into Schism.
Wing Color: bright yellow
History: Here at the Marvel wiki.
Personality:
It's quite obvious that Hisako was raised to be polite, even if...she's not always very good at actually being polite. Still, she makes efforts here and there--especially if she doesn't know you. Being raised in Japan, her tendency to default to politeness and formality is hardly surprisingly, because that's simply what's the cultural norm there. Her elders are often referred to as "sir" or "m'am," and even if she's been told to refer to them otherwise she'll call them by their last name until she's more familiar with them--Emma Frost is "Miss Frost," despite her requests to at least be something like "Auntie Emma." She's also completely at a loss for how to treat Storm when she first meets her--because Ororo is royalty, but also one of her teammates and she keeps insisting on Hisako dropping the formality with her...
Underneath the attempts at politeness, Hisako can actually be pretty rude and sarcastic. Depending on how comfortable she is with you she might awkwardly try to cover it up, but that doesn't stop her from talking out of turn in class without thinking. She's not the type to blindly follow orders and won't hesitate to question people as soon as she has concerns, even if it means speaking out of turn. She's definitely a very awkward girl who often feels out of place among the company she's in, but she's also someone that quickly found herself not afraid to talk back to Wolverine. And getting to know him better just saw her throwing more and more sarcasm his way, because she was becoming comfortable enough to stop holding back for politeness' sake.
Hisako's the kind of person that shows her fondness for you through teasing. Of all of the X-Men, she's closest to Wolverine, which is make apparent because of her near relentless jokes at his expense. Her favorite subjects are Logan's drinking habits and his weight...which she blames on his drinking habits. Lay off the beer, Logan. She also warms up to Beast pretty quickly...which we see in her threatening to shave Japanese obscenities into his fur. At this point, she's comfortable enough at Xavier's to stop holding herself back for the sake of politeness around most people, but even when she's freely making sarcastic remarks and joking around there's an air of awkwardness to her that she can't completely shake.
There are some people she doesn't even bother trying to be polite to, though, and that would be the villains. Enemies aren't worth bothering to hold herself back for, so any snarky comment sent their way is fair game.
Being on a superhero team and all, Hisako's definitely for doing the right thing. Or...at least her idea of the right thing, because some of the things the X-Men tend to do for the sake of mutantkind aren't popular with other people(see: Avengers vs. X-men, a fight Hisako was part of). Pretty early into her career as an X-Man, she gave herself and Wolverine away to a group of enemies and picked a fight with them when she and Logan had other things to attend to. As Logan complained about this, she quickly defended her actions with the fact that the people they were fighting were going to shoot civilians if they hadn't intervened. She's also questioned Logan's morally questionable behavior in the past. Punching an old man in a wheelchair didn't go over well with her.
Hisako is fairly ambitious and definitely a hard worker. When we're first introduced to her, she makes it clear that she wants what a good chunk of the students at Xavier's strive for--to become an X-Man someday(and, lucky her, due to Logan taking a liking to her that day came far earlier than anyone would've ever expected). Being put on the team by Logan in no way made her complacent, because what came next was proving she belongs on the team...to herself and everyone else. Her initial interactions with the other X-Men show this pretty clearly, and even when they react to Wolverine making her an X-Man by accepting it pretty casually? She's still very focused on living up to the name. We see her training constantly, usually asking Logan to be her sparring partner. She also took the initiative to read all of the X-Men's files on old enemies and the like, to the point of the other X-Men referring to her for information. Emma Frost, for example, wasn't an X-Man in the early days, so she turns to Hisako to fill her in on anything they encounter that she hadn't run into before.
Joining the X-Men has done a lot for Hisako's confidence. Originally, she felt like she'd never be able to make it among them, she'd never be good enough. Even after Wolverine let her on the team, she pretty much told him she didn't belong on the team at first. It took Logan pushing her for her to really accept her place on the team and turn her lack of confidence into a reason to keep working hard.
Strengths:
As a mutant, Hisako possesses the ability to protect her body with psionic armor. What color it is tends to vary from artist to artist--it's been blue, red, a mixture of blue/red/purple, and, very rarely, yellow. What exactly it is seems to be hard to describe--no one's ever fully described it, actually. When Logan first asked her about it, Hisako started to explain that it was her accessing protection from her ancestors. At a later date, it is said to be made of memory. Due to its connection to her ancestors, Hisako's power will briefly increase dramatically when someone in her family dies. Her armor is usually around the same size, but if she strains or temporarily gets more powerful she can make it larger. However, the former tires her out quickly. She can also encase another person in the armor with her if she strains. Besides its defensive uses, it also makes, for example, any punches she throws hit harder.
For reference, usually her armor is something like this or this. Meanwhile, this is an example of her straining to make it larger, and here she's straining to include someone else.
Hisako is also a really hard worker, as seen through the initiative she takes in her training and how she goes out of her way to do her research. She's very loyal and dedicated, proving her loyalty to the X-Men multiple times--planning to follow Cyclops' orders even after his and every other X-Man's hypothetical death and leaving her mother and brother's funeral to assist them in a fight, for example. She's also pretty good at getting through things with a sense of humor.
Weaknesses:
While most things cannot pierce Hisako's armor, it is weak to adamantium. Wolverine found this when his claws pierced her armor in a sparring session(although her armor is thick enough at default size that he usually can't actually hurt her because his knuckles prevent him from getting far enough, it depends on what part of her body he's going for). Maintaining her armor tires Hisako out, so she has to be careful of how long she has it up. She also has to be careful of how large she makes it--the larger she is, the faster she gets tired. Expanding it to include someone else also tires her out faster.
Hisako's awkwardness around others--especially those she doesn't know very well--holds her back in social situations at times. Finding herself somewhere she isn't comfortable in yet is certainly going to set her back a bit until she settles in more. She's very hard on herself(ie how she doubted Wolverine's choice to let her join the X-Men), and although this drives her to work hard it also holds her back at times.
Her inability to hold her tongue for the sake of politeness at times can also certainly be a weakness, because things like speaking out of turn in class get you in trouble and tend to piss people off. Related to this, she has a tendency to let her emotions get the best of her--in one of her first appearances she talked back to Wolverine while he taught a class because he said something that touched a nerve.
Samples
First Person:
So, um...nice village you guys have here, huh? The wings are interesting...but it's not I've never seen that kind of thing before. I've just never personally experienced it. I guess I'd get used to it after awhile if I had to stick around that long. Unless this comes with the irresistible urge to eat birdseed or something, that I don't think I could get used to.
I still don't know all of what's going on here, but I kind of can't stick around. I have a lot of things to do at home, and...
[Okay, this is just getting stupid and embarrassing. Hisako decides she should really just cut to the chase.]
--Okay, you know what? I'm going to stop rambling now. Does anyone know where the X-Men are? [A pause.] Does anyone even know who the X-Men are? Or do I just sound like a crazy person right about now? I'm hoping I don't, that would be really good.
Third Person:
Hisako had already made her mind up from the moment when she finally accepted that she was stuck here(at least for the time being): she wasn't going to let being in a completely new environment slow her training down. The wings, however, might pose a bit of a challenge. Forming her armor to accomodate them wasn't really all that difficult to get the hang of--though it was kind of awkward, as she still wasn't used to even having them. Every time she armored up she had to stop and remember that she needed to include them. This wasn't really a major issue or anything, though, just an annoyance.
The real problem was that it took more effort to maintain her armor this way. Keeping it up already tired her out, but now she had to work around the extra effort it took to cover her wings. So it came down to either pushing herself harder or stopping earlier--and as far as Hisako was concerned, only one of those was even an option. Pushing herself through having a consistent extra strain instead of a temporarily one like enlarging it or encasing someone else in it with her.
At least Hisako's armor gave a bit of an advantage, though. Worrying about the state of her oh-so-fragile wings wasn't as much of an issue in battle when you could protect them the way she could. ...Not that she'd really seen much battle action around here. Well, not yet, at least. Things seemed pretty peaceful for the moment, but she'd heard talk of the war everyone was subject to being drafted into. And knowing that made keeping up with her training all the more important, as far as she was concerned. So maybe she didn't have much superheroing to do around here, but she still had to be prepared for when something inevitably happened. Even if it could be awhile.
All of this downtime was almost boring, honestly, even if it was good to have. She needed time to get used to working around her new wings, after all...
Name: Gingey
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speedsterE-mail: illusionaryorgans@hotmail.com
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Current Characters at Luceti: Izumo Kamiki(
bossybrows)Character
Name: Hisako Ichiki/Armor
Fandom: Marvel Comics
Gender: female
Age: 16
Time Period: Post Astonishing X-Men #41
Wing Color: bright yellow
History: Here at the Marvel wiki.
Personality:
It's quite obvious that Hisako was raised to be polite, even if...she's not always very good at actually being polite. Still, she makes efforts here and there--especially if she doesn't know you. Being raised in Japan, her tendency to default to politeness and formality is hardly surprisingly, because that's simply what's the cultural norm there. Her elders are often referred to as "sir" or "m'am," and even if she's been told to refer to them otherwise she'll call them by their last name until she's more familiar with them--Emma Frost is "Miss Frost," despite her requests to at least be something like "Auntie Emma." She's also completely at a loss for how to treat Storm when she first meets her--because Ororo is royalty, but also one of her teammates and she keeps insisting on Hisako dropping the formality with her...
Underneath the attempts at politeness, Hisako can actually be pretty rude and sarcastic. Depending on how comfortable she is with you she might awkwardly try to cover it up, but that doesn't stop her from talking out of turn in class without thinking. She's not the type to blindly follow orders and won't hesitate to question people as soon as she has concerns, even if it means speaking out of turn. She's definitely a very awkward girl who often feels out of place among the company she's in, but she's also someone that quickly found herself not afraid to talk back to Wolverine. And getting to know him better just saw her throwing more and more sarcasm his way, because she was becoming comfortable enough to stop holding back for politeness' sake.
Hisako's the kind of person that shows her fondness for you through teasing. Of all of the X-Men, she's closest to Wolverine, which is make apparent because of her near relentless jokes at his expense. Her favorite subjects are Logan's drinking habits and his weight...which she blames on his drinking habits. Lay off the beer, Logan. She also warms up to Beast pretty quickly...which we see in her threatening to shave Japanese obscenities into his fur. At this point, she's comfortable enough at Xavier's to stop holding herself back for the sake of politeness around most people, but even when she's freely making sarcastic remarks and joking around there's an air of awkwardness to her that she can't completely shake.
There are some people she doesn't even bother trying to be polite to, though, and that would be the villains. Enemies aren't worth bothering to hold herself back for, so any snarky comment sent their way is fair game.
Being on a superhero team and all, Hisako's definitely for doing the right thing. Or...at least her idea of the right thing, because some of the things the X-Men tend to do for the sake of mutantkind aren't popular with other people(see: Avengers vs. X-men, a fight Hisako was part of). Pretty early into her career as an X-Man, she gave herself and Wolverine away to a group of enemies and picked a fight with them when she and Logan had other things to attend to. As Logan complained about this, she quickly defended her actions with the fact that the people they were fighting were going to shoot civilians if they hadn't intervened. She's also questioned Logan's morally questionable behavior in the past. Punching an old man in a wheelchair didn't go over well with her.
Hisako is fairly ambitious and definitely a hard worker. When we're first introduced to her, she makes it clear that she wants what a good chunk of the students at Xavier's strive for--to become an X-Man someday(and, lucky her, due to Logan taking a liking to her that day came far earlier than anyone would've ever expected). Being put on the team by Logan in no way made her complacent, because what came next was proving she belongs on the team...to herself and everyone else. Her initial interactions with the other X-Men show this pretty clearly, and even when they react to Wolverine making her an X-Man by accepting it pretty casually? She's still very focused on living up to the name. We see her training constantly, usually asking Logan to be her sparring partner. She also took the initiative to read all of the X-Men's files on old enemies and the like, to the point of the other X-Men referring to her for information. Emma Frost, for example, wasn't an X-Man in the early days, so she turns to Hisako to fill her in on anything they encounter that she hadn't run into before.
Joining the X-Men has done a lot for Hisako's confidence. Originally, she felt like she'd never be able to make it among them, she'd never be good enough. Even after Wolverine let her on the team, she pretty much told him she didn't belong on the team at first. It took Logan pushing her for her to really accept her place on the team and turn her lack of confidence into a reason to keep working hard.
Strengths:
As a mutant, Hisako possesses the ability to protect her body with psionic armor. What color it is tends to vary from artist to artist--it's been blue, red, a mixture of blue/red/purple, and, very rarely, yellow. What exactly it is seems to be hard to describe--no one's ever fully described it, actually. When Logan first asked her about it, Hisako started to explain that it was her accessing protection from her ancestors. At a later date, it is said to be made of memory. Due to its connection to her ancestors, Hisako's power will briefly increase dramatically when someone in her family dies. Her armor is usually around the same size, but if she strains or temporarily gets more powerful she can make it larger. However, the former tires her out quickly. She can also encase another person in the armor with her if she strains. Besides its defensive uses, it also makes, for example, any punches she throws hit harder.
For reference, usually her armor is something like this or this. Meanwhile, this is an example of her straining to make it larger, and here she's straining to include someone else.
Hisako is also a really hard worker, as seen through the initiative she takes in her training and how she goes out of her way to do her research. She's very loyal and dedicated, proving her loyalty to the X-Men multiple times--planning to follow Cyclops' orders even after his and every other X-Man's hypothetical death and leaving her mother and brother's funeral to assist them in a fight, for example. She's also pretty good at getting through things with a sense of humor.
Weaknesses:
While most things cannot pierce Hisako's armor, it is weak to adamantium. Wolverine found this when his claws pierced her armor in a sparring session(although her armor is thick enough at default size that he usually can't actually hurt her because his knuckles prevent him from getting far enough, it depends on what part of her body he's going for). Maintaining her armor tires Hisako out, so she has to be careful of how long she has it up. She also has to be careful of how large she makes it--the larger she is, the faster she gets tired. Expanding it to include someone else also tires her out faster.
Hisako's awkwardness around others--especially those she doesn't know very well--holds her back in social situations at times. Finding herself somewhere she isn't comfortable in yet is certainly going to set her back a bit until she settles in more. She's very hard on herself(ie how she doubted Wolverine's choice to let her join the X-Men), and although this drives her to work hard it also holds her back at times.
Her inability to hold her tongue for the sake of politeness at times can also certainly be a weakness, because things like speaking out of turn in class get you in trouble and tend to piss people off. Related to this, she has a tendency to let her emotions get the best of her--in one of her first appearances she talked back to Wolverine while he taught a class because he said something that touched a nerve.
Samples
First Person:
So, um...nice village you guys have here, huh? The wings are interesting...but it's not I've never seen that kind of thing before. I've just never personally experienced it. I guess I'd get used to it after awhile if I had to stick around that long. Unless this comes with the irresistible urge to eat birdseed or something, that I don't think I could get used to.
I still don't know all of what's going on here, but I kind of can't stick around. I have a lot of things to do at home, and...
[Okay, this is just getting stupid and embarrassing. Hisako decides she should really just cut to the chase.]
--Okay, you know what? I'm going to stop rambling now. Does anyone know where the X-Men are? [A pause.] Does anyone even know who the X-Men are? Or do I just sound like a crazy person right about now? I'm hoping I don't, that would be really good.
Third Person:
Hisako had already made her mind up from the moment when she finally accepted that she was stuck here(at least for the time being): she wasn't going to let being in a completely new environment slow her training down. The wings, however, might pose a bit of a challenge. Forming her armor to accomodate them wasn't really all that difficult to get the hang of--though it was kind of awkward, as she still wasn't used to even having them. Every time she armored up she had to stop and remember that she needed to include them. This wasn't really a major issue or anything, though, just an annoyance.
The real problem was that it took more effort to maintain her armor this way. Keeping it up already tired her out, but now she had to work around the extra effort it took to cover her wings. So it came down to either pushing herself harder or stopping earlier--and as far as Hisako was concerned, only one of those was even an option. Pushing herself through having a consistent extra strain instead of a temporarily one like enlarging it or encasing someone else in it with her.
At least Hisako's armor gave a bit of an advantage, though. Worrying about the state of her oh-so-fragile wings wasn't as much of an issue in battle when you could protect them the way she could. ...Not that she'd really seen much battle action around here. Well, not yet, at least. Things seemed pretty peaceful for the moment, but she'd heard talk of the war everyone was subject to being drafted into. And knowing that made keeping up with her training all the more important, as far as she was concerned. So maybe she didn't have much superheroing to do around here, but she still had to be prepared for when something inevitably happened. Even if it could be awhile.
All of this downtime was almost boring, honestly, even if it was good to have. She needed time to get used to working around her new wings, after all...