[Esper] Hiroshi Saito

FULL NAME: Hiroshi Saito
OTHER ALIAS: Callsign Sparky
CURRENT AGE: 18
GENDER: Male
OCCUPATION: Anti-skill
SCHOOL: none
FACTION: Anti-skill



APPEARANCE: Has black medium/short length hair and a youthful teenage appearance. Moderate height standing at 175cm. with a moderate build and athletic body had a normal appearance. Eyes are dark blue like the ocean. With a set of mild facial features, fits into a crowd.
HEIGHT: 175cm
WEIGHT: 71kg
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: none



PERSONALITY:

Selectively smart
He can excel in various academic subjects... But he fails at any other aspects of life, often requiring explanations and examples to get the point across after multiples tries.

Courage/Fearless
In the face of adversary, will take any necessary, and sometimes slightly rash course of action to get the job done. sometimes this will include high-stake, high-reward moves that can result in personal injury because of the belief that saving another is more important.

Stand up man
He will stand up for the weak even if it means getting injuring himself. This leads him to often get involved in dangerous situations for the sake of another.

LIKES:

Cold drinks
Cats/Dogs
Physics
Guns
Cute things

DISLIKES:

Bugs

STRENGTHS:

Strong willed: when he decides on doing something, it takes flawless logic or much persuasion to deter him
Tactical training: Having somewhat of a military-like training from a young age as well as physical and mental training, he can usually keep his cool in a high-stressed environment.

WEAKNESSES:

Common sense: His fairly non-existant common sense can somehow lead him to get into big troubles or misunderstandings with the opposite sex. Can make snap decisions under stress.


HISTORY: Born in a town outside of Academy City. It was a rough area. There were some violent crimes in the neighborhood frequently, sometimes once to god forbid twice a week. Saito grew up without a father. His father was killed in a gang related incident when Saito was at the age of 4. Wanting to protect his mother, Saito tried to learn as much as possible. When he started to become slightly violent, his mother would always remind him to be nice and kind. Saito was a bit of a mommy’s boy growing up. Always by her side when he wasn’t at school.
Skip time to around Saito’s 10th birthday and his mother bought him a toy gun. Most would say that it was bad practice to introduce children to guns but Saito’s mom wanted him to be more of a guardian. Saito began to practice with the Toy Gun in his spare time and whenever he could get away with it at home. Shooting cans, pretending to clear a house, and imaginary war, it was what a boy with a imagination would do.
By the time Saito’s 15th birthday comes around, Saito’s mom was able to get a job as a teacher in academy city thanks to her sister, Saito's aunt Yomikawa Aiho. They both agreed that Academy City would be better for him. Saito had expanded his arsenal to include things such as hk416’s, ak74’s, a Remington m700, various pistols, and a few toy grenades. He was mostly into this for the sport now, his mom having moved to a more safe location, academy city. Despite the freakout at the checkpoint into the city originally, there were no laws preventing having toys in academy city as long as you followed the laws.
Being in academy city, his mom enrolled Saito into a Esper school (figure name out later or ask or leave as some random school). In his last three years of school, he showed no particular talent towards being an Esper, remaining a level 0 his whole first and second year. Saito was able to find a training group to mess around with that were interested in Mil-Sim(military simulation). Most weekends they would meet and run various scenarios, things including hostage rescue, recuing a wounded team mate in hostile controlled area, kill house clearings, patrols, and so on.
Saito spent the last two years of his school life doing the war groups Mil-Sim practice. Throughout the two years of training, Saito had a vast area of experience, and his fair share of mess ups during training. Upon graduating from school as a Level 0. Saito was recommended my some of his practice buddies that he should try and join anti skill, seeing that he was easily one of the, if not the best one at the practice groups.
At the age of 18, Saito was accepted into anti-skill with the help of his aunt Ahio, member of branch 73 of Anti-skill.


RANK: First class volunteer (lowest rank above initiate).
LEVEL: 0

OTHER ABILITIES:

Tactical shooter
Good with most types of guns except bulpups

CHARACTER THEME:

Saito’s theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-jLBkivc3s

PLAYER'S NAME: Hiroshi Saito
RATING: M
FACE CLAIM: Hiraga Saito, Zero no Tsukaima
OTHER CHARACTERS: none
MISC. INFORMATION: none[/b]

Six is clear… time to move up. Taking a brief look around, Saito moved with his team to the door. “Take point” said the squad leader. He positioned himself in front of the door and grabbed a flashbang. Checking to the left and right of the door making sure his comrades were ready. Count down time… Three… two…. One... action.
Pulling the pin on the flash bang, he kicks in the door and tosses it in. a moment later a loud bang is heard. “GO! GO!” he yelled taking position in the room. His sector of fire, scan the blind corner, clear. Check the opposing wall, there! “Contact Twelve o’clock!” I open fire, squeezing the trigger steadily, I unleash a three round burst into the chest of the man. “Clear!” his sector was clear.
“Clear!” he could hear his squad mate shout. The room was clear. Clearing his weapon, the man he shot got off the ground and took of his mask along with three others.
“Good job misfit squad,” started the one he shot, “solid entry into the room and keeping your sector of fire.” Praised the man. “Your squad ran the killhouse in three minutes and twenty-four seconds. Go take a break, you earned it… also Saito, a word?”
Following the commander to a corner, he sat down with him. “That was good work Saito, but I just want to make sure.” He hesitated for a moment then continued “Are you sure you can handle this? You will be one of our youngest members, and as an Esper, you will be on a very short leash. We will tolerate no ‘disorder’ from you. Do I make myself clear?” he asked me.
“Yes sir!” Saito replied. “Good, good. Now relax a bit. Here, here is a drink.” The commander tossed me a drink. Opening the drink he took a sip. It was cold soda, Saito’s favorite.

Well I can't see anything wrong with it, but it's a little thin right now. Can you add a little more detail to things like his personality and traits? Also, a little more on his background outside of academic achievements would be nice. Let us know what sort of person he was growing up etc.

Alright, working on adding some information.

Cool. It seems you've added a bit more to the history, so that's good. I take it his childhood friend will be making a reappearance at some point for plot/drama purposes?

I'd still like more info on his ability and general personality traits. At the moment one line is sort of difficult to work with.

Accelerator wrote:Cool. It seems you've added a bit more to the history, so that's good. I take it his childhood friend will be making a reappearance at some point for plot/drama purposes?

I'd still like more info on his ability and general personality traits. At the moment one line is sort of difficult to work with.

Ah ok More on the Ability, and i thought i edited the personality, will re add those!

Mmm my opinions differ slightly from Accelerator's so let me try to break it down in a simple and easy way to follow.

Kid Soldier
I don't really think I'm convinced about this. I do get the gist of where you want to go with this but I'd really like it if you stopped to think about this a bit more logically and ask yourself if this setting fits in with Academy City. A normal ordinary boy from a ordinary family in Academy City learning to fire pistols at 7 years old. Perhaps you can try to elaborate abit and explain in the history what kind of circumstances led Saito to take up firearms from a tender age of 7 in what could possibly be seen as one of the safest cities in the world. I can understand if he was a boy soldier from Middle East who was randomly picked up by a eccentric Weapons Dealer but that kind of setting is already a animated series and seems to be abit... deviant to the kind of environment Saito grew up in. Unless there is a very good way to introduce the reasons why he was involved with firearms from a young age I may have to ask that you reconsider it and either add it much later in his life or to remove it because it doesn't make alot of sense currently.

Just remember a few things if you want to add this detail no matter what.

Academy City isn't a place where ordinary people can possess firearms.
It's possible that Skill-Out gangs has possession of firearms albeit through illegal means
Anti-Skill is a military police with firearms
Most kids don't have access to firearms
There aren't any institutes that allows young people to train with firearms legally.

So factor those into your thoughts and try to come up with a convincing reason why Saito had firearms when he was 7 years old.

Esper vs Soldier
While there aren't any rules that says Espers can't join the Anti-Skill, I'm wondering if I could ask if you would consider dropping one of the two for balancing. I can already imagine some people would say I am overthinking things here but it goes without saying I'd like to see which you'd prefer the most. Reason for that is

Most Espers we know are students with more or less no military training. Take away their ESP abilities and they really are nothing but ordinary students.

All Anti-Skill members we've seen so far are usually school teachers with previous military veteran background often having serve their duties in various military forces outside Academy City.

That doesn't mean a student can't graduate and sign up to become a Anti-Skill. I just think it would be more interesting to see a Lv0 become a Anti-Skill than a Esper with a ability. To me it kind of destroys the very essence of what Anti-Skill is, a militant group that can pull through their own weight without relying on either Magic or Abilities. So I would really appreciate it if you could change it to either one or the other. Esper or Anti-Skill.

Some pros and cons about making a choice here as Anti-Skill

Pros
It's a real unique character compared to the rest of us who are either Magician or Esper.
We finally get a Anti-Skill member which means we can finally make side stories involving Yomikawa Aiho and Tessou Tsuzuri along with the rest of the Anti-Skill Branch 73
Finally a character who can be a militant batman
Various high tech equipments on the same level as Misaka Imouto Forces
Firearms are kind of cool

Cons
You aren't following the usual trend of Espers or Magicians.
Thus you won't be trendy
You don't get a supernatural ability
Extensive military training and knowledge

Ultimately the choice is yours but I think it might be cool to go with the Anti-Skill side of your character than an Esper.

Liking it alot.

By the way I ran into Guy yesterday and he's given the green lights if you're still interested in being related to Aiho as your aunt.

Alright, I will make a minor edit to the history and i think it will be ready and -hopefully- the last edit.

More or less approved by me. Wait for Guy to check it over one last time and you're good to go.

Alright!

I'm going to approve this profile on one condition: That you fill out the personality section more. I'd prefer something a little more fleshed out than one line traits.

Gave my character a rework on the personality. (It was the only thing i could think of after all this time so I'm sorry that it took so long)