[Esper] Haragi Faye

FULL NAME: Haragi Faye
OTHER ALIAS: "Solid Air"
CURRENT AGE: 16
GENDER: Male
OCCUPATION: High School Student and affiliated with Academy City's Dark Side
SCHOOL: A Certain Scientific Highschool  
FACTION: N/A



APPEARANCE: Here
The appearance of an average high schooler with distinguishing black mopped hair. With intimidating brown eyes, Haragi is pretty agile and fairly pain resistant with a decent amount of stamina when it comes to athletic characteristics. Haragi's casual clothing consists of a light blue sweater coupled with a hoodie to go with dark blue pants. Other than that, Haragi wears the average high schoolers uniform whenever at school. He usually keeps an irritated face expression around others.

HEIGHT: 5'9"
WEIGHT:  147 pounds
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: His Heartshaped necklace given to him by his deceased mother.
A message can be found inside the locket of the heart: "No matter what you do, I will always love you."



PERSONALITY:
Silent
Haragi is the type of person that you would find stand out from a group of people. The mysterious essence that comes off of him mainly comes from the lack of communication he provides. However, as silent as he is he does speak to his friends and his sister.. just not as much as an average person would.

Sharp upon Observation  
Not like all people, Haragi tends to observes things too deeply trying to fill the void of his lack of talking when necessary. As an act of reassuring himself, he regularly tries to connect something with another. This could be anything ranging from who's penny does it belong to to who recently stepped on the grass in an completely isolated area.

Asexual
Because of his Elderly Sister's constant incestual habits towards him, he ended up dropping romance or anything to do with girls, as to having a deeper relationship with them. He has yet to meet a girl that could change his mind.

Energy Conserver
Has a habit of doing something with the least effort as possible. Whilst saving his efforts for something much more necessary.

Cold on the Outside, Warm on the Inside
While many people initially find Haragi hard to approach because of his serious mood, he tends to find himself distant from others to avoid anyone involving themselves with the dark side of his life. In reality, he doesn't want anyone to get hurt because of his actions, thus he tries whatever necessary to prevent that.

LIKES:
Saving his energy
Cherry Pop Soda
The Breezy Wind
A Full Moon

DISLIKES:
Talkative People
His Sister's Attempts to seduce him.
Romantic Relationships
Physics Lectures

STRENGTHS:
His natural ability to notice certain things around him pretty quickly. Since Haragi tends to isolate himself from others, he can't help but silently observe the small things.
Able to solidify and stabilize Free Radical Oxygen in it's Crystal Lattice form. These Crystal Lattices can be used as weapons or projectiles depending on the user's preference and state of mind.


WEAKNESSES:
Ozone is one of many molecules in the air that can consume Free Radicals of Oxygen. As it seems less likely to happen but still a possibility, the presence of Ozone gas in a significant amount can lead to the break down of the Crystal Lattice formed of Oxygen resulting in enhanced difficulty in maintaining Haragi's Esper ability. Not only that, if Haragi is pushed to a point where he solidifies a certain amount of Free Radical Oxygen in one spot, the amount of Air particles will get used up which can lead to the arised difficulty in breathing and a state of gradually increasing daze.

HISTORY: Haragi Faye was born to Yulus and Hanaka Faye being the second newborn.  His older sister, Kaede, was 6 years of age during this particular event. Yulus Faye is a working scientist at the Academy City Neurosis Research Foundation while Hanaka is a High School Teacher at a certain school filled with Level 0s.

At the age of 4 in Haragi's life, his father was discovered missing while on his business travels. His father was eventually declared as MIA by Academy City Officials after numerous search parties. Now his family was only left with his Mother and his sister all disheartened by their loss. Eventually, Haragi partook the Academy City Power Curriculum Program just as his sister once did. The only difference was that Haragi was able to achieve Level 1 status while his sister remained a Level 0. The effects of the program enhanced his personal reality which enabled him to simply make small and harmless sparks in the air by attempting to separate Free Radical Oxygen from Oxygen Gas.... or at least that's what the supervisors of the program had said.

It wasn't soon before he accidentally murdered a cat by creating an explosion he could never been able to create of such magnitude shortly after going through a uncontrollable state all during the age of 11. A weird and distinct high pitched noise had been heard from an mysterious external source causing specifically Haragi react unusually and randomly injure a being fatally. This caught the attention of the Academy City higher ups. Doing so, two representatives had asked Hanaka if they could study him and his strange unusual jump in power a bit deeper but she instantly declined recalling the loss of her husband's affiliation with the research division of Academy City. However they knew her mother was the reason from preventing their research to a potential discovery and the harm it could cause if not controlled.

A couple of weeks later, Haragi and his mother was shopping for groceries until that same weird noise had been heard from an unknown presence. Despite annoying anyone in the vicinity, it had done worse to Haragi. His mind was losing control while hearing this, as his mother trying to calm him down. However this act lead to a tragic end.

At the age of 16, Haragi Faye is attending a certain high school filled with higher tiered Espers. That event 5 years ago left a scar in his heart that could never be mended. The day he lost his mother due to his life threatening esper ability, two figures had asked him if he wanted to tame his powers correctly. He would have to let them research him, despite his deceased mother strongly objecting such a thing. And as a result, he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone again. Blindly agreeing, sent him to a special ability institute for 3 years until he reached the tier of a Level 4 esper then released. He eventually became apart of Academy City's Dark Side all for the fact that he pursued the safety of others and possibly some how to atone for his mother's death because of him. A small part of his doubted he had murdered his mother and someone from the shadows had caused such a thing occur. Except this decision only brought him more pain and suffering due to Dark Side's actions. He was came to be known as the Level 4 Esper, "Solid Air".

In the end, he developed a shell isolating him from others and himself, only concerning himself with getting rid of the scum from the darkness targeting the light he longs to protect. He considers his sister as that very same light to be the innocent individual who has nothing to do with or acknowledges the darkness of Academy City. His elder sister, on the other hand, had grown to have romantic feelings for him. She knew very well that he needed her to stay with him to be able to stay sane and live a normal life. She accept that and chose to be by his side regardless of what he did. This can started to be seen after his mother's death but she had no idea of his mysterious affiliations with Academy City's Dark Side.

RANK: Experiment
LEVEL: 4
Level 4 Solid Air: Air comprises of 78.1% of Nitrogen Gas, 20.9% of Oxygen Gas, 0.9% Argon, and 0.03% Carbon Dioxide. There are millions of molecules in the air representing each of these compounds which make up air.

Haragi's ability "Solid Air" enables him to separate the Oxygen Gas molecules from air, which then he separates the two Oxygen Molecules inside Oxygen Gas turning them into Oxygen Free Radical Molecules (Also known as OFR Molecules). These OFR Molecules are extremely unstable if ever separated from Oxygen Gas in large amounts which will cause dangerous explosions if he were to increase the Entropy of these molecules in it's macrostate system. Haragi can maintain this process within the second he sets his mind to it. Entropy determines the state of randomness and chaos among particles in the view of it's macrostate system.

Not only that, but the OFR molecules that he separated can be solidified from the extents of his power as to decreasing Entropy, forming them into a stable, sharp crystal lattice form which can be used as weapons and manipulated around his being. In Layman's terms, Haragi is able to maintain the stability of Oxygen Free Radical molecules whether he causes solidification or explosions. However there is a downfall to doing this. If Haragi breaks down too many Air Molecules within his vicinity, he will start to feel uncomfortable and hazy due to the lack of air around him, thus his concentration is halted from further using his esper ability.

All of these OFR molecules are stored within a Vector Table inside Haragi's Personal Reality. This Vector table is essentially a table of vectors ( arrays that dynamically allocate memory ) that represents a grid view of the general area in front of him within a 30 meter radius. Each element within each vector is storage space for an OFR Object which contains information and maps to the OFR molecules he creates. If Haragi attempts to make a subset of OFR molecules, he would have to take several seconds to allocate memory within his vector table given the amount he wants to create. For example, Memory Allocation <10%> would represent 10% of his memory within the personal reality he had allocated to use which would give him enough space to create OFR molecules anywhere in front of his eyes within an average room. 50% would allocate memory the size 5 times of the average room. As Haragi's allocation reaches Maximum memory, he is at risk of corrupting data and potentially damaging his brain cells as a result. If he were to just create a small number of OFR molecules, he would simply just have to allocate the separate elements within his vector table.

Haragi is able to trigger two kinds of explosions: <Clear-Cut Explosions> and <Remote Explosions>. <Clear-Cut Explosions> can only occur if Solid Air is able to see or feel the Free Radicals of Oxygen molecules within his eye sights view until the point his vision starts to blur where his concentration his disrupted of where he desires to create OFR molecules ( similar average range to a human being's eyesight ). The larger the distance the molecules are between him, the longer it will take to trigger his explosions. <Remote Explosion> can occur when Haragi uses his Vector table to map his OFR molecules into his memory. Since he has already manipulated the Oxygen Free Radicals as well as it's real time information by his Personal Reality, he will be able to instantaneously trigger explosions without the need to even look or feel the molecules.

<No Air Space> is another one of his abilities through his esper powers to which he can break down the air particles within a air filled space, leaving little to no air available within that vicinity. This requires time to perform since he has to focus his Personal Reality into breaking down every single Air Molecule within the desired area. Time increases as the area of Air dissipation increases.

OTHER ABILITIES: Any other talents or non supernatural abilities or equipment used by your character.

CHARACTER THEME:
Haragi's Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGVIIZyc6U
Fight Theme: https://youtu.be/mZOQXqmZzKE
Realization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKRY0Z7iVDs
Finishing the Fight!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e499spqrIwU


PLAYER'S NAME: Haragi Faye
RATING: M for mature (Violent or suggestive content such as 'Ecchi' or 'fanservice' scenes.)
FACE CLAIM: Kusanagi Godou from Campione.
OTHER CHARACTERS: N/A
MISC. INFORMATION: This is important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6At_bb1PNU

Hope I did this right =D

Do I need to do anything else?

Haragi. There are a couple of issues that need addressing with your profile. Most of them fairly minor.

Firstly you need to assign a level to your character's Esper ability. In the profile itself you list him as a Level 4, which seems fairly appropriate, given his powers' description.

Secondly your character needs a written description of their appearance. While pictures are allowed they are not considered enough on their own.

Thirdly, I would also suggest fleshing out his Strengths and Weaknesses, especially in regards to his ability. Every ability in the To Aru universe has its downsides and limitations.

Fourth is general grammar and formatting. The profile makes sense, but there are a few instances where you may need to revise. Take your time on your profile and your posts.

Lastly, and this is the major one. Plot wise your character displays powers before his arrival in Academy City, which would make him a Gemstone (A naturally occurring Esper.) These beings are incredibly rare in the setting and as such will be reserved for now on a trust based system. I'm going to have to ask you to rewrite his history to reflect this.

And yes, I have no problem with your character being part of Academy City's Darkside or being an experiment.

And I will also be needing a test post from you. If you need an example, check out the one in Accelerator's profile.

Once you have addressed these issues we will review your application again and come to a decision. Thank you for your time and don't be disheartened.

Got it, Ill get to work on it sometime today.

Much better. Thank you. I'm still noticing a few grammar errors here and there.

i.e. "The regrets I've made in the past... are what keep telling me to live on." and "the presence of Ozone gas in a significant amount can lead to the break down of the Crystal Lattice formed of Oxygen resulting in enhanced difficulty in pertaining maintaining Haragi's Esper ability."

On second reading I've also noticed that there are several spellings of your character's name. At various points in the profile it is speltas Haragi Faye, Karagi Faye and Haragi Kaye. Obviously you need to decide on one of these.

And where his ability name is listed below his real name at the top of the profile, his level should also be listed.

i.e. "Level 4 Solid Air"

Just to keep profiles consistent.

With that said I'm happy with your profile's content as it stands so feel free to make a test post.

Aleister Crowley wrote:Much better. Thank you. I'm still noticing a few grammar errors here and there.

i.e. "The regrets I've made in the past... are what keep telling me to live on." and "the presence of Ozone gas in a significant amount can lead to the break down of the Crystal Lattice formed of Oxygen resulting in enhanced difficulty in pertaining maintaining Haragi's Esper ability."

On second reading I've also noticed that there are several spellings of your character's name. At various points in the profile it is speltas Haragi Faye, Karagi Faye and Haragi Kaye. Obviously you need to decide on one of these.

And where his ability name is listed below his real name at the top of the profile, his level should also be listed.

i.e. "Level 4 Solid Air"

Just to keep profiles consistent.

With that said I'm happy with your profile's content as it stands so feel free to make a test post.

Yeah sorry about the grammar. I tend to make mistakes here and there. Wouldn't call myself the perfect Rper. =S

Ill get to work on the test post after I fix my grammar mistakes.

It's fine, really. No one expects perfection,we're just offering a few tips. Like I said, the profile itself is fine other than a few mistakes here and there. Right now what we're interested in is getting a good group of RPers to help us get on our feet. So once your test post is up and assuming it meets specification we'll be good to go. Have you thought about how you'd like to introduce your character and what you'd like to do with him?

Aleister Crowley wrote:It's fine, really. No one expects perfection,we're just offering a few tips. Like I said, the profile itself is fine other than a few mistakes here and there. Right now what we're interested in is getting a good group of RPers to help us get on our feet. So once your test post is up and assuming it meets specification we'll be good to go. Have you thought about how you'd like to introduce your character and what you'd like to do with him?

For introductions, something along the lines of interacting with other RP characters in the RP (like Accelerator or Touka) would suffice. But if something else, I could make my own introduction just by himself.

As for what Im planning to do with him, Im expecting him to at least have someone come along (Cough Itsuwa Cough) and change something about his personality and the way he sees life. Idk if the main story arc you guys are planning will help contribute to developing his character or not.

That sounds like something we can do. In that case, once you're approved come and join in on the current Side Story thread.

Aleister Crowley wrote:That sounds like something we can do. In that case, once you're approved come and join in on the current Side Story thread.

Of course, Still trying to find a good setting for my test post (and some time as well O.O)

Ok finished my test post. Hopefully there aren't any grammar errors. If there are, I'll have to spend much more time trying to fix them in my future posts. =S

DING DONG DING DONG!

The loud but relieving sound of a certain scientific high school's bell had been heard indicating that classes for the day were over. A black moped haired boy with the face of someone who had suffered through a terrible University level Physics Lecture, had stood up from his term long desk and quietly left the class room without attracting any unnecessary attention. His "so-called" friends would somehow catch up to him if he took the usual way home, which he did not strive for at all. In order to conserve his constantly losing energy, he had to do the least effort in anything as possible. So he decided to take a detour route home, through the small neighbourhoods instead the popular main road.

"I have to remember to lock the bathroom door when I get back home to take a shower... or else Aneki will try to do "it" again......"

Thinking in his head, this "it" surely had to be something dastardly cruel if he couldn't clearly refer to it as something. As he walked down the endless sidewalk while carrying his school bag over his one shoulder, he had approached a peculiar sign telling him there was construction on the road up ahead. Not only that but he had to take another detour, which in case was through broken down neighbourhood that looked sketchy as "hell". If he turned back to take the usual way home, it would take much longer which required more effort from his part, added on with the possibility of running into his "friends". So he chose the obvious, without hesitating one bit.

As time passed by, the boy slowly progressed through this suspicious neighbourhood eventually making it towards the end. However unexpectedly a knife had crossed his doubtful eyes, embedding itself into the wall beside him. This brought the boy of age 16 to a stop, and attempted to determine where the origin of the knife had been thrown from.

*Cue Necessary Music*

"Look what the cat brought in."

The voice had come from a thug. His smile reeked of a everlasting cockful grin. Surely, this thug was equipped with a gun, observing the familiar pattern bleeding through his shirt. Behind him were others, 7 to be exact and most likely underlings to the thug standing fearlessly in front. These underlings played around with their variety of weapons (crowbars, metal poles, chains, etc) either patting it onto their hands or their shoulder attempting intimidate the lone individual who had blindly entered a bear's cave.

"Drop your bag and your wallet. Or you ain't leaving this place alive."

One of the underlings behind him noticed the mark of a certain scientific high school on the boy's shoulder.

"Yo boss! This guy's from that high school full of Level 3 and 4 espers, I don't think we should fuck with him."

The lead thug clicked his tongue, as he took out his gun from underneath his shirt and brought it up to his underling's face. His face now was menacing more than ever as the sound of a gunshot was heard and a body was dropped flat onto the stone cold ground. The group count was now brought down to eight from nine. The others behind him started to look nervous and hesitant seeing their comrade drop dead on the ground so suddenly.

"So fucking what? If anyone's scared, then you ain't worth shit working under me. Him being a Level 3 or 4 esper makes it better, we get to get our name out there after killing him."

The shivering spines of the bunch had stopped their hesitant selves and returned back to the way they originally were before their companion got brutally killed. The plethora were now keen on attacking the high school boy as they had shifted their gruesome eyes towards him.

There was no chance in hell that this boy would be able to go home without dealing with them now. Not only that, but taking the main road while dealing with his "friends" would take much less effort than the situation he was in now. But there wasn't any turning back now.

As of now, nothing these thugs have done changed the look on the black haired boy's irritated face. He was never intimidated, he was actually concerned for them more than anything.

"You know... you should have listened to the person you killed... I'm not worth fighting over... especially if you're dealing with someone you don't even know about."

The dark cold voice of the high school boy was finally heard by the thugs. The confused look on the lead thug's face now turned into a doubtful smirk. As he cocked his gun to reload, he pointed it directly at the high school boy's head ensuring his victory.

"Yeah, ok sure."

With that, the underlings from behind lunged towards the boy with their harmful weapons. However, the boy only said one thing before activating his esper powers standing in place.

"Don't blame me for what happens...."

A series of explosions were seen in the area. There was no gunshots or any collisions from the weapons. Only moaning of those whose ignorance brought their downfall. The only person standing, was the same individual standing beside the knife that was embedded in the wall beside him. He had moved no inches and kept the same expression on his face, while pitifully looking at the victims of first degree burns.

"Who.... the.... fuck.... are you?"

A raspy voice spoke out to the boy with a series of heavy breathing in between his question.

"Someone who you shouldn't have messed with in the first place...."

He had turned around and walked away like nothing ever happened. The only esper to perform explosions in thin air by manipulating oxygen was the Level 4 Esper "Solid Air"; Haragi Faye.

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We're looking forward to seeing you around the site.

As requested in order to resolve some recent issues I've been given permission to re-open this profile for re-evaluation, as such I will be reading through the ability Solid Air and discuss it by the current standards which may differ from 2 years ago when this ability was approved.

I've tried to simplify the explanation on the profile.

Haragi is an Esper who can break down "Air" and reconstruct it to use it as his weapons.

He does this with the use of something called Vector Table which is used to calculate the X/Y/Z parameters of where his ability will take place and execute this by sight(assuming).

His limit is that when he use his ability too much, there is no Air for him to breathe around him and he becomes tired.

He can comfortably use his ability within a room to about 5 times a normal room range. When he extends to his max range however he is said to risk brain damage.

He has two types of abilities.

1 of them allows him to manipulate air and create explosion where his eyesights can reach. While the other let's him install a remote controlled bomb by saving it into his memories.

He can also create a space called No Air Space which is essentially there to create an area completely devoid of breathable air. It's said to be time consuming.

While creative the first thing that came to my mind was that there's absolutely nothing there to see when Haragi creates these bombs. Since it's made of OFR molecules there is nothing detectable there for people to see nor does it give away any sound of it's existence to avoid the explosions. There is also nothing stopping Haragi from setting up a dozen of these in seconds and have them explode right in front of his opponent's face other than the fact he might feel a little hazy from being deprived of oxygen in the air around him which would essentially mean his opponents would be too unless they prefer to breathe through a oxygen tank.

Activation by sight is quite frankly very unreliable for someone who is trying to counter his ability. I could be missing a few canon examples but hardly nobody in To Aru world is able to activate their powers by sight alone. This is not to say that they don't exist, in fact we do see them but the majority of them are Lv5 with the sole exception of Awaki who would have been a Lv5 herself if it hadn't been for the trauma she suffered which prevents her from comfortably teleporting herself. The skill does exist but it's a very high end skill from what I would decipher.

Memory bombs is also too advanced for something I would imagine from a Lv4. Quote me if I'm mistaken but the air you grab on your left hand has slightly different characteristics from the air you grab from your right hand in real life. Nothing is exactly the same and the concept of air and how much oxygen is contained in any specific area doesn't stay uniform. Trying to calculate the precise amount of oxygen in the given area of space and doing this to create memory bombs is a task near impractical if not impossible because there are many outside sources which can alter that golden value. It can be affected from different temperature rise and fall, weather, chemicals released in air, human bodies crossing over and onto the memory bomb's "Space."

Take the bottom picture as an example.


Let's say that you are fighting Frenda on top of the Space Elevator where "Air" is uniform throughout the structure, the Clear grenade on top left is what your memory bomb would look like in it's optimal conditions with no interference at all. You've calculated the necessary equation and value settings for the bomb to become a remote controlled explosion but if an outside interference fits into it as the other Grenade is half filled with Frenda's hair molecule, the equation in your memory is distorted and the equation for remote control explosion calculation then becomes void.

Let's say you have a simple equation 2+10 = 12. If you take away any of the variables whether it be 2, +, 10 the equation becomes incomplete and thus you are unable to acquire the answer.

Same principle, since this is a grafted memory equation affecting real time, should the concept of Air be affected by something outside the invisible grenade, whether it be raid, colder/hotter air current, or even a single strand of hair, it will alter the variables used in the memory equation and the bomb will become a void.

Canon example of such things happening? We see it all the time. Whether it be Kuroko failing to teleport under a rubble or Accelerator getting his air blades distorted from a high pitched whistle made by Kihara Amata, when the equation for their calculation is even slightly affected the desired effect then becomes void. As "Air" is a fragile concept thats easy to be influenced from myriad of sources including other air that surrounds it as well (heck even wind will be a huge pain in the ass to caliberate into your equation) the idea of using a "memory bomb" is insanely impractical if not impossible.

In overall sense Haragi's abilities as described in your profile is already a Lv5 ability which requires a calculative abilities that would befit a Lv5 if not a Misaka Network itself. I also tend to be highly skeptical about an Esper having access to powers that enable them to manipulate specific elements once it leaves their hands. Whether it's a ball of fire or a lightning railgun, once it leaves the Esper's hands that's it, you can't manipulate it once it's left your field of influence nor can you undo the effects. Alot of Haragi's abilities are undetectable and is executed by sight, which is a feat only a few handful of very high level canon casts can afford to do. Not even Accelerator can place a reflection point somewhere convenient and his power is also effective only when the affected object enters his field of Personal Reality aka his body (or if you want to be more specific his skin).

I've pointed out quite a number of things and I feel that these things should undergo quite a number of makeover. I would even suggest considering scrapping the ability altogether because I feel like requesting this to undergo a makeover to fit into acceptable standards is nearly impossible given the highly unstable element your working with as foundation for your abilities.

Dunno why but my Edit button isn't working.

Continuing on.

No Air Space ability. Before you mention that one of your limits is that extensive use of his powers would rob him of air and make him feel all hazy and tired due to lack of air. Wouldn't creating this boundary of No Air be the same as suffocating himself of breathable air? Also how does he create a area devoid of air when air is everywhere? Even if he instantly deconstructed Air in a given space wouldn't the air surrounding that space rush in to fill the space with air anyway? What stops from that air from flowing back into the dead space you created? Last but least what practical use does this have when he is robbed of air himself from using it and that it requires immense level of concentration to maintain the field?

Haragi Faye says:

Can't post on my profile for some reason so here we go.

>While creative the first thing that came to my mind was that there's absolutely nothing there to see when Haragi creates these bombs. Since it's made of OFR molecules there is nothing detectable there for people to see nor does it give away any sound of it's existence to avoid the explosions.

Changing the state of Entropy (increasing it) of such molecules allows the increase in disorder and "chaos". This allows for temperature to increase and the number of collisions to increase between said particles. The way I set it so it indicates something "bad" is going to occur is that there will be a feint light (indicating the increase in temperature) and a buzzing noise ( indicating the collisions ) before an explosion actually occurs.

From what you tell me it's still very vague. What would this feint light look like? As far as I'm aware you've never specified this feint light anywhere in your previous posts. If you have then it looks like Natsumi and Guy is unaware that this is a indicator or hints to look out for. How is this feint light easy to see during daylight against sunlight? I think this is still too imbalanced against other rpers and their espers which is why I'm going to need you to rethink about this since it's causing concerns which is continuing to escalate in a pattern.

>Activation by sight is quite frankly very unreliable for someone who is trying to counter his ability. I could be missing a few canon examples but hardly nobody in To Aru world is able to activate their powers by sight alone. This is not to say that they don't exist, in fact we do see them but the majority of them are Lv5

Aim Stalker is used through sight by Takitsubo Rikou. She uses this ability from a safe distance to locate her target from the remnants of AIM as you may already know.

Yes she does that but this ability isn't lethal by itself. She can't kill someone by stalking their AIM and this is all she can do as an Ability user which is why I think it's balanced.

Liquid Shadow is another ability remotely controlled from Kouzaku Mitori though she needs a specific gravity of over 20 or so to be able to use it properly as with other restrictions such as volume issues of the liquid metal she manipulates.

I think the key difference is the limitations she has over it. It's long range yes, but this is restricted to a single clone, and it's clearly visible which makes it easier to detect than a feint light or buzzing noise which can be harder to see against daylight in a busy academy city with background noise. Course you can argue that Liquid Shadow will then be imbalanced if she used it in a swimming pool but I would consider that a very rare case since most of our rp revolves outside a pool of water.

Military Oil is an ability used to break down and reconstruct oils, such as petroleum and napalm by someone such as Aizono Mio. She is able to manipulate the oil to form weapons as well as conjure an armour for herself. She can ignite the oil to launch herself and projectiles at targets, or to cause incendiary damage.

Again it's visible and easy to detect what signs to avoid than a bomb that you can place by sight and vector table. The way it's written up there's nothing stopping you from "Lets surround people with mini bombs, I have you right where I want you!" which by your description takes a second to setup.  


There are others I can't recall at the moment but I'll use these as examples.

You can list more examples Haragi but at the end of the day I feel that there's just no good counter for his ability which makes it incredibly imbalanced right now. The examples you've listed are fundamentally different from your ability and isn't a great comparison other than the fact they're extreme long range abilities that are balanced.

>Memory bombs is also too advanced for something I would imagine from a Lv4. Quote me if I'm mistaken but the air you grab on your left hand has slightly different characteristics from the air you grab from your right hand in real life. Nothing is exactly the same and the concept of air and how much oxygen is contained in any specific area doesn't stay uniform. Trying to calculate the precise amount of oxygen in the given area of space and doing this to create memory bombs is a task near impractical if not impossible because there are many outside sources which can alter that golden value. It can be affected from different temperature rise and fall, weather, chemicals released in air, human bodies crossing over and onto the memory bomb's "Space."

But here is the problem. You are talking about Air (Its a compound having a composition of Oxygen gas, Nitrogen gas, Argon, Carbon Dioxide, Helium, Methane, etc. ). Each different element in the composition contributes their own properties towards the overall composition of Air. Haragi's focus is not in Air, but the Oxygen Free Radical itself. Which is why he breaks down Air to obtain his actual use. I am aware Air is exposed to many possible situations due to environmental changes, but that doesn't necessarily mean these changes would affect OFR molecules the exact same way. There also other factors such as how much OFR molecules are broken down per cubic measurement within his Vector table. Instead of a single OFR molecule, manages a subset of OFR molecules in a single cubic measurement of his Vector table (ie a specific point given X,Y,Z). Sure if there are extreme conditions within the environment it might affect his to some extent but otherwise any common natural occurrence within the air would prove miniscule change that wouldn't offset his calculations to an extent that would screw him over.

Sounds very complicated. All I got from that was because OFR molecules isn't affected in anyway from the changes in environment it generally doesn't create such weaknesses such as offset calculations.

>Let's say that you are fighting Frenda on top of the Space Elevator where "Air" is uniform throughout the structure, the Clear grenade on top left is what your memory bomb would look like in it's optimal conditions with no interference at all. You've calculated the necessary equation and value settings for the bomb to become a remote controlled explosion but if an outside interference fits into it as the other Grenade is half filled with Frenda's hair molecule, the equation in your memory is distorted and the equation for remote control explosion calculation then becomes void.

Think of an analogy where each subset of OFR molecules present within is connected to a allocated space (cubic measurement) within his Vector table with a simple really thin string to send information through. Along with each of these connections also contain certain information about the subset of OFR Molecules (such as it's state, volume, etc) in each element in the Vector table (if allocated/used). If a large amount of each subset of OFR molecules's properties are somehow changed, these thin strings send a detection from the subset of OFR molecules to his Vector table to update the certain elements within the Vector table of it's current state. This is relevant with Event Based Programming in Computer Science.

Still can't imagine the amount of calculations he'd be required to do in real time to maintain such an ability when the values change quite randomly. I don't know how much calculation and concentration he'd need to pull it off but if it's anything like Teleporters I'm going to have to say no Haragi is skilled but he's not going to be able to pull that off with X number of bombs set in place while thinking, dodging enemy attacks as well as employing <Clear-Cut Explosions> at the same time. Even if he's able to pull it off even the slightest interruption will break his concentration and his abilities will go down the drain. For balancing issue I'm going to have to say you can employ one or the other, not both at the same time. <Remote Explosions> should only be used as a opener in the fight as a ambush technique than something you can use readily in midst of battle. It'd be like giving Frenda the ability to summon her explosive dolls in midst battle, set them up and create wire tape, WHILE fighting Mikoto. If you want <Remote Explosions> then you will need to rework this ability so that it's balanced. List how many you can setup, what is required to maintain it's upkeep and for how long you can sustain it's presence before it disappears from battle (or during it).

>In overall sense Haragi's abilities as described in your profile is already a Lv5 ability which requires a calculative abilities that would befit a Lv5 if not a Misaka Network itself. I also tend to be highly skeptical about an Esper having access to powers that enable them to manipulate specific elements once it leaves their hands. Whether it's a ball of fire or a lightning railgun, once it leaves the Esper's hands that's it, you can't manipulate it once it's left your field of influence nor can you undo the effects.

Haragi cannot manipulate anything or undo any change to his OFR molecules once that direct mapping to his subset of OFR molecules from his Vector table is cut (If something happens that severely affects the OFR Molecule itself, or his concentration is majorly interrupted, if he already uses it or even if the Vector table's destructor is called to destroy those mappings so he would be able to allocate more memory for other OFR molecules). However, the calculative abilities are simply just optimal algorithms within his Vector Table actively processing the state of his OFR molecules and then accessing them when he needs to. The runtime wouldn't require the severe processing power of the Misaka Network at all, instead merely algorithms that takes care of update upon change of state and data structure & organization of the OFR Molecules he created such as traversing through the data structure and finding the desired element for the information & mapping of certain subset of OFR molecules he requires.

I don't get it. Explain it in terms even a Magician will be able to understand it.

If you want, I can even write a thesis on the performance of Data structures and algorithms and since I specialize in Software Engineering. The performance runtime for this can be adjusted towards the Index-verse making it even more simpler for espers ranked Level 4 to easily perform these calculations if they specialize in such fields of their Personal Reality.

You can write a thesis but if I don't understand it then it won't really convince me so try to explain things simpler. Otherwise I can assure you I probably won't read half of it.

>No Air Space ability. Before you mention that one of your limits is that extensive use of his powers would rob him of air and make him feel all hazy and tired due to lack of air. Wouldn't creating this boundary of No Air be the same as suffocating himself of breathable air?

I should change words as hazy (I wasn't really thinking properly at the time). It's just is that he's slowly losing his supply of oxygen within his vicinity. In cases such as these, he begins his 2 minute timer where he is able to hold his breath for that long before slowly blacking out. But that's if he creates the space within his vicinity. If it's in an area in front of him and not around his person, he wouldn't have to go through such suffocation.

What stops his opponents from holding their breath longer than you? Also 2minutes? I thought on average people can't really go past a minute let alone 2. Does this mean if his opponent was Stig Severinsen (22mins of holding breath heavy weight champion) then Haragi would die from the loss of oxygen? It's a real double edged sword, I can see you added 2mins as a safe measure but if he runs into someone who can hold their breath for that long and longer then he's royally screwed.

>Also how does he create a area devoid of air when air is everywhere? Even if he instantly deconstructed Air in a given space wouldn't the air surrounding that space rush in to fill the space with air anyway? What stops from that air from flowing back into the dead space you created?

The reason it requires an extensive use of his time, is that he has to create a dome made out of Solid Oxygen or OFR molecules in it's crystal lattice state (decreased state of Entropy). Within this completed dome, he then proceeds to destroy the Air Molecules.

It doesn't seem practical. If he makes this dome and it takes up extensive use of his time and concentration on top of holding his breath for 2 minutes then that just means it's just as easy to interrupt it and break his concentration by punching him in the gut.

>Last but least what practical use does this have when he is robbed of air himself from using it and that it requires immense level of concentration to maintain the field?

The 2 minute countdown timer where he holds his breath until he blacks out and the OFR molecules are now free of his control and undergo it's natural state (which is combining itself with other OFR molecules to create Oxygen Gas molecules).

Dragon punch to the gut~! Spinning high kick to the abyss below!! >=3

>From what you tell me it's still very vague. What would this feint light look like? As far as I'm aware you've never specified this feint light anywhere in your previous posts. If you have then it looks like Natsumi and Guy is unaware that this is a indicator or hints to look out for.

Nope, you seem to be misinformed. I had mentioned feint light along with buzzing noise process in almost every opener when Haragi used his power. It was something no one could miss. Check my posts again, it's almost in every intro to fights. And this feint light I imagine would look like an orb of light, initially feint, flashing brighter and brighter and it reaches an explosion.

>How is this feint light easy to see during daylight against sunlight? I think this is still too imbalanced against other rpers and their espers which is why I'm going to need you to rethink about this since it's causing concerns which is continuing to escalate in a pattern.

Even against sunlight, I'd say the "feint light" produced is more noticeable especially with the noise it produces. But if you are that picky about it, how about a color change to say an indistinguishable blue light or some other reasonable color?

>Sounds very complicated. All I got from that was because OFR molecules isn't affected in anyway from the changes in environment it generally doesn't create such weaknesses such as offset calculations.

No, what I was trying to point out is that different substances have different properties. Oxygen is a part of Air but it doesn't necessarily mean that whatever changes Air will change Oxygen the same exact way. I'm not deny that there wouldn't be a change at all. But if Haragi controls the state of Entropy to be fixed through each mapping I'd figure there would be some kind of resistance to light natural occurrences rather than extreme natural occurrences. Not saying things like Rain, Snow or even Strong wind could not alter his calculations, just not the same amount as Air especially when at a fixed state of Entropy.

>Still can't imagine the amount of calculations he'd be required to do in real time to maintain such an ability when the values change quite randomly.

If (some noticeable change occurs)
{
   //Automatically send a signal detection through "thin string" to update the values in vector table.
}

He relies on detection signals, he doesn't need to perform any calculations until he updates his vector table or actually accessing his subset of molecules he produced through the "thin string" focusing more of his pipelined processing power towards that with the current state variables he has. This is only for <Remote-Controlled Explosions>. And even updating values doesn't take much processing power, it's just replacing new numbers into certain variables. That barely takes any kind of processing power.

>I don't know how much calculation and concentration he'd need to pull it off but if it's anything like Teleporters I'm going to have to say no Haragi is skilled but he's not going to be able to pull that off with X number of bombs set in place while thinking, dodging enemy attacks as well as employing <Clear-Cut Explosions> at the same time.

In no way I had intentions of doing this from the beginning. His plan of movements vary from the amount of concentration he needs as well as the amount of physical work to be done and from how much focus he has to sacrifice if he's using his personal reality.

Say if he wants to dodge an incoming attack by physically moving, he wouldn't be able to concentrate to be able to execute such things. The only time he physically moves and use his esper ability is to skid on "thin air" where he simply solidifies Oxygen, in a thin amount, beneath him and continues to solidify his path while leaving the Solid Oxygen behind him to dissipate.  There was no occurrence in any of my fights where he performed something physical that requires decent amount of concentration on his part and at the same time perform immense calculations.

>Even if he's able to pull it off even the slightest interruption will break his concentration and his abilities will go down the drain. For balancing issue I'm going to have to say you can employ one or the other, not both at the same time. <Remote Explosions> should only be used as a opener in the fight as a ambush technique than something you can use readily in midst of battle.

Exactly what I had been doing since the beginning. Even in Misaka's fight, he had two hours to prepare. He exactly had used his time efficiently towards such a thing. He placed subsets OFR molecules beforehand and used them remotely when he needed them.

>If you want <Remote Explosions> then you will need to rework this ability so that it's balanced. List how many you can setup, what is required to maintain it's upkeep and for how long you can sustain it's presence before it disappears from battle (or during it).

Defining a number will be difficult but it solely depends on factors such as how much of his pipelined processing power is being used, the optimal amount he chooses to place, and how much memory he has allocated. I guess the only reliable factors to look at is how amount allocated memory he chooses to use from his total of 100%. I have explained the scalings about the percentage, but if he only needs to allocate specific cubic measurements in his Vector table for a certain area he would do so. Now this doesn't mean he'll be able to remotely activate them while performing other stress inducing tasks but he will keep that "thin string" attached to them for reference.

For time constraints, I could just state a placeholder number you could alter if you have problems (say 10+ minutes?) since numbers aren't really my thing to deal with where variables are however that would be if the OFR molecules are left alone unattended. If Haragi changes the state of these certain subsets of molecules, I'd assume they would refresh the expiration timer since it has been recently used.

>I don't get it. Explain it in terms even a Magician will be able to understand it.

What I'm trying to say, if there is an optimal algorithm existant for data structures (which seems to be the case in Academy City), performance runtime for such processes to manipulate these data structures would be even more optimal than real life. Currently the common and desired runtime for manipulating data structures (ie. searching through them) is nlog(n) time. Meaning if such a runtime is proven to be faster (which seems to be the case for Academy City) then calculations are much much more faster to perform when manipulating data structures. So I assumed optimal runtime performance of the Vector table (in Academy City's standards) making processing noticeably different than would it would be like in Real life. The Misaka Network I would assume consists of a massive database (or even multiple databases) to perform immense calculations that require manipulating the data at undefinable performances. You are comparing something to a mere Vector table that can only allocate memory with the scalings as previously mentioned.

>You can write a thesis but if I don't understand it then it won't really convince me so try to explain things simpler. Otherwise I can assure you I probably won't read half of it.

Cool then I won't need to.


>What stops his opponents from holding their breath longer than you? Also 2minutes? I thought on average people can't really go past a minute let alone 2. Does this mean if his opponent was Stig Severinsen (22mins of holding breath heavy weight champion) then Haragi would die from the loss of oxygen? It's a real double edged sword, I can see you added 2mins as a safe measure but if he runs into someone who can hold their breath for that long and longer then he's royally screwed.

2 minutes is just a placeholder value. I could extend seeing Haragi could have been in this situation multiples of times. But again, this is only for the case where Haragi chooses to destroy Air around him. Its true if someone can hold their breath longer than him, then he is practically screwed, but that doesn't mean Haragi use his esper ability such as triggering explosions within the confined space he is in or even risking attacking his opponent by conjuring weapons with all the OFR molecules he can produce from the destroyed Air to maintain the advantage and have his opponent lose breath faster.

>It doesn't seem practical. If he makes this dome and it takes up extensive use of his time and concentration on top of holding his breath for 2 minutes then that just means it's just as easy to interrupt it and break his concentration by punching him in the gut.

Right, but it depends on the size of the space he's attempting to destroy air in. If its such a space that has a radius 2 meters and height of 2 meters then it would it wouldn't take as long as confining a space much larger than those measurements. Even with this restriction, Haragi tends to perform this act either when he can't be seen or before a fight actually starts or generally when he feels safe performing it.

I'm very sorry to tell you this but I would like you to work out a compromise on your current ability despite your best efforts to convince me otherwise.

If not my final option is to impose restrictions and limits to water down his abilities to what I would see as balanced standard which may deviate too much from your vision of your ability's potentials.

If possible I would like to avoid the latter.

Haragi's Nerfs after discussion with the other mods.

Haragi's OFR bombs will be required to be either removed or it would require a much longer cooldown. This would mean he would need to set it up like how Frenda setups her bombs, but since this is created from your Personal Reality and you're paying upkeep of concentration to keep it in existence you will be restricted to 2~3 bombs at most and they would need to be setup much earlier in advance than suddenly creating them in midst combat with a cooldown of 1 second. After you create your bombs it'll take another 2~3 hours before you can create 3 again.

His OFR bombs will be visible to others as a source of radiant light as it's about to go off and gives other rpers the benefit of the doubt whether they dodge it or not. You won't be posting whether the explosion was effective or not.

Grabbing stuff with OFR and controlling material objects will be removed. You're not a psychokinesis.

Removing the oxygen around him will completely leave him defenseless against all attacks. You will not be able to create weapons made from OFR in such a field and completely erasing Oxygen in a field would require all of his concentration to the point he would not be able to dodge anything or move a muscle.

Clear-Cut Explosions will have a 5 second delay regardless of distance before it's setup for detonation and 3 seconds to detonate in which the small source of light becomes larger and expands before exploding. In addition to this it's affected by anything that distorts his visions whether it be smoke bomb, dust in his eyes or if he was trying to trigger explosion on a object or individuals moving faster than his eyes could keep up.