Post by Kentaro Itonokogiri on Nov 6, 2016 2:17:36 GMT
Kentaro Itonokogiri
FACE CLAIM: Takumi Saito
♦ THE BASICS ♦
AGE: 25
GENDER: Male
ORIENTATION: Pansexual (while he only had female lovers thus far, he considers he could just as easily fall in love with a man)
POSITION: recruiter and was also accredited as a trainer in Japan before transferring here♦ THE ABILITY ♦
POWER: Abdominal Pouch
Kentaro has the ability to peel off a part of his lower abdomen in order to store objects in it. You can see where he can pull it by the light scar-like line on his lower left side, under the belly button reaching almost to the hip. Underneath is more skin, as though he was wearing a second layer of skin on top that he could use as a pouch. Peeling it is not painful. It’s like removing cellophane from a container. Anyone knowing of this pouch and where to pull the skin can do it, but it requires more than simply grazing the skin over his waist to do so. The opening is not very wide so you have to put your hand into the pouch in order to place/remove an object in/from it. The pouch is also limited in size and can contain nothing bigger than a water bottle. While he can stretch it a bit in order to fit more, it generally has its toll on his health. The pouch is clean so paper can be put in there without coming out covered in goo or anything like that. As said above, it’s basically a skin pouch attached to his belly. The objects will likely be as warm as if they remained against someone’s body/in their hands for as long as it remained inside of him. It can be possible to see whether or not he is currently holding objects, depending on the object's size. The bigger it is, the more it creates a bump on the left side of his stomach. Kentaro can keep objects in there for as long as he wants. The main advantage to this pouch is that it blurs any kind of detector. For example, a metal detector would not sense he's having a weapon stashed inside of him and so can smuggled objects without people knowing it. And X-Ray however may reveal it.
LIMITATIONS:
The biggest limitation is size. The pouch goes from his belly button to his hip, anything larger cannot fit in there.
No living creature can be stored in it. Well, it could, but it would also likely claw, bit or chew its way out of it. And if placed in a container, well Kentaro doesn’t have holes in there to allow much breathing room.
It is also dangerous for Kentaro to hold radioactive, boiling, frozen or otherwise dangerous objects in there. A knife for example could easily fit in there but could just as easily cut him if the blade is not protected. If attacked and hit in the stomach while holding something, it can break the object and therefore hurt him. He cannot put a bomb in there if it's about to blow to protect people, it will blow him up along with it. If the dangerous object is in a safe case that does not risk breaking or leaking, it can remained stashed in there without problem.
While no detector can scan the object he has inside (metal, radioactivity...) an X-Ray can reveal objects in his abdomen.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
Kentaro can poison/hurt himself with whatever is inside of him if not properly handled.
Big objects form a bmp on his left side which can sometimes make it hard to move the hip normally. He would normally compensate by putting more weight on his right side but it can be damageable to his hip.
Big objects also pushes through his organs in order to get more room which can cause multiple intestinal problems and, since the intestines then push other organs to have room, bladder problems.♦ THE CHARACTER ♦
HEIGHT: 1,84 meters, in other words a little more than six feet tall.
HAIR COLOR: dark brown-blackish hair
EYE COLOR: brown
MISC: Kentaro has natural pouches under his eyes. His most notable features however are probably his lips that are big and voluptuous. His hair has a natural curve to it and if it looks messy, it is always because it's been styled that way. Kentaro is actally pretty conscious of his body and the way he looks and has a bit of a dandy side that cannot take looking disheveled no matter what he's wearing. He's also practiced boxing for a few years now and has the body to prove it.
PERSONALITY: Kentaro is a mix between the candor and naivety of youth with the seriousness of experience. Not that he is all that experienced. And some teacher may argue that he was not the most obedient of student, nor the most assiduous, but even they could not deny he always did the work asked of him. While he may hate the studies/work required to achieve something, he ultimately always took it seriously. If they had to do an exam, he would do it with calm. He’d also do it quickly and would suffer if he had to wait any longer before walking out of the class. Kentaro was the kind to get good grades without having to study too much. He just had a good memory that tended to erase all that knowledge once the exams were over. It gave him a lot of free time that he would spend hanging out with all sorts of people, trying all sorts of things and sometimes doing the occasional mischief.
Kentaro is well aware that he is young and that most people in his field of work have more experience than he does. He respects that, he just also wants to have fun too along with it. He doesn’t see the point of taking a job if you find no pleasure in it. He does show respect when respect is asked of someone older/superior to him, otherwise he probably looks like some fop here to make the girls fall in love. But Kentaro knows what he’s doing and even if he may approach things with what appears to be light-headedness, he’s also serious about it and would not risk his attitude from ruining everything.
Kentaro loves to be surrounded and to get some attention on him. Yet, even if his name might pop up in your head as someone to have around, you may fail to pinpoint why. It’s almost like he’s part of the furniture, you don’t quite know his purpose all the time but you know something’s missing if he isn’t around. He does small talk only when forced but gives his opinion freely and he has one on all sorts of topics, from movies to social or ecological matters. You could say he is more of a serious conversationalist. He’s good at moving his hips but isn’t the kind to ask for a dance out of the blue. He might dance if he is asked. He’s a movie and music lover and will often give a try to foreign artists. Kentaro hates solitude he did not seek in the first place. He also cannot take silence, he needs noise around him, and action too if that is possible.
He’s a bit of a risk taker, sometimes even appearing reckless to others. He’s not afraid of experimenting new things. Again, his carefree nature makes him more intrigued about the unknown than scared. He doesn’t really mind not knowing what that ‘unknown’ is either. He’d just say he wasn’t meant to know. Don’t read anything spiritual in it.
Kentaro knows how to flirt although it would often appear as shy. While there is some shyness to it, he’s probably more confident than he looks. He’s not one to get easily worried over matters. His light-heartedness may also make him look like he doesn’t seem to care so much about your worries, but he does listen. While in his interaction with others he can appear carefree, should someone spy on him when working, they’d realise he can actually look very focused and dedicated. Kentaro loves sharing a drink with an acquaintance but whenever a problem is brought that he doesn't feel he could help with, he tries to change the topic. He's not very good at hearing people complain for the sake of complaining.
SECRET(S): Kentaro hates when people say Japanese words to him. He knows what hello means, no need to say ‘Kon'nichiwa’ or to tell him ‘sayonara’ instead of goodbye. He’s no one’s ‘sensei’ either. Okay, so he does eat Japanese breakfast, but they are hardly the only ones eating fish for breakfast, right? Don’t get surprised if he refuses to have sushi with you for lunch too.
Kentaro doesn't have a very good sense of direction. He can get lost pretty easily. He's also an okay driver at best, this problem enhanced with the fact Americans drive on the other side of the road they do in Japan.♦ THE HISTORY ♦
Kentaro was born in Sakai city in the prefecture of Osaka. While it may be hard for people to hear it in English (or even in Japanese since they aren’t all that used to it) he still has an accent typical of this area. His youth was pretty uneventful and typical of that of any other kid his age. He had friends, he went to school, he did chores at home and tried not to hate too much his older sister Momoe who liked to torment him based on the ‘older sibling’s right’.
He was relatively young when he took on boxing. One of their neighbours was a regular at a gym and Kentaro would see him train and then replicate what he did to the best of his capacities with his friends. After he accidentally hurt a friend and the neighbour caught them, the man suggested he trained for real instead of doing it like an idiot and much to the boy’s surprise, his parents agreed to it. Now he had a weapon against his sister who anyway had lost some interest in tormenting him now that she was a teenager who should care about more important things like idols and hair products.
It was known in the family that some of its members were mutants. Still, as it often skipped a generation and sometimes didn’t even touch every child in the family, it was more something the adults were warned about to look out for than something they all expected. Kentaro had no idea it was his power that manifested when he saw that light mark on his stomach. He thought it may be left by his briefs, or maybe he hurt himself during practice. As he touched it, he ended up able to peel a bit of the skin. When he realised it could actually come off, he stopped straight away, afraid he would let his guts out if he did so and warned his parents who rushed into the nearest hospital with him.
The doctors proved to be quite puzzled as they realised there was skin underneath that skin. Their best explanation was that it was only extra skin that somehow formed on top of it and maybe that white trace indicated it would come off eventually. They suggested to remove it surgically and let the family out to think about it. Before any surgery could be performed, or serious thought been given to it, someone offered them another explanation. Apparently, it was a power. Kentaro didn’t quite get what kind of power that was, it seemed pretty lame compared to throwing fire or reading thoughts. This earned him some more teasing from his sister, in case he ever forgot she had the right to do so as his older sibling. When suggested to move out of Osaka to go to the Sainō school, Kentaro was puzzled as to the usefulness of it. He had a pouch of skin, how many hours of training to master this ability could really be required? But his parents told him it would be more profitable and so he did it.
At that time, Kentaro had the dream of becoming a DJ, or maybe a barman, which, he supposed, meant that his ultimate goal should be to own a club. And he was not even in age to drink yet! By the time he was however, he had long abandoned that dream, finding two major flaws to it: 1) he had no money to fund this project and didn’t plan on starting his life covered in debts and 2) he was terrible with the whole planning and business knowledge required to own... well, a business. His counsellor tried to help him by suggesting he considered his power but that didn’t help at all. After all, unless he wanted to be a smuggler for a yakuza, there didn’t seem to be much use to his power. Not to add that most people didn't quite like looking at him putting his hand in his stomach to retrieve objects.
The decision to become a recruiter and a trainer came at him after quite some thought. Since his ability was indeed pretty easy to master, he was often allowed to skip class. To occupy him so he wouldn’t disrupt someone else’s lesson, the school asked him to take care of the new students, show them around, answer their questions and whatnot. Not seeing a reason to say no, he said yes. Turned out he wasn’t so bad at it. And so, when high school was over, he asked if he could continue doing something like this. The school said recruiting and training was the closest to what he had been doing and so Kentaro chose to study to become a recruiter and a trainer. He sometimes had to skip lessons in order to travel to pick a student. Kentaro didn’t train anyone in Japan however, other than during his own lessons. He showed curiosity as to how they did it elsewhere and at the various methods of teaching. This was how he got involved with Bellefonte and moved there. While it may be cruel to have him try his hands on their students, Kentaro is actually pretty eager to do it and see what it’s like.Somehow, in here, he most often gets referred to as Mr Kogiri. He cannot say he minds.♦ THE PLAYER ♦
USERNAME: Bobby
AGE GROUP: still younger than Fate
EXPERIENCE: more than enough time
WHERE DID YOU FIND US? does email count?
