Previous Game History: While Accelerator has certainly been through a lot in his short life, nothing could have ever prepared him for Mayfield. Living without his powers in a low technology world in close proximity to total strangers is pretty close to the exact opposite of what he was used to--being thought of by the general public as the most powerful person on the planet in the technologically advanced Academy City for most of his life and trying his best to isolate himself from other people. Here, he had to make some effort to function like a normal member of the society to avoid brainwashings, and having spent most of his life as a lab rat that was pretty strange for him. Lucky for him, he'd arrived at the beginning of summer and didn't have to worry about going to school for a few months.
Strangely enough though, as much as Accelerator hated being there Mayfield didn't seem anywhere near as bad as it really was to him at first. His main problem with it was that it was keeping him from fulfilling his obligations back in Academy City and from the small girl he'd devoted himself to protecting. Not having any power when you're used to being nearly invincible only served to make his already paranoid personality worse, but at least here he saw less reason to need his powers. At first, anyway, because it took Mayfield a few months to really show him what it was capable of. It was an annoying place, that was clear, but you couldn't die and the strange goings on there(being unable to figure out if he was really a native Mayfielder or not on the Fourth of July, being unable to lie for a week, that kind of thing) seemed like more of a nuisance than anything else in his first few months. All in all, it seemed like a better place to be than Academy City.
Pity he had to share it with Mikoto Misaka.
Accelerator could get away with ignoring most of the people in Mayfield--he had no interest in socializing with anyone, and resisted forming bonds with even the people he was forced to live with pretty well. There were a few children there he'd sort of taken it upon himself to look after, but that was really it at first. Mikoto Misaka, on the other hand, was someone he had an unfortunate history with and while he didn't like her, he felt a certain obligation to keep an eye on her.
Towards the end of the summer Accelerator experienced his first death(poisoned by the town's infamous milk during an event where someone in every house had to drink an entire bottle a day or risk being brainwashed and sent on a murderous rampage), but it still wasn't enough to alter his opinion that Mayfield was better than Academy City. Rather than his death, he was more concerned with the fact that more and more people from Accelerator's world began to show up, including those he had yet to meet(having been taken from volume 19 originally) and those that should have been dead. By the time school started, Mayfield had three of Mikoto's clones--Misaka #9982, Misaka #10032, and Misaka WORST--and the hero who stopped the experiment where they were supposed to die. This changed things for Accelerator--the stakes were higher with those clone girls around, as he felt even more obligated to look after them than the original. With Touma Kamijou being around...Accelerator was shocked to find that even the "perfect hero" he'd put up on a pedestal was powerless against the town they'd been imprisoned in.
All the new arrivals from their city caused a definite change in Accelerator's relationship with Mikoto Misaka. She took a definite defensive shift at first, worried for the sake of her clones, and while seeing he was apparently no longer any threat to them didn't put her at any ease, it left them in the awkward position of both being concerned with looking out for them. As if the awkward forced cooperation that came from looking after the clones wasn't enough, the weekend before school started Mayfield forced the two of them to go on a "date." Apparently the town considered the two of them a couple, and left them locked in a bowling alley with large amounts of food together for several hours. This led to a rather significant conversation between them of them regarding their situation and Mikoto attempting(and failing) to convince him that Mayfield was far worse than their home, but it ended badly and the two ended up sulking in opposite corners for a few hours afterwards.
As school started up again, Accelerator found himself attending a regular school...for the first time in his entire life, really. "Regular" is a term you can only use loosely in Mayfield, but a it was still far closer to normal than he'd ever really experienced in his life. While he managed to spend a lot of the summer hiding away from everyone in his house, he was forced into more regular interaction with other people now that he had to attend class if he didn't want to be brainwashed. Most of the people he'd interacted with off and on over the summer had been permadroned at this point, including his "family," but attending class fairly regularly caused him to start interacting with new people and while he would never admit it, grow closer to some. In particular, school saw him growing closer to a girl by the name of Madoka Kaname.
Accelerator's devotion to protecting the clones was first put to the test in Mayfield by the spread of a zombie virus. Unfortunately, #10032 and #9982 ended up infected, but neither he nor Mikoto wanted either of them to be killed by anyone out slaying zombies, so they split up after agreeing to try to find and contain them. Accelerator got to them before Mikoto, but without his powers attempting to herd them to safety proved to be a difficult task and himself ended up infected. Not wanting to lose control of himself and start attacking people, he ran into Mikoto again and requested she kill him since suicide was unfortunately not an option once you'd been infected. Although she refused, he pretended the virus was further along than it really was and scared her into electrocuting him to death.
Not long after the zombie outbreak, two of the clone girls ended up permadroned. Many in the town said this meant going back but, but while WORST was from Accelerator's future and at least had something to go back to, #9982 was...well, dead. While Mikoto had been avoiding him due to feeling bad about killing him, she tried to convince him that she was better off droned that stuck in Mayfield, which of course...turned into an argument. Accelerator ended up going to the park afterwards, where he ran into Lil' Slugger. Slugger had been messing with Accelerator off and on since he came to Mayfield because he found it funny, but today their encounter was...different. Attracted to Accelerator's less than favorable mental state, Slugger did his duty as a monster and attacked him with his bat(which was "helping" as far as Slugger was concerned). Leaving Accelerator alone in the park in the middle of the night, Misaka #10032 eventually stumbled upon his bleeding and unconscious form and dragged him to her house to clean him up out of pity.
Life went back to going through the motions for awhile after that, but at this point Accelerator had come to realize just what kind of place he was dealing with. He wasn't sure if he would call it worse than Academy City, but it was at the very least just as bad in its own way.
The next major incident Accelerator found himself in involved hallucinogenic mushrooms. Having been tricked into eating some, Accelerator ended up seeing Mayfield as a research facility full of the bodies of dead Misaka clones. Anyone who approached him was perceived as a scientist, leading him to be very hostile to everyone he came in contact with. Upon being approached by his friend Madoka Kaname, Accelerator grabbed a flower(believing it to be a gun) and began to threaten to kill her. All attempts to reason with him failed, and he went on like this until he encountered Touma Kamijou. Unlike all the others, Accelerator not only saw Touma as a scientist, but as one he actually recognized--Kihara Amata, the one that worked with him when was younger and later kidnapped Last Order and attempted to kill him. Struggling desperately to attack him despite his lack of powers or any real weapons lucky enough got him absolutely nowhere. Touma's attempts to reason with him weren't working due to the effects of the mushrooms, so he eventually gave up and knocked Accelerator unconscious.
The next time Accelerator spoke to Madoka, he attempted to apologize to her in his own roundabout way, but also noted that he'd warned her that he wasn't the kind of person she wanted to be around and that side of himself was exactly why. Madoka, however, insisted that she wasn't upset and was actually worried about him. Her still liking him and wanting to be his friend after what happened between them led to her being the person that was most successful at getting close to him during his stay in Mayfield.
On what would normally be Black Friday in America, everyone in Mayfield woke up to find themselves in a nuclear wasteland. It was kind of a weird thing for Accelerator, who could easily survive a nuclear war with his powers and had imagined himself in this type of situation countless times in the past. Accelerator immediately went looking for the Misakas, and was shocked when finally caught up with Mikoto--she was permadroned. Needless to say, the next few days before Mayfield was restored to its former "glory" were pretty miserable.
With December's influx of new people came two of note: housemates that would make quite an impact on Accelerator's life in Mayfield. The first to show up, Teitoku Kakine, was an enemy of his from Academy City and considered by Mayfield to be his "brother." Horribly enough, this resulted in them constantly trying(and sometimes succeeding) to murder each other. The second was a Buddhist nun named Byakuren Hijiri, their new "mother," who really did not approve of all the chaos in her house.She did, however, take a liking to Accelerator and put a lot of effort into trying to help him overcome his guilt issues.
Come Christmas, Accelerator found himself being persuaded to give up his existence for the sake of the town. Everyone else would be better off without him, after all...with him forgotten, Kakine took his place in the memories of that that knew him as the esper involved in the Level Six Shift Experiment. Accelerator found himself stuck as something like a ghost temporarily, but eventually his existence was restored and everything set back to...whatever passed for "normal" in Mayfield.
January didn't get any better for him, as he found the little girl he takes care of--Last Order--showed up in his house one morning, only to get killed by Kakine. Accelerator spent his days trying desperately to protect her from him for s short period of time, but soon they both disappeared. Misaka #10032 and Touma Kamijou both followed within the next few months, and Accelerator found himself the last person from his world in town.
In May, Accelerator found himself returning to Academy City and going through World War III as well as confrontations with a group called Gremlin. Returning to Mayfield he found only a few days had passed and...he soon got another new housemate, a young girl named Satou Kuroneko. Satou went out of her way to try and befriend him, but he brushed her off.
As school ended, Accelerator found it much easier to just hide in his house and ignore most of the people in town--most of the people he talked to were gone by now, anyway. He only really bothered to venture out when Madoka wanted to see him, or when Applejack the pony came to check up on him.
Personality: The protagonist of To Aru Majutsu no Index, Touma Kamijou, is an indisputably heroic individual. He very firmly believes that there is good in everyone and that anyone can change. When we first meet Accelerator, he seems to be proof that Touma's philosophy is wrong, but as Accelerator becomes the story's secondary protagonist and fights to take his life back, his character instead becomes one that tests Touma's beliefs--and ultimately, the results favor Touma.
"Before all the tragedies happened, Accelerator was just a normal boy who would laugh and cry like any other."
Accelerator was once a fairly normal child, but was very shy and has even stated that as a small boy, he was afraid to look others in the eye. People have been terrified of him for most of his life. Originally, this was because he couldn't control his powers and would usually accidentally hurt anyone who got too close. Anyone that tried to touch him would get their body mangled by his redirection field and at the time he was unable to deactivate it so the only thing he could do to prevent harm coming to others was to keep them away. He tried to distance himself from others to keep them from being hurt because of him and although he's changed significantly over the years, he still often tries to keep other people from getting involved in his life because of a belief that he only causes people who get too close to him pain. He has been known to go to great lengths to keep unrelated people away from him, often giving fake information to people that wished to help him and sending them off to safety so he could face danger alone. He's slowly had to learn to cooperate with other people, but he certainly doesn't like it. Despite his secret desire for a family, Accelerator's always acted like he wanted nothing more than to be left alone, as people have wanted to kill or use him for practically all of his life.
As a child, Accelerator was hunted like a dog by those that wanted to kill or use him. The conflict proved to be quite dangerous to unrelated people, so eventually a young Accelerator surrendered himself to scientists that claimed to have a plan that would solve all of his problems--they would make him so strong that everyone would be too afraid to approach him, and then he'd never have to hurt anyone ever again. The scientists, however, had much more sinister goals and Accelerator eventually grew into someone willing to kill anyone who attacked him, even learning to take great pleasure in toying with them. In his mind, he had to set an example for anyone else who that might want to attack him so he could someday be left alone, and they deserved it for being foolish enough to challenge him. Although he grew to--or at least, pretended to--enjoy violence, he still wanted to create that life where he'd never have to hurt anyone anymore. Accelerator eventually joined an experiment where he was to kill 20,000 clone girls to become stronger after being convinced that because they had no emotions or free will and could be mass-produced, they didn't count as "real people." He went through with the expeiment long enough to kill 10,031 of these clones and constantly tried to mock them and encourage them to run away or stand up to him--after the experiment he reflected on this and realized on some level he knew what he was doing was wrong and he had wanted someone to stop him. Because he was taught to believe they didn't count as real people, he never actually viewed himself as a murderer until Touma Kamijou put an end to the experiment and made him realize how far he'd fallen from the goals of his childhood self in his plan to achieve them.
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While Accelerator has certainly been through a lot in his short life, nothing could have ever prepared him for Mayfield. Living without his powers in a low technology world in close proximity to total strangers is pretty close to the exact opposite of what he was used to--being thought of by the general public as the most powerful person on the planet in the technologically advanced Academy City for most of his life and trying his best to isolate himself from other people. Here, he had to make some effort to function like a normal member of the society to avoid brainwashings, and having spent most of his life as a lab rat that was pretty strange for him. Lucky for him, he'd arrived at the beginning of summer and didn't have to worry about going to school for a few months.
Strangely enough though, as much as Accelerator hated being there Mayfield didn't seem anywhere near as bad as it really was to him at first. His main problem with it was that it was keeping him from fulfilling his obligations back in Academy City and from the small girl he'd devoted himself to protecting. Not having any power when you're used to being nearly invincible only served to make his already paranoid personality worse, but at least here he saw less reason to need his powers. At first, anyway, because it took Mayfield a few months to really show him what it was capable of. It was an annoying place, that was clear, but you couldn't die and the strange goings on there(being unable to figure out if he was really a native Mayfielder or not on the Fourth of July, being unable to lie for a week, that kind of thing) seemed like more of a nuisance than anything else in his first few months. All in all, it seemed like a better place to be than Academy City.
Pity he had to share it with Mikoto Misaka.
Accelerator could get away with ignoring most of the people in Mayfield--he had no interest in socializing with anyone, and resisted forming bonds with even the people he was forced to live with pretty well. There were a few children there he'd sort of taken it upon himself to look after, but that was really it at first. Mikoto Misaka, on the other hand, was someone he had an unfortunate history with and while he didn't like her, he felt a certain obligation to keep an eye on her.
Towards the end of the summer Accelerator experienced his first death(poisoned by the town's infamous milk during an event where someone in every house had to drink an entire bottle a day or risk being brainwashed and sent on a murderous rampage), but it still wasn't enough to alter his opinion that Mayfield was better than Academy City. Rather than his death, he was more concerned with the fact that more and more people from Accelerator's world began to show up, including those he had yet to meet(having been taken from volume 19 originally) and those that should have been dead. By the time school started, Mayfield had three of Mikoto's clones--Misaka #9982, Misaka #10032, and Misaka WORST--and the hero who stopped the experiment where they were supposed to die. This changed things for Accelerator--the stakes were higher with those clone girls around, as he felt even more obligated to look after them than the original. With Touma Kamijou being around...Accelerator was shocked to find that even the "perfect hero" he'd put up on a pedestal was powerless against the town they'd been imprisoned in.
All the new arrivals from their city caused a definite change in Accelerator's relationship with Mikoto Misaka. She took a definite defensive shift at first, worried for the sake of her clones, and while seeing he was apparently no longer any threat to them didn't put her at any ease, it left them in the awkward position of both being concerned with looking out for them. As if the awkward forced cooperation that came from looking after the clones wasn't enough, the weekend before school started Mayfield forced the two of them to go on a "date." Apparently the town considered the two of them a couple, and left them locked in a bowling alley with large amounts of food together for several hours. This led to a rather significant conversation between them of them regarding their situation and Mikoto attempting(and failing) to convince him that Mayfield was far worse than their home, but it ended badly and the two ended up sulking in opposite corners for a few hours afterwards.
As school started up again, Accelerator found himself attending a regular school...for the first time in his entire life, really. "Regular" is a term you can only use loosely in Mayfield, but a it was still far closer to normal than he'd ever really experienced in his life. While he managed to spend a lot of the summer hiding away from everyone in his house, he was forced into more regular interaction with other people now that he had to attend class if he didn't want to be brainwashed. Most of the people he'd interacted with off and on over the summer had been permadroned at this point, including his "family," but attending class fairly regularly caused him to start interacting with new people and while he would never admit it, grow closer to some. In particular, school saw him growing closer to a girl by the name of Madoka Kaname.
Accelerator's devotion to protecting the clones was first put to the test in Mayfield by the spread of a zombie virus. Unfortunately, #10032 and #9982 ended up infected, but neither he nor Mikoto wanted either of them to be killed by anyone out slaying zombies, so they split up after agreeing to try to find and contain them. Accelerator got to them before Mikoto, but without his powers attempting to herd them to safety proved to be a difficult task and himself ended up infected. Not wanting to lose control of himself and start attacking people, he ran into Mikoto again and requested she kill him since suicide was unfortunately not an option once you'd been infected. Although she refused, he pretended the virus was further along than it really was and scared her into electrocuting him to death.
Not long after the zombie outbreak, two of the clone girls ended up permadroned. Many in the town said this meant going back but, but while WORST was from Accelerator's future and at least had something to go back to, #9982 was...well, dead. While Mikoto had been avoiding him due to feeling bad about killing him, she tried to convince him that she was better off droned that stuck in Mayfield, which of course...turned into an argument. Accelerator ended up going to the park afterwards, where he ran into Lil' Slugger. Slugger had been messing with Accelerator off and on since he came to Mayfield because he found it funny, but today their encounter was...different. Attracted to Accelerator's less than favorable mental state, Slugger did his duty as a monster and attacked him with his bat(which was "helping" as far as Slugger was concerned). Leaving Accelerator alone in the park in the middle of the night, Misaka #10032 eventually stumbled upon his bleeding and unconscious form and dragged him to her house to clean him up out of pity.
Life went back to going through the motions for awhile after that, but at this point Accelerator had come to realize just what kind of place he was dealing with. He wasn't sure if he would call it worse than Academy City, but it was at the very least just as bad in its own way.
The next major incident Accelerator found himself in involved hallucinogenic mushrooms. Having been tricked into eating some, Accelerator ended up seeing Mayfield as a research facility full of the bodies of dead Misaka clones. Anyone who approached him was perceived as a scientist, leading him to be very hostile to everyone he came in contact with. Upon being approached by his friend Madoka Kaname, Accelerator grabbed a flower(believing it to be a gun) and began to threaten to kill her. All attempts to reason with him failed, and he went on like this until he encountered Touma Kamijou. Unlike all the others, Accelerator not only saw Touma as a scientist, but as one he actually recognized--Kihara Amata, the one that worked with him when was younger and later kidnapped Last Order and attempted to kill him. Struggling desperately to attack him despite his lack of powers or any real weapons lucky enough got him absolutely nowhere. Touma's attempts to reason with him weren't working due to the effects of the mushrooms, so he eventually gave up and knocked Accelerator unconscious.
The next time Accelerator spoke to Madoka, he attempted to apologize to her in his own roundabout way, but also noted that he'd warned her that he wasn't the kind of person she wanted to be around and that side of himself was exactly why. Madoka, however, insisted that she wasn't upset and was actually worried about him. Her still liking him and wanting to be his friend after what happened between them led to her being the person that was most successful at getting close to him during his stay in Mayfield.
On what would normally be Black Friday in America, everyone in Mayfield woke up to find themselves in a nuclear wasteland. It was kind of a weird thing for Accelerator, who could easily survive a nuclear war with his powers and had imagined himself in this type of situation countless times in the past. Accelerator immediately went looking for the Misakas, and was shocked when finally caught up with Mikoto--she was permadroned. Needless to say, the next few days before Mayfield was restored to its former "glory" were pretty miserable.
With December's influx of new people came two of note: housemates that would make quite an impact on Accelerator's life in Mayfield. The first to show up, Teitoku Kakine, was an enemy of his from Academy City and considered by Mayfield to be his "brother." Horribly enough, this resulted in them constantly trying(and sometimes succeeding) to murder each other. The second was a Buddhist nun named Byakuren Hijiri, their new "mother," who really did not approve of all the chaos in her house.She did, however, take a liking to Accelerator and put a lot of effort into trying to help him overcome his guilt issues.
Come Christmas, Accelerator found himself being persuaded to give up his existence for the sake of the town. Everyone else would be better off without him, after all...with him forgotten, Kakine took his place in the memories of that that knew him as the esper involved in the Level Six Shift Experiment. Accelerator found himself stuck as something like a ghost temporarily, but eventually his existence was restored and everything set back to...whatever passed for "normal" in Mayfield.
January didn't get any better for him, as he found the little girl he takes care of--Last Order--showed up in his house one morning, only to get killed by Kakine. Accelerator spent his days trying desperately to protect her from him for s short period of time, but soon they both disappeared. Misaka #10032 and Touma Kamijou both followed within the next few months, and Accelerator found himself the last person from his world in town.
In May, Accelerator found himself returning to Academy City and going through World War III as well as confrontations with a group called Gremlin. Returning to Mayfield he found only a few days had passed and...he soon got another new housemate, a young girl named Satou Kuroneko. Satou went out of her way to try and befriend him, but he brushed her off.
As school ended, Accelerator found it much easier to just hide in his house and ignore most of the people in town--most of the people he talked to were gone by now, anyway. He only really bothered to venture out when Madoka wanted to see him, or when Applejack the pony came to check up on him.
Personality:
The protagonist of To Aru Majutsu no Index, Touma Kamijou, is an indisputably heroic individual. He very firmly believes that there is good in everyone and that anyone can change. When we first meet Accelerator, he seems to be proof that Touma's philosophy is wrong, but as Accelerator becomes the story's secondary protagonist and fights to take his life back, his character instead becomes one that tests Touma's beliefs--and ultimately, the results favor Touma.
Accelerator was once a fairly normal child, but was very shy and has even stated that as a small boy, he was afraid to look others in the eye. People have been terrified of him for most of his life. Originally, this was because he couldn't control his powers and would usually accidentally hurt anyone who got too close. Anyone that tried to touch him would get their body mangled by his redirection field and at the time he was unable to deactivate it so the only thing he could do to prevent harm coming to others was to keep them away. He tried to distance himself from others to keep them from being hurt because of him and although he's changed significantly over the years, he still often tries to keep other people from getting involved in his life because of a belief that he only causes people who get too close to him pain. He has been known to go to great lengths to keep unrelated people away from him, often giving fake information to people that wished to help him and sending them off to safety so he could face danger alone. He's slowly had to learn to cooperate with other people, but he certainly doesn't like it. Despite his secret desire for a family, Accelerator's always acted like he wanted nothing more than to be left alone, as people have wanted to kill or use him for practically all of his life.
As a child, Accelerator was hunted like a dog by those that wanted to kill or use him. The conflict proved to be quite dangerous to unrelated people, so eventually a young Accelerator surrendered himself to scientists that claimed to have a plan that would solve all of his problems--they would make him so strong that everyone would be too afraid to approach him, and then he'd never have to hurt anyone ever again. The scientists, however, had much more sinister goals and Accelerator eventually grew into someone willing to kill anyone who attacked him, even learning to take great pleasure in toying with them. In his mind, he had to set an example for anyone else who that might want to attack him so he could someday be left alone, and they deserved it for being foolish enough to challenge him. Although he grew to--or at least, pretended to--enjoy violence, he still wanted to create that life where he'd never have to hurt anyone anymore. Accelerator eventually joined an experiment where he was to kill 20,000 clone girls to become stronger after being convinced that because they had no emotions or free will and could be mass-produced, they didn't count as "real people." He went through with the expeiment long enough to kill 10,031 of these clones and constantly tried to mock them and encourage them to run away or stand up to him--after the experiment he reflected on this and realized on some level he knew what he was doing was wrong and he had wanted someone to stop him. Because he was taught to believe they didn't count as real people, he never actually viewed himself as a murderer until Touma Kamijou put an end to the experiment and made him realize how far he'd fallen from the goals of his childhood self in his plan to achieve them.