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Accelerator | To Aru Majutsu no Index | Not reserved | 1/4 I apologize for the length sob

[personal profile] ippotsuko 2013-01-01 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Name: Gingey
Contact Info: AIM is gingerveer, [plurk.com profile] Gingeyweasel
Other Characters Played: Shinra Kishitani([personal profile] loveandevil) and Jenny Takeda([personal profile] walkingwmd)
Preferred Apartment: None

Character Name: Accelerator
Canon: To Aru Majutsu no Index
Canon Point: Post To Aru Majutsu no Index: New Testament 3+time at [community profile] mayfield_rpg
Background/History:
Accelerator at the To Aru Majutsu no Index wiki, and I've also done my own summary here.
ippotsuko: (oops I killed her 10031 times)

Accelerator | To Aru Majutsu no Index | Not reserved | 2/4

[personal profile] ippotsuko 2013-01-01 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
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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Accelerator | To Aru Majutsu no Index | Not reserved | 3/4

[personal profile] ippotsuko 2013-01-01 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Accelerator is very cynical, and unless he is given a reason not to be, apathetic and easily bored. He has a short fuse and can be a bit of a complainer, though he only tends to whine about things he doesn't actually care about. He still doesn't trust easily and has trouble expressing more positive emotions. Those that persistently believe in him and his capacity for good tend to endear themselves to him faster than others, but even so he isn't exactly nice to them and tends to exclusively refer to them by insulting nicknames. He tries not to let himself get attached to people and when he does, he may decide that distancing himself from them is the only thing to do if he truly cares for them, because he is dangerous and those that associate with him tend to get hurt. However, after World War III, he's mostly given up on completely staying away from the ones he cares about and just wants to be able to live peacefully with his adoptive family.

Accelerator is generally very rude and most of his sentences are littered with profanity and insults, but whether he actually means them or not varies. He's very condescending and basically acts like a huge dick towards everyone regardless of his opinion on them. He can be a man of few words or very long-winded depending on his mood and has no qualms about giving people lectures when he decides they need them. Of course, his lectures can be...interestingly misguided, because his view of the world is still a little warped.

Although Accelerator is capable of being incredibly violent and ruthless towards his opponents, doing so was originally in an attempt to discourage people from attacking him--therefore keeping people from getting hurt--because of how he was as a child. After all, if everyone saw him as a sadistic psychopath with the ability to kill nearly anyone without breaking a sweat, who would be crazy enough to approach him? He eventually gave up on his childhood idea of a world where he wouldn't have to hurt anyone ever again, but behaviors that started as a result of his childhood dream have still lingered long afterwards. Currently his general policy is to use only the minimal amount of force to take down his opponents. When he does believe that his current opponent has to die, he prefers shooting them if he has a gun or snapping their necks if he doesn't over, say, ripping them apart.

His old battle tactics involved heavy use of psychotic grins and maniacal laughter, but it's implied this was just another attempt to scare people(he played it up on purpose to do just that on one occasional) and he's since grown away from it. After the Hound Dog incident, he's learned that playing with his opponents isn't always the best idea, but while he's started to deal with them with only the force he felt he needed to defeat them, he will still verbally mock them...Not that that's much different from his everyday interactions with people!

Accelerator is confident in his own skills and abilities, but not in his own capacity to become a better person. He desperately wants to be one, but has a hard time believing it could be possible. He initially believed it to be completely and utterly impossible for him, even if the people he cares about could occasionally persuade him to doubt that. After he was lectured by someone he idolizes, however, he has changed his opinions to allow himself to have more hope for his future, even if he still can't shake that way of thinking entirely. As of a recent incident where he helped save a little girl, he seems to be moving closer and closer to believing he has it in himself to be good...but he's still definitely got a long way to go.

"I may not be able to become a good person, but I can at least use my power to bring about a happy ending for somebody else."


Accelerator has had some very strange ideas about morality, believing it to be both black-and-white and predetermined(according to him, hearing the story of the Ugly Duckling confirmed this. After all, if the "duckling" found happiness because it was actually born a swan, that meant he couldn't find it because he was born an awful person). In his mind, he was born evil and no amount of good deed doing could change that--especially not after all of the bad things he's done. He killed over 10,000 people and doesn't make any excuses for himself or his behavior. He used to see himself as a villain, a monster, a murderer, a scumbag--and it's outright stated that he despises himself for it.

"Who are you, hero?"
"...I'm not a hero. I'm a villain that's no better than a piece of shit."


As time went on his standards for himself got higher and higher and his self-loathing grew worse and worse until he had the biggest mental breakdown of his life. Nowadays, Accelerator no longer feels that he is bound by fate to be a "villain," but it's still hard for him to consider that he could ever make enough progress to be considered "good." He does, however, seem to have toned down his self-loathing some after all of the things he went through during the war.

Besides loathing himself for all the things he's done, he also despises anyone he sees as a villain. However, he won't go out of his way to stop them if they're just killing other "villains" like themselves. He doesn't care what they do unless they're dragging an innocent person into it(for example, when the Spark Signal terrorists were running around and he was supposed to stop them, he was content to let other people deal with it until he saw them hurting people). He is especially likely to jump into something if there are children involved and will always step in on a situation where the people he cares for are in danger. He can't stand it when people who, in his mind, don't belong there are dragged into the world of "darkness" anyone he sees as a villain supposedly lives in. While the life of a person he sees as good has worth to him and he'll usually go out of his way avoid hurting them or letting anyone "bad" do so, the life of someone he sees as evil like himself is worthless in his eyes and he feels no remorse in slaughtering them without mercy when he's given a reason to.

"The kind of person that can take up arms without hesitation to shoot down the villain is no better than a villain himself. The kind of person that doesn't care about others, doesn't given second chances, that kills when given a reason...is definitely not a hero. You don't have to become that kind of person. Only I have to go through that."


He knows he's a hypocrite, but in his mind someone has to be that hypocrite, and it's better him--someone that's already "tainted"--than someone else. He's already ruined for life, so he's believes he's the only one who has to do what he does. Really, he almost thinks he's doing everyone a service, because if he didn't live his life the way he does someone else would have to become as tainted as him.

Although Accelerator used to very firmly believe he can't be saved, he seems to be at least less vehement about this fact now that he's survived a war. Generally, he can sometimes be persuaded to doubt his inability to be redeemed because deep down he really wants nothing more than to redeem himself. When pushed or challenged, he may go out of his way to do something nice(like taking a girl he'd never met before out to lunch because he heard her complaining about being hungry), but he isn't going to be nice about it and will probably come up with a half-assed excuse for why he's doing it. It's still very, very difficult for him to own up to any positive emotions, although he will admit to wanting to protect other people far more easily these days.

While he very rarely allows himself to get attached to others(after all, people around him tend to get hurt), the few he has are very important to him. He never really had a family(his parents are never mentioned, but it's implied he was an orphan) and was raised by scientists who were usually either terrified of or cruel to him, so the little adoptive family he eventually managed to build is very important to him. He will go to great lengths to protect them, especially Last Order--he would do pretty much anything to protect her. To him, she is the most important thing in the world and he's willing to throw all of his morals out of the window if her safety is in jeopardy. Accelerator even says that he's willing to become their enemy if that's what it takes to keep the people he cares about safe, and is willing to hurt Yomikawa or Yoshikawa if it means protecting them from death, but he's made a vow to never hurt another clone again so when it comes to Last Order or any of the other sister clones he'll generally do anything to avoid them getting hurt at all. Snapping and hurting one of the clones after she toyed with his mind and almost killed Last Order caused him great distress, to the point of having the largest mental breakdown of his life and briefly becoming practically suicidal.

Because of Accelerator's past belief that he was a villain and could never change that, he developed hero worship towards Kamijou Touma, the boy that stopped the experiment he was in. He even attempted to imitate him a few times, trying to use his right hand like Touma does despite needing it for his cane. He soon abandoned this, but in his mind Touma is still the perfect example of a hero and a flawless human being who literally has no faults. Unfortunately, his hero worship of Touma only further convinced him that he was a villain who could never change no matter how hard he tried. Touma is actually what convinced Accelerator to drop the villain thing, though--Touma lectured him when he was practically suicidal and it finally convinced him that his way of thinking was wrong. It's fairly likely that he could develop hero worship towards other people he views as heroic, but none of them would ever be able to match up to Touma, as far as he's concerned.

Accelerator has a lot of raw intelligence and is very good with science and technology, but he has very little common sense because of his childhood being shuffled from research lab to research lab. Before he sustained brain damage he always relied on his powers for everything and could get what he wanted easily without really having to think, so he's still not always the best at applying his brainpower to his battles, but he's gotten much better at it after dealing with his disability for awhile. He also has a tendency to jump to overly complicated and ridiculous conclusions and refuse to believe they could be wrong, such as when he was convinced that Komoe Tsukuyomi(who appears to be a dwarf) was part of an experiment with growth hormones and drugs and would not hear a word against his theory. This is probably why it took so long for him to realize his views on morality were flawed. He can also be pretty paranoid, having in the past thought that all kinds of things would lead to a nuclear war that would leave him the last living thing on earth, and even briefly believing that WWIII was his fault/an attempt to capture him. But because he lived his life constantly dealing with people who would go to great lengths to control and use him, it's really not surprising that he ended up that way.

Accelerator is extremely mentally unstable and easily shaken--it's fairly easy to trigger a mental breakdown if you know the right buttons to push. Although he likes to complain about some of his more mundane problems, he tends to bury the things that truly bother him. He'll either refuse to mention them when questioned about them or talk about them very casually as if they're just facts and don't matter(ie how he runs around telling everyone he's a villain and can't change no matter how hard he tries.). He really only tends seriously address them when he's having a mental breakdown of some sort, and the way he ignores his problems is probably part of the reason why it's so easy to cause one in the first place.

Abilities/Powers:
Accelerator is an Esper. Esper powers are ranked on a scale of 0-5, with Level 0s having no measurable power at all and Level 5s being the most powerful. Out of only seven Level 5s in existence, Accelerator is the most powerful. His ability is referred to as "Vector Manipulation" and allows him to change the vectors of anything his AIM field comes in contact with(so basically anything he touches, as AIM fields surround an Esper's body and Accelerator's is particularly thin). His AIM field also acts as his "redirection field" and automatically deflects anything that comes towards him, save things like oxygen that are automatically allowed in and things he consciously allows in like food and water. His redirection field has automatically deflected bullets, body parts of any person attempting to touch him, and even things like UV rays(to protect his skin from the sun because of his albinism). His powers are theoretically capable of a lot, and some examples of the ways he has used his powers in canon include: reversing a person's blood flow with the touch of a finger, creating explosions of earth around him, propelling himself forward at ridiculous speeds, chucking objects at people, controlling wind, creating cyclones on his back to allow him to "fly," compressing air to create plasma, "hacking" a brain using bioelectricity, standing on the moving blades of a helicopter, and even using the kinetic energy from the Earth's rotation to attack something(this slowed down the Earth's rotation by about five minutes). He uses his powers by doing complex physics calculations in his head, nearly instantaneously in most cases. Because of the nature of his powers, however, throwing off his calculations would ruin whatever he's trying to do--but he's very good at what he does, so it's not something that happens often.

As overpowered as Accelerator is, there are a variety of circumstances that can hinder his use of his abilities. Most of them are very specific and unlikely to come up in roleplay, but the main thing to consider is his brain damage. Accelerator used to be able to use his powers 24/7, but after the scientist Amai Ao shot him in the head, that was no longer the case. It was a miracle that Accelerator managed to survive his accident, and the damage to his brain originally left him unable to move his body at all save for his arms as well as being unable to speak or understand language. Being able to use his powers like this was out of the question. However, his doctor developed a way to lessen the effects of the damage: Accelerator wears a collar around his neck that connects him to the Misaka network of clones. This collar has a wire that connects to electrodes hidden in his hair and sends electric signals to his brain. With it, he is able to function much better--he can speak(albeit with a slight slur that becomes more pronounced when he uses his powers) and move but cannot walk without the aid of a cane. The battery that powers the collar must be charged periodically for him to be able to continue to function, currently lasting for several days in "normal" mode and several hours in "Esper" mode. To have access to his powers, Accelerator has to switch settings on his collar, and using them eats away the battery much faster.
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[personal profile] ippotsuko 2013-01-01 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
As an Esper, Accelerator does not necessarily mix well with magic. He can still block it, but it dissipates rather than being redirected back at the spell's caster. Using it himself is a bad idea as generally that results in a reaction that includes sweating and bursting blood vessels. This reaction would kill most Espers, but Accelerator is different in a few ways so has been able to survive it. During his awakenings(detailed below), Accelerator's wings were said to be made of a substance very similar to the magic used by angels(Telesma) and the Dark Matter created by Kakine Teitoku. Becoming an angel has further altered his relationship with magic, as seen when he was able to work with feng shui in New Testament 2.

Separate from his normal powers, Accelerator has also been able to do what is known as "awakening," and this lead to him eventually becoming an artificial angel. Both his angel mode and awakened state are/were triggered by emotions.

In his awakened state, black wings that appeared to be made of mist manifested on his back. They made him much more powerful, enabling him to use his wings to attack(they are, for whatever reason, extremely sharp) and manipulate things without touching them. He was capable of awakening regardless of the state of his brain battery, as awakenings did not rely on it. The emotional triggers for his awakenings were anger, despair, and a desire to kill his opponent so strong that he was willing to throw all of his morals out of the window to do so. He was originally unable to consciously control his actions in this state, but grew able to over time. It was never explicitly stated but it is generally assumed that he can no longer awaken, because it was replaced by artificial angel mode.

Little is known about angel mode yet, but it is generally assumed to be triggered by something more positive, like a strong desire to protect. He has only activated his angel mode once in canon, and he did so after he smiled at Last Order and told her that he wanted to be with her forever(in a familial sense, not a romantic one). Little is known about the power boost he receives in this state, but it is probably safe to assume that he can still manipulate things without touching them. The only real action we see him take in angel mode is stopping a beam of magical energy from destroying all of Eurasia.

Although his battery has a much longer life than it used to, Accelerator still tries to use his powers sparingly in order to preserve it. He mostly uses them to defend himself and protect others, and due to feeling secure in his abilities will most likely not bother with plasmids. He'd be a bit wary of them anyway, due to his past.

Items/Weapons:
-his gun
-the cane he needs to walk with.
-a picture of him, Byakuren Hijiri, and Satou Kuroneko(AKA the most recent version of his Mayfield family) together. Satou([personal profile] priceofmagic) is being played here currently but without any memory of Mayfield and I have gotten permission from her mun for him to have this since it involves her character.

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Kidnapped to another goddamn town. That was just his luck, wasn't it? At least he didn't have any stupid obligation to go to school or anything. Continuing to live somewhere that forced him to stay with other people was irritating, but for the time being he much preferred the run-down Haven to the 50s hell he came from. It wasn't like there were many people from Mayfield left to miss, anyway. He was personally attached to only a few of the people that remained undroned...although there were plenty of drones he wanted to keep an eye on. It was silly really, but those were still the bodies of the people he'd sworn to protect and even somehow grown to care for...

Still, what seemed like a slightly better situation to him wasn't a good one. Being stranded in another shitty town that seemed to be determined to put him through hell was hardly ideal to anyone, let alone him.

As futile as he knew it would be, he couldn't help but force himself to travel to the barrier and see how useless his immense power would be for escaping. It was just a reminder--you're trapped here too, better get used to it. But wasn't that the story of his life? Trapped in Academy City because there wasn't really anywhere else for him to go. Trapped in Mayfield and living under threat of brainwashing every day. Trapped in Haven, waiting to see what horrors it had in store for him and how they'd compare to all the others.

He wasn't looking forward to it but...bring it on, Haven.