(http://i.imgur.com/PC7z9OH.jpg)<br/><strong>Name:</strong>Jacob Maebara<br/><strong>Age:</strong>19<br/><strong>Year:</strong>First<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Straight<br/><strong>Background:</strong>Jacob is the son of Akihiko Maebara, a salaryman at a major technology firm, and Sylvie Maebara (<em>née</em>Vasser), a French biochemist who moved to Japan to continue her work.  Despite what most people assume, Sylvie was involved in studying<del>Abnormal</del>empowered humans even before her first child, Amelia, turned out to be empowered.  (Amelia's power allows her to transform into a monstrous form that is tremendously strong and tough, when she's under enough stress to provoke a serious adrenal reaction; doing so leaves her extremely lethargic, and she generally passes out for an amount of time proportional to the time she spent transformed.  This power left her with serious problems later in life.)  Their second child, Jacob, definitely had the mutation responsible for powers, but hadn't shown any sign of it for a while.<br/><br/>Jacob grew up as a very serious young man, who always felt like he was living in the shadow of his empowered sister, and also like a bit of an outsider among Japanese classmates due to his visible Western ancestry.  Still, he was a hard worker and proved to be quite talented; he was never quite at the top of his class, but made excellent grades, and stood out in several extracurriculars.  He was always embarrassed -- but his parents were (though they'd never say so out loud) slightly relieved -- that he had no idea what his power was supposed to be.<br/><br/>Jacob didn't discover his power until he was ten, and the family was on a summer trip to Okinawa.  A drunk driver nearly crashed straight into the Maebara family's car, and would have killed both of Jacob's parents -- if he hadn't instinctively activated his power, dragging the flow of time backwards, and lunged forward to turn their vehicle into a ditch instead of the oncoming car.  The vacation was promptly canceled in favor of testing the new discovery in a controlled laboratory setting...after Jacob woke up from his prolonged nightmares.  The following month proved deeply unpleasant for everyone involved, and both of Jacob's parents have become research subjects now that both of their children have exhibited powers.<br/><br/>When Jacob was in high school,, his older sister was involved in an incident wherein she was forced to use her power to defend herself from an assailant; it was inarguably a case of self-defense for those who actually knew anything about the incident, but the frightening nature of Amelia's powers and her attacker's severe injuries provoked a media frenzy, and the family has seen no end of trouble since.  Fortunately, Jacob isn't easily recognized as his sister's brother (she has dark hair and looks far more Japanese than he does), but it's still a mess whenever he<em>is</em>recognized.<br/><br/>Last year, Jacob's mother accepted a new position working in Denai Academy's research department, and Jacob's first year is beginning just after his sister's graduation.  He still works hard both inside and outside of class, and wants very much to be recognized for his own achievements (and not his power).  His parents have gotten on his case repeatedly about work/life balance, and they hope he'll have an easier time finding friends at Denai, where many other students are "outsiders" like himself.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Jacob is a very driven young man, and tends to overcompensate for what he perceives as his faults; he's unusually polite for a young man his age, and works hard at several traditional Japanese arts.  When he's relaxed enough to let down his guard, he does enjoy showing off a bit -- but never with his actual power, which terrifies him.<br/><br/><strong>Power:</strong>Time Rewind.  When Jacob focuses, he can drag the flow of time backwards.  Everyone remembers what happened during the moments that never were, which may be enough to avert disaster -- but for some reason, everyone but Jacob finds it extraordinarily difficult (though not quite impossible) to change their actions when time repeats.  (The entire Maebara family reported feeling "trapped" into repeating the averted car crash, plunging helplessly toward their own deaths all over again, until Jacob grabbed the wheel.)  Fortunately, people who aren't near the event normally only experience a (very strong) feeling of deja vu.  Jacob has never reversed time for more than ten seconds, due to his power's drawback.<br/><br/><strong>Drawback:</strong>Jacob can hold himself together for perhaps an hour or two after reversing time (he can even do it once or twice more if he must), but he quickly becomes shaky and weak, and passes out.  Jacob stays asleep for an amount of time proportional to the time he reversed, and is plagued by nightmares about the averted timeframe.  (His entire family has nightmares about the crash as well, although this probably isn't his power's fault directly.)<br/><br/>(NOTE: Jacob's power is pretty much unusable in the context of this game, unless we set up a scene for it specifically.  This is fine -- he doesn't<em>want</em>to use it, anyway.)<br/><br/><strong>Clubs Interested In:</strong>Martial arts (particularly aikido and Okinawan karate), art (particularly calligraphy), archery, abnormal support.