(In case anyone asks, yes. This character has seen a lot of play time. *grins*)<br/><br/>Character Model: None at present<br/><br/>Character Name: Harada Takeo<br/>Nickname(s): None<br/>Code Name: Kazeshini<br/>Family:<br/><br/>Harada Shingen, Great-Grandfather<br/>Yashida Mariko, Great-Aunt<br/>Harada Kenuichio, Grandfather “Silver Samurai”<br/>Oyama-Harada Yuriko, Step-Grandmother “Lady Deathstrike”<br/>Madam Viper, Grandmother<br/>Harada Kouhei, Father “Bishamon”<br/>Harada Aoi, Mother<br/>Harada Ichigo, Uncle “Shaft”<br/>Harada Mariko, Aunt “Shade”<br/>Riley-Anne Harada, Aunt “Rescuer”<br/>Harada Kukiko, Twin Sister<br/>Harada Tamiko, Sister<br/>Harada “Addison “ Haruko Cho, Cousin “Voltic”<br/>Harada James Randall, Cousin “Jack”<br/><br/>Roll: Prodigy X Team Leader<br/><br/>Gender: Male<br/>Birthdate: August 20th, 2028<br/>Age: 17<br/>Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan<br/>Nationality: Japanese<br/>Orientation: Straight<br/><br/>Height:5'8”<br/>Weight:210 lbs.<br/>Eye Color: Steel Grey<br/>Hair Color: Black<br/><br/>Known Mutant Power(s): Psionic Arms and Armor – Takeo has been gifted with the ability to manifest psionic weapons and armor. The details and quality of said armor or weapons is generally defined by his understanding of the weapons or armor in question.<br/><br/>But the thing about his weapons is that he can generate psionic pulses that disrupt the nervous system or synaptic patterns of the brain.<br/><br/>In addition to this he can internalize his TK to staunch wounds, supplement tendon and ligament strength, as well as increase his own physical strength for limited amounts of time.<br/><br/>Empathy – Takeo has the ability to sense the emotions of anyone near him. (See power progression for more details)<br/><br/>Power Progression: Advancing from stage to stage<br/><br/>Stage 0 (1-10) – At age eight, Takeo began developing terrible headaches about an hour before things would begin to start flying around the house or energy would explode forth from his body. About a<br/>month later, he was taken to meet his father where he was tested for the X-Factor gene and found to be positive. He was soon being tutored by the best telekinetics the Harada family could get.<br/><br/>Stage 1 (10-14) – Takeo having been tutored by Betsy Braddock soon found himself unable to use his telekinesis to lift or move anything, but soon able to enhance his own strength levels (Up to 300 lbs at<br/>most of additional strength besides how own.) and began to manifest simple weapons<br/><br/>Stage 2 (14-17) – Takeo’s experience with his powers is now improved as he can create an hold both telekinetic armor and psionic weapons for nearly an hour at a time, after that they begin to waver or fade. He is also able to internalize his TK abilities to staunch wounds on himself, and even help support ligament and tendon damage until such time as he can reach a healer or his powers fade.*Note This power even allows for creations such as surf boards, and glider wings, they cannot move but can allow him to survive great falls.*(Up to 600lbs of addition strength besides how own)*This includes the strength of his armor.)<br/><br/>By focusing his will, Takeo can also harden his weapons and armor so they have higher 'breaking' threshholds. His default breaking level is high grade steel, but he can push his 'breaking threshhold' to that of Truesilver for a few minutes at a time. This breaking point is in terms of overall tensile strength and resistance to damage<br/><br/>He has also began to sense the emotional from his enemies when his weapons contact or pierce an enemy. *IE Calm, Relaxed, Angry, etc..*<br/><br/>Takeo’s armor can withstand normal gunshot wounds and even some high caliber rounds. It can withstand and provide some cushion for even tremendous damage but to great a strike can cause his armor to “Shatter” which in truth means fade away. If this happens it is very difficult for his armor to return right away.<br/><br/>Stage 3 (17-23) – Takeo, now has the strength and stamina to maintain various weapons and armor for hours at a time. The complexity of his weapons now allows him to all martial weapons and armor, as well as javelin, spear archery and other non movable object attacks. With bows, slings, and chains being the exception. The range of the strikes on these weapons are not determined by normal bow or thrown range.<br/><br/>This means his archery and thrown strikes have no range but his eye sight. Takeo can hit a target with a thrown spear from a football field away with the precision and power that his TK currently allows<br/>him to do so. There is no loss of energy or speed on the throw per wind or distance rating.<br/><br/>Like Psylocke years before he can also choose to do Psychic or Physical damage with his strikes. On limbs and extremities this causes numbness for several minutes on success, if on the chest or head, it<br/>will cause intense pain and possible shut down of nervous system for several seconds, rendering the subject immobile for seconds to minutes depending on strength and will. (Up to 1800 lbs of additional strength and Armor Durability. Without fading considerations.)<br/><br/>His default breaking level is True Silver, but he can push his 'breaking threshhold' to that of Mithril for a few minutes at a time.<br/><br/>Weaknesses:<br/><br/>Takeo’s powers are largely telekinetic in nature, but he is completely incapable of the usual telekinetic feats allowed by said power. He can’t lift things and push/pull them in any direction. He is incapable<br/>of flight by using his powers. As they are made of telekinetic energy, they can be properly manipulated by a telekinetic with sufficient strength or will to break his.<br/><br/>The weapons and armor he can generate are limited by his understanding of how a weapon or armor functions. As this is the case, he will normally acquire and work with a normal mundane weapon of excellent manufacture so he has an ingrained sense of how the weapon is wielded and moves. The same is done with armor, he'll wear the armor until his body becomes accustomed to wearing it and can make the appropriate shifts in posture to accommodate it. At this point, Takeo is limited to close combat weapons and bows. Takeo shunned the use of firearms, but he has been forced out of his comfort zone by the Academy who has force him to practice with firearms of many mundane variety, so it has<br/>yet to be seen if and how efficient his ability to manifest a firearm is.<br/><br/>Also, just because he can replicate a weapon doesn’t mean he’s proficient in it. The weapon is merely a psionic representation of the real thing.<br/><br/>Takeo is also allergic to menthol as it can potentially kill him if he comes into contact with it and he starts to break out if it's in the air.<br/><br/>General Personality/Traits: He’s intelligent, courteous, and even tactful when he chooses to be. He’s also very passionate, loyal, impulsive, and generally rough around the edges. And bluntly honest.<br/><br/>History:<br/><br/>Takeo and Kumiko are a pair of fraternal twins born to Kouhei and Aoi Harada. His parents were perhaps the most unlikely pairing ever concieved, Kouhei had at one time in his life been one of the worlds most wanted Assassins, while their mother had been a Shinto priestess and mystic. Takeo doesn't know much of what happened before his birth but he does know what his mother told him.<br/><br/>Takeo was born only about two minutes before his twin sister in a monastery overlooking Tokyo, attended to some of the best monks skilled in the arts of medicine and childbirthing. His childhood from that point was what most might consider quite ordinary, except for the fact that his mother put both of her children into martial arts as soon as the nearest dojo would accept them into their classes.<br/><br/>There was never any overt pressure on the part of his mother for him to excel in the martial arts, but it was something he did if for no other reason than to make her proud of him. It was most likely because<br/>of his natural aptitude for the martial arts that got him involved with the Yakuza to begin with. His family lived in a part of Tokyo that was contested by two different Yakuza<em>oyabun</em>. He'd been<br/>walking home from school to find his mother being harassed by one faction of the Yakuza, the resulting fight left no arguments about what the young boy would do to protect his family. In receiving the<br/>beating of his life, he'd crippled at least four men and severely injured two others before his rage gave way to the pain.<br/><br/>He woke up the next day to his mother cursing someone outside his hospital room before coming in to find him awake. It was then that they had a very long talk about him using his martial arts to protect<br/>those he loved. To harm others for the sake of harming them because someone wanted him too was not in the spirit of martial arts. She made him swear an oath that he would not use his power to harm others<br/>unless he was protecting people. A vow that to this day he does his best to hold true too. Even when fighting for his life, he does only enough damage to his opponent to prevent them from coming after him when they part.<br/><br/>Later after his mother had been forced to leave his bedside, he was visited by men representing the other faction of Yakuza involved in the struggle for his neighborhood. They'd heard about what he'd done by himself and offered to help him protect his family in exchange for him to run errands and do the occassional odd job for them. He naively felt that this arrangement was more than fair so in turn he agreed, not realizing he'd taken the bait they'd laid out for him.<br/><br/>Everything started off as they'd promised, he simply ran a message from one person to another or delivering a package then after a year he was told that he would have to accept a tattoo of membership if he intended for their protection to extend to his family any longer. He accepted the agreement so long as he got to choose the pattern. They chuckled in agreement. He chose the dragon and tiger tattoo that he now wears from his left shoulder to elbow. It was only because of the fact that it was the beginning of winter was he able to hide the tattoo from his mother until it was completed. About six months later,<br/>Takeo was leveled with a massive headache that landed him in the emergency room with doctors running every test they could think to run with no success, then the headache just vanished and Takeo was allowed to go home after an appointment to see a neurology specialist the next week.<br/><br/>About an hour or so after getting home, Takeo clenched his head and screamed as his headache seemed to return full force, but then the kitchen was destroyed as things started flying about and crashing<br/>everywhere. His mother, Aoi, had a hunch about what was going on but couldn't prove anything without a solid blood test. She was fully aware of who the father was and she also knew that it also made her children mutants, but not taking any chances she performed an exorcism on her apartment complex driving away all the dark energies inside the building.<br/><br/>Harada Aoi was a true mage, one who studied ancient magics both light and dark. And she would undertake anything she felt was necessary to protect her children should it become necessary. But she did not want to disturb her husbands duties and studies, it had been the core of the argument that had split them up. She had no doubt that her father-in-law knew exactly where she was, the monthly checks she received every month were not government nor were they signed by anyone she knew to be associated with the Harada family.<br/><br/>But she had few actual skills outside of magic and her skills as a priestess to make money, so she couldn't refuse it. And she would not stoop to using her magic to make money, she had her pride both as a Mage and as a woman to do so.<br/><br/>But Takeo's headaches didn't lessen, in fact they began to occur more and more frequently. And it was only after one of his worst headaches and outbursts had literally torn his shirt from his body had she<br/>discovered the tattoo. She knew what it meant and she knew it meant that it was time to introduce him and his sister to their father. So she made an appointment to see Harada Kenuichio for later that week,<br/>when he had appeared on her doorstep while her children were at school wanting to know why she was demanding an audience with him, she explained Takeo's headaches and the results afterwards. His<br/>involvement in the Yakuza. And Kenuichio acceded that it was indeed time for the children to meet the rest of their family.<br/><br/>The next day, Takeo was taken out of class and taken to The Understudy Academy for the Gifted where he was given a metal bracelet that eased a growing headache. It was that day that Takeo met and fought with his father. It was a short lived fight, one fueled by a momentary rage and flight of jealousy that this man would take his mother from him.<br/><br/>But when it was explained to him that they were going to be a family, did he calm down and begin to learn. It was a week after he'd moved into the Understudy complex did he realize just how in over his head he'd been with the Yakuza. They had shown up on the front doorstep of the Understudy demanding his presence. He'd been instructed in no uncertain terms to stand just outside the doorway to the complex to see why he was destined to be cut from a different cloth than his previous associates. It was only his father, his mother, his grandparents, and his newest mentor, Betsy Braddock that went to meet the Yakuza, a gathering of about thirty men. Men he knew to be no slouch in a fight. But the three women and two men left none standing in the wake of their wrath. None were dead, but all would be in need of medical attention.<br/><br/>The Yakuza had come to the fight bearing swords, knives, and even a gun or two but they'd all been downed by men and women bearing nothing but their innate gifts and powers. He will forever and always remember the words uttered forth to him by his Grandfather when they returned, “True power comes from a sense of purpose and a desire to do more with oneself than bully the weak. If you are truly my grandson, strive to become more than a petty thief. Strive to become something constructive. An artist. A musician. A writer. A teacher. Or even, heavens help us, a politician.”<br/><br/>From that day forth, he devoted himself to his studies with a fresh vitality. Between Betsy and his grandmother, his skill as a martial artist grew at an exponential rate. His body which was already well<br/>developed became even more developed. His moral code was given a higher standard of achievement.<br/><br/>He began to learn the true code of bushido.<br/><br/>The true Way of Horse and Bow.<br/><br/>To devote every ounce of his being to a task so that it was done to the highest standards. Even if it was something as simple as sweeping and mopping the floor. But it was also during this time that he was<br/>exposed to something that would help give him personal definition. He was a member of Clan Yashida.<br/><br/>A clan of potent warriors and skilled martial artists. But he would also become known as a Christian. The argument that that had spawned had caused him to come to blows with his grandmother, a fight that he had quickly lost. His father was an Agnostic. His mother was a Taoist priestess. His grandparents were both Buddhists. His Aunt Mariko was a skeptic. His Uncle Ichigo only believed in the power of his own fist (a power which would later prove to be in sufficient as he fell before<br/>the sword of his own half-brother.)<br/><br/>For a number of years he did little more than study and practice, his studies were covered more by private tutors than going to actual classes. He did finally fight with his parents and finally was allowed<br/>to attend the Toudou Academy. But soon found himself butting heads with the Executive Council, after nearly killing half the Executive Council and then trading blows with the President until both were left<br/>barely conscious and hanging onto life by a thread.<br/><br/>It was at this point that it was decided that he would be best served by being at the Xavier Institute to further his lessons instead of going back to the Todou Academy or the Japanese Understudy, for which<br/>his own step-grandmother was the Headmistress.<br/><br/>After his first two semesters at the Academy, he was approached by the Headmaster to create a team of students to be the successor to the New Mutants. It would be called Prodigy X and Takeo would be the leader.