<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/7zgsVqo.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Akiyama Amaya<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Year:</strong>First<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Lesbian<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Amaya's early years were rather sorrowful. Both her parents were normals who failed to come to term with how their daughter was and opted to disown her at an early age. Having grown just old enough to grow whole fully attached to her mother when being pulled away, pushed aside, didn't do much well for her, and after a few short-lasted foster-homes, she was stamped a problem child and unsuitable for being placed into a new family.<br/><br/>Eventually, school came around. As her powers had started to show, under the realization that she could be a danger for both herself and those around her, she was quickly set to risk level 3, and with a pair of gorilla-sized guards watching over her at every time, not only did she have a tough time making friends, or rather, not making any at all, but it severely cracked down on her mentally. She made numerous attempts to run away, eventually taking her to the point of being forced to have a tracking chip implanted in her leg.<br/><br/>Not that things got better as she was getting older. Her physical prowess was growing more obvious, and as she was growing progressively more aggressive, her guards grew progressively more alert and nervous. What had started with only a tracking chip elevated to to stun guns and eventually a tranquilizer-anklet. Eventually, she couldn't handle more of the abuse and went after the guards, abusing her powers far beyond the "safe" treshholds, the only thing saving the guard she'd gone after's life being her heart giving in to the strain of the attempted assault. While her heart was successfully rebooted, she ended up stuck in a month long coma, of which during the while, her case came under the eye of an activist group after the doctor who had been treating her during her cardiac arrest and coma had studied her numerous brands of abuse, tracing all of them back to the numerous security guards who had been given the task of keeping arrest of her.<br/><br/>The timing could not have been much better either, as she was recovering from the hospital, the political fold-over that changed everything for abnormal rights was just around the corner, and funded by the progressing political party, she was pulled out of the shell that had been built up over the years, proving her to be, in reality, a rather normal person at her age. Her case was used as a major argument during the political assault that was made, and eventually, as the "good guys" won over the case, she was pulled into a lawsuit towards the company that had handled the guardianship, resulting in a grand sum being forced paid back to her to avoid further legal pursuits, of which Amaya in the end accepted, only wishing to be done with it all.<br/><br/>As one final act of kindness, with Amaya no longer having anywhere to go, she was helped into Denai through private tutoring and some talk with the headmaster of the school, seeing the convenience of having her at a boarding school, thinking it would be a healthy route for her to get back into society.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/IBuDrCK.png)</div><strong>Personality:</strong>Much contrary to what most would expect, Amaya is a surprisingly positive person. She's not hard to make smile, and she doesn't have a hard time shamelessly flirting with those she's interested in. She doesn't like speaking a lot about herself, not liking to look back at her younger years and how she'd been, the furthest she'd go being to crack an uncomfortable half-hearted joke about it. She'd be lying to say it didn't affect her, at times she wonders which side of herself is the most real, how she'd used to be, violent, aggressive, broken, or if her "new self" is what she'd always been.<br/><br/><strong>Power:</strong><em>Time Alter</em>- Through significantly increasing or decreasing the haste of which her body's vital organs function, Amaya is able to alter her own perception of time for a short while. Her control over it is somewhat loose, most comparable to revving an engine. She knows roughly how far she's pushing it, but lacks the finesse to land on a specific speed. With her speed increased, her reaction time reaches a godly degree, and her punches land far harsher, as well as just generally moving faster.<br/><br/><strong>Drawback:</strong>Altering the speed of which her body functions has harsh repercussions Amaya's vital organs. While they are set to handle the harsher load that her body puts on them, they're not invulnerable by any means, she has already had one case of cardiac arrest. Some of the less severe drawbacks include pounding headaches, nausea, occasional paranoia, warm/cold-bloodedness, cold-sweats, and a plethora of other health-concerns.<br/><br/><strong>Clubs Interested In:</strong>Any Martial Arts, athletics club, possibly support group