☣CHARACTER;
Name: Hamazura Shiage
Alias: n/a
Series: To Aru Majutsu no Index
Canon Point: post-volume 15
Age: Teenager (15-16)
Rank: 30

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Player Information

Name: Alex
Age: 18
Current Characters: n/a
Contact: pantherstrike

Character Information

Name: Hamazura Shiage
Age:Teenager
Fandom: To Aru Majutsu no Index
Appearance: A teenaged Japanese boy with dyed blond hair, the face of a thug, and bad posture. His mother probably thinks he's very handsome.
History: Long story short: A life of dumb luck and humiliation
Canon Point: post-volume 15
Personality:
In his first appearance, Shiage gives the impression of a typical thug -- violent, stupid, and somewhat lazy. He was technically the leader of the delinquent group Skill Out after the previous leader's death, but felt out of place as leader and simply worried about having all the tough jobs and blame for the gang's failures put in his hands. Despite this, Shiage was still a committed member of the gang, out of a feeling of both camaraderie and necessity.

Both in his beginnings as a Skill Out member and through his development over the course of the months after he leaves, Shiage's views on himself and others are shaped by an inferiority complex. As a Level 0 esper, he is powerless in a society where possessing supernatural powers is the norm. He joins Skill Out, a gang of Level 0s, because he believes it is the only place for him. He figures that if he can't gain any power no matter what he does, he's stuck at the bottom of the social ladder and has no choice but to prey on others and band together with other Level 0s for protection. Even after leaving Skill Out and abandoning the belief that he can only ever be a thug, Shiage keeps this mentality of inferiority. He will face enemies much stronger than him with as much bravery and bravado as he can muster, but still be thinking there's no way he could ever win or protect anybody, and that it's stupid of him to try.

Despite at first claiming he feels the need to prey on others, after leaving Skill Out Shiage practically lives to protect. He will always place his loved ones before himself, and do anything to protect them even if he believes it's hopeless to try. He has gone up against extremely powerful foes because of this, such as willingly facing a Level 5 esper (one of the absolute strongest) despite his weakness to protect his defeated and injured girlfriend.

Shiage, while not stupid, doesn't exactly come across as a genius. He's very resourceful and can evade any threat to his life (which is why he is infamous to Academy City's higher-ups), but he tends to rush into things and speak more confidently than he should. Shiage once fought Accelerator, the strongest Level 5 esper, out of misunderstanding his intentions. Not only did he rush in to fight someone with immense power when the need to do so wasn't actually nearly as dire as he thought it was, he acted confidently that he could at least drive Accelerator off. Though Shiage didn't actually believe he could defeat Accelerator, he wanted to show confidence instead of fear, and ended up showing too much by rushing in to a completely one sided fight. Still, he is not unintelligent, and can analyze a situation to reach a strategy for ending it safely with competence. He can defeat powerful opponents if he comes into a battle with foresight simply by outsmarting them.

He also still shows some of the typical behaviors of a thug. He's openly perverted and obsessed with bunny girls, but is easily embarrassed when teased about it. He thinks of things in terms of how it well benefit him and his partners more than anything. When he had the concept of magic explained to him for the first time, he started to tune out the lecture after being told he couldn't use magic himself. When with friends in downtime, this side of Shiage tends to show itself more.

Game Specific

Suitability: A thug like Shiage is used to violence, and he'll fight willingly if he thinks it could make him look tough or heroic. When that isn't the case when he's thrust into violent situations, which is most of the time, he's very good at a fighting tactic you can call "not dying". Not dying, however he feels it's best to carry out, is his preferred method to approaching a fight.

Weapon: Shiage will have a run of the mill handgun, a weapon he's used to handling. Being a pretty good shot won't always help him, however, when the gun's ammunition is so limited. Shiage will only get one bullet per battle, and it's extremely unlikely he'll get a kill shot from that one chance. In fact, he's more likely to get nervous and miss entirely, despite his proficiency with guns. After that, the best option is for him to physically hit his opponent with the gun -- which is heavy and made of metal, so it could definitely do some damage if Shiage is able to actually land a hit on his opponent.

Samples

Log/Third Person Sample:
Surely there was something else to do right now besides sitting in the motel room.

Hamazura Shiage stared at the blank wall in front of him as he carelessly threw his new gun back and forth between his hands. He was tense and anxious, for obvious reasons. Too tense and anxious to leave this room.

He had arrived in Santa Destroy a few days ago and had done a minimum amount of exploring in the city that was now his home. What was there to do? Eat some pizza, see a movie, then try to shoot someone in the face. The last part was pretty much necessary, considering he was supposed to fight today. but he tried to ignore it.

What would he be fighting for? His own selfish desire to survive and maybe get out of here? Wasn't he past that? As far as Shiage was concerned, that's the kind of life he left behind.

He was going to be a hero now. Not a coward.

He wanted to show strength, and rising the ranks would certainly help him work towards that, but what if he failed? He wouldn't even be able to justify his own weakness by believing it was something he had to do, even if he could have failed. Here, he had no one to protect but himself.

Shiage stopped throwing his gun and frowned.

What's wrong with protecting yourself, he thought, as long as you show courage when you do it? Maybe he would fail to win some of his battles, but he would only be failing himself. With no one here to protect, he had no one here to let down. And it wasn't like he was unaccustomed to fighting solely for himself, even after leaving Skill Out.

He smiled slightly and stood up to look out the window, still recklessly playing with his weapon. Santa Destroy was a terrible place, but so was Academy City. He realized he could take on whatever the UAA threw at him and beat any opponent. He had the drive.

The drive to save himself and to get back to the people he left behind.


Journal Entry/First Person Sample:

[Shiage is intensely focused on completing an important task.

That task, naturally, involves fighting with a vending machine.]

Why won't you just give me that Coke, dammit?! I paid for it with the last bit of change I had, I'm not just gonna--

[He throws a punch at the machine, which serves to do nothing but bruise his hand.]

--Take iiiiiOW! Fuck! Don't make me...

[Desperate for his precious refreshment, Shiage grabs a hold of the machine and shakes it violently.]

I fought a Level 5 and won, I can fight a vending machine and win! I'm not just gonna walk away! That was my money, and nobody steals from Hamazura Shiage! NOBODY!

[Suddenly, a can of Coke rolls out of the vending machine. Victory at last!

Shiage opens it triumphantly, only to have the contents spurt in his face.]