Katashi Seishin

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 General Information ☯ 
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Full Name: Katashi Seishin (精神難し-Seishin Katashi)
Name meaning: Katashi- “hard, firm” | Seishin- “spirit”
Hero Name/Epithet: “Séance”; a séance is “a meeting at which people attempt to make contact with the dead”.  This literally directly coordinates with his quirk. He also chooses not to have a little saying with his hero name because he thinks it's silly.

Gender/Pronouns: Cis Male, he/him
Orientation: Homosexual
Species: Human
Race: Japanese
Languages/Accents: Japanese (native language), some English

Age: 16
Birth Date: October 31st
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Occupation: Student at U.A Highschool (Hero Course)
Class: 2-B

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 Appearance

Height: 5’11 | 180 cm
Weight: 170 lbs | 77.1 kg

Skin Color: Pretty pale. Doesn’t really like to go outside.
Hair color/length: He has medium length, very wavy black hair. Parts of his bangs are white due to having poliosis.
Eyebrows: He has thick black eyebrows, save for part of his left eyebrow being completely white.
Eye color: His eyes are completely white. He literally has no irises/pupils.

Clothes: Typically wears grunge/punk fashion, never any bright colors. Likes wearing band merch. 
Accessories/piercings: 
He has a septum piercing and gauges in both ears


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 Health and Image

Fitness: He’s very healthy and pretty muscular. 
Body type: Mesomorph
Left/Right handed: Right

Abnormalities:
PoliosisThe only thing this condition does to Katashi is cause parts of his hair to be completely white as some of his hair follicles have no melanin in them. This was inherited from his mother.

Disorders:
Insomnia: Katashi's reasoning for being unable to sleep at night is due to his quirk. The spirits who connect with him disturb him constantly at night and hes prone to having constant, terrible nightmares. In turn his sleeping pattern generally ranges from less than 8 hours to staying up for a few days. He's been taking melatonin for it since he was about 13, but he still gets disturbed in his sleep regardless.




 Character

Traits:
Katashi is the type of person who comes off as cold and very isolated. He generally doesn't seem to show a lot of emotion to other people and he really seems to try everything he can to get out of a social situation, and because of this most people mistake him for being a scary, threatening person. His appearance and overall aesthetic doesn't help much either. He only really communicates with others when he absolutely has to (which, in turn is a negative trait when it comes to hero work). He hates attention and has a somewhat sarcastic tone about him. Overall he comes across others as a blank slate. Not one to show much emotion at all, to give everyone around him the cold shoulder. He just seems to show a total lack of interest no matter his surroundings.

While people do tend to stay away from him due to his threatening appearance, Katashi really isnt as bad as most people think he is. Once you get to know him, he can be an extremely loyal and reliable person to others. He's the type of person who would just sit and listen to you, he's very good at giving advice. He'd probably not talk much, but definitely appreciates the company of another person. Katashi does sometimes wish people would give him a chance instead of just assuming the worst because of his quirk or his personality. Deep down he does crave positive attention and a normal life in all honesty. His bleak attitude and melancholic outlook on life is mainly due to being drained of seeing any sort of positive angle due to being adjusted to horrible visions and a constant, looming reminder of death over his shoulders.

 He tries his best to stay calm in almost every situation, he's not one to want to get angry unless you really do something to push his buttons- and quite frankly he can be scary when you do piss him off. Katashi's also very good at analyzing things- he's practically the master at coming up with a quick solution to a problem. He's more of a leader type individual, one who would rather hold the reigns and take control of a situation. Overall he's a very mature, independent person. He's not the type to give up or back down easily, and his methods of solving problems tend to be effective, but a bit aggressive due to his determination. Katashi overall just wants to cling as much as he can to the hope of pushing his struggles and his own personal demons aside to do some good in life. Managing his "curse" and living a normal life is all he wants.

Personality Quirks:
• He tends to run his fingers through his hair when he's frustrated or angry to try to calm himself down.
He doses off during class sometimes. Which can be embarrassing because he snores.
• He's extremely respectful to the dead, regardless of how bad the person was.

Hobbies:
Playing guitar: He's not exactly a pro at it but he likes to practice, blame the bands he listens to for getting him into it. He owns an acoustic and a bass.
Drawing: He's not really big on art, but he likes to sketch the different apparitions and spirits he talks with. Sometimes likes to sketch animals too.
Helping the dead: This is the big thing that Katashi uses his quirk for. Most spirits who come to him ask him to do favors, something that can help them move onto the afterlife basically. He sometimes ends up looking crazy to other students as he's often seen running around doing these tasks. 


Likes ❤ Alternative bands | The dark | Horror movies | Thrifting | Spicy food | Cats | Monochrome colors | Autumn | Road Trips | Piercings and tattoos
Dislikes ✖ 
Poor graveyard management | Ghosting hunting shows (he thinks they're fake) | Techno/Pop music | Summer | Huge egos | His quirk | Being alone constantly




 Social

Relationship Status: Taken by Yukki Kobiyashi (RobotDotJpeg's oc)
Katashi holds Yukki very dearly to him as he feels like Yukki is the only person who doesn't treat him like something to be scared of. He was really surprised to see someone wanting to be around him constantly, especially someone so different from himself. Katashi likes that about him. Since Katashi is pretty lonely he kind of presents himself as clingy towards him, and he honestly wouldn't hesitate at all in protecting him no matter what cost. He may seem like a cold grump, but Yukki is probably the only person who could reduce him to a big baby. Most kids in his class really cant believe that he's in a relationship, especially with someone whos the complete opposite of him. He gets teased about it every so often, but he doesn't mind it. He's just happy he actually has someone he cares about.


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Mother: 
Ahmya Seishin (alive)
Quirk: Mediumship
Katashi and his mother don't exactly have the closest relationship as his whole life she just seemed to stay away from him. He inherited his quirk from her, and she handles the quirk a lot differently than he does.  If you could even call what she does "handling it" at all. As far as Katashi could remember, Ahmya would completely isolate herself from the family, spiraling overtime as she just cannot physically handle the voices and horrible visions she saw. Katashi could tell she didnt want to have a son with the same quirk as her, his whole life she just seemed so distant and unappreciative of him. She finds this quirk evil after all.  She seemed indifferent to see Katashi start his hero career. Overall she just seems to pretend he doesn't exist, and mostly spends her days locking herself away in the bedroom.

Father: 
Yuro Seishin (alive)
Quirk: Emotional Grief - The user can control another persons feelings of grief and loss, either raising it or lowering it. 
Unlike his mother Ahmya, Katashi's father is supportive of him and he was the one who had to carry most of the luggage when it came to taking care of Katashi his whole life. Despite Yuro not knowing anything about the quirk like his wife does, he would constantly try to help Katashi manage his power and deal with the horrors he had to see with it his whole life.  Yuro is a funeral director so he's seen his fair share of the dead, and understands it fully. He's very proud and very involved with his son's path of wanting to become a hero. Katashi appreciates him very much and is very grateful of the fact that he doesn't see him as a freak. 
Yuro loves Ahmya and also has to carry the reigns in taking care of his spiraling wife as well as his growing son. He does love her and desperately wants her to be better, and he does honestly fear for Katashi to suffer the same fate. But Yuro in no way intends on letting that stop his son from persuing his path as a hero.
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Friends: N/A
As stated before, people stay away from Katashi and Katashi stays away from people. Kids from class just don't bother trying to befriend him, and it's not like Katashi makes much of an effort himself either.
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Acquaintances:
Kiyoshi Mayonaka (Class 2-B Member)
Kiyoshi does strike Katashi as a bit odd, but regardless he does appreciate that he does try to get friendly with him. Katashi can relate to the fact that Kiyoshi's quirk makes him feel alienated, but honestly it's hard for Katashi to want to bond with him because he can sense that Kiyoshi is still intimidated by him.

Ayami Akira (Class 2-B Member)
He thinks Ayami is a really sweet girl and that her quirk is very unique, but he can understand the fact that she's terrified of him. I mean he's a big tough guy and Ayami presents herself as very shy. He's indifferent with her.

Brooklyn Lawson (Class 2-B Member)
He doesn't know much about Brooklyn at all, the  two only exchanged words a few times, but she can tell by the way she looks at him that she does pity him and honestly it bothers him because he's not a baby to feel guilty for. Again, he's just indifferent with her.

Katsu Amemori (Class 2-B Member)
In all honesty, Katsu is probably one of the friendliest Katashi is when it comes to members of his own class. He actually enjoys Katsu's quiet attitude, and Katashi finds his quirk very impressive and maybe even a little compatible with his own. Of course, they dont talk often enough to be actual friends in his eyes though.

Kurtis (bottledcryptid's oc, Class 2-B Member)
To be honest Kurtis's quirk is funny to him. I mean, he's a snail. He appreciates his kindness that he shows towards him during training but Katashi cant help but let out a few laughs every time he sees him.


Kinoko Aka (Class 2-B Member)
He doesn't really know much about Kinoko other than her extremely kind attitude and neat quirk. He obviously isn't going to talk to her or anything, but he finds her attitude to be comforting considering all of the chaos that happens in their little class.

Luke Marshall (Class 2-B Member)
He definetley doesnt really have any strong opinions on Luke other than the fact that he finds his accent funny. He does think he's nice though.

Ronnie Carter (Class 2-B Member)
Since Ronnie is an absolute chatterbox and will try to strike up a conversation with anyone, Katashi cant help but find his prescence annoying and slightly overwhelming to deal with. Katashi will admittedly be a little too rude in response to Ronnie's attempts to talk to him, but he does appreciate a bit that he even wants to try to talk to him in the first place. Even if Ronnie is a moron.

Penelope Robinson (Class 2-B Member)
Honestly? Penny is literally the only person in class he has no feelings or thoughts towards. Katashi doesn't even know she exists half the time since she's so unbelievable quiet and by herself. 
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Dislikes:
Orenji Tachibana (Class 2-B Member)
Long story short, he absolutely despises him. He finds Orenji to be nothing more than a crass, immature brat who has absolutely no right in deserving of being at a school like UA. Katashi hates his attitude and cant stand his way of speaking to others. He definitely has done little things to piss Orenji off on purpose just to get under his skin, he will admit that. Katashi just wishes he would go away and he's a shining example of how some people just shouldn't be let into hero school, plain and simple.


Yuuma Morikawa (Class 2-B Member)
Much like with Orenji, Katashi finds him to be a stuck up brat for the most part. He finds his overly positive attitude annoying, and cant stand his snarky remarks towards others. Unlike with Orenji though Katashi tends to mind his business and stay away from Yuuma, and Yuuma does the same with him.
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Quirk + Costume

Quirk Name: Mediumship
Type: Emitter
Description: Katashi's quirk allows him to see/speak to spirits freely.  He's able to communicate with them and use them to help him in combat.
Fighting Style:  Uses a mix of both close and distance based combat.

Strengths:
• Katashi can ask the spirits to distract his enemy, whether it be having them touch his opponent to throw them off, knock things over, or even speaking to them
• Katashi can also ask the spirits to check out another room for him and tell him what's going on in that exact room so he can plan his next move
• It can cause negative side effects for him due to how much energy it takes, but if need be Katashi can ask the spirits to physically harm his opponent. He cant heavily rely on the supernatural in combat though.
• Sometimes the spirits will aid their powers for Katashi to use for small intervals, such as floating in short distances
• One of his best tricks is to have the spirits absolutely scare his targets in any way possible. Typical horror movie stuff to get them on edge.

Weaknesses:
• The big downside to Katashi's quirk is that the more energy draining the task is on the ghost that's aiding him, the more Katashi is prone to bleeding out of his nose/mouth and exhausting himself from such a high level of communication. Katashi could potentially black out from overusing his quirk and getting a migraine for a short while.
• As stated before Katashi cannot solely rely on the supernatural in a fight. Because of this he has to really push himself to be trained in physical defense and using other methods of attacks with gadgets
• Sometimes Katashi could potentially communicate with or summon a bad spirit. There have been times where he has caused a place to be haunted with a violent spirit or even become possessed for small amounts of time by said spirit, but he always manages to pull through.

Stats:
• Power: 5/5 A
• Speed: 3/5 C
• Technique:  4/5 B
• Intelligence: 4/5 B
• Cooperativeness:  2/5 D

Hero Costume/Equipment:
• Katashis costume is mainly inspired by a traditional priest as well as symbols you would see on a ouija board.
The two pockets on his hips are used for weapons he could use in battle. He mostly tends to use smoke bombs as they're the easiest way to catch someone off guard.
• He has a set of metal knuckles on his gloves that pack a powerful punch.
• The soles of his shoes are steel toed, so if he needs to kick someone it sure as hell is gonna hurt.
 


Background

Katashi's quirk manifesting at such a young age was quite the terrifying experience for him. One can only imagine how it could feel to someone that young seeing dead people like that. Katashi had to struggle going through his childhood and getting used to his quirk, and it's not like his mother cared much in helping him either. He was also alienated from others at school all the time for having a quirk that was considered "creepy" by others. This feeling of being an outcast along with seeing terrifying figures every night really took a toll on him overtime, the only person in the world really helping him being his father. For these reasons Katashi considers his quirk a "curse". He doesn't like having it as it's mostly caused him nothing but misery in his life. One can only imagine how warped a child's mind could become knowing and learning of all the horrible things that could happen to a person. He began to show signs of lacking interest in life and isolating himself at an early age, unfortunately. 
During his late childhood he slowly began to confide more in the spirits he communicated with. Even though they weren't physical, he enjoyed their company at his worst moments and overtime he found that they would even do small tasks for him. He was really starting to unlock the potential in his power. He began to realize something the more he spoke with them though; they need help just like any other normal person would. Their constant requests and groans for help haunted him, and his mindset soon began to get the idea that in a society where being a hero is the norm, then he could really take the opportunity and elevate his status as a medium by confiding in his newfound otherworldly friends. To possibly solve their cases and bring whoever it is that could've ended their lives to justice.
These thoughts he continued to have throughout his early teens is what helped convince Katashi to gravitate towards hero training. Essentially, Katashi wants to use his quirk in finding villains and criminals and bringing them to justice, as the spirits are the only ones who could really tell the truth about who ended their lives. Katashi trained himself relentlessly with the assistance of his father, thus helping him pass his UA entrance exams with total ease and starting his hero studies.

While he does get the same alienated treatment from this school as he has his entire life, he is determined to follow his path on using his quirk for good use, no matter how high the stakes actually get. 


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Date of Creation: March 26th
, 2019

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