User blog:Holokami/Character Sheet: Nozomi Ono

"There's more to psionics than most can imagine... What do you say, fancy leading the world to new discoveries?"

- Lumi to Nozomi, when inviting her to the Psychic School

Nozomi Ono is one of the current few fourteen known astral psionics, and she's indisputably the most powerful. Astral psionics is a new and emerging power, but incredibly rare. Because of this, Nozomi has received quite a lot of attention for "connection" to the astral world.

Appearance
Nozomi has long black hair and brilliant blue eyes, but rarely wears anything beyond a blank expression.

She can nearly always be seen in her personalized Shepherd uniform (seen in image), wearing her sword by her side.

Personality
Nozomi is not a very talkative person, and gives off a calm and relaxed air, and always has a blank expression on her face. She's not one who celebrates a victory or patronizes the enemy; she'll just get the job done, then leave. Nozomi isn't one to boast or show off her abilities, but you can easily tell she's powerful through her air of confidence in battle. She knows her way through a fight.

Nozomi appears to prefer speaking with spirits over Humans most of the time, this is because most of her childhood was spent being raised by spirits after her father was killed, and she isn't really used to speaking with Humans again.

Background
Nozomi was born in Osaka, Japan. When she was just two, her parents split up, and her sister went with her mother to Europe. Nozomi was then raised by just her father. Her father also trained her in kendo. When she was 8, which would be four years after Lumi set up the Psychic School Islands, and before the Shepherds were founded, a telekinetic came to her father's dojo. He was demanding to be taken in as a student, but Nozomi's father could tell he was trouble, and refused. He then returned the next day, and was again refused, and this went on for the next week.

Eventually the man refused to be refused, and challenged Nozomi's father to a match, and was accepted. If he won, he could join. Her father was confident about winning, but was still going to give it his all. However, they couldn't have known was what was about to happen. The man struck Nozomi's father repeatedly with telekinetically enhanced strikes, dealing huge damage to his body. After she begged him to stop, she called an ambulance. The man said he would be back to start his training.

Nozomi's father died later that day in hospital.

Nozomi was taken back to the dojo and after she wept for some time, she eventually fell asleep. The man did return, that night, and he set the dojo on fire without realizing she was in there. Nozomi was saved by a spirit from a nearby forest, and woke up the next morning sleeping next to her. After a session of freaking out, the spirit told her what had happened, and she wept once more. The spirit agreed she would raise her. Nozomi didn't really know any better, as there was still her mother she could have gone too, and agreed. For the next seven years, the world believed she was dead, all the while she was living well, and growing in power.

In 2014, the Shepherds were chasing down a gang, lead by three powerful psychics misusing their powers. They had managed to chase them to Osaka, but were getting nowhere. The most powerful of the Shepherds were on other missions, and they couldn't handle the situation any further than chasing them until the others arrived. One night, the Shepherds had managed to chase the gang into a forest near Osaka. A fight broke out, and the forest began to burn. This angered a certain psychic living in that forest, who proceeded to knock everyone out, Shepherds and gang alike, before they knew what happened.

The next morning when they woke up, the girl, who introduced herself as Nozomi Ono, was still there, watching over them. The Shepherds asked Nozomi who she was, and definitely about what her powers were to knock them all out like that. She revealed she was a "priestess", or an astral psychic in their terms. They quickly contacted base, and in no time at all, Lumi appeared to greet Nozomi. Lumi explained what had happened in the forest. Nozomi was clearly angry about it, but Lumi restored the forest, making anyone who saw the fire around the world forget about it. Nozomi was amazed, especially when Lumi saw and spoke with the spirit who raised her. Lumi personally invited Nozomi to come to the islands and join the Shepherds. While she was hesitant with the latter offer, she agreed to go with them.

She later joined the shepherds and rose to be the greatest astral psionic alive. She still wants to find the man who killed her father and bring justice to him, but the spirit who raised her taught her to control this lust for revenge.

Powers

 * Astral Manipulation - Nozomi was born with the ability to see and communicate with spirits. After her father was killed when Nozomi was 8, a spirit took her in and raised her, trained her to expand and master her powers.
 * Powers Via Weapon - Nozomi was given a sword from the spirit she was raised by. A powerful weapon which lets Nozomi manipulate telekinetic force while its close to her. This sword also improves Nozomi's physical condition considerably, from enhancing it, to making it supernatural.
 * Limited Telekinetic Force Manipulation
 * Enhanced Condition/Supernatural Condition

Trivia

 * The sword Nozomi wields is called "Spirit's Protector", and was created by a circle of spirits for Nozomi. It can be used as a very effective blunt weapon while sheathed, but can be drawn. The sword and saya are imbued with potent psionic power from spirits, and the blade is incredibly sharp, and when swung unsheathed, it can release powerful blades of telekinetic force and astral energy to devastate opponents.
 * Her epithet, "Spirit Queen" is one she doesn't agree with, and takes no real notice of it.

Themes
Fighting
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47vz2qkXZxY