Maple

Maple is a SEER with scarily accurate visions of the future! She can even view specifics of a character's future!!!

But despite that, it's not always useful. I'm still operating off player permission, so here's the idea! Leave a comment with If you're okay with Maple reading things in your character's future and, if so, Your preferred contact over it so we can hash out what she'll see if she does try it.

If you're NOT okay with Maple seeing important things about your character's future, then tell me whether you'd prefer she just not try it, if your character has something which would prevent Maple from doing it, or if you're okay with Maple seeing stuff, but having it always be stupid inconsequential things ("you're going to stub you toe at some point in the future!" "you'd better study for that next math exam, D-!" etc)

PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Emily
CONTACT: deerleisure
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: N/A

CANON INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Maple
CANON: Original (tabletop NPC, One Piece-based)
HISTORY: A seer, one of two people in the world able to see the future. With the power of her awakened Crystal Crystal Fruit, she challenges the Merry Pirates as a member of the vile Grand Line Merchant Company, but she's acting in order to test and train the Merry Pirates. She ends up a reluctant ally (from the Merry Pirates' end) following her defeat at their hands.

STRENGTHS:

Headstrong: While being stubborn is often seen as a character flaw, Maple has honed it into a strength. It means that when she makes a decision, when she commits she will commit one-hundred percent. Set-backs, obstacles, and even defeats can all be easily discarded and ignored as she marches straight on toward her goal. She's tenacious, grasping hold of what she wants and not letting go, and she's adamant and unflinching in her efforts to do so. She has the will to change the world, and that's no joke.

Farsighted: Despite the air of whimsy and snap judgment that often comes to people who care little about the future, Maple is surprisingly provident. Thanks to her literal foresight, Maple is always trying to steer her actions and their effects towards a future goal. Although there's certainly great leeway in how she gets there, she is always trying to put herself in the position to do the most good in regards to the future.

Quick Thinking: Although making snap decisions can be seen as a quirk or flaw, Maple is surprisingly capable at it. Due in part to her ability to see the immediate consequences of her actions, Maple is actually very capable of making good decisions quickly, ones that will help further her goals or bring her closer to her true aims. The ability to fully commit to new actions, likewise, is something that can either help or hinder, but Maple would consider being wishy-washy with those kinds of things to be far more detriment than not.

FLAWS:

Capricious: Despite being surprisingly goal-oriented, Maple is, paradoxically, capricious and fickle as well. When things don't matter (to her,) she can change opinions at the drop of a hat. Furthermore, she's prone to sudden, unprovoked action - or at least seeming as much from the outside. She usually has some reason, but whether those reasons are legitimate or flimsy is, well, hard to judge. This can and often does have disastrous consequence for Maple. Sometimes even as far as sabotaging her own efforts and goals - she works towards those goals to the best of her ability, but when she acts suddenly and without thought she can shoot herself in the foot with a careless action.

Prideful: Maple always feels that she needs to be the center of attention. Whenever the focus is on somebody besides her, she gets jealous. Whenever people are actively ignoring her, she gets angry. Since she is vain by nature, she not only believes she is right, but believes that she is owed the attention and admiration of those around her. She is absolutely convinced that she is one of, if not the most, skilled and talented people around. While it's true that her skills and abilities are good, she is sure that she is the best of the best. While this can be annoying for those around her, it also means that she is reckless in her actions. It means that she is so assured of her own abilities that she doesn't plan for the possibility of losing - unless, of course, she literally sees it coming. Arrogance, fueled by pride.

Unsubtle: Maple is as subtle as a brick to the face. She is physically unable to fade into the background; if she's not calling attention to herself, she's doing something else to grab attention. She will be loud, and when eyes are on her, she will show off. This is just the kind of person Maple is. And if she's not actually showing off, then she'll be talking loudly about how great she is, or brag about her accomplishments (real or imagined.) As already mentioned, she's so dedicated to being the center of attention that she will grow angry at being ignored. Because of all of this, although Maple is capable of planning, and even of deception, such plans and plots will have to account for Maple's loud, boisterous, and show-off-y personality. Any plans that hinge on people not noticing Maple are doomed to failure.

Canon Abilities:
◊ Master of observational haki, able to read intent not only of people but of the universe.
◊ Ability to see into the future, natural ability with observational haki extending to the universe's "will"
◊ Possesses the Crystal Crystal Fruit, allowing Maple to turn her body into crystal, or create crystalline objects from her body.
◊ Her devil fruit is also an Awakened fruit, meaning that she can extend her powers to her surroundings instead of only her body.
◊ Super strength (on par with trained fighters of her canon)
◊ Communicates with the strongest Oracle of the past, Priestess Kya, in her dreams

AU INFORMATION

AU CHARACTER NAME: Maple D'Mello
AGE: 16
GRADE: 11
AU BACKSTORY:
◊ Born in Allahabad, India to a British and Indian couple
◊ At age 6, displayed strong Second Sight precognition
◊ Was "taken in" by the Watchers shortly after
◊ Brought to Daybreak Academy
◊ At age 11, was able to communicate with Seers of the past through dreams
◊ Was inducted into the Watchers proper after that, but remains a Daybreak Academy student
◊ Has attended Daybreak for 10 annoying, annoying years

AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION: N/A original

RACE: Human
SECRET SOCIETY: Technically a member of the Watchers already. Possibly (probably) just a formality, though, as she's mostly considered a Daybreak Academy student (and also annoys the other Watchers) - although they do appreciate her ability to communicate with dead Seers to gather their insight.

POWERS:

◊ Second Sight: Maple's ability is uh slightly absurdly strong.
For very short distances into the future (seconds) it can be used mostly at will, letting her cheat in fights and rock-paper-scissors. Although she can receive flashes of insight when dramatically appropriate, to get full use out of this she has to be concentrating on it, thus catching her off-guard or throwing off her concentration are valid counters.
It's also hard to counter people with insane reflexes with it, people who can adjust their attacks once she commits to a dodge or other action. In general, she's still limited by her own speed (not great) and other human limitations.
For longer distances in time, she can focus on people or objects to foresee major events (up to the choices of the player or mod, when appropriate) but can only guide these visions in very broad strokes (trying to foresee tragedy, or romance, for example) and these tend to be random snippets, leaving some details vague.
She can also just try and see major events, but those suffer more fragmentation, along the lines of most Second Sight users.
Also, like most Second Sight users, Maple lost something in return for her Sight; for her, her right eye is useless.

◊ Past Communication: Maple's self-importance (and maybe power) are enough to draw the power of past Seers to herself. What this does is establish herself as a focal point for past Seers using their own powers, and let her communicate with them if in the right mindset (dreaming or meditating.)
To be clear, it's the past Seers doing the power legwork here - they're using their own Second Sight, and just drawn in to Maple. And on an OOC level, this isn't something she can do herself, it's basically on mod whims.

◊ Crystal Flame: That's just fancy talk for saying she's got Flame powers, and her power's theme is crystal. Specifically, she can turn her body into crystal, create small crystal objects, and turn small areas around her into crystal as well.
When turning her body into crystal, it gains the hardness and durability of strong crystal, unyielding to blows and strength. When creating objects, the largest is about the mass of a sword. And when affecting an outside area, it can affect maybe a five foot radius around her.
As a side not, she can absolutely not turn anything with a will of its own into crystal - that means nothing sentient can just be turned into a statue and left there.

◊ Fightan': Being at Daybreak Academy for ten years means Maple knows how to fight a fight. Although she's stronger than average and a good fighter, she's also not going to be able to keep up with the people who dedicated their lives to the skill without relying on her other abilities - too many pies in one basket, as the saying goes. She's stronger than she is skilled, more skilled than she is fast, and all of those nowhere near the kind of shounen levels she was out of this AU.

◊ Other Mundane Skills: Maple is a master of fortune-telling, tarot card reading, bookkeeping, and video games. She can also speak English, French, and Hindi equally well. Thanks to the ability of foresight, she has been studying with the Japanese duolingo app as well, but kind of sucks at it.

HOUSING: Gimme a random roommate to torture

RP SAMPLE
Top-level at TDM, extra thread 1, extra thread 2