Noriko Gumi

Noriko Gumi is a member of Class 1-B at U.A. and one of the members of the vigilante group, The Mustafu Knights.

Appearance
Noriko is a thin girl, with pale skin, black eyes, and green, semi-transparent hair.

Personality
She is often blunt and aloof, and is not afraid to speak her mind. She has very set convictions on what she believes it means to be a hero and she will do what she has to to uphold her ideals, even if it means clashing with fellow classmates or teammates.

She is also very kind to those she cares about, and can be seen making for for her friends and helping them with their problems if they need her.

Abilities
"Foreward thinking": Noriko has been shown to engage situations with discretion by looking around at what's going on and not acting until she can get a handle on what's going on. In the Punk Hazard incident, she played dead to try to get an understanding of what they were up against though it didn't have the intended effect with Tsuyoi trying to 'wake her up' over and over.

"Planner": Noriko likes to keep things organized and be appraised of the situation. If the team are going into a problem, a plan is always in play. If not, she's always there as back up or to scout the area or keep look out. She purchased a kotatsu to share and talk about what the next mission will entail with the group with mixed success.

"Adaptable": Being made of goo has it's advantages and in sticky situations, Noriko will adapt. In the Punk Hazard incident, Noriko convinced the team to push her through the air duct, extruding herself out of the tiny space in a way that only she could in hopes of getting help. She tends to keep an eye out for anything that could become a hitch in any given scenario and will act on her own if need be or alongside the team if they need her to.

Quirks
Noriko's quirk makes her body composed entirely of an ooblek like substance made predominantly of starch and water. She lacks proper internal organs and how she functions is relatively unknown. She doesn't have nerve endings above her scalp so the gum rope being severed doesn't hurt her in any way and she can be impaled without sustaining life threatening injury (potentially situational for story reasons during USJ internship). Given her body is made of a dense compound, she's very heavy and uses her bulk to take blows most people can't shrug off as easily. Rolls for bludgeoning damage have disadvantage against her for her Non-Newtonian Body.

Her body gives her a Malleable Form: she can squash and compress her body to fit into tight spaces and to change the shape of her gum weapons.


 * Gum Rope- Her body can stretch into ropes to whip enemies, the farther away from the body the less easy to control. It can be used to grapple enemies at close range but more difficult at distance.
 * Thorn Hanabi-The gummy part of her gets spiky, maintaining a level of solidarity for the duration. Works offensively and defensively.
 * Gum Gum Punch- Gum Rope wrapped around her hands to punch harder.
 * Double Whammy- The Gum Gum punch gets spikes like Thorn Hanabi, punching with more damage.

Super Moves
Iron Maiden: Wrap foe in gum rope (or wrap her entire self around an enemy) and use Thorn Hanabi to send people to the meat grinder

Equipment
TBD

Battles & Events
Punk Hazard incident

Narraverse rescue

Unforseen Situational Joint

Karaoke Incident

Relationships
Tsuyoi (Friend/Annoyance): The most hot headed of Noriko's inner friend group. She sees him as both a friend and a rival who she has not only come to blows with but clashed ideologies with on several occasions. While he is dead set on becoming a Hero with a moral code, Noriko just wanted to follow the rules, get her license, and not be bothered; and Tsuyoi took that personally. While they aren't outwardly friendly most of the time, Noriko jumped at the chance to help rescue Tsuyoi when he nearly became a villain and would likely do so again without much thinking. They counter balance each other pretty well and for that she respects him.

Lux (Friend): Moth man and local fuckboi of UA, smart but not the brightest bulb when exposed to daylight. Since he's still mostly an enigma, Noriko doesn't know much about him other than his abilities in a fight and he, Togo, and Tsuyoi are brothers by bonds rather than blood. He's helping her pass English and she's fairly comfortable around him when out of combat. In a fight, he's kind of scary.

Mika (Friend?): While most people can be seen as friends in the Vigilante team, Mika and Noriko are oil and water. After the incident with Punk Hazard, Mika tried to apologize and Noriko spat back in response. Now they have an understanding to work with each other but they aren't close.

Yumi (Friend): One of Noriko's best friends and someone who is chaos incarnate when she's not a sweetheart. As far as trust goes, Yumi is one of the people Noriko trusts most and has bunked with Yumi for the last several weeks, even moving her kotatsu into Yumi's room.

Koyo(Friend): Vigilante leader and the one with the most experience, Noriko wasn't too certain on Koyo in the beginning and was spiteful for him dragging her into this life. Since then she's grown as a person and while Koyo has her respect, there is still always arm's length between them.

Togo(Friend/Support): Resident tech gremlin who makes things. Noriko finds him a bit dramatic but she enjoys his company as a fellow deadpan snarker and one of the first people she felt comfortable teasing and joking with. While he does some illegal things best left alone, he was there when they needed him and provides for the team as a shadowy benefactor of sorts.

Feng(Friend): It started out with sharing some sweets and developed into a fast friendship between Noriko and Feng. They didn't have a terribly similar temperament but somehow they seemed to gel well enough. Though there is still a comment Feng said that makes Noriko question how she feels in general when Feng said "your hair reminds me of polished jade." Jury's still out. They shared a night at a Ryokan together enjoying a few moments of relaxation to try and get out of their own heads for a bit.

Myriad(Rival?): Student in 1-A who Noriko interns with at the Unforseen Situation Joint. Her opinion of him is terrifically low, questioning his fortitude, his intelligence, and general ability as a future Pro Hero. They aren't likely to be friends but Noriko doesn't care enough about Myriad to warrant actually being his rival.

Nikko: Literally the worst person Noriko knows who isn't a villain. Bull headed, crude, and those were the kind things Noriko had to say. They don't get along at all.

Deku (Izuku Midoriya): Number 1 Pro Hero in Japan and the one who bears the burden of destroying Noriko's perception of Heroes as a whole. She finds him a bad influence on people like Tsuyoi for his tacit endorsement of Vigilantism and overall not certain what to make of him. Oddly enough, the fact his quirk is inherited didn't really phase her as much as "you can have a little vigilantism, as a treat."

Pro Hero Thirteen(Interning Under): One of the Rescue Heroes that Noriko looks up to. She may or may not have bought merch from the USJ gift shop while interning there... The Pro Hero is calm, collected, and the kind of Hero that Noriko would want to be if she had any intention of becoming a full fledged Hero herself. There were a lot less moral quandaries about saving people from natural disasters over the ethics of one thing or the next.

Nibbles: True terror in a tiny package. Do not turn your back on the ferret. Who knows what it is capable of....

Backstory
Noriko was born outside of Kyoto and has lived surrounded by both city and country life. Her mother Angela Gumi works in pharmaceuticals, using her quirk (Gelatinization) to make compounds, high tensile glues, and break down tissue. It's a very dangerous quirk but given it's short range, wasn't terribly practical for becoming a Hero nor did she have any intention of it. Noriko's father Taro Gumi was a self made businessman with a dry cleaning business. His quirk let him control starches making the business a walk in the park for him. He met Angela while at the shop and they hit things off with his jovial personality. In pictures, Taro is almost always seen smiling and was a very happy go lucky kind of person while Angela was more subdued but always quietly happy with their lives together.

Noriko came along after the pair were married and was born with her Quirk due to her mother's volatile Quirk. It didn't seem to negatively affect her development in a significant way other than jump starting her quirk early. She was well loved by both parents until an incident while Taro was at work when Noriko was three years old. A villain attacked the city and in the ensuing fight, Noriko's father was killed in the chaos. The incident destroyed Noriko's mother and the young goo girl, wanting to see her mother smile again, promised to become a Hero to save the day.

That simple promise became a driving force that set Angela on the path to make her daughter a Pro Hero. With only her Mother, Noriko picked up more of her aloof personality and didn't really grasp the mask that her mother wore in front of coworkers or in public. Putting on a warm front just didn't suit her and Noriko grew up cold to most of the world. Even after the Villain that killed her father was captured, Angela pushed her daughter to keep striving to be a Hero.

When Noriko went to school, she wasn't able to go to UA right away. With her mother working to support the family, they had to wait for her to transfer to another plant where Angela now works under Trinity Whittaker (Oma's mom) and they have moved out of the house they were living in before to Musutafu where UA is based.

Over time, Noriko is learning the value and magic of friendship while developing her people skills. She's become Class 1-B's Representative and keeps relatively good grades. Her best class is chemistry and her weak suit is English where she is being tutored by Lux, she only speaks Japanese fluently.

Noriko's goal is to get a hero license to get out from under the shadow of expectation her mother has and open an Amezaiku shop. She has no interest in Heroism except for Search and Rescue which her quirk is uniquely suited for very well.

Trivia

 * Noriko only wears makeup when she's in her vigilante uniform! Specifically she wears black lipstick and black eyeshadow.
 * She doesn't like fried foods.
 * She wants to start and amezaiku shop selling sweets.
 * Noriko is much heavier than she looks - she's over 200lbs!
 * She can handle water temperatures up to 80°F, but won't dissolve unless the water is agitated.
 * Since her quirk type is Mutation, Noriko has had her quirk since birth. She has never had bones.
 * At one point, Noriko cut her hair to provide ballistic material to make armor for Yumi and Koyo. It grew back in a week by binging on starchy food.
 * Noriko got a baby chick from her first training session at the USJ rescuing a 'baby' from a collapsing building. The baby turned out to be an incubator with an actual chicken egg in it.
 * Her hair is a fairly accurate indicator of her mood when Noriko doesn't express her emotions often. When she's anxious it beads up with round pointed cones like ferrofluid, rolling down the coils. When she's surprised it flares slightly in a Ghibli style. When she's relaxed or tired, her hair droops and doesn't move as much.

Quotes

 * "Disgusting."

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