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APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: Tobyfs
CURRENT CHARACTERS: None

CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Saitama
CANON: One Punch Man
AGE: 25
APPEARANCE: Very average. Very bald.
CANON POINT: I pull him during the Monster Raid Arc, while in the middle of a martial arts tournament, more specifically: while he's on the toilet between rounds. Thanks a lot for pulling him at that point.

BACKGROUND: Here is a link to a wiki history for him.

PERSONALITY:
Saitama can be a very indifferent, apathetic man. Not a whole lot riles him up or excites him, aside from referring to his baldness or a totally sweet bargain sale, and he suffers from depression, boredom and a self-existential crisis. This is all born from him having had a goal, to become a hero, and achieving it so completely that nothing offers him a challenge anymore. Since becoming a hero was everything he wanted and devoted his life to for years he has nothing else to rely on. So, he sits around his tiny apartment alone, reading manga or watching TV, watering his cactus, and going out seeking strong opponents but only fighting off nothings and saving countless people but never being recognized for it. So it's easy to see why he became so apathetic.

Despite this, though, it doesn't mean he's a bad person by any means. He'll talk a big talk about not caring about other people's troubles or woes, but he always proves to be the opposite, even at the expense of his own happiness or recognition. Such as when a police captain was telling him about how no one respects the police anymore due to the influx of super heroes and Saitama was all, "Well, whatever, what do you want me to do about it?" When a monster attacks the station and the captain calls the Hero's Association asking for help, the Association gives him shit for it and basically tells him to beg for help from his hated super heroes. Saitama gets pissed off by what he overhears, crushes the phone the captain was on, saying heroes don't save people just because they said please, and kills the monster for them.

Putting on a police officer's uniform, he carries the monster out to waiting news crews, making it look like the police had done the work, then just departs, leaving them the attention that they also deserved along with the super heroes. Just because they aren't taking down giant monsters doesn't mean they aren't heroes in their own right, right?

So, yeah, he's really a good guy, but showing apathy is just how he rolls. Depression is funny like that.

Though he dreams about finding a foe strong enough to last more than one punch, a foe he can use his full power on, he isn't a competitive person. He only gets excited at the thought of fighting a strong monster because it'll be FUN, not because he's trying to prove his strength. This extends to people in general. He isn't shown to want to fight other heroes or fight a monster to prove himself to another, in fact, that's probably a terribly boring idea. He also doesn't feel the need to fight every monster. If others want to take a monster down, he'll sit back and let them and will jump in if they ask him to or are KO'd. For instance, though it's after the point I pull him from but it's a good example, Genos asks Saitama to let him be the one to fight a strong robot that was causing trouble, and Saitama just tells him good luck and wanders off to track someone that had caught his interest. He knows Genos is going to have a hard time with the robot, but he leaves him to it.

Despite his crippling apathy, he isn't totally emotionless. His main emotion that comes out often appears to be annoyance, especially when people bring up his baldness, but also when people are generally being idiots about things he thinks they shouldn't be, like when the civilians turned on him for having stopped a giant meteor. All the pieces it broke into when he punched it destroyed property and belongings, angering the civilians, and he shouts at them all that he doesn't care that their stuff was broken, complain to the meteor about that! But he's also capable of smiles and frowns and worries (he can become quite anxious, actually)--he isn't just a completely empty husk. He seems to get a little more open after Genos starts living with him and he starts making a couple other friends and allies here or there (not that he'd call him friends).

He also is a bit oblivious and prefers it when people get right to the point. People that chatter on or make speeches bore or annoy him and he will just outright stop listening or yell for people to make their speeches shorter (looking at you, Genos). But, just in general, if something isn't interesting him he just plain isn't going to pay it any attention, which sometimes gets him into hot water. He is also pretty blunt and honest; he will tell you he isn't interested in whatever you were saying, or if asked a rhetorical question he will answer it, which sometimes gives people the impression he's being a sassy asshole when he's not. (Which, again, sometimes gets him in hot water.)

Basically, he's a bored young man, caught in a life crises, who has no time for your shit, but also still has the heart of a true hero.

ABILITIES:
He's a bit tricky in terms of powers in a game. He is ridiculously overpowered, and I would normally nerf the powers, but they are so important to who he is as a character, so it is a struggle. However, that said, I assure people playing with me he isn't going to be butting in and saving the day in one punch all the time.

I'm too busy of a person to do that, for one.

It's not fun for me as a player to do, for two.

And, for three, he isn't the type to do that. In the personality section, I mention how he doesn't ever feel the need to butt in a steal the limelight. He's relatively easy to make excuses for for why he isn't there to defeat a baddie: he's often late; he can, and will, get lost on his way to a fight; he could be distracted but other things, like saving someone from a cave-in or whatever (in later ONE chapters, he misses a good chunk of a fight with a big, big bad guy because he's trying to save a guy trapped in a building). Also I'm aware that some plots he won't be able to muscle his way through, and that's perfectly cool with me. B)

That said, I offer some leeways and assumed vulnerabilities listed after his power summaries, please read on!

SUPER HUMAN PHYSICAL ABILITIES: He is so strong he can stop a foe in one attack (one punch is a bit of a misnomer, once in awhile he'll come across someone he does consecutive punches against, but it still counts as one attack, technically). If he's facing a monster he will kill them, but humans he generally tones down his strength to just give them a bit of a slap and knocking them out. While he can't do things like fly, he uses his strength to jump very high or long distances as needed.

This is more strength of will than physical strength, but direct psychic attacks barely affect him as well, even the strongest telekinetic on his world couldn't do much to him. The most she was able to do was make him twitch around a little like he was in a massage chair. Though, a psychic hitting him very hard with a physical object could still knock him around.

Along with his strength, he is very fast and has great reflexes. He's probably not going to be going so fast he can beat, say, a superhero like the Flash at a race, but he was faster than Speed-o'-Sound Sonic who can move at hypersonic speeds and able to dodge his attacks with minimal effort, but he doesn't always dodge and blows can and do land.

He has a great deal of stamina as well, and rarely shows any signs of tiring, though this could just be because he hasn't had a situation where he hit that stamina wall yet and he still does have a limit.

[Seeming] INVINCIBILITY: He seemingly can't be harmed by direct physical or mental attacks. Any fights he has had in canon, no matter the foe, no matter the situation, only his costume comes out harmed. For example, during his fight with Boros, he is kicked so hard he hits the moon, is perfectly fine, and jumps back to earth, landing still perfectly fine.

He isn't an unmovable force, though. If the person is strong enough he can be hit across a distance (like to the moon), but the person has to be much stronger than average to affect him in this manner.

I'll add the caveat of "seeming" invincibility since there could be someone out there to match or outmatch him. It's what he dreams of, after all! But below are a list of things I will say he's vulnerable to, either shown in canon or hasn't been addressed in canon so we can make some assumptions here.

So, some vulnerabilities:

• SUFFOCATION/PRESSURE: Using the being-kicked-to-the-moon situation as another example, he is shown to be affected by the lack of air and holds his breath. Thus, he could be suffocated or drowned. It's also possible for a normal person to survive in the vacuum of space for 10-15 seconds, which was within the time he was there, so it's safe to assume he wouldn't be able to survive out there for much longer than that nor under any sort of high pressure.


• MAGIC: There hasn't been magic shown in his canon yet, so there is a chance for getting one up on him via this. Things like fire balls or lightning bolts will do nothing if it's not, like, crazy good, but other magical spells could mess things up. Unbreakable bonds, time magic, teleportation, the dreaded Harry Potter spell of spitting up slugs, casting a darkness spell and he can't see, sticking him to the ground...
  
  In fact, let's use some of the above as just regular super powers that someone might have that can affect him...


• TIME: He can't do nothing against time, so if someone has time powers to freeze someone in time or what have you, he'd be affected.


• TELEPORTATION: He can be teleported as easily as anyone else, and although he's fast, running half way across the world could wear him out plus he wouldn't know how the hell to even get back in the first place. Even on a smaller scale, sending him a few miles away would probably baffle him enough to be late to a fight.
  
  And on the other side of this power, if someone can teleport themselves, they could easily escape him.


• REGENERATION: If someone is able to regenerate from wounds quickly and the power doesn't wear out, they could most likely survive punches from him. Boros reforms after Saitama's first barrage of punches using his alien regeneration power, but it seems Boros' stamina wore out and he couldn't regenerate again so perished.


• TRANSFORMATION: Want to turn him into a bald kangaroo? Why the hell not.


• INTANGIBILITY: If your character can be intangible then he can't punch them, right?

This isn't a comprehensive list, and if you want to approach me to ask if something your character or something in your plot can do can affect him, I'm more than open to discussion!

INVENTORY:
His costume, which consists of a yellow jumpsuit, red gloves and boots and a white cape. A change purse with 200 yen.

WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: A long network reply with Zenyatta on the TDM!
LOG SAMPLE: A log on the TDM!