Piper Sasaki-Roswell

[Piper Sasaki-Roswell]

The Basics

Name: Piper Natsumi Sasaki-Roswell
Nicknames: Pip
Age: 27
Orientation: Bisexual
Desired Rank/Job: Recruiter
Powers: Wall Generation

Piper is able to generate walls up to an 8 ft. radius around herself. While there doesn’t seem to be a limit to how many walls she can create in that radius, the more there are, the smaller and weaker the walls will be. The walls manifest themselves physically out of the ground and (up to three) are usually taller than her by a few inches. Moving these walls is possible but tend to amplify her side effects. Along with her power comes: headaches from maintaining walls for more than 10 minutes and sore muscles relative to the number of walls and their duration.

Play By: Azama Mew

The Details

Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Any Piercings? Ears ~ Twice
Any Tattoos? Nautilus Shell on the inside of her left wrist
Any Scars? Major one on her abdomen from having her appendix removed when she was eighteen.
General Appearance: Stylish, but not limited, Piper is the kind of person who looks good in almost everything. As a result she doesn’t have a set style or color that she enjoys wearing. She tries to stick to slightly more professional styles when she works but usually just ends up in whatever feels most comfortable to her at the time. She usually keeps a blazer handy just in case. She wears her hair long and enjoys styling it, but takes more effort with it when she’s not required to go running out the door. She paints her nails regularly and keeps them clean and tidy to keep from breaking them.

Personality: Piper is a person who seems uniquely designed for “work”. She’s punctual, organized and very resourceful. The first two she came by through hard work, self-improvement and maturity. The third is completely innate. From a young age, she always seemed to know just what to do or what to use to get a job done. Piper is also a good multi-tasker if one takes into account talking on a phone while driving or painting her nails while watching TV and eating french fries. She’s also blessed with foresight and the ability to see the “big picture”.

However, Piper can appear to be aloof without meaning to and, while observant for work and of the world around her, she often misses tiny inter-personal interaction details, leading her to be surprised when she finds out people she knows are dating or at odds with one another. It took her months to figure out if her classmates were together or not and even longer to realize when they’d broken up. She must also own up to the fact that she’s completely clueless to flirting or general attempts to get her exclusive attention and has been told by several old male and female classmates that they had tried to get her attention for months before giving up, assuming that she was just uninterested. This is terrible for someone who generally thinks of herself as friendly and approachable.

Piper likes to assume that she’s smart; she figures she has to be a little bit with how easy it is for her to get out of tight spots, but studying was always a challenge for her as she enjoyed sports instead. While often tactful and polite, she has no qualms about dropping every vestige of “civility” when it comes to doing her job and getting a potential student out of difficult situations safely and efficiently. Pip’s trained in a few different forms of self-defense and has had to use them, though not often in a work situation. A consummate grudge holder, she never forgets a slight done to her and generally tends to ignore those who’ve wronged her excessively in the past. She has no qualms cutting people out of her life if she feels like they’re no longer supporting her or bringing her down. She’s never had time for people like that in her life and quickly relegates them to “occasional nuisances I have to potentially deal with”. She’s also not exactly patient and tends to have only a tentative amount of control over her temper outside of work situations. Often, this manifests as sharp-tongued sniping as opposed to physical violence.

Piper enjoys spouting random facts at the drop of a hat, usually as a way to start a conversation as she hates prolonged silence. She also can’t sleep with any doors open, so methodically closes every door in her apartment before she goes to bed. Printer paper in her apartment is mostly used to print 15-20 different crossword puzzles every week and she spends a lot of her free time bouncing between them. Piper’s a notoriously light drinker who tends to assume that a gathering of 6 or more people is automatically a party, especially if alcohol is involved. She doesn’t like choosing between limited choices and has a bad habit of choosing something to be contrary, especially if she’s in the company of someone she doesn’t like in an attempt to make their life more difficult. She also has some control issues surrounding her personal spaces like her apartment and car and generally hates when people attempt to “organize” her life. Piper can also be combative if she feels like her independence is being questioned or that she’s being “babied” or “favored”.

Your Vices

Likes:

~ apple pie
~ baseball
~ traveling
~ driving
~ coffee
~ bunnies
~ mazes/puzzles
~ painting her nails
~ trivia shows
~ athletics

Dislikes:

~ yogurt covered raisins
~ cats
~ staying in one place for a long time
~ studying
~ having to be physically violent with anyone
~ finding out something wasn’t for sale at the register
~ fast food
~ crappy hotels
~ cold showers
~ not having cellular reception

Strengths:

~ punctual
~ work-oriented
~ generally friendly
~ athletic
~ adaptable

Weaknesses:

~ hates prolonged silence
~ oblivious to romantic intent
~ holds grudges
~ is often contrary to those she doesn’t like
~ has some control issues

Fears:

~ stupid highway drivers, especially huge semi-trucks
~ having to be excessively violent while on the job (never happened)

Secret:

~ had a ridiculously detailed fantasy life constructed around a crush she had on a teacher while at Hammel, it was embarrassing and ridiculous and she’s never told anyone, but it continues to haunt her to this day in a “OH GOD WHAT WAS I THINKING?!” way.

Family Ties

Father: Takeru Sasaki – deceased (non-powered)

Step-Father: Robert Roswell – Art History Professor (non-powered)

Mother: Mariko Roswell – Advice columnist (non-powered)

Siblings: N/A

Any Other Important People:

Haruka & Yoshiki Sasaki – paternal grandparents
Kayo & Masaki Watanabe – maternal grandparents
Harriet & Steve Roswell – step-paternal grandparents

History

Piper was born in the fall to a family of second-generation Japanese-American citizens in Oregon. Her grandparents immediately took offense to her mother naming her Piper (a name the woman had loved since she was a child) and called the girl by her middle name “Natsumi”. This was a bone of contention among the adults for many years until Piper firmly put her foot down at the age of five when she vehemently told her grandparents that her name was “Piper” and subsequently stopped answering to the name “Natsumi”. She grew up speaking English and Japanese since both sets of her grandparents lived with her and her family in their large rural farmhouse. Her father and mother both worked for a local newspaper and both her grandfathers had well-paying jobs and plenty of savings. Piper went to a nearby kindergarten and made lots of friends and was looking forward to starting first grade when tragedy struck her family.

Crossing a road on a stormy day, her father had been hit and killed by a car who had skidded on the wet street and through the crosswalk he was using as he came back from lunch one day. Piper and her family were devastated. Piper always remembered her father as a hard-working, attentive man who always found time to play with her. Since the majority of their income had been brought in by her father, Piper’s family moved from their large farm house to a smaller, slightly more suburban area just after Piper was due to start school. Because of the new, smaller space and the fact that their son had passed away, Piper’s paternal grandparents moved to San Francisco to live with their younger daughter and her family. Piper’s mother and grandfather worked longer hours to fill the gap left by her father’s absence while her grandmother assumed most of the house responsibilities and helped Piper get to and from school.

The family made it work for a few years before, when Piper was 9, her mother introduced her to a man named Robert Roswell. Piper was surprised to learn that her mother had been seeing this man for a few months and at first thought the woman might have been hiding it. It was the first time Piper found herself confronted with the idea that no, actually, she was just really crappy at noticing what was going on around her sometimes. She and Robert hit it off well enough once she realized that he wasn’t necessarily trying to replace the father she had lost but she could also see how happy he made her mother when they were together. The two adults were engaged shortly after Piper met Robert and married almost a year later, before Piper turned 10. Once again however, Piper found her family moving. Robert’s house was inherited from his grandfather and quite large. Large enough for Piper’s family to sell their house, and move in with him, with plenty of room to spare. There was even a small room that Piper was able to use to put her father’s memorial into place that was ventilated enough for her to burn incense.

Piper had to transfer schools again and felt discouraged at leaving all her old friends behind. Robert, with his strange, eccentric hours spent a lot of his free time sharing responsibilities with Piper’s grandmother when it came to escorting Piper to and from school. The two were able to bond quickly and deeply during this time, and just before Piper’s 11th birthday she hyphenated her name to Sasaki-Roswell because it made her and Robert both feel like she was part of his family. None of her familial grandparents seemed overly thrilled about this but she was quick to inform them that if they didn’t like it they could keep their opinions to themselves.

Seven months after her 11th birthday, Piper and Robert should have died.

She was walking home from school with Robert, crossing a street within a crosswalk when a car came screeching out of nowhere as part of a sudden high speed police chase. Just before the car would have hit them, Piper of course threw her hands up in a defensive position as Robert desperately made a grab for her. A giant wall erupted from the street and stopped the car violently in its tracks. Naturally both Robert and Piper were shaken and confused. As soon as Piper put her hands down the wall receded back into the earth but Robert was too insistent on keeping his hand in front of her face for her to figure out how that had happened. As confused as she was, Piper KNEW that she had caused the wall.

The next day, after exhausting trips to the hospital and the police station, Robert, Mariko and Piper were met at home by a Hammel Recruiter. Neither Mariko nor Robert had known the school existed and found it hard to believe that their daughter could have powers. Since there was very little in the way of options or time to make so momentous a decision the recruiter patiently spoke with her family, reassured them that Hammel was the best place Piper could be and that of course she would be able to visit over breaks if that’s what the family decided. Piper remembers being very impressed by the recruiter and as she got older, kept revisiting the exchange in her mind, ultimately deciding that she too wanted to help students find their way to Hammel.

While not the best student when it came to studying, Piper maintained average grades, participated on the volleyball team, trained in self-defense and had many friends in many different grades. She went home over vacations when she could, mostly for Christmas since summer was usually spent with friends around Pilot Ridge and the Hammel grounds. She briefly considered a career in architecture but eventually came back to the idea that she wanted to be a recruiter when she graduated. She attended college after Hammel at the university her step-father taught at in order to make up some of the time she spent away from her family. She majored in psychology with a specific emphasis regarding social aspects and how observing human behavior could help her be a better recruiter in the future.

When she finished her studies she contacted Hammel to inquire and apply for a recruiting job. She was hired within a few months of graduating and now spends a lot of her time between the rest of the US and Pilot Ridge where she has chosen to maintain a permanent residence. She’s had a few personal relationships over the years but is currently unattached, her last break up having been a few months ago when her boyfriend at the time desired a wish to settle down and she wasn’t ready to make that kind of commitment. She prefers driving to flying but will go wherever she’s sent with no complaints. She genuinely enjoys helping students find their way to Hammel and helping their families understand the necessity of such an education. She keeps in touch with her family using phones and of course the internet and when business ever takes her to Oregon or San Francisco she tries to stop by for as long as she can. She still speaks Japanese but has been learning Spanish for the last several years but doesn’t feel as confident in her ability to speak it.

Roleplay Example

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What About You?

Name: RAECHU THE MAGNIFICENT
Age: 28 ~ (I finished in time!)
Experience: OH GOD SO LONG…
How Did You Find Us? I’ve been here for awhile ~
Ready To Play? I was born ready…

[Piper Sasaki-Roswell]

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