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CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Takane Enomoto
CANON: Kagerou Project
CANON REFERENCE: The wikipedia page is somewhat disjointed and unhelpful and has some inaccuracies in it, but here is some general world/plot info I've written and a history section I wrote for a past app.
AGE: 15(turning 16 soon). In Kagepro she is 16-17 in a flashback arc and 19 in current canon.
GENDER: Girl
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: 10th grade
APPEARANCE: Here! Though if she's popping up in your computer screen she'll look like this.

PERSONALITY:
Takane Enomoto is a girl whose life has been heavily affected by the illness she lives with. For one thing, how sleepy she is all the time makes her incredibly cranky. She's not very patient with others at all, and sometimes it seems like nearly every little thing irritates her. Sometimes even if something doesn't really bother her she's grumpy enough that she'll pretend it does anyway.

Because of her illness, Takane is very big on escapism. She states herself that the thing she likes the most about video games was that anyone could pick up the controller and be something better than they were in everyday life. When Takane games, she's not a sick girl with few friends anymore. She can forget her upsetting daily life and become a cool hero shooting zombies. Of course, if the hero and their circumstances don't live up to her desire for escapism, she won't be able to get into the game as easily. She spends a great deal of her time playing games, so it's easy to see that the desire to immerse herself in this escapism is pretty strong, and gaming is such a major part of her life that she even thinks in gaming metaphors.

Unsurprisingly, Takane longs to be normal. Because of her illness she's never really even been able to have normal friendships, because besides the fact that it makes her personality unpleasant, people tend to find it pretty offputting when someone falls asleep on them. And as important as her gaming is to her, she knows she'd be seen as weird if others knew about it, so she's very secretive about it. When the possibility of people at school finding out about her gaming prowess comes up, she resigns herself to the fact that she's going to have to "delete her account and die." It's an overdramatic statement but it perfectly reflects just how embarrassed she is by her hobby.

Takane is very stubborn, and true to tsundere nature tries to look prideful and confident to mask any insecurities she has. This has been quite detrimental to her in the past. She will, for example, refuse to take much of the help Haruka offers her with school because she's too proud to accept it, despite that fact that he does well and her grades are absolutely abysmal. Rather than making her feelings known to him, she's done things like ignoring him to get his attention because mind games are easier for her to deal with than the idea of just being honest about how she feels. Her ignoring Haruka leading to her missing his illness causing him problems pushed her to think about her behavior, though, especially after a friend pointed out that she couldn't even bring herself to express to Haruka just how much he meant to her. Her stubbornness has had its benefits though, because her determination to do things she's made up her mind to do has gotten her through some tricky situations.

Not all of Takane's interpersonal relationships involved her being as grumpy as she was to Haruka, though. With certain individuals, such as Ayano Tateyama, she can be comparatively cheerful. Harsher thoughts she might voice to someone else go unsaid in many of their conversations, and she shrugs off things that might annoy her much more if she were discussing them with Haruka or their other friend, Shintaro.

After she loses her body and starts living as the "cyber girl" Ene, her behavior becomes considerably different. In what are assumed to be earlier timelines she still seems pretty bitter(understandably so), but in in presumably later ones, she's become much more cheerful than she ever was before. Ene is seen with a grin on her face most of the time, as she lives in Shintaro Kisaragi's computer and energetically makes his life a special kind of hell.

Of course, the energy boost isn't exactly surprising when you go from tired all the time to not having to eat or sleep anymore. Her new body came with a very high cost--her entire life from beforehand and her human body--but it did fulfill the requirements of something she'd wished for all along: to not have to deal with her illness anymore. She claims to enjoy at least that part of it. However, being stuck in a computer means not getting to enjoy many parts of human life, and Ene is far from unaffected by this. Her reaction to that(on the surface, at least) tends to be childish pouting and complaints about wanting to live vicariously through making Shintaro do things like going to the amusement park with her transferred to his cellphone.

It's also pretty easy for her to get bored as Ene, but Shintaro serves as a convenient source of amusement for her. In particular, she likes to mess with him. She has access to what is essentially his entire life since he spends all of his time on his computer, and she abuses the hell out of that. It's easy to find things to blackmail him with on there. There's plenty of things in his porn folder that she can use as excuses to call him trash. It's funny to see him freak out when she moves or deletes or renames something important to him. Even a vocaloid song he'd put a lot of work into isn't safe from her meddling. She only shows genuine remorse when it gets to the point of accidentally causing him to spill soda on and ruin his computer.

While Takane has always described herself as very selfish, not all of her actions as Ene are as shallow as they seem to Shintaro. A good number of them have ulterior motives, in particular: messing with Shintaro doesn't just serve to amuse her. The drastic change from angry and bitter to cheerful isn't 100% genuine. She wants to get Shintaro to stop shutting himself away and living through his computer, and tries to encourage him to go outside and form connections with other people again. While she never got along with him on the surface as Takane or Ene, he's her friend. She absolutely does sympathize with and care about him, and it doesn't exactly make her happy to see him suffering from depression to such a detrimental extent. And after losing both Haruka and Ayano...he's all she has left. Her strong will is what allows her to live on as a computer program so she can find out what happened to her and Haruka, what allows her to watch Shintaro mourn Ayano, Haruka, and her own death without ever breaking down and telling him who she is really or letting him know how much those things personally hurt her too.

In some timeloops, Takane eventually gets her body back and is able to more or less switch between forms. She acts more or less like a happier version of the old Takane in her human body at this point, though she pulls out the Ene persona as soon as she projects herself into some nearby technology.

AU Takane will be primarily like Takane was before she lost her body, though with added emphasis on the relationship between her and her parents. Canonically, she lives with her grandmother and her parents are working overseas, so we don't know her relationship with them very well. Here, she is pretty close to her dad(though she doesn't see him as often as she'd like), and has a somewhat awkward but positive relationship with her mother. Her desire to keep her gaming habits a secret won't be quite as extreme to feel more realistic with societal norms where and when she grew up in the AU, and after being outed as a mutant and coming to Xavier's with technology based powers she won't see much point hiding it anymore. When she uses said powers she does take on a less extreme version of her Ene persona(such as seeming more energetic since how tired her physical body always is isn't an issue) similar to how she ends up at the end of canon.

POWERS/ABILITIES:
Takane's powers will work similar to how they work in canon when she's regained her body at the end of a timeloop. She has a control of technology that could easily be described as being a technopath, though to do anything she has to project herself into whatever technology she's controlling. If it's something with a screen, she'll show up in it like this. While in this state, her body is unconscious and vulnerable--an obvious weak point. It's difficult for someone to "delete" her when she's within a system because she tends to merely reappear, but something physically painful enough to her body will force her back into it(a papercut won't do it, but if hitting her hard enough will. Though she could develop more tolerance to this over time, serious injury will always pull her out of something) and if you killed her body then she'd disappear and uh...be dead.

She is, of course, limited by what the tech in question is actually capable of. She has to be within decent physical range of whatever she's trying to put herself in, generally this means within the same room. She can, however, go from internet supported device to device once she's already in one, though this is limited to things within the same network unless she has the relevant information to email herself to someone or something. She can also bypass some security on things, though her control over her powers isn't good enough to breech anything strong(I'm assuming all the important stuff at Xavier's would be protected better than what she could currently access, at least my intention was to have her specifically below that level at the moment). I'd obviously not have her do anything to anyone's stuff without permission.

AU HISTORY:
Takane was born and raised in Seattle, and nothing of note really happened in her childhood until her parents divorced. She was six years old at the time, and ended up living primarily with her mother. In the time she spent with her father he would often play video games with her, and while her mother didn’t quite “get” the obsessive interest in them that grew from there, she tried to support it all the same. Takane eventually managed to pick up on the fact that video games were seen as mostly “for boys” by a good number of people, which made her reluctant to tell any of her classmates about her hobby for awhile.

At the age of 10, strange patterns in her sleeping habits left Takane diagnosed with narcolepsy. Daytime sleepiness was already enough to catch the attention of classmates, but the special accommodations she was given to function better in the classroom made her stand out even more. This ended up being seriously detrimental to her socially, because besides being picked on some even kids who tried to be friendly to her found her symptoms offputting. It was hard for them to grasp that getting tired when she was talking to them had little to do with how interested she was in what they were saying.

Her frustration with her difficulty maintaining interpersonal relationships made her very bitter, on top of being fairly cranky due to her constant tiredness. This hardly improved her ability to make friends, which only made her more and more into the games she played. It was nice to be able to absorb herself in a world where she could act as a hero with an interesting life instead of just being some perpetually ill kid with a boring life.

Though she played all sorts of games, as she went into middle school she discovered her favorite kind: FPS games, which were probably the genre seen as a “boy thing” the most out of all of them. She got very good at them and began to play online multiplayer, which was full of disgusting jerks but at least gave her some sort of social outlet related to her favorite way to spend her time. This eventually led to her getting involved in gaming competitions, which she enjoyed immensely and did very well in, getting quite a rep among the gaming community. Her father was thrilled and extremely proud, and while her mother often made comments on it that hurt Takane’s feelings, she still awkwardly attempted to support her interests. At this point it was obviously fairly unrealistic to hide her hobby as obsessively as she had before, but it still wasn’t something she was going to go out her way to bring up at school. She’d just planned to only address it when someone else brought it up.

Things got a bit trickier with the manifestation if her powers, however. Takane first projected herself into something at a gaming competition, completely on accident. As her digital form appeared on the screen and her body lost consciousness, it wasn’t exactly feasible to hide the fact that something weird had happened. This eventually led to her being banned from competition, her reputation ruined by the assumption that she’d been using her powers to cheat the entire time. Though it was difficult for her parents to accept that their daughter was a mutant, it was mutually agreed between them that it was better to send her to Xavier’s than force her to go back to her old school where kids would no doubt have found out and be talking about what happened.

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Takane wasn’t exactly pleased to have what she considered the most important thing In her life ruined for her and to have been sent off to a boarding school for mutants as a result. She hardly liked her old school, but it was familiar at the very least. And she still got to go home after school every day and play video games alone in her room. Having to live with a stranger for a roommate? Hardly something she’d ever look forward to.

As bitter about the whole thing as she was, though, even she couldn’t help but notice that there were upsides to her situation. It was true that through classes she found there were plenty of assholes around, as there would be in any school. It wasn’t like her being a fellow mutant made everyone want to put up with her attitude. She was definitely 100% out of her comfort zone right now.

But really, her being cranky seemed to be the biggest detriment to her social life these days. She didn’t stand out. Plenty of students had to have special accommodations of some sort due to their mutant powers, so while other kids still found it unfair that she was supposed to be allowed to nap in class? It wasn’t as unusual and thus not as commented on.

It was probably mean of her to think about it this way, but the kids with physical mutations probably had more of a target painted on their back here. Thank god she didn’t end up with anything like that. Some of them might get called cool depending on who you asked, and some people were really good about the support your own fellow mutant thing! but…there was no way even a school full of mutants would have a population of kids who were all accepting of everything and everyone. As long as she didn’t stand out the most, she had something to take comfort in.

And if someone really pissed her off, she could always pop into their computer and delete some essay they’d spent a week on or something. Being a freak had its advantages.

(With her luck, though, she was sure she’d get caught, so maybe she wouldn’t risk something that mean.)