Gluttony / Matsui Aono

There it is!

This is what I have right now;

Concept: Young Shinso vampire, unaware of his origins and real power.

Name: Matsui Aono

Powers:
Agile +4 (-3 Suppressed ability)
Art of invisibility +2
Attack +4 (Yoki-Infused Punches) (+15 Overwhelming (SA), +5 Effective (SA), -3 Suppressed ability, -5 Backlash)
Attack +4 (Vampire Bite) (+10 Vampire x2, +5 Armour Piercing)
Beautiful +2
Combat expert +4 (-3 Suppressed ability)
Heal +2 (Requirement -5: Blood Transfusion)
Heightened Sense +3 (Sight)
Heightened Sense +3 (Hearing)
Intimidate +3 (-2 Suppressed ability)
Perceptive +2
Quick +4 (-3 Suppressed ability)
Strong +4 (-3 Suppressed ability)
Vitality +5 (60 bonus) (-3 Suppressed ability)
Tough +4 (-3 Suppressed ability)
Unique ability (Regeneration +3) (-2 Suppressed ability)
Unique ability (Wealth of Power +3) (-2 Suppressed ability)

Weaknesses:
Impulsive -1
Overconfident -2
Stubborn -1
Vulnerability (Silver -3)
Vulnerability(Water -2)
Unique Weakness (Garlic -1)
Unique Weakness (Sunlight -1)
Suppressed Ability: Shinso Awakening (Trigger - Intense Anger/Will to protect)

With the suppressed ability, essentially when he has a really strong urge to protect someone or something, or he’s subject to extreme anger, his dormant Shinso powers come out and he gets access to everything that’s minused. In everyday life, he’s actually the weakest of vampires and very below average among them. My plan is he’s obviously related to Tsukune and Moka (maybe they’re even still alive since you know immortal vampires) but he’s not aware of these origins as of right now. So I’m also thinking he has a different surname and his true family name is Aono

Well ok, first off, the time the game will be set will be some 16-17 years from the end of the manga, so they'd totally be alive, and just in time for their children to be in high school.

Second, by my accounts, you're abilities way surpass the +5 balance when compared to your weaknesses, seems to be something like +25 to -11.

Thirdly, the effect you're trying to create with all those suppressed abilities would be better and more fairly executed with the Transformation ability, with a Trigger weakness with the same requirements as your Suppressed Ability.

finally, I'd argue that the weakness to water is as big, or even bigger, that the one to silver. Actually, in the series, silver seems to only seal the vampire's power (unless he is directly attacked by it), while water not only seals it, but also incapacitates the vampire and hurts him pretty badly.

Alright about to amend now, so can my total powers only exceed my weaknesses by +5?

Also with transformation, even at level 5. It gives me double the levels I have in the power to spend on improved abilities, which is 10, and that’s not nearly enough for everything I have under suppressed ability

Yes, they can only exceed your weaknesses by +5.

And about my second question?

Well, that wasn't a question, hehe. Seriously though, the transformation ability should be enough for any kind of character who normally has his powers limited and once in a while becomes super-strong, in saying that having 10 points in abilities isn't enough for you do show you may a little too hungry (excuse the pun) for abilities at the start.

What I mean is this: that use of the suppressed ability to gain so many points would make a way too broken character, so I should rule that no more than 10 points should be gained by using the same weakness multiple times; besides that, for a -3 weakness, the requirement should be something much more strict and objective, like (using the series as an example) Moka's Rosario, which can only be taken by her true love, etc.

This is what I have now. By my count, I’m still 18 power points over the +5 limit, but I’m struggling to whittle it down any further and remain accurate to what the just the basic vampires can do. Could you help?

Powers:
Agile +2
Art of invisibility +2
Attack +2 (Yoki-Infused Punches)
Attack +3 (Vampire Bite) (+5 Vampire)
Beautiful +2
Combat expert +2
Heal +2 (Requirement -5: Blood Transfusion)
Heightened Sense +3 (Hearing)
Intimidate +3
Perceptive +2
Quick +4
Strong +2
Vitality +3
Tough +4
Unique ability (Regeneration +3)
Unique ability (Wealth of Power +1)

Transformation: Shinso Awakening (10 ranks)
Agile +4
Attack +4 (Yoki Infused Punches) (+5 Overwhelming, -5 Backlash)
Wealth of Power +3
Strong +4
Vitality +5 (60 bonus)

Weaknesses:
Sensitivity -3 (Being called "fledgling", "weakling" etc)
Ineptitude -3 (Magic -6)
Dependency -3 (Blood)
Fear -2 (Claustrophobia)
Love Magnet -2
Quirk -1 (
Impulsive -2
Overconfident -2
Stubborn -1
Vulnerability (Water -3)
Vulnerability (Silver -2)
Unique Weakness (Garlic -1)
Unique Weakness (Sunlight -1)

Btw when something says +4 or +3 in the transformation section, that’s the total of the original ranks and additional ranks. So +2 agile gets an increase of two from the transformation and reaches +4 total.

Ok, let me give you some rectifications: You must only buy the Attack ability once, when making a suite of special moves, you use the same Ability, not multiple of them.

About your Healing ability, you should put some perk in it, the -5 Endurance cost wont profit you anything, you could put values in effective to increase it's power, for example. By the way, maybe the Concentration flaw (-20) could be more appropriate, as I believe it would take at least an action to do the transfusion; and you could have the regeneration effect by having another set of perks for the Heal ability, picking the Self-Only (-5) flaw, and maybe some more, that would be better than the (unique ability: regeneration) and would spare you some points.

Finally, be aware to include all of his abilities in his background/description, and make him make sense.

After these suggestions and corrections, if you still don't have enough points, maybe you're thinking you need much more than you actually need. The more powers you have, the less their value will be, there's no escaping that; by the way, I would be interesting (and give you some extra points) if your transformation had some kind of requirement or trigger weakness.

So I only have to pay for healing and attack once and then I can have multiple subsets of the ability for the same price:

So Healing +3 (Concentration) and then
Healing +3 (Self) under the same cost, and just different uses of the same power?

That is correct. Just keep in mind that you should put perks in them too, because you gain nothing by a negative Endurance cost. In this particular case, Effective would be a good choice.

How’s this look now;

Powers:
Agile +2
Attack +2 (Yoki-Infused Punches)
Alternate Attack: Vampire Bite (+5 Vampire)
Combat expert +1
Heal +4 (Concentration -20: Blood Transfusion, +10 Effective)
Alternate Heal: Regeneration (Self Only -5, Continued Effect +5, +5 Effective)
Heightened Sense +3 (Hearing)
Perceptive +2
Quick +3
Strong +2
Vigorous +3
Tough +2
Unique ability (Wealth of Power +1)
Beautiful +2

Transformation +5: Shinso Awakening (10 ranks) (-1 Trigger: Intense Anger/Will to protect)

Agile +4
Attack +4 (+5 Effective, -5 Backlash, +15 overwhelming)
Creation (WoP) +3
Strong +4
Vigorous +4
Tough +3


Weaknesses:
Sensitivity -3 (Being called "fledgling", "weakling" etc)
Ineptitude -3 (Magic -6)
Dependency -3 (Blood)
Fear -2 (Claustrophobia)
Love Magnet -2
Quirk -1 (
Impulsive -2
Overconfident -2
Stubborn -1
Vulnerability (Water -3)
Vulnerability (Silver -2)
Unique Weakness (Garlic -1)
Unique Weakness (Sunlight -1)

With my weaknesses at -27, that means I can have +32 which by my calculations I now have.

Also the self healing option, doesn’t really match the vampires regen from the manga. It’s said to happen reflexively and instantaneously, whereas the healing power requires an entire round to function.

Is there a custom perk I could make, where my regeneration kicks in quicker?

Oh ok. Honestly, that would be a pain to do, and very OP too. Your character could just have a lot of health to symbolize that. Besides, even if that's the case, in-story, it isn't like that. No character in the story seems to have instant regeneration, even those who show to have some extend of regeneration normally spend a time moment buried in debris, or just standing there, without moving much, for a moment while it kicks in, before they return to the fight.

By the way could you exemplify what you expect Wealth of Power to do?

That’s not true at all. Alucard and Akua have been shown to heal instantly on the spot from grievous bodily harm. Pretty sure even Tsukune showed the same ability as a ghoul. It being OP is another matter and fair enough but it’s definitely been shown in the series.

As for wealth of power. I expect it to do what it’s able to do in the source material. Considering he’s only young maybe he can only manifest certain things. Are you aware what wealth of power does?

I'm aware, yes, I was just figuring out it could work mechanically, but I already got an idea, it could work like magic, then you could manifest armor and more attack and anything else with it.

As for the regeneration stuff, what I meant was that, narratively, they normally don't act immediately after sustaining heavy damage, in fact, normally a whole page is then dedicated to show them regenerating while the other characters look in awe, or something. As for minor damage, as I said, a whole lot of health would simulated that just fine.

Perfect, I’ll have to read up on the magic rules or discuss them with you but for right now it’s all good.

So that should be the powers and weaknesses all done. Now all I need is to post my backstory right? I’ve already established that he’s the child of Tsukune and Moka. I think it’s going to be something along the lines of, a lot of expectation on his birth since it’s the first time there’s ever been a couple of two shinso vampires, he was born but he didn’t appear to have any of the power and was just a regular vampire.

Growing up he wasn’t even as powerful as standard vampire, manifesting none of his shinso abilities also. They sent him to the school, not only because that’s where they studied, but because they think it may stimulate whatever potential he harbours inside of him.