AN: I will be adding notes after chapters explaining stuff. Older chapters will be updated with the notes as well and some answers to your questions may appear in them, so you may want to check them again
Chapter 10: Mysterious hero by mistake
few weeks ago, during the hero exam
A young female clerk transfers the data from the hero registration form into the hero association database. She double-checks everything, saves the data and hands over the registration number to the hero candidate. The clerk wishes the wannabe heroes could enter the data into the database themselves. This job is boring and repetitive. The hero candidate leaves to take his exam and a new hero candidate approaches to get his registration number. Female clerk looks at the hero that just arrived at the desk.
The female clerk hears an angelic voice. "Hello, my name is … um. Copycat." Suddenly a sweet music starts playing from nowhere. Flowers bloom around the sexy female hero. The clerk feels her stomach filling with butterflies. She snaps few pictures of the hero secretly with her phone before simply handing over the registration number. The clerk continues watching the female hero dreamily as the hero leaves to take the exam. A loud voice interrupts her thoughts. The female clerk has no idea what it said, but at least it brought her back to earth.
The clerk panics, she realizes that she handed over the registration number without filling the hero registration form. Without a valid entry in the database, the hero will fail the exam automatically no matter how good she performs. No exceptions. The female clerk quickly types the all the info she has. [alias: Copycat, gender: female.] The clerk remembers the pictures she took with her phone, she picks one and adds it to the form. The clerk overrides the "missing mandatory data" errors using the admin password. Copycat's data is saved in the system. The clerk finally calms down.
The female clerk starts thinking about the hero again. She will need to meet up with her after the exam and ask for her personal information. She will need a proper photo shoving her face, too. The female clerk starts daydreaming about meeting Copycat again. A loud, slightly angry, voice interrupts her again. "Sigh." The female clerk returns back to her boring work, entering data for another wannabe hero in the system.
The clerk never manages to meet up with Copycat to fill in the missing data. Once her exam is over, Copycat's profile is automatically updated with her new rank. The fact that the mandatory data is missing is only discovered after the hero exam results are already published. They can't contact Copycat and fill in her info since they don't know her real name and have no way of contacting her. Retracting the entry is an option, but that would hurt association image, and they can't afford to do that.
The incomplete entry is left as it is for now, and Copycat becomes the second hero whose identity is shrouded in mystery, the first one being the S class rank 1 Blast.
A young mature woman with dark green, almost black, hair and dark green eyes is typing at a computer. Her name is Fubuki and she is the leader of the Blizzard group an alliance of B rank heroes, Fubuki is browsing through hero association web page waiting for the results of the hero exam to be published. (Only 3 new heroes this time) Fubuki thinks to herself, once the results are published. Fubuki looks at their ranks and finds out they are a S class, a C class and a B class. She focuses on the B class since S class is, regrettably, above her reach and C class is below her attention. Fubuki may take look at that C class if he somehow makes it to B class.
"What is the meaning of this!" Fubuki exclaims as she reads the entry for the new B class hero. The page is literally empty, no personal information whatsoever. Not even a real name, just an alias.
Furthermore, the only available picture only show a beige helm with black visor and a small part of a white shirt. You can't even tell if she is female or male from that picture. At least the gender is marked as female, but all other fields on the form are empty. Even the mysterious S class hero Blast has more information under his entry!
"Eyelashed! Mountain Ape!" Fubukicalls for her top two men.
"Yes, Miss Blizzard!" two voices reply in unison.
"Gather all available info about this new hero and report to me immediately!" they look at the hero entry on the screen, little bit surprised by Fubuki's irritated tone, and immediately understand the reason for it.
Blizzard headquarters, shortly after the meteor incident.
Fubuki stares angrily her computer screen. It's been more than two weeks since she started investigating this B class hero. Even with all her connections and the entire Blizzard group focusing on this task, no real progress was made.
The only thing that changed was the hero's rank. It increased from 97 to 95 after Copycat defeated a wolf level threat named 'Chameleon' a week ago. The rest of her entries remained as blank as before.
Granted, they managed to track down those involved in the incident and question them, but they didn't find out anything useful. There were some pictures of her fighting the monster and some really embarrassing ones, too. (I can't believe those pictures were taken by women.) Fubuki blushes, remembering the embarrassing pictures. The pictures didn't provide any leads to her true identity and only revealed few hints about her abilities. (This is going nowhere.)
Fubuki stares at the entry of the 'sexy hero' Copycat again. There is still one more thing she can try. After thinking about it for a while Fubuki finally decides to visit her sister. (I'm going to regret this.)
City Z, shortly after the meteor incident.
Having changed into her normal clothes, Sam was ready to head to town and finally catch up on what he missed. It's unlikely that Sam will find any internet cafés open in city Z considering what just happened. She will have to travel to a different city even though Sam doesn't like traveling.
After arriving to city S, she finds an internet café and searches for hero Copycat first. Sam opens the first link she finds, one with ridiculously high view count. Seeing the content of the site, Sam blushes hard and goes ghostly pale, both at the same time, accomplishing a feat that should be impossible. Sam wows to never reveal her identity to anyone, under any circumstances.
("Hey, Nexus. Do you think it possible to completely erase a picture from existence, leaving no trace of it anywhere?" "NO. AND EVEN IF THERE WAS A WAY, KEEPING YOUR IDENTITY SECRET IS MUCH EASIER."). Sam already knew the answer, but still hoped Nexus would say there is a way.
AN: I'm not exactly sure about OPM timeline so I will be making my own, events will follow in the same order as seen in OPM (hopefully). But the time between the events may be different.
the main character (Sam/Copycat) will be addressed as a male or as a female, in singular or plural form, inconsistently, during the story. This is on purpose due to his backstory and not a typo.
Sam's hyper charm is due to his unique body, male and female pheromones mixed in a certain ratio, he doesn't move like a woman would due to subconscious habits, additional strange DNA added to the mix and ans increase of hormone production during stress times (first time wearing battle suit in public), the end result is people stepping aside and making room for him and clerks going love crazy
don't expect Sam's hyper charm to active that often though, as he gets more used to his body, gets used to wearing the sexy suit and adds additional DNA, the probability of hyper charm will decrease
Sam can do embarrassing stuff without being embarrassed if there is a good reason for it, but he will get embarrassed if there isn't (showing off his sexy body is the only way to save people vs. people are looking at his sexy body because they like looking at it)
No one seen Copycat defeat Razo-man and she didn't bother reporting it to association, Sam doesn't care about rank, she just hates monsters (because they are bad, not because they look different)