Bonus Chapter #1

Okay, so this chapter is a bit different from the rest. It is the first, and depending on the reactions I get perhaps last, one of its kind. This chapter is focused on information, information that cannot be put in my story without sounding out of place. This will be where I go into more scientific information regarding the various things in my story (meaning some of it may be difficult to understand), as well as where I expand on knowledge already given. The information is arranged and the subject is bolded so feel free to skip the things that don't interest you and reading only about the things that do.

So, without further ado, let's begin:

Hayami:

ESPer Ability- "Kaminarite; Thunder Hand" Level 3. Using Thunder hand she is able to fire balls of pure force from her hand that, upon contact with an object or by her command, explodes in a spherical blast. Her maximum force is 1000 psi, enough to turn a bone into fine power if it hit directly. However, due to being a spherical blast, it follows the classical intensity equation, meaning that the further out from the center you go, the force you experience is exponentially less and meaning that it does not have very wide area of effect. Because it isn't too calculation intensive she is able to fire them fairly rapidly (approximately 20 times a minute though that pace is exceptionally tiring) and her ability is affected little by pain, distraction, or the fact that she is an airhead.

Suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive and Anxiety disorders but has been taking medication since she was 9 years old which is proving to be very effective at controlling them.

Jericho:

ESPer ability- "Shatter Point" Level 4. Jericho's ESPer ability is the ability to vibrate her AIM field to produce sound. The sound cannot be complex, only one frequency can be produced at any time, but the range of sound she can produce (and also hear) is far higher than a humans, 2-100,000 Hz rather than 20-20,000 Hz. Her range for intensity is 0-190 decibels, though anything beyond 130 causes her pain if it is within normal human frequency range. She can also make the sound directional, focusing it on a single object. However it is not perfect and some of the noise is still released all around her.

Oh and she cannot use echolocation. Her brain can pick up the sound and the echoes but does not have the necessary functions to interpret the data as an environmental map.

Suffers from crippling shyness.

(Poor) Biological Explanation of Kuro- During Kuroko's power development, a combination of the project, the stress, and Kuroko's own genetics caused a mutation in her brain creating a second consciousness, as well as the ability to host both of them in the same brain, allowing two separate control points for neuroactivity within the brain.

During the Queen-incident, the intense duress and forced restructuring of her brain (which is basically what the Queen's power is), allowed Kuro to control parts of the brain she didn't have access to before, the parts which let her control movement. However, unlike with the thinky parts of the brain, only one neuro-control point can manipulate the body at one time. There were also further affects that both Kuro and Shiro are unaware of.

Kuro-mode is a "safe mode" for Kuroko's brain in which several different functions shut down and others are activated. Kuro feels less pain than Shiro and the muscles natural restrictors are mostly cut off, enabling her to exhibit unnatural (but not quite superhuman) strength and speed (sort of like Shizuo from Durarara, but less so because her muscles and bones haven't been strengthened by practice yet… so more like Shizuo as a kid). One of the other things that are shut down is the portion of the limbic system which produces the chemicals that enable you to feel emotion. Kuro's neurochemistry had always been isolated from this particular portion of the brain so Kuro has never felt emotion, as I have mentioned before.

There are some things she can feel however: nostalgia, sentimentality, trust, hope, appreciation, gratitude, annoyance, contentment (of a sort), and surprise, as well as fear and lust to a lesser degree (the amygdala, where both fear and lust originate, is still active in Kuro-mode, but far less so).

Kuroko's ESPer Ability- Level 4. "Teleport". Normal teleportation exploits the shortcuts that exist in an 11th dimensional grid that render distances which are considerable in a 3 dimensional system into miniscule distances that measure in the nanometers rather than meters. This allows basically instantaneous motion which is limited by the meta-dimensional property of mass as well as distance between target and destination.

Kuroko's ability however, as I have previously mentioned, is different. She can shift something's very existence to a different set of coordinates with no movement involved whatsoever. She does this by warping the dimensional grid itself, causing the origin point and the destination point to exist as the same space and making the object exist in two places at once with both of those places being infinitely small. Since this is impossible, the universe autocorrects the mistake by depositing the object at the destination point and straightening out the warped grid. She does not yet know that this is how it works however.

All other mass which exists in the space which exists in the destination space is warped away from the object meaning that teleportation into an object would destroy only the object at the destination (unless it was destroyed in the intervening time by the environment, like the windows which were destroyed by the weight of the pillar) meaning that if Kuroko made the same mistake as Awaki and teleported into a wall, she would be fine but the wall would be damaged.

Also, since there is no indication otherwise, I am going to say that Kuroko's weight and distance restriction are graded on a curve rather than a set point, meaning that she could teleport a greater weight a shorter distance and a smaller weight a greater distance. The curve is quite steep so it becomes impractical quickly however.

Accuracy is based on the difference between the maximum weight and distance and the actual weight and distance, so teleporting something like a needle a short distance is incredibly accurate but teleporting the maximum weight the maximum distance is far less so.

Mai:

ESPer ability(which is frequently mistaken for "Hime"'s ability)- Level 3. "Light-Screen". Mai's ability is to project a barrier which redirects energy away from it. It is different from a forcefield in that it allows solid and liquid mass to pass through, but blocks non-mass-based energy like lasers, lightning, and radiation. It has limited protection capabilities against gas-based energy like heat and thermal expansion. This allows her to completely contain explosions if they stay below a certain magnitude and muffle those that go above that threshold.

Suffers from the disease called love.

"Hime":

ESPer ability(which is frequently mistaken for Mai's ability)- Level 4. "Fission blast". Hime is able to break apart the nucleus of atoms making them undergo rapid fission and creating a nuclear explosion. She can do this using any atoms but Uranium, being the most unstable stable element, is her preference as it is exceptionally unlikely to cause other atomic nuclei to break apart and create a chain reaction(because a chain reaction of nuclear explosions is generally a bad idea).

Her range is so small that any significant blast would kill her as well without some form of protection making it a somewhat inconvenient ability.

Because fission reactions of Uranium (even small ones) produce radiation, she was afflicted with radiation poisoning during the development of her ability which severely weakened her immune system causing her to become quite sickly. Since meeting Mai (whose power blocks radiation and allows larger scale use of her powers without side effects or risk of self-destruction) she has begun to make a recovery.

Riko:

ESPer ability- Level 1. "Adaption". Riko's power allows him to change the function of different parts of his brain. He can turn the portion of his brain devoted to art and music into a portion devoted to math instead, robbing him of artistic talent but boosting his mathematical ability. It also allows him to section his brain like a computer and run separate programs at once.

He has used this power to "get rid of the unnecessary portions devoted to such silly things as culture" as well as his sense of taste and smell and replace them with additional memory, logic, and creative abilty. He can also shift parts that he is not using on a temporary basis, allowing him to turn off motor ability to his legs when he is sitting at his computer and replace it with a temporary boost in processing power.

Birdy:

ESPer Ability- Level 2. "Slick-Skin". Birdy is able to change the coefficient of friction for anything she touches by telekinetically filling in or making worse the small grooves that cause friction. She can also change an object's air resistance by the same method. This allows her to create objects that are perfectly frictionless. She uses this on her shoes to "skate" along the ground, making them have high friction when she pushes then low friction when she slides. Using this method her maximum speed is… just below the speed of light technically, since nothing is going to slow her down.

She can only affect an object by touching it but the effects last for 15 seconds afterwards. Higher power levels may eventually improve this, which is what Itora hopes.

Suffers from the disease called compassion.