Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26018514-20150401033018/@comment-25396609-20150406224917

The way I"m setting up the lesser/regional academy they are students of is much different from beacon, students enroll as teams rather than being assigned to them, and initiation is a matter of everyone in the team passes or they all get the boot, since it's a small school they don't have resources to train up weak individuals. so, Kanika knew Lapis and Zal in passing, and registered as a member of the same team when they arrived to sign up. the fourth will be a complete stranger who goot ditched by his original group when they realised they had 1 too many people. they are all Va uo natives, however.

The difference between acceleration and speed is simple, Ruby's speed is a more or less instant boost with a fairly clear limit, as can be seen when Torchwick is able to catch her using Melodic Cudgel, if she was gaining speed he wouldn't have been able to hit her with it. Acceleration does not have the same instant boost, but the limit is much higher if given time to reach peak velocity, it also uses less aura since it isn't a constant effect, she can turn it off at any time without losing the momentum, however as we've seen with Ruby, when she runs out of juice she drops off speed rapidly.

She's a mantis shrimp. i thought the technicolor hair, angry streak, and pure brutality fighting style would be enough, but apparently not. I'll go ahead and add it to her sheet.