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Noraneko Foyer

Izuku Midoriya

Izuku Midoriya/Sensei

The protagonist of My Hero Academia, now an adult and a Quirk teacher at Noraneko Foyer. Four years after being expelled from U. A, the cute boy we know and love seems long gone...

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• The Ace: Was this in his U.A. days, being the strongest, most popular student of U.A., leader of the then-current Big Three (which was made of him, Bakugo, and Todoroki), and All Might's official heir. The Fiasco badly broke him.
• Almighty Janitor: Quirk teacher and counselor aren't as fancy as Pro Hero in terms of profession. However, Izuku still has the skills he learned in U.A, along with One for All. His job gives him a plausible excuse for being at the scene of a disaster he helped deal with (which would qualify as vigilantism), and the authorities not only look the other way but actively cover up for him because he is that useful to have around.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: For all the strength provided by One for All, Izuku's best weapon is still his brain. Among others, he was able to figure Changeling was probably autistic and had a secondary Quirk just by talking to her and observing her behavior.
• Badass Bystander: For all intent and purpose, Izuku is a simple Quirk teacher and counselor. When trouble happens around him, especially if it threatens his students, he will react, and suddenly remind everyone he was once a U.A. student and the future Symbol of Peace. The Hirosaki Clinic is the perfect example.
• Badass Longcoat: He owns an emerald long coat that has pretty much become his signature. He is also one of the strongest people in Japan.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: When Ochako questions him about his sexual preferences, Izuku shrugs that, growing up Quirkless, he learned not to be picky about partners. What he cares about is that people are nice to him, and Ochako is the sweetest person he knows. Ochako confides she loves him for the same reason.
• Barrier Warrior: Shortly before the Fiasco, Izuku awakened another power of One for All, Shelter. It lets him generate force fields directly tied to his willpower, his strongest able to tank celestial thunderbolts and a rampaging Dark Shadow while his weakest is dismissed by a tap of Ochako.
• Blow You Away: Izuku could already use kicks and punches to make wind bursts back in U. A, but in the story, he has developed an entire fighting style around making wind bursts, which he named after Japanese places. Yamato Smash and Celestial Sledgehammer/Empire of the Rising Smash are two of them.
• Break the Haughty: Haughty may be a big word, but Izuku repeatedly calls his U.A. self overconfident. During the Class 3 Fiasco, a villain called Hijack took control of his body and unleashed him against his teammates, turning the operation into a disaster. Then the Commission pressured Nezu to expel someone and it ended being him. The combined events broke Izuku so badly he abandoned his dreams of being a Hero and went on to become a teacher.
• Bridal Carry: Does it to Akari after the girl falls asleep following the assassination job. Apparently, it isn't the first time.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Even without One for All's strength boosting, Izuku is strong enough to fling around Endeavor like a ragdoll.
• Calling Your Attacks: Averted. Whenever he lands a blow, Izuku doesn't name it - in fact, he doesn't say anything at all. Ochako Lampshades it during the fight against the monster of Tsugaru Strait, noting he used to do it before. Izuku eventually explains it is safer and more pragmatic to save your breath and beat your opponent before saying anything.
• Combat Pragmatist: Even with One for All, Izuku fights smart. When Endeavor pins him to a wall, he retaliates with a Groin Attack and a punch in his scarred eye.
• Cool Bike: Izuku owns a Kawasaki Ninja H2, one of the fastest street-legal bikes in the world. He received it as payment from one of his customers.
• Cool Teacher: In the four years since Izuku was expelled from U.A, he has become a Quirk counselor and teacher who is currently mentoring eight teenagers with particularly powerful Quirks. His lessons include skeet-shooting, hide-and-seek, basic self-defense, and theoretic classes on the fundamental aspects of their Quirks. All eight of his students love him.
  • Badass Teacher: And five of them are Person of Mass Destruction who are perfectly capable of reshaping the landscape in self-defense. Izuku can keep up with them. After all, even though he was expelled from U.A, he still has One for All, and he even unlocked a new ability. Mess with his students and, if they don't get rid of you, he will.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Izuku against pretty much anyone is guaranteed to end in his favor, may they be a rampaging Dark Shadow or his own students. Remember: even though he dropped from U.A, that doesn't mean he forgot his training and teaching the eight teens actually taught him new tricks if anything else.
• The Dreaded: The Front fears him and the possibility of him getting involved in the war. This was also why they engineered the event that got him expelled from U.A., and it also prompts Shigaraki to decide to keep every Front member out of Aomori.
• Establishing Character Moment: Izuku's introduction in the first chapter shows his final lesson with Kishun. It establishes him as a gentle and patient individual while displaying his skills as a teacher and attractiveness as an adult.
• Even the Guys Want Him: His students note that a handful of men have hit on Izuku over the years, Jiyu openly finds him attractive and, after he fails to recognize him, Hitoshi considers asking for his number.
• Healing Hands: Vital Sight, a Quirk of One for All Izuku awakened shortly after he started working at the Foyer, lets him alter the biology of any living being, including himself. He uses it to heal his students and a nastily injured Tokoyami… and metabolize the alcohol he drinks into fat.
• He Is All Grown Up: A given since the fic happens roughly six years after the series. However, Izuku has been missing for the past four years, so one of the first things his old friends notice when meeting him is how handsome he's become. Then they see him take care of his students and realize the changes aren't just physical. Izuku has become more mature as well.
• Hot Teacher: Izuku is repeatedly noted to be particularly attractive by his students, his friends, and his love interest.
• I'm Standing Right Here: Governors Gensho and Kengen are discussing Aomori handling Izuku, during a council where Izuku and several others are present. Izuku points this trope. Governor Kengen repeats what she said (that he deserves better than being "just" a Quirk teacher) to his face.
• The Missus and the Ex: The missus to Tenya's ex when it comes to Ochako. Surprisingly, all three still get along. It helps that Ochako and Tenya broke up years ago and are still on speaking terms.
• No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: Played for Laughs and Heartwarming in equal measure. Izuku has changed enough in four years that Tokoyami and Shinso are unable to recognize him at first. It's only when it is pointed to them (by Izuku for Tokoyami and Aizawa for Shinso) that they recognize their former classmate. In both cases, the results are the same: The Glomp with Tears of Joy.
• Official Couple: With Ochako after Chapter 7. And a loving one at that.
• One-Man Army: Half the reason why the Front is terrified of provoking Izuku is because they know he could single-handedly deal with the entire leadership.
• Papa Wolf: Played With. Izuku is the legal guardian of every permanent resident at Noraneko Foyer, which means everyone except Kishun, and is fiercely protective of them. Where it's played is that his students are equally protective of him, and take poorly to anyone hurting him. More than a few people learn it the hard way.
• Parental Substitute: Aside from being the legal guardian of every permanent resident of the Foyer, Izuku serves as a father figure to his students. It is especially notable in that most of them are missing a family member and three of them are outright orphans.
• Protectorate: Aomori in general, but Nishimeya and its inhabitants are particularly considered to be under Izuku's protection, and he will fight the Front and the League alike to protect it.
• Red Baron: Back in U.A, Izuku was known as the Symbol of Hope and All Might's Heir. Though no one calls him such anymore, they haven't forgotten the epithets.
• Retired Badass: Well, Izuku may still be working as a Quirk teacher, but he is very much out of Hero business. This doesn't make him any less dangerous.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Does not hesitate in doing vigilante work if it is needed (and the prefecture authorities are all too willing to look away and ignore it).
• Signature Scent: Kishun - and several others - note Izuku smells like gas and fresh leaves.
• So Proud of You: Thinks this of Eiko when a Pensieve Flashback reveals her lessons with Eri are almost exactly the same as the lessons she was given by her father, making a subconscious Master-Apprentice Chain.
  • He also feels deep pride upon seeing Akira and Jiyu combining their Quirks to lift the monster of Tsugaru Strait while surpassing their limits.
• Starting a New Life: Did this after the Fiasco and his expulsion, starting a brand new life in the small village of Nishimeya and pursuing a career unrelated to heroics.
• Suddenly Shouting: when Sanae tells him she uses her summoned monsters to protect Hokkaido from the Nomus, Izuku sweetly calls Shigaraki... then yells at him for targetting the prefecture, spooking Shigaraki and causing Re-Destro to correct him. Nope, it was not their doing. Doctor Garaki went rogue.
• That Man Is Dead: Downplayed in that those who know Izuku consider Deku less "dead" and more "matured into". Notably, Ochako and Tsuyu never call Izuku by his nickname/Hero alias.
• Tragic Dropout: before the Class 3 Fiasco, Izuku was the most popular student in U.A. with a bright future ahead of him. After the PLF demolished both Class 3-A and 3-B during the Fiasco, Nezu was forced by the Commission to expel him, cutting Izuku's dreams short. He chose to become a teacher instead.
• Trauma Button: As the U.A. staff painfully discovers, U.A. has become this to him following the Class 3 Fiasco.
• Unstoppable Rage: When Endeavor threatens to burn Nishimeya and everyone inside if he doesn't surrender, Izuku loses it and summarily demolishes the Number One Hero without even using One for All's strength enhancement.
• X Meets Y: some readers have compared Izuku to a cross between Professor X and Saitama.

Kishun Aratame

Kishun Aratame/Sentinel, the Vigilant Heroine

Keen senses awake

An arrow never missing

Vigilant guardian

The most recent of Izuku's students (not counting Eri). Her Quirk, Keen Senses, lets her amplify her five senses to impressive levels… enough to cause incontinence. Izuku was hired by her parents to teach her control, Something he succeeded at. Now, Kishun spends her time hanging at Noraneko Foyer with her teacher and the seven other students.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Following their first encounter, Tokoyami calls Kishun "his Nightingale" until he learns her real name.
• Aloof Archer: Fights primarily with a bow and fits the cliché perfectly, from favoring stealth to working best when alone.
• Brainy Brunette: Black-haired, and quite knowledgeable despite - or maybe because - spending most of her life in her room.
• Designated Bullet: Upon hearing about the Fiasco, Kishun grabs an Arrow and literally tapes Shigaraki's name on it, swearing to stick it in his heart.
• Family Theme Naming: Kishun's family shares a monthly theme. Kishun's name means March on the lunar calendar, her brother Minazuki translates as the sixth month of the lunar calendar, July, her father Shiwazu is an old term for December, and her mother, Suzuran, translates as lily of the valley, a flower commonly associated with May.
• Friendly Sniper: Kishun turns to be this, courtesy of Mei's gear. She is friendly and fashionable with her friends, but she still has the skills and the will to kill two Front advisers - and is successful - and has an arrow with Shigaraki's name on it.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: Tenya and Tsuyu repeatedly express concern after the decision is taken to have Kishun kill two advisors. Kishun retorts with this trope.
  "The Front shows no mercy. We will feel no remorse. Case closed."
• Hikikomori: Not exactly by choice, but suffering constant Sensory Overload has forced her to live in a custom darkroom for over a decade so the outside world wouldn't overwhelm her, hence this trope. Izuku's lessons help her gain control and start a normal life.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Kishun's fighting style, which relies heavily on stealth and long-range, is based around her favorite build in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the infamous "stealth archer". Izuku himself notes that Kishun consciously attempts to emulate the style.
• The Nose Knows: Kishun can enhance her sense of smell. She uses it to identify people by their scent and track them down. According to her, Izuku smells like gas and fresh leaves, Ochako smells like green tea and candies and Mirio smells like noodles and sunny outside. Twice clones smell like whoever they are replicating, but the scent is less intense and has an artificial feel.
• Power Incontinence: When Keen Senses first manifested, they went straight into overdrive. Kishun thus spent the next decade suffering from constant Sensory Overload.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Upon crossing paths with Tokoyami during the assassination job, Kishun starts speaking in rhymes upon remembering the Pro's peculiar manners. Tokoyami takes it as a challenge and answers in kind.
  Kishun: Dark feathers, dark omen? Tell me, what sings this one raven?
  Tokoyami: This raven sings of shadows bound, of evil lurking around. Shadows unleashed will chain them back. So, what are you, maiden of black?
  Kishun: You can say I’m a Nightingale, wandering on a moonlight trail. Two lives taken by the Front in jest shall be repaid, two souls at rest. I’m out to sing their requiem. By morning come, they’ll weep the same, and if you doubt my intent, ask then the mouse, bear or rodent.
• Super-Senses: Keen Senses, her Quirk, lets Kishun amplify one or several senses to the point the world can naturally overwhelm her. Izuku taught her to hone each sense through various exercises, notably archery and hide and seek.
  • Sensor Character: Notably, she can use her sense of smell to track down people, locate invisible people like Tsuyu using Camouflage by listening to their breathing or heartbeat, amplify her sight to give herself Innate Night Vision, or zoom with them like Mei's Quirk does. Her friends surmise she could potentially detect Mr. Compress.
• Took a Level in Badass: From Hikikomori by necessity to a really good Friendly Sniper.
• Trick Arrow: Because Pros rarely ever kill, Mei has given Kishun bags of tricked-out tips for her arrows. She notably uses a taser one to stun Vandal before killing him.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Got asked this by Hayate after the assassination job. Her answer is yes. Her targets were removing good things from the world, adding bad things to it, or helping others do it. They had it coming.
• Whole Costume Reference: Since she is a fan of the series, Mei based her costume on Skyrim's Nightingale Armor, with the Cloaking System designed after the Amulet of Articulation.

Himai Azayaka

Himai Azayaka/Slipstream

Dance into the fire

Broken songs and broken dreams

A life in the streets

A street performer who lives at Noraneko Foyer and is the oldest of Izuku's students. His Quirk, Supple Body, "only" increases his speed and agility tenfold, which sounds quite weak compared to the other students' Quirk… It isn't.

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• Boring, but Practical: Supple Body only enhances his speed and agility. The problem is that the Quirk is a force multiplier. 10 x 1 = 10, but 10 x 100 = 1000. Having trained his body for most of his life, Himai is incredibly fast, and agile enough Eiko outright says he is made of rubber.
• Dance Battler: Himai is a street performer. Naturally, his fighting style looks less like martial arts and more like a dance.
• Epic Flail: In a fight, his poi will become this.
• Fragile Speedster: Himai is repeatedly stated to be slender and weighs roughly 50kg, making him a featherweight whose kicks and punches barely leave a bruise. His Quirk, Supple Body, lets him enhance his speed and agility tenfold. Coupled with the fact Himai has been training as an acrobat since he was five, the combination of his Quirk and his training makes him incredibly hard to catch, able to evade Aizawa's binding cloth and Blackwhip alike. Best exemplified in his stats: his Power is the lowest of the group at 1, but his Technique is the highest with Sami, standing at 6.
  • It's to the point that, despite his frailty, Jiyu calls him a Dodge Tank, who relies more on evasiveness than durability to Draw Aggro while staying alive.
• Incendiary Exponent: Himai loves to set his implements ablaze and dance with them. In a fight, it seriously increases the lethality of his tools.
• Meaningful Name: His name is made of hi (fire) and mai (dance) while azayaka means neat, distinct, radiant, swift, dexterous or astute. Azayaka Himai literally means "dexterous fire dance".
• Odd Friendship: Several people are surprised to notice Himai and Aizawa are good friends. Every time they meet, Himai will greet Aizawa fondly - and Aizawa will return the greeting. Doubles as an Intergenerational Friendship given the gap in age (16 for Himai, roughly 37 for Aizawa).
• Rubber Man: Downplayed. Supple Body only enhances his speed and agility, but he has trained so long as an acrobat that several people call the teen downright elastic.
• Satisfied Street Rat: Was perfectly fine living in the streets as a performer despite the precarity of such a lifestyle. Falling sick and being nursed to health by Izuku made him reconsider.
• Trademark Favorite Food: One chapter states that he enjoys zosui, a mild and thin rice soup made from pre-cooked rice, usually made for the sick and unwell and traditionally eaten only in Winter.

Eiko Shirantei

Eiko Shirantei/White Shadow

Across the rooftops

Sure hands and feet show the way

White blade thirsts for blood

An orphan girl living in Noraneko Foyer who intends to join U.A. Her family was murdered by the Front and especially Toga, leading Eiko to hold a massive grudge against her. Her Quirk, Absolute Balance, gives her a flawless sense of balance.

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• Big Sister Mentor: Shares this dynamic with Eri. Best exemplified during a Pensieve Flashback while she is teaching Eri free-running at Ground Gamma: the moves and words used by Eiko are almost exactly the same as those her own father used to teach her. Izuku, Hitoshi, Mirio, and Tamaki find the parallels startling.
• Boring, but Practical: On paper, having a flawless sense of balance sounds fairly mundane. Except balance is used for countless everyday tasks, from carrying things to simply moving around. Thanks to her Quirk, Eiko can never trip or drop what she holds, and she is an absolute monster at free-running.
  • Eiko recalls an incident in elementary school where one of her classmates called her Quirkless because Absolute Balance is simply that subtle.
• Catapult Nightmare: Averted. After dreaming of her family's murder, Eiko simply jerks awake.
• Cool Big Sis: Becomes this to Eri during her time in Nishimeya. Even after, they can be seen playing in the apple tree during Mirio and Tamaki's wedding.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: If the Pensieve Flashback is any indication, Eiko used to be very close to her father, who taught her free-running. By the time the story happens, the girl is an orphan.
• Do Not Try This at Home: Before performing a Wall Run, Eiko instructs Eri against imitating her, arguing that the girl doesn't yet have the proper physique to pull it off.
• Five-Finger Discount: Eiko mention she had to pick a few pockets to survive in the streets. She isn't happy with it and is worried it will prevent her from getting into U.A.
• Goomba Stomp: Pulls this on Slidin' Go in a flashback nightmare to reach a distant fire escape. Justified in that she was already on a three-meter wall.
• Hidden Weapons: Her favorite weapons are Assassin-style hidden blades.
• In the Back: Her favorite way to attack consists in sneaking right behind someone and either stabbing them or tasering them.
• It's Personal: Even more so than the others, Eiko holds a massive grudge against the Front in general and Himiko Toga in particular for murdering her family.
• Le Parkour: Eiko's specialty, especially in trees. She ends up teaching Eri.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: Subconsciously. Eiko is apparently unaware the free-running lessons she gives to Eri are the same she was given by her father.
• Master of Disguise: Mei designed her Hero costume to be highly modular, able to change design in a few seconds to let her blend more easily in a crowd.
• Nom de Mom: Eiko's last name, Shirantei, belongs to her mother, not her father. Her father's last name is Honda.
• Satisfied Street Rat: Averted to hell and back. Eiko considers her time in the streets as the worst of her life.
• Super-Senses: Unlike Kishun, Eiko's Quirk influences her sense of balance, granting her unmatched dexterity and agility only surpassed by Himai.
• Tomboy: The only thing feminine about Eiko is her long hair. Otherwise, she is flat-chested, immature, loves free-running and video games, and utterly hates wearing dresses, finding them unpractical.
• Wall Run: Thanks to her Quirk and enough momentum, Eiko can perform these, though a too-long run will see gravity call her before she crossed the gap.
• Weak, but Skilled: Just like Himai, Eiko's Quirk is fairly unimpressive, but the sheer skills it gives her compensate for her lack of power. Fittingly, both of their Technique is 6 but Eiko has slightly more Power at 2.

Samidori Morihinan

Samidori "Sami" Morihinan/Dryad

Green hands and green eyes

Blood shed by fury in shreds

An innocence torn

A red-haired teenager who wants to become an architect and suffers from hemophobia. His Quirk, Green Thumb, gives him impressive control over vegetal biology and the ability to grow plants really fast.

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• Arboreal Abode: Sami is studying architecture to be able to build green cities with his Quirk. So far, he built the Foyer's dormitories, the Treetop Agency's HQ, and the Hoshinami Shrubhouse.
• Afraid of Blood: Downplayed. Blood used to terrify him, but therapy helped him overcome it to the point it merely makes him uncomfortable.
• Ambiguously Gay: He and Jiyu share a fair amount of Ship Tease, but Jiyu is the only person he shows interest in so it's hard to tell if Sami likes men in general or if his interest is solely in Jiyu.
• The Biomancer: Green Thumb doesn't just let him grow plants. It lets him alter their DNA, which allows Sami to grow brand-new species custom-designed for specific purposes, such as literal treehouses, a sweet-smelling flower bed for Aizawa to nap on and a literal flower-clock to teach Eri.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Being lacerated by thorns is equally unpleasant and messy... and this is exactly what Sami did to his father's killer. There's a reason the teen is Afraid of Blood...
• Fiery Redhead: Averted. Sami may be red-haired, but he is a pacifist who is notably Afraid of Blood.
• Green Thumb: The name of his Quirk, which allows him to play the trope dead straight.
• Line-of-Sight Name: samidori means bud-green and is the color of Sami's eyes. In-Universe, this is how his parents named him.
  • Meaningful Name: The same way, mori-hinan means forest-shelter. Samidori Morihinan means bud-green-colored forest shelter. Fitting for a vegetal biokinesist who wants to become an architect.
• Martial Arts Staff: Sami's weapon is a quarterstaff he personally grew to fit his need. It fits his Martial Pacifist image.
• Martial Pacifist: Sami is nervous at the sight of blood and prefers to avoid fighting if he can afford it. If he has to, though, he very much will.
• Person of Mass Construction: Though his Quirk shares its scale with Hayate, Jiyu, Akari, and Akira, it allows Sami to create instead of destroying. If he doesn't care for subtlety, he can regrow half a forest in less than a day, and it doesn't take him long to grow a fully-functioning Arboreal Abode if he got the schematics on hand.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Sami is naturally red-haired and green-eyed and is a key member of Izuku's students.

Akira Hoshinami

Akira Hoshinami, later Midoriya/Tsunami

Eyes bereft of light

See the ebb and flow of life

Tiny frame, fierce smile

A blind boy who lost his eyesight when his parents overdosed on drugs and their Quirks tore apart his eyes. He is the youngest of Izuku's students, as well as the fiercest. His Quirk, Tide's Grip, lets him control water anywhere he can sense it.

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• Acquired Poison Immunity: As his mother kept taking Trigger during her pregnancy, the drug built-in Akira's body during the prenatal stage, both amplifying his Quirk and eventually making him Immune to Drugs.
• Adaptive Ability: Contrary to what everyone believed, Akira inherited his mother's Tide Grip and his father's Adaptative Biology. The Quirk lets his body adapt to endangering situations and is the reason the Trigger in the system doesn't affect him negatively, or Tide's Grip's water-sensing is so powerful: it means to replace his sight. His mother notes that, in his father, the Quirk can grant Innate Night Vision or sweat out poison.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Even though Izuku was doing just fine, Akira still figured the monster's anatomy, and his and Jiyu's efforts to take advantage of it led to its capture rather than its death.
• Body Horror: Downplayed. Akira's Quirk lets him control water anywhere he can sense it... and he can sense it inside people, which means he is perfectly able to control the water within people and uses it several times to paralyze his foes while noting its use in chirurgy to staunch bleedings and limit the damage caused from such injuries. Then he uses it to drain his father's body of moisture and reduce him to a dried husk.
• Catch and Return: The monster of Tsugaru Strait fires pressurized water bursts. Akira controls water. He catches said bursts and turns them against the monster at least twice.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Threatens to drown Dabi in his own blood by bursting the veins in his lungs, then drains his father's body of moisture, killing him on the spot.
• Disability Superpower: The boy may be blind, but Tide's Grip lets him sense water and control it wherever he feels it. Izuku helped him refine the sensory aspect to the point the kid may as well not be.
• The Dreaded: Not as much as his adoptive father, but Akira's power is feared by a certain number of people, first among them being Dabi.
• Eye Scream: Even though he is said to have milk-white eyes, those eyes are artificial. When his father overdosed on Trigger, he slashed his eyeballs and the boy had to have the remains surgically removed.
• Handicapped Badass: Akira lost his eyesight to his parents' Quirks. Between Izuku's lessons in using Tide's Grip's sensing aspect to move around and the sheer scale of his Quirk, the kid isn't slowed the slightest and is in fact the most vicious of the group.
• Happily Adopted: At Izayoi's request, Izuku ends up officially adopting Akira to give him a true family.
• Immune to Drugs: Due to the traces of Trigger in his body, Izuku and Recovery Girl surmise the kid is mostly immune to the drug, as his body integrated it in his system as he grew and gave him drug desensitization.
• Irony: Despite hating drugs, Akira has trace amounts of Trigger in his body, which is one of the reasons his Quirk is so strong.
• Ironic Name: Depending on how it's written, akira can mean "intelligent" or "clear-sighted". Being the youngest means Akira has the lowest Intelligence score at 3/6, and the kid is blind.
• Magic Missile Storm: Against the monster of Tsugaru Strait, Akira generates thousand upon thousand of water swords aimed at the creature. It isn't enough.
• Making a Splash: What Tide's Grip is all about, with some Bizarre Alien Senses added. Quite useful for a blind kid…
  • An Ice Person: More exactly, Tide's Grip lets Akira control the molecule H₂O, regardless of its form, which includes ice. Ice's rigid structure makes controlling it difficult to control, but not impossible.
• The Napoleon: As the youngest of Izuku's students, Akira is the shortest of the group. Is he fierce? Upon hearing how the Front broke Izuku's dream, he suggested fighting them while wearing party hats because of how pleasant kicking their asses was going to be. He is also the first to suggest or otherwise employ violence.
• Parental Neglect: When asked about his parents, Akira describes the pair as more neglectful than abusive, being near-constantly stoned. He learned to take care of himself on his own and with his neighbors' help.
• Patricide: Has to kill his father to put an end to his Trigger-induced rampaging.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Hey, Dad? Adapt to this."
• Required Secondary Power: Even though water-sensing is treated as a separate ability from Tide's Grip's water-manipulation because of its importance, being able to sense the element you control is more or less a requirement to properly handle it. It's just that Akira's disability forces him to put more importance on it to compensate.
  • Notably, experimenting with the kid makes Shoto realize that, as an elemental generator, he himself lacks a sensory ability and thus lacks Akira's fine control.
• Telescoping Staff: Akira wields a white cane to warn people about his disability. Mei is working to make it that way so it can function as a genuine weapon.
• Unknown Relative: Akira had no idea he was related to Manual, and Manual definitely didn't know about his nephew until the Hirosaki incident.

Jiyu Baraemi

Jiyu Baraemi/Esper

Mind over matter

A heart carried on the sleeve

For a boy in green

A homosexual teenager who ran from home to escape his abusive family. His Quirk, Mind over Matter, is a powerful form of telekinesis that lets him handle roughly a dozen tons with his mind.

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• Abusive Parents: Implied. Jiyu says his parents will kill him if he comes back home because they are homophobes. In any case, he is a permanent resident of Noraneko Foyer, and those who live there usually do because of external circumstances.
• Apologetic Attacker: During his fight with Suneater and Phantom Thief, Jiyu keeps apologizing for hurting them. Indeed, the kid knows no reliable methods to knock them out and is none too keen on injuring them.
• Deadly Disc: His favorite weapons. The ones he uses are bladed, but Mei is working on giving his Hero ones a laser edge.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Discussed. Jiyu wants to attend U.A. and is quite taken by Mirio and Izuku's handsomeness. Given both went to the Academy, he notes that, if all of his male classmates end up looking like that, focusing in class is going to be a problem.
• Dual Wielding: Wields a pair of Deadly Disc in combat.
• Mind over Matter: The name of his Quirk, which lets him play this trope dead straight.
• Not Hyperbole: Jiyu once threatened to send Hijack, the villain responsible for the Class 3 Fiasco, into orbit using one of his techniques. As several people note, he has sent wooden disks into orbit by accident.
• Orbiting Particle Shield: One of his Super Moves is this trope almost name for name. Orbiting Shield lets him gather rubble around him to deflect shots, with the option of forming a more concrete barrier in case of larger projectiles.
• Psychic Nosebleed: After lifting the monster of Tsugaru Strait with Akira, Jiyu bleeds from the nose. Izuku outright says this is due to the blood pressure in his head from overusing his Quirk.
• Purple Is Powerful: Jiyu has unusual lavender eyes. His Quirk is one of the strongest among Izuku's students.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Quite literally, in his case. His Hero costume has pink Tron Lines and pink and white are his signature colors. Being a Straight Gay, this serves as a short-hand to indicate his sexual orientation.
• The Runaway: Type 2, the Abused. His parents are homophobes and he likes men. Naturally, they wouldn't get along.
• Ship Tease: Jiyu has a crush on Sami that is acknowledged by Izuku and a few others, and is often seen in the background sharing food with him or eying him bashfully. It seems to be mutual.
• Straight Gay: Jiyu prefers men but, aside from him liking the color pink, there's pretty much nothing indicating he is homosexual aside from some Ship Tease moments with Sami.
• The Strategist: During the Strays' Defiance, Jiyu is the one who comes up with most of the teens' strategy, notably taking inspiration from video game tactics to classify themselves and the Pros as Damager, Healer, Tank, using Himai as bait for Kiting the Pros and overall devising how the group would operate.
• Tap on the Head: Attempted with more or less success. Seeing Suneater with a head injury after slamming him against a branch makes Jiyu think twice before using the move on Phantom Thief, and he needs to be reassured by Izuku afterwards.
• Whole Costume Reference: Jiyu's Hero costume is a white Spandex-looking bodysuit and glowing neon-pink lines and a retractable helmet, and his favorite weapons are a pair of bladed discs. Now, where have we seen this before?

Akari Kinatasui

Akari Kinatsui, later Aoyama/Archangel, formerly Amaterasu Reborn

Gentle, the sun’s light

A family lost and found

For them, the sun flares

A blonde girl Izuku rescued from a crazed cult. Her Quirk, Solar Battery, lets her absorb sunlight and imbue it with a kinetic force to make it solid, resulting in anything from concussive blasts to solid light constructs. She and Izuku are currently looking for her family.

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• But Not Too Foreign: Nezu surmises Akari is either one half or one-fourth European after she explains the European dishes she remembers were brought by relatives of her mother, meaning the woman was either completely foreign or But Not Too Foreign as well. Eventually confirmed. Akari's mother, Lucianne, is French, which makes the girl half-French herself. Her cousin even explains she holds dual French-Japanese citizenship due to being born in Paris. Akari, having been raised by the cult, was completely unaware of it and believed herself completely Japanese.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Naturally, being able to make solid light constructs is a massive boon when your opponent is a rampaging Dark Shadow.
• Girly Girl: Especially compared to the Tomboy that's Eiko. Akari has a large chest, prefers dresses, enjoys sunbathing and coloring, and aspires to become a teacher. Not a single masculine trait anywhere.
• A God I Am Not: The cult that kidnapped her believed Akari's light-based Quirk meant she was the Reincarnation of the Shinto goddess Amaterasu. Naturally, Akari disagrees.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Her color theme is yellow and white, she controls light and often makes wings of light to move around. Put all these together and Akari sounds a lot like an angel.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Golden-haired and one of the gentlest of Izuku's students.
• Happily Adopted: Akari is eventually adopted by her uncle and aunt, Kagami and Mitsukane Aoyama.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: When she has to fight, Akari tends to use a pair of literal lightsabers.
• Lady of War: Akari is feminine, beautiful, and often has a sort of dignity around her (unless she sleeps), being compared by Izuku to Koji Koda meets Ibara Shiozaki. She retains it all when she fights, with swords and wings of light added for extra effect.
• Light 'em Up: Long story short, this is Solar Battery's purpose. However, the Quirk is more subtle than that.
  • The Power of the Sun: First, it works by absorbing sunlight. It means light from the sun has to touch Akari's skin and unless she charged beforehand, she is functionally Quirkless at night.
  • Elemental Absorption: Second, Akari doesn't generate light, she absorbs it. No sunlight, no Quirk.
  • Hard Light: Third, Akari imbues the light she absorbs with a kinetic force to make it solid. She can thus make constructs, flashbangs, or solid blasts instead of raw energy bursts.
• Long-Lost Relative: Turns out to be Yuga's younger cousin and his main motivation for becoming a Hero.
• Missing Mom and Disappeared Dad: Having been kidnapped at a young age, Akari never saw her parents again. She is currently looking for them while Izuku fills in the role. A later chapter eventually confirms both died during the Battle of Coruscant.
• Power Gives You Wings: A use of her Quirk is wings of light to fly along with her Sensei.
• Sleep Cute: Akari ends up falling asleep in Izuku's lap after the assassination job, even drooling a bit on his pants. Everyone finds the scene adorable.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Supplementary material lists her favorite food as fruit salad, but Akari mentions a dish that holds a special place in her heart due to dating from before her kidnapping: blood sausages with apples, with rice, optionally added. Yuga reveals that, in the past, she enjoyed cooked meat in general.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Namedropped by Yuga, who believes her to be this after she threatens thugs with her light saber for insulting him. Akari is gentle and soft-spoken but insult her family at your own risk.

Hayate Maukisho

Hayate Maukisho/Storm's Eye

Books in running rain

Catch words whispered to the wind

A dream in the storm

A blonde teen who Izuku nursed back to health following a storm. His Quirk, Weather Control, lets him manipulate the weather. However, Hayate has no intent to become a Pro Hero and instead wants to be a novelist.

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• Autism: Izuku mentions that Hayate is on the autistic spectrum but, unlike Changeling, he is high-functioning and merely quirky, compared to Bakugo's Cloudcuckoolander sidekick.
• Badass Bookworm: Hayate has one of the most devastating Quirks among Izuku's students. His favorite hobbies are reading and writing books and he wants to become a novelist. He is also capable of quoting The Thirty-Six Stratagems and explaining how they apply to the Strays' Defiance.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: When making his costume, Mei doesn't give him a weapon, stating he doesn't need one.
• Blow You Away: Being able to control the weather means Hayate can generate Wind on a whim. Izuku taught him to downscale his Quirk to create bursts smaller than a dust devil.
• Blunt "Yes": When Aizawa asks him if he can understand Izuku's "mumble-storms", Hayate answers positively and adds that Kishun can do it too.
• Despair Event Horizon: Losing his parents in a storm and spending the following week chained to the brick of a cruise to act as a weather-control machine drove Hayate over the edge. This led to him summoning a storm brutal enough to sink the cruise, with no intention of surviving it. Thanks to Izuku, he did.
• Geek Physiques: Inverted. Despite being a bookworm with a vibrant imagination who squeals when his favorite video game character is added to Super Smash and even sings his theme tune, Hayate is heavy in the stout sense of the word.
• Gentle Giant: At 1.68m, Hayate is the second tallest after Himai, and considerably bulkier. He is also the most pacific with Sami.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Hayate has short blonde hair. Despite his intimidating size and devastating Quirk, he is a pacifist who loathes violence.
• Martial Pacifist: Just like Sami, Hayate may loathe violence, but he will still bring down the sky on your head if he feels he has no choice or Izuku tells him.
• Mr. Imagination: Hayate loves reading and writing stories and is naturally creative. Izuku describes his imagination as "a lot like the wind he controlled: wild, and going in three different directions at once".
  • Most Writers Are Writers: Notably, his vibrant imagination makes it hard for him to focus on one story, a fact he complains about in the second chapter. The story on Magical Girl ends up being a dud, but he has good hopes for the Heroic Fantasy one.
• Scars Are Forever: Still bears scars on his wrists where the captain of the cruise chained him.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Asks this question to Kishun after the assassination job and, after being asked the same question regarding the shipwreck he caused, answers positively. He had hit the Despair Event Horizon, after all.
• What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: The reason Hayate hates killing. Killing someone generates a hole in the world that nothing else can fill and puts a term to anything the dead person was doing. This is why he is constantly asking Was It Really Worth It?.
• Weather Manipulation: Weather Control is basically Storm's power in a nutshell.
  • During the Strays' Defiance, we get to see how his power works. He ends up blowing away Hawks with squalls, raining hail on the sky team and shocking dragon!Ryukyu with four lightning bolts in the chest.
• Younger Than He Looks: His huge size and strong build would make him think he is at least fifteen, but he is actually thirteen and the second youngest after Akira, who's twelve.

Aomori Pros

Uravity

Ochako Uraraka/Uravity

Izuku's former classmate and love interest, also known as the Pro Heroine Uravity. She, Tsuyu, and Denki are a Hero Team and work at the Treetop Agency.

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• Badass Biker: Even though the Kawasaki Ninja belongs to Izuku, Ochako still borrows it once in a while.
• Big "YES!": Her reaction to Izuku asking for her hand is to tackle him while squealing a steady stream of "Yes!"
• Childhood Friend Romance: Has been crushing on Izuku ever since their first year at U.A. The two become lovers and later engaged over the course of the story.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Ochako's reaction to Bakugo kissing Izuku is to chase him around the Foyer to send him into orbit.
• The Heart: Fulfils this role among the Foyer. The Strays see her as a surrogate mother and, when Izuku is saddened or troubled by guilt and doubt, she is the one who talks him from it and gives him comfort.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: She and Izuku end up making love at the Golden Falls. Ochako mentions she often loses control of her Quirk during intimacy, so a lot of their sessions happen several centimeters above the bed. Fortunately, Izuku has Float.
• The Mentor: Occasionally teaches at the Foyer with Izuku, and notably taught the Strays martial arts.
• Signature Scent: According to Kishun, Ochako smells like green tea and candies.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Ochako delivers one such speech to Izuku after he tearfully explains to her, Aizawa, and All Might why he disappeared after the Fiasco. It ends with her openly confessing her love and she and Izuku becoming a couple in earnest.

Coldfire

Shoto Todoroki/Coldfire

A former classmate of Izuku and one of his closest friends, he is Endeavor's youngest son and the Pro Hero Coldfire. After reuniting with Izuku during Mirio and Tamaki's wedding, he and Tenya decided to start their own agency, Turbodynamics.

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• Elemental Baggage: Inverted. Shoto is an elemental generator, not manipulator. Instead of controlling pre-existing fire or ice, he generates it in predefined forms that are often used by the actual elemental manipulators like Akira and his mother. People note that the fact he can generate constructs on par with manipulators is impressive.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: As an adult, Shoto is still as pretty as before, but Izuku notes he let his hair grow long enough to be tied in a ponytail.
• Protectorate: Izuku seems to be this. The moment Endeavor pins him to a wall is the moment Shoto turns on his father. Izuku strikes first.
• Those Two Guys: often seen with Tenya, in no small part due to them being teammates and close friends.
• Undying Loyalty: Izuku was Shoto's very first friend and the one who helped him accept his left side. Shoto treasures him and willingly sides with him when he turns against the Commission.
• Worth It: Shoto far prefers watching Disney movies to showing at the JP Hero Billboard Chart. Pissing off his father is a bonus.

Ingenium II

Tenya Iida/Ingenium II

Yet another of Izuku's former classmates. He is the youngest of the famous Iida family and the Pro Hero Ingenium II. Just like Shoto, he is reunited with Izuku during Mirio and Tamaki's wedding and follows Shto to Aomori. However, being a stickler for rules, Tenya often finds himself disagreeing with Aomori's policies.

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• Conflicting Loyalty: when Aomori is declared rogue, Tenya is torn between staying at Izuku's side and going back to his family, especially now that Eri Rewound Tensei back to shape. His father convinces him to stay in Aomori to be their moral compass.
• Honest Advisor: his reason for staying. Aomori needs someone critical of their decisions, and Tenya's ideals are closer to the League than the prefecture.
• Not So Stoic: after seeing Tensei Rewound back to health, Tenya badly tries to hide he is overjoyed at the sight.
• Those Two Guys: often seen with Shoto, in no small part due to them being teammates and close friends.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Tenya has always been very law-abiding. Unfortunately, Aomori has a documented habit of ignoring the rules when they are deemed hurtful, much to his exasperation. This is what leads him to become the prefecture's Honest Advisor.

Twinkle

Yuga Aoyama/Twinkle

One of Izuku's former classmates and a good friend of his. Born in France, with a pretty face and somewhat foppish mannerisms, he is nevertheless an efficient Pro and an adept showman. He is also Akari's elder cousin, and rescuing her was his reason for becoming a Pro. As such, he is very protective of her in particular and his family in general.

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• Agent Peacock: an effeminate Pretty Boy with flamboyant mannerisms, yet also a trained Pro who was fully willing and able to storm a crazed cult to rescue his younger cousin.
• Big Brother Instinct: Why did Yuga join U.A. and become a Hero despite all the hardships he went through? To rescue his younger cousin, Akari.
• Cool Big Bro: after reuniting with Akari, Yuga proves very caring toward her, helping her fill the gaps in her memories and teaching her French. Akari is fond of him in turn, and about as protective of him as she is of Izuku.
• Gratuitous French: being born in France, Yuga is naturally fond of French culture and often slips in words here and there, notably calling Izuku "Mon très cher ami". (My very dear friend)
• Manly Tears: After learning his younger cousin, Akari, is safe and sound after being kidnapped for roughly a decade, Yuga is unable to hold his tears and cries in Tenya's arms.
• Missed Him by That Much: Yuga was among the Hero team that got rid of the cult that had kidnapped Akari. The attack, however, was a distraction meant to give Akari an opening to escape to Izuku. Yuga and Akari are cousins. Yuga had joined the Hero team knowing the cult held Akari and was hoping to rescue her and finally be reunited with her. Akari had no idea she and Yuga were related due to being kidnapped at a young age. She subsequently spent the next years looking for her family. If she hadn't fled, she and Yuga would have been reunited back then.
• Protectorate: Yuga's loyalty goes first and foremost to his family. They are the reason he became a Hero so, when the conflict forces a divide between the League and Aomori, where they currently reside, he doesn't hesitate a second to switch sides.
• Throwing Off the Disability: one of the things Izuku does after reuniting with him is heal Yuga's deformity and alter his anatomy so he can freely use his Navel Laser.
• Undying Loyalty: Yuga's loyalty goes to only two groups, his family and Izuku. He became a Pro Hero to rescue a family member and Izuku was the very first person to befriend him, which is why he cares so much about them. In parallel to this, his own agency is equally loyal to him and doesn't hesitate to follow him to Aomori.

Others

Izayoi Hoshinami

Izayoi Hoshinami, born Mizushima

Akira's mother and a Recovered Addict living at the Hirosaki Rehabilitation Clinic. She used to take Trigger for the power boost it gave her... and to protect her son when her husband lost control.

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• Awful Wedded Life: Given she and her husband were both Addled Addict who regularly got into Trigger-boosted fights that threatened to tear their home and couldn't be bothered to raise their only son, Izayoi and Hizumi were this. Izayoi's only saving graces are her being a Mama Bear and becoming a Recovered Addict.
• Badass Bystander: You wouldn't expect the local Recovered Addict to put that much of a fight against a rampaging Villain with an Adaptive Ability. And yet, by boosting her Quirk with Trigger and combining her power with Shoto's, Izayoi is able to hold her husband long enough for help to arrive.
• Combat Pragmatist: Izayoi's very first move when pitted against her rampaging husband is to burst his bloodstream. Sure, he adapts on the spot and survives, but had it been anyone else...
• Curse Cut Short: When she fails to stop her husband, Izayoi cuts herself mid-curse and warns him to surrender before someone ends up killing him.
• Disinherited Child: Izayoi's parents disowned her, completely cutting her out of their life. As such, she doesn't consider the Mizushima her family and sees herself and Akira as solely Hoshinami.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She and Manual are twin siblings. Izayoi is a Recovered Addict. Manual is a Pro Hero.
• I Have No Brother: Because she was disowned, Izayoi doesn't see Manual as her twin anymore, and outright says any right he may have over Akira by virtue of being his uncle is void.
• Making a Splash: Tide's Grip is originally her Quirk. However, compared to her son, she is much weaker unless under Trigger.
• Mama Bear: When questioned about it, Izayoi doesn't deny she took Trigger for the power rush. However, the secondary and equally important reason was to make herself strong enough to match her husband when he took it, and keep him from hurting Akira. She eventually failed.
• Meaningful Name: The yoi part of her name can be translated as drunk or intoxication.
• NEET: Izayoi notes that she has neither the skills nor the education to apply for a job, which is why she stays at the Clinic despite being done with rehab. She works as a janitor and supports for the others patients to make up for it.
• Off the Wagon: When faced with her Trigger-enhanced rampaging husband, since Tide's Grip is the best counter to Adaptative Biology and Akira isn't there yet, Izayoi has no choice but to take Trigger again and hold him off. Everyone considers it a Godzilla Threshold.
• Recovered Addict: Eventually managed to wean herself of the addiction while Akira was at the Foyer. She only stays at the Clinic because she doesn't have the skills to get a job and lead a normal life. The Aoyamas offer her a job and the Strays and Ochako's parents build her a house to allow her to be near her son and allow her to regain a normal life.

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