Characters / Ennea Series

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Character tropes found in the Ennea Series.

Note: To differentiate him from Hawks and the Voices' Ennea, the second version is referred to as "Ennea".

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Ennea Series Characters

Hawks and the Voices

Hawks

Hawks

Civilian Name: Keigo Takami
Vigilante Identity: Ennea
Nicknames: Gold, Baby Bird, Angel, Hummingbird
Quirks: Fierce Wings, Creation, Explosion, Electrification, One For All, Brainwashing, Zero Gravity, Engine, Half-Cold Half-Hot

"As long as those secrets won't hurt you, you can keep them if you want. It's your choice whether to share them."

The Winged Hero and unfortunate host of eight time travelling Pro Heroes from the future. Hawks wants a peaceful world where Heroes have more free time on their hands than they know what to do with. To achieve that goal, he vows to assist the Voices in their mission in any way he can.

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• Ability Mixing: With the Voices' help, he can combine their abilities. He uses a mix of Orange and White's Quirks to give himself fire and heat resistance when fighting Dabi.
• Achey Scars: The scar on his shoulder throbs when he thinks about his abusive handler, Kaetsu. He got it from Pathfinder's sword when he tried to commit suicide at age sixteen due to Kaetsu.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Hawks is much more openly bitter about the Hero Public Safety Commission controlling his life and has some psychological trauma from how they treated him, i.e like a prized pet rather than a person. His parents sold him to them in exchange for financial security and he's expected to pay the Commission back for their training of him, leaving him in inescapable debt. The Hero Commission's brutal training also left him with a crippling fear of failure when he first started out as a Pro Hero though Miruko helped him recover from this.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Miruko fondly calls him "Baby Bird" since he reminded her of a baby chick in his teenaged years.
  • The Voices call him "Gold" so he feels like a part of their team and to create some Plausible Deniability if the need arises.
• Agent Mulder: He immediately believes the Voices when they claim they are time travelers from the future. At their surprise, he points out that in their world, you can be born with a potted plant for a head and comments that time travel isn't much of a stretch. Unfortunately for him and them, other people tend not to believe him when he shares the truth.
• All Your Powers Combined: He can use a majority of the Voices' Quirks through his feathers. The exceptions are Yellow's Electrification and maybe One For All (or whatever the Quirk the Voices use when they merge is), which do not require feathers, and Silver's Engine, which he cannot figure out how to access.
• And I Must Scream: Whenever the Voices take control of his body, Hawks becomes trapped in a black void. He can see the outside world but cannot interact with it or control his own body.
• Animal Motifs: Hawks has a bird-of-prey motif. Along with his wings he is very watchful, has a third eyelid, and tends to swoop people along with other bird-like habits. For example, he pulls out feathers when he becomes too stressed. He also has caged-bird imagery in his relationship with the Commission, where they keep him under their control by burying him in debt.
• Apologizes a Lot: Hawkse has the habit of apologizing to people whenever he drifts, tenses, or has a panic attack. Aizawa tells him he should not apologize so much.
• Ascended Extra: While Hawks is a point of view character with a key role in the main plot in the manga, here he is the protagonist and the center of the story.
• Badass in Distress:
  • He is held, interrogated, and tortured by the Commission in chapter thirteen of For Their Sakes. Best Jeanist and Tsukauchi bail him out.
  • He is captured by Kaetsu, tortured for several weeks, and loses his wings before he rescues himself.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: All Hawks wanted was a small break from Hero work. He gets one by wandering aimlessly in the woods for a year as he tries to put his mind back together.
• Benevolent Boss: He runs his Agency in a lenient and open-minded manner, listening to his sidekicks' feedback, allowing Mockingjay to go on missions without his say-so, and encouraging his sidekicks and interns to not to overwork themselves. He apologizes to them when the Commission overwhelms his Agency with work and does not blame the secretary when someone smuggles a head in a box into his Agency while she was away from her desk. His benevolent way of running things inspires Undying Loyalty in his workers such as Shatterpoint, who states they all will side with Hawks against the Commission. This is in contrast to how the Commission President and All For One run their organizations through fear, deception, and manipulation.
• Big Brother Mentor: He acts as a mix of big brother and teacher towards his interns. Hawks helps Todoroki, Iida, and Tokoyami learn to be Heroes by improving their control over their Quirks, physical capabilities, and interpersonal skills. In particular, he helps Todoroki become more independent by encouraging him to figure out why he wants to become a Hero for reasons not linked to his father. Hawks also makes sure the Kettle's fridge is stocked with food the interns like and makes sure they eat.
• Big Damn Heroes: He arrives just in time to stop Stain from crippling Tensei Iida and pins the Hero Killer to the wall with feather-blades.
• Blessed with Suck: He has eight future Heroes in his head and can use their Quirks along with his own, giving him nine in total. However, their presence messes up his mental state, he gets nightmares of their most horrific memories while he sleeps, he struggles to remember those memories are not his own, their emotions often leak together and leave him in agony, and some of their Quirks are extremely dangerous to his health, with Yellow's leaving him unconscious for hours after its use. He has the Quirks, but not the secondary abilities that protect him from them. The Voices can take control of him whenever they want and have done so without his consent.
• Broken Angel: He loses most of his feathers when Kaetsu captures him. Then his wings are cut off by Kaetsu during his captivity, leaving two small bones left where they once were.
• Broken Hero: He is kind and empathetic despite being emotionally and physically abused by the Commission in his early years.
• Broken Tears: He cries exactly once in For Their Sakes after he is targeted for elimination by the Commission, regains his Repressed Memories of Kaetsu controlling him, is kidnapped, tortured, and assaulted by Kaetsu, loses his wings (which causes the Voices to lose access to their own Quirks), watches Tokoyami almost die, is brutally stabbed and nearly dies himself, and is disbelieved once again by his allies who dismiss him as damaged. By this point Hawks is clinically depressed and needs to come up with reasons to keep on living. No wonder he breaks down.
• Bungled Suicide: When he was sixteen, he attempted to kill himself to escape Kaetsu's sadistic control by throwing himself onto Pathfinder's sword during training. She reacted too quickly and the sword went through Hawks' shoulder instead of his chest, leaving a scar.
• The Cassandra:
  • Hawks' word is rarely taken at face value by other characters, especially when he knows what he is doing thanks to the Voices knowledge. When he tells Aizawa that Eri is about to have a Quirk outburst, Aizawa does not take him seriously. This results in a doctor nearly dying. This continuous lack of belief reaffirms Hawks' fears of what will happen if he tries to tell anyone he has time travelers in his head.
  • Lampshaded by Hawks himself after Tsukauchi and Nedzu do not believe him about the Voices. He bitterly jokes that he should re-brand himself as "Cassandra: The Disbelieved Hero" since no one takes his word for anything.
• Cassandra Truth: No one believes him if he tells them he has eight time travelers in his head.
  • When he tries to tell Aizawa about the future, Aizawa thinks he has been brainwashed or gaslit and intends to "help" him by sending him to a mental institution. Hawks panics enough to drift and Orange takes over to convince Aizawa they are telling the truth.
  • Similarly, Tsukauchi thinks Hawks has been brainwashed after meeting Red and refuses to even entertain the idea that Hawks has time travelers in his head.
• Celibate Hero: Hawks is aroace (aromantic asexual). He is not interested in sex or romance and never has been. He keeps it mostly to himself since most people he tries to explain it to react with disbelief or bemusement, believing he's confused or immature. He did not have a word for it until someone explains to him what asexuality and aromanticism are. The discovery acts as another way for him to find himself and forge his own identity outside of the Commission's control.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Deconstructed. One of Hawks' greatest strengths and flaws is his willingness to save people at the cost of his own health. Hawks goes on overly lengthy patrols and works himself to exhaustion while never taking a break. This extreme lack of self-care was enforced by the Commission, who conditioned him to think of rest and days off as time people were not being saved. He's so used to saving people that he struggles not to interfere with Class 1-A's training at the Pussycats' camp and has to remind himself that they are not really in danger.
• Clip Its Wings: Kaetsu cuts off Hawks's wings, leaving only a couple small bones on his back. They may grow back due to their regenerative properties but it will take a while.
• Color Motif: Gold. He has gold hair and eyes, is called Gold by the Voices, is heroic, seeks justice for others (like Eri), and acts as a balancing force for the Voices.
• Combat Pragmatist: Hawks hates wasting time so he fights his enemies and takes them down as quickly and efficiently as possible. He attacks Stain mid motive-rant and subdues him effortlessly. Twice: Once while rescuing Ingenium, and again while saving Midoriya, Iida, and Todoroki.
• Comfort Food: Miruko takes him to get chicken when he's upset.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Hawks believed Endeavor grabbing and shaking him with flaming hands is acceptable since no long-lasting damage was done. He knows it's not normal for coworkers to manhandle each other like that but thinks Endeavor's just a grump is all. Hawks is bewildered when the Voices try to explain that no, Endeavor has no excuse to threaten him like that. Orange calls Endeavor a bully and scathingly asks if the Commission beat that type of thinking into Hawks.
• Cope by Pretending: He briefly pretends that Miruko is the one who is upset and shaking because of his amputated wings but it only lasts a couple paragraphs since he cannot keep up the facade. He acknowledges it is him who feels this way and breaks down in tears.
• Cover-Blowing Superpower: He can use the Voices' Quirks, but if he does, others will believe he has had contact with All For One and the League of Villains.
• The Creon: Although he rises to the Number Two spot and All Might approaches him to be the next Number One Hero, Hawks has no interest in becoming another Symbol due to both altruism and personal reasons. Because of the Voices' experiences in the future and Hawks' own observations, he knows All Might is irreplaceable and that no one should try to be the next Symbol of Peace at all. Doing so will only encourage Hero Society's stagnation as the public and lower-ranked Heroes rely on their Symbol too much, again. Hawks sees that relying on one person to be the backbone of heroism is a mistake as their influence will only bring more chaos when they inevitably fall, so he refuses to even consider replacing All Might.
• Cunning Linguist: He speaks Japanese and is fluent in at least English, Spanish, Mandarin, and French due to the Commission teaching him a variety of languages. He uses this skill to hide some of his thoughts from the Voices during the times when their minds are most exposed to each other.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Hawks (a versatile close, mid, and long range fighter) effortlessly takes down Stain (a close combat fighter who requires blood to use his Quirk) by simply pinning him to the wall with his feathers. Afterward, Green comments Hawks was overqualified for this.
• Curtains Match the Windows: His hair and eyes are gold.
• Cute Little Fangs: His eyeteeth are sharper than an average human's. As he shows Tokoyami while encouraging him to embrace his bird traits, they can look adorable or dangerous depending on how he smiles.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Hawks was sold to the Commission by his neglectful and alcoholic parents when he was six. Since then, he went through more than a decade of brutal training and both mental and physical grooming to become a Pro Hero. This included complete isolation, physical punishment when he acted out, and torture-resistance training. All of this happened when he was a child, which led to him having a breakdown soon after he became a Pro Hero. It is only because of Miruko and Mockingjay's influence and help that Hawks is as functional as he is.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: His future self from the Voices' timeline was killed by Shigaraki after he was captured and tortured by the League of Villains. With the Voices' presence in his head and Hawks' resulting conflict with the Commission to keep them secret and safe, he won't be sent on that mission since his superiors are suspicious of him.
• Deadpan Snarker: Since the Voices spend so much effort keeping their past selves' identities a secret, Hawks tends to react to their revealed identities with exaggerated sarcasm, dryness, and snark.
  Green (resignedly): "We get it, Gold. We're terrible at hiding our identities."
  Hawks (sarcastically): "No, really? I had no idea you were so bad at that Mister Izuku "Green" Midoriya, who is also totally not All Might's successor as the holder of One For All."
• Death Seeker: Downplayed. By the end of For Their Sakes, he is Not Afraid to Die, passively suicidal, and primarily keeps on living for the Voices' sakes. If not for their presences in his mind, he muses he would go to a window and let himself fall.
  • When Twice pulls him out of his real body by cloning him, a dissociating Hawks shows a detached but morbid curiosity about his own death and wonders what dying would feel like.
  • After being told the Voices are dying or merging into him and will cease to exist, Hawks acknowledges that he will follow them soon after if they go. He later admits he is depressed and would likely kill himself if he loses them. He decides to go to therapy.
• Defector from Decadence: In chapter twenty-four he disobeys the Commission to ensure Shigaraki is taken to Tartarus. He officially turns against them at the end of For Their Sakes after "Ennea" (Retiarius), Dabi, and Twice are treated like criminals by the Commission, public, and media because they helped Hawks (due to them technically partaking in vigilantism). Hawks states that the Commission's way of doing things is wrong and agrees they need to be stopped, breaking free of their control at last.
• Determinator: He survives having eight other consciousnesses getting shoved into his head and the accidental Mind Rape they put him through while he's all alone in the wilderness. For a year. All because he refuses to lie down and die.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Miruko affectionately calls Hawks "Baby Bird" because when she first met him, he reminded her of a fluffy baby chick.
• Endearingly Dorky: Hawks may be a respected Pro Hero but he's also a huge dork, though he usually hides this part of himself unless he feels comfortable with someone. He is initially socially awkward and shy around Ingenium and spends their first conversation outside of Hero work rambling nervously. He also surprises his interns by getting them their coffee orders and excitedly emphasizes how he enjoys seeing the pleasantly shocked looks on people's faces when he does things like that. Red thinks it's adorable and Todoroki compares it to a benign version of a prank.
• Exhausted Eyebags: He has dark shadows under his eyes for the first few weeks after returning from being missing. The nightmares he has do not help him get any sleep. They return when the Commission increases his workload to impossible amounts.
• Experienced Protagonist: He has been a Pro Hero for four years and has dealt with the Commission and Hero Society's politics for most of his life. While the Voices struggle and are unprepared for how Hero Society actually works (it fell before they had to deal with its politics in their timeline) Hawks knows how to deal with the aspects outside of capturing Villains.
• Flechette Storm: He uses his feathers to rapidly but non-lethally stab at his enemies (like Stain) and pin them to the wall.
• Flying Weapon: Red creates two daggers for Ennea using Hawks' feathers. Since they are created from his feathers he can control them telekinetically. They become his weapons of choice after Kaetsu cuts off his wings.
• Forbidden Friendship: He strikes up a genuine friendship with Twice, a Villain, and wants to help him escape All For One. They bond over their problems and desire to have friends, support each other, and Hawks feels like Twice is one of the few people he can be honest with about his struggles with mental health. If other Heroes or the Commission found out about Hawks' friendship, they would consider him a traitor and the latter group would have him killed.
• Friend to All Children: If there is a child involved in one of his missions he will take it very seriously and go above and beyond to ensure they are safe. He is patient and understanding with Eri and stays with a little girl while waiting for her father to arrive at the scene. Hawks usually stresses out and thinks he is wasting time when he stays after arresting a Villain (a mindset ingrained into him by the Commission) but he stays with those kids without an ounce of stress, regret, or guilt.
• Glowing Eyes: His eyes glow gold when he and the Voices merge into one consciousness and use all their Quirks.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Hawks is cheerful, energetic, and kind, but he's also extremely sharp and observant. He is able to identify many of the Voices due to seeing their past selves' habits and vocal tics.
• Grand Theft Me: The Voices can take over his body with his consent or by force.
• Gravity Master: Pink's Quirk allows him to levitate things his feathers touch though he initially cannot figure out how to deactivate it since her previous cancellation method (pressing her fingertips together) does nothing. He discovers it is deactivated by breaking the feather he used to touch what he made float.
• Guilt Complex: He takes responsibility for more things than he should. The Commission beat this thinking into him by insisting that every time he relaxes or is "lazy" another person isn't being saved and it's all his fault.
• Hallucinations: While having a series of seizures, Hawks hallucinates an Aizawa with his eyes gouged out and black mist spilling from his orifices. This has to do with the Voices' memories of Future Aizawa's death, in which he was killed by Future Kurogiri.
• Handicapped Badass: He loses his wings and his feathers with them but still fights just as well as the other Heroes by using knives and martial arts to compensate for the loss.
• Heroic RRoD: He goes into convulsions and falls unconscious after fighting Overhaul while merged with the Voices. When he wakes he's temporarily catatonic.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Hawks does not see himself as the ideal Hero others should admire since he is not a powerhouse like All Might. Thus, he thinks he is unworthy of surpassing even Endeavor (a move which may make him the next Number One when All Might retires) and dismisses the Voices' insistence that he should try as a waste of time. This kind of thinking was drilled into him by the Commission, who insisted he was useless (and not a real Hero) without his Quirk.
• Hope Is Scary: Hawks views UA's offer to hire and help him get away from the Commission with suspicion and thinks it's too good to be true. He remains convinced they have ulterior motives and will abandon or betray him the moment they're done using him no matter how the Voices try to convince him otherwise. Considering there is a Commission spy at UA, he has a point.
• Humble Hero: He remains modest after becoming a Top Ranked Hero and does not seek recognition or fame for his heroic deeds. He is a Hero, and saving people is just what he does.
• I Just Want to Be Free: He yearns to be free of the Commission's control and able to live his own life. That being said, he's so used to working that he is not sure what he'll do if he ever gets that freedom.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: He's emotionally perceptive and open, though he refuses to cry because of previous trauma. He is kind and considerate even towards Villains and would rather talk things over than fight. When a Villain named Heartbreak is arrested, Hawks empathizes with their grief and ensures their mask remains on so they do not face public ridicule. Hawks would happily wear some of Miruko's prettier clothes given the chance but doesn't mostly because of his androgyny; He's been mistaken for a pretty girl before and does not want to deal with the harassment.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The Voices refuse to tell him how his future self died and that Toshinori Yagi is All Might. Silver predicts this will only end in tears. Hawks learns about his death and handles it rather well, reassuring Pink and Yellow it was not their fault. He reacts much less calmly to the realization that Toshinori is All Might and breaks down.
• Magnetic Hero: He has a habit of attracting allies to his side, both Heroes and Villains. Mockingjay, Miruko, Aizawa, Tensei, Twice, Retiarius and Dabi are drawn into his circle by his genuine and caring nature. To them, Hawks embodies much of what a Hero should be. He's no All Might but he's worth fighting alongside.
• Mental Health Recovery Arc: As a result of eight other people ending up in his brain and experiencing his and the Voices' pasts, Hawks has PTSD, panic attacks, flashbacks, and dissociation episodes (what he and his friends call "drifting"). Though he initially denies having PTSD even after he is diagnosed by a doctor, he spends Ennea learning to cope with his mental health problems while trying to stop the Voices' Bad Future from happening.
• Mind Hive: The eight time travelers' minds end up in Hawks' body instead of their own. Hawks is the dominant one in control most of the time but the Voices can switch with him by asking or through force.
• Mind Rape: The Voices accidentally do this to him after appearing in his head. He's left in a black hole of mental and emotional agony for months before he and the Voices slowly put their consciousnesses back together.
• Morality Chain: To Twice. Hawks' influence pushes him to reconsider his reasons to become a Villain and decide this wasn't what he wanted. Even after All For One threatens Twice into compliance, he can't bear to fight Hawks.
• More than Mind Control: The Commission take Hawks when he is a young child, isolates him with only people who work for them, fills his head with stories of how "good" Heroes act (by demonizing thoughts of self-preservation and glorifying self-sacrificial ones), constantly remind him that he owes the Commission his life, and call him worthless gutter trash even in adulthood. As a result Hawks feels guilty about "being lazy" (sleeping or taking breaks), considers his life/happiness less valuable than others', and feels ashamed when he hesitates to give up everything he is like a "real" Hero would (as in not sacrificing his life for a mission or giving up his body for the Voices' mission). These responses are just what the Commission wants, though Hawks did not end up as blindly obedient as they planned. The only reason Hawks fights them as much as he does is for others' sakes (like the Voices, Miruko, and Shoto), never for himself.
• Must Have Caffeine: He gains the habit of drinking coffee to keep himself going after the Commission adds even more to his workload which resulted in his sleep schedule becoming close to nonexistent. The Voices are as exhausted as he is so not even Silver scolds him about relying on caffeine to function.
• Name Amnesia: Invoked by the Commission, who want Hawks to only be his Hero identity. Hawks has spent so long being called "Hawks" that he does not remember his birth name. Even before the Commission picked him up his parents mostly addressed him as "you" or "brat". Aizawa tells Hawks his name is Keigo Takami but he refuses to use it.
• Necessary Drawback: The Voices' Quirks originate in Hawks' wings, which are the main aspect of his Quirk. With the exception of Yellow's Electrification and One For All, they all use up Hawks' feathers, giving him a limited amount of uses.
• No-Sell: He is completely unaffected by Magne's Magnetism Quirk to the point where he does not even notice when it's used on him.
• Nonchalant Dodge: He casually evades Tokoyami's attacks during their sparring session even when Tokoyami loses his temper and accidentally uses Dark Shadow. Tokoyami can tell he's not even trying the whole time.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Downplayed. After years of abuse, Hawks finally stands up to Kaetsu and fights back, defeating him. However, Hawks is still traumatized by Kaetsu and the Commission's abuse and although he stands against them more and more, he still has nightmares about what they did to him.
• Not Afraid to Die: Downplayed. While in a clone body created by Twice, Hawks is eerily calm when discussing the possibility of his own death and electrocutes himself using Yellow's Quirk without hesitation in order to return to his real body.
• Oblivious to Hatred: He thinks of Endeavor as an acquaintance to look up to while Endeavor hates him and sees him as an annoyance. The reveal of Endeavor's abusive actions towards his family makes Hawks scrutinize their own relationship and realize the truth about how his former idol views him.
• Papa Wolf: Threaten Eri, his interns, or his students and face his wrath.
  • Overhaul learns this the hard way; Hawks beats him within an inch of his life for trying to hurt Eri.
  • When Tokoyami accidentally gives him a distress code that means he is being hunted and targeted for reconditioning, Hawks is ready to tear down the Commission itself to save him.
  • He and the Voices Merged with him mercilessly destroys Mr. Compress and the Nomu with him after the former threatens to cut off Bakugo's arm. The Villain is left begging for mercy but receives nothing but a beatdown and a dagger hilt to the head, knocking him out.
• Perma-Shave: Discussed and Justified. Hawks stops growing facial hair after the Voices appear in his head. Green suspects it may be due to Pink and Red's presence affecting his body. They try not to think about it more than that.
• Personal Horror: Hawks was raised in a way that emphasized his Quirk was more important than him and that any damage done to it was a personal failure on his part. After Kaetsu cuts off his wings, Hawks is left terrified, lost, and hopeless. Orange tries to tell him he is more than his Quirk but Hawks does not believe him.
• Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: He has two scars on his back where his damaged wings used to be until Law temporarily removes them per Hawks' request. The scars represent Hawks' willingness to sacrifice every piece of himself to save others at the cost of his sense of self. This is exemplified in the scene where he receives them, in which he turns his back to someone he does not trust in order to remove an obvious weak spot that has caused him to be distracted during Hero work while simultaneously giving Law the means to study his wings' regenerative factor for the benefit of others.
• Power Glows: Hawks' body is covered in a golden glow when he and the Voices merge (or whatever it is they did) during the fight with Overhaul. His eyes also glow a monochromatic gold in this state.
• Power Incontinence: Hawks finds out Toshinori is All Might and that everyone including the Voices, Toshinori, Nedzu, and Aizawa all lied to him about it. The news brings him to despair, causing him to lose control of his Quirks and makes things around him float and shatter from what appears to be a violent telekinetic surge.
• The Promise: At age eighteen, he promised Mockingjay he would not die, with the added implication that he would not leave her alone again.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • He is very cautious about where he discusses the Voices and their future and is careful to show no signs of their existence via responding to them outside of his head. The Commission has been watching him on the street and bugged Miruko's apartment.
  • He asks Ingenium to send Pro Hero guards to protect his interns after Amplifier attacks him. Tokoyami is later attacked and kidnapped by Kaetsu.
  • Hawks insists that one of the UA teachers could be a Commission plant to the Voices' exasperation. For Our Sakes reveals Hawks is absolutely correct.
• Punished for Sympathy: Sixteen year-old Hawks wanted to implement programs that would help reform Villains. The Commission had Kaetsu control him for a year as punishment, leaving him traumatized and obedient towards the Commission out of fear that they would do it again.
• Recruited from the Gutter: Before the Commission acquired him, Hawks came from an impoverished home where his alcoholic parents spent most of their money on booze.
• Renowned Selective Mentor: Hawks never took interns before Todoroki, Tokoyami, and Iida. Their internship with the prodigal Number Three Hero earns them awe from their peers and overwhelming attention from the media.
• Replacement Goldfish: Mockingjay unconsciously sees him as a sort of replacement for Finnick and Prim when she first meets him. She grows out of it after she sees Hawks' fighting spirit and realizes he's a bit like herself.
• Repressed Memories: He has vague, corrupt memories of someone calling him "My Angel" and saying they own him. They are from his sixteenth year, where Kaetsu used his Quirk to control Hawks completely. He gains them back when Endeavor attacks him.
• Resigned to the Call: Hawks would rather not be the Hero that saves the future but has no choice with eight time travelers in his head that can take control of his body and force him to. This stems from his belief that he's not strong enough to be the type of Hero the world needs once All Might is gone; a belief that was hammered into him from a young age by the Commission.
• Retroactive Precognition: He uses the Voices' knowledge to prevent events like Tensei Iida's paralysis. Due to unexpected changes, it is not always accurate like how Stain's attack on Native happens in a different place in Hosu this time around.
• Secret Identity: Invoked and Inverted. He has no secret identity because the Commission wants him to only be a Hero. They enforce this enough that Hawks has forgotten his own birth name.
• Secret Test of Character: He tells Todoroki, Iida, and Tokoyami they are going to be working with his sidekicks to see how they react. Then, after they graciously accept their mission despite their disappointment, he tells them they'll be training with him for the rest of the time.
• Seeing Through Another's Eyes: He dreams about the Voices' pasts through their point of view and feels their every emotion during the event. In one such nightmare he sees Future Tokoyami's death from Red's point of view. This horrifies him because it's difficult for him to remember the memories are someone else's and not his own.
• Seriously Scruffy: Hawks becomes unceasingly disheveled with permanent bags under his eyes when the Commission overworks him and his Agency by constantly sending them more and more missions (even though they already have too many to handle). He barely has time to sleep, let alone take care of his appearance. Miruko notes he looks like a scruffy raccoon.
• Shock and Awe: Yellow's Quirk lets him generate electricity in his wings. Overusing it knocks him unconscious.
• The Silent Bob: Played for Drama. Hawks randomly goes mute due to his year-long absence and his primary mode of communication being telepathy during that year. He sometimes forgets to say the words he wants to. Instead he mouths them or says nothing at all while waiting for a response.
• Signature Scent: He smells like caramel and sugar because of Orange's nitroglycerin.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: He trades his old costume shirt (which has the Commission's symbol on it) for a plain black one after he turns against the Commission and decides they need to go down.
• Sleep Deprivation: Due to the Commission increasing his already ridiculous workload, Hawks hasn't had much time to sleep and grows more fatigued and lethargic by the day to the point where he nearly crashes into a wall when trying to land. It's intentional on the Commission's part to sabotage him and make him make a mistake.
  Miruko: When did you last sleep?
  Hawks: Last Monday.
  Miruko: That was more than a week ago.
  Hawks: I know.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Justified. Hawks was trained to do Hero work for his whole life so he is perfectly at ease while saving people and in front of the camera. It's social interactions outside of Hero work (which he was not trained for due to his isolated upbringing) that he struggles with. When he calls Tensei to ask if he wants to go see a movie, Hawks stumbles over his words and agonizes over everything he says like he has a social anxiety disorder. Though it may partially be due to Green influencing his emotions and making him more awkward than usual.
• Speed Blitz: His signature form of attack. He ambushes the enemy with incredible speed and takes them out before they realize what has happened. He does this with Stain (twice), and the Nomu in Hosu.
• Stranger in a Familiar Land: He struggles to reintegrate back into his normal life after going missing for a year. Habits he has gained from the Voices (like hiding behind cover as someone answers the door in preparation to defend them should they be attacked) do not help. Whereas before he could hide everything from reporters and smile, after his "vacation" he ends up drifting the first time he faces the media because he can't handle the stress.
• That Man Is Dead: He learns his name is Keigo Takami in chapter twenty-six but refuses to use that name since he thinks the boy Keigo Takami used to be is long gone thanks to the Commission. He snaps at Aizawa not to call him Keigo before apologizing for his outburst.
• Tears of Fear: In the flashback in chapter thirty, sixteen year-old Hawks silently cries while Kaetsu assaults him. It was the only thing he could do considering Kaetsu was controlling him at the time.
• The Teetotaler: Justified. Hawks never drinks alcohol because of his neglectful and alcoholic parents.
• The Tell: Whenever Hawks is extremely uncomfortable with someone or thinks a supposed ally intends to harm him, he calls them "Sir" or "Ma'am".
  • Hawks always addresses the Commission President as "Ma'am" with no exceptions.
  • He always calls Endeavor a polite but neutrally-voiced "Sir" after discovering his former idol abused his family. Endeavor notices the change from Hawks's previously enthusiastic kind of address and thinks he's being insolent.
  • He starts calling Aizawa "Sir" after he intentionally triggered Hawks with a fake Future Jiro Nomu during training.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: His eyes turn gray and he stares blankly in front of him whenever he drifts.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Hawks struggles to balance his duty to arrest Villains and his desire to help Villains like Twice. His duty demands that he arrest Villains and throw them in prison with no hope of rehabilitation while his compassionate side knows those like Twice are trapped in a bad situation they had no chance of escaping and thus should be given a helping hand. Hawks eventually puts doing what he believes is right and compassionate over his duty and lets Twice go at the training camp. The Voices disagree with his decision, with a majority thinking he should have arrested the Villain without mercy. Only White supports Hawks' decision to be Good.
• Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: He becomes clinically depressed after Kaetsu cuts off his wings, he is nearly stabbed to death, the other Heroes refuse to believe his account of what happened when he fought Kaetsu, and everything else that happened to him. He spends more time pushing his food around his plate than eating it. This worries his friends and the nurses at the hospital since he has already lost a lot of weight from his time in captivity.
• Training from Hell: Deconstructed. His childhood training included working himself until he collapsed, sparring that verged on physical abuse, actual physical abuse (including strangulation), and torture resistance training with a torture Quirk that couldn't kill him no matter how much pain he was in. Characters who learn of his training denounce the Commission's methods and call them needlessly violent and cruel. Some outright label it as the abuse it is, though Hawks refuses to accept that.
• Trauma Button: Hawks has a strong adversarial reaction to failure and perceived failure. When he first became a Pro Hero, he worked himself to exhaustion, collapsed, had a panic attack when he woke, and apologized profusely to Miruko for "being lazy" as he desperately tried to return to work. The Commission punished him severely whenever he did not meet their expectations which left him with a crippling fear of failure. He's much less adverse now since Miruko helped him though he still becomes withdrawn when she snaps at him that he missed capturing a villain.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: The gap in his memories from when he was sixteen is due to his trauma from Kaetsu controlling him like a puppet for a year.
• Trying Not to Cry: Hawks struggles to hold back tears when Aizawa dismisses his claims about the Eight as Hawks being brainwashed. His voice is choked as he begs Aizawa to believe him because he knows Aizawa intends to send him to a mental institution to "fix" him.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Deconstructed. Hawks is very forgiving when friends hurt him. Too forgiving, as characters like Toshinori notice. Because of Hawks' "let bygones be bygones" and affection-starved nature, Toshinori fears he is staying in an abusive relationship with someone who will continue to hurt him. Hawks will stay with them and forgive them again and again because they didn't mean to hurt him and they apologized.
• The Unchosen One: The Voices did not intend for him to become their host or to receive their Quirks including One For All, thus giving him the responsibility to save the future. Hawks is such an unchosen one that in the Voices' initial plan, he was going to be sent to gather information on the League like his dead future self, a mission that likely would have killed him again. Hawks himself recognizes what an unchosen one he is, as his matter of fact explanation to Present day Bakugo explores:
  Hawks: "I wasn't chosen. I wasn't born for this role. I was brought in by chance when my intended purpose is to die so the real Heroes can succeed. But I accidentally got the special chosen one power and suddenly I have to save the world. 'Guess what, sacrifice. You have to live now!'"
• Wound That Will Not Heal: Hawks' wings do not regenerate from the exposed bone stubs they are left as after Kaetsu cuts them off, leaving him in pain that ranges from tolerable to excruciating if he moves wrong. Realizing they're just another weak point for him now in both a physical and mental sense, Hawks has Law use his Quirk to remove the remaining wing bones with the promise that they will be returned the moment Hawks asks.
• Wrong Side of the Tracks: Hawks was born in a poverty-stricken section of Fukuoka. He remembers trash and alcohol bottles in the streets along with hearing gunshots. The area is so bad that no one blinks an eye at seeing a dirty child walking home alone at night.

Voices in General

Tropes for the Voices as a whole, excluding Hawks.

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• Can't Live Without You: The Voices are trapped in Hawks' mind. If he dies, they do as well.
• Celibate Hero: None of them are in any romantic relationships, though unlike Hawks none of them are confirmed to be asexual aromantic either. In particular Uraraka's crush on Deku has either faded with time, is not explored due to the turbulent nature of their circumstances, or has simply not been brought up due to the author's decision not to include romance.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's a given since they come from a Bad Future. All of them lost their families, their friends, their teachers, their homes, and eventually their world. Some even lost their morals due to how horrific their circumstances were. A few examples of the many tragedies from their pasts:
  • Red watched Future Tokoyami die in front of her and had to Mercy Kill Jiro, who had been turned into a Nomu.
  • Orange lost his arm to All Might's Nomu and had to kill him to save thousands of lives.
  • Yellow unintentionally revealed Future Hawks was a spy to the League and got him killed, starting the fall of Hero Society. His family is then brutally tortured and killed by Future Toga. The bodies are so mangled the Heroes don't let him see them.
  • Green's mentor was captured and turned into a Nomu. He watched his friend lose an arm to that Nomu and have to kill him. He also watched his mother die at the hands of Future Shigaraki. He also failed to become a Symbol like All Might due to his growing cynicism and a willingness to let others die for a greater goal, as he himself bitterly realizes.
  • Purple was ostracized long before the end of the world. His parents left him in foster care since they were convinced he would grow up to be a Villain. Aizawa, his mentor and Parental Substitute, tricked Purple into leaving him behind, resulting in his death.
  • Pink accidentally exposed Future Hawks along with Yellow and several people, including other Heroes, blame her for what happened. Her parents are killed on her birthday and she spends it trapped under rubble.
  • Silver lost his brother and parents and was too late to save Future Froppy and Tailman from Dabi.
  • White grew up in an abusive household, was trained ruthlessly by his father, and his mother had a mental breakdown, burning his face. His brother is the Villain Dabi, who killed his father in a battle that also killed their mother, who burned alive in front of Shoto. Dabi also murdered their other brother, Natsuo, after taking his Quirk, and burned White so badly that his original burn scars are not visible anymore.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • None of them expected to end up in Hawks' head when they traveled back in time.
  • They are blindsided when Twice and Dabi help rescue Hawks from Kaetsu. Seeing as those two were irredeemable monsters that destroyed their world in the future, it's not surprising. After the fact, they still can't believe it happened.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Voices use Hawks' body without his consent while he's asleep or sunk into his head. Change a few words around and it could be an allegory for having sex with an unconscious or mentally unsound person who can't say no. Taken out of context, the first half of Hawks' intentionally vague conversation with Toshinori about the incident makes it sound like he's admitting he found out he was gang raped while unconscious by people he trusted. In-Universe, Toshinori fears Hawks is in an abusive relationship he feels he can't and shouldn't try to escape from because his abusers are trying to do better.
• Easily Forgiven: Deconstructed. Hawks forgives the Voices for taking control of his body while he was drifting and asleep within a few chapters. However, other characters (like Toshinori and Aizawa) see this forgiveness does not come from a completely healthy place, but rather Hawks' belief that his happiness and safety are worth less than the happiness and safety of others.
• Fading Away: After Kaetsu cuts off Hawks' wings, the Voices begin fading from existence and/or merging into Hawks. As their situation worsens, the Voices' body parts flicker in and out of existence. They have no idea what's causing it.
• Failure Knight: They fail to save their world, lose everything except each other in the process, and have to go back in time to fix things. They are fiercely protective of their past selves, past loved ones, and Hawks due to this and vow to do everything they can to ensure they have a bright future this time around.
• Ignored Epiphany: They realize how screwed up them taking control of Hawks' body when he drifts or sleeps is but continue to do it. It's only after they rescue Eri, come clean to Hawks, and see how terrified he is that they fully regret it.
• Loss of Identity: They have begun taking on each other's memories and bits of their personalities, like when Purple mistakenly states he was in Class 1-A when he wasn't. By the end of For Their Sakes they realize they are either fading from existence or merging into Hawks.
• My Greatest Second Chance: Pink and Yellow unintentionally caused Future Hawks' death when they accidentally revealed he was a Hero spy to the Paranormal Liberation Front. After traveling to the present they are determined to protect Hawks and Miruko, who has been ordered to infiltrate the Meta Liberation Army, and keep them from dying like their future selves.
• Properly Paranoid: Their hesitance to let Hawks tell anyone that they are time travelers in his head due to their fear that others will think they are a Nomu proves to be the right decision again and again.
  • When he is told the truth, Aizawa initially believes Hawks is a new type of Nomu. Aizawa was ready to send Hawks to psychiatric care until Orange convinces him that his future students truly are there.
  • Naomasa Tsukauchi does not even entertain the idea that the Voices are time travelers and remains convinced they have been brainwashed or tricked by a Quirk, to Orange's frustration. The only reason Hawks is not thrown in a cell or questioned further is because of Aizawa's support.
  • Yet again, Principal Nedzu thinks Hawks is a Nomu similar to Overhaul but, unlike the Yakuza boss, is unaware of it. He maintains this belief even after Hawks flat out tells him about Green. At this point, Hawks bitterly jokes that he might as well start calling himself "Cassandra: The Disbelieved Hero".
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Deconstructed for Pink and Yellow. The Future Pro Heroes and UA teachers had a very good reason why they did not want Uraraka and Kaminari investigating Best Jeanist's disappearance. Future Hawks and Jeanist conspired to fake the latter's death in order to make the League trust the Hero spy. Uraraka and Kaminari's investigation exposed Jeanist's survival to the Villains and got Future Hawks killed.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Downplayed. They take control of Hawks' body without his knowledge or permission in order to prepare to rescue Eri, thus putting their mission over Hawks' comfort and consent. They regret it afterward and promise to change their ways.

Red (Future Momo Yaoyorozu)

Red

Civilian Name: Momo Yaoyorozu
Hero Name: Creati
Nickname: Ponytail
Quirk: Creation

"You're the one in pain but you're asking me if I'm okay?"

The future version of Momo Yaoyorozu. She is haunted by the losses she suffered due to her past mistakes.

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• Adaptational Badass: She has grown in power and efficiency over the years and is capable of creating a variety of weapons and other items in mere seconds without consulting her journal. One of her Quirk-created guns is capable of taking down a Nomu in one shot.
• Bad Liar: Red has trouble lying and keeping a poker face. When she's about to accidentally and preemptively reveal info about Stain's attack on Ingenium, she can't come up with an excuse and lamely finishes her sentence with a "the thing... about the things."
• Badass Bookworm: She is skilled in combat and utilizes a Quirk that requires her to memorize the atomic structures of the items she creates.
• Big Sister Instinct: She is very protective of Eri and present-day Tokoyami. When they are threatened her first instinct is to comfort them, create a gun, and unload it into the enemy.
• Broken Ace: She's an extraordinarily intelligent and skilled Pro Hero who is capable of recalling the composition of medical bandages from memory and can take out a Nomu with a single well-placed bullet. She also struggles with a ton of self-confidence and self-loathing issues which stem from her failure to save Future Jiro on a mission that got Tokoyami killed as well.
• Covered with Scars: Her left arm and shoulder are a mess of scars from when she was thrown through a wall by Jiro's Nomu.
• Deer in the Headlights: She has the tendency to freeze when faced with Nomu due to Future Jiro's fate and Future Tokoyami's death.
• Forced to Watch: In the future, she was pinned under rubble and forced to watch a Nomu Jiro rip out Future Tokoyami's throat.
• Good Is Not Soft: She is genuinely kind but does not bat an eye when suggesting they may need to kill Shigaraki to prevent him from killing civilians if their attempted arrest goes wrong. She even says she should have brought a gun with her for that express purpose.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She often second-guessing herself and has a very low opinion of her abilities. Her lack of confidence originates from her experiences in the Bad Future where two of her friends died due to her actions.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Her actions caused Future Jiro's capture and eventual transformation into a Nomu. Her attempt to rescue Jiro then caused Future Tokoyami's death.
• It's All My Fault: The situation has yet to be fully explained, but many terrible things happened that left Red guilty and traumatized. She blames herself so much that she lost a huge chunk of her confidence. One of the events is her failed mission to rescue Jiro, which ended with Tokoyami getting killed by her Nomu. Jiro was captured after she forced Yaoyorozu to unintentionally leave her behind.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: One of her standard weapons is a shield, which she uses to tank blows from Nomu.
• Mercy Kill: She was forced to kill the Nomu Future Jiro by decapitating her.
• My Greatest Failure: Her decision to go on a mission behind Deku's back with Future Tokoyami in order to save Jiro led to Tokoyami's death. Worse, Jiro had already been turned into a Nomu, and Yaoyorozu was forced to Mercy Kill her since she could not be saved.
• Nerves of Steel: Downplayed. When face to face with the psychotic Kaetsu (who has a liking for knives, removing body parts, and sexual assault) while in control of Hawks' body, she keeps a cool head and refuses to let him intimidate her. It does not last long as Kaetsu reveals he has Tokoyami and orders his Nomu Jiro to kill him.
• Non-Idle Rich: To say her family is wealthy would be an understatement since their land is as big as UA's grounds. Despite her ability to live in luxury for her whole life, she decided to become a Hero and works tirelessly to save the world.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Future Tokoyami's death at Nomu Jiro's hands really did a number on her confidence and mental health, enough that seeing a Nomu of any kind acts as a Trauma Button.
• Superhero Packing Heat: She uses her creation Quirk to make other objects for use but always carries a futuristic gun with her, which she uses to shoot a Nomu dead.
• Survivor Guilt: She's haunted by Future Tokoyami and Jiro's deaths and feels guilty for living while they died in front of her. Especially since it was her plans that got them killed.
• Trauma Button: Nomu in general freak her out because of what happened to Future Jiro. She starts sobbing after Pixie-Bob creates a Jiro Nomu Earth Beast that attacks Hawks on Aizawa's orders.
• Trauma Conga Line: She is one who has suffered the most out of the Voices. Villains take over and her world falls apart, her teachers and many of her friends are killed, her best friend Jiro is captured because of a mistake she made, Tokoyami is killed by Jiro due to Red's misguided attempt to rescue her, she is forced to Mercy Kill Jiro by blowing her head up, she is left traumatized and broken by all those experiences, and then she fails to save the world anyway. And then Kaetsu uses her fear to bring a fake Nomu Jiro to life, which he uses to torment Red by ordering it to kill present day Tokoyami (though he thankfully survives the encounter this time). Red is left a hyperventilating and glassy-eyed wreck by the end of it.

Orange (Future Katsuki Bakugo)

Orange

Civilian Name: Katsuki Bakugo
Hero Name: Nitro (formerly "Ground Zero")
Nicknames: Kacchan, Lord/King Explosion Murder
Quirk: Explosion

"I'm not a stupid kid looking for Villains to beat up anymore. And I'm not going to pick a fight that might cost us Eri."

The future version of Katsuki Bakugo. Though he is as abrasive and crude as his younger self, the future has mellowed him out considerably, leaving a Hero who will not let any threat to his friends walk away.

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• Adaptational Badass: Due to the altered nature of his Quirk, he can now cause explosion from long range by throwing Hawks' feathers.
• An Arm and a Leg: He lost his left arm at the shoulder. It was torn off by All Might's Nomu.
• The Atoner: Subtly. He has many regrets about his past and how he treated those around him, including Deku, mostly due to a majority of his friends now being dead. He now treats the friends he has left much more kindly while being fiercely protective of them all. He also seeks amends by helping Hawks see Endeavor's true nature.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: He is arrogant, cocky, rude, dismissive, and sincerely apologizes to Hawks for trying to take control of his body without permission. He is also a talented cook.
• Big "SHUT UP!": He shouts at Green to "Shut up, Deku!" when Green keeps rambling about Hawks' lost wings and how they should grow back, which is the last thing Hawks needs to hear at that time.
• Both Sides Have a Point: He is the only Voice to argue that they should tell Hawks about Endeavor. While White and Green say it's too risky since Endeavor's past being revealed to the public helped cause the collapse of Hero Society last time, Orange points out that Hawks is going to find out eventually and keeping secrets from him won't help them change anything. Plus, as he notes, younger Shoto deserves better.
• Break the Haughty: The fight with All Might's Nomu cost him an arm and destroyed his belief that Heroes are supposed to be unbeatable. He Took a Level in Kindness and fears greatly for civilian lives during Shigaraki's arrest as a result.
• Brutal Honesty: He does not shy away from telling Hawks the awful things that happened in the Voices' Bad Future. While Green tries to share terrible news gently, Orange just tells it as it is no matter how badly it will make the recipient feel. This is most obvious when he convinces Aizawa the Voices are his future students by warning him he will have more dead friends to bury if he doesn't help them change things.
  Orange: Help us stop our future from happening. If you don't, you'll have a lot more graves to visit. If you survive, that is.
  [He sees the other's horrified look.]
  Orange: What? Did you think we time traveled for fun?
• Bully Turned Buddy: He was antagonistic to Deku and the other Voices in his teenaged years but is now True Companions with all of them. That being said, he is still abrasive towards them from time to time simply because it's his nature.
• Character Development: His past self would have done anything to fight the villains at the Shie Hassaikai base while arrogantly declaring he could take them all. His current self avoids unnecessary fights and prioritizes rescuing Eri, putting saving over victory.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Orange screams at the others to shut the hell up when they begin to overwhelm Hawks. His volume briefly causes Hawks more pain but Hawks decides it's worth it to get some (less painful) quiet.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He blows up at Green and tells him to screw off when the latter tries to comfort him after Dark Shadow's rampage triggers him.
• Dope Slap: He usually gives one to Yellow when he gets particularly annoying with his puns (or just gets on Orange's nerves in general).
• Dual Wielding: He wields daggers in both hands while acting as Ennea during Eri's rescue.
• Foil: He's a divergent foil to his past self when it comes to their philosophy on heroism. Past Bakugo prioritizes victory and beating Villains over saving people and dismisses others as extras while Orange worries more about keeping bystanders out of danger than beating up the bad guys. He lampshades this divergence when the Voices prepare to rescue Eri.
• Friendship Moment: He says Deku isn't a replacement for All Might, he's better than him. He immediately scowls and blusters when Green is touched by his support.
• Good Is Not Nice: He is rude, coarse, brutal, and insults many of the people around him while acting dismissive of those who have not gained his respect. However, he genuinely cares about his friends and prioritizes saving people over victory (in stark contrast to his past self).
  • Orange pulls no punches when tearing apart his past self's arrogant beliefs about heroism by pointing out all the flaws in his logic that he will always be victorious. When he's done, rather than set him down gently, Orange throws him into the ground to drive the point home.
  • His response to Dabi trying to commit Suicide by Cop via a rampage through the Commission facility holding Endeavor is to shrug, grab him by his neck, and slam him into the floor before sneering that he looked like a man who did not want to die after all.
• Handicapped Badass: He lost his left arm to All Might's Nomu and part of his Quirk with it but trains himself to make up for the loss. He continues to fight as he always has, keeping up with the likes of Deku and Todoroki.
• Honest Advisor: He's never afraid to criticize Green's leadership and faulty decisions, something which Green values him for.
• Ignored Epiphany: He realizes trying to forcibly take over Hawks' body when he is awake is wrong and apologizes. Then he and the other Voices continue to do it anyway, with Hawks' unconscious state being the only difference. The next time he has this epiphany, it sticks.
• Insult of Endearment: He affectionately calls Green "nerd" and Hawks "dumbass" or "bird brain".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Orange is rude, overaggressive, and temperamental but he has become genuine friends with the other time travelers. He also screams at them to shut up whenever they're hurting Hawks.
• Meaningful Rename: He renames himself Nitro after UA's collapse since Deku thought Ground Zero was inappropriate considering what happened to their school.
• Pet the Dog: He shuts down Green's well-meaning but hurtful attempts to console Hawks after he loses his wings by bluntly telling Hawks they're not angry at him, it wasn't his fault, and he's not useless because he lost his Quirk. This coming from Orange means much more to Hawks than if another Voice said it.
• Reformed Bully: Downplayed. He is still a rude jerk with a violent temper but has grown to respect and want to defend his friends, including Deku.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Almost every sentence he speaks has a curse in it. When the narration is in his POV, the author put up a warning saying the chapter would have more swearing than usual.
• Smug Super: Downplayed. Compared to his past self, he's mellowed out about his powerful Quirk though he still dismisses weaker Quirks (like one that lets its user see Forbidden Colors) as useless.
• Slasher Smile: He sports a wide, feral grin when he takes control of Hawks' body to convince Aizawa that Hawks is telling the truth.
• Stepford Snarker: He takes on this trait in For Our Sakes after discovering he and the other Voices may be fading from existence. His aggressive, snappish, snarky, and insulting remarks cover up his fear and helplessness about possibly dying.
• Strong and Skilled: Part of what makes Orange so dangerous is his adeptness at using his Quirk. He's the first Voice to figure out how to use it in Hawks' body and comes up with a technique that lets him fly by propelling himself with blasts out of Hawks' feathers. His natural stubbornness and the adjustment period after he lost an arm in the future helped.
• Symbolic Mutilation: He is a proud character who grasped and clawed for his desires (to become Number One) above all else who ended up losing his left arm. For more symbolism, the Quirk he thought would propel him to the top is in his hands, meaning he lost a chunk of his power with it.
• Terror Hero: Orange never lost the intense, vicious edge that he had in his youth. He uses it to his advantage to utterly terrify his adversaries, particularly when he needs them to do what he wants without question. Twice is scared shitless of Orange when he first summons him and is too frightened to object as Orange rampages through a Commission facility while the usually arrogant Dabi trembles in fear after Orange effortlessly attacks and subdues him to make the latter see that he does not actually want to die.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Bakugo is still an abrasive, rude Jerkass but he's mellowed out considerably and become a real team player who often defers to Green's judgment. He's also very protective of the other Voices and Hawks.
• Tranquil Fury: He simmers in silent fury after seeing that Kaetsu cut off Hawks' wings. The others find this quiet anger more terrifying than his normal explosive rage.

Yellow (Future Denki Kaminari)

Yellow

Civilian Name: Denki Kaminari
Hero Name: Chargebolt
Quirk: Electrification

"Are we hypocrites for not objecting to him saying that? I mean, we are planning to go on a mission that's unauthor—"

The future version of Denki Kaminari. He is a cheerful jokester with a hidden perceptive side. Future Hawks' death and his unintentional part in it haunts him years later and he seeks to atone by protecting the present day version.

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• Can't Believe I Said That: A serious example. While in control of Hawks' body, he demands to know why Hawks can't let the Voices take control more often whether Hawks likes it or not. He snaps out of it and regrets what he said, saying he did not mean it.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Downplayed. His Electrification Quirk becomes very dangerous to its user in Hawks' body. It has become so powerful it now knocks him out for hours if it's overused. The first time Yellow takes control of Hawks and tries to use his Quirk, he is found unconscious on the floor the next morning.
• Gallows Humor: He often jokes when faced with dark and traumatic situations like being stuck in another person's head.
• The Heart: He is the emotional perceptive one of the Voices being the first to notice when Hawks is being overwhelmed and demanding that his friends talk about issues like seeing All Might again instead of bottling up their feelings.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Yellow wonders if it's hypocritical of the Voices to be so angry at the interns for breaking the rules when they themselves are planning to become a Vigilante to save Eri. The other Voices hush him because they are trying to keep Hawks from learning of their illegal activities.
• Innocently Insensitive: He keeps accidentally bringing up Hawks' traumatic and painful time in the woods, much to Hawks' ire.
• My Greatest Failure: His and Future Uraraka's decision to keep investigating Best Jeanist and Hawks despite their superiors warning them not to led to Future Jeanist being discovered as alive and Future Hawks being outed as a Hero spy, captured, and killed. These events haunt him years later and he has never forgiven himself for what he did.
• Pungeon Master: He cackles at his own puns like when the Voices are "compartmentalizing".
• Sad Clown: He acts jovial and makes jokes even while deeply burdened by his guilt over causing Future Hawks' death.
• Terms of Endangerment: Played for Laughs. He calls Purple "friend" in an intense and creepy tone when bringing up Purple's unwillingness to be friends in the past. An amused Hawks wonders how Yellow manages to make the word "friend" sound threatening.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the future, Pink and Yellow pushed their classmates to investigate Best Jeanist's disappearance even though their teachers warned them not to. This leads to them discovering Jeanist is alive and accidentally outing Future Hawks as a spy in the PLA, resulting in his capture and death.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In the future, Best Jeanist raked him and Pink over the coals for their reckless, stubborn, and arrogant decision to keep investigating his disappearance, which blew Hawks' cover and outed him as a Hero spy in the League.

Green (Future Izuku Midoriya)

Green

Civilian Name: Izuku Midoriya
Hero Name: Deku
Nicknames: Deku, Lord Bone Breaker
Quirk: One For All

"When did I decide it was okay to sacrifice some people to save others?"

The future version of Izuku Midoriya. He is the ninth holder of One For All and the unofficial leader of the Eight.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: He is much less idealistic and more confident than his canon self. He is a Hero who has come to accept that sacrifices must be made to save the world and he cannot save everyone. Considering what he lived through, it's understandable.
• The Corruptible: Downplayed. He slowly loses his morals and idealism due to constant losses in the Bad Future. It's heavily implied the losses of All Might and his mother at the hands of Shigaraki are what kickstarted the process.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Discussed and Played For Drama. Green doesn't know what caused him to become more cynical and willing to sacrifice the few for the sake of the many. He knows that moment exists but has no idea what it is. This greatly disturbs him to the point where he's terrified that he will find out what caused that change by having it revealed to his friends via their memory sharing.
• Death Wail: After the little girl and seemingly everyone else are decayed by Future Shigaraki's Quirk, Green curls up and howls in grief as he waits for the Villains to find him and finish him off too.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: His attempt to explain that he and the Voices are time travelers from the future to Mockingjay just ends up making it seem like they are literal voices in Hawks' head. Hawks is forced to step in to clear things up.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Hawks calls him "Lord Bone Breaker" because of his tendency to break his own bones.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "Dang it!" and "Shoot." are considered strong expletives from him. He lets loose a "Shit" when coldly telling Hawks to beat the shit out of Overhaul.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Subverted. Green appears to be as optimistic and pure as his past self but he shows (and realizes for himself) that he is willing to sacrifice people for his goals, something that his past self would never do. Nowadays Pink and Yellow embody All Might's indomitable heroic optimism more than him.
• Innocently Insensitive: He keeps pushing the topic of needing to take down the Commission to Hawks despite the latter's obvious discomfort and building panic attack. It takes White sharply telling Green that is enough for him to realize what he was doing and stop.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: Downplayed. Green becomes more cynical as the series goes on which serves as one of the first indicators that something is wrong with the Voices and they are disappearing or merging together. Hawks and the Voices are alarmed to note that Green is literally taking on Purple's cynicism.
• Lack of Empathy: Downplayed in that it's not the sociopathic type. Green is very compassionate and sympathetic, but he struggles to empathize with people he sees as bad like Villains. It's to the point where he bluntly says he does not understand why Hawks is willing to give them a second chance, not even Twice, who saved Hawks from Kaetsu.
• The Leader: He was the leader of the last survivors in the future. Even after they are stuck in Hawks' head, the Voices (even Orange) look to him for guidance and directions.
• Meaningful Echo: He realizes that he subconsciously came to consider people he did not know (like Hawks before the Voices came back in time) as less important than his loved ones. He self-deprecatingly calls them "extras" like Orange once did when he says as much to White.
• Metaphorically True: He implies to Hawks the Symbol of Peace was dead after his battle against All For One. He fails to tell Hawks All Might still lived on as Toshinori Yagi.
• Motor Mouth: One of his defining traits is his habit of muttering when nervous or deep in thought. This trait is so defining that Hawks immediately knows Izuku Midoriya is Green's past self after meeting him one time. Hawks does not let a chagrined Green forget this.
• Out-of-Character Alert: His bouts of extreme cynicism and Purple-like attitude alerts Red that the Voices are taking on each others' memories and personalities and may be merging together.
• Precision F-Strike: Green struggles to call even Endeavor an asshole and instead calls him a jerk. He finally lets lose a swear when Overhaul blames Eri for him killing a Pro Hero.
  Green: (calmly) Beat the shit out of him.
• Superior Successor: Zigzagged. Green was more powerful than All Might due to having access to all of the Vestiges Quirks (though he loses them all except OFA after appearing in Hawks' head) and embodied many of his predecessor's heroic virtues in his youth. However, Green realizes he's lost his seemingly incorruptible heroic spark and no longer has the ability to be another Symbol of Peace after he fails to save his future.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Downplayed. Green is still highly idealistic but he seems to have accepted that he literally cannot save every single person. Before returning to the past, what he says indicates he thought of past Hawks as an acceptable potential sacrifice since he was willing to send him to be a mole in the League again (despite that getting Future Hawks brutally killed last time.) This belief changed only because he ended up in Hawks' head with the other time travelers.
• Tranquil Fury: He becomes icily calm when Overhaul tells Eri it's her fault Mr. Brave died to save her and serenely tells Hawks to "beat the shit out of him".
• Unreliable Expositor: He tells Hawks about One For All and All For One, but does not tell him All Might is Toshinori or that he passed One For All to Midoriya. Hawks figures out the latter detail on his own but remains ignorant to the former omission.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed. He's not evil, but he has fallen far from the idealistic fanboy of All Might that he used to be. The Bad Future jaded him and made him muddle his morals in an attempt to save the world, something which he deeply regrets, but he realizes he cannot be that sweet, idealist boy ever again.
• You Are Not Ready: He is the most adamant that the Voices keep future information (like Endeavor's abusive actions, Future Hawks's spy gig and death, and All Might's retirement) from Hawks. He comes around after realizing how isolated and used Hawks is feeling because of it.

Purple (Future Hitoshi Shinso)

Purple

Civilian Name: Hitoshi Shinso
Hero Name: Persona
Quirk: Brainwashing

"I've brainwashed people. I've mastered my Quirk to the point where I can manipulate their very memories and personalities. I've done it too. All in the name of the greater good. Sacrifice the few to save the many."

The future version of Hitoshi Shinso. He is fiercely protective of his friends to the point where he will abandon his morals in order to keep them safe.

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• Anti-Hero: He is willing to ignore his morals and do what must be done to save lives. This includes brainwashing his allies and possibly killing his enemies if what Twice thinks is true.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Hawks goes to confront Miruko about acting strangely and avoiding him, he reassures the Voices he will defend himself. Considering Hawks' tendency let allies shove him around or make excuses when attacked by people close to him, Purple is skeptical and gives him a piercing "Will you?" Hawks can't argue that he actually will.
• Bad Powers, Good People: He's a future Pro Hero with the ability to brainwash anyone who responds to him.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: He's the second least talkative Voice after White but is the most ruthless and pragmatic by far, as shown when he interrogates Twice and Dabi. He would have killed them if they gave unsatisfactory answers and it's implied he genuinely hates them (albeit with good reason considering what their future selves did).
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: He has manipulated the minds of others for the sake of a bigger mission multiple times.
  • In a flashback to the future, it's revealed he used his Quirk to completely control Phantom Thief in order to stop him from destroying a city during a fight with Re-Destro. He cannot decide whether his actions were justified or not. On one hand, he brainwashed his friend rather than try to talk him down, taking the easy way out. On the other, people were dying and he needed to act quickly.
  • Downplayed, inverted, and deconstructed in one swoop. Purple uses his Quirk to brainwash Hawks, a fellow Hero, into forgetting the Voices' Vigilante plans for their safety. He undoes it when Tsukauchi leaves. However, he later attempts to brainwash Hawks again, this time to keep him from telling others about Endeavor. He stops when Hawks begs him to and realizes he's going too far. The damage is done and these incidents breaks Hawks' trust in him. In subsequent chapters, Hawks flinches whenever Purple speaks.
• Combat Pragmatist: Fighting dirty is his default tactic considering his Quirk, which often results in his battles hardly being a fight in the first place. When Twice and Dabi respond to him, Purple immediately uses his Quirk to brainwash them and puts feather blades to their throats.
• Creepy Good: He hosts some nightmarish expressions while he questions Dabi and Twice on their motives by using his Quirk on them. He knows what a threat they can become and considers killing them right there while his targets are helpless to stop him.
• For Your Own Good:
  • He brainwashes Hawks into forgetting about Ennea and Eri without warning to keep Tsukauchi from seeing he knows them and keep him (Hawks) out of legal trouble. Purple undoes it once Tsukauchi has left. Hawks does not take it well and keeps his distance from Purple for several chapters.
  • He attempts to brainwash Hawks again to stop him from telling Aizawa about Endeavor's abuse of his family. Purple initially justifies it with claims of keeping the Voices safe and stopping Hawks from acting rashly. In reality, the Voices are afraid of what changes will happen to the timeline if Hawks speaks up. Hawks' terror makes Purple realize what he's doing is wrong and he stops of his own accord, but Hawks' trust in him is more damaged than before.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: As he ages in the Bad Future, he takes on the anti-Hero role of the Voices and is willing to kill the League of Villains if it will stop them. Whether he has killed any named Villains in the future is unknown at this point in time but it's just short of confirmed that he's killed before since he pragmatically suggests killing Compress to stop him at the training camp attack.
• Good Is Not Soft: He does not hesitate to use his Quirk on Dabi and Twice to learn their motives. If they did not genuinely want to help Hawks, Purple would have killed them to prevent them from becoming future threats.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Zigzagged. He will brainwash allies if he thinks he needs to. He justifies brainwashing Phantom Thief to force him to help civilians and does not regret it but feels terrible for trying to brainwash Hawks into keeping silent about Endeavor's abuse of his family.
• Killing Intent: Part of his tactics are to frighten his enemy with an intimidating aura. The murderous glower he sends Dabi and Twice freezes them in place. The latter realizes Purple will kill them without remorse if they say the wrong thing.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: His Quirk has developed to the point where he can use its brainwashing to make people forget what he orders them to. He uses it on a Commission agent to make him forget his interactions with Purple while he was in control of Hawks' body.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He's horrified and guilt-ridden after he tries to force Hawks to remain silent about Endeavor using his Brainwashing Quirk, which is something he, as a Hero, should never do. This, along with his and the other Voices' retroactive guilt for taking control of Hawks when he was drifting or asleep shakes his belief in himself. Hawks can tell Purple feels guilty but can't immediately forgive him for what he attempted and keeps his distance for a few chapters until they talk about the incident.
• Next Tier Power-Up: Zig-zagged. Purple's Brainwashing Quirk is much more powerful since the nine's minds are directly linked, causing them to respond to him even if they don't mean to. However, since Purple is stuck in Hawks' head, he cannot use his Quirk on anyone else, resulting in a simultaneous downgrade.
• Pragmatic Hero: He will step over the moral line to keep his friends safe and for the greater good. In the future he used his Brainwashing Quirk on Monoma to force him to stop pursuing Re-Destro and instead save lives. In the present he brainwashes a Commission tail without hesitation to keep him from telling his bosses about "Hawks'" (actually Purple's) odd behavior.
• Purple Is Powerful: He is the Voice with the most power over the others since his Brainwashing allows him to calm them down if they become too trapped in each others' emotions. His Quirk also allows him to force Hawks to drift so the Voices can take over his body.
• Terror Hero: He's not above using intimidation and other underhanded tactics to instill fear in his enemies since terror often makes them more likely to respond to him.

Pink (Future Ochaco Uraraka)

Pink

Civilian Name: Ochaco Uraraka
Hero Name: Uravity
Quirk: Zero Gravity

"We want to pretend to know everything about doing what is right but we don't."

The future version of Ochaco Uraraka. Her guilt over causing Future Hawks' death drives her to never make the same mistakes again.

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• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • She may be cheerful and kind, but when Orange starts to go too far, a few sharp words from her are enough to reign him in. Orange knows first hand not to underestimate her just because she's nice.
  • She calmly states she is going to punch Aizawa for making Hawks feel worthless by pretending he failed Aizawa's test and was going to have his Hero license revoked.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Future Shigaraki attacked on her nineteenth birthday which killed her parents and left her trapped under her collapsed apartment building for twelve hours.
• Claustrophobia: Tight spaces cause her to panic after her apartment building collapsed on her when she was nineteen in a Villain attack that also killed her parents. Hawks being buried alive by Pixie-Bob causes Pink to freak out and cause a merge.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: She underestimates how strong she is and nearly throws three muggers through a wall while acting as Ennea.
• Every Scar Has a Story: She got the scar by her eye on her nineteenth birthday when an attack from Shigaraki caused her apartment building to collapse with herself and her parents inside. She was pinned beneath rubble and wounded while her parents were killed.
• How Do I Shot Web?: She has no idea how to deactivate her Quirk while in control of Hawks' body since her former way of deactivating it does nothing. She figures out that she needs to break the feather to make whatever it touched stop floating.
• My Greatest Failure: Her and Yellow's decision to keep investigating Best Jeanist and Hawks despite their superiors warning them not to led to Future Jeanist being discovered as alive and Hawks' outing as a Hero spy, capture, and death. She never forgave herself for this because she was the one who kept acting even when others told her to stop.
• The Nicknamer: Downplayed. She's the one who gives Hawks the nickname "Gold", which the other Voices then adopt as well.
• Plucky Girl: She lived through a Bad Future and watched countless friends die but remains optimistic, upbeat, and cheerful. She always looks at the bright side and sees the best of a situation, such as when she joyfully cheers that the Voices and Hawks' mental blocks are finally starting to work.
• Power Incontinence: She can activate her gravity Quirk just fine while in control of Hawks' body but she can't figure out how to turn it off. As a result, it does not deactivate until Hawks takes control again.
• Scars Are Forever: She has a scar by her right eye. She got it when her apartment building collapsed on top of her during a Villain attack.
• Team Mom: She acts as a caring, soothing mediator to the other Voices though she meets Orange's snark and aggression with her own to keep him in line.
• Tender Tears: She tears up compassionately when Hawks accidentally reveals his parents sold him to the Commission while thinking about how her financially poor parents would never sell her for all the money in the world.
• Took a Level in Badass: During a training session gone awry, she stops Dark Shadow's rampage on her own by using her Quirk through Hawks' feathers.
• Trauma Button: Tight spaces and being buried due to her apartment building collapsing on her during a Villain attack.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the future, Pink and Yellow pushed their classmates to investigate Best Jeanist's disappearance even though their teachers and other Pro Heroes warned them not to. This leads to them discovering Jeanist is alive and accidentally outing Future Hawks as a Hero spy in the PLA, resulting in his capture and death.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Future Best Jeanist raked her and Yellow over the coals for their stubborn decision to keep investigating his disappearance, which blew Future Hawks' cover and outed him as a Hero spy in the League. She pushed them to keep investigating despite everyone, including her own classmates, mentioning they should stop and were doing something illegal. As he tells them flat out, nothing they did helped anyone.

Silver (Future Tenya Iida)

Silver

Civilian Name: Tenya Iida
Hero Name: Ingenium (II)
Nickname: Glasses
Quirk: Engine

"Then maybe we need a little chaos to save the world."

The future version of Tenya Iida. Strict but well-meaning, he is determined to save his brother and, upon succeeding at that, wishes to bring down the Hero Commission in order to build a better, less corrupt Hero Society.

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• Bad Liar: When Hawks confronts him about being Tenya Iida's future self, he claims Hawks hasn't discovered anyone's identity and certainly not his.
• Blatant Lies: He says he is not Tenya Iida and that Hawks has discovered no one's identity, most certainly not his. Hawks isn't fooled.
• Good Is Not Soft: He does not balk at the possibility of having to kill Shigaraki if he tries to kill civilians when they arrest him. He tells Hawks to let him do it and be the one to bear the weight of that decision if it comes to pass, though it doesn't.
• Hidden Depths: He has extensive knowledge of the law side of heroism, enough to list every line Endeavor crossed when he interrogated present-day Jiro.
• I Hate Past Me: Downplayed. He does not hate his past self but he is extremely frustrated with his past self's reckless decision to hunt Stain, which nearly got Todoroki and Midoriya killed.
• Milking the Giant Cow: He gestures theatrically when talking and often moves his arms in a chopping motion. The Voices hesitate to give him control because his movements are so recognizable.
• Not So Above It All: He agrees with Orange that the Commission needs to go down and states that sometimes a little chaos is necessary.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He does not scold Hawks for relying on coffee to function in chapter twenty-three, showing just how exhausted and desperate he and the other Voices all are.
• Power Incontinence: He cannot figure out if his Quirk is available to Hawks or how to activate it.
• Relative Button: He becomes very terse and angry when anyone implies harm towards his older brother, Tensei. Hawks' kick is so surprisingly strong when he attacks Stain (who had been menacing Ingenium) because Silver was influencing him.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He may be stern and rule-abiding but he is willing to bend the rules to save lives, such as when Hawks and the Voices become Ennea, a Vigilante. He also agrees the Commission is corrupt and needs to go down.

White (Future Shoto Todoroki)

White

Civilian Name: Shoto Todoroki
Hero Name: Celsius
Quirk: Half-Cold Half-Hot

"I could see he regretted it and wanted to change, but I never forgave him for what he did to me, Tou— my siblings, mom, and our family. I could work with him as a Hero... but never as father and son. Never."

The future version of Shoto Todoroki. He is the most resistant to changing the future, though he comes around after witnessing how present Shoto's life changes for the better due to the Voices' interference.

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• Covered in Scars: Future Todoroki had so many burn scars covering the left side of his face that his original scar from boiling water was not visible anymore.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: His left side is completely covered with burn scars. He got them from Dabi during the fight that killed Future Tailman and Froppy.
• No Sympathy For Grudge Holders: Defied. He cannot forgive Endeavor for his abuse and other characters agree that it's perfectly justifiable that he feels that way.
• Not So Stoic: He's stunned enough to blurt a surprised "How?!" when Hawks reveals he knows he's Shoto Todoroki's future self.
• Rejected Apology: Justified. He could not forgive Endeavor for years of abuse. He could work with him, but never as father and son. Instead of becoming bitter or jaded because of this, White has found peace with his past through accepting those are his feelings.
• The Quiet One: White speaks the least of the voices. This is not out of preference, but because he does not want to accidentally tell Hawks about Endeavor's true nature.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Attempted but failed. He tries to convince Green that he never consciously considered strangers' lives as less valuable than his friends but fails to get through to him.

Ennea (Spoilers are unmarked)

Ennea

Identities: Hawks, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Purple, Pink, Silver, White

Quirks: Fierce Wings, Creation, Explosion, Electrification, One For All, Brainwashing, Zero Gravity, Engine, Half-Cold Half-Hot

Hawks and the Voices' Vigilante identity.

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• Ambiguous Gender: Invoked in-universe to help keep their identity a secret. Everything from their costume to their voice synthesizer is designed to hide what gender Ennea is. Eri cannot tell by looking at or hearing them and the narration uses "they" pronouns for them. However, while characters in-story do not know what gender Ennea is, the audience knows from the get-go they are Hawks and the Voices' Vigilante persona (whose numbers are seven males and two females).
• Dark Is Not Evil: They wear a black mask, hood, and body armor but consist of the Number Three Hero and eight time traveling Pro Heroes who came back to save the future. Eri is terrified by their appearance but realizes they are very kind and only want to help her.
• Full-Body Disguise: Ennea's costume (which is made up of loose fabric, body armor, a mask, headcloth, and hood) completely covers them and hides their identity and physical features. Those that see them cannot tell anything about them except their height, which is also inaccurate because their modified boots add a few inches to them.
• Grand Theft Me: They are the Voices using Hawks' body to rescue Eri.
• In the Hood: While they do not rely on the hood for identity concealment, it is part of their costume and gives them a mysterious vibe. Underneath the hood is more cloth that covers their hair while a mask completely covers their face.
• Killing Intent: While rescuing Eri, Ennea (implied to be Orange) lets loose an aura of bloodthirsty rage when they see Eri's injuries. Eri compares it to Overhaul's bloodlust and is hopes it's not directed at her. Ennea notices she's terrified and forces themself to calm down.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Inverted. Their black mask is completely featureless, giving them an ethereal, terrifying appearance but they are Pro Heroes working to protect Eri.
• Meaningful Name: Ennea means "nine" or "group of nine", referring to the nine people in one body that are the Vigilante.
• Protagonist Title: Their name is the title of the series.
• Second Super-Identity: Hawks and the Voices create the Ennea identity because Vigilantes are not bound by obstructive laws and procedures like Pro Heroes. This allows them to rescue Eri without being hindered by months or years of investigation since the Pro Heroes cannot raid the Shie Hassaikai base without a warrant.
• Secret Identity Vocal Shift: Ennea uses a voice modifier to disguise Hawks' voice by replacing it with the voices of the time travelers, other Heroes, and general people they know. The result can be a Voice of the Legion or a single, altered voice depending on the setting they use.
• Stronger Than They Look: They have Hawks' slim, androgynous physique but also have One For All's Super-Strength, which lets them throw Villains through walls with ease.
• Tranquil Fury: They (implied to be Orange at the time) go quiet and begins leaking bloodlust when Eri's bandage slips and reveals some of her injuries. Eri is terrified of their rage before they contain it.
• Voice of the Legion: Ennea uses a voice synthesizer that mixes the voices of dozens of Pro Heroes and people they know. The end result is a rumbling crescendo that Eri describes as a thousand voices speaking at once.
• Walking Spoiler: It is impossible to talk about them without mentioning they are the Vigilante identity of the Voices and Hawks who rescues Eri.

Pro Heroes

Rumi Usagiyama (Miruko)

Rumi Usagiyama

Hero Name: Miruko
Vigilante Identity/Meta Liberation Army Member Designation: Eclipse
Nicknames: Mi-Mi
Quirk: Rabbit

"If Hero Society can utterly collapse because one Hero is abusive, I'm not sure it deserves to keep standing."

The Rabbit Hero, who rises to the Number Five Rank early due to the Voices' accidental interference. Bold and brash, she does not care for the corruption in Hero Society and wants to change it by bringing the Commission down.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: She is forced to infiltrate the Meta Liberation Army, a mission which deeply disturbs her. She's horrified that she may have to hurt innocent people to complete her mission and agonizes over it despite Hawks' belief that she will find another way.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Miruko ruffles Hawks' hair (to his exasperation) when telling him that she won't risk his life by refusing her mission from the Commission.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: She is forced to do a mission for the Commission or they will capture and experiment on Hawks. That mission: infiltrate the Meta Liberation Army as a spy.
• Ascended Extra: She is Hawks' best friend and has a major supporting role, particularly in her efforts to stop the Commission from screwing him over.
• Bear Hug: She is prone to bear-hugging Hawks. It's when her hugs are gentle that he knows she's worried about him.
• Beneath the Mask: Miruko presents herself as a challenge-seeking, prideful, devil-may-care type of Hero who seems content with how things are, but under the mask she’s shown to think deeply about the politics and flaws of Hero Society to the point that Hawks fears she may seriously try to overthrow the Commission someday. He's right to be worried since she and Mockingjay are planning to do exactly that.
• Big Sister Instinct: She is extremely protective of Hawks, particularly when the Commission tries to bring him harm. She knows Hawks can't or won't fight against them so she does it for him. These protective feelings first emerged after eighteen year-old Hawks collapsed due to overworking himself and let slip what the Commission did to him if he took a break.
• Big Sister Mentor: To Hawks. She teaches him how to be a proper Hero and not the overworked Hero-machine the Commission wants.
• Boisterous Bruiser: She enjoys fighting and does it with a big grin on her face. She's more than happy to help Hawks teach his interns hand to hand combat by gleefully beating them into the floor.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: She can kick a hole through concrete but is kind, caring, gentle, and thoughtful whenever Hawks has flashbacks and panic attacks. Her reaction to being Judo flipped by a freaking out Hawks is to forgive him, divert his attention from the incident, and ask if he wants dinner.
• Cool Big Sis: To Hawks. He remembers her being kind, patient, and supportive as she guided him out of the self-destructive habits ingrained into him by the Commission and taught him how to live outside of Hero work.
• Determinator: When Hawks was missing for a year, she kept searching for him long after every other Hero had given him up for dead. Pressure from her peers and her own body's exhaustion did not stop her from trying to find her friend.
• Expressive Ears: Her rabbit ears go flat when she's upset, flick back when she's angry, and perk up when she's attentive or happy. An easy way to gauge her mood is by observing her ears.
• Family of Choice: She considers Hawks her little brother. Her relationship with her biological family is unknown.
• First Friend: She became Hawks's friend after taking him under her wing when he first became a Pro Hero. They have been inseparable best friends ever since. Because of her influence, Hawks learned some self-care skills and could move past the suicidally self-sacrificial mindset the Hero Commission hammered into him from a young age.
• Hidden Depths: She's a boisterous, confrontational, speak-her-mind brawler who thinks deeply about Hero Society, its politics, and flaws. She also enjoys space action movies and forced Hawks to watch all twelve Super Space Spirit Saga films in a marathon.
• Hot-Blooded: Miruko is very bold, cheerful, impulsive, and brave. She's also fiercely protective of her loved ones. Hawks often has to rein her in so she does not charge into Commission HQ and cause the collapse of Hero Society on his behalf. This trait makes Hawks fear for her life when she has to spy on the Meta Liberation Army, who will kill her if she becomes angry and says the wrong thing.
• The Mole: She is forced by the Commission to infiltrate the Meta Liberation Army in exchange for Hawks' safety. He is horrified when he finds out considering his future self's fate.
• Platonic Life-Partners: She and Hawks care deeply for each other in a relationship that is one of siblings. She is one of the maybe two people Hawks has been honest with about the Commission's abusive way of raising him. Hawks trusts her so much she is the first person he tells about Endeavor.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: She is the second-most foul-mouthed character in the series, outdone only by Orange. When Hawks teases her about accidentally teaching her neighbors' kids curse words, she just curses louder. She tones it down and speaks much less vulgarly in public.
• Terms of Endangerment: Pathfinder calls her Mi-Mi, particularly when lecturing her about missing a meeting and threatening to kill her and Hawks if Miruko misses another one.
• These Hands Have Killed: Even though they were evil men who kidnapped, experimented on, and killed homeless people, Miruko feels horrible about the scientists she and Geten killed during her mission with him.

Tensei Iida (Ingenium)

Tensei Iida

Hero Name: Ingenium
Quirk: Engine

• Always Someone Better: He feels this way about Hawks, but uses it to drive himself to become a better Hero rather than stew in it like Endeavor.
• Foil: To Endeavor. Both are older, more experienced Heroes that have their own Agencies and are related to Class 1-A students. But while Endeavor sees All Might and his strength as something to surpass above all else out of pride, Tensei is humbled by Hawks' strength and uses as encouragement to make himself a stronger and more adept Hero.
• For Want Of A Nail: He's saved by Hawks and thus never becomes paralyzed.
• Hidden Depths: He cares for rabbits, birds, and other animals that are injured near his forest home.
• Secret-Keeper: He is told about what Kaetsu did to sixteen year-old Hawks by Hawks himself and promises to keep it to himself until Hawks is ready to come forward. This includes not telling Miruko or Mockingjay what he knows.

Katniss Everdeen (Mockingjay)

Katniss Everdeen

Hero Name: Mockingjay (formerly "Phoenix")
Quirk: Mockery

• Anti-Hero: Katniss transforms from a cynical but lawful hero to a cynical and less-lawful anti-hero who kills Coin for having a hand in Finnick and Prim's deaths and leaves American Hero Society in chaos for revenge.
• Berserk Button: Katniss loathes Human Traffickers and corrupt Hero corporations after what happened to Finnick. Hawks notes she makes it her mission to hunt down and destroy their operations no matter what other missions she is supposed to be doing.
• Bounty Hunter: Before meeting Hawks, Mockingjay was an underground hero in name but acted more like a bounty hunter. She hunted villains down and received the rewards for their captures.
• Brutal Honesty: She is very blunt, even if the truth hurts. This is best exemplified when she tells Hawks the Voices are using him. They may not mean it maliciously but they do expect him to let them use his body.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She wears all black but is a cold, standoffish anti-hero at most, though she is willing to kill to protect her loved ones.
• Deadpan Snarker: She often speaks with a dry, sarcastic tone. Hawks jokingly asks her if she's sure her epithet isn't "Lady Sarcasm: The Sarcastic Hero".
  Mockingjay: (blandly) I considered that epithet but decided it was too on the nose.
• Dramatic Drop: Her bow slips from her fingers and falls to the floor as she is shown footage of Finnick Odair as Retiarius aka "Ennea".
• Failure Hero: By the end of Mockingjay: Origin Katniss fails to save Rue, Finnick, and Prim from the Capitol's machinations and loses almost everything she cares about.
• Fatal Flaw: Her Undying Loyalty. She will let the world burn if it means saving her loved ones.
• Fights Like a Normal: She dislikes her Quirk so she refuses to use it in combat, instead using martial arts and a bow.
• Free-Range Children: She and Prim went out to sell vegetables on a corner since Prim's Quirk developed. Katniss also hunted game on her own to try to put some food on the table. She and Prim were walking home alone when a villain attacked and they were saved by All Might.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She was an impoverished, bitter, small girl from a poor neighborhood who stops the Quirk Games and brings down the powerful and corrupt Capitol Hero Committee thus forcing American Hero Society to change in order for it to keep existing.
• Good Is Not Nice: She is a genuine Hero who takes down corrupt organizations and Quirk Traffickers. Her fighting style and takedown methods are also brutal to the point of barely being legal. Unlike Hawks, who uses his feathers to carefully pin people by their clothes, Mockingjay's arrows leave injuries.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: She is willing to kill Villains that hurt her loved ones or that she knows will get away with their crimes because of their social position. She takes justice into her own hands and kills both President Snow and Alma Coin for these reasons. Hawks knows it too and has to beg her not to kill his handler for stalking him.
• Knight Templar Big Sister: She kills Snow for causing Rue's death and Coin for causing Finnick and Prim's. This protectiveness transfers to Hawks and he has to beg her not to kill a handler that has been harassing him.
• Living Lie Detector: Along with letting her copy voices, Mockingjay's Mockery Quirk also lets her tell if someone is lying by listening to their voice.
• Long-Range Fighter: Subverted. Tokoyami expects her to be less skilled in hand to hand combat since she is an archer. Mockingjay easily wipes the floor with him, Todoroki, and Iida.
• Master Archer: Katniss despises her Mockery Quirk and has few uses for it in combat. As such, she trained herself to be the most skilled archer she could and is capable of shooting a fly from hundreds of yards away. She is so skilled with a bow that some people mistakenly believe she has a targeting Quirk similar to Snipe's Homing. She lets them assume that.
• Meaningful Rename: After Prim's death she discards the hope-bringing Phoenix mantle (that her sister came up with) and becomes the aloof and cold Mockingjay.
• Morality Adjustment: In Mockingjay: Origin she goes from a lawful Hero who does things by the book to a law-bending (and breaking) anti-Hero who will burn down Hero Society if it hurts her loved ones.
• My Greatest Failure: She fails to protect both Finnick and Prim from the Capitol, who kills them both.
• Not So Stoic: She falls to her knees in grief after Beetee shows her the Retiarius Nomu aka "Ennea" is Finnick Odair.
• Secret-Keeper: She finds out about the Voices when she walks in on Green while he's in control of Hawks' body. They tell her about their future and she agrees to keep them a secret for Hawks' sake.
• The Straight and Arrow Path: She uses a bow and arrow to fight even though her Quirk is not linked to such a weapon. This is out of practicality since she already had a bow when she went to Hero school (and could not afford anything else) and to honor her deceased father, who taught her archery.
• Superhero Sobriquets: Before she changed her Hero name Katniss was called "the Singing Hero: Phoenix". Nowadays she has no sobriquet and is simply called "Mockingjay".
• Transplant: She is Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games transplanted into the My Hero Academia world. In this fic series she is Mockingjay, an underground Pro Hero who works at Hawks' agency.
• Unscrupulous Hero: Zig-zagged. Katniss starts out as a cynical but lawful and moral hero. She remains moral in many situations but discards both the lawful and moral part when it comes to protecting her loved ones. If they are in danger, she becomes ruthless. Even before Prim and Finnick die, Katniss is less moral than many heroes as she kills Snow rather than see him arrested. After Finnick and Prim's deaths she prioritizes her loved ones over the world and leaves American Hero Society in shambles just to bring the Capitol down. When Katniss says she will let Japanese Hero Society burn before it has the chance to burn Hawks, she means it.
• Voice Changeling: Katniss' Quirk, "Mockery" allows her to speak with the voice of anyone she hears. This also allows her to tell if someone is lying by listening to the inflections in their voice. However, since Katniss is so stoic and serious, she cannot copy happier emotions like joy or excitement, leaving those voices dead-sounding and monotone. When she speaks with her dead father's voice to comfort Prim, her mother slaps her and calls her a demon, leading her to refuse to rely on her Quirk.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out the Voices for manipulating Hawks, using him for their own ends, and putting him in danger without considering how it wears on him both physically and mentally. To drive the point home, she compares it to the Commission's The Needs of the Many approach.

Enji Todoroki (Endeavor)

Enji Todoroki

Hero Name: Endeavor
Quirk: Hellflame

• Adaptational Karma: Unlike in the manga, Endeavor faces more consequences for his abusive actions than angsting about Natsuo and possibly Shoto not forgiving him. Tired of Endeavor's abuse and wanting to be free, Shoto tells Hawks about Endeavor, resulting in Rei being moved out of the hospital and into a safehouse along with Fuyumi and Natsuo. The only reason Shoto doesn't join them is because he will be moving to the UA dorms soon. This leaves Endeavor alone, having lost the family he abused and neglected for his goals. He is also exposed and arrested for the abuse and drops out of Japan's Top 100 due to public backlash, having never gotten the Number One spot. This makes him reassess his actions and come close to realizing that he was wrong to do what he did without being handed his goal through All Might's retirement.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the manga, he is highly annoyed but mostly tolerates Hawks' cheerfulness and lack of respect even when at his most jerkass. In the story, Endeavor dislikes the younger Hero due to Hawks being a successful Hero while Enji's oldest son "died".
• The Bully: He's harsh to a lot of people but has a habit of targeting Hawks to "educate him on respect" by yanking him aside, shaking him, and leaving burn marks on his costume. Hawks brushes it off by dismissing Endeavor as a grump. Orange knows better and compares their relationship to his and Green's from the past.
• Broken Pedestal: Hawks looked up to and admired Endeavor since childhood. As an adult, he learns Endeavor is abusive and neglectful to his family and the pedestal shatters. He can't believe he was inspired by Endeavor and is disgusted with himself for not seeing what his Hero was doing to his family.
• Can't Catch Up: He knows he cannot surpass All Might and fears that Hawks will soon surpass him as well if his rant comparing the two of them is any indicator.
• Character Check: His aggression towards Hawks acts as one to the Voices, who had become used to his future personality. Yellow comments that he had almost forgotten what a jerk Endeavor used to be.
• Control Freak: Endeavor is very controlling of Shoto's future to the point where he pressures Hawks to try to get him to rescind his internship offer. Hawks holds his ground and tells Endeavor it's Shoto's choice.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Hawks angers him, Endeavor drags Hawks to isolated areas and physically intimidates him, grabs him by the arm and collar with burning hands, destroys his stuff (Hawks' costume) when he's angry, berates him about knowing his place, and (albeit accidentally) grabs him by the throat. If Hawks were Endeavor's child, Enji's more violent actions towards him would come across as straight-up abuse.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: He fails to see the benefits of Shoto going to Hawks' Agency and work on more than his Quirk in order to become a versatile Hero who can potentially surpass All Might, even when Hawks spells it out to him. He remains focused purely on training Shoto's Quirk, which is what Shoto himself wants to not do in order to avoid Crippling Overspecialization. Letting Shoto cultivate other skills will help him become a Hero like or better than All Might, but Endeavor sees no point in it.
• Establishing Character Moment: His first onscreen act is to storm up to Hawks and demand he rescind Shoto's internship offer so his son will go to his Agency.
• Fatal Flaw: His ambition and determination to beat All Might blinds him to the damage he does to his interpersonal relationships with his family and fellow Heroes. His aggressive nature also condemns him when "Ennea" accuses him of abuse on television during a fight where Endeavor was undeniably the aggressor who put dozens of civilians in danger.
• Flaw Exploitation: All For One takes advantage of Endeavor's hotblooded and aggressive nature to have him attack Retiarius, who is acting as "Ennea", setting a street block on fire in the process. Endeavor's ruthless and destructive pursuit is caught on live television, making Endeavor look more villainous than the Villains he fights.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: His fellow Heroes admire his abilities as a Hero but are quick to admit he's hard to get along with. As Hawks himself says, Endeavor is a great Hero but he's not someone many would call to hang out. The Heroes lose all respect they had for him when he is exposed for being an abuser and arrested.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to set him off. Hawks' casual way of talking to him (which from Enji's POV means Hawks is not showing him the respect someone of his rank "deserves") makes him respond with icy anger or outright violence.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: He worked hard his whole life, training his Quirk to its fullest extent and completing more missions than dozens of Heroes combined, but still cannot surpass All Might.
• Hypocrite: Hawks calls Endeavor out for his abuse of his family and derides him for being a Hero who saves people from their abusers every day while Endeavor himself denies he is an abuser.
• Ignored Epiphany: Zig-zagged. As he watches Hawks' speech about being abused, Endeavor goes through a revolving door of anger, dismissal, victim blaming, and almost comprehending and admitting that he did indeed abuse Shoto. He's so close to having that epiphany but before he can fully ignore or accept it, Dabi attacks the Commission base Endeavor is in, distracting him.
• Irrational Hatred: He took an instant disliking to Hawks from the first time they met during Hawks' first Hero Ranking Billboard and took to antagonizing the younger Hero from then on. He comes to admit that he greatly misjudged Hawks after accepting that Hawks was abused.
• Never My Fault: He insists it is Hawks' fault Endeavor grabbed him by the neck instead of his collar because Hawks turned unexpectedly.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He has some sexist views. When advising Shoto on the (in his mind) "proper" way to handle scared civilians in a crisis, he comments that Heroes have no time to deal with hysterical women. Shoto notices his sexism but keeps his thoughts to himself. There is also how he treated his wife.
• The Resenter: He resents All Might for his seemingly effortless success at heroism. He believes Toshinori did not work for his position and was handed his power due to chance unlike everyone who struggles to escape All Might's shadow. While All Might worked hard to get where he is, this is partially true since Toshinori was given One For All, one of the most powerful Quirks in existence.
• Shoot the Hostage: When his oldest son was taken hostage by a Villain, Endeavor burned them both to stop the perp. Touya seemingly died from his injuries.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Briefly. After Hawks confronts him about how he treats his family at the park, Endeavor becomes more aggressive and cruelly interrogates Jiro in a way that toes the line of legality. During this period it's hinted Endeavor is being influenced by Kaetsu's Quirk. Regardless of whether he was influenced or not, he's back to his usual level of grouchiness after Kaetsu dies.
• Vicariously Ambitious: Endeavor has given up on surpassing All Might himself and instead resorts to pushing his youngest child to surpass All Might in his place.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: He blames Hawks for getting burned because Hawks dared to turn when Green warned him Endeavor was trying to grab him from behind.

Tsunagu Hakamada (Best Jeanist)

Tsunagu Hakamada

Hero Name: Best Jeanist
Quirk: Fiber Master

• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Zig-zagged. Future Jeanist eventually died but earlier in the timeline he and Future Hawks faked his death to make the Villains believe Hawks was on their side. Jeanist's future counterpart lived a while with people thinking he was dead, but died for real later in the timeline.
• Delinquent Hair: His disguise to go to the movies involves him styling his hair into a pompadour.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Jeanist's disguise has him wearing all black leather. Hawks and Miruko can't stop laughing at seeing him in anything but denim (and because he looks like a typical Japanese Delinquent). Pink and Yellow find it less funny since Future Jeanist wore a similar outfit while Faking the Dead, and had it on when they were shown Future Hawks had been captured and tortured by the PLF.
• Never Gets Drunk: Despite Miruko's best efforts, he always remains composed and unaffected by all the alcohol he's drinking.
• Tranquil Fury: He is absolutely furious when he and Tsukauchi save Hawks from the Commission's interrogation but barely raises his voice or shows any emotion.
• You Are Not Alone: He reminds Miruko that she has friends she can turn to and orders her not to push them out of her life after she starts her mission to infiltrate the Meta Liberation Army.

Trafalgar Law (Death Surgeon)

Trafalgar D. Water Law

Hero Name: Death Surgeon
Vigilante Identity: Heart
Villain Name: Heart Pirate
Quirk: Free Modification

A mysterious Underground Hero who is hired to guard Fuyumi.

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• Ambiguously Evil: While Law is a licensed Pro Hero, his attitude can be unsettling. He has no qualms about removing body parts from his opponents, has a creepy aura, and is asks for favors in exchange for his assistance in medical matters outside of his job. When the Voices and Hawks first meet him, Yellow is genuinely worried he is a serial killer. Not to mention Dabi is terrified of Law and rushes to protect Hawks as soon as he hears he is with the infamous Heart Pirate. Law actually is a former Villain.
• Best Served Cold: Law patiently bides his time to get revenge on the Commission for killing his family and causing Corazon's death. He hides in plain sight for years in Japan until he is approached by Tensei Iida to guard the Todorokis, a mission which leads him to Hawks. He and Hawks then work together to try to bring the Commission down.
• Body Horror: He uses his Quirk to remove limbs, other body parts, and even veins, making them float eerily in the air.
• Brutal Honesty: He bluntly tells Hawks that he thinks the other Heroes involved in the Commission investigation are not willing to do what must be done in order to expose the Commission and believes they are putting their morals over an efficient plan.
• Creepy Good: He's a Pro Hero dedicated to protecting Fuyumi but grins at the thought of removing people's body parts.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Although the details are not yet known to readers, Hawks realizes that at some point in his life, the Commission attempted to recruit Law. He later tells Hawks that the Commission killed his family when his father refused to let them take Law.
• Deadly Doctor: His epithet isn't just for show. He can use his Quirk to save people's lives or chop them into little pieces. He displays the former ability when he uses it to save Aizawa by removing the shrapnel sealed inside him by Recovery Girl's Quirk.
• Domain Holder: His Quirk allows him to control everything within his "Room", a sphere that expands from his palm and is large enough to cover a few city blocks.
• Establishing Character Moment: His debut has Shoto believing he has kidnapped Fuyumi due to his creepy aura and tattoos. However, Law patiently talks Fuyumi through a panic attack, showing he has a caring and kind side.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: He has a very cynical view of the world and harshly criticizes how the other Heroes are handling the Commission by saying that being lawful and good about it will get them nowhere.
• Mad Doctor: He casually talks about severing his own limbs and removing the veins out of it to display how his Quirk works. Not to mention his go-to tactic to deal with enemies is to slice them apart and put them back together.
• Mysterious Past: The only things Shoto knows about him are his general age, his Quirk, that he was inspired to be a Hero by another Hero, and that he hates bread. Upon meeting Law, Hawks realizes the Commission tried to recruit him at some point and labeled him a Villain when he refused.
• Red Baron: Hearing his Villain moniker, "Heart Pirate", is enough to send Dabi into a panic.
• Serial Killer: Subverted. Yellow fears he is one upon meeting him. However, while Law is a creepy guy who grins gleefully while displaying the nauseating aspects of his Quirk, he is a genuine Hero. The Commission claims "Heart Pirate" is a serial killer who steals organs from his victims but in truth he only killed Villains that were sent to capture or kill him and his friends.
• Slasher Smile: He gives one when explaining how he can use his Quirk to remove body parts. Fuyumi and Shoto are used to it and aren't fazed.
• Space Master: His Quirk allows him to control everything within his "Room" with such precision that he can remove someone's veins from their arm and put them back together like nothing happened.
• Swap Teleportation: One of his go-to moves is to switch himself with something else in his Room. He does it with a tree trunk when leaving the Todoroki's vicinity and switches with Hawks to appear directly inside Aizawa's hospital room to heal him.
• Transplant: He is Law from One Piece repurposed into being an Underground Pro Hero.

UA Teachers

Shota Aizawa (Eraserhead)

Shota Aizawa

Hero Name: Eraserhead
Vigilante Identity: Null
Quirk: Erasure

• Arbitrary Skepticism: He lives in a world with amazing and fantastical abilities that lets people heal grievous injuries and rewind people to previous states yet he cannot believe eight of his students traveled back in time to save the world and ended up in Hawks' head. Hawks calls him out on it and provides proof that he has Pink's Quirk but Aizawa still refuses to believe him. Orange is forced to step in.
• Broken Pedestal: Pink and Orange lose some respect for Aizawa after he uses a "logical ruse" to make Hawks think he was going to lose his license and be kicked out of UA and purposely tries to trigger Hawks using a fake Future Jiro Nomu Earth Beast. Orange states that purposely triggering someone like that is despicable and refuses to forgive Aizawa for what he did while Pink is furious and admits she wants to punch Aizawa the next time she's in control.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: His future self's eyes were gouged out and he died when he stayed behind to try to bring Shirakumo out of Kurogiri. Orange calls Future Aizawa a hypocrite for not acting rationally like he teaches and instead "acting recklessly to save a friend", which led to his death.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: During his fight with Overhaul at the camp, he gets several metal spikes through the stomach and chest and is left in critical condition. Thanks to Law, he survives his injuries.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He acts apathetic and as if he could not care less about the comfort of strangers but immediately realizes Hawks needs help and offers him emotional support. Hawks, being Hawks, pretends not to notice.
• Logical Weakness: His Quirk requires him to see the target's body in order to nullify their Quirk. Characters who show absolutely no skin like Ennea are not affected by his Quirk since it blocks Aizawa's sight much like if they hid behind a wall or under a sheet.
• Manipulative Bastard: Aizawa is a fan of using "logical ruses" and harsh tactics to teach his students and coworkers lessons. In For Our Sakes he has Pixie-Bob create a Jiro Nomu Earth Beast and threatens to get Hawks' Hero license revoked to see how Hawks would react. He then has Pixie-Bob bury Hawks alive to push him to his limits.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He becomes utterly horrified to realize how badly he hurt Hawks by purposely triggering him and ordering Pixie-Bob to bury him alive for a training session.
• Out-of-Character Alert: Aizawa is much too sociable with Hawks, agreeing to test Erasure on him without a grumble and not dismissing the younger Hero when he asks to be called if Aizawa ever needs help teaching his students. He also makes conversation rather than retreat to his sleeping bag the first chance he gets. This alerts the Voices that their former teacher thinks Hawks needs his help and is seeking information on what's wrong.
• Papa Wolf: Threatening his students is a quick way to receive a beatdown. This is deconstructed when Hawks tries to tell Aizawa about the Voices, who are his students. Aizawa's protectiveness and closeness to his students blinds him to the truth and he refuses to believe the Voices' story, seeing them as a threat to his students even though the Voices are the future versions of those very students. Orange is able to convince him they're telling the truth after a struggle. Aizawa puts his protectiveness over logic and nearly alienates a worthwhile ally as a result.
• Parental Substitute: Many of the Voices saw Aizawa's future self as a father figure, with Yellow joking about Aizawa being a "Dadzawa". These feelings affect Hawks and he struggles not to spill everything to Aizawa because the Voices are making him irrationally trust him despite Hawks himself not knowing him.
• Secret-Keeper: He is told about the Bad Future and the Voices in chapter twenty and keeps it to himself, not even telling Nedzu, All Might, or Present Mic.

Toshinori Yagi (All Might)

Toshinori Yagi

Hero Name: All Might
Quirk: One For All

• Always Someone Better: He is the Someone for Endeavor. Throughout their Hero careers, All Might showed him up as an adored Hero, over and over and over. This led to Endeavor's single-minded determination to surpass All Might at any cost.
• The Confidant: He becomes one for Hawks after promising he won't judge him or share his secrets, no matter what Hawks tells him. Hawks has yet to tell him about the future and the Voices but shares his deepest fears with him.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Downplayed. He doesn't realize Mockingjay was the little girl he saved from being crushed by a car during a Villain attack in America. She does not mention it to him because she does not think she has become the type of Hero who should say that All Might inspired her.
• Hidden Depths: As All Might he saves hundreds of people with a huge grin on his face and accidentally triggers Hawks by being too big of a presence (giving the impression that dealing with delicate matters like other's trauma is something All Might struggles with). As Toshinori he is equally heroic, but in smaller and more down to earth ways i.e. he is level-headed and emotionally perceptive enough to calm Hawks down from a panic attack.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He tends to optimistically see the best in people and is thus blindsided by their cruelty. He's stunned by the Commission's true nature, lamenting that they seemed to be good people working for the good of the many and not Villains in all but name that torture Heroes and buy children to groom into Commission agents. He's also completely oblivious to how Endeavor treats his family and thinks he is a good father.
• Powerful and Helpless: All Might lampshades that with all his power, he can't protect Hawks from the people that used him since Hawks (from Toshinori's POV) is forcing himself to forgive them and won't leave them because he believes they won't hurt him again.
• Secret Identity: All Might's civilian identity as Toshinori Yagi is kept from everyone, including his fellow Pro Heroes. He gives Hawks Toshinori's number to call if he ever needs to talk to anyone. Hawks does so after he lives through Red's memory of Future Tokoyami's death and is completely unaware his confidant is secretly All Might.
• Secret-Keeper: He vows to keep secret anything Hawks shares with him unless he genuinely fears for Hawks' safety. He keeps that promise except when Hawks tells him he was possessed and cannot leave the people who hurt him. Fearing for Hawks, Toshinori tells Aizawa and asks him to look out for him.

Nedzu

Nedzu

Hero Name: Principal
Quirk: High Spec

• Brutal Honesty: He does not mince words to spare anyone's feelings and bluntly tells Hawks that the Commission gave him Hawks' medical records and thus Nedzu knows everything Kaetsu did to him. Hawks is horrified.
• Lack of Empathy: Downplayed. He is capable of empathy but tends to shelve it in favor of cold logic and manipulative tactics. His intelligence and background as a lab rat have left him very blunt and logical, thus he does not tend to take emotions into account (other than how to use them to his advantage). As a result, he coldly tells Hawks he knows everything Kaetsu did to him and tells Hawks that he expects him to go to therapy. In his own words, UA will not kick him out due to mental issues but they are not a charity. Toshinori chastises him for his harshness.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He is willing to take Hawks onto UA's staff despite his secrets simply because Aizawa knows the truth of what happened to him during the year he was missing. He also supports Aizawa and co's goal of taking down the corrupt Hero Commission.

Snipe (Major Unmarked Spoilers)

Snipe

Civilian Name: Unknown
Commission Agent Name: Positive (no longer used)
Quirk: Homing (actually Trajectory)

A former Commission agent who betrayed and abandoned the corrupt organization to save Nedzu from them. He faked his death, took on the Hero name "Snipe", and has worked as a teacher at UA ever since.

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• Abusive Parents: His father physically abused him and his mother and became even worse to him after his mother died. Snipe admits he was glad when the Commission killed him.
• Cold Sniper: Downplayed. While acting as a sniper, Snipe is a Consummate Professional who shoots enemies with detached efficiency but is friendly, welcoming, and goofy outside of that work. For example, he drinks hot coffee through a straw while wearing his mask.
• Commonality Connection: He feels a close bond with Hawks since they are both former Commission pawns who had the organization screw with their heads. Snipe admits he is not a good shoulder to cry on but tries to be there for Hawks as he adjusts to a safer environment at UA.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His father was abusive and he failed at his dream to get into Hero school due to the Commission. When he tried to get other jobs, the Commission secretly prevented it and approached him when he was at his most desperate. Snipe— then called "Positive"— trained under them to become a Pro Hero but soon realized he was actually just meant to be a killer. Feeling he had nowhere else to go, he resigned himself to that role and remained under the Commission's thumb until he defected to free Nedzu.
• Defector from Decadence: He turned against the corrupt Commission to free Nedzu from their inhumane experiments, faked his death, and reemerged as the Pro Hero Snipe to work at UA.
• Faking the Dead: He faked his death in America's underworld to escape the Commission and returned to Japan as Snipe.
• Foil: To the Hero Commission spy, Vlad King. Snipe and Vlad King were recruited by the Commission and both are absolutely loyal to their side, Snipe to UA and Vlad to the Commission. But while Vlad fully believes that the Commission are justice, Snipe sees the corruption in their ranks and is disgusted by it. While Vlad remains loyal to the Commission and commits atrocities like murder, assassination, and espionage in their name, Snipe turned against them to free Nedzu, who they were experimenting on. While Vlad takes advantage of Hawks' grief over his parents to make the latter trust him, Snipe's advice about not having to mourn abusive parents is genuine. Snipe tries to convince Hawks that his new environment is safe while Vlad tries to convince him that he, Vlad, is safe. Finally, Snipe sees Hawks as his own person and encourages his individuality while Vlad sees Hawks as the Icarus Project and maliciously misgenders and dehumanizes him. Several characters note the contrasts between the two as Aizawa comes to accept Vlad King's nature.
• Heel–Face Turn: He had one prior to the series when he found out the Commission was experimenting on Nedzu and freed him.
• Mind over Matter: Snipe's Quirk allows him to do more than simply control bullets. He can control the trajectory of anything in his vicinity with telekinesis, including energy attacks like Dabi's fire. His telekinesis is powerful enough that he theorizes he could easily take down a plane if he was close enough.
• Mythology Gag: His Commission agent name, Positive, is the name he had in the original My Hero Oneshot.
• No Social Skills: He has trouble expressing himself in emotional conversations and comes across as awkward and stilted as he tries to reassure Hawks that Nedzu will not punish him like the Commission President would. He mutters to himself that this is why he does not teach public speaking.
• Punny Name: Put together, his Commission moniker and Quirk name are "Positive Trajectory".

UA Students

Tenya Iida

Tenya Iida

Hero Name: Iida (placeholder)
Quirk: Engine

• Animal Lover: He adores rabbits and often takes care of them in the forest at his brother's home.
• Foreshadowing: His comments about Stain when he visits Hawks with Tensei hint he's still furious Stain attacked his brother, even though Tensei is fine and Stain has been arrested. When Stain is broken out by the League, Iida vengefully goes after him again.
• Hidden Depths: He cares for rabbits and other animals that are injured near his brother's home and is able to identify how old a baby rabbit is based on its size.
• It's Personal: He gains a vendetta against Stain after he finds out the Hero Killer targeted his brother for being a team player and not working alone. This drives him to hunt Stain down and he is saved by Todoroki, Midoriya, and Hawks.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Once Hawks explains it to him, he's horrified to realize how close he was to getting himself, Midoriya, Todoroki, and Native killed by Stain. If not for Hawks' timely arrival, all of them would have died due to his decision to leave the group and hunt Stain alone.
• Taking the Bullet: Narrowly averted. He jumps between a rampaging Dark Shadow and Hawks but Pink intercepts and sends Dark Shadow floating away before he can harm Iida.
• You Are Not Alone: He goes with Todoroki and Uraraka to accompany Bakugo home because it's dangerous to be alone after Tokoyami is kidnapped and declares he will be there for his classmate and friend. Bakugo, being Bakugo, rejects his friendship, though it does not stop the three from being there for him.

Shoto Todoroki

Shoto Todoroki

Hero Name: Shoto (placeholder)
Quirk: Half-Cold Half-Hot

• I Am Not My Father: He refuses to be a Hero like Endeavor who cares more about being the best than being someone the people can feel safe with. Todoroki decides his goal as a Hero is to reassure people with his presence like All Might and resolves to never waver from that goal even after Endeavor is revealed to be an abuser to the public, making it that much harder for Todoroki to escape his father's shadow.
• Literal-Minded: He struggles with figurative language. When he first meets Hawks, he's confused when he calls his Agency "the Kettle" until Hawks explains it's a nickname.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Todoroki is left dumbstruck with horror after Law uses his Quirk to remove the remains of Hawks' wings, as Todoroki is unaware that the exchange is mutually beneficial and Hawks has not been forced into anything. From Todoroki's POV, Law took them as payment for helping Aizawa, which was Todoroki's idea.
• Poor Communication Kills: He keeps Endeavor's abusive actions to himself since characters like Midoriya did not tell anyone about it when Shoto shared his family's story with him. In Shoto's mind, Midoriya's inaction makes it seem like keeping silent is what he's supposed to do and he has to stop himself from sharing everything with Hawks, who he knows will do something to stop Endeavor.
• Psychological Projection: He thinks Hawks' father is the one who abused him and fails to even consider it could be someone else (or that the abuse is still happening in Hawks' adult life).
• Sins of Our Fathers: He fears becoming a prideful Hero who only cares about victory like his father, and often questions if his more arrogant moments are making him like Endeavor. His determination to become the type of Hero that makes people feel safe helps alleviate this. However, others see him as his father's son and nothing more.
  • Stain nearly kills him simply because he is Endeavor's son.
  • Like in canon, Yoarashi only sees Todoroki as Endeavor's son and thinks his eyes are filled with hate like his father. Todoroki proves him wrong by focusing on saving people during the license exam instead of engaging with Yaorashi, which allows him to pass the exam while Yoarashi fails.
  • Todoroki's parentage becomes a bigger obstacle to him becoming a Hero after Endeavor is revealed to be an abuser, as many people either see Shoto as a victim or a Villain's son. He resolves to prove them wrong.

Fumikage Tokoyami (Tsukuyomi)

Fumikage Tokoyami

Hero Name: Tsukuyomi
Quirk: Dark Shadow

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In this series he is closest friends with Iida and Todoroki due to them all interning with Hawks together. They also spend more time with each other due to visiting Eri after her rescue.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: His Future self was killed by Future Jiro's Nomu, who ripped out his throat in front of Future Yaoyorozu.
• Defiant to the End: Tokoyami puts up a valiant fight when the fake Nomu Jiro comes to kill him, despite his terror and believing that it had already killed Hawks. He even manages to defeat it before Twice and Dabi arrive to rescue him.
• Distressed Dude: He is kidnapped by Kaetsu at the end of chapter thirty-three of For Their Sakes.
• Face Death with Dignity: When faced with Kaetsu's Nomu Jiro (who he believes has killed Hawks), Tokoyami quietly accepts he is going to die. That does not stop him from trying to survive the encounter by fleeing a battle he cannot win. He survives.
• Graceful Loser: He humbly accepts his losses and that he has a long way to go even with Dark Shadow's help whenever he loses to Hawks and Mockingjay during their spars.
• Inelegant Blubbering. Played for Drama. He sobs uncontrollably when he thinks the Jiro Nomu has killed Hawks, leaving Tokoyami alone with a kidnapper and seemingly no hope for survival. It serves as a cruel reminder that Tokoyami is a kid in a terrible and stressful situation.
• Must Have Caffeine: Tokoyami stumbles around like a brain-dead zombie before he has his morning coffee.
• Not a Morning Person: Shoto describes him as "stumbling around like a zombie" every morning until he gets caffeine in his system.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's 5'2" and one of the most powerful members of Class 1-A. His Dark Shadow is capable of performing feats of incredible strength and dealing out huge amounts of damage in the darkness. This is exemplified during his fight with Kaetsu's Jiro Nomu, where he easily overpowers and kills it after he takes out the lights.
• The Reliable One: Out of Hawks' interns, he is the level-headed, dependable, and calm one who doesn't let his emotions get the best of him and listens when Hawks orders them to stay with him during a Nomu attack. Hawks notes Tokoyami is the one intern he doesn't have to worry about running off when they are in Hosu.
• Squishy Wizard: Tokoyami knows he's weak without Dark Shadow so he trains with Hawks to strengthen his body in case his Quirk is taken out. The Voices encourage Hawks to avert his physical weakness since it was that weakness and dependence on Dark Shadow that led to the death of Tokoyami's Future self.
• These Hands Have Killed: He accidentally kills the fake Jiro Nomu by blowing its head up. He expects it to regenerate like other Nomu. It doesn't, leaving him horrified.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: After he kills the fake Jiro Nomu, Dabi tells him he did what he had to. Tokoyami does not take it well.
  Tokoyami: (ashamed) I don't want to hear that from you.

Izuku Midoriya (Deku)

Izuku Midoriya

Hero Name: Deku
Nicknames: Deku
Quirk: One For All (called "Superpower" in paperwork)

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Even though Bakugo is not kidnapped at the camp, Midoriya is effected even more badly than in canon since he failed to teach Kota the value of Heroes and saw Aizawa-sensei be impaled, failing to protect him as well. Midoriya's confidence takes a huge hit as a result.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In canon he is one of Eri's big brother figures. Here, they haven't interacted at all and Hawks, Shinso, Tokoyami, Iida, and Todoroki are her big brother figures instead.
• Bystander Syndrome: He is told about Endeavor's abuse of his family but does not tell anyone about it, not even Eraserhead. This convinces Shoto that keeping silent about the abuse is what he's supposed to do.
• Demoted to Extra: Zigzagged. Midoriya is the main protagonist of the manga and his future self is a main character but his present day teenaged self has only shown up a couple times in this series. However, (like all the students) Midoriya is at UA during a majority of the plot so far while Hawks and the Voices are out in the wider world doing Hero work. He is not one of Hawks' interns either, so there is little reason for them to run into one another other than at Hosu. He becomes a more prominent character in For Our Sakes after Hawks begins his teaching job at UA.
• Motor Mouth: Downplayed. He rambles a hundred words a second about topics like Heroes and Quirks or when he's nervous. This trait immediately tells Hawks he is Green's past self.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Midoriya (like many Heroes) sees Nomu as monsters that need to be taken out. As such, he's confused when Hawks comforts the Winged Nomu as it is dying. Hawks then tells him it was human once and deserves some level of compassion. It is unknown if his words had any affect on Midoriya's view of Nomu yet.

Katsuki Bakugo

Katsuki Bakugo

Hero Name: (Undecided)
Nickname: Kacchan
Quirk: Explosion

• Character Check: His arrogance and jerkass attitude are a shock to the Voices when they first meet him as they are reminded how far Orange has come from his past self.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Invoked. When Bakugo demands a fight, Hawks defeats him effortlessly to teach him a lesson in a non-lethal single-stroke battle. Bakugo shoots forward with an explosion of power and Hawks instantly takes him down "as easily as a cat snatched a misbehaving kitten". This makes Hawks and Orange's lesson that Bakugo is not the strongest and there will inevitably be times that he loses hit even harder for him.
• Humble Pie: Bakugo is served a slice when Hawks utterly trounces him in a fight that Bakugo demanded with no effort and Orange rips apart his flawed Invincible Hero Might Makes Right philosophy. A shaken Bakugo is left to pensively consider their lessons.
• Irony: Bakugo is caustically dismissive of Hawks for losing limbs and declares that someone like that shouldn't be a Hero. His own future self lost an arm and kept working as a Hero anyway. Orange is not pleased by his past self's attitude.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He considers Hawks to be useless because he lost limbs and calls him a "charity case" among other derogatory insults. Jiro calls him out for it but he does not listen.
• Tame His Anger: Bakugo is often aggressive, violent, explosive, and ill-tempered, particularly when dealing with people who irritate him. While those like Jeanist see this attitude as unheroic and want to quell his anger, to Hawks and Orange it's a point of directing his anger in healthy and beneficial ways rather than eliminating it completely. With this goal in mind, Hawks guides Bakugo to turn his anger into an intense protectiveness, allowing him to keep it while using it to defend and save other people.

Ochaco Uraraka

Ochaco Uraraka

Hero Name: Uravity
Quirk: Zero Gravity

The present day version of Ochaco Uraraka. Well-intentioned, kind, and determined, she wishes to become a great rescue Hero who focuses on saving.

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• Innocently Insensitive: She heartfully consoles Hawks about his parents' deaths and brings up her own loving parents, not knowing Hawks was feeling conflicted about his inability to mourn his parents because they were abusive. She later realizes her mistake when Hawks reveals he was abused to the public. Uraraka agonizes over her well-intentioned mistake, feeling incredibly guilty.
• Shy Finger-Twiddling: She fidgets with her hands when she is nervous. This specific tic is one of the things that makes Bakugo realize Pink is in Hawks' head.
• Tears of Remorse: She cries in her room after she realizes she accidentally put salt on the wound when she consoled Hawks over his abusive parents' deaths while standing by and letting the present-day abuse continue to happen until Hawks revealed it himself, facing public scorn and controversy as a result.

Hero Public Safety Commission

Beware of Unmarked Spoilers!

General

• All Crimes Are Equal: They label everyone who does not follow their rules a Villain, whether they are someone who accidentally hit someone with their car or a serial killer.
• Double Speak: Agents refer to handlers as "managers" and reconditioning as "remedial courses".
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: They give Overhaul to the Doctor and release Kaetsu in the present day. This results in All For One being healed by a brainwashed Overhaul and him getting Kaetsu's powerful Quirk. All For One is back and stronger than ever, and it's the Commission's fault.
• Villain with Good Publicity: They are the revered and admired Hero Public Safety Commission, who support Heroes and the police to defeat Villains and help proctor the exams of the next generation of Heroes. They use their influence to force Hero Society to remain stagnant, buy children in order to raise them to be Commission Agents, and blackmail Heroes to stop them from trying to change things. All Might, Tsukauchi, and Best Jeanist are blindsided by how corrupt the organization truly is and are shaken that such an important pillar of Hero Society is so evil.
• Would Hurt a Child: On the President's orders, Amplifier and Pathfinder used their Quirks on Hawks to train him to resist torture when he was a child.

The Commission President

The Commission President

Civilian Name: Unknown
Quirk: Unknown

• Believing Their Own Lies: She genuinely believes Hawks is a subhuman weapon that deserves to be under her boot and is perplexed when Miruko risks herself for a thing like him.
• Big Brother Is Watching: Hawks realizes she has hidden bugs in Miruko's apartment so the Commission can listen to his every conversation there. This is how she finds out Miruko and Hawks were planning to expose Endeavor.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: To the public and most Heroes, she is affable, calm, and wants what is best for Hero Society. In reality she is cruel, ruthless, and willing to throw anyone under the bus if it keeps Hero Society up and running.
• Blatant Lies: She tells Miruko she believes Hawks is a Nomu. Miruko calls her out on her lie and she immediately admits what she said wasn't true but it doesn't matter since she can make others believe it.
• Condescending Compassion: She speaks to Hawks as if he is an ignorant child while insisting she's doing what's best for him. This is while she fully knows that he sees through her act and understands every implied threat she says to him.
• Cruel to Be Kind: This is one of her favorite justifications for hurting Hawks. She claims it's to teach him to be a good Hero and repress his inherently "selfish" nature.
• Dehumanization: She refers to Hawks as an "it" and does not see him as human to the point where she finds it perplexing (but beneficial to her goals) that Miruko considers him one.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first appearance is over a phone call where she faux-pleasantly tells Hawks his monthly payments have increased, berates him for questioning her while calling him gutter trash, and orders him to report to HQ for questioning.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She's puzzled by Miruko's insistence on protecting Hawks, who the President sees as a disposable object, but goes along with it since it gives her control over Miruko.
• Evil Is Petty: Sixteen year-old Hawks is already a broken wreck who is too afraid to disobey the Commission just three months into Kaetsu controlling and assaulting him. The President lets it continue just because she can and only stops when Hawks tries to commit suicide to escape.
• Faux Affably Evil: She acts pleasant and serene even while threatening Miruko to force Hawks to remain silent about Endeavor. She seems kindly but will torture, murder, and mutilate anyone who gets in her way. This includes remorselessly ordering the death of a teenager when his Quirk goes out of control.
• Implied Death Threat: She tells Hawks all threats to Hero Society will be eliminated and warns him not to become one after he argues with her about doing nothing to expose Endeavor's crimes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She could have shown the smallest hint of humanity or compassion by ordering Kaetsu to stop controlling and hurting Hawks after Hawks begged her to. Instead she orders him to continue and does not stop it until Hawks tries to commit suicide to escape.
• Lack of Empathy: She tells Hawks he deserves to be punished for not acting like a "good Hero". The only time she's genuinely pleased is when he pales when Amplifier asks if he needs to be sent to remedial courses.
• Moral Myopia: She considers the League the scum of the Earth for attacking UA and killing civilians yet she remorselessly orders a fourteen year-old boy to be killed for losing control of his Quirk and orders the deaths of many civilians who are "threats" to Hero Society. The former case isn't her worrying about the UA kids though; she's only worried about how it could badly reflect on Hero Society.
• No Name Given: She is called the Commission President everywhere, including in her own POV sections.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She insists what she's doing is for the good of the public and Hero Society when she really wants to maintain control for herself and the Commission.
• Obliviously Evil: She genuinely believes that she is the morally righteous one and any who oppose her are irredeemable Villains. She is Good. The Commission is Good. Their enemies are Evil.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She has no problems threatening and blackmailing Heroes into maintaining the status quo for the public's (really, the Commission's) safety and stability. After all, killing those Heroes would make the public question if Heroes were strong enough to protect them.
• The Sociopath: She sees everyone as expendable, lacks any morality, has ordered the deaths of hundreds of civilians without an ounce of regret, twists laws to keep herself in power or for her own amusement, manipulates Amplifier and Kaetsu into believing Hawks was captured and experimented on by the League and manipulates Hawks into thinking he's a terrible, selfish, ungrateful brat. Yet everyone outside of the Commission sees her as a well-meaning and charming woman who just wants what is best for the public. Even with the Voices telling Hawks all of her claims are lies, he struggles not to believe her.
• Tautological Templar: She calls Villains irredeemable criminals that must be put down and emphasizes how they harm civilians but has no qualms about buying a child, abusing and torturing him, killing families to keep them from exposing the wrongdoings of corrupt Heroes, torturing innocent people for information, and murdering teenagers who cannot control their Quirks.

Amplifier

Amplifier

Civilian Name: Masao Himura
Quirk: Torment

• Agony Beam: His Quirk allows him to cause extreme pain to the people he touches, much like the Cruciatus Curse.
• Beneath the Mask: He portrays himself as supportive and wanting what is best for Hawks but when Hawks fights him and refuses to obey, Amplifier loses his temper, hurts Hawks, and screams at him, showing himself to be a vile and angry individual who doesn't care about Hawks at all, only his compliance. That being said, he does care for Hawks in his own twisted way and protects him from Kaetsu in a flashback.
• Character Death: He is murdered by Kaetsu at the end of chapter twenty-six.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He disapproves of what Kaetsu did to Hawks and was secretly pleased when Kaetsu was arrested four years before the start of the story.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's sociable and cheerful throughout Hawks' meeting with him, and is proud when Hawks doesn't scream while under the affects of his Quirk.
• Four Is Death: He is forty-four years old when he is killed by Kaetsu.
• Off with His Head!: Kaetsu cuts his head off postmortem and sends it to Hawks' Agency. The investigators find the rest of his body later.
• So Proud of You: A twisted example. He's genuinely happy and proud of Hawks for not reacting during his and Pathfinder's interrogation.
• Tainted Veins: His Quirk causes his victim's veins to become a poisonous purple color and swell under their skin when used at full power.
• Torture Technician: His Quirk makes him perfect for causing unbearable amounts of pain to his victims without causing them physical damage. As such he is the Commission's pick for teaching Hawks to resist torture.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: He blames Hawks for "making" him use the full power of his Quirk on him, though he is also proud of him for holding out so "admirably" and refusing to break.

Pathfinder

Pathfinder

Civilian Name: Unknown
Quirk: Strands of Narrative

• Body Horror: The tendrils of her Quirk extend from her fingertips and stab themselves into her victim's back along their spine.
• Boom, Headshot!: Snipe kills her with a well-aimed shot to the forehead, saving Hawks.
• Faux Affably Evil: She always keeps a bubbly and chipper demeanor that could be mistaken for an overeager and air-headed woman. In reality, she oozes malicious intent and every word is a veiled threat. This is most on display when confronting Miruko about missing a meeting, where Pathfinder spends the conversation trailing her fingers up Miruko's spine.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She despises Tsukauchi because her Quirk is inferior to his.
• Hate Sink: Unlike Amplifier, Pathfinder has zero redeeming qualities. She takes great pleasure in hurting Hawks, thinks Hawks being controlled and assaulted by Kaetsu is hilarious, remorselessly kills innocent Tartarus guards and fellow Commission agents, cruelly tears apart birds for the fun of it, and sincerely hopes Hawks will be conscious when the Doctor experiments on him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She pretends to be distraught about Amplifier's death for one reason and one reason only: to make Hawks feels guilty and think it was his fault. She's so insincere that she is unable to keep up the act and bursts out laughing as she explains that she doesn't care that her partner died.
• Living Lie Detector: Downplayed. Her Quirk lets her track her target's responses and see if they match up with their tale, but she cannot tell if they are outright lying. This makes her extremely jealous of Tsukauchi's much superior Lie-Detecting Quirk.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: When Hawks is in unbearable pain but refuses to break, she whines that she's bored with him and he's being boring. When she attacks Hawks after Endeavor is exposed, she kills fellow Commission agents in fits of rage when they try to interfere with her fight with him, acting much like a child whose toy was being taken away.
• Torture Technician: She worked alongside Amplifier to teach Hawks to resist torture. Her Quirk is not as painful as his but she sadistically enjoys causing her victims pain.

Norito Kaetsu (Major Spoilers)

Norito Kaetsu

Agent Codename: The Handler
Quirk: Fearful Fantasy

"Remember, you deserve this."

One of Hawks' old handlers, who Mockingjay had arrested. He returns in the present day as a Serial Killer who murders light-haired people with mutation-type Quirks.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: He was one to Hawks. He harassed the then-eighteen year-old by getting into Hawks' personal space, demanding he "prove" he's male, and trying to catch him while he was undressed. This stopped when Mockingjay got him arrested. His obsession started when Hawks was sixteen and Kaetsu was given free reign to use his Quirk to control the teenager. Kaetsu uses this to his advantage to grope and assault Hawks, who can't fight back.
• Beauty Is Bad: Exploited and Discussed. Kaetsu knows he is handsome and his beauty makes people trust him more than they would a stereotypically "evil-looking" person. All he has to do is smile and act like nothing is wrong and a couple lets him kidnap Hawks. His victim realizes this for themself and notes that someone would have called a Hero already if Kaetsu were not so conventionally attractive.
• Control Freak: Kaetsu believes Hawks is his to use and control however he likes. He is furious whenever Hawks does something when Kaetsu does not order him to and punishes him for something as minor as speaking out of turn.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He shoots one of Ingenium's sidekicks for smiling at Hawks.
• Dissonant Serenity: He smiles serenely as he orders his Fearful Fantasy-created version of Future Jiro's Nomu to kill Amplifier.
• Entitled to Have You: He becomes consumed by his delusions as he comes to believe the Commission bought Hawks for him.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He implies the captive Hawks will have to perform sexual favors in order to be given food. As Hawks sinks into his head and starts to dissociate, Kaetsu claims he was just kidding.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: His handsome looks sharply contrast his depraved, cruel, and sadistic personality.
• The Ghost: He's mentioned once in Mockingjay: Origin and again in For Their Sakes but doesn't show up in the latter in-person until chapter twenty-six.
• The Handler: He was one of Hawks' "managers" who would have been his hand-to-hand combat trainer if he wasn't arrested.
• Hate Sink: Kaetsu is a despicable villain with no redeeming qualities. He's a misogynistic and arrogant Serial Killer who misgenders and stalks Hawks, believes he is entitled to have him, remorselessly kills multiple people including one of his coworkers, and used his Quirk to control Hawks for a year when he was sixteen. During that time he physically, emotionally, psychologically, and sexually abused Hawks while gleefully pushing him to try to take his own life. He does all of this just because he can and he enjoys having power over his victims.
• I Know What You Fear: His Quirk lets him identify the fear of his victim and bring it to life.
• I Reject Your Reality: He deluded himself into believing Hawks was secretly a girl.
• Incompatible Orientation: Deconstructed and Played For Horror. Kaetsu refuses to believe Hawks is asexual (or a man, for that matter) and thinks "she" is merely playing hard to get. Kaetsu intends to make Hawks his whether Hawks wants to be with him or not.
• It's All About Me: Anytime Hawks acts in a way Kaetsu does not like, he acts like Hawks is inconveniencing him and making things difficult for him.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Mockingjay shoots him while he's mockingly saying she wouldn't.
• Lack of Empathy: Human life holds no value to him. He kills innocents, Pro Heroes, sidekicks, and his own coworkers without feeling any remorse or empathy.
• Laughing Mad: He switches from rambling to laughing hysterically at the drop of a hat. It clues Amplifier in to how far gone Kaetsu has become.
• Meaningful Name: His last name "Kaetsu" means "ecstasy, joy, rapture, or pleasure". His first name contains kanji for "commanding respect". His Quirk gives him ecstatic joy when he uses it like when he used it to control sixteen year-old Hawks to teach him a lesson and ensure he fell in line under the Commission's authority.
• Never My Fault: He blames Hawks for every failure to perform at peak perfection in training despite Kaetsu being in complete control of Hawks' body at the time.
• The Nose Knows: His Quirk lets him know what a person fears by smelling them.
• Perverted Sniffing: He smells Hawks' hair while getting into his space. While scent is a requirement for his Quirk, Kaetsu experiences lustful joy when smelling Hawks' fear.
• Psycho Knife Nut: He prefers killing his victims by stabbing them to death with his blades.
• Serial Killer: He murders multiple people with mutant-type Quirks by stabbing and strangling them to death.
• Slasher Smile: He grins psychotically after declaring Hawks is his to break and kill.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He speaks very softly and serenely when yanking out the feathers in Hawks' wings and cutting him with a knife. He keeps that soft, pleasant tone as he cuts Hawks' wings off.
• Supernatural Fear Inducer: One of his techniques is to induce terror in his targets in order to cause them to leave safe areas. He does this to Hawks by making him feel claustrophobic, causing him to go outside into Kaetsu's trap.
• Terms of Endangerment: He calls Hawks "my Angel".
• Stalker with a Crush: He became obsessed with Hawks and began following him everywhere at Commission HQ. He believes the Commission let him out of prison so they can be together.
• Villainous Crush: His obsession with Hawks is the motivation for many of his evil actions.
• Walking Spoiler: It is impossible to talk about him without revealing he is a handler who harassed Hawks, is the Serial Killer, and has been released in the present day.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He is a stalker, assassin, and Serial Killer who has murdered multiple innocent people and considers Hawks his possession.
• Yandere: He is obsessed with Hawks and shoots one of Ingenium's sidekicks dead simply because Hawks smiled and waved at him.
• You Wouldn't Shoot Me: He says this word for word to Mockingjay when confronted by her at the abandoned asylum. Turns out she would.

League Of Villains

All For One

All For One

Civilian Name: ??? Shigaraki
Quirks: All For One, Air Cannon, Warping, Springlike Limbs, Kinetic Booster (x4), Strength Enhancer (x3), Impact Recoil, Rivets, Spearlike Bones, Hypertrophy, Proliferation, Forcible Quirk Activation, Infrared Ray, Air Walk, Life Force, Unnamed Technology Quirk, Unnamed Dream Walker Quirk, Fearful Fantasy

• Bad Boss: He manipulates his underlings with sadistic glee like when he implies threats towards Dabi's siblings and hints he may turn Twice into a Nomu if he tries to leave the League.
• Big Brother Is Watching: He has a Quirk which allows him to "see" through technology. He uses it to spy on his League and the Heroes.
• The Corrupter: His modus operandi is to push people to fall to their cruelest and most selfish urges. He raised Shigaraki to be an Omnicidal Maniac that wants to destroy everything just because he could. Once Shigaraki is arrested, AFO targets Dabi and encourages him to lose the last of his morals and become his "true" self by fully embracing the evilest parts of villainy.
• Dream Walker: He steals a dream-manipulating Quirk from the corpse of one of Kaetsu's victims and uses it to invade Hawks' dreams and spy on him.
• Dream Weaver: His stolen dream-manipulating Quirk also allows him to shape dreams into nightmares of his creation. The first time he uses it he has Hawks strapped to an operating table with his wings cut off as All For One gloats over him. The second time, Hawks is attacked by All Might's Nomu.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Subverted. He seemingly fails to see Twice wants to befriend Hawks out of a genuine desire for companionship and thinks Twice intends to use him for information and keep him as a trophy when the Villains win. However, it's later revealed he was only pretending to be unaware and is just messing with Twice to see him panic.
• Evil Is Petty: It's all but stated that part of the reason All For One manipulated Retiarius into accusing Endeavor of child abuse on live television is because Dabi talked back to him and got too big for his britches.
• For the Evulz: His main motive other than destroying Hero Society, regaining his empire, and corrupting people is to do villainous things because they amuse him. He pretends to think Twice wants to keep Hawks as a pet once the Villains win just to see Twice panic and struggle to hide his pure intentions.
• He's Back!: A villainous example. Ujiko uses a brainwashed and mentally broken Overhaul to heal the injuries All For One sustained from his fight with All Might.
• Implied Death Threat: When Twice intends to befriend Hawks, All For One advises him against it and reminds him to remember who his real friends are. Twice realizes AFO will turn him into a Nomu if he does something his new boss doesn't like such as attempting to leave the League.
• Mutually Unequal Relation: Shigaraki sees All For One as a father figure and wants nothing more than to impress him. All For One is only using Shigaraki and lets him rot in Tartarus once he has no more use for him.
• Slasher Smile: He grins in sadistic delight when he finds out about the Commission's corruption and realizes it could bring Hero Society down.
• Technopath: One of his Quirks lets him "see" through and hack into technology. Using it, he easily discovers how the Commission abused Hawks and their other crimes.

Jin Bubaigawara (Twice)

Twice

Civilian Name: Jin Bubaigawara
Nicknames: Pollux
Quirk: Double

• Adaptational Heroism: This version of Twice realizes he isn't willing to put his selfish happiness and freedom over the lives of innocent people. Unfortunately for him, it's too late for him to get out of the League. That does not stop him from refusing to fight Hawks and thinking up ways to keep All For One from getting him.
• Anti-Villain: The only reason he joins the League is because he wants to be himself and find acceptance. The Voices cannot consider him malicious or evil even though he joined the organization that destroyed their future. They note that he was killed by Future Miruko before the PLF began their society-destroying campaign so he never had a chance to become a monster (or switch sides).
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: His future self died shortly after Future Hawks was killed. The Voices believe he was killed by Future Miruko.
• Forbidden Friendship: He strikes up a genuine friendship with Hawks, a Hero, after the training camp. Twice bonds with Hawks through their shared struggles with mental health and they support each other when they're having bad days. Twice seeks Hawks' help to escape All For One. If the other Villains found out about Twice's friendship, he would be killed or turned into a Nomu.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Aizawa states that Twice's life may have been difficult and lonely but that is no excuse for him to join a Villain organization to make friends. Twice himself has realized he messed up but can't leave the League.
• Heel–Face Turn: After a slow build up of realizing he is doing the wrong thing and there is no excuse for that, Twice agrees to work against All For One when Hawks offers to help him and the League escape their Bad Boss. Twice says the League may not deserve that help but he's going to fight to save them anyway.
• Heel Realization: Twice comes to realize that being a Villain to get friends isn't worth hurting people. Before he can act on it and have a full Heel–Face Turn All For One calls and threatens him.
• Redemption Rejection: Zigzagged. He initially refuses Hawks' offer to go with him, leave the League, and bring down All For One but later regrets that choice and decides to take the offer in order to save his League allies and himself from their Bad Boss.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He figures out Hawks has voices in his head but thinks they are actual split personalities.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: He finds out Hawks has other people in his head (though he believes they are split personalities) and hides it from All For One.
• Stalker without a Crush: He follows Hawks as he is on patrol because he's trying to work up the courage to ask if he wants to be friends.
• Trapped in Villainy: Twice wonders if becoming a Villain is worth it and intends to become friends with Hawks. He is forced to abandon those plans when AFO tells him he knows about his interest in the Winged Hero. Twice realizes that AFO will turn him into a Nomu if he tries to leave the League.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His innocent interest in Hawks alerts All For One to his dark past and makes him curious enough to look into it himself. This makes AFO find out the truth and realize the Hero Commission's corruption could easily bring Hero Society down.

Dabi

Dabi

Civilian Name: Touya Todoroki
Quirk: Cremation

• Adaptational Karma: In canon, Dabi gets what he wants and achieves his goal of exposing Endeavor himself, gleefully basking in his victory. In Ennea, his vengeance is taken from him as All For One manipulates Retiarius aka "Ennea" to expose Endeavor instead, ruining Dabi's plans and making his villainous efforts All for Nothing.
• Adaptational Personality Change: This Dabi is much less of a Jerkass Aloof Ally than his canon counterpart (which isn't a difficult feat). The fic's Dabi denies that he cares about Twice and Hawks but genuinely feels a bond with them and does care for them deep down. This is unlike canon Dabi, who is much more sadistic and cruel. He only sees the League as a means to an end and has no attachment to them.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • The fic's Dabi cares about Twice enough to go with him to rescue Hawks, if only to keep Twice from getting into trouble and because he owes Hawks one for helping his siblings. Canon Dabi doesn't give a damn about Twice and only sees him as a weapon to use against the Heroes.
  • The fic's Dabi cares about his siblings and mother and is partially motivated to get what he sees as justice for their sake. The manga's Dabi doesn't care about his family at all, wants to kill Shoto, and is perfectly fine with Natsuo dying to Ending since that would hurt Endeavor even more.
• Debt Detester: He claims to only be helping to rescue Hawks because he owes him one and he hates that, but his thoughts reveal he actually cares about him (not that he'll ever admit it).
• Evil Counterpart: To Shoto. They are both Todorokis who were chosen by their father to be his Superior Successor. Touya was deemed a failure and escaped while Shoto stayed and is seen as a success. While Dabi wants to murder Endeavor for what he has done, Shoto does not care about punishing Endeavor and simply wants him to leave his siblings and mother alone.
• Faking the Dead: He is Touya Todoroki. His family thinks Endeavor killed him during a hostage situation.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
  • Kaetsu's Fake Touya shoots down Dabi's reasons for becoming a Villain by saying that he's hurting and killing many people just because his father abused him and that makes him worse than Endeavor.
  "[Endeavor's] only hurt one family. How many families have you ruined?"
  • Orange also shoots down Dabi's reasons for becoming a Villain and outright states that Endeavor's abuse does not give Dabi an excuse to murder people.
  • Dabi's excuses and justifications completely fall apart thanks to his youngest brother, Shoto Todoroki. He declares that Dabi put vengeance over the health and well-being of the people he supposedly was trying to get justice for and that if Dabi truly wanted to help his family, he wouldn't have planned to do so in a way that would rip open old wounds for the whole world to see. Dabi did not care what his family thought about his plans or how much his "death" would hurt them; He just wants to lash out at Endeavor and the world. Dabi's reaction suggests he realizes his brother is right and that he truly was in it only for himself.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Unlike Twice, Dabi does not want to leave the League or give up on his goals to ruin Hero Society (mostly Endeavor). However, he helps save Hawks from Kaetsu and is willing to go out of his way to continue to assist him, making his true alignment murky.
• Howl of Sorrow: Dabi screams in anguish and maddened fury when Retiarius exposes Endeavor for his abusive actions, taking away Touya's revenge and ruining all of his plans. He's so delirious he nearly burns Twice when the latter tries to hold him to calm him down.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is a standoffish, bitter loner but genuinely cares about his mother, siblings, and Twice. He's grateful to Hawks for getting Rei out of the hospital and his siblings away from Endeavor. He also agrees to help Twice rescue Hawks, though he claims it's only because Twice will get into trouble without him.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Dabi may have his redeeming qualities but he is still an arrogant, remorseless Villain who doesn't care about the pain he causes others. This is something the fic does not let slide and Dabi's bad karma catches up to him when All For One manipulates Retiarius into revealing Endeavor's abuse to the world, doing exactly what Dabi wanted to without Dabi being involved. This leaves Dabi's in mental agony and his decades-long plans in ashes.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: He's an unrepentant Villain and killer who wants to murder his father and destroy Hero Society but has his Pet the Dog moments with Twice and Hawks and cares for his siblings. When compared to All For One, Kaetsu, and the Commission he comes across as moral and sympathetic.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims that he wants to bring down Endeavor and Hero Society to change it for the better but in truth he's simply lashing out and wants to retaliate against the world for hurting him personally. Dabi may pretend otherwise but he does not care about justice for his family and his supposed world-changing goals are used as an excuse to hurt others, something which Shoto calls him out on.
• O.C. Stand-in: Nothing was known about Dabi and his actual personality when the Ennea series was written, leaving him a blank slate whose characterization had to be filled in by the author. As such, Dabi is stoic, calm, arrogant, and cares about the League and his siblings, unlike his canon counterpart. The author only got the arrogant part right.
• Oh, Crap!: He freaks out when he hears that Hawks requested Heart Pirate's help to heal him and that Hawks has agreed to give up one of his kidneys as payment to the infamous Villain. Dabi dives to protect Hawks without thinking about the consequences and gets his Quirk nullified by a disguised Aizawa. Luckily for Dabi, Law was just testing him to see how he'd react to Hawks being in trouble.
• Pet the Dog: He refuses to torture a Commission Hero for information in front of Twice and sends him away.
• Required Secondary Powers: Averted. His body is weak to fire and he burns whenever he uses his flames. This is why his future self took Natsuo's Ice Quirk for himself.
• The Reveal: He is Touya Todoroki, which is not the reveal. The reveal is he faked his death after Endeavor burnt him alive along with a perp who took him hostage.
• Shoot the Hostage: He was the hostage. His father Endeavor was the shooter who burned him and the Villain alive.

The Doctor

The Doctor

Civilian Name: Daruma Ujiko
Quirk: Life Force

• Admiring the Abomination: The Doctor adores his Nomu for their destructive capabilities and mash of Quirks, particularly the one called "Retiarius". He calls its body "perfect" and tells All For One it's beautiful for the chaos it will cause.
• The Ageless: He is hundreds of years old but looks like an older middle-aged man due to the Quirk All For One gave him. He's been around since the time when Quirks first emerged and ran Shiho Asylum.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: It is his job at the Commission to brainwash captured people with powerful Quirks into working for his employers. Unknown to them, he truly works for All For One and intends to make Overhaul loyal to AFO as well. He succeeds.

Others

Eri

Eri

Quirk: Rewind

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Since she is rescued by Ennea and protected by Hawks, she is not attached to Mirio and Deku. In fact, she has yet to meet them at all. Instead she trusts Hawks completely and bonds with his interns (Iida, Todoroki, and Tokoyami) and Shinso first.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She immediately warms up to Ennea and Hawks because they treat her with kindness and ask her if she wants to do things rather than force her.
• Broken Bird: Overhaul's abuse left her quiet, timid, and traumatized. She sees her Quirk as a curse and herself as a monster and weapon undeserving of kindness or affection.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: She thinks she deserves what Overhaul does to her and accepts that there is nothing she can do to stop it. Ennea's rescue of her and Hawks' kindness throw her for a loop. Eri is bewildered by the simplest acts of kindness and thinks her rescuers are confused by "how the world works" whenever others help her.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her default expression is a haunted, hollow look with "dead" eyes.
• For Want Of A Nail: She is rescued early by Ennea and protected by Hawks, who sees the obvious signs of abuse and keeps her away from Overhaul from the start (unlike Lemillion and Deku did in the previous timeline).
• Harmful to Minors: She witnessed the gory death of at least one of her old handlers when he almost let her escape.

Naomasa Tsukauchi

Naomasa Tsukauchi

Quirk: Lie Detector

• Arbitrary Skepticism: He flat out refuses to believe that Red, Green, and the other Voices are time travelers and instead thinks they are brainwashed or under the influence of a Quirk. Orange is particularly peeved about this since Tsukauchi has a lie detector Quirk, though Green acknowledges his Quirk can be tricked to give a false Truth reading if the speaker believes a lie is true.
• By-the-Book Cop: Downplayed. He is a stickler for the rules and follows the Commission's orders when they command him to question Hawks, but he sees something off about how they acquired Hawks and begins an investigation on his own.
• Friend on the Force: He knows All Might's secret and is personal friends with him while acting as the police and investigative side to All Might's Hero activities.
• Living Lie Detector: His Quirk lets him tell if someone is lying. He uses it on Hawks to confirm he is who he says he is and not an impostor.
• Logical Weakness: If someone he questions with his Quirk is brainwashed or believes a lie is the truth, they will give a false truth reading since what they say is true as far as they know.

Hawks' Parents

The Takamis

Quirks: Unknown

• A Mistake Is Born: They did not intend to have Hawks. According to his mother, they regret keeping him.
• Abusive Parents: They had more interest in alcohol than raising their son. Hawks' mother told him she wished she had gotten rid of him to his face when he was five. Both parents hit and threw empty alcohol bottles at him enough times that he became good at dodging at a young age.
• Alcoholic Parent: Both are heavy drinkers who spend most of their money (which they get from Hawks' paycheck) on alcoholic drinks.
• Asshole Victim: Even Hawks can't bring himself to grieve when they are killed by the Commission. This lack of grief makes him wonder if he is a bad person but White and Snipe set him straight by saying he doesn't have to mourn his abusive and neglectful parents.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Hawks never wanted a pet as a child because he feared his parents would kill it in a drunken rage (or accidentally by throwing a beer bottle at it).
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In a flashback, Hawks' mother pretends to be a loving and affectionate mother in front of the police when she picks the six year-old up from the park that she abandoned him at. It's so out of character for her to act so kindly to Hawks that he panics and thinks she has been replaced by a Villain.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Inverted. They do not even pretend they are trying to give Hawks a better future when they sell him to the Commission; they just want the money they'll get for him.
• Domestic Abuser: Both of them abused and neglected young Hawks by throwing bottles at him, insulting and demeaning him, refusing to feed him, grabbing him by his wings or wrist and shaking him, and hitting him. Hawks does not even have his own room or bed and is forced to sleep in a closet.
• The Ghost: They are never seen, not even in flashbacks. They are occasionally mentioned by Hawks and influence his behavior when it comes to drinking. They are also responsible for the Commission buying their son.
• Hate Sink: They're loathsome, bitter, hate-filled people who abuse and neglect their son and are happy to give him to the Commission in exchange for fat paychecks for the rest of their lives.
• I Have No Son!: They attempt to abandon child Hawks so he won't die in their home and sell him to the Commission the first chance they get, washing their hands of their child completely.
• It's All About Me: Hawks's mother is overjoyed that her son has caught the attention of the Hero Commission... because it means that she can sell him to them and be rich for the rest of her life. She does not care about giving Hawks a better chance, she simply wants an easier life for herself.
• Jerkass: They're abusive to their child, crude, tell Hawks they never wanted him to his face, try to abandon him at parks and in the woods so their starving child won't die in their house, and sell him the first chance they get.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Six year-old Hawks' mother returns after abandoning him in a park with the hope that he'll die there and seems overjoyed to see him. She only came back because the Commission contacted her and wanted to buy her son to make him into a Hero; She was happy about the paycheck she was about to receive.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: They sell their son to the Commission and steal his money, as decided in the contract they made with the Commission. Once Hawks breaks free of the Commission, they have no more use for the Takami parents and kill them.
• Laser-Guided Karma: They sell Hawks to the Commission in exchange for money. Once their son rebels, the Takamis are killed and disposed of like trash as easily as they abandoned and sold their son.
• Lower-Class Lout: They're drunks who live in a poor part of town, spend their money on booze, and sell their six year-old child to the Commission for cash.
• Never My Fault: Both are alcoholics who spend the little money they have on booze. They deny any wrongdoing in how they spend money or treat their child and blame Hawks for being in the way, having to eat, and coming back each time his mother attempts to abandon him. In their eyes, Hawks' existence is the reason for many of their problems rather than their own alcoholism and frivolous spending.
• Parental Abandonment: Hawks' mother attempts to abandon him at parks and woods multiple times but he finds his way back using a feather he left behind in his closet. His parents catch onto this and destroy the feather, but he's close enough to his home to recognize where he is and find his way back. On his way there, he saves people from a car crash and his mother retrieves him for the Commission in order to sell him to them for money.
• Parental Neglect: Hawks' parents were more interested in alcohol than raising or feeding him, and gladly gave him to the Commission for money.
• Small Role, Big Impact: They neglect and abuse Hawks until they sell him to the Commission for money. Their actions cause Hawks to have extremely low self-worth and lingering trust issues even in his adulthood.
• Unnamed Parent: Played for Drama. Their first names are never given as Hawks himself has no idea what his parents' names are due to their complete lack of contact with him after they sold him to the Commission. This fact brings him close to a mental breakdown after Mockingjay tells him his parents are dead since his parents are complete strangers to him.
• What You Are in the Dark: They know they'll get in trouble if their six year-old son dies in their house. Rather than give him away so he will be cared for elsewhere, they abandon him at parks and in the woods hoping he'll die there and finally be out of their hair.

Koichi Haimawari

Koichi Haimawari

Vigilante Identity: The Crawler (formerly "Nice Guy")
Quirk: Slide and Glide

A former(?) Vigilante who guards Rei Todoroki at the request of Tensei Iida.

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• Bad Liar: He can't come up with an answer when asked what Hero school he went to and suspiciously changes the subject.
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject: He laughs awkwardly whenever someone asks what Hero school he went to and changes the topic.
• Meaningful Name: Koichi means "happiness". Todoroki notes that Koichi's presence brings another layer of joy to the Todorokis new household separate from Endeavor, especially for Rei.
• Nice Guy: His kind and genuine nature endears him to Shoto and makes the latter trust him with his mother's life.
• Secret Identity: The Todorokis have no idea he was the Crawler though Shoto suspects he was or still is a Vigilante.

Makoto Tsukauchi

Makoto Tsukauchi

Quirk: Polygraph

Naomasa Tsukauchi's younger sister. She travels to America and meets up with Mockingjay for an investigation.

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• Call-Back: She mentions studying in America a few years prior and was present during the Capitol Incident of Mockingjay: Origin.
• Distinguishing Mark: She has one on the left side of her jaw. It's one of the first things Mockingjay notices about her.
• The Gadfly: She constantly teases Mockingjay and acts overly clueless in an attempt to get reactions out of her. Mockingjay simply ignores her.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Downplayed. Makoto is smart but she pretends to act far more clueless and oblivious than she is to get reactions out of people. Mockingjay sees through it and questions her motives even more than she already did.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: She's the cheerful, friendly, teasing one to Mockingjay's stern, stoic, no-nonsense demeanor.

Ennea Spoiler Characters

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The Vigilante

Finnick Odair

Hero Name: Poseidon
Nomu Designation: 210465 "Retiarius"
Vigilante Identity: "Ennea" (II)
Quirks: Hydrokinesis, Unnamed Shapeshifting Quirk, Unnamed Trident Summoning Quirk

"You are not broken. You are you. Take pride in that."

Originally Katniss' partner and close friend, he is killed by the Capitol before he can expose their corruption. His body is acquired by Ujiko and he is transformed into a unique Nomu called "Retiarius". He escapes and takes on the "Ennea" identity to protect Hawks.

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As Finnick:

• The Ace: He is a young, strong, skilled, and charismatic Hero who rises to the Top Four before he's twenty.
• The Face: He is the socially competent, charismatic one when he, Katniss, and Gale run their Hero Agency.
• Four Is Death: Finnick is the Number Four Ranked Hero in America when he is killed by Muttations.
• In Spite of a Nail: He is torn apart by Muttations, just like his canon counterpart.
• Like Brother and Sister: He and Katniss are like family, with her seeing him as a big brother figure.
• Making a Splash: Finnick's Quirk gives him hydrokinesis, or the ability to control water.
• Prongs of Poseidon: Like Katniss and her bow, a trident is his weapon of choice to use in tandem with his Hydrokinesis.
• Scarpia Ultimatum: The Capitol threatens to kill Katniss if Finnick does not agree to do sexual favors with interested patrons.
• Sex Slave: As per canon, Finnick is coerced into doing sexual favors for patrons in exchange for the Capitol Hero Committee's continued support of his and Katniss' agency. He also does it to keep any unfortunate accidents from happening to his loved ones. He initially refused and they killed his father.

As Retiarius and "Ennea"

• Because You Were Nice to Me: After Retiarius escapes the Doctor, everyone who sees his face screams and runs away. Hawks' kindness and concern for him at the mall (which he continues to show even after Hawks sees Retiarius is a Nomu) motivates Retiarius to resist his orders to capture Hawks. He protects him instead.
• Big Damn Heroes: He saves Hawks from Amplifier and Dabi from Kaetsu's Touya, who was in the process of burning him alive.
• Came Back Wrong: Finnick is resurrected as the Nomu Retiarius by the Doctor. His mind is in tatters, his memory of being Finnick is gone except for vague flashes of his death, and he loses his identity in the Nomu, only referring to himself as Retarius, "Ennea", or "we".
• Chekhov's Gunman: The Retiarius Nomu appears briefly in chapter twenty-one. He later arrives as "Ennea" to save Hawks from Amplifier and again from Kaetsu before he is revealed to be Finnick Odair.
• Collective Identity: He uses Ennea's costume and identity while saving Hawks from Amplifier's attack in his apartment and while rescuing him from Kaetsu.
• Foil: He is one to Hawks. Both are Pro Heroes who were trapped and abused by corrupt Hero organizations in their youth but unlike Hawks, Finnick died during his attempt to gain freedom. Both he and Hawks also have multiple minds and Quirks stuffed into them but while Hawks keeps his individuality and learns to coexist with the Voices, Finnick and the other minds in Retiarius merge into an painful amalgamation of personalities who don't know who they were. The latter comparisons disturb Hawks, who notes that Retiarius is a warped reflection of what himself and the Voices could have been.
• Identity Amnesia: Retiarius remembers nothing from his past life as Finnick except for a few vague things from his death like how Katniss was nearby but did not save him.
• Identity Impersonator: Done unintentionally on Hawks' end when "Ennea" appears and save Hawks from Amplifier, making it seem like Hawks can't be Ennea. Hawks has no idea who is underneath the mask even after Retiarius shapeshifts to reveal Finnick's face.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: He's a terrifying Nomu with malicious orders from All For One and the ability to shapeshift for infiltration purposes, but does everything he can to ignore those orders and protect people.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: As Retiarius, he has the ability to summon a seven-foot trident from thin air.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Part of what makes Retiarius so dangerous is his ability to shapeshift into looking like a normal, handsome human (unlike the other Nomu which are monstrously deformed). Subverted in that Retiarius is trying not to be a villain.
• Voice of the Legion: When he acts as "Ennea", his voice is described as a thousand men, women, and children speaking in haunting unison.

The Female Nomu

Both Real and Fake Nomu Jiro

• Back from the Dead: Subverted. At first it appears that Future Jiro's Nomu somehow came back to life in the past but the new one is nothing more than another Kaetsu creation.
• Light 'em Up: One of her Quirks gives her a light attack out of her mouth that is capable of burning away Dark Shadow. Red compares its heat to magma.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Her eyes are pure white, giving her an empty and unnerving stare.

Real Future Kyoka Jiro

Quirks: Earphone Jack, Unnamed Throat Light/Magma Quirk

The real Future Kyoka Jiro, who Red was forced to Mercy Kill in the Bad Future.

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• Brainwashed and Crazy: She was captured and turned into a Nomu who hates Yaoyorozu and blames her for her capture.
• Evil Sounds Deep: As a Nomu, her voice is so low and snarling that it's unrecognizable.
• Hero Killer: She killed Future Tokoyami by ripping his throat out.
• Off with Her Head!: Red killed her by removing her head.

The Fearful Fantasy Fake Future Jiro Nomu

Quirks: Earphone Jack, Unnamed Throat Light/Magma Quirk, Unnamed Voice Enhancing Quirk

The Nomu version of Jiro, who Kaetsu later manifests from Red's fear.

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• Make Me Wanna Shout: One of her Quirks allows her to shatter stone and mortar with her voice.
• Shape Shifter Guilt Trip: Right before she dies, her face transforms into human Jiro's with a terrified look. Then her head blows up. Needless to say, Tokoyami's traumatized.
• Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Her face transforms into normal human Jiro's right before Tokoyami accidentally causes her head to explode.
• Silent Antagonist: Unlike her real version, the fake Jiro almost never speaks. She only makes noise twice: once to say "Pretty bird." to Tokoyami with a bloody Slasher Smile, and once to shriek in glee when chasing Tokoyami to kill him.
• Slasher Smile: She grins at Tokoyami with bloodstained teeth after Kaetsu cuts off Hawks' wings.
• Your Head Asplode: Tokoyami kills her by holding her mouth shut with Dark Shadow as she powers up her throat light attack. Her head explodes.

The Boy

Kaetsu's Fake Touya Todoroki

Quirk: Cremation

The fake teenaged Touya that Kaetsu creates using Endeavor and Dabi's fears.

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• Break Them by Talking: He goads Dabi into attacking him by claiming he's a selfish coward who ran away from his problems and abandoned his family. Once Dabi explodes in rage and attacks, Fake Touya pretends to act afraid before serenely telling him he's worse than their father. This hits Dabi hard and he does not fight back as Fake Touya tries to burn him alive. Dabi only survives because of "Ennea".
• Creepy Child: He is a manifestation of Endeavor and Dabi's fears with unnatural movements, a Slasher Smile, and a high-pitched, unsettling laugh. He also tries to burn Dabi alive.
• Humanoid Abomination: He looks like a teenager but is a creation of Kaetsu's. Dabi notes he moves too quickly (or he straight up seems to teleport) and is much too strong for his size, giving him an eerie, uncanny aura.
• Kill It with Water: "Ennea" destroys him by dousing him with water as he's trying to burn Dabi alive.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a scathing lecture to Dabi by mocking him for becoming a Villain worse than Endeavor while claiming he abandoned his family for selfish reasons.
• Slasher Smile: He grins wickedly as he tries to burn Dabi to death.
• Villain Has a Point: He's absolutely correct that Dabi is a bad person who killed people and tore apart many families just because his own father abused him. Dabi himself realizes this and freezes up, allowing the fake Touya to attack him.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: He lures Tokoyami out of his house with his crying, then draws him close by acting like a scared, abused child.

The Commission Pro Hero

Vlad King

Civilian Name: Sekijiro Kan
Commission Agent Name: Ichor
Quirk: Blood Control

The homeroom teacher of Class 1-B who is a Commission spy in their ranks.

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• Adaptational Villainy: In canon, Vlad is a morally good and loyal Pro Hero who upholds a fair sense of justice. Here, he is a Commission agent who will remorselessly kill his coworkers if given the order and willingly poisons Hawks. When Vlad tries to kill Hawks himself, he cruelly strangles him after Hawks tries to fight him off. Snipe is disturbed and shocked by how unnecessarily brutal he is.
• Becoming the Mask: Defied. He muses that his Commission coworkers can make all the jokes they want about him "going soft" from working at UA. It's not going to happen. And it doesn't. When he reveals himself, he does not hesitate to try to kill Hawks, who he was seemingly sympathetic towards.
• Deadly Euphemism: He calls assassination "retirement" while in unsecured places.
• Double Agent: He work at UA as a teacher but is truly loyal to the Hero Commission.
• False Friend: He only pretends to be friendly with his coworkers, particularly Eraserhead, in order to keep suspicion off of himself. He seems to bond with Hawks and becomes a sympathetic shoulder to cry on when Hawks' parents are killed by the Commission. All the while, he's poisoning Hawks without him knowing.
• Foreshadowing: Hawks' insistence that there might be a Commission spy in UA initially seems like paranoia. It's not.
• Gaslighting: He acts as though Pathfinder and the Commission agents' deaths are Hawks' fault when it was Pathfinder herself who killed the latter and Snipe who killed the former to stop her. Vlad also tries to convince Hawks he is out of control and needs to be put down before more people are hurt. The only ones hurting people are the Commission agents and Vlad.
• Gender-Concealing Writing: In his introduction, he is referred to with "they" pronouns and is simply called "the Hero" to keep his gender and identity hidden from the readers.
• Mercy Kill: He sees (or pretends to see) killing Hawks as a mercy since he would be experimented on if he is captured alive.
• The Mole: He has infiltrated UA to keep an eye on them and recruit assets with potential for the Commission.
• The Unapologetic: He feels no remorse for manipulating things to ensure targets were expelled from Hero schools in order to be available for recruitment at the Commission. He also feels no guilt for trying to kill Hawks to the point of acting like Hawks was being stubborn for refusing a Mercy Kill.
• Undying Loyalty: He is completely loyal to the Commission and does not bat an eye at the thought of having to betray or even kill one of his coworkers. When ordered to violently kill Hawks, he tries to do it without any hesitation. Only Snipe's intervention saves Hawks' life.
• Walking Spoiler: The existence of a Commission spy at UA is foreshadowed throughout For Their Sakes but in a way that makes it seem like Hawks is merely being paranoid. Then the first chapter of For Our Sakes dropped, revealing a Commission plant actually is at UA. Chapter twenty-two reveals the spy is Vlad King.

The Gray Villain

Overhaul

Civilian Name: Kai Chisaki
Quirk: Overhaul, Unnamed Heat Attack Quirk

The (now former) leader of the Shie Hassaikai. He is arrested during his attempt to retrieve Eri, taken to the Doctor, and brainwashed into being a loyal servant of All For One.

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• Asshole Victim: He's a remorseless sociopath who tortured a child and killed her over and over in order to harvest her body to make Quirk-erasing bullets. It's difficult to feel bad for him when the Doctor gets hold of him and turns him into a glorified Nomu.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: He is experimented on by the Doctor and turned into a Nomu-like vessel whose only purpose is to serve his master, All For One.
• Creepy Monotone: He speaks in a toneless, emotionless voice after the Doctor breaks him.
• Empty Shell: He is completely broken by the Doctor's experimentation. His fight with Aizawa suggests he will not act without orders as he placidly allowed Pixie-Bob to cuff him until Midoriya shows up and says the League is trying to capture someone.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He experimented on and tortured Eri for her Quirk. The Doctor does the same thing to him for his Quirk, leaving him an empty shell who serves only All For One.
• Meaningful Echo: He says Gigotamachia's "Everything is for my master." phrase, showing how broken he is and that he is fully loyal to All For One.

The League's Spy at UA

Present Mic

Civilian Name: Hizashi Yamada
Quirk: Voice

The respected Voice Hero, UA teacher, and Eraserhead's best friend who was coerced into working for All For One as a traitor.

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• Apologetic Attacker: He tearfully apologizes to Hawks after drugging him and taking him to the Villains.
• Foil: To Vlad King. Both are teachers at UA who are spying on the school for different factions but while Vlad is completely loyal to the Commission and feels no remorse for his despicable actions, Mic has no loyalty to All For One, is a traitor to keep his friends safe, and deeply regrets what he had to do for his mission.
• Foreshadowing:
  • While driving Hawks out of UA and seemingly to the training camp, Mic verbally struggles with himself and tries to force himself to do something he does not want to. While it initially seems like Hawks convinced Mic to take him to the camp, he actually convinced Mic not to take him to All For One.
  • It initially appears Mic just so happened to put an ingredient in his chicken that made a Quirk enhancer less effective... except it turns out he did it intentionally so Hawks would survive his poisoning.
  • Mic is the only character Peanut takes issue with and tries to get him away from Hawks. This is despite Aizawa and Midnight being around cats, which was Mic's excuse for Peanut's behavior.
• Pet the Dog: Or rabbit, in this case. He refuses to harm Peanut to force Hawks into compliance and protects the rabbit from Giran.
• Regretful Traitor: He is deeply remorseful about spying on UA and what the League was able to do due to his information but feels he has no hope of turning against All For One without getting those closest to him killed.
• Sadistic Choice: After stumbling upon All For One's operations in his early adulthood, Present Mic was given a "choice": either work for All For One as a traitor by giving him information and ensure some protection for his friends in exchange, or refuse and get Aizawa, Shirakumo, and any Heroes he tried to involve killed. Present Mic had no All Might to turn to for help and so chose to work for All For One to keep his friends alive.
• Stepford Smiler: The Voice Hero is often cheerful and smiling, giving no signs of the tormented, guilt-ridden person he truly is due to having to spy on UA.

Mockingjay: Origin Characters

Katniss' Allies

Haymitch Abernathy (Ricochet)

Haymitch Abernathy

Hero Name: Ricochet
Quirk: Deflect

• The Alcoholic: Haymitch is an alcoholic, as per canon. His reasons for turning to drink differ; He was a rapidly rising Pro Hero who accidentally killed a villain he was fighting, causing everyone to turn against him and leaving him with only his booze for comfort.
• Attack Reflector: Haymitch's Quirk (Deflect) lets him reflect attacks back at his opponent with twice the force. He accidentally killed a villain he was fighting when he Deflected her axe back at her, cutting her in two.
• The Bus Came Back: He returns in For Their Sakes to teach Miruko how to infiltrate the Meta Liberation Army.
• Genre Savvy: He knows he lives in a Heroes-as-celebrities, media craze type of setting and uses it to his advantage. His experiences as a Pro Hero taught him how to manipulate the public in his favor and play the Capitol's Hero Society game. He uses this knowledge to cause a stir when he emerges back into the public eye and hypes citizen (and Hero) interest in finding a bunch of missing kids, among whom are Katniss. Doing this, he exposes and shuts down the Quirk Games in a way that is completely legal, leaving the Capitol unable to touch him in retaliation. He passes these lessons on to Katniss.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's gruff and surly but takes young Katniss under his wing and teaches her to become a Pro Hero.
• Papa Wolf: He storms out of hiding and causes a media ruckus to draw in enough attention to expose the Quirk Games and get Katniss back after she is kidnapped.

Primrose Everdeen

Primrose

Nicknames: Prim, Little Duck
Quirk: Green Gene

Katniss' younger sister.

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• Green Thumb: Her Quirk allows her to target the good growing genes in plants to make them grow faster, more bountiful, and tastier.
• In Spite of a Nail: She still dies in an explosion in front of Katniss, though she is seventeen and not thirteen like in the books.
• Man on Fire: She is caught in an explosion and burns alive in front of Katniss.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Downplayed. In the books, she is killed in the Capitol bombing when she is thirteen. In Mockingjay: Origin she dies four years later in a bombing when she is seventeen.

Gale Hawthorne (Galeforce)

Gale Hawthorn

Hero Name: Galeforce
Quirk: Twister

• Adaptational Heroism: Gale is still radical for a Pro Hero and hates society but he doesn't kill people for it like he does in the books (where he dropped a mountain on innocent civilians). He still gets Prim killed but he did not create the bomb that killed her and had no plan to drop it on children like in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
• Adaptational Villainy: Along with Adaptational Heroism, this is Implied to be the case for Gale. Katniss can't bear to look at the evidence released detailing the Capitol's plan to kill Prim because Gale might have been a knowing participant, either out of a desire to get back at Katniss or because the Capitol threatened his family.
• Blow You Away: His Quirk allows him to generate and manipulate winds and air currents.

Mrs. Everdeen

Mrs. Everdeen

Quirk: Greenspeech

Katniss' mother. She despises her daughter's Quirk and considers it a curse.

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• Green Thumb: Her Quirk allows her to talk to plants to encourage them to grow, though it is not as strong as Prim's.
• Parental Neglect: After the death of Katniss and Prim's father, their mother no longer functions. Katniss is responsible to caring for herself and Prim, and gets any money she can to keep a roof over their heads.
• Parental Title Characterization: As Origin progresses, Katniss goes from calling her "Mom" (when she's four) to "Mother" (after her mother slaps her for using her Quirk) to "the woman who gave birth to her" (after Mrs. Everdeen fails to show up at Prim's funeral). This signifies their deteriorating relationship.
• You're Not My Mother: Katniss disowns her after she fails to go to Prim's funeral.

Mockingjay: Origin Villains

President Snow

President Snow

Quirk: Pleasant Mask

• Affably Evil: He acts polite and friendly towards everyone, even the children he's setting up to die.
• All There in the Manual: His Quirk, Pleasant Mask, is only revealed in the FAQ for For Their Sakes.
• Asshole Victim: Snow is in charge of the Quirk Games until Katniss shoots him in the chest with an arrow. Seeing how his actions caused the deaths of twenty-two more children, no one feels bad for him.
• Charm Person: His Quirk is a subtle perception filter that makes him seem more affable and kindly than he actually is.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the book and film series, he either dies choking on his own blood or to a mob. In Mockingjay: Origin, Katniss shoots him with an arrow.
• Lack of Empathy: He sees nothing wrong with killing twenty-three children every year for sport.

Alma Coin

Alma Coin

Quirk: Detraction

• All There in the Manual: Her Quirk, Detraction, is only revealed in the FAQ for For Their Sakes.
• Asshole Victim: Coin is the corrupt President of the Capitol Hero Committee and kills Finnick and Prim. Even in-universe, no one feels bad when Katniss kills her and an unknown party tells the news she committed suicide instead of admitting she was killed by a Hero.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She is the president of the Capitol Hero Committee who funds Villain organizations and the Quirk Games under the table to keep Hero Society's cycle of Hero-Villain violence running.
• Driven to Suicide: This is the story the news tells the public after her corrupt actions are exposed and she's found dead. In reality, she was killed by Katniss.
• The Empath: Very downplayed. She can only sense when people feel negatively towards her.

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