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Japanese Pro-Heroes
Mirai Sasaki — Sir Nighteye
- Adaptational Nice Guy: After Toshinori and Inko get him to pull his head out of his ass and he spends time with her, Mirai becomes a lot more accepting of Izumi and eventually recognizes her as the rightful heir to One For All, developing a mentor like relationship with her in the process.
- Dies Differently In The Adaptation: Rather than being impaled by rocks and succumbing to his injuries like in canon, Mirai is kidnapped by The Therapist on orders of the League, has his mind broken to the point he's Laughing Mad, an entire SMG unloaded into his skull, and his body converted into High-End Nomu "Chatterbox".
- Laughing Mad: He's left like this after being subjected to The Therapists Quirk, carrying over when turned into the High-End Nomu "Chatterbox", now incapable of speech outside of a demented laugh.
Enji Todoroki — Endeavor
- 0% Approval Rating: Downplayed. Following his actions towards his family being exposed, Endeavor's ratings tanked all the way down to 400, as while he was able to return to active Hero work after his stint in a mental hospital, very few people cared for a known domestic abuser as a Hero, most of his agency even quitting with the few remaining doing so for the new head Moe Kamiji/Burnin, at the time only an Intern from Seiai Academy. It's noted he'll be lucky if he can ever reach the upper 200 again. That being said, many admit that for all his personality flaws, he was the Number 2 Hero for a reason, and was very efficient at his job, with Shoto receiving over a thousand Internship offers despite not making it to the third round solely because she's his daughter. Even in the present, his work ethic hasn't changed, and the only reason he's ranked so low is due to his abuse.Shoto: Despite what he did, he was still the number two hero for over two decades and probably still would be if his actions didn’t come to light.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. His canon actions regarding his family still occurred, but the events of the Avalon War and his crimes being exposed earlier in turn caused him to have his Heel Realization and subsequent Character Development much earlier.
- Demoted to Extra: While he was one of the most focused on characters outside of the main characters in canon once he began his redemption quest, he's only spoken of in passing here due to his crimes against his family being exposed much earlier, knocking him out of the Top 10 entirely and landing him with a restraining order from his former family. He doesn't even show up in person until Chapter 92, and only because Shuichi had the feeling his "Hellfire" Quirk would be needed to deal with any Nomu with regeneration Quirks.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: In addition to his canon psychosis, Endeavor suffered a mental breakdown as a result of being subjected to Paxton's torture, necessitating he spend three years in a mental institution. While he eventually managed to recover, he was noted to be one of the lucky ones and is all but said to still suffer PTSD.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- After learning what Overhaul did to Eri, he admits that while he's certainly not father of the year, he'd never have torn his children apart like Overhaul did. He also admits to himself that if he had learned of this earlier prior to Overhaul's murder, he'd have broken into his compound and murdered the man himself for what he did.
- For all his faults, he would never willingly work for the HPSC, both before and after the Avalon War. The only reason they ever had control over him was because they used his treatment of his family as blackmail. Once that was made public, he severed all ties with them, and made clear to them what he thought about their offer to make him the new Number 1, especially when one of their reps tries to offer his family back as enticement.
- He and Rei may have had a Quirk Marriage, but it was entirely consensual between the two, and there was once love between them. So he is disgusted by RAFT and their desire to force Quirk Marriages that reduces participants to breeding slaves.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After being tortured by Paxton and regularly seeking therapy, he has come to regret everything he did to his family much earlier than he did in canon, thinking its for the best that they have a restraining order against him after all he's done. It still pains him that he hurt them so much, and yet Rei still refuses to divorce him.
Top 10 Heroes
Moe Kamiji — Burnin
- Ascended Extra: After the events of the Avalon War and Endeavor falling from the top ten rankings, Burning ended up becoming the new Number 2 Hero, giving her an increased presence in the story, aided further via her trying to be a Cool Big Sis to Shoto and a Hopeless Suitor to Toshinori. Once she is promoted to the new Number 1 Hero ranking, she gets even more focus, specifically pertaining to her insecurities regarding being overshadowed by the legacy of All Might.
- Loves My Alter Ego: She's been trying for years to get a date with "Toshinori Yagi", the secretary to "All Might", unaware the two were the same person and that she was a Hopeless Suitor overall. Once Toshinori reveals his identity publicly and announces his retirement, Moe is not only miffed to know they were the same person, but has to abandon her pursuit of him due to the negative PR that could arise from her trying to date the now retired-Number 1.
- Oh, Crap!: Goes through this in the wake of All Might's retirement announcement for two reasons: first being that she is now the new Number 1 Hero with him no longer being active, and secondly because of how she had a crush on Toshinori Yagi while unaware that he was All Might.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Something Moe has to contend with when she is stuck with the role of the new Number 1 Hero. No one, from the public, to the HPSC, to even Toshinori and Moe herself, thinks she can take the place of All Might as a Symbol of Peace, causing society to suffer for it, both the public losing faith in her, and Villain attacks being on the rise. The League of Villains actually planned on killing her during the Hero Billboard Ranking event specifically to highlight this, making it seem like she was a Sketchy Successor to the position by siccing Hood on her. While they failed to kill her thanks to Izumi quickly dispatching Hood, the damage was still done, with those not wanting Izumi to take the Number 1 Hero position still losing faith in Moe.
Rumi Usagiyama — Mirko
- Blood Knight: She's infamous for her battle crazy nature, something that causes great pause in those who see Izumi unintentionally emulating her. It's noticing that very trait in Izumi that convinces Rumi to make Izumi her "kit".
- Cool Big Sis: She quickly takes to Izumi after making Izumi her intern, seeing herself in the young "kit" and wanting to help her be the best she can be.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She took part in the Avalon War when she was still a student, being on an internship during her second year at Seiai when she got thrown into the thick of it. Eleven of her classmates never came back to school, while all but one of her sister class, Ryuko Tatsuma/"Ryukyu", was gone too, either suffering career ending injuries or dying outright, as was the case with four of her closest friends. Alongside the mental trauma suffering the war brought, it instilled in Rumi a deep hatred for both robots and the HPSC for drafting the students in the first place.
- Everyone Has Standards: She may be a Blood Knight with a tendency for trash talking, but she values mental health very much due to her own issues, and understandably avoids needling Izumi's insecurities during training after seeing how bad she has it, and refrains from her usual roofhopping so as to not trigger Izumi's phobias.
- Explosive Breeder: Turns out her quirk gives her a similar reproductive cycle to that of an actual rabbit, and makes it easy to get pregnant. While she herself has no kids, she is one of forty two siblings, one of her sisters acting as her manager. One of the downsides Rumi has to deal with whenever she hides from the press at her parents place is that they tend to have sex sixteen hours a day, previously twenty were it not for aforementioned sister, Rani, convincing them to dial it down a bit.
- Fantastic Racism: Due to having fought in the Avalon War, she does not like robots, especially ones with AI. This makes it a bit difficult when she takes on Izumi, as she has barely restrained anger at Durandal whenever he addresses her, only beginning to lighten up when Durandal vocalizes how much he hates Dr. Paxton
- Hidden Depths: Her Blood Knight nature is partially a case of bravado she takes on to make others take her seriously, as her family was often stigmatized as being "timid little bunnies".
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: A more literal example. As she'd already expressed interest in Izumi plenty of times before, the moment she stops by the Idaten Agency and sees Izumi is set to do her work studies there, Rumi proceeds to grab both her and Durandal before bolting, deciding then and there to make Izumi her "kit"/unofficial intern, dragging the confused duo back to the apartment building she's squatting at.
Tensei Iida — Ingenium
- Abled in the Adaptation: Stain being hit by Eri's Quirk and accepted into Nezu's Villain Rehabilitation program means Tensei is never crippled by him, allowing him to continue acting as a Hero past the fic's equivalent of the Hosu arc.
- Adaptational Badass: While his canon ranking is unknown, he wasn't in the Top 10 before he was forced into an early retirement. Here, he's the Number 7 ranked Hero.
- Not So Above It All: He sent Rolls an internship offer her first year just because her full name is based on a car.
Internship Heroes
Yu Takeyama — Mt. Lady
- Adaptational Nice Guy: She undergoes her canon Character Development a lot earlier here due to witnessing Izumi break down in front of her, deciding to take further training with U.A. so as to never be as useless as she felt she was when Katsuki was in trouble, and never let anyone like Izumi down ever again.
- Berserk Button: Do not in any way insult Izumi around her. Doing so will instantly piss her off and remind her of her inaction and failing her. Death Arms in particular manages to piss her off when he claims "Usako" shouldn't be a Hero to cover his damaged ego.
- Friends with Benefits: She's one of several to Bunny, the two having met via UA's Improvement Program and hitting it off together, Kyoka unfortunately learning such thanks to her Quirk.
- My Greatest Failure: She considers her inaction during the Slime Villain incident this, more specifically her failure to help Katsuki and seeing Izumi get berated for trying to help. The incident causes her to seek further training to make up for her weaknesses, and kickstarts her canon Character Development earlier.
- Noodle Incident: At some point during his internship with her, she ended up sitting on Minoru. How and why this happened is unknown, but it's something he struggled with keeping to himself in his effort to improve.
"Ryuzaki" — Shinigami
- Ambiguously Related: It's heavily implied that she is Hana Shimura, the older sister of Tenko Shimura, aka, Tomura Shigaraki. In addition to her Quirk, "Rot", allowing her to rapidly decay anything she touches with all five fingers, Toru notes she reminds her of Tomura in both behavior and Quirk, "Shinigami" dismissing it due to all of her family being "dead". Even appearance wise she's described as having scarred lips and scratch marks littering her neck, just like Tomura's. Whether she actually is Hana though remains to be seen. When she later faces Tomura and Kurogiri herself, she claims to know Dr. Garaki and is fully aware of Kurogiri being a Nomu, claiming she's "the puppet who cut her strings", all but saying she is a former disciple of All For One like Tomura currently is, further reinforced by All For One calling her a "prototype" that he thought he killed over a decade ago.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Her quirk, "Rot", allows her to decay any organic material she touches with all of her fingers, a power similar to Tomura's, who uses it for villainy. However, while Shinigami is willing to kill, she is still a good person and a Hero.
- Brutal Honesty: She pulls no punches in telling Toru that she would be much more effective as an Underground Hero than a limelight one, and that her want to be noticed and visible to the public will just get her killed.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: To the unaware observer, she just looks like a Death Note fangirl who likes to cosplay as L. She's actually an extremely effective Underground Hero however, and when the situation calls for it, she knows when to drop her acting like L in favor of efficiency, typically when interacting with Tomura Shigaraki.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: Downplayed. She doesn't just dress like "L", she acts like him too, down to using his civilian alias of "Ryuzaki" and trying to invoke a Comically Small Bribe when someone notices, even changing Toru's ringtone to play "The WORLD" whenever she calls. She tends to drop the act when the situation is serious, or when interacting with Tomura Shigaraki.
- Hero's Evil Predecessor: Inverted. It's all but directly said that, much like Number 6 was and Toya/Dabi had intended to be, she was Tomura Shigaraki's predecessor as All For One's apprentice, even being referred to as the "Prototype" by All For One. Around a decade prior however, someone All For One calls a "freak" managed to make her realize what her "sensei" had planned for her, and proceeded to go rogue, All For One thinking he managed to kill her, with her instead taking on the name "Ryuzaki" and becoming the Underground Hero "Shinigami".
- In the Hood: Her "L" cosplay is more accurately just her civilian clothes. Her actual Hero costume has her don a black hooded robe and a skull mask, making her more resemble a grim reaper.
- Spanner in the Works: Her interacting with Tomura is a major setback to All For One's plans. All For One has spent over a decade grooming Tomura into being an engine of hatred with an indomitable will, specifically so he can take Tomura's body for himself and then reclaim One For All. Shinigami's presence however is causing Tomura to lose his will as he begins questioning All For One's motives more and more, making him less and less viable a candidate for All For One's plans. It's for this reason All For One has begun looking into another possible candidate to take the body of.
International
I-Island
Melissa Viro Shield (Unmarked Spoilers)
- Adaptation Species Change: Played with. She was born human, but was rendered braindead as a baby during the attack that took the life of her mother, Felicity Shield. After David made a deal with the Cardrian ambassador Thassouse however, she was converted into a Cardrian herself, reviving her, but turning her into a living swarm with a human appearance.
- Child Prodigy: She was already a genius at the age of six, being partly responsible for I-Island's security upgrades alongside her father David. Her intellect is shown to be partly inherited from David, partly owed to her Cardrian biology.
- Ditzy Genius: While a certified genius and responsible for a lot of useful support gear and defense systems for I-Island, she can easily overlook some of the more important details in her fervor, such as not knowing how to remove the goggles and exosuit she put on Izumi and Ochaco, forcing the two of them to wear them to the gala.
- Extra Parent Conception: She was born of the humans David and Felicity Shield, but, following her brain death, was revived as a Cardrain by their ambassador Thassouse Veeggishi Viro, effectively making Thassouse her second mother.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Normally averted as, despite her now Cardrian physiology, she physically appears identical to her canon self, but she can change her skin to her races natural green with a thought.
- Insistent Terminology: Melissa is insistent that when someone introduces her by name, they use her full name "Melissa Viro Shield", becoming a Mood-Swinger in some cases where she can be downright terrifying to those that do it accidentally. She notes its a habit she's trying to break. She later explains it's because "Viro" is the name of her swarm, and is just as much her name as "Melissa" is due to her entire being stemming from the Viro swarm.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Downplayed. She is very flirtatious and open about the fact she is into Friends with Benefits, finding the idea of monogamy strange, with Ochaco even noting she's worse than the already openly kinky Rolls. She later explains that Cardrian's just have a naturally high libido.
- Pro-Human Transhuman: Following her being rendered braindead as a baby, she was revived by being converted into a "Cardrian", a race of alien that normally reproduces by virtue of Kill and Replace, the Cardrian ambassador Thassouse spawning from her own swarm, just without actually replacing Melissa. She's still firmly on the side of humanity despite her now alien physiology.
- The Swarm: Following her being turned into a Cardrian, she effectively became a swarm of alien insects that were spawned from Thassouse Veeggishi Viro, the swarm allowing the revival of Melissa's once brain dead mind. Being a swarm of insects gives her Nigh-Invulnerability in terms of physicality, and can allow her to reconfigure her body into different shapes, such as the suit of armor Izumi wore to defeat Wolfram.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her since her debut arc is what firmly establishes the existence of aliens being a major part of the setting of the fic, or that she is a transhuman alien.
Sematicks (Unmarked Spoilers)
Sematick Imperium
In General
- Dark Is Not Evil: They're very dark in aesthetics and behavior, looking like The Empire with elements of both the Galactic Empire and the Imperium of Man. That being said, they don't conquer or invade non-hostile Sematick elements, and only wish to protect the galaxy from rogue Sematicks while reuniting their people under Mother.
- The Empire: They're fashioned as one, originally being the Arcistis Sematicks serving directly under Mother, but have since expanded via conquering other more h/ostile Sematick subspecies and unifying as the "Sematick Imperium", the original Arcistis now only making up a seventh of the Imperium's current forces.
- Expy: Aesthetically at least, they're a mix between the Galactic Empire from Star Wars, and the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40,000.
- Humanoid Aliens: They're all virtually indistinguishable from humans, which makes it easy for them to blend in on Earth. The only notable difference between Sematicks and Humans is that the formers brains are much further developed, granting them access to psionic abilities.
- Human Subspecies: While originally Sematicks shared a common ancestor and were effectively a single race, following the "Great Collapse"/the fall of the old Sematick Republic, the Sematicks were spread across the known galaxy, with several millennia before they could reestablish contact with one another. In that time, the surviving Sematicks effectively speciated, becoming hundreds of subspecies, or "variants" as they call themselves, each having their own unique abilities, and no longer being able to procreate with other Sematicks outside of their own subspecies. These subspecies had also long since established their own governments, with the Arcistis Sematicks under Mother conquering them and absorbing them into the Imperium.
- Not Me This Time: Due to the manner of their deaths matching that of how a Dreadnaught typically deals with a Heretic, it's believed by the public at large that Goto Imasuji/"Muscular" and Moonfish were two of the many victims of the Dreadnaught Case. Following a similar killing of Kai Chisaki however, Clair makes clear to Doreen that the Dreadnaughts weren't responsible for any of them, but that there's a Sematick running around killing Villains while leaving a message in their blood, said message being in a dead language from a long extinct Sematick subspecies.
- Playing Both Sides: To make it easier to hunt down Heretics, they have agents hidden amidst both the Heroes and the Villains, such as Clair for the former, and Kiruka for the latter.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: The leader of the group assigned to Earth, the "Prefect", would much rather spend time abusing his authority rather than actually hunting the Heretics, even ordering Zaraba be left for last despite how dangerous that would be, and reallocating resources meant to aid the cause of the Imperium towards... letting him play golf in Poland. Said behavior has started to rouse the suspicions of Sarada and Clair, the former deciding to conduct his own investigation, revealing ties to the Mireesh Syndicate, and potential corruption behind the scenes, making clear to Sarada the Prefect is compromised and needs to be arrested once enough evidence is obtained.
Saqura — Mother
- Good Is Not Soft: While she gives the general vibe of a sweet and kind mother, even having a Motherly Side Plait and frequently seen tending to her garden to add to the image, she is not to be trifled with, particularly if it involves a Heretic.
- It's All My Fault: She blames herself for the Heretics straying from her path, a sentiment she expresses quite often according to Sarada, who notes she's said as such to him over a hundred times now.
- Physical God: She's the patron goddess of the Sematicks, the very goddess Ochaco frequently prays to, and is very much an actual person.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Whenever a Sematick dies with their soul intact, their soul returns to her. While this is good for most Sematicks as she loves her children, Heretics are offered no such comfort, their souls returning to her being a Fate Worse than Death as she proceeds to burn them to ash for going against her teachings.
Dreadnoughts
In General
- Hero with Bad Publicity: By all legal standards, they're Villains responsible for over fifty years worth of Vigilante Execution, with only a third of their kills actually being Villains, which is what prompts the WHA to try investigating them. However, all of their "victims" were either Heretics that committed some form of atrocities, or the soulless shells of the Heretics victims, something they can't just admit due to needing to keep up The Masquerade. One such example would be when Mirko confronts a Dreadnought after they seemingly slaughtered the Creature Rejection Clan: all but one of the clan had already been left soulless puppets, with the one remaining being the Heretic responsible and the only one that Dreadnought actually killed.
- Leave No Witnesses: Played with. Part of what makes the "Dreadnought" case so challenging for the WHA is the fact that, even when there are survivors or people who would normally qualify as witnesses readily available, none of them actually know anything, with either their memories having been altered, or their perception of time altered, making it impossible to pin down what happened. The only reason the WHA knows as much about the case as they do is thanks to Clair, her Quirk allowing her to pick up on trace evidence no normal person could identify, her doing so as a way to make the Dreadnoughts take better care of covering their tracks. The actual Dreadnoughts zigzag this in terms of people who aren't their targets. Some don't go out of their way to kill witnesses, instead settling for erasing their memories like with the Water Hose duo and a young Ochaco. Others though, like Kiruka, slaughter anyone in the immediate vicinity so as to leave no trace whatsoever.
- Soul-Saving Crusader: The Dreadnoughts are a force handpicked by Mother herself, tasked with hunting down and killing Heretic Sematicks who would commit atrocities in her name. Considering many Heretics are soul eating psychopaths that have Half-Human Hybrid children solely to serve as a Body Backup Drive, their actions aren't exactly unwarranted.
- Would Hurt a Child: Numerous Heretics have been teenagers that were tempted by a lust for power, causing them to commit horrible acts that only disgust the Dreadnoughts that cut them down, both the acts themselves, and the fact someone so young could do it.
Sarada
- Blood Knight: Not normally, but he ends up engaging Mirko in a fight after she manages to blindside him, reminding him what it's like to feel pain, and wanting to feel the sensation more by fighting her.
- Going Native: He's been on Earth for a long time, and has begun to adapt to various memes as a result, much to Clair's annoyance.Sarada: The Prefect's actions are starting to look, sus.Clair: (groans telepathically) You’ve been on Earth for too long.Sarada: (As he chuckles) Maybe.
- Humanoid Aliens: He's a pureblooded Sematick, specifically of the "Arcistis" subspecies, making him an "Imperial", but looks fully humanoid.
- Noodle Incident: He apparently tried flirting with a "bug woman" once, and she nearly tried to eat his face as a result.
- Not So Above It All: While he may present himself as a serious minded individual, he has no problem quoting Pre-Quirk memes, nor does he hesitate to give Izumi an autograph when he runs into her at the mall, and openly admits to finding Mirko attractive right before they fight.
- Swiss-Army Appendage: His right arm is a metal appendage skeletal in design, and can be retracted to deploy other tools, most prominently being a red Psionic blade. According to Beltarous's memories, its meant to be a replacement for the arm he lost killing a Heretic.
- Terror Hero: Invoked. Despite his visage being no different from that of the average Dreadnought, looking like a blend of Darth Vader and Death itself, he uses a cover identity of being an Underground Hero so he can move indiscriminately.
- Vague Age: It's unclear how old he actually is. While pure-blooded Sematicks can live to be around 200, and he appeared physically the same as when he first met Beltarous and Kiruka as children, it's hard to tell how old he's supposed to be under that helmet.
Affiliates
Clair Phantom — Clair Voyance
- Adaptation Species Change: In canon, she's purely human. Here, she is half-human, half-Sematick.
- Covert Pervert: On the clock, she is very professional and work focused. Off the clock, she is very kinky and dirty minded, having numerous Friend with Benefits relationships.
- Dating Catwoman: One of her Friends with Benefits is Kiruka Hasaki, aka the Villain Slice. It makes more sense considering they're both on the same side and just infiltrating different factions, and the whole "Hero-Villain" thing even factors into their foreplay.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Unlike her half-sister Rolls, she's a Human-Sematick hybrid, sharing a Sematick father with Rolls, but having had a human mother who died during the Avalon War.
- Mole in Charge: While she may be the one leading the WHA investigation into the "Dreadnought" case, she's actually affiliated with them herself, her being in charge serving to both gain inside information and make sure the Dreadnoughts don't slip up or get lazy. Being pulled off the case and reassigned to aid Japan in tracking down the League and Avalon in turn frustrates her, since she can't keep her ear to the ground as often now.
- Promoted to Parent: With their father busy at the Arctic, her own mother dead, and Rolls's mother missing, Clair was the one who had to act as a guardian for Rolls.
- Shared Family Quirks: She and her sister Rolls have a lot in common with each other, both being very kinky when off the clock and being great at strategy.
- Sixth Ranger: She and Rolls are not actually part of the Imperium, rather they, as Traram Sematicks, are affiliated with the "United Kingdoms of Planets", whom the Imperium are allied with.
Doreen Musasabi
- Half-Human Hybrid: She's half-Sematick, though what subspecies she is is currently unknown, just that she's not an Imperial due to not being with the Imperium, and she's not a Royal as Clair is the only Royal Hybrid apart of their group.
- Not Quite Flight: Her Quirk, "Flying Squirrel", gives her a mutation allowing her to glide through the air like her Quirk's namesake.
- O.C. Stand-in: She doesn't really have a character beyond being Clair's sidekick with a Flying Squirrel Quirk in canon. Here, she's given a personality and somewhat more focus, shown to both be in a casual relationship with her boss as well as have a deep disdain for the Humarise cult upon learning the true extent of their plans, initially struggling to understand Clair's pity for Beros until learning more of her circumstances.
- Shout-Out: Her name is a clear nod to Doreen Allene Green, aka The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
Beltarous — Beros
- All for Nothing: She can only bemoan to herself how years of dedicated service, killing, and planning was all undone by a quartet of individuals taking over all of Humarise besides herself. As their taking control of the group and massacring the entire Quirkless population of the organization is what prompts her to seek asylum with Avalon, leading to her capture by the World Heroes Association, and her telling them about the usurpers thinking they'd simply stop the massacres since Humarise publicly hadn't committed any crimes results in the WHA discovering their Trigger Bombs, meaning even if the WHA stopped the quartet before rendering the rest of Humarise braindead/soulless, the surviving members would have been locked up anyway.
- An Arm and a Leg: After being captured by the WHA, she had a tracking chip implanted in her right arm. During a trip to Japan that would have seen her transferred to Tartarus, the ship she was on suffered an explosion and crashed, Beros using the opportunity to cut her right arm off and escape.
- Ascended Extra: She was just the Starter Villain in her movie of origin, not really having a role outside of hunting Izuku and Rody. Here, she's a much more frequent presence, is much more fleshed out as a character, and is left as the Sole Survivor of Humarise.
- Boomerang Bigot: Despite being Quirked herself, she fully ascribes to Humarise's dogma that Quirks are a disease needing to be purged, hence her having no issue in the development of the Trigger Bombs and what would be considered flat out genocide. Clair Voyance deconstructs this when explaining to her sidekick Doreen why she pities Beros rather than despise her, reminding Doreen that Humarise is a cult first and foremost, and people like Beros were indoctrinated into sharing their belief sets. Something reinforced when she begins to regain her memories from her time as Beltarous, where she lacked any of those beliefs and actually loved her Quirk since her papa trained her in using it, and realized she initially joined Humarise just to get revenge on Argonaut.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Beros spent two years in a mental hospital after getting shrapnel embedded in her head by Argonaut, following his Honey Trap plan to get to her mentor. She later cuts off her own arm while escaping WHA captivity since they had implanted a tracking chip in it.
- Honey Trap: The victim of one. Her animosity with Argonaut stems from the fact he enacted one with her so as to get close to her mentor and kill him, along with said trap getting her head stuck with shrapnel and requiring she spend two years in a mental hospital.
- Identity Amnesia: Following Argonaut's Honey Trap, Beros lost most of her memory related to who she was, believed to be a result of brain damage from the shrapnel in her head. She ends up realizing this when on the run from the WHA while trying to remember her "papa", but can neither remember his name nor face. When Kiruka finds her however and begins to jog her memory, she slowly begins to remember her past life as Beltarous. Kiruka later notes that her memory loss was more a result of her memories being locked away by her father when he created a shield to protect her mind from Heretics, and that it's slowly being broken as she regains her memories.
- Named by the Adaptation: In World Heroes Mission, there was no indication as to whether "Beros" was her actual name, or just a codename she used as part of Humarise. Here, it's made clear it was a codename, but also the only name she knew herself as, her real name being revealed later as she begins to remember her past: Beltarous.
- Related in the Adaptation: Beros had no connection to Slice outside of just being characters introduced in movies. Here, Kiruka and Beltarous were Childhood Friends, almost like sisters, with Kiruka trying to help Beltarous regain her memories now that she's finally found her again.
- Sole Survivor: Due to her immunity to the powers of the four Humarise Usurpers, Beros manages to escape being rendered braindead/soulless and/or killed like the rest of Humarise.
- Tragic Villain: Despite her beliefs, Beros is given a fair amount of sympathy for her situation. She's a radical believer in what is essentially a cult, but she was indoctrinated into that belief set, had genuine friends there and had to watch them be turned into braindead puppets, helpless the entire time. She ends up turning to Avalon and, when that failed, the WHA for help in saving them, only to learn they're long dead, her beliefs are rendered All for Nothing, and she is left just waiting to be locked away for the rest of life. It's made even worse when she finally begins to remember who she was before Argonaut killed her mentor, since said mentor was actually her adoptive father, and she only joined Humarise initially to get revenge on Argonaut for killing him, by that point not even being able to remember her papa's name. The more she remembers, the more she ends up realizing all she lost, and just how much Argonaut killing him ruined her life.
Kiruka Hasaki — Slice
- Adaptation Species Change: Whereas she was purely human in canon, here she's a Half-Human Hybrid, specifically half Sematick, more specifically the daughter of a Heretic initially intended to serve as their Body Backup Drive.
- Adaptational Badass: In addition to her Prehensile Hair Quirk, she also possesses the powers naturally inherited of the Sematick race, namely psionic abilities including telekinesis.
- Adaptational Heroism: While still a Villain here, she's more accurately an Anti-Villain, an affiliate of the Dreadnoughts trying to hunt down Heretics before they can cause any atrocities, tackling the "Villain" side while Clair tackles the "Hero" side.
- Berserk Button: Do not harm her hair, lest Red Eyes, Take Warning occur.
- Related in the Adaptation: Slice and Beros have no connection in canon, the only thing they had in common being that they're female villains introduced in the movies. Here, Kiruka was Childhood Friends with Beros's past identity Beltarous, almost like sisters, and, after she disappeared following Argonaut killing Atsuo, Kiruka tried searching for her, eventually reuniting with her following Beros's escape from the WHA.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: There's no indication she's related to Nine or his crew here.
Jack Akatani
- The Alcoholic: A recovering case. When he first met Chitose at a bar as she was Drowning Her Sorrows, he explains to her how he used to do the same, but all it did was nearly destroy his relationship with his sister, causing him to get clean and avoid the stuff.
- Canon Character All Along: His name and physical description match that with the protagonist of Horikoshi's original one-shot My Hero, "Jack Midoriya", aided by his mentioning of a sister implied, and later confirmed, to be Inko.
- Cool Car: He's got a rather nice Sedan that he's fond of, and tends to get annoyed with how often Kiruka keeps taking it without asking. He actually steals it back the night she was trying to help Beros remember her past and left her with a junker to use instead, Kiruka wanting to chuck him into the ocean for it while he rushes off to get to his date.
- Has a Type: According to Izumi, Jack has a preference for women with unnatural skin pigmentation, which is what clues her and Chiharu in to Chitose's new boyfriend indeed being Izumi's uncle.
- Mythology Gag:
- Fitting with the implication he's Jack Midoriya, the prototype for Izuku, his design when meeting Chitose is heavily reminiscent of the disguise Izuku wore in canon when trying to rescue Katsuki, having slicked back hair, a blue jacket and trousers, black dress shoes, and a pair of Cool Shades.
- His surname "Akatani" is drawn from the name of Izuku's second prototype, "Mikumo Akatani".
Hisashi Midoriya
- Chubby Chaser: implied to be one, as he can't help but look a little disappointed after Inko is hit with the Fountain of Youth, since she's no longer as "cuddly".
- Cold-Blooded Torture: The victim of such. After he was captured and falsely reported dead, he was viciously tortured by a pair of unknown assailants trying to get information on Izumi's Quirk. They burned his eyes, tore out his ribs, removed a kidney and lung, broke his bones, scarred his arms and legs, beat him, starved him, and infected his heart with a bacteria that was slowly killing him.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Subverted. After having last been present for the Sports Festival, Hisashi seemed to be revealed as the latest in a series of murders on the Lunar Colony, a victim of Cold-Blooded Torture. His death was falsely reported however, as he was still alive but being brutally tortured by his assailants until Jack managed to find and rescue him. META2012 even lampshades the unlikeliness of them using this trope on Hisashi.META: Did you really think I was going to kill him off like that?
- Eye Scream: When Izumi gets a look at his eyes after he lands right in front of her, she can see the eyeballs themselves are burned, Hisashi saying it was part of the torture he was subjected to.
- O.C. Stand-in: Since Hisashi in canon is a Disappeared Dad with not an iota of characterization to him, his character here is essentially invented whole cloth.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: While he was reported as having been tortured and killed on the Lunar Colony, only the former was true. He was actually still alive and rescued by Jack, albeit in critical condition from the torture. Once he and Jack make it back to Earth and accidentally land in front of Izumi, he has to be airlifted to a hospital in Europe for special treatment so he doesn't die.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Hisashi loves his wife and daughter and would love nothing more than to always be there for them, but working for the Yaoyorozu company at their lunar base means he's rarely ever home, not helped by the ludicrous prices for a round-trip ticket between Japan and the Moon being way above his paygrade. As such, he has to settle for video calls with them and regularly sending gifts. Izumi doesn't mind too much, as she wants her dad to follow his dream of working on the moon, but there are times she laments not having him around and missing him.
Rody Soul
- Adaptational Heroism: He's not forced to work shady jobs or act as a thief here thanks to working directly for Clair as an actual pilot.
- Adaptation Deviation: He lacks his patchwork clothes here due to being employed by Clair, instead wearing a genuine pilots uniform.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unknown if his father had anything to do with the Humarise cult this time around, and whether or not he's still alive.
Heretics (Unmarked Spoilers)
In General
- Aliens Are Bastards: They are a group of Sematicks who use their psychic abilities to their fullest, and most horrific, extent, devouring souls and possessing the bodies of their targets to slowly gain power, all in the name of the Sematick's leader, Mother. Notably, they are so horrible that the Mother they worship so feverously built a group of assassins, the Dreadnoughts, solely to track them all down and exterminate them.
- Beyond Redemption: In the eyes of the Imperium, it doesn't matter how old a Heretic is, even if they're a child, the moment they begin acting against the will of Mother, there is no going back.
- Body Surf: They can transfer their soul and consciousness to any soulless body, using this to slowly gain power over time. That said, this system is not perfect, as the power they have will slowly tear these bodies apart from the inside out, forcing the Heretics to constantly find new hosts to avoid death or breed a half-Sematick hybrid to gain a body that won't burn out as quickly.
- Defiant to the End: If anything positive can be said about the Heretics, it is that they refuse to cower in the face of death, whether that be from a Dreadnought or something else, and will either fight or do everything to reach their goals till their last breath.
- The Dreaded: They may be outclassed by the Dreadnoughts, but make no mistake, their myriad of powers makes them a terrifying force, one who is rightfully feared by anyone who doesn't have the means to counter them. This is especially true of the older ones, to the point where more inexperienced Dreadnoughts like Slice will straight up refuse to track them down, leaving only the eldest of Dreadnoughts to the task.
- The Fundamentalist: At their core, they are a group of religious fundamentalists who believe that using their powers to their full, terrifying extent makes them the true servants of their beloved Mother. The fact that said Mother is horrified by their actions to the point of wanting them all dead is lost on the Heretics.
- Teens Are Monsters: A not so insignificant number of Heretics are teenagers, either following the groups religious dogma or tempted by the power that would come from becoming one.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Sematicks are already a case of Humanoid Aliens, making it easy for Heretics to blend in with the population with Earth. They use this to their advantage to seduce humans and create half-Sematick hybrids they can later turn into permanent hosts, and take it even further by body surfing into the bodies of those whose souls they devoured, making them literally human until they start to suffer Possession Burnout.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: All Heretics have the ability to devour the souls of any unfortunate target they choose, often doing so to possess the body of the now soulless corpse or turn them into a puppet.
Zaraba
- Arc Villain: He serves as this for the Training Camp Arc, being the only villain 1-A faces during this time, and one that pushes the group to their limits.
- Didn't See That Coming: His defeat ultimately lied in him having no way of knowing that "One For All" would No-Sell his soul stealing ability, thus giving Izumi, or Kudo controlling her body, enough time to both laid a fatal blow using Gearshift and prevent him from body surfing to Ochaco on his last seconds of life.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even he finds Minoru's perverted mind to be abhorrent.
- Fatal Flaw: His sadism which, as mentioned below, does nothing but cause problems for him and ultimately leads to his demise.
- Long-Lived: According to the intel of the Dreadnoughts, he's well over 500 years old, which is part of the reason he was considered the most dangerous of the Humarise usurpers.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His incessant need to be as much of a needlessly sadistic prick as possible ends up biting him in the ass consistently.
- His attempt to break 1-A's trust in themselves by revealing their dark secrets leads him to reveal that Durandal is not only a robot created by Paxton, but that he also possesses a Quirk Emulator. With this secret out, Durandal has no reason to hold back anymore, and uses said emulator to cancel Zaraba's People Puppet ability and his terrifying presence that literally brought 1-A to their knees.
- When all seems lost, he crushes Himiko's body into a ball of meat, knowing that she will come back safely, and seemingly devours Izumi's soul just to further break 1-A's spirits. This pisses Ochaco off enough to gain a Traumatic Superpower Awakening, one that very nearly ends up killing the Heretic then and there.
- Worf Had the Flu: Flect Turn's body being unable to withstand him is the only thing that keeps Zaraba from unleashing his full powers. The fact that he still dominates 1-A in a direct fight and only loses due to something he had no way of predicting speaks volumes about just how powerful he is. As the aftermath revealed, had he possessed the body of a Sematick, Class 1-A would’ve been effortlessly killed.
Others
The Uraraka's (Unmarked Spoilers)
- Adaptational Villainy: Originally presented as an innocent civilian like in canon, The Reveal that Mr. Uraraka was a Heretic who planned to devour the soul and take the body of his own daughter makes him far from good here.
- Adaptation Species Change: Whilst in canon Mr. Uraraka was human, here he is revealed to be a Sematick.
- Ambiguous Innocence: Mrs. Uraraka, in stark contrast to her husband. The Sematick's People Puppets ability combined with Ochaco's lack of resentment towards her mother may suggest that Mrs. Uraraka was little more than a brain-dead puppet by the time Ochaco was born. With that said, the lack of concrete proof may also suggest the opposite, and that she was fully aware and supportive of her husband's plans, or could even have been entirely in the dark.
- Death by Adaptation: Both of them are long dead by the time of the story, believed to have been killed in the crossfire of the Avalon War. The two were actually assassinated by a Dreadnought on the account of Mr. Uraraka being a Heretic.
- Good Parents: Horrifically subverted: For all the loving praise Ochaco spoke of them, this is little more than rose tinted glasses on her part. Her dad was really a power-hungry murderer who intended to devour Ochaco's soul when she was of age, and her mother was either fully in support of it, entirely in the dark, or a soulless puppet. Once Ochaco learns of her heritage from Rolls, and what her father had been planning to do to her, any positive feelings she had for him died out.
- Mysterious Past: Whoever he was, Mr. Uraraka was apparently a big name amidst the Heretics, to the point that the Prefect was able to offer Ochaco's identity as his daughter as a high commodity to the Imperial Senate, with Ajin worried that the Senate finding out about Ochaco's parentage may cause them to try and abscond with her.
Meta Liberation Army
In General
- Adaptational Sympathy: Mixed with Adaptational Heroism. The cause of the Meta Liberation Army is treated with more nuance here than in canon, where they were treated more akin to an overzealous militia that turned into Bomb-Throwing Anarchists. The leading members are shown to be decent people on their own with a genuine desire for societal reform thanks to the HPSC restricting Quirk usage for so long in the name of maintaining control, seeking more political means of swaying others to their cause rather than just plotting a flat out revolution, and any actions more akin to their canon acts being the fault of a splinter group of radicals whose actions set back the main movement into the present day. It helps that they are more frequently given a Sympathetic P.O.V. thanks to Chitose being a regular member of the secondary cast. While still technically a group of political dissidents bordering on radicals by legal standards, they're only "Villains" due to the actions of the radicals reflecting negatively on the organization as a whole.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite seeming like they'd have Quirkest beliefs, particularly considering what Chiharu went through, the upper echelons of the Meta Liberation Army despise Quirkism, believing all Quirks have the potential to achieve greatness. They likewise despise discrimination against Quirkless people, with Rikiya highlighting how Quirkless people were once the majority, achieved many great things, and someone Destro fought for just as much as the oppressed Quirked, with disparaging them making them no better than the mob that killed the Mother of Quirks, and would be flying in the face of all his father stood for.
- Misplaced Retribution: A lot of the stuff the more radical elements do is falsely blamed on the main branch due to their still carrying the "MLA" name, causing them to have a reputation as fanatic Quirk Supremacists. This isn't helped by Izumi and Chiharu having negative experiences with the radical elements, as some radicals at Detnerat have been causing issues to the Midoriya family for years to the point of deliberately screwing up Izumi's second costume, and the foster home Chiharu was forced to stay in as a kid was run by them. So it's to their surprise when Ochaco reveals via reading Chitose's mind that those don't reflect on the actual MLA, with Rikiya himself infuriated upon learning about those incidents himself.
- Non-Indicative Name: In the present day, they're not quite an "Army" anymore. The actions of the upper echelons have them more along the lines of a political party filled with political dissidents, and even in terms of numbers they only really equate a single corps, and even then are only an eighth the size of Japan's police force.Explanation
- Villainy-Free Villain: Played with. Thanks to the actions of the radical splinter cell that staged a coup shortly after the Avalon War, the Meta Liberation Army is technically considered a terrorist group, their approval ratings going down the toilet and making the idea of a flat out revolution much less feasible. This has caused the main group to pursue much more legal and ethical means of spreading their beliefs, such as Geten becoming a Pro-Hero, or having high ranking members involved in politics. They have done things in the past though that would constitute villainy, particularly assassination and plotting a coup the main branch never went through with, which is why the Snuggle Squad, upon learning that Chitose is a former executive and Ochaco probing her mind for info on the others, consider the group potential terrorists still, and only refrain from telling anyone aside from Nezu about them because there's not only a chance anyone could be a sympathizer, but from a legal standpoint there's nothing the group can be arrested for.
Rikiya Yotsubashi — Re-Destro
- Ascended Extra: In canon, he was an Arc Villain for the "Meta Liberation Army" arc before being Demoted to Dragon following his defeat at the hands of Tomura, only to then be quickly defeated by Fumikage and arrested offscreen during the "Paranormal Liberation War" arc. Here, he's a much more regular member of the secondary cast thanks to Chitose's own increased relevance, and treated as the leader of another faction involved in the Mêlée à Trois.
- Emotion Suppression: His Quirk, "Stress", requires he build up his stress levels before eventually converting it into physical strength, resulting in him Hulking Out.
- A Father to His Men: Rikiya considers the upper echelon of the Meta Liberation Army to be his closest friends, and won't hesitate to come to their aid should something happen to them. Even when Chitose was beginning to lose faith in the group and worried Akito didn't love her and only wanted to recruit her, Rikiya acts as a sympathetic ear and reassures her that regardless of what Akito did, she is part of the MLA on her own merits, not his, and an important member to the group and him.
- Visionary Villain: Downplayed thanks to Adaptational Heroism making him less a "Villain" and more just a political dissident. He truly believes in the cause of the Meta Liberation Army and that Japan would be a better place for it, but is likewise aware of how they come across to the world due to the actions of their more radical members. So he wants to rehabilitate their image, and guide Japan into a brighter future, one where everyone can feel truly liberated, those with or without Quirks.
Chitose Kizuki — Curious
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Falling in love and having a daughter has made Chitose into a better person, even if only slightly initially. She genuinely loved Akito and cares about Chiharu, but her absence in Chiharu's life has led her to resent her mother, something that Chitose regrets immensely, even breaking down crying after Chiharu chewed her out when they met after the Sports Festival. She's now trying immensely to be a good mother for Chiharu, considering her even more important than her obligations to the MLA.
- Ascended Extra: Canonically, she was the one MLA Executive to die in her debut arc, resulting in her getting the least focus amidst the group. Here, thanks to her daughter Chiharu being a major supporting and later main character, she has more of a presence and much earlier than her canonical debut.
- Constantly Curious: She has an immense curiosity second only to Nejire's, her codename "Curious" being derived from that and her having the desire at heart to pursue anything that even remotely gains her curiosity. The only time she's able to overlook her curiosity is when it comes to Chiharu.
- Crisis of Faith: Learning Akito may have had an affair on her shakes her faith in the MLA, since he was the one who introduced her to the group and instilled their ideals into her, causing her to think that, if its true, that he only pretended to love her to recruit her into the MLA. Combined with her care for Chiharu superseding her devotion to the MLA and a desire to find out if Akito really was just using her, she's was left unsure of her stance on the MLA until Rikiya reaffirmed to her that she's part of the group on her own merits, not because of Akito.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Less "evil", and more morally unscrupulous. She's one of the executives in a militia-esq group of political dissidents, but she genuinely loves her daughter Chiharu, not even opposing Chiharu becoming a Hero, just wishing she had talked to her about it first. It is her love for her daughter that caused her to step down from her leadership position in the MLA after Paxton's return, afraid of losing Chiharu and wanting to spend as much time with her as she can.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- She may be perfectly willing to let her publishing company, Shoowaysha, run a smear campaign against Uwabami, but she refuses to even tangentially let her daughter be caught up in it, leading her to cancel her publication last minute as soon as she learns Chiharu is interning under Uwabami.
- She is not pleased when Chiharu tells her that Akito may have been having an affair, especially when that affair was with a woman Chitose trusted, and given that Akito is the entire reason Chitose is part of the MLA.
- Parents as People: She genuinely loves her daughter Chiharu, but has little idea how to actually raise her. Chiharu's birth she considers the happiest day of her life, but Chitose was promoted to one of the MLA's commanders shortly after, leaving her little time to be home. Akito was aware of this and fully willing to care for Chiharu himself, and for awhile they were all happy. Then the Avalon War happened and Akito was killed in the first strike. In addition to her responsibilities as a commander, Chitose was struggling to deal with her grief and had no idea on how or the time to be a mom, so she placed her in an MLA foster home. Chiharu tried telling her how awful it was there, but Chitose wrote it off as her complaining, particularly due to the trainer there saying things were fine. By time she realized the truth and had Re-Destro tear the workers a new one for their abuse, the damage was done, and while Chitose desperately wants to rebuild a connection with Chiharu, Chiharu holds a lot of resentment for her mother still. It's now an uphill battle for Chitose in trying to be a better mother for Chiharu, but she's making an effort nonetheless.
Geten Himura — Iceman
- Adaptation Name Change: His full name is never really known, or even if Geten is his first name or just what he goes by. The only thing concretely known was that he was a member of the "Himura" family, and Rei Todoroki's distant relative. In this fic, his name is given as "Geten Himura", also known as the pro-hero "Iceman."
- Adaptational Job Change: In canon, he's not shown to have any public profession unlike his other fellow leaders of the MHA. Here, however, he's known as a pro hero by the name of "Iceman."
Akito
- Ambiguously Evil: In addition to Chitose fearing he only "loved" her for the sake of recruiting her to the MLA while carrying an affair with their mutual friend "Lynx", it's implied he was a member of the radical splinter cell of the MLA. Not only was Chitose's associate "Gumball" killed in the same manner as the MLA members on the lunar colony when he tried looking into "Lynx" at Chitose's request, but Hisashi when rescued showed signs of torture similar to how Akito was known to torture people, his torturers demanding to know about Izumi's Quirk and refusing to believe she was a "late bloomer", giving the impression Lynx and even Akito himself, long thought dead, were responsible.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Zig-Zagged Trope. Chiharu clearly favors him over her mother, and it initially seems that, MLA activities aside, that he was a good parent and husband. Chiharu's Dark Secret however was that she knew he was a bad person but refused to believe it, with her later admitting to Chitose that she believes he may have been having an affair on her mother, causing Chitose to wonder if he ever truly loved them, and hadn't just married her to recruit her into the MLA.
- Evil Mentor: Before she fell in love with him, he served as Chitose's mentor in the Meta Liberation Army, further indoctrinating her into their ideals, and even helping in picking her codename "Curious". This only adds to the pain Chitose feels when she learns from Chiharu that he might have been having an affair, as it causes her to wonder if he only ever "loved" her for the sake of recruiting her into the MLA.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: On a surface level, his Quirk seemed incredibly weak and ill fitting for a member of the Meta Liberation Army due to their beliefs about Quirks, being only the ability to place lights on any surface he touched. His Quirk however worked amazingly when used for Cold-Blooded Torture, since he could place lights on the inside of his victims eyelids, making it both physically painful for them to even blink, and a legitimate risk of their eyes being cooked. This effectively made him a living testament to the MLA's ideology, that even a weak sounding Quirk like his could be improved upon into a versatile weapon.
- Never Found the Body: Everyone operates under the belief that he was killed in the Avalon War, having been present at Detnerat's Tokyo Office on the very first day of the war, but his body was never actually found. Making his possible survival more digestable is the fact that Hisashi Midoriya, after being rescued by Jack Akatani and brought back to Earth, displays signs of Cold-Blooded Torture including his eyes being burned, just like Akito was noted to have tortured others.
- Torture Technician: His official position at Detnerat was that of an investor and their best accountant. Unofficially however, he acted as this, placed in charge of interrogating potential moles and double agents. His preferred means of doing so was using his Quirk to place lights on the inside of victims eyelids, threatening to blind them if they so much as even blink.
