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How's My Driving?
Dec. 30th, 2037 12:19 pm
How's my driving?
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Sep. 1st, 2037 01:33 pm
Izuku Midoriya
My Hero Academia
Deku
Male
16
Bisexual
Deku
Male
16
Bisexual
Abilities
⯌ One for All
Get your super strength, super stamina, super speed, super durability. Too bad it also takes a super toll on the body. Izuku has leveled himself up enough to handle it, more or less, but generally he's moderating how much he uses to take less out of himself and keep on fighting. The lower percentage of power he's putting in, the less damage he does to himself.
⯌ One for All (continued) The people who've held One for All before are all there, in some kind of subconcious space in the back of his head, giving advice and sometimes conflicting opinions. This has the side-effect of making him more difficult to brainwash or mind-control, a handy bonus!
⯌ Gearshift Lets Izuku change the speed/velocity of himself + anything he touches (letting himself move faster or increasing the force of something when it impacts, as examples)
⯌ Fa Jin Izuku can store up kinetic energy by something repetitive, later then using that energy all at once in an explosive burst.
⯌ Danger Sense What it says on the tin. Stabby feeling in his head to let him know Bad Shit is coming.
⯌ Blackwhip This ability gives this boy some range. Lets him capture people, grab stuff, and knock things away. Kind of like Eraserhead's capture scarf, but "evil"-looking.
⯌ Smokescreen Bamph, purple smoke, now you can't see him.
⯌ Float This power lets him float in mid-air, which combined with his other skills (kicking off of things) lets him fly around. Best I can determine, the Float quirk on its own doesn't propel him.
⯌ One for All (continued) The people who've held One for All before are all there, in some kind of subconcious space in the back of his head, giving advice and sometimes conflicting opinions. This has the side-effect of making him more difficult to brainwash or mind-control, a handy bonus!
⯌ Gearshift Lets Izuku change the speed/velocity of himself + anything he touches (letting himself move faster or increasing the force of something when it impacts, as examples)
⯌ Fa Jin Izuku can store up kinetic energy by something repetitive, later then using that energy all at once in an explosive burst.
⯌ Danger Sense What it says on the tin. Stabby feeling in his head to let him know Bad Shit is coming.
⯌ Blackwhip This ability gives this boy some range. Lets him capture people, grab stuff, and knock things away. Kind of like Eraserhead's capture scarf, but "evil"-looking.
⯌ Smokescreen Bamph, purple smoke, now you can't see him.
⯌ Float This power lets him float in mid-air, which combined with his other skills (kicking off of things) lets him fly around. Best I can determine, the Float quirk on its own doesn't propel him.
Out-of-Character
⯌ Backtag
Yes please and thank you!
⯌ Fourthwall I'm reluctant, but it's easier to do with Izuku given with how his canon treats heroes, please ask first before you fourth-wall him (comments are screened).
⯌ Off-Limits None that I can think of! Please comment here if you have concerns.
⯌ Other Please drop me a line on plurk if you want to reach out!
⯌ Fourthwall I'm reluctant, but it's easier to do with Izuku given with how his canon treats heroes, please ask first before you fourth-wall him (comments are screened).
⯌ Off-Limits None that I can think of! Please comment here if you have concerns.
⯌ Other Please drop me a line on plurk if you want to reach out!
In-Character
⯌ Physical Contact
Izuku likes friendly contact - high fives, handshakes, pats on the back, hair ruffles. He's also used to people trying to show up and wallop him, whether because they're being a bully or they're trying to kill him. Either way, he's ready to roll, choose your own adventure.
⯌ Mental Contact Right now, there are several people (or rather, the 'vestiges' of people) sharing Izuku's headspace, making it trickier to just barge in there unannounced. This will probably go better if you ask Izuku first.
⯌ Flirt Awkward around girls, guys, and even people he's not interested in - want to fluster one nerd? Just flirt. Super easy!
⯌ Fight For someone generally so friendly and who doesn't want to hurt people, Izuku is pretty easy to goad into a fight. Hey, maybe it's just how you communicate, he's met those guys. If feelings are best conveyed through punching, just know he won't sit still and be someone's punching-bag. But how hard he fights back will definitely depend if he thinks he'll end up hurting you too badly.
⯌ Injury This kid can hold so many bones to break /slaps his head/ and you didn't even ask to do it first! I'm down.
⯌ Death I might be willing, but I would definitely want to plot first. Ask me!
⯌ Other Izuku's canon involves a lot of violence against children and minors, child death, death of caregivers, and also physical, emotional, and even sexual abuse of children. There's also a great deal of body horror. Fortunately Izuku will only really touch upon violence against children (he's a teen fighting adults bent on destroying the world), discussion of body-horror stuff (villains he's faced), and the possibility of child and caregiver death. I will do my best to be diligent with tags, but if you have concerns, please comment below!
⯌ Mental Contact Right now, there are several people (or rather, the 'vestiges' of people) sharing Izuku's headspace, making it trickier to just barge in there unannounced. This will probably go better if you ask Izuku first.
⯌ Flirt Awkward around girls, guys, and even people he's not interested in - want to fluster one nerd? Just flirt. Super easy!
⯌ Fight For someone generally so friendly and who doesn't want to hurt people, Izuku is pretty easy to goad into a fight. Hey, maybe it's just how you communicate, he's met those guys. If feelings are best conveyed through punching, just know he won't sit still and be someone's punching-bag. But how hard he fights back will definitely depend if he thinks he'll end up hurting you too badly.
⯌ Injury This kid can hold so many bones to break /slaps his head/ and you didn't even ask to do it first! I'm down.
⯌ Death I might be willing, but I would definitely want to plot first. Ask me!
⯌ Other Izuku's canon involves a lot of violence against children and minors, child death, death of caregivers, and also physical, emotional, and even sexual abuse of children. There's also a great deal of body horror. Fortunately Izuku will only really touch upon violence against children (he's a teen fighting adults bent on destroying the world), discussion of body-horror stuff (villains he's faced), and the possibility of child and caregiver death. I will do my best to be diligent with tags, but if you have concerns, please comment below!
Folkmore Application
Aug. 28th, 2024 12:04 pm❥ Character Information
Character Name: Izuku Midoriya
Character Age: 16
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Described as 'covered in scars, blood, and mud,' not great bob.
Outfit: Here, but he can push down that mask so he's less, uh. Scary. He's wearing a set of really filthy civilian clothes underneath.
Character Canon: My Hero Academia
Link to History: Boop. Short version; what if you took a sweet kid, bullied for most of his life and wanting to do nothing but protect other people, and gave him powers? Great. The powers also give him more trauma. Good thing there's a lot of found family to go around to help with that!
Canon Point: Chapter 317 - he's working on his own, previously supported by All-Might (feeding and trying to keep him alive), supporting the remaining big three heroes to find and take down the League of Villains. He's just taken on Nagant, and now has rejected All-Might's help.
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: This is going to be a Stepford Smiley Izuku, because at least in Folkmore he is convinced all of his home's Problems can be dealt with Later, once he gets back to them. He doesn't actually want to be alone - here, he's free to indulge. Right?
Character Age: 16
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Described as 'covered in scars, blood, and mud,' not great bob.
Outfit: Here, but he can push down that mask so he's less, uh. Scary. He's wearing a set of really filthy civilian clothes underneath.
Character Canon: My Hero Academia
Link to History: Boop. Short version; what if you took a sweet kid, bullied for most of his life and wanting to do nothing but protect other people, and gave him powers? Great. The powers also give him more trauma. Good thing there's a lot of found family to go around to help with that!
Canon Point: Chapter 317 - he's working on his own, previously supported by All-Might (feeding and trying to keep him alive), supporting the remaining big three heroes to find and take down the League of Villains. He's just taken on Nagant, and now has rejected All-Might's help.
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: This is going to be a Stepford Smiley Izuku, because at least in Folkmore he is convinced all of his home's Problems can be dealt with Later, once he gets back to them. He doesn't actually want to be alone - here, he's free to indulge. Right?
❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes
Skills:
- Fanboying; Knowledge of Superhero Skills + Tactics
- Ability to Fanboy; Ability to Research + Make Quick Inferences in the Moment
- Very Adaptable; Will Use Fanboying Skills to Change and Adjust on the Fly
- Incredibly Brave, Even if He Can Be Squashed Like a Bug
- Incredibly Confident, Now that He Has Friendship(TM)
- Very Empathetic; Able to Imagine Himself as Other People (Even Villains)
- Very Strong Work Ethic, Even if He's then Hospitalized
- Very Selfless; Will Break Bones to Save a Bully
- Very Stubborn; Mind Over Matter
- Leveled Up; Trained Physical Strength, Stamina, and Resiliency to Deal With Powers
Canon Abilities:
- One for All - superhuman strength + superhuman stamina + superhuman speed + superhuman durability
- One for All (see above ); but also access to subconscious realm to speak with previous holders of One for All (helping resist things like brainwashing)
- Gearshift - change the speed/velocity of himself + anything he touches (letting himself move faster or increasing the force of something when it impacts, as examples)
- Fa Jin - store up kinetic energy by something repetitive, later then using that energy all at once in an explosive burst
- Danger Sense - what it says on the tin. Stabby feeling in his head to let him know Bad Shit is coming.
- Blackwhip - gives this boy some range. Lets him capture people, grab stuff, and knock things away. Kind of like Eraserhead's capture scarf, but "evil"-looking.
- Smokescreen - bamph, purple smoke, now you can't see him.
- Float - lets him float in mid-air, which combined with his other skills (kicking off of things) lets him fly around. Best I can determine, the Float quirk on its own doesn't propel him.
Role: Legend
Role Qualities/Attributes: Izuku will get tiny, little green wings which will expand in size based on how much power in One for All he's channeling at that particular moment. Most of the time they're going to be cute little fluffy things. He's also going to be able to sense when others are in danger, not just himself, though this will be more of a tingly feeling than a stab-in-the-head feeling.
Role Reasoning: Izuku has wanted to be a hero since he was a very, very small boy. He feels empathy for other people, even bad people, when they're victims and powerless, when they're hurt and afraid. He will sacrifice his own health, sanity, and happiness in order to help those people. And, even though he is not willing to back down on his own morals - he is often someone who will defer to people in charge/people he looks up to. Izuku is mostly a rule-follower, save when he sees people in need of help - and then, tries to learn how to follow the rules/the guidelines of authority while accomplishing what he wants to do (helping people). Even at this most Myth-ish canon point, he's doing it to restore order for others.
❥ Personality
Izuku is a very forgiving hero, and will do a lot to go out of his way to help someone else - even if they've hurt him and others in the past. This is certainly the case with his lifelong ... not really a friendship until later relationship with Katsuki Bakugo, who had relentlessly bullied him and taunted him since Izuku was proven to be Quirkless. But it's also the case with Tomura, who is clearly bloodthirsty and explicitly wants to destroy the world just for the sake of doing so. The fact that Tomura as the motivation and ability to kill countless people doesn't matter - Izuku can understand he was once just a hurt, lonely kid, and wants to help him.
Given this, he would be less inclined to forgiveness if he somehow can't relate to the villain he's facing. As an example, it seems more difficult for him to understand All for One, since from what he's discovered from the others who had held One for All, he's certainly an All Take and No Give kind of personality. Yet even so, it should be noted that 'forgiveness' doesn't mean he won't try to stop people like Tomura from harming others. He just wants to save him in the process.
I think once, before the canon events, Izuku would've definitely written 'BEING QUIRKLESS' in all caps and underlined three times. However, it's the case by the end of his story - and even, I'd argue, at his current point - that he appreciates the experience being quirkless gave him, especially before acquiring One for All.
Izuku knows what it's like to be powerless, helpless, a victim. He knows what it's like for people to hate you for something he couldn't control and couldn't fix. He knows how it feels to be shunned by other people for who you are, and all of these he still carries with him even now that he has such control of his gifted quirk, One for All.
That perspective informs Izuku on how to be a hero, it gives him strength and his determination to save everyone. It's not just something Izuku recognizes - it's also something others have seen in him, such as All Might.
If having a quirk at birth meant he wouldn't have that perspective? Izuku knows he'd be a poorer hero for it, so he would definitely pass - even if it lead to him suffering before.
Izuku definitely seems to be the most settled and happy when he's with his friends. It doesn't have to be any particular set of friends - from Uraraka to Ida to Bakugo even, if he's with people he trusts and likes, he's much clearly happier. Bullied for most of his life, when he's actually with people who like him and want him around, he seems to blossom and become far more confidant.
It should be noted, then, that his current canon point is where he has willingly given up his safe space, choosing to sacrifice this in order to try and help protect his friends and strangers alike. Izuku is miserable like this but he'll do it if necessary - and he thinks this is necessary to be alone.
What Izuku will not sacrifice is other people - and he won't write others off as people he can't save, either. What he will sacrifice is anything and everything about himself that he can give.
His health? Both physical and mental? Check and check, he's already beaten himself to hell and back, to the point where he'd been warned that much further damage to his arms would cause him to lose them. And he is currently sacrificing more of his own sanity and mental well-being by shutting out others and rejecting the help of even adults like All-Might in order to try to protect them.
This also means he is possibly sacrificing his relationships - he does imagine that this could hurt his friends, and his mother, by keeping himself at a distance. And I'm certain Izuku knows that if he should die, that they'd be saddened by it. These things do not make him happy, but Izuku is trying to do everything he can to help others.
He doesn't matter in that equation.
❥ Player Information
Player Name: the panther
Pronouns: they/them
Are you over 18?: yup
Contact(s): disco and plurk.
Link to invitation: I'm already heeeeeeere
Current Characters: Gen Asagiri, Shinjiro Aragaki, R. Dorothy Waynewright, Yuta Okkotsu, Zechs Merquise, and Noctis Lucis Caelum
Permissions: Here
Writing Samples: here and here.
Pronouns: they/them
Are you over 18?: yup
Contact(s): disco and plurk.
Link to invitation: I'm already heeeeeeere
Current Characters: Gen Asagiri, Shinjiro Aragaki, R. Dorothy Waynewright, Yuta Okkotsu, Zechs Merquise, and Noctis Lucis Caelum
Permissions: Here
Writing Samples: here and here.
