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Name: wraith
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Character: Tomura Shigaraki
Canon: My Hero Academia
Canon point: ch 334
OU or AU?: OU
Age: 21
Species: human with a Quirk (superpower/meta ability)


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Disposition: An unreliable narrator of S-tier quality, Shigaraki Tomura is a man who is frequently ambivalent and contradictory. As far as the public is concerned, he is a heartless monster with no redeeming qualities, an assessment which rings true for good reason. Tomura, frankly, does not seem to give a fuck about the lives of the faceless masses, though not quite out of sadism or cruelty; perhaps it could be likened to the carelessness of stamping out a beehive because you hate bees getting into your home. Tomura claims to hate "everything," but his acts of violence can seem almost impersonal with how casually he levels a city. In the eyes of the general public, he can only be monstrous, the face of mindless, pointless destruction.

That is who he was carved out to be, by the will of his mentor. Tomura is not so much a person as much as a vehicle and a tool for the violent hatred implanted in him, and despite his eventual rejection of his mentor, even he would admit to having little self-definition outside of that drive. It could be argued that he clings to this self-definition in many ways, unable to separate the indoctrination of his mentor from his own, however convoluted, feelings on his own continued existence after personally wiping out his own family. It is the primary thing that haunts him, although he argues strongly for the irrelevance of the past. For years, he wore the preserved, severed hands of his family in macabre adornment, and even after those items are destroyed, his family continues speak to him in dreamscapes.

There is plenty that could be theorized about guilt or denial, if Tomura's own version of the narrative is to be disbelieved, but what is clear is that he is often caught in conflict. He only expresses his pleasure and relief at the demise of his family, but his father's grievances still resonate with him in his antipathy towards heroes. He claims not to care for anything, but picked up allies from misfortunate walks of life and has treated them with more care than they have encountered elsewhere, among both the masses and the heroes. While Tomura would "destroy everything" if he had his way, he agreed quickly to stay his hand for those allies, and declared that they should get what they want in life.

It would be easy to say he's a man with only emptiness behind his words and actions, but that wouldn't be a fair case. His party is largely responsible for his growth, progressing from a character who snapped and threatened over setbacks to one who could roll with the punches, who addressed his allies with patience, and who proved forgiving even over major, costly mistakes. That may even undersell the impact they've had, as Tomura only seemed to truly come into his own personhood while surrounded by them—people who trusted him and gave him definition beyond an annihilator, likely providing him with a positive reason to strive towards goals that weren't solely tied up with destruction.

Of course, Tomura's darkest hour comes about the moment his mentor's influence replaces that of his allies, co-concurrent with the fracturing of the latter. His current position in canon perhaps flips the relative lack of identity on its head; while his mentor attempts the lengthy process of snatching his body, Tomura finds himself isolated and his thoughts not being all his own. That is the current condition in canon I'll be pulling him from, probably with some recollections that aren't his, but ultimately using the game setting to excise the other presence in his head.

Abilities:

• Decay: His own (presumably original) Quirk, which makes anything he touches with either hand crumble apart and turn into dust. He is able to willfully control when it activates and how far the decay spreads—as long as there are physical points of contact, decay can reach over large distances and even multiple people. It can also be stopped if the point of contact is removed, and some of his adversaries have chosen to lop off limbs to prevent their own deaths. His maximum range can more or less level a small city.


• All For One: AFO is a stockpiling Quirk that enables its user to steal and use the Quirks of others, as well as bestow Quirks upon others. Tomura artificially inherited this Quirk from his mentor, along with all of his mentor's stockpiled Quirks; however, an adversary in a recent battle was able to destroy several of those stockpiled Quirks. With the exception of regeneration, it's currently unconfirmed which Quirks are still surviving.


• Superhuman strength and speed: In the same procedure that transplanted AFO to his body also artificially enhanced his strength and speed to superhuman degrees on an anatomical level. This is unrelated to Quirk-based abilities, and can be used even in the presence of powers that can suppress or cancel special abilities.

Inventory: Basically nothing but a pair of extremely tattered pants.

Gembond: Emerald
Gem Location: A small gem about the size of a marble embedded into the palm of his right hand, taking the place of All For One's crevice.