User:Midnight Blaze V

Akela Hayashi is a student at UA training and studying to be a Pro Hero.

Appearance
Akela is above-average height, standing 5'9", with a thin but strong build, and appears as an anthropomorphic wolf-dog as a result of his Quirk, "Phantom Beast". He has bluish-black and white fur, a wolf-like head with one pointed wolf ear (the right) and the other a folded dog ear (the left), paw-like hands and feet with claws, a long bushy tail, and stands on stifle-jointed legs which enable him to walk upright or run on all fours. His eyes are icy blue. He also has long black hair reaching below his shoulders.

His costume is merely a close-fitting sleeveless black shirt, short pants, and a leg pouch. Sometimes he includes a pair of tinted goggles.

Personality
Akela is a quiet individual, preferring to be left alone and is often found reading. His appearance can be intimidating but he's actually a kind yet very perceptive person.

He is aware of his unusual background of coming from a union between a hero and a reformed villainess, but he is not ashamed of his mother's criminal past. Rather, he is proud that she changed, thanks to the man who became her husband and father of her children.

Akela loves his family deeply and takes pride in how it came to be.

Background
Akela was born to a hero and a reformed villainess. His father, a successful hero and detective, had long pursued a villainess and notorious jewel thief, the both of them falling in love. She turned herself in, did her time, and got an early parole after a jailbreak where she defended a prison guard and refused to escape; her actions cut her jail time by a significant amount and the day she was released her former rival proposed to her and she accepted.

A year after their marriage, Akela was born, and two years afterwards he became a big brother to his little sister.

Quirk and Abilities
Black Beast: Akela's Quirk is Mutant Class. Its powers and capabilities are a hybrid of the Quirks Akela inherited from his parents, resulting in his humanoid canine appearance, which he inherited from his father, while he gained the shadow powers of his mother's Quirk.


 * Enhanced Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Senses: Akela's Quirk grants him physical abilities above that of normal human potential. He is stronger than any human at peak physical condition, he is able to move and outrun even olympic sprinters (especially when he runs on all fours) and for long periods of time without tiring out. And of course (as his appearance suggests) he has powerful senses of hearing and smell, able to hear sounds a regular human cannot, his nose can smell and identify scents even better than a blood hound's, and he has night-vision, able to see well in even total darkness. Akela inherited the physical abilities of his Quirk from his father.


 * Shadow Powers: Akela's Quirk grants him powers over shadow. He can connect his shadow to any nearby shadows to give them substance and form them however he wants; such as tendrils to grab or ensnare, spikes or blades to attack, walls to defend, but Akela can also meld with his own shadow to become a living shadow. This gives him a two-dimensional form that greatly enhances his capabilities for stealth and reconnaissance. In this form, he can move about along the ground, walls, ceilings, slip through cracks or spaces too narrow for his body, or he can appear as a shadowy haze from which his real body can emerge, allowing him to enter secured areas without breaking his way in. Akela can also extend his shadow to connect with the shadow of another person; this allows him to see and hear what they hear as well as influence their actions to a degree. However he can only keep their shadows connected as long as he and his target are within a range of sixty feet. Akela inherited these powers from his mother.

Keen Intellect: Akela has a sharp mind and an eye (and ears and nose) for details.

Combat Skills: A capable combatant, Akela is a well-trained fighter, using his above-human strength and speed to augment his skills, and his own claws and fangs as natural weapons in more serious fights.

He's trained in martial arts, gymnastics, and parkour, utilizing these skills for offense, speed, and evasion, especially when using his quirk. He is skilled in the use of throwing weapons, such as knives or throwing stars, and even uses marble-sized explosives.

Equipment
Akela prefers relying on his strengths rather than gadgets or equipment but sees the need for certain things. He carries a leg-pouch that contains small but useful tools, along with a pair of tinted goggles and throwing weapons.