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, "Black Beast". He has bluish-black and white fur, a wolf-like head with one pointed wolf ear (the left) and the other a folded dog ear (the right), 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 robe-like, which benefits him by giving him easy access to shadows for his quirk. He wears a hooded over-shirt with bell-sleeves, short pants which give his legs maximum movement, along with pouches, one strapped to each thigh, and one strapped to the back of his waist. He also has a mantle that straps shoulder pads for extra protection, and his hood has holes for his wolf-dog ears to fit through. The overall color-scheme is black, gray, and sapphire blue.

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 Physiology: 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 dive into another person's shadow, effectively allowing him to posses a person without them knowing it, taking over their body. Furthermore, Akela is able to interact with objects without even touching them simply by touching the objects' shadows instead. Akela inherited these powers from his mother. But during the day, Akela's ability over shadows is limited to how much shadow he can access. For example, he once saved himself from a punch to the face by utilizing the shadows cast by his own hair to create a shield. He compares his usage of shadows during the day to squashing and stretching rubber, like how a rubber band can stretch only so far before it snaps and breaks. When this happens, Akela suffers a sudden migraine and is unable to command shadows for a short while. At night however, Akela's power over shadows is almost limitless.

Moves:
 * Shadow Claw: Akela takes the shadows from his sleeve robes and forms them around his hands into larger and longer claws that grant him a heightened offensive and longer reach. These claws are strong enough to cut into metal and block bladed weapons. He can also concentrate this technique to form blades of shadow from his wrists.
 * Shadow Sword: Akela later refined this technique and to form blades instead of claws, and he can focus shadow onto a bladed weapon to increase its length and sharpness.


 * Shadow Lasso: Akela can take the shadows in his sleeves and extend them as long rope-like whips that he can use to ensnare a target. These tendrils cannot be cut and are strong enough to lift and throw a car, and he has used these tendrils to grapple onto structures and swing over long distances.


 * Shadow Punch: Akela can coat his fists with solid shadows to fortify his punches, and he can also launch projectiles of solidified shadows by punching at a target. This has served him well as a surprise attack on foes who thought they'd dodged Akela's punches. However, this technique has a weakness; the shadow projectiles have a range of fifteen meters (roughly 30 ft.), so anything beyond this range cannot be struck by the Shadow Punch as the projectiles will fade and lose cohesion... in broad daylight. At night, the range is limitless and the projectiles will fly until they hit something or simply fade.
 * Shadow Shuriken: Akela later made a variant of his Shadow Punch where instead of fist-shaped shadow projectiles he can launch small blade-like projectiles, similar to throwing stars.


 * Sneaking Specter: Akela merges with his shadow, making him two-dimensional and allowing him to sneak around as a living shadow and access secured areas by slipping under door cracks or other narrow spaces. He can slip into his Sneaking Specter at anytime as long as there's wall or floor, and has even used this technique to avoid injury from falling by quickly becoming a shadow instead of impacting the ground. Akela later learned how to slip partially into his specter form while keeping part or most of his body still solid, and used this to sneak-attack his opponents. Akela is able to move in an out of his Sneaking Specter slowly or suddenly, such as launching out of his shadow for surprise attacks or diving into his shadow to avoid danger.


 * Shadow Touch: Akela is able to interact with the objects around him without physically touching them by instead touching their shadows. This includes striking a person's shadow and inflicting injury upon their bodies even though Akela didn't actually touch them.


 * Overshadowing: Akela can dive into another person's shadow and take over their body. The weakness of this ability is while he is possessing someone their shadow is replaced with his own shadow, which can give him away. Furthermore, the longer he overshadows someone the more he loses control until he's forced out.


 * Silent Move: Akela developed this technique by concentrating a "flow" of shadow beneath his feet. It allows him to move without physically walking or running and without making a sound since there's no footsteps. It also allows him to "slide" along the ground at considerable velocities, and use moves akin to skateboarding. He later learned how to turn the "flow" into a "cushion" of shadow, which he uses to cushion his falls or save someone from falling.


 * Shadow Armor: Akela developed this defensive technique for his Quirk and so uses the shadows inside his clothes or costume to cover his exterior like a second skin. It absorbs physical injuries he sustains to varying degrees though it's much more effective at night.

Keen Intellect: Akela has a sharp mind and an eye (and ears and nose) for details. He developed a myriad of techniques for his Quirk by being creative and thinking outside the box and pushing the limits and capabilities of his quirk.

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 couple leg-pouches that contain small but useful tools, along with a pair of tinted goggles and throwing weapons.

Trivia

 * Akela Hayashi is an OC and completely non-canon to "My Hero Academia"