User blog:Lover of the Muse/My Hero Hana Tachibana

Name: Hana Tachibana

Hero name: Monkey Princess

Quirk: Monkey-Form

Quirk Description: Monkey-Form is a mutant type quirk which grants Hana a variety of monkey-like abilities. These include prehensile feet and prehensile tail, enhanced climbing, enhanced agility and reflexes, enhanced balance, and enhanced strength. Hana’s fighting style relies heavily on speed, agility, and especially on misdirection.

Appearance: Hana has a head of light brown hair, styled in the Chinese two bun style. She has monkey tail. Her body is all around athletic and muscular and has six pack abs. Hana is always barefoot when wearing her school uniform.

I haven't decided what her hero costume should look like yet.

Background: Hana’s mother is the supervillain Rio Tachibana aka “The Monkey Queen” who for years left a trail of destruction and dead bodies all over Japan until she was finally defeated by her arch-nemesis Osamu Ito aka “Over-Man”.

The Monkey Queen’s capture occurred when Hana was a young girl and after that she was put into foster care. Despite public crying out for the execution of Rio Tachibana, the court found her to be insane and sentenced her to an asylum for the criminally ill. For some people it was enough that the Monkey Queen had been removed from society and was no longer a threat but others (especially the families of her victims) felt like they had been cheated out of justice. A large number of people did not want Rio Tachibana to receive help they wanted her to be punished and killed.

Hana Tachibana was discriminated against and bullied by adults and other children alike during her childhood. Ever since she first went into foster care she has gone through cycles of depression for which she takes medication. In Hana’s life nobody was ever more vicious than “Kenichi Ito”, the son of Over-Man. Kenichi Ito sees becoming a hero as his birthright and believes that Hana Tachibana is destined for villainy because she has “madness in her genes”. Ken Ito has explicitly told Hana she should kill herself because otherwise she will wind up like her mother.

Hana can tell herself that Kenichi Ito is wrong about her and everyone like him is wrong about her but there is a small part of her that thinks they might be right. Hana doesn’t want to talk about these feelings and tries to keep her use of anti-depressants a secret because she doesn’t want to look weak. Hana wanted to get into UA and wants to become a hero in order to prove to herself that Ken was wrong and everyone else was wrong about her, that she is nothing like her evil mother and that her genes don’t define her destiny. She believes that graduating UA and becoming a professional hero will finally heal her.

Unfortunately when she finally does it accepted into UA High School, all her insecurities and psychological issues follow her. So does Kenichi Ito.

Personality: Hana hides her insecure, angsty and depressed side beneath a cheerful, confident and sassy exterior.

Hana is mischievous and especially enjoys pulling pranks on Bakugo. She enjoys making other people uncomfortable and throwing them off their game in order to make herself feel more confident. Hana shamelessly flirts with schoolmates of both genders, usually without meaning anything by it. Hana sometimes grabs or gropes her schoolmates without their permission, her sexual harassments gets her into trouble. Despite acting out in class she does take her studies seriously.

Hana’s personality begins to improve after she starts spending time with Tsubaki Yamato. Tsubaki is selfless and kind and her influence helps Hana become more empathic. Tsubaki is also the only person Hana is comfortable being honest with about her feelings.

While this is happening, Hana's influence helps Tsubaki to loosen up, learn to value her own happiness and have fun. Tsubaki needs Hana's darkness ever bit as much as Hana needs Tsubaki's light. Hana and Tsubaki fall in love. Tsubaki's parents ahd arranged for her to marry Kenechi, but Hana convinces Tsubaki to rebel against them.

More information on that will be avaliable in upcoming blog posts about Kenichi Ito and Tsubaki Yamato.