Yu Hojo

Yu Hojo (宝生 結) is one of the Eight Expendables who works for Shie Hassaikai.

Appearance
Hojo is a bald, muscular man with shadowed eyes. He wears a mask on his mouth area just like the rest of Shie Hassaikai, albeit without the signature beak-like protrusion that is found on most members.

Personality
Hojo is fairly serious and observant, although he mostly keeps his observations to himself. As a fighter, he is straightforward and brutish.

Hojo, as well as the other members of the Eight Expendables, are all hopeless people who have lost their dignity and no longer see any purpose in continuing to live, thus they're completely devoted to Shie Hassaikai and are not afraid of giving away their lives for the group. This led Hojo to share a powerful friendship with the other Expendables, something that he does not expect Heroes to understand.

Hojo appears to still hold a grudge about his past, specifically the person that exploited his ability to produce gems, whom Hojo refers to with contempt.

History
At some point of his life, Hojo had the job to produce gems for an unspecified individual, who planned to sell the minerals for large profits. However, the gems turned out to be worthless, leading Hojo to be discarded.

Hojo was eventually found by Chisaki in the streets, with the yakuza offering him the opportunity to become his subordinate. With nowhere else to go, Hojo accepted and became one of the Eight Expendables.

Internship Arc
After Irinaka launches Sir's group in an underground hall, Hojo appears alongside Setsuno and Tabe to confront the heroes and the police-officers. Tamaki says that he'll fight them alone and declares that they're just time-eating pawns. Setsuno Tries to use his Quirk to steal the officers guns but Eraserhead stops him by erasing his Quirk. Hojo pulls out his gun, but before he can use it Tamaki jumps and use his tentacles to disarm and immobilize the three at the same time. He then tells the others to go ahead and leave the three to him.

Setsuno jumps on Tamaki using the knife hidden on his mask, injuring one of his tentacles. Hojo breaks free and attacks Tamaki with his Crystallization but Tamaki defends successfully by using his Chimera Kraken to fight. Tabe wakes and starts to eat Tamaki's tentacles one by one. Tamaki tries to poison him with the poison on his tentacles but Setsuno uses his Quirk again to steal it. When Hojo is ready to finish Tamaki, he counterattacks and defeats all three of them at once.

Quirk
Crystallization (結晶): Hojo's body is capable of growing crystal-like protrusions, giving him improved offense and defense.

Equipment and Weapons
Handgun: Hojo is armed with a pistol, which he uses in combat.

Overhaul
After being deemed useless in his previous job, Hojo was discarded on the streets, where he was found by Overhaul.

Trivia

 * Yu's name contains the kanji for treasure (宝), life (生), and connection (結).
 * Hou could come from "houseki" "宝石" ("jewl/gem"),"yuu" "結" came from the kanji his quirk Crystallization
 * Yu seems to represent a corruption of the seventh tenet of the real eight precepts of Buddhism, which, among other things, forbids the wearing of jewelry and decorations such as crystals.