En

En was a former Pro Hero and the sixth user of the One For All Quirk.

Appearance
En was a fairly short man with short, dark hair parted twice away from his narrow eyes.

His hero costume consists of a large red jacket with numerous straps and buttons, and a high collar that obscures his mouth and nose. Accompanying this are dark, fairly-baggy pants and large white hiking boots. His forearms are also wrapped in sports tape.

Personality
En is a reserved but friendly individual. He is well-aware of the limitations of his Quirk, guiding Izuku on how to best use it in conjunction with his other Quirks. Given that he resisted having One For All stolen by All For One, En presumably has an extremely strong willpower.

History
En was a Pro Hero of his time. At some point, he met the the fifth user of One For All, Daigoro Banjo, and was acquainted with him and his Quirk. Eventually, All For One found and fought Daigoro. Despite possessing One For All, Daigoro wasn't strong enough to defeat All For One, and he was fatally injured after getting trapped under a pile of rubble.

Facing certain death, Daigoro extended his injured hand at him so En could acquire One For All after consuming Daigoro's blood before he was killed by All For One. Later on in his lifetime, he met Pro Hero Nana Shimura. All For One eventually found En and fought him too, and just like Daigoro, he tried to steal One For All, but he failed and resisted him. After being fatally wounded in the battle with All For One, En gave Nana some of his hair so that she could become the seventh heir of One For All.

U.A. Sports Festival Arc
During the fight between Izuku and Hitoshi Shinso in the tournament of the U.A. Sports Festival, Izuku is brainwashed by Hitoshi's Quirk, who orders him to walk out of bounds. Although Izuku tries to resist, he cannot disobey the order, when he is about to cross the edge of the ring, En and the rest of the previous users appear to Izuku as shadowed mental figures. They uncloud his mind and allow Izuku to use One For All in his fingers, allowing him to escape the trance and win the fight.

Pro Hero Arc
For several months, none of the users reappear to Izuku again, until the night before the Joint Training Battle, where En and several of the previous users, including All For One's younger brother and Nana, appear in a dream but with his real appearance, and not as a shadowed figure. The dream shows Izuku memories of the first user, Yoichi.

En says nothing, but Yoichi speaks for everyone and assures Izuku that he is not alone. Izuku's dream concludes with all of his predecessors looking at him with kind expressions, seemingly aware that he is the ninth wielder of One For All and welcoming him.

My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising
During a devastating battle between a villain with a copy of All For One's Quirk, in a last-ditch effort to defeat him, Izuku transfers One For All to Katsuki Bakugo, even at the cost of rendering himself Quirkless once more. Through the dual power of the One For All's, the two manage to take the villain down, even as the remaining embers of One For All seemingly disappear from Izuku. However, En and the other users of One For All, wanting Izuku to continue to harness the power, and recognizing his heroism of being willing to sacrifice his power to save everyone, only temporarily transferred the power over to Katsuki, while the full essence of One For All remains within Izuku. Toshinori tearfully thanks the predecessors for staying with Izuku.

Paranormal Liberation War Arc
In the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation War, when Izuku is rendered comatose, he speaks to all the vestiges within One For All. Yoichi mentions how originally they were only able to interact with Izuku during specific instances within his consciousness, but that in the last four months, the power has been growing exponentially, and has reached the point that the vestiges are now able to more freely communicate with each other, even more so after All For One's attempt to steal One For All.

Hikage introduces himself to Izuku, and asks Izuku about his age and cause of death, which he recalls that he was forty and that All Might had scratched out his cause of death in the notebook, which Hikage reveals was "old age". They all realized that All Might managed to hold onto the Quirk longer than him and it was because he was Quirkless, meaning the Quirk perfectly fit his previously empty vessel, and became his Quirk. They further state that due to the dwindling Quirkless population, Izuku may possibly be the last successor of One For All.

Afterwards, Nana Shimura asks Izuku if he can kill Tomura Shigaraki, clarifying it isn't a request, but a question of his resolve. She reminds him of their last interaction and that since all of the inheritor's are connected to his emotions, they could telepathically sense that he saw him as someone who needed saving. Daigoro states that he and the other users, including En, don't feel the same way, and that even if Tomura is suffering under All For One, that doesn't necessarily mean he would want their help, since even they could see his eyes were still filled with hate.

Yoichi speculates that his older brother purposefully raised Tomura this way, and now that All For One has taken over his body and mind, he believes this is part of another plan to claim One For All. Daigoro reveals that All For One had attempted to steal One For All from him and En, twice, but failed, and that one must have an incredibly strong will and overbearing emotions in order to override the basic principle of One For All, which means All For One is using Tomura's hatred to complete the job.

After Izuku's resolve is questioned, he says he knows that countless people died and many of his precious friends were hurt because of Tomura, but he stands his ground believing that One For All is a Quirk meant to save lives, not kill; that All Might taught him that, and that he and all the other users who have helped grow and cultivate the power, have in the process saved and brought hope to countless people. He accepts the real possibility that Tomura can only be stopped by killing him, and he doesn't know how he will deal with everything exactly yet, but he still wants to try and save "that little boy".

En and the other users happily agreed to aid Izuku, just as Yoichi turns to the Second and Third users asking for their assistance. Met with an awkward silence, Daigoro breaks the ice by playfully messing around with Izuku, telling him he should first focus on learning more about Hikage and En's Quirks, of which En agrees to, them all starting to instruct him on how to understand their Quirks.

Dark Hero Arc
In the aftermath of the Paranormal Liberation War, All For One has escaped from Tartarus, and proceeded to break into several more maximum security prisons, liberating the inmates. Due to the chaos inflicted by Gigantomachia and the mass breakout of prisoners, the whole country entered a state of total chaos and anarchy. In addition, many heroes resigned and called it quits because of the massive criticism of their work, and the destruction spreading unchecked.

Izuku decides to leave U.A. and his friends behind in order to protect them so he can hunt down the Villains, with all the users on his side ready to back him up. During this time, Izuku reunites with a villain, Muscular, after he brutally defeated Grand. Muscular jumps toward the bottom of the building, and throws it into the air, forcing Izuku to jump away, as he screams to go at it with full power. In short, Izuku uses En's Quirk: Smokescreen to cover the building.

Izuku proceeds to talk with En asking if he overdid the use of his Quirk. En provides him some advice to keep control over it, and that bearing the weight of the power across the eight generations, he should try to relax a little. He suggests that since their Quirks are mostly standalone abilities, rather than seeing them as ultimate moves, to think of them as tools in his arsenal to strategically organize a plan. Izuku did what En told him and takes Muscular over the edge in the bank of the river where he defeats Muscular with a Detroit Smash at 45%.

Soon, Izuku would then encounter Lady Nagant and has difficulties dealing with her sniper shots. Izuku would then unleash Smokescreen at "Full Blast", catching Nagant off guard by this revelation that he has multiple Quirks too as he covers himself under thick layers of smoke. En scolds Izuku for releasing that much smoke because once he emerges, he will be a sitting duck for someone like Lady Nagant. Izuku tells him that he wasn't planning on escaping as En realizes what he plans on doing, causing him to advise against it. Utilizing the Third User's Quirk, Fa Jin, Izuku was successful in taking out Lady Nagant's Rifle and incapacitates her, but she ends up getting exploding due to a failsafe from All For One after she failed to capture Izuku.

Shortly afterwards, Izuku starts to tire out as he becomes increasingly obsessed with solving every problem all on his own, even ignoring the other Heroes' suggestions to take it easy. En and the other inheritors of One For All try to convince him to rest before Danger Sense warns him of another threat and heads off, ignoring their words. In the vestige world, Nana fears that her emotions are getting the better of Izuku, while En and the other inheritors assure her that by going over his limit, he's acting like a true hero would do. It is all through his former classmates that Izuku is finally able to rest easy knowing that they still got his back.

Final War Arc
As the final battle between the heroes and villains commence in the Final War, Izuku prepares for his final encounter with Tomura. While a snag in the plan delays his arrival, he eventually makes his way over to the U.A. Floating Fortress designed to contain Tomura to fight him. fter regaining his bearings after seeing the other Heroes' comatose bodies, Izuku confronts Tomura, who over the course of the battle has transformed himself into a hulking beast covered in fingers, and addresses him as "All For One", asking if Tomura is still within him.

"Tomura" claims that he no longer exists, as he and All For One's psyches have melded together into a perfect new being. However, Mirio Togata reveals that during their battle, the villain reacted to one of his taunts like that of a child, believing them not to be as melded as he thinks. Seeing the faces of the Shimura family on his left hand confirms this thought, and the battle resumes.

Izuku activates the Quirk of the Second User, Gearshift, and now with all the Quirks unlocked, unleashes the full power of One For All upon Tomura, overpowering him, with En and the other predecessors right there behind him. After Izuku destroyed Tomura's absolute defensive Form, Tomura releases the pent-up damage in an explosion which weakens All For One's influence over him, allowing Tomura to regain control of his body. Izuku drags Tomura out of the U.A. Floating Fortress to confront him now with his Quirks returned.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: The full extent of En's abilities are unknown, but as a One For All vestige he can be assumed to be quite strong. However, he wasn't strong enough to defeat All For One.

Trained Muscles: Usage of One For All requires the user to have strong muscles, as One For All is a lot to handle and could cause the user's body to be blown apart if they don't possess the necessary strength of the body.

Indomitable Will: En has resisted All For One trying to steal One For All from him twice, demonstrating the sheer strength of his will.

Quirks
Smokescreen: En's Quirk allowed him to generate clouds of purple smoke, which could obscure vision.

One For All (ワン・フォー・オール): Transferred to him from Daigoro, En's second Quirk allowed him to stockpile an enormous amount of raw power, allowing him to significantly enhance all of his physical abilities to a superhuman level. This resulted in unbelievable levels of strength, speed, agility, and durability.

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Trivia

 * The kanji in his name means "smoke" (煙), a reference to his Quirk.
 * En is so far the only user whose name does not possess a kanji in conjunction to what number user they are.
 * He is the fourth previous One For All user whose Quirk was revealed.

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