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 has a sly side, using his Quirk to his advantage.

Quirk and Abilities
Phantom Beast: Akela's Quirk is Mutant Class, which resulted in his canine appearance, along with a variety of abilities that grant him capabilities for offense, stealth, tracking, and evasion. As his appearance would suggest, Akela's physical abilities are canine-like, granting him senses of sight, hearing, and smell well above normal human levels, allowing him to hear things outside the human auditorial range, track using his sense of smell, and see in the dark.

Although his strength, speed, senses, and stamina are above human-level, his Quirk's true ability is what makes it so powerful and useful.

When Akela activates his Phantom Beast Quirk, he creates an illusionary double while his real body becomes invisible (the transition is indistinguishable so he can activate his quirk without giving the true nature of it away, even when surrounded by a crowd of people). The Double automatically avoids physical contact with people and Akela can speak through his double without giving away his real location, and it can uses illusions of Akela's throwing weapons to encourage his opponents to keep their distance (the illusionary throwing weapons only vanish after the Double vanishes or is dispelled by physical contact with a living person).

The Double manifested by his quirk while simultaneously granting him invisibility allows Akela to misdirect his target's attention at the double while he moves in for a sneak-attack, or escape to avoid danger or enemies he knows he can't physically defeat.

When Akela's double is touched by a living person, it automatically vanishes and Akela's invisibility almost instantly wears off. The same thing occurs when he releases the effect by willing it or the distance between his real body and his double exceeds twenty yards (roughly sixty feet). Because of how it looks, many have mistaken Akela's quirk to be a form of teleportation. It is not; it is merely an illusion and a little bit of misdirection.

The Double has another drawback - It is unaffected by environmental hazards, like walking on ice without slipping, getting splashed by water and not get wet, getting engulfed in fire and not getting burned, and it can walk through solid objects like walls or other obstacles. This can give the Double's status as an illusion away. When things like that happen, Akela has to make his double vanish and give away his real position (even though he usually fools others that he's teleported or he has the ability to phase through solid objects like a ghost, which often works because of the name of his quirk).

Interesting to note, Akela's Double can't be detected by motion-detectors, infrared, it can't set off pressure-sensors, but it can be seen by surveillance cameras.

Finally, Akela is able to speak through his Double without giving away his real position but he cannot see or hear from his Double's point of view. He has to pay attention to his targets and how they interact with his Double. Though he has successfully used his Quirk's more subtle capabilities to psych his targets out when talking to them, like sneaking up near them while the target is focused on the double and having a clearer view of the target's body language, hearing anything they're muttering to themselves or whispering to someone else, etc.

Keen Intellect: Akela has a sharp and pragmatic mind, having studied his quirk to understand his limits, and make those limits work for him instead of against him. He uses his quirk's abilities to fool almost everyone around him with a false conclusion of what it does by tricking them into thinking it's teleportation or even phasing through solid objects when it's really a combination of illusion and invisibility.

He also uses the double to distract targets and speak to them while he is free to sneak around them at his own discretion.

Akela also pays close attention to what goes on around him, and especially his targets to get a read on them.

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.

Stealth, Tracking, and Recon: Because of the capabilities of his Quirk, Akela can use his Double to remain at a specific location while he scouts ahead to perform reconnaissance while invisible. He can report what he sees through his Double to anyone who is with it but he must not go further than twenty yards from his Double's position.

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.