Hikage Shinomori

Hikage Shinomori was the fourth user of the One For All Quirk.

Appearance
Hikage was a lean man with short, white hair that parts away from the base of his forehead, and thin, green eyes that slant slightly downward. Due to his accelerated aging, he gained two scar-like cracks stretching from the left side of his forehead down to his chin.

Personality
Hikage was a valiant and noble man who was determined to defeat All For One. However, he was well aware of his limits and understood he couldn't defeat All For One by himself, so he spent his life training himself and strengthening One For All to be passed onto the next user. Hikage was described by Daigoro Banjo as a "weirdo" who preferred to spend his time in solitude. It is implied that this was due to his Quirk constantly putting him on high alert.

History
Hikage lived during the era when society was in chaos and All For One was at his prime. He became the fourth user after inheriting the One For All Quirk by the Third User before he died.

He was twenty-two when he inherited One For All from the Third User, along with the mission to defeat All For One. However, Hikage was aware that, given the huge difference in their combat abilities, he could never defeat All For One. Unlike other One For All users, Hikage chose to avoid fighting All For One, and instead cultivate One For All in seclusion. In the next eighteen years, Hikage strengthened One For All with rigorous training. When he turned forty, Hikage's body began to deteriorate and showed signs of old age. Confused by the rapid aging, Hikage entrusted One For All to Daigoro Banjo before passing away.

U.A. Sports Festival Arc
During the fight between Izuku Midoriya 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, but when he is about to cross the edge of the ring, Hikage 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
After Izuku Midoriya falls asleep after an exhausting training session, he experiences the vestiges of One For All. HIkage Shinomori and the other users of One For All appear in his dream, showing Izuku the horrible tale of Yoichi and the origins of One For All. After the dream concludes, he is seen with the other predecessors blessing Izuku.

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, Hikage 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. Among them, Hikage approaches Izuku and introduces himself and his Quirk that Izuku happened to awaken during his battle. Daigoro explains that Hikage was a weirdo that shunned modern society to live the life of a hermit while playfully attempting to tag him with Blackwhip, but Hikage insists that he lived in a terrible era, and society had the weirdos. Daigoro pokes fun at Hikage for being a hermit who shunned society and lived alone, after which Hikage asks Izuku about his age and cause of death. Izuku 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".

Hikage revealed that through All Might and his research, he realizes that One For All is no longer able to be held by an "ordinary person". He continues that other than All Might, he possessed One For All the longest out of everyone, and that for eighteen years he evaded All For One while training his power in secret, knowing that he would never be able to beat him in his state, and just had to nurture it until someone else could. However, it was in his final years that the Quirk started to break his body. At first he believed it was some sort of disease, but after All Might rediscovered his medical history and autopsy, he realized the truth, that possessing multiple Quirks ate away at his life.

The discrepancy with All Might led Hikage to wonder if there was something that All Might had that he didn't, Izuku realizes the difference between Hikage and All Might: All Might was Quirkless.

Yoichi explains that while All Might still lives, everything he learned was passed onto the other users through All Might's vestige, and it was through the encounter with All For One that their theories were confirmed. While they initially believed that the spirits of the predecessors resided within One For All, in truth, it was a result of the Quirk Factors of the second to seventh successors, with All Might being the sole exception due to being imbued with One For All as a true piece of his consciousness, as his only Quirk.

He continues that a vessel with an existing Quirk could not receive One For All without it warping and spilling over, and attempting to force it results in a shortened lifespan, like what happened with Hikage, and that All Might managed to hold onto One For All for forty years because it perfectly fit his previously empty vessel, and became his Quirk.

They conclude that due to these circumstances, the true value of the power can only be wielded by those who lacked power to begin with, with Izuku following up that especially now that the previous user's Quirks have started manifesting, One For All must be carefully given. Yoichi says that due to Quirkless individuals disappearing over each generation, it was fate that Izuku managed to be the one who was bestowed the power, and that if they had a way to contact him sooner, they could've prevented people from dying. Because of this, he and the other users believes that, with the Quirkless population disappearing, Izuku is the last successor of One For All.Nana Shimura appears before him and then asks if Izuku can kill Tomura.

She clarifies that it isn't a request, but a question of his resolve. Because of One For All, she reminds him that they were able to telepathically sense his emotions, and they could also sense that he saw him as someone who needed saving. The users all agreed 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. Nana confronts Izuku,saying that it won't be enough to forgive and understand him because some people cannot be saved, and that if Tomura is one of them, a person who looks like they need saving but can't, does he have the resolve to stop him at all cost?

After a moment of silence, Izuku 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", all the while briefly transforming into his child self.

Moved, Hikage and the other users agreed to aid Izuku and instructs him of how their Quirks work while Yoichi tries to convince the Second and Third User.

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 was forced to leave behind U.A. and his friends so he can focus on finding the villains. With all the users on his side backing him up, Izuku prepares to head out.

However, when Izuku is starting to tire out after days of fighting villains nonstop, Hikage 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 Hikage and the other inheritors assure her that by going over his limit, he's acting like a true hero would do. It was all through his former classmates that Izuku was 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. Flying Fortress designed to contain Tomura to fight him. After regaining his bearings, 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. The spirit of Nana looks towards Tomura's left hand, which is comprised of the faces of the deceased Shimura family, including that of her son, Kotaro. Seeing him look at her, she tells Izuku that he is still in there, sparking the battle to resume.

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 Nana and the other predecessors right there behind him. After Izuku destroyed Tomura's Absolute Defense Form, Tomura releases the pent-up damage in a 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. Flying Sky Fortress to bring their war down on the ground and fight to the death once again.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: While the full extent of his abilities are unknown, Hikage can be assumed to be quite strong, being a One For All vestige. However, he wasn't strong enough to take down All For One.

Trained Muscles: Due to One For All requiring a strong host to handle its recoil, Hikage has a well-built muscular frame. He spent most of his time training in isolation in preparation for passing on One For All to the next vestige, as he was aware that he wasn't strong enough to defeat All For One. His strength allowed him to easily crack large boulders in half.

Enhanced Reflexes: Due to his given Quirk, Danger Sense, he was capable of effortlessly dodging Daigoro's Blackwhip, a Quirk Daigoro is quite capable with.

Quirks
Danger Sense: Hikage's Quirk allowed him to sense incoming threats in the surrounding area, giving him ample opportunity to react to them. According to Izuku, once a threat is detected, a stabbing sensation is sent to the user's head.

One For All (ワン・フォー・オール): Transferred to him from the third user, Hikage'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

 * Hikage's surname contains the kanji for "four" (四) and "forest" (森) while his name means "to evade" (避) and "shadow" (影), referencing both his hermit nature and the fact he is the fourth wielder of One For All.
 * Hikage was the second longest-running One For All wielder, having had the Quirk for eighteen years.
 * Hikage is the third previous One For All user whose Quirk was revealed.

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