Jin Bubaigawara

Jin Bubaigawara, also known by his villain alias Twice (トゥワイス), is a villain affiliated with the League of Villains and part of its Vanguard Action Squad. He and the rest of his team serve as the main antagonists of the Forest Training Camp Arc.

Appearance
Once is an average adult man with light spiked hair and a large scar in the middle of his forehead. His civilian outfit consists of a tank-top and a dark-colored button up; he carries his mask around with him to wear it when he feels he is going to "split".

In his villain costume his entire body is covered by a black-and-grey, full-body suit that hides any distinguishing features about his body. He has red and blue wristbands. The most distinctive feature about the costume is the half grey (upper half) and half black (lower half) mask with slit eye holes. On his chest is a white "T" formed by a horizontal line crossing his upper torso and a vertical line ascending from the abdomen. Another line snakes down to his lower torso and splits down to his thighs, which then ascends to his hips forming a "W".

Personality
Once has an explosive and lively personality. He appears to have a contradicting personality, insulting Dabi one moment then praising him in another. He is also contradictory in his speech, asking Himiko if someone hurt her when she was happy, and exclaiming it was cold when hit by Shoto's fire.

Once believes that understanding your own identity is the most important aspect in life.

Behind his outgoing and contradictory personality, Once suffers from dissociative identity disorder due to the history of his Quirk that drove him to insanity. When his mask is off, he shows a strong sense of self-conflict over who he actually is. Once is also unsure whether he is the original Once or if he is a clone that killed the original.

Abilities
Skilled Acrobat: Once is shown to be extremely agile and acrobatic, able to easily evade Shoto's ice, which has been shown on multiple times to move at extremely high speeds.

Quirk
Double (二倍): Once's Quirk can clone things, making one into two. Once normally uses his Doubling to create clones of himself and others; the clones have the same appearance, personality, and Quirk as the original. The clones have durability as they need to take a certain amount of damage before they disappear; when they take too much damage, they turn into some kind of liquid and evaporate. Once is aware of when a clone is destroyed.

A drawback to this Quirk is that Once has little to no control over his Doubling. Once is unable to control the clones because they have their own autonomy. Once's Quirk has given him a contradicting personality, where a voice in his head contradicts whatever he says. Once greatly struggles from involuntarily splitting himself into two; this weakness is countered by wearing a mask as it allows him to stay as one entity.

Equipment
Measuring Tapes: Inside Once's wristbands are measuring tapes of an extremely sharp material, which, by grasping it with two hands, he can use as a weapon. By using them, Once is able to cut even a thick spike of ice.

Trivia

 * Once's preliminary design didn't change much from his current one, having a slightly different costume with four eye openings instead of just two.
 * Once's costume and lively mannerisms may be inspired by from Marvel Comics. However, his split personality and using his mask to maintain some level of sanity resembles  from Watchmen.
 * His mask may also be inspired by Deathstroke from DC Comics whose half black/half orange mask was meant to highlight his missing right eye.
 * His family name "Bubaigawara", is pronounced and written the same as a that is jointly run by two separate railroad stations. The kanji used for his name "Once", 仁, is similar to the kanji for the number two, 二.
 * The concept of cloning creating self-autonomous duplicates has, in fact, been explored in the past by other super-hero stories:
 * Marvel Comic's X-Men character, once had to fight against a clone of himself that tried to absorb the original and thus replace him.
 * The Image Comics's comic book ' features the mad scientist Mauler''' who after cloning himself repeatedly got into arguments with his clone on who was the original. After the real Mauler is killed off he is in turn replaced with another clone who yet again argues that he is the original.
 * The infamous Spider-Man maxi-series also explores the problem of clones fighting over which one is the original Spider-Man.
 * In the first season of, episode eight, Deep Six, featured the villain cloning himself in order to amass an army in order to take over Atlantis. But, Beast Boy and Aqualad successfully trick the narcissistic Trident clones into fighting each other after asking them "which one of you is the best?"
 * In the animated series, also featured a multiplying villain named Everywhere Man, who was a clone of a quantum physicist who created an army of himself to amass a massive art collection. He has also been defeated, after Batman and Robin insight paranoia among the clones that they would all eventually be wiped out, leading the clones destroying one another
 * He is a C-Rank Villain.

Quotes

 * (To Dabi about Mr. Compress' message regarding the completion of their mission) "Hey, Dabi, you hear that message?! Pretty exciting. Mr. Compress sure got the job done quickly, huh? He took his sweet time, though!! I'm getting sleepy over here."

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