Ryuko Tatsuma

Ryuko Tatsuma, also known as Dragoon Hero "Ryukyu" (ドラグーンヒーロー リューキュー), is the former No. 9, current No. 10 Pro Hero. She employs Nejire Hado, Ochaco Uraraka, and Tsuyu Asui as interns.

Appearance
Ryuko is a woman with chin-length blonde hair, which she wears swept back with a headband, a long fringe over the right side of her face, covering her eye. She has thin, inward-tilting eyes with slit pupils, and notably sharp teeth, these aspects purposefully reptilian as a reference to her Quirk.

Her hero costume consists of a dark, traditional with a scale trim around her shoulders, which seems to only be slit on the left side, and knee-high boots, a strap around her exposed thigh. She wears a headband with four large claws attached, covering the right side of her face, and a set of small dragon wings protrude from the back of her head, with a number of small, spiked cartilage piercings decorating her left ear.

When she activates her Quirk, her body transforms into that of a large pink dragon, although she still has the same hair and eyes, and her hero costume remains visible bar her boots and the claws and wings on her headband.

Personality
Ryuko is a humble and gentle person, giving praise where it is deserved and not expecting gratitude in return. She always keeps her composure in a combat situation. Ryuko sees talent where it's due and is willing to hand difficult tasks to those who she thinks can handle them.

Her humble side is further highlighted when she considered herself the only one responsible for dropping to the tenth spot on the Japanese Hero Billboard Chart, and admitting she could have done better. On top of that, when asked to give a speech as the no. 10 hero, she mentioned that she would have refused this rank if it was possible, as she doesn't believe herself worthy of this spot after failing to save a person.

Ryuko seems to have a soft spot for children, as she was saddened when she heard that Overhaul uses his own daughter to create Quirk-Destroying Drugs.

Internship Arc
After witnessing how Nejire Hado, Tsuyu Asui, and Ochaco Uraraka take down two giant villains, Ryuko praises them and notes that Nejire improved the timing of her attacks. Ryuko then proposes that she deems them all fit enough to take part in Sir Nighteye's team request.

Ryuko is among the Pro Heroes and their sidekicks present at Sir Nighteye's meeting. As Nejire asks Ryuko what the meeting is about, Ryuko tells her that Sir Nighteye is about to explain. During his explanation of Kai Chisaki's operation, she expresses sadness and shock over the thought of Chisaki using his own daughter to create weapons.

Several days later, she participates in the police raid against Shie Hassaikai, surrounding the organization's headquarters. While the heroes and the police forcer waited outside, suddenly, the gates smash open courtesy of Rikiya Katsukame, and begins to attack them.

Ryuko turns into a dragon, and easily intercepts Rikiya’s punch with her draconian claw. Ryukyu orders her Heroes from the Ryukyu Offices to deal with Rikiya and asks the other groups to move on. Ryukyu smashes the large Shie Hassaikai member to the ground as the other Heroes and Police Force members start storming into the headquarters.

Ryuko’s group managed to overpower Rikiya and knock him unconscious. Ryukyu orders the Police Forceto restraining Rikiya while Nejire Hado, Ochaco Uraraka and Tsuyu Asui prepare to head after Sir Nighteye's group. Suddenly, Ochaco and Tsuyu along with the Police Force become tired due to Rikiya inhaling their vitality, much to Ryukyu's surprise since she thought she knocked him out. Conscious, Rikiya reveals that the drug he took is kicking in which has enhanced his Quirk and now he can absorb a target's vitality simply by inhaling.

Now larger and stronger than before, Rikiya attacks the Police Force only for Ryukyu to take them to safety. 20 minutes pass and Ryukyu's group is in a standstill against the rejuvenated Rikiya. Only Nejire continues to fight against him.

Suddenly, Izuku Midoriya appears and states that he called reinforcements and that their objective is underneath a nearby crossroad. With this information, Ryukyu hatches a plan, transforms into her dragon form, and charges at Rikiya. With the help of Ochaco, Tsuyu and Nejire, she crashes Rikiya against the point indicated by Izuku, collapsing the crossroad, and causing Ryukyu's group along with Rikiya to fall down into underground, in the middle of the battle between Izuku and Kai Chisaki.

Actually, the Izuku of the surface reveals to be Himiko Toga, who used her quirk to impersonating him. With her are Twice and a copy of Mr. Compress, whom they sent to capture Eri, but Ryuko notices the presence of the League of Villains’s members. While Izuku continues fighting against Kai Chisaki, she destroys the Mr. Compress clone, and sends Ochako to the surface to get a seriously wounded Sir Nighteye to the ambulance.

Izuku manages to defeat Chisaki and the mission ends in success, Eri is rescued and the organization dismantled. However Sin Nighteye dies hours later in the hospital because due the injuries suffered.

Pro Hero Arc
Months later, the JP Hero Billboard Chart is shown, and it is seen that Ryuko has dropped a rank of the ten best heroes in Japan, dropped from the ninth to the tenth position.

During the ceremony, when she gives her opinion on how she feels about her ranking, Ryuko honestly says she does not feel worthy to be in the top ten, because there are lives she could not save, and promise she will continue to strive to be a hero more befitting of the rank. Her words move the hero Crust, who tries to cheer her up.

Abilities
Enhanced Strength: Ryuko's dragon form gives her great strength, which she demonstrated by blocking Rikiya's punch, a large yakuza with superhuman strength, and then to smash him into the ground. Later, despite her stamina having been drained, she was able to grapple with him for a few moments as well as knock him back, hurting him in the process. The latter feat is particularly significant, as Rikiya had just shrugged off a powerful attack from Nejire.

Immense Durability: Ryuko is extremely resistant to blunt trauma in her dragon form. Despite being weakened by Rikiya's Quirk, she took no damage when Nejire used her most powerful attack to drive Rikiya and her into the ground, a move that knocked him out, despite Ryuko being the only one who was hit by the shockwave directly.

Quirk
Unnamed Dragon Form Quirk: Ryuko has the ability to transform into a dragon, a powerful mythological creature. This form grants her abilities commonly associated with dragons, among which are flight, superhuman strength and durability, on top of powerful jaws and claws.

Trivia

 * Her name contains two different characters for "dragon" 竜 (ryū) and 龍 (ryū).
 * The "kyu" in her Hero name sounds like the Japanese word for the number nine, which was her former rank.
 * Ryuko loves shiny things, this is likely a reference to various tales of dragons having hoards of gold and gems.
 * Ryuko shares her first name with Ryuko Tsuchikawa, also known as Pixie-bob of the Pussycats. However, both names are composed of different characters and thus, have different spellings.
 * Ryuko is currently the second highest-ranking female Pro Hero in Japan.

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