Hana Shimura

Hana Shimura was the older sister of Tenko Shimura and the granddaughter of Nana Shimura.

She was killed by her brother when his Quirk went out of control.

Appearance
Hana was a young girl with dark, medium-length hair that she wore up in pigtails on the sides of her head, short bangs that hung halfway down her forehead, and two shoulder-length, thick strands of hair left out to frame her face. She had dark, cat-like eyes that slanted inwards and towards the middle of her face. She somewhat resembles her paternal grandmother.

She wore a plain light-colored T-shirt with stripes around the sleeve cuffs and collar.

Personality
Hana was a carefree child who loved to play with her younger brother, Tenko. She loved and cared for her brother, always holding his hand and assuring him that she was there for him. Like her brother, Hana also expressed an interest in heroes, revealing that their paternal grandmother was a Pro Hero and aspired to follow Tenko's dream herself, saying that they could become hero siblings.

However, despite Hana's love for her brother, she was shown to be selfish and dishonest at times, cowardly accusing her brother of finding the photo of Nana in their father's office, when she had been the one who showed it to him, simply to avoid getting in trouble. She only did this out of fear of punishment from her father however, as she knew he'd abuse her like he did with Tenko. She was very remorseful for selling out her brother and tried to apologize for telling on him, only to become the start of Tenko's dark path to becoming a villain.

History
Hana is the eldest daughter of Nao Shimura and Kotaro Shimura, and the big sister of Tenko. She lives in a normal house with her grandparents, Mako and Chizuo. However, despite that, her father hates Heroes with a cold-heart and forbids anyone from ever mentioning anything about Heroes. At some point in the past, she discovered a picture of her grandmother who was a Hero and admires her for it, but she does not tell her father or Tenko about it.

While Hana was feeding the dog, Kotaro kicked Tenko out in the backyard to make him sleep for the rest of the night all because Tenko was playing Hero. One day, Hana takes him to their father's office and shows him an old photo of their father with their grandmother, Nana. Hana tells Tenko that their grandmother was a hero, and this revelation makes Tenko very happy. Hana tries to support his dream, and even says that she wants to follow his dream herself.

However, their father had discovered that his children broken into his office and peeped at the picture of his hero mother. Tremendously angry, Kotaro demands to know who was responsible. Scared, Hana breaks down into sobs and squealed, saying it was all Tenko's idea. This results in Kotaro beating his son, while telling him that the woman he saw in the picture is not his grandmother, but a demon that threw away her own child, and that heroes are nothing but people who hurts their own family for the sake of helping a bunch of strangers. While Kotaro hits Tenko, nobody in his family dares to intervene and stop him, despite his pleas.

Later that evening, Hana attempts to apologize for letting him take the pain of their father, despite it being her idea. Hana notices her brother is in pain and runs to help him but is horrified to find their dog completely decayed and screams in horror. She runs off in terror, and Tenko tried to plea with her to help but is unable to speak.

After he manages to catch up with her, however, his bare hands touches her and she ends up disintegrating by his newly manifested Decay Quirk, as she calls for their mother. Tenko was horrified at her death and puked at the sight. As his Quirk increased, Tenko would then go on to accidentally slaughter the rest of his family, leaving himself as the only surviving member. This action would be the profounding start of a catalyst to his upbringing in villainy.

The only thing that remained of Hana were her hands that Tenko, now going by Tomura Shigaraki, wears on his villain costume. Her lonely brother would go on to be the successor of All For One, the very villain who killed their grandmother.

Meta Liberation Army Arc
As Tomura faces off against Re-Destro, he is suddenly overwhelmed by the sheer power of his Stress Quirk, forcing him into the corner. Re-Destro seizes Tomura's hand and starts to snap it, severing two fingers, for its part in killing many of his subordinates. In that moment, Tomura only cares about the hand that grasped his left wrist, the one that belonged to his sister Hana, which was destroyed in Re-Destro's attack. Seeing this, his long-buried memories of his family start resurfacing. As he breaks free, Tomura takes the preserved hand of his father out of his pocket and tells Re-Destro that he is right about him, that he truly exists only to destroy as he begins to remember when he was Tenko.

After remembering his past to the time being alone and being found by All For One, Tomura finds resolve that those helped him become who he really is. Tomura then breaks away from his past trauma by crushing his father's hand. With memories of his past returning, Tomura decides to break free of the shackles of his trauma and deems the hands of his family unnecessary before Tomura gleefully unleashes his full power with nothing holding him back anymore, laughing triumphantly with a desire to destroy anything that stands in his path.

Paranormal Liberation War Arc
Even in death, the memories of the Shimuras continue to linger on within Tomura. As Tomura laid unconscious after his procedure to obtain the All For One Quirk was interrupted by the Heroes, he experienced a warped version of his past. A vision of Hana appears and apologizes to Tomura for bringing him to their father's studies and showing him the photo of their grandmother, but Tomura does not mind about that anymore.

All of his visions culminated in a shadowy version of All For One appearing before him. As Tomura walks forward, constructs of his family desperately try to stop him from following in All For One's footsteps, but Tomura destroys them without hesitation, telling them not to reject who he is.

Final War Arc
After months of recovering from his injuries, Tomura joins the Final War and ends up getting teleported to the U.A. Floating Fortress where the Heroes combat him. With his Quirks erased, his body undergoes a transformation as a result of the Quirk Singularity, due to Tomura's mental deterioration, as Tenko's memories of his family continue to flash through his head. As a result, in his ultimate defense mode where his body is completely covered in hands, his left hand is morphed into a visage of the Shimura family.

It turns out Tomura was using these memories as a way of fighting back against All For One from within in his attempts to take over his body. With its purpose served after Izuku Midoriya pummels his body, and his Quirks returned, Tomura sheds off this defensive skin with his newly returned control and determination.

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Trivia

 * Hana shares the same name and bears resemblance to a younger from Kohei Horikoshi's previous work, .
 * The kanji Hana (華) in her name means "flower".
 * Hana is the youngest character to have died in the series by far.

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