Dabi

Dabi, dubbed as Blueflame (蒼炎) by Geten, is major supporting antagonist in the series, and a villain affiliated with the League of Villains and was a member of the organization's Vanguard Action Squad. He and the rest of his team serve as the primary antagonists of the Forest Training Camp Arc. He also serves as an antagonist for the Pro Hero Arc.

He later became one of the nine lieutenants of the Paranormal Liberation Front, an organization formed from the union of the League and the Meta Liberation Army.

Appearance
Dabi is a fairly tall, pale young man of a slim, somewhat-lanky build, described to be in his early-twenties. He has longish, black hair that spikes up around his head, hanging low over his eyes, which are thin, turquoise in color, and heavily lidded. His most striking features, however, are undoubtedly the patches of gnarled, wrinkled, purple skin that cover much of his lower face and neck, all the way down past his collarbone, below his eyes and on his arms and legs. These appear to be attached to the rest of his skin by multiple, crude surgical staples or hoop piercings, making it impossible to tell if these scars were accidental or self-inflicted.

He has several silver cartilage piercings in both ears, and a triple nostril piercing on the right side of his nose. In his first appearance, he wears a dark blue jacket with a high, ripped collar, and matching pants, cut off above his ankles, a pair of dark dress shoes on his feet. He also has a plain pale gray, scoop-neck shirt, below which a gray belt with a circular pattern wraps around his waist, a leather satchel attached at the back.

When he joins the Vanguard Action Squad, his look is updated, now consisting of a larger dark blue coat with two large metal cuffs at the end of each elbow-length sleeve, and a white stitch design on each of his shoulders, the hem ripped, extending down to his knees. His shirt and belt stay the same, but he replaces his pants with some larger ones of a darker color, and his shoes with black boots.

Personality
Dabi is a stoic, aloof and serious individual who rarely shows emotion. His behavior varies between reserved and insulting and he often seems bored. He tends to follow Tomura Shigaraki's orders well, showing genuine loyality. Dabi often seems reticent or inexpressive, but is quick to get dangerously impulsive.

While rather crude and enjoying violence, Dabi is actually cautious, choosing to retreat when Mirko arrived to aid Endeavor. He also made sure not to divulge too much information to Hawks about High-End because of the infancy of their relationship.

Dabi is intolerant of most people and judges them only according to their strength. He enjoys to execute lesser villains and kills weaker people without mercy or hesistation. Dabi shows unwillingness to empathize with others, a high tendency for aggressiveness and physical violence and complete lack of guilt. He takes sadistic pleasure from the pain he inflicts on others, including the people he has murdered.

Dabi insulted Tomura immediately after meeting him. He was reluctant to introduce himself, rudely brushing off Tomura's inquiry about his true identity. But after Shigaraki had earned his respect, Dabi referres to him as "Boss".

Dabi demonstrates a high pain tolerance towards his own fire, showing indifference about all casualties, including his own body.

Despite his usual expressionless behavior, Dabi finds joy in establishing himself as a villain fighting against what he believes to be false heroes. He acts serious and annoyed towards his allies, and he only gets taunting towards heroic figures like UA-students or Pro Heroes.

Dabi is dedicated to the Hero Killer: Stain's mission and desires to destroy superhuman society. He is focused on his goals and remains steadfast through the League of Villains movements. Dabi's motivations seem to outweigh his personal feelings, loyally following Tomura, despite coming to blows when they first met. Although he smiled when he remembered murdering Snatch, Dabi appears to relate to families who suffer because of heroes and villains.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Dabi is a highly capable villain, being one of the most powerful members of the Vanguard Action Squad, as well as its leader. Later Dabi became the first lieutenant of the Paranormal liberation front and thereby the second in command directly under Tomura.

Dabi's overwhelming fire allowes him to contend with a multitude of Pro Heroes. Doubles of Dabi created by Twice were noted to be weaker than the actual villain, but they still were powerful enough to hold off both Vlad King and Eraser Head. With assistance from Mr. Compress, Dabi was capable of killing Sand Hero: Snatch in their battle on the highway. Dabi was about to engage Endeavor and Hawks, and given the heroes' weakened state, it’s clear Dabi would have defeated the two strongest Pros, had it not been for the arrival of Mirko.

Dabi is both, a long-range and a close-combat fighter.

Average Intellect: While his stats show him to be average intelligent, Dabi has demonstrated to be a strategic leader. His plan suffered three casualties on the villains side, but he managed to capture Katsuki Bakugo.

High Pain Endurance: Even though his body is endangerd by his own flames, he does not hesitate to use them. He also seems indifferent about his staples tearing blood.

Quirk
Cremation: Dabi's Quirk grants him the ability to generate highly destructive blue flames from his body. However his body can not handle the overuse of his own flames.

His flames are blue, which means they reach a temperature of over 1300°C (2372 °F). Dabi's fire almost reaches the melting point of iron and is already hot enough to melt cement, which makes him able to combust most things he touches. Physicaly, his flames have to be able to suffocate his victims just by consuming the needed oxygen.

Dabi is able to cremate an entire group of villains in mere seconds. Offensively, Dabi uses his flames by creating fireballs, flamethrower-like attacks, and bursts of fire. Defensively, Dabi can generate enough flames to form massive walls of fire to surround his targets. But Dabi's body has a low tolerance for his own flames and will get burned if he uses them for prolonged periods of time.

Trivia

 * In the My Hero Academia anime opening 3, "Sora ni Utaeba" by Amazarashi, Dabi was shown as a silhouette foreshadowing his appearance to come.
 * Dabi's official rankings in the Popularity Polls are as following:
 * Dabi ranked 28th place in both the 2nd and 4th Popularity Polls.
 * Ranked 34th place in the 3rd Popularity Polls.
 * His alias, Dabi, means "Cremation".
 * Dabi is left-handed.
 * Dabi can get carsick easily, as he stated to Spinner when the latter was not driving properly.
 * Dabi hates fish.

Quotes

 * (To the Vanguard Action Squad) "This will just be a signal fire. We'll fill those heroes full of holes... and put them in their place. All for a brighter future."
 * (To Shota Aizawa) "Quite worthy of being an instructor at U.A. Ain't that right, hero? Is it cuz your students are so precious? Hope you got what it takes to protect them... See ya later."
 * (To Vlad King) "Why not get cocky? You're playing right into our hands. The second you lost the initiative signaled your defeat. You've got the top hero-training academy, U.A., and the Symbol of Peace, All Might... the two most trusted foundations of our hero-based society. But now one mess after another is shaking that trust... don't you think that loss of faith will spread like wildfire throughout society? Think about it... how your careless administration keeps allowing attack after attack... you're so weak... you couldn't even stop a criminal organization from abducting your students."
 * (To Unnamed Criminals) "If you're trash, at least burn and be kindling for my flames."

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