Kaina Tsutsumi

Kaina Tsutsumi, known by her alias Lady Nagant (レディ・ナガン), is a former Villain and Pro Hero.

She was freed from Tartarus by a riot caused by All For One in Tomura Shigaraki's body. She serves as one of the primary antagonists of the Dark Hero Arc.

Appearance
Kaina is a tall woman with a curvy body. She has long, indigo-colored hair with numerous scattered pink streaks, usually tied in a ponytail with two full shoulder-length strands of hair framing her face. Her eyes are purple with a mauve shade with dark, blue-colored angled eyebrows.

Before working for the Commission, Kaina wore her presumably school-issued consisting of a double-breasted short-sleeved blouse with a dark-colored sailor-style collar, secured with a light-colored tie and a pleated skirt. She had a bag slung to her side, and her right arm was wrapped with a bandage from above her elbow to just below her wrist. In her flashbacks, she was shown to be far livelier and had an excited and happier expression.

When she started working as a Pro Hero, she had long hair wrapped into a ponytail and secured with a hair clip. Her hero costume was a simple dark bodysuit with two plates underneath her chest and knee guards. She also wore a long scouter over her right eye, shaped like a lightning bolt.

Following her incarceration, Kaina's hair was cut shorter, and she wore a standard red-orange inmate jumpsuit issued to all the prisoners of Tartarus. After her escape, she changed it to a purple sleeveless dress with gold piping around the hem, white zip-up boots with black lines on the front extending to the bottoms and heels, and a metallic utility belt in which she stores her bullets.

During the Final War, Kaina returns and is shown to have scars covering her face after the explosion caused by All For One. Her entire body is covered in bandages, and she wears a hospital gown over the top of them. These scars have not fully healed, so overworking herself can cause them to worsen and bleed.

Personality
Kaina is a serious and disciplined woman who does not hesitate to hurt people to fulfill her mission or achieve her goals. She can be very casual and relatively fearless, showing no visible fear upon meeting All For One and even familiarly addressing him. Kaina is direct and ruthless toward her adversaries, firing a warning shot at Izuku Midoriya and threatening to dismember the young hero should he not come quietly.

In the past, Kaina had an optimistic outlook in her desire to be a great hero but was led down a dark path by her superiors, having been trained to kill villains and corrupt heroes, sometimes unjustly, who were threatening to disrupt the order in society. Her repeated killings made Kaina disillusioned, and she soon fell into a depressive state upon realizing that the Hero Commission maintains a fragile and hollow peace at the expense of others while hypocritically justifying that their actions are for the good of everyone. Upon seeing some young children in admiration over her, Kaina eventually reached her breaking point, realizing that the youth of society wholly admire Heroes and wish to become them while not being aware of the bloodshed behind the scenes. While reaching out to shake the hands of said children, she saw how bloodied her hand was and retracted it in horror, not wanting to pass said bloodshed on to them. Upon implying that she wished to leave her post and receive a veiled threat to her life in response, Kaina finally snapped and killed her superior.

As All For One had declared, Kaina wishes to see the downfall of Hero Society, knowing just how corrupt it is underneath, and stated that the Symbol of Evil's rule would be preferable over the corrupt system she spent years serving under. She also shows pity to the victims of the heroic society, such as Kai Chisaki, yet is also willing to put his life in danger to distract and gain an advantage over Izuku.

Izuku, however, pointed out that Kaina wasn't serious about killing Kai because the trajectory of the bullet she fired at him was off, and he surmised she wasn't as supportive of All For One as she claimed to be because she could've easily fulfilled the contract to capture Izuku without engaging in battle. It is later proven that despite her low hopes and cynical view of society, she still cares about doing what's truly right in the end and that she became a hero with the good intention of helping others. After witnessing Izuku's skill and resolve in battle, as well as how he managed to save both Kai and her with no hesitation, Kaina deems Izuku to be a true hero. Kaina even went as far as to give him a clue about All For One's potential whereabouts (though she didn't know it was a trap) and willingly put herself at risk, given the severe injuries All For One inflicted upon her, to aid Izuku against Tomura Shigaraki in the Final War.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Kaina is a powerful combatant, with skills even recognized by All For One, the most powerful villain in Japan, and feared by Hawks, the current No. 2 Pro Hero. As a former member of the Hero Public Safety Commission, and Hawks' senior, it is assumed she was privy to many of the same training regimes and harnessed a vast number of skills working for them, making her Hawks' top priority.
 * Sniping Skill: Kaina is considered the country's best long-range fighter. Even Snipe, a prominent Pro Hero with a Quirk that improves his ranged attacks, admits that he can't hope to compete with her, as she far outclasses his Quirk with raw skill alone. Her skill is so great that she was able to hit Deku from over a kilometer away, despite it being night-time and raining heavily, as well as her target's greatly enhanced speed and ability to detect danger. She was able to land a hit while moving in mid-air with her rifle pointed behind her back.
 * Enhanced Eyesight: Kaina seemingly has enhanced eyesight levels, effortlessly hitting targets up to three kilometers away without any visible scope. Her sight is seemingly unaffected by either darkness or weather conditions, such as heavy rainfall.
 * Enhanced Stamina: Kaina possesses remarkable endurance, as she survived being exploded from within and remained conscious enough to tell the heroes the plan of All For One.

Quirks
Rifle (ライフル): Kaina's Quirk allows her to extend a rifle from her right elbow. She can extend a tendril from her rifle that she can curl up to form a scope. She can also create various types of bullets, such as hollow-point bullets and curving bullets, from her hair by twisting and molding her bi-colored locks like Epoxy putty and hardening it to be as strong as any ammo. The range of her rifle fire is 3 kilometers.

Air Walk (エアウォーク): Kaina's second Quirk allows her to levitate in mid-air. She received this Quirk from All For One, who gave it to her as a form of payment for going after Deku. As shown, Kaina primarily uses this Quirk in tandem with her first Quirk, allowing her to quickly change sniping positions and even fire shots by taking position at mid-air, greatly expanding the range of her shots.

Unnamed Self-Destruct Quirk: All For One is able to detonate Kaina's body from afar, creating a massive explosion and leaving her charred. All For One secretly gave this to Kaina as a contingency in the event that she changed her mind about helping him. It is unknown whether or not All For One has some degree of control over this transferred Quirk, or if he used a different Quirk to make Kaina detonate.

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Trivia

 * Lady Nagant's given name means "fire" (火), "Italy, that one" (伊), and "what" (那). Her surname contains the characters of "gun barrel" (筒) and "beautiful" (美).
 * Kaina's alias "Lady Nagant" name may be a reference to the, a military rifle first developed in the late 1800s and is still used in conflicts in the present day.
 * Kaina's prisoner number was 656698.
 * Kohei Horikoshi stated that her skill in curving bullets was directly inspired from Angelina Jolie's role as Fox in .
 * Kaina likes pretty and cute things.
 * Kaina is the first known villain in the series to be a former Pro Hero.

Quotes

 * (To Izuku) "This superpowered society is a gilded daydream seen through rose-colored glasses. But it's paper-thin. A fragile illusion. Say you bring back the status quo. Then what? History will just repeat itself. The public gets to stargaze at the bright and shiny side... while the dark truth gnaws away at someone else. At least a future ruled by All For One... will be a helluva lot more transparent."

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