Mina Ashido

Mina Ashido, also known as Pinky, is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

Appearance
Mina is a girl of medium height, possibly set a little more broadly than some of her other female classmates. Due to her Quirk, her skin is a light shade of pink, and she has rather square eyes, their sclera black and their irises bright yellow, with notably long eyelashes below and around the sides. Her face is framed by short hair, fluffy and unruly, which is a pleasant pink color, slightly darker than that of her skin. She has two thin, pale yellow horns protruding from her head, hooked squarely and leaning diagonally to opposite sides, which are seen to be slightly flexible, able to bend a little to each side.

During school hours, she wears the normal female U.A. uniform.

Her hero costume consists of a plain white mask over her eyes, and a purple and turquoise skintight bodysuit with a camouflage pattern, ending just above her breasts. Over this, she wears a cropped, sleeveless tan-colored waistcoat with white fur along its collar, which she leaves unbuttoned. She wears custom made acid-proof boots with holes in the soles, allowing her to secrete acid from her feet to use to slide around.

The winter version of her costume is very similar, the only difference being that she replaces her usual waistcoat with another, which is slightly longer and has sleeves down to her elbows. A large hexagonal patch with the letter 'P' (standing for "Pinky", Mina's hero name) stitched onto the shoulder of each sleeve. The fur lining her collar is also thicker and wider, reaching her chin, and is joined in the center by two clasps rather than being undone like the rest of the jacket.

Personality
Mina is a cheerful, easygoing girl who displays a wide smile on her face most of the time. Highly social and excitable, she loves to go out with her friends, and is shown to become very upset when denied an opportunity to be at a gathering.

Due to her athleticism and energy, Mina enjoys and is very skilled at dancing. Her demeanor becomes more strict and perfectionistic when teaching others how to dance, in a direct contrast to her usual happy-go-luck nature. She is known to use her dancing to somehow pacify even those who have bad relationships with others.

Mina is somewhat of a romantic and holds a lot of interest over the love lives of other people, to the point of being obnoxiously curious and intrusive about them. Her suspicions, however, tend to be rather baseless most of the time, as she seems to view any instance of a pairing as possible proof of a relationship.

Her easygoing nature pertains to studying, as she laughs about not having studied for her exams while being 19th in class in terms of midterm grades. These combined traits make some of her classmates think of her as an airhead.

Before entering U.A. High School, Mina would condemn bullying in middle school. She is capable of standing up for people even when she herself is scared, going as far as to put herself between bullies and her friends as a dangerous, intimidating figure in order to keep them safe, doing whatever she can to prevent the situation from escalating further.

Abilities
Enhanced Reflexes: Mina has the best reflexes out of the girls and almost all people in Class 1-A. She was capable of easily dodging Yuga Aoyama's energy attacks. She later was able to melt several balls launched toward her at high speed with precise flicks.

Dancing Talent: Mina is extremely skilled at dancing, being capable of pulling breakdance moves with little effort. She can also teach an amateur into becoming a decent dancer in little time.

Quirk
Acid (酸): Mina's Quirk allows her to shoot out a corrosive liquid from within her body and can control the degree of solubility, as well as its viscosity. She can use it offensively but has shown utility as well such as melting handholds for herself to climb with. She is also known to secrete the acid from her feet in order to slide around.

Super Moves

 * Acid Veil (アシッドベール): Mina's special move. By maximizing her acid's solubility and viscosity, Mina creates a gelatinous acid wall that blocks incoming projectiles. Mina's Acid Veil was strong enough to block hardened balls (which were stronger than concrete) with ease.
 * Acid Shot (アシッドショット):
 * Acid Layback (アシッドレイバック):
 * Grape-Pinky Combo Mineta-Bounce (グレープピンキーコンボ 跳峰田):

Equipment
Acidproof Shoes: Mina wears special shoes that have holes in their soles, that let Mina secrete acid from her feet. The shoes are not damaged by the acid, so Mina can easily use them to slide across the ground with her acid.

Trivia

 * Mina's design during the preliminary stages of the series was relatively similar to her final design, albeit with a lankier physique. This design also possessed longer, more elaborate horns, prominently straight teeth like Hanta Sero's, rounder eyes, visible blushes on her cheeks similar to the ones Ochaco Uraraka has, and slightly longer hair.
 * Because the twisted horns were considered difficult to draw, this design was eventually dropped, with the current Mina design having smaller, simpler horns.
 * Mina's known U.A. data is as follows:
 * Mina is student No. 2 in Class 1-A.
 * Ranked 9th during Shota Aizawa's Quirk Apprehension Test.
 * Ranked in the Top 8 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
 * Ranked 19th in Class 1-A's mid-term grades.
 * Mina's surname name "Ashido" is almost homophonous to the Japanese pronunciation of "acid" (アシッド). The first kanji in her given name, "three" (三), can be read as "san", which is also the pronunciation of the Japanese word for "acid" (酸).
 * Mina's initial choice of her hero name, Alien Queen, is a direct reference to from , where the titular creature of the film is an extraterrestrial being that possesses acidic blood.
 * Mina's favorite foods are natto and okra.
 * Mina likes dancing, and is rather good at it.
 * In My Hero Academia Official Character Book Ultra Archive, Mina's profile mistakenly lists her birthday as July 15.

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