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Shota Aizawa / Easerhead, played by Rin

OOC Info

Name: Rin Age: 17 Pronouns: He/Him/His Triggers: (redacted) Second Choice Character: Fumikage Tokoyami Discord: (redacted)

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Muse Name and Alias: Shota Aizawa “Eraserhead” What is your primary canon(s) for this character? Boku no Hero Academia Approximate Age: 30 OTPs, BroTPs, NoTPs: N/A for OTPS and NoTPS. I like any BroTPs between Shota and his students or coworkers. Give us a bulletpoint outline for what your character’s history might look like:

Since BnHA is still ongoing, I’ll be going up until the end of the School Trip arc. I’ll also not be going much into his childhood/teen years, since there isn’t much known, so far. (I will include everything known, though.)

Attended U.A. High school, where his hero name was chosen by a friend since Shota couldn’t decide on one.

A year prior to teaching, Shota was called into a meeting with other pro heroes and an officer to discuss the citizens being injected with Trigger–a drug to enhance an individual’s Quirk (i.e. superpower). During this meeting, he was encouraged to apply as a teacher by one of the other pro heroes there. Despite perceiving it as a joke at first, Shota ended up being recommended to the principal of U.A. by the hero who brought it up.

Years later, when Izuku Midoriya was a freshman, Shota gave the Quirk Apprehension Test to measure the new students’ abilities, prefacing the test by warning them that he would expel anyone who fails. During the test, he used his Quirk to disable the Quirk of one of his students, as they were about to injure themselves. This revealed his identity as Eraserhead to the class, along with prompting Shota to intimidate the student into using their Quirk better. The student was able to control their ability upon their second throw. This impressed Shota, who then confesses that he lied about expelling any of the students and dismissed the class. He is confronted by a new teacher to the school as he leaves, however, and they claim that he had planned to expel someone in the first place, as he has expelled entire classes before. Shota simply admits that the student he intimidated before doesn’t have “zero potential.”

Once the news that the new teacher was the most famous hero in Japan, the media swarmed U.A. High School, and Shota confronted them, demanding they stop disturbing the students. Once they were dealt with, he returned to his class and informed his students that they would be going to rescue training with him and two other teachers. They took a bus to the rescue simulation, where only he and one other teacher are present. (It turned out that the one missing, who happened to be the new teacher, had used all their power and had to step out.) Moments after arrival, the class is interrupted by a swarm of villains who are out to kill the missing teacher. A fight broke out, and Shota ends up with a disintegrated elbow, a crushed torso, and a cracked skull.

While recovering, Shota acted as a commentator for a school-wide sports festival. (The point of which was to allow pro heroes to scout for talent.)

Two days after the sports festival ended, Shota had his class come up with their own hero names. He also explained that, due to his class fighting off villains during their rescue training, they would be drafted into internships. On the first day of the students’ internships, Shota met his class and instructs them to respect the heroes they would be working under and to be responsible. Once the internships ended, he informed his students that anyone who passed their finals would be able to go to a lodge over summer vacation.

A week before finals ended, he informed his students that they would be having a practical exam to check for their improvement in fighting. He then oversaw his students’ written exam.

The teachers met up a few days before the practical exam to discuss it. The meeting resulted with the exam remaining unaffected.

The practical exam occurred in a controlled environment, where students were to be put into pairs and had to face off against a teacher. Shota was against two of his better performing students, and the students had to either capture him or retreat out of the testing area to pass. He was able to best the students for a while, but eventually was captured in a cleverly put together trap.

The following day, Shota reveals that all of the students would be going to boot camp instead of a lodge, but the ones who failed still had to do remediation.

Shota and his students travelled to a remote forest area, where the students met their camp instructors. The camp was smooth for a few days, but villains soon flooded in and attacked the camp. Shota allowed his students to fight, although he would be punished for this action. After fighting off a few villains, Shota was entrusted with a student, who he took to safety as soon as possible.

A few days after the camp attack, Shota was interrogated by the police.

Interview: What would it take for you to switch sides?

Shota answered almost immediately.

“Nothing.”

Really, would he put himself through four years of a prestigious high school just to turn evil or ignore the problems of the world? No, of course not. There was also his students and their reasons for becoming heros that wouldn’t allow him; they had stars in their eyes when they would talk about their inspiration. Those kids had the drive to do good in a world that was slowly becoming more fucked up, even if it meant dying for it.

There were his coworkers–his friends–too. They had a strong sense of justice and morality that was, frankly, a bit infectious. Neither of these groups would be swayed into villainy, so why the hell would he?

Apathy was a bit different, but it mostly hinged on the same concepts. Though he had times when he struggled through it–depression kinda did that to him–but it never went anywhere.

Really, he didn’t have a choice to turn on the ideals he had lived up with to this point. He wouldn’t allow himself.

How would you describe yourself? How would your friends describe you? How would the public describe you?

Shota blinked idly for a few seconds.

“I guess I’d describe myself as logical and tough on my students,” he dryly replied. “Depressed too. At least according to my medical record.”

He paused to think on it.

“I’m unafraid to speak my mind. That’s about it for me. As for my friends–I assume coworkers count as well. They seem to think I’m a little rough on my kids.” He ended the sentence with an idle shrug.

“I disagree. They applied to a prestigious school, so they should expect to be put through the wringer.”

Shota sighed and sat back, crossing his arms.

“But they can think what they want. They at least seem to like me otherwise, though.”

As for the public…

“Don’t think most of them know about me anymore, but my students know me well. They seem to think the same as my coworkers, for the most part. But it wouldn’t surprise me if some of them hate me.”

If you could gain any superpower/swap your superpower for another, what would it be and why?

Shota rolled his eyes.

“Where I come from, switching our Quirks would be a disaster. It already takes long enough to get used to the one we have at birth. It’d take twice as long to adapt to a brand new one.” His voice wasn’t its usual mellow tone; it sounded annoyed, as if he was asked a question too stupid to answer.

“I guess you wouldn’t know that though, even if it is pretty damn obvious.”

Even if he was to answer with something that wasn’t blatant snark, he couldn’t really think of one that he–

Wait. Yeah there was one he’d find useful.

“I guess making things on the fly. One of my students has that, and she was able to catch me off guard during her final exam,” he mentions, a slight smile tugging at his lips.

“It’d probably keep my eyes from drying up as much as they do now too.”

What is a secret you have never told someone?

A secret? He didn’t really have any that would be worth mentioning–if he wanted to in the first place. There was one, though: just fitting enough to answer, but not some sort of major reveal.

“I’m clinically depressed. I have been since I hit my teens. I take medication for it, but it’s still a thorn in my side.”

He never really told anyone about it. He wasn’t really ashamed, but it wasn’t anyone’s business. Plus he didn’t have emotional breakdowns in public like he did as a teen, so it wasn’t too obvious. The drugs he took, although sorta numbing, prevented that from occurring again. The worst that could happen was that he’d miss a dosage and be on edge for the day or just lose his will to function normally. It was also the reason for his constant tiredness and desire to nap.

If there was one choice in your past you could change, what would it be?

He never really did anything so catastrophic that it’d make him regret it immensely, but there was two events that popped into his mind immediately.

“I led my kids to danger this past school year. Twice. Some of them nearly died during it,” Shota admitted, feeling his chest tighten a bit. “I regret that, even if it did let those kids grow and experience important things. But those kids… they aren’t even eighteen, and most of ‘em have had near death experiences. No kid deserves to go through that at their age. Some of them will bear the scars from that for the rest of their lives. If I had known what would happen, I wouldn’t have taken them into those situations. At least then they could have been normal, worryless teens for a little while longer.”

Once he finished his tangent, he ran a hand through his hair to push some bangs back.

“At least none of them died.”

If you had one day where you could do anything you want, free of consequences, what would you do?

What an easy question.

“I’d want to sleep all day.” Shota quickly said, a dull sparkle in his eyes. “I swear if I got one day to myself I wouldn’t be so damn tired all the time.”

He knew it wasn’t exactly true, but it would help him immensely, if only for a day. His medication and mental illness wasn’t kind to him, and he’d just like a day to give into their demands of “sleep all day.” Plus, no consequences, so he wouldn’t be fired.

Extras - Not really a headcanon since it’s told in canon, but Shota carries eyedrops with him everywhere, since his Quirk causes his eyes to dry out quickly.

- Shota’s Quirk, to be specific, allows him to temporarily disable certain powers as long as he has his eyes open. However, this dries out his eyes extremely quickly. Due to recent injuries, he now has to wait a short while before he can use his ability again. He can, however, erase multiple Quirks at once.

#accepted

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