Toru Ayanokoji

Gender
Boi
Age
16
Height
5 feet, 10 inches
Weight
160lbs

Personality
From the very moment he was born, it was decided that Ayanokoji Toru would come to be a prankster. This is his defining trait and he could almost entirely be summed up as such. He enjoys having a good laugh at other's expense and does not mind losing a limb or two over it. He displays an unnatural fondness for puns and jokes in general, and can be a fairly amiable person when he's not screwing with others. Breaking into mindless rants, acting the part of a fool, feigning actual injury... yes, in the pursuit of entertainment, he is fairly proactive.

Toru can be rather lazy when doing anything he doesn't consider 'fun'. He'd much rather do the bare-minimum and have more time to screw around, something that may upset others who see effort and hard work as a positive trait. He also seems rather... distant from other people, even when acting pleasant around them. He does not take relationships very seriously, and thusly does has yet to have an actual one. Aside from his parents, he's never really 'cared' about another individual enough to warrant them being called 'friend'. He's not likely to get too upset at other people due to not giving them any power over him in the first place, but this also means he's not actually that good with deep situations or sympathizing with people. He's not had a friend, hasn't pursued any romantic relationships, and is quite stiff when he's not allowed to joke around. Still, there's at least an inner desire to change this. If he was beyond forming relationships, he wouldn't have found it so easy to jump into the defense of another like he did. It's clear he's in need of some emotional development, but aren't all teens?

As far as fighting goes, Toru is completely willing to sustain damage in order to win a fight, though this should surprise nobody. He prefers to use a bat in a fight, but if disarmed (in both ways) he'll even swing around his own limbs as weapons, creepily enough. He is not particularly bloodthirsty or the sort, but he also does not care much for a 'fair fight' and will abuse what he can to win. If he needs to throw himself at a foe until they tire out, then so be it. He may need to work on actual skill in a fight, as he currently is more likely to outsustain an opponent in a fist fight than to beat them through skill.

Background
Ayanokoji Toru was born into this world via the union of two very loving parents, who'd wanted nothing more than to create a big, happy family. It would not be an overstatement to say that they so very much looked forward to holding the baby right after it was born, hearing it's cute little heartbeat, and listening to its adorable little wails. Such was the blessing provided to all parents, after all. Of course, this was not to be, as an infant Toru was born without a heartbeat and was motionless. Quite frankly, there weren't any signs of life. Immediately, the staff at the hospital tried their best to figure out what happened or if they could revive the poor young child, only to find him start laughing when his parents began to despair.

It would seem that Toru was always the little shit.

Toru grew up rather popular, yet also quite strange. Even if they had some physical differences because of their Quirks, just about everybody needed to breathe or blink. Or they had a heart that beat. Toru was not like that, however. These sort of unconcious things were not a part of him, initially. He spent much time dedicated to teaching himself these things, in order to appear more humanlike. And once he had finished? He moved on to the best part about his power, objectively: pranking others.

It was this application of his powers that allowed him to truly feel a 'heartbeat'. Nothing else quite gave him an actual thrill of that magnitude. He started rather small, but as he grew and grew, so did his willingness to abuse his Quirk for the sake of terrifying others. Halloween became his favorite holiday, for obvious reasons. And be it puns or dismemeberment, Toru couldn't help himself and let loose at every available opportunity.

It was for this reason that he initially decided he was going to join the entertainment industry. His powers would especially be suited there. Could he be a star in a zombie flick? A comedian? These were possibilities that he considered for quite some time. Yet, they all lost out to one particular moment in his life. He was involved in a typical scenario where a villain took the store he was in hostage. Toru never considered himself brave or selfless, but like his affinity for screwing with people, Toru found the action of putting himself in danger just as natural when things went south, and he took a mortal blow for a woman and her small child. The villain approached the woman and child, cackling at his apparent victory and meaned to finish off the mother and her child, when Toru suddenly sprang back to life and launched a surprise attack, knocking the villain out. And the thrill he got when doing so was perhaps even better than what he got when subjecting people to ridiculous pranks.

He decided right there that perhaps he should try out the hero business. Maybe he'd get a kick out of it?

Quirk

Undeath

The easiest way to explain Toru's quirk is that he is a zombie, at least that's what most people think of when they see him in action. There is a bit more to it, however.

Toru's quirk is a mutant-type that allows him to recover from almost any injury he could physically sustain, so long as there's a piece of him to regenerate from. He can shrug off impalement, broken bones and missing limbs, will never bleed out, and can survive decapitation. He, naturally, has a pain tolerance well above the norm. He also has never been 'sick' before, leading one to believe he's immune to disease. And, on top of this, he has almost limitless endurance and is very physically strong for his age and size. He seems to have control over his body in ways that others do not. This is a regenerative Quirk that allows him to either grow back pieces of himself or even reattach them if he desires, but don't expect any "cloning" shenanigans as there can only ever be one Toru.

His quirk does, of course, have some weaknesses. While he might seem like he'll never run out of stamina, his healing ability does slow down considerably over time, particularly when he's forced to constantly regenerate. Additionally, if his head (brain) is destroyed, he's able to come back, but the full recovery period for that is a few days, so he's vulnerable to being finished off, if a foe so desires. He can come back from considerable damage, but he is not any more durable than the average person, so taking him down is far from impossible, and he can be trapped fairly easy, as while he is pretty strong, anybody with a physical quirk will have not have much problems.