Name: Kaizen Shinkami
Hero Name: The Evolving Hero: Apex
Age: 14
Nationality: Japanese
Rank: 26
Appearance: A tall and lean young man with long swept back brown hair.


Costume: A sleeveless expandable shirt along with expandable pants. His glasses provide a heads-up display that can store the DNA information of many animals, preventing the need for him to fully rely on his own memory to recall certain DNA combinations. It also shows him which combination he is currently using.

Personality: Kaizen comes across as a charismatic, kind and polite individual among his peers. He can be quite aloof sometimes, especially when he believes its in the best interest for both parties to do so. He is very laid back when it comes to his studies, especially those that involve writing. The only thing that excites him are physical activities that actually posed a challenge to him, which includes fighting strong opponents. He rarely gets truly upset over anything and is always ready to bounce back when he feels defeated. He does well to hide his anger and displeasure around the people around him, only venting it all out against training dummies. He has very low tolerance for unnecessary cruelty and misplaced pride leading to him avoiding classmates who pretend to be superior than others who a ranked lower.

Quirk: Evolution King

Type: Transformation

Effect: Allows its user to modify their DNA, gaining traits of the chosen animal or animals. The user is able to modify the existing structure of their body or grow new parts to replicate parts such as tails, claws and shells.

Drawback: This requires the user to understand the specific genes that are associated with specific traits of animals. As such, the user is limited to traits from animals they have studied. Additionally, each transformation takes energy to undergo, this is especially true for those involving growing new parts. Due to its high energy consumption, Kaizen needs to have large meals each day.

History:

Kaizen comes from a long lineage of animal-based shifters that allows them to transform into various types of animals. However, due to the complexity of his quirk he often fell short in terms of actual performance compared to his relatives, who had more straightforward animal type quirks. During his primary school years, Kaizen was a naughty child who would often play pranks on his friend using simple applications of his quirk. His grades and performance in athletics were relatively average. His family wasn't all too happy about this as they had high expectations for their son. In anger, Kaizen ran away from home leading to him to have a close encounter with a villain that nearly cost him his life, his outlook on life completely changed.

One week before his exam, he had discovered the wonders of coffee, which allowed him to minimize his downtime and continue experimenting on his quirk. With this, he was able to come up with specialized forms that could handle a wide range of situations rather than relying on rapidly changing forms which would expand all his energy. On the night before his entrance exam, he could not sleep due to high caffeine levels. When morning came, he had a hearty breakfast and the strongest coffee he could find, hoping that it would keep him up long enough to get through the exam. It didn't.

Exam Report: This student showed great potential in the first half of the exam. He was able to dispatch a large number of robots with ease and collected enough ribbons to secure a spot at the top ten. However, his sudden collapse led to him losing all his ribbons. According to the medical reports, the cause of the collapse was sleep deprivation.

Misc: Likes to yell "HENSHIN!" before transforming.

Appearance: Desmond stands tall at over 7 feet, a stature only achieved by his quirks changes on his physical body. Every inch of his skin is living 'hay' or something extremely similar in texture made of living tissue. While they are indeed very tall despite Desmonds age, they can be shorter if they so chose by restructuring their body as they please thanks to their quirk, though it is a far from pleasant experience.
Costume: Ragged black clothes, a large brimmed hat, and a ragged straw cape

Personality: Desmond is what the educated may refer to as 'psychotic'. Their mannerisms are often crude, their way of speaking can shift from polite to dismissive to aggressive within seconds based on the topics coming to light. While this is often a problem that creates friction between himself and his peers, it is alarmingly clear that he has others' best interests at heart. They will often put themself in a situation that lets someone else escape.
There are other more sinister parts to the scarecrow child that some have noticed as 'concerning'. Desmond has an obsession with the wounded, more specifically the process of needle and thread. To see the wounded literally put back together, one stitch at a time. Now the obvious interest in the medical field of surgery is clearly a good thing for an aspiring Hero-to-be to learn but that obsession coupled with the properties of his quirk has earned him the nickname 'stitches' because they like to sew things together..

Quirk: Scarecrow!
Type: Mutant
Effect: Desmonds quirk is a peculiar one. The changes to his anatomy from the ground up are a mystery. The most noticable part of his quirk is he is made of straw, with its length, strength, flexibility, every last aspect of each individual strand is controllable though it is taxing to do so.
The most major part of Desmonds mutation is the blue slime that acts as his 'organs' or bones, so to speak. Straw is produced through this gelatinous ooze. What is most peculiar is the slimes properties when applied outside of Desmonds body, acting as a replacement to their bone structure and internal organs.
The amount of slime Desmond can use up at any given time in miniscule, as it is needed to be converted into straw. When fully used up, Desmond will need time to regenerate the required amount of slime to begin moving again.

History: Scare*grow*ing was a lomg process. Born with a body og straw was difficult to navigate for a child. His body lacked a normal bone structure and it made learning to walk a far longrr process requiring special care as they developed and learned to move unassisted. Desmonds parents were concerned his motor skills were not up to par until he was five, causing them to miss a years worth of school.
Now the real meat of his childhood was school life when finally put into it, being something of a scary looking child. Bullying, taunting, threats from teachers concerning his behavior, the usual bag of tragedy that befalls those with a 'villainout look' like Desmond. Even with adversity in their way from the misguided or mistrustful, Desmond tried to be social and friendly until junior high when they began to see videos on the internet of live surgeries. Lacking blood of his own it was fascinating to see and inspired them to use their quirk a little differently. The fascination quickly became an unfortunate sort of obsession. Desmond explains that the precision and life saving application of his straw when made thin enough to be used as thread was the real reason he liked it, but few believe it.
Exam Report: Desmonds participation in the exams was nothing truly spectacular to see. Robots were quickly put to the scrap pile through his quirk finding seems in their metal plating and jamming their gears through density manipulation. What was truly terrifying was the scarecrow mans aptitude for 'sewing' himself back together when his reckless charges seemingly endangered their life.