Name: Maeda Nadeko
Picture: Hero Name: Polaris
Age:16
Height: 5”6
Home:Tokyo, Japan
Quirk Type: Mutation
Quirk: Nadeko's forearms are instead two comically oversized magnets. With these magnets, Nadeko can attract metal objects and other magnetic objects, as well as disrupt magnetic fields and electronic equipment. The strength of the magnets is something she can increase with effort. She can generate magnetic fields strong enough that if she points her arms at a nearby building and pulls, she herself will move forward.
Her forearms are also large, square, and bulletproof, which makes them useful for protecting her chest and head during possible combat encounters. Getting punched by one is no joke either. It's like running head-first into a metal wall.
Quirk Weakness': Nadeko can’t control or manipulate magnetism. She can’t even repel metal away from her unless it’s charged. All she can do is attract, much like a magnet would behave.
Her quirk also prevents her from having real hands or fingers, making the most basic of menial tasks an entirely different and possibly much more difficult process for her, and outright impossible without the correct tools
Background/Personality:Nadeko was born with magnets for arms. While the other kids could do everything a quirkless could do, and had superpowers on top of that, Nadeko couldn't pick things up, interact with objects properly, or even eat unassisted. Special tools were ordered for her, that allowed her to accomplish different tasks by herself by attaching metal handles to things like hairbrushes and toothbrushes.
As she grew older, and became more accustomed and adept to using her powers, she stopped seeing them as the drawback everyone else did. She was gifted. She was powerful. She'd show off to the other kids in the class. This is when she started getting dreams of becoming a Hero. Her powers could help people! But more importantly, and though she won't admit it to herself, it came from a desire to prove to the world she wasn't handicapped by her quirk. She wanted to save them for once.
Nadeko is cheerful, cocky and a little bit of a show-off. She's friendly, helpful, kind and a positive person to be around. She can get overbearingly smug and self-centred, or defensive and prickly where her quirk is concerned. It can be a sore subject. Her primary pet peeve is people treating her like she's disable. She doesn't want pity or charity. She wants you to be impressed.
In an emergency situation, however, Nadeko isn't flashy. She has a good, just heart and will prioritise stopping people from getting hurt over looking cool. She's quite intelligent, and knows how to use her quirk creatively. She has good potential as a tactician or strategist though lacks the field experience currently.
How did you get into UA?: Exam
What was a fateful moment in the exam or recommendation?: Nadeko of course took out the smaller metal robots with ease, so didn’t focus on a high number count, instead dispatching any she ran into as fast as possible as she gunned it to the biggest robot she could find. She climbed its back with her arms and magnetically pulled its head as hard as she could, messing with the delicate electronics and software. But that wasn’t what she was really doing. From this vantage point, she looked around for ‘citizens’ to assist or rescue. Once she’d felled the robot, she prioritised saving the citizens she saw, for the remainder of the runtime.
Despite her impressive feats, she only ranked 13th in Combat. However, she managed to rank 2nd in Support due to her efforts
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