Bakugou Katsuki

**Bakugou Katsuki** (爆豪勝己) was a forth year student of class 4A at U.A. High School training to become a Pro Hero.

## Appearance

Bakugou is a very short young man with a thin build and dark tan skin tone. He has spiky ash blond hair and sharp red eyes. His most prominent scars are several claw marks on his face courtesy of villains during his first year, a gun shot scar on his right shoulder from Adachi Yuudai, a gun shot scar on his upper chest from an attempted assassination, and the electrical scarring from a modified taser that Adachi Yuudai invented.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** Bakugou is one of the top members of his class and has been since the begin, earning 3rd place in the Quirk Apprehension Test while placing first in both the U.A. Entrance Exam, having the most villain points, and his first U.A. Sports Festival. His fighting style is an all-out offense, utilizing his quirk's propulsive abilities to their fullest. Katsuki is able to use his quirk to propel himself through the air, blind opponents, and release long-range blasts, among other applications. At first glance a very straight forward quirk, Bakugou has utilized his creativity and ingenuity to bring it to a whole new level, most notably in its use to gain flight.

During the USJ Incident, Bakugou was able to singlehandedly overpower and immobolize Kurogiri, a highly capable villain. At the U.A. Sports Festival his first year, he was able to defeat Tokoyami Fumikage and Todoroki Shouto, two of the strongest students in his class at that time. The League of Villains, an S class organization, took notice of Bakugou's strength and went as far as kidnapping him to attempt to convert him to their cause even if it meant sacrificing members of the Vanguard Action Squad as his potential membership would have far exceeded the risk. Katsuki has also become less insubordinate when paired with people and has developed a degree of camaraderie, as he utilizes his abilities to repel opponents that overpower his comrades.

After the Adachi Yuudai incident, Bakugou's health and physical abilities were massively damaged, which only continued as a series of villain attacks and illnesses seriously damaged his abilities and his health. Recently, with the dubious help of his uncle, Akaguro Chizome, or Stain, he's returned to his previous strength levels and recently unlocked the sweat glands in his feet to be able to utilize them as well. His unstoppable drive is perhaps his biggest strength.

**Enhanced Strength-** Despite his low weight and small frame, he possesses a high-caliber physical strength, confirmed by his ability to use his Grenade Bracers without sustaining effects from recoil

**Keen Intellect**: Katsuki has proven to be extremely intelligent and strategic. While he occasionally doesn't have preemptive strategies like most people, he does analyze his opponent's weaknesses such as when he realized Tokoyami's weakness to light during the Sports Festival in the midst of battle and can anticipate worst-case scenarios. Even when fighting the weaker villains during the U.S.J., Katsuki quickly assessed which of the attacking villains were the most dangerous threat in the long term and eventually figured out a way to incapacitate Kurogiri, one of the invasion's leaders. He also knew that Kurogiri had a weakness and bound his body to hinder his escape. By doing this, he effectively trapped the League of villains in the USJ until Nomu attacked.

Even outside of battle, Katsuki is incredibly perceptive, having deducted the truth about One For All by just piecing together comments and interactions surrounding Izuku Midoriya, All Might, and even All For One. Katsuki can seemingly detect when people are lying to him by just reading into their behaviors and expressions.

Still, Katsuki's short temper gets the best on him sometimes, causing him to overlook crucial details and commit mistakes.

**Leadership Skills**: Katsuki has always been criticized for his lack of cooperativeness, usually as a result of his overwhelming ego that prevents him from following the lead of others. However, thanks to Katsuki's very own determination, perfectionism, and intelligence, he is a capable leader should others decide to follow him instead.

**Musical Talent**: Katsuki is highly skilled at playing the drums, piano, violin, cello, guitar, and singing, thanks to lessons his mother put him through as a child, though he is very rusty and has not done so in years.

### Quirk

**Explosion** (爆破 *Bakuha)* is an Emitter-type quirk that allows him to secrete nitroglycerin to create explosions.

### Super Moves

**Blast Rush Turbo** (爆速ターボ *Bakusoku Tābo*): Katsuki throws his hands back and uses explosions to propel himself. He uses this both on the ground to increase his speed and through the air to achieve a pseudo form of flight.

**Stun Grenade** (閃光弾 *Sutan Gurenēdo):* Katsuki starts by creating a sphere of light between his hands that explodes into a large scale flash. Similar to the effect of an actual stun grenade, the flash of light blinds anyone close by.

* **Zero Distance Stun Grenade** (ゼロ距離閃光弾 *Sutan Gurenēdo*): A variation where Katsuki fires off his Stun Grenade at point-blank range of the opponent to immediately stun and immobilize them with little lasting damage.

**Howitzer Impact** (榴弾砲着弾 *Hauzā Inpakuto*): This move is the strongest move in Katsuki's arsenal, which involves Katsuki taking to the air, and then using explosions to propel himself in a circular motion to create a tornado. This tornado builds up oxygen to fuel the incoming explosion. After colliding with the target, Katsuki releases the powerful aforementioned explosion. Present Mic compared the effectiveness of the technique to that of an actual missile. Katsuki first used Howitzer Impact in the final match of the U.A. Sports Festival Finals. He has also shown that he can release the fueled explosion in midair, without having to make contact with the target.

**AP Shot** (徹甲弾 *Ei-Pī Shotto)*: Katsuki stretches out one of his hands and uses his other hand to form a circle on the palm of his outstretched hand. Katsuki then fires an explosion through the circle, which creates a concentrated blast beam. By focusing the path of his explosions into a single point instead of around his whole palm, Katsuki creates a concentrated blast with reduced area of impact, but with enough power to successfully pierce solid concrete.

* **AP Shot: Auto-Cannon** (徹甲弾機関銃 *Ei Pī Shotto Ōtokanon):* A rapid-fire version of his AP Shot Technique. The explosion power is reduced in order to avoid dealing severe damage to human targets

**Explode-A-Pult** (爆破式カタパルト *Ekusu Kataparuto*): While in mid-air, Katsuki grabs an opponent with one of his arms, then propels himself in a spinning motion by firing explosions with his free arm. Once he gains enough momentum, Katsuki forcefully throws his opponent with the aid of another explosion.

## Quotes

* "I have to work so fucking hard every single day to be where I am and- people can't fucking decide what I am. One day I'm a fucking god, good at everything, and not allowed to fail. The next I'm a screw up who's just a hot headed idiot and I just- I'm not- I'm never good enough. It's never enough."
* (to Aoyama Yuuga) "-RIP OFF THE REST OF THAT TAPE AND SHOVE IT SO FAR UP YOUR LIVER YOU'LL NEVER CRAWL AROUND LIKE A FUCKING HALF-BAKED SPIDERBITCH VRISKA AGAIN YOU FUCKING WANNABE DENNY'S CREEP-"
* (to Monoma Neito) "Look, people are dumb fucks and the majority of them are close minded fuckfaces who can't mind their own fucking business. As long as you know you aren't using them and long as you know you aren't a bad guy or a villain or whatever, who the fuck cares. Some of us have quirks that are easier to be used to hurt people and close minded idiots will hate us for that but its up to us to own up to our power and be heroes."
* (to Hagakure Kaede) "Hiro tripped and fell on his knife."
* "When you assholes get all self-deprecating it really takes the zing out of insulting you."
* (to Romero) "Fuck you discount Halloween prop!"
* "What are trees supposed to do with Christmas though?"
* "Go squirt lemon juice in your eyes."
* "Don't be fucking rude."
* "First, noted. Second, don't fucking diss Matilda like that- your wannabe villain ass isn't worthy of her. Third, what kind of villain doesn't even swear? Bitch, I've been shot, kidnapped, clawed, scratched stabbed, burnt, half drowned, waterboarded, and about a thousand other things. Today, I nearly had my  eyes scratched out and a giant ass chunk taken out of my arm. Unless you are willing to do all those things and more, back the fuck up before you get fucked the fuck up. I have one purpose in life right now and that is to protect my friends and boyfriends. I can and I will smash you into the ground if it means keeping them safe. So unless you are willing to go that far, I would turn around and take that little tail of yours, tuck it under your ass, and run."

## Trivia

* Bakugou is Saggitarius
* Bakugou entered school a year early and is the youngest member of his class
* This version of Bakugou is a fusion between canon Bakugou and the original concept of Bakugou that the author of the maga created
* He loves spicy food and mountain climbing