Yui Mikuo

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> *While I myself am not programmed to feel what humans feel, I would like to reassure you that it is completely normal to grieve and have intense feelings.*
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> - Yui Mikuo after the XX42 Sports Festival
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**Yui Mikuo** is an android and teacher of Class 1-B at U.A. High School.

## Appearance

Mikuo is an android constructed to resemble a 30-year-old woman from the shoulders-up. However, the rest of her body is clearly synthetic; her abdomen and limbs are a silvery metal with pronounced joints and segments connected by a wire skeleton and artificial veins pumping her blood, which is a bright, fluorescent green. Some say it glows in the dark.

Mikuo’s face is pale, and she has brown hair tied into a bun. Her eyes are usually an icy blue in their stagnant state, but within her pupils, there is a loading ring that spins whenever she is thinking or processing something. At the nape of her neck, a barcode is printed, with ASE-7 printed beneath it -- *Artificial Support Entity, Model 7.*

Even in combat, she is usually seen wearing a white button-up shirt with long sleeves and a black tie. She usually wears white cotton gloves as well, hiding her metallic hands.

## Personality

Androids have unlocked massive amounts of information and knowledge due to their artificial intelligence, and Mikuo is no exception. She knows her facts, and is capable of researching topics in an instant. In addition, Mikuo is very polite, unassuming, and gentle, although she does have a tendency to express firmness when challenged. She follows the principal’s (and usually other Pro-Heroes’) orders due to her nature as a Support Android. Because of this submissive behavior, students usually do not take her seriously, classing her as a second-class hero and being. Some may believe that she lacks emotions and even empathy due to her constant calm personality, but this is not the case. As a Support Entity, she can identify troubling emotions in others, but her model sometimes struggles with how to deal with them because human emotions cannot be 100% replicated by artificial intelligence.

Mikuo seems to long to be a real human being, and appears to be sensitive about the fact that she is not one. She is not well-versed in slang, pop culture, and social norms despite having vast knowledge on everything else, and is often eager to learn more about being a human. But the fact that she seems to be scared of being disposed as well as her dislike for her own metallic body/lack of a human brain already show her software errors.

## Abilities

As an android, Mikuo does not have an organic Quirk like everybody else. Instead, her body is built with several functions that allow to her be an adequate support and defense machine.

* She has eyes that can scan and identify humans, animals, objects, and spaces within fifty feet. Her ability to scan and process someone’s Quirk information is especially useful, for she can quickly adapt to their fighting style to assist them.
* She can connect to the Internet and download/share online information, as well as make calls/send messages/make online purchases through her inner systems.
* She can record audio and video through her ears and eyes.
* She has firearms built into her metal arms, and jet engines in her legs to help her boost into the air.
* She is programmed to know how to fight hand-to-hand and with various weapons.

Because she is artificial, her body does not face many repercussions when using her abilities. However, she is also unable to heal like a normal person if she gets damaged. Mikuo must be properly fixed in a workshop often. Mikuo's body is also constructed of metal. She doesn’t operate as well in intense heat or cold, and being completely submerged in water is also not ideal. Mikuo is also susceptible to even being hacked completely if done by someone skilled.

## Story

### Backstory

Originally created by an engineer named Mallory, Mikuo is the seventh model of the Artificial Support Entity, an android developed by a company (Synthworks) in the United States. She was initially formed as a military weapon to cause devastating damage, but after public disapproval, they began to rebrand the ASE to be a support device for Pro-Heroes. There are currently four existing ASE-7s. Two are in the United States, one in England, and one in Japan.

However, the ASE-7 lacked heroic feelings. After all, it was created to destroy and defeat, and did not understand things such as integrity, mercy, courage, compassion, and self-sacrifice -- things required to become a hero. Because of this, Japan’s ASE-7 was stationed in U.A. High School. She had plenty of knowledge to teach an average class, and by being at the school among real Pro-Heroes, her AI could learn how they operated.

It has been ten years since she was placed into U.A. High School as a General Education teacher, and her program is slowly but steadily improving. After nine years, she was moved to the Hero Department. Mikuo is learning -- and helping others learn -- every day.

## Relationships

* Toshiaki Inuhito
	+ Mikuo possesses an especially incredible loyalty to the principal of U.A. High School, and follows his orders without question.

## Trivia

* *Miku -* The future
* *O -* Hero
* *Yui -* Alone, supportive