Curious

### Occupation

Executive director/journalist of Shoowaysha PublishingMember of the Meta Liberation Army

### Powers/Skills:

Landmine (Anything she touches will explode, be it an object or an living individual)Immense resources

Leadership skills

### Goals

Assist the Meta Liberation Army in accomplishing their goals (failed).

### Crimes

Attempted murder

“ "The high school girl's descent to madness! A shocking interview with the girl herself!" Would you like to participate? „ ~ Curious while battling Himiko Toga, as well as attempting to "interview" her.

**Chitose Kizuki**, better known as **Curious**, is a minor antagonist in the manga/anime series *My Hero Academia*. She is a member of the Meta Liberation Army until her life was left under the hands of Himiko Toga during her fight with her.

She is voiced by Takako Honda in Japanese and Tara Sands in English.

## Synopsis

### History

At some point she met Rikiya Yotsubashi and joined the Meta Liberation Army. During a meeting with him, he read an article that she wrote and told him that writing articles based on rumors would not interest readers, advising her to interview her subjects, as an article to guide public opinion must contain human heart.

### Meta Liberation Army Arc

Chitose is present alongside the other leaders of the Meta Liberation Army during a meeting where Re-Destro declares their intention to destroy the League of Villains. During the meeting, she brings up how Detnerat had recently entered the Hero Industry.

At the start of the Revival Celebration, Chitose confronts Himiko, recognizing her for the string of bloodletting murders she's connected to. Chitose suggests a headline about the high schooler's fall into madness, but Himiko angrily rejects it.

Chitose proceeds to battle Himiko, attacking her in-mass with her comrades in order to corner her, all the while "interviewing" her on her reasons for becoming a villain and she proceeded on shedding light on Himiko's past prior to joining the League and expressing extreme interest and curiosity regarding her reasons for abandoning her normal life, where and how she obtained her survival and combat skills and the reasons for Himiko's descent into madness, even going as far as using her own subordinates as human bombs in order to further corner Himiko and prevent her from transforming by detonating their ingested blood inside her body in order for their "interview" to go unhindered.

As Himiko attempts to escape, Chitose continues to goad her, promising to go public with the tragic story of Himiko's downfall in order to demonstrate the righteousness of the Army's objective. When Himiko transforms into Ochaco Uraraka, Chitose dismisses it as her final attempt to "look cute" before her death but is caught off guard when Himiko activates Zero Gravity to levitate her into the air alongside her soldiers. Bewildered, Chitose assumes that Himiko's fear of death has allowed her Quirk to spontaneously evolve in power.

When Himiko replies that she’s wrong and that Himiko only wants to "love" even more, Chitose begins saying that this would be her best headline ever before Himiko deactivates Zero Gravity, sending Chitose and her henchmen plummeting bloodily into the ground. Her death was later reported to the rest of her comrades who all mourned her.

After her death and defeat of the Meta Liberation Army, Chitose's death was then covered up by the newly formed Paranormal Liberation Front by her comrades and her "accidental" demise was notably published to the public via mass media to hide the incident of Meta Liberation Army's battle against the League of Villains.

## Personality

Curious is known to be a very overzealous and obsessive woman due to her immense curiosity. Just like Trumpet and Skeptic, she is loyal to Re-Destro, as the advice she took from him inspired her to believe that each story she interviews based on the stories would be considered in her opinion as one of the best ways to influence her readers, but in a twisted way, treats it as battles upon questioning said opponents and even going as far to proclaim that they are for the sake of the Meta Liberation Army methodically.

She also happens to be callous and was that willing to use her soldiers as pawns into making them living landmines as part of her strategy in battle, describing it twistedly as a "selfless act" to the army. Apart from her overzealous attitude, it would often cause her mentality to lose her focus in battle against Himiko Toga, which would be in the end, her own downfall to make.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Landmine**: This Quirk allows Curious to bestow highly explosive properties on any object or anyone she touches and it return will explode under the process at will. But given a single landmine would cause more lethal damage, she has to do at least more than dozens to accomplish evading said weakness if she were to cause enough power to her Quirk's usage.

### Abilities

* **Immense resources**: Given her position as a News Publication Executive, she has an amount full to access on whatever resources she had to access one's background to their information without any suspicion getting aroused by other authorities, nor the government itself. Example happened when she researched and got Himiko Toga's informative background of her status and past.

## Relationships

### Meta Liberation Army

She was a valued member of the Army and they were distraught at her death, with Re-Destro shedding tears at her demise.

### Himiko Toga

Chitose admits she's intrigued by Himiko Toga's backstory. She is downright obsessive with the idea of interviewing her, even in the middle of a deadly battle between the two; and she's quite amazed to watch her get more and more deranged as their fight goes on.

Chitose wants to know how and why a nice girl like Himiko became a serial killer and says she has already interviewed her parents and her former high school friends. Chitose wants to use her influence to turn Himiko into a martyr that was shunned and repressed by the hero society, which led to her becoming a villain, furthering the agenda of the Meta Liberation Army.

She nearly kills Himiko by overwhelming her with numbers and hitting her with her Quirk repeatedly but is caught off guard when Himiko transforms into Ochaco Uraraka and uses Zero Gravity to levitate her into the air and drop her from a lethal height. Even so, all she can think about is how amazing the article about Himiko she'll write is going to be, smiling in pure euphoria while falling and being completely oblivious to her impending death.

## Trivia

* Shoowaysha Publishing is a parody of the actual Shueisha, the publisher of Shonen Jump, but it's spelled with different kanji and romanised in an alternative way.
* Chitose's first name is composed of the kanji for "placement, deposit, leave behind" (置 *chi***?**) and "year" (歳 *tose***?**), and her last name contains "spirit, mind, heart" (気 *ki***?**) and "moon" (月 *dzuki***?**).
* Chitose's Meta Ability shares similarities to the power possessed by the Stand Killer Queen from the manga/anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Both Landmine and Killer Queen give ordinary objects explosive properties, but the two also have differences.
	+ Landmine causes the object to explode while Killer Queen causes the victim to explode and disintegrate, leaving the object unchanged and all evidence erased.
	+ Landmine can also bestow explosive properties to multiple objects at once, while Killer Queen can only use one bomb at a time.
	+ Landmine can simply be activated at will, but Killer Queen must make an impression of pressing a handheld detonator to activate a bomb at all.
* She is the only executive of the Meta Liberation Army to have been killed.
* Similar to her teammates and team-name, several of Chitose's character design/traits seems to be based from characters from Marvel Comics.
	+ Her blue skin being directly taken from mutant villain and revolutionary, Mystique.
	+ Her battle against Himiko Toga serving as a direct irony to the fact that Himiko's Quirk is similar to the mutant powers of another blue-skinned villain, Copycat.