Karma Takeshi

**Karma Takeshi** (*Takeshi Karma*), also known as the **Arson Hero: Arsenal** (アーセナルヒーロー：アーセナル), is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

## Appearance

Karma has pale skin, short red hair, and pale sharp eyes that appear as either mercury or goldish in color. Behind his usual innocent-looking, smiling face hides a torturous and rather sadistic personality. He has a slender build and has also been shown to have exceptionally sharp canine teeth. Among all the Class 1-A students, Karma is the only one to wear a black blazer as opposed to the standard school-issued uniform. In the anime, Karma is considered to be the most physically attractive out of all the boys in Class E by the girls.

## Personality

Karma is quite cunning, mischievous, and somewhat sadistic, usually playing foul, tricking, and at times manipulating, humiliating and fighting others. He has been described as "at first glance, he comes across as being a lazy sort, but there's a strong sense of mischief in his eyes"/ Karma is quite relaxed most of the time as he occasionally skips out on things he finds boring, such as the school assembly. However, he has become considerably more hard working at studying after the embarrassing exam arc although he hides it by making it look like he was playing video games. Unexpectedly, Karma is a fan of superhero movies, like Sonic Ninja.

Despite his somewhat sadistic nature, Karma actually has good values behind his motives, and can be quite empathetic. Karma has shown to be more than capable of respecting and caring for other people, as he greatly cares for Nagisa who seems to be his friend, and has grown attached to his classmates and others: he is best friends with Nagisa, he gets along with Hinata and Alice, often teases Yui and Tanjiro, and respects Ryūko and sees her as his rival. However, Karma also tends to be quite impulsive, to the point of becoming truly brutal and cruel when fighting with people who threaten him or any of his friends from Class 1-A.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: N/A

**Keen Intellect**: Karma is one of the smartest characters in the series, being capable of maintaining top grades with little effort. He assets his cunning, mischief yet considerable objective nature to assassination attempts, as well as other scenarios that may require it, such as saving his classmates or others. He also is often the first person to notice any oddities that may occur around and within Class 1-A.

**Leadership Skills**: Karma is capable of utilizing and leading his classmates, making use of their abilities in the most suitable way to the corresponding situation. He demonstrates this ability in bits and pieces throughout the series, such as when he planned where he guided each of his teammates to positions best befitting them.

**Combat Skills**: Besides his intelligence, Karma possesses a knack for battle and enjoys it. He has good fighting skills such as having high mobility and reflexes, and also has a mind suited for pranks, and foul play. He is also the physically strongest student in Class E as he has no trouble subduing Sosuke who has the most muscular build in the class, and it took both Shiki and Kaede struggling to physically restrain him before he could have injured Nagisa. Karma is also stated that no one could compare to Karma at direct hand to hand combat, to the point of fighting toe-to-toe with a full-fledged, and his reflexes allow him to pinch down an enemy's attacks.

### Quirk

**Armament**: Karma's Quirk allows him to transform specific parts of his body into different weapons though seemingly close ranged weapons as he's seen turning different limbs of his into swords, scythes, and a metal poles. Though these steel specific objects don't come out of no where as karma needs to consume foods with high levels of iron. Depending on the certain levels of iron he consumes can allow his metal to be harder than actual steel itself or weaker than wood. It's been shown that Karma can take on different form of weapons and even merge them making very unique creations and he can remove them from his own body but it's quite painful to remove as same to if the steel appendages were to break off. Overtime, Karma has shown to replicate more than just specific steel weapons as he's seen inspecting and even imitating a pistol thanks to the help of Nagisa who gave him the idea. Though it's quite different from an actual gun, only being able to shoot a few meters before losing its propulsion. In cases, Karma has been shown to produce thin armor around himself to protect himself.

Using his Quirk for too long will cause Karma to suffer from iron fatigue, gradually weakening the steel of his weapons' hardness. As the lack of iron will eventually affect not only his Quirk's state of matter but his own as well producing low sugar levels. So including foods such as shellfish, spinach, and red meat can really help with his Quirk.