Hombre Gato

**Hombre Gato** (ホンブレガト, *Honbure Gato*), however often follows the name **Ecuador** (エクアドル, *Ekuadoru*) by friends, **Feline Hero: Supercat** (ネコ英雄電源猫, *Neko Eiyū: Dengen Neko*, Lit. "Cat Hero: Power Cat", also written as "Super-Cat") as his hero name, is the primary character in the short story *A Cat's Tale: A Journey of a Feline Hero*.

Gato is a first-year student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, where he got in through official and personal recommendation by the school's principal Nezu, training to not only become a hero but be accepted into common society.

## Biography

### Heritage

Hombre was born into an family in South America in Ecuador, where he was born to a American father descendant to Native Ecuadorians, while on his mother side he's of Japanese heritage in the old Senshiryoku Clan. It should note his father was the second husband of Sakura, and thus Hyōkyū is his half-sister. While much history on his father side is not known, his mother side holds a rich history. According to his sister, the Senshiryoku Clan is said to he descended from one of the four noble clans of Japan Minamoto clan. A descendant of Minamoto no Makoto and this holds an bloodline to the Imperial House of Japan of the Heian period.

### Birth

Hombre's resulting birth is unknown and holds no attributes between his parents. However his father has a feline-like quirk, enabling him to radically transform into something of a werecat at will, while his mother Sakura hold dominion over the facets of ice, known as the Yuki-onna (雪女, *Lit. "Snow Woman"*), which is the likely chances of Bakeneko's ice-based abilities had originated.

After his birth, both his parents were shock, but only the father was horridly disgusted while Sakura was simply shocked a quirk can exist int his manner. Regardless, the Uncle suggested in outright killing the newborn, seeing only as a demon - Hombre Gato, a South American, a supernatural creature known to prey on animals and humans. However his parents refused to simply outright kill him, and instead decided to abandon him in Guyana, leaving him in some backwater alley way to never be seen again. However at some point before being abandoned, Sakura allowed his older sister, Hyōkyū to secretly gave him a earring as a possible reminder he had someone who loved him, regardless of outwordly appearance.

### Childhood

During his early childhood, he had a rough life trying to survive, due to his small undeveloped body, he was unable to properly look after himself day or night. However at some point, he was found by a stray cat, which took him and began to care for him as if her own. The "Mother Cat" a she affectionally referred, was also a unique cat born with the same quirk as Nezu, High Spec that granted a almost unparalleled intelligence and comprehension. The Mother Cat was even keen enough to understand Hombre is no ordinary cat, but basically a biological human in a cat's body, and attempted to nurture him to survive, teaching him many aspects including the English language.

This new-found affection love from Mother Cat have Hombre the burst of motivation to actually survive in the world. He of course looked up to Mother Cat for guidance, being taught how to properly search for food, and understood that his biology differs from her, understanding he's a omnivore, making it easier to search for food.

However at some point before the morning, during which Mother Cat was gathering food, he was soon captured by a local animal control unit, which Mother Cat noticed upon returning gathering food, horrified by the takening as he was shoved into the back of a van. Very frightened having being mishandled like that, he cowered and simply waited for Mother Cat to safe him. He was then placed inside a cage and into a room filled with other animals that was taken. Five hours passed since being taken, and soon enough Mother Cat came in after knocking out a human as he smashed the door open. Mother Cat not only unlocked Gato's cage, but every other animal and escaped, rescuing Gato. For a few days, Mother Cat tended to the bruises to him caused by the humans and cleaning his fur has it gotten dirty.

After some years after that incident, Mother Cat began to fall ill due to age, which began to worry Hombre greatly. However the Mother Cat informed her "adoptive son" to not let her death bring him down, survive and sadly passed away peacefully as he whined at the passing.

### Adolescence

In the ages between 10 and 15 Hombre buried Mother Cat and went to survive on his own, at the request of Mother Cat. During the first year, he began to exhibit the power of ice generations and manipulation, mainly through his paws he froze the ground he stood on. This shocked him, and attempted to figure out what this means. Since it's a power, he believes it has a connection to his father, where he too had ice powers along with feline traits.

Sometime later that year, he was able to find territory to call him, which caused a feud against another feral cat. This lead to a aggressive assault, leading to the full manifestation of icicles above his head, firing as projectiles on the feral cat. This spooked the cat, causing him to retreat. Pleased but shocked, he'd then learn to harness this power for the next four years. During the four years, he soon became a vigilante having inherited Mother Cat's will to also respect, and securing the lives and safety of everyone. In performing Vigilantism in Argentina, he was soon noticed by the people and was in the news about him, being called **Supercat** (電源猫, *Dengen Neko*, Lit. "Power Cat", also written as "Super-Cat"). Soon enough, he gained headlines after securing an bank robbery against high-level villains, where three pro-heroes were fatally wounded, but with Hombre saved their lives by freezing their wounds.

In the next year, he soon began to develop the power of flight, which he was able to easily master when he learn how to position himself in the air, as well move in the air. This lead him being able to fly, and gained greater advantages over villains.

### Meeting Nezu

After a year of perfecting Flight, Hombre is seen on an tall pedestal overwatching the local area of any trouble. Due to the news broadcast showcasing his capabilities beyond that of a normal cat, which gained international headlines, even in Japan he became a popular hero-cat, Nezu caught wind of this hero-cat, finding some "similarities" to himself. Having decided, Nezu along with Eraser Head came to South America that eventually lead to them finding Hombre on his pedestal. Upon meeting, Nezu instantly knew that this "cat" is no ordinary cat, and asked the question if he really was a cat, which confused Eraserhead why he asked a cat a question. To Eraser complete shock, Hombre answered with a simple yes, having been born from two humans.

Nezu smiled at Hombre, extending his paw and personally invited him to Japan to learn Professional Heroism in U.A. to learn more about the concept, and find many ways to improve his quirk and understanding of heroism and himself as a character. While Hombre seemed hesitant to move to a distant, he agreed nevertheless. As he floated to Nezu and was ready to leave, Nezu then asked if his quirk had a name, which he denied, having not truly understanding what a quirk is. Nezu responded that quirks are powers, and his cat appearance is certainly due to that. Hombre nodded in acceptance, and hope to learn more at U.A. but he can not think of a name. Nezu then brought the name Bakeneko as the name, which means "Changed Cat". Liking the name, he agreed to have as the quirk name.

### New Life

A new life is beginning as he followed Nezu and Eraser to the airport to Japan. Nervousness struck him as he was on Nezu's shoulders but the principal solely calmed him down, stating there is nothing to worry about airplanes. While that is true, he couldn't get rid of the nervous feeling as he got on a private jet. As he boarded, he came off Nezu's shoulders and landed on the table. However Eraser soon informed him to stay on Nezu's lap due to the take off procedure that'll most likely send him flying back. He then returned to Nezu and landed on his lap as he sat, being buckled by the seatbet as Nezu told him about what's going to happen.

## Appearance

Gato is an small feline male thanks to his quirk, an hand-sized cat with the height (or length depending how you see it) of 9 cm (3.5 in). He has greyish coat with a white underbelly with a fluffy patch, with the tip of his tail also being white and light blue eyes. Because he is still technically human, he had often asked his foster parents to create some type of clothing during specific seasons, seen wearing a scarf during the winter despite havig a fur coat. On many occasions due to having no hands but paws (he can carry very small items), he wears an bag along with a special earring gifted to him by his biological older sister before his abandonment.

## Personality

Homber was initially an exclusive individual who kept distant from others, in particular fear of being killed as an "talking cat" and not as a actual human and feared his quirk-induced appearance. In his early childhood, he only kept to himself and rarely ate or drank anything until the appearance of Mother Cat. Through Mother Cat's guidance and teachings did he began to open up his heart to others, breaking out the confines of his internal distancing and began to accept himself. After Mother Cat's death, the guidance and morality she instilled into him grew inside, and he began to not despise life but savour it in general. This savourance and fulfilling what Mother Cat wished for him, he soon began to do things for himself which upon awakening more of his quirk powers, became a vigilante and saving others.

In the five years he began as a vigilante, Hombre opened even more to the people who began to accept him, but he believes they don't truly know him that he's actually a human. When he was taken in by Nezu, he was very hesitant and shy to reveal himself to the faculty and the students, fearing they may reject him for his quirk. Nezu begs to differ, and this lead to him truly opening and befriending when the students did not care at all. A surge of happiness and relief radiated as he began to learn to become what a true hero is, and finally make true friends. However despite this, he refuses to have any "petting" done on him, finding that it degrades him as a lowly pet of sorts, and a average animal with no human intelligence. However depending on who does, he seems to not mind the close friends he has to pet him, as he trust them to do so, which is a very rare case.

However in the end, he often respects life as a while thanks to Mother Cat having raised him to be a morality good individual, and always tries to be as kind as he possibly can be with certain exceptions. Despite what his mother as taught, it doesn't seem to help when it involves certain antics and behaviours he finds horrid due to his past life somewhat believing himself as a mistake. One instances is Mineta trying to constantly peak at the girls, which he despises, not even treating him as a hero but a vile villain who shouldn't be attending U.A. High. Whenever his classmates or the new friends he makes gets hurt or worse, he disregards the life of those that threatened the lives of others, instantly becoming enraged by his emotions and will not hesitant to even "kill" the one responsible for the threatening. This kind of wrathful anger was almost going to be placed Mineta, but he had self-control and eventually "got over it", but at times of stressful situations, he may slowly go out of control with his emotions.

## Abilities

**Enhanced Durability**: Hombre has proven to be a highly durable individual, who does not back down despite getting hurt. His body is fragile as many believes it to be, able to tank physical trauma and assaults from his own classmates to even villains during the Training Camp incident with the Vanguard Action Squad. While he was wounded during that, that did not keep him from protecting the other students.

**Gifted Intellect**: Hombre is a gifted individual and an rising academic at U.A. He holds a great understanding in many subjects including Heroics, language, and even geography. He understands strategy and tactics and can offer helpful opinions on different tactics that can overall improve its impact and quality in the long run. Not only that he holds a great survival instinct due to being being taught by Mother Cat, obtaining knowledge most wont. He has a good memory and can recall many instances and past events, as well.

* **Multilingual**: Hombre should be considered a multilingual as he holds a high degree of understanding in Spanish (his birthplace official language he learnt quickly while attending U.A.), English by Mother Cat and finally the Japanese language by Nezu. Effectively, he can perfectly execute English and Japanese as if he was a native speaker, with Spanish still have some ways to go.

### Quirk

**Bakeneko** (化け猫, *Lit. "Changed Cat"*) is the quirk Hombre was born with, where he was born as an fur-grey cat entity. This quirk deemed him as an demon and was the reason he was abandoned to begin with. Essentially born as a cat with human parents, he gained the natural common abilities, he shown to be highly agile and quick on his paws, out-performing normal humans. Using his hind legs, he can also leap further combining with his speed. Cats naturally rotate their bodies midair to land on their feet, which he can execute on instinct alone. However the quirk granted additional abilities such as greater stamina then the ordinary cat even being slighter more stronger then the average cat. Compared to the other cats, he seen as a "super-cat". Another was the fact he has a basic understanding of the English language through imprinted genetic memory that allowed him to somehow perform human speech, which were further enhanced by Mother Cat's teachings thanks to her High Spec quirk.

However surprising, the quirk granted Hombre unique abilities with the fact he generate and manipulate cold temperatures and create icicles from the moister in the atmosphere. He first officially discovered this when he froze the floor he walked on, but he seen discovered during a fight against another feline for territory were he formed icicles above his head and fired then. Self-taught and honed his ice-aspect that quickly became an advantage as self-defense. Due to his sense of morality, he never used it unless absolutely necessary. Upon first using it, he was only able to generate one icicle and would take a long to actually gather the moister, but in time he seen learn and developed in the coming years, eventually able to do it with ease. However he can still only produced a certain number, and requires stamina to perform it. Ever since attending U.A., he has dramatically improved his overall power behind his ice powers, now able to manifest much more icicles to combat others. This even gained some new super moves, such as freezing the target's feet as he firs the icicles.

However what made Hombre most shock was he development of flight. At some point, he was able to manifest the power of flight thanks to his quirk, which made him able to soar through the air as an "flying cat". Unlike his ice-facet of the quirk, he was able to pretty much use flight with relative ease, besides some "training" to adjust to the heights and properly position himself while in the air. Thanks to his, whenever he talks to someone, he can fly to head height to converse better. In time, he has gottenb so exceptionally good at flight he can stay hovering for a undefined amount of time without negative effects such as fatigue.

Another thing the quirk that brought concern to the faculty and medical professions was his blood type. Unexpectedly or not, Gato blood type makeup does not appear to be not genetically or inherently human. The blood type follows a non-human makeup of the feline, identified as Type-AB. This means that he is unable to be given human blood and must rely on blood transfusions from cats.

### Super Moves

* **Ice Pillar Bullet** (氷柱, *Tsurara*): A straightforward super move by Hombre, which he didn't had a name originally until attending U.A. High School. Ice Pillar Bullet or simply **Icicle** (氷柱, *Tsurara*) is the move Gato used as the first manifestation of his ice powers. It's the power stemming from gathering moister from the atmosphere, and freezing it solid to form ice, which is where this is derived from. BY doing this, Gato can create icicles around him, and fire at his targets. Depending on the mass of each individual ice, he can fire at high speeds or just enough to knock people over.

### Stats

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Hombre Gato's stats, according to the creator.

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## Trivia & Notes

* Physically represented by Puck.
* Gato's short story, *A Cat's Tale: A Journey of a Feline Hero*, is a reference to the 2020 book *A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History* published by Paul Koudounaris and the cat Bab the Cat.
* His alias of Ecuador is where he was born in.
* In South American folklore, the Hombre Gato or Catman is an legendary anthropomorphic feline creature, being the feline variation of the werewolf.
	+ To note is his parents purposely gave him the name "Hombre Gato" in reference to this creature, while his quirk was named by Nezu.
* A **Bakeneko** (化け猫, *Lit. "Changed Cat"*) is the name of a Japanese yōkai, where unlike the character above, are born from actual cats.
* According to the author;
	+ His favourite food is meat pie.
	+ He didn't enjoy others presences, but attending at U.A. changed this and loves being with someone.
* Regarding Hombre's academic life and performance, his U.A. data is as follows;
	+ Ranked 19th in the Quirk Apprehension Test.
		- His 50-meter dash was recorded as 1.00 seconds during the test. However it should note this speed was achieved via flight, in terms of actual dash with his paws, he achieved only 3.30-4.90 seconds.
		- He got 0 in the Grip Strength due to the fact he actually can't perform it.
		- He got 0 in the Softball Throw due to the fact he can not perform it.
	+ He was ranked between the 10-15 in mid-terms.
	+ He purposely failed in the U.A. Sports Festival as he believes no one will give him any offerings.
	+ Scored a 51 in the Provisional Hero License Exam.
* He's hero uniform only consists of a purple bag.
* While he prefers baths, he occasionally does clean his fur like any other cat, and sometimes coughs up hairball which he finds embarrassing.
* Despite being male, Hombre is voiced by a female Japanese voice actress.