Animal Shift

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## Quirk Description

### Quirk Range

Melee

**Animal Shift** (動物シフト, *Dōbutsu Shifuto*) is the Quirk used by Michiru Kemono.

## Description

Animal Shift grants the user to transform several of their body parts into those of an animal, such as a gorilla's arms, a cheetah's legs, a bunny's ears, and so on. The user can use the Quirk in a variety of ways to enhance a specific skill of her body, such as her speed, strength, stealth, and more.

The current animal body parts Michiru Kemono can transform into currently are a gorilla's arms, cheetah's legs, bunny's ears, wolf's snout, bird wings, and a chameleon's skin. At first, Michiru was unable to continuously switch between the animal body parts, only able to transform one part at a time. After much training, Michiru is able to transform to other animal body parts rapidly without any pain and/or discomfort. At one point, Michiru was able to transform into two different animal body parts at a time.

### Weaknesses

If the user stays in their transformed state for too long, symptoms such as exhuastion, muscle ache and joint ache will arise. With training she has managed to mitigate these drawbacks considerably, except for the joint-ache. Continued strain and result in collapsing from exhuastion, and muscle tearing.

Since her Quirk Factor is only her body parts, Michiru will be unable to utilize parts of her Quirk if a specific part is chopped off or lost.

## Usage

Because of Michiru's wide variety of animal parts, she is able to use her ability to the fullest, enhancing her skills in a variety of ways.

Gorilla Arms are used to enchance her overall arm strength, especially when it comes to melee and hand-to-hand combat, and have a grip strength of 456kg. Her cheetah legs are mainly used to evade or run at high speeds. She had also used her cheetah legs to evade many attcks from opponents and disorient them to open up weak spots for her own team mates/allies. However, Michiru can only maintain her top speed at only 20-30 seconds, just like how a real cheetah would.

Michiru had used her Bunny Ears multiple times to either snoop on secret conversations or listen for danger. If she concentrates hard enough, Michiru can listen to anything up to 3km away. Her ears can also be rotated 270 degrees to help detect the source of a sound, and can revolve independently to monitor different noises. Her Wolf Snout enables Michiru to have a very acute sense of smell that they use to detect anything more than a mile away. It can be used to detect any familiar smells such as perfume or any fragrance, as well as smell smoke or any source or weird scents.

Bird Wings has been used multiple times, her arms morph into bird wings that can be used to fly away or fly towards opponents. Initially uneasy with this aspect of her Quirk due to her fear of heights, training under Hawks during the Hero Internship has erased her fear completely and helped Michiru balance herself on wings. Michiru is unable to grab things using her hands, but she does often with her legs, just like how birds would. She carried an injured Hawks this way, escaping from Dabi with Tokoyami.

Chameleon Camouflage has only been used once, Michiru notes that it is harder to manifest this aspect due to the fact it concentrates on her skin.

## Trivia

* Her Quirk is inspired by Michiru Kagemori's beastman abilities.