Chō Akemi/Synopsis

## History

### Early Life

Chō was born to her parents in the Chiba Prefecture, living a normal life up until she started elementary school, where she met Mirio Togata for the first time. Upon both being bright individuals who admired heroes, they hit it off right away and became best friends. In third grade, they later approached Tamaki Amajiki and befriended him as well.

Around this time, their quirks started to develop, a day they all looked forward to. However, Chō's parents noticed their daughter's quirk, Droste, was at a more powerful output level than it should've been at such an early age. When they took her to the doctor for examination, she encountered a young Izuku Midoriya, who was on his way to the doctor's appointment that would deem him quirkless. Inside the waiting room, he admits how nervous he is about his quirk and she comforts him by saying that no matter the outcome, what he makes of his powers and how they contribute to making him a hero are completely up to him, giving him the hope he needs to power through his time of despair when he is saddled with the harsh truth of never getting a quirk. Her own appointment reveals that she has a genetic disorder, one that left her without quirk limiters, which capped quirk genes and kept them from reaching dangerous levels.

Upon receiving a powerful quirk that could not only endanger her body when pushed past its limits, but could also affect her surroundings and the surroundings of others negatively, her parents feared disaster and decided to move away to the Fukuoka Prefecture on the other side of Japan in hopes of getting her the help they believed she needed. Due to the stress of moving away from her friends, Chō's quirk slipped out of control and nearly caused a global disaster referred to as "The Infinity Crisis", which also caused her parents to be trapped in a pocket of time-space. Since then, Chō was placed under the legal care of her godmother and her mother's dear friend, Midnight.

### Submission to U.A. & Entrance Exam

Since the Infinity Crisis, scientists of the Kyushu Institute of Quirk Research kept Chō under close watch, only kept from sending her to the U.S. for their own research on her quirk because of Midnight's protection. Furthermore, after much convincing, Chō was allowed to return to Musutafu to attend U.A. High, under the promises she could control her quirk well enough to pass the recommendations exam, and that a probational law was passed on her, severely limiting her ability to legally use her quirk. As a result of emotional conversion therapy, Chō managed to pass and got into the school under recommendations, where she was reunited with her childhood playmates, Mirio and Tamaki. Though overjoyed to see her again, due to the damage therapy had on her, Chō could not return their feelings, so not to risk her quirk slipping out of control again and causing another crisis.

### Battle Trial

As members of the Hero Course, Chō is paired up with another girl on the hero team, Nejire Hado, for the battle trial, and they are pitted against Mirio and Tamaki acting as the villains. Nejire, initially disinterested in making any lasting connections, formulates a plan where Chō uses her quirk to trap the boys in an infinite loop while they escape with the weapon, but because of her probations, she is unable to do so and they are forced to come up with another plan mid-battle. Thanks to some quick thinking by Nejire, they win the trial, though Chō is left to realize she may never become a hero due to the limits set on her. Inspired by her determination, Nejire opens up and happily cheers her up, telling her she admires how hard Chō tries, despite the odds being against her, and all four of them become friends.

### U.S.J.

During their trials for disaster training, the class is put in the natural disaster areas to practice their rescues and fighting in rough weather. Chō accidentally creates a malfunction in the flood zone mechanisms, causing the whole facility to flood with the students trapped inside. Mirio manages to save the day by getting to the mechanisms with his quirk to fix it and by Nejire using her own quirk to signal for help, though the class is left furious at the close call and with a bad impression of the mortified Chō. Her friends try to comfort her, but in doing so, she instead admits that she never should have returned home, as she now understands why the researchers tried so hard to lock her away from the rest of the world.

### U.A. Sports Festival

When the Sports Festival rolls around, the four friends are knocked out of the preliminaries one-by-one, with Mirio losing the track race, though he catches the attention of Sir Nighteye, and Nejire striking out in the ultimate scavenger hunt, a sports event where the competing teams were meant to follow clues leading to the whereabouts of a certain amount of points, all while trying to beat their opponents to it. Tamaki and Chō make it to the tournament brackets, with Tamaki ending up losing by forfeit, too embarrassed to fight in front of a crowd. Chō manages to squeak by using her quirk defensively, which her probation allows, and she ends up making it to the final fight. However, she is pitted against the renowned Luke Roselei, who fights mercilessly once he knows who he is up against.

Despite his best efforts, however, Luke loses to Chō when her Droste quirk outplays his Spatial quirk, which runs her popularity even further into the ground, as Luke is beloved by his class and the student body. As a result, Chō cannot even wear the first place medal with pride, though Luke congratulates her for her win, advising that her quirk's instability does not define her as a person.

### Hero Names & Internships

After the sports festival's outcome earning her a bad name, Chō wishes to avoid attention, not wanting her peers to hate her any more than they already do, which results in her isolating herself from her friends, much to their dismay. Mirio is especially saddened, upon Chō telling him that she'd never shone as bright as him, even when they were children growing up, and probably never would. However, her friendship with Tamaki, due to him being equally shy and anti-social, remains intact, and grows stronger, even.

At one point, Tamaki tells her that while he usually tended to avoid people, he liked seeing Chō shine when she was a kid, as she used to be much brighter and happier. He then goes on to tell her why he nicknamed her "Butterfly" when they were young, as they too were bright and beautiful creatures, who always stole the show upon being the center of attention. With this in mind, when it comes time for them to choose their hero names, Chō chooses to name her hero persona Vega, the Center Star Hero at the center of everything, taking her spatial-time quirk into account, as well as her desire to shine just as bright as the sun, if not brighter.

When the internships begin, Vega joins Midnight's agency, on her personal request, and she talks about her own life with her mother, admitting she missed the days when she promised they'd explore the stars together someday,, once they were done with school. She then goes on to say that she settled down and had Chō instead, though she wasn't disappointed, as they got the change to explore the stars after all, in their own way. She even tells Vega that her mother was the inspiration for her name, Midnight, as their midnight rendezvous of stargazing were the highlight of her younger days.

### Final Exams

During the end-of-term weeks, after the Written Exams are passed with ease, Chō, Tamaki, Mirio, Nejire, and their classmates are pitted against the entrance exam robots for the Practical. Nejire~chan and Lemillion pass no sweat, though Suneater and Vega, paired up as a team, have a little more trouble, due to Vega's probation making it difficult for them to win easily. Suneater suggests a plan of escape instead of actively taking down the robot, but its movements are too fast for them to evade. When the robot malfunctions due to overheating and goes berserk, Vega uses her quirk offensively out of desperation to save her friend, causing their arena to collapse in on itself on a molecular level.

As a result, Midnight protects her again from the legal team, and manages to lighten her punishment for breaking her probation down to a strike and not being allowed to attend the following training camp over the summer, though she does indeed pass the Practical. After the incident, Mirio finds out about Chō's quirk probation and raises suspicions to the real reason she had to move away when they were young.

### Provisional Hero License Exam

Chō spends her summer studying and training for the Hero License Exam with Midnight, while her friends are noted for their rising in power, quickly becoming the top three in comparison to the rest of the students at U.A. Chō fears being left behind, as she feels her friends won't have room for her if they were indeed to be recognized as such. This only strengthens her resolve to pass the exam and hopefully join them in the ranks. Thanks to her training, by the time it's time for her class to present their two Ultimate Moves, she already has them developed: Ghost Circle and Hidden Cluster.

When going against the other schools in the Takoba National Stadium, Chō's class branches out on their own and are picked off almost right away. Upon recognizing the pattern, she, Suneater, and Lemillion stick together in order to make it by. However, they are ambushed by students from Shiketsu High, having heard of their rise to power and wanting to earn their own licenses at the cost of impeding their progress. The teams bands together to defeat them, but afraid of overstepping her boundaries again, Vega backs out and is beaten near-elimination. Just when all hope is lost, her friends step in to save her, assuring her she is not alone, and all of them pass. She then states it wouldn't have mattered anyway, as her probation would remain the same, though she is grateful they never gave up on her.

With their overwhelming success and honorable efforts to save their friend, Mirio, Tamaki, and Nejire are recognized as U.A's "Big Three", the most powerful students of the most prestigious hero school in Japan. And, against Chō's fears, they still see her as one of their own, despite just being below them in terms of power. Mirio and Nejire cheerfully deem her an honorary member, while Tamaki instead states she remains what she's always been: their dearest friend and closest confidant, words that touch Chō's heart deeper than she realizes...

## Synopsis

### Shie Hassaikai Arc

Two years of school later, the four friends are now upperclassmen who visit Class 1-A to discuss their Hero Work-Studies with them. The class expresses confusion towards Chō's attendance, what with her not being a part of the Big Three, though Mirio insists having her tag along is a must without elaborating. Izuku, however, recognizes her as the same girl who cheered him up the day he realized he was born quirkless and is shocked by her drastic change in character. Though his teaching by trial, Mirio encourages Class 1-A to participate in Work Studies to work on their quirks as he did to become better at handling them to the point of true power, though the speech is a subtle encouragement to Chō as well.

For her own Work Study, Vega is once again placed under Midnight's mentorship, though she is stressed by the heavy warnings from the legal team and the researchers that she cannot keep protecting her forever. She is then confronted by Mimic, a member of Shie Hassaikai, who tries using his quirk to put her out of commission while out on the field, but is stopped by Vega using her quirk to counter it. As a result, she is considered a valuable asset to the raid on the gang and joins the meeting discussing their plans. Finding solidarity with Eri for having a quirk practically out of her control, she joins her friends Mirio and Tamaki to help them fight.

During the raid, she is separated from the team and manages to corner Overhaul and Chronostasis by trapping them in the hall with her Droste quirk, and it's a battle of time vs. space as she and Chronostasis battle for possession of Eri. Unfortunately, she is hit by Chronostasis' short hand and beaten in an unfair fight. She is about to be finished off by Overhaul when Eri, overcome with emotion, pleads with him to spare her. He complies and Vega is left to bleed out instead, though she is luckily discovered by Rock-Lock and transported to the surface for treatment.

While recovering in the hospital, she befriends Eri and recovers some of her bright spirit in her efforts to cheer her up, which Mirio and Tamaki take notice of. They begin to believe Eri is the secret to restoring their best friend to her former self, though it's actually what Chō and Eri discuss that brings her spirit back after years of being unused.

### U.A. School Festival Arc

Chō fully recovers just in time for the school festival's preparation, where Nejire immediately suggest she join the beauty pageant along with her, to which she shyly declines, fearing most of U.A's student body still resents her for defeating an admired student in the sports festival. However, after Nejire assures her it's the opinions of her friends that should matter, Chō decides to make an attempt to come out of her shell and signs up for the pageant.

She attends Class 1-A's performance before the contest and is happy to see Eri smile for the first time, wondering if it's possible for her to do the same after all she has endured. When the competition begins, she uses her quirk to improve her performance, which doesn't earn as big of a reaction as Nejire's, but even though her friend ends up winning, she is informed that out of all the other girls onstage, the only one who kept his eyes on Chō the entire time was Tamaki, much to her surprise.

### Joint Training Arc

Chō hears of Izuku's progress in his own training and congratulates him when he comes to visit Eri after his bout with Class 1-B. When Eri expresses doubts about having her quirk, Chō is touched to hear Izuku give her the same advice she gave him when they first met. She realizes she has had an effect on him and wonders what kind of effect she has had on other lives.

### Endeavor Agency Arc

While catching up on her missed training, Chō helps look after Eri and becomes her counsel, enabling her to become more positive and optimistic, their interactions becoming a healing process towards her own emotions. This arouses the concern of the legal team and the Kyushu Institute researchers, while Midnight believes this is a sign of improvement and Chō has perhaps earned the right to have her probation lifted. They decide to test the theory by assigning her second Work Study to someone aside from Midnight to see how she fares once their suspension is over. Luckily, she recommends Hawks up for the job and they agree.

Chō is less excited towards the idea, as not only does she have to work away from Midnight, but also because Hawks is stationed in Kyushu, the location of the Institute of Quirk Research. Later she finds out it was because of this reason the legal team agreed to let her take her work studies with him, so as a result, Midnight makes sure that Hawks keeps an extra close eye on Chō, to prevent any funny business from the researchers.

At first, Hawks seems nonchalant about hero work, much to Vega's dismay, as their most exciting mission is going out for coffee runs, but one day, they intercept the minions of Starservant attacking Endeavor, Deku, Dynamight, and Shoto, and they rescue them so they may go after the main villain together. Though he quickly returns to his laid-back self when he hands out copies of his book to the students, he reminds Vega it's important for a hero to act unbothered by trouble to put the people's mind at ease, though it's not the same as shutting emotions out entirely, as she had done.

### Movie 2: Heroes Rising

During her work-study with Hawks, Vega gets involved with the investigation regarding the recent hero attacks and their lost quirks. She goes with Hawks undercover to investigate the source, as it is unlikely to be All For One, who is still in jail. Eventually, their search leads them to Kyushu, where Vega hesitates to return to, but the new information regarding Mr. Shimano, a civilian who's quirk was taken, calls for her aid, as only heroes had been targeted up until then.

Once he comes to, Vega and Hawks interview him, and he explains how his cell activation can manipulate cells and speed up generation, though his can only work on Type A cells. Not too soon after, they receive a message from Yaoyarozu's drone that Class 1-A needs help on Nabu Island. Knowing they have to get there to save the others, though they need time to assemble a rescue team, Hawks sends Vega to Nabu Island first while he assembles the pros.

Meanwhile, Deku boosts his quirk to reach 100% and uses Detroit Smash while Dynamight uses Howitzer Impact, but the two aren't strong enough to stop Nine and get obliterated by the Weather Manipulation Quirk. They manage to survive, but they are severely wounded. Nine proceeds to decimate them with his Bullet Laser and uses his Hydra to start crushing them to death.

With the entire class down and wounded and all hope seeming lost, Vega arrives just in time to stall Nine, using her Droste quirk to alter his tornado's path with Ghost Circle. As her diversion falters, Deku makes the desperate gamble; he transfers One For All to Dynamight, breaking the grip from Nine. Infuriated, Nine attempts to kill them by summoning another massive storm on the island, destroying much of the island's infrastructure. The duo boosts up to reach Full Cowl - 100% and together, combined with Vega's Hidden Cluster, they use Detroit Smash to stop the tornado.

When the rescue team arrives, Hawks congratulates Vega for her hard work, though he faces legal trouble for her breaking her probation under his watch. Considering the threat Nine posed to Nabu Island, the legal team decides to forgive the violation, but warns Hawks that another slip-up meant the end. Hawks responds by saying Vega will be turning 18 soon, and that in due time, she would have a right to her own life and quirk.

### Movie 3: World Heroes Mission

Vega goes to New York City with Hawks, Tsukuyomi, and Big Red Dot to apprehend the American branch of the anti-quirk terrorist group, Humarise. While in the city, however, Vega follows what she believes is a lead and ends up stumbling upon a trigger bomb, though it appears to be a dud. However, a real explosion from it goes off, and though she survives, she is framed for the mass murder it causes. She is put on the most-wanted list alongside Deku, where the news goes global. Concerned for her safety and in fear the world will eventually connect Vega to a certain other incident she caused years ago and make her situation worse, Hawks has her return to Japan to dip under the radar until she is proven innocent.

However, during transit, she is recognized and an attempt is made to capture her. In a panic, Chō makes an escape by hopping a plane to Klayd instead, where she arrives in time to rescue Izuku and his new friend, Rody Soul, from Beros and Rogone. Once they've retreated to a cave, she nurses Izuku back to health and explains her own situation, and the two agree to get out of it together.

Once rendezvousing with Todoroki and Bakugo, the team discovers Humarise's plans to wipe out the pros with the bombs tested earlier and find out where to take the deactivation key, all resolving to head there together and stop the trigger bombs. In the meantime, their plan spreads out to the rest of the All-Star World Heroes Association, including Suneater and Nejire~chan. Stuck on opposite sides of the world, they send their faith in Vega over to her while doing what they can to help while she saves them.

Deku, Dynamight, Shoto, Rody, and Vega lay siege to Humarise's main base to reach the master key, but are picked off one-by-one by their defenses until only Deku and Vega remain. They confront Flect Turn together, but are shocked to realize he has a quirk similar to Vega's, Reflect. Upon realizing this, along with Rody managing to lull Flect Turn into a false sense of security, Vega uses Droste to put his Reflect at a stalemate and protect Deku, but it's not enough and she is eventually beaten near-death. However, in a last resort move, fueled by the drive to keep fighting until the end, Vega uses Hidden Cluster to help Deku pull off United States of World Smash.

In the end, the heroes prevail and the plan works, though Chō is sent back to Japan for real to recover, her name cleared. She realizes Hawks discovered the truth about the Infinity Crisis, but is surprised to have his silence. When she asks why, he reveals that he sees her as a star worth shining, though it will take some time for the rest of the world to catch up, and that he's happy to support her until then.

### Paranormal Liberation War Arc

Due to a successful mission with Hawks, Vega is able to report back to the pros that the League of Villains and the Meta Liberation Army merged into the Paranormal Liberation Front, with Tomura Shigaraki as the main leader. Hawks also informed them about the organization, the hideouts, and the plans of the PLF. With this information, the Commission organized a large force of Pro Heroes, divided into several teams to take down the villain organization. She goes with the Gunga Mountain Villa Raid Team to fight the members of the PLF, and manages to find Hawks, badly injured from fighting Dabi.

After escorting him to safety with Tsukuyomi, Dabi tells them both what he did to Twice, but recognizes Vega at the same time, warning her that under Hawks' mentorship, she will cross the same line he did. As they make a retreat, Shigaraki decays half the city and Gigantomachia awakens. Vega begs for Midnight to let her use her quirk to trap it after she gets injured, though Midnight decides to use an anesthetic from Creati to stop him instead, willing to break hero law to further protect her goddaughter.

However, the plan ends in disaster and Midnight is killed by Dabi's number two advisor. By the time Vega figures out what's happening and leaves the medical retreat to help her, it's too late. In a fit of rage, she destroys him with her quirk and it spirals out of control, this time threatening to swallow up Deku and the others still battling Dabi, when Lemillion saves the day by bypassing her defenses with his newly-restored quirk and knocking her out just in the nick of time.

As a result of her breaking her nearly-lifted probation once more, and without Midnight to protect her, the researchers at Kyushu Institute finally decide to go through with their decade-old plans to send Chō to the U.S. for further and much harsher quirk testing, and they decide to achieve what they want through a trade of desperately-needed heroes from across the world.

### Chō vs. Japan Case Arc

Out of respect for Midnight's sacrifice, the legal team monitoring Chō's progress back home say that as she is now 18 years old, she has a right to make a case for herself and that it is possible she can win her own independence back, granted she follow all the typical hero laws afterwards. Her friends do her best to help her, but they know their support alone won't be enough to help Chō win her case. So, they try to get the whole of U.A. on their side, in hopes that it will spread to the city and maybe even the majority of Japan. In hopes of helping her, at long last, that's when Mirio reveals he knows everything, about the Infinity Crisis, about the Kyushu Institute, everything. He claims he wants to help fight for his friend, so that he doesn't have to say goodbye again.

Izuku, wanting to repay Chō for the way she helped him when he was a boy convinces Class 1-A to join the fight and testify with them, and their influence spreads throughout the school, eventually winning them over when Chō finally discloses her full story at a school assembly. However, even with U.A's support, after the disaster that nearly swamped their city, many are skeptical about helping Chō and some even object to protecting her from the Kyushu Institute, due to them discovering during the Paranormal Liberation War she was behind the Infinity Crisis 13 years ago. The day of the trial arrives and, with the testimonies of all the witnesses for and against Chō's case, Tamaki's testimony tips the scales and Mr. Aizawa reports to his students that they have won the case and Chō will be flying over to the Fukuoka Prefecture to sign her freedom out and make it official.

However, Tamaki eavesdrops on a meeting between the U.A. Alumni and, to his horror, accidentally discovers a new wild card the U.S. played in order to secure Chō once and for all. Taking advantage of the crime wave in Japan, they offered to trade over pro heroes from the U.S. to help with the fight in exchange for Chō herself. And, on Chō's request, they agreed to it, and she was currently flying over to America for good. Upon finding the Big Three mourning the loss of their friend, Izuku also realizes what happened and reaches his breaking point.

### Dark Hero Arc

After months of being locked in depression due to losing Chō, Tamaki and his friends discover through a news report that she never reached America and a global bounty has been placed on her head. Izuku, having abandoned the school to join up with the Top Three Heroes, remains in the city to look for her, his intentions unknown due to recent events. While out on a patrol with Fat Gum, Tamaki reunites with Chō, who reveals she returned because she discovered the Americans' true intentions: they planned to take her under the ruse they would continue to do research on her quirk and execute her instead, passing the murder off as her dying during testing, though she didn't know who was behind such a sinister plot. Horrified by this but relieved she escaped, Tamaki agrees to keep Chō hidden, even from their friends.

Later on, after Lady Nagant's defeat, Chō is made aware of the situation Izuku is in and makes a huge risk, revealing herself to the refugees holed up at U.A. in order to convince them to let him in. However, due to the fear instilled in the public, it ends up being Uraraka who manages to get everyone on board and let Izuku return. Once inside, Izuku reveals the reason he remained on the lookout for Chō was because he believed the Americans' abrupt proposal for a trade-off was also unusual and therefore suspected the League of Villains had something to do with it. Such an action would mean Chō was a threat to them, meaning she may play a crucial role in the final battle. With all that's happened, Chō agrees to help him fight in the final battle, in hopes she can win back the right to her own life.

### U.A. Traitor Arc

Chō and her friends continue to train for the coming war, all while dealing with civilian protests, who object to her return to Japan. Eventually, Star and Stripe, the Number One U.S. Hero, reveals that once she discovered her country's plot to kill her in secret, she broke off from them and willingly let Tomura Shigaraki take her quirk, in order to poison the others he possessed and weaken him, revealing that him and the League of Villains were indeed involved with the sinister plot. Though she claims the higher-ups behind it have been caught and will be punished for their foul play, she warns Chō that unrest about her quirk still festers both in Japan and the U.S. In response, Chō promises to win this war so that people may trust her enough to let her live out her life in peace.

After the Aoyamas are exposed and a secret plan is forged, everyone works hard to train for the coming fight, in hopes they can separate All For One and Tomura long enough to prevent their minds and shared hatred from merging and giving them a fighting chance. The day of operation, Tamaki and Chō have a moment alone, where Chō reveals her feelings for him and says she will gladly await his answer for after they win the war.

### Final War Arc

When the Final War begins, Vega, Suneater, Dynamight, Best Jeanist, Edgeshot, Mirko, and Nejire~chan are warped up to a floating U.A. High to face off against "Tomura Shigaraki", who uses the endless fingers on his left hand, a result of the Quirk Singularity, to combat them. Lemillion arrives to aid them, managing to save Dynamight from certain doom, but "Tomura", upon realizing Vega has appeared in the fight, targets her instead. In an attempt to protect her, Tamaki unleashes the true potential of his Quirk, the Vast Hybrid: Plasma Cannon, creating an ultimate fusion of every animal and plant he has eaten in his system, combined with Nejire's energy, to attack "Tomura", but it unfortunately isn't enough. In a last resort to save her allies, Vega uses Infinity Crisis again, this time fully in control of it, in order to suck "Tomura" into it for good, but it causes him to go on the defensive instead, managing to decay her chest cavity and severely injure her. With one last goodbye to her friends, Vega becomes unresponsive and dies.

However, when Lemillion manages to reactivate the barrier and allow Deku to join the battle, he manages to snap him out of his rage over the comatose corpses of their fallen allies by revealing something he discovered while they were trying to get all the heroes out of commission away: in a last-ditch attempt to save her life, Vega's quirk genes rushed to put her beating heart on an infinite loop, keeping blood pumping through her damaged system and revealing that though brain-dead, she is still alive. Strengthened by his resolve to save her and all the others, Deku utilizes the power of all the Quirks of One For All together to overwhelm "Tomura", and execute his ultimate attacks, causing "Tomura" to increasingly swell up.

While in her comatose state, Chō is stuck in a loop of her own, being forced to live her life on fast-forward, over and over again, restarting the moment she "died." She is unaware of how to break out of it, and doesn't even know what will happen if she does, but she does know for sure that as long as she still lives and breathes, the other heroes still need her. While stuck in this loop, she reflects on how because of her genetic disorder and lack of a limiter, she was forced to live in a constant spiral, never progressing anywhere and always being cursed to being dragged back to square one. She then wonders why it never drove her to villainy, where it would've driven anyone else. Eventually, she comes to the realization that she was not stuck in an infinite loop of suffering, but part of a cycle to a story that has not yet finished.