Minami Ekikata

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> "That's why I try so hard to run, to grow up, to become a better person. No matter how far you are ahead of me, I'll do my best to catch up with you."
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> **- Minami Ekikata** to Miyuki Yukimura

## Personal Description

### Age

15 (First apperance)
16 (Current)

## Portrayal

### English Voice

N/A

**Minami Ekikata** (液固 美波 *Ekikata Minami*), also known as **Waterfall** (滝 *Taki*), is a first-year student at Shiketsu High School training to become a Pro Hero.

## Appearance

Minami is a girl of average height with a rather toned build and beautiful curves. She's got medium length cyan hair, thin bangs are hanging between her eyes and two others swept on both sides behind her ears. Minami's eyes are a teal color and has small but pronounced eyelashes and are paired with thin and long eyebrows set in a serious expression.

In her school uniform, Minami has the same traditional white-collared shirt and dark skirt every female Shiketsu High students wear. She also sports Shiketsu's signature hat, wether in her hero costume or school uniform.

Minami's hero costume consists of a turquoise sleeveless short top reaching right above her midriff, with thick white lines going from the shoulders to down her breasts. She also wears cropped pants with a matching desing reaching above her knees. Around her neck, ankles and hips there's a circular container-like item who serve as stores, collecting the liquids that are inside her body. All those containers are linked to the bigger ones that she carries on her back who themselves are connected to the ones she wears on her wrists. Minami also possesses a pair of light blue gloves which covers only her middle and ring finger, as well as matching knee-high boots with small heels.

## Personality

Minami is a very haughty and cruel person, looking down on and bullying anyone she considers a loser. She grew up in the same hometown as Mezo Shoji and Miyuki Yukimura, where prejudice against heteromorphs still exists. Her parents, who would never hesitate to beat those they consider "dirty blood", passed on to her that ideology and strictly forbidden her to hang out or even talk with them causing her to gradually adopt their principles and started to intimidate any heteromorphs she meets. Minami's parents would mistreat her if they hear that their daughter talked with them, something that already happened during her childhood and because of that, she became unscrupulous towards people with a permanently affected outer appearance, especially towards Mezo and Miyuki, as she got to see the latter in her yeti form. That shows how selfish she is, preferring to let others suffer rather than herself.

However, she's conscious of how bad her actions are but the fear of being beaten by her parents completely blinded her reason and prevented her from defending herself, even standing up against them is impossible for Minami.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: Having gone through intensive trainings for the sole purpose of becoming stronger to outmatch her rival, Miyuki, Minami became a highly capable combatant.

### Quirk

**Liquid Solidification** (液状固化 *Ekijō Koka*): Minami's quirk allows her to solidify any liquid substance such as water, blood and other liquids present either in or out her body. She can make structures out of the solidified liquid to create useful weapons, spiky projectiles, shields, walls and many other things. Minami is able to control her creations using her mind within a wide range.

To make more complex structures it requires extreme concentration, lot of time and a great amount of energy. If the area is dry, her quirk will be unusable. Likewise with the liquids in her body:

* Overusing water will dehydrate her.
* She can't use a high quantity of blood as her vessels will start to empty.

## Equipment

* **Liquid Containers** (液体用コンテナ *Ekitai-yō Kontena*): Those containers permits her to store up the liquids that are inside her body. The containers around her neck, hips and ankles are connected to the ones on her back, the latter working as a big tank. Then, if needed, Minami can extract the stored liquid directly to her wrists' containers in order to release the liquid through the small holes situated all around the device. All those containers are linked with the help of a solid and long cable.

## Trivia

* Minami's surname is composed of the kanji meaning "liquid, fluid" (液 *eki*) and "hard" (固 *kata*). Her first name has the kanji for "beautiful" (美 *mi*) and "wave" (波 *nami*).