Nishiki Kamanari

**Nishiki Kamanari** (*Kamanari Nishiki*), also known as the **Petrification Hero: Orochi** (石化ヒーロー：オロチ), is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

## Appearance

Nishiki is a slim young man whose distinctive traits are his glasses and messy hazelnut hair. Nishiki appears to have a scar over his left eye during. At often times he's seen wearing a green zip-up sweater over his own school uniform as he says he's "naturally cold-blooded". He tends to have an almost blank expression not showing emotion though this could be do to his loner nature.

   When wearing his hero costume he prefers to wear his once again simple hoodie-ed outfit preferring more comfortable like clothes which with his own mobility and at often times wearing mask of some kind that of which resembles a serpent. His mask helps block the abilities of his Quirk and at often he would only take off the mask if he needed to activate his Quirk instantaneously, but preferring to keep it on to fight enemies solo.

## Personality

Nishiki is a diligent student and prodigy. He has an insensitive attitude with a knack for abrasive language. He also demands that people younger than him show respect for their elders. Above his sharp tongue, he is a cautious individual who isn't keen on trusting others. Despite this, Nishiki can be shown to be loyal. He is willing to sacrifice himself for the lives of others. Nishiki is considered to be quite the loner as he prefers to spend all his time alone. But according to him he isn't afraid of human interaction but rather to be apart from "unnecessary and shallow conversations", preferring to keep to himself. Though this doesn't stop him from working as a team with his classmates often being back up in case any scenario goes wrong.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: Nishiki's slim body shows that he's physically weak, which are shown as he was almost dead last in terms of strength levels on the Quirk Apprehension Test, though he made up in terms of speed meeting above average. Nishiki's skills really play in terms of his Quirk, which allows him to petrify anyone or anything with his eyes. Nishiki's main asset with his Quirk is sneak attacks and rushing. He utilizes his Quirk movements to make eye contact and petrify his opponents as he can not only petrify but anyone else who makes contact with him, on top of that he's quite good at support. His Quirk allows him to petrify certain body parts with focus which can stop anything from bleeding to even virus spreading though it doesn't last long but merely slows down the process. Nishiki's main weakness though is head to head battles a his main asset in combat is sneak attacks and struggle sin battles with enemies aware of his abilities and skills, but this doesn't stop him.

### Quirk

**Petrification**: Nishiki's Quirk Petrification allows him to utilize his eyes by making eye contact with an opponent and turning them into stone. Nishiki can physically turn anything he sees into stone though its harder to turn inanimate objects into stone because rather than solidifying the matter of cells, inanimate objects don't have cells therefore petrification of it is takes longer. Though Nishiki's Quirk isn't limited to just eye contact, if given enough focus and in a given area, Nishiki can petrify a specific part of the body from a finger to an entire arm. The ability has been demonstrated to work in both combat and in the support range as it can solidify even blood to stop bleeding.

Though Nishiki are unique, Nishiki does struggle with a few things being every time he uses his ability to attempts to his vision gets blurry to the point where he gets mildly faint-y, it was to a degree where he momentarily lost his vision and was warned not overuse his powers again. Nishiki's Quirk progressively makes his vision worst and even if he doesn't use it, his vision still worsens and he expects to go blind at the age of 55 where he believes he'll lose his Quirk as sight from both the user and target is and eye to eye contact is needed for his Quirk to activate. Nishiki also faces another problem though his Quirk isn't passive but is solely activation.

The effects of Nishiki's petrification lasts up to an hour. The stone that seemingly surround the target but is actually the solidification of one's cells, is quite inpermeable to harm being susceptible to being knocked over, and is quite impervious to being damaged though it's not entirely obsolete as it can be destroyed and the target has a chance of death when under major harm like losing an arm or being shattered completely.

## Equipment

**Orochi Mask**: A thick layered mask made to suppress his powers in case he ever looks at an object or person for too long and can risk petrifying them. The mask also has a built in filters for gases and smoke as well as the additional prescription lenses below the suppression lenses as a reflective surface can nullify his powers.

**Glasses**: At times, Nishiki will carry his own glasses in case he ever wants to take off the mask or it breaks as log as he has something to help block his Quirk when he's not fighting.