Newbiki Shinsou

## Description

When he was first created as a clone, he looked like a blank version of the original Hibiki - tall and lanky with blond hair and grey eyes. When Aiko took him home, she added the lavender neck tattoos, snakebite piercings, dark makeup, and clothes that the original Hibiki had.

As he became more violent with time, his makeup became darker and more smudged as if he didn't care how unhinged he looked, or how he looked in general.

After the incident where Aiko attacked Newbiki with scissors, Newbiki lost an eye, wearing bandages for a short time before changing to a black eyepatch.

When the story jumps ahead four years, we see that Newbiki has grown out his hair to about shoulder-length, with some shorter pieces in the front. He has also added another set of tattoos on his neck, which are barbed wire. The colors of the barbed wire tattoos are switched from the palette used in the lavender tattoos (black main section with purple dot details instead of purple main section with black dot details.)

#### Function

Allows him to read multiple peoples' minds at once and also project his own thoughts into others' minds. Reading people's minds is done via the auditory channel of his brain, so he "hears" them as if they were talking. This means that it is limited by range.

#### Drawback

Since it functions similarly to hearing, if there are more people around him, the noise is amplified. If he is in a crowded area, for example, then it is loud to him since everyone near him has their own constant thoughts.
His own thoughts count as a voice that he "hears", so when he speaks, the sound gets exponentially amplified and overwhelms him. This can also cause him to fall unconscious.

## Personality

Originally, Newbiki started out as naive, having only just come into the world and learning about "his past." Over time, however, he becomes increasingly violent and manipulative.

## Biography

Newbiki is a clone created by Aiko Shinsou to replace her deceased partner, Hibiki Shinsou. In her grief, Aiko went to Kimi Monoma's house and held her and Cécile Toga hostage. Aiko then used her quirk to force Kimi to clone Hibiki's DNA and make a marble, then forced Cécile to use her quirk to age up the newly created clone marble. When Aiko realized she needed another marble to give years to the clone, the only one she could use that was still intact was the marble she had stolen previously with her and Hibiki's DNA. Once the clone marble was aged up, Aiko took him home and taught him how to function as a human and about Hibiki's history. Aiko also teaches Newbiki, whom she calls "Hibiki," that he has just lost his memory and that is why he doesn't remember anything (opposed to the truth: that he is a completely new clone of a dead man.)

Aiko's goal was to teach Newbiki to be just like Hibiki so she could deal with the grief of losing her partner by replacing him with an exact copy, but Newbiki was a different person. After Aiko taught Newbiki about Hibiki's past and his life of crime, he concluded that he wanted to be a better version of Hibiki - a more violent version. This is because Newbiki did not grow up learning the same morals that the original Hibiki did.

This new violent persona culminates in Newbiki stealing a gun from the Misfits and killing the victims of the theft Aiko was committing. Newbiki claimed that he killed them because Aiko said she was tired and he wanted to help, but it is shown throughout the story that Newbiki truly believed that killing is acceptable. Aiko chastises him for committing such a violent and deplorable act and for acting differently from the original Hibiki, but this just makes Newbiki frustrated, so he goes off on his own to learn how to manipulate people. Newbiki continues to be violent during theft missions with Aiko, and when Aiko confronts him again, he manipulated her into letting him continue to be violent.

Eventually, Hitoshi is "born," and Newbiki becomes upset that Aiko is spending more time with the annoying baby than him and worries that she loves Hitoshi more. One day, Aiko leaves Newbiki alone with baby Hitoshi. Seizing the opportunity to quiet the "brat" for good, he moves in to strangle the boy. Aiko catches him doing this, and, in order to protect her child, reaches for some scissors and stabs Newbiki in the eye. High on adrenaline, Newbiki pursues Aiko as she tries to get away with the baby, reading her thoughts in order to track her down.

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## Trivia

* Like the original Hibiki, he can break out of Aiko's quirk fairly easily since his own quirk is mind-based.
* He is able to talk in the afterlife because his quirk no longer works, so he doesn't have to deal with the drawbacks.

## References

1. ↑ Love on the Brain Ch2P10 (Take the Lead)
2. ↑ Love on the Brain Ch2P13 (Never Getting Rid of Me)
3. ↑ Love on the Brain Ch2P15 (Joke's on You)
4. ↑ Love on the Brain Ch2P16 (Enemy)
5. ↑ Love on the Brain Ch2P9 (My Eyes)
6. ↑ Love on the Brain Ch2P12 (Monster)
7. ↑ Love on the Brain Ch2P13 (Never Getting Rid of Me)