Chō Akemi

**Chō Akemi** (明美 蝶, *Akemi Chō*), also known by as the Center Star Hero: **Vega** (ベガ, *vega*), is the main female protagonist of *MHA: The Butterfly Effect*. She has the power to phase reality, a quirk that once nearly resulted in a global disaster.

She is a student training to become a Pro Hero at U.A. High School, a third-year ranking just below the Big Three.

## Biographical Information

### Alias

Vega (ベガ vega)Bestie (by Nejire Hado)

Bud (by Mirio Togata)

Butterfly (by Tamaki Amajiki)

## Appearance

Chō is an above average-looking young woman that has a bright skin tone. She has sharp eyes and lashes which reflect the night sky. She has yellow stars as her pupils and a scar in the shape of a butterfly on her neck, though she keeps it hidden with her hair.

During school, she wears the regular U.A. uniform, though she accessorizes with two golden star clips and a white headband tied with a butterfly bow.

## Personality

From an early age, Chō was a bright and cheerful girl who enjoyed seeing the world's wonders and the different quirks and abilities people had. However, as she grew older and her own quirk more powerful, she became more closed-off and shy, emotionless, even, due to obtaining a fear for overreacting. As a result, she became very quiet and didn't speak a lot, only doing so with close friends. She also obtained a hesitance towards touch, as most contact she engaged in over the years was hardly ever kind.

However, she also has a protective sense about her, which passes her off as motherly, as she is always looking out for the wellbeing of her friends and underclassmen. She mostly tries to offer comfort where she can, though most see her as a bit of a nagger as a result.

## Abilities

### General Abilities

* **Enhanced Endurance:** Due to repetitive tests run at the Kyushu Institute of Quirk Research, Chō built up her stamina by using her quirk to run for a long period of time without gaining an inch of distance, with a tactic referred to as "the treadmill effect".
* **Enhanced Durability:** Over time, Chō gained a high tolerance for pain, also a result of the tests run at the Institute, though it was mostly due to the intensity of their methods and often produced more damage than harm.
* **Emotional Resilience:** While at the Institute, Chō underwent strict emotional conversion therapy, to shut down strong feelings such as anger, grief, and even care, in an attempt to make her quirk slipping out of control less likely. However, this was broken down over time with the experiences she shared with her friends after returning home.

### Quirk

* **Droste**: The ability to cause a certain area around the user to recursively start appearing within itself, in a place where a similar area would realistically be expected to appear. It allows the user to loop objects in motion, living or nonliving, as well as a general area around them. However, the target object must be in motion for the quirk to work, even if only for a moment. Most are unable to determine the sources of this ability, whether it is by magic or by science, but its power is considered dangerous when used in excess.

#### Quirk Powers

* **Infinite Loop:** Chō can essentially "capture" an enemy around a certain area she generates, which causes them to be trapped in that area, no matter which direction they go. If they were to try to move outside the range, they would only end up running to right back where they started. If combined with an acute application of gravity manipulation, the captured area turns into the move, "Ghost Circle."
* **Gravity Manipulation:** Upon being able to loop everything and anything that moves, even forces as strong as gravity, Chō can either lighten or intensify the air pressure pressing down or below a person, either crushing them or propelling them into the air.
* **Portal Hop:** By looping herself or something else in a freefall before abruptly breaking the loop, Chō can throw herself or her target great distances, depending on the direction she releases the freefall.
* **Confusion:** Though this comes as more of a side effect to the loop than an actual power, any person targeted by the Droste quirk has the chance of becoming disoriented, too much so to fight back or escape.

### Special Moves

* **Invisible Cage Move - Ghost Circle:** By breaking the polarity of a certain space from where she's standing, Chō can essentially create an invisible circle that traps whoever is inside. From the outside, it appears that the formed circle destroys anyone that touches it, when in reality they are actually trapped inside, in a ghost-like state, which becomes very painful during elongated exposure. On the inside, there is no way out, as the person trapped inside can only run endless circles in the targeted area of the circle. The only way to escape is to disrupt the user's concentration or use a spatial-breaking quirk.
* **Infinite Counter Move - Hidden Cluster:** By looping her own motion combined with careful dodging, Chō stores any projectile attacks aimed at her and fires it back at her opponents. As a result of the beam of said projectile moving in a certain direction, the bullets or rays are infinite until the space-pocket holding the energy is broken or disrupted.
* **Ultimate Finishing Move - Infinity Crisis:** Chō's most powerful attack, she expands her radius of infinite loop and essentially creates a whirlwind that warps reality and quite literally sucks time and space out of thin air. The resulting energy collected can either erupt into a supernova blast that wipes out anything within the radius, and depending on the input, the damage can range from a time loop on a global scale or the equivalent of a supernova going off directly next to the Earth. However, if the blast is contained within the user's genetic makeup, the explosion will be more controlled, but is a one-shot move that comes at the cost of the user's life or even existence.

### Stats

Chō Akemi's stats, according to the creator.

## Equipment

**Hero Costume**: Her hero costume is described as a long skirt illuminating the dark night sky, complete with gold bracelets on her wrists and upper arms, a black top, and a layered skirt dotted with white stars with a white trim. She also wears a thin transparent blue shawl decorated with yellow stars, and has a star halo on her head that hovers over her when using her quirk.

**Dreamcatcher**: As a result of her quirk easily able to become unstable, Chō uses her dreamcatcher as a sort of filter to her powers, so that the damage they cause is reduced, and the long-lasting effects the victim of her attacks may have is not made permanent.

## Battle Events

### Battle Trial Arc

* Battle Trial
	+ Mirio & Tamaki vs. Chō & Nejire

### U.A. Sports Festival Arc

* U.A. Sports Festival
	+ Track Race
	+ Ultimate Scavenger Hunt
		- Team Akemi vs. Team Hado
	+ Chō Akemi vs. Luke Roselei

### Final Exams Arc

* First Term Final Exam
	+ Suneater & Vega vs. Final Exam Mech

### Provisional Hero License Exam Arc

* Ultimate Move Training
* Provisional Hero License Exam
	+ Lemillion, Nejire~chan, Suneater, & Vega vs. Shiketsu High

### Shie Hassaikai Arc, Two Years Later

* Class 1-A vs. Mirio Togata
* Hero Work-Studies I
	+ Vega & Midnight vs. Mimic
* Shie Hassaikai Raid
	+ Nighteye Squad vs. Mimic
	+ Vega vs. Overhaul & Chronostasis

### Pro Hero Arc

* Nejire~chan, Suneater, & Vega vs. Class 1-A

### Endeavor Agency Arc

* Hero Work-Studies II
	+ Endeavor & Hawks vs. Starservant

### Paranormal Liberation War Arc

* Paranormal Liberation War
	+ Gunga Mountain Villa Raid
	+ Villa Raid Team & Trainees vs. Paranormal Liberation Front
	+ Vega vs. Gigantomachia & Tomura Shigaraki

### Chō Akemi vs. Japan Case Arc

* Chō Akemi vs. Japan Trial I
* Chō Akemi vs. Japan Trial II
* Chō Akemi vs. Japan Final Verdict

## Trivia

* Chō's name means "butterfly" in Japanese.
	+ This is a reference to how Tamaki's favorite thing is butterflies, a hint at their own relationship.
* Chō's surname, Akemi, means "bright" or "beautiful" in Japanese, which appeals to her true personality.
* Chō was originally planned to be an outer space-based hero before the creator took all the other OCs with such quirks and characters into account and decided to make her a little more unique.