Mezo Shoji

**Mezo Shoji** is a recurring character in Wacky Adventures.

## Appearance

Mezo is a tall, muscular young man with pale gray hair swept forwards, covering most of his face, and bent downwards at almost a right angle over his eye. He has six arms, all attached to each other by a web of skin, which are very physically strong, and while his Quirk is not in use only the front two arms have hands, the rest ending in thin stumps.

He usually wears a blue mask covering his mouth that reaches down to his neck. He wears this with every outfit and never takes it off.

During school hours, he wears the regular male U.A. uniform, the only notable difference between his and the other students' being that his is sleeveless to make room for his six tentacles, and he wears a waistcoat rather than a blazer. He also doesn't wear the usual brown dress shoes, instead replacing them with a pair of thick-soled black espadrilles (those are flat casual canvas shoes).

His hero costume consists of a tight blue tank top, six white markings resembling eyes, connected at the top to a darker, more indigo-colored mask, its design the same as the one he usually wears. He has a belt with another, larger eye shape embedded into its center, this time yellow, below which he wears slightly baggy trousers to match his shirt, two darker lines running down the sides of his legs, and indigo boots.

## Personality

Despite his tough, muscular look, he's often friendly and reliable- looking out for others and doing his part. Sometimes, he can be a little too dedicated and hard-working, like when he used his actual bones as props for a prank rather than just buying a skeleton or something.

He also works well with anyone and usually doesn't have any issue with people. He's also quite thick-skinned when it comes to being treated differently about his appearance.

## Abilities

* **Enhanced Strength**: He's mucho strong. Shoji often goes to the gym and is considered a gym-bro so he's constantly exercising and pumping weights. This makes it easy for him to pick up heavy objects and also attack hard when in combat. His strength is only multiplied with the addition of his quirk.

* **Enhanced Speed**: Despite his size and muscular physique, Mezo possesses impressive speed. As soon as his partner, Brandon, was in need of assistant, he rushed over and confronted Aoyama, who narrowly dodged him by propelling himself into the air. He was also to search the entire gym floor, without getting caught, for Brandon who floated away from him.

* **Enhanced Stamina**: He was able to make it to the semi-finals of the Quirk Training Session after contributing a lot of his strength and speed into the session already.

* **Enhanced Durability**: He can take a hit or two or twenty.

### Quirk

**Dupli-Arms**: Mezo's Quirk is that he has a set of tentacles alongside his arms. He can transform the tips of these tentacles to replicate other parts of his body (ex: mouth, ears, eyes). The duplicated body parts are more efficient than the originals; as a result, Mezo is able to hear better, see through more angles at a time, and they grant him much higher degrees of strength.

His detection ability from his quirk is so powerful that he is able to hear the movements of people through thick fog. This feat renders sneak attacks ineffective against Mezo. The only disadvantage would be an overwhelming amount of frequencies attacking his ears which could effectively knock him unconscious.

He also uses these arms to talk most of the time through duplicate mouths, rather than his actual mouth.

Mezo is also able to extend his tentacles, and, with an arm at the end, can use them like grappling hooks to scale walls, grab onto pipes to quickly evade attacks, or get to a vantage point. Can't wait to see that in action!

## Relationships

### Brandon Tennyson

Once partners during the Quirk Training Session, the two of them worked together to get close to the finals. In fact, it was Shoji that did a lot of heavy lifting and also provided emotional support on top of that when Brandon got overwhelmed from fighting his classmates.

### Tsuyu Asui

Mezo is a strong man with no fears. Except one. And that is Tsuyu Asui. She commands such a presence that even Shoji can't defy her orders purely because she is capable of inflicting so much pain upon him if he does.

## Chapter Appearances

* The Mall
* Halloween Party
* A WA Christmas
* Todoroki's Birthday
* Jokes at the Gym
* Quirk Training Session
* Birthday Bash

## Trivia

* There's a chance that Shoji wouldn't have been in WA and would've joined the Missing with Sato and Koda.
	+ This might've been because of how weird his quirk looked but since his first appearance, he's been a supporting character throughout.