Ema Kaeda

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**Ema Kaeda** (替田 絵真 *Kaeda Ema*) Also known as Illusion Hero : Simula (イリュージョンヒーロー：シミュレーター *Iryūjonhīrō: Shimyurētā*) Is a student in Class 1-A at U.A High School, who is currently training on becoming a future Pro Hero. She is one of the Deuteragonists of *My Hero Academia.*

## Biographical Information

### Alias

Illusion Hero : Simula (イリュージョンヒーロー：シミュレーター Iryūjonhīrō: Shimyurētā)Emma

## Status

### Family

Yumē Kaeda (Paternal Grandmother)Nentō Kaeda (Father)

Kokoro Kaeda (Mother)

## Appearance :

Ema is an average looking young girl with a rather frail looking build for anyone in her age group. She has a round face that is framed with a brown fringe parted into three clumps of hair, as well as having turquoise tinted eyes that slant a little bit to the far sides of her face, making her look rather shy and timid. Her brown hair goes all the way down to her elbows, and is sometimes styles into a low ponytail.

Since she plans to be an Underground Hero, her costume consists of a dull turquoise colored sweater, a dark blue trench coat, and black leggings with dark blue running shoes, as well as having vision goggles that protects her eyes from any incoming debris or projectiles that could potentially disrupt the effects of her quirks. The goggles are designed to heighten and widen the vision of Ema so that she could have a much more vast range of sight in order to use her quirk more efficiently.

## Personality :

Ema is a rather young, quiet individual that tends to avoid any social interactions with anyone. She is very shy, soft spoken, and can be flustered very easily. Due to her past that led to her parents’ upbringing, Ema has a very big phobia of going outside, thus, making her more introverted and closed off. Despite being overwhelmingly shy, Ema is also exceedingly intelligent, both emotionally and academically.

Ema has a knack for spotting details, as well as being talented in reading social cues and emotional atmospheres. She also has the skill of being able to read people’s expressions and what their true intentions are. She is an avid reader, writer, and painter that mostly spends her free time in doing many creative activities.

Timid and Asocial, it is shown that Ema has little to no friends in all of her years of living. She gets abnormally nervous and socially awkward when talking to people, but 90% of the time she would just run away from the said person talking to her.

Ema has been seen to have extremely low self confidence and self esteem due to her quirk’s abilities, claiming that her quirk will never be good enough to be a hero. She also gets easily overwhelmed with anxiety when being put under pressure, or being placed in a situation of life or death.

She’s shown to have a hard time being brave due to running away from a lot of the situations she has been put in, and will *never* face a villain head on. But, she will try to use her quirk far away within long distances in order to save someone.

## Abilities :

**Overall Abilities** : Due to the nature of her main quirk, Simulacrum, Ema has grown to like doing anything related to art, such as drawing or painting. She has a very keen eye for spotting details and any errors within anything, and loves to create hyper-realistic art pieces for herself, or for her grandmother. Even before her quirk had accumulated, drawing was probably the first thing Ema learned how to do, due to being taught by her Grandmother, Yumē, who is also a talented painter.

* **Artistic Skills** : Ema has been taught on how to paint with acrylic, oil, and water colors by her grandmother, Yumē, ever since she was 3. By the time she was 7, she was able to create hyper realistic paintings and illustrations of environments, as well as people. Her grandmother would describe her as an art prodigy.

During the U.A Sports Festival, Ema was able to induce hundreds of hyper-realistic hallucinations onto the students of U.A, which, gained her the ability to confuse her competitors into thinking that they were in someplace else, steering them away from the main goal of the Sports Festival. Ema’s talent in art was shown once more when she was placed into a match between her and Ochaco. Because of her other quirk, Memory View, Ema was able to successfully trick Ochaco into thinking that she was standing in front of her parents, with her parents welcoming her with open arms while luring her towards the out-of-bounds line.

* **Keen Eye** : Ema has abnormally sharp eye sight that allows her to spot any type of error or detail in a picture within seconds, she has a skill that allows her to make spotless and hyper realistic hallucinations that can confuse her opponents. Almost nothing can get past Ema’s line of sight, that also includes being very perceptive of others who try to get past Ema.

She was able to last through the entire event all until she was faced with Bakugo, who in her opinion, was not so easy to trick. Even though she was placed into General Studies, Ema was lucky enough to be transferred over to Class 1-A in the Hero Course due to her amazing efforts during the Sports Festival.

**Keen Intellect** : One of Ema’s most notable skills is her keen intellect. Ema has been homeschooled all her life, all until High School at least, but during her homeschool years, Ema had been taught with a more advanced curriculum by her parents that granted her further knowledge than others within her age group. She flawlessly passed the written exams of U.A, finishing within minutes due to already knowing the curriculum. She was able to see through the connections between All-Might and Midoriya as well as being intelligent enough to see through the hard shell of Todoroki, allowing her to know what was going on within his life.

**Emotional Manipulation** : Despite being very nervous and overwhelmingly shy, Ema is very skillful when convincing or manipulating someone emotionally. Because of her other quirk, Memory View, Ema can easily get blackmail from the people she’s going against. She can easily use her quirk into tricking others emotionally, such as making them cry, making them happy, or even guilt trip them. She also knows a lot of manipulation techniques in order to get her way, but she normally uses her skill in manipulation with good intentions, she would never have the will to do something bad.

### Quirks :

**Simulacrum** (錯覚 *Sakkaku*) : Simulacrum, Ema’s main quirk, grants her the ability to induce hyper-realistic hallucinations onto anyone within her line of sight. Her illusions are capable of messing around with the enemy’s senses, confusing them immensely. When Ema activates this quirk, the opponents are unable to discern reality from the said hallucination once they are under the influence of Ema’s illusions. People describe her quirk as if you were inside a vivid dream, one in which you cannot break out of if you are alone. She is not able to manipulate the dreams or vision of people who are unconscious.

One of the quirk’s biggest weaknesses is that Ema has to keep her eyes open while activating her quirk, if she blinks for even a second, then the illusion will break off, allowing her opponent to break free from her hallucination. A way for her opponents to break free from her illusion is to have an outside force inflict a strong enough physical jolt onto the said opponent so that they can wake up. If there are no outside forces available, then the opponent will have to convince themselves to think the the hallucination they are having isn’t real. However, there is a slight 3.2% of that ever happening if you are overwhelmed with emotion during the illusion, or because of the fact that Ema’s hallucinations are hard to discern from reality due to the hyper-realistic details of it.

**Memory View** (記憶眺望 *Kioku Chōbō*) : Memory View is Ema’s second quirk, which is mostly hidden from everyone else. Memory View grants Ema the ability to read a person;s memories far up to 5 years back. She is able to temporarily feel and see the person’s memories from their own perspective, while also being able to know what was going on inside their head while reading their memories. Ema can view 5 years worth of their memories in just under 30 seconds, and there isn’t much of a tell when they are activating this quirk, as all they have to do is to just look at the person in the eyes.

Even though Ema is able to look through 5 years worth of memories of the said person in under 30 seconds, reading any further than that limit will cause her to suffer from short term memory loss, losing her own individual memories in exchange in seeing more about the other person’s past. She cannot read the memories of a non-living entity.

### Super Moves :

* **Hallucination** : Ema is able to induce vivid hallucinations onto a person, or a group of people within her eye sight. The opponents aren’t able to discern reality whilst experiencing the hallucination.

* **Appearance Illusion** : Using her quirk onto herself and others, Ema is capable of creating an appearance illusion in which that whoever is in her eye range will view her and her selected group of people as someone else. She uses this a lot for disguises and blending in.

* **Landscape** : Ema is able to paint a large, vivid, and hyper realistic landscape that can be interacted by people within her hallucinations. She can create large landscapes like beaches, cities, mountains, schools, and other locations. This takes up an abnormal amount of concentration from Ema to create.

* **Memory Lane** : By using her second quirk, ***Memory View***, Ema is capable of inducing much more vivid, convincing, and heavily emotional hallucinations onto her opponents. This move is described as re-experiencing either euphoric, happy memories, or a despairing, traumatic one. Either way, by viewing her opponent’s memories, she can easily recreate their memory as an hallucination.
* **Sensing Illusion** : Ema is able to create illusions that mess around with her opponent’s sense of Touching or Hearing. She can also create an illusion that makes her opponent hallucinate as if they’ve felt themselves being stabbed or hurt, when in reality they aren’t. They’ll feel things that aren’t even real basically.

### Statistics :

Ema's stats, according to the creator.

Ema's stats, according to the Ultra Analysis Book

## Equipment :

**Hero Costume** : Deciding to become an Underground Hero, Ema wanted to have her costume be a bit more plain looking, so that she wouldn’t stand out from anything, or catch a lot of attention. Not much thought was put into her costume.

* **Vision Goggles** : Ema’s main equipment for her Hero Costume, Ema’s Vision Goggles are of a dull turquoise color with their lenses being designed for improving her vision range. These goggles help deflect any incoming debris, or projectiles that could disrupt the effects of her quirk.

* **Eye Drops** : Because of her quirk’s after effects, Ema stores a few bottles of Eye Drops to keep her eyes healthy and clean while holding them open for a long time.

## Trivia :

* Ema’s surname contained the kanji for “Replacement, change” (替 *Kae*) and “Rice Field” (田 *ta*). Her given name contains the kanji for “Picture, painting” (絵 *picture*) and “Truth” (真 *ma*).
* According to Ema’s Volume 1 Profile :
	+ Ema is actually a Hafu (Half American) She gets her american lineage from her mother’s side of the family. Ema’s Maternal Grandmother is American.
	+ Ema likes reading fan fiction and watching anime online, but she doesn’t want others to know about it.
	+ Ema really likes hedgehogs
	+ Ema likes to eat cheesecake, cold cheesecake..

* Ema’s first quirk, Simulacrum, was inspired by Betty Noire from Glitchtale. Who’s ability was that she was able to induce hallucinations onto other people.
* Ema shares the same Voice Actor from Fluttershy in MLP :)
* Ema was supposed to be a Vigilante at first, but the idea was swapped out for her being a Hero-In-Training.