Hinata Shouya

**Hinata Shouya** (*Shouya Hinata*), also known as the **Echo Hero: Reverberate** (甘味ヒーローシュガーマン), is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

## Appearance

Upon entering the first year of U.A. High School, Hinata stood at 162.8 cm and grew to 164.2 cm halfway through the school year. He has unruly, orange hair and brown eyes. His relatively thin build and short stature often lead him to be mistaken for a junior high (or in some cases even grade school) student. Hinata typically dresses in his school uniform with a black jacket and black pants. Beneath his jacket is a beige or tan sweatshirt.

## Personality

Hinata has a cheerful and energetic personality. He is easily excited and can be quite loud, a trait second only to Nishinoya and Tanaka. For the most part, Hinata is very simple-minded which sometimes causes him to make rash decisions. However, he is also shown to be quite observant. He is capable of reading social cues and be incredibly empathetic toward others' struggles. As such, he often says just what others need to hear to push themselves in the right direction. He is also noted to be a natural schmoozer, a quality that his teammates occasionally use to win someone over (Nishinoya, for example). His friendly and straightforward personality allows him to befriend even the quietest of people effortlessly, such as Kenma from Nekoma High and Aone from Date Tech High.

However, despite his generally bubbly exterior, Hinata is also shown to have a serious attitude, particularly when it comes to volleyball. His intense love for the sport is demonstrated through his impressive display of tenacity stemming from his constant desire to improve his abilities. As stated by Sugawara, Hinata plays with great fortitude in the face of adversity and thus doesn't give up easily during a match. Hinata can also exhibit a very intimidating expression when people underestimate him. Still, Hinata gets scared easily, especially by larger and stronger opponents. This prompts him to develop the habit of hiding behind his nearest teammate. However, he recovers quickly before confidently challenging their opponents.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: Despite his smaller figure compared to other boys, Hinata is quite active being in his former volleyball team back in junior high. When he first entered U.A. High School, he didn't know much about how to use his Quirk essentially and focused only on raw power alone. However, with the help of his new classmates and new understanding of is own abilities, he soon learned the fundamentals and new moves. Despite his inexperience, Hinata constantly tries to figure out what he can do to help out during a battle. He is not afraid of experimenting with new things and can easily improvise when things don't go according to plan. He is an incredibly fast learner who can improve his skills merely by watching others to copy their movements.

Since the Provisional Hero License Exam, Hinata’s overall skills have improved greatly. His coordination and mobility have increased with his mastery of flying receives, allowing him to make some near-impossible saves. Also, Hinata can now fight in mid-air battle using his newly found abilities. Hinata's balance and detexerity is so great that he can now spike with his left hand even while turning in mid air.

### Quirk

**Resonate**: Hinata's Quirk, Resonate, allows motions of vibrations to be produced out of the many speaker-like holes on the side of his arms as well as his hand and legs. In order to creation the vibrations that comes out of limbs to come out Hinata uses the motions of his heartbeat to make sound but this does come at a cost since Hinata;s body soon becomes numb and even paralyzed if he overuses his Quirk, which lasts up to 10 minutes depending on how far he pushes his Quirk's limitations.

After the Provisional Hero License Exam, Hinata learned to take advantage of his Quirk using it not only produce more direct and accurate sonic waves but to use it in cases of mobility and even defense, creating barriers made of sound to deflect any certain physical attacks and even enemies. Hinata eventually got the hang to producing more than just wave sounds but to mimic certain sounds like sirens or even one at a low frequency which can't be heard by the human ears.

## Equipment

**Hero Outfit**: Hinata wears a high-density polymer outfit composed of mostly sound proof materials that help condense the vibrations that aree condensed out of his body

* **Directional Speaker Braces**: Hinata has a device around his arms and legs meant to amplify his sound, helping him aim his sonic attacks but to also increase their depth of sound leaving a heavy impact.