Ko Yamashita

## The Pied Piper

Ko Yamashita was quite literally the most convincing person in the world. He could make hardened criminals put down their weapons or a mother forsake her child. He had two aspects to his quirk, the immediate aspect where someone will instantly do as he says, but it didn’t last long term. He also had the long term option where he could alter a person’s personality to an extent.

## Personal Description

### Eye Color

177 cm ( 5'10")
Black
Black

## Status

### Affiliation

Pied Piper (former)Kana Kobayashi (former)

Venerate (former)

### Fighting Style

Yamashita does not fight, he believed violence is the ultimate wrong. Despite this belief that violence is so wrong he will in times of extreme distress destroy the mind of his opponents. He usually relied on his quirk to simply ask people to step down.

## **Appearance**

Ko was an extremely well groomed man. His nails were manicured, his hair was styled, his outfits were trendy and beautiful. He was a beautiful man in most ways. He also looked much much younger than he actually is. Despite his looks he was not known to date or have any partners since University.

## **Personality**

Ko was the man with a plan. There was a goal with everything he did. Talking with him, one on one, a person would have found him incredibly charming, but afterwards get the feeling something was wrong with the conversation. The more they talked to him the less they get that feeling. He was generally informal, very smart, and actually quite shallow at times. He treated those with violent quirks as less human than those with nonviolent quirks but normally that treatment was very subtle.

He used to be more reasonable but as time had gone by he had lost his sense and has become extreme. Part of this was because of his past but his personality led him to obsessions. These obsessions have done him well in business but in personal life had lost him much. Namely Kana Kobayashi, his college sweetheart and business partner until she entered politics without him and left him for Junichi Kobayashi.

## **Synopsis**

Ko was the victim of an uncaring hero in his teen years destroying his family house and tearing apart his life during a battle. He was bitter towards those while violent quirks since that point. In university he met Kana Kobayashi who was also bitter towards those with physical quirks, but for a different reason. Together they created the concept of the Pied Pipers. Kana left the team to go into politics and Ko worked to create the Pipers himself, although he did still receive some support from her she stopped making him a priority and instead focused on her own career. Ko wanted to take the power away from violent people and had lost his way becoming more extreme over the years in personal beliefs.

Because of this extremity he had come to he create a plan to start destroying the quirks of those who use violence. He worked with Venerate to create a drug that blocks off the quirk receptor and destroy abilities to use quirks. He was caught by what appeared to be a simple paper mishap that ended with Tora Kobayashi getting the chemical formula. With access to the chemical formula she found the purpose for the drug, and her and her classmates broke in to get more information, turning it into the police and ending with him arrested as he tried to break Tora's mind.

He also believed himself to be Tora's father. This is partially because of his former relations with Kana and partially because of her quirk being somewhat similar to his.

## **Abilities**

Ko was the most convincing man in the world this isn’t pride, it’s truth. Be wary and try your best to recognize the spell he twists with his words because he weaves you into his story. For the world was his book and your perception was his pen.

### **Dominate Person**

Ko could weave a set of words that create a telepathic link with another person as long as the two of them are on the same plane of existence. He could use this telepathic link to issue commands to the creature while he was conscious, which the person did their best to obey. He could specify a simple and general course of action, such as “Attack that creature,” “Run over there,” or “Fetch that object.” If the person completed the order and didn’t receive further direction from him, it defends and preserves itself to the best of its ability.
He could use his abilities to take total and precise control of the target. The creature took only the actions he chose, and didn’t do anything that he wouldn't allow it to do.

### **Modify Memory**

Ko could weave a set of words that reshape another creature's memories. The target is Incapacitated and unaware of its surroundings, though it could still hear his sickly sweet whispering. While Ko spoke, he could affect the target's memory of an event that it experienced within the last 24 hours or further back if he puts more intensity into his words and it lasted no more than 10 minutes. He could permanently eliminate all memory of the event, allow the target to recall the event with perfect clarity and exacting detail, change its memory of the details of the event, or create a memory of some other event.

He must've spoken to the target to describe how its memories are affected, and it must've been able to understand his language for the modified memories to take root. Its mind filled in any gaps in the details of his description. A modified memory didn't necessarily affect how a creature behaves, particularly if the memory contradicts the creature's natural inclinations, Alignment, or beliefs.

### **Stuplify**

With Ko the power of language didn't stop at just manipulating in the traditional sense, if you were within his sight and he's especially angry he can form a set of words so stuplifying that for a time the target became unable to be considered truly human. While they still have their memories and can recognize their friends, they cannot speak and are incapable of any higher levels of thought. You wouldn't anger him in this way you would never truly be the same.

## **Trivia**

* Ko truly believed that Tora is his child... despite the mechanics being questionable
* Ko lost his family when he was young to battle against a villain he was more upset at the uncaring hero who failed to save them
* Ko's favorite color was red despite the volatile meanings often assigned to the color. He saw it as misunderstood
* Ko actually believed he was doing the right thing