Akira Midoriya

**Akira Midoriya** (緑(みどり)谷(や) 明(あきら), *Midoriya Akira*?), also known as **Astra** (アストラ , *Asutora*?), is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero. She is also the daughter of Pro Heroes Deku and Uravity, and one of the main protagonists of *My Hero Academia: Next Generation*.

Akira also makes a cameo appearance in the end of *My Hero Academia: Eriwind Rising*, hinting at her appearance in the next My Hero Academia entry series.

## Appearance

Akira is a young woman of short height, her body slender yet curvy. She has a plain appearance, her skin rather fair, and her face is framed with small freckle markings under her large round eyes, which irises are auburn in color. She has green hair in the same shade as her father's, although in the same bob-style as her mother's, although while her shoulder-length bangs are prominent, the rest of her hair is tied into a bun, the style she would keep for the years to come. Akira has been described to be quite innocent and pretty by a majority of her classmates, including Yasuro Kamegu, Sayori Bakugo, and Kasuke Yamiyo.

Just like her mother's, Akira has finger pads on her top inner segments, resembling a dog or cat's paws. This would be used the same way Ochaco activates and deactivates her Quirk.

Akira wears the usual U.A. female uniform, although while her classmates wear black knee-high socks, Akira's socks are much more longer and a green tinted black color.

Akira's hero costume consists of a black (tinted green) full-body suit with mint green design in the middle down to the inner sides of her legs, six black dots with mint lining in the middle, and a line running from her neck to between her legs. On her neck, Akira has a two piece thick choker that is green in color.

On her arms, Akira has green tinted black sleeves that reach from her wrists to her chest, with slim mint green gauntlets and rounded ones that have two handles on each of them, wide mint green knee-high boots with two more handles on each of them. She also has a mint tinted helmet, some parts of it green as well. The costume bears a resemblance to her mother's hero costume, although the color scheme is similar to her father's hero costume.

## Personality

Akira is shown to be cheerful, bubbly, and mostly an airhead. She gets excited almost easily when doing things she likes, which includes hero work and enjoying mochi. She comes off as blunt as well, not afraid of stating the obvious to others, showing her honesty towards her close ones. Mostly, everyone sees her as innocent and approachable.

As an extrovert, Akira likes to meet new people and can be a positive influence in people who prefer to keep to themselves, according to Yasuro. She also has a habit of talking too much to the point she doesn't stop to take a breath, a trait somewhat similar to her father's mumbling habit. Akira has no problem making friends in her class, even befriending their rival class, especially some of Class 1-B's most aggressive students, like Unari Rinoka, Miwaku Shokubutsu, and even the equally eccentric Kumare Inariza.

Akira has been described multiple times to be "a ray of sunshine" by those who know her, always looking for positivity in life in even the worst of situations. Although unnecessary, she feels sympathy and compassion to villains, as she believes that there's always a reason behind their actions, blaming it on society, due to it listing Quirks and whether it's "heroic" and "villainous". Despite this, she has hope for society to change, and she feels as if she and her classmates are that hope for their society. This influence was from Saya herself, who also had similar views of society.

As a hero-in-training, Akira is shown to be determined and focused in her chosen career path, a side of her personality that comes in during competitive situations. She comes off as strategic as well, but doesn't act reckless. Becoming a heroine is something Akira can't give up for, and she does her very best to become the hero she wants to be. This side was developed due to her dislike of being treated like a child, stating that this would catch people off guard and leading to their downfall.

However, despite her usual demeanor, Akira is actually scared of losing people she loves, and despite her usual friendly attitude towards people, she isn't sure if she deserves having friends, as she blames herself for her older brother's death. She also hates the fact she's being treated like a high-class person due to being the "No. 1 Hero's daughter", something her father was aware of.

Akira is also a hopeless romantic like some of her female classmates, but despite this she isn't aware of the feelings her classmate Yasuro has for her, and everyone described her as "dense" and "oblivious" because of it. She states that hero work comes first instead of relationships in the future, showing that she isn't interested in making a family.

Due to her kind nature, she has no liking towards using slurs and insulting others, but has been shown to sworn at least a few times in the series, although out of surprise. Akira is usually shown scolding her classmates when they swear, especially at Sayori.

### Quirk:

**Gravity Control**: This Quirk is an advanced version of Ochaco's Zero Gravity, not only allowing Akira to nullify the effects of gravity on solid targets (living or nonliving), but also allowing her to increase the gravity on that object, making them heavy and nearly impossible to move. She does this by using the pads of her fingers inherited from her mother.

Her Quirk is usually good for restraining opponents and taking advantage at disasters, picking up the rubble with her Quirk, but at the same time, her Quirk is quite dangerous due to one of her other aspects, as she could easily use this aspect to kill someone. Akira is quite aware of this and tries not to use this to hurt someone.

As of now, Akira's Quirk has a main drawback. Similar to Ochaco's Quirk drawbacks, Akira cannot lift herself or something that is 3 tons, giving her severe nausea if she does so.

### Super Moves:

* **Gravity Sling**:
* **Meteor Shower**:

### Stats:

Akira's stats, according to the creator.

Akira's stats, according to the Ultra Analysis Book

## Trivia

* Akira's prototypes were much more different. Akira was originally the daughter of Izuku and Melissa Shield, and she had fluffy yellow-green hair instead of her usual bob-style. She was also more grumpy and arrogant, and her Quirk was similar to her grandmother's. This concept was changed, since the creator wanted a more "sunny" persona in Akira and there was many backlash of pairings such as the one between Izuku and Melissa.
* According to Akira's profile:
	+ Her favorite thing is pandas, and owns a panda plush she names "Mocha", which was said to be as big as her palm.
	+ Her favorite foods is mochi ice cream and mint chocolate.
	+ She was named due to her "bright personality".
* She has a dislike for bubble tea due to how much calories it has.
* The kanji in Akira's name means "bright" (明, ***"bright"***?), which can also have other meanings, such as "purely", "brightness", "cheerful", "sunny", and many more, all befitting of her personality.. Akira's surname contains the kanji for "green" (緑, *midori*?) and "valley" (谷, *ya*?).
* Akira's personality shares the same few traits as Sunny, Kinkajou, and possibly Fatespeaker from the *Wings of Fire* franchise.
* Due to the closeness between the Midoriya and Bakugo families, Akira refers to Katsuki Bakugo as "Uncle Kacchan" and Saya Bakugo as "Auntie". Akira is also more of a younger sister figure to Sayori and her younger siblings.

## Quotes

* (To Yasuro Kamegu) *"To become a hero, I have to break free of the shackles of my past! After what happened to Hisato, I can never give up on becoming the person he would look up to, just like I looked up to him!"*