Akushū Bakudan

"*Here's a thought. Maybe "the idiot" has a crush on you, too?*"
— revealing his crush on Suterusu Yōsei.

**Akushū Bakudan**, hero name **Skunk**, is a student at U.A. High. Seemingly a punny goofball, he hides a dark past, but finds solace and peace - unless his past is brought up.

## Status

### Family

Sōdaina Senjin (teacher and current guardian)
Kirā Bakudan (father, villain)
Kawattako Bakudan (mother, insane)
Aikawaiko Bakudan (sister, deceased)

## Appearance

Akushū's physical appearance doesn't bother him - unless he's around Suterusu Yōsei. He prefers to wear his hero costume whenever he can. He's very well-built, every muscle toned, trained to perfection by Sōdaina Senjin, his grandmaster and surrogate parent. His skin is not naturally amazing, but he doesn't mind. His hair is a scrubby green due to his Quirk, and if Suterusu Yōsei is in the room, he's always messing it up to look "cool." His eyes are bright golden-green, but when he's angry, the look in his eyes is terrifying. His costume is built to expose enough skin for his Quirk, but in no way enough to be indecent. However, this means that his chest is left entirely bare except for his spaulder. His costume consists of extendable-crampon running shoes, a spaulder and utility belt for carrying shurikens and other weapons, a mask that can be pulled up to hide his face, and green camouflage pants. His costume is built to work with his Quirk, as the stench he produces is released through his skin. He always looks like he's laughing at something or someone.

## Personality

Akushū usually comes across as a goofball, but if his family is brought up, he usually begins crying. Sharing a kinship with Aizawa through his mentor, Sōdaina Senjin, Akushū knows what it means to go through hard training. After the death of Aikawaiko, his beloved sister, Akushū has never been the same, though Aizawa and Senjin have tried to help him. However, his first true solace comes in the form (and arms) of Suterusu Yōsei.

On that note, he can be a passionate romantic. He loves Suterusu more than the sun in the sky, and though he'll always listen to her, he isn't shy about sneaking a kiss when the teachers aren't looking. He falls steadily into the archetype of "boys who tease girls they have crushes on," which drove Suterusu crazy for a while.

Akushū is very businesslike about his Quirk. He categorizes it and trains it daily, often with the help of a (gas-masked) Aizawa. Out of all the kids at U.A, even into his second year, he is extremely good with his Quirk. He is embarrassed, however, by the fact that it fires off whenever he's scared.

## Abilities

**Overal Abilities**: Akushū's body is perfectly toned by Aizawa and Sōdaina Senjin's training alike. He can do twenty pull-ups in a minute and thirty good push-ups in the same amount of time. However, his true strength is in his stamina - he can run for hours with basic effort - and his stealth. During the final test, he manages to lead an entire group of students through the ventilation system of a building without getting found by the teachers.

**Emotion-Switching**: Akushū is prone to changing emotions on a dime, but he can also force this - going from goofy to romantic to terrifying in a heartbeat. He often uses this to mess with kids around him, whether he's convincing Suterusu to kiss him - or staring the most dangerous 3rd-year in the school down and making him do dog tricks. Coupled with the threat of his Quirk, and he's a dangerous figure.

### Quirk

Akushū's Quirk is **Stench**, and he really knows how to use it. He simply can release a choking smell from his body, though he learns later how to manipulate it and even produce different, recognizable smells. (more on that later.) He has various Ultimate Moves and trains his Quirk daily. However, it still tends to fire off when he gets spooked.

His Quirk is released from his sweat glands, which can produce two (later more) chemicals. In the beginning, they simply produced a horrible-smelling liquid and a diffusion chemical that would cause it to mist once it left his skin, in tandem with normal sweat-gland functions. As he trained, he discovered that he could produce other chemicals, including thiols that mimicked skunk spray and rotten eggs, as well as other chemicals. However, food-related smells mean that he has to eat it first, so he eats a lot of Brussels sprouts, eggs, and fish. (the last two of which he actually enjoys eating.) He also discovered how to produce a kind that sticks to opponents' clothes for days, though this also makes him smell pretty terrible for a few hours.

He has figured out multiple other ways to use his Quirk, such as smelling salts or a simple threat. (often the threat of something is worse than the actual thing, although he would beg to differ on some of his stronger attacks.) He also knows how to tease people with it. (more on that in the Trivia section.)

**Weaknesses**: His Quirk is easily countered by windy conditions. Using the effect that will linger on an opponent causes him to be affected by his own Quirk. Has to eat Brussels sprouts to use one version. His Quirk often makes him an outcast. His Quirk sets off when he's surprised, much to the chagrin of everyone around him. His Quirk can't actually damage opponents, except for eyes-watering and making them want to choke.

**Ultimate Moves**:

* **Scale**: Though this is not truly an Ultimate Move, Akushū came up with a scale to rank how bad his Quirk can get, and he often refers to it by the numbers:
	+ 1. **Brussels Sprout**. Not one he uses often, as he hates the smell himself, this produces a small cloud that smells like rotten Brussels sprouts. His weakest move, as he doesn't usually eat Brussels sprouts and simply saves it for later.
	+ 2. **Dead Fish.** Gross, but not too powerful, he doesn't like this either.
	+ 3. **Rotten Egg Lite.** Bad-smelling but not choking. A weaker version of number 5.
	+ 4. **Rotten Sauerkraut.** The first one he uses more often, it is solely because he really likes sauerkraut, but many opponents don't.
	+ 5. **Rotten Egg.** This smells pretty awful and is the middle of his spectrum. Contrary to popular belief at U.A, he does not actually have to eat rotten eggs. He simply eats eggs.
	+ 6. **Default.** Sometimes referred to as *Signature Stench,* this is Akushū's original chemical and smell, and the one his body defaults to if he's jump-scared or not thinking about it. A smell you can't put your finger on, but still awful.
	+ 7. **Dog Poo.** Not the real smell, but a close imitation, as he *really* doesn't want to eat dog poop. Still pretty horrible, imitation or no.
	+ 8. **Skunk.** His second-favorite, this is the only other real chemical that he can produce naturally. Smells pretty darn accurate to skunk spray, the only difference is that sometimes it can wash off. Sometimes. The last one he will ever use outside of combat, and then only rarely.
	+ 9. **Strong Default.** A worse version of his default stench. (#6.) He prefers to use this one only in combat, or on a bully if worst comes to worst.
	+ 10. **#10.** An unidentifiable awful smell, this is his most powerful, sometimes referred to as *Holy Crap.* He discovered it while working with Aizawa, and the sensei could smell it even through the gas mask he wore. Only ever used in serious combat, this attack often makes opponents faint, choke, or throw up. He prefers to store large amounts of it, then releases it all at once.
* **Super-Close Spray**: Akushū grips his target's nose and sprays directly from the palm of his hand.
* **Sticky Stench**: Akushū releases a type of his stench that will cling to opponents clothing for up to 9 days, depending on how hard they were hit, and the clothes always smell a little bit like whatever he hit them with.

## Stats

Akushū's stats, according to the creator.

## Family

### Father

Kirā Bakudan was a cold, emotionally distant man, a surgeon before he turned evil. His Quirk was a choking, toxic gas, though after his first villain incident, four heroes wrestled All for One in there and got his Quirk removed and placed in a security vault. Now Quirkless, Kirā went insane. It started slowly, but reached the point where he killed a policeman he was operating on. After running from the cops, he broke back into the Bakudan family house to swipe some of his belongings before leaving Japan. Young Aikawaiko, his daughter, asked him what he was doing, completely innocent. Akushū, then nine years old, had gotten there just in time to see him murder her. Akushū had leapt on him and attacked with everything he had, leaving a bag of useless, smelly money - and a scent trail that led patrol dogs right on Kirā's tail. After Aikawaiko's death and Kirā's capture into Tartarus, Kawattako, his wife, went insane, leaving Akushū alone, to be raised by his grandmaster, Sōdaina Senjin.

Six years later, Kirā broke free from Tartarus. For the first time, Akushū used his #10 in battle, completely incapacitating his father. While Akushū had the chance to kill the man and avenge his sister, he knew that that would be the last thing Aikawaiko would want, and he let the police lock his father in Tartarus where he belonged.

### Mother

Kawattako Bakudan had an entirely sad life. She had a Quirk similar to Akushū's, but weaker - and she couldn't turn it off. Her entire life, everyone around her was repulsed by her - until Kirā Bakudan. He wooed her, married her - and left her behind as he lived his life. She had to raise Akushū and Aikawaiko on her own, and she did a decent job. When Kirā betrayed them and Aikawaiko died, she went insane and was put in a mental hospital. Worrying about her, Akushū finally visited when his father was locked away for good, and began a long journey to bring her back.

### Sister

Aikawaiko Bakudan was the most adorable girl you'd ever meet. Five years old at the time of her death, she was a cute little thing who loved her brother, four and a half years older than her, more than anything else. She had a memory disability, which tragically caused her death - she couldn't remember that her father was evil. Due to this, she also could never remember Akushū's name, referring to him as "Aikyuuu!" She had had a Quirk where she could release laughing gas - not nitrous oxide, but a form of air that made you feel happy. After her death, Akushū swore revenge on his father, but after he was nearly killed by the same man, she came to him in a dream, appearing as a ten-year-old - the age she would have been, nearly eleven. She told him that she did not want their father dead and that she would always be there in his dreams. Akushū found peace in this, and she was not lying.

### Guardian

Sōdaina Senjin, 54, became Akushū's legal guardian after his family broke. Senjin, a grandmaster but by no means a parent, didn't know what to do. He originally trained Akushū in martial arts to keep his mind off his family, but it soon evolved into a true bond. After Senjin introduced Akushū to Aizawa, they all worked together, and Akushū became a true warrior.

### Girlfriend

Suterusu Yōsei is Akushū's girlfriend. After meeting her, he began to crush on her, and, not knowing what else to do, teased the crap out of her. During an accident where she called him by his first name, he realized that she reciprocated his feelings, and found her on the roof later, invisible, asking the stars to tell her why she had a crush on him despite his teasing, and why he kept following her around. He replied with, "Maybe 'the guy' has a crush on you, too," and came to sit next to her. As the scene went on, he explained his family, and Suterusu felt extremely sorry for him. They met night after night on the roof, until, as Suterusu described it, "Then one night we were kissing." He soon learned about her chronic flatulence issue, but he didn't (always) care. (more about that in the Trivia section.)

## Trivia

* Akushū passed the entrance exam by climbing inside of the robots and throwing shurikens everywhere, as well as getting rescue points for saving kids from a gang of Shiketsu bullies who snuck into the area.
* Suterusu has a chronic flatulence issue. Akushū became sick of her breaking wind during moments such as a kiss, and soon imposed an ultimatum: for every three times she cut the cheese during a romantic moment, he would set off his Quirk on the third time. She laughed at it - until the third time she farted during a kiss. She couldn't smell for two minutes.
	+ Soon after, she added that every time his Quirk went off when she spooked him, she got a pass on three strikes.
* He loves anything cabbage, and hates anything Brussels sprout.
* He can play Dungeons & Dragons, though he's bad at it, never able to make it past 1st level.

## Quotes

"*Uh...let's talk about this* later." - sparing Suterusu embarrassment after she called him by his first name in the middle of an argument, revealing her crush on him.

"*Y'know, talking to yourself kinda defeats the purpose of being invisible.*" - to Suterusu, on the roof.

Suterusu: (cluelessly asks him if she can meet his sister)

Akushū: "*Sure.*" (deep breath) "*Kanashimi Cemetery. Twentieth row from the entrance. Seven tombstones from the right. Small square ground tombstone, labeled Aikawaiko Bakudan. Ornamented with wilting roses and a small, clunky carving...of an angel...*" (sobs) "***Carved by none other than Akushū Bakudan.***" (bursts into tears)

"*How do I feel about us...hmm, let me think.*" (suddenly kisses Suterusu.)

"*How about...**this.***" (hits his father with #10.)