Ochako Uraraka

**Ochako Uraraka**, also known as the **Comet Hero: Uravity**, is a character from **My Hero Academia.** She is a pro hero in training at the prestigious U.A. High School, where she is a member of Class 1-A.

## Appearance

Ochako is a young lady on the shorter side, with a chubby build. She has a notably round face, often with brightly flushed cheeks due to the increased blood flow caused by her Quirk, and a few freckles on the bridge of her nose. Her eyes are a soft purple colour and her hair is a reddish-brown, reaching around her shoulders. Her hair is very fluffy, with two fluffy locks of hair reaching down in front of her ears. She has soft, pink pads on each of her fingers that allow her to make things weightless with her Quirk.

## History

Ochako was born into a poor family who struggled to make ends meet. Her parents married right out of high school and inherited her paternal grandfather's construction company, which had not seen much work in the years leading up to her birth due to the advent of specialised Quirks that made construction more efficient. She and her family struggled with food instability which caused her parents to often be stressed and fight with each other, which affected Ochako growing up. Due to her parents often being stressed, she developed a need to be the 'strong' one to make her parents feel better, so even when she was upset, she hardly let it show, so her parents would at least be at peace knowing she was a 'good child'.

Despite being a daddy's girl, she was close to both of her parents, and once her Quirk manifested, she offered repeatedly to work for them in order to reduce labour costs, and so they could sell their heavy lifting equipment. Her parents refused her, however, telling her that all that mattered to them was her following her dreams. Her desire to become a hero began when she witnessed a hero save someone, and rather than being focused on the action itself, she saw the smiles of all those around her. She decided that she would become a hero from that day, and that she would do it to see her parents smile again when she made them a comfortable living.

In middle school, Ochako was fairly popular. She had a lot of acquaintances due to her kind personality and the fact that she was one of the only girls to stand up to boys and bullies, getting into fights often. She had few actual friends, though she preferred it that way. She often found herself playing cheerleader or therapist to others, fueled by the fact that she could make her friends smile, but rarely found anyone that would listen to her own struggles, so she began to internalise them and act like everything was fine, even when it was far from the case. Her own feelings of mediocrity and often being underestimated for her appearance and gender led her to double her efforts to do well in school, even foregoing sleep, fueled by a need to prove those who underestimated her wrong.

While undergoing the U.A. Entrance Exam, she was pinned under rubble and trapped in the path of a giant zero-point robot, being saved by Izuku after he used One For All for the first time to punch the robot and subsequently destroy it. As he was falling out of the sky, Ochako managed to hit him with her Quirk, saving his life in return. She passed the Entrance Exam with the third-highest score of applicants overall. After leaving middle school and getting accepted into U.A., she lost most of her friends, due to their own jealousy at her success.

## Mental Illnesses & Disabilities

Ochako has an incessant need to prove herself that manifests as somewhat of an inferiority complex, often assuming that others will see her as lesser based on her gender and appearance. She is easily fired up, and works doubly hard in order to prove wrong those who underestimate her. She is constantly pushing herself to do better, always finding a way to nitpick the things she does and often refusing compliments. Despite this, she makes every attempt to appear well-adjusted, as she is greatly concerned about people worrying about her. She would much rather come off as a strong, independent young lady than admit she needs help, as much as she advises others against it. She greatly dislikes people worrying about her and thinking she's anything less than strong, hiding her tears and burying her emotions deep down rather than talk about them.

Her frugality is sometimes taken to unhealthy extremes, to the point where she'll sleep for many hours of the day, skip meals, and overheat on purpose in the summer to avoid wasting electricity on a fan. She hardly allows herself small luxuries, used to living with the bare minimum, and tends to push away any gifts that others try to give her, especially if they're pricey.

## Abilities & Weaknesses

Ochako's Quirk, **Zero Gravity**, is an Emitter-type Quirk that allows her to make objects weightless by touching them with all five fingers. She has soft pads on her fingertips that allow her to activate her Quirk; it doesn't work any other way, so if she is unable to use her hands, she is unable to use her Quirk. She is able to cancel out an object's gravitational pull immediately upon touching it, and can return it by pressing her fingertips on both hands together and saying the word 'release', sending the objects crashing to the ground. Her current weight limit is about three tons, and she is unable to use her Quirk on anything above that limit. She can use her Quirk on people, animals, and objects, as long as they're solid, and she can use it on multiple things at once, providing their combined weight doesn't go above her weight limit. Since she can't turn her Quirk off, she has to be careful with her hands in order not to accidentally activate it.

Due to the nature of her Quirk, her battle style is a close combat one, though she's also able to use items with her Quirk as projectiles from a distance. Her main form of fighting is martial arts, though she's still somewhat of an amateur; her main style of fighting is to make contact with her opponent to activate her Quirk, allowing her to perform moves, particularly throws, on those much larger or heavier than she is. She experiences intense nausea if she overuses her Quirk for prolonged periods of time or uses it on herself; to negate this in part, her hero costume has multiple small support items that apply pressure to anti-nausea pressure points, though this can only do so much. She also has a support item, her **Uraraka Wrists**, which contain small grappling hooks that she can use to maneuver herself mid-air or grab onto objects. Her boots, known as her **Uraraka Legs**, also cushion her fall from certain heights.

## Headcanons

* She likes apple juice a lot, and carries around a thermos of it covered in stickers; she has a collection of them, sometimes using them as fashion accessories or on her schoolwork.
* She’s an amateur astronomer, and has an obsession with space and the night sky, so much that she can infodump about it without a second thought.
* She likes Kirby and collects merch of him. Despite her appearance, she’s also a big fan of seinen manga and anime.
* Her favourite hero, Thirteen, was also her nonbinary awakening.