Ikari Bakugo

**Ikari Bakugo** (爆乳いかり *Bakugō Ikari*), also known as **Ground One** (グラウンドワン Guraundowan), is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

## Appearance

Ikari is a young woman with average height, with a fair shape and fair skin tone. She has average, long dark hair with bangs reaching her eyebrows. She has a mole under her lips, Her eyes are purple which can be noticed.
During school, she wears the regular U.A. uniform, just with black tights instead of the usual knee-high socks worn by her other female classmates.

Her hero costume is almost similar to her fathers which is composed of a tight, black, sleeveless tank top, with an orange "X" across the middle, forming a v-neck. There are two dots along the left line of her collar, indicating the support company that designed his costume. Her costume also has a metallic neck brace worn with rectangular ends that have three holes on each side. Her sleeves reach from within his large grenade-like gauntlets to her chest. Her belt, which also carries grenades, holds up her baggy pants with knee guards, below which she sports black, knee-high combat boots with orange soles and eyelets. Her mask is jagged and black, and as it goes around her eyes, a large, orange-rimmed flare shape protrudes from each side.

## Personality

Ikari is a crude, arrogant, short-tempered, and aggressive person which is almost similar to her father Ground Zero. Ikari tends to come off as an anti-hero, if not downright villainous for those not familiar with her.

However, after being accepted into U.A. High School Ikari continues to demonstrate a shared personality like her father, albeit still retaining a lot of her unpleasant traits. While often portrayed negatively, Ikari's fierce character and competitive drive have actually granted her an important role among Class 1-A, as a sort of inspirational mood-maker.

Determined and thirsty for victory, Ikari smiles eerily when in the middle of a battle. She is incredibly focused on achieving her own authentic victories and has learned to never underestimate her opponents. Ikari is not only very athletic and talented at fighting, but also very intelligent and extremely perceptive, capable of strategic planning and quick improvising. Moreover, Ikari's grades are among the highest of his class and she already knew how to read perfectly by age 6, evidence that he treats studying seriously, under the study of her father. Overall, Ikari is considered a natural-born genius with the potential to be one of the best Pro Heroes around.

While a rather volatile hero-in-training, Ikari is smart enough to discern who her enemies and allies are. She is not particularly nice or open with people who are on his side, or anyone else for that matter, but will act less unfriendly and sometimes even kind to those that manage to earn her respect. Because of her attitude and vulgar language, Ikari's U.A. classmates often react negatively to her, although they have come to appreciate her skills and warm up to her personality.

Ikari tends to disregard the notion that Quirks shouldn't be used in public, and will activate her Quirk for a number of reasons, such as to intimidate someone, to punctuate a point, out of frustration, or even if she just feels like showing off. Overall, Ikari doesn't seem to care very much about what others think of her, barely containing himself from violent behavior (although she avoids other typical delinquent practices like underage smoking). She is never afraid of speaking what's on her mind and will notice when people are not being truthful to her. This shows that, despite her anti-social habits, Katsuki actually has an excellent judge of character, making it hard to deceive her.

Due to the constant praise of her abilities and powerful Quirk, Ikari has developed a superiority complex, and because of that, she desires to be the first and best at everything. As pointed out by many people, Ikari loves to win above all else and cannot stand it when she doesn't, leading her to lose her already short temper or, less often, sulk. She is fiercely competitive and will never settle for less than the number one spot. Along with that, she detests being pitied or looked down by others, and will hold contempt towards those that don't take her seriously.

Ikari is immensely prideful and prefers to act alone, as she hates the idea of being protected or having to rely on other people to assist her unless, in the latter's case, she is recognized as the unquestionable leading figure within a team. At the beginning of the series, Ikari's cooperativeness was nothing short of atrocious, often ignoring his partners' ideas and suggestions for his own very direct approaches. Her teamwork skills gradually improve as she doesn't care who she goes against but she hates partnering up with weak people, even if Ikari keeps coming off as condescending through her usual tone.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: Ikari has proven to be one of the semi-strongest students in Class 1-A. Ikari's fighting style is an all-out offense, using her Quirk's propulsive abilities to close the distance between her and his opponents, followed by a bombardment of close-range attacks that often start with a powerful right hook. Ikari is able to use her Explosion's to propel herself through mid-air, blind opponents, and release long-range blasts, among other applications just like her father. Explosion Fire is a versatile Quirk, especially for battle situations, as the recoil caused by the blasts can be exploited by Ikari for mobility purposes.
During the U.S.J. Incident, Ikari was easily able to move around place to place to help others with their battles against the villains. Even gaining kindness and asking others if they we're ok or in need of assistance.

**Enhanced Strength**: Ikari possesses a high-caliber physical strength, confirmed by her ability to use her Grenade Bracers without sustaining effects from recoil.

**Keen Intellect**: Ikari has proven to be extremely intelligent and strategic. While she occasionally doesn't have preemptive strategies like most people, she does analyze his opponent's weaknesses.

### Quirk

**Explosion Fire** (爆発火災 Bakuhatsu kasai): Similar to her father, Ikari's Quirk allows her to create nitroglycerin-like sweat from the palms of her hands and ignite it on command, allowing her to create strong explosions. The more Ikari sweats, the stronger her explosions become. Once the explosion has come into impact of something, fire would start to form and surround her or something.
Ikari has a strong grasp on the applications of her Quirk, Not only can Ikari use the explosions for attacking but she can also use them to propel herself and navigate through the air at high speeds, allowing him to fly at her opponents without giving them time to react, and evade incoming attacks, even while in the air. The shockwave from an explosion can even be used as a shield.

Ikari can keep up her explosions continuously, long enough to break through Kiro's "Heaven-Piercing Ice Wall" for a short while before being overwhelmed.

### Super Moves

* Blast Rush Turbo (ターボ *Bakusoku Tābo*): Ikari throws her hands back and uses explosions to propel herself. She uses this both on the ground to increase her speed and through the air to achieve a pseudo form of flight. The first time he used it to fly was during the Obstacle Race.
* Stun Grenade (*Sutan Gurenēdo*): Ikari starts by creating a sphere of light between her hands that explodes into a large scale flash. Similar to the effect of an actual stun grenade, the flash of light blinds anyone close by.
	+ Zero Distance Stun Grenade (ゼロ *Sutan Gurenēdo*): A variation where Ikari fires off her Stun Grenade at point-blank range of the opponent to immediately stun and immobilize them with little lasting damage. This is an upgraded form.
* Howitzer Impact (*Hauzā Inpakuto*): This move is the strongest move in Ikari's arsenal, which involves Ikari taking to the air, and then using explosions to propel himself in a circular motion to create a tornado. This tornado builds up oxygen to fuel the incoming explosion. After colliding with the target, Ikari releases the powerful aforementioned explosion. Ikari first used Howitzer Impact in the final match of the U.A. Sports Festival Finals. He has also shown that he can release the fueled explosion in midair, without having to make contact with the target. Causing rapid fire to spread.
* AP Shot (*Ei-Pī Shotto*): Ikari stretches out one of her hands and uses her other hand to form a circle on the palm of her outstretched hand. Ikari then fires an explosion through the circle, which creates a concentrated blast beam. By focusing the path of his explosions into a single point instead of around her whole palm, Ikari creates a concentrated blast with reduced area of impact, but with enough power to successfully pierce solid concrete.

## Equipment

Grenadier Bracers (*Kote*): An adjustment added to Ikari's hero costume that stores her nitroglycerin-like sweat. This is passed down from her father.