Yuri Akanawa

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> "Why do you want to be my friend ? Are you blind or what ? Don't you see that whenever something bad happens to you the only thing I can do is watch helplessly ? What kind of friend does that ?"
>
> **- Yuri Akanawa** to Miyuki Yukimura in "Moving Into Dorms"

## Personal Description

### Age

15 (First apperance)
16 (Current)

## Status

### Family

Daisuke Akanawa (Father)
Airi Akanawa (Mother)
Unnamed grandmother

### Fighting Style

Long ranged + support combat
Melee combat

## Portrayal

### English Voice

N/A

**Yuri Akanawa** (赤縄 百合 *Akanawa Yuri*), also known as **Alvilda** (アルビルダ *Arubiruda*), is a student in Class 1-B at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero. She's the deuteragonist of my fanfiction.

## Apparence

Standing at an above average 5'3", Yuri has a well-built and athletic body. She has a pretty face, always wearing a serious and cold expression. She has waist-high burgundy hair with two medium strands hanging on both side of her face that reaches her breasts. She's got beautiful, rectangular fossil eyes paired with small thick eyebrows. Her quirk endowed her fair-skinned body with 9 old rose-ish marks on her arms, legs and belly.

During school hours, unlike the other students, Yuri sometimes wears a waistcoat over her school uniform, in place of the usual U.A. blazer.

Yuri's hero costume consists of an off-white top with puffed sleeves and small ruffles. Over it there's a red and black corset, fastened thanks to a small thin rope. The corset is connected at her neck to a sort of choker with ruffles, with a chain around. Both reach above her belly mark in order to avoid bothering her quirk use. To match the corset, Yuri added a mini-short of same colors, slightly shredded at the end. A long piece of fabric, slightly crinkled and brown colored tied right above her left hip, covers partially her short with a matching double pin buckle utility belt worn diagonally. The belt has small hanging pouches held with thin chains. She, as well, carries her gun and knife. Her gloves and boots are designed the same, dark yellow and brown in color with triangle-shaped cuffs and yellow circles in the triangles' center. On her head, Yuri has a small pirate hat with 3 peaks. A skull and crossbones is present in the middle of the first peak and a chain is hanging through every of them. There's also a red "A" with a black outline on the first peak.

The winter version of her costume is not different, she only added an eyepatch that allows Yuri to see far away. And to protect her body from cold while being able to use her quirk, she wears a thin black bodysuit with holes on her marks.

Since the Forest Training Camp Arc, Yuri possesses a scar following an attack from Yeti, on the right side of her left calf. During the Jaku Hospital Raid, both shoulders got stabbed by a High-End Nomu. Since then, Yuri's shoulders are scarred.

## Personality

Yuri is a person who rarely shows her emotions, hating do to so, and prefers to stay apart from those around her which gives her a nasty air. Formerly people noticed a lot of coldness and wariness inside her eyes, therefore were too afraid to talk with her. Moreover, living in a family with a precarious situation, Yuri lacked hygiene which put people off, except Miyuki and Mezo. As a result, Yuri became much more withdrawn and doesn't trust that easily when people try to befriend her. Indeed, when Yuri meets new people, her defense mechanism will automatically activate itself, resulting in a harsh and wary attitude. She grew up mistrustful of people around her due to the rejection she suffered because, for her, it sounds too weird to be true. But Yuri is generally well behaved, so when someone engages her in conversation, she just responds shyly but will try to quickly end up the conversation as it makes her uncomfortable. However, she will get slightly aggressive if the person becomes way too annoying for her.

Albeit possessing an aloof and wary nature, Yuri still have friends who love her in spite of that. And those friends are some of the few persons she trusted when they approached her, which is somewhat surprising coming from her. Yuri considers them good persons, that's why her attitude changes as she everyday tries her best to be an excellent friend and not lose any of them. She is absolutely caring and friendly with her peers, willing to protect, help, take care of them all no matter what. But being always leery made her protective, even overprotective of her peers, often preventing them from doing things that seems dangerous for her. She may be somewhat stifling, but all she wants is her friends' wellbeing. Very obliging, she never hesitate to help a peer who experiences difficulties, whether with school work, trainings or random life problems. Furthermore, she will encourage and value them to pursue their efforts in order to boost their self-confidence. Besides, she enjoys laughing and making jokes with her friends, but because she tends to lean towards the more sarcastic and teasing attitude, sometimes her humor can be perceived as pessimistic or mean.

She is truly thoughtful of others, especially with her family. Since her father's departure, Yuri noticed that her mother became hypersensitive due to the mental breakdown she suffered because of their family issues. Because of that, she always goes back home right after the end of classes, something that concerns a lot her friends who were not aware of her family situation at first. Yuri started to be very autonomous and responsible at a very young age, she is the one who does the chores at home instead of Airi. It doesn't bother her at all, she will even scold her mother for doing something as she claims that she deserves lot of rest. Nevertheless, after moving in at the Heights Alliance, Yuri is now unable to help her mother. Feeling nevoursness concerning her mom's wellbeing, she decided to call her grandma to watch over her mom while she's away, having now video calls with both regularly. Being used to do housework at home, she has now the habit of cleaning regularly her new household, having developed a distaste for dirtiness. She already has cleaned the whole building by herself.

Yuri is someone who shouldn't lose her temper, hiding a very crude and ill-mannered behavior that leaves people terrified. She doesn't hold her tongue and becomes quite outspoken, leading to hurt the addressee. Sometimes she acts this way towards her friends and accidentally offend them, but she will normally apologizes as her mates truly mean a lot to her. Even so, there's times where Yuri demonstrates resentment towards those close to her like her father or Miyuki. After all, her maturity allows her to brush aside all those grudges to finally forgive them. While the bitterness she feels regarding her father is understandable, Miyuki did nothing wrong though. Yuri grew apart from her sole friend for a completely different reason. What made her ignore Miyuki overnight was the extreme jealousy she felt during their childhood, when she saw her peer with her father laughing together while coming back home after school. Yuri couldn't help feeling envious and started to think that Miyuki was just boasting about her "perfect" life. Nonetheless, she was still feeling affection and concern for her but never openly admitted it, as shown when she asked Mezo about their friend's health when she was hospitalized instead of visiting her in person. When she and Miyuki met for the first time after the latter's hospitalization, Yuri was discomfited to see her peer and just left the classroom without saying a word. It's in the aftermath of the Hideout Raid Arc that Yuri eventually apologizes for her behavior, with tears in her eyes. She stated that she was unable to look Miyuki in the eye, feeling so ashamed of herself, of her acts.

Due to her hateful appearance, Yuri never had a good reputation, always being feared of or hated. People would also often do unkind criticism, a thing that doesn't affect Yuri at all. She's extremely thick skinned and couldn't care less about other people's opinions of herself. She claims that she doesn't need others to prove herself as she already knows what she's worth, but also has nothing to prove. Yuri is also referred to as "masculine" by others because of her lack of feminity (both physically and mentally). She hates dressing up in a "feminine" way like wearing dresses or high heels, but also hates what other girls would generally love talking about like romance. On one hand, every topic related to romance really embarrasses her, making her blush effortlessely, particularly when she feels those emotions as she doesn't know how to deal with them. On the other hand, when it comes to others, she gets quite disgusted.

In battle, Yuri turns out to be a very sadistic, aggressive and provocative fighter, always grinning and yelling vehemently with her tongue out when she strikes a blow against her opponents. She is always ready to beat some villains; she will clash with them intensively, stating that they deserve it. Yuri never restrains herself and always gives her all to achieve her goals, displaying great courage in every battle she engages. Having been distant her whole childhood, she spent her time watching people around her, becoming an awesome observant. This skill helps her gaining the upper hand, no matter how good or bad the circumstances are. She is also a quick-thinker, possessing great shrewdness that permits her to devise effective plans even in urgent situations. During trainings Yuri remains aloof and works alone in order to stay focused, but will generously cooperate with her peers or give them some advices if necessary. She's a hardworker, resolved on becoming one of the greatest hero and possesses a strong sense of justice. The difficulties her family experienced before is what drives her to succeed, her main purpose being to create a world without injustice and where everyone in this society lives equally.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: Yuri, known for her violence, is a highly skillful and capable combatant and is one of Class 1-B's strongest students. She has an outstanding mastery over her quirk, knowing how to use and control her fastening items well. Yuri will first use her quirk to immobilize her opponents' limbs and then comes to blows afterwards. There's other ways of using Fastening like making labyrinths and confuse/trap opponents, flogging or suffocating foes. Her quirk can also be used for mobility, binding the items to cylindrical surfaces and then either using them to swing herself through the air or pull herself towards the attachment points.

But Yuri actually gave every item a specific job. Chains and ropes are mostly used offensively in different methods like: attaching, wrapping and pulling targets. Her threads are usually for splitting purposes, though by creating numerous strings and assembling them, she can solidify her threads to make a thin rope. Her most used and favorite item is chains, because they're naturally more resistant than the other fastening items so she doesn't have to adjust their strength. However, it's also the item having the most serious drawback, so she has to be very careful when using them. They can easily break solid matters like: ice, stones, metal, concrete etc. Although her other items may look flimsy, her threads for example, can split with ease thick metal and trunks while her ropes tighten very well without breaking.

Yuri's quirk keeps her at long range in combat but having practiced a lot of different sports, she learned how to fight using various fighting styles, therefore becoming more versatile. Her abilities earned her the attention of various Pro Heroes, especially Mirko's, who decided to take her under her tutelage. The latter said she admires the fact that Yuri, despite not having a mighty quirk, doesn't lose heart and compensates its lack of power with her raw strength and other fighting skills. The Rabbit Hero also added that both share plenty of similarities. Other Pro Heroes like Endeavor and Rock Lock also got astonished by her prowess.

Even a villain like Yeti, a S-ranked villain, was impressed by Yuri's combat skills.

* **Enhanced Strength**: Thanks to Yuri's sportiness and bodybuilding practices, her muscles got hugely developed. She’s strong enough to break hard matter, rip off a High-End's head or lift either herself or targets up in the air and shattering the ground after banging them on it. Her strength always amazes her classmates, being considered as one of the strongest student in Class 1-B.
* **Enhanced Stamina**: She possesses a high level of stamina, capable of running for a long time or do plenty of workouts with ease. When she fights, she generally lasts until she has accomplished her goal, and not always exhausted.
* **Enhanced Durability/High Pain Tolerance**: Even injured, Yuri is able to continue fighting. As seen during the Forest Training Camp Arc, when she received an attack from Yeti. Her calf was bleeding but it didn't prevented her from protecting Miyuki, still, she can't overdo it. Also during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, after being severly wounded by the High-Ends, she still had the force to continue the combat.
* **Enhanced Speed**: Yuri also practices track and field to improve her speed without using her quirk to move. She became very fast, capable of outmatching Pony's speed, the fastest student of Class 1-B. During the Forest Training Camp Arc, she was able to run fast enough to escape from Yeti.
* **Enhanced Reflexes**: By practicing boxing, Yuri improved her reflexes. She's able to dodge her opponents punches or attack and retaliate right after.

**Keen Intellect**: Yuri possesses an impressively great ingenuity, capable of coming up with excellent strategies by analyzing the situation quickly during battles and threatening situations. Her plans being almost always faultless, many Pro Heroes were impressed by Alvilda's capacities. Even some villains admitted that Yuri's wits are quite remarkable. In addition to that, as said above, Yuri developed a talent in reading people, becoming very observant during fights. She's able to turn the situation at her advantage by scrutinizing the opponent's behavior rapidly. Academically speaking, Yuri is the top student of her class, always had the best grades since her childhood.

**Indomitable Will**: Yuri's unbroken spirit is one of her most admirable trait. She manages to stay focused even when her adversary tries to disturb her or when the plot thickens. However, sometimes emotions overwhelms her and, as a result, goes berserk. This happens particularly when she fails at achieving an important task during a battle, like protecting someone.

**Sports Talent**: Yuri started practicing numerous sports at the age of 5 like: bodybuilding, swimming, track and field, boxing, soccer, archery, basketball, baseball, etc. She never encountered problems with the organization of all the different trainings and managed to invest herself. She's a great athlete, having won plenty of championships. She, however, stopped competing after entering U.A. and now does sports in her free time. All the skills she acquiered thanks to her sportiness made her extremely versatile and helped her developing various fighting styles.

**Cooking Talent**: During her childhood, Yuri learned how to cook by herself and she's now able to make different dishes with ease.

**Musical Talent**: Yuri can play electric guitar well.

### Quirk

**Fastening** (留め具 *Tome-gu*, lit. "Fastener"): Yuri’s quirk gave her 9 marks on her body. They’re precisely situated on her arms, forearms, shins, thighs and the center of her belly. Through them, she can pull out and retract 3 fastening items: chains, ropes and threads. Her veins can also be extracted. She has to transform different nutrients to obtain her items: iron for chains, vitamins for ropes and lipids for threads. As long as the sources are full, the number of items she can produce is unlimited. Yuri is able to control their elasticity, length, type and thickness. She can use her items to wrap people, swing long distances, and create traps, among other applications. When she uses her quirk, her marks shine and a red glow-like comes out of her marks when pulling out an item.

To use Fastening, Yuri has to eat food rich in iron, vitamins and lipids every day. Lack of those nutrients will prevent her from using her quirk. Furthermore, if her sources are insufficient, her health will deteriorate; each item has its own drawback:

* Threads overuse: the least serious, hunger
* Ropes overuse: the average, dizziness
* Chains overuse: the most serious, anemia

Reaching the third level can provoke her a loss of consciousness. The better the quality of her items, the greater the inconveniences will be. Another drawback she encounters is when she uses her power for too long, her marks will dry out and hurt her. The pain can go stronger and stronger until the affected body part gets paralyzed for five minutes maximum.

Using her veins for more than one minute will cause her blood circulation to stop and may result in a heart attack. Also, she cannot change their elasticity, length, type and thickness.

### Ultimate Moves

* **Rodeo Rope** (ロデオ ロープ *Rodeo Rōpu*): Yuri creates a long rope and transforms it into a lasso to catch targets.
* **Asteroid Bombing** (小惑星爆撃 *Shōwakusei Bakugeki*): High up, Yuri chains big debris, takes a long run-up and spins round and round with her arms. Then, with a sharp blow, she throws them all downward, provoking tremors. She also utilizes this super move alongside Satomi Mochizuki, using the asteroids created with her quirk and standing on a flat-shaped planet.
* **Blackbeard's Savage Onslaught** (黒髭の野蛮な猛攻 *Kurohige no Yaban'na Mōkō*): By wrapping her strong forearms with the most resistant and hard chain, she sends a barrage of mighty smashes to her opponent rendering them unconscious. She got inspired of Miyuki's Icy Punch.
* **Barbarian Style: Deathblow** (蛮人スタイル デスブロー Banjin Sutairu Desuburō): Yuri seizes tightly multiple opponents by the neck with all her fastening items that she coils around her arms. After gathering momentum with a high leap, using all her great strength, she abruptly snaps off the head of her foes downwards, killing them. First used during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc against the High-Ends.
* **Disaster Ball** (災害ボール *Dizasutābōru*): She pulls out a thick and long chain and shapes the end of it like a sphere. Then, she harshly swings it at her target from a long distance.

## Equipment

**Hero Costume**: Yuri is fond of pirates, so her costume is inspired of the latter's outfit. All her clothes were designed enough short to avoid covering her marks.

* **Alvilda's Eyepatch** (アルビルダ アイパッチ *Arubiruda Aipatchi*): This eyepatch allows Yuri to see as far as six kilometers, and then aim her fastening items more precisely to catch up targets. It was made by Mei Hatsume.
* **Alvilda's Hat** (アルビルダ ハット *Arubiruda Hatto*): This pirate hat is for beauty purposes. The "A" on its center stands for **Alvilda**.
* **Alvilda's Belt** (アルビルダ ベルト *Arubiruda Beruto*): Yuri's belt has hanging pouches with inside some iron pills, vitamins vials and snacks in case she reaches her limits. She carries too, a tube of cream plus some painkillers for her marks and bullets for her gun.
* **Alvilda's Weapons** (アルビルダ 武器 *Arubiruda Buki*): Those weapons belong to her father. She added them in her costume as it can be very useful. Her knife is covered to avoid hurting herself.

## Trivia

* Yuri's surname contains the kanji for "scarlet, red" (赤 *aka*) and "rope" (縄 *nawa*). And her name includes the kanji for "lily" (百合 *yuri*), referring the liking for flowers her mother and herself have.
* She and her father love everything related to pirates. Daisuke offered Yuri a lot of weaponry, her favorite ones being those she added in her hero costume.
	+ Her hero name is the name of a lengendary pirate, Alvilda.
* Yuri's the student No.2 in Class 1-B.
* She has two pets:
	+ A dog of Shiba breed, named Naoki. They adopted the dog after her father left the house.
	+ Her second animal is a parrot. His name is Captain, whom she got when she was 5. Her parrot lives with her at the Heights Alliance, through authorization of her homeroom teacher.
* She likes sports and pirates.
* Yuri's favorite colors are red, brown, grey and black.
* She and Itsuka share some similarities:
	+ Both have a well-developed strength.
	+ They're considered as "masculine".

## Quotes

* (To her mother) *"You already did so much for me, it's enough. This time, it's my turn to make you live the life you deserve."*
* (To Miyuki) *"You were still considering me a friend of yours, you acted as if nothing happened... Because of that, I didn't had the guts to look at your face, i chickened out. But.. you know.. I'm truly sorry."*
* *"Chopping off their noggins is the way to get rid of 'em, right Mirko ? Sorry but I ain't gonna be chill with ya, zombies !"*