The Beast of Ikebukuro (Daisuke) [Villain]

THE BASICS

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Without his quirk activated, Daisuke is difficult to distinguish from a regular dog. With it activated, he stinks of burning flesh. Parts of him fully burn away, while others remain. He's more like a possessed corpse than a living creature in this form.

The only main stay is a busted, previously quirk suppressing collar.

PERSONALITY

Daisuke sincerely believes sentience is a curse. To be aware is to be damned; the cruelty, the exploitation, the intentionality of every action becomes painfully real... And, he resents humanity for pushing this horrible burden upon himself and his siblings. The duality of canine mindsets and instincts clash with a nearly human level of self awareness and sophisticated problem solving skills.

How can he enjoy chasing cats when he knows they are afraid? How can he feel content eating when he knows he needs flesh and that things must die for him to live? He resents the innocence ripped from him; dogs should not know they are capable of true harm. Cruelty is impossible without awareness, and humanity has given him the capacity to be cruel.

So, he has decided to target it all towards them. Daisuke has, in a rough animalistic way, decided that civilization is bad. The capacity to do so much, for so much organized misery, disgusts him. The forest is by no means gentle, but it has at least the decency to be indifferent.

His philosophical stances and endless aggression for certain people aside, Daisuke behaves mostly in a manner one would expect from a dog trained for crowd control and other security/special operations work. There's a layer of him that misses being a companion as he was when he was just a puppy, but it's buried very deeply.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

In the bay off Tokyo, there was once a facility dedicated to studying the origins of quirks. One of their projects produced a litter of puppies; among them was a subject who would become affectionately nicknamed Daisuke. The project went well; by isolating a human quirk and introducing it into dogs with rat and chimpanzee genes spliced on for the sake of higher intelligence and thus easier testing, they produced a small squad of dogs with powerful quirks.

If the project hadn't run out of money and the litter bought by a shadowy government agency, all would have been fine. Daisuke didn't like this transition. He was intelligent, nearly on par with the average adult human. So, he planned his escape.

When he did, it was in a burst of carnage. Attack dogs do attack, after all. But, black sites being burned down get written off as arsonists having fun in abandoned buildings. And, he was free to roam.

He now prowls around in Tokyo, passing as a normal stray dog for the most part, though his activities in his aflame form have earned him his new villain name.

THE ARMORY

Collar.
- Before his escape, this collar prevented unauthorized activation of Daisuke's quirk. It was broken shortly before he made his grand exit and he doesn't trust anyone enough to take it off him, so he's stuck with it.

QUIRK & SKILLS

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HELLHOUND

TYPE: Transformation
RANK/LEVEL: D+
SUMMARY:

Daisuke is immune to mundane fire damage, as well as fire damage from fire quirks equal to or less in rank than his own. Additionally, all damage from even stronger fire quirks, unless they are A+ or higher, is significantly reduced. This only applies in his aflame state.

Daisuke has three states of transformation: natural, aflame, and ashen. Natural state is how he was born. Aflame is the skull headed form above; he has access to all of his abilities in it. Ashen is a special recovery state.

Aflame state can be maintained for a maximum of five posts per thread, currently. After that, he immediately enters the ashen state.

The aflame state throws off a high enough heat that those without quirks or equipment suited to resisting heat will get first degree burns if they are within ten feet of him. Touching his fire without a quirk or equipment meant to resist such damage will result in second degree burns and anything flammable will ignite. His bite capacities aren't, size and pressure-wise, beyond anything a regular dog could do; however, he is able to deliver third degree burns in this manner.

The ashen state is simply the transition from the aflame state to the natural state. This recovery allows for soft tissues to be restored through ashes created during his aflame state. This can heal most non-lethal tissue damage. This recovery takes two posts for every post he had aflame state active. (In other words, one post of aflame state active requires two recovering. And, so on, and so forth.) Aflame state cannot be accessed until ashen state completes, thus putting Daisuke back in natural state.

WEAKNESSES/LIMITATIONS:

Being drenched by or submerged in water will automatically end the aflame state and cause Daisuke to enter an ashen state that lasts four times as long as normal, with the counter for posts only starting once he's no longer submerged or directly exposed to water. It has no exceptional effect on his natural state, though.

He can only enter aflame state if there's oxygen. His fire requires it to combust.

RANK/LEVEL: E
SUMMARY:
Unlike most dogs, Daisuke really and truly understands Japanese. He just can't speak it, lacking the anatomy necessary to make human sounds. However, given a keyboard with reasonably sized keys or such, he could communicate quite easily.

RANK/LEVEL: B+
SUMMARY:
Daisuke was intended to become the partner of a human agent. His training included things necessary for combat, stealth, recon, and long distance communication missions. He was meant to be a general partner.

This training has been repurposed for him to stalk and kill anyone he deems to cunning for their own good.

NIC

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