Taro Shirogane (Frostbite) [Student]

THE BASICS

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

He is a pretty face with not much going on behind the scenes. Taro is a brick wall of muscles. He also has the bluest eyes, and his skin and hair are always perfect despite not much effort on his part. He has a goofy smile on his face most times, but he gets pouty or teary-eyed surprisingly easy. Due to the nature of his quirk, he wears thick winter clothes and uniforms even in the summer to keep those around him safe since his skin is cold to the touch, making him awful to hug which makes him sad.

PERSONALITY

Naive: is the kindest way to describe Taro. He is honest to a fault and as dumb as a sack of hammers. But he is such a kind and silly person that its admirable and hard to be too angry with him for too long. He is far too forgiving and open with others even when it comes to stuff he really should tell. Taro trusts and admires people unconditionally within moments of meeting them. He is more akin to a giant puppy than that of an almost fully grown adult.

Taro despite his naivety and honestly mental stupidity he is physically and emotionally quite intelligent. He is a quick learner of martial arts and physical activities in general. And he appears to understand and feel the emotions of those around him better than most of those around him his age. Due to his understanding of emotions, he is very emotional and sensitive. He is prone to get upset by shifts in moods or others getting upset. He is almost emphatic how well he understands emotions and how they affect him.

Taro despite being so kind and emotional he is not gentle. He can dish out the punches and comments due to his obliviousness, but he cannot handle them himself. But no matter how much pain or emotions he goes through he will keep moving and fighting. Either it's his conviction or his ignorance, but no matter what he is a train that will never stop moving forward.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

All things considering Taro's life was a normal one. He had two parents, three siblings, and a pet rock. Okay. One strange thing about Taro is his intelligence. Or lack thereof. For some reason, Taro has never been the smartest child around, and that includes unconscious children. The only thing strange about Taro's childhood was his quirk which meant he couldn't touch people without hurting them. But despite his lack of intelligence, he was successful. He always struggled with basic concepts and school work, to the point where basic mathematics made him cry in class, but he passed in the end due to hard work and others willing to help him.

Taro's time in middle school was not what he expected. In middle school, everybody was competitive and mean. But Taro tried to adjust, and he failed at it. He couldn't make friends at middle school nor anybody to help him study. So he struggled long and hard throughout middle school some time to the point of tears and frustration. Which got him targeted by bullies and whispers by those that don't directly bully him. But he didn't even notice he was getting bullied by his classmates until after an incident with a creep trying to lure classmates away from the school and they apologize to him for how they treated him after he froze the jerk in place with his quirk. And even then he didn't get why they were apologizing he didn't even notice them whispering around him until they mentioned it. The bullies were even less under his radar, to be honest since he didn't understand the insults they slung at him at the time, so it didn't bother him one bit. And when they asked if he regretted helping them after now knowing the truth of their treatment of him, he responded with "It doesn't matter you guys needed help, and I was able to!"

That's when his class decided this kid needs help getting into U.A. as repayment for his help.

So for the rest of his middle school days, Taro was tutored by his classmates to help improve his grades to be good enough to stay in U.A. after he gets in without them. Taro struggled with his school work, but with his classmate's help he was able to pass middle school with above-average grades, and after getting a good mark on his entry exam for U.A., he got accepted. Where he would have his struggles and successes like any students but his classwork struggles were especially tough on him. To the point, he started taking MMA classes to help deal with the stress of classes and homework. By the time his second year rolled around he was quite skilled at MMA. And now in his second year, he has to keep up with his classmates or risk failing and falling behind.

THE ARMORY

Winter jacket and gloves

custom made phone

Gloves so he can touch things

QUIRK & SKILLS

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FROST BITE

TYPE: Transformation
RANK/LEVEL: C-
SUMMARY:

Taro's quirk is that he can lower his body's already naturally low body temperature temporarily. As his body becomes colder, he has a resistance to the cold while in his transformed state and while not transformed he still has a minor resistance to the cool.

His body can get as cold as -18.4 Fahrenheit or -28 Celsius which can freeze normal water within a post and salted water within two posts. While cooled down he is capable of dealing with temperatures twice as colder than his current body heat. His average core body temperature is at around 55 F or 12.7 c. His hands and feet start to get cold that it numbs his nerves inside those limbs. Which allows him to hit harder with his punches and kicks.

He has control of how cold he can get, due to intense training that allows him to control his body's temperature to such a degree. The level of cold he can attain is always in increments of -1 C. So he can go a specific amount of coldness. Upon transforming he sets his temperature at base levels. He is only capable of cooling down his whole body at this point with no specific control.

When in this transformed state, the tips of his hair started to get frosted over.

WEAKNESSES/LIMITATIONS:

Taro cannot handle intense heat. Even while untransformed mild hot day can make him feel sick with heatstroke symptoms. Wearing cold resistant clothing pretty much nullifies his quirk. Lowering his body temperature while making him dangerous to the touch but also makes him feel dangerously hot.

While transformed, he can adjust his body's temperature by increments -1C at a time. Currently, he can lower it by a total -7C per turn without ending his transformation. He can maintain any coldness between natural body heat 13.7 C and 7C indefinitely. He can lower the body's temperature go down to -7 C for four turns, -14 C for three turns, -21 C for two Turns, if at -28 C or lower can only last for a single turn.

Ending his transformation too early can be potentially deadly for him. If he isn't careful the extremely cold temperature his body reaches, could cause his blood to freeze and cause frostbite. His limbs warm up slower than the rest of his body. So without his gloves, it will take a while for his limbs to warm up. Warming up from 13.7 C and 7C takes one turn to warm up, -7 C takes two turns to warm up, -14 C for three turns, and -21 C for four turns, and if lower than -28C and beyond he will pass out from the cold and numbness.

While warming up, he must stay out of combat and stay stationary, so he doesn't damage his nerves in his limbs while his nerves go back to his normal temperature. And so far Taro can only transform up to three times in a thread. Transforming below -28 c takes up all of his uses and cannot be done if he has one left. He cannot move from one tier to another without ending his transformation and starting anew.

Also, Taro can suffer from nerve damage and injuries if he runs on his numb feet for too long or punches too hard with his numb hands.

RANK/LEVEL: C
SUMMARY:
Taro started learning mixed martial arts back in his first year at U.A. to prepare himself for his future. Thanks to Taro's large size he can take down most people in unarmed combat. He also has savage punches and kicks especially while barefoot or hand. He seems to have an affinity for mixed martial arts over his studies. Which is why despite the short time since he started he is quite skilled at it.

RANK/LEVEL: D-
SUMMARY:
Taro has been learning how to make ice scuptures with the use of his quirk. But most of the time he ends up making igloos and snowmen instead of anything truly amazing. He needs water to make ice scultures.

Caramel

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