Post by Darkdarling98 on Apr 26, 2021 0:58:21 GMT
Name: Yu Takeyama
Nickname: “Mount Lady” (Former Hero Name), Yu-Yu (Nickname from her aunt), Crazy Giant (Nickname from Bakugou)
Age: 24
Species: Human
Power: Gigantification (Allows her to manipulate her height/size)
Occupation: Flight Teacher at Arcane Magia Academy/Part-time Fashion Model/Student at Grimoire University
Personality: Yu is a young woman who seems to enjoy the attention that being a model gives her and she doesn't feel any shame from taking advantage of the perks of both her jobs. She is also shown to be quite vain as she uses her beautiful looks and young age to further her popularity or to gain something. This vanity also shows a bit of shamelessness, as she isn’t afraid to use her looks to tease or fluster others.
Yu is also rather lazy, and tends to dress mainly in comfier clothes when she’s not working as a model, as she usually deems it too much effort to put on any makeup or jewelry on most days. Even on her days of working as a teacher, she does not extend any effort.
However, she is not careless, as she will not transform into her giant form in confined spaces in fear of destroying buildings and risk harming her fellow teachers and the students. Yu’s especially particular about transforming in small areas, as she has dealt with expensive fines in previous years.
Despite her vanity, Yu is rather selfless and kind. She’s protective of her students, but at the same time, she is more than willing to call them out on their particularly bad personalities or decisions.
She’s particularly prone to doing this to her younger cousin, Katsuki Bakugou, whom she often teases and affectionately calls “Pomeranian”, due to his spiky hair. Yu is often the one pulling him away from fights and arguments by changing in size and picking him up, and it’s an established dynamic from their younger days.
Despite their fighting and arguing, Yu truly cares for her cousin, and is secretly pretty protective of him, and ready to pick a fight with anyone who doesn’t give him a chance beyond his explosive personality and pride.
Yu is also prone to picking up or throwing trouble-making students, especially during her own classes, and she tends to get yelled at by Principal Isabelle for it, but she still continues to do it.
Despite all her flaws and laziness, Yu takes her job as a teacher seriously, and does her best to teach her students proper flight safety, but she also warns that a student’s own stupid decisions are their own.
History: Yu Takeyama, Flight Teacher of Arcane Magia Academy, and a Fashion Model for the local magazine, Lunar Fantasy, was born and raised in the same city as Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugou, a city where magic was all-too common, and most everyone living in it had some.
Yu herself was no exception, and gained her magic at a young age, but struggled with it for several years as she grew up, eventually deciding that she wanted to give heroism a shot once she had more control over it.
Once she was a pre-teen, she was enrolled in a local hero academy, and during her years of study and hard-work, she also acted as a babysitter for her Aunt Mitsuki Bakugou, watching her younger cousin, Katsuki and his friend, Izuku for spare money besides her own allowance.
Thus, she was often in charge of keeping an eye on the two kids, and tended to use her magic rather selfishly to keep them close and prevent them from running off, as children were prone to do.
Because of this, both Katsuki and Izuku have memories of what they call “Yu Rides”, where she just picked them up and went around the city to keep them entertained. She continued this trend until Yu’s eventual graduation and entrance into the hero world.
Because of how demanding hero work was, and how often crimes happened, “Mount Lady” as Yu monikered for herself, was unable to continue babysitting her slowly growing cousin and his friend.
Because of this, Yu is mostly unaware of how things happened that the friendship between them soured, but she does know it’s done quite an amount of damage to their relationship that she isn’t quite sure could be fixed.
But beside her worries of that, Yu also eventually began to dislike her hero work, as it demanded more of her then she had initially expected, and didn’t necessarily leave her time to recoup after particularly harsh times. Because of this, Yu eventually went into an early retirement at 22 and went into model work.
During her time as a hero though, Yu found a liking for being high up, enjoying the high atmosphere and the adrenaline from the rush of it all. So during her spare-time from model work, she would do things like sky-diving and taking classes for various flying magical vehicles.
At age 24, Yu had obtained her flying license for most flight vehicles, and remembered that while she didn’t enjoy the heavy demands of hero work, she had liked seeing smiles on people’s faces and keeping them safe, so perhaps, she could help teach someone how to keep safe and enjoy the air?
Because of this, she applied to the Arcane Magia Academy for the Flight Course, and was accepted due to her expertise, even though it was recently acquired. Moving in before the school year, Yu has also gotten a part-time job at the local magazine as a model.
And just in time, too, her little cousin and his childhood friend have also applied to the school as students, last she heard from her aunt. Of course, Yu is also focusing on her own school work at Grimoire University, needing just a few more courses and degrees to get more licenses.
(Faceclaim: Yu Takeyama/Mount Lady from BNHA)