Ayaka Ejiri

{{Quotes| Bakugo! Tell me, you say you want to be a hero,are you in it for the fame or the gain? Tell me! This is exactly way the most of the villains hate heroes! So turn your attitude around because whether you're in it for the fame or gain, you're dead meat.|Ayaka Ejiri to Katsuki Bakugo {{Character Infobox 16 (Current) Red on top, dark gray on bottom, blue strike in the middle (right) Bashira Ejiri (Mother; deceased) Kenji Ejiri (Oldest Brother; deceased) Nao Shimura (Mother; deceased) Natsuo Todoroki (Older brother) Kendo Ejiri (Mother; deceased) Kenzo Ejiri (Older brother) Kosuke Ejiri(Older brother) Akemi Ejiri (Older sister) Akari Ejiri (Older sister) Enji Todoroki (uncle) Rei Todoroki (Mother) Toya Todoroki (cousin) Fuyumi Todoroki (cousin) Natsuo Todoroki (cousin) Shoto Todoroki (cousin) U.A. High School {{Nihongo|Shoto Todoroki|{{Ruby|轟|とどろき}}{{Ruby|焦|しょう}}{{Ruby|凍|と}}|Todoroki Shōto}}, Ayaka Ejiri also known as Yán {{Nihongo|Shoto|ショート|Shōto}}, is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School and is training to become a Pro Hero. She is the youngest daughter of Satoshi Ejiri and Bashira Todoroki, she is also the niece of Endeavor, the No. 1 (formerly No. 2) Hero.
 * name = Ejiri Ayaka
 * image =
 * birthday = November 13
 * age = 15 (First appearance)
 * gender = Female
 * height = 173cm (5'8")|hair = blue
 * eyes = Red on top, blue on bottom, light blue strike in the middle (left)
 * bloodtype = O{{Ref|data=1}}
 * quirk = Forever Flame (Unofficial Name)
 * status = Alive
 * birthplace = {{Wikipedia|United States}}
 * family = Satoshi Ejiri (Father; deceased))
 * occupation = Student
 * affiliation = third-in command, {{Former}})
 * fightingstyle = Long-ranged combat
 * image gallery = Yes}}

Appearance
Ejiri is a reasonably tall young girl. She has incredibly long hair, and wears bangs, parted three times as to not obscure her vision. Her hair is of two shades of the same color: and lighter blue can be found near her bangs with light and dark blue at the back, she also possesses 3-way colored eyes, while her right eye is red on top and dark gray on the bottom. Her left eye is red on top and dark blue on the bottom. Her eyes, in shape, are quite wide. She usually has a serious expression. Despite this, however, several of the boys in her class and outside of it, have claimed that she is the most beautiful girl.

During school hours, he wears the regular female U.A. uniform without the red tie, replacing her usual black outfit containing a black belly shirt with leggings and boots.

Her initial hero costume, consists of a blue bodysuit with a skirt attached. She sometimes has what appears to be a material resembling fire covering her whole body when in battle with villains to act a armor, even her head although it is detachable.

For her updated hero costume she wears a black belly shirt with a blue fire design with a matching breechcloth and black boots, with a blue and black wing of makeup over her eyes and blue lipstick. She also wears four little metal capsules containing medical supplies hanging off the left side of her breechcloth.

Personality
Originally, Ejiri had a cold, withdrawn personality, which stemmed from her abusive family life. Focused and unemotional, aloof preferred to keep to herself instead of hanging out with other people. She was much like Shoto in this way. Ejiri was and still is a crude, arrogant, short-tempered, and aggressive person, even though she was very withdrawn. She usually only shows this side when someone "crosses the line". This includes: someone hurting someone she loves, someone telling her what to do, when stubborn people that don't do what she says too, people telling her that she’s weak because she doesn’t have a quirk, someone talking bad about the league, someone talking bad about Dabi or Shigaraki, when fighting and people don’t use their full strength, people underestimating her. ect. Ejiri tends to come off as unheroic, if not downright villainous for those not familiar with her. This is a result of her violent past, then being saved by Shigaraki and working with the league. After finding her long lost childhood friend, Kirishima, she notably became more sociable, outgoing and soft, even gaining a sense of humor and occasionally smiling, although still retaining some fragments of her previous distant persona. After being attacked by the villains, Ejiri began opening up more to her classmates and has lightened up from her usually serious demeanor. Nonetheless, Ayaka is not quite used to socializing yet, coming off as a bit dense when it comes to understanding certain phrases and figures of speech.

While usually quiet and reserved, Ejiri did initially possess a moderate level of arrogance, which, combined with her solitary tendencies, sometimes made her take the initiative without considering the opinions of others. She would often make death threats as a result of past trauma and abuse. Displaying confidence that she could take on any obstacles with her own strength. Ejiri often seems to wonder of alone to use her power to burn any thing she wants without hurting anyone else. Ejiri is very brutal in and out of combat, Ejiri is well-grounded on the ethics of heroism, only wishing to paralyzed her opponents by talking to them and making them let their guard down then using the powers that she had been given.Ejiri had a deep loathing for Endeavor as he reminds her of her painful childhood, with one of the quirks like her mother and a spirit like her father's. As such, Ejiri had set her eyes on fire whenever in close proximity of Endeavor. Ejiri could barely contain her anger while talking to him, especially whenever the Pro Hero brought up the purpose he had intended for his son since before birth. This bothered her because her father had similar plans for her but they didn't go as planned. During her fight with Shinso in a private practice match, Shinso told Ejiri that whenever Ejiri wanted to hurt Endeavor to not set her eyes a blaze and to save that evil energy for Toga. As a result of working with the villains in the past the only villain that Ejiri felt the courage to hurt was Toga. After the battle, Ejiri had mixed feelings about the new strategy, but after seeing Endeavor once more she decided not to set her eyes a blaze, this was the first time Endeavor saw her like that. Ejiri eventually came to terms with hero he once hated and became willing to ask him for guidance. Despite being scarred by them when she was a young child, Ejiri showed no hate or disliking towards her siblings, she started visiting their graves often. Ejiri draws her heroic values from Eraserhead, Present Mic and All Might, a trait she shares with Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugou, having fond memories of watching the Symbol of Peace on television together with Kirishima as a child.

However, Ejiri's grudge towards Endeavor has not yet vanished, even if she respects Shoto's father's ability as a Hero, self-admitting that such resentment can't dissolve so easily and that he was wrong in trying to bury it. Having been denied a normal childhood so that her family could hurt and abuse her. After realizing that Shoto had been through similar with Endeavor made her mental. Because of this and Izuku's influence on Shoto, seeing now how Shoto strives to become a Hero, but without walking the same path his father did inspires her to do the same.

Ejiri remains relatively cold towards others. With new relationships she finds it hard to seek out who she could trust. With her whole past, she finds it hard to strive in being social and making new friendship.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Having been trained by the best heroes and villiains, Ejiri got ahold of different perspectives and skills and learned how a hero and the villain think. She is able to enter many people's heads by the strategy. Ejiri has proven to be one of the strongest students in U.A High School, she earned this title well before she even had a quirk. Despite this, Ejiri seem to have trouble getting a handle over her powerful Quirk at times, Forever Flame, which is the unofficial name of a quirk that grants her incredible element capabilities. She is able to create fire from her body and she can use the fire to burn many things, she can even copy someones quirk by burning them. She can copy someones Quirk up to two hours after they're dead, there is no limit to how many quirks she can have at a time or how long the quirks last. Overall, Ejiri has tremendous power, but because of past decisions and circumstances, such as not getting her quick until she was fifteen and being afraid to use it around other people, she has yet to reach her full potential.Because Ejiri's quirk was not her own she does have a hard time controlling it at times. When fighting Dabi at a quickless stage in her life, a weird and random lightning strike passed through both Dabi and Ejiri. After this, Ejiri ended up in the hospital in a coma for five weeks. When she was healed and went back to U.A High School she accidentally burned Kirishima. She didn't know what it was so she want the rest of the day worrying and when she got to her dorm her arm started hardening. That's when she noticed her quirk. After that discovery she started to discreetly try it on different people. She noticed that each time she got a new quirk but none of them left. it wasn't till she tried this on Tokoyami that someone noticed. That's when the secret that she had a quick got out.

While Ejiri may possess many talents and skills when fightng the control over her quirk has gotten in the way of her success, especially in comparison to the rest of Class 1-A unincluding Izuku Midoriya, she has close to no experience with her quirk. However, after a match with Shoto, Ejiri realized that she had gone without a quirk for too long, which had put her and her team at a disadvantage, and resolved to achieve greater mastery over her pyrokinetic abilities by learning the fundamentals of "Flashfire Fist", Endeavor's signature technique. Thanks to her internship and new relationship with Endeavor, Ejiri's handling over her new quirk has improved significantly, as she can now use her flames in multifarious ways, such as boosting her movement speed, launching herself through the air, and attacking with blaze-powered punches. And though Ejiri is powerful, contending with individuals such as Stain, Wolfram, Moonfish, Mr. Compress, Gang Orca, Chimera, and Tomura Shigaraki require Ejiri's effective camaraderie with multiple people in order to prevail against such formidable opponents. That was hardly the case during the climax of the Paranormal Liberation War, wherein she faced her cousin and past guardian, Dabi in a battle of flames that nearly resulted in Ejiri being burned alive, had it not been for Shoto's brief intervention. As the body-charring cousins resumed their full-power pyromantic clash, Ejiri ended up winning but decided not to tell the others and let Dabi run free as a thank you for taking care of her for the past months she spent as a villain.


 * Enhanced Durability: Ejiri has proven herself to be quite resilient, being able to withstand multiple attacks from Izuku, including a direct, One For All-enhanced punch at 6% strength to the stomach, without sustaining major injuries. While she occasionally doesn't have preemptive strategies like most people, she does analyze his opponent's weaknesses such as when she realized Fumikage's weakness to light. She is also incredibly good at anticipate worst-case scenarios and keeping them from getting life threatening for her or her team.
 * Enhanced Stamina: Ejiri has shown to be able to withstand combat even while injured. For example, in her battle with Stain, she was able to continue fighting  alone despite suffering from multiple injuries on her arms, legs, face, and stomach, and was still able to defeat the villain while only having the ability to use her legs and right arm. When she indulged Dabi in combat, Ejiri continued to fight on despite her body being covered in burn marks from the neck down and slowly bleeding out.


 * Enhanced Agility: Ejiri is fast, agile, and has quick reflexes. She was able to finish a race with Iida in first place thanks to her own athletic ability. She used the quick she had copied from him and many others that have similar quirks to him. even when not using a quick she can run at an accelerator rate. She was able to win third place in a race with the whole U.A high school. The race included, running, swimming, and climbing. She was also able to dodge a knife thrown at her the back of her head by Toga.

Keen Intellect: Ejiri has proven to be a very intelligent person. And in spite of her training, Ejiri is also very skilled in academics, having scored 3rd place in the midterms. During a surprise attack by the villains, Ejiri accurately calculated the precise moves of the villain, Goto Imasuji, and protecting Katsuki Bakugou from his hit. Ejiri also deduced that something was wrong with Denki Kaminari by comparing the quirk use in his past vs what he was using in the present. Additionally, Ejiri was able to indicate that Hanta Sero had shards of glass stuck in his arm from a U.A High School break in after he fell in glass from a broken window. Hanta Sero was over all freaked out when he heard these news and Ejiri was able to successfully remove the shards of glass stuck in his arm at his house.

Indomitable Will: Ejiri has a highly undaunted spirit, not easily giving into intimidation that would disrupt her focus, maintaining a cool head, and pushes through adversity. Initially, Ejiri was a jaded and aloof person due to the abuse she had to endure from her family, resulting in Ejiri refusing to let people know she had powers, knowing that she would have to use them often. Ejiri was considerably hellbent on not using her powers once people started knowing she had them, but this misguided determination was corrected when she faced Tamaki, who heavily convinced her that she wouldn't hurt everyone if she didn't try to. These words inspired Ejiri to work hard at training her quirk, she spent day and night without eating calculating the best ways to fight, fortunately for her this didn't end in going to the hospital. When she was ready she invited Shinso and Tamaki for a sparring lesson. The two heroes went against her and inevitably lost without suffering major injuries.

Unfortunately, afterwards, despite willingly using her power, Ejiri still had some level of uncertainty. While battling Snipe, Present Mic, and EraserHead Ejiri lost her spark causing her to not give 100% of her strength. As Ejiri was becoming paralyzed with doubt, Class 1-A cheered her on, encouraging her to do his best, but without Tamaki or Shinso there she still felt empty and ultimately lost. She had devastating injuries, the teachers could not see her with the debris so they did not know when to stop. Ejiri suffered from bleeding ears from Present Mic's quirk, two bullets to her right leg, three bullets to her left cafe and right arm and one bullet to the left arm and head. It was a miracle that she lived after this. It was later stated that she could have avoided most of these injuries if she had used the quirks that she copied from Eraserhead, Ida and Kirishima.

When a battle of good vs evil occurred, Ejiri's will was tested again when she had a major altercation with Kenshi Yuu, her cold older twin brother. Ejiri realized that even though she had not seen her twin brother Kenshi Yuu in what she though was years, she still held deep affection for him. maltreatment, and his horrid attitude led to Inasa developing his own hateful disposition towards Shoto himself. The infighting between the two elemental users resulted in them being repeatedly unable to land an attack on Gang Orca and were left at the mercy of him and his sidekicks. Soon after, however, Izuku arrived on the scene and scolded Shoto and Inasa for their actions, making the weakened students realize their mistake with being uncooperative with one another. The pair reaffirmed their convictions, put their differences aside, and finally worked together, despite being incapacitated. Unfortunately, their personal conflict with each other cost them the licensing exam, and had to take remedial courses to make up for their imprudence and failure. Having undergone self-reflection, Shoto and Inasa displayed fully mutual congeniality towards each other when they crossed paths again at the Remedial Exam.

During the third match of the Joint Training Battle, Shoto was pressured by Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, but was able to recall Endeavor's counsel on bringing his inferno to the limit, and then surpassing that very apex. This advice proved pivotal, as Shoto, also recollecting Izuku's words of encouragement, understood that if he wants to become the hero he desires to be, he has to go beyond what his body and Quirk are capable of doing. His will sparked again, Shoto brought his phlegokinesis to the limit, equalling the potency of Endeavor's own flames, and was able to better hold his own against Tetsutetsu and put latter's metal skin at risk of melting. In the climax of the Paranormal Liberation War, Shoto's spirit took a significant blow when Dabi revealed his true identity as Toya Todoroki, Shoto's eldest sibling who was thought to have been deceased. Discovering that Toya was alive for years, became a villain, and orchestrated the recent encounters with Hood, Starservant, and Ending, Shoto was sent into a tearful rage. In spite of these revelations, Shoto remained steadfast and was more than willing to engage his corrupted brother, not wavering when the Todoroki brothers clashed, despite Toya's superior abilities.

Quirk
Half-Cold Half-Hot: Shoto's Quirk gives him the ability to generate ice from the right side of his body, and flames from his left side.

Due to years of rejecting his father, Shoto has developed a habit of favoring ice, even when fire would be a better option. This grudge also caused him to have difficulty controlling his flames. While he is capable of using both elements simultaneously, he isn't used to doing this and still needs to practice dual-wielding. While training for his ultimate move, he claimed that using both abilities at the same time slows him down.

If he overuses one element without utilizing the other, then his own body temperature will suffer; the ice half will cause frostbite and the fire half will cause heatstroke. Until his bodily limit is reached however, neither has any visible effect on his body. Shoto can easily negate this weakness by alternating between ice and fire.

As part of his training, Shoto sat in a barrel of water and alternated between using ice and fire to regulate the temperature of the water. It helped his body become accustomed to the cold, and he learned better control over his flames.

Super Moves



 * Heaven-Piercing Ice Wall: Shoto creates an enormous ice glacier, that can either encapsulate his opponent or block the immediate field of battle in ice. This move is first used in his battle against Hanta Sero in the Sports Festival, but is unnamed until the Final Exams. He noted to Sero that it was more powerful than necessary, but he was irritated (from talking with Endeavor) and overdid it. A variation of this move, slightly smaller in size, but more controllable, is shown in his battle against Katsuki. He also used this attack on a repeatedly massive scale while attacking Mr. Compress.


 * Wall of Flames (の): Shoto uses his left side to generate a burst of flames that covers a large area. This is both a defensive and offensive attack like his Giant Ice Wall technique. It can be used to attack multiple opponents and create space between Shoto and his target. Shoto first used this attack against Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu during the Joint Training Battle with Class 1-B.


 * Flashfreeze Heatwave: To use this technique, first Shoto cools the air around him with his ice powers. Then, by switching to his fire, Shoto rapidly heats and expands the air around him. This allows him to release a superheated blast. He first used this attack against Izuku Midoriya at the climax of their match in the Sports Festival.


 * Flashfire Fist: Endeavor's signature technique, later passed down to Shoto himself. The user increases the temperature of their flames to their maximum and compresses them to a white-hot point, maximizing their power.


 * Flashfire Fist - Jet Kindling: Shoto concentrates his flames into a white-hot point on his fist and punches his opponent. On contact, a violent explosion of flames burst out of Shoto's arm, severely burning his target. He first uses this attack against Tomura Shigaraki during the Paranormal Liberation War Arc.

Equipment
Hero Costume: Following his winter internship with Endeavor, Shoto has upgraded his second hero costume. Like before, his third costume is designed to optimize the use of both his fire and ice sides in combat, and diminish the drawbacks of Shoto's Quirk as much as possible by regulating his body temperature. But it has been further enhanced to accommodate his increased firepower and new abilities, and includes additional first aid equipment for emergencies.


 * Temperature Resistant Jacket: Shoto's blue jacket is made from a special fire-resistant fiber. There is a special device near the neck that senses Shoto's body temperature and supports the vest to help regulate it. His third costume's jacket is made of a more heat resistant material, and is stiffer than before.


 * Combat Vest: The device on Shoto's back is capable of sensing Shoto's body temperature and automatically heats up or cools down accordingly. Shoto requested his original costume had a device that heated up.


 * Utility Belt: There are metal capsules on Shoto's belt that contain water, pain medication, and disinfectants, making up a first aid kit. His third costume adds an additional four first aid capsules which brings the total to nine; these are held in packs at both his sides.


 * Snow Boots: Shoto is outfitted with a pair of white snow boots with spikes under the soles that prevent Shoto from slipping on his own ice. They are later upgraded with straps going across the front of the boots.


 * "Surge Arm" Gauntlets: Further upgrading from his second costume, Shoto has replaced his wrist guards with gauntlets similar to those used by his father Endeavor. While his previous costume's wrist guards were made from the same material as his vest, these gauntlets are metal and are designed to hold hot and cold air within them in order to help Shoto compress his ice and fire powers better.

Chapter Appearances

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Trivia

 * Shoto's surname contains the kanji for "to roar, a roaring fire" (轟), and his first name contains "burning" (焦) and "freezing" (凍).


 * "Todoroki" is a common Japanese surname.


 * According to Shoto's Volume 2 profile:


 * Her favorite drink is ramune.


 * He may have been the first Class 1-A character conceived after Izuku, Katsuki and Ochaco, who were planned since way before the school setting was decided.


 * Shoto's known U.A. academic data is as follows:


 * Shoto ranked 2nd in the U.A. Recommendation Entrance Exam.


 * Shoto is student No. 15 in Class 1-A.


 * Shoto ranked 5th in Class 1-A's mid-term scores.


 * Shoto ranked 2nd during Aizawa's Quirk Apprehension Test.


 * Shoto was the Runner-Up of The U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.


 * Shoto received a total of 4.123 nominations from Pro Heroes for his U.A. Sports Festival performance, making him the most nominated Class 1-A student.


 * Since he failed the Provisional Hero License Exam, he scored below 50.


 * Shoto's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:


 * Shoto ranked 2nd in the First and Fourth Popularity Polls.


 * Shoto ranked 3rd in the Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth Popularity Polls.


 * Since Shoto's eyes and hair show physical separation where the halves of his Quirk divide, he may have the genetic anomaly known as.


 * Shoto and Izuku share the same costume designer.


 * Shoto is so far the only student to have gone through a radical change of costume, having abandoned all elements of his first one except for the boots.

Quotes

 * (To Izuku) "No, I refuse to listen to little bugs like you. You act all inspiring to make friends but it’s all an act… I know on the inside you really just want to tell them apart… I know, I was on the villainous side once.


 * (To Aizawa) "You idiot! I’ve been told that all my life, and at this point I know... I’m not a wannabe hero, no, I’m a gonnabe Hero!”


 * (To her father) "You know I didn’t bring you back from the dead just to chitchat… I need your power, and you’re going to give it to me."


 * (To Tenya) "Ew! You’re almost as bad as the idiot bug! You guys need to learn to step up your game in this sweet talk. It’s not gonna work on any of the villains so stop it.


 * (To Tenya) "It’s a heroes job to save people, so why would I save the villains? That’s your job and they ended up killing them, you’re not heroes you’re just people. People kill. It’s just what they do.”


 * (To Shigaraki) "We should leave these people to die, all of them. Isn't it a hero's job to save people?"

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