liliana

Peacocks which are so often thought of when it comes to beauty, pride, resilience, and rebirth.

And Chiori who is constantly preening, fixing her appearance and adding another dainty colourful accessory.

Who never shys away from boasting about the powerfulness of her quirk, the lethality of it. Who sticks her well graded assignments on the fridge. Who refuses to shy away from any spotlight, no matter how it's painted. Even when it comes out who she's related to, steps into the media swarm with a puffed out chest and a beaming smile.

Built from a resilience drilled into her through years of training and practice. The girl who continously gets back up, even when she hates the very notion.

Chiori who rebuilds herself a thousand times over as she struggles to hold her footing in her new life. Hero training, Usj, the summer camp. She gets back up time and time again.

Peacocks and their meaning of awakening, the eye shapes on their feathers seen as symbols of protection or insight.

And Chiori, whose sudden awakening comes with the return of unrelenting grief and hatred she has surrounding her quirk. Who finds her brother post-Tartarus breakout and begs him to use one of the quirk erasure bullets on her, only to find out he no longer has them.

Chiori and the peacock, a symbol of beauty. Does her beauty lie in her destructive quirk? Or is it in the never ending strength she no longer wants to practice?

Is her resilience a curse? a blessing? It only feels like a reminder that this life was not hers to choose. Continue, push forward, live longer — all that to be a hero. A dream that was never hers.

Chiori and the peacock, the symbol of pride. Her pride used to lie in her usefulness. She doesn't feel very useful now as she measures the merits of her morality. Is she a hero? A vigilante? A villain? So willing to act like one when it suits her. So quick to give up that hero mentality that had been drilled into her since she could remember.

The peacock — rebirth.

The bullet, it should've been her rebirth.

Who would Chiori be without her powers? What life might she live?

That was all she had ever hoped to know.

drawing of my fav trio + some lore and fun facts about them

Her, Neito, and Tenya all met when they went to Somei together. Neito and Tenya were NOT friends until Chiori moved to the school. They were both loners for diff reasons (Neito getting picked on for his quirk and Tenya driving people away cause he was a stick in the mud + teachers pet + people thought he was a nepo baby +) Anyway so when Chiori joins Somei she ends up becoming friends with Neito first cause theyre very similar and people were weird about their quirks. Then she becomes friends with Tenya cause her dad made her join student council and she met him there and was like wait this dudes lowkey adorable. They butted heads a bit at first cause Chiori isn't the biggest fan of authority figures and Tenya.. is, duh. But they both kind of understand each other in the wanting to be heroes to appease the family thing and from there they just became bffs. Tenya and Neito like surprisingly took to being friends really quick cause they were more familiar with one another. Anyway theyre my fav trio ever and they are canon trust im horikoshi.

The three of them get ice cream at a little shop near U.A when one of them has a particularly rough day and they have an agreement not to ask unless they open up about it first.

Neito invited them over to his house once and his grandma yelled at Chiori so bad she developed a fear of super old people. Tenya didnt get yelled at cause hes an angel. duh!

They have a group chat thats mostly chiori video calling them whenever she possibly can cause she loves them way too much to allow them to miss her 💔 #selfless

When Tenyas brother gets hurt they drop everything for him like Monoma stops being an asshole that whole week until internships cause theyre that worried

At the beginning of their friendship Chiori called them Neito-chan and Ten-chan but Neito somehow bribed her to call him kun instead and he will never divulge how. Iida doesnt even mind at this point and he thinks its a cute signifire of how close their friendship is

Chiori gets depressive episodes from her bipolar and they've learned how to handle it best they can. Iida is really good at being an emotional support and while Monoma is kinda emotionally constipated he still does his best to be there for her through them.

Neito and Chiori butt heads like literally all the time and have gotten into multiple fist fights with one another but they would genuinely die for each other like thats twin bro you cannot seperate them.

When neito ended up in a different class from them at ua he lowk cried about it and so did chiori. iida miraculously didnt but he wojld be lying if he said he didnt shed a tear at some point about it.

when they were still attending somei chiori would NAWT listen to their student council meetings at all so iida always just gave her the notes at the end. (she would doodle on them and give it back to him the next day)

tenyas boring ass phone with a boring ass case has two stickers on it. one is a cartoon orange juice box neito put on it and the other is some random vampire one chiori found and put on it. (she likes his eyes, thinks theyre very 'vampire-edward cullen-lestat de lioncourt-dracula-vibes')

Neito and Chiori both have very decorated phone cases though. Chio has one with a BUNCH of stickers and loud jingle phone charms stuck to it and neito has a clear case with a Polaroid of the three of them stuck in the back of it.

Monoma and Chiori have both tried extensively to get Iida to change up his fashion a bit or at least accessorize but he refuses. says its a gateway to flaunting the school uniform policies like they do.

Gifted with the power to reform matter into different states — Hero name: Free style!

Her hero costume is heavily inspired by her love for magical girls! The blue and yellow theme is a bit of a work in progress since right now the colours feel a bit flat, but anyhow! The first costume is her usual hero one, the second reveals the under armour / it’s basically her hero costume without the skirt, and the third is her winter costume when they’re further into the series! YAHOO!

The essentials:

Her base piece / the unitard has crystal like motifs to signify how her power can technically crystallize stuff. Plus I thought it was cute. The little yellow accents all over are supposed to be a nod to her two dad’s, Aizawa and Yamada (Aizawa’s goggles and Yamada’s hair). The suit itself is a thermal material because her quirk works a lot with temperature and it’s always been hard for her to regulate her own properly. A similar material is used with the tights, and her winter costume is made of a thicker version of it! The bottom of her shorts also have an atattched pocket for med supplies and stuff she doesn’t want to always carry in her hands.

Her skirt and ruffle pieces are almost entirely for show. She was obsessed with magical girls as a kid and therefore wanted something similar in her own costume design. It’s only because Aizawa made her tone it down that she didn’t end up with an even huger puffier skirt. He said something about how they were impractical but she wasn’t listening. The little wave design is a nod to her quirk’s liquidifying ability!

Her boots are pretty basic, a slight heel and a weird sole because she often walks on air. They were made with being able to balance her in mind, while also being super stylish! They’re also incredibly good at keeping her legs and feet warm since when she’s running up high mid air her legs are the first part of her to start feeling chilly.

HER GLOVES!! Her quirk is constantly in a weird fritz state where the muscles in her arms are contracting or something of the sort and it just hurts her arms ALL. THE. TIME. Her gloves are made of this really tight constrictive material you find in those long socks that people wear on planes. It’s her attempt at managing the chronic pain from her quirk! The material is sheer in appearance cause she thought long gloves wouldn’t go so well with her outfit, but the glove material around her hands is opaque. The material there is a lot thicker and heat resistant since her quirk usually expels in larger bursts from her palms. The fingerless design is because she needs 5 fingers to touch whatever she wants to transform.

The visor is a crystal clear sort of goggle with gold detailing along the sides. Think of it like Hawks’ visor. They need stuff to keep debris from their eyes when they’re going fast up high! In Chiori’s case it isn’t nearly as bad as Hawks needs them, but they also have a comms set directly built in that makes talking to her allies a lot easier on the battlefield.

I’m currently writing a fic for her on ao3 but oh my precious I love her so I couldn’t NOT draw her!!

She loves Gyaru fashion, especially Himekaji, and is one herself!! Her fav colour is blue, her drink order is almost always a hot chocolate or a peach green tea, she adores dogs despite the fact her papa’s will never get her one and if she had to be anything in the world she would probably not be a hero lol (despite the fact she goes to u.a. but 🤷‍♀️)

Anywhoodles enjoy a bunch of unfinished pieces I have of her — Next post I’ll actually explain her powers and her hero costume

Chio fun facts:

She would NOT help an old person across the street. Not cause shes evil but because the only old person she had ever met was Grandma Monoma and that woman is… terrifying.

Her fav hero is Mirko (as u can see with the mirko poster in her room yes that is mirko no I haven’t drawn in a while could u tell) cause she saw how strong and cunty and diva she was and was like holy shit thats who all heros should be yes absolutely.

If her quirk wasn’t what it was she would’ve tried to become a jpop idol 100%

Or she would’ve tried to live out a real yuri on ice life

She almost always has gloves on, and even got her dad to custom order a cute pair cause she was tired of the usual fugly brown leather ones that she always had to resort to.

She’s been on that magical girl grind since she was 4. Her Papa started her off with Tokyo Mew Mew, that turned into Sailor Moon, then Glitter Force, then Madoka Magica at the ripe age of 13 (as god intended) and from there she’s scoured the internet for even the smallest traces of magical girl media.

When she was younger her dream job was being a princess. It still kind of is.

She’s actually pretty ripped (sleeper build fr) cause she idolized Mirko so young and wanted to be as strong as she was. Plus backstory stuff.

People often describe her eyes as cat like because they are that piss yellow cats often have but actually if she were an animal she would be a bird of some kind. Those ones who like shiny stuff and looking at their reflection.

She wears mostly pink despite it not being her fav colour cause she thinks it looks cuter on her

She thinks she is secretly evil and if shes not pursuing the hero career she’ll stray too far from justice and somehow kill a man. No clue where she got that from 🤷‍♀️ someone should put her in therapy