#eizou

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Nojiri Eizou

Age: 18

3rd Year, Saisei Academy

Likes: Horror movies (especially 70s-90s), hair dye, Halloween, alliteration

Dislikes: Jou (resists his quirk), smug people

Favorite food: Ikayaki

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Reason for transfer:

📧 Taiga,

I’m sending you this student that was recently transferred here. Sorry. He’s a fan of mine and it’s weird. Don’t drink all of the coffee in the lounge again.

-Danny

📎 Attached Message:

📧 Daniel-san,

We have a transfer for you. It’s a bit of an emergency. His name is Noijiri Eizou and he’s sent more than a few of his bullies to therapy and their parents are on our asses here. We need Saisei’s special protections for him because the usual schools aren’t very understanding when students are running away crying from him in droves.

— Hamada Natsumi, Elsewhere High

PS. He’s a huge fan of yours! Maybe sign something for him so he feels welcome.

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Projection Hero: Movie Madness (sometimes just Madness)

Quirk: Horror Vision

— Eizou can implant vivid imagery into people’s heads when he’s got eyes on them.

— It has to be things he’s seen before, so he watches every horror movie with gory, disturbing, or bizarre imagery he can find.

— If guts and blood don’t work, he gets creative by showing them gross-out things like vomiting and cysts popping. There are also more... extreme things to see, if he must.

— At the worst, it’s debilitating, at the least it can be distracting or confusing. Some people with very hardened minds or delusions are completely immune.

— He can show people pleasant things, too.

— It’s taken a long time to control what exactly he shows, since thoughts never cease. If his mind wanders, he shows the target random things.

— His quirk is not stopped by phone and computer screens, making him far more effective when paired with tech heroes.

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Bio:

Deep down, Eizou isn’t sure if he naturally likes scary things or if he’s made himself that way. He consumes many movies in his spare time, in his dark dorm with his knees drawn to his chest. He’s watched many videos of real-life death, mutilation, animal death, and things that are plain unspeakable. Thankfully, he only has to see them once. His assigned therapist encourages him to watch only fiction, but he doesn’t listen, wanting to be stronger.

He’s a bit fidgety, full of nervous energy and a need to bob around. His hair is always covering his eyes, or his quirk will activate on its own and show people his thoughts. He has a bit of paranoia about this since he once showed someone he liked them in middle school while staring at the back of their head intensely.

Eizou acts more confident than he feels, trying to keep away potential bullies, even though Saisei has proven to have few so far. His classmates think he’s strange, but like how he improves their Halloween class presentation and how quick-witted he can be. His best friend is, appropriately, the other class weirdo.

He wanted to be in Dan’s class badly, and had to be barred from requesting further transfers. The others accuse him of being in love with the hero— and Eizou hasn’t really denied it. He wants to be an ‘edgy’ yet proper hero just like him and is obviously inspired by his appearance.

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Trivia

— Jou resists his quirk easily. Eizou does not enjoy sparring him, since he’s always beaten. It’s made him a little afraid of Jou, since the guy is unreadable.

— His favorite movies are The Evil Dead (1981), Black Christmas (1974) and Dead Alive (1992).

— Has a wall of retro movie posters and a case of DVDs and figurines.

— Will talk for hours about how modern horror is a soulless cashgrab and how practical effects are superior to CGI.

— Holds onto a love note he wrote to Dan, feeling stupid about sending it. His classmates have yet to find it.

— His favorite band is The Misfits. His favorite song by them is ‘Scream.’ He likes to think he sounds like Michale Graves. He doesn’t.

— He’s gotten really good with hair dye, despite his questionable style. His hair doesn’t seem too damaged.