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Analysis & Speculation on Madam President (HPSC President) from My Hero Academia

Who she really is (Canon Facts):

Real name never revealed in the manga/anime. Her official title in Japanese is 公安委員会会長 (Kōan Iinkai Kaichō) = Chairperson of the Public Safety Commission.

Middle-aged woman, ash-blonde slicked-back hair, turquoise eyes, always in formal black/purple suit.

Served as Vice-President under the previous (extremely corrupt) President, witnessed Lady Nagant being groomed as an assassin, disagreed with the old methods but still covered everything up.

Took over after Nagant killed the previous President, imprisoned Nagant instead of executing her (part mercy, part example), and personally raised/recruited child Keigo Takami (Hawks) to replace Nagant as the Commission’s “perfect” undercover tool.

Public face: calm, reassuring, “we will protect society together” speeches.

Private face: ruthless pragmatist who willingly sacrifices morals, students, and individual heroes for the “greater good”. Forced Hero Work-Studies, sent Hawks to infiltrate knowing he’d have to let people die, etc.

Died off-screen during the Paranormal Liberation War when Twice’s double of Re-Destro attacked the HPSC building. Yokumiru Mera cradled her corpse.

Speculation & Theories about her identity / deeper connections:

She might be Hawks’ biological mother (crack theory but popular). Ash-blonde hair + turquoise eyes are extremely close to Hawks’ color scheme, she personally “saved” and raised him from poverty, extreme emotional detachment fits someone who gave her own son away to be a weapon.

More plausible: She was a former hero herself with a mind/control-related Quirk (hence understanding how to manipulate people so well and why she dislikes overt violence like Nagant’s assassinations).

She could have distant blood relation to the Todoroki family (ash-blonde hair appears in Rei’s side too, turquoise eyes are rare).

Some fans think she’s still alive (body never clearly shown, “death” only confirmed by Mera holding a body, HPSC loves cover-ups).

Her real name is possibly “Takami” (Hawks’ family name) or something we’ll never get because Horikoshi intentionally keeps her mysterious to show the faceless corruption of the system.

She is one of the most morally gray authority figures in the entire series — neither pure evil nor good, just the embodiment of “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” hero society.

You didn’t wait for his steps in the hall, but your head snapped up when the door groaned, praying it was him in one piece.

You didn’t feel the world stall when his gaze pinned you, but you craved the silence that roared in your skull.

You didn’t care when the grimace slid off his face, but his laughter burrowed into your bones like a hymn you didn’t know you missed.

You didn’t care how his voice rasped in the dark, but you counted every word like coins you couldn’t afford to lose.

You didn’t care for his words, but you swallowed them like pills you couldn’t stop taking.

You didn’t flinch when his fingers brushed your arm, but you burned for the weight of his grip, even when it bruised.

You didn’t miss the weight of his hands on you, but you burned for every touch, like an addict for the needle.

You didn’t need his breath on your neck, but you ached for it like a drunk aches for the last drop.

You didn’t let him inside your head, but every thought was laced with his name like poison in your veins.

You didn’t want him to see you, but something inside you shattered and stitched itself back together when he asked.

You didn’t want to know him, but wake you at midnight and you’d still whisper why he never buttons his shirt to the throat.

You didn’t mind seeing him with someone else, but your hands gripped the bar hard enough to splinter wood.

You didn’t think about him, but he hunted you down every night in your dreams.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬

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Yokumiru Mera is one of the most morally “gray” yet ultimately decent adults in the entire Hero Public Safety Commission (HPSC) sphere in My Hero Academia. He is not a saint, but he is also very far from being evil or even one of the worst offenders in the system. Here’s a breakdown of where he actually stands:

1. He is a direct product of the old corrupt HPSC system

He was personally in charge of overseeing teenage Hawks’ training.

That training included forcing a child to carry out assassinations, infiltrations, and other morally dark missions that Hawks himself still has trauma over.

Mera is shown chatting casually with Hawks, coming up with “improvements” to his training regimen, and being the one constant adult presence during that period. In other words, he was complicit in the Commission’s child-soldier program.

He never shows any sign of having objected to what they were doing to Hawks.

→ This alone makes it impossible to call him a purely “good” person in the conventional sense.

2. He is not personally cruel or power-hungry

Unlike the previous HPSC President (who openly ordered assassinations, cover-ups, etc.), Mera never shows sadistic tendencies or personal ambition.

His defining trait is exhaustion and apathy, not malice. He just wants to do his job and go sleep.

When he temporarily becomes President after the old one dies, there is zero indication he uses the position to grab more power or continue the worst practices.

3. He shows genuine respect and care for the next generation

His speech at the end of the Provisional License Exam (“Those who can’t keep up are doomed to fail… but those who failed still have a chance”) is surprisingly compassionate coming from a Commission official.

He personally sets up the remedial courses so failed students aren’t completely crushed.

Eight years after the final war, he is still working under Hawks (now President) and supporting Hawks’ much more humane reforms (expanding Quirk counseling, reducing the Commission’s shady side, etc.).

4. He represents “the system” that won’t rock the boat — but also won’t defend the old ways once they’re gone

Mera never tries to bring back the old assassinations-and-cover-ups era after the war.

He quietly accepts Hawks’ leadership and helps implement the new, kinder direction.

In the epilogue he’s basically just an overworked civil servant again, not a crusader for change but also not an obstacle.

Final Verdict

Yokumiru Mera is neither a good person in the heroic sense (he has too much blood on his hands from the Hawks era) nor evil. He is the embodiment of the exhausted, morally numb middle-manager inside a corrupt system:

He went along with terrible things when that was the norm.

He never enjoyed them or pushed for worse.

Once the system started to genuinely reform under Hawks, he adapted without resistance and even helped.

In short: Complicit in the old sins → neutral → quietly supportive of the new, better direction. He’s the type of person who will never start a revolution, but also won’t sabotage one once someone else (Hawks, the kids, society) forces it through.

He doesn't just break rules. He breaks the men who cross them.

The quiet cowboy is the most dangerous one.

Mason has spent years trying to bury the violence inside him.