Character Base

• Character Name: Tenya Iida
• Age: 16
• Canon /Canon Point: My Hero Academia (Start Spring 2014), at the End of the Rescue Bakugo Arc (2016)
• Items Coming Along:

- Extra Pair of Glasses
- UA School Uniform
- His disguise from the Rescue Bakugo Arc
- His armor as Ingenium
- His Cellphone, with pictures and text records from his friends and family
- A case of concentrated Orange Juice

• Content Warnings for Character:Attempted murder, violence involving a minor, minor in dangerous situations.

Character Background

• History: Wiki
• Core Relationships:

- Tensei Iida: Tenya and Tensei are not the stereotypical siblings that are commonly envisioned in fiction-- partly because Tensei has approximately fifteen years on Tenya in age. Tenya idolizes his older brother in much the same way as many younger siblings, but this is exaggerated partly because Tenya witnessed Tensei's growth into becoming a hero in his very, very early years. Another factor influencing this is Tensei's humble and kind nature that seeks cooperation with everyone he meets and helping people on principle-- following the Law, but also allowing others to shine alongside himself.

Though we do not see Tensei on screen in the narrative in the main narrative, with the core of Tensei's appearances actually taking places in the Vigilantes side story, readers and viewers are given the impression that Tensei is nothing more than a Good and Kind man who has been granted the speed necessary to help as many people as possible with his kindness. Tensei himself even admits that Tenya is superior to him in both speed, athleticism, and intelligence. However, it's Tensei who ultimately has the charisma and earnest demeanor to maintain a robust Hero Agency with dozens working at his side.

Tensei's kindness and earnestness, along with Tenya's admiration and pride in his older brother, were the catalysts for Tenya's ultimate slip and fall just after the Sports Festival, when Tensei couldn't make it to watch because he had been hospitalized due to injuries from an unexpected attack by a Villain that intended to kill him. Tensei survived, but his injuries were so severe that he was paralyzed from the waist down.

He couldn't feel his legs, and would not likely ever be able to run again without an enormous amount of work, patience, and medical intervention. Thus-- he would never be able to rush to help a lost child on his own ever again.

His career as the Turbo Hero: Ingenium was over, and he was barely thirty.

This crushed Tenya to the point that he felt it necessary to enact vengeance upon that villain. However, this incident also ultimately catalyzed Tenya's growth from his initially strict, rule abiding mentality that took the idea of 'Lawful Good' the extreme... into a more dynamic and nuanced behavior pattern while he continued to struggle with the Black and White thinking pattern that he had come of age with.

Tenya has a long way to go still-- but, it's thanks to his brother and his friends that he has even made this step at all.

Tensei's core belief of 'saving one lost child no matter the odds' is something both brothers work toward with the utmost of their strength. Tenya, although stated to be better than his older brother in many ways, struggles with this in his decisions throughout the rest of the story-- and manages to pull through, because he knows it's not his feelings that need saving anymore.

It's that little lost child inside everyone, crying in fear and pain.

Tensei asked Tenya to carry on the mantle of Ingenium when he came of age... and Tenya has made it his goal to be worthy of the name.


- Izuku Midoriya: Izuku is in many ways another version of the Hero which Tenya aspires to be. Where Tensei is the one who inspired him and who unconsciously set the goal for Tenya's aspiration of being a hero, it was Izuku who actively showed Tenya that Heroism was more than ideals, but action. Tensei did encourage action, for dashing across the battlefield to save a lost child is inherently an action, but it's Izuku who steps on where he's not asked, who dashes into the fray without second thought, and who leaps into a crisis in order to save anyone he considers a friend. During the practical on their entrance exam, Tenya was quick to judge the skinny, awkward kid who was muttering under his breath in anxiety-- but, where Tenya had enough points to step in against a massive and dangerous but literally pointless opponent in order to save Ochako, who had tripped and was trapped, he chose to run. It was Izuku, who had earned no points, who had stepped in to save her... shattering three limbs in the process.

This was only the beginning of Izuku's unwitting influence on Tenya, who observed this incident from the side and bristled with obvious frustration and shame at his own cowardice and self absorbed decisions. Upon seeing Izuku enter the classroom on the first day of school, Tenya immediately decided to roll back on his judgement and befriend the skinny looking dweeb that he had been so quick to judge.

It was the best decision he could have made. If not for Izuku, Tenya would literally have died in the dark alleyways where he went after Stain on his own.


- Shoto Todoroki: While it must be noted that the core group surrounding Izuku Midoriya in the context of the main narrative is Tenya Iida and Ochako Uraraka, in many ways Shoto Todoroki is just as important-- and in regards to Tenya, the parallels and experiences that he shares with Shoto is more notable than with Ochako at this point in canon.

At the beginning of the school year and through to the current canon point just after rescuing Katsuki Bakugou from the Shigaraki, the League of Villains, and All For One, Tenya and Shoto are in many ways direct foils to each other. They are both younger sons of prestigious Hero families and have differing relations with their shared duty of living up to societal expectations and family legacy. Where Tenya embraces it whole heartedly and stumbles along the way, Shoto rejects it after years of similar stumbles and has determined that he will fight as a Hero to prove his own worth as an individual. They both carry the enormity of these roles with varying levels of grace and, while they are both excellent students with perfectly bred manners to go along with their elite lineage, they kept largely within their own circles.

That is, until word spread through the class about how Tensei Iida, Tenya's older brother and at that time the Ingenium of that generation, was attacked and forced into retirement. Where Izuku and Ochako saw Tenya's struggles, they ultimately could not relate to or understand the way frustration and rage over such injustice and needless violence on a deeply personal level boiled within Tenya in the days when they were picking out their assignments and mentors for Field Training. Shoto, even in his own frustrations in dealing with another shift in his relationship with his family legacy, observed this from a distance and kept on alert-- in case something happened. Shoto recognized the look on Tenya's face because he had seen it in the mirror... and, when Izuku called for aid against the Hero Killer Stain with merely a note of his current location sent to a group chat, Shoto was the only one with the wits and the capability of responding.

While Izuku showed Tenya how a hero is in action, Shoto is the one who actually understood Tenya's dilemma. Although he was not nearly as socially inclined as his other classmates, he was the one who could meet Tenya in that dark emotional space.

It was a learning experience for all three of them, that shifted trajectory in their actions all across the board.

After the bout with the Hero Killer, Tenya and Shoto both developed a habit of getting involved where they weren't wanted or needed-- perhaps in reflection of sharing that early experience with Izuku, and after all three were sworn to silence in exchange for not facing legal consequences.

After rescuing Katsuki Bakugou at the current canon point, that is yet another shared experience of illegal activity where their combined wits and strategies ended up saving the life of another person.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences:

- It was pointed out early on by his classmate and friend, Ochako, that everything about Tenya seemed fitting to be Classroom Representative. He was noticeably by the book, extremely studious, and even his glasses fit the role. However, the decision was left to a democratic vote-- which was won by Izuku Midoriya with a total of three votes... from himself, Ochako and Tenya himself. As jealous and frustrated as Tenya was over how this turned out, he still did his utmost to support Izuku on their first day of school. However, when a crisis on campus which caused the students to mob in panic and it was only Tenya's observations of the situation outside of the building, his quick thinking, collaboration with Ochako, and ultimately his own drive to do what is right which resolved the situation. Between Ochako's Zero Gravity quirk and Tenya taking on a leadership role in a crisis, they were able to catch the attention of crowd, expose the truth that it was only impertinent news reporters that broke into the academy and not a villain, and convince the students to return safely to their classrooms.

Because of this, Izuku nominated Tenya to take his position as Classroom Representative when he willingly stepped down-- the anxiety of bearing that responsibility had frozen Izuku, while Tenya could carry such responsibilities without wavering.

- By Tenya's canonpoint at the very ending of his first semester in high school, there has not been a very wide swath of opportunities for a tremendous amount of positive or negative experiences to happen. However, the days spent in the hospital after the fight between himself, Izuku, and Shoto vs. the Hero Killer, Stain do count as notable. While all three of them were recovering from injuries sustained in varying degrees of severity, the three of them also shared the singular burden of silence. In exchange for clean records and no legal consequences for their vigilante (and illegal) fight and use of their powers against Stain, the three of them were sworn to secrecy and they allowed Shoto's father-- the Number Two (at the time) Hero, Endeavor, take all of the credit for Stain's defeat. While this itself can be taken as a negative experience-- it also was the singular moment of quiet the three boys shared before they were whisked off into their daily school life once more. They were debriefed together, processed their emotions together, and even shared a few laughs-- but, most importantly, each one of them promised that they would do their utmost to be the best that they could be.


(2+) Negative Experiences:

- The Hero Killer: Stain has been referenced multiple times thus far, but it is important to note just the kind of man this person is. Stain, a career 'villain' for his illegal activities and very stringent ideals, firmly believes that most Heroes are in the profession for the fame, the money, and the accolades-- and that only the truly 'selfless' Heroes like All Might should be allowed to live. Thus, Stain took his convictions into his own hands and made it his mission to take down 'unworthy' heroes with his own blood soaked hands. Tenya's older brother, Tensei, is far from the traditional hero both in his core philosophy of having a network of specialized individuals so they can put the right person in the right position to save the maximum amount of people, and with the fact that Tensei is the oldest son of his generation and then current heir to a long familial tradition taking on the mantle of a Hero as Ingenium.

Although his Team Idaten was quite prolific in their heroic exploits, Tensei himself did not shy away from the spotlight or his reputation. As good of a man as he was, he was in many ways the perfect target for Stain.

And Tenya, in his pain and anger over the needless maiming of his brother, proved to Stain that he was not necessarily training to be a Hero for wholly altruistic reasons as well. Rather, his actions were both prideful and selfish-- and Stain quickly turned his eyes and his paralytic powers upon Tenya to further his own point.

Tenya quickly succumbed to the paralytic powers early in their encounter, and sustained repeated verbal taunts, threats, and stab injuries to his shoulders and arms before Izuku and Shoto arrived. However, by that time Tenya had already lost his will to fight and was sobbing in futile rage face down in the concrete-- mere moments from Stain landing a lethal blow. With the help of his two classmates, they managed to figure out the secrets behind the paralytic powers, defeat the villain, and save each other.... but the facade was broken.

The perfect and dutiful Class Representative that they had come to respect and appreciate had proven himself for what he was: a stubborn and prideful young man who still did not yet know the full scope of what it meant to be a Hero, and who had taken to parroting others around him on the shallow basis that it seemed like the correct thing to do.

It was Tenya's darkest moment-- but in many ways this entire sequence needed to happen. There would never have otherwise been an opportunity for Tenya to see his own darkness and face it with the support of others in this manner.

In many ways, the shape of his path was determined in that dark alleyway, with his hands numb and blood streaming down his arms.

- Summer Break for first year students in the Heroics Program at UA was met with plans to go into a secluded forest training camp, so that the students could safely train during their time off school with appropriate supervision and build up their skills in preparation for future attacks by the growing threat of Villains, encouraged by All For One. This, however, did not go as planned-- and when the students were attacked in the darkened woods while engaging in silly test of courage challenges, Tenya did what came naturally to him and helped the students nearest to him make it to safety.

However, once they made it back to base they were not allowed to leave, and Tenya was forced to stand idle while his friends and classmates who were still out in the field were attacked, defeated, and one of their own was abducted. Although Tenya wasn't close to Katsuki Bakugou, the bafflingly antagonistic classmate who knew Izuku from the time they were children, Tenya was frustrated no less. He had the strength and the speed to make a difference, but due to orders and limitations he was forced to hold back--

But not for long.

While his classmates, including Izuku, were in recovery, a plot to sneak out and rescue Bakugou from the League of Villains was hatched in secrecy. The Deputy Classroom Representative, Momo Yaoyarozu, had created a tracking device with her Quirk to aid the police, but one of Katsuki's friends, Eijirou Kirishima-- along with Izuku, and Shoto, who was right within reach to save their missing friend and failed at the last moment-- were able to convince her to give them a secondary tracking device so they could rescue him themselves. Tenya saw this coming and sat on this knowledge and frustration in silence until the last moment-- where he both angrily lectured the very people who had saved him from the exact same situation of taking action on their own regardless of what authority figures said, and yet also promised to assist them... so long as they took no direct aggressive action against these villains like he did with Stain.

Tenya vowed to go help them, but also went along so he could be the one to go stop them. After his own fight with Stain, doing any less would be both irresponsible and hypocritical of him-- and once again, Tenya found himself trapped in the gray area between what was Legal and what was Right.

Saving their friend was Illegal. Without express permission from their teachers or other authority figures, they had no legal ability to use their Quirks in public as a means of defense. However, saving Katsuki was the Right Thing To Do.

Thus, as terror gripped them when they caught sight of All For One for the first time and Tenya held his hands over Izuku's mouth to keep him from calling out to a childhood companion, they still were able to work together and form a strategy to get Katsuki out of the fray without engaging in combat.... and, however tremendous the ultimate cost was when the dust cleared, they succeeded in literally flying across the battlefield to save their lost friend.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: Tenya, and the rest of the Iida family, all share elements of their Quirk-- the term that is used in this canon for individualized super powers that everyone is either born with or awakens to at a young age-- in common: that is the engines which show up in various parts of their bodies. For Tenya, these engines manifested in his calves and were complete with mufflers that he could extend and retract as needed. Their function and weakness is the same as any engine: they make him go faster, but they can also over heat, burn out, and require specific fuel sources or they will not function correctly.

At base speed, Tenya runs no different than any other fairly athletic teenager that trains on a very regular basis. With his engines running at base capacity, however, Tenya can run at roughly the same speed as a horse-- with the numbers extrapolated from the Quirk Apprehension Testing conducted early in the school year, this clocks at roughly 37 mph or 51 kmh. This may not seem like much for a Hero with Speed as their primary power, but the Iida family has a number of secrets to further boost this...

Engine Boost adds a brief acceleration to his Engines, but is otherwise a very basic move that isn't used often because...

Recipro Burst is a skill in which Tenya forcibly accelerates his engines and essentially overclocks them-- gaining a tremendous burst of speed for ten seconds before the engines inevitably overheat and leave him unable to assist until they cool down. Recipro Extend counteracts the overheating effects with the help of modifications on his hero suit and allows him a longer duration of use. With this comes an additional burst of agility that is even able to surprise the most agile of opponents.

Not unlocked yet at his current canonpoint is Recipro Turbo, as he has not yet learned of a further family secret which involves ripping out the mufflers in his legs so newer. better ones which accommodate his growth and training can grow in. This would allow him a duration of ten minutes of greatly increased speeds which cannot be fully controlled for the duration of use.

Tenya's fuel of choice for the highest effect with his engines is Orange Juice... and how easily this beverage is available will determine a lot of Tenya's decisions within Trench.

Beyond the physical, Tenya is a top tier academic, Classroom Representative, a good leader in a crisis with the ability to both motivate and show people the way by action more than word. Not that he isn't good with people-- but he takes a negative modifier to his Charisma skills because of how LOUD and RULE ABIDING he can be at both the best and worst of times. That said, he is additionally quick at thinking on his feet and has the ability to see how the little matters affect the larger situation while in a crisis. Although he can be fussy, stubborn, and goofy at both the best and worst times, he is a good person to have around in all situations.


• Blood Type: Coldblood
• Omen: A greyhound! because he's fast like a greyhound and steadfastly loyal to his people and family like a dog!

• Blessed Day: 7/22, his older brother Tensei's birthday -- Patron is The Reckoning

• Blood Power Manifestation:

Writing Samples

One: Voice Test + Multiple Characters
Two: TDM + Xerxes Break

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