Chinese (Both parents from Sichuan)
meaning “Two fold” or “double”
Jin is an incredibly special case in which he technically does not have a quirk of his own. The blue amorphous grid-patterned ball that floats about him is actually a congregate of mutant quirk cells formed in the womb alongside him. Doctors discovering later that it was actually the mutated quirk cells of a twin that never made it to development but that latched on in a parasitic fashion to Jin’s healthy fetus and would draw in nutrients from him like a host.
When he was born Doctors were shocked to find him incased inside of it like a second womb that could not be pierced no matter what they tried. They gave the blob to Jins freaked out mom and it immedietly opened up to reveal a healthy baby Jin. Because of its link, Jin and by extension, his parents, all have some control over it, with Jins control being the strongest. Initially it would act on its own in an effort to protect the host, such as catching him when he fell over as a toddler and repelling objects coming in his direction. With some concentration and effort he can control it to make it do things that he wants. Since birth, it no longer requires any nutrients or energy from Jin to move about.
The quirk itself is a mixture of his mothers and fathers quirk, his father having the ability to control the movement and hardness of silk, and his mothers quirk of being able to change the state of matter of something into solid, liquid or gas. Jin can change the consistancy of the blue cells matter, its hardness, density and size. However, it can only grow to a specific size, if spread out to its maximum capacity it can reach an area of about 15 meters on all sides with a thickness of a about an inch. However, this decreases its strength drastically. It can never be pierced however it does have give to it, meaning things can be pushed into it and it like rubber. It can also be made hard and slippery in order to slide upon, which Jin uses as a way to bounce attacks away, as well as slide along it to escape.
He can also wear the cells as clothes and use it as a net and as an offensive weapon by curling it into a corkscrew spear or using it as a large blunt weapon.
Because the cells react to Jin’s strongest instincts, it doesn’t always mean Jin can provide a lot of forethought in a fight, and controlling its shape and density is something he is working on constantly.
The cells will also act in their own accordance as a self preservation method, meaning, if Jin wants to protect a teammate, he cant always overide the cells will to protect only its host and it will instead rebound, encase Jin and will not let him free until the danger has withdrawn. Since it cannot be pierced, it can do this for any amount of time.
Also, since it cannot be pierced or create a hole within itself, any shape that Jin wants to create needs to have a sort of foldable pattern, like an origami. Part of his hero suit is the cells wrapped around his body to look like clothes, these stop bullets and projectiles but do not protect Jin from the concussive force of them. The same way Kevlar stops a bullet, but cant stop the force of the bullet from bruising ribs and leaving welts.
It should be noted that the cells that make up the parasytic cells are not and never have been concious, they are simply that, a cluster of cells that formed off of mutated quirk material dna. Whatever Jin’s feelings are about the cells, it’s simply him projecting his own insecurities onto it. This can be called a weakness as it generally makes him more nervous in a fight.
Jin used to be a regular sociable child up until age 9 when the doctors finally discovered what his quirk really was. Suddenly he was forced to face the fact that he himself, was actually quirkless, and that he could have possibly had a twin and that twin would have been the one with the quirk. After that he became incredibly withdrawn and avoided his friends at school feeling like an imposter, the only person he was very close to his whole life was his grandmother on his fathers side. He would occaisionally run away from school midday and come home. After she’d calmed him down they’d spend hours in the kitchen making soup dumplings and noodles.
He remained the same way until Bunta more or less forced his friendship upon him when he entered UA, and by proxy Yun-Yeong as well, The three are inseperable, each helping the other to stand on their two feet.
Jin’s parents actually had them incredibly late into their lives. Jin’s dad is a beloved retired Pro-Hero called “The Dragon of Chengdu” and his mother is a Journalist who worked for a prominent newspaper at the time. Jin’s dad was born in a very low income area of Chengdu and grew up rather poor. When he graduated the nations top hero academy, he became an absolute treasure to his neighborhood, and as he grew to rival the top pros of the country, he became the most celebrated Hero in the province. There even being restaurants opened with his image, as well as certain landmarks from his childhood being turned into tourist spots. He is most known for his infectious optimism despite his upbringing and put forth tons of money back into the poor community he grew up in. He was named “Dragon of Chendu” because of his costume, which has a massive train, glides about the city on patrol, people would look up and see a large chinese dragon, circling the sky, it provided people with an incredibly safe feeling as well as providing him his lifelong namesake.
After finishing up tracking a villain in Nanchong, he saw Jin’s mother who was rushing to him for an interview, he was incredibly distracted by how pretty she was and wasn’t paying attention to his landing, and ended up slamming right into a steel beam and getting knocked out. When he woke up she visited him in the hospital and he knew it was love at first sight. They married soon after and shortly after that they were told that they weren’t able to have any children.
He retired when he was about 40 when his wife found out they were pregnant, he instead, became a journalist and editor and the two of them wrote columns about the state of the hero world, using the knowledge he’d gained in an over 20 year career to give interesting insights. When they found out they were pregnant they were freaked out since they were so much older than regular parents, but extatic and dropped everything in order to prepare for being parents. His parents both absolutely cherished Jin, and they did absolutely everything together. His dad constantly takes Jin up for rides when he wasn’t on patrol, which is why Jin doesn’t have a fear of heights. His mother on the other hand refuses to let Jin’s dad take her more than 3 feet off the ground before going into hysterics.
Due to Jin’s incredibly compex feelings towards the cells that form his “quirk” he feels as though he isn’t the one worthy to have lived to full maturity, and so he felt that because this other sibling probably would have been amazing, that he can’t drag its power down with him, and entered UA’S transfer program as a way to make up for being the one who “got to live”.
He also wanted to join as he’d wanted to be a hero himself since he was young before he discovered the truth behind his quirk. He has an intense amount of pride for his father after seeing the way his city not only supports him, but in the way that the citizens truly love him, and how his dad loves every single one of them back. He finds an intense comfort in the feeling and doesn’t want that feeling to die with him, knowing that he has to use his “quirk” in order to make sure that optimism and hope lives on.
-Jin wakes up every morning before daybreak and does laps of the yard outside the school in order to train up his body so that he has a firmer control of the cells that form his quirk. Its by doing this that Bunta (forcibly) joins him and they become good friends, both pushing eachother to do better as neither are very althletic.
-Jin isn’t a morning person whatsoever, the other reasons he runs is because he’s rather homesick, his father would wake the entire house before dawn with a booming yell and force everyone on walks in the early morning together to ready them all for the day. Jin and his mom both exhausted by his seemingly unending optimistic energy. Its a habit that arose when he moved to the dorms and suddenly there was no one waking him up anymore and ran initially as a way to combat the feelings of anxiety from being so far away from home.
-Yun-Yeong and Jin met while she was ripping into Bunta about sticking up for her to someone talking trash when she never asked him to, she turned to Jin prepared to verbally rip him a new one as well simply for being associated with Bunta and stopped dead. He was so scared looking that she was speechless for the first time in her life. To this day Jin is the only person she’s never ever written a single bad limerick about. She can’t bring herself to do it.
-Because of his unsociable nature he let his hair grow out incredibly long so that he could hide behind his bangs. Every attempt by Yun-Yeong and Bunta to forcibly cut his bangs backfiring comically because of Jins protective quirk. Eventually Jin came to class with his messy uneven bangs cut, having done it himself. Everyone freaked out since they all thought he grew his bangs out because he had mouths for eyes or something crazy he was hiding beneath them. Yun-Yeong sat at lunch outside and evened them out for him while Bunta bloviated that they should be creditted with his transformation.
-Jin loves incredibly spicey things and consistantly overspices the food he makes in the dorms. When Yun-Yeong , Bunta and him make Hot Pot together, they bring their own pot because they don’t trust him not to kill them both with the spice.
-Bunta calls their trio neccesary, as the three work best together to cover for eachothers weaknesses. He explains this as saying “This wouldn’t work with just the two of us, a two-legged stool is a shitty stool. But a three- legged stool is the sturdiest of all” Jin and Yun-Yeong outwardly say thats dumb, but fail to realize that when they fight, they usually begin back-to-back-to-back, like the legs of a stool.
-Jin’s powers work as complete support to his two other teamates. He tailors his quirk to whatever is going to help their chances. When its him and Yun-Yeong, he’ll curl the cells into a megaphone shape and double Miss Diss’ range and allow her to attack and stun a group of people at once, then Bunta jumps and Jin will curl the chape much thinner like the barrel of a gun and Bunta will use his concussive sneeze into it. Which allows him to concentrate the blast and hit from much further away.
-Jin’s favorite use for his quirk is making spiral pathways. Bunta and him will link arms and Bunta will sneeze, propelling them across the surface of his shape and allowing them to manuever around the arena at incredible speeds. This also allows them to transport Yun-Yeong across the arena so that she may stun or attack as she doesn’t have fast mobility. He also uses this method to delivery Bunta to different areas, as he is essentially a turret that they move to wherever they need him most.
Thats the second to last one! I like how Jin came out, even if visually he’s not what I was thinking of lol only one more to go~
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