Student Profile: Eijiro Kirishima
“Hey there! You can call me Eijiro Kirishima, or if you wanna go by Pro Hero names, the Sturdy Hero: “Red Riot”! I’m a proud, promising, and totally manly member of Class 1-A at U.A. High School, the main setting (for the most part, anyway) of Kohei Horikoshi’s hit manga and anime, My Hero Academia! Aside from being one of the core cast members of the series, I’m also just one of the many, many people in my home universe who have Quirks, superpowers unique to each person, and it’s one of the reasons why I’ve enrolled at U.A. High - and in the Hero Tech universe... well, I think you can guess. Oh, also, I look way more manly than most people my age, which means that I’m actually underage! So my portrayal in canon is probably not the best for ‘the bugs and the bats’ as the saying goes, so if you wanna try your hand at that then just talk to the HTI version of me and I’ll more than likely say yes. I’m a real challenge-seeker, so you can bet I’m not fussy when aged up!”
“As confirmed by my creator, I was 15 years old at the start of the series and am currently 16 as of the latest episode, as well as 5′7″ in height. My weight wasn’t defined in canon, but I’m a bit on the weighty side thanks to a lot of heavy-duty muscle, so let’s go with 160 pounds for now. While I do work out a lot, though, it wasn’t just my brute strength that got me to one of the highest-ranking Hero Training high schools in all of Japan - that honor actually goes to my Quirk, Hardening, which does... well, exactly what you think it does. Guess you can say I’m thick-skinned, heh! That and I can give myself a literal edge in battle, which is extremely useful! What does that have to do with my Pro name and amazing hair, though? Well, my idol since middle school, Crimson Riot, has a similar quirk to mine on top of the same manly life policy of living without regrets. The sheer amount of aspiration that I had to be like him changed me in a lot of ways, mostly for the better. Why else do you think I wanted to get into U.A. in the first place?”
“As far as my personality goes, let’s just say that once I started training to become a pro hero, there really was no going back. My drive to be like Crimson Riot and other big-name pros in every way possible has molded me into an outgoing, kindhearted, and honorable guy, and as someone who strives to make friends with everyone - in no small part because I was that determined to move past my younger days as an unconfident and unmanly little kid - I’ve made connections with and bought together everyone in Class 1-A, including Katsuki Bakugo of all people, who... well, let’s just say I’m the only person he’s nice to for a reason. At the same time, I still show hints of being self-deprecating, overconfident, and oblivious at times, thanks to a combo platter of my history of being a tad overshadowed (thanks a lot, Mina), my Quirk being straightforward - albeit not very flashy - and my habit of working out rather than sitting down with boring old books! Still, I’ve gone places since the old days, and I won’t have it any other way!”
“So, where does that take me as an HTI student? Well, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that as a sophomore in Sports and Exercise Science and a college star hero with the scholarship to go with it, I’ve gotten to know a ton of people on campus, both teachers and classmates, and a lot of them have shown the kind of strength, heroism, and manliness I hold with lots of respect. While Denki Kaminari, Mina Ashido, and the aforementioned Bakugo will always be my true companions from U.A., I’ve netted a lot of besties from outside my home series, too. Yang Xiao Long is probably the closest friend of mine outside of Class 1-A, being just as committed to being a hero as me, and her ability to grow from certain experiences in her canon was one of the things that allowed us to hit it off like it was nothing, that and she gave me a damn good fight when we first met. Have you seen her shotgun gauntlets?! If that isn’t manly, I don’t know what is! There’s also both genders of Corrin/Kamui, who are equally sweet and friendly although a little more mellow and philosophical than me, preferring to read rather than fight, though we all share the same ideals and strive to make the world a better, less treacherous place. We don’t always see eye to eye but when we do, no villain in the world can stop us. And of course, there’s Ben Tennyson. His character growth has actually been a slight reverse from mine, being way more cocky and overconfident when he was little and toning it down as a teenager, but he knows how to do the right thing, and has more than enough amazing shapeshifting powers to pull it off. Does whatever the Omnitrix or Ultimatrix does count as a Quirk? I haven’t studied that yet.”
“That's it for my info, I guess. I know the dean needs to read a little more into my home series but I’m sure he’ll get by with what he knows so far, and I’m sure he’s seen enough of me in action to keep me in character. Regardless, here’s to a truly manly time at Hero Tech, and a lot of both badass fight scenes and fluffy roleplay threads to come!”
