#hori kai

[sakubabypowa734]

🚨 BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA CHAPTER 427 ALERT SPOILERS! 🚨

2/5 chapters before the ending!

3 main points in this chapter.

First: Deku meets Spinner and tells the message that Shigaraki wanted him to give to Spinner and only Spinner.

Spinner called Deku a murderer

He was totally furious and angry and devastated by the death of his first and only friend.

Remember that Spinner was an outcast, so he decided to stay alone and playing videogames, especially the League of Legends. After that, he met Shigaraki who told him he played LOL too. Spinner found in Shigaraki a friend and a hero.

While Spinner transformed and got bigger, the police wanted to intervene but Deku stopped them.

He wanted to let Spinner confessing everything he held in his heart and told his sorrow...

Spinner said "The past never dies", that he will continue what Shigaraki has started and told him he gonna write a book about it and Deku answered him, not to a book but a comic.

Before leaving, Deku said he won't forget Shigaraki for as long as he lives.

And Spinner said to Deku to tell the "octopus" aka Mezo, to do his best.

Second: Overhaul met again his boss.

The boss said it's too late to apologize to him, that he should apologize to Eri for the rest of his life. Maybe Eri will forget about Chisaki, but it wasn't the reason to forget what he did to her. The boss told him that he'll stay by his side and scolding him until his death...

Third and last part: welcome back to UA.

Almost a normal day with fangirls running after Bakugou and Todoroki...

Jealous Mineta and shocked Deku!

Break next week. And the last one before the end!

Expectation:

- Deku talking to Uraraka about the war and Toga

- No confession cause I can't see anymore the same relation between them like at the beginning

- Uraraka feeling better for talking with Deku but Deku still the same since the beginning of the year

- Aoyama's party with the class 2A but Deku stay apart and is lost in hsi thoughts

- Maybe we will know who is the mysterious person from chapter 425?

Wish to meet Daddy Midoriya in chapter 430...

Don't forget his sorry a**, Hori-sensei!!!

[ghostreaderwazaa]

Scenes that describe the despair and sadness of seeing Chisaki crying in her last appearance:

I think many of us know the Fairy Oddparents cartoon, but there is an episode that I especially like because of one scene.

"Chip's teeth" in a part where Chip is interviewed, he tries to communicate even without having teeth, and the interviewer interprets it as there is a child in a well and says he is going to save him.

Exactly that would be me. I put the dialogue that is in Latin Spanish, but I imagine that the dialogue in English is similar (I think).

-"What?! A child in a well?! I will take the child out of the well!"

On the other hand, I would put the Godfather scene, where Vito sees the body of his son:

-"Look how they massacred my boy..." :"(

[number1villainstan]

Teen Chisaki: Imagine if you collected bones from roadkill and kept them in a box underneath your bed and then used them to impress your sibling Sister (Eri's future mom): Quick question: what's wrong with you? Teen Chisaki, nudging a suspicious box back under his bed: no idea but the doctors in that one lab I escaped thought it was fascinating

[aseersir]

[depperter-hase]

For Overhaul’s Birthday 20.03.2023

Kind of a collab with a friend who drew Overhaul having to drag Curator’s drunk ass back home!

[tokusongs]

"Mido Ranger's Riddle" (Nazonazo no Mido Ranger), from Himitsu Sentai Goranger (1975). Performed by Sasaki Isao, Horie Mitsuko, and Columbia Yurikago Kai.

[allforafro]

I recently realized that this chapter might make those people who have been complaining about bnha for a long time finally stop reading the manga

I hope horikoshi will give more moments like this and all these "fans" will stop constantly complaining or writing unbelievable things about what can still happen in the manga

[x-kiwi-03]

YES!

Pops failed his daughter.

He failed Chisaki.

Then he failed Eri.

Dude HAS to be a dick.

"I guided you to the path of humanity." Buddy, how?? What did we see him DO that represented humanity? He sure liked to yap about being humane while he tootled around as a goddamn mob boss, like???

At this point, why was this even an arc? Why not make Eri some rando kid Aizawa adopted or smth?? Then Hori tried to make Kai relevant by making Decay half of Overhaul, then the fandom started demanding some answers and he leaves us NO backstory to explain.

Hori, when I catch you, Hori....

honestly i’m glad to see so many (not too many but quite a few which is rare for overhoe) people be upset with how chisaki’s character was handled.

his conclusion is fine, not meeting eri and being scolded by pops, that’s what most of us expected but not getting his backstory or even some tiny crumb of context as to what the hell happened to him pre meeting pops is wasted potential and i’ll die on this hill.

also pops acting like he didn’t entrust eri to him in the first place?? or that he didn’t even take care of 2 distraught children?? both eri and chisaki needed HELP. psychological HELP that the only trusted adult in their life did not provide. he failed both eri and chisaki what the hell. the guy was a yakuza boss for crying out loud. his own daughter disowned him so why is he not being treated like a not-so-black and white character like endeavor? reading through his self righteous attitude was painful as hell.

some people are saying that the author just doesn’t care about chisaki and i’m starting to believe that.

[aydience-world]

It's such a waste for Overhaul to simply rot in a prison. So many people got hurt and buildings were destroyed during the war, they should have gotten him prosthetics and made him heal those injured people and restore their homes. Imagine how much faster those affected areas would recover and how much money the government could save if they made Kai do the labor. It's not gonna make up for what he did to Eri but at the very least it would help so many people at a much faster rate. I feel like Hori doesn't want to use the potential of this character simply out of spite

[glitch-karma]

have you seen the new valentine episode for horimiya?? can you write a one shot where the reader gives iura chocolate 🥹 he deserves it!!!

I TRY MY BEST TO DO REQUESTS OLDEST TO NEWEST BUT I JUST WATCHED THIS EPISODE AND I JUST AH MY BOY DESERVES IT

✧Cw: Fluffy fluff, slight implied fem reader (no prns specified though)

✧ Confession, Reader is also a third year, reader and Iura are friends and in the same class

"it's that time of year. Store shelves are gonna be packed with valentine's stuff everywhere." Toru speaks up. "I feel ya man. But... you're one of those guys who are gonna be swimming in chocolate treats so maybe I don't feel ya." Iura sulks, resting his head in his hand. You glance over at him as you nibble at a pastry you'd bought from the cafeteria earlier.

"you already said you did, no take backs." Toru says. "So, any plans for the lovey dovey day?" Iura asks Toru. "Uhm, Practice tying a tie? Yeah." Toru says. "Is that what Miyamura's teaching you now?" Iura questions as you both watched Miyamura attempt to tie Torus tie.

"he said he wanted to practice too." Toru replied. "Tada!" Miyamura said as he finished. Looking at it, it was a mess. Maybe the worst tie you'd ever seen. After a short pause Miyamura spoke up. "It's not appealing at all." "Uh, yeah you think?" Toru remarked. "Damn dude it's impressive how bad that is." You spoke in-between bites. "What is this monstrosity? Uh, it's freaking tight dude! I can't untie your stupid note!" Toru yelled.

Hearing the door crack open, You and Iura peaked around to see sawada peaking in. "Oh hey! Sawada just showed up guys!" Iura loudly announced. "I'm guessing you can for Miyamura." Iura continued as you finished your pastry. "No." Sawada said quietly. As soon as Miyamura greeted her she as usual ran behind him.

"I'm actually here for you Iura." Sawada said. "Me? Really? What's up dudette?" Iura questioned. "Uhm, do you like chocolate? Or no?"

Everyone in the room stood quietly in shock for a few seconds. You looked over at Iura as he looked shocked and shook lightly. "Y-Yes. I like chocolate." He said shyly. "Do you have a favorite?" Sawada asked as you stared in shock still. "No not at all! I love them all! I like bitter or sweet and I have no known allergies, kay!" Iura said with a big smile on his face. You stared at him as you could feel your face getting sweaty.

"So yup! Any kinda chocolate works!" Iura then said. "Got it. Thanks Iura." Sawada said. You could see Iura looking back and forth before reiterateing by yelling; "Any kind at all!"

"You wanna spend time and cash on chocolate for Shuu?" Toru asked. "Wait!" Sawada said surprised. "Shocked anyone besides Hori is on your list." Miyamura said. You nodded as well. "Kinda surprising.."

"Shut your mouths right now before you discourage her you killjoys!" Iura yelled. "Hey if you wanna make me sweets that's your prerogative okay?" Iura says with a hand behind his head. "Ugh- what kind of warped delusion are you living in to think I'd make sweets for you?" Sawada says with a grossed out look on her face. Iura stands there shell shocked. "I'm going back to class, where things make sense." She says as you four watch her leave. Iura stands there shocked still.

"Huh.. What!? She's the one who's not making sense, y'know?! Huh?!" Iura yells in a phrensy. You sigh a bit. Although you felt bad, it was revealing that Sawada wasn't going to give Iura any sweets.

✧

After a while, Iura heads out for the day. You stand slightly awkwardly looking at your feet. "So, bet that was pretty awkward for ya?" Toru teases you as he slaps your shoulder. "Considering you were planning on giving Shu something?" "Toru!" You yelled as you punched his shoulder. "Ah you like Iura, Y/n?" Miyamura asked. "It's pretty obvious." Toru speaks up as you continue hitting him.

You sigh as you finally stop, looking towards the ground as you whip your bag over your shoulder. "I've liked Shuu for awhile now. He's my best friend though. So this I guess will be the test or whatever? Ugh. Why am I even talking to you two about this?" You turn twords the two with a frown. "I need someone like Hori or Yoshikawa." "Harsh." Toru and Miyamura sulk slightly.

"Well, whatever you get him I'm sure he'll go crazy. He's my friend, but he's pretty lonely." Toru says as Miyamura nods. "Thanks for nothing." You sigh as you open the class door. "I'm out, see you tomorrow." "Cya." Toru waves as you close the class door.

Valentine's day is so far away, yet so soon. You were pretty nervous, but still. This was something that had to happen. It is third year after all.

_

The day was here. You'd stayed up late into the night out of fear, but it was finally time. The entire walk to school you were a mess as you shook with nervousness and fear. You inhaled as you looked around the corner to see Iura laughing with a classmate. As you backed away a little, you felt a shove. You looked behind you to see Yoshikawa shoving you with a grin. You hid the gift behind your back before speaking up.

"U-Uhm Shuu?" You mumbled loud enough for him to hear as your blush grew. "Oh, hey what's up N/n?" Iura paused as he saw the blush painting for face. When he saw your hand behind your back his face suddenly also exploded in red.

You stuttered for a second as you took your hands out shakily, revealing a small box wrapped with a yellow and pink pattern and a cd that had a small yellow bow on it. "Happy.. Valentine's day." You said as you held them out towards him. He yelled as he shook his head causing you to jump lightly. He grabbed them from you quickly with stars in his eyes. "Wow really for me?!" He yelled. You nodded as you cracked a smile at him.

"The CD has some new songs I thought you'd like.. I'm not sure if you've listened to them though." You awkwardly laughed. Shuu nodded as he placed the CD under the box and opened it up. There were various different kinds of chocolates all placed neatly in a row. Shuu could feel his face get hotter.

"I made the fillings myself. There's only 3 of them though." You laughed. "Oh! And here," you said digging through your bag pulling out a pink paper bag. "For your sister and you to share.. I made too many for just you." You blushed more.

"Y/n.." Iura looked shell shocked as he just stared at you. He then laughed as he pulled you into a hug. "You're just the person I wanted to receive chocolates from y'know!!" He yelled. You gasped as you felt him slightly rock you back and forth. He backed up a bit, popping a chocolate in his mouth. "Mhm matcha.." he gapped as he spoke with his mouth full. You chuckled as you could feel yourself get nervous again. "so.. Do you.. Uhm." You stopped as you could feel more eyes on you. Suddenly you remembered you were in the hallways. You looked around in embarrassment as you stuck your face in your hands. "I should have chosen a calmer spot!" You yelled, startling Iura.

He then laughed as he closed the box and hugged you again. You slowly took your hands out of you face as you looked up at his face. His goofy grin was replaced with this serious smile, one you'd only really seen at his house.

"I like you too." He said softly. You gasped as you tensed a bit. You then relaxed into the hug as you hugged him back. "Good. Cause those chocolates were hard." You joked.

[starlightbelle]

Chiming in to say: please let us see Nemoto’s face

We probably aren't going to see Kai until the end of the manga if my predictions are right.

But I don't wanna wait that long- so, instead, I'd like to see him using his quirk to help heal the injured. Nagant switched teams along with Gental and La Brava, now the Hassaikai?

I want this outcome so baaddd😭😭 I miss Hari and Nemoto! And I want to know what's happened to Rappa, Setsuno, Hojo, Tabe, all of them, it's been so long! I want them to know what's happend to their Boss, to see what's become of him. I wonder how they'd react. Would they be able to snap some sense back into him? Would they expect this to happen or be blown away?

If Horikoshi doesn't bring them back I'll cry then sue him. I need answers.

[number1villainstan]

I just looked up the meanings of Chisaki (thousand blossoms) and Kai (ocean/sea) and I have two thoughts

Horikoshi named his Pure Evil Unsympathetic Child Abuser villain "Sea of a Thousand Blossoms" which is a weirdly romantic name for that sort of character archetype

for my fellow shippers the deflowering jokes are right there

[quirkwizard]

Hey, I love your blog and everything you do, the Duds and Duds are amongst my faves. So I have a question for you, if you want, if there was anything about the storyline of the series you could change, would you and what would it be, like I know Tsukauchi was supposed to be the traitor, he was a spy under All for One’s control I think. And apparently Endeavour was supposed to be killed at the start of Paranormal Liberation War. Not sure if Kurogiri was always going to be Oboro. Have a Good Day

There are plenty of ideas I've had over the years. So for this, I'm discussing the ones most on my mind and I'm dividing this into three categories: removals, additions, and rewrites. And I won't include any that I talked about before extensively, like with the Stars and Stripes or Vigilantes Arc rewrites, or anything I feel deserves its own post to talk about it, like the Mutant Discrimination plotline during the Final War which I have yet to discuss.

For the removal, I would remove a lot of the later story choices with the villains. Specifically, I really wished the Tatartus Villains were more interesting and threatening as a force or used better, Stain and Overhaul especially. Stain gets killed off is one of the biggest missteps in the series for me. I'm honestly really confused why Hori decided to do it that way. And despite Overhaul being such a big bad early on, Kai was reduced to more of a tool to be jerked around by other characters and to get punished for what he did. Which, fair, was pretty objectively evil, and he should be punished, but I don't find the material they give him that interesting. Don't even get me started on everything that happened with him and "Decay".

For an addon, I would have the students train more. Specifically, under teachers and upper-tier pro heroes that could help them expand their Quirks in ways we get to see. While this could help offer some explanation of certain growths and power-ups the other students get, it's more about developing characters. I've talked about before how underdeveloped the teachers are, and that extends to a lot of the pros as well. It could help give more character to the students and their mentors by giving them some interactions, having the students take on certain traits from their mentors, or gaining new techniques inspired by them. Think like Shinso and Aizawa, but with other students and heroes.

Finally, for the rewrite, I would include another arc. Specifically, around the time of the Joint Training, the MLA War, and the Endeavor Agency. While I do think that the series has some time and pacing issues, the worst example of it is around this point, specifically with Tomura. He grows so fast in a single arc, going from dumpster villain to the most dangerous person in Japan. We need some gaps to get us to this point. Putting another arc for the villains where they grow to that point, even if it's a small one, I think would help set it up more. You could even give the hero side some of this extra time as well, giving the other heroes and characters more time to grow and set up everything for later.

[luffythinker]

thinking about Shigahaul and if they were allies they'd be lovers so quickly because Shigaraki doesn't lie, and he'll treat Kai like a real person and tell him how it is and nobody talks to the boss like this and it's a hassle to be around Shigaraki cause he's a brat but he can be put to good use and they are so THEM i wanna strangle them i love them, i want them to admit they love eachother on screen, that's Overhaul's conclusion Hori told me at the bar/srs

oh god not to steal your thunder here but why does this sounds exactly like deadpool and wolverine 😭😭 like i think overhaul would be so against being allies at first but when he eventually just accepts it he would realize how good they work together, and this would lead to them to get feelings soooo quickly ugh i love them too!!!!! chisaki making fun of shigaraki but never allowing anyone else to joke about him because he will have you disassembled ☝🏾

[curecrafted]

𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁𝙷𝙰𝚄𝙻 :: The man and the quirk.

Lets start with Overhaul: The man.

I've mentioned before I think he's actually a really great character and its a little tragic he was wasted the way he was ( though I don't really blame Hori. I know what was up. You might not get it but I do. ) and its even more tragic the fandom treats him the way it does, imo. Like, the fandom really likes to behave as if he is a hate-sink, which I don't agree with. Like I really don't think Hori intended him to be viewed that way and there's a decent amount of discourse in the fandom that accuses Kai of being transphobic.

Personally, I don't think its ENTIRELY untrue but for me its more in the sense of Kai being raised in an organization that is very traditional, conservative and male dominated. As far as Kai's misgendering of Magne went, I don't think it was intentional but I also don't think Kai would never do it again. I think he'd stumble over it a few times but less because of genuine bigotry and more from Kai just being unfamiliar with GNC trans people and the wider, more diverse trans umbrella, in general. In my main verse, Kai's only real experience with a trans person is Hari, who he loves very dearly and who archived his male body because of Kai's assistance, but Hari is largely gender conforming. This said, Kai would be fine to change Hari in anyway he wanted at any time, he just doesn't know another trans person personally beyond Hari. Like I said, its a diverse group and and moreover, its very unlikely Kai or Hari have been consuming a wealth of trans positivity or information in their environment.

So I don't think someone like Kai would really have the ability to "win" here. I think he'd come off looking like a bigot no matter what he did. I could see him just offering to reassemble Magne to make her female and this hilariously also being seen as offensive much to his confusion but honestly ? It'd be up to Mange. He wouldn't force it, he'd just suggest it, though I could just see him putting it across in an "insensitive" or "incorrect" way like, for example "I could make you a real woman if you wanted." Again, hes just. Not really in the transosphere to be aware of the most sensitive and correct way to approach these things.

But yeah, no, I don't think Kai is genuinely bigoted, I just don't think he has much experience here. In my eyes, he's confused but he's got the spirit and that goes beyond this particular issue because my logic for this comes from the structure and traditions of the Yakuza ━ this is to say the Yakuza are quiet conservative. They don't allow women into the organization outside of sex slaves for their prostitution rackets, wives and girlfriends, none of which hold any particular power, so, sorry to disappoint, but they're a very sexist and patriarchal organization.

That said, for me, Kai thinks the Hassaikai needs to modernize to survive and this includes Kai being someone who really doesn't really see a problem laxing long standing Yakuza traditions like, as a big example, not accepting female members. For Kai, particularly taking into account they're living in a supernatural society, quirks are what make people useful and valuable ━ not gender/sexuality/etc. A woman with a strong quirk is far more valuable than a man with a weak quirk.

Kai sees no reason for the Hassaikai to hold on to the boys club tradition of the Yakuza. Kai sees no reason not to make use of any and all resources to get an edge and ahead of any competition or at the very least save themselves from extinction. He'd be more interested in being more inclusive and open minded than the Yakuza traditions allow, which in canon was brought up by Yakuza members as something they hated about Kai.

Yet. Kai recognized not taking full advantage of quirks and rather holding on to these traditions that may have conflicted with the rise of quirks caused the Yakuza to stumble. Kai has fashioned himself as the villain that will modernize the Yakuza and thus elevate them to a status of power and respectability in supernatural society and to achieve this goal, he's no longer Kai Chisaki, he's Overhaul.

I mentioned before Kai admires and took a lot of inspiration for his villain persona from All For One. The parallels between the two of them are really quiet striking. Like All for One, Kai named himself after his quirk. I've mentioned motifs and symbolization for Kai, at least in my portrayal, are contradiction, black and white, yin and yang, duality. This is another way this shows for me because Kai's goal gives everyone, not just the fandom but characters in the canon, the impression that Kai is a bigot who hates quirks and wants to completely destroy them. Kai himself however claims he doesn't want to destroy quirks themselves, he wants to destroy current society.

( Just like the LoV, actually but I've yapped about that before too. I will say, however, my hottest take is that Kai was right. Magne attacked him first unprovoked, and its really weird to me how the LoV continued to act like he wasn't just defending himself and the fandom reeeeallly doesn't seem to take into account Magne was a career criminal who had murdered multiple men and was trying to literally crush Kai's skull with her magnet so like, idk, I honestly can't say he wasn't sort of justified in defending himself from what otherwise would have been death for him. In fact, the way the whole LoV talks to and about Kai is strange to me and I think a bit OOC because you kinda get the sense the LoV have to mirror anti-Yakuza sentiments moreso so that Hori doesn't get accused of supporting Yakuza irl because Japan's weird about this rather than that being really IC for the LoV, but I digress. ) While Kai absolutely and imo understandably has some internalized issues, wiping out all quirks wasn't Kai's actual goal or intention. If nothing else, even if you see Kai as a bigot, that would be bad for business and an integral part of Kai's plan that is frequently left out was reverse engineering the quirk erasing bullets to create quirk restoring drug. And IMO ? It wasn't necessarily quirks themselves Kai was trying to "cure". Like with Stain, Kai was out to "cure" quirks that were used in a way he deemed detrimental to society ━ specifically heroes and what Kai refers to as "hero syndrome", which, yes, he believes is a symptom of their quirks. And its tragic that I don't think the fandom understands what he's talking about but I've moaned about that before, too. In a nutshell, the MHA fandom tends to really miss the fact that Hori repeatedly established the Hero worshipping Society of MHA is a bad thing and a powerful tool in the systematic oppression of people with quirks. But with how he chose to end the story, I really can't blame anyone anymore for missing it all. Kai's plan would put an end to governments who abuse quirks and use Heroes to monopolize society. It would level the playing field between the empowered and stigmatized, the common man and the government, and most importantly, it would make Kai and his allies rich and powerful beyond imagination. That was the plan. It was never "get rid of all quirks because I don't like them."

Take note of how similar Kai's plan to essentially take and give quirks is to All for One's rise. All for One, with his own quirk, essentially did the same thing. He gave quirks to those who wanted them and took quirks from those who didn't. This is how AFO gained power and control and built his following. Kai is essentially doing the same thing but with drugs that he could sell to whoever would pay for them ━ and given societies present reliance on quirks ━ Kai's drugs would be sought after by everyone.

So Kai's relationship with quirks is obviously way more complicated than "guy that doesn't like quirks." Kai's in-between someone like AFO who very much loves his quirk and is shamelessly enwound in it in spite of being born in a time when the fear and hatred for quirks was at an all time high, and someone like Flect Turn, for example, who hated his quirk and viewed it as a curse due to the suffering it caused him.

Kai doesn't hate his quirk. Like All for One he has built himself around it and actually has very positive feelings for it, but this being said, Kai does think of quirks as an illness, he doesn't think of exempt from this, and he has negative feelings based on that manifesting most strongly in his mysophobia, but as far as my personal HC goes, this is also heavily, heavily enwound in his trauma and personal history. For me, its hard to say if Kai would think the way he thinks about quirks if his childhood had been different. Again, he doesn't exclude himself from the idea of being "sick". In fact its really how he explains his mysophobia, anxiety and the physical, emotional reactions he has to people touching him. Again, I don't think this is actually because of Kai's quirk exactly. He's deeply traumatized and doesn't remember what happened to him. His memories come in his reactions and his fear of "germs", not in actually remembering the abuse in the orphanage. He's deeply repressed and buried all of that. He does have vivid memories of his mother being sick and filth they lived in, but the orphanage where Kai's fear of touch and all the other more debilitating damage done to him is missing entirely.

I'm drawing parallels with Tomura here and the fact Decay has a mental and physical impact on Tomura. Stressful situations cause Tomura to itch, which is implied to be a result of decay, along with his skin flaking, as if turning to dust. Kai has a very similar thing in the sense that when he's stressed/agitated, it has a physical manifestation on his skin. He becomes itchy and breaks out in hives, particularly in places he feels he has been "contaminated", almost as if his skin is physically trying to transform itself in response to what it views as a threat. Both these issues may have ties to Overhaul and Decay respectively, but they also seem to be heavily related to trauma. Shigaraki's abuse and emotional destress and the hands of his father and Kai's mysophobia and, in my headcanon, abuse at the orphanage. Neither of them like to touched by strangers. This is all stuff that is really common in IRL victims of abuse which is why I think it has less to do with the quirk and more to do with the trauma, the quirks just happen to exasperate the issue due to their innate connections to the users. In another way, we can also see this with Dabi and how his flames react to his emotions. Last notes about Kai himself: I portray him as someone on the spectrum. He speaks in a relatable "autistic monotone" and is an extremely logically minded type of person. He ticks enough boxes for me to decide he has the evil autism pass. Good for him. I also portray Kai as gay, or, "homoflexible." He tends to be almost exclusively attracted to men / masc aligned individuals. On the rare occasion he's attracted to women its usually because they're masculine in some way ━ this said, it doesn't take much for a woman to be considered masculine or boyish in Japanese society and Kai is very much a product of his society.

Ultimately he's never labeled himself as bisexual because his attraction to women has been so rare. This said, he's never labeled himself as anything, because he's closer to closeted than he is to out but this is more a "don't ask, don't tell" situation, once again stemming from the Yakuza being so dominated by masculinity and Japanese conservatism.

As far as the culture goes, its not necessarily shameful to be gay, its moreso shameful to be thought of as taking a woman's role. Kai is unfortunate enough to be young and pretty and this alone can give people, particularly older men he's surrounded by, the wrong idea of him. He's had... A lot of passes from older men in the crime world. Usually this repulses him, in way that could have people mistake him for homophobic, finally enough, but no, this is because it often comes from a weird, objectifying place of these men thinking because he's young and pretty they can treat him like an object and exert their idea of superiority / seniority over him.

Kai's known to have a nasty temper, he gets in fights with other gangs and criminals A LOT. So he's good at upholding the dangerous, macho image required of someone who lives his lifestyle despite his sexuality, which is probably why older guys tend to piss him off. They tend to think because they're older than him they can disrespect him, which has caused certain issues. I could also say some of Kai's more vicious demeanor comes from compensating in this specific area.

Needless to say, he's more assertive and focused around other gangsters than people without strong gang/crime ties. He does NOT have the same manner around civilians/non gang members, where he's usually a lot more relaxed and friendly. He'd probably even let weird old normie guys flirt with him and play along a little so long as they weren't getting on any weird power trips with him, but either way hes fully capable of reminding weird old guys who think they're going to assert some unwarranted sense of authority over him that he could literally give them a pussy to fuck if he wanted to. Speaking of Kai's quirk though. Lets get into Overhaul: The quirk.

I  don't  think  canon  ever  says  exactly  how  it  works  outside  of  “Deconstruction  and  reconstruction”,  which  leaves  a  lot  to  the  imagination,  so  for  me,  these  are  my  Headcanonny  thoughts  from  being  insane.  It  reads  as  transmutation  and  matter  manipulation.  It  also  has  strong  elements  of  biokinesis.  This  literally  means  Kai  is  able  to  control  all  physical  matter  on  a  molecular  level.  His  power  is  similar  to  Atom  Eve's  from  Invincible  if  anyone  needs  an  outer  world  reference  on  what  matter  manipulation  powers  look  like.  This  is  a  nearly  god-tier  power  with  the  amount  of  uses  it  has/can  have.

This  being  said,  Kai's  power  is  slightly  different  in  the  sense  that  he  can  only  manipulate  solid  matter  and  he  has  to  be  able  to  physically  touch  it  for  his  power  to  work.  He  also  cannot  create  particles  out  of  air,  he  can  only  manipulate  and  transform  already  solid  constructs.  Keeping  in  mind,  though,  this  is  Kai's  power  at  its  base  form.  He's  never  had  any  kind  of  quirk  awakening  or  any  kind  of  power  booster.

Kai  can  alter  and  form  physical  materials  (organic  and  inorganic)  by  clumping  molecules  together  or  rearranging  them,  or  he  can  “destroy”  materials  by  dismembering  and  scattering  the  molecules.  This  is  why  when  Kai  murders  someone  they  appear  as  if  they  have  "blown  up".  See:  Magne  and  the  random  thug  that  lost  sight  of  Eri.  Keep  in  mind,  Kai  only  needs  to  touch  someone  with  a  single  finger  to  do  this. 

This  being  said.  Kai  never  actually  "destroys"  the  matter.  He  doesn't  need  to.  He  simply  scatters  it  at  such  a  force  and  such  an  amount  that,  again,  it  appears  as  if  he's  caused  an  explosion  but  the  matter  itself  stays  in  tact.  This  is  different  to  Decay  in  the  sense  that  while  Decay  was  manufactured  from  Kai's  quirk  it  was  altered  so  that  its  sole  interaction  with  matter  is  to  corrode  and  break  it  down,  not  to  scatter/dismember  or  rearrange/combine  it  the  way  Kai's  quirk  does.

He  can  change  any  physical  matter  into  a  completely  different  form  or  he  can  change  it  back  into  its  previous  form  and  vice  versa.  Kai  can  reassemble  matter  he  has  scattered,  which  means  he  can  blow  someone  apart  and  put  them  back  together  again.  See:  Rappa.

If  he  does  this  before  the  atoms  "cool"  he  can  literally  kill  and  resurrect  people  as  many  times  as  he  wants.  It  takes  around  10  minutes  for  the  atoms  to  cool,  give  or  take.  He  doesn't  always  know  the  exact  time  because  this  isn't  always  the  same  but  anything  under  10  minutes  is  almost  always  safe  in  his  experience.  In  fact,  Kai's  freakishly  adapt  at  altering  living  matter,  so  his  abilities  to  deconstruct  and  reconstruct  people  are  practically  perfect.

The  only  real  down  side  to  anything  here  is  the  deconstruction/reconstruction  process  is  horrifically  painful  to  whoever  is  undergoing  it.  Kai  himself  has  even  commented  it  causes  him  pain  to  use  his  quirk  on  himself.  This  being  said,  I  do  headcanon  that  when  Kai  uses  his  quirk  on  himself  its  significantly  less  painful  than  when  he  uses  it  on  someone  else.  Kai  is  unaware  of  this  however,  and  thinks  people  are  just  being  huge  pussies  about  it.

Kai  does  have  a  limit  to  his  quirk  in  terms  of  "mass".  Again,  he  cannot  create  particles,  he  can  only  manipulate  them.  Which  means  Kai  couldn't  turn  a  butterfly  into  an  elephant,  for  example,  but  things  that  are  roughly  the  same  size  he  can  transmute  back  and  forth  as  he  likes.  He  also  couldn't  transform  a  table  into  a  person  so  he  cant  make  non-living  matter  into  living  matter.  He  can  also  transmute  things  that  are  larger  into  things  that  are  smaller  by  scattering/discarding  unnecessary  molecules  or  duplicating  the  larger  subject  into  multiple  smaller  subjects.

For  example,  Kai  could  turn  one  large  elephant  into  two  small  elephants.  This  said,  he  can  work  around  mass  limitation  by  taking/combining  other  matter  together,  so  for  example,  he  could  make  an  elephant  out  of  two  hippopotamus.  This  is  limited  only  by  Kai's  imagination  and  his  anatomical  understanding  of  either  thing.  He  can  ALSO  merge  non-organic  matter  with  organic  matter,  so  even  if  he  cant  make  living  matter  out  of  non  living  matter,  he  can  form  them  together.   

And  yes,  as  far  as  my  portrayal  goes,  Kai  does  have  to  understand  the  inside  and  outside  of  something  to  achieve  the  best  results,  specifically  with  biological/living  matter.  This  doesn't  mean  he  wont  be  able  to  transmute  whatever  object  he  puts  his  hands  on,  but  occasionally,  when  it  comes  to  living  things  specifically,  if  he  doesn't  have  enough  anatomical  understanding  of  the  thing  the  "result"  may  be  slightly  off.

There  was  a  vague  example  of  this  when  Kai  fused  himself  with  Shin.  His  new  form  went  beyond  human  and  into  monstrous  but  this  was  intentional  on  Kai's  behalf.  Which  is  another  aspect  of  Kai's  quirk.  He  can,  indeed,  create  monstrous  forms  and  shapes.  He  does  not  have  to  sick  to  a  pre-existing  template  of  human  or  animal.  So  long  as  he  gets  the  base  right  he  can  just  make  shit  up.  Kai  could  literally  play  god  and  create  his  own  creature  out  of  an  existing  creature  or  even  by  merging  multiple  creatures  or  people  together  OR  with  himself.

If  Kai  can  touch  one  thing  with  one  hand  and  then  touch  another  with  his  other  hand  he  can  merge  them,  transform  them  and  also  absorb  them  at  his  will,  again,  with  the  only  real  limitation  here  being  his  imagination  and  the  fact  he  has  to  have  physical  contact  with  the  thing(s)  in  question  with  his  hand(s)

This  could  be  incredibly  painful  and  a  living  hell  for  a  living  subject  if  Kai  accidentally  (or,  y'know,  purposely)  puts  them  together  wrong  depending  on  WHAT  exactly  he  got  wrong.  Other  times  it  may  only  result  in  superficial/cosmetic  flaws.  It  really  depends.  This  is  something  explored  in  one  of  my  future  verses  with  Kai  as  due  to  disability,  his  quirk  no  longer  functions  as  precisely  as  it  once  did  meaning  the  matter  that  Kai  alters  and  shapes  is  no  longer  ever  “perfect.”

When  it  comes  to  merging  himself  with  other  humans,  this  even  gives  Kai  access  to  their  quirk.  It  is  not  known  if  there's  a  limit  to  how  many  people  Kai  can  absorb  and  thus  how  many  quirks  he  can  use  but  as  far  as  my  HC  goes,  this  is  only  limited  by  the  type  of  quirk  as  some  quirks  may  require  him  to  adapt  certain  different  forms  which  is  also  not  something  entirely  outside  of  his  capabilities.

This  is  similar  to  AFO  being  able  to  steal  quirks.  Kai  can  too.  It  just  often  ends  up  more  grotesque  as  he  has  to  take  the  body,  or  at  least  some  of  it,  as  well  as  the  quirk.

By  the  way,  Kai  did  spend  his  time  practicing  his  quirk  on  non  living  things  before  moving  his  way  to  rats,  lizards,  rabbits  and  other  small  animals  and  gradually  kept  working  his  way  up  to  larger  more  anatomically  complicated  things.  Another  one  of  Kai's  limitations  is  he  can't  use  his  quirk  on  something  he  cant  see  so  his  range  for  how  far  his  quirk  is  effective  to  is  how  far  he  can  see.  So  pretty  much  he  can  affect  whatever  he's  touching  for  around  2.9  miles,  however,  the  more  the  distance  increases  the  less  effective  his  quirk  is.  If  cant  see?  Quirk  doesn't  work. 

And  of  course,  the  fact  that  Kai's  quirk  factor  is  in  his  hands.  However,  its  also  been  stated  that  Kai  can  use  his  quirk  with  someone  else's  hands.  This  means  Kai  only  needs  hands  to  use  his  quirk….  They  don't  have  to  be  his  own.  If  they're  attached  to  him,  he  can  use  them  as  far  as  my  HC  goes.  So  yeah.  Have  fun  with  that.

I  don't  headcanon  Kai  can  use  his  quirk  through  any  other  part  of  his  body,  though,  despite  how  horrifically  overpowered  Kai's  quirk  is.  Again,  though,  he's  never  had  a  quirk  awakening  or  anything  like  that  and  I  haven't  decided  what  such  an  event  would  do  for  Kai  given  how  monstrously  god-tier  his  quirk  already  is.  On  top  of  this,  tragically,  Kai  hasn't  explored  his  quirk  to  its  full  potential.

Overhaul  is  not  a  quirk  that  can  be  copied  or  used  outside  of  Kai's  body.  This  is  why  AFO  couldn't  use  it  for  himself  and  someone  like  Monoma  or  Himiko  couldn't  use  Kai's  quirk  either.  As  I've  also  said,  Kai's  knowledge  in  biochemistry,  molecular  biology  and  anatomy  helps  increase  the  effectiveness  in  how  he  uses  his  quirk.  Again,  as  mentioned  in  one  of  Kai's  future  verses  where  he  gets  his  Arms  Back,  Kai's  quirk  doesn't  function  as  "precisely"  as  it  used  to  and  this  actually  heavily  comes  down  to  Kai's  mental  damage  and  not  necessarily  anything  physical.

Another  restriction  of  Kai's,  which  is  probably  his  greatest  restriction  of  all,  is  his  mysophobia.  Kai  doesn't  like  touching  people  or  things  he  considers  dirty/germy.  He  avoids  it  as  much  as  possible.  This,  hilariously,  is  a  huuuuge  hinderance  to  Kai's  quirk  and  how  much  absolutely  INSANE  shit  he  could  do  with  it  as  just  about  all  the  horrifying,  miraculous  stuff  I've  mentioned  above  is  all  stuff  Kai  is  very  hesitant  /  avoidant  toward  because  of  his  disorder,  hence  he  hasn't  explored  his  quirk  as  extensively  as  he  might  if  he  was  unhindered  by  this.  People  and  animals  specifically  are  dirty  to  him  and  avoids  touching  them.  He  even  avoids  touching  a  lot  of  different  surfaces  because  of  his  dislike  of  germs.

And  thats  funny  as  hell  all  things  considered.

[overhual]

kai's post-canon verse. so this verse operates under the assumption that canon happens as we know it up until nagant frees chisaki. he armless, ambitionless, hassaikailess. you get the idea. however, the kai that we see in canon with nagant is not the one you'll see written on this blog- and i have a theory as to why he was written that way:

i imagine that horikoshi went a little too hard/too dark on overhaul and this mini-arc (and his end of canon shot) of his was a way to knock him down to a sniveling, pathetic shell of who he was to sort of ease the readers. it's hori going, "dw guys!! the bad guy's pathetic now!" type of thing.

there's no really no chance of kai getting "redemption", either. if he was to get recaptured, it'd be straight back to tartarus for him. there's no big victimization he was a part of, no super sad backstory. kai is a villain who is just bad to be bad - unlike toya, or even tenko. and as such, i tried to make his post-canon verse reflect that.

when this kai is freed by nagant, he does go with her to point out izuku, repaying his debt for her freeing him. once that contract is ended, chisaki leaves the scene, and nagant, deku, and co have their little reunion without him.*

* i am cooking up a separate verse with isa where nagant and kai stay together, rather than nagant getting recaptured.

he's on his own and seeks to reconnect/rebuild the hassaikai. he starts by finding hari, finding those who still have some loyalty to pops/to the hassaikai as a whole, and building from there. the entire operation comes from a place of humility and hard work. kai has prosthetics (with claws)*, is quirkless, and now has to use his skill and leadership to rebuild what he, himself, tore down. he returns to more a more old school yakuza way of thinking, and through his new humility and regaining some sense of humanity, the shie hassaikai is eventually rebuilt under him. this verse will likely be written/interacted with during a time where the hassaikai is known to be coming back under him, but isn't quite to its former glory.

* also, hilariously, overfeet is not completely off the table in this verse. however, to first discover that overhaul is stored in the feet, then to practice enough to get back to the level to fuse himself with new arms, and THEN to actually do so takes quite a bit of time. unless stated, kai will be written with high tech prosthetics.