Yuri Akanawa

|Overview Gallery Synopsis Relationships ""It's my fault ! If not, then explain why whenever something bad happens to her, I'm involved somehow ?! I'm such a pathetic person, but still.. she's still by my side. I don't deserve anything coming from her.""

- - Yuri Akanawa to Mezo Shoji about Miyuki

Yuri Akanawa (赤縄 百合 Akanawa Yuri), also known as Alvilda (アルビルダ Arubiruda), is a student in Class 1-B at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero. She's the deuteragonist of my fanfiction.

Apparence
Standing at an above average 5'3", Yuri has a well-built body, quite muscly due to her daily trainings. She has a pretty face, always wearing a serious and cold expression. She has long waist-high burgundy hair with two medium strands hanging on both side of her face, with beautiful rectangular grey eyes paired with small thick eyebrows. Her quirk endowed her body with 9 old rose-ish marks on her arms, legs and belly. Since the Forest Training Camp Arc, Yuri possesses a scar following an attack from Yeti, on the right side of her left shin.

During school hours, unlike the other students, Yuri sometimes wears a waistcoat over her school uniform, in place of the usual U.A. blazer.

Yuri's hero costume consists of an off-white top with puffed sleeves and small ruffles. Over it there's a red and black corset, fastened thanks to a small thin rope. The corset is connected at her neck to a sort of choker with ruffles, with a chain around. Both reach above her belly mark in order to avoid bothering her quirk use. To match the corset, Yuri added a mini-short of same colors, slightly shredded at the end. Pouches that carry her first aid equipment are hanging here, with also her gun and knife. A long piece of fabric, slightly crinkled and brown colored covers partially her short. Her gloves and boots are designed the same, dark yellow and brown in color with triangle-shaped edges and yellow circles. They also have a small chain by way of bracelets, around ankles and wrists. On her head, Yuri has a hat, similar to a pirate one, with a skull and crossbones on the middle and a chain hanging through every peak of the hat. On the skull and crossbones' middle, there's a red "A" with a black outline.

The winter version of her costume is not different, she only added an eyepatch that allows Yuri to see far away. And to protect her body from coldness while being able to use her quirk, she covered her arms, legs and upper body with a thin bodysuit with holes on her marks.

Personality
Yuri is a person who rarely shows her emotions – hating to do so – and prefers to stay apart from those around her. People noticed a lot of coldness and wariness inside her eyes, therefore they were too afraid to talk with her. Moreover, living in a family with a precarious situation, Yuri lacked of hygiene which put people off, except Miyuki and Mezo.

If Yuri doesn't know the person she's talking with, her defense mechanism will automatically activate itself, resulting in a harsh and wary attitude. She's always mistrustful of people around her, or about anything that sounds too weird to be true. She gets provocative and violent only with people who starts being slightly intrusive, other than that, she just responds shyly but will try to quickly end up the conversation as it makes her uncomfortable. Some of her friends, like Itsuka Kendo, often apologizes instead of Yuri for her brutal behavior. Being always leery made her protective, even overprotective, of her peers, often preventing them from taking any risk, even if it seems not dangerous. Actually, Yuri has developed a talent in reading people (mostly during her middle school years, when she was alone), so it's easy for her to nail down who's bad and who's nice, and whenever someone she considers bad begins to talk with her friends and asks to do something in an outlandish way, she will force them to protect themselves but will never hesitate to step in if the situation worsens.

Yuri is also quite hot-blooded, she gets easily irritated by many things not least by impolite or two-faced people. She will become quite crude if she bumps into that kind of people, even more if it's her friends who're the victims. Furthermore, she is someone who hates things like romance, making her flustered and blushing effortlessely. However, this never prevented her from feeling those emotions, yet she doesn't know how to deal with them. On the other hand, when it comes to others, she will feel disgusted. Yuri is a very thick-skinned person, meaning she'll not be affected by any insults as she's used to criticism regarding her, mostly about her usual behavior. People, and mostly her classmates, always try to change her as they state that her wariness and harsh words towards anyone is not suitable. Something that Yuri is aware of but declares it as useful because it saved her from many dangerous situations.

Although quite cold and distant, Yuri still have friends who love her in spite of that. And those friends are some of the few persons she trusts, which is somewhat surprising coming from her. She doesn't want to lose them like it happened with her best friend, Miyuki, and many more, that's why her attitude is totally different when she's around her friends. She becomes more caring and friendly, someone who's very helpful and supportive. Yuri is very intelligent, she loves to impress people with her brain skills so, whenever a peer of her needs help, she immediately offers hers. After, she will encourage them to pursue all the efforts they put in everything, which made people acknowledge their friend as a good person despite her aloof nature. Friends are not the only persons Yuri cares about, her family as well. Since her father's departure, she takes care a lot of her mother and does all the chores in her house. Actually, Yuri noticed that her mom had suffered a lot mentally which made her hypersensitive so she tries to spare her all the tiring things as she already struggles with work. Yuri started to be very responsible at a very young age, something that her mom finds very nice coming from her daughter but she also feels like a total failure when seeing Yuri doing everything and thinks it's her fault if she doesn't have a lot of friends and lack of sociability. However, after moving in at the Heights Alliance, Yuri couldn't help her mother anymore but was keen to avoid her doing chores so Yuri decided to call her grandma to take care of her mom while she's away, having now video call with both regulary. Being used to do housework at home, she still does it after moving in the Heights Alliance. She already has cleaned the whole building by her own, even her classmates dorms.

Sometimes, Yuri tries to joke with her friends but most of them told her to stop doing this, as she's, somewhat, quite bad at telling jokes. She tends to lean towards the more sarcastic or teasing attitude, most of the time to hide the truth of what she really feels, but also her extreme honesty. It happens quite often that her thoughts slip out and says things without meaning to, leading to hurt the person in question. Yuri will feel very sorry and immediately apologize, wanting to stay in good terms with all her peers.

She's a very resentful and jealous person, her moves or words makes it easily noticeable, like: often comparing herself with other people - physically or mentally - or resenting for days, anyone who behaved badly with her or those she loves. Because of that, she lost her best friend, Miyuki. To be precise, Yuri was extremely jealous of her friend, feeling envious of her life. She then, started to feel resentment toward her friend and started to be distant, as she thought Miyuki was just boasting about her wealth and happy life. Yuri found herself all alone after alienating Miyuki and Mezo, her only friends. And because of that, she grew up more withdrawn than usual, an introverted girl started growing up in her. She even stated, when apologizing to Miyuki, that she couldn't look her in the eye, feeling so ashamed of herself for everything she did.

When it comes to heroism, Yuri turns out to be a very sadistic person, loving to hurt and never hesitate to beat some villains. She shows great courage, wiling to protect and save everyone despite the danger. Her introversion is more seen in trainings, as she's practically always working alone, preferring to avoid disturbing her classmates in their work. She's a very independent girl, capable of doing things by her own. During these times, but also during classes, she is hardworking and could stay up late if she isn't satisfied of what she did.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Yuri, known for her violence, is a very skillful combatant. She has a good master over her quirk, knowing how to use and control her fastening items well. Yuri will first use her quirk to immobilize her opponents' limbs and then comes to blows afterwards. There's other ways of using Fastening, like making labyrinths and confuse opponents, (it also happens that she flogs those who show opposition) though, however, every items have their own job: chains and ropes are mostly used for attacking, attaching, wrapping and pulling targets or objects, while her threads are usually for splitting purposes. Her most used and favorite item is chains, because they're naturally more resistant than ropes and threads, and so she doesn't have to adjust their strength. They can easily break solid matters like: ice, stones, metal, debris etc. Although her other items may look flimsy, her threads for example, can split with ease thick metal and trunks and her ropes thigten very well without breaking.

Yuri's quirk keeps her at long range in combat but having practiced a lot of different sports, she learned how to fight using various fighting styles, therefore becoming more versatile. Her abilities earned her the attention of various Pro Heroes, especially Mirko's. The latter said she was impressed of Yuri's strength, actually both possess the same violent fighting style.


 * Enhanced Strength: Yuri practices sports that develop her muscles, so she's enough strong to break hard things with her chains or when she catches some opponents, to lift them up in the air and bang them on any surface. Her strength always amazes her classmates, she's one of the strongest student in Class 1-B.
 * Enhanced Stamina: She possesses good stamina, capable of running for a long time or do workouts with ease. When she fights, she generally lasts till the end of the fight and not always exhausted.
 * Enhanced Durability: Even injured Yuri is able to continue fighting. As seen during the Forest Training Camp Arc, when she received an attack from Yeti. Her foot was bleeding but it didn't prevented her from protecting Miyuki, still, she can't overdo it.
 * Enhanced Speed: Yuri also practices athletics to improve her speed without using her quirk to move. She became very fast, she may be capable of outmatching Pony's speed.
 * Enhanced Reflexes: By practicing boxing, Yuri has good reflexes and can dodge her opponents punches or attack.

Keen Intellect: Yuri is the most intelligent student in Class 1-B. Since elementary school, she always had good grades. Her cleverness is very useful in fights, her strategies are always working that she captivated a lot of Pro Heroes' attention. Even some villains agree that she's very smart for her age and that people will have trouble fighting with her. As said above, Yuri had developed a talent in reading people, becoming very observant during fights. She can turn the situation at her advantage by analyzing the opponent's behavior for a few minutes.

Indomitable Will: Yuri is thick-skinned and could not careless about other people's criticism. She never lets herself being distracted and try to keep her self-control as she already knows what she's worth, her qualities and skills. However, there's times where Yuri's hot-blooded side gains the upper hand which makes her even more violent than she's already.

Sports Talent: Since she's 5, Yuri practices a lot of sports like: swimming, athletics, boxing, soccer, archery, basketball, baseball and more. She never encountered problems in organizing herself with all the different trainings and managed to invest herself and go to all her trainings. Thanks to this, Yuri became one of the most skillful student of her class, 1-B.

Cooking Talent: During her childhood, Yuri learned how to cook and she's now able to make different dishes with ease.

Musical Talent: Yuri can play electric guitar well.

Quirk
Fastening (留め具 Tome-gu, lit. "Fastener"): Yuri has 9 marks that are situated on her arms, legs and belly. Through them, she can pull out 3 fastening items: chains, ropes or threads. Her veins can also be extracted. To make all those items, she has to transform her iron into chains, vitamins into ropes and her nutrients into threads. She can use them to fasten, pull/wrap something or put them into a ball shape. They’re unlimited, depending on the sources. Quite robust and resistant, Yuri is able to control their elasticity, length, type and thickness. When she uses her quirk, her marks shine and a red glow-like comes out of her marks when pulling out an item.

Yuri has to eat and respect each meal necessary for her, in order to use her quirk. Lack of iron, vitamins or nutrient will prevent her from using Fastening. If, in the middle of a fight, her sources end up lacking, Yuri will no longer be able to use her quirk. The most common drawback she encounters, when she uses her ability for too long, her marks will dry out and hurt her. The pain can go stronger and stronger until she gets paralyzed for five minutes maximum. Lacking sources will not only prevent her from using her quirk, her condition can also worsen in 3 different levels (depending on what item she oversues):


 * Level 1: the least serious, hunger (Threads overuse)
 * Level 2: the average, dizziness (Ropes overuse)
 * Level 3: the most serious, anemia (Chains overuse)

Reaching the third level can provoke her a loss of consciousness for a certain amount of time, often really long. The better the quality of her items, the greater the inconveniences will be.

Using her veins for more than one minute will cause her blood circulation to stop and may have a heart attack. Also, she cannot change their elasticity, length, type and thickness.

Super Moves

 * Rodeo Rope (ロデオ・ロープ Rodeo Rōpu): Yuri creates a long rope and then she transforms it into a lasso to catch targets. So then, she throws them far up to 5 meters.
 * Asteroid Bombing (小惑星爆撃 Shōwakusei Bakugeki): Yuri chains big debris, takes a long run-up and spins round and round with her arms. Then, with a sharp blow, she throws them all downward. She often utilizes this super move alongside Satomi Mochizuki, using the asteroids created with her quirk.
 * Chain Impact (チェーンインパクト Chēn'inpakuto):  By wrapping her forearm with the most resistant and hard chain, she hits her opponent and stun them thanks to her impressive strength. She got inspired of Miyuki's Ice Punch.
 * Prisoner's Ball (囚人のボール Shūjin no Bōru): She creates a thick and long chain while making a kind of sphere at the end of it. Then, she swings it at any object to break it or even at a person to stun them. Yuri uses this attack in long ranged combat.

Equipment
Hero Costume: Yuri is fond of pirates, so her costume is inspired of the latter's outfit. All her clothes were designed enough short to avoid covering her marks.


 * Alvilda's Eyepatch (アルビルダ アイパッチ Arubiruda Aipatchi): This eyepatch allows Yuri to see as far as six kilometers, and then aim her fastening items more precisely to catch up targets. It was made by Mei Hatsume.
 * Alvilda's Hat (アルビルダ ハット Arubiruda Hatto): For beauty purpose, this hat looks a lot like a pirate's one. The "A" on its center stands for Alvilda.
 * Alvilda's Bodysuit (アルビルダ ボディスーツ Arubiruda Bodisūtsu): The fabric is very thin but very warm, with holes to keep her marks in use.
 * Alvilda's Belt (アルビルダ ベルト Arubiruda Beruto): Yuri's belt has hanging pouches with inside some iron pills, vitamins vials and snacks in case she reaches her limits. She carries too, a tube of cream for her marks and bullets for her gun.
 * Alvilda's Weapons (アルビルダ 武器 Arubiruda Buki): She possesses those weapons for a long time. Then, she entered U.A. and added them in her costume as it can be very useful. Her knife is covered to avoid hurting herself.

Trivia

 * Yuri's surname contains the kanji for "scarlet, red" (赤 aka) and "rope" (縄 nawa). And her name includes the kanji for "lily" (百合 yuri).
 * She and her father love everything related to pirates, wanting to become one when she was younger. Her father gave her his giant model of a pirate ship and costumes with a lot of weaponry.
 * Her hero name is the name of the lengendary pirate, Alvilda.
 * She also shares another passion with her mother, which is flowers. Hence her name, meaning "lily".
 * Yuri's the student No.18 in Class 1-B.
 * She has two animals, one that she had at her 5th birthday.
 * A dog of Shiba breed, named Naoki. They adopted the dog after her father left the house.
 * Her second animal is a parrot. His name is Captain, whom she got when she was 5.
 * They live with her at the Height Alliance, through authorization of her homeroom teacher.
 * Yuri's favorite colors are red, grey and black.
 * She's a great athlete, already practiced a lot of different sports and won plenty of championships. She, however, stopped competing after entering U.A. and now does sports in her free time.
 * Being an athlete, Yuri eats only food that are healthy: fruits, vegetables, meat... She always hated junk food.
 * Yuri's favorite things are:
 * Sports
 * Pirates, scale modeling
 * Her dog and parrot, animals and insects
 * Healthy food
 * Sciences
 * Rainy days
 * Flowers
 * Reading, crime novels
 * And the things she hates:
 * Weak, intrusive people
 * Junk food
 * Dresses
 * Romance
 * Mathematics
 * Injustice
 * Waking up late
 * Selfies
 * Dust, dirtiness
 * She and Itsuka are good friends. They share some similarity:
 * Both have a well developed strength.
 * They're considered as "masculine".

Quotes

 * (To her mother) "You have to get some rest, especially after work. Don't worry, I'm taking care of everything."
 * (To Mezo) "It's my fault ! If not, then explain why whenever something bad happens to her, I'm involved somehow ?! I'm such a pathetic person, but still.. she's still by my side. I don't deserve anything coming from her."
 * (To Miyuki) "You were still considering me a friend of yours, you acted as if nothing happened... Because of that, I didn't had the guts to look at your face, i chickened out. But.. you know.. I'm truly sorry."
 * (To people) "All Pro Heroes who were present that day, at that moment, struggled to keep the villain away from All Might.. and the one who succeeded... The one who successfully managed to stop him was Miyuki !!! But y'all don't seem like you noticed it, the only thing you remember was, of course, her appearance, AND WHY PEOPLE IN THIS FUCKING WORLD ONLY PAY ATTENTION TO POINTLESS THINGS SUCH AS PHYSICAL APPEARANCE !? She acted heroically and nobody cheered for her or even said something about that... Obviously you guys only needed to see her other appearance, as it's something you consider very interesting, to open your damned mouths and say shit !!"