Ryuko

Name

Ryuko Tatsuma

Gender

Female

Age

26 years old

Height

5'5"

Hair Color

Blond

Eye color

Yellow

Blood type

A

Birth Place

Okinawa

Occupation

Pro Hero

Quirk

Dragon.

More about Quirk

Ryuko's Quirk gives her the ability to transform into a large western dragon. This form grants her a good increase in strength and durability, powerful jaws and claws, and wings which allow her to fly.

Abilities

Enhanced Strength, Enchanted Durability & Flight

More about Enhanced Strength

Ryuko's dragon form gives her great strength, which she demonstrated by blocking Rikiya Katsukame's punch, a large yakuza member who also has increased strength, and then smashing him into the ground. Later, despite her stamina having been drained, she was able to grapple with him for a few moments as well as knock him back, hurting him in the process. The latter feat is particularly significant, as Rikiya had just shrugged off a powerful attack from Nejire. During the Paranormal Liberation War, Ryuko teamed up with the Flame Hero Endeavor, to double team the 75% enhanced Tomura Shigaraki while he was in the air, and managed to hold her own for an extended period of time before being knocked out. She later regained consciousness and managed to restrain him with Izuku Midoriya's aid, though once the villain regained use of his Quirks, he easily incapacitated her out once again with a shockwave.

More about Enhanced Durability

Ryuko is extremely resistant to blunt trauma in her dragon form. Despite being weakened by Rikiya's Quirk, she took no damage when Nejire used her most powerful attack to drive Rikiya and her into the ground, a move that knocked him out, despite Ryuko being the only one who was hit by the shockwave directly. Later during the Paranormal Liberation War, Ryuko managed to endure hits from the body-enhanced Tomura Shigaraki, who had strength comparable to that of All Might.

Hero Rankings

Ryuko Tatsuma, also known as Dragoon Hero: Ryukyu is the former No. 9, and the current No. 10 Pro Hero.

Appearance

Ryuko is a woman with chin-length blonde hair, which she wears swept back with a headband, a long fringe over the right side of her face, covering her eye. She has thin, yellow, inward-tilting eyes with slit pupils and notably sharp teeth, these aspects are purposefully reptilian as a reference to her Quirk. Her hero costume consists of a dark red, traditional qipao with a pale green scale trim around her shoulders, which seems to only be slit on the left side, with yellow claw patterns on the bottom and smaller ones around her neck. She wears knee-high boots and a strap around her exposed thigh. She wears long, almost sleeve-like white gloves that nearly reach her shoulders, with higher tabs on the outer sides, and they expose her hands from the wrist. She wears a matching green headband with four large, pale purple claws attached, covering the right side of her face, and a set of small black dragon wings protrude from the back of her head, with a number of gold spiked cartilage piercings decorating her left ear. When she activates her Quirk, her body transforms into that of a large, winged dragon with pale gray scales, although she still has the same skin tone, hair, and eyes. Her hero costume remains visible bar her boots and the claws that were on her face have transferred to her right hand. During the fight against Tomura Shigaraki both her hands were damaged by him.

Personality

Ryuko is a humble and gentle person, giving praise where it is deserved and not expecting gratitude in return. She always keeps her composure in a combat situation. Ryuko sees talent where it's due and is willing to hand difficult tasks to those who she thinks can handle them. Her humble side is further highlighted when she considered herself the only one responsible for dropping to the tenth spot on the Japanese Hero Billboard Chart, and admitting that she could have done better. On top of that, when asked to give a speech as the no. 10 hero, she mentioned that she would have refused this rank if it was possible, as she doesn't believe herself worthy of this spot after failing to save a person. Ryuko seems to have a soft spot for children, as shown by her caring and tutoring side towards her trainees. She was also saddened upon learning that Overhaul was using his own "daughter" to create Quirk-Destroying Drugs, and made it clear to the other heroes that rescuing Eri should be their top priority.

Costume Special Attributes

Ryukyu's Hero outfit enlarges upon her dragon transformation and returns to normal size as she does.

Fun fact

Ryuko loves shiny things.

Hero name

Dragoon Hero: Ryukyu

Female Hero rankings

Ryuko is currently the second-highest-ranking female Pro Hero in Japan, only behind Mirko.