✶ || Monoma neito

personality

Neito is shown to be calm, collected, and intelligent. Among the students of Class 1-B, he is the most fervent in wanting to bring down Class 1-A's popularity. He can also be nasty, sarcastic, and vocal when around the rival class. He seems to be jealous of Class 1-A's popularity but is also worried, due to the fact that whenever they get into trouble, they will also endanger the rest of the school. When he hears of Class 1-A failing in some way, he will usually loudly scoff and passive-aggressively ask how could they possibly fail since they are meant to be the top class. Most of the time when this happens, Kendo manages to restrain Neito before he gets out of hand, apologizing on his behalf to whoever he was insulting. He has been shown to have somewhat of a superiority complex, as he takes any opportunity he can to mock and challenge anyone from Class 1-A. This even extends to making fun of himself in order to mock the students of Class 1-A, such as when he mocks the five who had to take extra lessons during the School Trip arc, saying that it's strange that so many of them failed, with him being the only one from Class 1-B to fail. When he mocks too much, his fellow Class 1-B student Itsuka Kendo hits him in the neck to calm him down.

appearance

Neito is a fairly tall young man with straight blonde hair, which becomes shorter as he lowers his head, in a style that is parted to the left, with his bangs hanging over his right eye. His irises are periwinkle violet, his pupils are white and his eyes are shaped so that they lean towards the far sides of his face, usually remaining half closed, this, along with his characteristic smile and head tilt, Giving him a rather contemptuous look.

intellect

Sharp Intellect: Neito is shown to be a very intelligent individual, along with a strategic and analytical mind. He formulated a strategy for Class 1-B during the first stage of the Sports Festival, which involved the students of said class purposely placing low in the Obstacle Course, correctly guessing that it was only the preliminary round and none of them would be cut. of the Sports Festival. This tactic was employed so that Class 1-B could observe the other students and then have the advantage of learning their quirks, all while keeping their own powers hidden. During the combat portion of the Festival, Neito was easily able to see Ochaco's true strategy when he fought Katsuki, something that many of the audience members, including the current Pro Heroes, did not notice until much later. Neito's cunning was further displayed during the final round of the joint training battle. Neito had Hitoshi Shinso use his "Artificial Vocal Cords: Personal Cords" to imitate Ochaco's scream to successfully catch an unsuspecting scout Izuku. He explained that Class 1-B knows not to underestimate a powerful combatant like Izuku, so Neito planned for his team to defeat Izuku's teammates before facing the latter. As part of his provocations, Neito claimed that Izuku's teammates were in trouble and then asked how Katsuki can smile after being the cause of All Might's retirement causing Izuku to finally snap, consequently leading to One For There to be left without control. After Ochaco subdued him, Neito explained that while he uses the clocks on his hero costume to keep track of the time limits for his copied Quirks, he keeps 3 clocks visible to trick his opponents into believing that the number of clocks represents the maximum number of Gifts you can copy.

general skills

General Skills: Neito may not possess hand-to-hand combat skills, but he makes up for it with the competent handling he has of his Quirk. Neito possesses essentially the same advantages and disadvantages of the original Don user that he copied from. Furthermore, his ability to switch between Quirks makes him a more versatile and unpredictable opponent to fight in group battles, where he has more opportunities to copy various Quirks, whether from friends or enemies. In the UA Sports Festival Cavalry Battle, he copied Gifts from Katsuki Bakugo and Eijiro Kirishima and seamlessly used the copied Gifts to take the highly capable Katsuki by surprise, twice. During the Joint Training Battle, Carefree Mind had enough nerve to take on Izuku Midoriya, one of the most powerful students of Class 1-A, but before he could, Izuku's Quirk went awry. After taming Izuku's Quirk, Neito was still able to take him by surprise, knocking the former down, and attempting to copy his Quirk. Unfortunately, Neito's efforts proved futile as he realized that he could not copy One For All, a stack-type Quirk, resulting in the tuxedo-wearing student being subdued by Neito's close combat skills. Ochaco Uraraka