Itou Hariko

Itou Hariko (伊藤針子), also known as Compassionate Light (慈悲深い光 Jihibukai Hikari) or simply Mercy (慈悲 Jihi) is currently a residence medical student at U.A. High School, studying under Hagakure Kaede and Recovery Girl in an accelerated Hero Healing program.

Appearance
Itou Hariko has long, thin black hair usually worn up in a bun. She has black eyes and light olive skin. Hariko is tall, at 5'10" and fairly thin. She has thin, fading scars on her upper arms and thighs and usually is wearing a necklace with a charm of the eating disorder recovery ribbon. She usually is wearing a variety of pretty but practical earrings. She's pretty, but in a plain way, and enjoys loose, un-patterned clothes with simple colors. She also likes the color black. Most of the time, she can be found in medical scrubs when she is on campus, in a variety of shades and designs.

When she is out in the field as a field medic hero, she is usually dressed in her costume, which has flexible nanoarmor in lilac and black and a helmet with a comm link attached to the inside. Her costume is practical and easily recognizable.

During class at university, she often wears the loose, simple clothes mentioned earlier, as well as jeans and converses and sweatshirts.

When working as a waitress, she dresses in the black and white waitress outfit mandated by her company- it's an Italian five-star restaurant.

Personality
Hariko is hard working, quiet, easily shocked, and has a strong sense of sense and sensibilities that is often poked at by her quirky colleagues. She struggles with a lot of self-worth issues. She's a quiet person and an ambivert.

She has a temper that can be hard to set off, but when it does, the explosions are often legendary. She's very mature for her age and perpetually stressed and exhausted.

Despite this, however, she cares deeply about the people around her and wants to make the world better. She sometimes struggles with naivety despite all she's seen and is an optimist.

Hariko does not speak in very flowery language and tends to be pretty down-to-earth.

She has awful taste in romantic partners, especially men. She usually has better luck when dating women or nonbinary people.

Background
Hariko is the eldest daughter and former heiress of Kamagiki Pharmaceutical Company from her mother's side and Luxury Waves, a yacht company, from her father's side. Growing up, she was poised to inherit the riches of both sides of her family and marry well- potentially into nobility and royalty- when she decided she wanted to be a hero. After weeks of fighting with her parents and realizing how trapped she was, she chose to run away and make it on her own. Her parents disinherited her.

At first, she stayed with a cousin and got a job as a waitress by faking her age and saying she was sixteen when she was really thirteen. She later moved in with a pair of siblings, a boy and a girl, and finished out her last year of middle school, applying for U.A. She made it in on scholarship and passed the exam and made it into class 1B. From there, she moved into an apartment close to campus and took a job at a five-star Italian restaurant while going to class at U.A.

Hariko chose to apply for the accelerated medical program halfway through her first year, despite being otherwise two years too young. She was accepted due to her quirk and outstanding academic record and made her way into an internship starting her second year with Recovery Girl and Hagakure Kaede.

During her third year, the dorms were established so she moved into the 3B dorms. Her time spent as an intern exploded as the notorious Class 1A faced dozens of villains and attacks throughout their first year. Through a series of events, Hariko ended up being one of the main nurses, despite being a student herself, for that school year.

She graduated with honors that spring and went on to be accepted by the local medical college and was fast-tracked into the residential tract, having finished virtually all of her undergraduate requirements her second and third year.

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Abilities
Overall Abilities: Hariko is a talented healer with immense potential. Though her combat ability is fairly limited for someone who graduated UA in the hero course, she makes up for it with her ability to perform as a field medic. She is capable of working ridiculously long hours for weeks at a time and is the master of time management, despite giving herself enough work to kill an elephant.

Stamina: Hariko regularly works 90+ hour weeks- six to ten or more hours a day at U.A., 3-6 hours at the Italian restaurant, and takes 21 credits of work half online and half on campus. She often spends her nights at U.A. and keeps a cot in her office. Beyond her sheer workload, however, she also has done a lot of personal training to build up her physical body and quirk stamina. As a first year, she could only heal several bruises or cuts or one large injury before needing a break. Now, she is capable of healing catastrophic damage in a body without taking a break or heal several people with mild or moderate injuries in a row before needing to refuel.

Keen Intelligence: Hariko is part of an accelerated program that is pushing her to be a full medical doctor and certified field medic by the age of 20. Since she was 15, she has been working well above her grade level even at an elite school like U.A. to reach her goals as quickly as possible. She is capable of handling 21 credits of advanced university work while balancing two jobs.

Ambitious: Hariko is incredibly ambitious. She has a will of steel and is willing to push herself to her absolute limit to get it. She intends to become one of the youngest doctors in the world and is well on her way to achieving her goal. She also hopes to cure cancer by the time she's 30, something that's eluded doctors for centuries.

Excellent Memory: Hariko has a photographic memory that helps her remember all her coursework with ease; it is a massive part of her ability to keep up with all that she needs to do.

Quirk
Mercy (慈悲 Jihi) is an Emitter-type quirk. Since the emergence of her quirk, Hariko has been part of several studies working with medical-based quirks. Hariko heals by taking energy from either herself or her surroundings. Hariko can build her own stamina through use of her quirk over time. Her hands and sometimes eyes and rest of her body glow when her quirk is activated.

Hariko usually draws from herself. As a result, it can eat away at her own stores of energy. If she goes too far, it will start to consume her muscles and release toxins into her system. If pushed too far, her kidneys could fail or her heart and other organs could stop. If she messes up while healing or incorrectly applies her healing energy, she can cause cancer, tumors, scarring, and worse. She requires a background of anatomy, medicine, and biology in order not to hurt her patient or herself.

She primarily uses her indigo, lilac, and purple phases of her powers, though she is working on using blue and teal in combat.

Special Skills- Unlocked

 * Orange- Hariko 'overheals' by directing a too-high, purposefully incorrectly applied amount of energy to destroy things by aging them rapidly.
 * Yellow- Hariko floods the infected/ill area of the body with a very high degree of healing energy. This heals diseases and infections.
 * Green- Hariko pushes a high amount of healing energy indiscriminately into her own/someone else's body, rapidly healing injuries and increasing speed, stamina, and strength temporarily; can stress and overwork muscles, resulting in degradation and can result in kidney failure if used too much or abused; it can also use up an enormous amount of energy, fat, and carbohydrates, leading to the body consuming muscles to keep her or anyone she's feeding from
 * Teal- Hariko pushes a middle amount of healing energy indiscriminately into her own/someone else's body to heal injuries at a slower rate and increase speed, stamina, and strength temporarily. Same effects as green, but less dangerous than teal but more dangerous than blue.
 * Blue- Hariko pushes a low amount of healing energy indiscriminately into her own/someone else's body to heal injuries gradually and increase speed, staimina, and strength temporarily. Same effects as green, just less dangerous.
 * Indigo- Hariko focuses a tiny amount of healing energy intensely on one area to get a clearer and more detailed look
 * Lilac- Hariko puts the tiniest bit of healing energy and spreads it thin through the body. This allows her to assess wounds and illnesses in detail. The more energy she puts in, the more indigo it goes
 * Purple- Hariko specifically directs her healing energy in mid to high intensity, healing the injury
 * Black- Hariko floods part of her body with energy, greatly increasing her strength and durability; her skin actually begins to harden over

Special Skills- Locked or Undiscovered

 * Red- Hariko floods a pin-point area with a very high degree of healing energy. This can either be lethal or partially restore things like nerves or reattach limbs
 * White- Hariko is nigh-invulnerable; she has an incredibly high amount of healing energy running through her body and as long as it is active, she is incredibly strong, durable, fast, and more; however, if she messes up, she could flood her body with tumors or destroy massive amounts of tissues or deplete her entire store of fat and energy

Trivia

 * Hariko is an Aries
 * Hariko was born during the Year of the Tiger