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CHARACTER NAME: Katsuki Bakugō
CHARACTER AGE: 17
CANON: My Hero Academia, Katsuki Bakugo
CANON POINT: Chapter 405 | updated to Chapter 429 via note
CRAU INFO: N/A
SUITABILITY: The simple answer to suitability is that Bakugo is a hero. His canon exists a superhero society that sees heroes (superpowered individuals) operating as a livable profession throughout the world. The duty of a Hero is to use their Quirks to protect civilians from Villains, natural disasters, and/or any other kind of harm, through battle, rescue, direction, evacuation, or other means, via morally upholding the law. Heroes range anywhere from a literal "friendly neighborhood" type watching over a neighborhood block to international Pros that represent and protect their entire nations. While the heroes in MHA most often battle villains and crime rather than monsters, several villains are monstrous due to their Quirks, and later in the series, a breed of mutated human/creature hybrids known as Nomu are created by the main antagonist and sicced on the heroes.
Bakugo grew up in this superhero society and dreamed of being a hero his entire life, understanding what it means to be a hero and determining to become the greatest hero the world has ever seen. His ideology of "win to save" means he focuses on emerging victorious over the danger to prevent it from endangering others anymore, compared to his friend Midoriya's "save to win" ideology. Because of this background, Bakugo is at his core, suitable for entering a world where the goal is to protect humans via defeating threats to their safety, as this is in general, the role of a hero.
Bakugo's sparkling track record of results speaks for itself when it comes to his power and skill. One of the strongest up-coming heroes in his society, he not only excels in his academics, but has demonstrated explosive victorious results in almost all of his endeavors. His Explosion Quirk and physical martial prowess allows him to combat the toughest of enemies (including the MHA series' powerful two main antagonists), his versatile battle strategies allows him the flexibility to adapt to any given situation, his intelligence and leadership skills (despite his atrocious attitude) have been vouched for by his classmates and his teachers, and his unwavering sense of heroism and self encourages him to continue forward until the goal is secured with nothing less than a 100% indisputable victory. If LILITH is looking for people that will succeed in their assigned endeavors, Bakugo is a top-of-the-line pick, with almost everything behind him backing up his own claims.
Bakugo is fully capable of handling the proposed setting, as he has routinely gone out on several missions for multiple reasons. U.A. (the story's main hero training high school) regularly tasks its students with completing missions for classes, ranging from obstacle courses to pitting its students against each other in competitions involving races, obstacle courses, cavalry battles, and one-on-one versus matches. In addition to school functions, the classes have been send on three internships, where they work alongside Pro heroes in the actual field taking missions that involve battle, civilian aid, reconnaissance, office work, and even PR functions, while also being personally trained by these Pros as needed to improve in these missions.
Bakugo has been involved in several impromptu missions, where functions or school tasks his class was set out to do was summarily invaded by villains and required his class to battle and even defend an entire island full of people by themselves until the Pros could arrive. Beyond this, Bakugo's class itself forced their school's hand in creating their own mission to leave the school and recover Midoriya from his self-imposed rouge status at one point. In these missions, Bakugo showed his understand of the importance of mission-based work, operating as scouting ahead or guarding camp, confronting opponents to prevent further aggression, facilitating evacuations, building battle plans to avoid confrontation or split up opponent forces or limit enemy options.
Bakugo is also capable of handling the more mature aspects of the setting. In his canon, spoilers unfortunately, two large-scale wars have broken out between heroes and villains, one resulting in the complete breakdown of hero society, leaving Japan's society fractured with distrust in heroes and civilians taking vigilantism against rampaging villains. The second, currently ongoing, is pitting the villains and heroes against each other in an all-out national war with global ramifications riding on who wins or loses. In both wars, Bakugo has witnessed and dealt with the injuries and deaths of random civilians and people he knew, including his own homeroom teachers from U.A. U.A. itself was invaded by villains one time during a routine student class, forcing the separated students into a real battle against people who would murder them without an issue. While Bakugo will do everything he can to protect, he's not naive in the dark realities of the world that war and battle will bring.
Bakugo has personally had to deal with trauma in his own life, having been the victim of villain kidnappings twice, much to his great humiliation, and laboring under the guilt of one of his kidnappings being the domino-effect reason for All Might, the world's greatest hero and Bakugo's life-long idol, being forced into retirement due to his injuries. Because of these experiences, he understands the importance of what it means to go after even one lost person, as no one is worth losing, yet even rescued people need time to recover and deal with the situations.
Ironically, the fact LILITH is pitting them against animalistic monsters and not against other humans will make it easier for Bakugo to battle, as he refuses to take a human life (despite shouting such threats because he's a bombastic jerk aplenty). However, because the Nomu, mentioned above, were monsters created from humans, there will always be the threat of doubt appearing should it become suggested the opponents they're fighting might not be monsters after all. Just saying...
While Bakugo will not take kindly to being "kidnapped" against his will by LILITH, he's suitable enough to recognize the situation and operate within it. Due to the threats to U.A. and its students, the school decided to implement a dorm program rather than have its students go too and from school in the middle of rising villain attacks. Thus Bakugo knows what it's like to live in dorms with other students and deal with sharing a space and common place while having his own room as a personal area. Being a naturally clean and neat person with high expectations of himself and others, as well as a perfectionist, he's not one to tolerate people making a mess of a place they're supposed to be sharing, so he's experienced in forcing slackers to pick up said slack and keep the place clean. This same attitude extends to his own personal health, his skills, and his gear, meaning he'll always be ready for missions as needed without having to scramble for preparations.
If there is anything that limits Bakugo's suitability, it's his personality. Bakugo is not an easy person to get along with. He's loud, rude, aggressive, prideful, foul-mouthed, hot-headed and generally a host of unpleasant personality traits despite his amazing skill set. He will chafe immediately under anyone's rule he does not personally respect (and that respect is very hard won) and any team he's set upon he'll instantly place himself as the leader, dismissing weak members or dissenters as "extras" to either be put to work or removed if he thinks they'll compromise his or the team's success. While Bakugo has matured in the series to be an extremely good team player, and led his teams to amazing victories, that is only because they followed his lead (though he has the skills and results to unfailingly back up his leadership). Expect him to argue with LILITH if he feels he has reason to, and should it turn out LILITH's purpose is villainous, he will flat out refuse and rebel.
Additionally, people Bakugo deals with will have to put up with his personality long before they finally break through and get to see his nicer side buried underneath. He does not get along well with others, often by choice, and prefers to operate on his own. Showing "soft" things like friendship or trust or asking or help are seen as a "weakness" in his eyes, and Bakugo refuses to show anyone he can be vulnerable. Admittedly he gets cut a lot of slack in his series that other series would never cut him a break on, so that's a cross-canon issue to work out. But should someone stick with him and earn Bakugo's respect, they'll find a very strong, loyal friend, even if he refuses to admit he's "friends" with anyone. He has a tough guy, badass reputation to keep, you know.
In summary, LILITH may be recruiting Bakugo to get a soldier, but by recruiting him, they won't get a soldier, they'll be getting a hero.
PERSONALITY TRAITS POSITIVE: Heroic, determined, trustworthy, intelligent
PERSONALITY TRAITS NEGATIVE: Arrogant, short-tempered, aggressive, rude
PERSONALITY REFERENCE: Katsuki Bakugo / Personality
POWERS & SKILLS: Quirk: Explosion - Katsuki is able to excrete nitroglycerin-like sweat from his palms and ignite it at will to create explosions of various sizes. While he can use his Quirk without his costume and equipment, these items were made to augment and enhance his capabilities. Katsuki also possesses the typical shonen-manga-esque traits like enhanced strength, reflexes, durability, and stamina, as well as the keen intellect of a natural-born genius.
NERFED POWERS: N/A. In canon, Katsuki possesses enough power to destroy a skyscraper or waste an arena-sized area, with the VS-wiki suggesting his power tops out as an "Island-level" threat, but that level is certainly not in one shot.
PERSONAL ITEM: Hero Costume & Equipment - Katsuki's hero costume and support gear augment his battle prowess and Quirk to enable stronger explosions and more versatile options in battle. His Grenadier Bracers collect and store his nitroglycerin-like sweat for later detonation, his Improvised Grenades can be filled with his sweat and used as traditional hand grenades, his Strafe Panzer uses his sweat like ammunition in several shoulder-mounted guns, and his Knee Pads are designed with the intent to "kill" if necessary. Both his Grenadier Bracers and Strafe Panzer gear are collapsible for minimalist storage on his costume.
ALTERNATE IDENTITY NAME: Shōri Bakudan
ALTERNATE IDENTITY JOB: Police officer or Demolitions engineer (whichever is needed more here)
CODE NAME CHOICE: Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight (his hero name, seriously)
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