Tenshi Takami

Age: 16

Hair Color: tawny

Eye Color: turquoise

Father: Touya Todoroki (Villain Name: Dabi)

Mother: Keigo Takami (Hero Name: Hawks)

Likes:
Flying
Reading
Eating chicken

Dislikes:
Working too much
Injustice
Bad cooks

Backstory (get ready, because I'm going DEEP):
Before the hospital raid, Hawks had seduced Dabi in an attempt to get more information about the Paranormal Liberation Front's plans. His tactics did more than he anticipated, and things got rough. After the raid, Hawks' stomach started to feel weird, but he just chalked it up to the stress from getting his wings burned off by someone he may have had feelings for. However, it eventually got to the point where he was taking regular trips to the bathroom. After a particularly painful visit, he was left staring at a beautiful brown speckled egg in the toilet.

Needless to say, Hawks was shocked beyond all boundaries. He reasoned that while developing the wings of a bird as his Quirk, he had also developed the reproductive organs of one. Still, he hadn't meant for that one night with Dabi to actually mean, let alone do, anything. He still didn't know exactly how he felt about the villain. For an hour, he sat staring at the egg, debating if he wanted to keep it or not - also wondering how you would abort an egg. But then he thought of his own father's actions when he was growing up, and realized that a child, regardless of age, shouldn't have to suffer just because of their parent's bad choices.

So he decided to keep the egg and the child inside.

He just had to figure out how he would take care of the egg until it hatched. He quickly decided to not tell the Hero Public Safety Commission - being the child of both a hero and a villain, they would most likely take the child away once it hatched and do tests to see which genetics won out. And if news of the egg got to the public, and who its father was, the child would be shamed before it even hatched.

Hawks had grown up in a life of shame. He would not let his child live the same way.

But he still couldn't raise the egg by himself; it took time and money, and his absence would definitely raise some red flags. His wings may still have had yet to recover, but he was still the Number Two Hero. So he decided to turn to the family of the man who had helped him create the egg: the Todorokis. Enji Todoroki (Hero Name: Endeavor) was shocked that he would be getting a grandchild, let alone so soon and by his biggest rival. Rei Todoroki was also shocked that she would be a grandmother, but unlike Enji, she was excited. Shoto Todoroki (Hero Name: Shoto) didn't really care, as long as the child didn't eat all of his soba. Natsuo and Fuyumi Todoroki were ecstatic that they would become an uncle and an aunt.

Since Dabi wasn't there, Hawks didn't tell him. To be frank, he hoped that the villain never found out about the egg.

The Todorokis agreed to keep the egg a secret, as well as help Hawks raise it in private. The issue was finding someone who could watch the egg during the day. Enji was always Endeavor during the day; Shoto was always either at school or in the dorms; Fuyumi taught at an elementary school, and she told Hawks that he was welcome to enroll the child once it was old enough; Natsuo had to go back to his university. In fact, the only reason Hawks caught them all together was because they were discussing the new home for the whole Todoroki family - sans Enji.

That left Rei with the only time to take care of the egg, which she readily agreed to. She would watch it during the day while Hawks went on patrol, and Fuymi would back to the house to help on her breaks. At night, Hawks would sneak over to the house to spend his nights with the egg, sleeping in a guest bedroom with it in his arms.

Nobody was sure how long it would be until the egg hatched - it was a human baby in a bird egg. Fuyumi told the family that the standard time for a regular egg to hatch was 20-21 days, so they kept a calendar to count down the days until the allotted due date.

As the day got closer, Hawks got more and more antsy. Whenever he was at the house, he would only let people into his room when they had food for him, and when he was on patrol, he was noticeably sidetracked. The other heroes just thought he was nervous because his wings were finally growing back, making him a larger target to the Paranormal Liberation Front. But his UA intern, Fumikage Tokoyami (Hero Name: Tsukuyomi), suspected something else was up.

One day after his shift, he approached the Number Two Hero for answers, and refused to leave until he got them. Hawks, having formed a bond with the fellow bird hero, eventually caved in and told Fumikage about his egg, and why he had to keep it a secret. Fumikage was shocked about the circumstances of how the egg was conceived, but agreed with Hawks' reasoning and swore not to tell anyone (and made Dark Shadow swear as well). He just asked Hawks to send him pictures of the child once it hatched.

Then finally, on the twenty first day, a crack appeared in the egg. Fuyumi and Rei, who were watching the egg at the time, initially panicked, thinking they had somehow broken it. Then another crack appeared, and another, and they realized that the time had come. Hawks' child wanted to come into the world.

Rei immediately phoned Hawks and told him about the egg. At the time, he and his patrol were dealing with a particularly stubborn robber gang, and he couldn't get out of the situation fast enough. He told Fumikage, and they agreed to speed things up - from that point, things got messy, but they got the job done.

After the fact, Hawks and Fumikage ducked out of sight and hurried over to the Todoroki house. Once there, Hawks told his intern to wait outside his room while he helped his child come out of its shell. Literally.

A few minutes later, Hawks was holding a beautiful baby girl. She had Dabi's complexion and turquoise eyes, and she had wing nubs on her back that were already sprouting white feathers, but the rest was all from Hawks. They had the same tan hair color, the same pointed eyebrows - she even had the same bird markings around her eyes.

Hawks thought he had never seen perfection before he laid eyes on his daughter. To him, she was the embodiment of the word.

When asked what he would name her, Hawks only hesitated a split second. The most definitive thing about his daughter was the two tan bangs that circled around the top of her little head, almost like a halo. That, coupled with the stereotypical features, meant that there was only one name that would suit her: Tenshi, which meant angel in Japanese. She was quite literally daddy's little angel.

But when asked what her last name would be, the Number Two Hero hesitated a little longer. As much as he wanted both his last name and that of his daughter to be the same as Endeavor's, he didn't want Tenshi to have any connection to her villainous father. So he decided her last name would be his: Takami. "The Todoroki family is full of heroes while I was told to abandon my name. Maybe my baby girl will bring some justice to the Takami family name in a way that I never did."

Fumikage was named the godfather (and Dark Shadow was an honorary uncle) while Fuyumi was named the godmother, and that was that. That night, Hawks slept not with an egg, but with his baby girl.

In the days that followed, Hawks was more and more reluctant to leave the Todoroki home, and Tenshi's heartbreaking wails whenever he did leave didn't help. When he returned, he tried to make up for lost time by taking her on small flying trips, making sure to keep her out of the eyes of the Commission and the PLF. The sound of Tenshi laughing as he carried her through the sky was music to his ears. And he made sure to bring her small gifts whenever he could get away long enough to go incognito. Her favorite was a stuffed animal dove, and she slept with it on her papa's chest.

Tenshi was only a few weeks old when the Commission released to the public that the villain Dabi had been caught. At first, Hawks thought nothing of it and was grateful - the guy had burned his wings off, after all. But then he realized that the villain was the father of his daughter, and a father should see his child at least once.

So one night, he carefully hid Tenshi within his jacket and went to the holding facility to request access to Dabi's cell. The guards couldn't refuse the Number Two Hero and the two were soon facing each other on either side of a foot thick plane of glass; Hawks making sure to angle his wings enough to keep Tenshi out of the view of the cameras. They didn't speak for long. Hawks merely lifted the edge of his jacket high enough to reveal Tenshi, who stared at her father, then said cryptically, "Congrats - you got me. I'm still standing, though...what are you going to do now?"

Dabi didn't speak or move at all, only gawked at the sight of the spy and the child of the spy -  his child. Anyone who was watching the cameras at the time would think that he was shocked that his prey was still alive. For a while, eyes of the same color stared at each other, Tenshi gurgling happily as she waved a chubby fist at her villainous father.

When Dabi didn't speak for a full three minutes, Hawks took that as his cue to leave. He let his jacket drop around Tenshi and signaled to the guards he was done. As the winged hero left, Dabi was left staring at where his new family had stood.

As Hawks flew off, he took Tenshi out of his jacket and commented that he thought Dabi had taken her reveal very well. Tenshi giggled as if to say she agreed.

It was just papa and daughter soaring beneath the night sky. But what Hawks didn't realize was that, in the daze of his daughter's cuteness, he had gotten sloppy in his sneaking skills.

Night was when the PLF liked to hunt. And they had found their prey.

Hawks had made it all the way back to the Todoroki house when the villains decided to strike. They attacked the house full force, yelling something about "killing a mole and a meddlesome bird with one stone". As Endeavor, Enji took the brunt of the impact, yelling for his family to leave. Rei and Fuyumi stayed behind to help him anyway they could, yelling instead for Hawks to run with Tenshi. "Take my granddaughter and run!" Rei screamed at him.

Their sacrifice just for him to get away brought tears to Hawks' eyes, but he heeded their advice and, carrying a crying Tenshi, he fled the scene. When he left, though, he sent a load of his feathers behind to help the family. With his lack of feathers, he couldn't fly as high, which made his getaway route a lot slower. Unfortunately, that made him a perfect target for Himiko Toga to leap from below him and stab him in his leg.

Hawks sent a few more feathers to deal with her, but that only made him drop lower. With both his blood pressure and his altitude dropping, he realized that the PLF wasn't going to stop until they had his head on a spike. And if they found Tenshi with him...

Then he realized where he was, and knew there was a way he could save his daughter. In his haste, he had flown over the transportation district, where trucks were loaded up with goods and supplies and sent elsewhere. There were trucks everywhere below him.

He just had to get Tenshi on one of them.

Hawks dropped behind a storage building and snuck behind the workers' backs to a truck. He didn't care where its destination was - he just had to get Tenshi out of there. So he placed her in a box of what looked like books, then took a marker from a hanging clipboard and wrote Tenshi over the box label. All the while, his baby girl's cries were getting louder until Hawks was sure she would alert the workers. He shushed her, and when that didn't work, he took off his trademark tan jacket - which had miraculously been saved from the blood on his leg - and wrapped her in it, so she would always have her papa's warmth with her. As she finally quieted down, he kissed her little head and told her "Remember - Papa loves you, my little angel. Always." Then, with a heavy heart, the Number Two Hero fled the truck.

Soon after, workers closed the back of the truck, oblivious to the baby sleeping in one of the boxes.

She didn't witness Toga stabbing Hawks thirty one times, one for every year Twice had been alive before he'd killed him.

She didn't witness Dabi, freshly escaped from prison, cremate his body.

The next day, it was revealed that the both the Todoroki house and the family had been physically damaged, but only slightly - Hawks had been their true target; Endeavor and his family were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The murder scene was discovered, just a few paces out of the transportation district, Hawks' charred body a cruel centerpiece. Tenshi was nowhere to be found, so there was hope that she was still alive and her papa had gotten her away. Everyone in the city was called for a public service to the Number Two Hero, where hero and citizen alike mourned his loss.

Afterwards, Rei Todoroki was approached by a stranger dressed in a nondescript hoodie. They nodded towards the stuffed animal dove in her hands and asked gruffly, "What was her name? The baby?"

Rei, fully aware of who the stranger was, responded, "Tenshi." With that, the stranger walked off.

While the city mourned the loss of a hero, the truck that Hawks had hidden Tenshi in had taken her to a small town in the country part of Japan. It stopped at a small bookstore, and the owners came out to help the workers unload the truck.

Owners. More specifically, conjoined female twins that shared a lower body. The right head was named Kako while the left was named Shorai. They were with the workers when the truck was opened and the cries of an infant spilled into the otherwise quiet street. The stowaway was finally revealed - a baby girl that couldn't have been more than a month old, wrapped in a tan jacket with white fur lining. And, to the shock of those gathered, she had wings as white as snow.

Kako and Shorai were quiet, waiting for one of the workers to step forward and claim the baby as their own, joking about how evasive kids could be. When none did, they collectively stepped forward to examine the baby. Kako noticed the name written over the label and asked if it was the brand of the company who had shipped the books. Under the refusals of the workers, the baby's cries only grew louder.

One of the workers offered to drive the girl over to Child Services, but Shorai quickly refused. She pointed out the condition of the jacket and the name on the label. "This is not the doing of a parent that wanted to get rid of a child," She reasoned. "This is the doing of a parent that had no other choice. This child is not an orphan. She has parents somewhere - parents that love her very much."

Kako reminded her sister that, regardless if the girl was an orphan or not, her parents were not there - there was a good chance that the baby wouldn't make it through the night. Shorai made the suggestion that the two of them take the child in, which led to a heated debate that looked a little awkward, seeing as they shared a body. In the end, though, Kako gave in, and the twins took in the girl and gave her the name that had been written on the crate: Tenshi.

From the moment Tenshi could understand the Japanese language, the twins made it clear that they were not her parents, though they let her call them her "Nanas". They told her the story of how they found her, and how they believed that her birth parents were out there, somewhere. They showed her the box she had been found in and showed her the writing on the label that had told them her name. It was Tenshi's favorite bedtime story, and the twins often found her staring at the box and running her fingers over the writing on the label, as if she was trying to picture the person who had written it.

As Tenshi learned how to walk, the tan jacket she had been found in had stopped being a blanket and had started being a part of her everyday attire. When she was at home, she wore the jacket. When she went out, she wore the jacket. Cool outside? Jacket with some clothing underneath. Hot outside? Jacket with underwear and nothing else. Time to go to bed? Just the jacket. It was the closest thing she had to her birth parents, and she wanted it with her at all times, only letting it out of her sight long enough for the twins to wash it and her.

Other than that, it was pretty much a second skin to her.

As she grew up, she was known as the town outcast. The town was one of the many in Japan that turned a cold shoulder to mutant Quirks; no one had ever seen wings like hers, and kids liked to play with her by pulling on her feathers. The fact that she wore the same thing everyday especially didn't go unnoticed. After her Quirk developed, the cold shoulders only got colder.

Tenshi tries not to let it bother her, though, and does her best to excel at school. Her one dream is to leave the town and look for her parents.

She has one question for them.

Why did you abandon me?

Quirk (redo): Feather Bombs. Like Hawks, she can use her wings to fly and shoot her feathers. Each feather is strong and under her command, and she can sense her surroundings with them. However, when her feathers detach, she can light them from afar, causing large outbursts of blue flame. The largest feathers can take out a city block while the smallest can take down an oak tree. She is immune to the flames, but once she lights her feathers, they disintegrate; she can only light them when they are detached from her wings. She tries to use this ability as sparingly as possible.

Personality: She has three main personalities. When she's around people she doesn't know, she's shy and reserved, speaking with only quick witty remarks. When she's around people she knows well, she's much more open, often starting conversations and making jokes that seem aloof and oblivious, but she means well. But when she's around injustice - either done to her or to others - she shows her sadistic side, often detaching her smallest feathers and lighting them simply to see the fear on their faces.

Trivia
- She developed her Quirk when a group of bullies tried to rip her jacket. They were pulling at the fabric while she was screaming, and suddenly feathers leapt from her wings. The bullies had to be taken to the hospital with burns on their faces.

- Since she was raised in a bookstore, she grew up loving books. Her idea of a perfect day is sitting in a comfortable chair with a good book and a plate of yakitori next to her.

- Everyone in the town is wary of her, but that doesn't stop her from going out of her way to help someone in need with her Quirk. That being said, she's not a fan of very laborious work, but she'll do it once she makes a commitment.

- The only memory she has of her parents is a hazy picture of golden eyes and a man's voice saying, Remember...always. She has dreams with different scenarios of how the words were said, but she's dying to know who the eyes belonged to and what they encouraged her to remember.

- To this day, the story of how she was found is still one of her favorite stories. The box that she was found in has a special place in her room, where she can always see it.

- She LOVES to fly and can fly nearly as fast as her papa.

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