CHARACTER NAME: Edda Pureheart
CANON: Final Fantasy XIV
AGE/AU AGE: 18/25
HERO/VILLAIN ALIAS: Blackbosom
OCCUPATION: He...ro?
PERSONALITY:
Admires Altruism/Heroism
Easily Influenced/Manipulated
Studious
Affectionate
Romantic
Obsessive
Determined
Unstable
HISTORY:
Edda and her childhood friend, Avere, grew up with hopes of being heroes together, having fallen in love in middle school and deciding to follow one another into U.A.
Avere wasn’t good enough to get into UA; Edda, however, passed. Despite this, she couldn’t imagine her high school life without Avere, and followed him to a different school.
In truth, Avere had somewhat convinced Edda she couldn’t really be a hero without him, as she didn’t really know how to do much of anything. Edda, trusting in him, took his word to heart.
Avere was actually deathly afraid Edda would leave him for someone better and convinced himself and her that she couldn’t find anyone that would love her like he does.
Edda and Avere, living together, wound up being low-grade heroes after high school, mostly doing sidekick work in different offices. Edda mostly kept to lesser tasks, thinking she was not good enough for anything else, even though she grew terribly bored and frustrated. Edda was slowly being convinced by the office manager that she was more than an office drone and her quirk was actually incredible if used for good.
When Edda finally was convinced that she could be a great hero - that all her hard work had paid off - she wanted to discuss it with Avere and see how they could achieve it together. She believed if she was better, Avere must’ve been more amazing than she recognized.
This never came to fruition. Edda was texting him as she missed her last train, mentioning great news and how their lives were going to change, but Avere didn’t seem as enthusiastic. He seemed more angry at Edda than anything. Edda finally got home and found Avere gone from their apartment, so she went out to find him.
However by the time she managed to get to his usual spots, she found him up against a villain, one completely out of his league, one with a abnormally large scythe. When he noticed Edda, he shouted for her help, but in a panic, Edda stumbled and cried, trying to activate her quirk and Avere - with a terrified and pained expression, suddenly saw the ground for an instant before it all faded to black. Right before her, Edda watched Avere get decapitated.
Edda can’t recall much after that, but she did find herself looking into Avere’s eyes, his head cradled her in arms. Meanwhile, the villain had met a rather violent death. As the police and pro-heroes began to show up, Edda left the scene, taking Avere’s head with her.
After the incident some years later, Edda is now a pro-hero, albeit not as bright-eyed and optimistic as she used to be. Her tone carries a rather menacing sound even as she smiles at the villains she faces, but with the other heroes, she seems to be rather fond and admiring of them. Edda is managed by an agency that carries no prominent heroes to speak of, but she is their quiet secret weapon - they’re just all afraid of her.

QUIRK:

Cold Feet
Edda’s quirk requires she be able to strike you with an ethereal scythe, a massive weapon of purple flames that is visible to the human eye upon her summoning it. The scythe will not kill the target, but it will lock them into place to suffer a sudden irrational fit of terror. People of a more fearless nature can be more resistant to this initial attack (the scythe will pass right through them and Edda will not lose it. If it strikes, the scythe disappears). If Edda cannot do this first move, she cannot perform her second move.

Black Honeymoon
If Edda is able to strike the target with her scythe, they will become immobile with overwhelming fear. Upon this happening, the target will be able to see Edda’s “Minion” - an object so distorted and warped that it can be difficult to tell what it is right away. After the summoning, the person will likely feel like they can move again, provided their fear subsides or they notice they can.

Edda’s condition for a minion is that she must possess the object that she cherishes deeply for it to be converted into a minion. The object does not need to be on her person, but it cannot be destroyed or the Minion dies as well. To create a Minion from the object, she must: 1) Love the object; 2) Use her scythe on the object; 3) The object must also be “inanimate.” All three conditions must be met to deem an object a “Minion”. Without a chosen Minion, or if Edda’s love for the object fades, her initial quirk, Cold Feet, will not work, and the scythe will continuously pass through her targets without effect.

If successful, Black Honeymoon allows Edda’s Minion to attack the target, which can cause overwhelming damage depending on the Minion’s time with Edda. The longer she keeps the object, the stronger the Minion becomes, however if the Minion is attacked (once made visible to the target, it is vulnerable), its strength can be reset to minimal and time will have to pass for its strength to grow again. When the Minion is officially summoned, Edda’s only power is controlling it. To defeat the Minion, the target will either have to fight it or Edda will have to give up. In this vein, Edda being attacked can be effective for others in the fight, but the original target will be left dealing with her Minion. Currently Edda’s minion is Avere’s Head, warped into a blue husk with a gold helmet and wings.

COSTUME:



Edda can see the Minion of choice on her shoulder in a smaller size. Upon summoning, it can get rather… large.