Chojuro Kon

A cigar usually sits in the corner of Chojuro's jaws, which belong to a wolf. The rest of him is a collage: blue fur over a body that remains recognizably a man's, talons in place of hands and feet, and a long tail built like a reptile's. He keeps his dark hair in dreadlocks and dresses in a brown trench coat, a blue dress shirt, and belted jeans.

Pushing the Quirk to its limit inflates all of it. He swells in size and muscle, horns push up from his skull, feathers sprout along his forearms, and most of what he was wearing tears off him.

Being treated as an animal his whole life left Chojuro with a grudge against society at large, and when Nine pulled him out of it he committed himself to Nine's vision of a world sorted purely by power. Like Slice, he keeps something softer where their leader is concerned; he demanded that an unconscious Nine get back up so the group could carry on toward that goal.

His sympathy stops at the edge of his own team. He needled Mezo Shoji over looking like a monster, apparently untroubled by the contradiction.

Overall Abilities: Nine assembled a quartet where each member can hold off a crowd alone, and Chojuro is the second strongest of the four. He works up close, where the raw strength his Chimera Quirk grants makes trading blows with him a mistake, and he answers ranged attacks with fire from his mouth. A whole group of Pro Heroes once came at him together and lost.

When Nine's team landed on Nabu Island, Chojuro brushed aside Mashirao Ojiro and Fumikage Tokoyami, then Mezo Shoji and a Sugar Rush-fueled Rikido Sato, absorbed Tenya Ida's kicks, ripped free of Hanta Sero's Tape and Shoto Todoroki's ice, and cancelled out Shoto's flames with his breath. Numbers simply did not help. The rematch came the next day, after Momo Yaoyorozu's cannon fire and Yuga Aoyama's Supernova scattered the villains and dropped him at the foot of a waterfall where Shoto, Tenya, Eijiro Kirishima, and Tsuyu Asui were waiting. Their assault was cover for Tsuyu's paralytic mucus, which was slowly locking him up until he opened the Quirk all the way, burned the toxin out of himself, and grew into something worse. He drove the four into hiding and set the terrain alight, and only after he had spent his breath firing at Tenya and blasting a fully hardened Eijiro point-blank did Shoto get onto his back, held there by Tsuyu and Tenya long enough to freeze the giant from the inside into a state resembling hibernation.

Physical Powers: His punches throw shockwaves and a single stomp breaks the ground; brute force alone let him handle several Class 1-A students at once, Shoto and Fumikage included. For his bulk he is startlingly quick, answering Tenya's high-speed attacks without trouble. Damage mostly bounces off him, and in his enlarged state he blocked a Recipro Turbo kick with nothing but his tail, then survived being frozen through with minimal injury. He fought without pause through the entire island brawl and still had enough left to escape afterward, and even half-immobilized he took on four opponents simultaneously.

Chimera: The Quirk gives him the traits of assorted animals at once and lets him blow those traits up to monstrous scale for an enormous gain in strength and durability. The flames he exhales, ordinarily enough to overwhelm Shoto's ice, sharpen at full power into something like a beam, able to carve through mountains and leave whole forests burning. He has also been known to light his cigars with it.