David Shield

Age shows lightly on David, a few wrinkles across a face framed by wide square glasses. He is tall and averagely built, with aqua eyes and short brown hair that never lies flat, two tufts standing out as bangs above a short goatee. His civilian look is a blue button-up and pale trousers, a metal-buckled dark belt, and navy sneakers accented in red over pale soles. A dark watch and a wedding ring sit on his left arm.

The younger version wore his hair shoulder-length and slicked back with one strand loose across his face, no beard and no lines. He kept a crimson hoodie under a white lab coat with the hood pulled out over the collar, and finished with dark trousers and black sneakers laced in white.

Like All Might, David runs on generosity, forever trying to invent his way toward a better society. His own Quirk was never going to make him a Pro, so he equipped the people whose Quirks could, and he poured the same devotion into Melissa, loving her openly and backing her without hesitation after she turned out Quirkless.

His friendship with All Might sits close to worship. He was elated to see him again after years apart, held the No. 1 Hero in the highest regard, and, having served as his sidekick and costume maker, knew about the injury and the true form. What he did not know was where One For All had actually gone, a fact All Might withheld out of fear for his safety. So when he realized his friend's strength was draining toward retirement, he refused the premise. He hired fake villains to besiege the I-Island tower purely as cover for stealing back his own Quirk Amplification Device, drawing the line only at anything that would genuinely endanger people. Caught by Melissa and Izuku Midoriya, he accepted whatever punishment was coming, provided the device reached All Might first.

Then Samuel Abraham, his friend and assistant, brought real villains in and arranged to hand the device to Wolfram for a price, and David jumped in front of a bullet for him anyway. Kidnapped and stripped of his invention, he told Izuku to leave him behind, and was stunned that a U.A. student would come for him regardless. He finished the ordeal able to admit that All Might's era was closing, and that Izuku's generation, Melissa included, would carry it forward.

Squirmy Fingers bends his fingers well past a normal range, which is exactly what precision work on inventions and hero costumes demands.

Engineering is the real power. Every iconic All Might costume, Young Age through Golden Age, is his work, built from cutting-edge material and rated to absorb serious damage. The Allmobile is a red two-seat supercar with built-in thrusters for clearing obstacles, anti-projectile turrets, a drone that monitors targets and feeds the car information, and the ability to convert into a jet. The Quirk Amplification Device, built alongside Sam, is a sophisticated headset that strengthens a Quirk with no cost to body or brain. I-Island's sponsors feared what it would do in the wrong hands and sealed it in the tower's vault, which is exactly where the wrong hands found it. Wolfram wore it and matched a weakened All Might and Izuku fighting side by side, wrecking I-Island in the process, before the headset was destroyed.