Kenji Tsuragamae

From the neck down he is an ordinary human shape, tall and solidly put together, his skin the same tan as most of his face. Above it sits the head of a beagle. Dark brown covers his ears and the region around his eyes, split by a tan stripe running from his forehead and spreading across a muzzle speckled in pale brown. His nose is broad and black, his eyes dark.

The wardrobe is pure office: dress shirt and waistcoat under an open black blazer, matching trousers, a belt with an oversized buckle, and a tie patterned like a dalmatian's coat.

He conducts himself with all the decorum his post demands, undercut only by the woof he tacks onto his sentences and a fondness for dog puns aimed squarely at his own reflection.

The law, to him, is not negotiable, though its enforcement has some give in it. He will happily walk younger heroes through the reasoning that keeps them out of trouble. Credit goes where it is earned, too. He thanked the three students who ended the Hero Killer, Tenya Ida, Shoto Todoroki, and Izuku Midoriya, even while telling them they had broken the rules doing it.

He arrives at Hosu General Hospital to brief the three injured students, with Gran Torino and Manual present, starting with an update on the captured Hero Killer. From there he lays out the history. Once Quirks appeared, his department declined to hire anyone who had them, wary of powers becoming weapons, and the hero system grew into that gap under strict conditions. Students are not exempt from those conditions, and using a Quirk without a supervisor present is an offense regardless of who it stops.

Punishment, he says, would fall on the boys and their guardians alike. Shoto snaps back that Tenya and Native would be corpses had they stayed put, and the chief turns the question around: does a good outcome excuse breaking the rules? He then reveals the position was his personal view rather than a verdict. A formal disclosure would have brought public praise and mandatory discipline in equal measure. Because so few people witnessed the night and so few heroes were on the scene, he has already written the credit over to Endeavor, sparing them the record. He does not pretend the motive was procedural. He simply did not want them punished.

Everyone present agrees to the arrangement. The chief admits it costs them recognition they earned, says plainly that nothing about their actions was legal, and bows to thank them anyway for protecting the peace.