The Realist

A large white R marks the chest of the black hoodie he works in. Bald and average in height, he paints straight lines of black makeup that begin beneath each eye and run down his face.

Bitterness drives him. He once adored idols, enough to ask one out at a meet-and-greet, and the rejection and insult he received back curdled into hatred of the entire industry. He now casts himself as a truth-teller exposing performers who bleed and abuse their fanbases financially, though he owns a second motive: he wants those fans dragged into the same misery he and his allies felt when their own idols turned on them. Whatever else he is, the man is committed to the cause.

Years of devoted fandom ended at a meet-and-greet. The idol he had followed refused his invitation to a date, and his Quirk slipped out, pulling from her exactly how disgusted she was by him and everyone like him. He sought out others humiliated the same way, and together they formed a group aimed at revenge on the idol business by dragging its selfishness and greed into daylight.

The Realist began working idol shows, using his Quirk to strip performers of their public faces and gut their reputations. Heroes eventually took notice and correctly reasoned that a local idol convention would draw him out. A Team-Up under Mirko, filled out by Itsuka Kendo, Pony Tsunotori and Kinoko Komori of Class 1-B, was sent after him.

At the convention he cut through the crowds, touching idol after idol and setting off confessions of greed and open squabbling that left fans wounded and outraged. The heroes, disguised as idols themselves, spotted him before long. He tried to turn his Quirk on them, Kinoko and Pony put him down first, and the arrest followed. That unnamed truth-inducement Quirk compels anyone he touches to voice their real thoughts unprompted, and victims never realize it is happening; the words simply come out of them.