Tsunagu Hakamada

Blond hair swept hard to one side hides his left eye entirely, and the eyes themselves are dark and thickly lashed with a slight inward tilt. He stands very tall on a slim frame, and his neck stretches and bends far past what anyone would expect of it.

Denim accounts for nearly all of his costume: trousers, a waistcoat carrying a pair of oversized breast pockets, and a shirt whose collar climbs high enough to sit just under his nose. Belts ring both the collar and his waist, and his boots are short and dark brown on thick gray shafts. A denim trench coat went over the whole ensemble during his time with the Hideout Raid squad.

The costume he wore on returning during the Paranormal Liberation War matched the original closely, save for hero initials stamped on both belts and taller boots worn outside the pant legs, with small revisions made before the last battle. Afterward he switched to black denim, dropped the initials from the face buckle, and let the strap hang long and loose.

Eight years past the Final War his fringe curls off to the right instead and leaves both eyes uncovered. The belt is gone; the neck of the suit closes with rows of eyelets and lacing like a boot, the sleeves billow with laces at the cuffs, and the whole thing is light blue denim.

Elegance and flamboyance run through everything he does. He holds that anyone with influence owes the public a well-kept image, in bearing as much as in conduct, and he reaches for tailoring and denim as metaphors when he speaks, telling the young heroes under him to keep their lives pressed straight like a good pair of jeans.

Coarse behavior grates on him, which is why Katsuki Bakugo tests his patience. He accepted the boy as an intern specifically to sand down that attitude and got nothing but obstinacy for the effort.

None of the showmanship dilutes his commitment. He is brave, generous with himself, and persuasive, convinced that no situation ever excuses a hero from acting, and he wants peace to reach everyone. When All For One swung at his allies he absorbed the strike himself without pausing to think, and the villain openly commended him for it.

Fiber Master lets him command the threads in any fabric near him. Denim answers best, sweats worst, and the Quirk reaches past clothing to materials such as carbon fiber. He unravels his own garments into strings or turns an opponent's outfit against them, and since he is covered in his favorite material he never lacks a supply. He has also yanked at allies' clothes to force them clear of danger.

Ranked fourth in Japan and promoted to third once All Might retired, he proved the ranking at the Kamino Incident. He pinned several Nomu for Mt. Lady and Gang Orca to finish and briefly bound All For One himself, who applauded before tearing loose, routing the Hideout Raid trio and dealing him a wound that ended his war and cost him a lung. He got his comrades out first, then tried to bind the villain a second time regardless.

His comeback at Jaku City was more impressive still. Using support cables of industrial-strength fiber he restrained Gigantomachia, Dabi, Tomura Shigaraki, Spinner, Skeptic, and Mr. Compress at once, and the first of those is close to impossible to hold. He was coughing badly throughout, the price of months spent in a medically induced death-like state to convince Dabi he had been killed. All For One judged the Quirk too difficult to be worth stealing, a backhanded measure of the years of technique behind it.

Off the battlefield he reads people fast, spotting Katsuki's superiority complex from the Sports Festival alone and immediately identifying Dabi's broadcast as an attack on public faith in heroes. He also has a record of straightening out troubled youths, which is why Gang Orca was surprised the boy defeated him. His named techniques include Blackout Bind, Catching Cradle, Clothing Is the Cage of Our Times, Dress-Up Soliloquy, and Thread of Hope, and he was chosen to head the hero team backing Deku inside the U.A. fortress during the Final War.