



Biographical Information

Name: リワイワイ アギラル

Romaji: Liwayway Aguilar [Lee-wai-WAI ah-gee-LAHR]

Alias: Daraga

Epithet: Lili (nickname); "Firestarter”; “Hero with a Burning Soul”



Personal Description

Birthday: August 12th (Leo)

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Height: 5’4” / 162.5cm

Weight: 122lbs / 55kg

Hair Color: Dark brown

Eye Color: Deep blue-green

Blood Type: O

Quirk: Pyric Mimicry/Pyrokinesis

Quirk Type: Transformation

Quirk Range: Short- to mid-range



Status

Status: Alive

Family: Ana Marie Aguilar (mother); Ciel Aguilar (younger brother) Marco Aguilar (father, deceased); Nagai Shinya (stepfather)

Occupation: Student

Department: Department of Heroes

Class: 2-A

Affiliation: U.A

Love Interest: n/a

CV: Nakamura Chie

Appearance:

Liwayway has dark brown hair that she wears in a bob with sideswept bangs, medium olive skin, and blue-green eyes that lend to her expressive face. She's rather tall for her age, with a slim yet slightly muscled build born first of dance lessons, and then her training in arnis, a form of stick-fighting.

She has no set style and wears whatever she deems comfortable and appropriate. This usually translates to a shirt or tank top paired with denim shorts over leggings and her favorite pair of red and white sneakers. When at school, she tends to do away with the uniform tie, and wears the same sneakers from her casual outfit rather than leather shoes.

Her hero uniform is a dark red, skin-tight suit with a white section covering her neck, upper chest, and top of the shoulders. She also wears white, chunky-heeled lace-up boots, and black fingerless gloves, with her retractable arnis sticks strapped to a white belt at her waist. She carries a first aid kit in a black pouch at her thigh, and wears metal bands embedded with sensors at her neck and around her wrists.

Personality:

Liwayway is observant, disciplined, and determined. Her tendency to observe a situation before taking any sort of action has led people to believe her quiet and aloof. Most of the time, the first is true; the second is only true around people she doesn't know well. This means that, as much as she likes making friends, she can be picky about them. Taught by her birth parents that the truth is always best, she is quite straightforward and tends to speak her mind - whether it’s something someone wants to hear or not.

By nature, she is an introvert, and comfortable in her own company whatever she's doing at the time; she tends to treat her friends as warmly as she treats her family. Due to her upbringing and prior training, she is strong-willed and independent, but also willing to compromise when the situation calls for it. Sometimes, this can lead to her being indecisive on what action to take.

Once she sets out to do something, Lili is determined to see it through - but this determination can often become stubbornness, which in the worst-case scenario leads her to make possibly deadly mistakes. She is also adamant about working alone, due to an incident in her preteen years that revealed more about her Quirk - information she decided long ago meant she would risk no one’s life but her own out in the field.

History:

The older of two children, Liwayway was born and raised in the southern Philippines, to a mother and father who were among the few Pro-Heroes who stayed in the country. While they were called on more often to help keep the public safe when typhoons and other natural disasters happened rather than fight off villains, their dedication instilled in Lili a desire to do the same one day. So it was a shock and something of a disappointment for her when she discovered her pyric form and accompanying pyrokinesis, as fire was often a source of destruction in the country. It didn't help that, as a young child and later a preteen, such a transformation was often triggered by negative emotions, particularly anger, and was usually uncontrollable due to her being emotional.

Thankfully, her grandfather, a retired hero himself, had started teaching her arnis - the Filipino martial art of stick-fighting. This helped her learn to focus and control her emotions, which was a necessity while she hadn't mastered her pyrokinesis. But she was gifted with a quick mind that enabled her to not just excel in school, but to swiftly learn to control her Quirk.

By the time she was 10, the Hero Training Program was in effect, and this allowed Lili's parents to have a hand in helping her hone her abilities compared to her unsupervised solo 'training' sessions. According to the Program, she could tag along whenever either parent was called in, but had to stay on the sidelines and offer support when needed; if villains were involved, Lili was forbidden from direct engagement. Despite being somewhat extreme, the Program was deemed the best course of action to train young Heroes, since the country couldn't yet afford an academy for this purpose.

When Lili was 12, one such excursion ended in disaster. A small group of heroes, disillusioned with the government, had recently begun attacking officials who were in opposition to a certain political group. The Aguilars - minus Ciel who was still too young for the program - set out in response to an emergency call involving these Heroes-turned-Villains, who took advantage of the fact that the trio included a hero-in-training. Lili herself became a target, and her father, distracted in trying to protect her, found himself enveloped in the toxic cloud generated by the villain calling himself Unknown. As Lili watched her father collapse, she found herself moving towards the man responsible, her flames burning blue rather than red, the extreme heat apparently rendering her immune to the toxic mist. The next thing she knew, she woke up in the hospital, her mother and her brother by her bedside. Unknown and the other villains had escaped, and her father was dead, due to be buried in a few days.

Two years later, Ana Marie had recovered from her husband’s death but had still entered early retirement from service as a Hero. Those who knew her didn’t doubt that meeting and eventually being re-married to the Japanese national Shinya Nagai helped in her recovery. It was through him that Lili and Ciel learned of schools such as U.A., with the former becoming determined to attend such a school to further develop her abilities. The family moved to Japan at Shinya’s urging, but Lili vowed to return to her birth country, both to boost its number of Heroes and to rid it of Unknown and his companions.

Likes: Liwayway loves to learn new things, whatever they may be. She also likes to keep her things organized - especially her personal library of both books and movies. When she’s not training in arnis or playing sports, her favorite pastimes are going for walks and people-watching in different cafes, though she brings a book with her so it isn’t obvious she’s observing fellow cafe-goers. She loves comfortable, practical clothing, and likes cooking for her family when she can.

Dislikes: While Lili can appreciate the aesthetic of certain styles like lolita, she will absolutely refuse to dress up in the same. She dislikes extremely wet weather, as well as really spicy food. While not averse to making mistakes since she knows they’re essential to learning, Lili is keen to avoid the feeling of embarrassment that comes with such blunders.



Quirk and Abilities

精神炎光 (Seishin Enkou; Soul Blaze) - Liwayway transforms her body into one composed of flames, allowing her to create and control fire. She can use the fire to boost herself into the air, fly for short periods of time, create firewalls for defense and fireballs for offense.

This Quirk, however, relies on her Lili’s ‘spirit’ - her will, determination, emotions - as well as her soul. As such, she can only remain in her pyric form for a limited time. The sensors in her hero costume emit a beeping sound if she’s close to her limit; the green lights turn red, providing a visual warning for any allies nearby if Lili is somehow unable to hear the warning sound.

The more she trains, the longer she can safely stay in her pyric form (at present, it's estimated that she can do so for 3 to 4 hours at a time, depending on how much she exerts herself).

After the Sports Festival arc, Liwayway gains enough control over her Quirk to transform only a part of her body into flames, depending on what she needs the fire for (for example, she transforms only her lower legs and feet in order to fly). It’s less powerful than her full pyric form, but it’s also less dangerous and she can use it longer (up to 6 hours at a time).



ソールシーカー (Soulseeker) - The more powerful, but less controllable side to Liwayway’s Quirk. Ana Marie (aka Diwata) first witnessed it when the Aguilars faced Unknown and his cohorts, and it was then fueled by the just-departed Marco (aka Habagat). It activates when Lili is under severe emotional stress or when she stays in her pyric form longer than deemed safe. In this berserker mode, the distinction between ally and foe disappears for Lili; anyone’s soul can be harvested and used as fuel for her flames, with the alternative being her life force is used instead. This mode can only be stopped by dousing her with water or knocking her out.

Upon learning of this side of her Quirk, Lili vowed never to use it, and to work alone whenever possible so as not to endanger her allies.



Other Statistics

= Hero's Status =

Power: 4/5 (B)

Speed: 5/5 (A)

Technique: 3/5 (C)

Intelligence 5/5 (A)

Cooperativeness: 2/5 (D)

= Fight =

Leadership: 3/5 (C)

Physical Strength: 4/5 (B)

Stamina: 4/5 (B)

Observation: 5/5 (A)

Agility: 4/5 (B)

Mental Strength: 4/5 (B)

Willpower: 4/5 (B)

= Natural =

Confidence: 4/5 (B)

Charisma: 3/5 (C)

Femininity: 4/5 (B)

Sincerity: 4/5 (B)

Humor: 3/5 (C)

Social Skills: 3/5 (C)

Empathy: 3/5 (C)

Memory: 5/5 (A)

Tactical Skills: 4/5 (B)

Patience: 3/5 (C)

Cooking: 5/5 (A)





Relationships

[work-in-progress]

Trivia

- Liwayway's mother is of French and Filipino descent, hence her rare eye color for someone from Southeast Asia

- Each of her immediate family members can control an element to some extent, although their overarching Quirk type is different. Her mother possesses an Emitter-class plant control Quirk, her father had a hydrokinetic Transformation-class Quirk, and her brother has an Emitter-class wind control Quirk. Both sets of grandparents, and at least one set of great-grandparents possessed Quirks as well.



- Lili was devastated to learn that her maternal great-grandmother had once been a Villain; she and her brother (Lili's great-granduncle) terrorized the country by causing natural calamities to hide their other misdeeds like stealing and extortion. Said relative possessed the Quirk called 'Volcano Chain' which enabled her to control both earth and fire for short periods of time (going over the time limit would render her unconscious or burned away). Lili's grandmother and mother had both inherited the earth-based half of that Quirk, but the fire-based one seemed to have skipped those two generations. Her great-grandmother eventually reformed, but the knowledge of her relative's past cemented Lili's determination to prove herself as a hero.



- Lili's Quirk is a Transformation-class pyrokinetic Quirk, a combination of her father's and great-grandmother's.

- Lili’s hero name further underlines her love of her family, continuing their pattern of choosing hero names rooted in Philippine myth. She took inspiration from one of the goddesses of war, particularly one who was linked to or said to dwell in the “Grandfather of Philippine Volcanoes”, Mt. Apo.

- When not practicing arnis, the sport Lili plays more of is basketball, because of its popularity in her birth country. It’s one of the rare times she shows she can work in a team.

- ‘Soulseeker’ has Lili using blue flames instead of red/orange; it was this that manifested when the Aguilars faced Unknown and his companions.



- Besides making sure she sticks to a time limit when activating her Quirk, Liwayway needs to recharge afterward; the time needed depends on whether she was in full or partial pyric form, how long it was active, and how much she exerted herself. If she doesn't, the chances of her entering "Soulseeker" mode increases the next time she activates her Quirk.