Can you remove the part about him being able to see through the clouds?
Accepted.Name: Izanagi Eguchi
Vigilante Name: Jack-O'-Lantern
Age: 26
Appearance:
A taller man with a stocky build, Izanagi Eguchi's most accented attribute would be his grey hair or the visible scar over his right eye. While the hair is all natural and not entirely induced by stress, the scar on his right eye is the result of a villain attack in Eguchi's teenage years. As a vigilante, Izanagi will often fashion on black clothing (seen above) and put on a rather... Unique head attire of a Halloween Jack-o'-Lantern to hide his identity. Unsurprisingly, this is also where his secret identity spawned from.
Personality: If one were to ask those close in Izanagi's life — which would be narrowed down to his family and a few employees under him — they would describe the adult as either moody or loud. Violent, angry, short tempered or even judgmental would not be far behind, but would be describing Izanagi only in his worst moments. The man himself is simply moody. Or Loud. His body language and tone often lean on the side of being perpetually upset, even when the man is totally neutral with the world around him. That's just how he's unconsciously putting himself out there.
There's an inner compunction to do good in Izanagi that he can't quite ignore — despite all his best efforts — which has led him to take to the streets at night. The idea of being capable but not allowed to help his neighbors or even random strangers from dangerous situations chafes the man. His respect for the law is dubious, even if he can admire those who put their life on the line for others, he'll never find it in him to listen to their drivel.
To what few close friends Izanagi has managed to keep from high school, they would describe him as nosy. Despite it not being his business, not even something that could effect him in the least, Izanagi is someone who will obsess over a friend's dilemma whether they want him to or not. The same can be said for tabloid drama and any major hero or villain developments. Television intended to capture petty and sometimes unrealistic drama devours Izanagi's free time each night. On the side of his intelligence, no one would be quick to say Izanagi was... Smart. There's always been a lack of interest in formal education that kept Izanagi from attending any higher learning institutions, but he's not entirely helpless when it comes to applying himself to dire problems. No one should expect Izanagi to be a cultured man however.
Quirk: Will-o'-Wisp (Emitter Type); This quirk is a fire & heat related quirk, allowing Izanagi to manipulate existing sources of fire within a set range of ten meters. Izanagi cannot produce his own flames, but his quirk allows him to alter their temperature if given enough time. Likewise, Izanagi can marginally make objects next to him hotter and ignite them — in the case of something such as a notebook or particularly dry wood — and is a great asset for boiling water or reheating a cold breakfast. Will-o'-Wisp gives Izanagi a higher tolerance to intense temperatures, but fires will burn him just as much as anything else.
Backstory:
Reflecting on his childhood, Izanagi would find nothing out of the ordinary. At least until he reached his teens. His father continues to work for the company Detnerat, specifically in their calls department where irate customers will shamelessly deride the man for the companies errors. His mother has never had steady employment, jumping from one restaurant to another with the fickle nature of the seasons. And Izanagi has always been a bit too cheeky, too quick to spit out a nasty remark, to keep many early childhood friends. In school, he'd rather doodle on his notes than save them for later and in the few instances he'd work up the courage too, leave school early. The only aspect of his early life that Izanagi took any amount of seriousness with would be his baby sister, Rini Eguchi.
Being seven years her senior, Izanagi Eguchi was often handed the tiresome duty of taking care of his sister. Their father picked up extra shifts whenever possible for the forlorn hope that his son would attend a respectable university and his mother was a little better, however she opted to sneak off with her girlfriends for exciting evenings rather than play parent. Never the perfect role model, Izanagi and Rini somehow managed to survive into their teens with an iron bond tying them together. Embarrassingly, whenever Izanagi's friends would ditch him or he'd start a fight with them, it was his baby sister he'd turn to for companionship. From going to movies to eating out at the local diners, the siblings did most things together.
That was why, when a traveling carnival came to town, Izanagi took Rini over there under the loose guise of wanting to show her around. Definitely not because the elder Eguchi desperately wanted to try the rides and was too shy of going alone. It was a poor decision, one that changed the trajectory of both their lives. Several villains had attended the carnival, had been causing trouble, as villains tend to do. Nothing out of the ordinary beyond rude behavior, though somewhere along that fated night an argument broke out between a carney and the villains group. Izanagi later learned it was all because one of the villains was accused of cheating in the toss—a—ring game. A petty reason to cause such devastation.
The villains weren't shy to use their quirks and caused catastrophe on the helpless civilians. Izanagi and Rini tried to escape, but twisting metal rides collapsed around them. Like a grenade went off, the Ferris wheel exploded into hundred of dangerous shards. Izanagi was fortunate enough to make out with only a scar on his face and blood pooling in his eye. Rini's leg was impaled with the sharp remnants of the Ferris wheel and her life in danger. The villains continued to rampage for an additional twenty minutes before the heroes were on the scene, leaving both Eguchi's to do their best to hold on.
After the attack, after a hospital visit, Rini's right leg was deemed fine. There would be no permanent damage to it. But the helpless memory burned into Izanagi's brain. Being unable to do anything, as three people went wild without another's concern in mind. Izanagi assumed everyone there could take the three villains down if they simply stopped running — if he simply was courageous enough to take action. It was at this moment that Izanagi went down the path of becoming a vigilante, slated to eventually take up arms years later.
Once High School was over, Izanagi found himself out of luck. He had no higher aspirations, no future with greater education. The young man took odd jobs and eventually was hired at a Mcdonalds in a rather dubious part of town. Not glamorous at all, Izanagi made the most of it and was promoted to manager after several years. Leaving work for the day, Izanagi saw a suspicious looking fellow stalk a young woman as day swiftly turned to night. Instincts alight, Izanagi stalked the stalker, waiting to pounce if he saw wrong doing. It didn't take too long and the man tried to make off with her purse, though a — perhaps too over zealous — Izanagi was there to stop him. Instead of trying to fight him physically, Izanagi used his quirks to take his immediate attention away from the girl. She was quick to flee and the man had no intention of getting into a drawn out fight over a failed purse snatching.
It wasn't a great moment of catching an evildoer. Nor was it one where he gained a lick of praise. But the sensations that crawled over his skin after stopping the theft pushed Izanagi to repeat this action until he finally accepted the role of a rather inconsistent vigilante. He still had a 9 to 5 job to attend to alongside limited social calls that took priority over anything else.
Looks great. Accepted.
