Hashiru Jinsoku

Hashiru Jinsoku (る), formerly known as Hashiru Hayasa (さる), is a Pro Hero and is the mother of Oyumi, step-mother of Soreya, former lover of Hajiryoku, and the wife of Ginsen.

Appearance
Hashiru is a tall, slightly curvaceous woman and thanks to Hashiru’s mature, narrow eyes with long eyelashes, as well as her long, pointed ears, her daughter became a near-perfect spitting image of her. She has sky blue eyes rather than pearlescent grey Oyumi possesses. She also sports long side bangs and long black hair that is irregularly cut flat at the bangs and appears straight before it curves into waves halfway down.

She often wears her Hero costume, which includes a bluish-violet dress accented with yellow and gold. It displays four white button just below her cleavage exposed by a diamond-shaped opening beneath the collar. Hashiru’s dress has a tuft of white feathers at the shoulder area of her long sleeve that references a kimono’s. Her top exposes her sides and her back. She possesses a padded glove that is decorated with yellow “petals” at the edges while displaying a long blue-violet glove that stop at the middle of her upper arm. Both gloves are given their own style of yellow accents, such as her left glove having yellow lines along the fingers and her right has yellow borders mainly around the padded or armored parts. She fashions a pair of black thigh-high socks and blue-violet and yellow over-the-knee, high-heeled boots.

Personality
Despite being spoiled by a wealthy family, Hashiru was initially impressionable and a girl of high spirits during her teen years who looked up to her loved ones fondly to the point that she may behave in a similar way as them. She heavily idolized her family of speed quirk users. She was quite supportive with her friends, Udoshiko and Ginsen, during times of conflict, more so with another childhood sweetheart, Hajiryoku. Although she admires Hajiryoku like an idol, his influence on her led to the development of stubbornness and close-minded opinions over time. It was thanks to Udoshiko that she doesn’t always follow through on actions the man does, showing that she listened to her friends and took them to heart more than otherwise. Her attitude took a negative turn once expectations from her family started to weigh down on her, forcing her to re-establish her standards and view of the world to the point of toxicity and arrogance. Hashiru eventually grew to be bratty as a result of Hajiryoku and her family’s influence.

However, after Hajiryoku died from an accident involving an unrelated shootout, Hashiru’s mental state degraded, as he was one of her only sources of genuine love and validation rather than blind admiration for her hero status and her family’s legacy. Ironically, she did the latter for him at first. She began to suffer self-image and self-esteem issues and this exacerbated once Udoshiko was murdered by a villain eight months after Soreya was born. Hashiru and Ginsen mourned and coped together following their sudden losses, then forming an intimate bond that led to the conception of Oyumi. However, while she was happy to see Oyumi, this gleeful emotion rapidly faded upon remembering an intrusive memory of Hajiryoku, which is expressed with her stating that this is her child, but it isn’t his.

She grew bitter and neglected her only child for years, much to Ginsen’s dismay, which forced the father to raise her and Soreya himself. She focused considerably more on holding up her legacy tied to the Hayasa family and the formally rivaling Jinsoku family. Hashiru appeared to somewhat tolerate Soreya due to his Neon quirk, but wanted nothing to do with Oyumi, deeming her a failure after assuming that she was Quirkless. Even after the discovery of her daughter’s quirk, Hashiru saw this as unsatisfactory and was unwilling to train or raise an “false hope of a successor.” She was so distant that she did whatever to avoid Oyumi’s presence and pining for a mother’s affection to the point of ignoring her and shutting her opinions down. She frequently showed distaste for her that at one point, she snapped at her, “Soreya was just born lucky to be in this family. You were simply lucky to be born into it.” This emotional abuse continued for most of Oyumi’s life.

During Oyumi’s childhood, Hashiru managed to convince her cousins such as Dokuya to ostracize her own daughter, which resulted to Oyumi becoming the butt of jokes in the family and a subject to bullying. For years up to her daughter’s adolescent years, she had constant arguments with Ginsen due to her neglect and it was possible that she would do something to hurt herself if she and Ginsen divorced. She was completely disinterested in the fact that Oyumi revealed she had a secret relationship with a hero-to-be much older than her as a middle schooler a couple years later, but criticized how she was naïve enough to be manipulated and hurt by Orokai of all people. Although she had years of abuse on her belt, Hashiru showed a lot of promise in her family since childhood and upheld a positive image in the hero world due to her innate ability to impress the public with her seemingly helpful and charitable demeanor.

Trivia

 * Hashiru’s statement when she snapped at her child daughter is a reference to a quote spoken by Ozai in the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics.
 * Hashiru hated how Oyumi grew up to look like her and bore no resemblance to her old lover.
 * Despite being introduced cuisines popular in her family, Hashiru dislikes fish and beef, but tolerates pork.
 * Although she had no interest in children at the time, she had a child with Ginsen as an attempt to move on from Hajiryoku’s death.
 * She had plans to pass on her legacy to Soreya instead of her own biological child by the time she passes away, despite him being the offspring of someone else.
 * She wanted Oyumi to be educated in Shiketsu High, but let her apply to U.A. High instead, since it gave her more distance from her.