Suki Yamahara

Suki Yamahara, also known as Excalisabre (エクスカリセイバー), is a student in Class 1-B at U.A. High School who is training to become a Pro-Hero.

Appearance
Suki is a fairly tall teenage girl, set around 167 cm (5’6”) with relatively short silver blonde hair with one side resting on her right shoulder and the other styled in a winged bun similar to Zazaki's hair, but with slight curls at the tips. The middle of the hair is fashioned in a swirl, which is connected to the "wing" that points to her left.

She wears black shoes and bell-bottom pants where she keeps a dagger holster strapped on her left leg. Her ivory white tank top has 4 grey or black curved thick lines that stretch across the front, with one covering the straps and just below the collar, another just under the breast areas, one on the bottom, and the 4th being the rims of the top. Over her tank top is her jacket that has pointed short sleeves and extends to below the hips.

Personality
While she appears soft-spoken and shy when you meet her for the first time, she is actually very loud after spending time with her, from making announcements or explaining plans to her group to even in regular expressions. She is not afraid to raise her voice to be heard, but tends to feel guilty for doing so, thinking that she may have overdone the usage of volume of her voice on impulse. Gossip is impossible for her since she struggles in controlling her tone.

She is generous and compassionate, which would be seen when she provides minor medical aid to injured individuals with medicine and bandages, as well as giving soft-spoken words of advice to the injured person so they don't get hurt next time.

Like Oyumi, Suki is a girl who is determined and motivated to train as much as possible to become the strongest and most lethal Hero to grace the outside world. She has a lot of pride in her skills and knowledge of swords, so she is usually slow to anger, but can get passionate and emotional over the history of swords throughout the world. If one doubts the potential of swords or dinky and poorly made swords, Suki would likely feel disturbed and retort with hope, expressing that she sees usefulness in them, even if the swords would easily break in action. This also partly shows that she has a deep appreciation for the little things in life.

She is often inspired to follow a certain style she sees as "special" or "stylish," hence her "unbalanced" hairstyle. This is somewhat similar to how Oyumi adapts a "fancier" or cleaner approach of fashion sense in her every day clothes and her Hero Costumes, although Suki's attempts are more blatant and shameless. She may come off as someone who is "trying too hard to be like someone else" because of these occurrences.

Although she is grateful for being placed in the Hero course, Suki is envious of those who have artistic skill and admires the little nuances of the Department of Support, which is why she is jealous of a schoolmates, Sasagani Kasewaza and Washi Iwami being put in a class of said category.

Due to her self-pride, Suki is someone who believes her Sword/Blade Quirk is "flashy," even if others don't see it as so or if the Quirk itself isn't "extravagant" at all. She believes this is due to her passion in the art of swords, enamored by the process of how they are made and the art of combat in using these weapons. Her faith in her abilities hardly wavers in combat and this is up to a fault, such as when she battled Oyumi in one of the U. A. School Festivals, Suki was defeated due to her cockiness, her lack of physical flexibility and reflexes, and her limited versatility with her Quirk at the time. She seemed rely on her smarts more than her strength.

Development

 * Suki originated from an scrapped OC in a sketch made as early as 2011/2012 with an unknown origin, but was likely created some time after the Miss Ryuza played a Voltage game called "My Forged Wedding." Due to the lack of information in regards to color scheme and backstory, the design had to be created from the ground up with the old sketch as a reference.


 * Suki's eyes and bell-bottom pants are references to how the creator used to draw eyes and pants as a child, but the width of the pants are more exaggerated. The eyes angled somewhat inward are reminiscent to the old drawing of her. Based on style of the time, it is unknown to why her eyes weren’t more box-shaped, other than “using a distinct eye shape she hadn’t used in a long time, and just making her eyes boxy and narrow would make her look too similar to Oyumi.”


 * Suki's name contains 鋘, which is an uncommon kanji for "Sword." Her surname has 山 and 原, which mean "mountain" and "tundra, prairie, or meadow" respectively. It can be assumed that the uncommon kanji of her personal name could be a little subconscious reference to her obscurity as a character almost lost in the thousands of OCs Miss Ryuza has made over the years.

Character and Relationships

 * Suki likes spiders and is fascinated by the unique structures of spider webs. This may have been due to witnessing the display of Kasewaza's Spider Quirk.


 * Suki's Sword Quirk is similar to Jube Namimaru's Quirk of the same name, with both having the ability to generate the form of blades as long as their arms.


 * Suki wanted to choose “Silver Sabre,” but thought it was too simple.


 * She loves traveling to wide hills of fields and wished to venture to the largest mountains of the world someday.


 * Although she was born in Gifu, Suki moved to live in the Shiga Prefecture at the age of 5 before moving back to her birthplace around the age of 12, then moved again to Musutafu to be educated at U. A. High School following her acceptance.


 * Suki is deeply fond over the stories involving legendary swords, such as the legend of Muramasa and Masamune's contest involving the swords Juuchi Yosamu and Yawarakai-Te, and tales of King Arthur involving the sword Excalibur. Thus, the latter resulted to her Hero Name.


 * While Oyumi does not care for a Quirk's flashiness and Zazaki is concerned with how her Quirk is not showy, Suki completely believes her own powers is indeed worthy of being called so, even if they are not.


 * She likes reading manga, epics and romance visual novels


 * She was almost a Spider Quirk user due to her Miss Ryuza’s searches of kanji to give her to represent her first name. This quirk idea was later used for another OC, Sasagani Kasewaza.


 * Suki likes Spinach, Broccoli, Dark Chocolate, Beef, and Fish.


 * Her birthday corresponds with World Fencing Day.