u/RED_FETT

What is public perception of your OC post-Final War

We know that public perception of heroes and villains took a big shift post final war, especially with heroes being more scrutinised, and with Spinner's book sparking discussion about the motives that the likes of the League of Villains had.

So if your OC has any kind of public reputation, what does that look like post-final war?

I'll start:
With Rob, it was widely positive both in Japan and the UK, given that 1-A overall received an immense amount of celebration for their roles in the final war. And of course, given the media coverage internationally, Rob couldn't be shielded from the UK media by his siblings for much longer, and his home country, the public, were widely happy to see a true successor to the legacy of their former Number One hero following her path with her quirk.

With Meteor, his reputation took something of a hit back home, whilst public opinion of him in Japan recovered. People in the UK were upset he had defied the wishes of national interest to fight in the final war, and his national ranking took a hit that he never fully recovered from, though this same act inversely boosted the public perception of him in Japan, where public opinion had him marked as controversial.

Cassandra probably benefited the most opinion-wise, with her work being used to protect people in such a large conflict, and she saw a lot more private orders for her support items coming in during the following years.

Metal Madness was universally hated once his story came out after the final war, a sidekick who willingly chose to fall from grace and pursue his sociopathic desires purely because he enjoyed causing suffering made him one of the few members of the league who had little sympathetic elements to it, though of course some fringe people did try to twist his story to have such a sympathetic element to it to try and match him to the rest of the league's core members.

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u/RED_FETT — 1 day ago

What does your hero (or villain) OC do outside of hero work?

We know that some heroes often take side jobs to bring in extra revenue for themselves and their agencies, such as with brand deals. And of course, not every villain has the likes of All for One's network funding their operations.

So the question here is, if, for whatever reason, what does your OC, outside of being a hero or villain, do to make extra cash?

Meteor is typically known for his advocacy work outside of being a hero, usually working with charities focused on rehabilitation programmes and hero accountability. But alongside his sister, when they were first starting out after taking over their late mother's agency, they did end up taking modelling jobs, mostly for the PR it gave, but also because UK magazines will pay a crap tonne of money for front page modelled pictures.

u/RED_FETT — 4 days ago

Hero Name: Agent Phoenix - The Risen Hero
Quirk: From the Ashes
Nationality: English-British

Agency: Phoenix Agency
Hero Status: Pro
Hero Rank: 2 (UK), 87 (Japan)

During the final war, Rob had distinguished himself during the joint fight against Dabi and Metal Madness, and news that the son of the late UK number 1 had not only avenged her, but also inherited her quirk quickly reached home, incentivising the UK hero communities' response to aid in the rebuilding efforts in Japan alongside other nations. Having intentionally been kept out of the media spotlight by his elder siblings and godfamily, it was something that couldn't be avoided at this point, and Rob found himself flooded with offers from hero schools in the UK to transfer as well as many hero agencies offering him guaranteed jobs when he graduated.

He, of course, rejected the offers thrown his way and chose to stay in Japan and finish his time at UA alongside the rest of his classmates.

Not long after the graduation, much like a party had been held, Ayoma decided to leave the hero course. The rest of his friends and classmates at UA made sure Rob got a proper leaving do before he returned home for good. Of course, he chose to go and work for his family's agency, serving as a sidekick to his brother, Meteor, for a while before agreeing to move up and help run the show alongside both of his older siblings, making him a full pro hero.

His dual citizenship granted him a special relationship with the likes of Interpol, meaning he never stayed away from Japan for too long, and much like the rest of his former classmates who had gone pro, the efforts they all went through in fighting the league meant Rob never really strayed out of the top 100 hero rankings back in Japan.

As for being a pro back home, his herritage granted him something of a poularity boost early on, even as a sidekick, and in a much more rigorous ranking system, Rob still had a lot of work to put in even with something of a headstart, typically a lot of top heroes in the UK would have something about them that helped cement them as celebrities and popular beyond just being good at hero work. And in Rob's case, he would publicly release the footage of his patrols online. Rob wanted to be seen as approachable, and recording what was arguably the most boring part of his day seemed to do the trick, and this content helped skyrocket him all the way to the UK's number 2 position, significantly earlier than when his own mother had reached that spot in her day. Number one still being held by the Pro Hero, Monarch.

When it came to his relationship with his godfamily, the Todorokis, Rob really only ever stayed in contact with Shoto, having forged a genuine bond with each other during their time at UA. In fact, pretty much every interpol case Rob ever worked would go through Shoto's agency, and would usually mean Rob was sleeping on his couch for however long it took to work that case. Though for the likes of Endeavour and Rei, Rob didn't go no contact with them like how his siblings and Natsuo had, but rather, he himself never made an effort to reach out to them. They did eventually reach out to him to talk one-on-one about how he had been treated under their roof as a child. He did still opt to not forgive them, but believed that they were tortured enough by the knowledge of their neglect that it wasn't worth the effort trying to make their suffering worse at that point. Fuyumi on the other hand, Rob has next to no interest in speaking with her, the fact she kept trying to apologise for the neglect he dealt with growing up even when Endeavour himself had admitted that it was objectively wrong never sat well with him, so he effectively cut her out of his life as soon as he could.

And as for his living condition back home, Meteor eventually moved out of the apartment the three Phoenix children lived in not long before he got engaged, so Rob and his sister, Cassandra, share the apartment without Meteor.

u/RED_FETT — 16 days ago