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Daniel Henry Whitemount:
Height: 220 cm
Weight: 140kgs
Age: 30
Eye colour: Red
Hair: Cropped short on the sides and back, while long on top. Black in colour and curly. He has four red-black horns that grow from his scalp, two growing up and towards the sky and two growing down past his cheeks.
Personality: Outgoing and loud, his smile and laugh often coming quickly and easily among friends, but in the midst of a mission he is a force of nature, calm and calculating. This has led to other heroes gifting him his nickname, “General” due to his commanding presence. He is kind and caring of the public and has several charities to aid education and development on his home continent of Africa.
Body: Strongly built, tall with broad shoulders and tickly muscled.
Allegiance: Hero
Hero Alias: Asmodeus
Hero Ranking: 5th in Southern Africa
Quirk: Evil Eye
His quirk originates in his eyes; they have various reality altering effects. He can cause flames to burst into existence within his line of sight and direct their path and shape. He can, when making eye contact with an opponent, cause them to feel abject fear in his presence and depending on the time of day, he can even warp from one shadow in his line of sight to another.
Biography:
Born to a doctor and a teacher in a small town on the outskirts of Africa’s only Megalopolis, Johannesburg, Daniel was born with the outward characteristics of his quirk. This led him to compensate for this with a personality and smile that could outshine his terrifying features. He was bullied in primary school, but when his quirk finally manifested this stopped, his eyes becoming red and his strength increasing led to him lashing out at his tormentors on more than one occasion and thus he was sent to extra training to control his temper and his quirk.
By the time he enrolled in a hero course at a prestigious High School in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, he had good control of his quirk, however, he struggled academically. This was due to boredom and a lack of support from his father, who always wanted him to study medicine like him. However, an encounter with All Might in his final year of high school on a student exchange programme gave him the drive to finish in the top ten best students in his hero course.
He spent his early career as a hero jumping between several prominent agencies in his home country and amassed a large amount of support and allies among the heroes at these agencies and soon recruited them all to create an agency that functioned throughout Southern Africa. This agency was run by heroes and owned by them as well and a special agreement with the governments in the region to operate cross border without the need for visas and license changes. Soon they became the largest agency in Southern Africa and had all the top ten heroes in their ranks due to their special agreements with the SADC governments and the freedom that entailed.
However, this led to Daniel becoming reckless with his assignments and cases, taking on dangerous villains and syndicates in brutal purges of the criminal underworld in Southern Africa. Daniel’s most dangerous and depraved targets began to disappear and then be discovered dead weeks or months later. Dozens of investigations were launched into his actions, but no concrete evidence was able to pin him to the murders of these villains. Thus he was released without a charge every time, but the damage to his reputation was done and so he has been stuck as rated the 5th greatest hero in Southern Africa for five years.
He has kept contact with All Might for his entire career and when the “Symbol of Peace” retired from active duty, Daniel contacted the man and began to make preparations. He was eventually asked by All Might to move to Japan and become a guest lecturer and security specialist for UA. Daniel jumped at the chance and set up his agency to function without his presence and made the move to Japan. He is eager to see what All Might has taught his students and his protégé, Izuku Midoriya.