Tamaki Amajiki

Tamaki Amajiki is a character from the My Hero Academia anime and manga.

A socially-awkward dark-haired Class 3-A student who is one of Mirio's childhood friends. His Quirk is "Manifest", which allows him to transform parts of his body into the body parts of things that he eats.

In the AWA fics, Tamaki is a student at the AWA Academy and is part of Class 6.

Appearance
Tamaki is a tall young man with rather pale skin. His ears are longer than most, their tips pointy and somewhat elf-like. He has messy, indigo hair, which sticks out behind his head, and thin, tired-looking eyes, partially covered by his bangs despite the fact that they're supposed to be split as to not impair his vision. His shoulders are usually hunched, and he avoids making eye-contact with people.

When wearing his school uniform, Tamaki wears his outfit in a slovenly way. His tie isn't tightened all the way and his shirt isn't completely tucked in as it should be, making it seem as if he doesn't put much effort into his appearance.

Tamaki's hero costume consists of a black bodysuit decorated with gold plating around the arms and shoulders. He dons a white tunic as well as a matching cape and hood that features more gold plating on the top of the hood. The cape connects to a scarf-like collar that features a silver mask on the front. He also sports a purple mask over his face as well as a matching carrier vest with red straps. He wears a mask over his eyes and is barefoot, which gives him more freedom when he’s using his Quirk.

Personality
Tamaki is extremely shy, aloof, depressed, "intimidating" and introverted, especially around audiences. He gets nervous very easily when talking to other people. If his anxiety gets the best of him, Tamaki will often face away and lean into a wall to hide his face from others. This also happens whenever Tamaki has a bad feeling or feels insulted.

While his physical abilities and Quirk are outstanding, Tamaki is very socially awkward and lacks confidence in his own powers. He apparently feels overwhelmed by the pressure to be perfect and this has damaged his self-esteem. Tamaki is quick to point out when others are being too optimistic in his pessimistic opinion and is unable to recognize his own achievements. His pessimism is a direct contrast to Fat Gum's optimism. Even after being complimented by Fat Gum, Tamaki often takes his mentor's praise for taunting.

Despite his timid heart, Tamaki is fully capable of showing flashes of bravery. Even though he's always been a shy and reserved boy, Tamaki was able to hone his skills and climb the ranks into one of U.A.'s Big 3. Mirio Togata is a big inspiration for Tamaki, and their cooperation throughout their lives has lead Tamaki to establish his own set of stern beliefs which he will uphold and vocalize.

Tamaki does not believe anyone should undermine another person's hard work. He noticed Class 1-A could not recognize how much work Mirio put into honing his own power, and even showed his face to comment on it. Mirio often gives Tamaki the inspiration to act even when he's feeling anxious. Inspired by Mirio's bravery during the yakuza raid, Suneater shows a bright flash of bravery, stepping up to the challenge of facing three villains alone so that the others can complete the mission.

While fighting against the villains, Tamaki pushed himself to his limit so that he could uphold the expectations set on him by Fat Gum, Mirio, and others who believe in him. Tamaki voiced his disapproval of the way Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe consider themselves expendable to Overhaul, but he appears to understand the bond between allies very well.

Abilities
Overall Abilities: Tamaki is one of U.A. High School's most powerful students alongside Mirio Togata and Nejire Hado, who are all collectively known as The Big 3. Tamaki has been stated to have skills and abilities that far outclass that of most Pro Heroes.

Tamaki has mastered his Quirk, Manifest, through vigorous training. He possesses the ability to manipulate feature selection, size manipulation, and simultaneous manifestations. This gives Tamaki's fighting style incredible variation and unpredictability. Tamaki makes sure to eat plenty of Takoyaki and Clams every day because they're great for both offense and defense. He often uses tentacle fingers to bind his opponents and defends himself using a clamshell husk. Tamaki has a variety of other powerful combinations as well, including using chicken talon strengthened with octopus muscles, or tentacle fingers reinforced by crab shells. Fat Gum strongly believes Tamaki's abilities are above his own and an entire team of Pro heroes that included Eraser Head and Rock Lock.

Tamaki has proven his strength on multiple occasions. He was able to effortlessly neutralize dangerous villains before having his Quirk temporarily erased. Tamaki's mettle was proven when he faced off against Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe of the Eight Bullets in a 3-on-1 fight, and was confident that he could take on the Yakuza trio by himself. At the beginning of the bout, Tamaki rapidly subdued the 3 Shie Hassaikai members and restrained them, successfully clearing a path for the rest of the raiding team of heroes, with Eraser Head taking the opportunity to incapacitate Soramitsu. But just as Tamaki was attempting to render the restricted Yakuza members unconscious, Toya lunged at the hero with a concealed blade that was within his mask, surprising Tamaki long enough for Yu to escape from the tentacle restraints. Tamaki demonstrated great reflexes when he engaged Yu and endured the latter's crystallized assault, such as creating octopus arms filled with thick muscles to absorb the shock of the impact, while simultaneously protecting himself from crystal damage using a thick layer of shells.

Tamaki soon decided to push himself to the limit, and activated his Super Move, "Chimera Kraken," allowing the multi-featured hero to nearly overwhelm Yu and Toya. However, Toya called out to the unconscious Soramitsu, who, upon regaining consciousness, used his Food Quirk to counter Tamaki's onslaught. Due to him being distracted by Soramitsu's addition to the battle, coupled with the former's impressive speed, Tamaki was dealt a blow by Yu, which was partially diffused by another layer of shell Tamaki had manifested, and was knocked back by the crystal-producing villain's enhanced strength. Deprived of his tentacles by Toya, unable to keep up with Soramitsu's speed, and being outmuscled by Yu, Tamaki was whelmed by the ternion's teamwork. However, in spite of being overpowered, Tamaki took advantage of the triad's teamwork and conflated the power of Yu's crystals that he had devoured, with his most used manifestations, to finally defeat the Eight Bullets members.

Tactical Intellect: Tamaki demonstrates incredible tactical judgments during fights. He acted quickly to disarm Toya, Yu, and Soramitsu at once in order to tip the favor to the heroes. After doing so, he stated it was a bad idea for all of the present heroes to fight the trinity at once, correctly deducing that the villains were trying to stall as many heroes as possible in order for Overhaul to make his getaway with Eri, so Tamaki allowed himself to be the only hero stalled by the 3 Shie Hassaikai members. He noted that it’s best that the rest of his comrades, especially Eraser Head, save their Quirks for when they get deeper into the Yakuza fortress, and they need to be at 100% of their power in order to break through the shifting walls caused by Joi Irinaka's Mimic Quirk.

In the midst of his battle, Soramitsu regained consciousness, and after Toya explained the mechanics behind the ravenous Yakuza's Food Quirk, Tamaki realized that Eraser Head had previously rendered Soramitsu unconscious because of the latter's Quirk enabling him to counter Tamaki's Manifest. After being taken aback by Soramitsu's speed, Tamaki attempted to manifest the neurotoxin from an octopus's saliva within his arm, knowing that Soramitsu won't be able to move if he eats the appendage. Unfortunately, this strategy was neutralized when Toya used his Larceny Quirk to steal Tamaki's smaller tentacles, allowing Yu to take Tamaki by surprise and smash the hero into a wall. Overwhelmed by the camaraderie of Toya, Yu, and Soramitsu, Tamaki's final, yet impromptu strategy was to target their teamwork by first obscuring Toya's vision, knowing the object-stealing villain relies on sight in order to use Larceny, which is a reason why the police couldn’t brandish their guns. When Yu attempted another attack, Tamaki countered with manifested crystals, revealing that he had discretely consumed some of the crystals Yu had generated, before grasping the crystallized yakuza with a chicken talon and capitalizing on Soramitsu's rush attack to successfully defeat the 3 Shie Hassaikai members. After defeating the trio, Tamaki relieved them of their masks and kept them on hand as a precaution, having witnessed Toya reveal he was keeping a hidden dagger concealed within his own mask at the beginning of the bout.

Quirk
Manifest ('Saigen'): Tamaki’s Quirk grants him the ability to manifest the characteristics of anything he's eaten. The more of a substance Tamaki eats, the stronger his manifestation will be.

He can only manifest the traits of substances that are still in his system, and loses access to those traits once the substance is fully digested. He needs to resupply his Quirk every day and needs to decide on what foods to eat beforehand.

After vigorous training at U.A., Tamaki is capable of using multiple manifestations at once, controlling the size of the manifestation, as well as being able to accurately choose the best feature of whatever he's eaten to fit any given situation.

Super Moves

 * Chimera Kraken (Kimera Kurāken): Tamaki's arms change into a pair of four incredibly large tentacles coated in suction cups, which he uses to thrash in a large area, hitting multiple opponents.

Trivia

 * Tamaki's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as following:
 * Ranked 29th in the 4th Popularity Poll.


 * Tamaki's name contains the kanji for heaven, eating, and ring or link.
 * According to Horikoshi, Tamaki's anxiety is inspired by his own experience when he attended the Jump Festa in 2017 and had to face an enormous crowd.
 * In addition to that, Tamaki's experience transferring grade schools was based off his experience of moving and attending a new middle school. He even had someone approach him and ask to be friends with him like Mirio did with Tamaki.
 * Tamaki's favorite things are butterflies.
 * Tamaki's Quirk could be a reference to the saying "you are what you eat."
 * Tamaki's English voice actor, Aaron Dismuke, also voices Kosei Tsuburaba.