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Mina Ashido is a character from the My Hero Academia anime and manga.
An emotional and excitable girl with a strange alien-like appearance. Her Quirk, "Acid", allows her to produce corrosive liquid through her skin. She can manipulate its level of solubility and viscosity, but excreting too much acid will eventually start to damage her own skin.
In the AWA fics, Mina is a student at the AWA Academy and is part of Class 6.
In the XP4 fics, Mina debuted in XP4 Heroes Coalition - Kick-Off!.
Appearance[]
Mina's skin is tinted a pink color due to her acid quirk. Her eyes are dark with yellow irises. She has unruly, short pink hair with yellow horns protruding from her head. She is of medium height and set more broadly than some of her other female classmates. During school hours she wears the normal female school uniform.
Her hero suit consists of a purple and turquoise camouflage skintight bodysuit and a tan vest with white fur on the collar. She wears a white mask as well. The boots are custom made to allow her to secrete acid from her feet to slide around.
Personality[]
Mina is cheerful and most of the time seen with a smile on her face. She is easily excited, but also very emotional and easily brought to tears in various situations, out of relief, out of sadness and out of frustration. However, she is still very easygoing, having no problem being completely naked in front of other people, however, she still doesn't appreciate being peeped at by Minoru Mineta.
Mina is also very sociable and eager to engage in social situations and is shown to become very upset when she is denied an opportunity to be at a gathering or event she looks forward too.
It is shown that before entering U.A., Mina would condemn bullying in middle school. She is capable of standing up for people even when she herself is scared, going as far as to put herself between her friends and a dangerous, intimidating figure in order to keep them safe, doing whatever she could to prevent the situation from escalating further.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Mina is a member of the Heroes Coalitions and is part of the Team Extreme. She also attends the Vanguard Academy.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Kick-Off![]
In Chapter 7, Mina, alongside her team, the Team Extreme, are seen infiltrating a warehouse where the crime syndicate called the CFFB Flying Bears are hiding. After taking down the crime syndicate, Mina and the others watches Katsuki Bakugo and Yuri Nakamura had an arguement when the former demanded leadership for the team.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Neo-City Diaries[]
In Chapter 2, Mina and Kyouka Jirou are seen walking around the Training Facility grounds in the evening.
In Chapter 3, Mina alongside Minto Aizawa, are seen walking in the hallways of the training facility passing-by Kevin Levin by the Sick Bay.
In Chapter 12, Mina, alongside Lan Fan, is seen watching Cerebella practicing on a tall gymnastics bar in the Training Camp while awaiting for their turn.
In Chapter 33, Mina, alongside Momo Yaoyorozu, are seen having a conversation inside a classroom somewhere in the Vanguard Academy.
In Chapter 44, Mina, alongside the rest of the Team Extreme, welcomes Noda and Zakuro Fujiwara for becoming an official member of the team.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Welcome to Herowood[]
In Chapter 5, Mina, alongside Bu-Ling Huang, Hibari Hanakoganei, Kanade Tachibana, Millianna and Yuri Nakamura, are seen in the district of Triple X in Herowood where Chad Mordetzky took a group photo of them.
In Chapter 7, Mina is amongst those seen on the dancefloor inside the Bruno's Bar in Herowood where she witnessed the performances of Koito Minase & Sayaka Maizono, Franchouchou and Muse on stage, and later found themselves drenched in water when Natsu Dragneel accidentally activated the sprinklers by breathing out some flames.
DreamTheater Intermix: The World Within[]
Mina is a student in the City Saints Academy.
Biography[]
In Chapter 8, Mina, alongside Koyume Koizuka, are seen exchanging email addresses with Nazz Van Bartonschmeer in the dining area of the first floor. She then took notice of the arrival of Tenma Daytona Romeoford, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson and Shizuka Kasagi in the room, and later witnessed Eric Cartman demanding the identity of the noise maker to which Shizuka declined.
In Chapter 16, Mina, alongside Koyume Koizuka and Yui Yuigahama, are seen hanging at a patio outside the Sugarcube Corner.
In Chapter 17, Mina, alongside the rest, are seen inside the lobby area of the Corona House where they are getting ready for that night's patrol with Shizuka Kasagi seeing them off.
In Chapter 30, Mina is present inside the cafeteria of the Corona House.
Abilities[]
Enhanced Reflexes: Mina has the best reflexes out of the girls and almost all people in Class 1-A. She was capable of easily dodging Yuga Aoyama's energy attacks. Later melting several balls launched toward her at high speed with precise flicks.
Dancing Talent: Mina is extremely skilled at dancing, being capable of pulling breakdance moves with little effort. She can also teach an amateur into becoming a decent dancer in little time.
Quirk[]
Acid (San): Mina's Quirk allows her to shoot out a corrosive liquid from within her body and can control the degree of solubility, as well as its viscosity. She can use it offensively but has shown utility as well such as melting handholds for herself to climb with. She is also known to secrete the acid from her feet in order to slide around.
Super Moves[]
- Acid Veil (Ashiddobēru): Mina's special move. By maximizing her acid's solubility and viscosity, Mina creates a gelatinous acid wall that blocks incoming projectiles. Mina's Acid Veil was strong enough to block hardened balls (which were stronger than concrete) with ease.
Equipment
Acidproof Shoes: Mina wears special shoes that have holes in their soles, that let Mina secrete acid from her feet. The shoes are not damaged by the acid. Mina can use this to slide across the ground on her acid.
Trivia[]
- Mina's design during the preliminary stages of the series was relatively similar to her final design, albeit with a lankier physique. This design also possessed longer, more elaborate horns, visible blushes on her cheeks and slightly longer hair.
- Because the twisted horns were considered difficult to draw, this design was eventually dropped, with the current Mina design having smaller, simpler horns.
- Mina's known U.A. data is as follows:
- Mina is student No. 2 in Class 1-A.
- Ranked 9th during Shota Aizawa's Quirk Apprehension Test.
- Ranked in the Top 8 of the U.A. Sports Festival First-Year Stage.
- Ranks 19th in Class 1-A's midterm grades.
- Mina's surname name "Ashido" is almost homophonous to the Japanese pronunciation of "acid" (ashiddo). The first kanji in her given name, ("three"), can be read as "san", which is also the pronunciation of the Japanese word for "acid".
- Mina's initial choice of her hero name, Alien Queen, is a direct reference to Ridley Scott's movie Alien, where the titular creature of the film is an extraterrestrial being that possesses acidic blood.
- Mina's favorite foods are natto and okra. She also likes dancing.
- In My Hero Academia Official Character Book Ultra Archive, Mina's profile mistakenly lists her birthday as July 15.
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