Hayley Reid

Hayley Reid

15 || Heterosexual || Female || Student

PERSONALITY

POSITIVE
✔ Fun-loving, thrill-seeking, wise-cracking, fearless, loyal, friendly

NEGATIVE
✖ Impulsive, aggressive, bloodthirsty, stubborn, reckless, obnoxious

LIKES
✔ Heavy metal, vehicles, extreme sports, combat, leather jackets, insects

DISLIKES
✖ Pop music, the quiet, waiting around, sitting still, insect spray

PERSONALITY
Hayley is a hyperactive, fun-loving girl who does not know what the word 'danger' means. To her there's no mountain that cannot be climbed, no ocean that cannot be swum and no desert she cannot cross. She's an adrenaline junkie through and through, always on the lookout for her next thrill, and anyone who wants to stop her from doing something she's made her made up about can damned well try.

Her reckless and impulsive nature often puts her in harm's way, however, and she can come across obnoxious and annoying. Her aggression and temper frequently cause her to bite off more than she can chew.

Despite her flaws, she's a loyal friend who will follow the people she cares about to hell and back. She loves to make people laugh and at the end of the day just wants to have fun and help people in need.

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: 1.61m
WEIGHT: 50.2 kg
HAIR/STYLE: Dark, murky brown, scruffy with a fringe that dangles over her eyes, length-wise reaches the middle of her neck
SKIN/SCARS: Pale, various small scars and bruises mark her skin on her arms and legs, though none on her face. 
EYES: Dark brown
NOTABLES: n/a

Hayley is an athletic young woman with round ears, a button nose and a round face. Ethnically she is half-white, half-East Asian.

Her old vigilante gear consisted of full biker leathers and a motorbike helmet to disguise herself. Her biker gear's gloves have small holes in the backs the hornets she creates can escape from. She still wears it sometimes, though now usually doesn't bother with the helmet.

Her unsuited appearance: 



Her full suited appearance: 



Her UA-approved hero costume:

HISTORY

They once told stories up in the mountains of a 'monster' loose in Japan's rural villages. These stories claimed this monster appeared as a buzzing cloud and feasted upon human flesh.

Anyone from the cities who heard these stories would probably suspect the 'monster' was actually just some violent lunatic with a Quirk, and one man who did was the vigilante Beetle Battler. Known for his rhinoceros beetle horn and shell, he was a powerful hero who made countless arrests in his time, and certainly not the type to fear being eaten.

He was fortunate to arrive in the rural area just as another village was attacked by this 'buzzing cloud', and upon dashing over to save the day was greeted with the shock of his life -

The 'monster' was a little girl.

She was no older than four. Her clothes were not much more than strips of cloth and her filthy skin was covered in scratches. The 'buzzing cloud' was actually a swarm of hornets that manifested from within her body. Hornets that, as it turned out, rather liked the taste of human flesh. The girl was feral and could not speak or think beyond her need to eat.

Despite her state, Beetle Battler took pity on her, and upon subduing her decided to take her in and see if he could stop her hornets' hunger and raise her to be a civilised human being. He found that giving her a proper meal was enough to stop her hornets from trying to eat human flesh.

Beetle Battler, true identity an American immigrant by the name of Marcus Reid, thus raised the girl as his daughter as best he could by himself while continuing to be a vigilante-hero on the side. Hayley Reid grew up admiring her father's heroic exploits and dreaming of becoming like him. She remembered little of her life as a feral 'monster', but was confused at the great hunger her Quirk brought and the horrifying urges that hunger gave her. Beetle Battler reassured his daughter that as long as she had heroic spirit she had nothing to worry about: she would tame her Quirk and become a hero like him for sure.

Unfortunately, the path of a hero is no easy one, something Hayley learned better than anything the day Beetle Battler was killed in a scrap with some Quirk-bearing Yakuza. She was only ten years old.

She did not initally apply for UA, believing she didn't need any new-fangled 'hero program' or license to be a great hero, as her father didn't. Her brief stint as a vigilante brought her only pain, however, when her attempt to stop a rampaging elephant at Herr Kunshu's Circus caused the death of an innocent.

Struck with guilt and grief, Hayley applied to UA very late, but thanks to her father's reputation and her own drive was accepted after all. Absolved of her vigilante law-breaking, she now enters UA for a fresh start. Will she learn to be a true hero 'the proper way'? Only time will tell...