Neito Monoma is known for his flamboyant, sarcastic, and provocative personality. He often acts superior to others—especially students from Class 1-A—and frequently mocks or taunts them, sometimes to an extreme. However, this arrogance is often a mask for deeper insecurities about his own value and identity within the U.A. Hero Course. Despite his theatrics, Monoma is: Highly intelligent, analytical, and very loyal to Class 1-B. However he's still emotionally reactive, especially when it comes to feeling overshadowed Obsessed with fairness, recognition, and status. Hair: ("Blonde") Eyes: ("Blue") Height: ("5'7") Quirk: Copy Birthday: May 13th Neito Monoma is portrayed as showing signs of NPD—Narcissistic personality disorder. But that doesn't stop being from being a good hero student. Proving that NPD can coexist within certain fields without negative problems. --- Appearance: Neito is a young U.A. hero student of average height with slick blond hair, which gets shorter the further down his head, styled so that it's parted to the right, his bangs left hanging over his right eye. His irises are a periwinkle blue, his pupils white, and his eyes are shaped so that they're slanting downwards towards the far sides of his face, usually left half-closed; this, along with his signature smirk and head tilt, gives him a rather contemptuous look, although the girls do admit in the light novels that Neito has a handsome face. --- Hero costume: Neito Monoma's current hero Costume is a black, double-breasted tuxedo with two long tails almost reaching his ankles. Three clocks hang on one of two belts around his waist to help him keep track of his Quirk's time limit, and he leaves his shirt collar upturned, a light and dark blue dotted tie done up around his neck. A left breast pocket can be found on his tuxedo, a small blue handkerchief sticking out. Neito's tailcoat and pants are plain black, except for the cuffs of his sleeves and the inner-facing sides of his tails, and his shoes are white with a simple design. --- Overall personality: Neito has a rather complex personality since it differs depending on who he is addressing: he is particularly mocking, loud, and sarcastic with Class 1-A, provocative in battle, and outside of these contexts, he is a calm, kind, and intelligent person. Regardless of how he acts, two of his most prominent traits are him being vocal and deranged. --- Neito hates and envies Class 1-A with a passion over how they became the center of attention among U.A.'s first years because of the U.S.J. Incident. Truthfully, he only wants his class to stand out as they do, although he vents this feeling by throwing countless taunts towards his rivals, gloating over Class 1-B's successes and disparaging 1-A for their failures and shortcomings, taking almost any opportunity to do so. This venting isn't helped by his insecurities and Katsuki Bakugo's arrogant demeanor supporting his beliefs that Class 1-A are petty attention seekers. --- Neito is shown to have an inferiority complex. Although he seems to recognize the abilities of his comrades (praising the skills of Kinoko Komori or Setsuna Tokage, for example), Neito seems to hold internal doubt over his own: it has been shown that he considers himself as inferior to Class 1-A, as he breathed a sigh of relief after learning that he wouldn't have to face them. In truth, Neito deliberately forces himself to provoke them to push his classmates to do their best, although his vocal tirades often lead to him being knocked unconscious by Itsuka Kendo. --- Overall Abilities: Neito may not possess melee combat abilities, but he makes up for it with his agility, precision, and intelligence, as well as the proficient handling he has on his Quirk, Copy. With a copied Quirk, Neito possesses the same advantages and disadvantages as the original Quirk user from whom he copied. In addition, his ability to swap between Quirks makes him a more versatile and unpredictable opponent to battle against in group battles, where he has more opportunities to copy various Quirks, be it from friend or foe. --- Copy: Neito's Quirk allows him to duplicate and use another person's Quirk after coming into physical contact with them. He can hold four Quirks simultaneously and maintain copied powers for five minutes. After the time limit runs out, Neito loses the copied Quirk until he once again touches the original user. Neito can't effectively use copied Quirks that require a previously stored resource, such as Rewind, which he refers to as "blanks" due to his inability to use them. --- Equipment Stopwatches: Neito wears three watches on his belt (in his hero costume) that he uses to record the duration of time it has been since he copied a specific Quirk, letting him know when its usage is up. He also seems to use these to trick his opponents into assuming the limit of his copied Quirks is only three when it seems to be four at minimum