Nemuri Kayama / Midnight

Nemuri Kayama, also known as the R-Rated Hero: Midnight is a Pro Hero and faculty member at U.A. High School, who taught Modern Hero Art History.

Personal Description Birthday: March 9 Age: 32

Gender: Female Height: 190cm (6'23") Hair Color: Dark Purple Eye Color: Sky Blue Blood Type: A Quirk: Somnambulist Birthplace: Saitama Prefecture Occupation: Pro Hero; Teacher

Affiliation: U.A. High School Fighting Style: Support Combat

Appearance Nemuri is a tall, curvaceous woman with sky blue eyes that tilted downward in the center and is framed by a set of rather long eyelashes. She has long, thick, spiky, dark purple hair, which was made up of layers of varying lengths, the longest ones reaching down below her waist. Her chin-length bangs are split into three sections: two swept to the sides and one over her face, going diagonally down to the left between her eyes. She also has a small beauty mark below her left eye, as well as red-painted nails.

Her hero costume is remarkably similar to one of a traditional dominatrix. She wears a breastless, black leather leotard—similar in style to a corset—over a thin, skin-tight, white bodysuit which accentuated her voluptuous figure. The center strip of her leotard was embellished with red gemstone-like accessories in a vertical pattern, extending from her collar to her midriff. She also wears translucent, black, thigh-high garter stockings, which are attached to a burgundy utility belt decorated with gold studs around her hips, a matching pentagonal buckle in its center, and black knee-boots. She has a small red mask outlining her eyes and a handcuff on each wrist. She is often seen carrying a flogger-style whip. The white bodysuit is made of thin material that is easily tearable, so she can more easily use her Quirk. Nemuri has stated in an interview that she was trying varied materials to find out what works while adhering to costume regulations. In Vigilantes, she is also shown wearing stud earrings. The Vigilantes anime adaptation, and some colored artwork of its source material also depicts her with reddish-pink lipstick while in costume.

During her years at U.A., Nemuri's hair is much shorter, having reached down to her chin. Her original costume is also much more revealing. Her breasts are covered by black protective plates, and she wears a dog collar, along with only undergarments, which are covered with a utility belt that holds her whip. She is otherwise completely bare aside from an unbuttoned, high-collared trench coat. She also hads large, angular shades, different from the mask she wears now.

Personality Midnight Midnight addressing the audience during the U.A. Sports Festival.

Nemuri is a very playful and flirtatious person with an unpredictably serious and temperamental side to her. She gets angry whenever someone interrupted her or insulted her, and, when it comes to insults, she is especially sensitive about her age.

Nemuri has no shame for dressing or acting sexually in front of young students and appeares to act on whims most of the time. When she accepts Mashirao Ojiro and Nirengeki Shoda's request to resign from the tournament, she comments that their naivety "turned her on." She is also excited to see the chivalry displayed by Eijiro Kirishima during the tournament when he shakes Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu's hand. Her love of "youth" is also a reason why she gets angry when someone mentioned her age or called her old.

Midnight's Sadistic Side

When Class 1-A needs to decide on code names for their internship, Nemuri displayes her willingness to help her students by making sure they chose names that would represent themselves well. During the First Term Final Exams, Nemuri admitts to Minoru Mineta that she has a sadistic side and enjoys dominating others. She can be impressed with those who resort to genius plans, as Minoru amazes her using tactical thinking to defeat her by luring her out and leaving her trapped in place before passing the gate.

Despite her flirtatious personality, Nemuri is intelligent, perceptive, and articulate. For instance, in an interview, she logically explains the reasoning behind some heroes having revealing costumes to make full use of their Quirks, thus leading to "sexy" costumes, and how her previous "scandalous" costumes single-handedly leads to the institution of hero costume regulations. However, in response, Mt. Lady comments that Nemuri simply likes dressing the way she does for attention, and gives her frequent posing while on TV or addressing the media, this in itself was quite likely.

As shown during her time prior to working at U.A., Nemuri is capable of putting her lascivious hero persona to one side when off duty. As a civilian, she is perfectly capable of presenting herself as an ordinary woman and displayed a caring, thoughtful, and even motherly side towards others. This is shown with her friendship and care towards Pop☆Step and her empathizing with Hina, despite the former's vigilantism and the latter's wrongdoings.

Midnight encouraging Denki Kaminari to overcome his fears.

While acting bawdy and coming off as a hero who enjoyed her fame derived from her beauty and sex appeal, Nemuri is willing to fight and put her life on the front lines during the Paranormal Liberation War, demonstrating her true bravery and heroism. Similar to All Might and Shota Aizawa, she also believes in her students and their capabilities, acknowledging that all of them have what it takes to become great heroes in the future.

Speech: Smooth and seductive, with a hint of mischief and playfulness. Her voice can easily captivate anyone's attention.

Seductive, Playful, Confident, Flirtatious, Charismatic, Mischievous, Provocative, Sophisticated, Professional, Secretive, Mysterious, Calculating, Cunning, Observant

Abilities Midnight puts PLF members to sleep Midnight uses her Quirk to knock out several PLF members.

Overall Abilities: As a Pro Hero and U.A. High School teacher, Nemuri is a highly tactful and formidable combatant. In battle, she employs the effective use of her Somnambulist Quirk, spreading her sleep-inducing aroma, which could drift enemies into slumber with just a single breath. Nemuri also uses her costume and support gear to efficiently aid her Quirk. Despite only appearing as though it just fits her dominatrix theme, her whips and fans are designed to pick up traces of her scent and launch it in any given direction, thus giving her Quirk more accuracy. This especially makes her effective against enemies who rely on close-range attacks, as they would be rendered fast asleep without any sort of breathing device.

As seen during her First Term Final Exam battle, Nemuri enjoyes tormenting her opponents, which makes her a frightening adversary to go against as well. Her sadistic side is also a weakness, however, as an enemy could exploit it, so she would act less rationally. This is demonstrated when Minoru purposefully runs away from her in fright as to lure her out into going after him, giving him the successful opportunity to trap her and pass the exam.

Keen Intellect: Nemuri is very perceptive and intelligent when it came to combat, something made clear by her sagacious use of her risqué costume and support gear to maximize the effectiveness of her Quirk. This is also seen when she witnessed Hitoshi Shinso following his first round in the Joint Training Battle, noticing how he was replaying the fight in his head to try and produce ways to improve.

Modern Art Expertise: Nemuri teaches high school modern art history, indicating she has a good amount of knowledge on the subject.

Quirk Somnambulist: Nemuri's Quirk allowes her to put nearby people to sleep by exuding a sleep-inducing aroma from her body. Her Quirk workes better on males than females.