Holly is quiet and keeps to herself. She’s a foreign exchange student from Canada, who transferred at the beginning of her first year at UA. She prefers to stay to herself, and speaks very little, but when she does she talks quietly. She’s a little shy, but she’s not anxious. Being an exchange student, she often isolated herself from her peers. After the initial culture shock though, Holly was somewhat social and even made a few friends! She loves being in the company of others, especially listening to people talk. She loves to binge shows on Netflix, especially with her friends and geek out about their favorite characters and such. She absolutely adores Katy Perry, she’s a huge fan and listens to her music almost nonstop.

Arctic Wolf

Holly’s quirk is Arctic Wolf. It grants her abilities of a real arctic wolf, such as her ears and tail, as well as an ear-piercing howl that can be heard miles away. She has strong legs, which allow for almost inhuman running speeds. Her fingernails are sharp, almost claw-like. She has prominent canine teeth, like a real wolf. She has behavioral traits as well, such as growling when she’s threatened, whimpering when she’s afraid or hurt, her tail wags and her ears droop depending on her mood.

The Arctic Heroine: Tundra

Holly’s hero alias, Tundra, was suggested by her dad. He thought it was perfect, but she didn’t like it at first. She thought it was weird. Eventually, when she was seriously thinking about her alias, she settled on Tundra because it just felt right. She added the tagline, “The Arctic Heroine:” to it to give it more flair.

Holly was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was adopted with her younger brother of two years to a military family; her and her brother, Raiken, grew up very close due to all the moving around. Holly had always loved heroes, she would get up early on the weekends to watch highlight reels being broadcasted in the mornings. Her father encouraged her to go into heroism, but Holly was scared. She never actually thought she could, but when she was in middle school that changed.

When she was in 9th grade, Holly’s father was transferred to Japan, so their family was uprooted from their home in America to the other side of the world. Holly was petrified, she was only 14, all her friends were in America, and on top of starting a new school, she had only a month to learn a new language. They arrived in the middle of her 9th grade year, which meant Holly was eligible to apply to the top hero school, arguably in the world. Holly’s dad had told her that he put in a request to be relocated to Japan as soon as he heard about UA, so that Holly (and later Raiken) could attend. It took lots of hard work, but Holly applied and was accepted.

Language

Because of all the vigorous training needed for the entrance exams, Holly hadn’t put much time into learning Japanese. Once she started at UA, that problem quickly reared its head, because now she couldn’t learn anything! She struggled a lot her first year, but she made a friend: Minu. Minu had spoken French since her mother was French, and Holly spoke French due to growing up in Canada. Holly was immediately relieved, and soon made friends with Minu’s brother, Masaki, as well. At first, she thought the two were twins, but was shortly corrected. Holly learned the language at a conversational level by her second year.

More About Holly

During her first year, Holly kept to herself because she couldn’t communicate with her peers, but nowadays she keeps to herself because she doesn’t see a point in letting everyone know everything about her. Her best friends do that enough as is, and they’re really the only people who need to know anything about her anyway. As she’s matured, she’s become much stronger emotionally and physically. She’s strengthened her howl, which can now be heard miles away. She’s calm and collected, but she’s easily excitable, which she tries not to express. The only real indicator of her emotion is her tail and ears, which will droop if she’s upset or wag if she’s enjoying herself.

When she turns 18, Holly decides to get her officiants license, because something she’d always wanted to do as a girl was be the person who said “I now pronounce you husband and wife,” at a wedding. Later on, she ends up marrying both of her Kumo classmates to their respective spouses! As an adult, Holly is more evened out. In her childhood years she was energetic, while in her high school years she was very quiet, so as an adult she balanced the two and became much more approachable. She’s still unable to pick up on jokes (mostly due to the language barrier,) but she tries.