Rei Todoroki (2024)

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But you want to be a hero, right? That's fine. You're not... bound by his blood. Decide who you want to become. And be all you can be.

Rei Todoroki to Shoto in "Shoto Todoroki: Origin"

Rei Todoroki (轟 (とどろき) 冷 (れい) Todoroki Rei^?),^[2] née Himura (氷 (ひ) 叢 (むら) Himura^?),^[1] is the wife of Enji Todoroki and the mother of Toya, Fuyumi, Natsuo, and Shoto Todoroki.

Appearance[]

Rei is a middle-aged woman with an average height and build. She has straight shoulder-length white hair with rather long bangs over her face. Her face has round features, having mellow expressions in casual situations. Her tired-looking eyes are brown-gray with reasonably long eyelashes. Rei was shown to have shorter hair and lighter eyes in the past.

Wearing various civilian clothes, Rei favors plain colors and patterns, such as a yellow jumper and orange t-shirt.

During the Final War, she receives a huge amount of burns and scars all over her body right after exposing herself to the battle between Dabi and Endeavor.

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Personality[]

In her younger years, Rei was a stoic woman who was described by Enji to be like ice herself. Despite this, there were some things that could make her smile such as seeing her favorite flower. Rei was aware that Enji's proposition for them to marry was a Quirk Marriage, but agreed for her family's sake so Enji could help them financially, demonstrating the love she held for them. While Rei's options were limited, she maintained a hopeful attitude upon choosing to marry Enji, believing that if she kept smiling it would all work out.

Rei would come to be a kind, caring, and loving mother towards her children. She loved her eldest son Toya and wanted to stop him from training his Quirk, knowing the harm it was causing him. Sadly, Rei's love and concern was not enough to help Toya see through his obsession with becoming a Hero and gaining his father's approval. She was also devastated by Toya's supposed death, despite her son cruelly blaming her for his birth.^[3] She was also loving and protective of her youngest son, Shoto, and would try to stop her husband from forcing his mad training methods on him. While Shoto suffered from Enji's cruelty, Rei comforted him and encouraged the boy to become the person he wants to be, saying that he isn't bound by his father's blood, further showing her kind nature.^[4]

However, the constant abuse that she received from her husband caused her to become mentally unstable. This is seen where Rei admitted that she was slowly becoming repulsed by her own children due to her seeing their resemblance to her husband in them. Eventually, she became unstable to the point that one day she finally snapped upon seeing Shoto's left side, which reminded her of Enji. This caused her to throw a kettle of boiling water she had near her over her son's face, burning him. She did not, however, do this out of hatred for Shoto, but rather due to her mental instability and it is later revealed that after doing so, she immediately attempted to soothe her son's burns using her ice Quirk, while hysterically apologizing to him and asking herself why she did it.^[4]

After staying at a psychiatric ward and being away from her husband, Rei has shown to have returned to her past kind, caring self. Upon meeting her son again, she apologized and smiled through tears after he tells her that he forgave her, and the two restored their loving relationship.^[5] She also receives visits from her other children, Natsuo and Fuyumi, and appears to receive small gifts from her husband, although she is yet to see him face to face out of fear.^[2] Her kindness and compassion is shown when she understands the internal struggle Enji is facing, and from this, Natsuo is able to understand that Rei has faith in him despite all of the trauma he put her through.

Despite her kind nature, Rei is surprisingly strong-willed. After having seen her eldest son's broadcast and learning the truth that Toya was alive and had become a mass murderer, instead of breaking down, she resolves to address the situation with the rest of her family, including her youngest son and her husband. She went to the hospital where her husband and youngest son were being treated, and when Enji was expressing his guilt and shedding tears, Rei approached him and reminded her husband that the rest of their family suffered from these feelings more than he has, explaining to Enji that she came to talk about their family and about Toya.^[6] Despite her anger towards her husband for what she and her children went through, she also understood that she too had been unable to see how they failed Toya when he was young, a sense of guilt she shares with Enji and a burden that she pointed out is not his alone.

Due to her recovery and reclaiming her sanity, Rei has shown to be a forgiving and understanding woman, determined to do what she can to help her husband recover and to put an end to their family's dark legacy in Dabi once and for all. Although Rei isn't a Hero, she was very strongly determined to risk herself to save her husband and her eldest son when the both of them were going to die from Dabi's internal combustion.^[7]

Abilities[]

Overall Abilities: Despite being born with a powerful Quirk because of her heritage from the Himura family, Rei is an inexperienced woman who doesn't have any particular combat experience or fighting-style techniques unlike her sons, Dabi and Shoto, or her husband, Endeavor. However, she does have some kind of proficiency over the usage of her Quirk, as such when she tries to cool down Shoto's face after she threw boiling hot water over him.^[8]

She even demonstrates proficient control of her Quirk as she was able to coat herself in it to reach Endeavor and Dabi through their blazing inferno in time before they flew too far into the air.^[7]

Quirk[]

Frost: Rei's Quirk gives her the ability to generate and manipulate ice from her body. This ice Quirk is considered very powerful, given that it impressed Enji enough that he wanted an offspring with a combination of this Quirk and his own.^[2]

Unlike the Quirk used by Geten, a distant relative of hers, she can generate ice from her body at will. Even though Frost is a powerful Quirk, she cannot use her Quirk for long periods of time as overusing or prolonging it can cause her body to develop frostbites, and her body temperature drops if she pushes it further.^[7]

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Trivia[]

• Rei is one of Shoto's driving forces to become a hero one day which is shown in a flashback when she inspires him while the two of them are watching an All Might TV interview.
• According to Shoto, he spends most of his free time visiting his mother at the hospital.
  • After moving into Heights Alliance, Shoto keeps in touch with Rei through writing her letters.
• Rei's name contains the kanji for "cold" (冷 rei^?), and her maiden name contains the kanji for "ice" (氷 hi^?) and "gathering, collection" (叢 mura^?).
• She comes from the same family as Geten, indicating that she and her children are distant relatives to him.^[7]

Quotes[]

• (About Enji and their marriage) "Yes, my options were limited. But I made my choice, and I walked that path of my own accord. If nothing else, I wanted to make the effort... to keep smiling, yet... Well? What is it you're seeing now? The look in your eyes... Just stop. Those eyes of yours. Just stop. Those eyes."^[9]
• (To her mother) "Mom... I know it's not right, but I can't do it anymore. The children, they're... like him more and more every day. And Shoto... his left side. Sometimes I look at him and hate what I see. I... can't raise him anymore. I shouldn't raise him..."^[10]
• (To Shoto) "But you want to be a hero, right? That's fine. You're not... bound by his blood. Decide who you want to become. And be all you can be."^[10]
• (To Enji) "Yes? What about your heart? Those regrets and guilt... the rest of us have borne that burden... much more than you have."^[6]
• (To Enji) "You don't get to claim you're hurting more than anyone. And you're not the only one who didn't really see him."^[1]
• (To Enji about Shoto) "One of our children... one who's suffered much more than us... Well, despite having every right to resent me, he's started calling me "mom" again. He's been making friends at U.A. and now, he's the one saving us. Shoto... is our family's hero."^[9]

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