When people say that sometime life throws you a curveball, I usually just shrugged it off as going bankrupt or a diagnosis which changes your life. The last thing I had ever expected was for life to throw me the biggest curveball in the universe, crushing me.
My name is Nathan Keep, a fifteen year old average kid, and about six months ago, I was tossed into the world of My Hero Academia. I have no idea what has brought me here or what purpose I'm supposed to serve, so I'm currently just struggling to keep food in my stomach.
In the world, everyone is gifted a "quirk" or a superpower. What this power is, is completely left up to chance. Some people could get earth shattering quirks, and others could get mundane quirks which don't have any use.
You would think that being tossed into this world would give me some sort of awesome or powerful quirk to face off an enemy only I could defeat.
Well, you would be wrong.
When I was tossed into this world, I was put into the same roulette that everyone else was when their quirk is decided, and I was left to hope for a decent one.
Well, I got the bad end of the quirk deal, a powerful so single minded that I would be more suited for construction.
Air platform creation.
Yes, you read that right. Air platform creation. It is exactly what the title says. I can create platforms out of air, you can step on these platforms and even move these platforms to create a hover board, but you can't change it into anything else. Just a big platform.
Now on the surface, it looks like a useless combat quirk, with only one use, but I have found a way to utilize it which makes me somewhat useful. I can turn it onto its side to create a wall.
Now, to all the people asking "But Nate, how can you expect air to act as a wall?" Now let me answer. These platforms are made of concentrated air crammed into one place, and that much air is about as tough as a steel wall.
I have taken bullets, knives, and even molotovs to those things, and it didn't even budge an inch. So, along with free transportation, I also have a nice invisible shield.
The second advantage is my shield bash. It's what it says on the tin, I can bash people with the platform, hard. I have sent people flying with these platforms.
Another advantage to the whole air thing is the fact that air is so loosely defined that anything in a gaseous form would be considered 'air'. The way my quirk works is it takes any air around my person and it condenses it into the platform.
So, given the correct situation, I can make air out of flammable materials and boom, a flaming shield I can slam into my enemies. Cool, right?
So I took that power and became a vigilante, a fairly unheard of one called 'Gust' based off of how it looks like I'm blowing them away. And now, I'm on the streets, fighting who I can and trying to help.
U.A. starts in about three months and I want in, which means I'm gonna have to push myself past what everyone else there has to go through.
Except Deku, poor kid.
I also have knowledge of about up to the stain arc. I have no idea how much use this is gonna be, but I'll try to use it when I can.
There's also another problem, which is that I'm a criminal to the law of my vigilantism. So, I'll have to jump that hurdle when I get there.
So I have three months to somehow improve my situation, and get into U.A., preferably without being noticed.
And you all will be along for the ride!
Great.
Once again, I am Nathan Keep, otherwise known as Gust, and this is how I hopefully become the most mediocre hero ever.
