It took a long time for me to understand what happened.
A long time ago i awakened my quirk. It was the power to copy other quirks, and as a person with common sense i didnt really think much of it, afterall any quirk has big limitations so i would just need to find out mine and be back in the ranks of ordinary people.
But there was no such thing.
The only limitation that ever appeared was the distance in which i could copy quirk -around a hundred meters- and the time needed to master the new powers.
Other than that i never found a limit to how long i could keep a power or how many powers i could keep.
After a long time i was already a being without equal just because i copied abilitys and took my time mastering them. At some point i even forgot how much time passed, one ability i had copied seemingly stopped my aging...or so it seemed, but whatever the reason was, in the end i became immortal.
And so i spend hundreds if not thousands of years just going around the world and mastering quirks until i met a group of people who had quite unusual powers themselfes.
They saw themselfes as beings who got chosen by the universe or god in order to rule mankind, and i was -as a neutral but powerful being- a potential threat to their mission.
In the end we fought. I dont know how long it took, maybe a few days or a few weeks but the battle ended in mutual destruction.
At least i thought that much...as someone living for as long as i did my attachment to life went away a long time ago, and so i drifted around the world as a ghost-like body.
I only realised it a lot later but i never stopped copying powers even now and so i mastered and mastered more quirks just because it was the only thing i could do and knew how to do.
I saw mankind building itself up and destroying each other again. I saw them fighting with their powers or killing people with strong abilitys….and currently the world has a obsession with Heroes and Villians.
Right at that moment i -who long lost any real interest in existing- decided something. I wanted to know how it was to live as a regular person again.
So after going through all 9,985,576,532 quirks i had i realised something strange, but before i tell what it is you should know that the current form of mankind adds rankings to quirks, it doesnt refer to fighting strength at all but to versality and strength of said quirk.
The rankings are SSS rank, SS rank, S rank, A and B.
B's are what the general population has, a „unique" attribute, and with a quirk-enhancing drug one could reach A or even S rank.
A's are what is generally seen for average and low class heroes, they arent strong but notable enough to stand out from the masses, like for example the power to have a strong tail or having the ability to move small objects.
S's are what most people see and regard as superpowers, the power to control large amounts of fire, water, air, earth etc. The power to cause explosions from ones hand and more.
SS's are what generally is known as really unique monsters, people who can destroy citys or create blackholes and do stuff that grants either a immense advantage in one area or incredible versality in a lot.
SSS's arent really seen, it is basically what one would take if a beings power is faaaar above anything seen before.
And so it took some time but you now know the rankings. Lets start with the problem.
Out of all the powers i had the abilitys went shorter and shorter the higher i went.
50% of all abilitys i had had been B rank. 50% of the ones left had been A rank, 90% of the ones left from that had been S rank, and the stuff left over from that had been SS rank...im not sure but only my own copy power would be SSS rank.
Anyway, that means half of 9,985,576,532 is B rank, this are 4,992,788,266, half of that are A rank (2,496,394,133), 90% of that S rank (2,246,754,720) and the ones left are SS rank (249,639,413).
I always thought i had more of them...i mean i lived longer than several civilizations of mankind, my powers shouldnt be so easily put into numbers.
...After i stopped sulking i started running simulations.
There is a aspect of my power which i dont like to use, the power to combine abilitys. If i do that the outcome could be really cool or really bad.
But i dont really have anything to lose so for the first time i stayed at one place and thought. It took a long long time but by combining 2,253,684,975 quirks i can start to be one of the living again...only problem however is that if i do that i will seal up every single power i have and take over a unborn childs body, the only way to go back to my real form is if i die...not the best way exspecially since the brain of the host will affect me mind-wise to some extent as well.
Through the alternative is that i stay here so…i decided to do it.
[8 to 9 months later!]
I didnt feel anything at first, and than a strong pressure. A really strong pressure, i couldnt even breath and once i could it became in a erratic state...the natural bodily reaction happened and my host started screaming...im not above to say that in other words: i cried.
The light in the room was to bright, i couldnt see, my arms and legs had been way to heavy to move.
My skin felt like hypersensitive and everything i heard was way to intense...maybe this wasnt such a good idea afterall...im not a person who likes danger….but now that i think about it, it has been a long time since i felt regret...seems like i already began having a „real" life again.