AN: This is just another idea that wouldn't leave my head.
Have fun with another nonsensical OC story. If you want to see this continued, shoot me a PM or follow/favorite/review. I'm probably going to continue this if I actually get inspiration, but I'm just throwing this out here to see if this is a horrible idea or not.
Now, without further delay, the Story!
-Spirit
(Note: three dots in a row and in their own separate line are line breaks)
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: It is impossible to determine where an electron is in an atom because even by looking at it, you are changing where the electron is.
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It was when I was six, and going to a new elementary school, that it happened.
"Hello," I stammered, "I'm Yohaku Tenshin. I'm six. And… uh… my quirk is…. something really awesome!"
"Eh?"
"So what is it?"
"Is it making tornadoes?"
"Is it summoning dragons?"
I gulped. Actually, I couldn't do any of those things. I was just a quirkless kid that was the kindergarten punching bag.
"Can I show them?" I asked the teacher, who gave me a sad glance and nodded. She probably also knew that I was quirkless.
In hindsight, she was probably letting me hold onto my delusions for a bit, but neither of us actually expected what happened afterwards.
I held my hand out in the air, closed my eyes, and prayed to the gods that something would actually happen.
It felt like a tap full of high pressure water was opened, and I felt tired really quickly. My hands fell from the air, and I opened my eyes.
I saw white dragons flying across the room. With every beat of their wings, a gust was sent through the classroom, and the papers that were once in neat stacks around the room were blown off and sent into a chaotic flurry. The children got up from their seats, clearly excited, and ran around like the imps they were, adding to the chaos.
What.
The teacher looked at me, really confused, and then picked up her phone.
I was driven to the hospital later, wind dragons disappearing about a minute after they were bought into the world. My parents were both ecstatic and relieved.
"It's great that you finally got your quirk, Tenshin!"
"Yeah!" I said, enthusiastically. "It's so cool! And it was exactly like the kids in class thought it was!"
"What?" My mom said, looking up from her frantic texting to tell all of her friends that her child just got a quirk. "How'd that happen?"
"They were thinking that my quirk might be summoning dragons or making tornadoes! And I did both!"
"So… they guessed your quirk? And even you didn't know you could do it before?"
"Yeah!" I said, enthusiastically.
"That… almost never happens."
…
The quirkologists gave up.
Initial Diagnosis
Yohaku Tenshin
Age: 6 (Deleted: He is one with the universe and commands the elements!)
Gender: Male (Deleted: Such majesty cannot be merely contained within such a vulgar word)
Quirk? Wind control/ Elemental summoning/ Telekinesis/ Oh god why is his quirk producing fire now? I thought it was just wind! Oh god my office is burning;
(Deleted: Repent, ye sinners, for your time has come! I should have been a dentist!)
What can it do?
He can create wind creatures, of any shape and size! He can't actually control them, but it looks really awesome!
Edit 1: Apparently he can control them. Wait, he just moved the test ball without using wind? What?
Edit 2: He can use telekinesis, and control nearly anything!
Edit 3:Oh, god it burns! Why? He just summoned fire too! And why did he just put it out with water? Is his quirk purely elemental? But then how did he move the ball without using any of the elements?
And now he can't control wind anymore?
(Deleted: Gibberish, followed by a picture of a pentagram, and then the following words: "Sinners, your time has come! The devil has come once more! The many-quirked god has descended and soon judgment is upon us!")
Revised Quirk Report
Yohaku Tenshin
Age: 6 (Initial copy of quirk report is included for reference in case of discrepancies)
Gender: Male (Initial copy of quirk report is included for reference in case of discrepancies
Quirk: Quirk
What can it do?
We don't actually know. Defer to I-island. Initial observations are recorded in the rough draft. Warning: Upon no circumstances are cultists to obtain this report, lest a six year old suddenly finds themselves to possess the power of a deity.
Note: Powers change from day to day, but are all consistently emitter type quirks (at least, we hope.).
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… (3rd person POV: Walking Lie Detector)…
...
This newest quirk report made Tskauchi Naomasa … very, well, intrigued?
And also mildly concerned?
Tskauchi made a mental note to make sure that hospital fired that second quirkologist. That really was unprofessional wording for a doctor.
Stopping himself from going down the rabbit hole of insane doctors, he turned himself back onto the real topic. All for One.
Was there a chance that this kid… was related?
Tskauchi didn't actually know, and All for One was supposedly dead, but he still had to check.
It turns out that his family had a line of… just copy quirks. Copying voices, copying height, even copying hair and eye color. There was a particularly interesting one (belonging to the boy in question's father) that was a passive empathy quirk that had an aspect of induced fractional copy quirks… for emotions.
There weren't any real suspicions about him being related to All for One, either. The family had a well documented family tree up to the era where quirks first emerged, and none of them had died of strange circumstances or showed any criminal or sociopathic tendencies.
They were just normal service workers. Clothing line developers(though not very successful), comedians, secretaries, and performers.
"Well," the detective shrugged, leaning back in his chair and thinking about that next baseball game, "Weird things do happen."
…
Elementary school flew by really quickly, and I figured out something about my quirk.
1) It was really unpredictable
2) It has a set amount of energy per day, akin to a quota
3) It likes to make practical jokes
As the imps that his classmates were demanded to see more wind dragons and asked how I got such an "awesome quirk", I felt my quirk shift into something it shouldn't be.
"I bet he can summon even cooler things!"
My quirk took that personally.
It started hailing.
"Ha, ha. Very funny." I thought, facepalming as children screamed, being hit by rather heavy hailstones.
And then, every time somebody hailed me as the bringer of snow days, another wave of hail appeared and rained down on our heads.
The weather report for the Saitama prefecture had its reputation dragged through the mud that day.
Stumbling home, exhausted, I learned the limits of my quirk: I could only use so much of it every day.
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It was time for third grade, and it was now that the fourth lesson about my quirk came into existence. By then, my school had forbidden the other children from commenting on my quirk so that blizzards don't spontaneously appear. With the relative lack of quirk related mayhem, I receded into the background as my quirk settled on something rather normal: being normal.
Yes. That was my quirk. After consistently getting the average score on every single test and running the average speed that a child my age could in gym class, I was perfectly content for things to stay this way.
The terrible parts about my quirk was that if their expectations were really outlandish, then my internal energy gauge for quirk energy would decrease rapidly, but to fulfill their unrealistic expectations, it took energy from my stamina instead.
Being normal barely tapped into that energy.
I never really even wanted to be a hero, which was what everybody else wanted to do, because I couldn't control my quirk. My quirk controlled me.
Still, you may be asking, what was the fourth lesson about my quirk?
It likes to turn me into a fish.
Yes, I know. That sounds very, very random. But after visiting the markets with my parents and collectively exclaiming at the lowered food prices, I heard some child whisper "That guy really looks like a fish."
And before I knew it, I shrunk into a slimy creature struggling to breathe, my legs conjoined into one and I was flopping on the ground.
We had to buy a fish tank instead, and abandoned the grand sixty percent off sales and all of the money we could have saved to visit a quirkologist and figure out how to revert back to human form.
The real lesson here was never to act surprised in public. Or else, you might turn into a fish.
…
After the incident where my quirk decided to change me into a fish, I actually made the news.
Local teen becomes fish at mall after seeing low prices
Thankfully, nobody knew who I was (since in the pictures, I was a fish.)
…
The remainder of elementary school then passed with almost no incidents, and although my quirk had stopped me from just being normal, it didn't do anything too outlandish to me. Along my journey of occasionally causing hailstorms, accidentally turning into a fish a couple more times (and by this time, our family had a fish tank I could flop into before I drowned), this was probably the calmest period of my life.
Other than turning into a fish after I opened my report card for seventh grade, after I ate something particularly amazing at a bake sale, and when I saw All Might change the weather with a single punch (on TV, of course), my quirk didn't really begin to act up until after school applications began to happen.
I was planning to go to some sort of prestigious academic high school, and with my quirk giving me an intelligence boost after the class thought I was really smart for getting that one question in Japanese literature correct, I could make it!
It was too bad that my apartment building caught on fire.
It wasn't too bad of a fire, but the problem was the flame villain that was currently going around and burning everything.
It was even worse that it was Endeavor that was fighting him. Being completely immune to fire, both of them just tried to overheat each other with even more fire while other heroes just watched from the side as the top of my apartment burned.
And the whispers "Does anybody have a water quirk" echoed through the crowd.
I considered saying that I did, but then I would be losing my intelligence boost that would get me into that high school.
Should I or should I not? My dreams over the hopes and dreams of so many others in the district. A house here wasn't cheap, and it would take countless years for them to rebuild.
The worst thing was that this kind of thing had happened before, when Endeavor had fought another flame villain in Mustafu or Hosu or something, and the damages weren't paid for at all since the Endeavor agency denied all accusations of collateral damage, citing the fact that the fire that damaged the surroundings could have come from the villain.
I had to act.
If I didn't who would.
"Does anybody have a water quirk?"
"I have a water quirk." I squeaked out, holding up my hand.
Somebody in the crowd put their hand on my shoulder. "Can you put out the fires on the apartment? Does it have enough range?"
Amidst the staring of many people, I felt something within me change.
I held up my hand and closed my eyes.
"It's a weather quirk." I said.
"Make it rain, please." I thought, praying to my quirk.
Then, something shifted, like it hadn't in a long time. My quirk, once chaotic and now just barely tamed, got wild.
My mind slowed down, and the energy boosted my brain faded. Then, the world got humid. The passersby gasped as the air got far more humid that it had been.
And rain began cascading down on the fires. Droplets of water fell from the sky and hit my outstretched hand, the moisture soaking into my school bag and my uniform.
And the crowd began cheering.
Then, somebody shouted. "The fires still aren't going out!"
I opened my eyes, the rain falling onto my eyelashes and dripping down into my eyes making it hard to see.
The fires were still raging. And as long as the fires had a source, they wouldn't go out. Not completely.
Endeavor and the villain were still going, jets of flame going and hitting the fragile clouds above them, making the sun peek through and stopping the weather change.
I needed it to rain harder. To make it storm.
Closing my eyes again and feeling an uncomfortable wave of heat wash over all of us, I knew I had to try harder.
But how? My quirk had its limits. There was only a set amount of energy that my quirk had, and it was already running out. Affecting the weather took a lot of energy (like the hailstorms I had summoned when I was in elementary school) and I could only do it in short bursts before getting home utterly exhausted.
Still, I needed more.
For once, I took control of my quirk. For once, I broke my limits. For once, I rejected the will of my quirk and forced it to do even more.
Reluctantly, it answered.
It began raining buckets. As the water cascaded down, I fell into blissful unconsciousness as the crowd shouted, panicking about me suddenly fainting.
…
The people standing helplessly on the sidelines looked up into the fading storm clouds. Previously, it had rained, and then poured. And now, it was stopping.
But it couldn't. Not when their livelihoods were at stake. Not believing that the rain would stop and that all of their homes would be burnt, they instead opted to believe that the rain was merely waning for a bit, and would return to save them all.
This belief, in the end, was what saved the day.
Through the collective will of the crowd, the rains began once more, putting out even Endeavor's flames. When literal buckets of water fell from the sky, splashing everybody in sight, destroying groceries, absolutely annilating workbooks and paper, and drenching people's work uniforms, they knew that their prayers have been answered.
For ultimately, there was only one power granted to Yohaku Tenshin.
It was to act on other people's expectations.
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I woke up at the police station, clothes now only moderately soaked. My workbooks and other school supplies were being hung to dry on a clothesline that came from who knows where.
"You're finally awake." A police officer said from behind the desk.
I jerked myself awake, massaging my temples from the terrible headache that I had.
Then, I realized that I was in a police station.
"Wait, am I under arrest?"
"Not… quite." The officer said, pushing her glasses up her nose. Another pair of hands typed on another keyboard as two more sifted through documents.
"Your name is Yohaku Tenshin, right? It says so on your student ID."
"Yeah." I said.
"On your quirk registry, your quirk is just registered as Quirk." Nobody even knows what it does.
She leaned forward, looking at me sternly.
"So, what is it?"
"I don't know." I said blatantly. "It's been weird ever since I was six, when I first summoned wind dragons. Then, I caused spontaneous waves of hail to appear in our prefecture and turned into a fish multiple times, before my quirk forced me to be normal, and then turned me into a fish again, before making me 1.5 times more intelligent than a normal person."
"And then it made the city rain." She said, typing the information in. "Wait, you were the fish kid?"
I sighed. "I'm starting to think that my quirk is passive, and that it hates me."
She snorted, and then another pair of hands floated in front of her face to help her control her expression.
"It really was useful today, though. Without you, the apartment complex could have burnt down."
"Why do they keep sending Endeavor to fight flame villains?" She then muttered angrily as her hands aggressively typed on the keyboards, making particularly loud clacking noises.
"Still, we need to tell you that public quirk use is illegal, and that if you do it again, you'll end up in a corrective program."
"I understand." I said, sighing. "It was just a spur of the moment thing. I probably won't do anything like this again."
"Normally, when dealing with hero wannabes, I would tell them stuff like keep training your quirk and you'll be a hero…"
"But my quirk is too unpredictable. I understand."
"I'll call your parents. Just don't… blow up the sun or something like that."
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AN
And that was 2800 words. I wrote about 1000 of it three months ago and decided to finish this just for the heck of it.
Hope it wasn't very cringe :P
-Spirit
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