Izuku had been dreading this question ever since he was first told he would have a training partner.

"So, Izu, what's your quirk?" Kimura asks, flipping through her many files while spinning a pen, she then fumbles and drops the pen, and in an attempt to catch it she falls clean off the chair and onto the ground. She quickly climbed back into the chair though, and gave All Might a glare of 'you-saw-nothing', before looking back at him with a bright smile.

Why does this suddenly feel like a comedy? He briefly wonders, but remembers her question and shrinks in on himself.

"Q-quirkless." He whispers, and much to his surprise, the girl claps and grins.

"Good!" She almost cheers and slams her hands on the table, "now this spares me a ton of research! Goodbye sleepless nights!"

Next to him, All Might chuckles. "Well, not that you can sleep anyway, " he jokes.

"LET ME DREAM!"

"W-wait wait wait, good?" Izuku splutters, "how's that good? I'm-" he lowers his head, "I'm Quirkless."

He doesn't look up, and he doesn't see how Kimura's smile slip, how her expression faded into hollowness and her eyes drift off as she falls silent.

"Hey, Izuku-kun?"

Izuku looks up.

"Now being quirkless is perfectly fine." Kimura smiles, reassuringly and pats his hand. " There are more quirkless people in this world than left-handed people so the discrimination is complete bull shit." She curses and Izuku blinks in surprise, "so it's perfectly fine to be quirkless, you're just missing a gene and that's perfectly normal! Just look at the guy living two blocks away from me, he's got a fish head!" She shivers, "I'd rather be quirkless."

For a few moments, Izuku blinks, then his tears overflow and he cries.


Okay. Toshinori-san really wasn't kidding. This guy has gotta getta hold of his waterworks. After about five minutes of crying into her shoulder, Izu spent another two apologising for the tearstains, and when Akemi said it's fine and hands him a tissue, he looked at her as if she handed him a year pass to Disneyland.

And finally, she got to start explaining how her quirk works. And wow. Is that a chant or is that his brain running and how is his brain not freezing up with THAT amount of mental energy running through?!

"-I've-never-heard-of-such-a-quirk-this-is-really-amazing-can-she-actually-nullify-other-quirks-or-take-it-away-then?-That-will-be-very-useful-what-about-nullifying-gravity?-if-quirks-are-really-just-energy-usage-then-doesn't-that-mean-she-can-recreate-most-quirks-and-doesn't-that-mean-she-can-have-multiple-quirks?-Wow-that-basically-over-throws-everything-known-about-quirks-"

"He's like that," Toshinori-san says, whispering in her ear as she stared at him with disbelief.

"No- I'm not staring because of the muttering." She says faintly, "how is brain not shorting out with that amount of energy? Seriously Toshinori-san this guy's energy capacity is... Wow."

His brain is withstanding a lot of complicated thoughts, and his body, it's... Well, a vessel made for containing energy. Where the quirk energy is supposed to be is like a large empty slot, not very stable yet but still larger than the few quirkless people she've met.

More importantly, now that she's focusing on him his brain is absolutely brimming with mental and psychological energy, it's leaking out. And psychological energy he is emitting is comforting, reassuring.

It's perfect.


Please RnR for less broken bones.