Hi! Thanks for all your reviews! Sorry that it took me so long to update. I had serious writer's block for this one, and my life was getting kinda hectic. But I think I'm back into the swing of things again, so don't worry, I'll most likely be back to the regular upload schedule soon.
King0fP0wers: Yup, it is rather easy to forget that fictional characters, while fictional, should still react and behave like real people, and I don't know a single real person who would take the idea that they are an anime character from another universe very well. Yup, it certainly is quite a step-down for Lady Nagant.
danielkid50: Hi, thanks for the review, man. I'm glad you like it.
Portgast D. Asxe: Yes, because passive quirks are easy to explain away as being the "secondary" aspects of another ability, or are easy enought to hide. The exception here is his healing quirk ofc, but if he gets access to certain active quirks, it can allow him to pretend the healing is also a side-effect of the "main" quirk.
THE-Twighlight-Blazeknight: To be honest, I don't think AFO doesn't know about the whole quirk singularity effect of OFA. Remember, he has THE man who started the theory as his right-hand man, and he knows what multiple quirks can do to a body. You are right though, he'll need to convince them over time, only he doesn't know he needs to, so he's not likely to do many actions to purposely impress them.
I'm glad you enjoyed the arrival of Gran Torino, and the catch-up with Hawks, I realized I hadn't touched on either Nagant's or Hawk's storyline in a while. Also, remember, he can technically give his quirk in secret. If he manages to sneak a small piece of hair into, let's say Melissa's food, and she drinks it, he can give her a quirk. She would just have a quirk and have no idea where it came from.
ArguableReader: Hey there! So, I understand the confusion, but Shigaraki is actually All for One's and the First user's surnames. Tomura Shigaraki was a name All for One gave to Shigaraki to make him feel like his son. The First user is named Yoichi Shigaraki.
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Guest: Hello random person who is most likely never going to read this because you supposedly dropped my story, if you're reading this, then I guess you didn't end up dropping it, and I win. In any case, isn't it more of a trope that an isekai'd person would try and hide their abilities from their parents? Also, I didn't write it because it's a trope, I wrote it because it's what Junjima wanted to do. I like putting myself in the character's shoes and thinking about how they'd act and what they'd do. And while I agree it ended up being a mistake to tell his parents, he had no idea they were part of the MLA when he told them.
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I don't exactly know what I had expected when I found a note on my desk from Intelli to meet her after school, but I had not anticipated her to forcefully drag me into her limousine for a private conversation.
The interior of the limo has couch seats going from the front, where I'm seated, to her, all the way in the back. Between us is a long oval table, decorated with a golden trim.. The whole thing not only looks but smells expensive, but it's not really anything special coming from her I'm sure.
I have no idea why she wants to talk to me right now, she never really did before, and while she's never really been social with the other kids in class, I get especially ignored. So when she's sipping tea, a sign she's using her quirk, while we sit in her limo, I can't help but be curious as to why.
"You're confused," she says, after her second or third sip.
"Yes, you never talk to me, and all of a sudden you leave a note on my desk to meet you after school." I lean forward giving her a smirk. "How forward of you, pulling me into your car for a private chat, you do know that Valentine's is still more than a month away."
Unfortunately for me, she's used to my teasing by now, so instead of the indignant squawk I'd get two years ago, she just goes a slight shade pinker for a moment, before she takes another sip of her tea, all signs of embarrassment and/or frustration gone, and replaced with a professionally neutral smile. She's in business mode.
Getting comfortable for what is sure to come, I lean back, getting comfortable in the chair, putting my elbows up on the back of the couch to either side of me. I contemplate putting my feet on the table, but I'm sure that would be taking it from being smugly relaxed and unproffesional to outright insulting.
"I believe we both know that we are too young for that stage of our lives," she states, and I raise my eyebrow. "And when we are old enough I am certain you would not draw my interest." She clarifies quickly, cutting off my opportunity to tease her by implying she was considering it in the first place.
"Now to begin our conversation, what is your quirk." Ahh, that's why she wanted to talk to me. I had hoped she had lost interest in it when she began ignoring me in class but it seems I was wrong. Obviously, I'm not planning on killing her if she finds out, but I will have to hide it from Re-Destro if she does. I need a way to resolve this, with subtlety.
"Why do you want to know?" I need something to work with here.
She reaches into her school bag and takes out a thin stack of paper stapled together.
"Did you know that I'm training to be a hero?" she says, as she begins flips through the papers one by one, probably checking that everything is in order.
"No, actually, I had assumed you'd take over the family business." In the anime, I know she becomes a hero student, but she hasn't expressed that sentiment to me yet.
"That was the path I had intended to go down, or rather, my parents had planned, and I had agreed. However, I caught the "Hero Bug", as the adults call it. That life just seems so much more exciting than running a business." If not for Quick Tempo, I would have missed the flash of a borderline crazed grin tug at the edges of her mouth for a split second.
Ah so she's after the adrenaline, interesting, I hadn't figured her for one of those types of people. This does mean that any attempt to intimidate her out of finding out about my quirk would probably backfire. She'd probably get a kick from it and keep searching harder.
"The issue is that my quirk doesn't give me much to work within a combat situation. Sure, there are many other heroes that have quirks that give them little to no combat advantages, but mine actively hinders me." Wait what? This is the first I hear of this, did I forget something from the anime?
"You seem surprised." Ah, forgot to hide my reaction again. I need to get that sorted. "Not that I blame you, I don't precisely advertise the negative aspects of my quirk. In any case, whenever I use my quirk, I need to be seated, severely limiting my mobility, I need to drink tea, occupying my hands, and I need to close my eyes, limiting my awareness of what is happening around me.
I'm assuming you can see why these aspects of my quirk would also limit my capacity as a rescue hero?"
I nod. A rescue hero's job, while not as dangerous as a regular hero's job, still requires just as much situational awareness and mobility, and most definitely requires free hands. The thing is, I already know what solution she's come to.
"You could function as a support-type hero. You could either be the sidekick of a powerful hero, whose brawn you can supplement with your brains or you could function as a master-mind type leader, giving orders to your sidekicks who would have more combat-suited quirks."
"Spot on," she says, finally finished paging through her papers, she looks up at me again. "I have been developing certain skill sets to help me reach that goal, one of which is relevant to the conversation." She picks up the stack of papers, and shows me the front page, pointing at the title.
"Quirk Analysis. That's why you're so interested in my quirk." Ah, this makes so much more sense now, her entire game plan against Yaoyorozu in the anime was centred on countering their quirks. I must have drawn her attention as an odd case due to my multiple quirks, although she likely doesn't think that is possible.
"Yes. That is why. So, will you tell me?"
I sigh.
"And what will you do if I say nothing and leave the limo right now?"
"I'd keep analyzing you until I figure something out." Not good, she could put herself in danger if she starts asking questions about the wrong people, and her quest to discover what I can do might put me on the radar of unsavory parties.
"Would you accept my request to not do that?"
"No, I would not."
While trying my hardest to keep a plain face, I scream inside from frustration. She is such an entitled little brat, and it could possibly cost her her life.
I guess that leaves two remaining options.
"Only if you agree to two conditions."
"If I find those conditions agreeable, then yes. What are these conditions?" she asks. Grabbing her flask of tea in preparation.
"Condition one. You do not tell ANYONE about my quirk, do not even hint about what it is and what it can do."
She takes a sip of her tea, and closes her eyes. It might be purely aesthetic, but the yellow and orange holographic words, gears and numbers that begin floating around her are rather intimidating, albeit entertaining to watch.
"Strict, but acceptable. Next one." Her eyes remain closed but as the holographic imagery begins to fade, she raises her flask to her lips for another sip.
"You may not under any circumstances, ask questions about my quirk to my family or anyone that might know me." I want her off Re-Destro's possible hit list.
"Denied, too vague, I can not possibly know everyone who knows you, and if I require aid from a mentor regarding figuring out how your quirk works, then my hands are tied." Ugh fine.
"You must try your absolute best to keep the fact that you know about my quirk hidden. Especially my Uncle and anyone high up in Detrenat."
It doesn't take too long until the glowing words begin fading again, only this time, she doesn't take another sip of tea, and opens her eyes.
"Agreed."
I don't think she notices it, but I sigh softly in relief.
"Good, so to fulfil my side of the deal. My quirk al-"
"Don't tell me." She interrupts me, holding her hand up.
"I thought you wanted to know what my quirk did?"
"I did say that, but to be honest, now that you're cooperating with me, I want to use the opportunity to grow as a quirk analyst. No body learns from having the answers handed to them on a platter."
"So...let me guess, you want to develop theories for what my quirk does, and I tell you hot or cold?"
"Yes." She slides her quirk analysis papers across the table to me. "I have a few already, so let's get started."
Somewhere in Musutafu, sits another avid tea drinker, sampling the flavours at a local tea shop that opened just a week ago. They ordered one of each, and sampled each of them one by one, insisting to not be interrupted in their taste testing. Much to the fully intended agitation of their companion, who had no interest in tea beyond the average Japanese person, but was being forced to endure the ritual all the same.
It wasn't often that Nezu could get anyone to agree to his long-winded rambling, and even less often that he could get someone to listen to his passion for tea. He knew it would never occur naturally, which is why he was currently killing two birds with one stone. He was both finally getting the opportunity to talk about his love for tea, and testing the resolve of one of his ex-employees.
He was currently both impressed and disappointed. Impressed that Sorahiko Torino managed to last so long without blowing a gasket, and disappointed that they had just finished the last flavour available on the menu. He must say, while they don't have a large selection of flavours, this little tea shop might become a regular spot of his.
"Alright, I acknowledge your resolve in this matter, so I will keep to my word, Gran Torino." The rat-dog-bear taps his lips lightly with the provided serviette. "But remember, this is not me accepting your proposal. It is just me hearing you out despite my current desire to outright deny your request. You still need to persuade me.
To be honest with you, I find the idea of hiring an ex-assassin to work as a teacher in the number one Hero school in the country, absolutely preposterous. But somehow, you made it worse, considering the payment she's making to get this deal. Is to kill another person. Do you understand how alarming this proposal is?"
The retired hero at least had the decency to acknowledge that.
"In a normal scenario, I would agree with you, but this is a special case. All for One is not just some regular person, and we can't afford to lose All Might. You know how hard society would collapse if he dies."
"And did you only think of me and my school as little more than tools in your grand quest for revenge? Or is there some benefit for my school, because right now, it looks like you get an assassin and I get someone who would be a horrendous influence on my students, and most likely the HPSC barking up my tail for taking in their attack dog, when they thought it would remain in the kennel."
Gran Torino scoffs. "We're not using you, you're not the only person who cares about the future of those kids." he sighs, "But you have to understand, Kaina Tsutsumi, I know she was before your time, but she was one of the most wonderful, passionate students I ever had to teach. Her heart has always been that of a hero."
"You'll understand I find that hard to believe."
"I do, but not as hard as it was for me to believe that she had become what she told me she had become. Look, Nezu, she was picked up by the HPSC during her first year of study, and they almost immediately began working on her mentality, moulding, and manipulating her into a cold-hearted killer. You've seen how passion drives humans to become monsters," he points at the scar over Nezu's eye. "She only ever wanted to make the world a better place, and they used that."
"You paint a very pretty picture, but it remains that she doesn't seem to have had a change of heart."
"She's sworn off killing, hasn't used her quirk in three years. Even when I cornered her in an alleyway before she recognized me, she didn't pull out her quirk."
Nezu's eyebrow twitches, "And yet she's accepted to kill someone for an upgrade in salary?"
"She hasn't, in fact, she threw me out of her house after chewing my ear off for asking", Gran Torino answers.
Nezu's beady eye's widen in surprise. "You're saying you approached me, trying to make me pull my strings for her, when she has so far been refusing the deal?"
Torino nods.
"Why?"
"Because she will accept."
"How do you- Ah, let me guess, you're working with Nighteye, and he saw her accepting?"
"Bingo."
"And this should convince me because? I still need to accept the deal myself, what reasons do I have to accept?"
"I don't know, but you will." Gran Torino grins, and Nezu falters for a second.
"I accept the deal?"
"Yup, Nighteye saw her teaching a homeroom class in UA, he recognized a few faces from this year's first-year UA sports festival. He commented they might have been third years at that point because they looked a bit older."
The super-intelligent rodent/canine thing was half stunned into silence, trying to think of reasons why his future self would accept. He was at a loss, but his curiosity was certainly piqued.
"I think I would like to meet this Kaina Tsutsumi in person."
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QUIRK TALK
King0fP0wers: YOUR FIRST REVIEW: I like that idea, it's a tad bit overpowered, but to be honest, how much will it actually help the quirk? We saw how fire quirk users who HAVE resistance to fire were still getting burns from him in the manga. AKA Burnin. It'd certainly help, but unless he buys a really high-tier fire resistance quirk he's not going to benefit much, considering he could just buy two quirks of that tier, like Overhaul and Decay, instead of Buying cremation, and one to support it.
However, Junjima, does have a healing quirk that can heal through burns, so I say he already has a good compatibility for the quirk. But I think Junjima is going to stay away from the quirk purely because he doesn't want to share a mental space with Dabi.
YOUR SECOND REVIEW: Yeah, so I really like the quirk ideas, but if I am going to be honest, with my current quirk ranking system, boundary manipulation makes New Order look pathetically weak, it would have it's own tier at something like UUUSSSS++ or something.
As for Impact Manipulation, I like it, we have a few examples of quirks like that that exist in MHA, Nirengeki Shoda's Twin Impact, All for One's Impact Recoil, and the USJ Nomu's Shock Absorption. For the Wifi quirk, I actually strongly disagree, a non-traceable network is ridiculously overpowered for any sort of spy stuff, it would be above average if it's an untraceable wifi, and average if it was still traceable.
THE-Twighlight-Blazeknight: Gran Torino's quirk is cool and useful, but it tics two of the boxes for what Junjima want's to avoid in a quirk: The user is alive, and the quirk will be recognized the instant he uses it.
optimismchucks1113: I personally think an adaption quirk, while strong, would not serve to make an interesting story. Quirks like that are better suited to long-term antagonists rather than a protagonist, just because of the nature of that power. Besides, I think a quirk like that would be SUPER expensive, and when he get's to that tier, he'll have other options, like Overhaul, Decay and Cremation. All of which gives much more bang for your buck right out of the gate.