It was a Saturday afternoon when Inko finally took Izuku to see the quirk counselor. Inko fortunately had access to the staff parking area of Karīda Medical Center, so they didn't need to scout the parking lot for empty spaces. Despite that, Inko still insisted on getting there 15 minutes early, because she was navigating to a part of the hospital she hadn't really been in before. Inko mainly worked on a completely different floor. She first made sure that their appointment was on the right floor before sitting down and waiting.
Izuku simply couldn't contain his excitement. He was about to meet his Quirk Counselor! He'd asked his mom what would happen, and she had said that a Quirk Counselor helped someone register their quirk and help them test it in a safe environment. Inko had already forwarded his notes (neatly rewritten) to the counselor.
It was after waiting for fifteen minutes that they heard a nurse ask, "Dr. Midoriya and son? The counselor's ready for you!"
They got up, and the nurse led them down a veritable maze of hallways to room 1138. "Dr. Kirima will see you now."
Dr. Kirima was waiting for them with a smile on her face, which was half-covered by a mask. She wore round glasses and had her brown hair in a long braid. She began by telling them, "Hello, it's so good to see you here! I'm Dr. Kirima, I use she/her pronouns, and I'll be your quirk counselor going forward. The standard procedure in this hospital is to use the DRAGON AI to record sessions for a better doctor-patient interaction, is that okay with you two?"
Inko smiled. "I actually work here, in the General Surgery and Oncology departments, so I'm familiar. I've seen you once or twice elsewhere, but we can talk later. It's okay with me, and…Izuku?"
Izuku had wandered off to poke at the DRAGON. It was a small black tablet with a touchscreen, that simply transcribed the words spoken in the office, and later helped process them into patient records. The creators had foreseen it being used in pediatric care appointments, and therefore it could only record audio until the doctor using it spoke a passphrase to unlock it for more complex use.
Upon hearing his name, Izuku sheepishly smiled, murmured "Sorry, mom", turned around and sat down in a chair next to Inko. Both women smiled at his antics.
She continued, "Moving on from that, I'm a licensed pediatrician as well, in case Izuku's quirk harms him in any way. I've received the notes you sent about his quirk, Dr. Midoriya, and I have to say, it seems to be very versatile at first glance. From what the notes tell me, he can freely manipulate the shape of matter, and possibly recombine different elements into different chemicals. We'll have to do some testing to figure that out. What do you think, Izuku?"
Izuku tried to be sneaky with a quietly hissed, "yesssssssss!", but his fist pump gave him away to both adults.
Dr. Kirima led them to a small testing room with a variety of objects including a plant, some materials, and a few toys.
She then explained, "Izuku's notes say that he wasn't able to test organic matter, but has he been able to test it since then?"
Inko said, "No, he hasn't. I wanted him to test it in a safe environment, and I wasn't willing to risk plant monstrosities running around the house." Izuku pouted. He totally wouldn't have done that!
"Anyway, I think it's time. Izuku, can you try and change the plant somehow?"
He nodded, and walked to the plant. Instantly, his 4-year-old brain saw images of things he couldn't identify. He got barely a second until his hand jerked away from the plant.
Inko and Dr. Kirima looked on in concern, with Inko and Dr. Kirima both checked on him to see if he was alright. When Izuku affirmed that he was, Dr. Kirima's curiosity couldn't be held in check. She asked him, "What caused you to react like that?"
Izuku thought for a little bit, before he got up in excitement. "I saw so many cool things! Weird double balls, lots of stringy things, things that looked like walls, walls with double balls, folded up stringy things, lots and lots of water, and all kinds of miniscule balls attached to each other!"
Dr. Kirima almost laughed, but managed to contain it. She said, "Izuku, I think what you're seeing are organelles inside plant cells. Not just organelles, but proteins, and the organic molecules, too. Could you try to change the plant again, now that you know what to expect?"
Izuku nodded his head, and tried again - this time, he tried his best to ignore his quirk's feedback and attempted to make this leaf move. It did, but Izuku again had to recoil his hand, lest he get a splitting headache from the quirk feedback. Izuku naturally relayed all of this to her, who noted it down.
Dr. Kirima then muttered to herself, "So it's clear that Izuku's quirk has some kind of mental component, probably telling him what the thing he's touching is made of. It could be that his brain isn't developed enough to handle his quirk's feedback yet, or he just hasn't learned what those bits are. But he can actually affect the entire plant, so that leads nicely into one of the next tests I want to do…"
She shook herself out of her analysis, and turned toward Inko. "The good news is that I think this backlash can be trained away, if he learns what makes up the plant cells, or what he's touching at the moment. I have a few more tests that we can do."
She then brought one of the plastic toys to Izuku, and said, "I'd like for you to try and manipulate the entire thing. But please be careful, there are batteries inside, and they can set the toy on fire if you break the outer casing."
Izuku nodded, and set about turning the plastic into a lump of metal. He felt that he could manipulate the batteries directly, but with Dr Kirima's warning ringing through his head, he avoided doing so. He told her, "I think I could change the batteries, but I didn't."
She noted that, and continued, "Well, it seems if Izuku thinks something is part of something else, like batteries in a toy, then he can manipulate them. If he thought of the batteries as separate from the toy, I'm not sure what would happen. We might test that further."
She then brought Izuku two bars of metal, one a shiny reddish color, and another a silver with a bluish color. The reddish bar looked about eight times as large as the silvery bar.
"Okay, Izuku, I want you to try and combine these two bars together, and try and make sure that each metal is spread evenly in the result, okay?"
Izuku held his hands to both of them, and pushed the silver bar into the reddish bar, with no audible sound. The two bars merged, and the color became a sort of yellow-brownish one.
Dr. Kirima paused here, and took a moment to gather her thoughts. "Based on these tests, and Izuku's notes, this is a very versatile quirk. It's a general matter manipulation quirk. While he can't create matter out of nothing, he can manipulate it if it already exists. He seems to manipulate it at an atomic level, given that the alloy he made was a variant of bronze. The lab needs to confirm if it's uniform throughout, but it certainly seems like it is."
With the testing finished, Dr. Kirima beckoned Izuku and Inko back to her office to have a discussion.
"The government instituted a law around two decades ago, that everyone needs to have their quirks in the Quirk Registry. Keeping them all in one place wasn't a good idea, so they made the hospitals keep the quirk registry, and have them send it to institutions which need it. I'll write up the necessary paperwork and get his quirk registered, then I'll send it to you for a signature, and Izuku has his quirk registry! Typically we don't put too much detail into it, but I encourage you to think of a good name…unless Izuku has one?"
Izuku scrunched his eyebrows together, and a look of deep concentration appeared on his face. Inko resisted the urge to take a picture, but Izuku finally came up with something.
"How about…Renovate?"
