I Don't Run An Orphanage!

Chapter 30

Okay, wow. I got some interesting reviews last chapter.

Most of you paid no mind to the actual dilemma that was presented in the story, in favor of paying attention to outside factors and trying to find easy ways out.

So let's address that, shall we?

The first and most prominent thing I heard was "The government is bad and will try to make the quirk erasing formula a weapon!"

The government weaponizing things they shouldn't is literally one of the most common plot points in fiction. And the formula was made to be a weapon in the first place! Of course, I thought about that. And of course, Izuku thought about it too. I was going to address that this chapter but I didn't expect everyone and their mother to talk about it in the reviews. Have a little faith that Izuku's thinking up ways to keep that from happening.

Also, even if that was the case, and the government did make weapons out of those bullets, would it be worth it to just leave those people in captivity forever just so the government can't use the bullets against villains? Because that's what it would be used for. For whatever reason people were talking about the government using this against the heroes? The heroes work for them. This isn't a comic book where the government is always trying to pull one over on the heroes or control them, the heroes work for the government, directly. That's like worrying about the government developing new weapons to use against the police or the army, it makes no sense. And this isn't some dystopian future where government blatantly murder their own men for the slightest advantage.

Also, let's address the "Third options". Many people suggested or guessed other options outside the ones that were provided. Now let me point out the issues with those "solutions".

For one many people suggested that Eri refuse for now and go through therapy to properly get over her trauma before doing something like this. Which is not a terrible answer, except you forgot one thing.

You know how when you procrastinate something important, and it stays in the back of your head, bothering more and more until you eventually do it? For Eri, it's gonna be that times a thousand. Everyday Eri is going to remember those people still waiting for her to help them, and it will drive her nuts. If anything putting this off would likely do more damage to her mental health than saying either no or yes.

And another alternative option is for Eri to say no and Izuku to adopt them.

Perhaps I wasn't clear in the last chapter, so allow me to put it as clearly as possible.

These kids. Are unadoptable.

The reason they are classified as level 2 O.P.C.'s is because they can't be safely integrated into society, under any current means. Sure they can be contained and in theory, could exist alongside everyone else, but if things go south everyone is screwed.

Let's put Sansan for example. Sansan's safety precaution is the special chemical that renders her acid harmless. If something goes wrong and she stays in her acid form, then while it will cause a lot of property damage it's unlikely people will die unless there is either extreme incompetence, carelessness, or maliciousness involved.

With a level 2 O.P.C., not the case, if something goes wrong with their safety precaution, everyone around them dies.

Even if Izuku was stupid enough and suicidal enough to want to take them in, he is literally not allowed to do so.

It's not an option. No.

There is no third option(not a good one anyway). The trope of the character making their own option can be one of two things. Either it is a show of the character's intelligence and how they can change the situation with methods not previously thought of. Or, more commonly. It's a cop-out where the character pulls something out of nowhere or does something they couldn't before because the plot says they need to.