for want of a quirk

vigilantism

Izuku walked into HIS apartment and looked around. It had been 3 weeks since Hisashi had been arrested, and it still almost didn't feel real to him.

There would be a lot of things that needed to change. There were a lot of bad memories in this place, and he would need to get rid of the reminders.

Step one was probably to sell all the excess furniture, the TV had always been Hisashi's thing anyway. Izuku had never been allowed to watch it, and he didn't exactly plan on starting now.

The only possessions he really cared about where his books and hero analysis notebooks. If wanted to keep working on those, he'd definitively want to keep his desk. He obviously needed a bed.

Or do I? Izuku thought to himself. I could sell the frame and just keep the mattress on the floor.

He didn't know just how much extra money that would get him, but it would definitely help when the time came to move to a smaller place.

....Crap. Izuku thought. Those things need a parent or a guardian to sign off.

Izuku knew the statistics about the quirkless in orphanages and foster homes, so there was no way that he was going to put himself through that. Mitsuki might take him, but that would mean having to live with Kacchan for years, and there was no way Izuku was going to do that to himself.

Well, I guess it's time to disappear. Izuku had a computer, and he had spent enough time in the darker corners of the internet trying to research the underground hero Eraserhead.

He'd skipped past some of the darker stuff, but he remembered tutorial videos teaching basic coding skills.

He would need those, hopefully he could make Midoriya Izuku nothing but a distant memory before social services tried to come looking for him.

Izuku walked into Aldera middle school stifling a yawn. Homework had been as easy as always and had taken no time, but learning to code was another beast of its own. This wasn't like when Izuku had taught himself English or sign language.

It wasn't enough to just learn one language, he needed to know a whole bunch before he could be effective. JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Swift, C++, the list went on.

He realized that the videos that were teaching him were probably made by criminals, but technically hacking into national records and deleting his identity would be a criminal act, so he needed to learn from the best.

Izuku sat down at his desk and pulled out his notebook of quirk analyses.

He'd witnessed another hero fight on his walk to school. Since his goal was to become a hero and he didn't have a quirk to help him, Izuku figured that a thorough understanding of how different quirks worked and what universal truths applied to all quirks would help level the playing field.

Recently he'd read a paper by Dr. Kyudai Garaki about the Quirk Singularity theory.

He wasn't sure if all of the conclusions the doctor reached were true, but they definitely suggested that as different as individual quirks were, there were still some universalities among them.

After reading about Eraserhead and his quirk that canceled other quirks, Izuku began to read more on neurology and quirk activation factors.

Since he couldn't remove heteromorphic quirks, but could only cancel emitter and transformation quirks, that implied that there was a specific mental trigger that activated certain quirks. Could that be replicated chemically? Izuku had heard rumors on the dark web about quirk suppressants, but they had nasty side effects.

Izuku was so caught up in his reading that he almost didn't even notice Bakugo standing over his desk. He pulled back just as Bakugo slammed his hand down onto the table, adding to the plethora of scorch marks that had already been made there.