The First Generation

A Truly Unique Quirk's Impact

There wasn't a huge deal of things that could honestly be said about what Toshinori had just told the four previously unaware teenagers about, regarding the origins regarding Izuku's Quirk. Frankly, Quirks were already an unknown variable at the best of times, but the concept of transferring one Quirk from one person to another person was going against every rule that had been established with these mysterious superpowers. It threw everything that was supposedly known about them out the window, leaving them with powers that they didn't even come close to understanding at the palms of their hands yet again.

Silence filled Izuku's hospital room for quite a while after Toshinori had explained One For All, and the transference of Quirks to them. Even Izuku kept his mouth shut, not really sure what he could add that would be of any value whatsoever. Mina hadn't removed her hand from his, but she didn't look at him, her head racing too much for her to even remember to look towards him.

Of everyone there, Katsuki seemed to be taking it the worst. While everyone else was just keeping their mouths closed as they processed the information, Katsuki seemed to understand and comprehend what he'd been told by far the quickest, and he was reeling from what all this information meant. His mouth was ajar, and his breathing was rather intense, though his mouth and his eyes had become small and narrow, focused squarely on the floor in front of him. Clearly he was thinking of the thousands of implications of that were occurring, and he wanted to say something in response to them, but the words just refused to exit his mouth. He didn't know what to say. He didn't know how to say it.

No one really knew what to say. The entire situation was... Unique, to say the very least, and to say the very worst, was one of the most societal-suicidal occurrences everyone had ever heard.

In this world, the Quirkless ruled the world, and the laws always favoured the ones of them that didn't possess any superhuman abilities, and as the world spun right now, those who didn't have Quirks had the best chance in life.

Hearing about a Quirkless person acquiring a Quirk was unheard of in itself... But it felt like a huge gut punch that it had to be Izuku that would break this rule.

Letting out a sigh as he looked up from the floor, Todoroki glanced around the room, trying to read the mood, but when he realized that no one else was going to say anything, he decided to be the one to break the silence, however contributing it may be. Honestly, he didn't know what to say.

"I... I'm not sure what to say to all of that." He admitted, looking over towards the black haired boy.

Izuku looked over to Todoroki at the same time. His green eyes met with his friend's heterochromic eyes. Todoroki knew and trusted Izuku, and knew that Izuku hadn't made this choice lightly. There wasn't a chance that he'd taken the choice to accept a Quirk lightly. That couldn't be the case at all. Izuku didn't take Quirks like they were some sort of jokes, he knew the horrible reality that they had to face on a regular basis.

"You can call him the fucking idiot that he is."

Katsuki had finally found his voice, but he was still trembling in every word that he said. His fingers were trembling, but his breathing seemed to have calmed down. His eyes had narrowed, and his expression conveyed one of something that Izuku recognised, but hadn't seen in a while.

Anger.

It wasn't anger that he felt towards people who hated the Quirked, or bigots, or anything like that. Instead, this was anger that he felt when his classmates turned on him when they discovered his Quirk. He felt betrayed, wronged, like he'd been slapped in the face, and spat on from on high. Like he'd been treated like some sort of joke.

Like Izuku hadn't actually taken a word that he had said about living as a Quirked person seriously.

Izuku knew. He knew everything that Katsuki had been though since Explosion finally developed, and his Quirk came into being. He knew about how he'd had to hide his powers for as long as he possibly could. He knew about how everyone Katsuki had known had turned on him, turned their backs on him when they learned about his Quirked origins. How his own parents had abandoned him.