The First Generation

The Quirked Or Quirkless Student

There weren't a large number of people that Mina knew who actively practiced at using their Quirks. As they were in the world, a Quirk was something of shame that was to be hidden for as long as viably possible. Being discovered with a Quirk was grounds for facing discrimination for the remainder of your entire life.

People like Mina couldn't hide from this sort of treatment. Her Quirk gave her a bizarre appearance that didn't fit in with what the rest of the world looked like. Her pink skin, black eyes and horns made her stand out like a fire in a forest. It was impossible to hide her Quirked origins, and it left her being one of the more vulnerable people that existed on the planet. The rest of the world would always look at her like she was some kind of freak of nature. Like a mutant that should have been put down years ago. People hated her for merely even being alive.

Still, Mina didn't bother training her Quirk all that much. She didn't see a purpose in refining her ability to secrete acid. At the end of the day, that ability was what had gotten her thrown out of her home, and treated like dirt since the day her skin first turned pink. She didn't particularly like her Quirk, nor did she like the fact that Quirks even existed in this world.

She looked like a freak... She was a freak. She didn't think about it often, and most of the time, she reminded herself that she just didn't care what the Quirkless thought of her... But in truth, she did want to live a normal life. She did want to be able to go to a regular school and be a regular person. At no point did she ever desire to have a Quirk. If she could get rid of her Quirk... She probably would.

As much as she wanted it to be, she knew that wasn't an option. And the world wasn't going to bend to what she wanted. No one really had the power to alter the world to their whims, or to affect so many people that the world would just change in accordance to what someone wanted it to become.

But Izuku... He was trying to make that happen.

He had accepted a Quirk of his own volition, and with it, he had accepted the fate that he was going to suffer because of having one. All to be able to stand by the Quirked people of the world... Not just as an ally, but as a Qurked himself. He'd mentioned the various ideas that he'd had that he could use to make this work, from helping the Quirked and Quirkless to understand one another, to revealing his Quirkless origins and showing how he, a confessed outsider, was able to interact with the Quirked. He was optimistic about things, which was a stark contrast to herself and Katsuki.

Mina would have slapped him if she wasn't so taken aback by his dedication to helping people. The self-sacrifice that he displayed just to be able to stand by the Quirked... There weren't a lot of words that she could say that would do justice to how that made her feel.

He was like a Hero to her. As cheesy as the line sounded, Mina hadn't ever met someone who stood by the Quirked as much in her entire life. Not even a large number of the Quirked wanted anything to do with other people with Quirks, shunning them as a Quirkless would do to any other Quirked individual. Like they were trying to blend into society as the expense of other people like them... They were the kinds of people Mina hated the most.

The media and the world revolved around the idea that having a Quirk made you a dangerous freak that needed to be detained and observed, like some sort of hyper-intelligent ape. In response, extremist Quirked groups has emerged, proclaiming themselves as the next stage in Human evolution, and fighting back against the oppressive way that people lived. Terrorists, they were labelled as by the Quirkless. Tokyo was a centrepiece of violence in this regard. That in turn, made the anti-Quirk sentiment stronger, which made opposition to Yuuei even being opened in the first place even stronger.

In short, the entire situation was a total mess.

But in the face of all of this... Izuku seemed to be to raining to use his Quirk more.