The First Generation

He Has No Quirk!

That night, despite knowing that tomorrow he would have to be up bright and early, as the lessons at the school would finally begin, Izuku was up late, hunched over his desk, with nothing but a glass of water, a notebook, a pencil, and a sharpener. Armed with nothing else except his memory, he began making notes and sketching down the appearances of his fellow dorm mates, making notes of their Quirks, and thinking of the various things that they might be able to do.

They had returned to their rooms after everyone had been introduced, certain groups forming as they had all separated. People who were already getting along, or knew each other before attending the school gathering together to discuss matters or hang out. From the names that he had managed to commit to memory, Izuku had noted Kirishima, Kaminari, Mineta, Yaoyarozu and Kyoka seem to form a group, whereas others such as Fumikage, Shoji and Asui formed others. Aside from the ones already in his circle, they stayed clear of Izuku, apparently having already made up their minds about the resident Quirkless student, and their intentions on how they would proceed regarding him. The same attested to the people who had stood by him, to a certain degree.

No-one was outright hostile towards Katsuki, Mina, Todoroki or Uraraka, but no one seemed overly eager to call them over to their groups, to talk to them and try to get to know them, see what made them tick and see if they could start a friendship of some description. They seemed to view being associated with Izuku as a social blemish, in the same way that being Quirked outside these walls was treated. The hypocrisy was terribly strong... But it wasn't irrational, at least not to them.

It angered Katsuki and Mina, but Izuku had calmed them down. He had his own ideas for the future...

When he wanted to, Izuku had a fairly decent talent for making rough sketches. He had a certain kind of mind that let him at least get the overall shape of what it was that he was trying to achieve. He liked to call it his selective-photographic memory, that let him keep vast quantities of information in his head, but only if it was relevant or interesting to him. These images and facts that he had burned into his brain were of relevance to him, so he remembered them, simple as that. His drawings were never perfect, nor were they ever going to be hyper-realistic drawings that would put the world famous artists of The Renaissance to shame – But the overall shape would be clear. It would be clear.

In the very first notebook he started to fill in, the very first person he drew in was Mina. Alongside his sketch of her, he highlighted all of her various physical traits, pointing out the oddities in her appearance. The black eyes, the pink skin, the horns and the naturally pink hair, all blended up into a combination that was one odd-looking Human being that without a Quirk, simply would not occur. Next to this drawing, he wrote in her Quirk – Acid. Next, he went over said Quirk, explaining everything that Mina had explained to him, what her Quirk was, how she activated it, and what he felt it could be useful in. When he sat down to think about it, her Quirk would be remarkably useful in combat, or if she wanted to be sneaky. It all depended on how creative and unorthodox she was as a person, hence why he didn't want to leave her entry at only a couple of points.

He spent about an hour and a half filling in the two pages there, thinking and scanning over her Quirk in her head before he flipped over and went onto the next double sided page. This next page was an easy one to fill in. Katsuki and his Explosion Quirk. He knew plenty about that particular Quirk, having been in such close proximity to it for the last few years. He could probably fill in three pages of the Quirks function alone, but he kept to the basics, for the sake of saving paper. He mentioned the mutations to his sweat glands, and how he ignited the nitro-glycerine-like sweat at will from his palms at will. Ferociously versatile and brutally damaging, Katsuki's Quirk didn't have a huge amount of things it wasn't good at. Another hour was clocked away doing all of this.