The First Generation

Attack The Freaks!

"...In other news, residents of the Chiyoda ward were left shocked today when the battered body of local Riku Kaito has been found with multiple stab wounds in his lower abdomen. His body was then left on the street for the locals to find in the early hours of the day. Mr. Kaito was then rushed to hospital, where he is expected to make a slow recovery. Reports, eyewitnesses and friends to the victim of this unprovoked attack claim that this was an attack that was done by Quirked locals. Mr. Kaito is a known member of the HDF, that's the Human Defence Force, and is vocal about his opposition to the high school for known Quirked students, Yuuei, claiming that its existence presents a danger to members of the city as a breeding ground for extremism.

This news comes just less than a day after an attack by Quirkless individuals on the high school, in which homemade tear gas was used to harm several students. The individuals responsible for this attack have been taken into protective custody. Members of this attack claimed to be merely retaliating for the unprovoked assault of Sora Reo, another member of the Human Defence Force, although no links to the high school have been proven.

In response to these violent attacks, in which many Quirkless people were harmed, the government has just this morning passed a law which makes any uses of Quirks completely illegal without the supervision and permission of law enforcers. People who are found to be using their Quirks will be sent to a jail cell without trial until a later date."

Katsuki scowled at the news, disgusted by both the reporter for just conveying this absolute crap, and the actual news itself. Extended hatred did exist for the red haired man on the television screen though - The man was Todoroki's bastard of a father. The bi-coloured boy had no shortage of frankly horrific things to say about him. The kind of person he was... The Explosion Quirk user could feel his palms secreting their explosive liquid already, causing several small detonations within his palms.

Secondly, it was the news itself, and the absolute garbage that it was talking. To him, the intention of this was clear as crystal, and it pissed him off extraordinarily. This could have easily been an attack by someone Quirked, sure, but it could even have been done by someone Quirkless.

After all, this entire situation was being treated as though the Quirked were definitely the guilty party, and as a direct result, their ability to protect themselves had just been snatched from them.

For years, Quirked people had at the very least, the ability to protect themselves using their Quirks. It was one of the few rights that honestly, they could enjoy. Of course, it was extraordinarily for someone to claim that you had gone overboard, particularly when it came to Katsuki and his Quirk, but frankly, by the time anyone had even tried to mess with him, the argument had already been won. His Quirk was so powerful, that people usually just got the hell out of his way.

Now, if someone came at him with a metal pole and tried to beat his head in, he couldn't use his Quirk to protect himself if he wanted to avoid jail time. Instead he had to either fight them without his Quirk, or just run the hell away from them, because now it didn't matter who was in the right and who was in the wrong. People had less reason to fear the Quirked for the sheer amount they could do – Often the main thing that stopped someone from trying assault a Quirked person, whom had very few rights in the first place, was their right to use their abilities to keep themselves and others safe.

Technically, there had never been a law that allowed Quirked people to use their powers to keep themselves protected, but there were no laws against it either. Lack of law was basically an admission that Quirks could be used to protect themselves. Quirks weren't technically weapons, but a part of the biology of the person. When attacked, a person could use their hands to protect themselves, and Quirks were as fundamental a part of a person as a hand was. It gave the Quirked some protection at least. Something that they could take solace in, that made bigots think twice before trying to harass Quirked people – That those who had powers could protect themselves if they had to.