The First Generation

Doubt and Pride

"If you weren't comfortable with it, why'd you take off your mask and show her who you were?"

"What exactly was I supposed to do? Hope she wouldn't put it together herself?"

"Well in fairness, you did kind of give her all the pieces she'd need."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"The yelling, the swearing, the threats, calling her an 'it.' I dunno if you could've screamed 'Bakugou' more if you blew up half the building. That parts on you."

"Oh, fuck off."

Uraraka grinned and folded her arms, proud of her seamless jab at Katsuki. "I'm not wrong though, am I?"

Katsuki just growled, and that was his entire response. It was pretty much as close to admitting that she was right that he was willing to permit himself to grant. Were he in a better mood, he probably would have just nodded his head and said nothing more of it.

Yesterday had been an... Interesting day for everyone. Yaoyorozu's... For lack of a better word, casual admittance into The First Generation was quite the event, even when the effort was made to try to make it as seamless as possible. It had just been the five of them for months, and now, someone else was getting dragged into the group?

Expansion had been unavoidable for some time. Pretty much all of them had known that. Five people could start the change, and make a difference. But more than five people working towards that change would help. And it could have immense benefits, as well as all the risks that came with it. To pretty much everyone, it seemed unavoidable that a day would come in which they saw new faces added among those who believed strongly in Heroism.

Really, the only source of conflict that came up between them in regard to the topic, was how those new recruits would be added into the fields of Heroism. Katsuki had thought that if they caused enough noise, eventually people would start to believe in their ability to fight back. Todoroki had a similar belief, in that as they continued, people who were inspired by The First Generation may decide that they wanted to help in their mission, and become Heroes of their own right.

Suggesting something a bit more involved, Uraraka had proposed that there had to be people around who supported the Heroes, and wanted to do something to help them. And maybe if they found those people, they could recruit and train them. It was a more direct approach towards expanding their group, and it came with the most risks, such as how easy it would be for their identities to be leaked if anyone ever found out who they were. The risk of them being infiltrated by either the police, someone being paid by anti-Quirked groups, or just plain lunatics was large. Plus, if they recruited a more extreme individual, then that would reflect on them. At least if someone chose Heroism of their own accord, and began to act up no better than someone who had no control over their powers, or was just lashing out, The First Generation could condemn then, or even stop them with force if need be.

At the same time, there were rewards to be found with this system. With this set-up, it increased the direct influence they could have on the local area – a network of Heroes all working towards a common goal, under one united banner. It increased their chances of meeting with new people that they could exchange ideas with, and a broader pallet of ideas surely couldn't hurt. And with more people in the network willingly, it could lead to an easy exchange of information, new resources – Like hideouts around the city – contacts, and tips about what areas and what peoples needed to be helped. That sort of thing.

Of course, that was all just how it played out in Uraraka's head, but there was at least the chance for it. Her optimism had actually managed to persuade Mina to her way of thinking.