Supposedly Quirkless Student (My Hero Academia)

How to begin… Introductions would probably be a good start. My name is Aiden Bate, just your ordinary average American kid living in Japan, which at first glance doesn’t appear all that interesting really. But in the world I live in today being ordinary is interesting itself… and is the last thing you want to be.

Why exactly?

Well, when you live in a superhuman society where roughly 80% of the human population possess superpowers or quirks as we referred to them as. Not having one would certainly make you stand out… and not in a good way. The other 20% of the population that don’t have an uncanny ability of some sort are referred to as the quirkless. Those who’re unfortunately born without any powers of their own are an uncommon thing nowadays.

And I’m one of them.

Or at least I thought I was. It’s complicated… you see it all began when I was six years old, when my quirk should’ve manifested. My Mother’s quirk made her capable of changing the rules of an objects appearance and Dad’s quirk only allowed him to be able to change the temperature of his body. Normally I should’ve begun to show signs of having either one of their quirks or a combination of both. When days went by as I struggled to discover my quirk my parents grew concerned.

Eventually they decided to take me to the doctors to see what’s wrong. Funnily enough even the doctors didn’t understand why my quirk wasn’t showing up. At first it was just some standard testing involving me attempting to replicate my parents' quirks or any other abilities known in our family. When that didn’t work they took some close examinations of me that thankfully didn’t have me needing to get undressed. They simply examined the areas my quirk should appear from like my hands and chest.

When they didn’t notice anything different they eventually took an x-ray of my feet. And you know what they found? Absolutely nothing! You see one common way to figure out if someone’s quirkless or not is by their foot. Those with quirks only have one joint in their pinky toes, while the quirkless had two joints in theirs. I had one joint in my toe, which only confused the doctors even further.

So while I’m meant to be showing signs of having a quirk, we didn’t understand what it was. The doctors classified it as an “unknown,” when a person does indeed have a quirk, but isn’t aware of what it is. You’d think I’d be somewhat happy knowing I had some kind of ability, but honestly growing up knowing you should have an ability but being unable to figure out what it was, was pure agony.

For days I tell you, for days I spent every waking hour trying to coax my power out from within! I tried going over what the doctors had me do in the test again, but when that didn’t work I tried to read some tips on the internet… which were utterly useless. Seriously! One forum page talked about how you’ve got to ‘feel’ it, while others were related to those with transformation type quirks or just didn’t help in general.

It especially didn’t help when the other kids started to call me quirkless, which only made me more . Soon after I started losing friends… teachers hardly registered me anymore and my parents… treated me as if I was something fragile. It felt like it was just me against the world. And It went on for years after that day, growing up alone simply because of something I didn’t have. But that’s what infuriated me most, the fact I did have it!

I just didn’t know what it was… until I accidentally discovered it when I was eighteen.