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Quirks… extraordinary abilities that appeared out of seemingly nowhere. With the rise of these incredible abilities came the rise of those who would use them for their own gain. Those who we now come to know as ‘Villains’ and with them ‘Heros’.

Hero’s appeared to counteract the crisis of villains the police could not handle. Eventually the crisis grew with more people developing abilities and with it an increase in the amount of villains and heroes. This lead to the government taking action and enforcing new laws on what was then dubbed ‘Quirks’. They also started to support and legalyz being a hero as an actual profession.

Generation after generation of heroes have erupted, As Well as things known as ‘Quirk Marriages’. Quirk marriages were an act of two people getting married solely for the purpose of producing a powerful offspring. Some people would do terrible things in order to get the quirk they want their offspring to have. Such as buying out the family of the person with the quirk their after to get permission to marry or at least use them as a surrogate. Usually this resulted in loveless marriages and arguments between the parents with the child or more often children being caught in between. This was not the case for me however.

My name is Amelia or mele Phoenix I am the product of a quirk marriage. My parents are both pro heroes who have known each other since childhood. They both were never really interested in love, not that there's anything wrong with it but it’s just not for them.

So they decided to get married to each other in order to get a powerful next line of their family trees. They were no strangers to quirk marriages as they themselves were products of quirk marriages with the same goal in mind. I can happily say that my grandparents marriages went swimmingly even though they themselves did not love each other that way. It was always more of a friendly relationship between my parents.

They loved me and my siblings like any other parents would. I have 2 older sisters and 1 older brother. Theirs Natalia the oldest who is 9 years older than me, she's a pro hero just like mom and dad. She is nice when you get to know her but a little much at times, She also looks like a carbon copy of mom. She is also very irritable and HATES bully’s with a passion.

Than theirs Nathan my older brother who is 8 years older than me who works as an interrogator for the police force in Tokyo. He is nice to everyone and is very patient but will kick your a$$ if the need arises, looks like a carbon copy of dad.

Than theirs Tammy… She’s a bit wild. She is 5 years older than me and is also a pro hero like Natalia and our parents but she has a very laid back and comedic personality that were positive she gets from dad, she has a tan complexion with black hair and hazel eyes.

Oh yeah I almost forgot about my parents for a second their whoops. Anyway, my dad is very charismatic and people are usually swooning after talking to him for a minute or two. He is tall, brood and has a surfers tan and very muscular, he also has pitch black hair and lavender colored eyes. He is also from america and moved here with my mom to start their own hero agency before having us.
My mom is a sweet and patient woman with dark skin, long raven colored hair and hazel eyes. Over all they look alot like supermodels but I suppose that describes quite a few heroes.

Any ways I should probably tell you guys my and my family's quirks. First off my father has a hybrid of his mother and father’s quirks, my mom is the same way. My father has both a powerful telekinetic quirk and minor clairvoyant quirk which allows him to look at a days worth of stored information in an object. My mothers quirk is a versatile telepathy quirk that includes mind affecting properties, empathic properties,and the given ability to read minds. She also has an intelligence boosting quirk from my grandmother.

Next is my oldest sister she has tactile telekinesis that is extremely limited in the amount of weight she can move but is very precise and can affect atomic bonds, she also has minor empathy.
Next theirs Nathan who has a powerful mind reading quirk that allows him to go deep into a person's conscience and subconscience, as well as a minor clairvoyance quirk that allows him to look into the information stored in an object from upto a week.
Next is my sister Tammy she has a powerful empathy quirk that can force emotions onto multiple people’s, a minor telekinesis quirk that can push and pull things from and to her.
Than theirs me, I have a powerful telekinesis quirk, an Empathy quirk that lets me sense and manipulate emotions, minor clairvoyance called astral projection that allows me to basically project my ‘Spirit’ for 3 minutes with a 30 min long cool down, a powerful telepathy quirk, and an Intelligence boosting quirk like mom.

Well I think that's all you need to know so far for this story to get going so 3...2...1…GO!!!

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4 years old…

“-Happy birthday to mele happy birthday to you!!!” chimed Mele’s parents and siblings. Mele sat their happy as ever to have her whole family by her side for her birthday considering this is the one where she will get her quirk or quirks. “Ok Mele lets see you blow out those candles ok!” her mom said with a huge smile and her camera facing Mele.

Mele was happy to oblige and breathed in all the air her little lungs could muster, closed her eyes and blew on the candles. However the candles did a little bit more than blow out because she then heard a startled yelp from everyone at the table. She opened her eyes to see the candles imbedded in the wall on the other side of the room and the cake splattered over everybody.

She looked confused at first but then started to giggle at how ridiculous everyone looked covered in cake. The others soon got out of their shock and started laughing at seeing each other. Than mom said “Well it seems we know what one of your quirks are Mele” with a kind smile. The 4 year old grew ecstatic at this.

“Yay it’s just like yours Dada” stated the child cheerfully which caused the rest to smile. “ Yeah you’ll be a great hero in no time kiddo” said Natalia with a huge grin. At this Andrew’s(The dad) smile grew even bigger at knowing his daughter had his quirk.

A few hours later…

" Ok well it does seem your daughter does have quite the multitude of quirks" said doctor Amono said." She seems to have a very powerful telekinesis quirk as well as a strong telepathy quirk that allows her to also sense emotions." Said the Doctor. " There is also some evidence to suggest a form of clairvoyance as well as an intelligent enhancing quirk" said the doctor.

This surprised them because none of their other children had all of their abilities. "Thank you for your time," they said with a slight bow.

They made their way home and sat down on their couch. "Sweetie how would you feel about us training you in your abilities like we do with your siblings" asked her mom. Mele looked up at her mother and smiled. "Of course momma" she said while hugging her mother's side. The woman smiled down at her child then looked up at her husband whom nodded in consent to teaching her.

1 month later…

"Focus Mele" said her father. Amelia was currently trying to lift a simple birds feather and failing miserably. " Ugh I don't get it! Why isn't it moving" said Amelia with a pought.

" Ahahaha did you really think it would be THAT easy Amelia" said her father with a grin. She looked up at him confused. She had only just started learning to use her telekinesis as it wasn’t as necessary as learning to block people’s thoughts from flowing into her mind. “But when you do it, it looks so easy!” She said.

He let out a slight chuckle at this “ well I have been practicing for years to get my control and my quirk this strong but at first it wasn’t so impressive,” he said. She gave him a look of shock at hearing this because she had never seen him be bad at anything he did. He looked at her again contemplating and said “ ok maybe your going about it the wrong way! So what are you imagining when you try and move something?”

She looked at him confused and said “ I just look at it and say ‘move’ in my head”.

He gave her a nod and said “ well there's where you're going wrong! You can’t just tell it to move you gotta feel it and push your will into it”. She looked confused by that statement so he sat crossed legged and looked her straight in the eye. “ Ok close your eyes” he said. She closed her eyes and crossed her legs imitating what she sees him doing. He sees this and smiles a bit at the imitation.

“Now feel around you, us telekinetics have a certain connection to all matter around us. Just let go, feel all that is around you.” He said in a calm voice. So she did she cleared her mind like her mother showed her how to do when learning telepathy and felt around her. The feeling was so strange like she could see without her eyes. She could feel everything around her and could tell how much power she has within herself.

“now try and lift the feather” her father said.

She focuses her mind on the simple little object and now it just feels so simple. She opens her eyes and sees it floating a few inches off the ground and rising. She looks at her father and then smiles and he returns it.

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5 years old…

" Are you sure you have everything with you?" asks Amelia's mom. "Yes mother I double checked" said Mele in a slightly irritated tone. “Ok, but I just don’t want you to forget everything on your first day,” she said in a worried tone.

“Mom… I have a photographic memory so I literally can’t forget anything” said Amelia in a confused tone.

“ oh right sorry I’m just worried about you” she says as she hugs her daughter. “Ok love you mom bye!” Amelia says as she walks out the door. Her father smiles down at her by the car.

“You ready kiddo” he asks. “Yep” responds Amelia.

At the school…

They pull up to soumei elementary school. It’s an elite private school that the children and relatives of pro hero’s go to. As well as people who are on the wealthier side of society.

“Bye dad have a nice day at work” Amelia says politely as she walks to the doors.

“Have a nice day as well Mele” he says as he walks back to the car.

She turns back toward the building takes a deep breath and keeps walking.

She stops by the office for directions and her full schedule and makes her way to her home room class. She enters her room to see quite a few children her age around talking and such. She takes her seat along with the rest of the class when the teacher walks in.

“Hello students I am miss Higashi” says the woman who looks to be about 50 years old. I look at her and realize she is the former pro hero starlight. Most of the teachers here are former pro heroes to protect us in case a villain attack occurs. With such high amounts of students here being related to pros there's a high likelihood if a villain where to find out their nemesis has family here that they’ll attack.

The day is pretty boring, than it’s the end of the day and they start to give us free time to talk. I go join a pleasant talk with a group of boys and girls.

“ Did you hear that Endeavors son is here to” said one of the boys to one of his friends.

This caught my attention as Endeavor is the No.2 hero after all.

“Yeah and the younger brother of the Ingenium is here to this year” they say excitedly.

'Huh that’s actually pretty cool but I guess that makes sense as this is one if not the most prestigious line of school's in Japan' She thinks.

‘I would like to meet them’ I think ‘Perhaps when were dismissed’.

When were dismissed I rush out so I can meet them. I get into the pick up area and look around. After a few minutes more people start coming out and I see a boy with glasses and blue hair. ‘He looks like ingenium but younger’ I think which makes sense as I look like my oldest sister but with lavender eyes.

I walk up to him and he looks at me with a calculating gaze. “Hello are you ingeniums little brother” I ask. He looks a little shocked that I know that but shakes it off pretty quickly. 'Well no point in trying to hide it now' he thinks. What ok I’m curious about what he’s thinking.

“Why yes I am lida Tenya nice to meet you” he says stiffly as he thrust out his hand for me to shake. I’m a little startled by this because it seems so… robotic. I still shook his hand though

“My name is Phoenix Amelia! Nice to meet you lida-kun”.

Lida looked confused and asked “ That name...Are you American”. She was prepared for this, she gets asked this a lot because her parents gave her a American name because their from the states themselves.

"No but my parents are" she says to Lida.

He nods in understanding "Is there any other way I may help you" he says in a professional tone.

"No I just wanted to meet you and that son of endeavor wherever he is but then again I don't even know what he looks like" she says while looking around the crowd.

"I believe his name is Todoroki shoto and I saw him over there" he points and my eyes follow the direction to a heterochromatic haired boy in a corner. When she looked at him she could feel an overwhelming amount of pain and anger and immense dread coming from him that made her stumble and Lida catches her.

She isn't as good at cloaking emotions as she is thoughts. She looks at him a little startled but he has yet to notice her stares.

"Are you ok" lida asks in a concerned tone.

I realize to him I almost basically fainted for no reason and he's still holding me up drawing unwanted stares.

"Oh yes sorry it's just Todoroki-kun is overwhelmingly angry at something" she says while straightening herself out.

Lida looks at her confused and than she states "Oh yeah sorry one of my abilities is to feel emotions and I'm not good at cloaking it yet". He gave her a look of understanding and than curiosity.

“What emotions did you get off of me than” he asks.

She looks at him focusing “ manly just curiosity right now but I did feel your confusion and worry earlier when I stumbled! Oh and thanks for that by the way!” she says.

Lida nods with a slight blush that she doesn't notice.

“Well I won’t keep you waiting if you still want to meet Todoroki-kun. By the way, out of curiosity you said he was very angry. What is he angry at exactly?” asks lida.

Curious herself she turns around and looks at Todoroki and tries to rope in her empathy so she can use her telepathy. She manages to in a few seconds of effort. ‘well I guess I am getting better at controlling it I suppose’ she thinks as she sees how much easier it is to do then when she first developed empathy. When she first did it she couldn't stop laughing from being affected by the bubbly mind of her older sister Tammy. ‘I still have nightmares about that day’ she thinks with a slight shiver running down her spin.

She focuses on Todoroki, 'stupid father he sends me to this school than will want me to do more training of my quirk at home. I hate the way he trains me and how he doesn’t really care about me and mother and Natsuo or Fuyumi he only cares about power! Quirk marriages should be illegal! I mean look at all the damage it does to those of us in between! I HATE HIM!' Todoroki thinks.

‘Oh well, that's not good at all’ she thinks as she starts to pity the poor boy.

‘I heard about greedy people just wanting quirk marriages for power but I didn’t think they would not care about the kids at all’ she thinks as she silently is thanking lady luck for giving her such a good family.

She turns back to look at lida “He’s mad his parents are late to pick him up” she lies.

“Oh well, they could always just be caught in rush traffic or endeavor could be fighting a villain! He can’t expect the No.2 hero to be available all the time!” lida says while making weird robotic movements with his arms. That would be a good answer if what she told him was the truth but, whatever is going on with the Todoroki family is none of his nor my business.

“Oh well, we are little kids after all! We throw tantrums all the time! Nothing to worry about! Any way it was nice to meet you lida-kun! I hope to see you soon!” She says while walking towards her father’s car that just pulled up.

“I hope to see you again as well Phoenix-chan!” says lida politely while also walking towards one of his family's car's.

She stops turns around and says "Please it's Amelia lida-kun" she says back at him with a slight smile.

He looks back a little surprised by this but returns her smile with one of his own.

"OK Amelia-chan" lida says.

At home…

I'm a huge fan of heroes so at home on the fridge I have a list of all the top 10 heroes. My father was confused by my silence on the way home. Everyone was confused when I strolled up to my list of top ten heroes in the kitchen and walked right by them.

They all watched as I pulled up a chair to the fridge got on and grabbed the marker and eraser. They also watched as I erased ‘Todoroki’ and the ‘i’ in ‘Enji’ and started to rewrite something. They were all curious as to what I was writing until I moved and they all saw ‘Enj-erk Todoroki’.

“Sweetie why did you write that about Endeavor?” said her mother, not in a scolding tone but in a genuinely curious tone.

“Small justices and I only write facts on this board mother” she said innocently as she skipped upstairs to her room. They all looked at the stairs she just went up than they saw as their father or in mom's case husband looked at the board again and said with a grin “well she’s not wrong”. The mom gave a slight smile and said “Andrew...for once your right!”.

“When am I not Aurora” he says as his grin grew.

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7 years old…

“Lift them Amelia” asked dad

“Ok” She got into a meditative state and began to try and feel the weights her father wanted her to lift off the ground. She had started learning to lift multiple objects at once. It was harder than lifting just one object even if the combined weight of each object was less than the weight of that one object.

She was about to lift them but then something weird happened. She felt weightless and then heard a thud she opened her eyes to see what is wrong and she didn't notice anything wrong at first. Then she looked down to see her body was translucent with a purple afterglow.

She yelped upon seeing this then her eyes grew big upon seeing her father huddled over her unconscious form. ‘Am i dead?’ was all she could think and then she just wanted to be back in her body and not a weird purple ghost thing. Then she was dragged back into her body and popped up startling her father.

“Amelia what happened? Did I overdo your training? Is it too much too soon for you?” he asked worriedly due to not knowing what happened.

“Dad something weird happened” she said. He looked at her as if asking for her to elaborate on that.

“My body came out of it’s self or rather I came out of my body and then I was like translucent and had a purple afterglow and-” She was cut off by his hand appeared in front of her face.

He had a grin and said “So your spirit left your body and you were able to perceive the outside world.” he asked.

“Yeah that's exactly what happened! How did you know?” she asked intrigued. His grin only grew at hearing her conformation.

“I thought of what form of clairvoyance you would inherit of you got one!” he says happily. She is an awe at this because she always wanted to have a clairvoyance type ability after hearing about dads.

“Well this doesn't sound like what happens when you use your quirk” she said with a look of confusion and disappointment.

He gave a slight chuckle at this. ”Well clairvoyance is a broad term and mainly defines a form of 6 sense. So you inherited a form of clairvoyance different from me and your brothers. From what you described it seems you have a form of clairvoyance known as ‘Astral projection’ the ability to separate your ‘Spirit’ from your body in order to move and look around like a ghost and be imperceivable to normal people.” he said happily.

She looked in amazement at this new discovery and tried to do it again but she couldn't. “Dad, how come I can’t do it again” she asked in desperation.

He laughed at this a bit.

“just like any other quirk it has its limits and yours seems to be a time limit from when you use it to when you can use it again.” he states simply.

She looked a little embarrassed that she couldn't figure this out herself.

“Ok, now let’s get back to lifting those weights kiddo” he says with an award winning smile.

“Right!” she says. Just because she finds out she has a new ability doesn't mean she can skip out on her training. Luckily this time she tries to lift the weights it’s much easier to split her concentration on multiple targets.

“Hm it seems as though splitting yourself and finding out about this new ability has helped your conscience learn to split itself with your other abilities as well. Man you really lucked out with this quirk!” He says happily.

She’s very excited by this and is extremely thankful for her new quirk. Her dream high school to go to is U.A. so with this her application will improve by leaps and bounds. ‘Someday I will be a hero that will inspire everyone to reach for their full potential she decides with finality’.

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8 years old…

I was currently sitting down at my lunch table with Iida having a nice conversation.

“So Mele-Chan what did you do today so far” Iida asks politely.

“Oh well nothing new really, and hey I wanna try something. Do you know where Todoroki is” she said.

Iida looks a bit confused but nods in a direction. I follow where he nodded till I see him. Todoroki looks as angry as ever probably thinking about his father.

‘Ok deep breaths Mele’ she thinks as she focuses on his emotions. Over the years she’s gotten much better at sensing the slightest variations in people’s emotions and widening the area she can sense. She has also gotten a hold of her emotions and is able to feel what she wouldn’t necessarily know she’s feeling.

She also has learned to change how she’s feeling as to protect herself from negative emotions. But she has yet to try and change others emotions. Well until now that is.

She reaches out for todoroki’s emotions and grabs a hold of them. She does the same actions she would do while getting rid of her anger. She slowly feels him become less angry and she smiles.

Then she slowly starts hating that he gets to be so happy. Then my emotional training kicks ‘wait why am I mad? I wanted him to be happy’ she thinks but can feel herself getting angrier. She stops reaching for his emotions and than all the anger floods out of her body.

She’s relieved and looks at Todoroki who still has a small smile. ‘It seems that when I drain other people of their emotions I am the one the runoff goes to! Then when I stop it will all disperse and will most likely take some time until his emotions catch up to him once more!’ She thinks in quite fascination.

“Amelia what did you do to Todoroki?” Iida asks as he sees Todoroki smile for the first time ever.

“I drained him of his anger for the time being” I say casually while I continue to see how long my influence lasts for.

He gives me a look of amazement at this as he didn’t know I even could do that.

“When did you learn to do that to people?” He asks intrigued.

“Just now with other people but I’ve known how to do it to myself for quite a while now.” she says

“You know you should really stop using our fellow peers as guinea pigs. Especially me!” He says as he remembers that time I wanted to see how fast I could nab a speedster.

Surprise Todoroki POV

‘-I Hate fathe-‘ than it’s like all his angry thoughts were washed away. He couldn’t help but be happy that he still has his siblings around to help and take care of him even if mother is gone.

‘No that’s not right. I mean I am glad I still have my siblings but, I don’t normally calm down from a rant about father so quickly’ he thinks suspiciously. He looks around and sees a pretty girl around his age talking to a blue haired boy. He couldn’t help but feel like all his anger was flowing towards her. ‘What is she doing to me? Is it intentional or accidental’ he wonders.

‘Well whatever it is I’ll let her work her magic for a while longer’ he decides.

‘It’s been a while since I’ve been this happy’ are his final thoughts as he leans into the happiness he’s feeling.

At the end of the day…

Todoroki’s happiness ‘spell’ as he’s dubbed it, wore off a few hours ago but the anger has been pushed back as he’s overwhelmingly curious to meet that girl.

‘I wonder if she’ll be nice’ he thinks as he might want to be friends with this girl especially if she can do whatever she did earlier again.

A few minutes later the bell rings and he walks outside. He looks around and sees she’s waving goodbye to that blue haired boy and I walk up to her.

“Um hi…” I say realizing I didn’t actually think of anything to say before hand.

She looks at him a little startled at being talked to by him, which I guess makes sense as he’s never really talked to any of the other students. He’s only ever talked to the teachers but only when he has to.

“Oh hi Todoroki-kun” she says with a slight bow.

He is a bit surprised that she knows his name. Also by how polite and oddly professional she is for her age.

“Um earlier during lunch I felt something happening and it lead me to you. So do you know what you were doing?” He asks awkwardly because he has no actual proof that she did anything.

“Oh, I didn’t think anyone would be able to feel my presence much less track it! Interesting!” She says quietly but he could still hear her. ‘So she did know what she was doing! It sounds like this is one of the first times she’s done that’ he thinks.

“So you knew what you were doing?” He asks over her going into deep thought and theory as of why he could sense her. ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have just drained all my anger at once and done it gradually. I would still thought of it as weird but not overly abnormal’ he thinks.

She perks up at hearing his voice.

“Oh sorry I didn’t realize you were still there! And yes sorry about that but my quirk is empathy so I can feel and control emotions! I’ve been feeling your anger grow recently and I thought I could help!” She states.

“Sorry if I was an inconvenience and an invasion of your privacy” she apologizes with another bow.

“I mean I didn’t really mind you helping with my anger, but did you catch any of what my anger was about?” He asks hoping she doesn’t know how much he hates his father.

She bites her lip a bit at this.

“Not this time but I can hear thoughts if one is projecting them if they’re strong enough even through my shields. They were a lot weaker when I was 5 and I heard you thinking about how terrible your father is.” She said a bit nervous he would get mad.

He looks scared at this and backs up a bit.

“Please don’t tell anyone about that” he asks pleadingly. He really doesn’t want father to know about his hate for him.

“If I wanted to tell anyone I would have when I found out! Don’t worry your secret's safe with me!” She says with her pointer finger on her lips.

He lets out a relieved sigh at this and than straightens up. ‘Oh wait I almost forgot’ he thinks.

“If I may ask, What’s your name?” Todoroki asks before she has to leave.

“Phoenix Amelia and it was nice to meet you Todoroki-kun” she says as she walks away to her father's car.

“It was nice to meet you as well Phoenix-Chan” he whispers as he walks to the limo sent to pick him up.