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Thinking (only by Kirishima unless a pov changes to a different character)
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Eijiro Kirishima is a 14 year old middle school student going to high school he has an average quirk and an average appearance. He usually has black hair that lays down but has since dyed his hair red and stuck it up, he has quite above average durability even without his quirk activated.
His quirk? His quirk is hardened, it makes his body…harder he can also train his quirk by taking damage and hardening again and again though it’s a slow process, one he hasn’t started.
“This is the day I change…” He’s currently in his room sitting on his bed lost in thought.
“I just stood there.” He’s mad at himself for freezing in a moment he should have done something!
“Never again…” he stands up with a fire burning in his eyes, non literally of course cause that’s not his quirk is it now?
“Granny, I'm going out!”
“Alright be back before 9!”
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Then Kirishima jogs to the gym with earplugs unaware of anything unless it’s in front of him and for that reason he didn’t see a spider that landed on his shoulder from a window in a tall building with the name ‘Oscorb’ nor did he feel it bite him thanks to his weirdly high defense.
Even before his quirk awakened and especially after even without hardening his skin it’s roughly double the strength of an average person if not more.
So he continues to the gym unaware of the changes happening to his body at that very moment.
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It has been roughly a week since Kirishima started going to the gym and in that week some weird things have happened.
First the difference in difficulty from the first day he went to gym to the second, third, fourth and so on is noticeable, he’s getting stronger and gaining muscle at a rate which is unheard of which means a lot in a world where you can gain muscle by eating.
Second is his weird strength when he goes to lift up a weight. If he holds it too hard it’ll leave an imprint and he’s not even activating his quirk when it happens as it’s against the law.
Third, his stickiness..I mean his sticky hands! And feet as well.
One of his more embarrassing moments happened when he was trying to give something to his grandma. It just wouldn’t come off his hands no matter how hard he pulled it only fell off when he finally admitted defeat and gave up.
And fourth which could totally be a coincidence is over the course of the week as he gained more strength and muscle a spider bite which he noticed when he showers after his first time at the gym got smaller and smaller each and every day until it disappeared which could be a coincidence or something else.
“Imagine a spider gave me another quirk…hahah” he laughs just thinking about it.
“But I do want to know why these things are happening so I’ll just pay extra attention today!” He exclaims, banging his chest.
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So today on his daily route to the gym he walks slowly taking in all his surroundings and specifically looking for a spider nest but he couldn’t find anything out of the ordinary.
Is this a side effect of my quirk somehow?
So he stops in the shade produced by the large Oscorp building, Oscorb is a new company that came from America after being run out by Stark-tech.
“I can’t even remember what they do in this building…” Thinking about it hard, Kirishima still struggles to remember so he decides to google it.
The first thing that pops up is that Oscorb deals in genetic engineering and has been approved to work on animals.
“Animals..like a spider?” Intrigued more he looks deeper into the business to see if there’s any public log on anything related to spiders, searching deep he found an old interview from a Richard that states .
‘I believe it may be possible to give animal qualities to humans and that’s what we are trying to achieve here.’
‘Well what could be the benefit here?’ The interviewer states.
‘We could possibly give quirkless people a quirk or let’s say you get a spider quirk but all you get is the looks of one, well we could also give the abilities of a spider helping people with useless or no quirks.
‘Will this be free?’
‘Probably not’
The interview ends there.
“Oh come on! That practically confirms it but where would I have been given powers from? I didn’t get a needle stuck into me.” He closes his eyes thinking about it but comes up blank.
Then he looks up and sees a window slightly open; it's not open enough to stick a hand through but perfect for a spider.
“What..” While Kirishima was taking this all well it was mostly thanks to him not understanding what was happening then anything else but now faced evidence that he was bitten by a science experiment spider it has him feeling like he’s disconnected from his body so he instead heads home instead of going to the gym today and beside he already looks like he’s been going for three years probably another spider thing.
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Now in his room Kirshima makes a plan.
“Alright this changes nothing! The plans the same apply to UA make it in and become a hero..” it’ll be that simple right? Besides, a spider bite doesn’t decrease your luck.
“But first..I’ll have to discover what my new powers are! And no way is better than a physical test!” As he gets ready to leave his stomach growls.
Tomorrow that is, I wonder what grandma made.
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Now on an abandoned beach with large portions of trash Kirishima has on black shorts with a red short sleeve shirt and some red and black Nikes.
“First thing…strength.” Looking on his phone which has someone’s opinions on what makes a great quirk with the most important things in order.
Seeing a broken refrigerator he approaches it planning to lift it.
Activating his hardening quirk, his sharp fingers unexpectedly make holes in the fridge making it easier to lift the destroyed fridge.
“That’s..new” staring at the fridge Kirishima gains a smirk across his face.
“Uh excuse me…” Weirdly when Kirishima looks up there’s some signs of smoke but it’s disappearing and then there’s a skinny blond hair man and a green hair boy that looks about his age.
“Huh, oh yeah what do you need?” Kirishima asks.
“I’m just wondering what’s your quirk? I saw you lift that fridge and put holes in it with your fingers.” The green-haired boy says with a smile.
“Oh my quirk is hardened, it makes my skin harder so I’m stronger and can take a lot of hits!”
“It makes you strong enough to puncture a fridge?”
“Well that’s actually new I’ve been uhh training my quirk and body to increase strength and durability.” it isn’t a complete lie after all he did start increasing his strength and durability and after learning all that spider bite gave him he plans to go back to it.
“O-oh that’s nice I’m increasing my body strength as well, bye now!” The little socially awkward boy then walks away with the blond man.
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“See Izuku, that boy there is probably heading for UA, once we get your body to the same level that he trained his, you will become a wonderful hero!”
“T-thanks All Might I won’t give up!
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After that slightly awkward conversation Kirishima clears a decently long path which was scattered by things like dishwashers, car parts and even more fridges.
Then he starts sprinting the fastest he can and looks at his watch ‘100’
I can do better!
‘112’
Just a little more!
‘119’
One more push!
‘120’
Then Kirishima abruptly stops flinging himself forwards a bit.
120 miles..in short distances.
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Kirshima wakes up the next day not very strained and with a Greek body that looks like he’s been lifting since 5.
I was supposed to use most of this summer lifting but I really don’t need to anymore..
So now he’s struggling with what to learn next before something comes to mind.
“Wait can’t I stick to walls?” He then remembers his neglected new power of stickiness.
Sticking his hand to the wall he doesn’t stick.
Huh?
Trying again he doesn’t stick still.
Stick!
Trying one more time he manages to stick.
Wait, why isn’t it letting go?
Then he’s met with another issue
“What the ah!” Trying to unstick he pulls a little too hard and sends himself falling with his hand still stuck.
“Is everything good up there rocky?” This is Kirishima's grandma who took him in after his parents died suddenly.
“Yes!”
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Kirishima is now at a rock climbing course by himself. He wants to test his climbing ability safely before trying to climb an actual mountain or buildings.
“Well here it goes!” He grabs on pulling himself up more effortlessly than he expected though he’s sure he would have done fine before.
When he’s halfway up to the top he pulls all of himself up beside his left hand which causes him to become unbalanced and starts falling down when he instead of falling on his back onto the soft mattress below does a spin twist and a flip landing on his feet unscathed.
“Well..that’s new”
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After clearing the rest of the course including a small version of the American Ninja Warrior set he begins writing a list on what he should do. Did this bite make him smarter?
“Well I should still pass hardening as my quirk so I should continue making my hardening stronger and then I can pass some things off as it!”
You're allowed to change your quirk description a few times after you understand it more and if he adds that his body gets enhanced not just much sturdier and a little stronger when he activates hardening he can pass his speed off as long as he holds back a little.
He can climb with his stickiness..alright he really needs a name for that..climbing?
Anyways if he makes sure he puts holes in everything he climbs he can just say the ridged edges of his skin makes the perfect self made climbing tool of course as long as he doesn’t climb up a building faster than should be possible considering his weight and the strength that would theoretically be involved to lift someone of his weight size and… is he rambling on? Yeah something in the spider did something
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Kirishima has been mostly practicing his agility and his hardening quirk has grown by leaps and bounds due to him breaking it off and hardening over and over again.
He has even convinced his grandma to enroll him into a parkour class (in which he quickly made it to the highest ranking class) he’s been thinking of doing gymnastics even if the spider (maybe?) has given him the natural talent of an Olympic gymnastic competitor. And he’s been doing martial arts for a while already so if he’s not at least close to being ready for UA, which he has to go to for the test in 3 months then he never will be.
“Hey grandma, can I do gymnastic?”
“You doing gymnastics? Isn’t that not manly enough.” she questioned
“WHAT! It’s totally manly! Have you seen the way the men gymnasts are built? They are definitely manly! And being flexible and skilled with dodging and quick movements would help me become a better hero which is definitely manly!”
Oh he reminded her of his father sometimes, recently more now with his more.. thinking? Perspective on life.
“Sure but we’ll have to cancel that parkour class.” she warned
“That’s totally fine. I mastered all of it well enough. I've just been testing myself against the instructors.”
“Well then I’ll sign you up for gymnastics right away!” She said just as loud as Kirishima was only a second ago.
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Now in his red and black gymnastics outfit Kirishima performs a move he’s been working on for a while to impress the judges of his first and last gymnastics competition which when he was finished earned him a lot of claps and some looks of jealousy and he went home that day a gold medal champion, albeit with help of a spider.