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Before we all head into the labyrinth, I figure we should have a level playing field for making calls about risk.
If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.
The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.
In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.
If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.
The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.
In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.
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Not really the Slaughterhouse Nine though.]
The Slaughterhouse Nine are - I guess anarchists? They wreak havoc and undermine any kinds of authority but not out of any ideological reasoning they just want to prove they can do anything they want and get away with it. Killing and causing mayhem for the sake of it.
[And they tried to recruit her.]
But that sentiment isn't unfamiliar. Most organized villain factions have very particular ideas of what people should and shouldn't do. Hero organizations too.
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[ That's part of what makes All For One so scary. He's not just a small group of extremists but someone who can bring people together. He nurtured Shigaraki's hate and encouraged him to find allies with other organizations and fringe groups. ]
the hero commission
fell apart under the weight of their secrets.
it's unclear how much authority they carry now.
[ And that's all he wants to say about that. The story should be told back home by the people who revealed it. He's just there to help them... if he can get back home. ]
how much of a problem is the slaughterhouse nine?
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[She realizes that she shouldn't share much more. Krouse's whole lie relies on him idolizing those people. Their tenuous connection hasn't been revealed yet, but it's only a matter of time.]
They ended up rebranding, incorporating a few of the villains into their ranks. [Other than Skitter, that was all a lot later. Valkyrie, Bonesaw. She was never a villain, but they included her too despite her prison sentence.]
They were a problem. They used to wipe out entire towns, take heroes and villains alike and emotionally break them until they could bring them into their ranks, kill thousands of people at a time (they did this in my city actually). A lot of the major hero organizations gave up on fighting them because the death toll on our side was too high and they always came back and retaliated for any victory we got.
[We. By the time she was actually fighting them she'd already lost any right to call herself a "hero." Still, it was the Slaughterhouse Nine that nearly killed Victoria. That forced her to break her rules. She can't pretend like she wasn't responsible for the rest, but there's a small]
Almost all of them are dead now though. Only one survived and she's reformed. [She almost writes 'almost' or 'seemingly' but... she of all people knows that Riley's intentions are sincere.]
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and kidnapping others.
sounds like some stuff that happened in my world too.
[ From what she describes, something akin to the kidnappings by All For One or whatever happened to Wade Wilson, if his dreams are to be believed... Text can't convey the emotions he feels about that. Anger, shock, and sorrow. Like what happened in the last major battle he was in. The rescue efforts couldn't save so many people. ]
the protectorate? the joint american and canadian cape organization responsible for coordinating and responding to threats? [ He recites like he's remembering something out of a textbook. He does this sometimes. ]
that's what someone told me. sorry for asking, but are you and krouse-kun from the same world?
[ Izuku doesn't know Krouse's username of course. Krouse didn't mention anything about corruption, he just talked about his favorite hero. But Izuku thinks of how the Hero Commission's crimes were only just coming to light, and only among a few people. Izuku just thinks Krouse is an innocent civilian. A bystander in a world of capes, like Izuku was before All Might took him on. ]
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There's a few moments of delay before she responds.]
Maybe? I don't know any Krouse.
[It's not as if she's got any reason to think know the name of the guy behind this post after all. And it's not as if she does have any reason to know Krouse or Trickster. They had one encounter before they were both shipped to prison.]
But yeah, that's them. I wasn't part of the Protectorate but we were sort of an associated independent team that worked with them.
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[ With such a small population here, it would be something of note if they did meet, like being in a foreign country and running into someone from his hometown. But it doesn't always happen.
He isn't sure if asking about the details of her work on an unsecured network is wise, so he doesn't. ]
what do you want to do now that you're here?
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Priority number one is ensuring my world's safety.
[Even if it's barely her world anymore.]
Beyond that, I'm not really sure. You're a hero, I'm guessing?
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[ Choose between worlds? No. He wants to save all of them. ]
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I think you'd have to be a special kind of moron to take our captors at their word honestly.
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i'm not that good at names but if you ever need help thinking of a new one, i'd be glad to help. what's your quirk?
i mean superpower?
[ Hero Quirks are entirely public where he's from, even if he himself wasn't entirely truthful about his own. ]
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He seems nice enough. Idealistic. She's met a lot of idealists, only a few of which proved to be total corrupt hypocrites. This kid at least seems sincere.]
Biokinesis. I can manipulate the biology of any living thing via touch.
[Which ranges from human beings to insects to bacteria she could use to create viruses capable of systematically killing cancer cells and bolstering immune systems, or of turning people insane, making them turn inside out, condition their brains to be entirely dependent on her instructions to produce any dopamine. Some of the true extent of what she can do isn't public knowledge - they never lied outright - they just held back on doing any of the more terrifying applications of her powers. People would be less inclined to let her help if they knew how strong she really was.]
I mostly use it to heal sick and injured people. Restore lost limbs, remove deadly diseases, restore damage sustained in battle, etc. Yours?
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amazing.
[ The word in his language can also mean crazy terrifying. Either way, it inspires awe. ]
biological type quirks are very powerful. every one i've seen has completely turned a situation around.
[ Holy body horror, Batman. Dismantling someone with a touch, rewinding fatal damage, and healing only limited by the patient's stores of energy have been just a few powers he's seen firsthand. The creepiness doesn't faze him, neither does the potential for misuse. Only actual misuse would bother him. People can't help the Quirks they're born with any more than he could help being born Quirkless. ]
mine's super strength. it also helps me move really fast.
[ Simple, not entirely a lie, but it doesn't feel good to conceal the truth. ]
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[It's an offhand question, more of an assumption. Super strength and enhanced speed are two parts of a package in her world.]
My power isn't really suited for combat. It takes me a minute or so to actually finish any changes made to the body unless they're extremely simple. And if I'm rushing, there's more of a chance that I'll make a mistake.
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i can jump really high, so... kind of, but not really.
the noncombat applications are just as important. i can't tell you how many times i've been saved by healing. there are pro heroes who participate in important medical research too.
uh what happens if you make a mistake?
[ Just asking... no reason... ]
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Theoretically there might be health complications. It's possible they might die, depending on what I'm working with.
I've never actually had an accident like that though. And if I did I can keep people on a sort of artificial life support that gives me enough time to undo it.
[What she did to Victoria was something different. Not an accident. She didn't mean for it to happen like it did but it wasn't a slip up - it was something far worse.
She's not going to be telling this guy any of that though.]
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the quirk i first posted about, there have been reports of victims being put back together. not many, but it's consistent.
there are some things that are consistent between our worlds. i'm thinking they might have been very similar before a certain point.
[ Yes, he's thinking about timelines in comic books... ]
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Could she do that? Certainly. Would she? Not so much.]
Yours and mine? Or the many people from variants of Earth that have para/superhumans in them?
When did powers first appear in your world?
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Though it's not his story to tell, there is a second Quirk user he's thinking of. This person has the power to rewind a body. It's rare and powerful. For the sake of the privacy of a small child he cares very much about, he hasn't mentioned it at all. ]
yours and mine, since i don't know too much about other worlds.
[ Thanks Krouse! ]
several generations ago, but it feels like longer just because a lot of records are incomplete. it caused a lot of chaos at first.
[ *MHA doesn't give even ballpark dates... ]
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Even without that, it's pretty common knowledge that they arrived in the year 1980 with the appearance of the golden man we'd later call Scion.
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of course every day life changed, laws couldn't keep up with it, criminal activity got really creative, there were fights in the streets between people with quirks and people without...
vigilantes started up in reaction to this, and eventually the hero profession was born.
my hero informatics class teaches us all about classifications, emitter quirks, heteromorphic quirks, etc.
even so, there are things not in our history books. underground villains who managed to stay out of the public eye, shadow leaders, unregistered quirks, that kind of thing.
[ There are no records of One For All in his registration. He put it down as "super strength". ]
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I'd imagine so.
A lot of our own history was covered up or obsfucated deliberately by the people who started the Protectorate in the first place. I don't even know what's true vs what's propoganda set up by them.
Interesting categories, though.
We have:
Mover, Shaker, Brute, Breaker, Master, Tinker, Blaster, Thinker, Striker, Stranger, Trump and Changer.
They're fairly broad, but some powers were a mix of a few categories. Like I'm technically a Striker 10-ish, Thinker 2 and then an argument could be made for a few others if I utilized my powers a certain way. My sister was always more into categorizing cape powers than I was.
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as for subtypes and classifications, any of them could be accumulation type, which means they have to store and release something, and there are gigantification quirks, electric, search,
[ Its easier to see in writing how his habit arises. ]
i'm told i get carried away talking about stuff like this. sorry about that! you must have heard this all the time if it was your sister.