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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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[ 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.