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midnightrooftops · 1 year

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How the FUCK did Yoichi know to pass on his quirk?

But also, how the FUCK did AFO know to hunt down OFA users?

Because, if we believe the story we've been told, Yoichi had a useless, undetectable quirk neither brother knew about. And then AFO gave Yoichi a simple stockpiling quirk (just cause, lol). How do those two things imply that a quirk is transferable and/or that it's /worth/ transferring (or, in AFO's case, worth stopping a transfer).

So no, I don't believe the brothers were unaware of Yoichi's natural quirk (one of them had to know, either Yoichi and kept it from AFO, or AFO found it through his own quirk and kept it from Yoichi, or they both knew and they're both lying)

The users talk about OFA as if it's a secret weapon that's been tossed from solder to solder as they fall. But /why/?

I can't stop coming back to the idea that AFO purposefully made OFA. Maybe he didn't set out to make /specifically/ OFA, but I think he gave Yoichi the stockpiling quirk with every intention of seeing what would happen or because he thought for whatever reason, it would IMPROVE by giving it to his brother. But then, he finds out that he can't take the quirk back. And thus, the weapon AFO created escapes and he's been hunting it down ever since.

Also, since the origin of OFA is questionable, I think Yoichi's original quirk should be called into question too. What /was/ his actual ability? Because while "the ability to pass on quirks" is related to AFO, it /feels/ like something's missing.

For me, it feels like the ability to pass on quirks does little to explain why AFO gave him a stockpiling quirk. If AFO thought his bro was quirkless, what would a stockpiling quirk /do/?

We're told that OFA is strong bc it's been cultivated from user to user, implying that the strength aspect wasn't so strong before. We know Fourth could break rocks but how strong could Yoichi realistically get?

Idk I just want to learn more about the origin of OFA and I want the brothers' past and I want to KNOW goddammit.

I know I have to reread but now that I"m thinking about it, we never hear AFO's side of the story. Huh.

Anyway, if you want to read the tangents I kept breaking off into, they're below the cut.

Picture this, the story we've been told -

Yoichi knows his brother gave him a stockpiling quirk, pretty useless. But he gets rescued and he's with Second and something happens that makes Yoichi go "man, I wish I could give Second my quirk/power" at the same moment they're holding hands, covered in blood (or kissing, whatever).

So 1 undetectable quirk that allows people to pass on quirks and 1 stockpiling quirk gets passed to Second.

How the fuck does Second /know/ he has a quirk now? Especially if Yoichi does it on accident?

Imagine Second then goes off with Third bc something Tragic happens to Yoichi and Second thinks "I wish I could give Third my power" when they're holding hands covered in blood (or kissing) and now Third has come into possession of 1 (spoiler) quirk, 1 transfer quirk and 1 stockpiling quirk.

Maybe Third accidentally activates Second's quirk (though, was that a /thing/ because activating past users quirks is singularity whereas OFA is essentially just power) so he's like "oh fuck" and on the story goes.

I'm just saying, it doesn't make SENSE for Yoichi to NOT KNOW.

So, how does he know?

Better yet, how does /AFO/ know?

I honestly don't think both AFO and Yoichi thought Yoichi was quirkless. At the very least, one of them knew.

It's likely Yoichi didn't know he had a quirk. We're working with a very unreliable narrator here but we're told he didn't know and it's implied that both his natural quirk and the quirk AFO gave to him that merge to become OFA is initially weak.

More likely, AFO is the one that knew his brother actually had a quirk. It's not farfetched to think he once tried his quirk on his brother, either on accident or purposefully, and he discovered Yoichi had one. Whether he TOLD his brother this, though, remains to be seen. With the way AFO likes to manipulate and, depending on your own theories about his past, he could have never told Yoichi UNTIL he vaults Yoichi or is in a skirmish after Yoichi escapes. Either way, it's AFO that's known the whole time.

Wondering, actually, if AFO wasn't able to take Yoichi's quirk and that's the root of this. Yoichi's quirk is weak, undetectable to anyone but AFO but it's the ONE QUIRK that AFO can't forcibly take. Maybe he vaulted Yoichi until his brother GAVE him the quirk but Yoichi never does. FTR, I don't think this is right. Why /wouldn't/ Yoichi give his brother his quirk? MHA isn't the type of story to be like "it was all because of NOTHING! YOU FOOLS" but an interesting AU idea

Anyway, this explains 1. how Yoichi knows he can pass on his quirks and 2. how AFO knows to hunt the users of OFA down.

Pure speculation time: maybe Yoichi knew he had a quirk but thought he shouldn't use it. Yoichi being groomed by his parents/society to believe that quirks were BAD so he won't use his power but he still loves his "evil" condemned-by-society-for-being-different brother.

What if this whole thing started bc Yoichi refused to give his brother back a quirk that would help bring about quirk rights and then inadvertently sets off a series of events that sets his brother up as a huge villain and also eventually gives two quirkless kids quirks.

Man, I would hate that omg why did I think of that.

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