43 Just a load of animal facts

----This is a learning chapter, so it will be quite long with a lot of not the most relevant info. That will be summarized in evo quirk changes. I will likely post a bonus chapter after this one. I'll be honest you can technically skip this chapter, but if you do make sure you check the end where I will include the evo quirk changes if you want that part. However this does allow me to talk about neat evolutionary traits found in nature. So...uh...tell me your favorite weird animal trait.-----

I was feeling strange. Like something should be happening and that I should be able to piece things together. The problem was i felt like I was lacking the intelligence. Katie was smart, and she even had some skills that made me a little jealous. I knew I could never be a programmer, it just wasn't the way my brain was wired. However, that didn't mean I couldn't get smarter. It was time to visit the library again.

Searching through books and picking up a few dozen biology books. The subject not only helped with my quirk, but maybe it could help me increase my intelligence. The only problem with this plan was that I was not really sure how that would affect me. Like how would I know it actually worked? Or would it have some kind of side effect?

Nonetheless I had pretty good idea that it would help me. I had books about Human biology, Quirk and DNA sequencing, and a book called The Grand Anatomist. Which didn't have a cover, but learning more about anatomy would be pretty good idea. I also grabbed books like Arthropods biology, Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Anatomy, and Mammalian Studies. The last book I grabbed from the science section was a book called the most unique biology. It had a picture of a tardigrade, but I don't think it was actually about them.

Starting with the Human biology book I took my time to look through the nervous system section. Trying to figure out a way a person would become smarter normally. I thought it might be good to know how and that might trigger my quirk to do something? That was my best guess on how to cause an evolution based on intelligence.

The stuff I got from the human biology book could be summarized as, children had more synaptic connections in their brains that would increase their ability to learn. That was literally the best I got, other than stuff that related to placenta and zygotes. However I honestly didn't care about that stuff since it related to cell regeneration. Except I didn't really have cause for that, mostly because it about research before the use of healing quirks and stuff like that. Nowadays there is a surprising number of healing quirks. Well they are actually pretty rare, but there was enough for that to not be a problem.

However I did realize that maybe I could learn something from a book about brain surgery. This was due to the brief mention of things like brain trauma and case studies that showed changes within the brain due to certain actions. I would pick up a book about that later. For now I started on DNA sequencing which had some decent in for about how certain traits were reflected in people. This was a newer book so it also had a bit about how quirks are passed down. Reading through it I remembered my parent's quirks.

My father's quirk was Environment adaptation, I remember him having to shave a lot during the winter because he would grow a ton of hair. My mother had the quirk called Cellular change, and it caused her to be like a quirkless person, but at the very peak of possibility. Somehow their two quirks fused and formed mine. It was a little crazy, after all...The two quirks kind of sucked. Mom idolized heroes, but could never be one. Would she be happy with the path I chose? Likely not, however this was my choice. After all there was a lot of problems with people idolizing heroes.

I sighed, closing the book about DNA, it wasn't that helpful. It just made me kind of angry. No not angry...more hateful I guess. It was fine though, I don't think about my parents a lot. It was good to take a second for that. The 3rd book was now The Grand Anatomist, reading through the first chapter I had realized this was not the book I was looking for. It was a romance novel someone had misplaced into the non-fiction science books. However the book was actually not bad, surprisingly I liked it. The main character was cool, he was a magician who used his powers in the modern day to save lives. It was a book without quirks so I read through the whole thing. It had a cute happy ending, but it got a little...hmmm.

I set the book down and looked at the time. I still had a good amount of the day. Except it was lunch time. I debated about eating, but thinking about it...Shouldn't I technically be able to cause photosynthesis I did absorb light. Would I process light into food? I likely wouldn't get all the stuff needed to stay healthy, but it would keep me alive. I could skip lunch.

It was time for the other books, I would write down notes for these. I didn't know what would help or not after all no physical traits manifest due to my evolution and creation of sub-quirks. Well at least in the sense of appearance. My blood becoming acidic is definitely a physical change.

After going through all 4 remaining books I looked at my notes. I wrote down all the interesting traits that peaked my interest. Things like how spider silk was a strong as steel, but as flexible as normal silk. Though it wasn't just any silk, but the a special silk only produced when the spider hangs down on a thread, not the type for their webs. Since it was a specific enzyme that created its strength I wrote it down.

A second notable trait was ant pheromones or more specifically colony insect pheromones like bees and ants. They did a lot of stuff, and acted as an entire language. I took special note on how ants treated other ant colonies. Like how a colony can produce a second queen break off from the original colony and eventually turn into two variants of the same family of ants. They share the same original ant family, but they no longer recognize each other. Like extremely distant cousins. Ants also had super strength compared to their size, varying to a few degrees. Some ant bites had extreme force too. Making some of the stronger bite forces for smaller creatures. The best ant with this trait would be the Trap-jaw ant. A ant that literally uses its jaws to launch itself around.

The final arthropod I found that had interesting possibility to me was the mantis shrimp. Having bullet fast speed with their claws? Hands? Pincers? I wasn't clear on what they would be called, but nonetheless it was neat. This was written down less because it was need something I wanted to induce within my quirk and more related to me thinking I could reproduce it. Maybe, it would be difficult and I was sure it wouldn't be as fast. However I think I could create a scenario where I could punch near that fast. I also noted down the amazing color spectrum of the mantis shrimp, but honestly thinking about it...I might already have that.

Moving to the notes from the second book I took notes about possible reptiles, amphibians and fish. Tsu from class had a frog based quirk, so maybe I would learn some things I could ask her about. The problem was Reptiles,Amphibians and Fish had several commonly shared traits. So I mostly just wrote down specific traits no in-depth notes. So I had short notes about kommodo dragon saliva, Snake muscles and Spitting Cobras. A very specific note about the shell and bones of turtles and tortoises. Another note was general mucus membranes that several animals had. The Moray Eel mucus was one of the more powerful. Many lizard had great climbing abilities, geckos being the best. The last even relative note for this book was just alligators and crocodiles. They having survived the long test of time. Surviving from the prehistoric time all the way to the present day. I heard of a Alligator named Bessie in America. The Alligator was a rare animal born with a quirk. Making an Apex predator even more ridiculous, telling that Bessie had the ability to control lightning.

The Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Anatomy book was a fun read and I enjoyed learning about them. However the knowledge that Reptiles Amphibians and Fish lacked high intelligence it brought me no possibility of my main quest for my library visit for today.

The second to last books was about Mammals, However the long read through. Left me with no new notes. The book wasn't what I was looking for. It talked about the specific evolution of mammals not the specific mammals themselves. However the last book was truly useful.

The book had info on a bunch of random animals that shared traits that truly were interesting and may be useful to try and induce in myself or try to mimic through my current abilities. The first animal was the cuddle-fish. Having an amazing camouflage ability, but the camouflage wasn't what interested me. It was there unique ability to induce hypnotism. The would rapidly shift colors to confuse and pretty much paralyze crustaceans with light shifting. This ability I could mimic and likely use a method to disorientate people and possibly give epilepsy.

The second animal was the Tardigrade, the same that was on the cover. I learned this creature wasn't particular good at survival. They just had every possible resistance possibly. Even being able to sustain in a extreme environments. However they weren't a extremophile, so they struggled to actually live within those extreme environments. The knowledge of varying resistances was good to know.

Deep sea creatures were prevalent on multiple pages of the last book. Which led me to a few general notes across multiple creatures. Like bio-luminescence, which might be a useful type of light I could produce. A low level and controlled light that could be used for several things. The second note from these creatures was surprising ocean giantifcation and the specific complexity of self-sustenance. The thing that stood out the most to me was the Spider crab that lived off of Japan actually. The last note taken from deep sea life was from the giant tube worm, in the form of Chemosynthesis. A short and extremely simplified summary of this ability would be deep sea photosynthesis. Deep sea life might be the secret for an evolutionary trait of not needing to eat. Which would be useful if I was ever captured or starved, while still allowing me to produce my own energy for use.

Horseshoe crabs were yet another interesting ocean resident that had something I could use. Well relatively use, honestly my body likely already had the ability to adapt this trait. Horseshoe crabs had blue blood that had high amounts of copper. This was neat yes, but a specific enzyme that had the name of LAL. It acted as a blood clotting agent that amassed gunk around bacteria. At least that is what I understood from it. It wasn't like I needed such an enzyme, but it was still good knowledge.

----Before next bit, just saying I love platypi. They are great, little overrated but still great.-----

The second to last animal I had was the platypus. Also possibly known as god's mistake. I didn't believe in religion, but whatever created the platypus was fucking drunk out their mind. From there obviously strange looks with the tail and bill. They also were one of the only mammal that laid eggs, on top of their egg laying they lactate not from nipples, but from their armpits. They had poisonous barbs on their webbed feat that acted like cowboy spurs. When hunting they use electroreception and squirrel checks to eat. They also lacked a fucking stomach, like wtf? So they just ate all day, it was nuts. The electroreception was a good trait to take note of, I knew sharks had that ability too. I could try to mimic this trait with my light absorption which would be extremely handy. It was the shuffle button of animals...

The last animal I took notes on was the Orca. Another mistake of god, but for a whole different reason. I knew about Gang Orca, and his quirk Orcinus made him a great hero because of it. Though he was lower on the hero charts than Rumi I had to be slightly disappointed in him. Just saying he was kind of weak for letting someone with a rabbit hero beat him while being a apex predator that was also one of the most violent creatures alive. It made me love and admire Rumi more though so it was whatever. Orca's best traits were actually their social structure and intelligence, I'd say their only one up on humans were there ultrasonic sense. they were also bigger and tougher than humans, but that didn't really matter in the end. The two species only overlapped in entertainment at places like seaworld and zoos.

I closed the last book and was left right back where I was, with no other ideas other than cause myself brain trauma and see where that leaves me. It was a rough conclusion, but it was getting close to the night and I needed to head home. Maybe I would get lucky and obtain something from this. Besides the brain trauma theory.

Getting home, sleep was the first thing on my mind. So sleep is what I would have...

-----Just to separate the bits so it looks nice-----

<Entering Sleep state...Beginning sequence...Activating queued Sub-quirks...Sub-Quirk Grouping and Creation Beginning...

Newly Acquired:Energy Spectrum Absorption, Electoreception, Cryptic Animal, Unnatural Enzyme production, Chemosynthesis, Self-sustaining cycle, Surplus Learning

Sub-Quirk category enhancements: Muscle redefinition, Enhanced Bone Density, Complete-Cellular Regeneration, Dense-Elastic Skin, Energy Infusing reinforcement, Ideal Enhanced Organ Structures, Acid Blood, 67% Copied Rabbit-Quirk, 32% Copied Frog-Quirk, Hunting Sight, Stockpiling, Energy Weighting, Stockpile Reinforcement, Electoreception...

Sub-Quirk category Acquisition: Evolutionary Quirk Coping, Energy Spectrum Absorption, Touch Amplify and Suppression, Pure-Progress, Cryptic Animal,Unnatural Enzyme production, Chemosynthesis, Surplus Learning...

Sub-Quirk category Survival:Dormancy revival, Hyper Curative Immune System, Ageless Genetics, Fire Resistance Minor, Energy Storage Stockpile, Energy Sustaining, Energy Expel, Major Pain Suppression, Sub-Quirk Stealthing, Major Drug resistance, Addiction Immunity, Shock repulsion, Dead Sleep, Mental Resistance Minor, Self-sustaining cycle...

Sub-Quirk category Exposure: Anti-gravity Exposure, Eusocial behavior, Toxic Saliva, Venomous spit, Tardigrade resistances, Trait Dominance...

{Sub-quirk copied Frog 32% due to incompatibly from Gender, Different animal family, Internal organ structure. Copied traits Muscle compression, Mucus Membrane, Minor Secreted Toxin.}

{Sub-quirk change Acid Blood, acidity increased due to close enough exposure to Acid-Quirk.}

{Sub-Quirk creation Animinstinct, A quirk created from witnessing the quirk Anivoice and utilization of Sub-quirks 67% Copied Rabbit-Quirk, 32% Copied Frog-Quirk, and Hunting Sight. Increases all sense to their animal counterpart maximum.}

{Sub-quirk Exposure of knowledge source. Creating notes...Current unusable exposure effects, Eusocial behavior, Toxic Saliva, Venomous spit, Tardigrade resistances.}

{Creating Sub-quirk based on known quirk...Faux Orcinus, Incomplete design due to none copied quirk. Developed abilities from Faux Orcinus quirk are Ultrasonic sense, Swimming muscles reflex. Allowing one to both use ultrasonic waves to sense surrounding and automatic reflex of improved swimming techniques through muscle redefinition sub-quirk.}

{Sub-Quirk fusing Faux Orcinus, Light Spectrum Absorption and Heat Absorption, outlining exposure of excessive soundwaves. Creation into Energy Spectrum Absorption, allowing the absorption of soundwaves as well as light and heat absorption. More energy sources can be added with new stimuli sources.}

{Sub-quirk creation due to Energy Spectrum Absorption, Electoreception. Allowing one to utilize electromagnetic vibrations to sense surroundings.}

{Adding Electricity to Energy Spectrum Absorption, Possibly absorptive energies are Sound, Light, Heat, and Electricity.}

{Sub-quirks completely fusing Faux Orcinus, 67% Copied Rabbit-Quirk, 32% Copied Frog-Quirk, Hunting Sight and Animinstinct into Cryptic animal. Cryptic animal gives one the ability to freely copy any possible animal traits from animal based quirks. Also gives all possibly traits from current combined animal sub-quirks. While also giving all abilities from both Hunting Sight and Animinstinct.}

{Sub-Quirk creation Unnatural Enzyme production. Sourced from both Possible Spider enzyme and Horseshoe crab enzyme. This allows for new enzymes to be created, no current abnormal enzymes to be produced. When new enzymes are produced they will be used to strength other sub-quirks.}

{Sub-quirk creation from Unnatural Enzyme production and Energy spectrum absorption. Given name from exposure Chemosynthesis. Summarized explanation, biological conversion of one or more carbon-containing molecules and nutrients into organic matter using the oxidation of inorganic compounds.}

{Sub-quirk creation from existing sub-quirks...Self-sustaining cycle. Created from Dormancy revival, Energy spectrum absorption, Hyper Curative Immune System, Energy Sustaining, Unnatural Enzyme production and Chemosynthesis. Allows one to sustain themselves on energy.}

{Sub-Quirk creation Surplus Learning, created due to desire of increased intelligence. Due to addition of both ultrasound and eltroreception brain has been altered. Allowing for the reconnection of synapses. Creating more synaptic connections and thus increased learning speed. Eventual increased learning speed will cause intellect to be gradually increased.}

{Warning extreme changes to the brain may cause personality changes. Careful quirk analysis of eusocial exposure may cause instant forced activation when the chance is able. Causing instant blackout and subsequent evolution.}

Sub-quirk creation complete...>

----Fucking Christ that one was messy sorry about that. Wanted to connect a bunch of dots there but with my headache it was kind of hard to organize it. Maybe I'll come back to clean it up.----