Testing My Quirk

After yesterday's events I was discharged from the hospital.

Apparently, my 'mother' broke down crying after she was informed about my memory loss.

She was told that there was a chance I could gain some of my memories back over time.

But, it was highly unlikely, and I'd just have to make new ones.

They told her that she should try and jog my memory, and show me family pictures and such.

She pulled out the family albums and we went through them one after another.

" This is is your aunt Inari and your uncle fushjiro. And your..." She said.

This went on for a while, until I finally interrupted her.

" Mom. Am I a bastard?" I asked.

She had a diffcult expression on her face and remained silent.

After going through countless pictures to which most of them belonged to my mother's side of the family.

I had yet to see any pictures of my father's family or even my father himself.

I had guessed he was dead judging by the fact I hadn't seen him, or heard any mention of his name.

To be honest, I didn't particularly care since I don't really remember the guy, but judging by her reaction and the lack of any photos.

Things probably weren't as simple as I thought them to be.

" Shinso, the thing about your father is... It's pretty complicated. His job is pretty dangerous and my relationship with him is not that simple." She said.

I stared at her in silence, while she tried to make-up excuses.

Guessing by her reaction, he probably doesn't know I exist.

" It's okay, I was just asking, you don't have to explain. " I finally said.

She had a downcast expression on her face, and judging by her guilty look, she was feeling conflicted about it.

I decided to turn in for the night, so I could start training in the morning and possibly even test my quirk.

There's no way, I was going to remain weak in a world such as this.

The next day after I woke up I had breakfast and decided to do some light excercises.

Nothing much, just some calisthenics to strengthen my core and arm strength.

It was probably best I adapted to my own body's weight first, before I thought about hitting the gym.

I started doing these exercises with differing levels of intensity and rhythm, since they allowed for the development of strength, endurance, flexibility, and coordination.

I once read that calisthenics were developed in ancient Greece and became popular again in the early 19th century.

Nowadays, fitness training of athletes, military personnel, law enforcement officers, and people trying to keep in shape, use these exercises for warming up for strenuous sports or to help build up their bodies.

I got the faint impression that I was following a habit, since it felt natural to do this first thing in the morning.

' Hmm... I wonder where I remember all of this from.' I kept getting the impression I wasn't a civilian in my previous life.

A bunch of weird facts kept popping into my head, stuff about different kinds of weapons, military strategies and tactics.

I noticed that whenever I entered a room, I would subconsciously start scanning it, as if trying to discern its exit points and if there were any threats to be found.

' Was I in the military, before ? Maybe the police?'

After I finished my excercises, I was drenched in sweat.

I decided to take a shower and get a change of clothes. I wanted to immediately test my powers, but it turned out it was more difficult than I thought.

I needed people to train my quirk!

...

One week later, I managed to convince, my mom to take me out to the park to 'play'.

I was still young, so my request wasn't too strange. She was hesitant at first, but quickly caved in after some insistence.

For some reason, I never attempted to activate or test my quirk on her.

We were alone for several days, so I could have easily done it, but I thought it would be better if I tried it on someone else first, since I still didn't know how to properly control it.

I managed to find a couple of rugrats playing besides the tree right next to the park.

I tested several of my hypothesis and here is what I came up with.

Shinso has one of the most intriguing quirks in My Hero Academia, but his brainwashing ability had a lot of rules that needed to be followed.

To get my brainwashing to work, I first needed to focus on a target. If that target responded to one of my questions, then they are forced to do anything I wish.

It depended on the person's condition, and as Midoriya proved during the Sports Festival, the target can be knocked out of it with a big enough shock

I tried using it on multiple targets, but I almost passed out.

It seemed that atleast for now, my quirk was limited to a single opponent at a time, and I couldn't make my targets do anything like speak or use higher brain functions, to accomplish a task.

For example I can tell my target to write out a person's name, but can't make them pull up the name from there own knowledge.

As for how I deal with someone possibly ignoring my ability, I planned on obtaining my artificial cords as soon as possible.

After I was done 'playing' we went back home and had dinner. I finished my dinner quickly and headed towards my room.

I decided to do some research on several things that could possibly help improve my quirk.

First of all I pulled up all the latest studies related to quirks, and the human body in general in today's quirk filled world.

It seems that humanity not only gained quirks, but they also gained powerful bodies to handle and match those quirks.

Most people with non-related strength quirks were born with what could be considered an average amount of strength.

But it seems that the ceiling of what was physically possible was raised along with it.

One could train his body to a point, where it was even considered superhuman in my previous life.

The thing is, 90% of the people of this world, never bothered with testing those limits.

But examples of it could be seen in individuals such as Stain, Aizawa, and Himiko.

Their quirks had nothing to do with their physique but even so, their physical strength and agility could be considered superhuman.

I decided that the first step to increasing my power, was training my body to it's absolute limit, only then would I be able to handle the strain of my quirk.

The second step of increasing my powers, was researching my own quirk, and discovering what my limits were and if I could break those limits.

For example, why did my quirk's activation so heavily depended on someone answering a question.

Why couldn't I achieve the same result, by talking to them. Or by simply touching them or even making eye contact.

Was the activation condition random and this happened to be the way it manifested, or was it all psychological and with time and training I could change the activation condition?

There was an element missing to this whole thing, and I felt that there was more to this quirk than what met the eye.

I decided to get some sleep and think about it tomorrow.

It seems my mother had something to talk to me about tomorrow. Something about changing schools and moving to another district for a 'fresh' start.

I couldn't get much sleep that night, which caused the eye bags underneath my eyes to be more visible.

I kept having nightmares about shooting people and getting killed in combat.

I would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and drenched in sweat.

If i didn't know any better I would've guessed I had some sort of PTSD. My mother thought I was having nightmares, because of the villain attack.

I didn't try and correct her, since It was hard to explain what I was going through.

...

The next day while, we were having breakfast my mother suddenly asked.

" How are you doing Shinso? Are you still having nightmares about the attack?" She asked.

I nodded my head and continued chewing my food, I honestly didn't feel like eating, but I needed something to fuel my workouts. Eating right is just as important as exercising.

I started my day with my calisthenics training program, I even attempted to do some handstands and even dedicated a part of my workout to work on my flexibility.

I was interrupted out of my thoughts by mother's voice. " We could try and get you to see a doctor, if you're uncomfortable about talking to me about it."

" I don't want to see a doctor." I answered.

" What about a counselor? Or even a specialist?" She said.

I frowned a bit, and shook my head in refusal. It seems my response wasn't what she expected, as I saw her her face wilt a bit.

I admit from what I could see, she was trying her best. Her son was bullied, got hurt and as a result forgot about her.

It was as if she lost her son. She couldn't greif properly, since I was still alive.

Not to mention memory loss, my mannerisms and the way I speak is quite different from Shinso.

I didn't know how to act like a kid, and I frankly didn't want to try to. Why act like something you're not?

I felt kind of bad for her. I mean I only knew her for a week, but common decency wasn't lost on me at least I could try and make her feel better.

" How about we go to an amusement park instead?" I suddenly said.

That seemed to cheer her up a bit, and after we had breakfast we spent the morning going through more of those family photos.

She kept telling me stories about my childhood, our family and how most of them were currently abroad, and living in different countries.

We went to the amusement park that evening and I got to test my quirk a few more times, whenever I thought she wouldn't notice.

We got back that night and discussed several things, one of which which school I would be transferring to, and our new house. It would be closer to her work, and within walking distance from my school.

It was decided that I would be attending Aldera middle school.

( Chapter End)