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How to Write Quirks for your OCs

The thing that I noticed I see people choose quirks for their oc is and how they forget how quirks work while choosing a quirk which is in writing quirks and how you’re treated in bnha, for example when they make a character quirkless they forget all the things that came with how people who are quirkless are treated when they are creating it they forget how people with no quirk are treated in bnha.

I already talked about quirks in my bnha character design post, but this post is about how to write quirks and what to do when you choose them for your character. If you're going to give your oc a quirk you need to know how this quirk is treated in bnha for worldbuilding.

When choosing a quirk for an oc, it’s easy to forget how quirks are treated in bnha, Sometimes having a quirk can cause inconveniences or pain to characters like mt lady having to constantly always pay for the destruction due to her quirk resizing and destroying buildings every time she walks and how their original character quirk makes them interact with their environment. Himiko is the best example; her perception shifts due to how people in her environment react to her quirk. The majority of the characters' problems had everything to do with how they viewed quirks. Izuku was bullied and undermined for being quirkless, and the Todoroki family abuse started with Endeavor’s obsession to surpass all might by having a stronger quirk in the form of his son.

People are used as tools because of their quirks, with the people only caring about the quirks, not the people who have them. People are judged based on utility rather than people. The person is judged on the utilitarianism of their quirk rather than their intrinsic value as people. There are several instances that their quirk is valued more than themselves by the people around them. the people only value the quirk of the person more than the person themselves. rending a person's only value is for their quirks. Most characters treat that person as an extension of their quirk without thinking about whether the people behind them would feel this is centered around caring about the utility of a quirk rather than a person.

A lot of people in bnha do that, especially heroes along the lines of "If I had a quirk like that if I had enough power” or complimenting the person's quirk.

Both sides talk about what quirks they need and seek to use their quirks for their gain.

Quirks like heroes are treated as usable products than people both villains and heroes seek to exploit others to use their quirks.

The head of the hero commission scouted Nagant due to her quirk.

Hawks was in a similar situation but unlike Nagant, he sees this as a ticket out to cut himself off from his past and escape his terrible situation.The hero commission exploited quirks for their gain treating the person who has them as disposable products and disposing of them when they realize that they can’t control them.

All of them see the quirk first, person second.

You're seen as an extension of your quirk. Judged based on utility than as a person it comes off as dehumanizing. This is one of the problems that bred villains since they are not seen or thought of by people. Himiko is a perfect example of how people around her didn’t understand her due to how they treated her based on her quirk, forcing her to surpass it.

Quirks can affect the body makeup and influence the personality to some extent such as Himiko's quirk making Himiko drawn to blood, Tsuyu’s frog-like features causing her to have a liken to moist places, Rei and the rest of her family loves the cold due to how their bodies treat it.

Another thing in bnha is about quirk registrars. Quirks registries can be changed, when someone gets more info on their quirk they change their registry.

Quirks are not consistent like people they change and grow; not everyone knows their quirk, which is why the register is updated. People can also lie about their quirks making it handy for people to get away with things such as the case with Garaki.

When writing your oc, find out first how their quirk is treated, such as an OC who struggles to be seen as a person, not as an extension for their quirks, How they feel that they are not of any use to others feel sad about it, how they feel about being used for their quirks. You don’t always have to write their struggles with their said quirks, you just need to know how quirks are treated so you can have a better understanding when you are choosing a quirk for your oc.

The basic facts for quirks is that at the age of four when a child manifests their quirk, the child would have one of his parent's quirks or a fusion of the two

Bakugo and Shoto are the result this with Bakugo’s quirk is the fusion of his parent's quirk,

Todoroki is another example of this in more unsavory ways.

Hereditary being the main theme is seen in quirks with each getting stronger and different with each generation, quirks grow and change getting strong and diverse with each generation making it harder to know and control.

if you're going to write about a bnha character you need to keep in mind the themes of bnha which include how quirks act in bnha and how people react to quirks

Quirklessness

Quirkless means without a quirk, Izuku is introduced as the main character as quirkless.

What does quirkless mean? Let’s go over the basics.

To know if a character is quirkless they have to be diagnosed by a doctor with an absence of the extra joint in the pinky toe means they have a quirk but having two joints mean quirklessness The reason why two joints mean quirklessness is because humans evolved to not need another joint.

In the series 20% of the population of quirks, In the past the quickness population is even larger In the present society quirklessness got rarer each generation. Most of the older population is quirkless you might meet someone that is. Being quirkless is considered an oddity to some since it's rare in the current era

You can place having no quirk in the quirk registry, you will find out if a person is quirkless if you look at their medical records.

Quirklessness is used in a negative context by other characters meaning useless because it means no quirk.

They considered having no quirk to be considered useless since they are saying that they can't do anything hence their uselessness, since being quirkless is treated like a handicap in the series.

Something is interesting in the way how quirklessness is handled in the series. We mainly see it from Izuku's perspective. We viewed quirkless as a bad thing because we saw it from his perspective. the reason Izuku is devastated by learning that he is quirkless means that he can’t have the job he wants hero is a job position that allows people to use quirks freely being quirkless is a major handicap in the quirk-fueled profession for izuku in his struggles, in the beginning, is that he is trying to set into a profession that isn’t made for him. That is all from his perspective. People wouldn’t react the same way to being quirkless.

The real ones with this who think that are the people around them. For Aoyama his parents are the ones that reacted more than Aoyama did it was automatically his parents that created his problems Izukus's mother knew how much her son wanted to be a hero when his son asked she broke down tearfully apologizing she felt like she couldn’t give him the future he wanted there is an awful lot of self-pity on her part. There's a reason why they couldn’t give words of encouragement and ended up making things worse for the people who are quirkless under the assumption that being quirkless Is a bad thing since it means that you can’t do anything without a quirk. They think being quirkless is a bad thing but that is a misconception.

This showcases how society doesn’t handle quirks well. They don’t have the tools to handle them, which in turn created a lot of problems in the story.

No one in the story thinks that being quirkless can be a benefit as we see quirks can be dangerous to the person having them and creates a lot of problems with them. Having a quirk wouldn’t improve a person's job performance; not many jobs required using quirks.

To write about a character being quirkless is in how the people around them treated their quirklessness, People who hear about this would react with pity or feel uncomfortable.

Writing a character who is quirkless means that you have to consider how they would feel about it. For your character it would likely mean struggling with being different or feeling left out or dealing with pity they might feel left out or being different

but it all depends on the circumstances of the person who is quirkless. Maybe the people themselves aren't bothered by being quirkless since there aren't too many problems they have with people with quirks.

Quirks being used as tools

This is something I talked about at the begging of this post before and here I am going to elaborate on it This is something that needs to be expanded on the idea that the quirks in bnha are used as tools by others It was something that I saw in the series is that in the way on how people treat quirk are tools to use, Nagant and Hawks were scouted by the hero commision specifically because they wanted to use their quirks

These people are seen as tools because of how useful their quirks are than people. This isn’t just exclusive to just the hero commision. Other people are guilty of this as well; even innocent comments made by heroes from the Spots festival increase this view.

People put more value on quirks than the people behind their quirks. Even heroes have this kind of mindset.

This demonstrates people's attitude toward quirks in general, showing how much they Put stock in quirks and whether they are useful or not. It shows people put a lot of value on quirks than the people behind them. This goes with quirklessness; they are not as valued as people with quirks are. When a quirk turns out to be useful they change their minds and this shift in mindset is how quirks are seen first then the people themselves. quirk counseling people are taught to consider quirks can be used to be useful to society can be a negative concept that causes people to attach their values to their quirks, even base their self-image after their quirks this leads people to be defined by their quirks resulting in overpressure the people themselves later to be crushed under the weight of expectations. This mindset horrendously causes others in neglecting their well-being to feel useful to others. This might explain why some people might be devastated by being quirkless. It shows how much placing so much value on quirks causes someone pain. This is a mindset passed around a lot by others and is harmful because it comes off as dehumanizing to the person with the quirk in question. I discussed in the post that this is dehumanizing to the person in question because they are seen as an extension of their quirk. Here's the thing: just because a quirk may not come off as useful doesn’t mean the person who has it is. That is something people themselves don’t realize.

Try to write about characters finding out about this mindset, how do characters feel about being treated as tools for their quirks than people? how would your character feel when they are treated this way? This is something to talk about.

Rare quirks

Rare quirks that are highly sought out by others. The rare quirks that are listed in the series are teleportation, healing, and electric quirks. Electric quirks are in popular demand and receive well-paid jobs. The reason why electric quirks are popular is that it's the modern era and the modern era uses a lot of electricity.

Recovery Girl has a rare quirk; she makes frequent visits to hospitals; this is to indicate just how there are not many healing quirks in the world of bnha.

Heroes comment that teleportation quirks are rare. The reason why teleportation quirks are sought out by heroes is that having teleportation allows them to go from one area to the next to fight crime.

If you're going to write about how to give your character a rare quirk keep in mind that the quirks that I mentioned before are not frequent. If your character does write how their quirk is being used as a tool to due how useful it is to the people around them quirks would be caused to be used as tools and that's something to write about. I mentioned this before and this is one of the things to write about.

Mutations

Mutations are quirks that have no resemblance to any of the quirks from either side of the family. Mutations are rare since they are not seen due to how little it doesn’t resemble anything in the family.

Eri and Tomura are the only known examples as people with mutated quirks have both a few things in common, One is how Eri and Tomura don’t understand what was happening when their quirks first activated. Two they accidentally killed their family when their quirks first activated,Eri accidentally re-winded her father of his existence and Tomura killed his family. The third thing that they have in common is that Eri and Tomura don’t understand their quirks and accept what others told them as the truth. The reason why Tomura and Eri are quick to believe AFO and Overhaul is mainly because of how limited their understanding of their quirks is.

One thing to write about is how the people around those with mutated quirks don’t understand their power as much as the people with mutated quirks did, Eri's family members don’t understand her quirk and how it works which is why Eri was given to Overhaul because they are viewed to have similar quirks

To write about ocs with mutation quirks if you take Tomura and eri as examples when you write about how the oc would feel it's that you don't understand their quirks since it didn’t have any resemblance to others. You don’t have to make a tragic example but use it as a basis.

To make a mutation you would not only show how it doesn’t resemble anything to others but show how it defies logic,

eri quirk, for example, can rewind a quirk it bends the rules in the bnha universe. That's one thing I noticed how it bends people's understanding of how things work.

Quirk marriages

Quirk marriages are briefly mentioned by Shoto but what are quirk marriages? Quirk marriages began in the second and third generations after quirks appeared, strong individuals would choose partners and force them into marriage to pass on a strengthened version of their quirk.

Here's something I noticed: quirk marriages happened during the second and third generations which are around parents or grandparents. Fourth generation quirk users were children born from quirk marriages there was a panel that pointed out that Izuku's mother is a fourth generation

means if she was a fourth generation then she might have known kids who had been through quirk marriages. How does Izuku know about it? Is it public knowledge? Izuku might have heard about it from his mother but that's my guess.

That is why quirk marriages are taboo in the current society as well as have potentially dangerous side effects that would be as children with bodies that don’t match their quirks which is a result of a quirk marriage as seen with Touya showing us how dangerous the consequences of quirk marriages are.

The generation lacking ethics is a huge understatement; they had no sense of consequences when it comes to their own child's life making them very selfish. This showed how the children are treated as tools for their parents that they can mold and use for their selfish benefit even having no respect for their own child's autonomy. Shoto and his siblings are the product of a quirk marriage, Shoto always had feelings of anger at being nothing more than a tool by his father. Because he knew he was born from a quirk marriage and Shoto felt that he had no right to his autonomy since created by his father.

If you're going to write your oc coming from a quirk marriage keep in mind that using quirk marriage is considered taboo in current society

using this would mean that they would be birthed through unethical means. if your character came from a quirk marriage how would they feel? would they feel proud or angry? As we have seen with Shoto and Touya they might have felt they had no autonomy since they were created by their parents or they would feel a need to justify their existence since they existed because of their parents.

Speaking of quirks that don’t match their bodies…

Quirks don’t match their body

It is a fact that quirks can be incompatible with bodies which can sometimes be hereditary or a result of an unethical experiment. Unmatched quirks can give people pain each time they use them, at the time they can be fatal like with dangers that might lead to death. It can cause death if not careful.

Aoyama uses this as a cover to explain his condition to blend in. This can be stated that Aoyama's quirk can be fatal if he's not careful.

The reason he wears the support belt is that if he doesn’t his navel laser would melt his stomach. It might not be an understatement if Aoyama had to wear a support belt when he was younger Aoyama didn’t have the support belt and would accidentally melt his stomach. Mina's comment on melting your stomach might not be funny judging on Aoyama's reaction that it can happen. It may seem to be funny but it has tragic implications with dabi being a tragic example.

Support items have a special purpose: the support items are used to alleviate the side effects of the quirks; they are not only used for heroes but also for people who cannot regulate their quirks.

Later in the manga, it was revealed to be a lie Aoyama, however what he said about quirks not matching your body is true which is something used later when discussing.

Let's look at Dabi. Like Aoyama, he has a body incompatible with his quirk.. He has a powerful fire quirk but a body made for ice which is a result of a quirk marriage with deadly consequences. When he was young he got burns each time he used his quirk from his training, his quirk was hurting him as seen in panels

there were ghastly side effects on Touya such as the accumulating burns on his body and his hair changing color all this resulted in Dabi burning death by accident. The side effects are completely apparent: the burns on Dabi’s skin each time he uses his quirk makes his skin look like it is going to fall off.

What kind of struggles would your character go through? well for starters they would suffer physical defects

from using their quirk and require a support item to negate the quirk's side effects its possible to make

it manageable with his but how would they feel about it let's look at Dabi and Aoyama, Dabi feels that he's not good enough because his own body made him a failure in Endeavor’s eyes. Aoyama felt that he was not equal due to his condition both of them prove that they are trying to be good enough in others' eyes.

Mutants

Mutants are people with quirks that affect their appearance.

There is a discrimination of heteromorph quirks in bnha. Mutants are discriminated against because of their appearance. Both Spinner and Mezo experience persecution by others for their appearances,

it is considered rude to insult others for their appearance

even the word hetreromorpth might come off as too impolite.

there was a group called the creature rejection clan a cult that commit crimes against people with heteromorphic quirks

6/6 incidents and a great jeda purge is an event that happened in the bnha universe,

where people participated in the slaughter of heteromorphic by how much discomfort they feel about their appearance. Discrimination happened because of only how much discomfort people feel about their appearance

Discrimination towards heteromorphs is prominent in the countryside and small towns don’t happen too often in cities since it has densely populated areas with more diverse have more different people

According to Skeptic, a portion of villains are heteromorphic. Feeling anger from all the persecution they endured, heteromorphs became villains.

If you're writing your oc as a mutant you need to keep in mind that this happens in the bnha universe,

Your character might face constant persecution. How do characters feel when they are persecuted all the time?

they would say "if only” to themselves from all the mistreatment they endured.

You don’t have to write it in your character but that's something to think about

Villain quirks

The term above is obvious to know what that means but here is about how to write your character with a villain quirk.

As stated before people are seen for their quirks people would make assumptions about people based on others' quirks and make misconceptions that a person with a villain's quirk is a villain. People are assumed to be villains because of certain quirks and are treated as villains because of their quirks.

Being called a villain in bnha is an emotionally charged word and when used as the greatest insult against someone

being called a villain meant you have no future. However, The BNHA world has no clear-cut lines of what makes a hero and a villain. This comes with people with villain-looking quirks even when someone has a villain quirk it doesn’t mean that they are a villain

Take Shinso, for example, people made assumptions about him growing up to be a criminal because of his quirk this comment bothers Shinso because he isn’t he wants to be a hero

because of this Shinso is jealous of others for being able to achieve their lot in life because he is labeled as a villain from the discrimination of his quirk he was shut off from ever achieving his dreams.

Would your characters face prejudice due to having a villain quirk? Yeah, that's possible since being called a villain is a huge insult since people see others as something irredeemable.

How do you write characters with a villain quirk? What would they feel? if you take Shinso for example it's dealing with misconceptions by others. how they are dealing with misconceptions by others of their quirk.

Quirk counseling

What is quirk counseling? It's a program that kids go through elementary school when their quirks are awoken.

Kids go through quirk counseling in elementary school to learn about their quirks and how to use them. However, quirk counseling is not a perfect program.

Kamiyan addressed in Vigilante's society doesn’t have the tools to handle quirks is what led to discrimination. Society is unable to adapt to people who can not fit in with the people around them and are unwilling to accept the changing circumstances. the programs such as quirk counseling didn’t address the needs of the others.

A kid’s quirk can have a great effect on their development and view of the world around them. Kids can take the words of someone older than them at face value but kids aren’t stupid it's foolish to assume that they are aware of social concerns and relationships and know what adults want from them. They can tell if adults are terrified or disgusted by their quirk.

Take Himiko for example, her quirk had a significant effect on her development as a person. Himiko was taken to quirk counseling presumably by her parents. The people at the program force their idea on what they think is best on her; they didn’t teach her about her quirk. She was just told to suppress her quirk due to how people are uncomfortable about it.

They forced a certain idea on her and did not take her feelings into account. The program didn’t address her feelings and did not understand what the kids needed.

This is what Himiko was told throughout the program, this caused her to suppress her quirk at a young age but what is normal? Himiko was no idea what that means since normal differs for each Himiko doing these things is normal for her but people are unable to handle it due to how uncomfortable they are with it.

Quirk counseling isn’t for everyone we’ve seen in Himikos' perspective; it demonstrates how quirk counseling failed to take the person's needs and issues into account.

Quirk counseling is used to teach kids about quirks and how to use them but doesn’t address the problem directly and leads to a lot of unaddressed issues. It ends up not addressing their needs. Students are not getting individualized attention specific for their quirk and teachers didn’t give them proper advice on their quirk only to make a biased observation and judgment this can easily lead to quirks being suppressed for this issue. Quirk counseling is another school program designed to assimilate children into social standards and hammer out bumps in their understanding of the world that make them fit into society's narrow box. It's not there to teach acceptance or control but it's more about fitting in with others by squashing down their quirks. Quirk counseling only serves to emphasize the differences between you and others, the program makes them believe that something is wrong with them. If you don’t fit in, you're messing around or something is wrong or you didn’t try hard enough.

the people in the program are judgmental when they viewed quirks even when they view a person struggling with their quirk as messing around they Emphasized that they are the problem which is hurtful to them

Did your character have quirk counseling at some part? did they have internalized bitter feelings about themselves? Do they feel different because they are told that their quirk is abnormal? They end up feeling that they don’t fit in because of a quirk. When writing about it, look at the negative side effects it brings.

This post only serves as a basis to help people know what to write for their ocs, so a lot of what I write is not entirely correct or lacked information. If you feel that I am incorrect feel free to put your input in this I hope helps you get a better idea of what to write when looking at this post.

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