#like what if denki’s quirk mutated into something not quite electric

[seagreenstardust]

I was this many days old when I learned that “denki” is Japanese for electricity or light and I am delighted by this discovery but also I have no idea what to do with it

[candlecoo]

I had a somewhat of a dark au idea. Izuku (along with several dozen other kids) was kidnapped and experimented on to see how quirks came into being by using quirkless kids as test subjects. Most of the subjects did not survive and when the heroes arrived to rescue them they only found three. (When I was writing the fic, before I deleted it, I had Denki as the emitter subjects, Toru as the mutation, and Izuku had some Transformation ability that prevent him from dying.)

So I don't have too many ideas for this one but I'll give it an attempt!

- a villain had started a project to experiment and see if they could force or enduce a quirk activation into people through a combination of chemicals and outside forces.

- the experiment started with fifty subjects.

- twenty-five who were born quirkless.

- and twenty-five who had their quirk taken away.

- seventeen of the subject were put in test to try to enduce emitter quirks.

- seventeen more were put in tests to enduce mutations quirks.

- and sixteen were put in tests to enduce transformation quirks.

- the tests ran for around two years.

- within the first six months eleven subjects died due to the intensity of the tests.

- within nine months thirteen subject became brain dead or no longer were mentally responding to outside factors and were transferred to other projects.

- a month after that two subjects took their own lives which led to harsher restrictions on the remaining twenty-four subjects.

- by month fourteen the first subject showed results, subject four, a young male, who had had been the focus of a series of emitter test surrounding electrical current.

- there had been no progress in his tests until one day the electrical frequency went off the charts and the child zapped that doctor's assistant to death.

- it was a breakthrough and just what the motivation the doctor needed to keep going.

- within sixteen months nine more subjects died due to complications during testing.

- month seventeen provided the second successful experiment, for the mutant group this time. Subject fourteen, a young female, whose tests revolved around radiation and extreme light.

- everything seemed to be normal untill they went to her chamber to take her to her next test, when they opened the door the cell seemed to be empty.

- she had became permanently invisible, this was also the first escape attempt. Which failed, of course.

- within twenty-two months six more subjects perished.

- the doctor almost accounted it as seven but then something miraculous happened, subject nine walked out of the morgue and unfortunately into the streets after being dead for ten hours, alive and well.

- also unfortunately nobody realized this until three hours after his escape.

- they had no way of knowing this would happen since subject nines tests had nothing to do with bringing him back to life, they were testing to see if the boy could develop a quirk that could transform his skeleton into an exoskeleton like armor while also replacing the previous skeleton.

- the doctor had to admit the ideas for the transformation group were far more experimental, probably why subject nine was the last remaining subject from his group.

- it took a week to recapture subjuct nine and while the doctor thought it was done quite descreetly, he fail to notice one thing.

- the boy and his recapture was witnessed by an underground hero by the name of Eraserhead.

- within twenty-three months the remaining six unresponsive subjects were transferred to other projects and the remaining three successful subjects were kept for further testing.

- all three subjects had two things in common, all were under the age of ten and were originally quirkless.

- testing that would barely be started since during month twenty-four heroes raided the lab while the doctor was away, little did he know at the same time sensei would be battling it out with the number one hero which would later cause the doctor to drop all personal projects anyway.

- during the raid the heroes found the files to all the subjects and realized how late they were for the majority of the victims.

- in the end they only rescued three, subject four Denki Kaminari, subject nine Izuku Midoriya and subject fourteen Toru Hagakure.

[denkilightning]

LEMME TELL YOU 👏 AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR IT AND HAVE IT STAY IN YOUR HEAD 👏 EVER SINCE I SAW YOUR OG POST ON HOW DENKI IS A DUAL ELEMENTALIST MY MIND HAS 👏NOT👏KNOWN👏 P E A C E. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE E N D L E S S

IT HAS 👏 STAYED 👏 IN 👏 MY 👏 HEAD 👏 

they really are!!! and since youve given me the opportunity i will talk a bit more about denki’s quirk >:)))

OK SO let’s establish few things about elementalists cus i have like,, Quite A Bit Of Lore Established About Them. (basically theyre an elite when it comes to quirks,, except for electric types. in minds of like the general public theyre powerful but theyre dangerous cus they live in the electricity based society. because of that electric types either get like on pretty high positions but never the highest and/or end up criminals. theres a pretty rotten sense of brotherhood between electric types, but between different kinds of elementalists its,,,, well, let’s say most of the first elementalists really wanted their quirks to be as “pure” as possible. i cringe at them while im writing this)

there are two kinds of elementalists - element manipulators and element wielders. 

the elemanis are basically atla benders - they can manipulate elements (DUH) and take their elements out of pretty much everything (see: waterbenders in atla as i just said lol). the elewiels (fdkjabndfkj just thought how in polish it’d probably be like “elewiele” in plural or sth and thats just adorable) can’t manipulate elements. the example of that are todorokis, but let’s take shouto. he can shoot out fire and ice and he can somewhat manipulate what the ice comes out as, but he can’t for example suck it in or control it once its “out of him”.

(DO YOU SEE HOW IT RELATES TO DENKIS QUIRK?? DO YALL SEE IT??? CUS I SEE IT)

elemanis are.... extremely rare. (mainly because most of them were hunted down-) like denki’s mama, reine, was the last aquamani (DO YALL SEE WHAT IM DOING HERE???) excluding denki cus well, we know what happened to his aqua part. the only recorded etemani (electric type element manipulator) is denki’s sister, charles. 

now that that’s outta the way let’s get to denki’s parents >:))

his mama’s quirk is water manipulation - as i said, waterbending. 

denki’s papa, daichi (who’s nonbinary btw!! he/she/they) is an elewiel. (am i the only one who thinks that name’s adorable??? dfkajbndkj) he can generate electricity (also a rare thing) and push it onto objects. he can’t suck them out tho. 

denki’s quirk was.... well, something pretty damn powerful.

he was a double etemani, he could manipulate both water and electricity. his electrocytes mutated so his electricity was permemently turned on, instead of just going zap and bye bye bitch. (THAT’S WHY WHEN HE'S OUT OF ELECTRICITY HE DRAINS!!!!!! CUS HIS BODY IS NOT MADE TO LACK ELECTRICITY!!!!) his mama had to wear gloves while carrying him around.

remember when i said that the second part of the quirk appears like,, quite later? yeah fuck that, it actually appears like max year later. 

so five year old denki could manipulate both water and electricity. (that’s important for the denki turned baby ill never write lol)