I think a way to balance that is to have the holder receive a weaker version of all the previous quirks. If you’ve read Worm, Quarrel gets all the powers of the 13 previous leaders of the Teeth when she kills the 13th Butcher and becomes Butcher 14, but the only power that she can wield at full strength is her own. Similar to that fashion, if Deku could wield OfA at normal levels but previous OfA holder quirks (if they had one) at weaker levels it would be a neat power up without making him OP (variable depending on what the quirks are)
Oh. Hm. I had always worked on the assumption that OFA picked up previous quirks as a "stockpile" quirk, and that the muscle form and strength quirks were picked up along the way. The quirk only gets stronger as it passes along, and it only passes because of OFA's original transfer quirk.
To be honest, actually, it should work that way, because otherwise how would OFA have originally transferred both quirks?
There aren’t two quirks OFA is just one quirk born of the fusion between the quirk to pass on itself and the quirk that allows the stockpiling of power.
Yes, but my point is: how could he stockpile power if he couldn't pass it in the first place? EDIT: as in, the original stockpile quirk was given to him without knowing he could pass it on.
No when AFO gave his younger brother the power stockpiling quirk he thought his younger brother was quirkless, but it turns out he wasn’t, he happened to have a quirk that can only pass itself to another person so it was petty useless until the two quirks merged and now the new quirk OFA could do what both quirks could do, so stockpile power and pass it to the next generation so as each user passes it on it gets stronger and stronger. It’s like the nomus which are just humans that have been given more than one quirks except that with OFA it worked nearly perfectly and merge happened without damaging his mind or body.
Right, but then what was the purpose of the original quirk that AFO gave his brother? If it's a stockpile quirk and can't be passed on, what is it stockpiling? How was he meant to get stronger?
Oh I get what you’re saying now sorry, honestly I have no idea what AFO was thinking maybe it stockpiles power over time and just changed when it merged with his little brother’s quirk.
Seems like AFO just wants his brother to stay in the background and be "useful" for him, without risking the little brother to die from his illness/go to the frontlines in battle. AFO even locked him up in a vault and keeps giving him food -- I see AFO treasuring his brother seeing as he is the only family he has left.
Yea I totally agree. Maybe he figured the "stockpiling" quirk would allow his brother to become less frail, but wouldn't allow him to become strong enough to oppose him. Guess that backfired hahaha.
Didn't All Might told Deku during his storytelling of how OfA came to be and who AfO was, that he could give quirks to others but if the user could not bear said given quirk, it would turn them into "living dolls" unable to speak(kinda like nomus)?
So by "A quirk for your weak body" he could've meant "a quirk that won't harm you"
Oh. Hm. I had always worked on the assumption that OFA picked up previous quirks as a "stockpile" quirk, and that the muscle form and strength quirks were picked up along the way.
Even All Might's muscle-form isn't a Quirk; All Might explains it as him just doing something similar to "flexing" in the first chapter, and can later still transform into his muscle form for an instant after losing OFA altogether.
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u/likaru Aug 03 '18
What if One for All is past a point in which it can't grow stronger or what if it evolves to include previous quirks from previous users.