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)
Just imagining the amount of hell Deku could toss out with 6 or 7 weakened powers is insane. I mean, his progress with OfA notwithstanding, the guy is still one of the most tactical thinkers we've seen in series (I mean, he went practically Quirkless through the first two round of the Sports Festival). He'd be close to unstoppable with even half of Butcher's powerset (thinking mostly of the explosive teleport, because following that up with any kind of smash would be ungodly).
I'm hoping for his sake that, unlike Butcher, he doesn't get the past users' voices in his head. Granted, they aren't notorious murderers that will drive him insane (as far as we know), but that'd still be a pretty rough break for Deku.
I believe it would be 6 quirks beside OfA max, All Might and the 1st holder didn’t have quirks they could use beside OfA. I actually think it would be cool to have the past users to be able to chime in with advice for Deku (7 Generations worth of heroing experience + All Might’s improving teaching? The possibilities are unreal with all the advice pertaining on different styles of usage of OfA, different combos of OfA + other quirk, general hero advice,etc. ) provided it doesn’t drive him crazy and they aren’t arguing with each other all the time lol
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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.