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In a alternate timeline where privatized heroics has been outlawed due to collateral damage, where do those that want to use their quirks legally to benifit their fellows go to learn?

The Scouts of course!

Deku, Tsu, Kacchan and Mina joined the scouts in kindergarten, spending every summer with each other and other kids out in nature, learning handy skills to earn badges and control of their powers (Not Deku, obviously.) They had plenty of friends (Not Kacchan obviously), but what sets this group apart was their shared victory in the end of the year contest. Random groups of four competed in a camp setting task, and the four had made the best shelter. Their prize was a paid trip via private jet to America to hike with Scoutmaster Toshinori to a water park! And boy were the kids excited.

You can imagine the mood they were left in when they woke up on the sandy beach of a deserted island. The plane was wrecked and their guardian was missing. After a long cry from Deku and Mina, a cold night huddled around the smoldering crash, and no rescue in sight after burning half the flares, the Scouts took a long read through their Scoutmasters guidebook.

High ground was the key to escape. And so, four children braved the coasts cliffs, and made their way up the sheer rock. They made it about halfway before Mina slipped on her own acid and fell 200 meters to her doom. Oops.

There were more tears, more huddled panic, more forceful barking of orders from Kacchan. The cacophony was cut short when a ghostly pink apparition manifested just out of reach of the children. They screamed. The ghost screamed.

What kind of damn island is this?

(Do I write a fic?)

At the airport this morning, I spotted an issue of Time Magazine that had done a piece on support equipment. Gotta say the author used some real vivid imagery, and I could almost hear him gargling a summits worth of boardroom executive balls while he wrote the article. So, to drown out the screaming child in economy, I'm posting this to my blog: A review of every support gear company on Earth worth knowing the name of.

Support gear as an industry is very different from other practices, as nearly every piece of quirk based equipment is custom on every level. Lots of successful agency's hire a grease monkey to work in office and fix one particular piece of gear repeatedly. This isn't about them or the Etsy shop bolt lickers working out of their garage. Support gear is a practice built on trust, and if you aren't putting your gear through extensive testing the instant you equip it, you don't fucking last as a hero. Equipment failure is the difference between smiling for the pictures and that picture being used at your funeral.

This blog post is about the multi million dollar industry titans that heroes can reliably outsource to on the fly for costume cycling, sidekick sustain and more general use technology not dependant on a single quirk for function. Capture gear, sensor arrays, mobility options, costume armor, combat utility, cybersecurity, fire suppression, etc. When a hero thinks "Man I wish I had something for ____" These are the ones you shop around with, in no particular order, and what to expect out of them and their customers. (You may not see the bullet points on mobile.)

• Dodge Heroics - Once exclusively an automotive company, Dodge pioneered a lot of the early days of American hero gadgets. These days it's widely agreed that affordable gear is generally higher quality and value, but tarrifs keep this company on life support domestically. If you aren't North American, you don't buy Dodge Heroics gear. Heroes that use their gear seriously often blow a big chunk of their quarterly operations budget on this company. The one thing they have going for them that no other company comes close is their Hero Vehicles. Owning a Dodge Brawler or Crusader screams to the rest of the battlefield that you're just way cooler and have the fattest wallet (or the most abused accountant). Admittedly they are really goddamn good vehicles, very effective for three dimensional deployment and unreasonably fast and maneuverable, but are they practical? Fuck no. It's not supposed to be, it's a superheroes armored vehicle, muscle car or motorcycle. The rest of their equipment has ok bundled deals with the vehicle collecting dust in a storage locker in Ohio, but at least the stuff lasts longer than any physical tech from Evilproof. I'm not gonna tell you to stop wrapping your supersupercar in custom decals matching your costume, but I will tell you to wash your costume more often. I also don't think I've ever been in the same room as that CEO while he was sober. He hides it well but you can't hide from my nose. Someone get him some help, his BAC is not that of someone you want behind a car.
• Evilproof - Once upon a time, a former Best Buy employee saw Dodge Heroics success and asked themselves "What if I did that, but worse in almost every way?" Thats what this company is, Best Buy for superheroes. The budget option. The crap works, it wouldn't be on this list if it didn't, but you are absolutely getting what you pay for. The issue isn't the fact thst the stuff breaks relatively fast, gear breaks all the time in a fight. The issue is that their whole selection is so fucking boring. What other support gear company brags about selling smoke grenades and grappling hooks? Mall cops uses their tech. Heroes that patrol low crime areas and have never been in a real fight in their lives. Or, more commonly, poor, low ranking heroes that barely have the budget to hire someone in house. A common complaint I hear with their products is how hard it is to mod. The one thing that puts them on the map that barely gets advertised is their cybersecurity. If you shop with evilproof, not a fucking soul on earth besides them will have your data. Every Tuesday your server will get slow, but that's them making sure global digital infastructure stays healthy. Free shipping is nice too.
• Hatsume Industries - Cutting straight to the chase, if you buy exports from Hatsume Industries, you're a fucking hipster. You're an idealistic flowercrown weaving spandex squishy taking the first step from technology that isn't your parents Dell, and you're drawn to the "consumer friendly guaranteed reliability", then before you know it you're paying out the ass for upgrades. Lots of goddamn upgrades. Domestic Japanese buyers tend to be morally uncompromising (a stick up the ass does wonders for structural and moral integrity, I suppose), as they have all but shunned Detnerat, even under the new management. Is the tech really reliable and generally well thought out? Yes. Does this companies equipment beat the crutch accusations? Fuck, yes. Would I ever be willing to be in the same room as that company owner ever again? Hell the fuck no. Getting nasal reconstruction done by a coal miner with a power drill would be nicer than inhaling oxygen within three miles of her. She fuckin REEKS.
• Detnerat - Despite this companies difficult origins as the foundation for a whackjob cult pretending to be revolutionaries, the new purchasers worst characteristic seems to be opportunistic rather than being actually insidious. Where Hatsume Industries puts in probably more elbow grease into their support gear, Detnerat has perfected their craft with their cold hard database amassed from the days they'd give out gear to villains to let them field test the crap before setting them to self destruct by the time the authorities actually investigated. Whether its ethical to use data illegally gathered for good is a question for heroes with too much time on their hands. What they should be asking is whether or not they've stopped implementing planned obsolescence. Detnerats gear is really good if youre looking to make your quirk more powerful, or if you aren't in heroics and just need lead diapers or shit like that.
• Surplus Ultra - The original japanese support gear union. This is actually less of a company and more of an amalgamated den of small companies and contractors, but that doesn't matter, they still circulate ideas and collaborate enough that the network has a big reputation. I don't know how it works and I don't care. The gear itself is what every starry eyed first year hero student gets for their first costume. They specialize specifically in quirk control, restraining, channeling or focusing quirk output into more desirable results. The gear is very good, for it's value. Pricing is competitive, but it's still gear bundled as bulk contracts for whole school years, because this is the only support company in Japan allowed to sell to schools. You can still purchase if you aren't a school, but higher quality can be found elsewhere in the local market. That being said, Japanese support companies are all generally really high quality compared to the rest of the world, always perfecting the craft just a little more every day. You really can't go wrong buying from them, but that's also not to say they're the objective best. That's later.
• Rainhold - This is a Russian state owned support gear and armament manufacturer. Russia does not distinguish between support gear and weapons, but Rainhold is the only weaponmaker in Russia allowed to make and sell support gear, as it is owned by the government. They do actually export anywhere freely, but they're also known for being very undiscerning of who they actually sell too, especially when the economy gets bad. A lot of villains buy from rainhold, and so do a lot of heroes that end up suspended with pay after causing too much collateral damage. These russian engineers are not subtle. If your quirk isn't making something blown up, they just fucking strap micromissiles anywhere they'll fit on your costume. When it goes on sale, the gear is really cheap for how reliable it is, but god forbid you need capture gear or nonlethal options. That being said if you need to bust a bad guys door down, not a door in the world can stop Rainhold. Same goes for a bank vault, if you show them a post it note stating that you're totally a pro hero.
• Tower 9 - I shouldn't bring up the Saudis, cuz unless you are Saudi, they aren't going to sell to you. Even if you are Saudi Arabian, no other support gear comes CLOSE to these guys. Tower 9 runs some of the most bleeding edge material science on the planet, that makes I Island look like a day care. Small anecdote, during a visit to a crime scene in France, I picked up some ammunition that had been smuggled into the country, made by Tower 9. The rounds could only be described as the single deadliest cartridges ever to be loaded in a handheld firearm. Ghost Rounds. Completely undetectable, and I mean that. I couldn't even smell whatever the propellant or the projectile was. Whatever matter was within five inches of wherever the bullet came into contact with after firing ceased to exist. Armor, energy shields, quirks, it melted through all alike, leaving gaping holes in layers of defense. The bullet itself stopped existing after a bit. Mechanically or digitally Tower 9 is nothing special, but their molecular compounds are unmatched, and they do actually export scientific data on a trading basis, so provided they are given something equally valuable in return, their advancements find their way into the international market gradually. If you ever get the chance to collaborate with a Saudi Arabian hero, peep the fit. They always have the coolest goddamn swords and shields on the market. It's so worth looking into secondhand stuff, that's about all you'll be able to get your hands on internationally.
• Landlady - Theses guys are solid as hell. This South African support gear company specializes in practical rescue tech and large scale natural disaster relief. They pack things lightweight, and they always provide the critical medical surplus and evacuation tech. If you're a rescue or rural hero, there is no reason not to shop around their selection, even with the export costs. That being said it's impossible to justify said exports for their combat selection, but who the hell cares? If you have a collapsing building, and a hero is rocking their Blimpweb, suddenly the collapsing just stops for long enough to get everyone out. If you have enough foresight, you can improvise weapons out of the emergency equipment. If there's a villain with a fire quirk, their insanely powerful selection of extinguishing tech will leave the villain basically powerless. That being said, rescue heroes and pro heroes in general don't usually get a lot of foresight. Props to Landlady, they do a lot of charity work with Army of Peace a lot. Speaking of...
• Army of Peace - This is perhaps an even less conventional support gear company, in that it is not a company. It is a charity organization that used to be a terrorist organization. Back in the day, Army of Peace was a quirk supremacist movement from about a century ago that was trying to take control of India, North Africa, and most of the Middle East before America (and by America I mean Allied Automatic) cut the head off the dragon, and things settled down. The puppet leaders existing after the fact reformed the Army into a group that travels the world, delivering relief aid to war torn countries and supplying self defense equipment to civilians. If you live in a difficult neighborhood overtaken by villains, these guys often stop by to load up local cops and vigilantes. They are a really morally grey organization banned from several countries, but they manage to smuggle equipment where it's needed. The stuff is literally free, and for the price it's not that bad. Yes that's me being facetious, the gear itself is next to worthless next to real hero equipment, but it works, and they do donate Landlady stuff as well out of their own pocket. Just keep in mind that it's no secret that they are very much still a quirked first movement. They rescue and arm people in the order of most powerful to least powerful. If you're quirkless, ignore these guys and buy actual weapons instead. Speaking of weapons, let's go to who I mentioned earlier...
• Allied Automatic - If you are reading this sentence at this moment, you cannot afford Allied Automatics Support gear. Do not even bother checking what few available public catalogues exist, those are already outdated, and the cheapest item on the list is worth millions USD. This company works directly with the United State Military, and they have the actual deadliest support gear available, because their job is to kill people expeditiously, and they outpace the fuck out of Rainhold in the civilian casualty department. Unlike Rainhold, Allied Automatic holds their cards even closer to the chest than Tower 9, and will fucking find you and kill you if you steal their shit and use it. I don't get to contract a lot with the US army, because they know what my quirk does and they promised they'd pepper spray me and put a hellfire up my ass if their satellites ever caught me within 20 miles of a base. What little I have seen of their work was during the Icelandic Fiasco 10 years ago. The details are messy, but from what I saw of the footage, a guy with a letter quirk put on a metal helmet, and he melted the brains of anyone near him right out their eyes. Even for me that's sick fuckin shit. For recent memory, their big public contribution that's become anywhere near affordable for a top hero agency of a very wealthy country are the robotics division. Lately they're getting into giving heroes disposable robot minions to save lives and fight villains. Humanoid drones are a novel concept, and admittedly their current technology is really impressive, but it's really clear that logistically, this is their best attempt at a non threatening and non lethal option that can be used in civilian streets that aren't in unpronounceable countries. It's like watching a sociopath with the body and skill of Mike Tyson playing action figures with a toddler, trying not to kill the toddler by accident. If you see a villain with gear with the AA logo badly scratched off, run for it and call them to come collect their shit. If you see a hero wearing it, sit back and enjoy the show, then call me and tell me how it went.
• Forge - There isn't a single person on earth that hasn't interacted with a piece of Forge tech in the past 50 years. This Chinese conglomerate is in just about every mass production industry inside and out the hero industry. They actually handle a lot of the mass production for other companies, especially Rainhold and Surplus Ultra, which... make of that what you will. They're budget, but they can back up the cheapness with workable quality, unlike Evilproof. If you're taking heroics seriously, you probably won't buy from these guys, but if you need something that covers a weakness in your quirk, they're actually really good at that shit. Dealing with them means that the Chinese government get's data on your quirk though, which isn't really that big a deal anymore, but it is something every buyer should know. The great thing about forge is if you buy things in bulk, it practically pays for itself. There have been small countries armed with Forge gear that didn't need a restock for decades.
• Clandestiny - The quintessential English spyware experience. You're an underground hero working in the clandestine if you shop Clandestiny. If you're undercover, work best at night, and can't afford to let the public know you exist, then extremely stylish line of equipment is worth ever fucking penny. It's pricy, and the actual utility of looking spiffy as an underground hero is counterintuitive, but damn is it sexy. You might be familiar with some of their work, such as the Memory Shades or the Capture Scarves. Clandestiny also offers a joint service with Evilproof, where they can scrub any mention of your existence and quirk off the internet in order to make your quirk more effective. The founder of this company himself was an underground hero, and actually literally saved the world James Bond style from an ICBM attack. Even non underground heroes can find good stuff from these guys.
• Schmied - This is German company has the best globally accessible support gear in the world. It's expensive as fucking shit, but not a single person on earth has ever used their stuff and disliked anything about it. They are simply perfect. Due to how complicated the things are, they don't have a great lifespan, so a popular heroes merch line genuinely sustains their continued shopping with Schmied. A lot of their armor is better than even secondhand Tower 9 stuff, which is saying something. The CEO makes a lot of brand deals with top heroes a lot to be their exclusive supplier in order to get continued service. And they HATE it when people modify their shit, but I'm not nearly as scared of them as I am Allied Automatic. Admittedly as good as they are, they're only ever as good as the quirk is, and they tend to value and cater to more flexible applicable and powerhouse quirks. S-Tier flashy shit, yknow? They can be pricks if you let them. Don't let them.
• Ready & Steady - Do you like being fucked up the ass? Then buy from this Australian company, which basically gives you a cape with microtransactions and fees out the ass. This fuckass company has lobbied the shit out of the Australian government, and made heroics there a fucking horrible uphill battle. There's a reason Australia has the highest rate of heroes turned villains in the world, and it's this fucking company. As if they didn't have enough to deal with the Reef and the Spiders (don't ask). Do not buy from these assholes. It doesn't matter how good their stuff is, even if it was good, it's not worth it.
• Godspeed - If all else fails, buy Godspeed. Where even Schmied and Allied Automatics fails, Godspeed picks up the slack and hooks up people with the weirdest fucking problems and quirks ever. This Egyptian company is a fucking blast to work with. Everything is really fucking unserious to them, and I respect the shit out of them. You can have the most niche quirk in the world, and they'll get you exactly what you need, even if it takes them a year to get fucking anything done. They're affordable and do good work, but the real cost is time and exports. It takes them ages to get shit done and delivered, so by the time you get it, you might not even need it anymore.

So, what company are you getting your support gear from? If not these guys, do you have a personal support gear engineer OC they work with?

On the list for Interpols Most Wanted, Chet Luciano (Villain name Stigma) is a violent grand larcener. He has stolen a combined 70 million USD worth of art, jewelery and assets. He kills individuals attempting to aprehend by evading attacks to toy with them before closing in behind them to break their neck.

His quirk, Light, is a transformative quirk that turns his body into light. While made of light, he is able to pass through anything transparent, and moves at the speed of light. He cannot physically interact with anything while made of light.

I need some kind of drawback, not overuse related. Something that makes for more interesting interactions than just being a speedster. Not being able to use his speed offensively isnt enough of a downside for me. Maybe a way to force him out of light form?

Ephraim Hunt is a pro heroics audit consultant, one of the only in his field to go internationalas his own boss. He makes a living off of reviewing the operations capabilities of individual heroes or their agencies and providing... *ahem* constructive feedback. That is to say he calls people fucking stupid a lot. He's claims being extremely rude and intentionally abrasive provokes authenticity from his clients. It doesn't, he's an asshole. American, go figure.

As an auditor, he has basic problem solving and common sense that doesn't exactly make him top of his field. So why do people put up with him? Simply put, his quirk makes him really fucking good at finding problems. He calls it Nose Knows. Basically he has the best sense of smell on earth, which is really good at finding bad actors. He can literally smell every little dirty little secret you have, where you've been, what you've done with who, etc. He takes abject pleasure in airing out the personal buisness of people he mildly dislikes. It's made him infamous and dangerous to certian agencies while a boon to plenty others that find use in his ability to sniff out problems. He isn't a liscenced pro, but his ability to smell can't be turned off, so he uses it anyways.

Ephraim is extremely opinionated about quirks, support gear, tactics and branding. He isn't an analyst of engineer, but he's seen a lot of successes and failures that have given him preconceptions about what kind of hero people are.

Tryna think what a good physical appearance would be. Maybe he's just a dude with a doofinshmertz nose, but redestro kinda got the look already. I was tempted to make him sound nasally, but that would imply a hindered quirk from sinuses. Maybe I make his nose smol as a subversion of expectation.

The Cult of The King of The End of The World is offering this high value capture contract for a twilight vigilante known by the media as Gusher, but is actually called The Bastard.

The bastard is 27 years old, male, half Japanese, half Italian, brown haired, red eyed, and described by sources as lean and sickly. Rumor has it that he's the illegitimate child of The Priestess of The Cult of The King of The End of The World and The Boogeyman, The Demon Lord, All For One. This is evident in that he has inherited a hybridization between the quirks his alleged parents, control over death and stealing quirks.

The Bastard's quirk is Blood Ritual. By spilling his own blood onto a dead body, the body dissolves completely and vanishes. This adds said body, its former sapience and its quirk to his cataloge. By spilling his blood anywhere not on a dead body, and speaking the name of whoever he intends to summon, a resurrected corpse in question capable of using its quirk and making its own decisions comes into physical being. The Bastard does not seem to actually hold any sway other than social over the resurrected in question. If he bleeds but does not vocalize a name, a resurrection occurs at random from his cataloge. Overuse of the quirk obviously results in bloodless, so the bastard is known to use his quirk very sparingly. Resurrected vanish after taking sufficient physical damage but are generally unpredictable and unrestrained in their quirk use.

The Bastard carries a knife, and patrols nightly in alleyways of high crime areas.

Please detail your quirk, how you locate or lure The Bastard and how you INITIALLY ATTACK him. You may be provided an addition summoned corpse that serves as an obstacle you must defeat to capture him after your initial reply.

All active pro heroes or pro hero interns will receive a bounty assignment to track down a villain and return them to custody. Reply with your pro hero and their quirk to receive an assignment, then detail your plan of capture. Villains will scale with your OCs strength. All hands on deck, people, triple overtime will be paid tonight due to the sheer volume of escapes.

"You" = Your OC

It happens when you're alone at home. Its quiet, and you're preoccupied with school, work, games, who cares. Then your phone gets a text alert, an unknown number sending you a video file. The video is filmed from directly behind you, the person holding the camera unsteadily as they record you. It's just ten minutes of your back, and when you skip to the end, the person behind the camera concludes the video by backing out of the room and cutting the feed. As the recording device is turned over, the last frame is a blurry face with a too wide smile and golden eyes.

The number texts you after you finish the video: "cant find me 😂😂😂"

Tell me where in your house your OC searches, and I'll tell you what they find and what happens next! Theres a specific answer im looking for to win the challenge, but you'll probably figure it out.

Do you have a powerful healing quirk? Contact us for a lucrative job opportunity! Reply here with your name, quirk, credentials (We will accept any and all verification including practitioners liscence, hero liscence, hero internship clearence, or middle school graduation diploma. We are flexible with your experience level.), healing specializations, and prior feats of healing.

We can pay well above market rate for services.

Hero name: The full metal hero, Jacket

Quirk: Lead - This quirk user controls lead, up to bullet speeds.

Personality: Yung is very calm and patient. He is also very opinionated but only shares his thoughts when asked. This is because he's known to be brutally honest about how he feels about or views his peers. Sometimes it can be funny how matter of factly he can air out someones drama, but sometimes he can be hurtful with the best intentions. The idea that his quirk can easily kill weighs on him, and he never hesitates to admit that. He loves potted plants and hates watching TV and has no patience for social media, now banned on most platforms.

Fighting style and support gear: Yung specializes against opponents armed with guns, due to the fact that he can sieze control of their bullets. He also carries lead plating with thin wire tied to different plates to rapidly wrap around villains for easy capture.

Costume: What do you guys think would suit him?

Big fan of 4ctf more or less going back to "you have to cap once from other team to win, so you can't just speed run the weakest teams intel.

As a pyro main, I think it's reasonable to bring over the accuracy incentives like in livetf2. If I aim, this nerf means nothing. If not, I'm punished. Fair.

On that same note, the harvester nerf makes me sad, but I always knew my favorite weapon was too good to last. It still gets the job, but now it feels like the crit part of the weapon will do more heavy lifting. Oh yeah, did they intentionally get rid of the meter, or is that a bug? Maybe they already fixed it, whatever.

The cyclops adjustments are nice. Now its got more utility in short circuting projectiles and less power in the crutch department. Every grenade launcher using demo I come across aims like they're actually half blind, cuz everyone good at demo is using the cyclops for its consistency. It gets to a point you're using the detonation control as a crutch. Not nearly in the same zip code as crutching with the dead ringer, but it gets obnoxious being completely unable to dodge your Bluetooth grenade. Just ease up, maybe try the dynamite with the grenade launcher now that it gives more shots.

Speaking of, the dynamite packs ok. It needed something going for it, but I think what it really needs is the stickybomb launchers clip size getting fucking halved. Whatever, at least now I have this going for me when I'm refusing to unequip it for a clearly superior alternative out of my need to be a hipster.

The Rejuvenator is fucking my ears missionary. Its like having diet double donks on medic. Maybe I forgot how it sounded, and they didnt change much, but it's so crisp to me now. And being able to fire grenades thru people to whoever needs it is a nice touch. Gives me some flexibility.

Shock Therapy whatever

Fucking finally. ITS ABOUT FUCKING TIME THEY GOT RID OF THAT NEEDLESS HEALTH BOOST. THANK YOU SO MUCH I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE REST OF THE UPDATE, THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. Its not even thst the hunting revolver was op, it was about the principle of the thing. Reduced zoom is not a downside thst warrants additional complete nonsense buff stats. Theres a reason the 1.5 DOMINATED siege for its whole existence. Being mid range is a brutally powerful thing when you arent held back by projectile jank. Youre so much more flexible, and thats all the gun needs going for it. I know most of you loudmouths are bothered by this things ability to shred in the hands of a good sniper in a similar way that im sometimes bothered by the cyclops forgiving projectile control, but first off, I'm not allowed to get upset about cyclops crutching now that its nerfed, and second off, the alternative to a good sniper with the hunting revolver shredding is a good sniper fucking instkiilling. At least you stand a chance to survive against the hunting revolver. Learn to respect a sightline. I don't think the hunting revolver needs any more changes. Just get rid of the red text on it, its not a real downside. Like the huntsman, it doesnt need stats.

9/10 update, please give dizzy and bubbly particle effects to the demo when he gets drunk off the bottle taunt so that people can tell they got killed by someone struggling to shoot straight.

Name: Gus Rosie Lovely (Male, 41, half-white half-hispanic, no living relatives)

Alias: Joyride

Quirk: Nonconformity - Breaking a rule, law or sinning before a witness privy to said rule, law or commandment allows him to ignore a law of physics.

Skillset: Getaway driver, stuntman, vehicular maintenance, heavy machinery, first aid.

Personality: Gus uses his quirk as an excuse to behave impulsively or irksome to others. Despite his upbringing on the wrong side of the law and abrasive attemtps to make others feel uncomfortable, he cares deeply for those he works with. Works hard despite his outwardly incompetent facade.

Background: Orphaned young in a car crash, raised by affiliated uncle and dropped out of medical school. Was a instrumental member of a small time gang that saw huge success overnight due to Guses' quirk. The gang entered a conflict with the cartels, and Gus was the only survivor. Wants a new lease on life. Catholic, apparently.

Crimes: Accessory to grand larceny, attempted murder. Pled guilty.

Sentence: Per terms of plea deal, 5 years community service. Special dispensation: Permitted at will activatio use of quirk, restricted outside combat. Voulenteered for an additional 10 years. Community service consists of a special transit service, using his quirk to bus heroes to sites of emergency or victims out of danger.

Procedures: Heroes in the presence of Gus are encouraged to interrogate or observe him for any crimes such as tax evasion, mattress tag ripping, taking the lord's name in vain, music piracy, mail fraud, identity theft, impersonation of a police officer, indecent exposure, or verbally declaring that he will assassinate the president of the United States using a 9mm stored in the glove box. The only things Gus is to be arrested for is possession of narcotics, firearms, >!sexual assault!<, vehicular manslaughter or quirk use on living thing.

Bonus: How does your hero OC feel about the prospect of riding a bus driven by an obnoxious former villain?

Was flipping over this idea in my head so I decided to share it, input on the quirk would be appreciated.

The dudes quirk is called Rulebreaker. By committing a crime before witnesses privy to relevant law, the quirk activates, and allows the user to violate a law of physics. His favorite use of the quirk is to steal vehicles and drive them on walls, completely ignoring how gravity ought to obey. The quirks only weakness is apprehension. If any such witness privy to the relevant law manages to simply touch the user with the intention of stopping them, the quirk deactivates.

Joyride is actually a former villain who decided to turn over a new leaf and start working for, if not within, the right side of the law, after all of his friends were killed by a gang running a violent protection racket. He specifically works as a liscenced bus driver to deliver heroes to active crime scenes. But since his reckless driving is now legal and permitted, he has started committing blatant tax fraud and music piracy before every drive in plain view of his passengers to activate his quirk. He has a particularly bad relationship with Jirou Kyoka because of this.

"Unfasten your seat belts please."

"Does that help activate your quirk?"

"Haha, no." floors it

"Thanks to you, theyre auditing the department again. How did you requisition a Dixie horn and a $7,000 paint job as an official piece of support gear for your bus?"

"See, its this interesting beurocratic navigation technique I call lying and cheating shamelessly."

"What kind of paint job costs seven grand?!"

"He charged me $250 per lady."

"per WHAT?"

"Every time I hear some seat staining rookie hero wannabe lose his free Michelin Star grsde school lunch on my black leather upholstery, I want to learn if my quirk works with hate crimes."

"Is this what- hurk -spirit airl-?"

Joyride yanks the ebrake, and the bus screeches to a dead stop on the underside of a suspension bridge

"WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT?! I'LL SHOVE A COMMERCIAL JET SO FAR UP YOUR ASS, THE CONTROL TOWER WILL STILL THINK IT'S AIRBORNE!"

THIS COLLAB/CHALLENGE IS FOR RESCUE HEROES ONLY!

Two villains are in a highly destructive deathmatch in highly populated downtown Tokyo.

One is head of a known extortion ring, Mrs. Wakatsuruha, aka The Bloodied Witness. Her quirk, Supervision, gives her the abilities to see through the eyes of anyone in her line of sight, as well as provide additional focus and skill to those under her startlingly intense blue gaze. Since the fight has begun, her gang of hired muscle has been cut down, and she is in combat using black market support gear that allows her to fire multiple entanglement cables or grappling lines from armored braces on her arms, shoulders and back.

The second is unknown, a heteromorph covered with pitch black fur, flowing longer from the head, face and necm, with a dense short but velvety fuzz covering his body and limbs. His eyes are extremely large and pure black, and his teeth are serrated. His quirk appears to be a powerful leap with every skip he performs, but he is wielding an sloppily homemade battle cleaver, the blade of which is forged crudely around a tree branch. The blade completely and catastrophically rends asunder whatever it cuts into, leaving buildings sliced completely through and free to collapse, or canyon sized gashes in the earth. Every time the man throws the axe, it always comes back to him as if magnetically attracted to him.

The two are leaving a path of carnage in their wake. Witness dodges each of Unknowns attacks, but the supernatural blade still slices through the environment and occupants alike. As the Witness pulls herself from building to building, using her quirk to know exactly where and when to dodge and counterattack with whipping flails, Unknown leaps after her, laughing euphorically as he tears down buildings to eliminate spots to grapple. She's visibly enraged, but he's having the time of his life. They are both maneuvering with incredible speed and skill needed to avoid each other's attacks and both prolong and extend the scope of the disastrous conflict. Neither is so much at flinching at the mounting bloodshed. These people are practiced in violence in a way that most small time villains and big time heroes aren't.

Heres where your OC comes in.

They are the first on the scene, because they were just minding their own business crossing the street (on duty, in full costume) when Witness suddenly swung through the intersection using the lightpoles, and speared several cars with her cables, throwing them into the sky behind her as an obstacle for Unknown, who throws his cleaver straight through them to clear his flight path. It continues directly towards the busy crosswalk you are standing in, right for you. You can see it coming, and you have time to react.

What is the FIRST THING your OC does? You may ask as many questions about what your OC can observe in the moment before deciding, but once you decide what action to take, depending on your choice and use of your specific quirk, you'll be graded SPECIFICALLY ON THE INITIAL CHOICE. It also helps to know who your rescue hero is and what quirk they have. Hell, after I give the grade you can keep providing additional actions to boost said grade, provided you survive initial contact with Mr Chops U In 2.