#shock absorption

[quirkwizard]

Best quirks for football if it’s ok with you?

Best quirks for football?

Ah, the perfect time to cover this one. Shame there isn't any football tie in for the series I can use for the picture. Oh well, this one will have to do.

Sloshed: With how close everyone is to each other, it's going to be a lot easier to apply this to them. And when you do apply it, it's going to be like the afterparty came early. Good luck tackling someone when you can't even run in a straight line.

Larceny: Considering one of the most important parts of the game is making sure you catch and hold onto the ball when eleven muscle men are trying to kill you, effectively velcroing it to your hand would be extremely useful.

Permeation: Now, this one would be hard to use. You've got to phase everything in just the right way to avoid the enemy team, hold the ball, and keep your footing. But if it works, it will work great. And look hilarious in the process.

Lizard Tail Splitter: With how much you are going to get hit or closed in on, it's good to have a way to escape. Plus you could get up to some shenanigans with this kind of power. You're body may be in shambles, but your hand is still touching the ball.

Shock Absorption: Without how many people are going to be running into you, this is a great way to stop all their momentum in it's tracks. If nothing else, use it for your own sake. Because all that padding clearly doesn't protect you as well as it should.

Engine: While this would be great for any kickers in the game, it would be great pretty much where else. What is the core of this game? To run forward and slam into anyone that tries to run into you. Well, this lets you do just that amazingly.

Fat Absorption: Football players already need to eat a lot to support their bodies, so it's already a good fit. But being this giant, inescapable cushion of a man is even better. You'll basically be impossible to tackle as you slowly absorption the whole enemy team.

Vitality Stealing: This particular sport is exhausting for so many reasons. Luckily, with everyone so close to one another and hitting each other, it's a free refill. So while you're in a human car pile up, just sap some energy from the enemy team and you're good.

[delicious-dream-before-the-storm]

Sport that's fun to watch

[quirkwizard]

If you could only have one Quirk out of the following categories, which ones would you pick? Categories are: 1-A, 1-B, PLF, Pro Heroes, UA Faculty, AFO/Nomu, Other Students, and Other Villains. For clarification you can handle multiple Quirks, use them simultaneously, and don’t have to worry about fitting them under one Quirk. You have full training of the quirks. Not sure if this is an hero student, hero, villain, civilian, just whatever’s the most interesting.

So here's the thing: the fact I have all of these powers at once greatly changes the trajectory of the question. I'm of a similar philosophy to All For One: powers need to be simple and easy to mix. Something like "Manifest" is cool, but it'd be a pain to deal with when used with the other powers. So for this, I'm more focused on building an arsenal rather then powers I'd want on their own. If you want something like that, I'd rather focus on these groups on their own, like what I did with Class 1-A, Class 1-B, and the Pro Heroes.

Sludge Form: This is going to work as the basis for the rest of the Quirks I pick out. It's a really good power on it's own with the amount of flexibility on offer, the high survivability, and how easy it would be to build around it with the rest of the Quirks.

Blood Manipulation: I'm not totally certain how this would work with a body made of sludge, but I think being able to make a make a liquid I can shape and harden would work great with the sludge body, such as making a spiked club from the shape shifting or hardening

Shock Absorption: This one is mostly here just to counter act the biggest weakness of "Sludge Form", helping to keep me cohesive when getting beaten up. Maybe it could help enhance other aspects in terms of durability, like with whatever is made with blood.

Dupli Arms: This works both for a general stats improvement given the augmentations the Quirk offers and can help out with some of the body morphing aspects, like making arms and eyes on wherever I want on the muddy body and more options for the other powers.

Telescopic: Truth be told, I went with this one due to a lack of any other real options with in the category, but it could still be pretty useful. Being able to fold in on yourself would be good for hiding or escape being confined within a closed space.

Foldabody: While this may be redundant with "Sludge Form", but I think it would give me a lot more control over the sludgey body, like applying the same folding affect to dozens of other limbs at the same time or being better at sneaking around.

Weld: Since we know that Awase can apply this with his own body, it would help immensely in both climbing around and fusing objects to the main body, like pulling off a bunch of plates to make a shield wall or augmenting the body with random junk to make a monster form.

Anthropomorph: Again, this option is really here because a lot of the PLF aren't that great for this. Still, I think that being able to make my own minions could be neat, especially when combining them with things like "Weld" to make all kinds of bizarre looking minions.

[quirkwizard]

Can you make a comparison between Shock Absorbtion and Impact Recoil? And which do you prefer?

There isn't much room for comparison. "Impact Recoil" is objectively better. Both can protect from kinetic energy and only kinetic energy, but "Impact Recoil" can send it right back out. That gives it so much more application for it compared to "Shock Absorption". This benefit can be applied to other people as well, letting the user protect their allies from a very common form of damage. All "Shock Absorption" does is protect the user. It's good, protection, but that's all it offers. The only benefit is that "Shock Absorption" has over is that it is passive while "Impact Recoil" needs to be activated to protect the user, but that seems like pretty small benefit in comparison. What's more, "Shock Absorption" can be overpowered. It takes a lot, but it can be over powered. "Impact Recoil" doesn't seem to have a limit, redirecting all of the energy from an attack, even from an exceptionally angry All Might. So yeah, "Impact Recoil" is great.

[quirkwizard]

Cremation x Shock Absorption?

New Quirk Name: Thermal Sink

This Transformation type Quirk activates whenever the user's body is within a short range of any source of heat. The user can cause their body to start absorbing the heat around them, making their body start to glow and ignite in a fiery blue. This can drawn from small sources of heat, like the user robbing the heat from the air around them or from a warm sidewalk. This process amplifies whatever heat is absorbed, making even smaller sources of it powerful flames that the user can shape as they need to. The Quirk cannot reabsorb the blue flames. This gives the user a powerful Quirk for combat, able to take a common energy source into a powerful tool. They can damage their enemies with their flames, deter foes from attacking them with their burning body, devastate the area around them, counter heat based abilities, or simply disturb their foes with a chill in the air. Though this is dependent on the heat around the user and some time to build it up, even with minor ones, and can have issues controlling the absorbing process. The user can absorb too much heat, either through overwhelming them with heat attacks or accidently taking in a larger source of it, causing harm from overheating.

[quirkwizard]

You made a post where you did quirk training for the LoV. Could you do the same but for the individual nomu quirks. Like quirk training for tool arms, super regeneration, storage, etc

So I'm not going to cover all the Quirks, as there is so little information on them, so I'm sticking with some of the bigger ones for this.

Shock Absorption: Just stand in front of someone else while they are training to up your resistance to kinetic damage. Barring that, find a nice tall cliff to practice on.

Wings: Moving around an obstacle course with a series of weights tied to their body, working to improve the strength of their wings and their ability to maneuver with them.

Warping: The user could work with however is leading the exercises in order to transport them around to various people around the training area, or the area in general, working the best they can to readjust to where they want to go.

Tool Arms: Just go nuts on a series of earthen pillars that are constantly being remade, both to get better control of the arms and a hopefully improve the efficiency of the tools they make.

Storage: The user starts by stockpiling as much as they can into their body. Once they do, they try to take on even more, whether that be objects of greater size or more objects at a time in order to expand their internal storage space.

Transforming Arms: This one would be the user simply standing around and try to get the arms in alternate forms and then applying it, like making hands to grab some apples, figuring out the various shapes they can take and how best use them.

Absorb and Release: Taking on a series of smaller injuries from multiple sources, like a punch to the shoulder, only to try and hold them back for later. This could potentially work to try and build up some protection for the user from their own Quirk or get them better at holding attacks for later.

Super Regeneration: Essentially just sit between what "Tool Arms" and "Transforming Arms" are doing. Maybe with some help from "Warping" to get them into place. With any luck, you'll come out of that grievously wounded from the various sources of damage and all the better for it because you can grow your parts back even faster.

[quirkwizard]

I know that as a concept your not a fan of the villain deku idea but assuming for whatever reason all might never gave midoriya one for all, what quirk(s) do you think all for one would give midoriya that he would have access to?

I'm going to ignore that first line, as my various hang ups and own ideas on the topic could be it's own post, and focus on the subject as is. For that, I won't include "Overclock" since I already talked about how good that'd be with Izuku.

-Impact Recoil/Shock Absorption: While I do think that either of these could be useful for Izuku, "Impact Recoil" especially could be interesting to see in the hands of a more dedicated user, I'm mostly suggesting this because I like the idea of Izuku getting a power that perfectly counters Bakugou and All Might, ironically matching his two biggest inspirations.

-Transforming Arms/Tool Arms: I've already talked about at length how both "Transforming Arms" and "Tool Arms" could be used and how they would be wasted on Nomu. So let's just take all interesting applications these have and put them on Izuku, who I'm certain would use them to the fullest and then some, "Transforming Arms" especially. I'm certain that kind of investment would pay off with dividends.

-Air Cannon: A simple enough power that'd be easy to grasp, but one that would have a lot more depth given the right hands. Imagine some of the uses we see we air pressure, such as All Might's redirection, but now as a specific Quirk. I could easily see Izuku doing a lot with this Quirk, constantly experimenting with the power, shape, and location of it's release for some amazing results.

-Rivet Stab: This may be because of how well Izuku has used "Black Whip", but I think it's more violent, edgy cousin could have some unique uses as well, such as it seemingly being able to stich and stabilize things it enters into. I'd be neat to see him do things like tie into things and puppet them around, similar to what All For One was doing with Gran Torino, but with whatever debris is around him.

-Warping: Given Izuku's tactical abilities, giving him the power to move around allies and people nearby them would make for an amazing combination, kind of like how Magne's power could have been used. And if I had to choose any sort of personality focused pick, this would be the one. It's a very selfless power, only working to support allies and working with Izuku's supernatural ability to endear himself to anyone.

[quirkwizard]

Could you perhaps do an analysis on storage?

Can we get an analysis of shock absoprtion?

Doing these together since there these are Nomu Quirks that I don't have much to say about.

"Storage" is a pretty neat power, for what little we got to see of it. I do kind of wish it had its own user, though. As it is, it's simply stapled onto Hood as an afterthought to make sure the other heroes didn't interfere with the fight with Endeavor and doesn't really add much else to his kit. Because I think that you could do some fun applications with someone who could store stuff in their body and pull it out whenever they wanted it. Especially since the internal space is large enough to hold several large Nomu. I simply think it would benefit from a user who took the time to experiment and train with it.

"Shock Absorption" I feel is rather underrated. It's an entirely passive ability that can protect you from a pretty common source of damage, and it's consistent enough that it can take a messaging beating from someone like All Might without any major damage. Even if it doesn't nullify the damage entirely and this is a much weaker All Might, that's still a pretty impressive feat for any Quirk to boast. It's super simple and definitely works better as a Nomu power, as I can't imagine it growing or changing that much with its own user, but I still believe it deserves a little more credit as a pretty strong Quirk.