International Quirk Law states that in the event of a power outage, anyone with an electricity quirk who is over the age of twelve has to report to the nearest hospital to provide electricity. Kaminari Denki is no exception.
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While trying to find out what happened to his missing student, Aizawa Shouta has to delve into his husband's painful past with human trafficking.
Notes:
So I got the idea for this from some kind of Kaminari Denki Week one-shot or something like that. I don't remember what it was called or even really about other than some stuff about how Denki, since he has an electricity quirk, has to report to a hospital or police station in the event of a blackout/power outage. I'll try to find the one-shot in question and I'll link it here when I do.
Originally I wasn't going to post this today because I wanted to write the whole thing first, but I'm almost done and also desperately need serotonin after spending the rest of my money on textbooks for college. It really just be like that sometimes.
I might change the title later on. Who knows. Also, I'm estimating on the chapter count -- 13 is really just a guess.
Chapter 1: No Accident
Chapter Text
It was dangerous to have an electricity quirk and here’s why:
The QPRE, or the Quirk Practicality & Refinement Exam, is an international exam that people with highly practical and life-saving quirks take once they reach a certain age, depending on the nature of their quirk. It exists to determine if a person’s quirk is not just suitable to help but also that they have a refined enough control over it that they can help in the first place.
Different countries -- and even different regions of large enough countries -- have different laws in place as to who has to take a QPRE. For instance, in Australia, all those with a water-based quirk are required to take the Aquatic QPRE when they turn 16 to see if they can help with wildfires. However, Canada, while offering it, does not make it a requirement because wildfires are not as prominent there, and also bumped the age up to 18.
There are many examples of different variations for the exams, but one thing that stays the same for every country who signed onto the International Quirk Law Agreement is that any person with an electricity quirk has to take the Electricity QPRE once they turn twelve.
Blackouts are not a thing limited to just a few regions, after all: the need for electricity is consistent and great across the globe.
Originally, the age restriction had been 18, but as time went on and more catastrophes and villain attacks occurred, it was lowered until it reached the minimum age for a QPRE to be administered. Electricity quirks were rare, and someone with one that could be used in emergency situations even rarer. You could be in a city as big as New York City and there be only two or three people with an electricity quirk, and even then there is no guarantee that those quirks can be used to supply a hospital with much need power.
It is because of this rarity that anyone with an electricity quirk who passes the QPRE is highly protected when they go into a situation for help, along with the fact that minors are often the ones doing the helping. Electricity quirks are highly envied, valued, and sometimes even hated, especially the “useful” ones that pass a QPRE. The most recent incident was in America a year ago when a villain purposely caused a power outage at a hospital so he could take out any person with an electricity quirk because he was convinced that they were part of a government conspiracy.
So it was dangerous to have an electricity quirk. But it wasn’t immediately condemning to have one, so long as you weren’t good at handling it.
Aizawa-sensei was more than Class 1-A’s homeroom teacher: he also taught Hero & Police Law (and was their adoptive father, as many in the class fondly joked even though they somewhat meant it). In fact, the class was currently sitting through a lecture for the course.
