After meeting with Midoriya I left him saying we’ll meet again at UA, or perhaps while training. I went home while training control over my whole body. I was getting better at it. I could get it on my arms and legs. Center of mass, and my head was the problem. I was mostly afraid of stopping my heart rather than it being hard to have electricity there, and when I was using it on my head sometimes my vision would be all bright.
However despite all of that I was making steady progress in my training. A few days I could change the voltage I was using and keep it that way, it's a little like grip strength now that I have a feel for it. I could make the voltage on one part of my body lower or higher than another part as long as the current wasn’t too close to each other like individual fingers, but the left and right hand could.
Whenever I use electricity all around my body my hair stands up and electrical arcs dance across every part of my body. I affectionately call this 2nd gear; it boosts my speed of movement while also making nobody able to touch me. Best part about it is I look like a super Saiyan when it's on. Back to a more serious topic I’m finding out the limit to how much power I can use. My body is constantly making more of it even in the act of discharge; sort of like mana in rpg’s. The original Denki either used so little it never was less than 90%, or used it all to 0% with no middle ground.
So with 2nd gear the amount that my body generates helps off-set the drain, but it still runs my battery down. I can hold it for about an hour before feeling side effects of low charge. What do I mean? Well original Denki just kept going to 0% turning himself stupid, and unable to think of anything. With anything less than 30% charge I find myself acting a lot more rashly and without a filter. It’s a lot like being tipsy, except without loss of motor control. The less charge I have the less I can stop myself from losing control of my emotions.
I nearly had a breakdown of crying when I got to 10%. After my emotions cleared up I immediately added rechargeable batteries on the list of tools for my hero costume. Because as it turns out I can charge myself on DC power. I never tried AC because I still want to live, at least at the moment. However just like rechargeable batteries the less power I have the less I can charge myself with outside sources. Think of it like this, charging myself with 50% charge is fast and effective. However, starting to charge at 20% and below; my body rejects it. Probably a safety for not electrocuting myself, but I don't know.
In any case, over the summer I have gotten more skilled at controlling electricity, I have become more fit to increase my speed in 2nd gear, and I have completed my idea for my hero costume, and tools. I’m still thinking of new ways to use electric moves but I’ve been blocked from thinking of ideas. Hopefully Midoriya has been thinking about my quirk in his pass time in ways I haven’t thought. It’s always to get a second opinion about things like these, there is no instruction manual. However I think I am ready to go back to Highschool.
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I remember an article about a helmet someone put on that used electric currents to send their brain into 'the zone' which is a state of hyper-focus. Apparently a reporter was able to successfully gun down a wave of simulated riflemen without even realizing what she was doing because she was so focused. They'd done a test before that without the helmet, where she panicked and totally failed the simulation. I imagine it would be possibly dangerous and difficult, but I wonder if they could make a hero helmet for him that has similar effects?
Lol, get out of my head! I have that as a technique later!
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Lmao oop- I'll put it in spoilers then lol
@Calvin_Waterson I also just realized, does he basically have a large storage of electrons inside his nerves? Magic handwavium probably just applies, since it's an impossible thing anyways, but I wonder how he 'recharges' without the use of an external power source. He magically produces electrons over time? So he's a source of literal perpetual motion potential (until he dies of age, but other quirks can overcome that)
Without magic, he literally violates the laws of conservation of energy. But if you think about it, I'm sure literally 80% of quirk users already do that tbh, so honestly prob shouldn't think too hard in a universe of literal everyday superhumans existing
@Plantorsomething Well the electricity comes from the nerves. To my knowledge, neurons create and transport electricity. They have much more potential then we give them credit for. I read that the Matrix human battery theory holds a lot of water. My idea for his quirk is that his body generates this electricity faster, and can tap into that power. The energy would come from the food he eats like all the other energy our bodies need. You could think that most other people in this super powered society also needed extra caloric intake to off-set the amount of energy they were burning through, so foods were all packed with extra compared to today.
@Calvin_Waterson Mt. Lady would straight up pass out immediately lol. But I do like that take. Not sure if I agree about the matrix thing, since food and desease and stuff might mean a net loss in energy. Apparently the original script was that the human brain acted as efficient means of data storage, but they changed it to battery (if I remember correctly)
@Calvin_Waterson @Plantorsomething I know I'm late, but couldn't let the Matrix battery thing go without throwing my hat into the ring. Our neruo-electic field is not what the machines were using as power. It's body heat. They were using humans as thermal generation for power, that gel was heat conducting. We run at an average of 98.6°F. Now multipy that by millions, boom thermal energy.
@DamonCalser Hmmm, that doesn’t seem too efficient either compared to geothermal or, I dunno, cows and every other mammal? Didn’t know that though, thanks!