Ah yes, the part you must all be waiting for. How did we get here? What made little Gen become the sorry excuse of a man he is upon his arrival at the Hero Course? Who failed this young man for him to end up so? His parents? His teachers? His fellow students? Or perhaps was it one of those strong, bright and oh so noble Pro Heroes? The answer is, both none and all of the above. No one event or person would horribly scar Gen for the rest of his life, yet, it would be inaccurate to say that the people around him didn’t fail him in some way, shape or form.

Born too early, that was the first mistake that would set Gen up for failure. A couple that had gone too fast, that was the best way to describe his parents. While they would staunchly deny it in public, his conception was far from planned. To save us a precious amount of time and digital ink, we’ll just say that they were not ready to handle the monumental undertaking that was bringing a new life into this world, much less one as troubled as Genichirou.

To add to his parents’ inexperience, Gen was not a normal kid, mentally. He was not Quirkless, but a late bloomer. Worse yet, by the age of three, the boy had begun to develop a strange pattern of behavior.

In family gatherings, he would always stare off into space, only breaking his silence to loudly point towards empty spaces in the room and describing that something out of the ordinary was happening. He would yell out that his favorite characters from TV and manga were right there, just a few feet away, much to the awkward silence of his family’s social circle. This would later be confirmed as an early symptom of his Quirk developing, causing illusions to take root not in the outside world, but inside his mind.

It didn’t take long for him to become the center of the conversation at the dinner table, right next to his supposed lack of Quirk and the fact that his parents had yet to marry. Genichirou was ‘the weird one’, to put it lightly; a wobbling ball of crazed delusions that perfectly encapsulated the mistakes his parents had made.

Many insensitive comments and suggestions were made at his unwitting expense, often questioning his developing sanity. There were many times that an uncle or an in-law would ask that his parents take him to a psychiatrist or a neurologist and would tell the other children to stay away from him. That he was ‘no good’. His parents were, as you could expect, not quite ready to push back against all of those insidious insinuations, which only made the situation worse and worse.

However, even for all their faults, it was undeniable that Gen was loved by his parents. They made their best attempts at pushing those topics out of the conversation and at making their son feel as normal as they could, it was just that, their best efforts weren’t that great. They tried their hardest, it wasn’t their fault.

By the time he went to school, things didn’t get much better… or worse, for that matter. He had scant friends and more than a few people willing to pick on him. He was never shoved in a locker nor forced to drink the contents of a toilet, but to say he had a good relationship with his class would be nothing short of a bold-faced lie. Still, what can you do, they were just kids, kids with their own set of issues and insecurities that they were working through, it wasn’t their fault.

Thanks to both his overactive imagination and his lack of interest in the subjects, Gen would fail to grasp most of the contents of what his teachers were saying. He would just barely grasp the essentials of the subject, before veering off into considerably more interesting fantasies. As such, his grades would enter a slump that, to this day, he would be unable to escape.

From there, the unforgiving nature of the Japanese education system would attempt to drill the importance of studying and focus, before giving up entirely on him by the age of 16. Many teachers, tutors and counselors tried their hardest to get this kid invested, to try to right the course of the ship, but eventually, it became clear that he just wouldn’t make it. With so many bright prospects under their tutelage, you couldn’t help but have a bad apple here or there. He was never going to get his act together, never going to amount to anything, it wasn’t their fault.

Worse yet, by age 10, Gen’s family would welcome a second child into their life, a girl. Kurokami Sakura was born. Taking all of the lessons from their first attempt to heart, the Kurokamis would once more try their hardest at raising their daughter, with way better results. The girl was everything Gen was not. She was smarter, more sociable, hell, she would eventually even grow to be taller than her big brother. It was so… annoying! It all just fed into all the little things that had been gnawing at the back of his little brain. Why could she be normal? Why wasn’t she ‘the weird one’ like him? Why did she have so many friends? Still, she was just living her life, and it just so happened she was doing way better at it than him, it wasn’t her fault.

And that would be where the story would end. Gen would likely fail his college entrance exams three years from now, if he could even make it that far, and then… McDonalds? Security Guard? Call Center? Take your pick on whatever dead end job he would be fated to take for the rest of his life.

But then, at the age of 14, Gen’s life would finally take a turn for the better. For the first time in his life, his Quirk would manifest, or rather, it would manifest outwardly. During a birthday party, one of his friend’s friends had decided to be extra shitty to him, so much so, that when the guests had decided to watch a horror movie too graphic for their age, young Gen did what he always did, he drifted off into a better world. Like many times before, he would imagine the characters of the film popping off the screen and onto that dimly-lit living room. With a lot of pent-up spite, he would imagine the monster of the film, a ghastly woman in a white dress with long black hair that covered most of her face, to torment that little bastard. It was a harmless prank, one that only he could see, but shockingly, for the first time in his life, that wouldn’t be the case.

A chorus of high-pitched screams would echo out as the grudge-filled apparition unnervingly crawled into the living room and scarred that class for the rest of their lives. It felt… so good. For the first time, it felt like he could chalk one up on the win column, and the best part was that, even after he came clean, no one could say or do anything to him. After all, he thought he was Quirkless, without talent, without power, all he did was use his imagination. He couldn’t have known.

It wasn’t his fault.

He would spend the next four years honing the Quirk, seeing how far his imagination could take him and finding out where it still came up short. It was a weak little parlor trick, but still, it was better than the nothing he had to his name before. If he was smart about it, he could fluke his way into a future that most can only imagine, but then again, imagination was his strong suit.

Once he hit the age of 18, he would take the U.A. Entrance Exams. It consisted of three parts, a written portion, a practical exam and an interview process. We’ll focus on the latter. That is where All for One was born. It was an elevator pitch for the ages. An horrifyingly powerful Quirk and a wielder wicked enough to match, all brought to life by Gen’s tongue and his talent for misdirection. A detestable character that would say and do anything to succeed. A heartless monster that would unite the student body against him, that would push them to their very limits and beyond.

It was an oratory exposition for the ages, one that would unfortunately be lost in secrecy and classified files. In less than 5 minutes, Genichirou Kurokami had successfully talked his way into U.A. University, cause trust me, he didn’t get in through grades, or physical performance, and especially not through recommendation. And from there, the rest was history.

Gen did not wait so much as a week to leave a mark. His mouth had a way of getting into trouble, and his twisted mind had a way of getting him out of it with his hand held high. It didn’t take long for the rumors of the all-powerful Quirk to start spreading through campus, no thanks to its wielder’s controversial statements and scandal-driven personality. At that year’s sports festival, a respectable placing would all but confirm those stories. As far as word of mouth went, All for One was real, and unfortunately so was its owner.

However, that freshman year was not all glitz and glamor. Behind all the inflammatory statements, the blood feuds and the countless fights they spawned, something else was happening behind the curtain. It seemed like the Devil himself had developed a soft spot for some people, or well, one person. The word around the halls was that Kurokami Gen, in spite of being the proud owner of both every Quirk and character flaw under the sun, had made a friend, with some people daring to suggest that things had long since escalated past that stage. Of course, All for One has made a policy of denying those rumors at every stage, but to a lot of people, that just lends more credence to them.

- Special Roomba Robot Vaccuum.

- Binoculars.

- Blue/White Control Deck for Magic: The Gathering.

- Various Yu-Gi-Oh! decks.

- Notebook.

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Horrid Reality is an Emitter-Type Quirk that lets Gen produce true-to-life illusions that range from your typical hologram-styled images to nasty psychosomatic nightmares. With it, Gen can conjure two different types of illusions.

The first are holographic images that come equipped with 4 out of 5 sensory stimuli; you can see them, smell them, hear them, even taste them if need be, but touching them is out of the question. While these provide great utility, they’re entirely harmless in terms of actual combat. They can help mislead, bluff, or mess with a cat through laser pointers, but they can’t actually damage anyone.

The second is aimed not at a specific spot in the world, but at a target’s mind instead. Nobody but the intended target can detect it, but that specific person’s five senses perceive it to be real, including touch, which in turn, includes pain. Of course, they can’t actually physically hurt someone’s body, but boy, does it feel like it; the mind thinks that thing is real, so that person’s pain receptors will flare up just as if a real tiger, debris or gunshot had just hit them, and they will feel any fatigue that comes from losing blood, breaking bones, or having their head crushed, to the point that serious wounds could knock one unconscious or send their body into shock, a potentially lethal ailment.

While it is an extremely versatile Quirk, allowing one to recreate a potentially infinite amount of phenomena, however, it does come with enough downsides to prevent it from being the all-powerful illusions one has grown accustomed to seeing in Shonen manga.

The first drawback is in the amount of damage it can. While psychosomatic damage is no joke, Horrid Reality deals less damage than any other Quirk in the same rank. Another issue is that Gen can only produce one illusion at a time. However, the biggest problem is related to verisimilitude. The more real an illusion is, the more it can hurt you. Likewise, the faker it feels, the weaker it is. As such, characters with an Awareness rank higher than this ability take less damage from it and perceive the illusions to be less potent across the board.

Finally, if a character discovers Horrid Reality’s true nature as an illusion, they are immune to its effects for the rest of the thread.