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In Aizawa´s test, Izu did worse than everyone else. Was that the truth? Maybe so, but the guy who can lift fridges is not stronger or faster than the others? (bc if he was that is against AM 10 months and all this kid got as exercise is to clean a beach alone, holy shit Izu is failed by so many people wow)

I don't know if the author is being malicious against Izu (too early for that) or if he is incompetent (or both, really)

No one in UA helps Izu in any way. And he helped against villains (true, he wasn't the only one, but still)

If Izu was doing poorly in terms of strength and agility, than people like Mineta (which I´m sorry, I can't believe it), it marks once again how he doesn't fit in with heroes.

If Aoyama was called Aesop´s bat, then Izu is the ugly duckling. "Oh, but in the story, the ugly duckling became a swan," but for the other ducks, that particular duck IS still hideous.

Hi @mikeellee 👋

From my understanding, the quirk apprehension test is actually the student's quirkless middle school exercise exams, except the only difference here is that they're using their quirks. Aizawa states that he got his results based on calculating their average score.

Now, this makes sense as here students can use their quirks to get a really good score on one test and cover up for tests that they might not be able to do so well on. So, for example, shoji could use his quirk for grip strength and the ball throw test to cover for the sprint test that he might not do so well on due to the nature of his quirk.

However, there are students such as Toruu and Mineta whose quirks may not help them with any of the tests so they would perform at their middle school quirkless level however, there are multiple reasons as to why izuku got last place.

Throughout the tests, Izuku didn't use his quirk at all, focusing on not overexerting himself and accidently breaking his bones. This would have already put him on the bottom half of the list, and even if he has all mights training, that doesn't compete with the rest of the class.

After Izuku uses his quirk and injures himself, he still has to continue, and that did heavily affect his performance on the remaining tests, which would have been his speciality since they were long distance running and a few other tests. Izuku does state that the pain was so bad and that it was definitely a contributing factor as to his low scores.

Horikoshi has set this to be an underdog narrative, so Izuku being at the bottom of the list makes sense if we view it based on Horikoshi's intent

When we are given the leaderboard we aren't actually ever told anyone's scores so even if Izuku did end up at the bottom of the list he could have had really close scores to Mineta and toruu meaning that if it wasn't for the pain due to his finger breaking he could have probably secured a place in the 18th spot or somewhere along that area.

However, the quirk apprehension test does make you question and critique aizawa's teaching style. Is it really ethical to let a student with a broken finger continue? Or to let that child go through his schooling, not knowing how to control his quirk in a safe manner? Is it okay to NOT punish a student after that student tried attacking another student with his quirk?

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But ALSO! The best thing about writing injuries is that there is so much variation.

I spent a few years as an EMT, and I saw people walk away from vehicle rollovers with nary a scratch... and also, I saw people break their knees because they sat down. I've seen a guy get lifelong impairments out of falling off something twelve feet high, but I know someone who survived being stabbed over a dozen times with no lasting (physical) injuries. There's range.

In nearly any given situation*, a realistic level of injury is anywhere from "Dies within five minutes" to "Dies 73 years later surrounded by grandchildren and great-grandchildren, having zero long-lasting repercussions from that incident."

*Not every situation, mind you; papercuts are generally exempt

If you don't mind a ramble (because I haven't done a fun character injury ramble in a while so I shall use this as an excuse)...

The key to writing realistic injuries is to start with what you want to happen. It's your character and your scenario, so start with what you want to happen for Plot Reasons.

Example:

You know your character gets in a car crash with a wall, and you want them laid up for a week, but able to move around with minimal pain soon after. Cool. Now that you have your desired outcome, you can run through the scenario. You won't want your character ejected or to have a major head impact with the windshield, so they were wearing their seatbelt. You want them to still be able to walk, so the dashboard probably didn't crumple in on them. That means they were either in a car with good safety ratings, or they weren't going super fast, or a combination thereof. But you do want them a little bit injured, enough so they don't want to go on that hiking trip for another week, so make sure they were going fast enough to get some good ol' whiplash.

Another example:

You want your character to make a dramatic exit out the window, and you want them to be limping a little for dramatic effect as they head off into the forest surrounding the castle. Nice, we love a good dramatic window exit. But you want to make sure the character won't be out of commission for the battle in a fortnight's time. This could totally be a first-floor window, or even a second-floor one. But what if it really needs to be the fourth floor, for pre-existing scenario reasons? Well, maybe there's a balcony halfway down. Or maybe there's a nice slanted roof underneath that broke their fall. Or maybe the castle is built into a cliff so the windows on that side of the castle are only ten feet up. Or maybe they clung onto ivy outside, which ripped out of the wall a bit but was enough to slow them down. There's all sorts of ways you can play this off!

Rather than trying to make a scenario and then fitting the injury into it, come up with the injury (or at least, level of injury) and plan out the details of your scenario around it.

The only caution is to make sure to build scenarios realistically—like, I could totally see a character being able to keep going after being stabbed because it was a shallow wound. But if they get a shallow stab wound... and they only get ✨grazed✨ by a bullet... and they happen to survive a terrible car accident because they were in the best possible seat... AND they were pushed out of an airplane but their BFF managed to skydive right out after them and caught them... that's getting to be a little much. XD Any of those is realistic except maybe the last; IDK, I know injuries, not skydiving, but too many near-misses in a single story starts to feel like plot armor.

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

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