#amalysis

Just something I was thinking about. It’s stated in canon at the very beginning that around 20% of population is quirkless (i’ve checked the wikia just to make sure), yet you don’t really see it.

 Sure the entire plot focuses on the heroes, hence those with strong quirks, yet despite the fact that literally 1 out of 5 people in the world doesn’t have any powers, you don’t see any quirkless people, even as background characters. There aren’t any mentions of quirkless people besides Izuku and All Might (the heroes who got their quirks takes away don’t count, since they were still born with a quirk).

We know that long time ago the first quirk manifested in China, and since then there was a boom of people born with powers, so it’s safe to say that over time the quirks outnumbered the quirkless. It’s never explained how genetics work in the universe, some of the scenarios I’ve been thinking about:

if a quirkless person and a person with a quirk have a child, what are the chances or their offspring being quirkless, versus inheriting a quirk form the other parent

if a quirk gene is dominant that would explain a somehow fast skip in evolution (the time when the first quirk appears seems to somewhat around our times, maybe a decade or two earlier, while the canon takes place in not so distant future, although correct me if im wrong on that)

i was wondering if part of the reason for such fast decline in quirkless people would be the fact that as the quirks became more widespread the quirkless started getting taunted and bullied by those with powers, which means it was less likely for a quirkless person to get in a relationship with a quirk person and have children.

Possible angst scenario - what if there were radical groups trying to rid the world of quirkless in some countries, believing that they were weak and those people should go extinct to purify the race (getting real dark real fast? sorry but i feel like it’s a rather dark, yet realistic sounding possibility given that the history tends to repeat itself and i cant imagine the bnhaverse having somewhat better morales than the world we live in given the evidence of how badly izuku was bullied for being quirkless, but the genocide of quirkless is something for another discussion)

So the point I was getting at was, given how evolution works, it’s plausible to beleive that each year less quirkless people are born due to evolution and dominant genetics, meaning that out of those 20% of quirkless people it’s safe to say that more of them are older people for previous generations.

No but listen. None of these boys really got to stay children. Ace, Sabo and Luffy lived in hard environments where they had to grow up and take care of themselves and each other. That doesn’t mean they do not let themselves be childish, Luffy especially. But do you ever think how much Sabo is like Luffy but Ace doesn’t act much like his brothers. At least not as much as Sabo and Luffy act like one another. 

I think it all has to do with Sabo’s “death”. In the long run not much changed for Luffy. He learned the hard lesson of losing someone he held very dear but he was able to move on. That’s just how Luffy is, he doesn’t hold on to things and lets them fester.

Luffy and Sabo had people looking out for them in a way Ace didn’t have, not really. Dadan cared about her boys but she didn’t exactly do her best. She did what she needed to in order to keep her boys alive and left the rest up to them. Garp was never around and when he was he did nothing but pummel the kids, calling it “training”. Makino taught Ace but she lived, what we assume to be, hours away and her visits were a rare treat. 

Sabo had a lot more then both Luffy and Ace. His life was in no way made easier, growing up to be a trained soldier of the Revolutionaries but he had a lot of help. He had a proper roof over his head, was being fed, there were other kids to interact with. People were not only teaching him to fight but giving him educational lessons as well. 

Luffy had to be a little more self reliant because all he really had was Ace. Like I said Dadan did the bare minimum, Garp was too absent and Makino couldn’t be there for him like she was when he lived in Foosha. What he did have was an older brother for forced himself to “grow up”.

Ace lost the first person he had ever had such a close relationship with. And shortly after he had almost lost Luffy due to a careless action he made. So I think that really gave Ace clarity and a drive. I totally believe he grew up trying to be the brother Ace thought Sabo was in their group. Sabo was in no way “better” then Ace. He was reckless, rude, crude and has as much of a knack for trouble as Ace did. But he though through things more.

Sabo had more of a “proper” education leading up to the point he ran away so as a result he knew more things about the world outside their forest than Ace did. That made him the “smart” one. He has a slightly less volatile temper then Ace when made him seem more level headed and kinder. So I believe Ace used his idea of Sabo as his model growing up. It’s not really unusual to idealize someone after they’ve died after all. 

So Ace grew into an adult he thought he should be. He learned manners and learned to keep a better lid on his temperament. He grew to value the lives of the people around him and grew protective because in a moment they could be whisked away. 

note the consistency of the frame in this series of analytical mappings.

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