UnOrdinary x Talentless Nana AU Part 1
(You should watch Talentless Nana episode 1 before reading this, but you don’t have to)
-All children with abilities are sent to a boarding school once they reach high school age and are summoned. Wellston Boarding School is situated on an island and trained to one day fight “enemies of humanity” who showed up decades ago and caused millions of deaths
-John is an outcast due to the other students seeing him as weak. He tries his best to just live a normal life, but he occasionally gets harassed by bullies
-One day, the school attains two new students: Arlo, who is silent and apathetic, and Seraphina who is decently nice and cool. Arlo refuses to share his ability and Sera states hers is mind reading
-Sera gravitates towards John and the two spend some time together, with him showing her around. When they’re on the seaside cliff, Sera almost falls after the rope snaps, but John saves her
-The next day, the class starts talking about their eventual fight with the enemies of humanity, and decide they should have a group of leaders. Remi comes up with the Royal Hierarchy but is hesitant about it, but the rest of the kids go along with it. When they’re trying to nominate a King, Sera says they should choose John, which the others laugh off
-Later that day, John tells Sera off for throwing him out there. She asks if he’s scared to take a leader position due to his past and John blows up at her for reading his mind. She continues saying she understands what it’s like being under a lot of pressure but John leaves her
-The next day, Blyke and Isen are fighting over who gets to be King and the rest of the class is watching. The two get heated up, endangering the class in the process, and just when Sera is about to get hit by one of Blyke’s beams. John activates his ability to protect her. He can copy others abilities one at a time, first using Isen’s to tank the shot and then Blyke’s to stop the two
-The rest of the class is surprised at his talent, and Sera walks up to him, saying she knew he’d be a good leader
-Later the two meet up at the seaside cliff and talk about John’s ability. Sera asks if he can copy her ability and John says he isn’t sure since hers is a psychic one. He then states it might work if they touched each other, then realizing what he said, becomes flustered. Sera instead grabs his hand and asks if he can tell what she’s thinking. John tries hard but doesn’t pick up anything, before he fully states it though he feels a tug on his arm.
-In an instant, Sera pulls John over the edge and he barely has enough time to grab the rope. Sera then reveals she actually has no talent at all and just made use of what she found out about him in his files and what she observed to manipulate him. John wonders if she’s an enemy of humanity but Sera then responds that it’s actually the talented who are the true enemies
-With nothing else to say, Sera tells John to die and he eventually lets go of he rope, plunging into the sea surrounded by sharp rocks. Sera then looks at her phone, seeing “John Doe Estimated Kill Count: 10 million”
For character connections, Sera is Nana, John is Nanao, Arlo is Kyoya, and Evie is Michiru. Some of the characters abilities are adjusted to be stronger to better fit the “super power” theme. Also Rei and Remi are related in this AU, but they’re cousins instead. Ember and Spectre are also the same group now, with them keeping the name Ember and the overall government control, but having Spectre’s goal of weakening the talented
And for why Sera is saying she can read minds instead of her time ability, it’s simply because mind reading’s a lot more easy to fake and easier for me to write around
