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Origins

The product of All For One's endless Quirk breedings, Kalani is one of over five hundred children descending from the world's greatest villain. Her mother was a former hero known as Wonder, who had gained infamy in her career through her unique ability to change her physical features at will. At the height of her career, she had been projected to breach the rankings of the top five heroes in the United States, with fans from every corner of the world.

But the problem with being famous is that everyone knows who you are, even the villains. Such a flashy, transformative Quirk could easily be crossed with All For One to produce an ability to transform the very nature of Quirks themselves, the exact thing AFO himself had been seeking for decades. Enticed by the potential benefits of such an ability, AFO staged an attack within the area Wonder resided in, seeking to draw her into his trap. And that's exactly what she did.

Wonder went missing without a trace, and despite the usage of highly decorated search and rescue teams, not a hair could be found. It was as if she had been scooped up and transported to another realm entirely. In a sense, that's exactly what had happened. In the midst of the battle, a teleportation Quirk had been used to capture Wonder, dumping her into a chamber beneath the elaborate maze of Tokyo, celled amongst several women, both heroes, villains, and common, all held for the purpose of Quirk breeding. If their children were ideal, their Quirks were taken, but regardless of the product, both mother and baby were spit out onto Tokyo streets in an area so saturated by the homeless population that their stories and voices would soon be washed away.

Wonder, like many, was kept in a coma for most of her pregnancy to prevent unnecessary stress and attempts to self-abort the children they carried. From conception to birth, Wonder only spent a week of time awake, while sleeping throughout the rest of it. She closed her eyes at seven months pregnant and then suddenly woke to the sharp, excruciating pain of a rushed, last-minute c-section. During her stasis, her body had failed to enter labor, and with her muscles now withered, the captive medical student on hand had no choice but to rush a last-minute c-section, cutting the baby's nose in his frenzy.

But, as was with over fifty percent of her siblings, Kalani was born without a Quirk at all, as the nature of OFA's Quirk made it difficult to pass down naturally. The only thing that set her apart from the Quirkless was the trademark advancements that come from OFA's bloodline. In a sense, Kalani was born with a bigger cup, capable of handling a larger Quirk factor. A perfect host for taking on multiple Quirks. But that was nothing special; AFO already had hundreds of children with a similar story, and Kalani was no different.

Childhood

Wonder and Kalani were dropped off on Japan streets before Wonder's stitches could be healed, leaving them to scrounge for scraps in the dirty underbelly of the city. And though Wonder tried her best to prove her identity and go home, her Quirk had been stolen, and the National Heroes Association refused to risk broadcasting her story to the world, fearing it would cause a decline in career heroes. Instead, they silenced Wonder with a fully furnished home in a fishing town and left her to fend for herself, this time in the comfort of a house. The best they could do, they said.

It wasn't enough. With the trauma of kidnapping, legal bindings to a baby she never wanted, and crippling pain from an improperly healed c-section, Wonder fell into a cycle. Waking up to send her daughter to school, taking jobs in exchange for prescription painkillers, and getting high on whatever drugs she could get her hands on. Whatever it took to numb the pain and escape. Even the introduction of a boyfriend, supportive in every way she could have ever wanted, couldn't prevent her vicious downward spiral. Drowning in the rages of painful withdrawals, becoming violent with her family, and often going days without being seen, Wonder was no longer the hero she once was. Instead, she had become every bit of a villain as the ones she had once fought.

From the age of three, Kalani was raised by her adoptive father, a fisherman named Ousuke, who had the unique ability to duplicate every fish he caught. A local to the area, Ousuke had grown up on the harbor in an impoverished, loving family and had always wanted to have a family of his own. Kalani wasn't his biological daughter, but he named and raised her as if she was, remaining tied in a toxic relationship for the sake of keeping her in his life. He would bring her toys fashioned after popular heroes, helped her learn to read and through homework troubles, anything she needed, she got. And to Wonder's dismay, Kalani wanted to be a hero despite having no Quirk of her own.

At six years old, Kalani hadn't yet realized that not every child came home to a warzone. She'd thought it to be normal that every mother hit her father, shrieking in between threats to kick him out of the home if he didn't give her a portion of his paycheck. And she surely hadn't known that when she jumped in front of the swinging hammer, hoping to be a hero and save her dad, her mom would strike her in the skull. Not once. Not twice. But as many times as it would take for her cranium to split wide open. Anything to make those damned red eyes stop looking at Wonder.

By all counts, Kalani was dead when she was placed in her bed, to be dealt with at another time. Unknowingly leaving her in the presence of an ancient God of the planet Kithodite, who had just found its next host. A Quirkless child, young enough to adapt and with a bigger-than-average cup that could hold its ability. Presenting itself in a dream, Kythorus overtook Kalani's corpse, infusing with her very being and bringing life back to her eyes. Within the span of six hours, her body rebuilt itself, and purple wings sprouted from her back. A Quirk.

To her mother's horror, Kalani woke the next day without a singular memory of what had happened, excitedly showing off the new wings so new that could barely carry her own weight. Such a sudden, impossible thing that immediately attracted the eyes of the newspaper, headlining about a little girl who had developed a Quirk late. On the flip side of the same coin, it also attracted the attention of the Future Heroes Brigade, a company fronting as a school for future heroes, who immediately made a cash offer in exchange for legal custody of Kalani.

It went without question. Three days after the appearance of her Quirk, Kalani found herself being hauled away from her school bus and to an unmarked van. Money exchanged hands, and suddenly, she was being driven through the oversized gates of the Hero Brigade. Though beautiful on the outside, the inside of the Brigade was anything but. From the moment she entered, Kalani was placed in a white room with nothing but a rock and an elderly woman with one task. Kill the woman with the rock.

Determined to be the hero she had always wanted to be, Kalani held out for nine days before the old woman took matters into her own hands and beat herself with the rock. At the end of her wits, Kalani answered her pleas to finish the job, but that wasn't enough. Again, she was placed in a room with an elderly woman and a dull stone. This time, she killed the woman before she could even process what was happening.

Following her entrance examination, Kalani identified and known as K3L1, was placed into Unit XPR-13 with several other children who had been acquired by the system. These kids weren't in the system to become heroes. Instead, they were employed and trained to perform the dirty work hidden amongst hero society, assassinating political figures and snipping villain uprisings before they could even begin. Suffering through grueling training, topped by extensive testing and examinations, the kids bonded like no other. Becoming more and more dependent on each other as time went on.

By the time Kalani and several of her friends had turned thirteen, they had been deployed on over forty missions, of which had amassed a ninety-eight percent success rate. At the top of the Brigade ranks and building into a considerable force, the team was everything they were trained to be. With the budding strength of Kalani's Quirk, she could produce undefined energy within her own body, building it up until she was strong enough to brute force into what is known as Imaginary Time, a parallel dimension in which all things travel at the speed of sound. By entering this dimension, she could move about in a manner invisible to the naked eye and had mastered the technique of placing her hands within her target's heart, effectively exploding it once she re-entered in real-time.

But success could not save her from disaster, as the team were ambushed by a family of villains with highly destructive Quirks, and Kalani's leg was shattered as a "warning" to the Brigade. If their strongest fighter could be defeated, then so could the Brigade. With a crippled left leg and permanent damage, Kalani was marked for decommissioning, effective immediately. Hauled from her bed and paraded down the hall, her immediate fate was sealed.

Until she was claimed by a woman seeking to enter former Brigade children in her facility, hoping to give them a better life.

Another Life

However, this facility wasn't all it was cracked up to be, either. Rather than finding a comfortable balance of Quirk usage and gradually easing the kids into the realities of the real world, Kalani found herself shocked by the real world, unable to adapt and floundering to understand these harsh new rules. No Quirk usage at all. No speaking without permission. Sit down, study, and always bear the shame of what she had been forced to do under the Brigade's rule. There was no forgiveness here, only punishment, a heavy-handed misguidance that had hoped to fix the kids and did nothing but.

A problem soon arose with this new life; Kalani's Quirk is constantly stockpiling energy, even when out of use, becoming difficult to control and contain. The solution was simple: using her Quirk. But with the intense rules and regulations placed upon her, that was virtually impossible, leading Kalani to struggle with her own composure and being labeled as a danger.

At fourteen, Kalani's room was changed, placing her with a boy known as Touya, a quiet boy at most times but could become quite snappy when particular topics were brought up. Fortunately for both of them, Kalani wasn't a talkative soul, preferring to listen to his outbursts without much concern; his words were loud, sure, but they were nothing compared to that of former drill sergeants. In time, they bonded, developing a preference to remain around each other, often sneaking off into the city and using their Quirks in their bedroom. Kalani's name comes from Touya's misunderstanding; with poor eyesight and no glasses, he'd jumbled up her name K3L1 from the beginning, and the name simply stuck.

In the room on the other side of the wall, another boy was placed: a blue-haired kid by the name of Tenko, whose television remained at such a loud volume that it kept Kalani and Touya awake long into the night. One can only handle so many Super Mario quotes before they begin to meet their limit. It was the fifth night when Touya stormed out of the bedroom and banged on Tomura's door, demanding that the moron turn down the volume. Only, Tomura wasn't in the room at all, simply using a YouTube playthrough to make it seem as if he really were there. In fact, Kalani swiftly figured out that the kid was on the roof. Tomura wasn't exactly the friendliest kid in the building, but he was far from the worst that they'd met. In fact, he was quite easy to get along with, just another lonely soul caught up in the trenches of this rehabilitation facility. In the blink of an eye, the duo became a trio.

For a year long period, Kalani, Tenko, and Touya maintained their routine of venturing out in the night, mapping out their landscape until Touya's foggy mind could recognize where he was, where his home was. Tenko revealed that Tomura was the name assigned by someone he called his master, but a streak of rebellion led him to use his birth name from a family he refused to speak of; it even resulted in their pipedream game of heroes. Kalani shared her past on the longer nights, and slowly, being around each other became something they needed as much as they did air to breathe. From Tenko 'accidentally' disintegrating the wall separating their rooms to seeking out Touya's childhood home together, they couldn't be separated.

Then Tenko discovered a functioning video camera in the trash, and it was as if a whole new world had been unlocked. Recording their nightly wanderings, games, and every other bit of shenanigans that kids their age could get up to. Documenting their process of storing journals, photographs, and trinkets in a time capsule beneath an abandoned playground, playing with quirks and the intricate storylines they created for their hero games. By all accounts, they were one step away from turning over a new leaf together.

One fateful night, a plan to escape the facility was hatched. An already difficult task, made even harder when factoring in Tenko's master, who always seemed to be keeping tabs on him. But they had an idea: leave in the dead of night when not a soul was awake. They'd make it out the window, using Kalani's gift of flight to manage the three-story drop. She was strong enough to carry them one at a time. They'd checked. Then, Touya would cause a raging fire, and they'd leave behind indications they had been killed in the flames. They weren't sure of where they'd go, but wherever they went, it was better than staying here.

The first part of the plan went off without a hitch. Slipping out of the building while the security cameras were in their thirty-second reboot window. Touya set the blaze near some of their old clothes, and Tenko disintegrated some of their hair to leave behind vague DNA traces to confirm their presence. But there was an overwhelming kink in the plan; the very person Tenko had so desperately been trying to flee. The kids stood no chance against the ground falling out from beneath them, and while Kalani could fly, she could only grab one person, Touya, but a well-timed strike to the head had him crumbling to the ground in an instant. Unconscious. Tenko pleaded for her to run; he would sort this out and meet her tomorrow at noon beneath the clock tower.

Touya woke, not remembering who Kalani was at all. That was okay, she would wait for Tenko; surely he'd have an idea to resolve it. But noon came and passed, and surely, she must have misunderstood. He would come the next day! Or the next...or maybe he meant next week...or the one after that? It was futile, Kalani understood that full well, but eight weeks came and went, sitting beneath the clock tower at noon, and Tenko never appeared. On the ninth, a shop owner had her reported for loitering, and the law swiftly figured out what lurked on her record.

This time, she had been identified as the biological daughter of All For One, and fearing another supersized villain, the girl had been condemned to a life akin to that of a prisoner. Training her Quirk to fight when needed, sleeping in a cell, and having a series of trackers installed in her body, Kalani was a vessel of the government, used to power industrial energies and licensed to fight in low-level crime that heroes could not be bothered with.

This was the life Kalani quietly lived with. Succumbing to her ill-fitting life because, at the end of the day, it gave her a chance to become better. It was far from ideal; living in shame of her past was misery, but objecting risked making herself out to become more of a villain than she was already seen as. So, she put up with it. Growing older in the system, with a Quirk that continued to perplex those around her, and despite endless questioning, she could never explain what her power was.

Class 1-A

She was seventeen when she was sent into a routine nomu battle. Older, wiser, and thoroughly trained, she was already on par with mid-level heroes and could be trusted to dispatch lower-tier creatures without requiring assistance. Unknowingly, this nomu was a middle-tier, whom class 1-A had already found themselves fighting against before Kalani's arrival. A half-thought-out attempt at combining forces panned out surprisingly successfully. For reasons unknown to them, combined attacks from Kalani and Deku resulted in a supercharging of energy, skyrocketing the strength of their hits. Not only that, but they were the only team to take it down without a single civilian injury.

The only injuries that occurred were Kalani and Deku quite literally being knocked out of the sky, landing miles away, and being forced to head back on foot. The trek was an hour long at most, almost entirely uphill, but unpleasant was the last word Kalani could use to describe it. Deku, though full of questions, was pleasant to talk to; he reminded her of Tenko, in a way, always observing the things going on around them and taking notes, though Deku was much more obvious about it. They even wore the same obnoxious red shoes. But their friendship was short-lived, as police presence swiftly ordered Kalani to leave and refused to allow the two to maintain contact.

The thing about this Deku kid is that he's as smart as he looks. It wasn't difficult to trace the outline of the police badges back to a singular station on the opposite side of the country. The facility lacked long-term cells, and they were within the radius of one prison; if they were holding Kalani, she would have to be there. Curiosity led him right to Principal Nezu's door, formally requesting to meet with her, and within the week, he was at her door, burning with more questions than she had answers for. Soon, it became apparent that she was being held for no legal reason at all; she had done nothing wrong, and that's ultimately what led to her discharge.

It was difficult, convincing Nezu to take in this new student who couldn't possibly pay the tuition, but one way or another, Deku's campaign was successful. Kalani wasn't exactly sure what to make of this whole school thing; her Quirk ability and qualifications put her up in the official hero classification, but her education was severely lacking as a direct result. She struggled to catch up with the class, was far behind in math, and was unsure of how to wrap her mind around several of the subjects. Hours upon hours were spent in tutoring sessions with both official U.A. teachers and her new classmates until she finally began to grasp the concepts.

It was a two-way deal; for all the effort the class put into helping her studies, she returned via the gym. Being in the Brigade had brought immense knowledge of the battlefield and unique techniques lost to the school's teachings. It shouldn't have come as a surprise that she would befriend the class's top members, finding that Shoto often shared the same cluelessness as she did, Izuku was as eager to understand her Quirk as she was, and Bakugo was a hell of a sparring partner. It was through them that she learned her Careflight move, swooping in to catch her companions with a harness, and that her Quirk came from a God mentioned in an old children's book of Shoto's.

Mall visits were regular for the group. If not to shop, then to grab a bite to eat, browse, and waste what little free time they had. An adventure out of town put them right next to that old clock tower Kalani once waited by, but even now, she didn't see that familiar mop of blue hair. No matter where she went, she didn't see him. But as Bakugou put it, she was wasting her time by always seeking Tenko in crowds. Crude, but she could see where he was coming from. It's easier to forget than to constantly get her hopes up.

Kalani was present during the Jaku Hospital Raid, one of the many students tasked with evacuating residents, a simple thing that she didn't entirely mind. When Deku and Bakugou ran off together, she was the next to be sent looking for them, flying high above the sky in search of her friends. A battle wasn't what she expected to stumble upon, but it was fight now, ask questions later. Except...that white-haired villain they called Shigaraki looked kind of... Stopping in the middle of an attack is the last thing anyone should do. Not when on an active battlefield full of Japan's most dangerous villains. But Kalani recognized this face.

Tenko.

For a second, it was as if the battle around them had ceased because Kalani had found her old friend, and Tenko thought her to be dead. He didn't even believe she was real until she became caught in the crossfire of an attack, bumping into him in the fallout. But this was no place for a tearful reunion, and the pair quickly parted before their chosen sides could realize the oddity going on. Worst of all, this so-called Dabi villain, with his blue flames and wild eyes, was a familiar face, too. Touya.

Following the fight, Kalani was the one to overhear heroes, coming to the conclusion that erasing the students from official records was for the best. Public backlash would be too high if they went through with naming the kids involved. The students were meant to be safe at school, after all, not risking their lives on the battlefield. Injured, infuriated, and a bit irrational, she relayed the information to a handful of her classmates, ensuring they passed it along before vanishing from the hospital entirely. Her destination? She didn't know that yet.

The entirety of hero society collapsed overnight; schools became refugees that put education on pause. The city became a desolate warzone. Villains flooded the area, and civilians became their own defenders, discriminating against certain Quirk users and hoarding resources for themselves. Anarchy at its finest. Granting the perfect opportunity for her to venture through collapsed buildings, scraping together the hard proof of the names who had been erased from the battle and all those who had been wiped before her. What she would do with it, she wasn't entirely sure, but it was better to have it than not.

In the night, Tenko appeared, in a rare moment of control and without the companionship of his new friends. He'd seen her die all those years ago, so why was she standing in front of him? Where did things go wrong? Why didn't he come like he'd promised? How did he get Touya back? Did he remember yet? Too many questions. Not enough time. And it was so, so strange to stand in front of the older versions of each other; Tenko was no longer the scraggly teenager. and Kalani finally grew into her wings. Touch was too dangerous, and yet, peace came in the form of foreheads pressing together as if to ensure the other was real. The visit only lasted a night, but it was the nicest one either had felt in a long time.

During this time, Kalani unintentionally reunited with an unrecognizable version of Deku, having run into each other during a fight. What in the hell happened to him, she wasn't sure, but Izuku was insisting that she go back home to the safety of U.A. But if she needed to be there, then so did he! The real problem with two hard-headed people is that you get nowhere and wind up in a stalemate. Kalani followed him despite protests and attempts to lose her. Deku stubbornly ignored her offers to keep watch while he rested, always insisting he was fine until he would inevitably fall asleep anyway. And Kalani spent way, way too much time forcing him into barely working showers.

Exhaustion is one of those things that really open the heart up. Deku confessed the truth of his Quirk, the same as he had done for his classmates, and in turn, Kalani recounted her past. The vile things she had been forced to do as a child, what kind of monster she was raised to become. How her only friends, Touya and Tenko, turned out to be the biggest villains on the field.

Fighting wasn't something they had the luxury of denying; if it found them, or Izuku stumbled upon it, then they had to engage. There was simply no other way to go about it. But the thing about poor sleep, little food, and excessive Quirk usage is that it runs one's battery down in the blink of an eye. By the time Class 1-A arrived to persuade Izuku to come home, Kalani willingly fluttered down and rested with Shoji, too tired to put up a fight herself. She was nowhere to be found when the truth of the battle somehow made its way to the public ear, and never gave a clear answer as to whether she was the source of the leak or not.

Her presence during the final battle was spotty at first, not quite engaging in battle and instead playing the role of support by stretching her skills to those who called for her. However, she made an appearance towards the end of Touya's final fight, having remained out of the family battle, and for reasons unknown, Touya recognized her. His old friend from when they were kids. Though on the brink of death, Touya was still trying to fire up a charge, one that went out when his old friend came to sit with him. He couldn't speak more than a word, but none of them needed to be shared to begin with.

At some point, she was summoned by Tenya, sending her into the center of the battle between All For One, Deku, Bakugo, and Tenko. Their friends had been struck in the air and, for a moment, were rendered unconscious, plummeting toward the destroyed ground below. With Tenya's quirk acting as a second pair of winds, the two descended after them, ripping through imaginary time in order to reach their friends before disaster struck.

Save Deku (Main Timeline)

In the primary timeline, Kalani jumped up to save Deku from a fatal blast, leaving Tenya to catch Bakugo in the nick of time, but was still struck by an unusual Quirk that produced pearls from her and Deku's Quirks. With Kyatorite activated, her second attack produced a blast that launched All For One in one direction and herself in another. Creating immense space that provided Deku with the time needed to get back on his feet.

Save Bakugo (Alternate Timeline)

In an alternate timeline, Kalani lunged for Bakugo instead, catching him before he could hit the ground, but was still struck by an unusual Quirk that produced pearls from her and Bakugo's Quirks. However, this pearl disappeared within an instant, as it had been sucked into another universe entirely. With Kyatorite activated, Kalani's second attack combined with Bakugo's, producing a blast that cratered a portion of the city and created a veil of debris—concealing them from view and allowing Bakugo to take advantage of the cover.

Post War

In both timelines, Kalani found herself on the winning side of the war. Exhausted, pushed to a new limit, and with recurring memories of another war, she, like all of her classmates, was never the same again. But she still pushed through U.A. Remaining bound to the class in more ways than one, always vying for the top spots in classes and finding herself on a few dates with Izuku, the adventure never truly stopped. Society may have shifted, but their relationships never did. But what kind of future was she destined for?

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