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You can find more chapters, one for 18+ will be uploaded soon.
I was going to upload this chapter tomorrow, but I decided to upload it today since it's Saturday, and at night many people have time to read.
Before we begin, let's give a big round of applause to -Netra- and -Meruem Astro-, the first to support the project! Both are level two donors, and their support really motivated me. Thanks to that, I already have three more chapters: one ready to upload to Patreon, another in the editing stage, and one more in progress... which, by the way, will be the first 18+ chapter I've ever written 😳.
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Two weeks later...
In the basement, Astra silently watched as several men writhed inside capsules before her. Her eyes gleamed with a cold light as she took meticulous notes in a notebook.
"Project: Sweet Quirks. Initial phase complete."
Thus began her experiments—to expand her quirk.
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The faint hum of the containment capsules filled the basement, blending with the labored breathing of their occupants. Astra observed them with the meticulousness of a scientist faced with an unknown phenomenon.
Inside the capsules, several human figures trembled, their bodies distorted by the influence of the sweets.
A middle-aged man with a telekinesis quirk muttered incoherently, his gaze lost in the void, as if an invisible battle were raging within him.
Next to him, a young woman with regeneration laughed and cried at the same time, her face trapped in contradictory expressions.
The third lay collapsed, breathing heavily, as if his own mind had forgotten who he was.
Astra took notes in her notebook with a neutral expression.
"Consuming a Sweet Person causes unpredictable reactions in humans with quirks. If the subject's will is strong enough, a second identity may emerge. In some cases, a completely new entity. In others, the original psyche fragments, plunging the individual into madness or total confusion."
She paused, her eyes fixed on the capsules.
Unlike me, they can't absorb the will of the transformed being over time. They don't have my biology. They aren't Majin.
What's happening to them is similar to what happened to the original Majin Buu...
Her mind wandered through the memories.
Fat Majin Buu had been born after absorbing the Supreme Kaioshin, a being of unwavering will and absolute goodness.
Although he lost most of his power after sealing Moro, his essence was still strong enough to alter Buu's very nature.
It wasn't just absorption, but a transformation. But the Kaioshin's will didn't disappear… it integrated. Over time, its influence became the dominant aspect of Buu, to the point of taking full control of his body momentarily in the future.
A shiver ran down Astra's spine.
If a creature born of chaos and destruction could change simply by absorbing someone with overwhelming will…
What would happen to her?
If she devoured someone with a strong enough personality, would she still be Astra? Or would she become an amalgamation of conflicting wills, unable to recognize herself?
She clenched her jaw.
It wasn't an unfounded assumption.
She saw it in her experiments. She knew it from the history of Dragon Ball.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a moment.
When she opened them again, she took her notebook and wrote firmly:
"Provisional conclusion: absorption is not just physical. Identity is a battleground. If I want to remain myself, I must choose very carefully whom I devour. Someone with a strong enough will could make me lose myself..."
As she wrote these words, Astra recalled something, a scene from the manga she hadn't fully considered: Deku and the other holders of OFA
"The quirk and the individual's will are linked."
That idea echoed in her mind with each experiment. It wasn't just that the sweetened people retained their will... the quirk itself seemed to exert an influence over them.
She thought about All For One. His ability to steal quirks wasn't just physical; it also involved absorbing the will of their original users.
Traces of the original users persisted in him, somehow trapped within the stolen quirks, something that could be seen when quirks revealed themselves against him, wanting to destroy AFO's Quirk Will.
Then there was the example of Tomura Shigaraki. Astra narrowed her eyes. In the canon, Tomura lost his identity after merging with AFO.
It wasn't an instantaneous process, but a gradual transformation in which AFO's will ended up molding him until he no longer knew who he was. It wasn't simple possession, but a progressive absorption.
"This isn't exclusive to them... It's something inherent in quirks."
Each quirk contained a fraction of its original user's will. They weren't just abilities; they were manifestations of their wielders. Astra put a hand to her chin, reflecting.
"If quirks can influence identity... what happens when someone acquires multiple?"
The answer was right in front of her.
Her experiments proved it. The sweetened subjects didn't just gain powers, they also underwent mental changes.
In some cases, their personalities fragmented; in others, a new identity emerged.
Their bodies and minds simply weren't designed to host more than one will at a time.
But there were exceptions...
All For One, Deku, Shigaraki after his transformation, Astra, and to a lesser extent, Nine with his limitations.
Outside of them, almost no one could handle multiple quirks. It was like Dabi's resistance to fire: his body couldn't handle his flame. Similarly, ordinary people weren't prepared to manage more than one quirk without consequences.
Astra, on the other hand, could.
"I don't just absorb quirks... I digest them."
She didn't store them like AFO, nor did she inherit and enhance them like OFA. She consumed them slowly, integrating them over time. Her mind wasn't just a container, but a process in itself.
Suddenly, she remembered something else: Majin Buu's internal dimension. That strange space where Goku and Vegeta found the Z fighters trapped in capsules.
That core defined his transformation: by releasing his victims, Buu himself changed.
Astra closed her eyes for a moment, connecting the dots.
"I have something like that too."
Inside her consciousness, she perceived a similar space: an internal domain where the absorbed quirks remained on standby, still linked to traces of those who had possessed them.
There, she found the remnants of the slime she had consumed... and other powers still in the process of assimilation.
That mental space resembled what existed in All For One and One For All, where the will of the quirk could manifest.
But there was a crucial difference.
Astra smiled as she ate the food Junko had brought her, her mood improving with each thought.
"My quirk doesn't just store... it devours."
Unlike AFO and OFA, her absorption was irreversible. Over time, the powers became entirely hers, with no possibility of being rescued. Exactly like what happened with the Great Kaio-shin inside Buu: after too much time, he could simply no longer be saved.
However...
"I also have the same vulnerability as All For One."
If she devoured a quirk carelessly, she could end up like Shigaraki when he absorbed Star and Stripe's quirk. She had given a final order to the New Order, inciting it to rebel against the other quirks inside her. What happened afterward was absolute chaos, an internal massacre similar to the famous church scene in Kingsman 2.
So many quirks were destroyed in that fight that even in the final battle, their absence was emphasized. AFO himself acknowledged that he lost more abilities than he thought, and that single action by Star and Stripe directly influenced his defeat by a bunch of simple students.
Although it was all a consequence of her order, one key fact couldn't be ignored: the will of a quirk existed.
If its will was destroyed, or if it opposed its user, the ability became useless. That's why, while the internal struggle occurred within Tomura, he couldn't use New Order at all.
In other words, without will, there's no quirk.
If Astra ever tried to absorb someone with a determination strong enough to do the same... she could suffer even more than AFO. After all, she didn't just store quirks: she fully integrated them into herself.
Her smile faded.
It was a real risk. But at the same time, it was a limit she could overcome with the right preparation.
"As long as I control the process... nothing can take what's mine."
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End of Chapter 13
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This chapter wasn't one I liked much, as it repeats many of the same things in different ways, but the point was to explain how her quirk works. That was the main idea of this chapter: mixing Majin Buu's canon and the latest developments in MHA with what I call "Quirk Will," giving an explanation of how her absorption works through the logic of quirks, while also showing the advantages and disadvantages it has over her rivals [OFA and AFO]. I also wanted to talk about how her personality has changed because she's literally Majin Buu, but I'll dive more into that later.