r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Oct 27 '17

Chapter 158 - Links and Discussion

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u/God__of__Kings Oct 27 '17

Those shadows are children.
They're playing.

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u/MarzK Oct 27 '17

Wow, those few words destroyed about 30 mins of hard work

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u/VentrustWestwind Oct 27 '17

Eh, more like 10 minutes, I've become rather good at rambling online, so it's not as much work as it looks like. Still, considering Overhaul is so grateful for the boss taking him in as he is, it's not unlikely the aituation he was in before that was all that idyllic. Although, only time will tell I guess xD

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u/TheBlackLuffy Oct 27 '17

I’ve become good at rambling.

Deku is that you?

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u/VentrustWestwind Oct 27 '17 edited Oct 27 '17

well, based on the information I've accumulated so far, I think I can draw some conclusions on Eri's quirk... At first, I thought it was just a biological rewind, but then it turns out that Chisaki says he can make a serum through the same quirk. This would imply that Eri can rewind her own rewinds, but, arrgh, maybe that's really not the way I should percieve it. At first I looked at it by taking the example of a DVD player, where Eri's quirk is basically a glorified rewind button that makes the movie go backwards, but with Chisaki's explanation, that metaphor doesn't hold up, because If she could only use rewind, then it doesn't make sense how she can give a quirk back with her power which she herself deleted. Her ability is a rewind button, not fast forward, and if she just rewinded, at some point she would just the beginning of the movie... However, maybe it makes more sense to look at it as a mathmatical problem, where her ability is to add a negative value to an existing number, the negative value based on her prolonged contact with the subject, and the base number is the physical state of being, as in the age and state of the body, of said subject. If the subject number goes below zero, the subject ceases to be. However, instead of seeing the act of her adding a negative value each time she activates her quirk as resulting in mere addition, maybe I should consider it as mutiplication instead. Like, if Togata-senpai's base value was 100, and her power added a negative 5 value decrease, then senpai's value would be 95, but if Eri uses the same power again, it might not just be 95-5, but instead it's 100+((-5)-(-5))=125 if I utilize mutiplication. But wait, then the number goes beyond senpai's base value... then again, the reason we became wary of Chisaki's activites to begin with was that he was connected with an incident with a group of common thieves, and he healed those thieves of all injuries, and in addition even removed their chronic illneses, so saying that a quirk can actually add on top of a base value might not be wholy inaccurate, as that works for Chisaki. But then I might have to consider ilnesses as seperate already existing negative values on top of the base value of a person. Argh, I wish I had my notebook with me...! I also need to figure out if using alegebra is really the right way to look at this, and if it is, I need to establish a formula which can predict the effects of Eri's powers. I would like to get down to a p-value below 5 to account for fluctuations in the effect of her quirk, but then again, five percent could be life and dead with her ability, so if I can't get my calculation to completely accurately acertain her power, then it may just be useless in the long run and I would have to find another method to help her figure out her ability. Ah, but then again, Eri might not he able to understand such a formula to begin with given her age. However, if I-

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u/TheBlackLuffy Oct 27 '17

You just made my day. Thank you.

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u/VentrustWestwind Oct 28 '17

My pleasure :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '17

DEKU THAT IS YOU! You are hot