All for Luz - Potential MASSIVE Low-Tier Upgrade

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Luz Noceda (All for Luz - Redux)

Luz Noceda / Toshiko Shigaraki appears as the main character of All for Luz - Redux, a fanfiction on a bunch of different fanfiction websites created by DeathlyJazzHands based on the infamous Weekly Shonen Jump manga, My Hero Academia, and the hit (cancelled too-soon) Disney Channel series, The...

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The Super Strength Multiplier
A WoG comment states that Season 2 Luz's Super Strength Quirk grants her a 100x boost in strength. Taking the value from Luz's 7-A calc (291.11 Megatons of TNT) and dividing the results by 100 outputs Low 7-B levels of energy (2.91 Megatons of TNT). Hunter, who’s portrayed as roughly on par with low-tier Supes (that’s what I’ll be calling people with Quirks in this post) like Julia when it comes to physicals, can take hits from a depowered Luz. However, he very barely takes said hits, to the point where his healing factor clocks into overdrive several times during their fight.

“When he landed in yet another massive crater, blood drenched his nose and the side of his face, all the while he coughed up more blood that splattered over his neck and chest plate. His Regeneration was working overtime to keep up with the constant barrage of attacks, and it was barely managing. His body felt was in more pain than he had ever experienced before, coupled by Regeneration's drawback, and by the natural pain his body felt after being rocked as hard as he had.”

So, only Luz scales to Low 7-B, right? Well…

BIRD in a CAGE, you SHOW your AGE
Julia has a pretty solid Low 7-B feat (2.038 Megatons of TNT) herself from her final attack, Birdcage, which is powerful enough to shatter all windows in a 16-mile radius and blow a massive crater in the ground.

Then, they both called out their final attacks. One to kill the other, and the other to fail spectacularly.

"BIRDCAGE!"

"SIX-ARMED DEATH PUNCH!"

It happened in seconds. The birdcage tore through buildings, destroyed streets and sidewalks, and cut through people who happened to get in the way by pure accident, all the while it reached its crescendo in the middle, gathering together before plunging down, creating enough force to shatter all the glass in the nearby area for fifty kilometres, ranging all of Eastern Waterbury, and making a crater the size of a city block, laying waste to just about everything in the main blast of the attack.

While Birdcage is her final smash, Julia is the direct source of the attack, as it literally comes out of her body.

Then, her eyes snapped open, leapt into the air with all of her might, and separated her hands as a lot of string poured out of her fingertips, so much so that it created a birdcage of string.

On top of that, the way Derreck has to punch her out of the hole Birdcage leaves implied that she was at, or at least near the epicenter of the implosion.

All six punches connected, rocketing Julia to the ground diagonal to her and away from the crater, just bordering the edge of Central Waterbury.

This is more than enough reason for Julia’s durability, and therefore her AP, to scale.

Derreck also gets a lot from this feat as well, as it’s stated that just the main part of Birdcage was the only part of the attack that would actually kill him, with even the implosion afterwards doing zero damage to him despite him being within its blast radius.

It encompassed a large portion of Eastern Waterbury—precisely the area where Derreck was—as within the cage […] But… Unfortunately, Derreck had gotten through the gap, meaning all of that destruction was for nothing.

Only people who gets anything from him specifically are the Honored One and the Nomus (as it’s 7-A Luz who kills him), but it’s still notable.

Julia isn’t special
Now, how does this affect everyone else? Well, Julia’s durability isn’t portrayed as something special to her, but rather as a general trait all Supes, as the paragraph that notes her durability also notes the durability of Supes in general within the same breath without making any distinction between the two.

As Luz thought that, she looked up to see Julia smiling and waving her hand through the clouds. They were fairly high up in the sky, just above the same altitude a plane would be, and they were going about just as fast as one. Usually, for a regular person, they would've been torn to shreds by the wind pressure. But, as she had found out, someone without power and someone with power was more physically resistant to bodily trauma.

Alongside this is the fact that the only thing that is shown to harm Supes most of the time is… well, other Supes. There are some exceptions, like a bunch of Quirkless FBI agents knocking out the Reality Check Summer Campers or the weird ass Nazi pipe bomb that blows Luz's arm off, but most of those can be chalked up to Plot-Induced Stupidity since they are blatant contradictions to everything else that the Supes (especially Luz) have been shown to be able to survive.

Wow.
That same paragraph also mentions that most Supes can survive a full-powered punch from Season 2 Luz, albeit knocked unconscious, whereas regular humans would be eviscerated by a restrained punch from her.

For example, if she were to punch a regular human with half the strength that she would punch a superhuman with, they would not only go flying, but she'd more than likely punch a hole through them. But, a superhuman was more than able to survive being punched square in the chest by a full-power punch from her, them being knocked unconscious notwithstanding.

That, while not quite enough for all Supes to be 7-A, is pretty solid supporting evidence for Low 7-B.

So?
There is a clear consistency to Low 7-B Supes here, but the contradiction of a Low 7-B Luz being able to dogwalk somebody like Hunter is still very much present. So, I have three options for how to handle this.

• Option 1: Give basically everyone (including Season 1 Luz) a Low 7-B rating, and have Season 2 and 3 Luz upscale her 7-A/High 7-A value
• Option 2: Give basically everyone a “possibly Low 7-B” rating alongside their solid rating
• Option 3: Dismiss Low 7-B stuff as an outlier and disregard it entirely

I would like to see the general consensus for something like this considering how drastic of a change something like this is.

 

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