NOVEL NEXT Chapter 13: not a chapter but important
1. Kusuo Kageyama
Background:
Kusuo Kageyama was a hardcore anime fan in his previous life. He spent most of his days binge-watching anime and arguing online about power scaling. However, his sedentary lifestyle caught up with him, and he tragically passed away from a heart attack while watching an intense anime marathon. In the afterlife, he met God, who offered him three wishes as compensation for his "untimely" demise.
Wishes:
To become a fusion of Kusuo Saiki (from The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) and Shigeo Kageyama (from Mob Psycho 100), inheriting their psychic powers and personalities. To have the body of Toji Fushiguro, granting him peak physical condition and the ability to negate curses or supernatural phenomena with his physical prowess. To be reincarnated as a transfer student from Japan, maintaining his memories of his past life and knowledge of the worlds he's obsessed with.
Personality:
Kusuo is an odd mix of calm, detached, and highly analytical like Saiki, with bursts of intense emotion and drive like Shigeo. He often struggles with blending into normal life while balancing his overwhelming psychic abilities. Despite his immense power, he is surprisingly humble, though his otaku tendencies sometimes slip through, making him awkward in social situations.
Abilities:
Psychic Powers: Includes telekinesis, teleportation, precognition, Pyrokinesis, and mind reading.
Peak Human Physique: Thanks to Toji's body, Kusuo is incredibly strong, agile, and resistant to damage. His physical abilities complement his psychic powers.
Nullification Field: His presence passively negates minor supernatural phenomena, making him a wild card in situations involving curses, magic, or spirits.
Role: Kusuo transfers to Tomura's school under mysterious circumstances. While he tries to keep a low profile, his immense powers and quirky personality make him stand out.
2. Harry Wayne
Background:
Harry Wayne is the son of Norman Osborn and Martha Wayne's sister. After his mother's tragic death in Gotham, Norman took Harry back to New York to raise him. Born with the mutant ability to control shadows, Harry grew up balancing the expectations of the ruthless Norman Osborn and the moral lessons he learned from his mother's family.
Personality:
Harry is sharp, calculating, and confident, but he often feels torn between the darkness of his father's legacy and the light his mother represented. While he enjoys the thrill of power, he also struggles with the responsibility it brings. He has a dry sense of humour and is fiercely loyal to those he considers friends.
Abilities:
Shadow Manipulation: Can summon, control, and solidify shadows into weapons or defensive barriers. Shadow travel allows him to move undetected and cover vast distances. He can create constructs like shadow tendrils or even a shadow suit of armour.
Enhanced Reflexes: His mutant gene enhances his physical reactions and agility, allowing him to fight with peak efficiency.
Dual Intellect: A blend of Wayne brilliance and Osborn ruthlessness makes Harry a genius tactician and scientist.
Role: Harry crosses paths with Tomura during a skirmish involving the Hand Clan and Oscorp. The two form a tenuous alliance based on mutual goals, but Harry's motivations remain ambiguous, hinting at ulterior motives.
3. Poseidon
Background:
Poseidon's first life was a chaotic blend of privilege and violence. As the son of a powerful mafia boss and a Black female gang leader, he grew up surrounded by crime, betrayal, and bloodshed. His life ended in a brutal gang shootout. In his second life, Poseidon was reborn into the Marvel and DC crossover universe as the son of N'Jobu (T'Challa's uncle) and Atlanna (Queen of Atlantis).
During her pregnancy, Atlanna was forced to negotiate a fragile peace treaty with the vampire and werewolf clans. To seal the alliance, she allowed herself to be bitten, passing on vampiric and lycanthropic traits to her unborn child. After Poseidon's birth, he was abandoned by N'Jobu, who feared what his child's existence could mean for Wakanda. Atlanna, believing her child to be too dangerous for Atlantis, placed him in a stasis pod.
Norman Osborn discovered the pod and raised Poseidon as his own, alongside Harry. Poseidon grew up with an identity crisis, aware of his dual heritage but unsure of his place in the world.
Personality:
Poseidon is intense, stoic, and fiercely independent. He carries an innate sense of pride and duty but struggles with feelings of abandonment and anger toward his parents. He is deeply protective of Harry, viewing him as his only true family.
Abilities:
Vampiric Powers: Immortality, enhanced senses, speed, and strength without the usual weaknesses to sunlight or sliver
Lycanthropic Traits: Increased physical resilience, regeneration, and the ability to transform into a wolf or hybrid form at will.
Atlantean Physiology: Enhanced underwater abilities, including superhuman swimming speed, water manipulation, and the ability to withstand extreme oceanic pressure.
Vibranium Enriched DNA: The plant infused into him at birth enhanced all his abilities, making him nearly indestructible.
Role: Poseidon serves as a wildcard in Tomura's journey, torn between loyalty to Harry and his personal quest to discover his true identity. His immense strength and ties to both Wakanda and Atlantis make him a key player in the battle between the factions.