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An Unhinged Visitor
Feb. 12th, 2019 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aceinthehoodJack Napier wasn't enough of a household name around the hero community that most people would know him on sight. If they did it was because chalk white skin and a grin that ran so far back that it passed his ears made him a hard sight to miss. His Quirk, "Unhinged", was nothing of note - you couldn't make a hero career out of being able to open your jaw and swallow things whole like a snake, though it did make mealtimes efficient.
Jack did have a novel hobby, though, and that hobby was vigilantism. Studying vigilantism, that is. Not practicing illegal public Quirk use for social or ideological gain. Obviously. Jack researched and cataloged the phenomenon the way some people researched appearances of rare birds, from the nationalistic Freedom Ring to the well-loved Rogues of Central City. He was no academic, but in his own way he was still an expert.
Yamada had met him at a conference in New York a few years earlier. (Allegedly.) His pitch to Nezu was that their current enemies were allied around an ideology directly relating to heroism, not personal profit, and that meant security needed a new perspective. Plus, with Stain in the news the kids probably needed a little extra study on dealing with vigilantes, so they could claim him as a guest lecturer and get double the benefit out of him. Jack's Japanese was shaky but competent enough to address a class with, especially with Yamada providing support.
And Jack had neither the cash nor the inclination to turn down a free trip to Japan, no matter how busy his "hobby" was keeping him.
Jack did have a novel hobby, though, and that hobby was vigilantism. Studying vigilantism, that is. Not practicing illegal public Quirk use for social or ideological gain. Obviously. Jack researched and cataloged the phenomenon the way some people researched appearances of rare birds, from the nationalistic Freedom Ring to the well-loved Rogues of Central City. He was no academic, but in his own way he was still an expert.
Yamada had met him at a conference in New York a few years earlier. (Allegedly.) His pitch to Nezu was that their current enemies were allied around an ideology directly relating to heroism, not personal profit, and that meant security needed a new perspective. Plus, with Stain in the news the kids probably needed a little extra study on dealing with vigilantes, so they could claim him as a guest lecturer and get double the benefit out of him. Jack's Japanese was shaky but competent enough to address a class with, especially with Yamada providing support.
And Jack had neither the cash nor the inclination to turn down a free trip to Japan, no matter how busy his "hobby" was keeping him.
