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Luminescent Baby from My Hero Academia in a close-framed cel-shaded anime scene with a detailed environment
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Luminescent Baby

Character

The first person officially recorded as being born with a Quirk arrived glowing and screaming in Qing Qing City. Decades later that fame had become a peace movement ten million strong, which is exactly why All For One took the Quirk and the life along with it.

Hair: Blond
Alias: Glowing Baby
Kanji: 発光する赤児
Quirk: Luminescence (former); Quirkless
Gender: Unknown
Status: Deceased
Birthplace: Qing Qing City, China
Notability: First officially recorded person born with a Quirk
Debut Anime: Episode 1
Debut Chapter: Chapter 1 (mentioned)
Debut Anime Vigilantes: Episode 1 (Vigilantes)
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Appearance

The record preserves the child as a blond infant, skin lit up and mid-cry, and that is the image history kept. Humarise later cast the same newborn form as a statue and installed it at their headquarters.

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Abilities

Charisma: Being the first person on record born with a Meta Ability drew enormous attention and a following to match, and the child converted both into a campaign for peace and a return to the safer society that had come before. More than ten million people had joined by the time it was cut short.

Luminescence: The Quirk emitted bright light directly from the skin and was seen in use back when its holder was an infant. It was stolen by All For One immediately before the murder.

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History

The child was born in Qing Qing City, China, wailing, and entered the books as the world's first Quirk birth, though not the first such birth in fact. Growing up, that notoriety became a movement more than ten million strong, one that called for peace and for the old, safer society to return. The scale of it earned All For One's contempt. He stole the Quirk and killed its holder.

Many decades on, Humarise elevated that same figure into something close to a deity, with the infant statue at their base as the object of it.

The record's own caveat matters. The earliest Quirk holder actually depicted in the series is All For One's mother, who had Spearlike Bones, and her two children preceded the official registration by a year, while others are implied to have come before all of them.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What happened to the glowing baby in My Hero Academia?

The glowing baby, later called the Luminescent Baby, grew up to lead a peace movement more than ten million people strong before All For One killed the holder and stole the Luminescence Quirk out of contempt for the movement's scale.

Is the Luminescent Baby All For One?

No, the Luminescent Baby is not All For One. The Luminescent Baby was a separate person, the first officially recorded to be born with a Quirk, whose Luminescence ability All For One later stole after murdering the holder.

Why did All For One steal the Luminescent Baby's Quirk?

All For One targeted the Luminescent Baby out of contempt for the peace movement that grew up around the holder's fame, a following of more than ten million people calling for a return to a Quirkless society. He stole the Luminescence Quirk and killed its holder to end that influence.

What was the Luminescent Baby's Quirk?

The Luminescent Baby's Quirk was Luminescence, which emitted bright light directly from the skin and was already visible when its holder was still an infant. The Quirk was stolen by All For One shortly before the holder's murder.

Who was the first person officially recorded as being born with a Quirk?

The Luminescent Baby, born wailing and glowing in Qing Qing City, China, was officially recorded as the first person born with a Quirk, though not actually the first such birth in fact. All For One's own mother, who had the Spearlike Bones Quirk, and her two children are depicted as coming before the official registration.

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