Cotton Candy

**Cotton Candy** (綿(わた)菓(か)子(でぃ), *Wata Kashi*?) is the Quirk that is used by Kanna Mitsui.

## Description

Like the name suggests, Cotton Candy grants the user the ability to project actual cotton candy from their hands. The candy floss the user releases is made out of the carbohydrates stored within the user's body. The confection is capable of changing its flavor, depending on the user's preference. Projecting half a ton of cotton candy (1,000 pounds) requires 5 grams of the user's carbohydrates.

The user's hands or fingers; depending on whichever they have decided to release their cotton candy with, seem to glow a matching color to the flavor the user has picked when triggering the Quirk. The cotton candy produced by the user is said to have the same level of stickiness compared to the substance of glue. The confection itself is capable of acting as an adhesive to whatever comes into contact with it, it's been noted that escaping the cotton candy is harder than it looks. The cotton candy is able to stick onto anything solid, and is easy to spread around, making it exceptionally harder to get out of it.

The user seems to be immune to the stickiness of the candy floss, a special type of coating covering all around their skin being the main reason of it.

The confection is capable of being used as some sort of trap that is able to stick victims onto it, as well as having the ability to propel the Quirk User into whatever direction they want to launch towards since releasing their cotton candy is strong enough to project recoil, which is strong enough to push them back. exposing water to the cotton candy will cause it to deform into an adhesive-like substance, with its viscosity being similar to glue; it's been shown for the liquid version of the Quirk to be much harder to get out from than its initial form.

As a bonus, the cotton candy will still be considered edible, whether it became of a liquid or not. So the user is capable of making a side snack for them to eat! When eating the cotton candy, it'll give back twice as much carbs as the user had used in order to produce it; meaning that they're recycling!

### Weaknesses

Due to the Quirk itself having to rely on the carbohydrates the user has, the Quirk user themselves have to eat twice as much as an average person would have to eat. They would often have to eat foods that are high in carbohydrates. Like the aforementioned data from above, while exposing the cotton candy to water may make it more sticky, it will also dissolve some parts of the cotton candy.

Eating a lot of calories, which is required for the Quirk to be more efficient, will also make the user more prone to having the risk of getting cancer, or chronic health illnesses; diabetes for example.

Another disadvantage that the user can have while using this Quirk is that, once the cotton candy has been released into the open air around them, they will be incapable of manipulating the movement of where the confection will settle into, as they are only able to control where the confection will project from (fingers and hands).

### Awakened Form

If the user has went under an awakening, then their Quirk will have evolved to obtain more abilities. One of the abilities included in the Awakened form will be having the ability to control the clumps of cotton candy that had been produced by the users themselves. Controlling the produced confections grants the user an extension of their dexterity, as they are now able to shape their own cotton candy like tornadoes—if they have a lot of it—weapons, shields, and even more.

They are also capable of changing their cotton candy into different states of matter; solid, liquid, and gas, without having the need to expose their confection to outside sources in order to do so.

## Usage

Kanna's main use for her Quirk is often adhesive traps, which she uses to trap her opponents in. Since Kanna likes sweets, she's able to produce a lot more cotton candy for combat. While not being necessarily reliable for combat purposes, she does get creative with the ways she uses her Quirk, such as using it as a way to launch herself into the direction she wants to go to.

Part of her Hero Costume consists of two gauntlets on both of her hands; with the palms of the gauntlets being covered with her own cotton candy, which grants her the ability to stick herself onto walls and other surfaces.

In times where she does not need to use her Quirk for Hero Training, Kanna will usually make herself some cotton candy as a snack if she gets hungry; her friends will commonly lecture her about not eating healthy when she does it in front of them.

Kanna considers her Quirk to be quite troublesome, as she does not like the cleaning part after releasing her cotton candy. However, she does like eating her cotton candy in watermelon and strawberry flavors.

## Trivia

* This Quirk stems from the two originating Quirks—Kanna's parents—Glue, and Cotton ball.
	+ The Quirk got its adhesiveness from the Quirk, Glue, while it got its cotton candy form from the Quirk, Cotton Ball.
* The cotton candy of the Quirk was originally going to come from the user's hair, but the idea was later scrapped.
* 1,000 pounds (half a ton), is equivalent to the weight of a Pick-up Truck.

## External Links

* Cotton Candy - Wikipedia Article about the product of what the Quirk releases.
* Carbohydrates - Wikipedia Article about the source of what the Quirk uses in order to create cotton candy.