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HELLO EVERYONE!! I'm back!! I descended into the madness that is ao3; But I have returned! The rant is going to be less structured and is going to present how I'll most likely be formatting my quirk rants in the future :) The old format may have been more professional and organized but it was so draining and made me lose all interest so now were doing it this way!! Todays subject? Ochaco Uraraka ^^
analysis starts here
For starters I wanna say, calling her quirk "Zero Gravity" is an injustice. I would say a much better name for it would be something similar to "gravity negation".
To give evidence for this: I'll start with the first time we see her use her quirk (when she saved Midoriya from falling on the first day). If her quirk really was "Zero Gravity" Midoriya would have just kept going up into space due to not having any gravitation poll. BUT THATS NOT WHAT HAPPENS! What does end up happening is that [Midoriya] just sorta floats there. Implying -however indirectly- that Urarakas' quirk isn't "Zero Gravity" but instead allows her to lessen the gravity of things (that could also be a pun for her having a bubbly personality and lighting the mood of a situation, therefore making the gravity or intensity of something lighter).
For more evidence lets look at the sports festival. During her fight with Bakugou she, for a short period of time, floats her jacket low to the ground to distract Bakugou. Same as before, if her quirk was actually "Zero Gravity" the jacket would have just kept going up.
Once again during the sports festival, when she used her quirk to float boulders above Bakugou to pelt him with. Its the exact same as before, If her quick was "Zero Gravity" they would have just kept going up.
NOW FOR A FUN LITTLE TIBIT
Seeing as her quirk isn't actually "Zero gravity" but is instead, her negating the gravity of objects, it's very possible she could increase the gravity of an object or person allowing her much more offensive options.
TLDR: Calling Urarakas' quirk "Zero gravity" is an injustice and it actually should be something along the lines of "Gravity Negation" due to lots of evidence