[ Glowing, decaying... Fire and ice... Quirks really do sound like they come straight out of a superhero story, something the kids at the beach house might have liked to read. It's disturbing to think about them in such realistic terms. ]

Hmm.. not really. Second and third generation abilities kind of even out into more general 'advancements' like better health, higher physical performance, better memorization... Things of that nature.

But in the days of the first generation being made, there were often incidents where children didn't come out the way parents had specified. Natural birth isn't as forward as entering data on a computer screen after all. People blamed the mothers for it.