Talk:Misaka Mikoto/@comment-204.16.10.239-20190312225417/@comment-34962159-20190313084907

Her ascension was like that because it was forced upon her. It's explicitly pointed out that, since she doesn't have the same potential to become Level 6 as Accelerator and Kakine, she would eventually self-destruct.

There's no Kirihara in the series, do you mean Kihara Amata? I don't remember exactly what he said, but he was presumably referring to why Mikoto was chosen to be cloned. I don't know if this was ever explained, but my guess is that it was easier to create clones of Mikoto than of Accelerator or Kakine (after all, there are many espers who can manipulate electricity, but there are no other espers that can manipulate vectors or create new forms of matter, to my knowledge).