pro tip : if its the "story" you like, there are hundreds of other "weird orphan gets superpowers" stories out there already, in book and movie and tv show and even AVN format..
i dont actually think its the plot you like, maybe its the writing style. but what i honestly think, is that it is the combination of the format, style and plot that makes this truly unique, something that will be lost by taking out one of those factors, making it far less unique as an overall "story".
remove the uniqueness factor and its going to struggle to be anything more than noise in an oversaturated medium. where it was a tsnunami on a lake, it will become a wave in an ocean