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Streamer/content creator/let's player whatever AU

Sonic and Shadow are speedrunners, ofc (like to imagine that they also just run. Track. They end up in the same gym once and they were so obnoxious and insufferable that they got kicked out). Shadow is a PNG-tuber while Sonic has his face fully in there. His video quality is shit but he'd entertaining. He doesn't get paid for this and never accepts sponsorships. For Shadow it's a full time job but he's a nightmare to work with so he gets little collabs opportunities other than Sonic.

Tails is in charge of his Tiktok page, but it's just all videos of Sonic doing stupid things w a link to his most recent run in the caption. When he makes solo videos he's basically Micheal Reeves.

Amy has a work out at home tutorials channel that Knuckles infiltrates sometimes (he's homeless by choice and just crashes on her couch sometimes). Her videos always start with some kind of horoscope reading though.

Eggman organizes conventions buy the kind that are overpriced and filled with scams. Sonic keeps showing up to film all the shitty things he does so they hate each other. Shadow was one of the panelists to one of those once, not knowing the bank would reimburse the money he was paid, so for a while there he and Sonic were at each other's throats.

Rouge is a jewel thief in this universe too. She's exactly the same. 👍

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You've heard about Peter Parker in Gotham, I have talked about Dick Grayson/Matt Murdock (future sprog here: this was so long ago I don't think anyone remembers but man I should write that fic) and Matt getting adopted by Bruce. Now, get ready For Foggy in Gotham!! *horn going off*

Make it a bit easier on him. He's got his documents and shit, so at least he doesn't have to deal with not existing (I mean maybe he doesn't but if the documents he has look legit for DC standards there's little reason for someone to look into him). Immediately tries becoming a lawyer, he needs to move away from Gotham stat but rn it's the only place he can afford. Ofc he couldn't know not to, but he ends up catching Harvey Dent's attention. Which is a no go, but it seems like Harvey likes him?

Two face, seeing a lawyer who cares: finally! Someone who gets it!

Foggy, who's been thinking "what would Matt do" every time he gets the opportunity to get money for less than true defence cases: I am at my limit.

I just think it would be neat for Regular Dude to get the comic book protagonist treatment

Attracting Two Face's favor will probably get him in the Batfam's radar but also probably the general public. Two face endorsing a lawyer? Completely changed the kind of clientele he gets. For better or for worse. Gotham is chock-full of slimy fuckers, and seeing an up and coming lawyer in very clear desperate need it money? They think he's obviously easy picking.

But this ain't his first rodeo and it's one thing to accept a case for money with a slightly fishy high profile client, and willingly accept to defend someone who he knows for a fact is guilty.

Takes the same approach he and Matt took at home: doing some pro bono, taking other payment methods like food, and doing just about anything, not just criminal defence. He ends up with a very poor but very loyal pure Narrows and Crime Alley clientele who are ride or die for him.

... Which also means Red Hood and Signal definitely keep a close eye on him lmao imagine Red Hood just making eye contact with Foggy from a rooftop after he just exited a grocery store or some normal people thing like that. Just staring at each other, Foggy looks around. And just leaves. Doesn't acknowledge Hood at all.

And also Foggy is just? Trying to survive? He's not exactly planning to look for a way home because the fuck is HE going to do? Nah he leaves that to Matt to figure out. He knows Matt will bring HELL to help him. He only hopes there's no... Time shananigans where he spends 3 weeks there and it's been 3 decades or the opposite or something.

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Ladybug and Spider-man talking, swapping stories about their respective Cat Allies.

Spidey tells her they had dated, briefly. That he'd loved her. That she broke his heart.

"She loved Spider-man. Truly. Loved the high stake dates spent taking down crime syndicates and costumed villains. Loved the thrill of making out on some random New York rooftop, just barely out of view," he says.

She's silent. "But?"

"It was the guy under the mask that she couldn't stand." He turns to look at her. "Found him boring. Too... Normal," he shrugs.

And she relates. Because, she thinks, this is exactly what would happen if she let Chat Noir into her heart.

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Irondad isn't my favourite trope and I also don't vibe with MCU Spider-man all that much HOWEVER sometimes I get possessed by the crack fic demons and spend days reading "Peter Parker is Tony Stark's biological child" AU fics.

And every time I read one I get stuck on how Mary always gets to be the one to fuck Tony Stark. So.

I want to write one that's AU so y'know, Tony and Peter meet differently. And due to ✨ shenanigans✨ they discover their relation and Peter freaks out because omg did Mary cheat on Richard? Did his mom cheat on his dad? How the fuck did no one know? Was he adopted? And no one told him? Does May know? Should he tell her?

Meanwhile Tony is busy trying to compile a list of every woman he slept with, ever, trying to figure out which of them had a child 9 months after, but he can't find any that haven't already been crossed off the list because they've tried for child support before (and failed due to the paternity test coming out negative).

The plot twist (that no one's alive to reveal so I don't know how to get there) is that Richard was actually a trans man who used some favours to make '[deadname] Parker' to have never existed. The only ones who knew were Ben and Mary -who passed Peter off as her child. Home birth you see. Absolutely just. Holed themselves up in their house for 9 months, paid some absurd amount of money for prenatal tests with discretion. Or it could be the secret agents Parkers plotline and they called in a favour.

The bro got pregnant because, though he was a biochem major, he trusted his gyno when she told him that T would make him infertile (wrong btw testosterone is not a contraceptive). So he told Tony that no don't worry T is a contraceptive (it isn't). And Tony accepted this because who was he to contest a trans man on what taking T does to one's body? And then he promptly forgot immediately afterwards that Richard was trans. Completely wiped from his memory.

The actual structure of th fic would be like a two pov story of both of them trying to uncover the truth while lying to each other about trying to uncover the truth.

Peter does so more to keep his secret identity intact because he does not even want to think about all the shit he'd have to deal with if the time comes that this gets out. But Tony is just a control freak who doesn't like being in the dark about this situation.

He and Tony agree on sort of a trial run of parenting, to see if they want to be in each others' lives like that. Peter visits the tower every weekend. (He told May of course, not HOW they learnt this but that yeah. Might want to start asking for child support I guess).

But Peter, now less than ever, doesn't want to tell him his secret identity. So he keeps lying about little things. After all, Tony promised not to look into him until Peter was ready to tell him, right?

Wrong. It's Stark. Of course he keeps looking into him. Tony asks if his parents know about him being Spider-Man and Peter's like "yeah of course. They think I'm training with the avengers rn. Didn't really want to be the cause of their divorce is my mom cheated y'know? Problem for future Spidey."

Tony, thinking: "ok I'm looking for an alive couple of non divorced parents. That's good. That narrows it down."

Tony is so laser focused on trying to figure out who he got pregnant that he completely disregards looking into the Spider-Man part of the teenager. And since he's chasing a ghost, and he's also chasing the wrong ghost, he's coming up absolutely empty and it's driving him up the walls.

I really would want to enbody 2012 Avenger Towers-domestic Avengers fanfiction with this idea, with Peter going to the tower each weekend and meeting Avengers (who end up acting as a buffer between him and Tony).

"So. What do you usually do with you parents? What are some family activities you'd like to do with me?"

"Good question, good question."

^both orphans

After thinking about it, Peter decides to take advantage of the facility and proposes they experiment a bit with his powers. See how much he can actually lift. How fast he can move. Stuff like that. While still keeping some of his cards hidden.

Tony proposes they work together to make a better suit, something more durable, maybe with an AI of his own. "Maybe with a bit of gold, just throwing that out there 👀."

In this timeline Peter would've basically JUST lost Uncle Ben so he's hard to parent. He's in the angry with the world phase of grieving. He's going to be INSUFFERABLE. Tony also lost a lot of respect points by simple virtue of trying to act like this kid's father. So this Peter is a little less awe struck.

The big question is how do they find out about Richard 🤔 I was thinking maybe some kind of letter left by either him or Ben. Since Richard KNOWS who the bio dad his, I can't see him not having a plan to tell Peter just in case. That kind of shit is important for medical stuff y'know? And if I go with spies Parkers then it'd make sense for him to have letters ready to give Peter in case anything happend to them.

But they got lost in the move, when Ben and May took stuff from their house.

Peter goes looking for his birth certificate, see what's written on there, and he finds the letters tucked away in the same box/folder. It all got grouped together and Ben didn't think he could tackle that in that moment. And it got procrastinated until Ben died.

Meanwhile: May, remembering how Ben used to go on rants aboht his parents and their violently queerphobic views, even though they'd been dead for a long time, who had patiently been waiting for him to come out to her: "No actual this makes a lot of sense."

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Every once in a while I re read my Naruto WIP and I always forget I wrote this and get jumpscared by how much of an edgelord I made 10yo Sasuke.

It gave Sasuke the perfect opportunity to approach the merry band of detectives, as pick-up time was just end of academy lessons for most kids born of shinobi parents, especially clan kids.

And, to be fair, the few orphans in their grade, which Sasuke knew to be quite a small amount of orphans.

He supposed the village was doing well, all things considered.

No orphans to join the academy if the children are dead, too, right?

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Caving and writing a plot bunny because I have ideas and now this is too flashed out not to write a fic for it, and I'll forget if I don't write it down somewhere

Timeline I've come up with:

Nicky AU where Sonic has been, for years, telling his parents that he (as Nicky) is part of team Sonic, but he only does coding (like for robots and their communicators) for them and never fights in the front lines.

What happened is that after a few months of Sonic taking over Nicky's body to save the day, Nicky started to take care of the issues himself out of spite. Done with the fact that everyone liked Sonic more than him. It came to a point that Sonic didn't show up anymore, making Eggman (who went to Hedgehog village for Sonic) lose interest with the place.

When he turned 6, he moved away to go live with Uncle Chuck, so he could study somewhere more challenging. He an Amy barely talked anymore, as she would turn every conversation into Sonic praise, worsening Nicky's inferiority complex. During his stay in the bigger city, Eggman attacks and Nicky figures out he's been Sonic all along. And running? Oh, he LOVES running.

However, he starts getting severe social anxiety fueled by a really strong impostor syndrome, causing the start of his selective mutism. For a while, Uncle Chuck is the only one he talks to as Sonic (Nicky still goes to class without issues).

That's when he meets Amy again. She left home shortly after Nicky to go find Sonic and join in his adventures. I imagine that her relationship with her parents wasn't all that great, so she decided to run away when Nicky, her only safe space, left.

Meeting her really hammer in that he's not good enough to be Sonic, as Sonic used to have no issues beating Eggman and his robots to scrap metal.

Not too long after, he meets Tails, who had actually been to Hedgehog village for Sonic as well and knew Nicky and Sonic were the same person. He explains to Nicky (while fixing up the Tornado (who is actually Uncle Chuck's)) that Sonic told him he was from the future and that he couldn't explain what had actually happened in fear of messing up the timeline and creating a paradox. He said that everything will be explained in due time and that he's sure Nicky will figure everything out.

At first, Sonic talked to Tails, too. But it was clear that Tails, just like Amy, had a very specific idea of how Sonic was. Scared of disappointing Tails by being too much like Nicky, he stops talking with him as well. When Uncle Chuck dies, they take the Tornado to start traveling and fighting Eggman. This is when he tells his parents that he joined Team Sonic, saying that he wanted to repay them after they helped him stop Eggman. In exchange to letting him come, he gave them the Tornado.

He continues his studies remotely, still as Nicky if course.

It isn't until the end of the whole Angel Island Death Egg situation that Sonic speaks for the first time in forever. The whole adventure, the emeralds, helping Knuckles, it all made him feel... like himself. Like for the first time he actually was Sonic. Knuckles never learns that Sonic used to not speak, because he was under the impression they were just busy with Eggman and that Sonic was simply a hedgehog of few words until he got closer to people.

Shadow only learns about it when he meets Classic Sonic. The time shenanigans is also how Nicky was becoming Sonic.

Until his mom, Brenda, and his sister, Anita, come surprise visit them. The team had kind of settled down, mostly to give Tails an actual workshop. Afterall, between the Tornado, Shadow's chaos control, and Sonic's running they had no issues getting to wherever was getting attacked.

When Amy opens the door to see Brenda, she's confused, but excited. Before she can say anything wrong, Sonic invites them in, telling them he'll go get Nicky, and pulling Amy to the side to ask her to just go along with whatever Nicky says. She doesn't get the chance to ask how he knows where Nicky is and why his mom thinks he's at their house, but she agrees.

Sonic goes to tell Tails, warning him about Any possibly blowing their entire cover.

As Nicky, Sonic puts on glasses and an oversized sweater. He changes his iconic shoes (with a non small amount of reluctance) and takes things slow.

Amy is... Conflicted. She's happy to see Nicky, truly, but she's not happy that he's lying to his mom and sister. She doesn't understand why he's doing it, as to her it doesn't seem like him. She remembers him a lot... Meeker. Smart and nerdy, but kind of a coward. She'd always thought he'd have gotten along with Tails if they'd had the chance to properly meet, and there they are. Acting like they've been friends for years.

When Shadow shows up, Sonic thinks he's going to fuck it all up. Amy accidentally saves him by introducing him as Nicky, to which Tails explains he's the one that deals all their tech related problems and needs.

Shadow sees through it, raises an eyebrow, and asks if they're fucking with him. They assure him not. Then Brenda and Anita introduce themselves and Shadow takes Sonic aside to get a better explanation. Which he gets in the form of panicked rambling. Shadow agrees not to rat him out, but he also doesn't agree to cover for him.

Shadow tells everyone that he was supposed to meet Sonic for a run, but that the hedgehog bailed on him to go help the Chaotix. Internally, Sonic cusses him out because he knows he'll have to pay then for their silence.

Amy tries to get him to stay, as they'd made plans with Knuckles to have a picnic nearby, but Shadow claims to have some GUN paperwork to deal with. Sonic knows it's bullshit. He knows Shadow doesn't do paperwork.

But she convinced Brenda and Anita to join them.

Nicky meets Knuckles, gets his hand fake crushed (which he lets his mom bandage and ice) and yells at Anita when she says she wants to be part of Team Sonic, too.

Of course, that's when Eggman attacks. Seeing Nicky, Eggman immediately targets him. For old times' sake, he says.

Any tries to contact Sonic but he's not available, so she contacts Chaotix, but they say he's not with them. Tails tells her to call Shadow, and she -reluctantly- does.

Shadow helps save Sonic, making it clear that he's going to hold this over his head forever.

Anita is distraught.

Amy asks Shadow why he said Sonic was with Chaotix.

Sonic tries punching Shadow for his shitty lie. He doesn't succeed, as he's determined not to use his speed, and Shadow gets him in a headlock. Calmly, he says he doesn't know why Sonic would lie to him, but the hedgehog is not his problem. He lets go of Nicky, who gets fussed over by his mom.

Tails, who's been keeping this secret for years, decides that throwing Sonic under the bus to save Nicky some grief is justified. So, he tells them that Sonic has severe social anxiety and does do well meeting new people in these kinds of circumstances. And that he's never met parents of friends he's made, and he couldn't face them.

On the one hand, Sonic gets upset at Tails for telling everyone about it because yeah it's kind of based on the truth. But on the other, it's his mom and sister (and Amy but she kind of already knew. Shadow also knew but not the reason behind it all. So he knows he's going to have to answer questions about it) so he pushes it down.

This is all I have for now actually lol idk how this fic would continue, but I think this start is kinda good. Maybe Eggman fucked up too much and Sonic reveals himself. Idk.

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Prompt fill from the Discord server. This one is courtesy of @tourettesdog

Prompt where Danny keeps showing up like a stray cat at various hero's houses. He just comes and goes and they never know when he'll show up next. He's just this like pseudo-adopted child who will come over for dinner, crash on the couch, and he's gone by morning. No amount of research will tell them who he is past the limited information he's given them

The various heroes are unaware that his stray cat range wanders so far until someone mentions him at a JL meeting and all hell breaks loose.

There's eventually an intervention

Stray Cat Danny

Clark had just got home when he noticed the heartbeat on the fire escape two floors above him. As far as he knew, that apartment was empty, so it couldn't be the residents going out for a smoke. It was weird, very strange, and not his business.

He tried to leave it alone, but the heartbeat stayed on the fire escape for a few hours. Every now and again Clark would hear whoever it was shift, but other than that they stayed quiet. Again, weird, but not his business.

Until it started to snow right when Clark was about to start dinner.

He was just going to make sure whoever it was had somewhere warm to stay. Maybe direct them to a shelter. Clark opened the window and looked up, there was a dark bundle, worryingly still, on the fire escape.

"Excuse me?" Clark called. The bundle shifted but whoever it is didn't respond. Clark grumbled and made his way up to them, squatting down a few feet away.

"Are you alright?"

The bundle shifted, revealing one blue eye and a tuft of back hair.

"''m fine" a young male voice answered. The blue eye closed.

"You know it's going to snow tonight. I'm sure you'd be more comfortable in a shelter than on a fire escape."

"They're full." The boy answered. "All both of them."

Only two shelters for all of Metropolis? That can't be right. Clark looked up to the sky, the snow was starting to come down and he could swear it had gotten colder since he'd been out here. He couldn't leave the kid out here to freeze.

"How about you stay the night at my place? My couch is pretty comfortable, and I'm making beef stew for dinner, Ma's recipe." He let a bit of his Kansas accent show through. Hoping the country accent would put the boy more at ease. He was watching him now with both eyes narrowed in suspicion.

"Did your Ma ever teach you about stranger danger?" The kid asked.

"Not exactly. She taught me to help people out if they need it. Did your Ma teach you stranger danger?"

"No," the boy said, "my mom taught me to put a full-grown man on the ground if I needed to."

That surprised Clark into laughing. "Well, you won't need to with me. What do you say you come inside?"

The boy watched him for another second before shivering violently and glaring at the sky.

"Yeah, alright. Just one night."

"I'm Clark, by the way," Clark said as he closed the window behind the kid.

"Danny." The kid said. He was rooted to the spot just a few steps into the apartment, eyes scanning the room.

"It's nice to meet you, Danny." Clark held out his hand to shake, but Danny didn't take it. After an awkward second Clark cleared his throat. "Uh. The stew is going to be a little while. You're welcome to the laundry and shower if you need it." Danny was pretty clean, but there was visible dirt on his face and clothes. "I might have some clothes my nephew forgot that you're welcome to." Dick was bigger than Danny for sure, but he was closer to Danny's size than Clark was.

Danny gave him a long look, before shrugging off his backpack. "Sure. Might as well."

Clark left to go get the clothes while Danny loaded some of his clothes and blankets in the washer. Once he presented the tee shirt and sweatpants Danny disappeared into the bathroom. When he reappeared he was scrubbed clean, his cheeks rosy either from the hot water or scrubbing.

Danny was even smaller than Clark was expecting. He was downright scrawny. Dick's shirt hung off Danny's shoulders, and Clark could clearly see his collarbones. This kid was not getting nearly enough to eat. Well, he was going to tonight if Clark had anything to say about it.

"The stew should be ready in about half an hour. Feel free to make yourself at home." Clark said. He expected Danny to sit on the couch and watch TV, but instead, Danny found his home office. it wasn't more than a desk with his work laptop on it and some of Clark's better pieces and awards framed and tacked to the wall above it.

"You're Clark Kent, the reporter?" Danny asked, eyes switching between the wall and Clark.

"That's me," Clark said. "You know my work?"

"I read your piece on metahuman and alien rights last year. It was good."

"Thanks. I really liked working on that piece."

"Did you always want to be a writer?"

"uh. No. When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut." Clark said, stirring the stew. Danny snorted. "What's funny?"

"Nothing," Danny said, taking a seat at the little kitchen table. "I wanted to be an astronaut, too."

"Yeah? You still could." Clark said.

"Nah. It's hard to be an astronaut without a high school diploma. What made you change to writing?"

"I went through a few different career paths before I landed on journalism."

"Do you like it?"

"I do. I like uncovering the truths people try to hide." Clark said. "You'd make a decent journalist, I'd think. Half of it is just asking the right questions."

Clark served up the stew into two bowls and brought them over to the table with some rolls and butter. "I don't have much in the way of drinks, is water okay?"

"Water would be great, thanks."

They ate in relative silence, Danny was too focused on his food to ask more questions. After they ate Danny nodded off on the couch almost as soon as he sat down. Clark couldn't bring himself to wake him up, so he just covered him with a blanket from the linen closet and headed to his own room.

Maybe in the morning he could make Danny pancakes or waffles and get him some new gloves and a jacket. The question was what to do after that? He didn't want to drop Danny off at a shelter, and taking him to the police would only destroy whatever trust he had gained with the boy. At the same time, he only had a one-bedroom apartment. He couldn't keep Danny here. Clark sighed. He'd have to talk to Danny in the morning and see what he wanted to do.

When Clark woke up he was greeted by the silence of the apartment and it took him a few minutes to figure out why that was wrong. There should be another heartbeat. Fearing the worst, Clark rushed into the living room to find it empty.

The blanket and clothes Danny had used had been neatly folded and placed on the back of the couch, along with a handwritten thank you note.

How did Danny leave without him hearing? Moreover, how'd he leave with the doors and windows still locked?

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I want to write a fic where Chat Noir goes to Marinette's to commission a Chat-inspired fursuit from her plus a size appropriate leather jacket, so he can go to conventions without people recognising him as either Adrien or Chat. He'd be a silent fursuiter, one of the ones with like a squeaker in the paw. He ends up managing to convince Marinette to act as his handler (as in the person without a fursuit there to help fursuiters navigate and communicate when they don't want to break the magic (take off the suit)).

Marinette ends up saying yes solely because... Well... She's never done that. She's never worked with fur fabrics. That sounds like a fun challenge! She's made plushies before, so she'd know a bit on how to design the suit to make it sew-able. But she's definitely struggle with the foam structures.

Adrien sees her agonize about it at school and starts feeling bad. He pays for all the materials and also an extra like 2500€ because he feels bad.

Alya and Nino tag along once because of reasons and they spend the entire con day trying to get either of them to tell them WHO is under the suit. They both, of course, say it's Chat Noir (though Chat doesn't say it out loud).

They keep the suit in Marinette's room and it only comes out for conventions time. Marinette wears a polka dotted jacked and yo-yo, only to have jokes about Ladybug being Chat Noir's handler.

I'm trying to imagine what the suit would look like and I'm struggling :/ I think the belt tail is so iconic it should still be there, but unless it's a partial suit it would probably look out of place. I might try to draw it. He'd definitely get a leather jacket that's big enough to fit the suit though. All the detailing would be green, but I say Marinette makes the ears also leather (looking like but no faux leather? Idk I'm not a seamstress) but the inner tuffs are blond, but like highlights so they're blended with the rest of the black fur.

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Ok but how is it that I've not seen a Mob Psycho crossover yet? Where Danny, by vertue of being half spirit, develops psychic powers

Or maybe the opposite. The reason why he half survives the accident is because of his psychic powers, which were much weaker before he half died.

Tucker in Ritsu's shoes. He envies Danny so much, when he makes the wish he gets spirit powers that corrupt him, but like with Reigen and Ritsu, that actually awakens some weak psychic powers in him.

Sam as the Tome of this situation. Who approached Danny because of the rumors about him, hoping he could idk help her talk to spirits. But at this point, Danny's so weak he can't see spirits. He barely can do some telekinesis. He's good at barriers though.

In this AU Danny definitely leaves a corpse when he transforms because it's more of a superpowered version of an astral protection like Mob did for the Mogami arc

It would add a sort of time limit to his ghost powers usage, it would be fun if it worked like the astral projection in MP100. And so the more someone stays astral projected, the more they lose themselves. So the more Danny stays away from his body, the more he becomes like... Super Danny I guess.

Oooh what if they meet at Claw HC. Danny gets kidnapped because of GIW shenanigans and ends up there, so Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Valerie fully go to Japan to save him.

Valerie would be more like Reigen in terms of psychic powers. Or one of the artificial psychics of Claw. Maybe Vlad is just fully a Claw member? Idk. But it would be very funny to have Reigen look at him and go "what are you? A vampire? Are you dressed like a Halloween party vampire? Aren't you like 50 years old?"

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He'd been silent.

Inko couldn't fault him. She'd expect she'd become the designated driver for her son and their friends when she found herself having to purchase a car, but she'd always expected Izuku to be able to act as buffer.

The silence wasn't awkward, but it was certainly tense, and it was clear Katsuki wasn't going to speak up first.

"He used to come home crying everyday, you know?" She said. "You made his life hell."

Katsuki met her eyes in the rearview mirror for a second before she got her eyes back to the road, the occasional street light their only chance at actual seeing each other.

"I know." Inko expected him to. "How can I make it up to you?" She didn't expect him to ask that. Her grip on the steering wheel tightened and she clenched her jaw, wiling herself not to tear up.

"You can't, Katsuki," she said, harsh. "There is nothing you can do to make all the shit you put him through ok and there never will be." She flicked her gaze back at him again. "You're going to have to live with the fact that it's never going to be ok, Katsuki."

Katsuki didn't respond. He stopped looking at her, instead moving his sight towards Izuku's sleeping form in the passenger seat.

"He's been happy," she said. "He's happy at UA, with his new friends and God only knows what the hell he sees in you that you're included in that." She took the next turn a bit too sharply and tried to contain herself again by breathing slowly. "You'll do well not to ruin this for him, Katsuki."

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Naruto fanfiction has infected me with a particularly vicious parasite called "crack (treated seriously) time travel fix-it" and now I want to write post redemption arc (I mean. Kind of. Not really. Y'know what I mean) Endeavour finding himself back in time to before Touya died (also kinda. Y'know what I mean) and making good on his promise to be a better father. Trying to fix the harm he's caused and prevent the harm that's to come.

There's so many things he doesn't know but knows can be fixed or at least changed. Like Kamino, finding Shigaraki before AFO if he can, getting family therapy, a divorce, checking on TRIGGER advancement and the Yakuza whose name is too complicated for me to remember how to spell to make sure they don't get their hands on Eri, arresting the doctor, etc.

I imagine him doing so much that he still ends up acting like a shit dad by throwing himself onto his work to fix the things to come, spiralling because he feels like no matter what he does he's doomed to hurt those around him, that he's fundamentally a bad person, rotten in some way.

This man needs so much work done to actually become better. Not beating your kids and wife isn't all that matters. And he's not going to learn quickly. But post the whole Dabi thing, I'd say he's a lot more receptive to criticism. Maybe Rei doesn't agree to the divorce because she doesn't want to feel like she's running away and leaving the kids to deal with the monster alone, to keep an eye on him, and when she sees he's actually putting in effort she starts nudging him in a better direction.

They won't fall in love. That's not them. But maybe, just maybe, with the knowledge of what's to come, they could be functional. Happy even.

I don't know if he would tell anyone. Maybe he'd confide in All Might, because, all things considered, the man's at the center of this whole thing. As much as Enji doesn't want to lose to him, still does want the top spot, he also doesn't want this war fought. He's gonna say that place because goddamnit he's one of the idiots who lives there!

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Summary:

The Hero Public Safety Commission puts Pro-Heroes Eraserhead, Fat Gum, Ectoplasm, Snipe, and Hound Dog in charge of arresting a mysterious fast-growing vigilante group that's been taking action in Esuha city. Those people are dangerious, and there's very little the heroes know about them. Still, they'll work on stopping them regardless.

On the other sided of things, Team 7 had just arrived in Esuha because of a mishap with a Otsutsuki device. It had been a while since they'd taken a vacation. Naruto was going to get them involved in trouble anyways, so they might as well have some fun with it.

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My friends and I are still on our pokémon nuzlocke bullshit so I'm still poke obsessed.

But separately I'm also on my how to train your dragon bullshit and I realized how similar the relationship progression of Ash and Pikachu and of Hiccup and Toothless is.

They should meet.

Ash getting slung on Berk would have pretty much the same effect as Hiccup ending up in Unova. Going from no electricity to that would probably give the kid an aneurysm before he starts taking pokedexes apart to learn how to build them. I don't think Toothless would scare people as much as they'd probably assume he was a legendary from another region. He'd be Dragon type, probably pure.

Toothless and Pikachu wouldn't be able to communicate, which would probably weird Toothless out since usually he's not this cut out from the rest of the world. I mean, Hiccup and Ash also probably speak different languages here, but it's easier for humans to learn a new language than it is for animals from different universes to do so.

For these kinds of universe shananigans I can always only think of a few main culprits, Arceus being the main one. I mean It does a lot of things for Its self without worrying about who It's using. Palkia and Dialga might not be the teleporting around type, but Giratina might meddle. And the Lake Guardians do some kind of transportation shananigans sometimes but they're not as mischievous iirc.

Thinking about Hiccup somehow meeting Lugia and being all "it's ok it's ok" *hand think* while Lugia looks at Ash and goes "is this kid fr?" And Hiccup has a heart attack because he's never heard a Dragon talk. And pokemon also usually don't so this was a surprise all around.

Them exchanging stories of how they met their life long partner.

"I uuh- I shot him down. He can't fly without the artificial tail fin I made. But hey! He got me back, didn't he? Couldn't save all of me, so-" *points* "peg leg."

*Warble*

"Woah. And you made it? Both of them?"

"Yeah. Took me a while to perfect the design but now Toothless can fly with my help. I... Tried making him one he didn't need me for, but he rejected it."

*nods* "I get it."

"We didn't get along for a while. I was scared and he was resentful. But I was also stubborn and he was curious. "

*chuckle* "Me and Pikachu didn't either."

"Yeah?"

*nods* "He didn't want a trainer, and I didn't want him as my Pokémon. But, like you, I was stubborn. And even though we didn't get along, I never would've let him get hurt."

"Naturally."

"So when a murder of Sparrow attacked us, I protected him. And then he did the same. And I think we started bonding more because of the trust and respect that came from that incident."

"Pikapi! Pi pika pika-chuu."

*nods* "True. It wasn't smooth sailing. But with time, we really came from an understanding."

"And now you're inseparable?" *Smile*

*smile back* "yeah."

I was also thinking about what pokémon Toothless would be if this was a universe fusion and not a universes meeting kinda situation and I came to the conclusion that it should be Zekrom.

C'mon. Night Furies are said to be the "unholy offspring of lightning and death itself". I can totally see some culture getting that idea if they know the original story and lore.

I don't know what the Red death would be in this scenario, but this would be like a Hisui situation with people hating or being scared of Pokemon in general. I have less ideas for universe fusions type crossover.

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Ship: Logicality (very little of the actual ship and more about what it means)

Summary: After telling the others about his feelings for Patton, Logan ends up having to explain their existence to them.

Dialogue-only fic

Fic start:

"What."

"I don't understand what is confusing about my statement."

"You... Just admitted to having a crush on Patton and you want us to just... What? Ignore it?"

"I'm not asking you to ignore it, Virgil. I brought it up specifically so that we can discuss it and the development in Thomas' psyche that has caused it."

"Personally, I am extremely confused."

"Don't... Don't worry about it, kiddo. It's not like you did it on purpose!"

"It's not like it's a bad thing for Smart Alec over there. And if it gets him to acknowledge his feelings I say all the better then!"

"My name is not Alec, you know this Roman."

"I didn't mean to implying it's a bad thing! Just that... I didn't even know it could be a thing. Aside from Fandom speculation I suppose..."

"We're influenced by you, Thomas. We ARE you. We're also imaginary. What we can do is restricted to what you can do and your perception of yourself."

"I... Don't understand. Aren't you guys the ones influencing me?"

"Of course not, kiddo! We're the parts that make you a whole person!"

"Correct. We're functions. And we operate based on how you view those functions. The twins are the biggest example of this."

"But that doesn't make sense. I make Thomas feel anxious about things all the time. That's my entire job. It's my... Function as you said."

"Not really, Virgil. It's the opposite way. Thomas feels anxious, and that manifests into your existence. You're an externalization of Thomas' feelings. He feels, therefore, you exist. The same thing goes for Patton. For Roman, it's creations. For me, it's knowledge."

"You're... You're losing me, Logan."

"Let's put it this way, Thomas. You are a jigsaw puzzle. You're the image that shows up when all the pieces are out together. We are the pieces. It's not the pieces that determine what the full picture is gonna look like, it's the full picture that determes what the pieces will look like."

"But you said it yourself: We're functions, right? We're not idle. We do things. You know things Thomas doesn't. Patton feels things Thomas doesn't. Virgil gets freaked by things before Thomas thinks of them, even!"

"I don't know anything more than what Thomas has learned in his life. But while that's all I am, Thomas is a whole person. I don't have agency like he does."

"That's not true Logan! Of course you have agency!"

"I only have the agency you do, Thomas. And the one you give me. Just like when you met Janus. You had to give us permission first, remember?"

"But-"

"What about the time I... ducked out? Wasn't that me influencing Thomas?"

"That was more... Like a system malfunction. Imagine Thomas as a smartphone, and we are the programs and apps installed in it. The apps allow the smartphone to perform its tasks -gallery for photos, notes for writing, contacts for phone numbers, calls to talk to people- and it's the smartphone's integrity that allows the apps to do their job efficiently. If a system error occurs and an app gets deleted the smartphone will cease having the ability to perform that function until the app gets reinstalled. That's what happened when you ducked out."

"I... Guess that makes sense."

"I'm going to use Patton and Virgil as an example to illustrate a further point."

"Why not yourself?"

"Because Patton and Virgil -what they represent- have had the most sway over your actions. You're a very emotive and empathetic person, Thomas, so I think using your feelings to explain myself will get the metaphor figuratively across better."

"Ok."

"When you organize an outing with your friends you feel happiness and anticipation at the prospect of spending time with them. So, the same happens to Patton. But you also feel anxious at the idea of going out and all the things that could go wrong. And so does Virgil. But Thomas is feeling both. In relation to each other. Are you with me so far?"

"Oh-n! Umh yes. Yes, I am."

"Marvelous. Now, in instances such as this Virgil wouldn't be feeling the excitement and eagerness that Patton is. And Patton wouldn't be nervous at the prospect of Thomas spending time with his freinds. Because they're relegated exclusively to acting as their function. While Thomas gets to experience all of that at the same time, which gives him a different, fuller understanding of the situation than what either Virgil and Patton are getting. I am, of course, simplifying the situation and removing the other Sides as to make sure you're all following."

"I am... But... Patton does feel nervous at times."

"Not in the same way Virgil does when you're anxious. Although, I believe they've been figuratively bleeding into each other a little since you started working with your Anxiety."

"Huh... I never noticed."

"That... actually explains some things."

"Like the Nico thing?"

"Mmh, no, actually I'm pretty sure that was just the 'fight' of the 'flight-or-flight' instincts situation I've got going on."

"So, wait I don't understand how all of... This! Connects to your feelings for the Marshmallow Fluff over there."

"Because Thomas has started feeling his feelings while using logic to understand and process them a lot more. This, in turn, manifested into me loving Patton."

"Loving-?"

"It seems Thomas equates the idea of us working together to that of a romantic relationship between us."

"I... Do?"

"Subconsciously, it seems."

"But then... Why doesn't Patton reciprocate?"

"I never said I didn't!"

"WHAT?"

"It is only logical that he would feel the same. I didn't think it would have to be explicitly stated. My apologies."

"And I didn't even get the chance to say it before you 3 started debating the ethics of our existence!"

[sprog-writes]

Minato Live AU where since energy can't be destroyed or created (but only transformed) and the Bijuu are made of chakra (energy), when Minato gave himself to the Shinigami as a bargain to keep half the Kyuubi contained, it was a temporary arrangement. Not that Minato knew. The Shinigami did though.

So 12 years after the attack, when Kurama regains all of his strength (which iirc happens during the wave mission right? That's the turning point? If it wasn't it is now) Minato also shows up inside of his own body. Logic dictates that even if the whole thing was temporary his body would've rot, but no. Because since it was a temporary arrangement, the Shinigami only took his spiritual chakra so that his body wouldn't get consumed by the earth.

So Minato has to quite literally dug his way out of his own grave, which is probably a horrifying experience (why not hiraishin? Well he doesn't know where he is, what is happening, why it's happening, and he's freaking out a little).

What would follow would probably be a trip to T&I, an audience with Hiruzen, a message sent for both Tsunade and Jiraya, and a lot -and I mean a LOT- of questions.

This is pre chunin exams so they don't know about a possible successful Edo Tensei, so I don't know if they'd look into the possibility of that.

Danzo would HATE this an unbelievable amount. Minato is not as manipulable as Hiruzen. He's a paranoid asshole at heart so he'd never believe it's the real Minato.

However they'd also probably worry about "if the deal with the Shinigami was keeping the Kyuubi in exchange for you.... And you're here... Then what's happening with the Kyuubi?" Cue frantic searching for Naruto, who's on the other side of the country, currently getting swallowed by red chakra, and almost killing a Kiri nukenin.

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I'm writing a Naruto-centric Naruto fic

No Naruto does not appear in the fic, why do you ask?