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been a while since i wrote up a big infodump post like this, but i had a really silly sr isekai au idea
tldr; kaif gets isekaid into a story he has a love hate relationship with and gets to make out with his blorbo
so. first things first. in kaif's starting world, literally all of sr does not exist. he's a bit lonely tbh, but he lives an almost entirely different life as a result. well, almost. he still ends up doing youtube. but without a 'cavalcade of fuckups' (direct quote) failing at wow to record and show off to the whole world, he ends up doing a different type of content.
he ends up becoming a media reviewer and critic. specifically, he reviews webcomics.
at first his channel is quite small, and he's okay with that. he's only doing this as a hobby during his time off work, and it's making him geniunely quite happy.
then one of his videos blows the fuck up. there's a sudden, sharp spike in viewship and the video in question even makes it to the trending page for a few, short, glorious hours.
the video in question is about aspiring hero's journal, a finished webcomic. now, kaif could go on for hours and hours about AHJ- it started off incredibly well despite having aspects clearly borrowed from other series (such as terminology, as powers are referred to as Quirks within the story) before both the webcomic and the author slowly devolved into a hellish toxic mess.
but he's not here to talk about the webcomic as a whole. no. he is here to talk about his favourite character, and the biggest point of drama in the AHJ community- how Elísabet "Entropy" Morgenstern had her character butchered and ending ruined all because the writer got salty that the community liked her over their self insert character.
about two thirds of the way through the webcomic, a poll was held on who the audience's favourite side character was. it wasnt known at the time, but the author was originally planning to make whoever won this poll the new protagonist after the planned death of the old one. the winner of this poll was Elísabet. the community absolutely loved her. Elísabet started out as quirkless, only developing her quirk Event Horizon at age 26. unfortunately for her, Event Horizon was so unfathomably powerful and uncontrollable that it nearly killed her and did infact kill hundreds of bystanders, leaving her with a permanent fear of using her quirk, as well as making her a prime target for the villain group of the week to sculpt into their ideal weapon of mass destruction. she did get a redemption, but her unique perspective and far more inventive ways of fighting had the community long believing that she should have been the protagonist instead.
so, she won the poll.
the author did not like this.
after one of the twitter rants of all time, the author began to update the comic far more frequently, with a sudden focus on Elísabet.
the audience did not like what they saw.
Elísabet suddenly had her 200+ chapters worth of therapy and development tossed out the window like it was nothing to reveal her as a random heel-turn traitor, going so far as to reinterpret her traumatic awakening as "the best moment of her life" and that she "enjoyed killing", as if said awakening did not also render her a burnt, broken husk. it made her into a stereotypical 'yandere' villain who was supposedly in love with the author's self insert out of nowhere, and completely eradicated her previous goal that she had been fighting for the entire comic- quirkless equality- and made her the leader of a secret quirkless society that was planning to... genocide quirked people, or something. nobody knows, their goal changed like every 5 minutes, and honestly nobody cares. even worse, the author decided that her quirk was no longer hers, and that it was infact stolen and Elísabet willingly chose to hold it (which completely went against her sudden ideology change to one of "all quirks are evil", but again, nobody gave a shit at this point) and that it was stolen from the author's self insert's dead girlfriend (???) who was never mentioned before this point despite supposedly being a pro hero (?????) and that part of her spirit (???????) still remained and that was why Elísabet was 'good' the whole time (?!?!?!?!) because it wasnt her it was this random fridged side character, or something.
AHJ fans do not talk about chapter 367. in fact, any 'fans' dont consider anything past 334 to be canon, but they ESPECIALLY dont talk about 367.
so, yes. kaif's three hour long well constructed rant about how his blorbo was done dirty is exceedingly popular.
he goes to bed, happy.
the next day he gets hit by a truck, because god forbid he has anything nice.
he wakes up in an apartment not his own, his appearance noticably different. since when has he had white streaks in his hair? and did he get younger?
after some incredible deduction and investigation skills (he opens his new wallet) he discovers he has been reincarnated. into Aspiring Hero's Journal. and not just as any character, no- he was reincarnated as the quirkless friend of the main villain, Sam Broulder, who's entire purpose is to be accidentally yet brutally slaughtered when the main villain violently awakens to his quirk several years late.
great.
anyway, kaif absolutely hauls ass upon realising he's got two weeks until sam's traumatic quirk awakening, putting in as many contingencies as possible and researching the world around him. he knows almost everything about what the canon timeline should be, after all.
after getting several things in order (such as why the fuck does this random unemployed guy that i now am have so much money) he decides to go out shopping to pick some stuff up for sam. after all, the entire reason sam's quirk causes him to go haywire in the beginning is that it turns him into a hemovore, requiring blood to survive. whilst sam's quirk, Maw, is the only hemovoric quirk mentioned in the webcomic, it takes him 5 seconds to realise that this is not the case in the actual world. so, he heads off to an out of the way butchers shop that is willing to sell animal blood to people who need it.
on his way there, he notices a commotion in an alleyway. nobody is paying attention to the man accosting the woman in the shadows, so nobody pays attention when kaif walks up, calmly places his bag down beside him, and decks the man in the face so hard he shatters his nose. after all, kaif can only get charged for vigilantism if he uses his quirk. bit hard to do that when he doesnt have one.
kaif leaves before seeing her face.
its only the next day when he wakes up in a panic does he realise that despite it all he managed to fucking miss something.
yesterday was the day that Elísabet Morgenstern was supposed to awaken her quirk.
frantically, he looks at the news, only to find no report on the massive explosion that should have gone off. all he can find is a report about a 'quirk accident' in a convenience store, which killed one would-be robber, injured another, and severely injured its user, who is now in a critical but stable condition thanks to the many healing quirks now availible. this- this isn't right, is it? he ends up resigning to the fact that the dates provided in the webnovel are not accurate to the ones in this reality, and promptly makes plans so that he never has to go into the district Elísabet will eventually wipe off the map in her debut as the villain Entropy.
he moves on, unsettled.
the next few days are fine. kaif has to piece together the memories of his predecessor- who he's come to simply call langley, as that was his last name- by himself, as he didn't start out with full access to them. he discovers a lot of things about the world. public transport is god's gift to the earth, unless there's a fight on your route. quirks have allowed for the creation of several interesting yet concerning new foods and drinks. he is out of the loop for so many pop culture references it's not funny. his best friend and roommate, sam broulder (who will NOT become the villain Nyarlathotep if he has anything to say about it- he doesn't deserve that fate) is a vegetarian, which is darkly ironic considering he's about to become a budget vampire, and in the original webcomic he became a rampant, unhinged cannibal.
the supposed 'secret evil quirkless society' from the webnovel is actually a quirkless and villain quirk support group that was named as a group of interest by the police due to belief that it is connected to several different instances of vigilantism.
kaif also finds out that he runs a quirkless and villain quirk support group which is definitely involved in a metric fuckton of vigilantism.
he does not panic. nope. not at all. he just calmly marks it down as a future kaif problem, and leaves his apartment, as today is the day he's meant to die.
he can worry about the potential quirkless mafia he's accidentally formed if he lives the night, thank you very much.
he goes to a hotel he's booked under a false name, before heading to the rooftop, bag full of everything he'll need for the day.
he spends a lot of time up there, and eventually it becomes night.
the door to the roof opens, and he freezes- only to hear someone gasp. he turns around and pauses, realising he recognises this person. it's the woman from a week and a bit ago. fun.
she comes and sits down next to him, smiling wide, and his heart stops because oh my fucking god that's Elísabet Morgenstern. oh my god. oh my god thats my favourite character. she seems injured, bandages still visibly peeking out from underneath her hoodie, eyes sunken and cheeks hollow, but still incredibly happy.
as he's trying not to panic, Elísabet thanks him quite openly for the other day, excitedly exclaiming that she FINALLY managed to get a restraining order against that bastard. he relaxes a little bit, and then tries very hard not to laugh (and fails) when Elísabet drops his name- it was the author's shitty self insert character.
she gets a little confused, asks why he laughed, and he accidentally lets slip that he runs an online quirkless support group and that he saw the name mentioned there. and then Elísabet starts crying because apparently she DID ask for help on his group, and the memory randomly comes back to him as she says this. bit of a cry, kaif comforts her.
then Elísabet casually drops that she's no longer quirkless and kaif is like WHAT since yknow, event horizon is supposed to destroy an entire district, but it turns out that was only due to stress, and kaif punching the self insert inadvertently prevented her original horrific awakening from ever happening. Elísabet also admits that she's going to that one university for heroes, and that originally it was just for quirk therapy but she ended up passing the entrance test with flying colours and now she's going to become a hero. kaif is understandably insanely proud of her, even if they've only just met.
they chat for a little bit, and Elísabet admits that her hero name is going to be Seraph. she also then tells kaif to just call her Ebbz because "thats what my friends call me" whilst she gives him her number, and he is too horrified by the fact that her nickname was never revealed in the webcomic, implying either she felt she never had any friends or she had so much of her personality destroyed by her first time as Entropy that she ended up leaving that part of her life behind that in true kaif fashion, he does not realise that she is flirting with him, and that the 'meeting' she wants to organise is very much a date.
don't worry! he realises exactly three days later when he wakes up in a cold sweat on the couch, loudly blurting "oh my god she was hitting on me" and causing his roommate sam to burst into laughter.
unfortunately for the both of them, sam's new quirk Maw which he is only just learning to control allows him to alter a lot of his body parts, but usually defaults to creating extra mouths in places (mainly a big one on his stomach) when he's not looking. sam can, in fact, use these mouths like normal mouths, and talk from them.
sam's startled kettle laugh ends up being so loud they get seven noise complaints.
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