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I love soulmate AUs. And I love hurting my favorite characters. I also had a very big, very long phase of Hanahaki AUs. Combine them all, I have Hanahaki disease as a consequence of soulmate rejection and Tim has this in your soulmate AU.

Tim is the smartest of the Robins, probably even smarter than Batman. But he was in love and in denial. He wanted to have a family, to live in the white picket fenced house with children and a dog or cat with his soulmate. He was in denial when Bruce keeps a relationship with Selena or when Dick was with Babs or nearly married to Kori or when he found out Red Hood was Jason and very much wants to kill him or when Damian kept on degrading or humiliating or actively trying to kill him. But he can't deny the flowers that come out of his mouth any longer. I'm not good with the flower language but imagine the different flowers that come out representing his love. He's been rejected by his soulmate. He really is as unlovable as his parents say.

I imagine the rejection comes in different times for every man. For brutim, it could be after Tim brought his soulmate back from the time stream but hadn't received any words from Bruce save for the thanks he got when he was rescued. They're at a family dinner, everyone in the family is present for once. Tim would be so excited because it's been weeks since he last saw or talked to Bruce outside patrol. He'd even ignore Damian, knowing it makes Bruce... Comfortable? Happy? That his soulmate and his son aren't fighting. So he ignored Damian even when his lung felt so suspiciously tight when he saw how differently Damian was treated from how he was treated. He tried to think logically. Damian is his son, yada, yada, yada. So he kept his mouth shut and ignored the looks Damian sent his way. But Damian didn't appreciate that and in true demon brat fashion, Damian brought up his mother wanting to see Bruce. Tim is starting to think that the spawn somehow has managed to learn that Tim is his father's soulmate. Nevermind, Tim will not dignify a response to that. But then Damian kept on pressing and decided to bring up Selena. The brat must really hate him if he's bringing up Selena and the rumors that Batman was seen with Catwoman a few nights ago, rumors that Tim desperately ignored. He doesn't know what he expects Bruce to say. Maybe deny the rumors? Defend Tim? Bruce does none of that. Tim spent the next hour of dinner, drinking water and swallowing his saliva, hoping to ease the tightness in throat and chest. He flees at the given chance, rushing to his apartment. He expects to throw up the dinner he just had. But flowers came instead. He definitely threw up his dinner after that when it became clear to him what just happened.

For dicktim, the flowers came when Dick announced that he's engaged to Kori or when Dick took Robin away. And I know that I just said that Tim was in denial when Dick was engaged to Kori. But imagine Tim who only wants to be with his soulmate, to be married to him. Weddings are a big deal to Tim. (Selena getting married to Bruce could've also been the time the flowers first appeared for brutim.) His soulmate getting married to someone else, planning a wedding with someone else. It would hurt so bad. He'll spend next few years simultaneously hoping he still wakes up the next day and hoping he doesn't. Kori and Dick doesn't last but the flowers remain. Then his dad dies, then Steph, then Bart, then Kon, then Bruce. Then Robin was gone. His soulmate gave it away to someone who has very nearly killed him. If the wedding didn't give him his flowers, this will. There are pros and cons to having the flowers early. Tim has learned how to live with the flowers threatening to fill his lungs. He doesn't know if he'll manage being so stressed out while also learning how to deal with it. But the years of abuse on his lungs have also left considerable damage on him. Enough that Ra's was considering removing the flowers regardless of the damage it may cause on Tim's soul without his consent during Tim's splenectomy. He was so sure he could've convinced the young detective. But Tim is a survivor. When Dick catches him from the fall and Tim calls Dick his brother, he has made his resolve.

For JayTim, the flowers came either on Titan's Tower or with the batarang on his chest. Maybe Jason is even aware of the Hanahaki while he was beating Tim up in the tower. Tim had no strength to keep the flowers down when it came. If Jason had more control, if he hadn't let the Pit overpower him, he would've realized that the scene of bruised bloodied skin littered with flowers was familiar, that he once knew someone else in the same state, same position as his soulmate. I'm not familiar with flowers but imagine the flowers having the same color as the bruises decorating Tim's skin. It would've been poetic and it might've lit the literature maniac part of Jason. But for now he was busy writing his name on the walls and decorating it with the blue and purple flowers. Months later, Jason is cured from the Pit. Apologies were made. Tim is rightfully distrustful but his love and duty to his family supercedes that. They form a tentative truce. The flowers are still there but for the first time, in months, his chest has felt lighter. Then Bruce dies and the Pit comes back. Jason was throwing a batarang to his chest. And Tim coughs up blood. And flowers.

For damitim, the flowers could come for so many times. Maybe when they first met and learn that they're soulmates. Maybe during the fall from the dinosaur. But I'm more partial to the time Damian cuts Tim's line. Damian was so, so angry when he saw the contingency plans his soulmate made. Contingency plans for him. He felt rejected. What's the use of a soulmate if they can't trust him? What's the use of a soulmate if they make plans to incapacitate him? Like that, Tim was rejected. His line was cut. All night, he was wondering why his chest feels tight. Why was he coughing up flowers, a few minutes before his patrol with Robin and Nightwing? Dick said Damian was better. So why? He was so preoccupied by this thoughts that he nearly hadn't been able to save himself when he realized he was falling. It took far too long for him to realize that someone cut his line, that someone wanted him dead. It took even far longer for him to realize that his soulmate wanted him dead. He tries to explain himself when he learns of the cause of his soulmate's ire. But Damian was having none of it. Not even when Bruce explained that even Batman himself, had contingency plans for his soulmate. For years, Tim tries and says sorry. Even as the flowers in his chest grew. Damian screams of rejection and betrayal. And the tired part of Tim wants to scream back. What do you know of betrayal? What do you know of rejection? You, who had no flowers growing in your chest. You, who had not laid in your bed wondering whether it's the last time or the last day. You, who had not made the difficult decision to limit your activities as a vigilante because the flowers in your lungs makes it hard to breathe, because the flowers in your lungs could very well kill you if you accidentally run into Ivy. Those were all the things Tim has to go through. Tim was the one whose relationship with the family grow even more distant, even more strained because the family sided with Damian who has been "rejected" by his soulmate. Even Bruce, who had initially came to Tim's defense, started to side with Damian.

Tim tries with all of them. He tries until he physically couldn't. He stops when a shortness of his breath, a stuttering of his heart, had distracted him and nearly killed him during a mission with the Titans. Had it not been for Kon who had heard the irregular beat of his heart. If I was a better person, Tim dies and his other half mourns. But I'm not. Tim stops going back to Gotham. He stops trying and focuses on himself. He will never reject his soulmate. He will never make them feel how he had felt all those months or years ago. He will always love them but he stops asking for more. He grows his relationships with his friends and eventually builds something more with Kon. At first, they were both worried. Tim doesn't want his soulmate to go through Hanahaki but he doesn't want to let Kon go. The first few months of their relationship was spent monitoring the health of Tim's soulmate before it's made clear that it doesn't affect them. Tim laughs when he thinks. His soulmates really didn't want him. And so he moves on. He loves them but he will move on. He's done waiting. And slowly the flowers stop growing. Slowly, he stops waking up every few hours to cough up flowers. They didn't notice it at first. They were too preoccupied worrying over the dark spot that has started growing on Kon's skin. They hadn't noticed until they're at the medbay, fussing over Tim's injury from their recent mission and Kon was using his x-ray vision to check for internal injuries. Kon sees his clear lungs, devoid of flowers that tormented his boyfriend for years. Kon was scared of what this means. Has Tim's soulmate accepted him back? Was Tim leaving him now? He was afraid and hurting but he tells Tim what he sees and braces himself for the inevitable. This is how the best relationship in Kon's life ends. But it didn't. Tim didn't want this to end. He was the happiest he has been all these months with Kon. He tells Kon that. He was going to be selfish this time. He had dealt with the flowers for so long, his soulmate could deal with it themselves. He promises himself to Kon. Maybe his soulmate was right, Tim says, the universe did make a mistake making them soulmates because if he was asked to choose a soulmate, he would've chosen Kon. They kiss and they have the best sex in their lives. The next morning, they wake up and sees the dark spot on Kon's skin had become Tim's soulmark. They're soulmates.

Meanwhile, Tim's soulmate wakes up, surrounded by the same flowers Tim used to cough up. And their soulmark gone from their skin

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soulmate and hanaki both carry, in my opinion, some of the best love angst fics in any fandom!!! the unrequited love tropes are so good especially when the person who was hurting ends up happy in the end!!!!!!!!!!!

i love the idea that this wasn't a 'misunderstanding' that tim and bruce/dick/jason/damian knew fully well that tim was their soulmate- not just that but that everyone else knew they were soulmates as well.

that means talia, selina, kory, barbara and everyone who were fucking or dating bruce or dick knew for a fact that tim was the soulmate- and they didn't care. or maybe it's not that they didn't care but that they were told that it was all taken care of. by bruce and dick most likely.

maybe in bruce and dick's mind it makes sense to not reciprocate because....tim is young. he's a child and he can't possibly engage in the kind of relationship they're used to- the kind of relationship where the two go on dates and have sex and are emotionally vulnerable and honest with each other. both bruce and dick go through some pretty heavy stuff and are mentally sometimes not in the best place and so tim, a child, can't provide the kind of support they need even if he tries so hard to be their equal and be their soulmate. even if tim offered they'd still say no because it's not right. tim is so young and shouldn't have to shoulder the burden and horrors of an older soulmate. soulmate age gaps aren't rare- they're quite common. but even if soulmates meet when one is an adult and the other is a child the child won't just get married- they'll stay with their parents until they're an adult. bruce and dick have both probably seen the...bad side of soulmates with age gaps where one soulmate was too young when the 'adult' stuff started. just because someone is meant for you doesn't mean you can't hurt them.

so they think they're protecting tim. by focusing on women their own age (nevermind that sometimes tim cries and wonders if because he's not a girl that they won't look at him, that they've rejected him). in bruce and dick's minds their distance from tim is justified. they can't take tim out to dinner or on dates without it looking creepy. they can't give tim a relationship when he's too physically and mentally underdeveloped. they just can't do it.

but they never tell tim this.

they never tell tim the reason why they won't look at him, why they'll get into relationships, spend the night with, and nearly marry OTHER people. and honestly....it's because they forget. tim is just always...there. he's a comfortable presence in their life. when they go through a bad breakup, when things turn sour, when they're betrayed, when they're left at the alter- tim is there. ready to comfort, offer gentle words, and squeeze their shoulders in a way that makes them feel like everything will be okay. they take him for granted.

they disregard his feelings, when he shows up to breakfast with puffy and redrimmed eyes it doesn't even occur to them that they could be the cause. tim never snaps at them, cries, or yells about how they're choosing other women, other heroes, other people over him.

they don't think about him and maybe that the cruelest part of it all.

they don't think about tim. until he's gone.

when they wake up to flower petals sprinkled over their body and their mark aching like someone has punched a hole through their heart- they panic. the terror and fear that swallows them is unlike anything they've ever felt.

they've lost their soulmate and it feels like they've been ripped in half.

until they call everyone they know, pull up security camera footage and see tim (alive, he's alive and that brings so much relief they could almost cry before the cold realization sets in) and superboy making pancakes and eggs together, laughing and looking disheveled in the way that lets people know they got laid the night before.

hurt radiates through their throat at the sight they can barely talk. disbelief and betrayal sink into them as they watch as superboy strokes at the soulmate mark- their soulmate mark printed right over where his heart is.

both dick and bruce lay a hand over where their marks used to be. there's no scar, no pain, not even an itch. there's no evidence of them ever having a soulmate.

for jason it's complicated. the fact that tim is his soulmate always gets drowned out by the fact that he's the boy bruce replaced him with. the superior model, the one that would obey, that wouldn't disappoint, the one that wasn't dirty, the one that didn't live in a gutter, who didn't have to give handies in an alley just to make a buck. maybe the old jason, the young and innocent one would've been ecstatic and so happy to meet his soulmate. jason had given up on ever finding anyone who wasn't his soulmate because he SAW how that played out. willis and catherine hadn't been soulmates and whenever jason had asked her about the splotchy soulmate mark that didn't seem to really make any sense she always got quiet. jason always swore what he and his soulmate had would be different- that his soulmate wouldn't need to suffer ever so long as jason was with them. sometimes the rage he directs at tim is the pit, other times it's genuine rage and hatred. at some point jason runs out of excuses and just needs to accept that he can't love tim more than he hates him. that he'll always hate tim for what he represents just like he'll always hate the joker for what he is. but...there are time...moments. when jason has a bit of clarity when he's not hurting as much and laughing along with tim at something stupid bruce did. when alfred is bringing them trays of hot, jam filled cookies and warm mugs of honey lemon tea because both of them have sore throats from being stuck wading water in gotham harbor for a drug dumping bust. jason thinks the first person to ever make him genuinely chuckle at something after...everything- is tim. but then bruce fucking dies or gets lost in time and all the pain and the hurt and the fact that he hadn't gotten catharsis or closure or whatever the fuck- and tim is there. like always. and maybe jason should feel bad. his soulmate had been so wary around him but had come around eventually. but in jason's mind it doesn't matter. because the joker is still around, because bruce is gone but then he's not, because so much of the pain that jason endured has gone unanswered. and tim is there and it's easy to hurt him, hate, him, taunt him using private conversations they had as ammo. jason shouldn't be surprised as he is when he wakes up while on a job and finds his bed filled with crabapple blossoms. something in his chest just goes tight. he doesn't move for what feels like hours and when he does his whole arm is shaking and pulling up feeds from gotham then san francisco because jason recalls how tim often crosses the country to be with the titans. and he finds...something that has him clenching his jaw and balling his shaking fists together. tim not being his soulmate should be a good thing. jason hated him too much, was never able to scrub away the resentment of him...but seeing him in another person's arms, seeing that person with HIS soulmark....he wants to cry. the universe has decided jason was no longer worthy of his soulmate the same way it decided he was no longer worthy of life and so took it away from him. jason should be happy but all he wants to do is cry.

damian is young, jealous, and knows nothing about selfless love. when he meets tim too much of his is brainwashed from the league and talia. when he learns tim is his soulmate too much of him is brainwashed by what he was led to believe a soulmate would be. drake doesn't welcome him with open arms, doesn't fawn over damian or forgive any of his faults. drake argues with him and fights back against damian like a cat escaping the hands grabbing them. there is tension and antagonism that runs deep between them. damian doesn't think him attempting to kill drake should be held against him because...because that's just how he is and drake should KNOW that. when he finds his name in a list of targets he cannot hold back the hurt, the pain, or the resentment. the accusations flow out of him like water. it's the worst pain he's ever felt because damian had been TRYING to get better and improve only that drake hadn't been around to see it. for nearly a year drake had abandoned him. not a single call, word, or letter until he'd blown into gotham and demanded they obey like he had any idea about what they'd endured in the city during his absence. he left gotham, he left DAMIAN and he couldn't just walk back in and expect loyalty. a year is a long time for someone like damian. he grew an inch, he got calmer, more merciful. he gained the respect of other fighters in the city, of citizens. but that wasn't enough for his soulmate who still deemed him a "threat". so yes damian is upset and he makes that known. and eventually drake leaves gothan unable to handle the fact that he was wrong about damian. no apology. no letter.

just like last time.

damian is bitter and angry and hurt, bad mouthing drake to anyone and everyone and at first he has their sympathy and ears but they start growing tired of it. red hood mocks him one night, asking if he really expected "perfect little timmy" to ever want to be soulmates with a demented league brat like him.

damian attacks him with his sword and leaves a deep cut in his thigh that has hood cursing. the attack draws the attention of other bats who are furious with him for attacking todd. grayson looks at him with deep disappointment "i thought you'd outgrown this". damian has a bad week. he's grounded and his father schedules an appointment with a therapist for his behavior, utterly unsympathetic when damian said it was drake's fault.

two days before his appointment damain wakes up in a bed of flowers that make his nose itch and no soulmark. damian's scream wakes the entire manor.

his missing soulmark has grayson turning white and sprinting for a phone. father stares at the hives forming on his skin. an allergic reaction from the flowers.

damian is given some medicine and cream and forced to watch as his soulmate is held and stroked by a clone. damian can't stop the angry tears the- the betrayed tears that burn trails down his cheeks like hot lava. damian may not have liked or loved his soulmate the way he knew he was supposed to but...but...but he didn't think he'd do this.

damian cries and no one comforts him or tries to console him.

why would they?

damian had been talking about how much he hated drake, how much the universe had made a mistake, how much drake was not and would never be his soulmate.

well damian got his wish didn't he?

now drake isn't his soulmate.

no one is.

not anymore.

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d00mb0yz · 1 year ago

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Meanwhile, Tim's soulmate wakes up, surrounded by the same flowers Tim used to cough up. And their soulmark gone from their skin

-🦆 (I sincerely hope no one else took this emoji as a sign. That would be awkward. I've only sent one other ask signed with this emoji)

but they never tell tim this.

they don't think about him and maybe that the cruelest part of it all.

they don't think about tim. until he's gone.

they've lost their soulmate and it feels like they've been ripped in half.

both dick and bruce lay a hand over where their marks used to be. there's no scar, no pain, not even an itch. there's no evidence of them ever having a soulmate.

just like last time.

two days before his appointment damain wakes up in a bed of flowers that make his nose itch and no soulmark. damian's scream wakes the entire manor.

his missing soulmark has grayson turning white and sprinting for a phone. father stares at the hives forming on his skin. an allergic reaction from the flowers.

damian cries and no one comforts him or tries to console him.

why would they?

damian had been talking about how much he hated drake, how much the universe had made a mistake, how much drake was not and would never be his soulmate.

well damian got his wish didn't he?

now drake isn't his soulmate.

no one is.

not anymore.

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d00mb0yz · 1 year ago

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There's this DamiTim fic called, "That Unwanted Animal". And it's literally so good. Basically They were all a little older when Bruce died. Damian, iirc, was sixteen.

Dami was so horny for Tim. So possessive too. It was delicious. I really want underage or younger Damian grooming older Tim

Imagine Dick finding out about their relationship. Idk if their dynamics would have been the same in this AU since Damian and Dick had gotten closer in canon during his time as Batman. What if Dick thought Tim had groomed their baby brother? Damian would've been offended if it weren't helping him isolate Tim further, making sure that Tim is his all alone.

By the time someone manages to talk sense or prove Dick wrong, he's too late. Tim doesn't trust him anymore. He's even more attached to Damian, always clinging to him, always looking to him on what to do next. Dick screams at Damian that he broke Tim and that he doesn't trust that his obsession would even last since he snuffed out the fire that was Tim's independence and brain. But Damian have already accounted for that. He doesn't really care for Tim's independence. And he won't let his mind dull. After all, they make so much enemies, his mind would be his ultimate weapon against them in the event that Damian can't reach him in time to protect him.

And it's all Dick's fault really. If he only investigated more. If he only hadn't let his emotions get the best of him. His outburst about Tim and Damian's relationship had reached the other vigilantes. His beloved has been shunned and turned away by those blind fools. But they have made their relationship closer and stronger. He'll be sure to thank Dick and send him an invitation to their wedding

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i just read it!!!!!! it was so good!!!!!!! i love fics where tim's struggle is the idea that HE will be perceived as the aggressor even when he's the victim!!! one of my favorite fics where this happens is this fic by weirdalterego

i think that damian and tim's relationship and dynamic is very unique and different from that other batcest ones because in the age gap- TIM is the one who is older, the adult, the "mature" one which inherently shifts the power dynamic in his favor and in basically every other scenario that would be the case. but because DAMIAN is the younger person he absolutely holds a lot of sway and power as well as the ability to completely flip the power dynamics because of just how much bullheadedness and audacity he has. in their dynamic, damian is often the aggressor with tim. he's the one who attacks, and tries to hurt tim and tim is the one forced to defend or backed into a corner until he fights back. i think that in general their realtionship and one in which damian is pursuing tim is almost so unbelievable it doesn't even register as taboo because people's default assumption will be that TIM was the one doing something wrong, tim was the one grooming damian, taking advantage of damian.

tim being hit with the realization that not only do his friends and family not believe him about what's going on- they think HE'S the predator and not the victim. i truly think that tim, in a delicate and unstable state, would absolutely be rendered emotionally broken by it. and damian who has been trying to make him pliable and obedient would be there to comfort him, stroke his hair, tell him 'there there' while tim trembles like a frightened puppy and sobs while clinging to damian- the only person who cares about him. especially after dick tears into tim, launching horrible accusations that just make tim cry.

even worse is that dick is a venter. he vents to friends and dick has many friends and those friends talk and it's why tim had found no support from the community when he went looking for bruce. bruce and clark and so many leaguers are off-planet. maybe if they weren't they could've stopped dick...told him to think about what he was saying, if he REALLY thought tim was capable of such things. even jason, when he returns to gotham after a long-term undercover op, expresses immediate distrust in dick's conclusion.

jason knows predators, he knows pedophiles, he knows how they work, how they think, how they lay traps, how they lure. predators that prey on kids prey on them because they're young, small, and vulnerable. they rely on their inexperience and the fact that they don't know better or are in shitty home situations so no one is around to protect them. jason stresses to dick that predators and pedophiles follow their dicks and their desires, they're too fucking stupid to actually outsmart anyone or be discreet about what they want. if someone like tim was a predator they would never fucking know it.

but that's not what pushes the realization onto dick. it's kori. while dick is blasting tim's name over a call, kori's smile fades and grows thin lipped and grim. she comes to dick one night. flies to his apartment and asks to talk. she doesn't say that dick's an idiot but she asks what led dick to this conclusion. why he believed all these terrible things about tim. dick shows her the videos, the photos, he tells her what he saw when he walked in on tim riding damian on a rooftop while rain drenched both their bodies.

dick realizes that this hatred festering in his stomach is not something he's ever felt for tim. kori guides him through it. helps him see. how tim's face in the photos is always creased in reluctance, distress, and panic. how damian keeps asking tim, keeps touching him, keeps cornering tim until tim agrees to sex.

dick goes into tim's files and personal messages and sees unkind words and messages, hears how 'red robin' has been blacklisted from other cities outside gotham and, with dawning horror, realizes what he's done.

dick had never really healed from...from that night...on the roof...in the rain with tarantula over him. and then....he'd seen damian.

arching up and moaning trying to keep his cock in tim's cunt as his hips gyrated and slammed down...and all he'd seen was himself...younger and upset and disoriented and begging for it to stop.

dick almost throws up as he stares down at the messages. at the pictures and video.

bruce returns to a devastated dick and horrible accusations being thrown around about tim.

by the time they managed to quell rumors they realize damian and tim haven't been living in the manor for awhile. despite the fact that he always eats his meals at the manor, damian is almost always spending time at tim's apartment. bruce and burst in while tim is burying his face into a couch cushion, damian's fingers tangled in his hair and pulling tim's head up to stare at the laptop playing porn. damian is fucking tim roughly and not stopping even when bruce and dick arrive.

he refuses to stop even when bruce roughly orders him to. dick tries to get close to tim but tim just sniffles and retreats into damian's arms who strokes his back and soothes him while staring at both batman and nightwing with victory in his eyes.

dick blames himself for chasing tim into...into...damian's arms. he doesn't want to think or believe that damian was ever truly capable of such things but...hadn't he had no problem believing them of tim?

dick and bruce are thinking of ways to unfuck dick's massive screw up when...when an invitation comes in the mail. damian has freshly turned 18. which means its legal for him to get married.

which is what is happening. bruce gets stone-faced and is already thinking of how they can put a stop to all of this when more news reaches them.

tim is pregnant.

at least a few months already which is shocking to hear because they hadn't seen evidence of it when they'd last seen tim. but it's true. the pictures of a little blob in tim's womb are in his medical records courtesy of leslie who has known for months about what damian was doing but bound by confidentiality and tim's own close-lipped confessions.

dick stares at the pictures and invitations with numbness flooding his body and can't help but feel like this was all his fault.

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d00mb0yz · 1 year ago

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the ache of nostalgia

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d00mb0yz · 3 years ago

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Just came up with a new AU.

Villain!Rei Todoroki. And her children. They're all villains. Or rather, 3/4 of her children are villains.

Here's how it goes: after Touya's "death", Rei breaks out of the hospital using her quirk, rushes home and kills Endeavor. She stabs him with ice or freezes him to death. She's not really thinking straight, this is just the moment when she snaps.

I don't know if her children see her, but regardless, she takes them and leaves to hide somewhere else, maybe an abandoned building, while the cops arrive and look for her. When they discover Endeavor's body, she's determined as the most likely suspect, given the death of her eldest son and the disappearance of the rest. They see Fuyumi, Natsuo and Shouto as kidnapped victims. But really, they love their mother, and they're secretly sort of glad she did what she did. They see her as their savior. So when the cops or heros DO show up, and Rei has to defend herself, they defend her too. Eventually, the four of them are running from the law, using their quirks to attack cops and heros alike and unintentionally making a name for themselves as a family of dangerous villains.

It gets worse when Rei begins to blame the Hero Safety Commission for everything that's happened - Endeavor's obsession with rankings that he forced onto their children, the legal protection he got from them, her forced hospitalization... her family couldn't be safe from him because they lied and swept everything under the rug at the expense of the five of them - Rei and the kids. Eventually, it resulted on an insane dead child and a disfigured child.

So she begins hunting down commission authorities. Especially the ones involved with Endeavor's protection. And then she goes further - she exposes heros who hurt civillians and get away with it. She acts as a vigilante for women and children in danger, going as far as to kill their abusers. So she has earned a bit of a cult following, you know? Not a literal cult ofc, but it's hard to hate her. A hero or two has clumsily let her go in the past. People have even contacted her to ask for help. And of course the Commission can't let a villain expose them so easily, she's a HUGE threat to them, so they spread the most horrific propaganda against her, making up crimes she didn't commit and hiding her good acts, and lying about her relationship with her children: they say she's kidnapped and enslaved them, and when dealing with her, it's imperative to separate them from their mother to rescue them.

But actually, her children work with her willing. They support her cause and are happy to fight alongside her. Well, happy may not be the right word, they're all a bit conflicted, but this is the choice they make. It's not at all about Rei the Villain, no, it's a family business. Their strength comes in their numbers. It's all of them - Shouto, Natsuo and Fuyumi - investigating heros and the Safety Commission, hunting them down, exposing them, humilliating them... They believe in what they're doing. They are proud go call themselves villains, opposed to these so-called Heros. They love and protect their mother unconditionally and she offers the same kindness to them. Heros simply wouldn't understand.

Now the fun part is, this is actually a sort of role-swap AU. Villain Todoroki family... And pro hero Touya Todoroki. I imagine he was found by Aizawa, before his "death", and got lightly scolded for hurting himself, yes, but mostly he just received the care and attention his father never gave him. After nearly burning to death and disappearing from the scene, he wandered to Aiwaza on his own to ask for help. Aizawa took him to the hospital, got him patched up etc. He wanted to let his parents know he was alive, but it turns out that... his father is dead... at his mother's hands. Because she wanted to avenge Touya. That's when things spiral out of control: the Hero Safety Commission decides it's best to keep Touya hidden, because otherwise his family would stop at nothing to find him. Let them believe he's dead. Touya shouldn't know the details of their current state, either. He ends up under Aizawa's legal custody, because of course he does (but he's not gonna call him dad lol the age gap is too small, he just calls him by his first name or something). His name is changed to Touya Aizawa, but he prefers to go by Dabi on his everyday life. He goes to therapy. Aizawa convinces him to get into a hero school so at the very least he learns to control his quirk and not get himself hurt. And maybe by now Touya had given up on being a hero, because heros brought nothing but pain to him and his family, but he respects Aizawa's humility and lack of regard for this celebrity culture that wrecked him and his father. But he enters U.A, he's the top of his class, he finds a way to use his power without fucking himself up, and he realizes that he actually kind of likes it, you know? It feels... cleansing. Like this thing that hurt him so much is being stripped of it's traumatic factor, and he can enjoy it in a healthy way.

He graduates and becomes an underground hero like his mentor. He works mostly independantly, every now and then teaming up with other heros but mostly on his own. However, this time around Pro Hero Hawks has an interesting project and Touya doesn't want to be left out. He's investigating a strange family of villains, all of them with ice quirks. Touya pretends to obediently collaborate, but he's really going behind his partner's back to find these villains before anyone else can.

Izuku, the protagonist, gets roped into this mess when he wanders into Hawks' agency during a work study during his first year at U.A. He's crazy smart, Hawks and Touya are on the intel-gathering stage right now, and Hawks think they could use some help. The kid can read old newspapers and get witnesses' phone numbers while he and Touya kick ass. Touya isn't so happy to have another pair of eyes on him.

Tddk eventually happens, after a pretty bad encounter with the Todoroki family and the youngest member is successfully captured.

Some notes:

Rei, Fuyumi, Natsuo and Shouto all use their ice quirks to flee and fight. It's kinda their brand. Shouto is not allowed to use his fire quirk.

Rei bleached Fuyumi and Shouto's hair so it would be completely white. She can't stand to see their red hair. It drives her mad. They both feel a bit bad about it; it hurts to know their natural hair scares their mother, but it scares them a little bit, too. Shouto has to admit it's more comfortable to look in the mirror and only see his mother in him.

Sometimes, when they're safe at home (which is, whatever abandoned building they're squatting at today), Shouto wears bandages over his left eye, because his mother is uncomfortable with that blue eye of his, it looks to much like Endeavor's. She's also upset by seeing his scar, so Shouto tries to hide it as well.

Each sibling is a bit conflicted about what they're doing. They know it's not healthy, but they can't stop now or they'll all end up in jail, save for Shouto who will be taken away, and they'd never see each other again. Plus, their cause is honest, right? They're in the right and the heros are in the wrong. They're only trying to protect their family. Natsuo is probably the most convinced one. Fuyumi is more concerned with keeping her mother and siblings safe, but she can see their point. Shouto is almost convinced as Natsuo, but he's less moved by anger and revenge, and more interested in not letting other people go through what's happened to him. That, and his love for his mother. He knows there's something wrong, but as he sees it, he's making a flawed but concious and informed decision by following her and sharing her goals. Deep down he IS angry at Endeavor and he DOES want revenge but he won't admit it to himself.

They're fucked up but they're so fucking cool they look amazing seriously they're so badass. Kaminari would stan. In fact Kaminari is probably on a villain!Todoroki apologist subreddit because they're just so scary and metal. They're compared more than once to a pack of white wolves. In fact, that's the theme i wanna go for when i come up with a villain name for them. I think about them and think about Princess Mononoke and the wolf, you know how there's this sort of Wolf Goddess who has three children (two biological and one adoptive human girl) who fight for/alongside her. I wonder if the concept comes from some legend or poem. If it does, I'd like to find it, see if there's anything there that applies to this AU, and draw inspiration from there.

Speaking of cool, Touya looks exactly like he does in canon. He's just edgy like that. Doesn't look like a hero at all, which comes in handy when he needs to do underground work. He's also a bit of an asshole but at least he uses his power for good. Mostly. He once shaved Hawk's wings while he was asleep as a prank. He also has an habit of sticking out his foot to make deku trip and calls it "training" but otherwise he's a good fella.

Deku had never heard of this Hero Dabi person before, because he's just so deep underground. He's Not Like The Other Heros, you see. But as soon as they meet Deku goes into fanboy mode, and instead of insulting him, Touya decides to fuck with him and set him up to impossible tasks for fun. Like oh yeah go ask for this person, their name is [obscene pun] and poor Deku buys it and goes around the agency office asking if anyone knows where he can find [obscene pun].

In this AU, Deku still hasn't figured out how to control OFA, and when he gets injured during a fight, Dabi laughs his ass off and is like "lol same".

Deku rationalizes Dabi's bullying as tRaInInG. "Oh, he's helping me build a thicker skin! He's so smart" and isn't even hurt. He takes everything as a CHALLENGE and Dabi finds that beyond amusing.

Touya has had a lot of problem with authority and the Commission threatened more than once to have his liscence revoked.

Their whole thing is a buddy cop comedy.

AFO isn't around in this AU, All Might probably put an end to him for real a long time ago. That means (recent manga spoilers ahead) that Aoyama is still quirkless, and I get to have my Deku & Aoyama childhood friends AU. Aoyama is in the support course, and he designs the most sparkling hero costumes.

I'm tempted to make all the LoV members "good guys". Shigaraki was put into U.A as a teen just so he could learn to control his quirk. He doesn't want to be a hero. Doesn't even have a liscence. But at least he can touch things without destroying them in an instant. Twice got the help he needed and eventually adopted Toga, who also got the help she needed. Mr. Compress is a famous magician. Spinner is a gamer youtuber. They play DnD with Dabi on the weekends.

Did I mention cool badass icebending villain family? They always look after each other, always do what's best for the other, always find ways to make each other feel safe and happy while on the run. The three kids growing up as criminals, running from the law, but at least they are together. They have an unwavering loyalty to each other. They refuse to spend time with anyone else.

Fuyumi used to steal toys and stuffed animals for Natsuo and Shouto. She still does when she sees something she thinks they'll like. She also cooks for them most days, but once he was old enough Shouto began learning so he could help.

Shouto accidentally using his left side and freaking out, so his siblings need to calm him down without their mother noticing

Rei going feral when one of her children is in danger and absolutely fucking up the enemy with an ice wall. I want terrifyingly protective mom Rei.

The four of them working together to commit crimes 😊 and Dabi studying them from afar, not quite knowing what to do but certain that he needs to reach them before anyone else.

When Shoto is captured and brought to Hawks' agency - Touya doesn't want the cops to get involved just yet - he's an emo lil boy, so fucking silent and rude lol but Deku thinks He Looks Very Sad and Wants To Save Him and other crap Deku would think. He's the one instructed to watch over him most of the time while Hawks and Touya go out to be Cool. Eventually they become friends or something somehow. But before that I want to see the whole family attacking the building to rescue Shouto >:3

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