𝕯𝖆𝖇𝖎 ; Fantasy verse
Okay, so, little notes first: A lot of this is being left intentionally vague because its intended to be more of a group thing than a stand alone but even so Fantasy AUs are sooo diverse and so many people have different ideas for them so I don't wanna lock anyone into anything should someone wanna write fantasy verse stuff with me so yeah, nothing here is set in stone and can be kinda altered as needed but the general outline of Dabi's fantasy verse is:
The Todoroki's are a royal/ruling family, the Todoroki house is generally thought of as the main ruling power throughout the fictional lands. Enji is the current king.
Toya's Enji's first born. He was the heir to the throne, of course, but he was also a little shit prince who liked to get up to mischief with his little brother. It wasn't exactly unusual for Toya and Natsuo to sneak out of the safety of the castle and go exploring in the neighboring woodlands. Unfortunately a spike of political unrest and Natsuo feeling ill one day made for a lethal combination as Toya decided to go out to play in the woods alone that day. He was snatched by rebels of a neighboring village. The goal was to use Toya to force Enji to comply with their demands at threat of murdering the Prince. Enraged by this king Enji put in place is own plan to take Toya back by force.
No one knows what the rebels were really thinking but before Enji even had a chance to assemble forces against them or give his formal answer to their wishes, Toya was grotesquely murdered. Much to the shock and horror of King Enji and Queen Rei. The king sought bloody retribution, the queen fell into cataclysmic despair and his never recovered. Recovering Toya's body, was another task considered failed by the king and while he lead the siege he and his men were only able to return with Toya's bottom jaw. The rest of the boy was apparently lost. Some claim he decayed into the earth and ash, or maybe the rebels took and hid his pieces around the lands as a final insult to the king. The details of this gruesome and tragic event remain the subject of many different stories.
This is where we enter the part of the plot/verse that deals with Shigaraki, AFO and Garaki. In this verse, the Demon Lord is in fact a very real thing, though he was considered vanquished, his spirit sealed in an alternative dimension many, many years prior by a fabled hero ( this would be Toshinori, ofc ) . Alongside Toshinori, King Enji had been a massive player in the vanquishing of the Demon Lord, who had dominated the lands prior to the era of relative peace known by the world today.
But despite the L, the Demon Lord's devoted servants live on, scattered across the kingdom and praying ( Read: actively working ) for the revival of their lord. One such servant is Garaki, a necromancer of sorts who, as evil necromancers do, gets up to all kinds of twisted misdeeds.
One of these misdeeds was to steal young Prince Toya's burned and broken body and cobble him back together. Supposedly he had hoped to integrate Toya into his legion of undead monsters but Toya seemed to have other ideas. Ripped back into the world of the living, it seemed Toya retained some pained version of his former consciousness. He became rebellious and escaped from Garaki's castle into the lands.
From here Toya would attempt to return home, only to find himself assailed on several occasions by villagers who perceived him as a monster, due to his heavily patched work appearance. He was captured by trafficking merchants who sold him to a colosseum where gladiatorial battles between "lesser races" and the remnants of the Demon Lord's previous monster army where carried out for entertainment.
One day, Toya discovered his father, the king would be attending one of these matches and desperately tried to obtain and audience with him. However, when Enji heard word that there was a monster in the colosseum "masquerading as his son" he was disgusted and publicly renounced the "imposter" and the colosseum itself, without ever actually offering Toya his audience.
Devastated and completely broken, Toya turned savage to survive and vowed revenge on his father. He participated in a bloody insurgence among the imprisoned colosseum fighters, who murdered their way to freedom. Once free, he eventually returned to Garaki, now ready to join the undead legions and their new leader, Shigaraki in their quest to lay waste to the kingdom.
Unknown to anyone, all of this has been a clever ploy to restore to Demon Lord to power. So yeah !! Thats the basics. I HAVE TONS of plot bunnies and def ideas for other main characters in this AU but like I said I kinda wanna leave a lot of stuff vague and adaptable so as not to shut anyone out of the verse and keep things as useable as possible since there are so many different fantasy AU takes and yeah, I wanna be able to edit and adapt the general base as much as possible.
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