#(it turned out smth like a mix of original quest and my quest au. for some reason. don't mind the almost month difference between arts.)

[meta-quest]

[x]

am feelin' like humans

"your hair doesn't make sense, what's the point in tying your hair if it's still loose and your bangs get in your eyes?"

"your hair's not even tied, why are you judging 𝘮𝘦? aint'cha a mechanic? one wrong move and a car chews your hair."

"wha- my hair's not long, i don't need to tie it"

"nuh-huh"

"..."

"... your hair's also stupid: why is it shaped like that? why it's half-up half-a-mess? you use tons of gel or what?"

"!!"

[ruiyuki-archives]

Star Tear AU - Momo ver.

This is an AU I wrote on the todomomo discord server eons ago. Anything posted to this blog will be transcripts of old original work and not really edited, save for formatting. I have no guarantees if I will ever finish these AUs either so these will only be kept as an archive.

Original transcript posted to tdmm discord: Aug 2020

Momo ver. Alternate timeline: Todo ver. Part 1 || Todo ver. Part 2 || Todo ver. Part 3

ALRIGHT YALL NEW TROPE ALERT ➡ STAR TEAR DISEASE

Basically the cousin of Hanahaki Disease. Unrequited love causes a person to cry star tears accompanied by the sound of twinkling and if the feelings are not returned said person goes colour blind

And I just !!!!

tdmm AU where Momo gets star tear disease and the first time she cries in front of Todo after the exam with Aizawa she cries star tears???

And she doesn’t know what it means and neither does Todo but maybe Aizawa does and recognizes what it means but idk

So Momo goes on this whole literary quest to research what it means. And Todo volunteers to help bc umm?? Even the pressure point in her foot doesnt stop this phenomenon so he wants to figure it out too

And along the way they dig through the UA library on study dates and dig through the bookstores and dig through the interwebs together

Spending more and more time together, Momo starts to realize she’s feeling something. that is until one night she finds it on the web what star tears mean

Its her unrequited love for Todoroki

And her realizing this just makes it w or s e

Bc the consequence of not having her feelings returned means she goes colour blind

Or you know what, im just gonna alter it and make it more angst. She goes fully blind, ya lets do that.

SO MOMO

Poor bby is grappling with this realization and coming to terms with it all on her own; recognizing that if she doesnt let Todo know after all this time spent together she’s come to love him....... she'll go blind

But ofc its Momo... poor bby selfless Momo....

Her feelings and her own and not a responsibility of Todo to like her back and cure her of this disease so there is NO WAY she’s gonna burden him with that

Plus they’re both too busy tryna be heroes and shouldn’t have this as a distraction

So ofc Momo's not gonna tell Todo

And she cries and cries even more star tears that twinkle in fill her room in the dark like galaxies in the sky.

Its really beautiful.

She'll accept that she'll go blind never to see the face of her loved ones again. Her parents. Her friends....... Todoroki.

And that potentially she might have to give up her dream of being a hero if the blindness compromises it.

But she'll accept that.

The next day she wakes up and cant see a colour

And slowly it begins.......

She loses green first. Its hard to distinguish green from yellow

Then yellow goes

Then orange

Then one by one colour fades over weeks and weeks

Ofc shes not telling anyone.

She fakes it in class, during hero training, during her internship

That when Ochako and Hagakure asks "isnt the colour dress cute?" holding up a lovely chartreus and gold dress, she lies and says yes even though she sees gray

Which breaks her even more

And so she cries alone at night some more star tears

And it keeps going

All the while Todo noticing from beside his desk......

something is off...

But he doesnt ask her. Not yet.

Because after weeks of spending time with her researching, he believes they’re close enough that she'll share with him what’s going on

He didnt question it when she told him "its ok Todoroki san, we can stop researching"

"Did you figure it out?"

"Yes. Its nothing to be concerned about anymore"

He doesnt question it when he notices her in the morning at breakfast,,, the little speckles of star dust glimmering at the corner of her eyes

And he doesnt question himself either when he starts to think the twinkling tears she cries when she thinks she is alone,, makes her look really beautiful

Its those some odd moments when he passes the classrooms on the way back to the dorms at sunset that he sees her alone by the window,, looking out,, as the sun paints the sky reds pinks yellows and oranges,,, that she stares out and star tears fall from her eyes, twinkling in the setting light

And he thinks to himself that she is really beautiful,, a shadow against the setting sun

So he watches and thinks some more

That shes beautiful even without the sunset. Beautiful in class answering the hardest question. Beautiful in battle when her tactics win over her opponent. Beautiful studying when he notices her little motions when shes concentrating.

But while Todo thinks that to himself, Momo cries. Little star tears in her eyes.

She cant see the sunset anymore.

.

.

.

He doesnt think its serious when she tells him to disregard the matter

But when he happens to run into her when visiting his mom at the hospital, and she’s on her way out from the optometry & ophthamology department to get this whole eye thing checked out, thats when he realizes

Oh. This is serious.

And he starts trying to get her to talk but she’s being all avoidy and tight lipped

Cuz from Momo’s doctors’ appointment, the doc told her there’s no cure unless she gets over the feelings herself or her feelings are returned

And really now, she still thinks its her burden to bare not his

So logically the only thing she thinks she can do to slow down the blindness from the tears is to shut down her feelings for him. Put them in a box. And become cold.

Todoroki hates that.

That she’s being avoidant and cold when he knows something is wrong and wants to help her but she is being so not Momo anymore

He wants the kind, loving, selfless, pure hearted, strong Momo he's grown to learn and respect and know back

And that’s when he realizes he really cares for her

Not just admiring her beauty. Or respecting her battle instincts and leadership

That he realizes he really likes her

Perhaps even loves her.

So thats that.

Until its mission time.

Cuz its not angst until someone gets hurt and the other realizes they’ve been keeping a secret all this time sooooooooo

Smth smth UA kids vs a new baddie or minor villian or idk it could be dabi for all i want bc i put dabi in everything lmaooo

But who they’re fighting is not important

The important part is tdmm are on the same team

Maybe deployed as partners even

And theyre fighting back to back against some grunts

And at this point Todo is frustrated he’s not getting through to Momo just after he shook his own world realizing he likes her

And Momo's being all cold but civil and she is completely colour blind.

Theres no undoing the damage in her eyes. She can see in muted muddy tones and grayscale.

So for plot convenience lets say the villain has some kinda colour distortion quirk that mixes up the perception of colour from the true colour in a form of illusion or smth idk

So when the grunts in all black uniform end up attacking them, to Todo and Momo, one looks dressed in red, another in green, others in blues yellows purples

tdmm do pretty well fending them off until Todo notices 3 of them in blue green and purple about to attack Momo at once

And she’s ready to fend them off but doesnt notice a 4th one in red coming in for a swift sneak atttack right behind the green one

But Todo does notice

And he shouts

"YAOYOROZU THE RED ONE"

But she cant tell

And the knife lands deep in her shoulder

And Todo burns the rest to a crisp

You can imagine what the conversation is in the aftermath, when Momo has her shoulder bandaged up and Todo tending his own wounds

"Yaoyorozu.. please be honest with me. Why didnt you avoid the red one when I shouted?"

Because, he knows, that the heroine Creati he's trained along side with for so long would have been able to anticipate the grunts assault

That she would have expected a sneak attack amidst a simultaneous attack

But the fact that she didnt. Couldnt. Avoid it definitely means shes been handicapped

And Momo, upon being asked, hurt and tired from their battle finally relents

She cant lie to him any longer.

"It was because... i couldnt tell. I couldnt distinguish their colours. I havent been able to for a few weeks now.... I've..."

A star tear falls from her eyes.

"I've lost my colour vision Todoroki-san"

Tiny galaxies fall from her eyes as she finally explains to him what these tears are

And Todo is speechless as she talks, only able to hear the twinkles against her words broken against sniffles and hiccups

And when sh’es said all she knows - that this is a disease that will turn her blind, that there is no cure and it comes as a consequence of loving someone who doesnt love you back, that she doesnt want to burden the person she loves with her responsibility, that she has been trying bury her feelings to save herself ...

He finally asks: "Who is it.  Tell me who it is that you love Yaoyorozu"

.

.

.

.

"You. Its you Todoroki-san"

And his heart broke.

He pulls her into a hug,, so tight she thinks she might be crushed

And its his turn to cry against her

Because all this time she was doing this for him

"Im sorry Momo. Im so sorry. You dont have to suffer alone anymore. Because we're partners, long before I even realized it"

"Eh?"

He looks into her eyes, unwavering

"Im in love you too."

The tears that fall from her next are no long starlight.

Epilogue/trivia:

Momo loses her colour vision following the colour wheel starting with green ➡ yellow, orange, red, etc until blue is last to go

Shes most heartbroken about losing red and blue cuz those are the colours she associates with Todo (when she cant see the sunset anymore its when she realizes she lost red and that’s why she’s crying)

Since the damage of the disease cant be restored, she has to deal with greyscale vision for some years

Eventually Eri rewinds it for her once Eri can control her power

but for those some years Momo is so busy!! cuz she goes into genius mode and starts creating (and probably working with Hatsume) vision impairment accessibility tools? Yes

and bc I have an unhealthy obsession with the todofam, Natsuo probably ends up getting a case of the disease for some odd reason if he ever broke up with his gf and Todo upon hearing it is like NO GO TELL HER PLS

He’s not gonna let anyone else on the other end feel the guilt that he did for Momo

> archives masterpost

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

I've thought about how Luke's life would be if his mother never tried to be the Oracle. I believe his life would be nearly normal,because children of Hermes aren't exactly monster magnets(I believe he faced more monsters with the girls in that short time than in those years before. A daughter of Zeus. Enough said.),and he'd be handsome,athletic,popular... But ADHD and dyslexia would take a considerable toll. His family seems to be well off,so perhaps he'd have a good school,but the US education

Cont. Nor a terrible mother. May would be a bit too self-centered and reckless, commit a healthy amount of mistakes, but would try her best.

hello, hello!

sorry it’s been a while since i got this, been busy with training for my job this next academic year and accidentally starting discourse lmao

i whole-heartedly agree that his life would’ve been drastically different if his mother hadn’t tried to take on the oracle

i’m not sure how normal it would’ve been, since may clearly knew she’d found hermes, and that camp half-blood existed by the time luke was born

so, i could see him going to school during the fall, like a lot of the campers do, and then attending camp during the summer

which, i suppose is pretty normal for a half-blood, all things considered lol

he would definitely be more popular and all the more handsome, most definitely athletic bc i imagine he’d probably still be really good with a sword. not sure how his school life would look since his whole character in the pjo series is entirely based off the fact that he grew up in an abusive home, grew up hating his father, and then had all that other shit happen to him with thalia getting turned into a tree, and his failed quest, and hating his father even more

but i imagine, he’d be much like may (and, i mean, hermes)--eccentric, outgoing, extroverted, and mischievous. so i think, bearing that in mind, he’d probably be almost as magnetic, if not more, than percy honestly

i imagine, even though may is kinda selfish, he’d have a similar upbringing as percy did. maybe with a little less unconditional love from his mother. but he wouldn’t run away. it’s hard to say how much he’d hate his father in this au.

i could see resentment toward him build up a little, if like may keeps making mistakes, and luke asks for his father to come help out a little, but he never does. but i don’t see it being so deep-seated as in canon. since, in this au, i imagine she’s not abusive anymore

i could also see him getting kicked out of school a lot, both for his adhd and dyslexia (which leads to bad grades and stuff), and also his mischievous nature (he probably steals things and pulls pranks on the other students that the administrators don’t like)

i could see him being one of those funny posts abt kids selling stuff at school, like the kid who sold students a paper towel for like a $1 or smth, and along with it they got a free panini. or that one story of a kid who bought a bunch of those sparkly gel bears and made bank selling those back at like 4x the price. you know shit like that

anyway, i could see him being in sports in school (adding to the athleticism part, lol went off on a tangent)--like volleyball or soccor or smth, maybe track and field, based on his build

i think he’s this weird mix between jason and percy

bc like, he’s got the looks of jason--all american. but since he’s a son of hermes, he’s got this trouble-maker streak, like percy (i mean, percy isn’t a trouble-maker per se, but i know ppl describe him as having that vibe before you meet him and realize he’s a sweetheart)

i think may would definitely make a lot of mistakes--she’s very eccentric and a little selfish, but i do think she loves her son (not enough to, like, not try taking on the oracle in canon lol, but that, again, communicates her selfishness)

that would also mean, he doesn’t meet thalia or annabeth, and so wouldn’t have to go through all that trauma (poor annabeth, though). which would also mean, he’s not destined to host kronos yay :D

i do think he’d still care a lot abt what happens to thalia, and maybe even take annabeth under his wing--as a younger sister (she probably still develops a crush, even if they weren’t on the run together), just bc that’s how i see luke. like, he did all he did in canon-pjo for demigods. it was misguided and he was being manipulated by a titan, but ultimately, he wanted a better life and future for demigods

so i do think he’d want the same in this au. i don’t think his anger or hatred would be so strong, again, since he didn’t know thalia or annabeth personally until they got to camp. so kronos wouldn’t have a lot of power over him. i don’t think he would join kronos when/if the titan found someone else’s negative thoughts to feed off of just bc luke originally joined kronos bc kronos promised luke that once the gods were dead, demigods would have free rein

in this au, i think he’d be more wise to kronos’s lies and realize that after the gods die, kronos would take over the world and kill basically everyone. so even though he may understand what this other demigod who has taken up kronos’s call is doing, he would stay on the side of the gods (by default). he knows stopping kronos would tangentially help demigods

also, i think bc of his family life, and growing up pretty normally, he wouldn’t be dying to have hermes give him a quest. idk if this true, but this is how i interpret it: i think in canon-pjo he really wanted that quest mostly bc of his past experiences with may and hermes never answering his prayers, being on the run, and then what happened with thalia

bc that’s all different in this au, i don’t think he’d be so adamant that hermes issue him a quest, and therefore, wouldn’t end up with the scar he has in canon

that’s all i’ve really got for now. i still got stuff to unpack, and i’m mentally preparing myself for the semester to start (so i’m mentally drained XP)

i’m kinda all over the place with this post, too bc this is more stream of consciousness than anything else XD

but this is a really interesting au to think abt, so if you’d like headcanons, feel free to ask!

FEED ME SEYMOUR