#deku needs a man who can survive getting stabbed

[spinji]

Rody on his way to Japan after hearing all of Izuku's love interests died in the war.

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 407: Wait Why Are You Running Away

Previously on BnHA: Kacchan figured out how to control his quirk upgrade and was totally chill and normal about it. Definitely not terrifying at all. He actually spent the entire chapter smiling and laughing like the wholesome little boy he is. I don’t know why Kid For One is so freaked out about it. He even politely introduced himself using his childhood nickname. Clearly he just wants to be friends with you, KFO!

Today on BnHA: Horikoshi is all “sorry to keep you waiting, here’s the AFO and Yoichi flashback you ordered at long last” and proceeds to serve a nightmarish stew of HUMAN MISERY and RATS and STABBING and CARNAGE and SO MUCH MURDER and THE SINGLE MOST FUCKED-UP CASE OF CODEPENDENCY ANYONE HAS EVER WRITTEN. I was not even remotely prepared for any of this, and if anyone else claims that they were, I will call you a liar to your face. If this chapter had a mouth it would scream. Or just sob, ceaselessly and uncontrollably. I’m really glad Horikoshi is on break next week because that man needs to take a fucking nap. My god.

okay WOW

anyone else read the first two words and just immediately say to themselves, “oh okay, so it’s gonna be one of those chapters”? I mean, I guess we were due for a darker chapter after last week’s Kacchan Comedy Tour. but idk, I just wasn’t expecting “homeless sick prostitute with a drinking problem” levels of dark

AND SHE’S PREGNANT?!

what exactly is this manga rated again? doesn’t this backstory seem just a little bit raw for the impressionable kiddos??

has anyone actually checked in on Horikoshi recently? you know, just to make sure he is okay??

what a fun and wholesome manga this is

the lil baby arm covered in blood with the AFO hole on the palm. lying next to the dead mom hand. what an image to sear into our minds. I guess it’s been a while since he killed any dogs. gotta keep us on our toes somehow

also wasn’t expecting AFO and Yoichi to be twins! that puts an interesting spin on their relationship, because it’s usually a closer bond than even regular siblings. especially with all of that delightful shared trauma from a young age!!

yes, exactly

ohhhh this chapter is gonna hurt me, isn’t it. okay. ooooooookay. let’s do this

OH I’M SORRY, THERE’S MORE?!

Horikoshi my dude. you do realize that their mom dying in childbirth and the two of them just barely surviving and growing up as street orphans would have already been MORE than tragic enough, backstory-wise. you did not have to turn this into a freaking horror show with RATS TRYING TO EAT THEIR NEWBORN SELVES jesus christ

and THAT’S where you chose to put a one year timeskip?!

what the fuck am I reading here, you guys. no please tell me, I am actually desperate to understand

so the narrator is saying that some of the quirks manifested later in life, in “pubescent and pre-pubescent stages”, which is interesting because it’s the first time I can recall hearing about someone actually manifesting a quirk that late. maybe Deku’s old OFA cover story was more plausible than I realized

anyway so eventually it occurred to everyone that they should maybe freaking study this shit, idk. and eventually the researchers concluded that the superpowers came from a new gene that apparently isn’t human. and upon hearing that, society apparently lost its freaking mind. which is fascinating to me because it implies that the turning point wasn’t actually the superpowers themselves, but the realization of what it meant

like, so they were apparently fine with it when they thought it was a “mysterious disease”, but somehow it hit different when they learned it wasn’t actually a sickness at all, but instead the Next Step in Evolution. and it became an “us vs them” thing, as opposed to a “we have to cure these poor people” thing. damn

anyway so now Japan is a dystopia and we’re cutting to a big crowd of merc-looking dudes who are getting ready to attack some “meta freaks”, how lovely

but who is this figure in the shadows

I ask politely, as if it wasn’t already beyond obvious that this is AFO about to wreck some people’s shit

ohhhhh my god lmao

hopefully Katsuki and Deku can take the present day AFO out before he winds up looking like this. because this little fella is clearly demonic and idk if anyone can stop him

you all don’t understand. you need to run the fuck away right now

oh shit it’s already too late for them

it’s too late for any of us. it’s over. it’s all fucking over

((((；゜Д゜)))

AFO I am putting the manga down. I am backing away slowly with my hands in the air. I mean you no harm. please for the love of god have mercy

holy

“you see, we told you he wasn’t human” okay Scientific Research Group, you know what?? you win this round I guess

“HE WAS LITERALLY EVIL FROM BIRTH” HORIKOSHI SERIOUSLY ARE YOU OKAY??

HE WAS BORN AN ARROGANT BABY is literally the most terrifying sentence I have ever read

what the entire fuck

it’s a gorgeous sunny mid-November afternoon outside my window. but no matter how hard it tries, the light cannot reach this place

what kind of moron would throw a can of soda at him. officially the stupidest person we have ever seen in this manga

OH MY GOD OF COURSE IT’S HIM LMAO

(ETA: how come baby Yoichi has clothes that fit him perfectly but baby AFO is just stomping around wearing a tablecloth.)

BABY YOICHI. OH MY GOD. HOW THE HELL DID YOU GROW UP TO BE SANE AND KIND AND GOOD. THAT’S MY QUESTION THAT I NEED ANSWERED RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE LITERALLY A MIRACLE. YOU ARE AN IMPOSSIBILITY, DO YOU KNOW THAT

small and weak, but also so, so cute. all of the cuteness genes went straight to him. no wonder AFO was jealous

(ETA: just want to press pause for a second to speculate about what type of twins AFO and Yoichi are, since it has some relevance to the story, and especially to the OFA/AFO quirk lore. so! at first glance the two of them would appear to be fraternal twins, just based on the fact that they have very different appearances, and also the fact that Yoichi doesn’t have the AFO quirk – no holes in his hands, etc. identical twins are born from the same fertilized egg, so in theory they would both have the same sequence of DNA, which means Yoichi would have had the same quirk as AFO. but that doesn’t appear to be the case. so all of that points to them being fraternal, not identical.

on the other hand, there is one piece of evidence in this chapter that does support them being identical twins, and that’s the fact that per the narration, AFO absorbed most of the nutrients from their mother. a few minutes of google fu informed me that this condition is relatively rare, and only happens in cases where two twins share a placenta, which typically is only the case for identical twins. HOWEVER, for what it’s worth, there have also been rare instances where two fraternal twin placentas fuse together and become a single placenta. AND this apparently also increases the chances of one of the twins gaining more of the nutrients and causing the other twin to have a lower birth weight.

so based on the evidence here, my conclusion is that the two of them are most likely fraternal twins with a case of placental fusion. besides, you can’t tell me that stealing his baby brother’s placenta while the two of them are literally still in the womb doesn’t sound like exactly the type of BS that fetus!AFO would pull, lol.)

HEY!?!

okay?!?!?! well to be fair he did throw that soda at him

oh my god this is so fucked up. in like the best and worst way possible

I genuinely couldn’t ask for a better AFO backstory. it’s so incredibly twisted, and you actually do feel sorry for him. or at least I do. but it’s also beyond clear that this kid was FUCKED UP BEYOND ALL REASON right from the get go. zero goodness in him. literally doesn’t see other people as people. sees them as possessions only. things to rule over. not other thinking, feeling human beings. and that includes his own little brother

but. even if it’s not actually what I would call love, there’s still... attachment, there. it’s the closest he can get to actually caring about someone. guh. just, somehow they have both managed to humanize him, and at the same time made him less human than ever. this manga, man. this fucking manga, though

lmao and here we go. Captain Hero

you know, all those times that I made fun of AFO for not knowing how to read, I never suspected that the twist in his backstory would be that he LITERALLY DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO READ dfksjdlfkjslkdf

but seriously though. because Yoichi appears to be self-taught, and I can’t see AFO having the patience for that, and CLEARLY no one else was around to teach him, sooooo...

oh my goodness it’s actually getting wholesome up in here

what a good fucking boy. poor AFO. fuck me, I can’t help it. it’s not your fault you’re the world’s greatest monster you poor bastard

now we’re cutting to THREE YEARS LATER. okay

is he going to declare war on the glowing baby

typical teenager concerned about nothing but likes and view counts. AFO you would be so much happier if you stopped worrying about all of that and just focused on your own growth

oh, lol. well that was quick

(ETA: r.i.p. Damien.)

“this guy had more instagram followers than me. so I killed him” honey. sweetie pie. you need therapy

omfg

all this time I was wondering who AFO’s middle school lit teacher was who had failed so spectacularly at teaching him reading comprehension. and it was YOICHI ALL ALONG. omg

“and, presumably, that’s how it always was and always will be.” dude. can you imagine listening to AFO’s oral book report on A Tale of Two Cities. “ahem. it was the Best of Times. the end” buddy noooooooo

it was at that moment when Yoichi knew, etc. etc.

oh my GOD I scrolled down to the next panel right after this one and I just IMMEDIATELY DIED LAUGHING

“WAS IT SOMETHING I SAID” ffffffffffffffff I fucking can’t omfg

NOW THIS HUSSY IS STEALING HIS BROTHER AWAY FROM HIM NOOOOOOO

HE’S HIS!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!! THAT’S NOT ALLOWED!!!

oh my god the hands. so wait, is this just the standard symbolic BnHA handholding, or are there More Levels To This. when exactly did Yoichi pass OFA on to Kudou. like is that why the sudden close-up and all that? omg

WHAT!!!!

OH THAT’S THE END, HUH? THAT’S THE END RIGHT THERE, AND THAT’S JUST HOW IT IS. I SEE. OKAY THEN. EXCUSE ME WHILE I PUT MY LAPTOP DOWN AND GO INTO THE NEXT ROOM AND SCREAM INTO A PILLOW

oh my god. and break next week too. this is what you guys have been dealing with this entire time huh. I understand your feelings now. godfuckingdammit lmao

[thyandrawrites]

Hey, can I ask, does bnha's message ever frustrate you in how the story/hero characters seem to be inching towards it's conclusion/lightbulb moment, when with just a little 'homework' they could come to that answer quicker? That empathy is learned and people in bad situations commit hostile acts to survive and hurt those who hurt them? That hero society isn't right and needs change on a lot of levels? I know action on that would be difficult but shouldn't they at least know this by now?

(Same anon): what I mean by home work is just talking to others, villains(captured maybe?) or other people in hero society that have problems with it. Deku and a few other students (shoto/shoji) have experience with those issues and it shouldn't be that hard to understand how it extends even from their point of view. Do you feel differently or similar? Thanks

Hey!

I'm not super sure I'm understanding the question fully. Do you feel that frustration because you think the hero kids should've been able to understand the point of view of the marginalized / victims of social injustice much sooner than this arc? If so, I do agree. I have spoken about my frustrations with Deku's writing before, particularly all the wasted potential of his unexplored relationship with his past quirklessness. I'm not going to dig all that back up because eh, I don't really enjoy lingering on the subject. But I also think that on some level Horikoshi considered that "fixed" when he gave him a quirk, and that he never particularly meant to change the hero system in any substantial or revolutionary way, despite all the focus he's given to all its flaws.

I don't mean this as a slight on the man, per se. His execution could've been much better, for sure, but that's pretty standard for a shounen series. I can't help but think of Kishimoto's work (which is an inspiration for Horikoshi), and how Naruto never really set out to change any of the institutionalized corruption of the ninja villages, and instead made the very MC, one of the kids who suffered the most at the hands of that corrupted system, a cog in that machine and called that an hopeful ending. I'm expecting bnha to be much the same at this point

Nagant's introduction in the story sort of cemented this idea in me. If bnha was really a story about giving justice to all the victims of the system—and I'm including Deku in this too!—by affecting change in how they're treated, then her mini arc wouldn't have ended on the lesson "yes, our society is irredeemably bad, and it does bend people to the point of breaking, but so long as there's a tiny 0.005% that doesn't break under duress and can become a light of hope for everyone else, everything will be fine in the end!"

... especially when one of the guys who got reframed as a light of hope is one of the guys who did the stabbing in the back of one of said broken people, lol

in short, I think that bnha could've been a much better (and much more hopeful) story if any of the kids who suffered injustice and ostracism was ever allowed to be angry about it, or to have that struggle be explored past an offhand mention. I think the problem here is that the growth doesn't feel organic, in a sense. Yes, we get the hero kids wanting to save the villains because they can relate to them to an extent. But imho that resolve could've been A LOT more powerful if Horikoshi had spent some narrative time exploring why saving them is personal. Why it should not be read as a good kid saving a bad kid, but as a kid who so nearly turned "bad", who's now reaching out a hand to another kid who wasn't so lucky.

Let me explain this better. Deku's past quirklessness and the fact that no one (not even his mother) saw him as hero material for it, will 100% come up as a way to relate to Shigaraki pre-decay (especially with all the foiling of the line "What I really wanted you to say was..."). Ochako's struggles to be a good girl for her parents at the cost of her personal aspirations will definitely have a role in her understanding of Toga, who tried so hard to be a good daughter but wasn't met with the same effort by her family. And Shouto's hatred for his dad and his subsequent self-loathing will likely play a role in his understanding of Dabi, who's still caugh up in that hatred. I just don't think we'll ever get a full exploration of why Deku, Ochako and Shouto, in so many ways, didn't have it easy either. That just because they didn't go "bad", just because they had people in their corner cheering them on, they didn't suffer any less for the fact that society looked the other way. That just because they're "kind", a light of hope for the future, they cannot have a complex relationship with the circumstances that were against them. I do think that in that sense bnha is a pretty naive and frustrating story.

But, as Nagant said, the MC is excessively naive; he's too blinded by the fact that he grew up idolizing heroes to see the rot lurking behind them. The point of that scene was to have Deku state that the world works in shades of gray, but... the intended depth of that line didn't really work for me. Deku might now see others in shades of gray, but not himself. Imho the fact that he can think of Enji&Dabi, of Shigaraki, of the ordinary girl's discrimination in shades of gray... but never question how shittily he was treated before he got a quirk kind of makes his conclusions fall flat, personally. It sort of proves Nagant's point. He's too grateful for what the system has given him to ever see it for what it is, to want to dismantle it to create something better.

I kind of see him as someone whose wings got plucked before they could fully spread because of the role he was supposed to play in the story. His naivety reflects in how he conceptualizes the world around him, too. So he literally needs the narrative spoonfeeding things to him because he lacks the maturity—and the depth—to reach those conclusions on his own. Hori should've expanded on those a long time ago, unfortunately. But I don't think that telling that kind of story was ever the plan, tbh

[izusun]

i just finished heroes rising (yes im late asf) here are my final thoughts:

-all dis bkdk hyfr

-shonen is so fucking dramatic why are 2 high school freshmen going toe to toe with satan then you got deku extra dramatic ass like “im not strong enough to beat him” yes because that is an evil demi god and you are a 15 yr old like go do your math homework??? shshjdjsa

-speaking of which all might put some FAITH. into the universe giving izuku OFA because this child is ready to sacrifice his life at a moments notice like is he a reincarnate from attack on titan why is he so ready to die holy shit. deku could get into an argument in line to checkout at walmart and itll somehow escalate to him breaking all his limbs (twice) and talking about how these are his final moments to save everyone

-and then theres katsuki: “you’re gonna fix him? ha im just gonna join him in his insanity 🤪” *breaks limbs too*

-seeing shigaraki makes me itch

-the real showdown needs to be shigaraki vs some chapstick and a couple benadryl. shigaraki vs the first aide aisle at CVS.

-this is deff not canon cus why they aint do all this while shigaraki was on a rampage instead they had poor mr aizawa running around with his foot hanging on by a thread? but at least we got to watch kacchan get stabbed up and so did deku 💕

-WAIT i just remembered buff grandma had to bring deku back to life at the end so yea he cant do this again but like still after this fiasco id be looking at shigarakis little dust n’ crumble show like “🤨 ok and?”

-aww these badass lil kids 🥺

-but no why was that ending fight so dramatic

anon, bestie, my beloved and the light of my boring life, i hope you know that you singlehandedly made my day

first, no ones ever late for heroes rising. who cares if bnha movie 03 is out, you just watched the most cinematic piece of gayness and teenage angst (heroes rising) and lived, and for that we applaud you

second (and other numbers to which i wouldn’t write), EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS SENDING ME DHAKDJS IDEK WHERE TO BEGIN BECAUSE YOUR COMMENTARY IS SO FUNNY I CANT FEEL MY LUNGS

- MATH HSHWKDJKSJ ok but it’s funnier when you remember that the devil incarnate’s called nine and maybe hori’s using him as a symbolism?? like teenager vs. math, but in physical forms

- NOT MIDORIYA BEING A REINCARNATE FROM AOT IM C RYINT

- midoriya fighting someone and breaking his limbs at walmart is so damn canon at this point. oh he was out to buy potatoes? too bad a villain pops up and midoriya’s ass just has to sacrifice some fingers to survive idk

- everyone thinking bakugou’s the “i can change him” in their duo only to realize midoriya’s “i can make him worse” is stronger and bakugou is a simple man ofc he’d break his bones too bc why not

- UR TAKE ON SHIGARAKI HAS ME HOWLING IN LAUGHTER DHAJXJJA

- idk maybe 1a wouldve won against shiggy if they just sprayed moisturizer his way

- dhhsjaha 1a: *legit tryna save a damn island* // UA staff: lalalala

- bakugou and midoriya getting stabbed and then trapped by a long dragon-snake thing 🥺💕

- oh and bkdk handholding 🥰 (yes the situations were mega bad, BUT bkdk handholding💓)

- anon: buff grandma // me: gilf

- “shigaraki’s little dust n’ crumble” is now how we’re gonna call his quirk. decay? nah it’s litol dust n’ crumble

- dramatic ending fight that resulted in a massive rainbow cloud? they were coming out don’t judge them 😔

[mika-13]

So, with the help of the wonderful @wandering-horizon, I came up with a Legend of Zelda / Linked Universe AU where every Link is a Zelda species that isn’t Hylian So here’s what I came up with and how it influenced their respective stories

Sky - Rito

When Skyloft was raised above the clouds by Hylia, the Rito were already there

The Rito helped the Hylians get accustomed to life above the clouds and the two species quickly came to rely upon each other

Link is born a Rito and grows up on Skyloft, where things are pretty similar to the original story, he is best friends with Zelda and studies at the academy to become a knight

When Zelda disappears beneath the clouds, he draws the goddess sword and follows her

Things continue on quite the same way as in the game, just with Link wielding the sword with both his "hands" and foot claws, because him flying around and cutting down enemies at the same time is just really neat

He also pecks out one of Ghirahim's eyes at one point because he can

Four - Minish

I've had this headcanon, that the Hero of Men, the one before Four who made the picori blade, was actually a Minish who came through the Minish door (which transformed him into a Hylian for the time) to protect Hyrule

So yeah, basically that

Link is Ezlo's grandson who is also an apprentice with Melari and when Vaati goes rogue he helps his grandfather in defeating him

I imagine him being really confused by being so tall at first and that he still retains some Minish like traits

Time - Kokiri

Link is an actual Kokiri in this, with Navi as his fairy

His life in the Kokiri forrest is pretty peaceful, though Mido still bullies him, because he's best friends with Saria and Mido is jealous, until the Deku Tree calls for him

The Kokiri Emerald allows him to leave the forrest unharmed and so he goes to help Zelda

The rest of the story is pretty much the same, except that he doesn't age when he goes into the future, because he really is an immortal forrest child this time around

Let's just say that Ganondorf is pretty angry about being beaten by a 9 year old

At the start of Majora's Mask when Skullkid steals the ocarina and Epona, he also imprisons Navi in a bottle

Tatl is kind of shocked about that and that plus the fact that she can sense his Kokiri nature result in her trusting and liking Link much sooner

Link manages to free Navi when he gets back his ocarina and from then on it's another adventure, this time not just with his mom but also with his newly acquired older sister Tatl

Twi - Twili

His story is quite different from the one in the game

With him growing up in a completely different world and such

In the beginning he lived a relatively simple life, getting by by doing odd jobs for other people

When Zant staged his coup and started turning helpless Twili into Shadow beasts, Link tried his best to help people escape in time

Zant really didn't like this and sent the beasts after him

Not wanting to fight his people, he ran, stumbling onto the portal to Hyrule

Eventually, Zant caught up to him and tossed him out into the light in the hopes of killing him

Instead of dying, Link is saved by the triforce, which transforms him into a wolf which let's him survive in the world of light

He knows he needs to defeat Zant before the usurper can destroy both Hyrule and the Twilight realm and so he sets out to free Hyrule from the Twilight

The light spirits give him their protection and with the master sword he gains the ability to keep his Twili form even in the light

Of course he also travels with Midna, though he meets her later in the story

Also he obviously knows who Midna is, since the name and the vast amount of magic she possesses is kind of a giveaway

Legend - Zora

He's a sea Zora, so he's different from the rather mean ones in his Hyrule, since their tribes lost contact a long long time ago and he looks more like an ocarina of time Zora

A pink one

He washes up at the beach one day when he's still a tiny little kid and a Hylian man (his uncle in the game) takes him in and raises him

He has to deal with a lot of crap from people because he's Zora and most Zora in his Hyrule just really like spitting fire balls at people

It's also why people don't believe him when he goes out to help Zelda and say he's kidnapped her instead

As for Kohilint, the storm hits him when he's out looking for his family and Marin is also a Zora

He ends up being afraid of storms at sea after that whole debacle and just kind of avoids the ocean after it

Hyrule - Fairy

What can I say, he's the original fairy boy after all

He's not just a regular fairy though, but a very young great fairy, young enough that his usual form isn't that different from a regular fairy

However, he possesses a lot more magic and even has the ability to grow to Hylian size for a time, enabling him to wield sword and shield and fight the various monsters and Ganon

One of the reasons he travels so much is the fear of being bound to a single place once he's grown up, being a great fairy and all and he wants to see all much of the world as possible before that

Wind - Korok

He lives in the forest on outset island and is best friends with Aryll

Once Tetra shows up and Aryll gets kidnapped, he decides he needs to go out and save her

So he asks Aryll's grandma for the sword and shield (grandma is kind of surprised since it's the first time she's ever seen a Korok and she wasn't quite sure Aryll didn't just have an imaginary friend) and sneaks onto Tetra's ship

She discovers him, being able to see him even when he doesn't want to be seen, triforce of wisdom and such, but she's so impressed by him being able to sneak onto her ship that she lets him stay

He has fun with the crew, flying over Nico's obstacle course with Korok magics, and infiltrates the forbidden fortress

From there on it's much like in the original stories though everyone is really surprised and shocked that a usually peaceful forest fairy can wield a sword with such devastation

Needles to say, Ganondorf is even more surprised when he's stabbed in the face this time around

Wars - Gerudo

He's Gerudo, he's trans and he's here to end Ganon's whole career

He isn't a Hylian soldier in this but a Gerudo warrior and the first part of the war takes part without him

Which also means that it isn't going too well for the Hylian forces and Ganon revives way faster

The Gerudo haven't dealt much with the rest of Hyrule for many decades, but they take the return of Ganon in the form of a Gerudo as a personal insult and immediately join the war, turning the tide, especially with War's proving himself to be an unrivaled warrior as well as the hero

Wild - Sheikah

With all the Sheikah tech in his game it only makes sense

Before the calamity, he was Zelda's personal bodyguard, the way Sheikah often are for the royal family

Him and Zelda got along pretty well, having known each other for a long time, but they sort of drift apart once he draws the master sword, as Zelda envies him for his easy his destiny came to him, and he kind of struggles with the burden of the whole world, as his life was kind of all laid out for him before the master sword

Once the calamity strikes everything goes pretty much the same way, but his interactive with the yiga clan are way more intense this time around, because he's a Sheikah as well as the hero

So yeah, there you have it, my personal Zelda AU

I hope you like it

[nearly-theyre]

kamishin fic recs!!!!!

for my kamishin gc on twitter - go give these amazing authors some love!

“paging dr. oblivious” (G) by dreamtowns

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18770095

Warnings: none

Hitoshi, slowly, delicately, puts his fork down and squints. Denki regrets maintaining eye contact, but, also, he doesn’t because damn, Hitoshi has pretty eyes – and focus, Denki, focus! “I’m sorry,” Hitoshi starts, quietly, almost threateningly, and tilts his head. “Would you like to repeat that? People think we’re what?”

“Pining,” Denki bursts out, almost too loud in the hospital gardens, and then he hunches forward and continues much more quietly, but no less heatedly: “They think we’re,” he swallows and finishes, almost lamely, “pining.”

Hitoshi says nothing. Waits.

“They have a betting pool,” Denki practically wails.

(or: the entire hospital staff has a betting pool on when Denki, resident trauma specialist, and Hitoshi, the neuropsychologist, will start dating.

The punchline is that they are married.)

“don’t think twice” (G) by dreamtowns

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18723295

Warnings: none

What does it take to break the internet?

A slip of the tongue, apparently.

“caught in my own web” (T) by anxioussailorsoldier

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19037812

Warnings: none

Shinsou needs some help after getting caught up in his capture weapon. Kaminari enters from stage left.

“Pickup Lines for the Soul” (T) by MustardSoup

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18925678

Warnings: none

Denki is twelve when he is flicking through the TV channels and lands on an old RomCom movie about soulmate marks – specifically the same type that he has.

“I can’t believe I’ve had to walk around with a cheap pickup line written on my ankle my entire life because of you!” The leading lady yells at the leading man as he stares at her in awe.

Denki laughs.

“Oh no.” His mother says, watching him.

“Oh no, indeed.” His sister repeats quietly.

“amusing observations” (G) by fromthemoon

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19423105

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

“Cats. Hm. Yeah.” Kirishima watches as Denki turns around and continues humming along to the song. He glances over to Shinsou and back at Denki. He’ll have to test if it’s really the cats the boy comes back for, or if it’s something other than that.

Something tells him it’s not the cats.

for shinkami week 2019

“Sleepy Nightlight” (T) by PinkGreens

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15869280/chapters/369709

77

Warnings: none

Hitoshi loses his nightlight, but finds another.

“Systems of Confession” (NR) by soybean-fics (mischuis)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15995414

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

"You're totally asking me out on a date." Kaminari grinned, and Shinsou felt his face heat up.

"Do you want to go or not?"

"Yeah, yeah. On our date."

------

Shinsou takes Kaminari out on a totally-not-a-date at the aquarium. Somehow, he can't stare at the fish when he can watch his adorable blond definitely not-crush being unfairly adorable at everything.

“Your Name In Paper” (G) by xemrox (Roquel)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18355292

Warnings: none

There are two people in this world who orbit at the opposite ends of Denki's spectrum of love and he never thought he would have them sitting at the same table at the same time.

“How Many Cats Is Too Many?” (T) by TheSpaceAceTM

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19418521

Warnings: none

Hitoshi and Denki live together, and progressively get more and more additions to the family.

ShinKami Week 2019!

“Start Digging” (T) by IiIia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16050866

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Kaminari and Shinsou are now dating and it is time for the customary Bakusquad Shovel Talks. Shinsou’s not worried.

“Not-So Surprise Party” (G) by MintIceTea

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19442827

Warnings: none

Hitoshi loves his boyfriend, even if he’s terrible at keeping secrets.

But then again, so is Hitoshi’s family.

[Erasermic Week '19, Day 9: Celebrate]

“party favour” (T) by pixiegold

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16166816

Warnings: none

Another soulmate AU where the first words they say to you are etched onto your skin.

Shinsou isn't particularly thrilled by the idea.

“Not Broken, but a Little Bent” (NR) by FriendlessAnimeLover

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19748674

Warnings: none

Kaminari Denki ends up leaving the hero course after a certain incident takes place. He instead joins the general studies students, where an unlikely ally reaches out to him, not leaving him alone when everyone else is. His overwhelming guilt and sadness is slowly tamed by general studies student Shinsou. But, even if Denki can find a new path in general studies with Shinsou, he can't help but think of those he left behind.

Bakugo and Kirishima are devastated by the loss of Kaminari. Bakugo's furious that Kaminari left, and Kirishima's...well...broken by the loss of his best friend. How can they call themselves heroes when they couldn't help their friend when he was at his lowest point?

Aizawa has a plan. Before Kaminari left, he struck a deal with him. Four weeks. If after four weeks Kaminari wants to come back, Aizawa will welcome him back. If he wants to stay, then he can never return to the hero course again. Aizawa's confident in his knowledge about his students, and he understands that what Kaminari needs is time. He has certain forces in play behind his actions...after all, it can't be a coincidence that Kaminari just happened to end up in the same class as Hitoshi.

“Thus With a Kiss, I die” (T) by DomineeringScarves

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15993539/chapters/37314002

Warnings: none

Kaminari finds himself head over heels for the newest addition to their class, Shinsou Hitoshi. Normally the flirty blonde would just present himself with open arms but there's a major problem with his infatuation. There's unspoken rules in 1-A and Kaminari is part of the Bakusquad...whereas Shinsou is a part of the Dekusquad. The two can't be together. It's just not possible. There's no way Bakugou would ever allow one of his extras to date Deku's friend.

There's only one thing left to do, give up and move on. Too bad Kaminari can't seem to escape Shinsou.

Aka the fic where Kaminari is Romeo and Shinsou is Juliet and they have to secretly date so their squads don't fall into an all out war.

“No More Fragments” (M) by Ischemia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16057748/chapters/37489790

Warnings: none

Shinsou Hitoshi has finally gotten his wish and is now officially a part of Class 1-A. It was everything he'd wanted, but all of these obstacles keep finding him.

Sometimes this means a cute blonde boy he doesn't know how to talk to and other times it means possibly losing the trust of the class he so badly wants to be a part of.

Cue awkward dates, Shinsou having the best dads in the world, and learning what friendship means.

“Eventuality” (T) by KikaTouka

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15895002/chapters/37042446

Warnings: none

Shinsou learns more than just hero lessons after being transferred to 1-A.

“As You Wish” (T) by All_My_Characters_Are_Dead

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16301087

Warnings: none

“Be sure to wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss,” Kirishima said with a knowing grin. Hitoshi considered stabbing the captain, but that would just get him on Commander Bakugou’s bad side, and it would only break his blade because it was Kirishima and Hitoshi was pretty sure no normal weapon could hurt him.

“You shouldn’t say things like that,” Hitoshi said, pointedly adjusting the position of the blades concealed at his wrists while holding Kirishima’s gaze. “You know I would never do such a thing.”

“Kaminari’s Declassified Coming Out Survival Guide” (T) by MustardSoup

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17204222/chapters/40453802

Warnings: none

Local disaster bi, Kaminari Denki, is yanked right out of the questioning stage of his life and now has to navigate the process of coming out.

He decides to do it step-by-step, with each step taking more courage than the last.

And if coming out equates to slaying the dragon, then perhaps by the end of this he'll get the guy, too.

“Kiss Me Through The Screen” (M) by Ischemia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17289734/chapters/40664117

Warnings: none

Shinsou remembers when he first saw the ad for Ch4rgeb0lt’s services. He was just messing around online when a pop-up appeared with his smiling face, one eye winking and the other brightly flashing with happiness.

“Lonely? Tired of coming home to an empty apartment? Can’t find anyone to listen to your problems? Say no more! For the low cost of $10 per stream, you can have all the company and love you ever wanted. Get a best friend for the best price!”

His first reaction was, “what kind of depressing loser needs to buy a boyfriend?” before he looked around at his empty home and realized he might be that depressing loser.

“My Best Mistake” (T) by SammyD

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17374055

Warnings: Major Character Death

Shinsou takes a secret to his grave

“How to save a life” (T) by anxioussailorsoldier

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17379239

Warnings: none

Shinsou doesn't expect to find Kaminari on the roof of UA.

“Follow You (Like Morning Follows Night)” (T) by Anonymouspotato

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16994013

Warnings: none

When Shinsou finally found Kaminari, he was on the roof of the dorms, leaning against the railing. He almost didn’t want to interrupt him. But he had a job to do.

~~~~~~~~~~

Based on the song ‘Like Morning Follows Night’ from the RWBY soundtrack, but you don’t need to know anything about that show or that song to read

“geyser.” (G) by fuckendeavor666

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17934377

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

shinsou hitoshi has had a hard life. though, now, he is not as alone as he once was.

“If I’m The Thunder You’re The Lightning” (NR) by Taintedazure

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21212525

Warnings: none, creator chose not to use archive warnings

Kaminari has always been a chill kind of guy. Always taking it in stride and acting a little weird to make his friends laugh. His entire world gets turned upside down when he finds out who his soulmate is.

“Thus With You, I Smile” (T) by Kawayls

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1546096

Warnings: none

A bunch of ShinKami centered One Shots, that are set up in the same universe. Each one can be read as an individual work, though I order them chronologically.

“Nightmares” (NR) by Elux

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16801231

Warnings: none

Shinsou Hitoshi wake up in the middle of the night because of a nightmare.

“BakuSquad Initiation” (G) by PoorUnfortunateSoul

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21652948

Warnings: none

Shinsou is initiated into the Bakusquad, per Kaminari's request.

[Now with fanart!]

__________

Shinsou Week 2019 - Day 6 - Blanket Forts

“You Seem Familiar” (G) by PoorUnfortunateSoul

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21673501

Warnings: none

“You have an affinity for Black Magic?” he asks, sounding unbelieving.

“Yeah!” Denki says, and it feels so surreal to argue for it, instead of promising that he doesn’t. “When I was younger I figured out that Black Magic just sort of feels, I dunno, alive? To me? I guess? I don’t really know how else to explain it, it’s a little electrifying almost. I dunno. But, when you look at me, I get the same feeling? So that’s why I thought you had an affinity for it, I’m sorry if I-”

“I do,” Shinsou cuts him off. “I’ve known since I was six. I just - can’t feel it on you, like you do me.”

Denki feels himself deflate immediately. Is this one of those unrequited soulmate things? It’d be just his luck, honestly.

_________

Shinsou Bowl Week Day 7: AU

“It Sucks, Really” (G) by Kawayls

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20465996

Warnings: none

Kaminari can't sleep at nights because of stomach aches and burdening thoughts. Shinsou is a worried boyfriend. Both are dorks in love and have no idea what are they supposed to do with the rising problem.

“Holy Shi- YoUrE gAy??” (NR) by seizethosegays

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21780742

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnins

Holiday, fight, blood, Eri, hair clips, aizawa

“Fragile Lightning” (G) by Treesha

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21863329

Warnings: none

With Denki's quirk causing rapid deterioration of his memories, Hitoshi struggles with finding a way to help him.

“baby let me ride your wave” (NR) by beelue

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21893185

Warnings: none

Kaminari Denki's days are filled with summer sun, laughing with his friends, and occasionally saving lives. He knew he was Bisexual- He had since he rescued a (smoking hot) guy from drowning and two seconds later asked for his number.

But he truly realized he was a disaster after seeing Shinsou Hitoshi for the first time.

title - wave by blanks

“Blamed” (T) by coldandhotsoba

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16644668

Warnings: graphic depictions of violence

This was not how the day was supposed to end. They were supposed to end the day like they do most nights. Kaminari clutching onto him like a koala as he slept, wrapped in the millions of tacky blankets Kaminari had bought. Warm and safe in their bed. It was not supposed to end with both of them tied up in some cold metal room.

“Love Is A Strange Potion Ingredient” (NR) by soybean-fics (mischuis)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16609040

Warnings: none

Shinsou Hitoshi is a local potion brewer. Kaminari Denki is a witch.

And, in Shinsou's opinion, a witch with a really cute smile. Wait. Is this a crush? Fuck.

Alternatively: The One Where Shinsou Falls Head Over Heels For The Witch Who Visits His Brewery Every Day.

“The Best-Laid Plans of Shinsou Hitoshi” (T) by aces_low

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19052008

Warnings: none

Kaminari has a habit of ruining Shinsou's plans.

“Lighting Scars” (T) by Present-Mics-scream (write_your_way_out)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17720768

Warnings: none

It's hard to be confident in your abilities when you're surrounded by people with incredible quirks. Shinsou Hitoshi would know better than anyone. Sure, he was admitted to the hero course in his second year, but being admitted to the hero course, and keeping up with the rest of the class are two different things.

Lucky for him, Kaminari is there to prove that the flashiest quirks come with the largest drawbacks.

“Mysterious as the dark side of the moon” (T) by beetime

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15968039

Warnings: none

“I wasn’t attacking you then,” he responded, cracking his neck from side to side like he always did when they restarted. Aizawa moved his feet back into stance. “I noticed this time when you gave me that look you do when I do something wrong.”

Aizawa blinked. He knew exactly the angle the kid was playing at, but it didn’t stop him from being the least bit curious. He narrowed his eyes, “What look?”

Shinsou shrugged but there was an edge to his mouth that Aizawa had come to recognize as a smirk, “Eh. Already forgot it. Guess I’ll tell you next time,” he matched Aizawa’s stance, “though there won’t be one.”

✦

aizawa continues training shinsou

“Fear Is Just Your Mind Being A Bitch” (NR) by MinzeySparkleIsPerfect8

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19965337

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings, none

Fear is something that your mind makes up. You get scared thanks to your brain. Phobias can easily be overcome.

But what can you do when a phobia gets the best of you and brings you down?

“Sleeping Guitarist” (G) by Momjeansdeku

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19950076

Warnings: none

Needless to say, Kaminari never thought he’d find love at a Sleeping Guitarist concert.

He’s glad he did.

Or

AU where Shinsou Hitoshi is a fucking rockstar.

“One Day, Maybe…” (T) by eelora

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20874689

Warnings: none

… he'll finally propose.

[Or, how Shinsou spends three months documenting his proposal.]

“Obliviously in Like” (T) by BadonKaDank

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20562731/chapters/48812711

Warnings: none

Alternate title:

5 times the Kaminari and Shinsou were oblivious to their feelings for one another and 1 time they weren’t because communication is a thing that for some reason they didn’t try all the other times before???

OR (take your pick)

5 Times Azaiwa and Mic told the boys to COMMUNICATE their feelings and 1 time they actually did!!

“Protect You” (G) by IcyHotHeart

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20185825

Warnings: none

Denki has a nightmare, but luckily, his boyfriend is more than happy to calm him down.

“Debunked Nightmare” (G) by MinzeySparkleIsPerfect8

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20909432

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings, none

After waking up at 3:27 from a horrible nightmare, Denki is unable to sleep and searches the dorms to find if his friends and boyfriend were safe.

Thankfully, Aizawa steps in and makes sure that Denki is able to feel more comfortable before bringing Hitoshi to help more than he can.

“1,000 watt smiles” (T) by All_time_low3st

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22195747

Warnings: none

A prompt I forgot to actually post (oops)

For prompt: kamishin- an unexpected twisted ankle leads to one being piggybacked to Recovery Girl’s office across campus. Everyone takes photos of the event because (1) it’s cute as hell (“they look just like a shoujo couple!”) and (2) “damn I didn’t know denki could lift bro!” (Basically, all the blushes ensure)

“Brain Damage” (T) by Kawayls

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20325559/chapters/48190303

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

This is supposed to be the best day ever, or so Shinsou is trying to do. It isn't his fault that villains never rest; it also isn't his fault that electricity is a dangerous game and that karma is a bitch.

“More Than Alone” (G) by Ischemia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22061683

Warnings: none

Kaminari is determined to make sure Shinsou has a fun New Years, despite his desire to be by himself.

They both win.

“Nobody Plans A Murder Out Loud” (NR) by HeyItsHoot

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20530805

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings, none

Shinsou isn't jealous, what are you even talking about? No, Jirou, he is not. How dare you.

“Electric Connection” (G) by Onlymostydead

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22012375

Warnings: none

Kaminari's quirk has always had... Weird side affects. Like his ADHD. And his constant energy.

And his insomnia, which wouldn't leave him be right now, when he really needed to just get some sleep.

But, thankfully, he has good friends.

“Mistlet-Oh?” (G) by AbithaLynDrankonclaw

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21759316

Warnings: none

"I think we're in a stable enough place to adopt one, if you'd like."

Hitoshi's heart stops.

Denki brightens and leans down to kiss his forehead.

"Merry Christmas, 'Toshi.”

(aka it’s christmas so Denki lets Hitoshi adopt a cat and accidentally makes him cry)

“‘Studying’” (T) by emmyrox22

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21744931

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Shinsou and Kaminari have been “studying” together for a while (but not for school). Shinsou gets stopped by his dads on the way to another “study” session and mistakes are made

“electrify my heart” (T) by hypocentres

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21727036

Warnings: none

Shinsou, who has monochromatic vision, doesn’t need to see the color yellow to know it’s his favorite.

“Of Telephone Calls and Teacher’s Pets” (G) by BigDangoFamily

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21906928

Warnings: none

“You know I love you, dude, right?”

It takes a few seconds for Kaminari’s words to pierce the sleep-thick veil surrounding Shinsou’s brain. When Shinsou finally does register what Kaminari is saying, he feels an immediate desire to hang up and go back to sleep. As it is, he can already sense a headache starting to form. Biting back a groan, Shinsou rubs his bleary eyes in an effort to keep them open.

“What did you do this time,” Shinsou replies, his voice lacking any sort of inflection.

OR: Shinsou answers Kaminari's phone call and immediately regrets it.

“I don’t care if the world knows (what my secrets are)” (G) by greatcloudninja

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21888871

Warnings: none

The first time Hitoshi came to the mortal world, he was amazed by how bright it was.

Hizashi, the god of new life, always left for part of the year; only occasionally popping back down to the underworld to visit with Hitoshi and his husband, Shouta, god of the dead. Every year, Hitoshi asked if he could go to the mortal world with his papa, and every year Hizashi told him, “Maybe when you’re a little older.”

Finally, after twenty years of asking, Hizashi replied, “I think you’re big enough.”

Or, godling Hitoshi visits the mortal world, falls in love with a human musician, and learns that sometimes, people really are what they appear to be on the surface.

“An Insomniac’s Dilemma” (G) by Toboe1087

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21957589

Warnings: none

Shinsou never thought that he'd find his soulmate. After all, how was an insomniac supposed to find their partner when their only hints come to them through dreams?

“maybe planning dates isn’t your calling, bro” (G) by meiishu

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22440232

Warnings: none

Kaminari presses his lips into a thin line. “Sero, you’re missing the bigger issue here.”

“Oh, yeah.” Sero leans forward a bit. “What’s up, bro?”

“So I asked him out to dinner and he said yes but he gave me this weird look when I told him where I was taking him.”

--

or: kaminari the chaotic dumbass asks the hot vampire from his intro to wolf culture class out on a date to olive garden.

“Irrationality and Comfort” (G) by MinzeySparklesIsPerfect8

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22392550

Warnings: none

After settling into 1-A, people don't seem to notice how Eri suddenly began growing fearful of the boy with a certain lightning bolt in his hair.

But the said boy does notice.

Or

Eri grows afraid of Denki Kaminari out of fear of that one Shie Hassaikai member.

“Much To Learn” (G) by Rusty_schreech

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16003151

Warnings: none

Kaminari Denki and Shinsou Hitoshi need some advice from their favorite teachers.

Inspired by all the "Erasermic 2.0" talk surrounding Shinkami!

“welcome to the world little one.” (NR) by baby345

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22326472

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

The day Denki water breaks his at his parents-in-law's home with only eri and Yamada. Shinsou is at work with his dad and it’s 3:00 in the morning.

“What the fuck?” Denki slurred. he tries to get up only for him to feel a pop and a trickle of liquid flow down tanned legs. 

 “Oh shit.”

“Heart, lead me home.” (NR) by baby345

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22308586

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

It was over for Hitoshi before he even knew he was a goner for the blonde. Now they were married and living the stuff of fairytales. Hitoshi’s biggest fear has always been that he was unloveable, that he would never know true and pure love because of his quirk. But as he looked around his childhood home at the pictures of his loved ones, his and Eri’s adoption pictures, at his and his parent’s Wedding pictures, his graduation photos and the birth of his son, he found that love surrounded him in every aspect of his life.

“To See Without My Eyes” (G) by corbeod

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20298883

Warnings: none

Oh, oh woe-oh-woah is me

The first time that you touched me

Oh, will wonders ever cease?

Blessed be the mystery of love

Five times Denki falls in love with the future and one time he falls in love with the present.

“Purple Butterflies and Bursting Sparks.” (G) by daisiesandstars

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22741180

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

3 times Shinsou fantasied what it would be like to be in those situations Kaminari's friends so easily get to experience. + 1 time he doesn't.

“the good side” (G) by junichirou

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16787428

Warnings: none

"Please teach me how to kiss!"

Hitoshi has heard so many bizarre comments come out from Kaminari's mouth, has heard him spout out bullshit and jokes that even him cannot comprehend. He has heard Kaminari say things that his brain is incapable to process, but this one is the one that causes Hitoshi's mind to blank out. He expected anything, but never this.

So it's not really his fault when his vocabulary seems to disappear and the only proper words he can let out is "What the fuck?"

“A Cold Polish” (G) by pinkskadan

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17714039

Warnings: none

Shinsou has never had his nails painted. Kaminari offers to be his first.

“Mind Defibrillator” (T) by DinoGraveyard

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19470070/chapters/46345510

Warnings: none

For reasons Kaminari Denki couldn't understand, people enjoyed watching him die repeatedly and shit talk NPCs as they owned him. What started as a joke evolved into a surprisingly lucrative career as the game streamer Chargebolt. By some miracle, he was one of the most followed gaming channels on the internet.

He knew that streaming an indie queer game by the unknown developer Shinsou Hitoshi would be a change of pace for his channel. He didn't expect to start re-thinking certain aspects of himself as well.

“angel” (G) by flightlesscrow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17832134

Warnings: none

Shinsou fights with class 1-A's Team 1 in the joint training exercise between classes 1-A and 1-B, and meets an angel in the process.

“Come to Bed” (NR) by Dadzawa

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18368678

Warnings: none

Kaminari can’t sleep, even though he’s fucking exhausted. Good thing Shinsou knows the best way to get him to unwind.

“For You Even Chocolate” (G) by xemrox (Roquel)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18396866

Warnings: none

When Hitoshi Shinsou receives chocolates on White Day, Denki panics.

“in a cafe i watched it begin again” (T) by freofreak

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21142094

Warnings: none

Omega Kaminari Denki runs a coffee shop with his Pack. He’s the only single one however, and feels as if his biological clock is running out and his insecurities don’t make anything easier. It’s just his luck when he meets a tired, overworking Alpha during a night shift.

“shinsou hitoshi: emotional disaster” (T) by bittermacchiato

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21712336

Warnings: none

Follow the adventures of Shinsou Hitoshi (emotional disaster) pining his way through Kaminari Denki's heart!

ps: they're in love

pss: neither of them know that

“Totally romantic style” (T) by emmyrox22

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22528351

Warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Shinsou and Kaminari have formed a nightly routine of sorts. All it takes is one unscheduled mental breakdown for the truth to come out.

“Anyways, I’m stalling. Um… I like you dude. Like, for real. Totally romantic style.”

[mrneighbourlove]

A King to a God: Chapter 1. Change in the Wind (Preview for Ganzine)

Preview and first chapter for my full entry for the @ganzine2020. What would happen to Ganondorf if he had won outright against Zelda and Link at the end of Ocarina of Time? How would the events and antagonist of Majora’s Mask effect him? Find out in “A King to a God”. I hope that you enjoy this first chapter and consider contributing towards the Zine and its charity to have early access to the full story. My favourite and best work yet I feel. 

Lightning snapped against the blackened sky, illuminating the landscape in bursts of flashes. Fire crackled and spat wildly, shuddering with each step the mighty figure took. A roar thundered out, and clash of metal echoed far. Amidst this battlefield stood a man in green, battered and bloody. His courage was faltering. A princess stood not too far. Her wisdom unable to help her. And towering above the man, a monster with a red mane snarled down at him. His power burned and he felt victory beat like a drum. With one last swing, the beast threw his sword at the man in green. A sickening slice grated against the ground, the man falling to his hands and knees. A mighty roar filled the air, overtaking the scream of the princess. This day, Ganon, King of Darkness, had won.

His hand glowed with the Triforce of Power as he reached down to the boy known as Link. He could feel the boy’s life drain as he pulled the light from him. It was like a toggle being brought down when Ganon took the Triforce of Courage from Link. The Hylian’s heart stopped as soon as the Triforce transferred to the mighty King. Ganon felt a surge of strength flow through him. It appeared as if fate favoured him this day, as a beam of light struck him from behind. It burned his flesh, but due to the mighty magic of the Triforce of Courage, Ganon persevered against the magical attack. Raising an open hand, the King of Darkness opened fire a beam of malice at his attacker, entrapping Princess Zelda in a wave of pain.

The Princess’ body bled from the attack, as the darkness attacked her physically and mentally. She fought with all her will, but it was too late. Her body succumbed, and she felt the Triforce of Wisdom leave her. The King of Evil merely had to will the last of his treasure to him in her weakened state. Clenching his fist, Ganon felt the last piece of the Triforce enter his being. Waves of energy rippled through his body, and the King of Darkness felt a state of nirvana. After all his sacrifices, he finally felt true, unlimited power.

Zelda screamed in fury, using every fiber in her being to stand. Both hers and Link’s efforts couldn’t end like this. She’d drain her own lifeforce if it meant killing Ganon. Channeling all her spirit, she unleashed all the holy magic of the gods she could.

To Ganon, her effort was useless. He countered with his blast of darkness. His own newly acquired power was overwhelming, a surprise to even him, and his attack devastated Zelda, overcoming her final assault and erasing her from the world.

All that remained was the broken body of the boy in green, the seared scar lines in the earth of where the princess had once stood and standing in the middle of the battle field was Ganon, Master of the World.

The sages looked onward, but knew they could do nothing. They would need to evacuate before Ganon sent his minions into the sacred realm. Nabooru looked to what was once the man known as Ganondorf. Even if he took human form again, and took the title of Ganondorf, she knew that the darkness that was in Ganondorf’s soul had forever changed him. Gathering with the others, she and the rest of the sages decided to formulate a plan of resistance in order to give the world sanctuary from Ganon’s evil. With Zelda gone, they had lost their leader and the power needed to seal Ganon away.

Looking around, the mighty Ganon felt the air change. The only bloodlust he felt came from within him, but it was slowly dying down.

In his mind, the man and the beast conversed. The Beast promised unlimited power, so long as it remained in control. It’s malice and terrifying might could bring the world to its knees faster, in the name of Ganon. The man, still in control, gave it a thought, yet ultimately, decided against it. He would be the face of the world, and not this beast.

Squeezing his fist, the dark beast used the power of the Triforce and his body glowed with a powerful light. The silhouette of his form shrunk and, out from the blinding light, Ganondorf emerged anew.

He was surprised to still have his scars from previous battles, despite acquiring his complete power. With a clenched fist, Ganondorf took a deep breath and, following an exhale, his body relaxed. The King of the Gerudo looked to where Zelda stood her final ground. “A shame Zelda. You could have been my queen for this world had you shared my vision. You were formidable, but not wise enough in your scheming to defeat me.”

The man turned to the body of Link and judged his formidable adversary. “And you… well boy, you did well. I can relinquish a little pride to admit that you almost had me. But in the end, you fell. You were nothing but a kid after all, playing with toys too much for you. It was inevitable that you would die at my hands. My struggles far surpassed yours after all. And you lacked the vision to ever kill me.”

Ganondorf glanced back and forth between Link and where Zelda once was. “You had strength, and the princess held vision. But I was the one to have both. I was the one to be perfectly balanced… No.” The King looked down at his hand, watching the glow of the Triforce with a twinkle of pride in his eyes. “I wasn’t before. My mind was clouded with power. Now that I hold the last two pieces, I know what I must do. This world will find peace and prosperity under my singular rule.”

Ganondorf walked by the ruins of his destroyed tower. Perhaps a palace could be constructed to replace it. “First, I bring a final order to Hyrule. Then, I will march onto the world. They might call me King of Evil, but I am the King they will deserve.”

The King of Darkness lifted his hand and commanded the Triforce to enhance his magical might. With this new power he could raise entire armies of monsters to follow his command. From the shadows, Ganondorf willed into creation artificial Moblins and undead Stalfos. In time, he’d train legions of Darknuts and Iron Knuckles as his vanguard. Monsters and dragons would spread fear to his enemies. However, for now, these simple monsters would do.

“All of you, get to work on raising my palace anew. A king such as I will need a throne.” For now, Ganondorf lifted a stone slab from the earth to sit down upon. As his minions immediately set out to collect and carve away stone slabs, Ganondorf thought about what he wanted and why he had set out to acquire his power in the first place.

His people, the Gerudo, toiled in the desert. They had to steal just to survive the heat of the land in the day, and the blistering cold of the night. So why did a land like Hyrule, full of ungrateful slobs, have such comfort? It maddened Ganondorf, filling him with greed and envy. His enemies called him the King of Thieves, but he justified his actions well enough. He needed power, the kind of power that would raise him and his people to prosperity. And as he began his quest, he came to the most logical conclusion. The world needed a singular will, a being who would be willing to make others sacrifice to bring everyone together. By becoming King, he could make a world united under his protection. As King, he’d bring peace and security to people like the Gerudo. If any resisted, then they’d be wiped away, making room for only those who would accept his utopia.

The Goron, the Zora, and the Great Deku Tree had resisted seven years ago, what with them being blinded by their loyalty to the royal family. Had they simply given the spiritual stones to him, he’d have spared them. But instead they spat in the face of the Great Ganondorf. That was the last mistake they’d ever made. Feeding the Goron to a dragon had amused Ganondorf, similar to how he had fed crickets to the desert scorpions as a child. The Zora would remain frozen now that he had defeated the Princess and her little ‘hero’. As for the Kokiri, Ganondorf considered sending a horde of monsters to wipe them out. He carefully thought over the option, finally deciding the wiser course of action might be to give them one more chance as citizens of his new empire. The surviving Goron tribe, if they hadn’t grown a back bone, would become slaves. Every empire needs strong labour after all.

But his own people … Ganondorf winced just thinking about what to do with them. Nabooru, his second in command, was supposed to lead the Gerudo in his absence. Yet, she had stabbed him behind his back. He had caught her treachery over seven years ago, but her freedom at the hands of the hero had set her loose in the world and free to plot against him. How many of the other Gerudo could be wishing to see him fall? The king squeezed his hands on the cloth above his knees. Taking a deep breath, he shook his paranoia away. Even neglected, his people still adored him. Any negative feelings they’d have toward him would be erased once he moved them out of the desert. Nabooru was simply a virus, an isolated incident. A mistake of putting too much trust in one person, one that he’d never fall for again.

“I’m so tired…” Ganondorf gave a light chuckle. In the seven years looking for the Triforce, he had barely slept. Now, he felt like he could take a moment to breathe. Pulling himself slowly upright, Ganondorf decided his first course of action would be to raid the lost woods to secure wood for building supplies. He could at least build himself a new bed. For the time being, he’d settle his eyes on Kakariko Village. His minions would clear out the inhabitants so he could have a safe night’s sleep.

As Ganondorf slowly walked out of the ruins of his crumbled tower, he took note of the environment around him. The winds of Hyrule that he coveted were still. Why did the wind not blow in his direction this day, on the finality of his victory? Was fate not satisfied with him just yet?

~

The Sacred Grove was devastated. A group of Hylians made their last stand in defending the Kokiri and evacuating the defenseless. From all sides, monsters and spirits of evil intent swept through the undergrowth, overtaking all who fought against the enemies of the Great Ganondorf. They killed everyone from soldiers to civilians who came to aid the evacuation and bring comfort to the forest children.

One of those who escaped the carnage was a single Imp. The Skull Kid, the last of the Skull Children, rose from a pile of shrubbery. His head was aching like nothing he felt before. His feet shook as he tried to pick himself up. Why did everything hurt? How had he gotten here? What had happened to him? How could he -

Slowly, Skull Kid started to recall the events of the previous two weeks. He remembered finding Link’s body floating down a moat towards Zora river; the fairy boy who showed him kindness when only one other would. The Hylian kid had even gave him a new face to wear in the form of that cool skull mask. When Ganondorf first appeared and declared himself as King of Hyrule, no more fairies came from the Great Deku Tree. Skull Kid hadn’t seen any fairies nor Link for seven years. Link said he was going to put a stop to Ganondorf, that he was going to make up for the loss of those seven years. But now Link was dead.

With Link gone, Skull Kid remembered Saria telling him to keep an eye out for monsters. He didn’t want to, as a happy looking man was giving out masks to the Kokiri. It looked like fun and he wanted to join in. It was then that Skull Kid had been suddenly attacked by a Poe, which smashed its lantern against his head. If it wasn’t for the mask he wore taking the brunt of the force, his head would have cracked open instead. The Skull Kid heard the sounds of screaming in the distance before he lost his vision.

Skull Kid didn’t know what to do. His head wouldn’t stop hurting, and every time he reached with his hand to touch it, he felt a stickiness on his forehead. Why did his head feel wet and sticky? The imp stumbled past the hacked-up pieces of other Skull Children when he stopped in his tracks. Among the bodies was the still image of a girl with green hair. “S-saria? Saria, are you-!”

She only had one wound, a small red circle that stained her green sweater. A single spear thrust was what fate had dealt her for her ending on this earth. Her eyes were like a glass doll’s, looking longingly into the distance. Immediate guilt hit Skull Kid. He couldn’t protect the last good thing in this world that mattered to him. His friends were dead.

“Oh……… I guess you’re gone now.” Skull Kid reached out to feel her face. Cold. Someone as kind as her shouldn’t be so cold. His body started to shake as he felt emotion leak from his shattered heart. What was the point of living in a world like this? Ganondorf was going to take everything for himself. Make a world of cruelty. The world had shown him cruelty before Ganondorf had come along, so Skull Kid assumed it was only fitting.

A gust of wind from the north caught Skull Kid’s fragile attention. Feeling the cool air hurt his head wound. He needed a new ‘face’ now that the one Link had given him was gone. Stumbling away from Saria, he came across another body. The Happy Man who was giving away masks to the children laid dead on the forest floor. He had his giant backpack still on him, with masks thrown about everywhere around him. One of Skull Kid’s eyes grew dark as the liquid from his forehead dripped down over it.

Skull Kid wanted the perfect face. He wanted to put all his worries behind him. Going through the bag, he felt a pull towards something. Discarding the faces useless to him one after the other, the Skull Kid eventually found the perfect mask. Wiping away his eye to see, he looked into the eyes of a heart shaped mask. This was it. This was what he wanted. What’s more, he felt he needed it.

He carefully turned it around, and placed it on his head. The mask was a perfect fit. As soon as he put it on, Skull Kid giggled to himself. This giggle turned into a laugh. His mind was clear, and he knew exactly what he wanted. This cruel world took the things that mattered to him, and it wanted to give a monster like Ganondorf everything in return. Such a world didn’t deserve to exist, and Ganondorf deserved the suffering tenfold that Skull Kid had faced. The Mask’s eyes gave an eerie glow, and with the last of Skull Kid’s laughter, it vowed to give the King of Evil a new taste of terror.

[xxpadfootxx]

🐾Won’t Leave You: Chapter 3 (Pain vs Flame)🐾

The first thing that Ochako Uraraka noticed was that it was extremely hot. It was this severe heat that had roused her from her deep sleep, abruptly waking her as the heat rolled over her like ocean waves. She used one arm to push herself up into a half sitting position when a sharp jolt of pain shot through her side and down her legs. She couldn’t hold back the scream that escaped from her mouth as they pain rocketed through her, and only managed to stifle the sound by biting her fist. 

She didn’t know where she was, everything was pitch black, suffocating her senses as if she had been packed into a hole filled with sand. She shook her head, trying to clear it, and reached a tentative hand around her in a small circle, trying to avoid stretching her wounds as she searched for some sort of weapon or tool to use. When she found nothing in her immediate circle, she stretched forward just slightly, searching for anything, even a small pocket knife to have at her disposal. She sucked in a breath at the pain but forced herself to lean farther forward.

Suddenly, her hand touched something cold and smooth, a refreshing feeling against the stifling heat. Forgetting her pain momentarily, Ochako launched forward and curled her fingers around the object. The pain reminded her of its presence as it returned in full force, nearly knocking her back with its ferocity. Ochako bit her fist so hard that she bled, her teeth puncturing four tiny slits in the side of her hand. Tears streamed uncontrollably from her eyes but she did not care to wipe them away as she took deep breaths in an attempt to calm herself. Her heart was beating so fast it didn’t feel like it was beating at all, fluttering wildly in her chest like a hummingbird trying to escape a cage.

As her breathing and heartbeat finally slowed to a more normal pace, she lifted the object that was still clutched in her hand and brought it up to her face. One quick sniff told her it was metal, and she inwardly cheered, hoping it was some sort of weapon. She ran her fingers over the object, keeping her pinky in the air to avoid floating it away on accident, her finger pads dragged over the smooth object, feeling out its shape. It felt curved and although it was smooth on one side, she discovered that it was inverted on the other side like a sharp, long trowel. As her fingers explored the object more, she found that it had extremely sharp tips and a huge dent that fanned out on both edges of the narrow object, creating sharp broken pieces of metal that fanned out from the original object. She could not determine what it was but figured that she could try to use it as a weapon should things come to that.

She looked around, trying to discern anything from the thick darkness, a small light or a hole somewhere that would allow her to find help or an exit. That was when she remembered her phone. Her eyes went wide and she brought her hand quickly from the metal object to her pocket, digging around for the familiar item that she always kept with her.

“You won’t find what you are looking for in there.” A voice echoed softly from directly in front of her.

Ochako yelped and scrambled away from where she had been laying, ignoring the white-hot pain that stabbed at her side and legs. Her heart was in her throat, leaping to escape, and her breathing had turned so ragged that she was struggling to get air into her lungs without a burning feeling setting her throat on fire. She instinctively dropped the metal object, covering her side wound with one hand and holding out the other hand defensively, as if that would help her against an attack.

Suddenly, bright lights flickered on, washing the whole room in a blinding white light so that Ochako had to cover her eyes with the hand she had been holding out in front of her. She forced herself to open her eyes, blinking back the tears that the light brought to her eyes and peered through her fingers, looking for the owner of the voice that sent chills racking through her body despite the heat.

As soon as her eyes were adjusted enough for her to see, she saw a man slumped over in a comfy armchair, his arms draped lazily over the armrests and his face covered with a goggled mask. She also noticed what she had been holding and managed to scoot farther away from him despite the pain. She had been holding one of his metal claws. The metal claw rose from where she had dropped it on the ground like a snake who had just awoken from its deep slumber, snapping its pointed tips menacingly. Ochako put a hand to her mouth, trying to control her shaking as she drew her eyes away from the claw and settled them on the man in the center of the room.

The man lifted one arm lazily to his face and pulled off the mask in a simple, fluid motion. The green lens of the goggles glinted in the white light as he pulled the night vision mask from his face. He took a second to blink away the effects of the bright light and wiped away the sweat at his brow before turning his gaze to Ochako, who was half sitting up, half laying down in a puddle of her own blood. He raised two fingers to his brow and rubbed his eyes with a frown on his face.

“Tsk tsk this is such a mess,” he said.

At first, Ochako thought he was talking about his crime and the amount of damage he had caused to the town but then he gestured to her broken body with one of his metal claws.

“There is blood all over my floor, I meant to recharge before you woke up and ‘clean it up’ but that didn’t quite go according to plan.” He said with a growl.

Ochako swallowed her anger and kept her mouth shut. If she was to survive to see another day, she needed to be smart. He had given her some information, he needed to recharge and it had taken longer than expected. It wasn’t much, but she raked through her mind in search of a way to use that information against him.

The man then stood up abruptly, the chair shooting out from behind him and his claws raising to their full height beside him. Ochako counted eight claws in total, snapping their tips like the jaws of angry alligators.

That was when the memories all came back. Walking with Deku through town, getting groceries for Sato, being cornered in the alleyway by an eight-armed villain, seeing Deku launch to the nearest store to get help, the bullet soaring through the air, almost in slow motion as she bolted after it, leaping in front of it at the last second. The rest was all dark so she assumed she had been knocked out after that point.

She had been shot.

The realization hit her nearly as hard as the pain had, shock electrifying her bones and setting her side on fire. She gasped and removed the arm that was covering it so that she could see the damage in the bright light. All of the color drained from her face as she saw the blood seeping from the hole in her side like a thick red ink spilling onto a blank page. She tried to shift her position, to get an even better look at the wound when pain shot through both her side and her legs. She glanced at her legs and the sight almost caused her to faint. Her legs were twisted at odd angles. They were broken.

“What happened to my legs?” Ochako managed to choke out after a moment of silence.

“I broke them.” The man said simply. “I can’t have you escaping now, can I?”

“What do you want?” Ochako asked, her voice gaining a slight edge of confidence as she let her anger seep into her muscles.

“Oh, but if I told you that, it would not be a surprise would it?” The man replied with a cold chuckle that drained what little courage Ochako had gained.

Even so, she set her face in the most determined look she could muster. If she wanted to see her friends, Deku and Iida and the rest of class 1-A, and become a hero, she needed to stay focused and not give up no matter how difficult the situation got. The villain saw the look she put on her face and broke into another small fit of cold chuckles.

“Going to fight me now, are you? With two broken legs and a shot to the side?” He laughed aloud this time, his laughter echoing around the stiflingly hot room, bouncing off of the metal walls and dousing Ochako in its cold shadow.

Ochako failed to suppress a shudder as the chill of his laughter settled on her shoulders. Noticing this, the villain stretched his legs into a lunging stance, his head and back as low to the ground as he could muster while keeping a straight back and remaining standing. He looked like a lion about to pounce on a broken zebra.

“Well then,” he said with an evil smirk. “Good luck.”

Even before he had finished his sentence he had launched at Ochako, both his normal and metal hands outstretched for her. Biting down on her fist to keep from screaming, Ochako twisted her body and used her arms to throw herself just out of his arms’ reach. She was lucky that all of his arms had been facing forward rather than some of them blocking the sides of the room, which had enabled her to make a hasty escape from his grasp. But at a cost. Tears streamed down her face and she could barely see in the haze of pain that blanketed her vision, her mind exploding with yellow and red spots. She swayed, her arms barely able to keep her body off of the floor which had now somehow increased in temperature. The heat burned the exposed parts of her body such as her hands and face but the pain was so insignificant compared to the other injuries that she barely felt it.

Ochako managed to raise her head enough to look back at the villain, who was standing and shaking the dust from his hair that had cascaded upon him when he had hit the wall from the momentum of his jump. He turned now to Ochako, a wicked grin on his lips as he saw her body barely able to function.

“So, you are willing to break yourself to win, is that right?” The villain asked. The sentence sparked a memory in the remnants of her viable thoughts. Her mind brought up a watery image of a green haired boy with bright green eyes and a wide smile that lit up the day.

Deku

Ochako felt herself get slightly stronger.

I have to be like Deku, she thought as she forced her mind to exit the cloud of pain and focus on the task at hand. She shook her head with a quick jerk and forced herself to turn to face the villain. He smiled at her maliciously with a smile that met his eyes. He was genuinely happy to be causing such pain to her right now. Her anger bubbled up over her pain but she kept her face in a look of despair, waiting for him to attack again. It didn’t take long for him to launch at her again, this time fixing his last mistake by stretching two of his claws on either side to catch her if she tried to dodge to the left again. Luckily for her, this was what she had been counting on. She forced her legs under her and shot from the ground similarly to Tsu with both her arms and her legs, and reached her hands out like a cat. Splaying her fingers, she managed to grab ahold of one of his metallic claws. Again, she inwardly cheered as she pressed her finger pads against the startlingly cold metal, a light pink light emitting from them as she activated her quirk.

Like she had anticipated, the claw lifted above her head, rendering it useless. If she had been stronger, she would have bolted under the arm to touch the villain’s exposed side to render him useless as well but that maneuver had cost her even more than the last one. As she rolled underneath the useless arm and away from the villain, she could not even prop herself up on her arms. Her bare skin on her arms and face burned on the hot floor as she lay there, unable to do anything to stop the pain from pumping through her like electrical jolts or the blood from leaking from her body.

Although the villain had once again fallen for her stunts, he had braced himself more and had launched with less fury, resulting in him avoiding hitting the wall. He was able to whip around almost immediately and pounce on Ochako. Four metal claws lifted her from the ground, the other ones (minus the useless one) pointed at her like sentient knives. She gulped but could not do anything more to stop the villain. The villain began to laugh his horrid laugh once more when he stopped dead. The claws that were not occupied whipped around and pointed at the ceiling. They opened up like blooming flowers and a bright light flashed from their centers. After the bright light had faded, the claws closed and opened again, this time facing the wall. The lights now turned on for longer, projecting what they had caught on their cameras onto the wall. Ochako’s whole body went stiff as she recognized the dark green hair of the first figure and the hero costumes of the other three. She tried to hide her surprise but couldn’t, the shock was written on her face as if with a pencil. The villain caught this and looked directly at her, his lips breaking into the foulest smile he had yet given her.

“Ahh… more playthings for my lovely claws.” The villain said.

Quick as a flash, the metal claws that were not holding her reached around and grabbed ahold of her legs, pulling and twisting them. Ochako let out one horrible scream before the black haze of pain overtook her senses completely and she fell away from consciousness.

[chroniclesofmomo]

The Color of Your Eyes (Bakudeku fic)

Blind!Katsuki

Babysitter/assistant!Deku

No quirks in this AU

Chapter 1: The meeting

Sum's bark alerted Katsuki when he was distracted, he quickly dried up any possible traces of sentimental weakness among his bitter tears. Katsuki put the chair back in place as he heard a familiar sound approaching the front door. A jingle of keys followed by a few whistles from one of the songs of the moment. The kind of songs that were heard every morning on the radio. Sum got up after acknowledging his smell and came over to receive him. The door closed and the smell of Kirishima’s cologne flooded his nostrils at the same time as a little bark of joy from Sum greeted him enthusiastically.

"Silence, Sum." He ordered in a low voice. He didn't need to raise his voice to make Sum obey him, he was an excellent guide dog.

"What the hell happened here?” Kirishima exclaimed. "Can you tell me what you've done to leave the house in this state?”

"Good morning you too, shitty hair”

"Good morning? It looks like it hasn't been daylight here for an eternity!”Katsuki smiled after his comment.

“Kirishima calm down and shut the fuck up, I have a headache” Katsuki lied, he just didn’t want to hear his friends scolding him again.

"Calm down? Bakugo, grow up and do something with your life!” The read-haired man yelled at him as he opened the sliding doors leading to the garden, letting in some light from the outside.

He could not perceive the light but the heat caused by the sun's rays on his cheeks. A pleasant breeze hit his face and Katsuki instantly took a hand to his eyes, checking that the sunglasses which covered his eyes were still in place. He never took them off in front of anyone, bot even in from of his only friend.

"What are these crystals? Damn it you drank again?” Kirishima sounded very disappointed.

“I thought you’d guess it without me having to tell you.”

“Stop with your teasing. I’m not in a good mood today, Bakugo. I've been telling you for years that this lifestyle is going to kill you”. Kirishima seemed really desperate to get a reaction from Katsuki, a reaction he didn't intend to give him. "Every week I have the same fight with you.”

"Just don’ start with the same stupid fight every week" The red haired’s feet moved around the room, nervous and desperate due to his friend’s behavior. Making Kirishima angry from time to time was fun to kill time, or at least that was what Katsuki thought.

"You've smoked again, didn’t you”

"Really? What makes you think that?” Katsuki asked sarcastically as he pulled a pack of tobacco out of his pants pocket.

"The unpleasant smell of this place says that, asshole. My socks smell better than this fucking house.”

Kirishima took the bags he was carrying in the kitchen and went back to make the living room a little decent after the mess Katsuki had made after all these days he was locked up here.

He took Katsuki’s cigarette off and threw it in the bin. "While I'm in here smoking is not allowed, bro"

"Your breath smells like coffee and your clothes smell like expensive perfume. I guess you put on your usual shirt to impress the coffee shop customers.” Katsuki touched Kirishima’s face gently, recognizing his factions. “Freshly shaved, shitty hair on point...having couple problems again, Kirishima?”

"Shut up.” He growled, Katsuki smiled.

"Oh, well. It seems that I was right.”

Kirishima hated when Katsuki did that, guess his personal problems and laugh of him. Thanks to his blindness, Katsuki cod realize countless important details normal people couldn’t.

"Spit it out, come on.” Katsuki worrying about his friend? Probably.

"Will you stop doing that someday? He pleaded.

"I could tell you yes, but you took my cigarette. So it's not going to happen at the moment.”

“By the way did you forget which day is today?” Kirishima raised an eyebrow.

"One day of the week.”

“Yeah, freaking genius. Thursday, it's Thursday. How could you remember if you live in a house that looks like a prehistory cavern? You're just missing the paintings on the walls, because it has the smell of cave and shit already.

"You forget this is my house, and here I can do whatever I want.” That was an statement Katsuki repeated so many times.

"And I think you forgot that you should take advantage of those twenty-six years that you have and make some profit with it. “

Katsuki hated losing in anything.m, this argument with Kirishima was no exception. The red haired started college two years ago, but he didn’t had enough money to pay his apartment fees. Due to this, he took a free year to find a job to save up some of it. He had recently started working at the Poirot cafeteria, which he said attracted many people but the salary was not to that much. At least he could survive until the next month.

A few minutes later, Kirishima finished putting all the food he brought from the super, in the fridge. He was a bit exhausted, Katsuki seemed to never want to face his problems. Kirishima was actually sad for his friend. Their argument were worst every week.

"Spit it out, damn it.” The blonde one ordered.

"Why..." Kirishima hesitated a bit. "Why didn't you go to Todoroki’s office this morning? And don't give me the excuse that you couldn't have gone by yourself, because perfectly a taxi could have left you at the door like other times.”

"For what?” Katsuki rested his head on his hand. “They're not going to tell me anything I don't already know. “

"We've talked about it. If you follow the experimental treatment...—“Katsuki didn’t let him finish the sentence.

“Do you really think that one day I'll have all the money to be able to operate my eyes? It's a lost cause, shitty hair.”

"Don't you want to see again?“ Kirishima asked in despair with pain in his voice.

Pain emerged from Katsuki’s chest and felt like being stabbed by three knives.

How could he not want to recover his sight? Of course he wanted to. But if in so many years nothing had worked, what was I going to make it happen now? In some way, he was afraid of regaining his sight in spite of everything, seeing reality again after so many years in the dark caused him some kind of terror.

"Be realistic. All I can do in the hospital is take up the space that other people more serious than me need it.” Katsuki felt the need of getting away from that room and change the subject as soon as possible.

"Don't go, I'm not done talking to you. You know someone called me the other day? Someone you've known for a long time.”

"Who?” Katsuki didn’t seem to care for the conversation until Kirishima pronounced his name.

"Dabi.”

Katsuki choke on his own breath. When had shitty hair talked to that burnt chicken bastard?

"Are you kidding me? When did you see him? How did he contact you?” the blonde went back into the kitchen and from his heart beats he noticed that just to think about that subject made him nervous .

“Calm down, bro. Why are you so nervous?” Kirishima had him on the place he wanted, damn it.

“He is a fucking dick and asshole.” Kirishima raised his eyebrows.

“Just like you, right?”

The situation just took on a seriousness that Kirishima didn't seem to be aware of. Only a few people knew why Katsuki was blind, only certain people he wished not to be able to remember. And Dabi, that scum, was one of those.

“He told me you had an unfinished business and that wanted to meet you one day.” Katsuki shuddered.

"Let him die in hell. I’m not gonna see him. We can't hang out with that scum after all this time. You have no idea who that person is.”

“Well, I think I'll find out soon enough.” Kirishima’s words meant exactly what Katsuki feared the most. "We'll see him in an hour.” Three statements went through Katsuki’s head:

The first one: If Dabi and him met, he could be certified as dead in less than an hour. The second: he was going to fucking kill Kirishima if they both came home from the first one alive.

And the last o e: If Katsuki’s past and the reason why he went blind was brought to light, Kirishima and him were going to be in real trouble. And he'd probably hate him forever. More than he did now. Revealing his past wasn't a risk Katsuki was willing to take, just thinking about it made him start ti feel sick. Fucking shitty hair and his stupid ideas.

[rex101111]

Izuocha week day 5- Strength/Weakness

Okay so this one is SUPER LONG one shot somehow instead of a drabble. Yay!

And it’s super angsty! Yay!

...what? At least one of these things needed to be.

"It wasn't your fault."

Izuku paused in the middle of unlatching the lock on his front door at the sound of the soft mumble behind him. His grip tightened around his ring of keys, his heart thundering in his chest as he bite his tongue to keep from screaming.

"None of that was your-"

"Can we not-" Izuku muttered between his teeth, voice chocked. "Not now, please?" He looked behind him to look at Ochako, her hero costume burned and covered in soot much like his own, her face a picture of grief despite whatever encouraging words she tried to use.

She looked like she'd been struck, and he cursed himself for doing nothing but hurting people today.

He shook his head. "No wait I-" He took a deep breath and looked at her again, voice slightly clearer. "I just-don't think either of us wants to hear something like that…right now."

(Concrete shattering and buckling under its own weight, fire licking at his face, people screaming)

Ochako eyes lost focus for a moment, opening and closing her mouth at a loss at what to say to that, before letting her head drop in a quiet nod.

An apology burned in Izuku's stomach, but he just couldn’t bring himself to say it. "Let's just…let's get out of these clothes." If he took one more breath laced with the bite of smoke, he was going to lose his mind.

He unlocked the door with a soft turn of his key, pushed open the door and waited for Ochako to enter. She looked behind her for a few minutes, eyes focused on the distance, before sighing and slowly padding into their home, already working on taking off her shoes as Izuku locked the door behind her.

Half an hour later, Izuku was standing in front of his bathroom mirror as he placed one last bandage on a burn in his left thigh, eyes twitching from the sting of disinfectant. He looked up when he finished, spying the many elastic pads and off white bandages adorning his face, trying his hardest not to think about what put them there.

(The flames deafening around him, the heat boiling him alive, smoke in his lungs he can't breathe he can't breathe-)

"Izuku!" He flinched away from the hand on his shoulder, whipping his head to see Ochako clad in nothing but her slightly damp underwear and her wet hair framing her face. Any other time the sight would have sent him sputtering, but the various angry red spots and lines marring her body only sent a dull chill down his spine. "Are you okay? You spaced out there for a minute."

He shook his head harshly, scooting a bit away from her, the sight of her wounds digging a pit in his gut. "I'm okay just…still a bit out of it."

Ochako frowned, raising a hand to brush away some of the hair stuck to his forehead, revealing a bruise that traveled up into his hairline. "Are you sure that hit didn't…do anything bad?" Her face scrunched up in worry. "Maybe we should call Recovery Girl-"

"I'm fine." He snapped between clenched teeth, moving his head away from her touch (doesn't deserve it-this-her-never deserved anything especially not tonight) and letting out a harsh breath. "The paramedics already cleared me to go home…I'm…fine."

"O-oh…" Her hand wilted to her side as she looked away, eyes down cast. "S…I'm sorry."

(She shouldn't sound like that she shouldn't not Ochako not her she should be smiling and happy what's wrong with him-!?)

"No." He ground out past his screeching head. "No don't be I shouldn't have…" He loses what he means to say before he finishes his eyes wondering back to her, head still down cast and eyes hidden under her wet brown locks. "Do you…" He looks at her wounds, every angry red mark a tally mark of guilt stabbing into him. "Do you want help…patching up I mean?"

She runs a hand over one bruise on her shoulder and winces, which brings out a broken chuckle out of her. "Yeah." She looks up with a sad smile. "I'd like that."

He reaches into the medicine cabinet for another bottle iodine and rubbing alcohol along with a few more rolls of bandages, sets them on the sink and gets to work. They spend a good half hour like this, Ochako quiet and pliant under his hands as he covers her wounds one at a time, only making a sound when disinfectant touches a particularly sore burn.

He walks around to reach her back, and the sight of the long, jagged red marks on her back makes him want to jump out of his skin.

(Ochako screaming, a large woodan beam engulfed in flame fell right on top of her. She doesn't fall, a crying bundle in her hands as she simply shrugs off the burning wood off of her and runs full tilt to the window to jump.)

"It looks worse than it feels." She mumbles lamely, hugging herself mutely as he finally sucks it up and takes another cotton swap into the iodine. That takes a good five minutes, partly because Ochako asks for half a second to catch her breath from the pain every few swipes, and half because Izuku needs to make an effort to keep his cool and not crush the bottle in his hands.

He finished wrapping the last bandage on her back over her shoulder, hands shaking slightly as he put them against his knees. "We'll…go to Recovery Girl in the morning." He said, unsteady. "Just to make sure everything's okay."

Ochako nodded. "Okay." She went to the laundry room and picked up a random shirt to pull over her head. She went to the hallway connecting the bedroom and living room and found Izuku standing stock still while looking at the door to the bedroom. "…Ya know…" The sound of her mutter caused him to look over his shoulder at her, eyes unfocused. "I…don't think either of us are going to be sleeping tonight.

Izuku could only nod bleakly, barely responding as Ochako took his hand and led him to the couch in front of the TV. The both of them sat heavily on the cushion, staring straight ahead at the black screen, hands stiff at their sides.

Izuku lost track of time staring into the TV, mind blank and unresponsive, before he felt Ochako lean her head on his shoulder and wrap her hands around his forearm. Taking in a shuddering breath before he leaned his forehead on the crown of her head, taking in a lungful of her shampoo.

(Vanilla and green tea, typical Ochako. Stronger than usual…must have used half the bottle washing her hair…couldn't blame her.)

Another long stretch of silence went by, nothing but the sound of cicadas crying in the night air coming into their apartment through an open window in the kitchen. Izuku feels one of Ochako's hands leave their grip on his hands and sees it reach across the couch…and come back with the remote.

Izuku's eyes nearly bulge out of his skull. "Ochako we don't-"

"I need to hear it Izuku." She says her voice raw and impossibly fragile (not fragile never fragile never how why didn't help-) as she grips the remote. "I need to see if sh-if everyone made it out okay…I just need to."

He opened and closed his mouth, struggling to find some way to stop her, afraid (cowardcowardcoward- ) of what the news would do to her…to him.

"Please."

Every single half argument he had shriveled up and died. He reaches with his hand to clasp it around hers and squeezes, but doesn't say a word.

She presses the ON button, and a picture of a news anchor flickers to life.

"-and continuing on from there, we have an update on the fire that broke out in midtown Musutafu a mere two hours ago."

Ochako nearly crushed his hand in hers.

"For those just tuning in, a villain with a fire quirk escaping capture by local heroes entered a residential complex, and, in what police say was a desperate last attempt to get away, started a fire that quickly over took both him and the heroes pursuing him when it overheated a gas pipe and caused an explosion." The news anchor adjusted his glasses with a disturbed look on his face. "The fire quickly grew to consume the whole building, leaving fighters with little to no way to enter and rescue whatever survivors remained."

Ochako worried her lower lip with her teeth, Izuku squeezed back.

"Soon enough, several heroes arrived on the scene to assist, among them the veteran pro hero Backdraft, and relative newcomers Uravity and Deku." A video of the fire as it happened appeared on the screen, making Izuku's heart jump to his throat. "Although it seemed the rescue attempts were proceeding smoothly, the building soon began to collapse inwards due to the damage of the fire and gas explosion."

He could feel Ochako shaking and shivering under him, but when he reached for the remote, she yanked it away from him with a firm shake of her head. Her eyes stayed glued to the screen, refusing to budge.

"The heroes on sight were quick to save as many as they could before the building fully collapsed." The picture changed to several still pictures of the heroes carrying out civilians before going back into the flames, including Izuku with a man and a woman on his back and Ochako with a bundle of clothe in her hands that she gave to a nearby paramedic just as the building caved in on itself.  "Five people, including the villain and heroes, were killed in the initial blast. Another 10 perished in the flaming building, with at least a further 15 still unaccounted for."

Ochako bit her lip hard enough that she opened a cut and blood trickled thinly down her chin, Izuku could not move, a deep dread settling in the back of his head.

"…And unfortunately," The news anchor continued with a bitter sigh, "not all those rescued survived the ordeal." Ochako froze. "About five had succumbed to smoke inhalation and injuries caused by the fire…including among them five month old toddler Minami Ako, who passed away from smoke inhalation just minutes a-"

The remote flew out of Ochako's hand and embedded itself firmly into the television, sparks and smoke sputtering out of the cavity.

Izuku couldn't think, couldn’t breathe, all he could do was slowly look back to Ochako as she breathed heavily and slowly started to make distressed sounds as she hugged herself and rocking back and forth in a panic.

"O-Ochako…" Izuku pushed back his panic as far as he could manage (help help her HELP HER YOU MORON-) and put his hands on her shoulder to still her, "Ochako please you need to look at me please-"

A soul shattering, spine-freezing scream tore itself out of Ochako's throat, shocking Izuku stiff before she flung herself at him and clung to his form like he was the only thing keeping her from drowning. She sobbed and screamed into his chest almost incoherently, Izuku only barely able to get his bearings enough to hold her close and run his hand through her hair and rock her gently, his panic coming back in full force.

"She was-I had her-" She gasped and sobbed into his shirt, her nails digging into his back as she cried. "I had her! I had her in my arms!" She started screaming in earnest, voice going hoarse. "I saved her! I got her out of there! And it didn't even MATTER!"

"Of-" Izuku mumbled, still in shock himself before he shook himself straighter. "Of course i-it mattered Ochako-"

"NO IT DIDN'T!" She swung her head to look at him, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I HAD SOMEONE IN MY ARMS AND THEY DIED! AGAIN!" She slammed her face back into his chest, shaking from her sobs. "IT'S NIGHTEYE ALL OVER AGAIN! I HAD HER! I HAD-" She collapsed into helpless sobbing again, her words cutting Izuku to his core.

It's been years, over a decade now, since that fateful mission against the 8 Precepts, since the day the great Sir Nighteye perished, but not in a blaze of glory, but attached to dozens of tubes and on a hospital bed as he breathed his last.

Ochako was the one who carried him to safety, who was depened on to get him out of danger fast enough to save his life…and in the end it didn't matter.

Izuku had vague memories of the days following that incident, focused as he was on Eri and Togata, but he could recall Ochako being…quiet, in those first few weeks. She smiled less, laughed less, talked less…he wondered if, when she was alone, she broke down like this…like she did during the sports festival.

He could not stop her tears, not then, not now…but that didn't give him the right to do nothing.

"Nighteye didn't die because of you." He said of a sudden, voice clear and sure despite the tears that have started to gall down his cheeks to match her own. "Ochako that didn't happen because you weren't fast enough."

Ochako only buried her head deeper in his chest, refusing to look at him.

He grasped her shoulder and hauled her up to meet her eye to eye. "Nighteye died protecting his student and a young girl, he died doing his job." His words felt bitter on his tongue, but this is something she needed to hear…that he needed to hear. "There was nothing you could done to save him."

Sniffed miserably. "If I had been faster-"

"You weren't." He stressed, squeezing her shoulders. "You went as fast as you could, pushed yourself to the absolute limit to save him…he was just…too far gone." He looked at the broken TV set for a split second before looking back at her. "…and so were the people in that building."

She sobbed weakly. "Izuku stop-"

"You went at it like you were mad." He shook her so she couldn't ignore him. "You were surrounded by fire and smoke and had a wooden beam fall on top of you and you just kept going." He put her faced between his hands, feeling her wet cheeks on his palms. "You tried, you never gave up, you saved everyone you could reach." Izuku smiled wetly. "Not even All Might…was able to save everyone."

Ochako stilled, Izuku's words getting through. To hear him place trust in her was one thing…but comparing her to All Might?

"You didn't fail." He said, voice warm and cheeks growing wetter as his panic gave way to his own sorrow. "I froze up in there Ochako, people needed me and I froze up…but then I saw you…charging through the fire." He smile shrunk by an inch. "You saved me there too."

Ochako, hiccupped before another sob left her. "All those people they…she died because-"

"Ochako." Izuku exclaimed, resolutely. "This…" He took a deep breath, the tears in his eyes clogging up his throat. "This…wasn't your fault."        

Ochako let out a chocked sob, covering her mouth with her hands, looking at Izuku, seeing her pain reflected in his eyes as he held her face in his hands. She reached out for him, running her hands through his hair while minding his bruise, gulping the lump in her throat. "It…wasn't your fault either."

Izuku opened his mouth, to agree, to refute to argue, it didn't matter. Ochako flung herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck as she kissed him desperately, the salty bite of their tears where their lips met.

They soon stopped as Ochako hugged him closer, her head next to his as he squeezed closer as he shook, their sorrow melding together in their embrace as it came pouring out.

They spent a while on the couch like that clinging together as their shared sobs quieted and slowed, until they sat silently in a calm embrace, their arms so limp one of them could just get up and leave…which they wouldn't, even if they had the strength.

"Sorry."

Izuku looked at Ochako for a moment, not sure he heard her right an account of her sore her voice sounded, "what was that?"

"I'm…sorry for just…" She gestured vaguely with one hand. "Just…falling apart like this." She shook her head. "I feel kinda…selfish for doing that."

"Don't be." Izuku smiled with a weak chuckle. "I was doing the same as you…after a night like this…I think it was a good thing we both, uh, fell apart like that together." He buried his head in her head again, letting out an easy breath. "I was actually gonna apologize for the same thing so…don't worry."

Ochako was quiet for a while, taking in the smell of him this close and safe, before sagging against him and sighing. "Thank you, by the way, for being here when I…I really needed it, really thank you Izuku." Her head was jarred for its comfortable position by Izuku laughing of all things, which she responded with a quick jab to his stomach. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing." He chocked and laughed, rubbing where Ochako hit him. "It's just…are you going to steal the words from my mouth all night or what?"

He laughed again, and this time Ochako joined him.

She shook her head, and rubbed one of the many bandages covering her form. "We should…probably go find Recovery Girl…we kinda did a lousy job on these."

"You mean I did a lousy job." He hugged her with a tired smirk. "But yeah…we should probably find her sooner rather than later…who knows how she'll react to us just…leaving without getting proper medical attention."

"Not in a fun way…that's for sure."

He laughed again, this time with a bit more strength behind it.

---

Recovery Girl, did not, in fact, react well to them running off. The only reason they didn't get an ear full for running off while having several first degree burns was that she simply had far more people to deal with than them, so she sent them off with a reprimand and a promise this would not be the last they hear of her and the subject.

Ochako felt the spot where the large wound had been, a phantom sensation of where the wooden beam landed on her as she-tried to save the child from the fire. She felt a frown tugging down on her lips before she felt someone hold her hand.

"You okay?" Izuku smiled down at her worriedly, only mollified when she squeezed his hand back. "…I think we had enough excitement for one day…wanna go home?"

Ochako nodded, feeling dead on her feet. "Yeah, I could use a long nap after-" She stopped, the sound of inconsolable sobbing reaching her ears and making her heart drop through the floor.

"Ochako?" Izuku fretted, seeing her look somewhere to her left. "Did something hap-" He stopped, his face falling. "…oh."

Right there, across the hall, were the two people Izuku had managed to get out of the burning building…the parents of Minami Ako.

"Ochako…" Izuku whispered in her ear, they were in civilian clothes so they had not yet been spotted, they could still walk away. "You don't have to-"

"I do." She said firmly, though her voice still shook. She clenched her fists as she saw the mother cry and sob for her lost child, a stab of shame going through her at her own display of grief earlier while the woman had been going through so much pain. "I must do this."

Izuku was quiet for a moment, before he nodded. "Okay, I won't stop you."

"They need someone to be strong for them." Ochako muttered, some doubt in her voice if not her words. "I need to be that strong someone."

"You don't have to be strong alone though."

Ochako looked back at Izuku at those words, a warmth floating through her as she met his brilliant smile. "Do you…" She mumbled quietly, "do you really think I can do this?"

"Of course." He stated confidently. "You're Uravity, the hero who picks people up."

She saw a flash of sadness in his eyes then, and she grabbed his hand. "And you're Deku, the hero who can save anyone."

They shared a scared but determined smile, took a breath, and walked towards the grieving couple.

Tomorrow, they would need to file an official report, coordinate a public announcement towards the victims and their families…but today, tonight, they fulfil their duty towards Minami Ako.

And they do it together.

[crowsent]

Tokoyami Fumikage is  underrated

I love that my boi Sero is getting his appreciation. Sure, fandom is still sleepin on him like we all collectively drank a whole bottle of ambien, but he’s getting a bit more love from both fanart and fanfiction.

BUT BOY why y’all gotta sleep on Tokoyami too????

For someone not in the main cast (and not even with the bakusquad), he has a fucking FANTASTIC design if you ignore the fact that he looks like he’s permanently stuck in his Evanescence phase or maybe that’s why he looks so damn cool? and a potentially op quirk. Dark Shadow, with training and some attention, can be pretty fucking terrifying.

I mean, it already is, since we saw Dark Shadow utterly beat Moonfish within an inch of his life in S3 and chapter (psych i aint gon dig through squat to find the exact chapter) of the manga.

Dark Shadow is the Hulk of BNHA. Bring him to a fight and what do you get? A screeching bird demon conjured from the shadowy pits of Tokoyami’s infinity cloak ready to eviscerate a motherfuck.

Aside from, perhaps Class 1-A’s Shoto “living thermostat” Todoroki, DS is quite possivbly the most versatile quirk in the entire fucking class.

As we have all seen in the sports festival, DS can be used short-range, mid-range, and long-range. Reaction time is astounding, since Bakugou came pretty damn close to them when Deku launched him and crew up in the air with Mei’s boots and Dark Shadow. fucking. DELIVERED. He swung at sweat-hands mcgee like it was nothing and drove Bakugou back. (This was before Bakubitch realized that DS was weak to light, but more on that later) He displayed plenty of mid-range capabilities during the rest of the cavalry battle and showed us his long-range when he shoved Momo out of the ring WITHOUT HURTING HER. Tokoyami and DS aimed for the shield which maximized pressure on Momo but didn’t claw her arms off.

And of course, Dark Shadow, in terms of raw power, utterly decimated a villain that Bakugou and Todoroki struggled with. They weren’t in the best position, of course, but hey, they can’t really control the fact that Bakugou’s quirk and the other half of Todoroki’s will send the forest straight to hell if they used it. (more on this later). Dark Shadow fucking decimated Moonfish. Get that man to Recovery Girl bc I’m pretty sure he won’t survive getting crushed, swung around like a chewtoy, and slammed into a tree. Fuck canon, no man who doesn’t have an augmentation quirk can survive that.

With all this fuckery, DS is pretty damn op already. But consider this.

What if, after all that, Tokoyami is suppressing Dark Shadow? Even when he lost control in the training camp, some part of Tokoyami is still actively resisting Dark Shadow? It’s the equivalent of a skinny beanpole of a man with sticks for arms trying to pull the leash back on their 220lbs russian bear dog from running, but the resistance is there.

Now, imagine if Tokoyami DIDN’T suppress Dark Shadow.

Imagine, that instead of shoving DS into the folds of his emo poncho, Tokoyami accepts and works WITH DS instead of against?

I think that there’s a few reasons why Tokoyami admantly refuses to let Dark Shadow ride in the passenger’s side of the car and instead shoves DS in the trunk.

It’s already been established that DS grabbed Moonfish by the hand and dragged him to the gates of death. With a power like that, anyone who wants to be a hero like Tokoyami, would be hella fucking afraid to use it at full power due to the destructive capabilities of DS. With that fear, I think Tokoyami would see DS as less of a boon and more of “holy shit i have a literal demon bird inside me” and be hesitant to use it.

Of course, he uses DS but notice how in the sports festival, DS is always measured, controlled, and never allowed to do more than what Tokoyami deems necessary. DS is always on defensive in the cavalry battle, DS aims for Momo’s shield, and even in the fight with Bakugou, Tokoyami keeps DS in line before Bakugou knocks him to the floor.

And if Tokoyami actually accepts DS, imagine how well he’s gon improve if he doesn’t have to constantly rein in DS.

Quirks are like a muscle and if you work them regularly, they can be strengthened. If DS is trained to work in bright light, it could mitigate the near instant decrease of his power. Not completely, of course, but in the training camp, Bakugou and Todoroki lighting their hands up was enough for DS to go from fucking massive to the size of my hopes and dreams within seconds.

Training DS to be more resistant to light adds to Tokoyami’s versatility, and removes the crippling disadvantage he has against light-based quirks. Todo and Baku cant use explosions and fire respectively in an area around a forest and they can’t exactly change that, but DS has a little bit more leeway with that if he can be trained to withstand light a little better and that can only be done if Tokoyami stops repressing him.

It’s understandable tho. Tokoyami’s not a fucking moron. He knows DS is dangerous in the same way that Shoto knows his fire is dangerous. That 13 knows their black hole can easily rip someone apart. That Izuku constantly has to hold himself back to avoid murdering people with OFA.

The difference between Izu and Tokoyami tho, is that Izu doesn’t have a quirk that has its own personality.

Bc DS can talk, think, and behave differently than Toko does. DS is noticeably spilling sass from his mouth (beak?) like an undammed river and is much more enthusiastic and upbeat. During the flipshit episode in the training arc, DS rampaging around, he seems to be having fun and, when Moonfish tried to stab him, is displayed to be arrogant as well. Characteristics that Toko don’t have.

Aside from the threat of a giant hulk bird flipping all the tables and flinging people into walls, DS is essentially a living creature constantly with Toko, a creature that has enough power to overtake him if he isnt careful and Toko holds himself back severely by fighting against the tide here.

There’s a physical strain in keeping part of him repressed, like Shoto with how his ice frosts his own body without fire, since Toko is essentially fighting against a living creature inside of him. I don’t have my own shadow ninja but I imagine that doing that day in day out is exhausting.

Not to mention the mental strain.

Having something inside you that you can never get rid of with such power is mentally fucking exhausting. Not to mention terrifying. One wrong move, one slip-up, and people you love could die. DS could, potentially, turn you into a villain and you might not even have the power to stop it. There’s going to be doubts if you are the one in control, or if DS is just using you as a puppet meatsuit to move around. You want to be a hero, but your quirk is skirting the lines of villainous. You can’t even use it in full power because you’re so fucking scared of losing control, of having other people see you as a villain, of hurting the people you care about, that you sacrifice power for being cautious and safe. But I’d imagine that DS doesn’t like that. DS, a being with thoughts and feelings of its own, would not appreciate being cooped up inside you for so long and you have to LISTEN to him all the damn time because you simply won’t allow him to work with you because you’re AFRAID.

I think about Tokoyami a lot. There is so much fucking potential in this boy.

Horikoshi please.

Give him more love. Give him all the love.

TL;DR: Tokoyami and Dark Shadow are fucking underrated and we as a fandom need to stop sleeping on him thanks for coming to my TEDtalk

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 296: Ngl, This One Pissed Me Off

Previously on BnHA: Deku was all, “p.s. I actually activated yet another quirk several chapters ago when Kacchan got stabbed.” Compress was all, “[gets captured and passes out].” Spinner was all “[rifles through Tomura’s pockets and slaps a random Charbroiled Hand onto his friend’s unconscious face].” Tomura was all, “SOMEHOW THAT ACTUALLY WORKED” and woke up again, except it wasn’t really him, it was everyone’s favorite Final Villain, AFO. AFO was all, “time to escape finally” and summoned a bunch of Noumu and Absconded with Spinner and the DabiMarble in tow. Skeptic was all, “Horikoshi forgot I existed, but I’m actually Absconding in marble-form as well.” Deku was all, “ATTENTION WORLD, I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT I OFFICIALLY WANT TO SAVE SHIGARAKI TOMURA.” And then the arc just sort of ended lol.

Today on BnHA: Horikoshi is all, “but when you think about it, do we really need literally any female teachers at U.A. at all?” and for whatever reason doesn’t stop to wait for an answer. Midnight, who absolutely did not need to die, Dies, and I’m pissed about it. Ochako wanders the ruins of Jakku for what feels like hours, rescuing small children while her adult hero compatriots fall to pieces around her, because apparently the U.A. kids really are the only people who have their shit together. The citizens of Japan are all “damn that’s wild, wonder how fucked we are now,” but are actually super casual and chill about it which is oddly realistic. The chapter ends with AFO in Tartarus being all “lol time for the prison break arc,” without giving us so much as a chance to catch our breath, like holy shit. Are we on the clock or something now, goddamn.

lmao it’s like 7pm on a Sunday night and this is out already. this is like the worst possible timing lol. there goes my nice, relaxed evening. unless of course this turns out to be a nice, restful, soothing chapter, as chapters coming on the heels of traumatic, earth-shattering battles so often are. yeah, break out the Pina Colada song and the little drink umbrellas, I got a good feeling about this one

(ETA: I mean, I was obviously being sarcastic here but damn, Horikoshi.)

-- fff why did I laugh

it’s the crumbling city ruins in the background that really does it, I think. JUST LOOK AT THIS MESS THAT YOU HAVE MADE, EVERYONE. FOR SHAME

also, the title is dramatic af and I am so fucking excited you guys, like holy shit. BnHA’s In-Between arcs have always been my favorite part of the series, because it’s when all the character development and angst and/or catharsis happens. just, those little breathing spaces in between the action when everyone gathers to recuperate and compartmentalize their fresh new traumas lmao. bring on that angst!! but also, let’s please have some Comfort to offset all of this Hurt too, please and thanks

blah blah blah so the survivors were evacuated, good good, can you actually show us though?

AHHHHHHH

PIXIE BOB SURVIVED!!!! WASH IS STILL ALIVE LMAO HOW. THIRTEEN’S FACE, OMG SHOULD I LOOK AWAY. IS IT LIKE MANDALORIAN RULES. IDK HOW IT WORKS

HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY ALIVE. LOLS ANYWAY I’M HERE FOR IT. FEEL FREE NOT TO KILL ANYONE ELSE HERE HORIKOSHI, I THINK WE’RE GOOD

(ETA: it’s like talking to a brick wall.)

oh my god do we really need exposition about how the heroes tried to stop TomurAFO from escaping and OF COURSE failed completely because they suck lmao. oh my god I am shocked, that is such shocking news

wow they only managed to defeat three of the Noumus. holy shit. again, all of the Not-Kid Heroes are only slightly more useful than cardboard cutouts of heroes at this point, MORE AT ELEVEN

so Tomura may have lost the PLF, but he still more or less has an army then, huh. I really don’t know how anyone could expect a timeskip with that threat looming over everyone’s heads

oh nvm lol there are only seven Noumus left. wait so you’re telling me there were only ten Nearly High Ends in that last chapter?? felt more like fifty but whatever lol I’ll take your word for it

COMPRESS YAY YOU’RE ALIVE TOO

MAYBE THEY CAN EVEN REATTACH HIS ASS. I’M SERIOUS LOL, BECAUSE HE STILL HAS IT, DOESN’T HE? OR IF NOT, THEY CAN REBUILD HIM WITH A PROSTHETIC ASS. he’ll be more powerful than ever

WHAAAAAAT YEAH BOIIIII

WOOO, EDGESHOT, WOOOOO. THAT’S HIS WAY OF THE NINJA

YEAHHHHH SUCK IT, PLF

(ETA: for the record I don’t think Cementoss is dead here, just badly wounded. if he had died he would have been included in the forthcoming In Memoriam page along with the others.)

GET BENT LOL. TRUMPET I FOR REAL FORGOT YOU EVEN EXISTED. I NEVER WANT TO SEE ANY OF YOU LOSERS AGAIN PLEASE. ONLY INTERESTING CHARACTERS MAY PROCEED PAST THIS POINT

dsflksaldkh;l

that’s... holy shit. that’s a bigass mansion, that’s what that is. also so does this mean there are still eighty thousand PLF members still at large, because that’s a plot line I very much do not care about in any way whatsoever lol. can’t we just retcon to say that Re-Destro was exaggerating? I mean hell, a CEO criminal pulling some Enron-type bullshit is pretty believable, isn’t it? those poor bamboozled shareholders

“makeste, here’s an idea, what if you scrolled down to read the rest of the page” lol gtfo of here with your logic and your sense

well those 132 people have made it onto my enemies list, but at least it sounds like they more or less took care of the rest. good riddance

and Toga escaped, as we knew already, and is now on the lam. hopefully she reunites with the League again at some point. although her doing her own thing could also be very interesting. idk what I want lol

anyway so there’s another big panel showing how fucked up the city is, just in case it hadn’t already been hammered into our skulls yet. there’s a car dangling off a roof somehow. how does that even happen. did Machia pick it up and put it there or

NOOO OMG RANDOM SMALL CHILDREN IN PERIL WHAT IS THIS

OCHAKO PLEASE SAVE THEM OMG

“if it falls on me, I want you to have my Endeavor pouch” OH MY STARS. HIS MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION. NO MY CHILD YOU CAN’T GIVE UP HOPE YET

LMAO

“FOR THE LAST TIME NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR DUSTY-ASS POUCH, KYLE” fffff these children are dying and I am cracking up so hard my eyes are tearing up what is wrong with me

YAY THEY SAVED THEM

but listen. not that I don’t love seeing the girls kick ass, because you know I do. but I also really, REALLY need to know what’s going down with the Musketeers, and I’m not looking forward to waiting three whole weeks for that so please Horikoshi. please hurry this along so we can get to them

goddamn it Tsuyu is saying she’ll take the boy to the shelter to get first aid, and I was all “okay great because that’s probably where Kacchan and the others are too”, but now someone else is shouting for help and Ochako’s all “I’ll go” and it’s like OKAY BUT PLEASE? this chapter is already more than half over omfg. ‘bout to start wringing some hands here

oh my god

is this Toga again??? WHAT THE HELL, THIS CREEPYASS HALF-DEAD DUDE BETTER BE LEADING UP TO SOMETHING INTERESTING, I AM REALLY GETTING IMPATIENT

OR, I GUESS, WE COULD DO THIS INSTEAD

“SO AS IT TURNS OUT, NOT EVERY CHARACTER WHO NEEDS HELP SAVING THEIR SPOUSE FROM FALLEN RUBBLE IS ACTUALLY TOGA IN DISGUISE” HUH, OKAY. DULY NOTED. FILED AWAY FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

but fucking... okay, look. I love Ochako, I do. but I like her a whole lot more when she’s interacting with other characters I actually care about, as opposed to running around in the rubble rescuing random people while the fate of my other children is still up in the air. like okay, I get it, shit’s bad, now if you don’t mind we really don’t have to spend all day here though

...anyways but nope, we’re still staying with her. she’s bouncing around rescuing all of these other people. omg. I literally have no patience here at all and it’s terrible, I know, but oh my god

omg finally something interesting is happening!!

look at that, an adult hero standing around being useless while the kids are busy getting shit done. why is this becoming a recurring theme

MY DUDE, THIS IS SERIOUSLY NOT THE TIME THOUGH

I GET THAT IT’S OVERWHELMING AND THAT YOU’RE TRAUMATIZED AND SHIT, BUT GUESS WHAT, SO IS EVERYONE ELSE. THAT’S WHAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR. JUST LOOK AT OCHAKO! SHE’S SO EXHAUSTED HER HAIR HAS EVEN LOST ITS FLOOF, AND YET SHE’S STILL OUT HERE DOING HER BEST. ONE SAVE AT A TIME MY MAN. GET IT DONE. LITERALLY A SMALL CHILD IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CALLING FOR THEIR MOMMY AND YOU’RE JUST STANDING THERE ALL “WAHH IT’S TOO MUCH” LIKE COULD YOU PLEASE POSTPONE YOUR CRISIS UNTIL AFTER YOU SAVE THEM PLEASE

OH MY GOD

MAYBE YOU SHOULD!! oh my god I really cannot, like wow. oh no I actually have to save people and do my job, god forbid. jesus christ, at least the other heroes tried. but Moping Hero: Bellyache here is just throwing in the towel and fuck everyone who still needs his help I guess. you are like the anti-Deku my dude

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD NO OH FUCK

THAT’S MIDNIGHT’S HAND OH FU -- SHE BETTER NOT -- HORIKOSHI I SWEAR TO GOD --

I’M GONNA LOSE IT I REALLY AM!!!!

HOLY SHIT HOW INTENSE OF A RAGE DO I NEED TO BRACE MYSELF TO BE FEELING HERE. THIS CHAPTER WAS ALREADY TRENDING TOWARDS DISAPPOINTMENT, DO WE REALLY NEED TO GO AND COMPOUND THAT

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

you’re telling me Tomura wasn’t brought back by that electric shock, but by his “fuck you” attitude? why are you explaining this to us now, again??

......

HEY, SO UM, FUCK ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS, THOUGH. (: OH MAN. OHHHHHH MAN. I HAVE... I HAVE GOT A LOT OF WORDS FOR THIS AND HERE ARE SOME OF THEM

FUCK

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE DICTIONARY NEXT TO “SOME BULLSHIT”: THIS

FUCK

GET FUCKED HORIKOSHI

AND ALSO PLEASE FUCK RIGHT OFF!!

AND SERIOUSLY THOUGH FUCK YOU

NO BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THOUGH!! YOU COULD HAVE KILLED OFF ANYONE. LITERALLY ANY CHARACTER. YOU HAD TWELVE FEMALE PROS. TWELVE. YOU COULD HAVE MADE MORE OF THEM. PROBABLY, IF THERE ACTUALLY WERE SUPERHEROES IN REAL LIFE, THERE WOULD BE MORE THAN TWELVE OF THEM IN AN ENTIRE NATION. BUT NO, YOU WERE ALL “TWELVE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH.” AND THEN WHEN IT CAME TIME TO KILL PEOPLE OFF, YOU WERE ALL “WELL ALL RIGHT THEN, LET’S SEE, I PICK... THESE 18 RANDOM SIDE CHARACTERS WITH LITTLE TO NO DIALOGUE, PLUS THE ONE SINGLE FEMALE U.A. STAFF MEMBER WE ACTUALLY HAD. YEAH THAT OUGHTA DO IT”

AND BY THE WAY, HORIKOSHI, I PICKED SOMETHING UP FOR YOU ON MY WAY HOME, HERE IT IS, ┌П┐(・＿・) do you like it it was on sale. I saw it and was like, “Horikoshi would really like that.” so there you go. sorry it wasn’t gift-wrapped

p.s. I hope y’all can tell that that’s supposed to be a middle finger and not... something else lmao. er. anyway

(ETA: so I got a few asks from people who were really put off by this part of the reaction post, and so I’m just adding an extra note here to make it clear that I do not actually wish harm on Horikoshi in any way or even particularly dislike him. I wasn’t happy about Midnight’s death and I wanted to convey that, and so I went with my usual LOUD CAPSLOCK REACTION tone, but looking back on it I can see that it’s kind of a lot, lol. 

so just to be clear, the “fuck you” stuff is almost entirely tongue-in-cheek. that’s on me, I forget sometimes that there are people who share these sentiments unironically and so I didn’t think to make sure my intended meaning here was clear. anyways, killing Midnight was still a really problematic decision for numerous reasons but it is what it is. Horikoshi is not perfect, the story isn’t perfect, and I’m not gonna pretend like it is, but again just to be clear, I don’t harbor any actual ill will toward Horikoshi here.)

shit. and wow this man really went and killed off fucking Mystic too on top of that. have you ever seen a character fail so spectacularly at living up to their hype. r.i.p. Mystic you were like the Star Wars sequel of characters

(ETA: I have no fucking idea why I keep thinking Majestic’s name is Mystic lol. rest in peace you old scarecrowy bastard.)

and poor Momo, though. fuck. lost two mentors in a single day. and do not even get me started on Aizawa holy shit

so now we’re cutting to some random townspeople who are gossiping about the Todoroki drama. this is actually interesting in spite of my newfound determination to hate this chapter lol

ngl I am kind of heartened to see that not everyone fell for Dabi’s bs hook line and sinker though. Jeanist returning from the dead literally two seconds after Dabi was all “I SWEAR ON MY HONOR AS A VILLAIN THAT HAWKS MURDERED HIM” probably helped with that a bit! but there will doubtless be many other people who do believe him, or are at least still inclined to side-eye the heroes in general either way given how much they sucked in this arc. very, very interesting

so it seems though that even more than the whole Endeavor reveal, at the end of the day it’s going to be the heroes failing to live up to their end of the “put your faith in us and let us use our quirks and in return we’ll protect everyone and keep them safe” implied social contract that’s going to have the biggest impact on people’s opinions moving forward. basically this was always going to be a disaster no matter what

OH MY GOD FINALLY AHHHHH

Horikoshi really tapped into some of the real-life political energy of the past few years huh. Fuck Him Still for killing off Midnight, but I will admit that so far this is hella intriguing and I am really, really curious to see where things go from here

OH MY GOD THE LITTLE KIDS FROM THE BABYSITTING ARC

“FIVE PEEPEE MAN WOULDN’T LIE TO US” YES CHILDREN YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. at least the little ones still have faith

UM

 ( •̀ へ •́  )

that’s great. that’s really keen. all we need right now, amirite

GOOD FOR YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT

let’s just wait for him to explain what he feels. you know he likes to drag it out

is that Dabi crouched down there next to Spinner? looks like they got him out of the marble after all. but why has his hair changed colors again lol what

anyways. your turn to what??

:’) excuse me what

hahahaha are you fucking kidding me. and that’s where we’re going to end the chapter then. lol okay

so let’s recap. Midnight died. we spent ten hours watching Ochako dig people out of rubble for no apparent reason and were then introduced to my new least favorite character, and because Ochako is so nice she didn’t even punch him in the face even though she really should have. we did not get any Kacchan or Shouto. we got one panel of Deku, who is Finally Asleep. and the chapter ended with AFO ordering his Noumus to go set free, AND I QUOTE, HIS “MAIN BODY.” and now I gotta wait an entire week for Caleb’s translation to confirm that last part. omg

but it sounds like a prison break is imminent, which is very, very interesting. ...and actually, is it weird that I’m actually rooting for it to be a success? I have no idea what this guy is planning, but I do know that as long as the main part of his soul is still residing in Tomura’s body, Tomura’s chance of surviving the series is close to zero. and villain though he may be, I’m still rooting for his redemption (nice to have Deku on my side now too), and so yeah. so like if AFO feels like using some latent Exorcism Quirk or something that he’s been saving for just such an occasion, be my guest lol

meanwhile this doesn’t bode well for All Might though. or anyone else aside from Tomura, really. shiiiit

anyway. [slaps roof of chapter] this baby can fit so much bullshit in it

[italicwatches]

My Hero Academia, season 2 - Episode 33

So my movie plans fell through. Instead let’s watch anime. It’s My Hero Academia, episode 33! Here we GO!

-It’s the end of Deku’s internship, as he thanks Gran Torino for everything…And Gran reminds him that even if he did better against Stain than he might have before coming here, he still got damn lucky. And he still caught another fracture in his right arm by going beyond the 5% his body can safely handle. …Right.

-But also before he goes, he has one question…The question of why Gran doesn’t have a bigger reputation, despite all of his…Everything. His skill, his training, his having taught All Might and being friends with the man’s predecessor, all of it…

-The answer’s simple. Gran Torino never wanted to be a working hero. He just needed the freedom to use his Quirk entirely freely, and that means a heroism license. …Ask All Might about the rest. Now get out of here, kid, you have a train to catch.

-Also there’s a really great little moment where Deku really owns that name, that title, as something he can wear with true pride. Real talk, I wish I’d known that moment was coming so I could have shifted my name patterns then instead of at the start of the season…Oh well. The important thing is this kid’s coming into his own.

-Opening!

-Episode 33: Listen Up!! A Tale From The Past

-So everyone’s gotten back to the campus…And Katsuki is getting laughed at for the hairdo Best Jeanist enforced on his head. Which lasts right up until his raw fury pops it back into an explosion shape.

-And Mina’s hearing all about Kyoka and Tsu’s crazy adventures and she’s super jealous. And Ochaco, who has awoken to her TRUE POWERRRRR. The human trash has learned to truly be terrified of women.

-Also it seems folks heard a little more about the Stain situation. They still think Endeavor came in and saved the day, but they were allowed to know their classmates were in the thick, unlike the public who had no idea. Also, even Kaminari saw the viral video.

-And Tenya…Tenya can understand all too well how Stain’s sheer tenacity and force of will could sweep people up. But he is ever-more firm in his beliefs, that he will not cross the lines he did, ever again. He has to hold firm on the line of heroism again, to be a symbol, to do everything he can to make sure nobody ends up where he did…Except, you know, presented comedically, because it’s Tenya.

-Cut to another round of hero training outside of the core campus. All Might has gathered up the kids for a rescue race at one of their facilities! Welcome to Field Gamma, a labyrinthian mock factory district! Go to any city in the country, nay, in the world with a support-gear industry and you’ll run into districts that look just like this! You’ll be going through in five-man groups to reach him from wherever he sends out his distress signal…And of course, keeping damage to an absolute minimum is crucial. Katsuki. Looking at you there. Don’t blow shit up. Katsuki. King Explosion Murder. Don’t do any of those things. Katsuki. Katsukiiiii.

-First group! Which of course includes Deku, as well as Tenya, Tailman, Mina, and Cellophane. Can you tell which ones I actually care about and which I don’t? But that’s just about everyone with straightforward mobility-related Quirks…There’s a thousand possibilities, as all three get on the move! Cellophane’s in the air almost immediately…Only to be leapfrogged by Deku, who’s got Full Cowling on and is moving like a man possessed! They’ve never seen him go like that before…

-But they’ve seen those kind of movements before from someone else. And Katsuki recognizes his own parkour styles being cribbed by Deku. Sure, Deku can’t do mid-air kabooms, but his leaps, the way he’s putting his hands forward and pushing off as much with them as his feet…Somehow, Deku is catching up to him again…!

-Into Deku’s head, where he has to focus, to concentrate…To keep himself at 5%. It’s an incredibly difficult task in the thick of things, but that’s all the more important to mas—

-Aaaand Deku slips and hits a truly terrible impact. When it’s all done, Cellophane ends up being the victor…Though All Might makes a point of quietly asking Deku to come see him when they’re done here. You, did, amazing. And they need to talk.

-So that class is over, everyone’s changing back into their school uniforms and contemplating things…And that’s when the human trash reveals that he found a peep hole into the girls’ locker room. Which promptly gets Kyoka’s earphone jack stabbed through it and into his eye. Do it again, get the other one.

-To No Might’s office, where he’s…REALLY serious. Terrifyingly so, even. …Do you remember what he said, back when he gave you One For All? EAT IT. No no not that. The part of how all you need is some of his DNA, once he willed the transfer…

-It cannot be stolen, so there’s no worry about Stain having it. But it can be forced to be transferred. And that is connected to One For All’s origins…

-Connected to its birthplace, its brother Quirk, All For One. The first generation of superpowers. The chaotic times, that gap between the glowing baby and the first real superheroes that nobody likes to talk about. The limits of humanity began to crumble away. Society nearly collapsed into a worldwide civil war. (Sidenote, this handily explains why Japan in this world looks basically like modern Japan, and not like some cosmic space-age thing. They not only lost tons of time, they were no doubt actively sent back in technological development. It probably took an entire generation just to put shit back together.)

-In that chaos, there came a man who could steal Quirks. A calculating, cunning individual, who managed to briefly rule Japan with an iron fist…A story constantly rumored online, but never held in any textbook. Know this, Deku. It is not through lack of truth that it is kept from your learnings. It is because the reality was scrubbed out of history, on purpose.

-Which brings them to All For One, and its connection to One For All. The man who held All For One could not just steal Quirks, but give them away. He would empower lieutenants and loyal soldiers, give those born without power a taste of it in trade for loyalty. Many people fell apart, their bodies unable to hold onto what they were given, their minds collapsing under the strain…Like the Nomus.

-And some Quirks were twisted around by their changing hands. One For All was one such Quirk. This man had a younger brother, a Quirkless young man who had a strong sense of justice…And he tried to turn his own brother into a bank, forcing a Quirk that could store power onto him. To make him into a walking storage facility for Quirks. But it turned out that he was not as Quirkless as he thought. He had a weaker form of All For One. It could not steal, but it could transfer itself.

-On its own, with nothing else bolted onto it? It would be useless. He would have lived his entire life not even knowing. But with the power-storing Quirk interweaving with his own…The two became as one. And that one, became not just for oneself…but for all. One For All was birthed. Growing stronger with every soul it connected to, its strength growing with each generation…

-But that brings them to the issue of now. All For One was generations ago. And yet, the man who holds it, still lives. Stole someone’s long-life Quirk. Probably multiple someones, stacked them up. His younger brother was forced to pass his own strength on, working with the one tool he had…When All Might finally got it, he finally did the job that One For All was made to do, finally set the world just!

-But somehow, All For One survived. Somehow, he still exists, and is the one pulling the strings of the League of Villains. You must understand what you have to step into, Deku. No Might didn’t want it to be this way. He wanted that figure to be finally buried, to let his own successor merely be the symbol, not the sword. All For One is weakened, that much is certain. He is acting through cat’s-paws and distant orders and lab-work, not taking to the field as he once would have. But he may still recover enough to fight once again, and if he does, the—

-Deku will do everything he can to win. He’ll make himself ready when that day comes! He’ll have your back, All Might! They can do it together!

-And that’s when No Might has to let out the worst, most terrible admittance. But…He cannot. All he can do is thank Deku, can send him off…Unable to admit to the boy who looks up to him, whose entire worldview was so shaped by him, that…That’s not how it works. By the time Deku must face All For One…He will have to do it alone. There will be no All Might to stand by his side…

-Credits!

-Aftercredits! Summer vacation is coming up…And there’s going to be a woodland training camp to keep them working, and also get in some fun…But nobody who passes the final exam will get to go. They’ll be in the hell of summer school! Which is exactly when Deku realizes All Might’s big speech didn’t mention anything about himself.

-Cut to a skyscraper far away, where a man learns of the imprisonment of Stain…And sees just how useful this could be. Tomura could so easily unify all of the raging souls that will be birthed from this, could bring the League of Villains together…As his doctor continues to put him back together, piece by piece, slowly but surely trying to make All For One rise again. Yet even in his current state, almost entirely covered in scar tissue, he is already planning both his return, and his making Tomura into his successor…

Shiiiiiiit. Just…Shiiiiiiiit. That got real.

Also I’m about 80% sure that Deku took a nut-drop onto that pipe when he slipped in the rescue race. Which gives me great sympathy for the poor lad.

But we’ve got all this Real shit to deal with now. Also, summer camp. And the final exams. This is all gonna be interesting next time, in episode THIRTY FOUR of My Hero Academia! Wait for it!