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crack AU of your fic where Touya still becomes a villain - except it's not bc of Endeavor's parenting but because he catches All Might making out with this parent(s).

like the kid has spent YEARS defending them from all the accusations and article and nosy fans and tabloids "misinterpreting" the vaguest of interactions between the 3 of them as romance. Like - he knows they're all friends and All Might has dinner at their place at least twice a month, but he was old enough to remember how his dad used to hate all Might with every bone in his body. not to mention, his parents are so so much in love. it would never happen. his parents would never cheat!!

and then he walks in on All Might making out with his mom and assumes the worst - he's forcing her or something - and tries to murder all Might. all Might had no idea that touya's fire was several hundred/thousand degrees hotter on enji's until he get third degree burns. anyway eventually enji arrives and tries to get touya to chill and calmly reassures him that Rei is fine, and that the 3 of them are in a consensual relationship but poor Touya's brain Cannot Handle It. he's been denying it to everyone (especially himself) for YEARS. He assumes Enji has been affected by a mental quirk and goes rogue.

I'm sorry this was so long but I spent all of dinner and my shower thinking about it lol.

Oh my that escalated very quickly 😂

But alright challenge accepted *dusts off knuckles and keyboard* in keeping with the crack themes of it all: 1. Touya promptly goes to recruit Geten, who (thanks to that convo with Kotarou) still believes that All Might is a homewrecker who ran away with Shimura Nana for nefarious reasons after seducing her. Geten valiantly joins his rogue cousin's crusade and they launch a smear campaign against the number one. 2. Kotarou, just to be a little shit, publicly confirms this accusation. 3. Touya is still in extensive contact with his family (read: he is still in the group chat and forces Keigo to be added in so he can @ all his replies at him and not any member of his family even when he's replying his fam's messages). Enji is in denial that after everything THIS is what got Touya to slide back into villany and aggressively acts like this situation is normal. 4. Rei, being a little shit herself, is too amused to not let it continue. (5. All Might might have perished of mortification somewhere)

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Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that they’re the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, they’ll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? It’s not like it matters. They’re not a person, they’re just a role being played. They’re the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, he’s fine. Everything’s fine.

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FIC UPDATE: Where your love has always been enough (for me) - C28

Chapter 28  is up! :) Warning: Minor character death Chapter summary: ...It's not as foreboding as it sounds? :D Top 3 songs on repeat on my writing playlist this chap: 1. The Line (from Arcane) 10/10 rec 2. Lifeline 3. Blaze of Glory

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Hot fandom discourse take but framing dark content as only being acceptable if its a vehicle for exploring personal trauma is just giving ground to the puritan segments of fandom.

Simply liking dark content for its own sake is perfectly fine.

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Just wondering, are you okay? Just a check in that you’re alive you know 👍 (please be okay)

I'm alive!! Just very kicked in the butt from shifting countries/continent/timezone to start my master's degree, but that's definitely been letting up these couple of weeks :')

And so, without further ado...

FIC UPDATE: Where your love has always been enough (for me) - C27

Chapter 27 of the fic is up! :) Chapter summary: The media. Traditional, social, you name it, we've got it.

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love love love your fic where your love has always been enough (for me)!! would it be okay with you if I wrote a short fic with the dynamics/backstory you created? like a fic of the fic you made. I'd give you credit and link your fic.

I'm glad you've been enjoying the fic and its universe!! That's most definitely fine with me :)

My only request would be to use the "this fic is a remix... inspired by another work" option if it'll be up on AO3, and a link to the fic if not as I'd love to have a read myself!

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Headcanon that when Fuyumi manifested her Quirk, she accidentally froze the kitchen floor in knee-deep ice and Rei right along with it.

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Rei: So Fuyumi manifested her Quirk and, long story short, I need you to come home and melt me out of the floor.

Endeavor: ...can you get Touya to do it?

Rei: He's two. And he's a little upset about the floor situation because, and I quote, 'his legs don't work' because, 'the floor broke.' It took him forty-five minutes to Bambi-scramble across the ice in order to bring me my phone so I could call you.

Endeavor: All right, I'll be home in twenty. Stay put.

Rei: Duh. .... I can hear you laughing, Enji, and for the record, this had better not be an office story tomorrow.

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“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

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In the manga's flashback about EnjiRei's first meeting, one of the very first words he uses to describe her is 'strong'. Later, in Enji's memories during the battle with AFO he thinks about his weakness as about something that drove him all this time, and his inner monologues empathize he thinks about himself as a weak human being. Do you think canonical Enji consider Rei stronger person than he is? This two are fr my Roman empire 🥹

Thanks for the ask! These two are definitely my Roman empire too. Essay incoming :') There are different types of strength. In terms of mental/emotional fortitude + the courage to question yourself and admit when you’re wrong… I think canon Enji’s opinion on which of them is stronger would have differed greatly depending on whether you’re asking early manga pre- or post-character development him. In a way, his definition/understanding of what constitutes strength in the first place seems to have changed as he did.

Pre/Early Manga

From what we see in the manga's flashbacks where Rei tries to confront Enji about how their plan to keep trying for a perfect half-and-half child to convince Touya to give up on becoming a hero/using his quirk and hurting himself wasn’t working and was only hurting him emotionally + even more again after Shouto's birth... His response (or lack thereof) suggests nothing positive:

At that point, he probably thought of Rei as the weaker one for not having the stomach to go through what they (he) planned, and himself as strong for willing to be the ‘bad guy’ and ‘doing what’s right even when it’s hard’. Throw in a whole slew of other possible defensive self-justification with his attitude in chapter 302 e.g. ‘I'm too busy with work/I’m the breadwinner going out every day only to come back and have to deal with this, what does she have to complain about’ to ‘what does she even know/understand about wanting to be a hero/the lengths a man will go to to achieve his dream’ and he probably did a good job devaluing Rei in his own mind, making it easier to justify himself dismissing her opinions and his subsequent abusive behaviour towards her.

(That being said, while it’s never outright confirmed, all those future inner monologues and flashbacks seem to hint that a part of him always knew that what he was doing was wrong/that Rei was right. The man is far too good at compartmentalising and self-denial/righteous self-justification…)

Middle/Late Manga

Post-character development and later into his atonement/redemption arc is where he starts openly acknowledging that what he’d justified to himself as strength (not giving up on the path he chose and doubling down instead, not showing weakness to others including his own family etc.) was in fact weakness, because like Rei pointed out to him earlier, it was nothing more than him running away from the consequences of his decisions.

I personally think of the aftermath of the Dabi/Touya reveal + this subsequent scene in the hospital where he’s drowning in his own guilt and Rei steps up to challenge him/acknowledge her own responsibility as a turning point of sorts.

If there was a point Enji started thinking of Rei as a stronger person than him (and properly admitting it to himself), this would probably be it. Both for the reasons above and for (again, it's never explicitly stated) wanting to stand by him despite everything he's done to her and their children, even if only to give him the strength to continue to fight and confront Dabi. There's a difference between acknowledging your wrongs and getting crippled by guilt, and I like to think Enji does take some reference from Rei's attitude + mindset (both from that conversation and off-screen interactions) as to how to balance the two and go on from there!

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Fic update: Where your love has always been enough (for me) - C26

Chapter 26 is up! :) 80% fluff, 20% chaos, 20% angsty introspection. (I'm aware the math doesn't end up. It's all Horikoshi's fault with his Shimura family AFO reveals + chapter 426 that I needed to go back and add in even more fluff-)

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part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

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Still how Yagi's gonna greet Enji in WYLHABE(FM) chapter 26 when he turns up at his doorstep for Shouto's birthday party

Chapter 31 | The Boy Born with Everything

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One last dance in the deepest pits of hell

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1st line: canon

2nd line: me, speaking to these same 2 characters I'm now aggressively writing happily together in a fanfic at 3am

Prompt #1102

"It's me against you."

"It doesn't have to be."

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Throw in a wild Geten too, and the gang's all gathered 🥲

16 yr old Touya and Keigo + their 13 yr old weirdo friend Tenko 🧡💙🤍

( They’re on their way to pick up Shoto from school )