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1-A Boys Facial Hair

I don’t know why THIS is what my mind chose to focus on, but here we are I guess!

Working down the list, as posted on TV Tropes!

Yuga Aoyama - as previously stated, grows an impressively fabulous moustache. Very Twink!Armstrong (FMA).

Tenya Iida - can grow a tiny moustache, ala Roy Mustang FMA Finale. Much like Roy Mustang, should probably stay clean shaven.

Mashiro Ojiro (MY BOY!!) - best facial hair growth of the whole class. Keeps a neat, trim beard. Wife reports it makes him look ruggedly handsome.

Denki Kaminari - despite his best efforts, cannot grow facial hair of any significance. However. Did manage to get sideburns that look like lightning bolts.

Ejiro Kirishima - can actually grow very impressive facial hair. Briefly had a beard. Caused … Interesting interactions with his Quirk. Stays clean-shaven.

Koji Koda - cannot grow facial hair.

Rikido Sato - can grow a very impressive beard, but because he spends a lot of time in the kitchen, chooses to be clean-shaven.

Mezo Shoji - chooses to stay clean shaven, but will often end up with impressive sideburns.

Hanta Sero - Due to “experiments with [his] Quirk” as a kid and teen (can my tape be used for “waxing”?), Hanta has little to any body hair at all.

Fumikage Tokoyami - given that his whole head is covered in feathers, no. No, he can’t grow facial hair.

Shoto Todoroki - he CAN, but doesn’t like the feel of it. Stays clean shaven. The one time he DID grow any serious facial hair, everyone lost their minds over the fact it was ALSO red and white like his hair, but the colours were reversed for some reason.

Izuku Midoriya - Usually stays clean shaven, but sometimes ends up with five o'clock shadow while working a particularly hard case. Everyone agrees he’s too baby-faced, even as an adult, for it to really work.

Hitoshi Shinsou - rocking the five o'clock shadow at all times. He’ll shave, and somehow still have it. The only thing keeping him from looking even more like Aizawa is the fact his hair is purple.

BONUS:

Monoma - a “subtle, refined” moustache. Given how blonde he is, it’s hard to see.

Tetsutetsu - Similar to Kirishima, interacts weirdly with Quirk. Stays clean shaven.

Togata - stays clean shaven. Occasionally will have a MASSIVE beard that covers most of his face. Takes 2 hours to shave.

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Aoyama - Twink!Armstrong is cursed and I love it

Iida - He has turned into Sportacus and everyone bullies him about it(affectionate)

Ojiro - I agree looks good with beard!!!

Denki - Lol yeah. He doesn’t even think he’d look that good with facial hair he just wishes he had the option!

Kirishima - Honestly I don’t think it’d react too weird with his Quirk it’d just do the same stuff the hair on his head does. That said….. Kiri starts growing a beard and only makes it to the scruff phase before Shoto looks at him and has a crisis on how his boyfriend looks a touch too much like his father and Kiri says no to the beard.

Koda - Once again rip on not even having the option

Sato - Honestly yeah I’d rather just shave instead of wear a hairnet on my face

Shoji - Hell yeah sideburns.

Sero - literally rip. Also the most facial hair I can imagine is the technically canon one we see in the timeskip

Fumikage - yeah. All feathers no beard.

Shoto - Oh he absolutely can def got the hairy genetics. I don’t think the colors would be reversed but yeah they’d still be split lmao. Though I think Shoto wouldn’t grow a beard specifically because he has the cursed mental image of trying to do the elemental beard thing his dad does and that just shut it down.

Izuku - Yeah….. Like I will argue that he loses some of the babyface and you get to see those ‘Dad for One’ genetics a bit more as he matures. But Inko’s roundness will prevail in some ways! So yeah he’ll get less of an intended beard and more ‘I got busy and forgot to shave for a few days’ nonsense.

Shinso - He has seen the thirst traps everyone makes about Aizawa he KNOWS the scruff look works for him too

Monoma - him having an invisible mustache is hilarious actually

Tetsutetsu - Honestly I think same with Kiri in that it wouldn’t react too weirdly with his Quirk. But Tetsutetsu doesn’t have a boyfriend with daddy issues to discourage him from trying it out lmao.

Mirio - Him showing up with a full beard out of nowhere just to shave it again is GREAT.

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I'm going to second Aoyama, simply because all his sparkling could make him look like twink Major Armstrong (especially if Aoyama shaves his head, but I highly doubt he would without a very good reason).

oh my god he's just Twink!Armstrong.

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Aoyama. He grows a truly fabulous moustache.

Cursed yet beautiful

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Me, looking at 1-A: "okay which one of the boys would grow facial hair as an adult?"

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Ok, did anyone else think of that impulse where someone tells NOT to do something, & you suddenly have the driving desire to do that thing? Cause I'm just imagining Enji going "no, it was fucked up, you shouldn’t forgive me", & Toya torn between "damn right it was", & "you can't tell me what to do!!"

Honestly I'm gonna talk on a minute because while it's not entirely spite but there's this whole weird nonsense to Toya's eventual feelings on the whole situation.

Obviously there's the fury. Enji majorly fucked up in so many ways, and Toya (And the rest of the siblings and Rei as well) suffered for that. There's not anything he can do that could ever erase the pain he caused. And Toya wants Enji to face what he's done and realize those mistakes.

But the thing is that Toya /also/, more than anything, wants Enji to love him. To care about him. Even when doing things that may make things worse, it's what he wants. Because a father's love should be unconditional.

On another level: Toya kinda looks at the situation and sees "Hm. Dad poorly-handled his ptsd by being a bad father. I poorly handed my ptsd by going Villain. So /really/ I don't have much room to throw glass houses.'. I don't mean this in a comparing badness kinda way(though...) but more in the sense of like. Both handled their issues by having some 'goal' in their mind, which they decided to achieve by any means necessary and justifying hurting others on the way.

That said a lot of this ultimately depended on Enji's actions. Both in the 'why' (aka the discovery of his actions being fueled by trauma rather than ego) and in how Enji reacts when faced with what he's done(did he double down or try to change?)

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The only reason that really popped into my head for why the HPSC WOULDN'T go that route on "managing" Hawks appearance would be possible nerve damage? Like. From scar tissue build-up? & they're worried how that would impact his "effectiveness"? (Not that I have any serious idea if that would be a concern, but it sounds like it would be)

Honestly I don't think they'd care about that in a like- some part of the hiding his appearance are trading 'effectiveness' for making him look more appealing.

This is because Hawks is a multi-use tool to them. Yes he's their special little soldier who needs to be able to fight. But he's also here for propaganda and selling an idea to the public. He needs to be able to do both jobs, and that means sacrificing one for the other at times.

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See, my thought on Hawks bird traits being "managed" is. Ok, so, for some context, I worked at a Parrot Rescue for a while. & something some birds do as a stress response is pull out their own feathers. & if they do this enough, the feathers just. Stop growing back. Like, the birds yanking out healthy feathers actually can cause damage if they do it enough, too much & they develop scar tissue, & no new feathers grow. So like. HOW are the HPSC "managing" Hawks' appearance?

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Okay on one hand yeah that. That sounds about right.

On the other hand I do want Hawks to actually like. Heal from this and be able to have those features and show them more proudly post-2 minutes notice so I can't have full damage

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Much as I love that scene, it would probably be more like-"IS THAT MY FUCKING MOM!?" / "Wha-ADRIEN!?" / "ADRIEN!?!?" / CN: "DAD!?" / "MR. AGRESTE!?" / "DONKEY!" / *SMACK* "NOT THE FUCKING TIME, KIM!"

GOD

Like if I didn't have a more serious plan for the reveal in HC this is totally what I'd do

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I want to write a movie that is sort of the flip side of a Hallmark holiday movie. Not an anti-Hallmark movie, just like the other side of the same coin.

It starts with a well-dressed professional woman driving a convertible along a country road, autumn foliage in the background, terribly scenic. She turns onto a dirt road/long driveway, and stops next to a field of Christmas trees, all growing in neat, ordered rows, perfectly trimmed and pruned to form. She steps out of the car--no, she's not wearing high-heels, give her some sense!--and knocks on the door of a worn but nice-looking farmhouse. An older woman, late fifties maybe, answers the door, looking a bit puzzled. The younger woman asks if she can buy a Christmas tree now, today. The older woman says they don't do retail sales--and the younger woman breaks down crying.

Cut to the two women sitting at the kitchen table with cups of tea. The young woman (Michelle), no longer actively crying, explains that her mother loves Christmas more than anything, but is in the hospital with end-stage cancer. Her doctors don't think she'll live to see December, let alone Christmas. Nobody is selling Christmas trees in September, so could the older woman please make an exception, just this once? The older woman (Helen) regretfully explains that they have a contract to sell their trees that forbids outside sales. The younger woman nods, starts to stand up, but the older woman stops her with a hand and asks her what hospital her mother is in. After she answers the older woman says that "my Joe" will deliver a tree the next day. "Contract says I can't sell you a tree, but nothing says I can't give you one."

Next day "Joe" shows up at the hospital in flannel and jeans, with a smallish tree over her shoulder. Oh, whoops, that's Jo, Helen's daughter, short for Joanna, not Joe. Jo sets up the tree and even pulls out a box of lights and ornaments. Mother watches from hospital bed with a big smile as Jo and Michelle decorate the tree. Cue "end of movie" type sappiness as nurses and other patients gather in the doorway, smiling at the tree.

Cut to Michelle sitting in her dark apartment, clutching a mug of tea, staring out at the falling snow and the Christmas lights outside. Her apartment has no tree, no decorations, nothing. She starts at a knock on the door, goes to open it. Jo is standing there, again holding a tree over her shoulder.

Plot develops: the second tree is a gift, because Michelle might as well get it as the bank. The contract for the tree sales was an /option/ contract, which prevents them from selling to anyone else, but doesn't guarantee the sale. The corporation with the option isn't going to buy the trees, but Helen and Jo can't sell them anywhere else, and basically they get nothing. They'll lose the farm without the year's income. Michelle asks to see the contract and Jo promises to email it to her.

Next day at a very upscale law firm, Michelle asks at the end of a staff meeting if anyone in contract law still needs pro bono hours for the year. No one does, but a senior partner (Abe) takes her to his office and asks about it. She says the contract looks hinky to her ("Is that a legal term?" "Yes.") but contract law's not her thing. He raises an eyebrow and she grins and pulls a sheaf of paper out of her bag and hands it over. He reads it over, then looks up at her. "They signed this?"

More plot develops. Abe calls in underlings--interns, paralegals, whatever--and the contract is examined, dissected, and ultimately shredded (metaphorically). It's worse even than it looks--on January 1st Helen and Jo will have to repay the advanced they received at signing. The corporation has bought up a suspicious number of Christmas tree farms in previous years after foreclosure, etc.

Cut to Abe explaining all this to Helen and Jo while sitting with them and Michelle in a very swanky conference room. The firm is willing to take on the case pro bono, hopefully as a class's action suit for other farmers trapped by the contract--but there's no way it can go to court before January. Which will be too late to save the farm's income for the year. They might get enough in damages to tide them over, but….

After Michelle sees Helen and Jo out, she comes back and asks Abe if there's anything they can do immediately. Abe looks thoughtful for a long moment, then gets a really shark-like grin on his face. "Maybe…."

Cut to Helen wearing a bathrobe, coming into her kitchen in the morning. She looks out the window…and there's a food truck stopped in her driveway. She pulls a coat on over her robe and goes out--two more trucks have pulled up while she does this. Driver of the first truck asks her where they park. Another truck pulls up behind the others. Behind that is a black BMW--Abe rolls down the window and waves. Helen directs the trucks to the empty field/yard next to the house. Abe pulls up next to Helen's car and Jo's truck and parks. He and Michelle get out--Abe wearing a total power suit, Michelle in weekend casual.

The case will be easier if the corporation initially sues them for violating the (uninforcible!) contract, rather than them suing to corporation (damn if I know, but it's movie logic). So they're going to sell the trees now, and rounded up some food trucks and whatnot to draw people in.

Cue montage of Jo and Michelle running around helping people set up while Abe and Helen watch from the kitchen table. The table starts out covered in file folders…and slowly gains coffee cups and plates of cinnamon rolls. It becomes increasingly clear here that Abe and Helen are becoming as close as Jo and Michelle.

Everything gets set up and a very urban, very motley crowd appears--tats and studs and multiracial couples and LGBTQ parents and everything--and everyone is having a wonderful time eating funnel cake and choosing their tree so Jo and a bunch of rainbow-haired elves can cut it for them. At which point someone shows up from the corporation (maybe with a sheriff's deputy?) and starts yelling at Helen, who's running checkout. And suddenly Abe appears from the house and you realize why he's wearing that suit on a Saturday….

Cue confrontation and corporate flunky running off with their tail between their legs, blustering about suing. Cue Jo kissing Michelle. Cue Helen walking over and putting a hand on Abe's shoulder and smiling at her.

I want the lawyers to be the heroes because they are lawyers and know the law. I want a lesbian who lives in the country with her mother. I want urbanites to turn out as a community to help someone who isn't even part of their community. I want Michelle to keep working at her high-power job, loving Christmas and grieving her mother.

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LoVBabies - Nezu: "So, is there any particular reason you didn’t take young Hawks to the HPSC?" / Spinner: "…I cannot BELIEVE you actually just asked that question." / Nezu: "Ah, no, you misunderstand! I've been building a case against their corrupt asses for YEARS, is there any particularly specific reason you didn’t feel safe taking Hawks to them, BESIDES the fact you all would have been arrested?"

See with Hawks it's a fun game of 'was that trauma caused by his parents or the Commission?'

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LoVBabies - Nezu: "So, is there any particular reason you didn’t take young Hawks to the HPSC?" / Spinner: "…I cannot BELIEVE you actually just asked that question." / Nezu: "Ah, no, you misunderstand! I've been building a case against their corrupt asses for YEARS, is there any particularly specific reason you didn’t feel safe taking Hawks to them, BESIDES the fact you all would have been arrested?"

See with Hawks it's a fun game of 'was that trauma caused by his parents or the Commission?'

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"So what romantic trope are you two"

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I mean, to be fair to Ranma, unlike his dad (dragged small child on wildly dangerous training journey, endangers kid on a regular basis, also auctions kid off at every available opportunity), or his mom (forced a 3-year old to sign a suicide pact), Akane at the VERY LEAST treats Ranma with, like. The bare minimum of human decency & compassion. & unlike LITERALLY ALMOST EVERY OTHER CHARACTER HE INTERACTS WITH, Akane is consistent about it, & doesn’t really attach expectations to it.

Honestly yeah it's been a while since I read the series but iirc Akane is like. The only person who seems to ever respect Ranma /as a person/ for most of the run. Everyone else is just playing fuck/marry/kill with no regard to what he wants.

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Also, LoVBabies crack idea - Dabi, just turned back, trying to process: "wh- who- How . . . where are the staples??" / Everyone else: "The what??" / Dabi, shaking an arm, showing scarred (but healed) skin: "The staples?? Holding the skin grafts on? I mean, I think this hurts less, but-" / Natsuo, shoving 10 fully grown adult heroes aside: "What the fucketh are you TALKING ABOUT!!?!"

Ahhhahahaaha

Yeah no just. The whole thing somehow letting his physical body heal too and he just has more normal looking(though still severe) burn scars instead of glorified leather stapled to him.

AND YEAH NATSUO HAS SEVERAL QUESTIONS WHAT THE FUCK

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Ah, no, you misunderstand! Baby!Toya gets caught up in a fire BY ACCIDENT! Maybe, if he is last, he's frustrated & runs off by himself, accidentally gets caught up in a fire. & Enji immediately goes "NOT AGAIN DAMMIT!!" & rushes in to save him. Now, Toya is in physical danger (check), in a familiar trauma scenario (check), & is assured his dad actually DOES care about him, because he he can see Enji saving him (check).

AH

Yeah that'd work because like. I think they'd try other options like explaining what happened but there's kinda. Too much between either Toya not believing his dad could be a bad parent and then also Enji trying to be objective about what he did but clearly apologetic and does care that it doesn't hit a trigger.

Then yeah recreating a major trauma but with a better ending would certainly trigger it!

Now. How Dabi handles everything when he turns back and has to confront the whole situation.....

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LoV Babies

so, thought.

UA is frantically trying to track down WHOEVER this de-age Quirk belongs to. This becomes slightly easier when Borogiri turns back after, like, a week or so, as he actually SAW this person. However, this person has ALSO been somewhat frantically trying to track down the people they accidentally whammied with their Quirk, for one very important reason. And by the time they all find each other, it’s a bit too late.

The person can’t reverse it.

This person is a therapist, and their Quirk, Infantilize, is used to help people process childhood trauma by reducing them to the state the trauma began, and helping them work through it in a healthy manner. They are changed to a child, and the doc helps them process their feelings and emotions. HOWEVER. There’s a risk. The longer someone is Kiddified, the harder it is for the Doc to change them back. So, the Doc only uses it for short, heavily supervised sessions. And all the LoV members hit with it have passed the threshold. They are now stuck like this until they manage to hit a certain emotional or physical trigger, which will “override” the Quirk and change them back. This means they either a) need to work through whatever trauma they have (which they can’t quite remember right now), b), they need to be put in a situation where their emotions will mimic those of whatever trauma they have, making them “remember”, or c) they need to be in so much physical danger that their survival instincts/willpower/own Quirks, throw off/“break” the Infantilize Quirk in an effort to keep them alive.

Other thought: Toya’s breaks first. Because he, somehow, manages to hit all three trigger requirements AT THE SAME TIME.

1st note - Toya “died” in a fire.

2nd note - he thought no one was coming for him.

3rd note - Enji has been spending almost every waking moment at UA to help with the LoV, but mostly Toya.

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Oh see I think I’d have Toya be the last to crack

Obviously Oboro fixes himself first. Partly because his trauma is very straightforward, and partly because he was only dropped down to being 17. So he’s old enough to fully comprehend everything that happened,

I think Himiko would be next. Not immediate, but she’s in an environment that is kind to her and her Quirk. Working with her to help, encouraging her to use it. Telling her that she’s a good kid and isn’t doomed to be a monster. 

Tenko would likely be next because he’s tossed back to an age where he’s like. Young enough to still have hope for good in the world. They just have to do enough that the hope will persist and crack him when he turns back so he realizes that yes there’s good things and his mindset was just because AfO is a fucker who gaslit him to hell and back.

Keigo is tricky because a lot of people have just. No info on what he went through/what’s wrong with him. Enji knows the most, but even then he’s unsure on the specifics. So the most likely way to handle him is just to give him time and attention and just no pressure of ‘hey gotta get back to an adult because we need you to be useful’ just having everyone take care of him because they care about /him/ ya know?

Toya on the other hand! Toya is in a weird space because he’s just. So hopeful/stubborn naturally. Like, the first time around? It took him until his late teens to begin questioning that things might be wrong in his family dynamic. And that was only kicked off by an outside trauma. Even then, the switch didn’t fully flip for him until after he died and got a little extra manipulation tossed in.

So if they try re-creating the trauma so he can confront it? Not gonna work because that’ll take years to sink in(not that anyone really /wants/ to mistreat the child on purpose). They try to give him a good childhood instead? Also doesn’t work because not only is it not addressing what he went through, but 5 year old!Toya /expects/ a good childhood so it’s not ‘proving’ anything. 

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[Trying to think of names for this AU. So far, have the "serious" (unStolen Innocence) & the "funny" (LoV Babies, play on Muppet Babies).] They all turn back at different times. Borogiri is first, he's only deaged a week or so. Hawks & Toya take longer, couple weeks to a month, with Himiko a little longer than that. Tenko takes the longest to go back to normal (& when he does, do you think he'd look different? Or is right back physically to where he was when he was hit by the Quirk?)

rip to me having to go back and tag all this BUT

See now I'm imagining it's some sort of 'heal your inner child' Quirk. Like some therapist has a Quirk that lets people de-age so they can kinda confront their shitty childhoods/re-experience something 'better'. It's supposed to be in short sessions in their office but the therapist happened to be in a store the group decided to do a 'grocery run' on and whoops Quirk went off and blasted half of them and the villains booked it before said therapist could explain or undo the effects.

So yeah the reason they're at the ages they're at is because it's either before the trauma starts/when it's just starting.

Kurogiri only dropped down to a teenager because Oboro's childhood was actually pretty much perfectly fine he only got major trauma when he died. He also swings back pretty fast because the 'healing' is just getting the hell out of dodge.

Himiko is dropped down to right when her parents started berating her for her Quirk's existence, so yeah around 5-ish. And her healing would be kinda quick in the sense that it's dependent on acceptance. Being around people who think she's a good kid and her Quirk is fine. Which works pretty well when around either the LoV or the people at UA and basically anyone other than her parents lmao!

Dabi is dropped down to before they found out his Quirk is malfunctioning. So he hasn't really experienced the rejection/replacement/etc. His healing is very dependent on getting to meet Enji again and being reassured that he's loved no matter what. Which is gonna take a while because not only is Enji still bad at communicating but with him being so innocent right now everyone's going to want to avoid telling him about All That™ which means no confrontation of it all.

Hawks is kinda weird because there was never a turning point for him Keigo's childhood was just all bad all the time. So the Quirk probably dropped him to when he's like. Conscious and aware of things and maybe aware that things aren't good/normal. Healing again would be a bit longer as people figure out what he needs(unlike the others, there's no template because no one knows him that well) which is mostly some unconditional love. Being cared for without expectation of him being 'useful' in some way.

Tomura is ofc dropped down to about 5-ish right before his Quirk comes in and *gestures* and he's probably gonna be stuck a kid the longest as he's gotta undo everything AfO did to his psyche. A lot of that really includes inspiring some persevering hope in this kid that there's genuine good in the world.

Everyone is gonna have a Fun Time™ when they turn back because even with the healing done as a child they have to reconciliate that with everything they went through the first time and sort out what that all means for them.