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a word for 'bad miracle'

Chapter 1 is HERE

Summary: Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

Sometimes you're a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that's still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you're simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father's messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

And now, you're a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

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How did Deku meet all his top sidekicks?

I know you wanted all of them but this got longer than expected. More to follow pending how well this lands.

1. Yuki-onna

An understated aspect of heroics as a business is that what school you attend to get your training really does have an impact on how your career pans out. UA’s strongest point isn’t their training facilities or staff—it’s their networking opportunities. Students at UA get to establish themselves with seasoned pros as early as first year, so when it comes time for them to leave the nest and spread their wings they have no shortage of professional connections to draw on.

Shiketsu isn’t as good at networking, but it does buff up their students combat abilities to match UA pace for pace, and instills a professionalism in its students that makes them stand out among other applicants to sidekick positions.

Ketsubutsu lacks the intense prestige of the country’s top two schools, but it maintains an intense connection to the community that allows its graduates to ingrain themselves with the ground floor, so to speak, and allows their alumni to shove their foot into as many doors as it takes for them to succeed.

Northern Tokyo Heroics Academy did not have any of these high points.

Yukimoto Yuri graduates at the top of her class with perfect scores all across the board. She worked hard all three years in that school to achieve her flawless record. And what does she get for it?

Her tenth rejection. Not even from a Top 100 agency.

It turns out, perfect scores mean jack shit if the school you went to can barely teach its students how to properly file their paperwork. Northern Tokyo Heroics Academy’s graduates are worth absolutely nothing to the greater industry, and none of its alumni have done more than middling sidekick work for heroes who never get past the Top 50. Yukimoto Yuri puts her best foot forward to break this cycle, to prove she has what it takes, but...well, she has nothing any agency wants. Her Quirk can’t even make the big ice blocks that would make for a spectacular finishing move.

She’s about ready to throw in the towel and resign herself to a life of mediocrity when a voice pops up to her left, from where she’s bent over in a chair with her head in her hands.

“Bad news?”

Yuri resists the urge to whine, keeping her head down so that her hair will remain a curtain between her and the world. “It’s not even news. I’m just a failure.”

“I doubt that,” the voice says.

“I just got rejected by Blubberman’s agency. That guy barely even keeps his numbers up and he thinks I’m useless.”

There is a small beat of silence.

“...okay, yeah, I can see how that would be disheartening,” the voice admits, and Yuri can hear a sound like he’s shuffling a bit on his feet. “But Blubberman is also an idiot with career moves so I wouldn’t take his words to heart.”

“You’ve worked with him?” Yuri asks.

“I’ve fixed his screwups. Can you believe last year he showed up to an earthquake relief operation and tried to light a cigarette next to a bunch of toppled buildings? He nearly blew all of us up and I almost threw my own license out the window via murder charges I was so mad.” Yuri laughs, despite herself. It’s wet and it’s gross but it does make her feel better, knowing Blubberman’s idiocy isn’t some kind of secret she’s supposed to keep. “Is that your application?”

The papers are at her feet. Crumpled a bit from where she dug her hands in trying not to cry after her interview.

“Yeah. I’ve just—it’s been months and I can’t get a sidekick gig at all. I don’t know why I’m bothering.”

“Can I look?” The voice asks.

“Knock yourself out. It’s worthless.”

She hears the papers being picked up. Shuffled. The person standing next to her is quiet as he reads, and Yuri can’t even find it in her to be embarrassed at how little information she actually had to try and entice an employer. How is she supposed to get any takers when she has no experience?

“...is. Is this Quirk information correct?” The voice asks, his voice suddenly a bit choked.

She knows, okay. She knows her Quirk is useless on paper. She’s done a lot of work to make it at least somewhat useful for fights, but the registry can’t exactly show off all that when at its core it’s still just a lesser Quirk of extreme cold.

“Yeah. I know, it’s a useless—“

“This has so many applications to it! Can you freeze just the epidermis of a subject or does the freeze go all the way down into their muscles? Have you ever experimented with the brittle nature of certain metals exposed to the cold? Oh man—if your Quirk can also lower your body temperature, have you ever been able to fool heat reading technology? You could bypass certain security systems for stealth operations that way and—“

The sudden onslaught of questions finally makes Yuri lift her head. Her eyeliner is definitely ruined and god knows how blotchy her face is but she doesn’t think of that in the face of confusion.

She wishes she’d thought of that, because when she turns her head to look at her visitor she’s met with the scarred and freckled face of the man who killed Shigaraki Tomura.

“Oh my god.”

Deku—All Might’s chosen boy, the man who gave up the power of a living god to save Japan, the ultimate pinnacle of selfless heroics—looks outright bashful at her wide eyed stare. “Ah. I came on too strong, didn’t I?”

“You’re Deku,” Yuri says dumbly.

“I am.”

“...you’re Deku,” she repeats, this time stressed beyond belief. “Why are you—what are you even doing here?”

Deku—holy shit holy shit holy shit—smiles. “Analysis consultation. But I’m not really one to ignore a young hero who needs help, am I?”

He lifts up her application, waving it a little.

“Your Quirk is perfect for heroics. Why the hell would you keep getting rejected?”

Yuri hiccups, despite herself. “My school sucks. I worked so hard—I didn’t want to beg my parents for tuition money, so I went to whatever place accepted me, and it turns out I shouldn’t have even bothered because a degree from a third rate school is worthless.”

Deku looks thoughtful at that. A little miffed. Extremely considering. And...intrigued, at the core of it all.

“...well now that just won’t do,” he says.

“What?”

“You know, all my friends keep yelling at me to hire sidekicks. But I just never saw the point in taking on the big go-getters in the new graduates. I don’t think any of them really need my help to succeed.” Deku says, ignoring the way Yuri’s jaw drops and her face flushes with both hope and extreme indignation if this is some kind of cosmic joke. “Northern Tokyo really is a bit of a crap place to learn. They don’t produce very quality heroes so nobody wants to take the gamble. But...I kind of really want to see just what your Quirk can do.”

“It’s not that special, though,” Yuri protests, because this is way too much credit for what she can do—she’s not the kind of hero who can stand shoulder to shoulder with someone like him.

Deku just looks outright offended. “Not that special!? Your Quirk is Absolute Zero—not even Shouto can drop down that low easily, the first time he tried subzero temperatures he wound up hospitalizing himself. And you can just do it casually!”

She hadn’t known about that, actually. She assumed he had way better control over the cold than she did.

“I can’t make big ice—“

“That’s not a negative. A small icicle with enough speed to it kills dozens every year. You just weren’t taught how to use your Quirk to its advantages,” Deku fires back before she can finish.

Yuri is left stunned. Deku just continues to stare at her like he’s daring her to keep putting herself down.

“...you’re serious about this.”

“I never joke about potential. And I can see so much in you.” There’s a shine in his eyes that’s so bright Yuri actually winces, and suddenly so many things click into place. No wonder so many heroes of the new generation seem to regard this man as the golden standard. Is this how he looks at everyone? Is this how he uplifts every hero he works with? “Actually, here—this is my agency’s card. I want you to come. I want to try you out in the training room. And when you absolutely blow me away like I know you will, I want to talk to you about hiring paperwork.”

The card given to her is worth double its weight in gold, and Yuri can’t stop her hands from shaking as she stares down at it.

“...are you even real?”

She only gets the worlds most blinding smile in response.

One week later, Yukimoto Yuri appears at the front door of the Dekiru Agency with a new application in her hands.

One month later, the heroics world is buzzing at the debut of Yuki-onna, Deku’s very first sidekick.

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a word for 'bad miracle'

Chapter 2 is HERE

Fic summary: Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

Sometimes you’re a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that’s still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you’re simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father’s messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

And now, you’re a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

Chapter summary: The 7 Stages Grief Model is a newer module for examining the emotions that come with heavy loss.

The stages are not experienced in strict order, and vary by person to person depending on how they process their grief.

For the stages of shock and denial, the subject may seem unaffected. They may seem quiet. But this stage is one where the loss has not fully sunk in yet, where the mind is still grappling with reality. Where a fog may set in as they struggle to conceive a world without what they have lost in it. They may be stuck in a cycle of repetitive thoughts as they attempt to grapple with what has happened.

They can't be gone. It couldn't happen so suddenly.

How am I meant to live on without them?

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a word for 'bad miracle'

Chapter 3 is here

Fic summary: Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

Sometimes you’re a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that’s still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you’re simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father’s messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

And now, you’re a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

Chapter summary: Ennui is defined as 'a feeling of listlessness or dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement'.

The time that immediately follows the passing of a loved one is filled with many things. Grief. Heartache. Regret. But an emotion left out is the mundane ennui that comes with moving forward and realizing….well, what now?

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a word for 'bad miracle'

chapter 4 is here

Fic summary: Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

Sometimes you’re a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that’s still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you’re simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father’s messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

And now, you’re a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

Chapter summary: One of the stages of grief is the depression stage, marked by sadness as the reality of the situation sets in. The truth of the situation settles deep, that this is how life will be from now on, and the grieving party will find themselves experiencing feelings of regret, loneliness, difficulty functioning, and social withdrawal.

It may be difficult to get out of bed. It may feel overwhelming to participate in life as one did before the loss.

But still, life goes on.

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You answered an ask about what Hinata thought of Deku before she met him, but what about the rest of the GoodTM Umino’s? Like Hinata’s granny and aunt and Aoba—what did they think of him before they met him? How did those opinions change after the fact?

(This ask brought to you by me rereading early chapters and wondering how those relationship dynamics will be going forward now that Izuku’s Hinata’s legal guardian and also thinking it would be really funny to watch Aoba navigating around any Deku fans that may or may not be in his college classes now that he actually Knows the Guy)

Now the thing about the Uminos is this

They're country bumpkins. Well, not bumpkins. They were actually very wealthy once. Their fortune was gained through agriculture and spanned many years until the Quirk era, where they were part of the First Generation and subsequently lost everything. They retreated back to their origins and since then have maintained a pleasant life in the countryside managing what farms they still have left under their watch and looking after the family's ancestral home far out in the boonies.

So by and large, the Uminos have been unconcerned with heroes for generations.

Granny's only glimpse of Deku in her entire life was in the war footage. Seen after the fact, since the Umino Estate wasn't exactly hooked up for streaming ultimate battles of good vs evil--a friend in the village showed her, and Umino Miori's most prominent thought on the matter was

"Oh. He's so young."

Amane was rather apathetic to heroes following her mother's lead, and her opinion after having a baby firmly turned to "Please don't come near me" because hero fights look very, very dangerous. That's too risky for her and her baby's health to be around. She's thankful for their work but wants nothing to do with it. (She'd wondered, about the shared last name, but Hisashi had never said anything about other relations and she wasn't about to invite trouble in the form of some villain thinking they had anything to do with that boy)

Yuzuki has gotten more used to heroes in daily life since she and her husband work for a university and therefore live in a busier area with more going on. They can't quite get behind the flashiness of it all but they admit there's something very cool about watching them leap into action. When it comes to Deku she could never quite shake the urge to ruffle his hair like a child, and it wasn't until seeing him in real life that it registered to her that he's a full grown adult with too much experience for his age.

Aoba is having the most uncomfortable experience of all because as a Young Person he is painfully aware of how much online mentions of Deku are hardcore thirsting. He has heard people in his actual life talk about how much they want those thighs to choke them out. And now he has to live with the knowledge Deku is his in-law. He can never know peace again.

[shingekicornwrites]

a word for 'bad miracle'

Chapter 6 is here

Fic summary: Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

Sometimes you’re a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that’s still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you’re simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father’s messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

And now, you’re a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

Chapter summary: Guilt is a common emotion during the grieving process, and it is not an easy one to tangle with amid everything the grieving party is going through. It creeps under the skin and attaches itself like a vice. This guilt often comes from within, rather than being put upon one's shoulders by an outside party. This guilt tends to come from a feeling of helplessness--a feeling that if we had simply done something different, then things may not have turned out the way they did.

Some say that grief is love with nowhere to go, so it stands to say that perhaps guilt is merely realizing where love could have gone, if you had clearer eyes.

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the vast majority of artwork I've made (or had made by others) for Hinata has been when she's a bit older and way buffer, so take this fic-accurate portrayal of the little miss in a word for 'bad miracle' as she appears throughout the story

[shingekicornwrites]

a word for 'bad miracle'

chapter 7 is HERE

Fic summary: Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

Sometimes you’re a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that’s still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you’re simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father’s messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

And now, you’re a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

Chapter summary: The proper etiquette of interacting with one's superiors is ingrained rather young--it is the duty of a senpai to look out for and guide their kouhai, as they are the experienced senior who has the authority within the social hierarchy. The kouhai must defer to their senior and their wisdom. This is meant to cultivate a perpetual relationship of seniors helping their juniors rise and become better, so that those juniors may become exemplary seniors themselves.

However, all etiquette can be twisted for personal use, if one is socially savvy enough.

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Does Hinata also have an insanely high pain tolerance like Deku does? Or is her version of that more like how she’s not an easy crier. High threshold for emotional pain versus her brother’s high threshold for physical pain.

That being said, really funny mental image of her having to do the “on a scale of 1-10 what level is your pain at” thing and she says like a 7 for something that’s normal and every doctor in the vicinity looks back and forth between her and Deku and absolutely wilts with relief when they hear that and don’t see her organs literally falling out of her body. Like “Oh thank god this one’s Normal”

She does NOT have her brother’s insane pain tolerance. Thank god. She’s a normal child who has had normal amounts of injuries and rates her pain like a normal person. The doctors at the hospital are going to display blatant favoritism forever because this Midoriya has a regular sized file and can be trusted to report her own problems.

The crying theory also isn’t true. Hinata’s not so much capable of a high threshold of emotional pain as she is just a person who would literally rather shoot herself than display a vulnerable emotion in public. The reason she’s dissociating so much in the fic right now is because she’s extremely unprepared to deal with the level of emotional pain she’s going through, and the only thing her body can think to do to handle it is to forcefully disconnect her from her surroundings. Which is relatively common for sudden traumatic events. She’s only 12 so she doesn’t have the means to process everything easily.

Hinata’s specific “Don’t trust her she’s a lying little witch” rating scale is heat. Her quirk has completely broken her sense of temperature. You cannot trust a word out of her mouth on how hot anything is. ‘Pleasantly cozy’ for Hinata is ‘You will get third degree burns’ for everyone else. Ideal outdoor weather for her is the surface of the sun. Her baths are lava.

Her Midoriya specific trait she shares with her brother that wigs people out is her stamina. Deku is a monster who never seems to stop training. Hinata likes to do SCA and HEMA fights, which makes her dress in a lot of armor to swing big danger sticks around. Which means she has low key been grinding her already boosted stamina for years. Sword fights are stamina fights more than anything since the first one to get tired is the one who’s gonna get hit.

She’s going to freak a lot of people out for her ability to continuously get back up and go again.

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Feeling very sidekick/Dekiru agency brained right now so:

-If Izuku still had OFA in Bad Miracles (and also if it wasn’t a death sentence for people with Quirks to inherit it) which one of the sidekicks would be most likely to be his successor?

-Who’re all the sidekicks favorite heroes?

-What does Yuki-onna do when she’s not on duty?

-Besides being an absolute media terror, what’re Party Animal’s biggest assets to the team?

Oh boy a multi parter!

1: He wouldn't give OFA to any of them. He loves his sidekicks. He does. He's put a lot of effort into his current team and they're a well oiled machine he has a lot of pride in. But would be trust them with godlike power? No. Absolutely not. Yuki-onna might seem like a rational and trustworthy person but she regularly allows bullshit to happen for her own amusement.

Party Animal? Cannot be trusted period with it because he lacks long term planning skills and needs constant direction.

Hoverfly? He's 17 medical conditions in a trenchcoat and would explode.

Skarecrow? He would also explode, but because the pressure is too much.

(That's not to say Deku doesn't find a successor, quirk or no quirk. We just don't get to meet her for a good, long while. This initial fic isn't the only thing I've thought of for the Bad Miracle universe.)

2: Yuki-onna: Ryukyu was a big inspiration to Yuri growing up, but she has an extreme fondness for Underground heroes. She isn't sure she can hack it herself on the Underground scene but the Dekiru Agency is a Twilight Agency, so she gets to help them out a lot and it's really fulfilling.

Skarecrow: Batman. Is he a real hero? No. But he's Damian's favorite. America worships at the altar of Batman and Damian is no exception to this. You can pry the Bat from his cold, dead hands.

Party Animal: As a wolf heteromorphic mutant himself, Kouhei is a big fan of his fellow big animal guys. Gang Orca and Hound Dog and Shishido and the like. He looked up to them a lot as a kid who wasn't allowed to ever let his mutation show in public

Hoverfly: His older brother. He's now a hero called Earthshaker down in Okinawa, and Shinji continues to be his #1 fan. Nobody else likes this because, in Deku's own words, "He's fucknuts crazy."

3: Yukimoto Yuri is actually a massive trad goth when not on the clock. We will see this in the next chapter. Deku is actually super envious of her ability to separate her personal and work life, because Yuki-onna's entire fanbase is absolutely rabid for the traditional beauty in a battle kimono who looks like she studies tea ceremony.

And then the second her shift is done she looks like this

It's black magic is what it is. How does she do her makeup so fast. How in the hell does she fit her platform shoes in her work locker. The world may never know.

4: Okay. So. Ookami Kouhei from the outside looks like the weakest link in the Dekiru Agency lineup. A deadly ice queen, one of the worlds greatest experts on blood quirks from one of the most powerful hero families, and one of the strongest telekinetics in Japan--and then what. A big dog? A big dog who can barely remember his own phone number?

The thing is.

You know how Deku has insane amounts of stamina? A guy who obliterates his own bones and keeps on going when anyone else would have passed out screaming and coughing up blood? Even now without a quirk, he's still plowing through things like he's the Terminator and it's terrifying.

Party Animal's quirk is this: the more adrenaline and/or dopamine he has rushing through him, the more he changes. The more he mutates and becomes a bigger, stronger wolf man.

The stronger he gets.

The more durable he gets.

Party Animal is the only sidekick in the entire agency that can not only keep up with Deku, but outlast him and keep fighting.

Party Animal is a human wrecking ball who only gets more powerful the longer a fight drags on, and when Deku laid eyes upon him for the first time he knew this was the ultimate asset to keep in his back pocket, extremely rich and pissed off parents be damned.

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4, 9, and 11 for Michiko! The girl ever

4. Is your oc good at keeping secrets?

Michiko is so good at keeping things to herself. Not really because she's hiding a lot, but because her family runs a software company and she was taught from a very early age that keeping an NDA is vitally important for many things in life. Running your mouth when you shouldn't can ruin long laid plans.

9. What are your oc’s goals for the future? Relationship-wise, career-wise, or other?

Michiko has rather lofty goals for her life.

More than anything, she wants to breathe life from her hands. She wants to create. She wants to become one of the great designers of the world, whose name will go down in history (and hopefully without some double edged bullshit attached, like the tainted legacy of Coco Chanel). Michiko is passionate about textile engineering and breathes that passion into her everyday life.

Though some may say a large part of that passion was born from her disdain for Best Jeanist. The 2000's called. They want their Canadian Tuxedo back. That man has been single handedly destroying denim's street cred all over again and she'll never forgive him for it.

11. Does your oc have any interests/hobbies that they hide from everyone? Why do they hide these interests?

Michiko's interests and hobbies sometimes come as a shock to others. She's a dedicated student of molecular chemistry. She likes to code. She's been speaking programming languages since she could talk since her dad would talk business at the table.

But she's never actually hidden these things from anyone.

It's just that nobody ever asks.

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1, 7, 28, and 30 for Hinata!

ask list here

1. What’s your oc’s most irrational fear? Is there a specific reason this fear came about?

Hinata's a bit unusual for a girl her age because she's really hard to scare. At least scare worse than a startle. She lacks a lot of the phobias typically found in young girls and it aggravates the boys in her childhood classes a lot, since no amount of sudden bugs or gross things will make her scream.

Lately, though...she hasn't realized it yet, but there is a sense of dread that's forming into a tangible fear.

The idea that if she ever spends the night away from home again, another tragedy will strike and the other shoe will finally drop.

7. What song reminds you of this oc? Does this match up with the type of music your oc likes to listen to?

Music plays a large part in Hinata's life. We've seen that this began because of Amane, who raised her in a house full of constant music. Of course it rubbed off on her. There are a lot of songs that make me think of her.

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac makes me think of her and her mother, listening to the vinyls together and talking about the bands evolution.

Pull My Strings by the Dead Kennedys makes me think of her deep love for alternative sound and anticonformist political messaging in music

Dragula by Rob Zombie just makes me think of her jamming out while working

But the one I keep returning to is Unknown Mother Goose, by Wowaka. It's not her usual type of sound. But she has a deep respect for Wowaka as an artist, because he wasn't afraid to play with the rules of song structure and left a massive imprint on his community before he passed. A single album of music changed the Vocaloid community forever and he hit the ground running with his band hitorie. The man worked himself to death with his passion.

And Unknown Mother Goose speaks to me for Hinata specifically because it's a song where this mad genius went "I don't know the words to describe how I feel. How do I sum up my career? How do I explain what these years of work and the act of creation feel to me? I cannot say them myself. So I will use a voice that isn't my own, and hope it reaches you."

And for a girl who is so avoidant with being vulnerable. That hits something.

28. What’s your favorite thing about this oc?

I can't say I have any one thing that's my bona fide favorite about Hinata. She's a layered girl with a lot of complexity to her. There's a lot of nuance and character building that goes into her.

If I had to pick something funny, at least, I'd say that something that's never not entertaining is a long running Bit where she keeps encountering anime universe bullshit and reacting to it like a person from real life would, refusing to partake.

30. Tell a random fact about this oc!

She doesn't get Dune. She's so fucked up about this because it's such a pillar of science fiction, you know? How can she not get it? But she doesn't. She's tried. She has tried so hard to make herself read this fucking brick of a book but she CAN'T and she knows the second she admits this she's losing her sci-fi nerd cred

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What did Hinata think of Deku before she met him? I know she’s not the biggest hero fan but her childhood bestie is a HUGE DEKU FAN and Deku’s also like a Saved the World kind of famous person so I imagine she had like. An Opinion. Even if it was a detached and uninvested one

Her opinion was solidly on "That guy Seigo is absolutely obsessed with"

Hinata just wasn't interested much in heroes past John Henry, the butch icon Hinata could never find in Japan, so Deku just sort of occupied this weird little "blorbo in law" position in her peripherals. She thinks his gear is cool because she wants to be an engineer. Seigo talks about him so much that one of the reasons it's so awkward in these early chapters is because all she knows is goddamn trivia stats.

She doesn't have an opinion on Deku as a person because he's so damn tight lipped about his personal life! It's hard to get anything out of him that isn't a surface level statement! Hinata already kind of abhors the parasocial celebrity game so this lack of substance is killing her!

After meeting him properly she at least now has an opinion.

He's a fucking goober.

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(Hi hope it’s okay to ask this here!!) I’m so curious about what Hinata’s relationship with Inko is gonna be like it’s been consuming my mind all day. Does she call her Auntie? Grandma? Just Inko? What does she think about her? Does she see how she supports her son’s interests and see how kind and loving she is and wonder why her dad would’ve left a woman like that? What her life would’ve been like if she had a mom like that? (And oof how that kind of thought would hurt).

(Side note loved the latest chapter. Until proven wrong I am holding it in my heart that the reason Hinata is so sour about Bakugou has nothing to do with his abrasive personality or his horrible first impression and everything to do with him liking Aliens more. An unforgivable sin /j)

Oh boy

So!

If you've noticed so far in the fic, the family dynamics going on here are. Complex. And messy. Much like real life.

Inko doesn't feel any ill will toward this child, but right now it's also not the easiest thing in the world to try to get to know her. That's her husband's other child. From his other marriage. The one he left her to have. She's sitting on the feelings of closure after finally getting to know what happened after Hisashi walked out and chewing on the reality of it all, and she knows that she and Hinata shouldn't be around each other until their hearts have calmed down a bit, because Inko is an adult and she knows that right now everything is a little too fresh for everyone to be at their best. But things will get better. They'll get better. And when they're better, she can figure out exactly how they want to exist around each other from here on out.

Hinata is not an adult.

Hinata is 12. And terrified.

Hinata, at the moment, is deeply terrified of Inko. Because Inko is the adult who has the most reason on this planet to genuinely hate her. Her own family who watched her grow up disowned her for petty reasons, so she has no reason to believe Inko will have any mercy toward her either.

Note: Hinata is not a reliable narrator on this subject. Because she is 12. And terrified. And traumatized from an event that's thoroughly ended her childhood without warning.

Hinata sees a woman who had to raise her son and go through a war with no support, and there is an intense guilt knowing she grew up extremely comfortable while this woman had work twice as hard as everyone else to try and give her son some kind of childhood. Hinata sees a good woman who was hurt for no good reason. And Hinata sees someone who should hate her, by all means. Most of all...Hinata sees her brother's mom, and knows that if hatred did show itself, she can't afford to make her brother choose between a kid who was unfairly dumped on his shoulders vs the mother who never abandoned him.

[shingekicornwrites]

a word for 'bad miracle'

chapter 5 is here

Fic summary: Twenty years ago, Midoriya Hisashi walked out on his wife and Quirkless child. Three days ago, Midoriya Inko received a phone call informing her of his demise and when his funeral would take place.

Sometimes you’re a 25 year old war veteran, making a difference one day at a time in a post-All For One Japan that’s still feeling the repercussions of your high school days. Other times you’re simply the forgotten child of a deadbeat, left to clean up your father’s messes because he was too much of a coward to take any responsibility.

And now, you’re a full time big brother, because the biggest mess left behind was the child your father replaced you with.

Chapter summary: Emotional avoidance is when a person avoids thoughts or feelings of a traumatic event. This process is mostly internal, and others may not notice that the person is avoiding anything at all as they try to distance themselves from any mental recognition of what they have been put through.

One of the lesser known effects of this avoidance is difficulty in making or forming relationships with others, as the subject takes careful steps to avoid any of the unpleasant emotions that can come with human connection.