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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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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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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

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🎹 - Do your OCs have any hobbies?

🎹 - Do your OCs have any hobbies?

Answering for Hinata since she is best girl and the star of the show initially

The thing is.

The thing is.

Hinata is a Midoriya. They are genetically predisposed to needing constant stimulation. Their brains need to constantly have something to fiddle with or they go insane. Izuku grew up becoming a hardcore hero otaku to get his fill of stimulation, and this works out because heroes are always busy doing things so there's always new information to rotate in his mental microwave.

Hinata isn't a hero otaku. Hinata is an entirely different breed of nerd, far worse than her brother is but also far more well rounded.

Hinata is an avid tabletop gamer who is very eagerly into the Warhammer 40k scene despite the price tag, and DMs for (insert future edition) D&D and Pathfinder on the reg. She paints minifigs to go with it.

She LARPS.

She is also a rampant horror movie collector with firm and deeply held opinions. Her favorite is Alien and she will refuse to listen to your complaining that something that joyfully sci-fi doesn't count.

She's taken after her mother in being a big connoisseur of music, though Hinata favors alternative genres. She's big into the metal and punk scenes.

She cooks and bakes, as a form of enjoyment but also because a girls gotta eat and it might as well be good. Can't really work with chocolate though. She has the Sicilian's curse of hot hands.

She's dabbled in science fairs and junior bot fighting.

She is also deeply involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA for short. This means you have now unlocked the second tier. This is where she starts getting far worse than her brother could dream of.

Her SCA activities include: Embroidery, sewing, calligraphy, knitting and crochet, ceramics, (though she doesn't enjoy it much, so she dropped it outside of group activities), and Historical European Martial Arts--Hinata has been learning to swordfight for several years now and finds it very fun. Extremely fun. This young girl is so eager to beat the shit out of people with weapons. Despite the focus on European swordsmanship she's also learned to use the naginata for naginatajutsu, which is still a martial art practiced today and therefore easy for her to find lessons on.

Her SCA activities bleed into other things, since now that she's learned the fiber arts she's started to really step up her cosplay game and get really intense about historical costuming. She's also starting to alter her clothes very heavily.

It's especially bleeding into her career plans.

Because now she's learning to blacksmith for fun and profit. There's a big demand for engineers who know how to make a good sword. :)

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I almost forgot I also recently commissioned the talented @sidsinning for a picture of Hinata and Nanami, a character from the a word for bad miracles au that we don't really meet until much later in the timeline. I love them your honor. They're so special to me.

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I recently commissioned the amazing @wiitchkins who's doing fashion lineups atm! You should definitely contact them and get one, I know I might be going back in a payday or two for a companion piece to this--it's Hinata! I wanted a lineup of Hinata's fashion choices (though a bit in the future, since we meet her at 12) in the a word for bad miracles au, currently being edited and prepped for release as we speak

I genuinely can't wait for you guys to meet the blorbo that has been rotating in my head for the past year

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🍎 hinata?

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

Oh you're just jumping right into the most uncomfortable topic huh

good

Hinata has had, overall, a very loving and pleasant childhood. Her parents adored her. They supported her in her career choice and welcome her friends into their home with loving arms. They've never missed a sports festival or kindergarten recital or official ceremony once.

Her relationship with her mother, though, is a bit complex. Because Midoriya (nee Umino) Amane was a stubborn mule of a woman who thinks that she knows what's best based on her experiences only, and she's never quite let go of the fantasy she cooked up while pregnant of what it would be like to have a daughter. Amane has always been a girly girl. The ideal feminine. The most picture perfect example of Japanese femininity.

Amane has never taken Hinata being a tomboy well, and arguments that were smaller and easier to get past as a child were starting to become more drastic and harsh as Hinata came closer to middle school, where Amane was certain it was time to mature into a young lady and grow out of it. Two months before the accident they got into a screaming match over Amane trying to sign Hinata up for tea ceremony lessons.

Amane loved her daughter and would burn the world for her. But Amane was not good at understanding her.

Hinata always thought Hisashi did, though.

Hinata's relationship to Hisashi was one she thought was very close. He was always supportive of her wants. He's the one who's had her shooting for MIT one day, to become an amazing engineer. She loved her dad. She thought he was the adult she could fully trust with all of her--his praise for her was never ending, always hyping up how smart and capable and successful his baby girl was.

He even tried her spicy food at dinner, even when it was killing him with his weaksauce tolerance.

Their relationship was one full of jokes and banter and helping each other defy Amane's rules under the table.

Right now though...

Well. Now Hinata's not very sure he ever actually saw her at all

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🍩 Hinata and Wakou Mitsuhi

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

Hinata is in a fun position where I think she genuinely just does not consider anyone her rival. Not out of pride or thinking nobody can match her, but because her desire to improve is entirely self driven and she does not care about what other people are doing enough to get worked up about it. Similarly, she doesn't think of anyone as an arch-nemesis past perhaps a joke, because when she has a beef with someone she tends to be...very proactive about dealing with it.

That said, this doesn't stop others from making declarations.

Or the narrative from assigning her a foil.

Ishikawa Saizo, colloquially known as Diet Sasuke by the entire student body (and Dynamight, who thinks he coined the nickname himself) is what one may call her high school nemesis on the basis of being the single most annoying fucking client she has to deal with, thanks to her being the only engineer who makes bladed weapons. He's demanding. He's rude. He's dismissive of her time and her expertise. She hates him so much on a personal level.

Abeyama Seigo, her personal Bakugou in her life, may see himself as her nemesis, thanks to the narrative he's built in his own head that he is the virtuous childhood friend who realized she was a toxic snake and cut her loose. He thinks he is the good guy in their dynamic who is only trying to warn others of her treachery.

Mashiba Chihomi does not see her as a nemesis, but may come to see her as a rival. A social rival. One she cannot wrap her head around, because Chihomi is the queen bee of the social scene who is the most perfect example of femininity in action...and yet, Midoriya Hinata has as much pull as she does among the student body, despite the fact she walks and talks like a boy and refuses to participate in the social scripts Chihomi memorized years ago. It flummoxes her. She's so infuriated by it.

And these examples are just the ones who are narratively important enough to earn focus. There are others who have tried to take this title, but Hinata's apathy is a powerful thing. She does not care. She isn't about to start caring.

Mutsuhi is a different story.

Wakou Mutsuhi is in showbiz. Showbiz is a dangerous place to be, especially as a cute idol who just hit it big.

Mutsuhi has rivals galore, and a nemesis lurking around every corner.

Mutsuhi's biggest idol rivals are the ones who seem to match her group HimeHime and threaten their position at the top of the charts--one group in particular being tricky because it's not a group. It's one girl. With a goddamn duplication quirk. This little upstart just does a cute little jump and out pops fucking TEN OF HER who can immediately jump into a synchronized dance that puts other professionals to shame. Mutsuhi hates her. Fucking shortcut taking lazy ass--one of these days this girls quirk is going to backfire on her and Mutsuhi eagerly awaits the lack of foresight to show itself.

Her worst enemy professionally is definitely an idol who learned Taylor Swift tactics. She graduated from the cutesy stage to a more refined look. She starts beef with other idols so her fans can swarm them and bully them into quitting. She re-releases her own songs to cheat the charts.

She's not even good. She's mediocre as hell. But she has complete control over her fans, and that's what makes her dangerous.

But Mutsuhi's worst enemy overall?

Well that's easy.

It's her own older sister. Wakou Miri. :)

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✨❤️🎯for best girl Hinata?

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

So the story behind Hinata's naming is that I knew what kind of personality she'd have right from the start. I knew this kid was going to be a tomboy, I knew she'd be blunt and loud and opinionated and have a very forceful presence that only increases as she ages.

So of course I went "I need to give her the daintiest most feminine name I possibly can"

The kanji making up Hinata's name are for things like "princess, noblewoman" and "kind, gentle, calm"--a name picked for the young girl her mother had hoped for, not for the one she got

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

Hinata has had a very happy childhood full of good memories, so there are many she could pick from. But one that comes to mind right now is sitting at the Umino family estate with her grandmother, eating chestnut manju on the engawa and looking out at the rolling fields of the countryside

🎯 -What do they do best?

Hm. Now this one is a hard one to pin down because Hinata is good at a lot of things, because she works very hard on her many hobbies.

But I'll go out and say she's factually the best cook in her household by miles. No contest.

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the creation of the 'a word for bad miracles' universe wound up requiring the creation of a full 20 student class for UA's support department. This is that class. They are all hellions.

I love them dearly

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Miss Hinata, the myth, the legend, the terror of the UA gyms

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A very lovely piece of my most precious HeroAca OC, Hinata! Done by the wonderful @candlecoo-sideb-art who you should all support right now through their open donations page, please and thank you