#daddy vicious

[sashagreyluvr]

[pinkypyrexred]

this is now my job

[corpsenymph]

me & who

[amarriageoftrueminds]

AU Idea I had last night:

Late-Teen Will either discovering that there's been a trust fund for him all along, left by his mother on the condition that it's used for fees at a fancy boarding school, or getting into fancy boarding school for graduation year because of merit / earning a scholarship and previously-unknown legacy-association with his estranged mother's family. Getting shipped off to said prestigious boarding school but being miserable there / struggling. He's the new boy, out-performing his peers, the poorest student there by a mile and constantly bullied for that and his innate weirdness and because girls like him.

Enter: temp-professor Hannibal (27; maybe he is on sabbatical from surgeon-ing for a year, before retraining as a psychiatrist.).

He notices Will's brilliance, takes a shine to him, and becomes a sort of mentor to him. He transforms Will's nightmarish experience of school almost overnight: eating lunch with him (giving him safe place to go, or ensuring he's safe wherever he is), tutoring him, seeing off his bullies, 'discovering' grants Will can use to pay for expenses since he's a scholarship student, etc etc.

(What does Hannibal teach? Art? Anatomy? Biology, dissecting things? Temps for the Phys.Ed. teacher and kicks ass / humiliates Will's bullies in an impromptu kendo lesson??)

Essentially, he makes Will feel he has room to breathe, and might actually have a chance to make the most of this golden opportunity. Also makes him feel cool by association because Hannibal has Chosen him and all the teenage boys basically want to be Hannibal. (Also, maybe it's a co-ed school and all the cheerleaders are mooning over dreamy Hannibal.)

Canon-style totally platonic but wildly homoerotic relationship because oblivious!Will still thinks he's straight and oblivious!Hannibal thinks he's only gawping at Will's beauty because he's an aesthete. 🤦‍♀️

Meanwhile, nasty 'accidents' keep befalling the worst of Will's bullies, the cruelest/most predatory teachers, etc. and Hannibal encourages Will to listen to his 'instincts.'

Ends with Will graduating and getting into prestigious ivy league school and Hannibal promptly quitting his teaching position to go and live with Will and be his sugar-daddy through college while Hannibal re-trains in psychiatry. (Or maybe Hannibal offers to fund a gap-year so he and Will can do a Grand Tour of Europe together.)

visual inspo under the cut:

90s Mads

Oxbridge Hugh

[kineticallyanywhere]

alright, they got me

[glxdioli]

unfortunately, I have only ever been comforted by men older enough to be my father and dead men

[heroininyourveins]

i fear he doesnt get it

[harlotstarlet777]

[arabella-222]

[lolitacherryy]

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Me when I re-read PJO 'characters reading the books' fanfics

[aevyndzn]

putting two completely different media's together, but Jung Jinsu is kinda giving Eli Ever... like they're both completely enveloped by religion, sin, and God–Jungsu just turned out to be a cult leader, and Eli happened to kill EO's in the name of God–and they caused a lot of fucking grief against them. maybe I'm just drawn to them bc we all have daddy issues and religious trauma (yeah, Jungsu has daddy issues too, they're more similar than I thought, Eli could've been a cult leader if given the chance)

[supermarine-silvally]

Yara, was there ever someone who was crushing on you but whose feelings you did not return?

"A couple years ago, there was this one in particular. We had this new, er, "recruit." He was irritating, and stubborn, and such an arrogant, cocky little jerk towards the rest of the crew-- including Pops-- yet every time I was in his vicinity, his cheeks would turn the most vibrant shade of red, and he'd get strangely shy and stumble over his words. I used to catch him staring at me with this stupid look on his face. And then this... incident happened. ...You likely know the rest of the story."

Ask Yara (or any of my OCs) anything!

[bokunowtv]

Crazy because Enji didn't even wrong Touya, the only child he abused was Shouto, Touya was nothing more than spoilt brat and nothing more or less.

Anon, yes, yes he did. Enji absolutely wronged Touya.

As Touya's father, Enji had a duty to care for him and help him whenever he needed him. But in spite of Touya's desperate and very obvious calls for his attention, Enji refused to spend time with him ("all I can show anyone is the world of heroes"). Instead he foisted him on Rei - who also didn't properly look after him by her own admission.

Touya might look like a spoilt kid on the outside since he was lacking for nothing materially (huge house, good food, excellent education) but the truth is that his basic emotional needs weren't met: he felt abandoned, he didn't feel like he mattered to his father, he was having an existential crisis as a kid. That's emotional neglect. Emotional neglect can have a severe impact on a kid's mental and physical health - which was obviously the case for Touya, who was continuously self-harming.

In addition to that, after Shouto was born Enji started violently training him against his will and brutalizing his wife when she would try to stop him. We know Touya at least saw him abuse Shouto. So while Touya wasn't a direct victim of the physical abuse, he witnessed it. That's an extremely toxic environment to grow up him, and amounts to psychological abuse. Children can't feel safe in a home where their helpless relatives are being put through the grinder by their own father.

Finally, Enji picking an heir and choosing to focus solely on him and his development is the kind of favoritism that is considered abusive, since it seriously hurt his other kids' sense of self-worth - especially Touya's. It's extremely damaging for a parent to shower one kid with attention (no matter how terrible that attention actually was) and ignore the others' desperate attempts to please them.

I mean, look at this:

Here Enji's son is telling him word for word that he thinks Enji isn't glad that he was born. He's in visible distress and hurting himself. It couldn't be more obvious that he needs his father to reassure him and care for him. That's Enji's duty, and he failed to do it. He failed Touya.

Anon, I think you sent me this ask because you saw that I'm an Endeavor fan. You know that I read him with compassion, so you know I'm not trying to hate on him here. I'm also absolutely not trying to excuse the crimes Dabi will later commit - I do not believe that this backstory excuses anything and I hold him responsible for his own actions.

What I believe is that understanding that Enji did wrong Touya as a kid is essential to understanding MHA as a whole. And more than that, it's important to get it in order to be able to help families like the Todoroki's in real life - and that includes men like Enji (*).

(*) Because the tragedy of their story is that Enji did love Touya, but was too fucked up himself to give up his obsession and didn't know how to handle his own emotions let alone his son's. He was obviously extremely distressed by the situation which was only making him even more abusive. At this point, the family needed outside help.

I really do think showing this story to young boys in a Shonen magazine is a good way to teach them how NOT to act or how to recognize abusive behaviors even in people who aren't necessarily malicious.

[milkshakeworm]

good lord hes PRETENTIOUS

[lolitacherryy]

We Lizzy Grant girls with daddy issues are melancholic but hateful, we are intense and a little crazy but getting drunk is always our moment of freedom