#hikage speaks

[the-void-speaks]

what do you all miss about being in the living world

SUNLIGHT -yoichi

nothin -kudou

privacy -bruce

The trees. And my forest. -hikage

uhhhhh having more freedom probably -daigorou

my sister -en

my husband :( -nana

[mishy-mashy]

Does anyone actually have posted BNHA fics set in the Resistance with an OC? Or set during En, Torino, Nana, Banjo, and Shinomori's time (bc they're the same time frame)? Do those exist? If they do, can someone direct some my way?

[amaranthdahlia]

im just putting it out there. theres gotta be a reason why hikage didnt shatter like the rest of the users, therefore HES GONNA FIX THEM!!!!

[pulaasul]

One for All and Captain Marvel/Shazam

I once found it neat that Horikoshi referenced Fawcett Comics's Captain Marvel, specifically Captain Marvel Jr., during the early days of My Hero Academia.

The reference in question was how young Izuku has "All Might Jr." as a hero name listed among a myriad of hero names he has thought up.

I am also not surprised that the reference went over a lot of people's heads considering how Captain Marvel, or was it already Shazam, didn't have a modern theatrical release at the time and the hero was only in the minds of avid comic book readers and/or DC animation watchers and DC video game players (He's called Captain Marvel in Mortal Kombat vs. DC)

Now that I think more about it, the more I think that One For All works the same as the lightning that gives Captain Marvel his powers.

So for the uninitiated, SHAZAM stands for

Wisdom of Solomon

Strength of Hercules

Stamina of Atlas

Power of Zeus

Courage of Achilles

Speed of Mercury

With the reveal of how One For All worked, it assimilated six quirks from previous users, that are as follows.

Kudo's Gearshift

Bruce's Fa Jin

Shinomori Hikage's Danger Sense

Banjo Daigoro's Black Whip

Tayutai En's Smokescreen

Shimura Nana's Float.

Would you look at that, there are also six quirks to parallel the six "general" powers of the gods that Captain Marvel gets whenever he assumes his champion form.

Both Deku and Captain Marvel can call upon the specific powerset at will.

The main difference here is that for Deku, he needs to "activate" it whereas Captain Marvel doesn't need to, in fact his ability to speak every known language in existence, which he got from the Wisdom of Solomon, comes to him spontaneously whenever he talks to someone who doesn't have English as their first language, or whenever someone is talking to him in another language.

Main point is that both of them have access to all of them at any time.

I really had no point to prove, I just want to point out that My Hero Academia took more inspiration from Captain Marvel/Shazam then either Captain America or Superman as a lot of media outlets claim.

[five-rivers]

Danger First Chapter 14

Wow! It's been a while!

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"So, Midoriya," said Ms. Kayama, "putting together anything special for the Athlete's Oath?"

Izuku looked up from what was shaping up to be a fairly in-depth analysis of the second event of a sports festival that had occurred about a dozen years ago, a sense of dread pooling in his gut.  "What?"

Ms. Kayama smiled, brows pinching together just a smidge.  "The Athlete's Oath.  You were the top scorer on the entrance exam, weren't you?  I didn't get you confused with someone else, did I?"

"Oh, no," said Izuku, as he finally managed to put Ms. Kayama's question together with facts he'd known for years.  "I forgot the Athlete's Oath."

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"Athlete's Oath?" repeated Yoichi.  "What's the Athlete's Oath?  Was it something Eighth had to do?  Nana, do you know?"

Nana raised an eyebrow.  "I was under the impression that all of you were here when Toshinori went here."

"Yeah," said En, "but that was about a hundred years ago."

"It was not," said Hikage.  

"It was just as long ago for me."

"Sure, but he was your kid," said Yoichi.  “Everyone remembers their kid better."

Nana made a face.  She… couldn't actually dispute that.  All these years later, she could still remember things like Kotaro's first day of school with blinding clarity. 

… and Toshinori's first day at UA, for that matter.  

"It's just a little… not a speech.  A recitation.  Just a few lines about playing fair and trying your best.  Used to be the top student of the third years would do it, but I guess they must have the top students for the first and second years do it as well, now that they're televised as well."

"Is Izuku the top student, then?" asked Yoichi.  

"The only test they've had is the entrance exam," said En with a shrug.  "Ninth got top in that, so…"

"And so, Eighth's bribery has led to Ninth's downfall," said Banjo in a falsely serious tone.  

"He didn't bribe anyone!"

"Izuku got in on his own merits!"

"Jeez, you guys can't take a joke."

Nana huffed.  "I just don't understand why they're so excited about it.  It's just a tiny thing.  You can read it from a little card."

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As always, Izuku’s first resort was research.  He searched HeroTube for compilations of the most recent UA Athlete’s Oaths, and hit play.  

He watched the videos, chewing his lip.  There was just so much to do, so much to say–  How could he capture the spirit of Plus Ultra competition, his will to win and everyone else’s, the honor of competing, the honor of speaking for his entire year, all in only a few minutes?  In only a couple days, too.  

And without stuttering.  

He was going to die.  

No, no.  That was the wrong mindset entirely for a UA student with a shiny new hero name, much less All Might’s successor!  He could do this!  He would do this!  

He’d just… break down into tears a few times first.  

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Nana felt eyes boring into the back of his head.

“Just a thing you can read from the back of a card?” asked Yoichi.  “This guy’s been talking for ten full minutes, and I don’t think he’s going to stop anytime soon!”

“I can feel you all judging me,” said Nana, “but I’ve been dead for decades.  It’s changed.  That happens.”

“You don’t have to feel me judging you, I’m doing it out loud.”

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Izuku stared down at the pages and pages of repeatedly crossed out lines.  

“I don’t know why I thought I could do this,” he whispered.  “I couldn’t even come up with a hero name on my own.”

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“This really isn’t a big deal.”

“It’s a huge deal!  Do you know how dangerous public speaking is?”

Nana turned to squint at Yoichi.  “When did you ever do public speaking?”

“Probably about the same time he went to school,” said En.  

“I did go to school!  Why will you not let that go?”

“Bizarre petty grudges and jokes are pretty much the only thing we can hold onto,” said En.  “That and the quirk.”

“Seriously, though, this isn’t going to kill him.”

“It isn’t?  What happens when my brother sees him on TV?  Speaking for the hero class?”

“Oh, yeah,” said Banjo.  “That’s a thing.”

Yoichi threw up his hands.  “How did you guys forget?”

“I didn’t forget,” said Hikage.  

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“Maybe I should ask Dad,” said Izuku.  “He probably talks to lots of people for his work…”

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“No!” screamed all of the ghosts.  

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“That's different than public speaking, though, isn't it?”  He let his head drop onto his open notebook, heedless of the ink and graphite getting on his face.  “At least it's only the first year speech.”

He sat up with renewed energy.

“And there's no way it’ll be worse than Endeavor's!”

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“That's the spirit!” cheered Nana.  

“I thought we were the spirits,” said Hikage.  

“It's just an expression.”

“Are we spirits, though?” asked En.  

Banjo groaned.  “Please, kid, don't start on that again.”

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Kaminari waved furiously from across the field as the purple-haired boy next to him did his best to hunch into his uniform and disappear.  Far behind them, Snipe sat reading a paperback novel.  “Hey!  Welcome to our awesome training montage!”

“You can't have a montage in real life,” said Jiro.  

“Watch me!” 

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Once everyone arrived, Iida started chivying them all into a loose circle.  Well, Izuku reflected, Iida obviously wanted them in an exact circle but… even Izuku could see that was never going to happen. Then Iida cleared his throat portentously and Yaoyorozu stepped into the center.

“Thank you for coming, everyone,” she said.  “Especially those of you who aren't in 1-A, we understand this is a leap of faith, and what we're doing here is a little radical.  For today, our goals are for everyone to get to know each other and to start working out strategic teams.  So, let's start by just introducing ourselves.  I'll go first…”

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The purple-haired boy was named Shinsou Hitoshi, and he had thus far been very reticent about his quirk. About talking at all, really, which was interesting, given his attempt at a declaration of war earlier. 

Interesting, not strange.  In a similar position of not-quite-enmity, Izuku would probably be on the lookout for potential weaknesses, too.  As long as Shinsou waited until the third event, though, that was fine.  It wasn't as if everyone in class 1-A didn't know each others’ quirks already.

That was all a very uncharitable way of thinking about Shinsou, though, and Izuku felt a little guilty thinking about things like that.  He wanted to become a hero, too.  

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“Alright,” said Yaoyorozu, “now, remember, the first event is the elimination event.  Our researchers say we'll probably be racing, competing for some limited resource, or trying to avoid being tagged out in some way.  Even with the teachers trying to be unpredictable, the number of students does limit them.  All of the events we've been able to brainstorm favor mobility, so you want to be in a group that you can move well with. Defense is important, too.  Bakugou, at minimum, is a problem, and we have to assume the other classes will target us.”

“Bakugou's the crazy guy who chased Midoriya down at lunch the other day,” said Kaminari to Shinsou at a volume that was obviously meant to be a whisper, but fell far short of the mark.  

“He's not crazy,” protested Izuku.  “He's just.  Passionate.”

Everyone regarded him dubiously.  

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Predictably, the groups initially split along lines of friendship, acquaintance, and obligation.  Yaoyorozu and Iida walked around for a while, trying to keep the groups more or less equal in size before settling into their own class leadership group, along with Monoma.

“A waltz of darkness and chaos,” muttered Tokoyami, barely getting out of the way of Satou, as his group, consisting of himself, Ojirou, Sero, and Hagakure, trundled towards a shadier spot.  

Hatsume laughed.  “If you think this is chaotic, wait until the sports festival!”

“She's right,” said Uraraka.  “So, Midoriya,  what do you think we should do?”

“Eh?  Me?”

“Your battle trial plan was quite impressive,” said Tokoyami.  “Your strategic acuity will cast a long shadow in the sports festival as well.”

“I don't know about that,” said Izuku.  But then he glanced at Monoma.  They probably only had about ten minutes left.  “I guess- I guess the most obvious thing is for us to be a rocket.”

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“Ow,” said Uraraka, rubbing her head.  

“I think,” said Iida, also nursing several bruises, “we should have come up with a better way to steer before we tried that.  And brake.”

“Yeah… We did go fast, though.”

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“But, Hatsume, your, um, your ba- your inventions–”

“Call ‘em my babies with your whole chest, grappling hook.”

“I think your babies would help any team, but that you'd do really well with Yaoyorozu.  And Uraraka and I should probably be on different teams, since we both have flight-capable quirks.  Even if we both have time-limit issues…”

“Aww,” said Uraraka, “you're probably right.  I was looking forward to working with you, though.”

“What about Fumi and me?  We can be on your team, right?” asked Dark Shadow.

Tokoyami ducked his head and tried to push Dark Shadow down.  “Don't ask questions like that.”

“I don't know if that'd be a good idea, since Bakugou's explosions can make a lot of light.”

“That just means we're destined to be arch-nemeses!”

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Izuku sat down next to Hagakure, Aoyama, and Ashido. 

“Okay, Midori!” said Ashido.  “Come up with a super move for us!”

“I’m sure you will come up with something that sparkles,” said Aoyama.  

“Uh, um,” said Izuku, flustered.  “How about, um, Aoyama, is your laser just light?  Maybe it could go through Hagakure - if lasers going through you doesn’t hurt.”

“No, that’s one of the first things my quirk counselor tested,” said Hagakure.  “My parents wanted to make sure that all the light going through me wasn’t going to give me turbo cancer or something.  The real problem for me is that for me to do anything with my quirk, I’m going to have to be naked.  We have to wear our PE uniforms for the festival.”

“Oh, non,” said Aoyama.  “I’ve been given an allowance for my belt, surely they would give you one for your suit.  Anything else would be quite unfair.”

“Or you could ask Hatsume, see if she can make something for you that would work temporarily,” suggested Izuku.  “She’s really eager to work with everyone.  Or even just plastic clothing, from Yaoyorozu.”  They'd all have to be careful not to overtax Yaoyorozu, though.  Anything else would be unfair.  She had to save something for the final event.

“Okay, okay, okay, but what about super moves?” asked Ashido.  

“Or some things we can do during the event, anyway,” said Hagakure.

“Well, if you're with Aoyama, like I said, and his laser can go through you, that could be a really good way to get in a kind of sneak attack.  No one expects a person to be in the same area an attack just went through.”

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“Lowest setting first, mademoiselle?” 

“Just hit me already, Twinkles!  I can take it!” shouted Hagakure from the other side of the field.  

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“Are- are you okay, Aoyama?” asked Izuku, after they'd tested Aoyama's laser on a number of settings.  

“Oh, oui, my quirk just upsets my stomach somewhat, you see.  And it seems as if Hagakure is, how should I say this, my natural enemy.”

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(In truth, Aoyama was feeling ill, but not because of his quirk.  Rather, the problem was his quirk’s origin.  The man had demanded that Aoyama keep an eye on Midoriya - and, if possible, make him win the sports festival.  A minor thing, really!)

(If only Aoyama had the courage to defy the man.)

(He hoped Midoriya would be able to survive whatever All for One had planned for him.)

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All for One sighed.  He wondered if he could find a good enough disguise quirk to take Izuku out for ice cream after he won the sports festival.  Or after he lost and was properly filled with hatred for hero society.

“Sensei?” said Ujiko.  “Are you alright?”

“No.  You're being incredibly boring.”

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“Ashido, how acidic does your acid have to be?  And is it always the same substance, just at different concentrations, or can you make different substances, as long as they're acidic?”

“Um,” said Ashido.

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“I think that's it for me, today,” said Ashido, sitting down.  “I'm going to have to drink, like, a dozen liters of Gatorade or something.  You're brutal for someone so cute, did you know that, Midori?”

“He'd have to be, to get through the entrance exam without using a physical quirk,” said Hagakure, dragging Ashido back up.  “Come on, we still have the gym for fifteen, and I want feedback.”

“You're both brutal.”

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“Um,” said Izuku, sidling up to Shinsou, notebook in hand.  “Your quirk is a mind control type, right?”

Shinsou, scowled down at Izuku.  “It's Brainwashing,” he said, rather gruffly.

“Oh, wow, that's great.  Mind control quirks are actually perfect for hero work, but the stigma means hardly any heroes have one.  Like, you could stop a fight before it even started, or get villains to surrender right away, or help civilians who are too panicked to move properly, or heroes who are compromised, or who would otherwise have trouble cooperating with each other, for whatever reason.  It’s really too bad that the entrance exam is all robots.”

Shinsou stared at him.  

“Any- anyway, I've heard that some- some quirks can interact unexpectedly with mental quirks, and I've noticed you're not-  You don't seem to be using it, much, even though we have permission here, and…  Um.  Just saying, you can practice on me, if you'd like.”

“Oh!  Or me!” said Kaminari, popping up seemingly out of nowhere.  “We should test and see if you can get me when I'm in wheyyy mode, or Satou when he's powered up!”

“What does that even mean?” demanded Shinsou.  He allowed Kaminari to drag him on, however.  

“Oooooooh,” said Izuku, his plan to test out the ‘hallucination’ thing Mr. Yagi had explained all but forgotten.  “That's a great idea!  I'll take notes!”

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“I know it's a little disappointing that we didn't get a chance to appear to Ninth,” said Nana, “but don't you think you're overdoing this a little?”

Yoichi rolled over so that he was face up in his Bog of Despair.  “No,” he said, before rolling back over.  

“Forget that,” said Third.  “Am I the only one at all disturbed by how he's picking apart all the other kids’ quirks?”

“Yes,” chorused the other ghosts.

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Izuku stood at the classroom door for several blank minutes.  Where was everyone?  Did he… Get the date wrong?  No, there was enough security outside to defeat a small army.  Which was probably the point, come to think of it.  Was he late?  Had he missed the sports festival?  When he was the one giving the opening speech for the first years?  

Forget public humiliation, he was going to be expelled.  As soon as Mr. Aizawa saw him, he would–

“Midoriya, what are you doing here?  Why aren’t you in the prep room?” 

Izuku squeaked.  Then he registered what Mr. Aizawa had said.  “Prep room?” he repeated.  “Oh, yeah!  The prep room!  Thank you, Mr. Aizawa!”

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Shouta sighed as his number one problem child scurried away.  How illogical…  But there would be time to work on his memory and situational awareness in the future, and it would be downright hypocritical to scold him about it now.  

He shuffled into the classroom, careful about his bandages, because he had just been scolded by Recovery Girl.  The lights buzzed when he turned them on, more obvious without the students there… although they did have competition from the roar of the crowds in the festival stadium.  

He walked over to his desk and knelt to retrieve his stash of jelly pouches, especially the coffee ones.  Which he also wasn’t supposed to have, but what Recovery Girl didn’t know wouldn’t hurt her.  Or cause her to hurt him, which was the more pertinent issue from his perspective.  If he was going to survive announcing the first year’s festival by himself, he was going to need them.  

Now weighted down, he started hobbling back to the stadium and the announcer’s box. Jelly was heavy, as it turned out.  

Recovery Girl really would kill him if she found out.  He sped up.  Not a lot.  Just a little.  Just in case.  He certainly wasn’t moving as fast as Midoriya had.

He made his way through staff passages, avoiding most of the crowds and pleasantly nodding to heroes who had been asked to come serve as security.  Finally, and in good time, too, because his stupid injured body was starting to get winded, he reached the announcer’s box and opened the door.  

“Yagi,” said Shouta, “what are you doing here?”  He shook off the sense of deja vu.

“Oh,” said Yagi, brightly.  “Young Aizawa!  I was getting worried that something had happened to you.  Principal Nezu thought that you could use some assistance here, with young Yamada being otherwise occupied.”

And so he’d replaced one loud blond with another.  He couldn’t even be that mad about it.  

“You have any training for this?” he asked instead.  

“Well, not for announcing sports events in particular,” said Yagi.  “But I have a lot of media and commercial experience and I’ve been practicing cheering on my students!”

“Right,” said Shouta, who was feeling as if he’d somehow asked a stupid question.  “Just don’t show too much favoritism.”

“Oh, I’d never!  After all,” and here he grew much more grim, “you know as well as I do, the risks of putting too much attention on young Midoriya.  Besides, young Yamada gave us a ‘cheat sheet!’”

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Izuku, dressed in his PE uniform, stumbled into 1-A’s prep room.  

“Hey!” said Kaminari.  “It’s Midoriya!  We were getting worried about you, man!”

“Ah, y-yeah,” said Izuku.  “I wound up going to the classroom instead.”

“Huh,” said Jiro, “you’d think your quirk would have warned you against that.”

“Um, yeah,” said Izuku, “but I guess it wasn’t really dangerous to go to the wrong spot at first?  Especially since I got here okay, eventually, right?”  

There was a murmur of agreement, but with a slight uneasy undercurrent.  

“There’s not any real danger in the sports festival, either, though, is there?” asked Yaoyorozu.  

“I- I mean, there’s the danger of getting beaten up?”  And he’d been able to feel danger from wrong answers on a test before, so…  This should be the same kind of thing, right?

Yaoyorozu nodded.  “Right.  There is that.”

“Don’t worry, Midoriya,” said Uraraka, “I’m sure you’ll be fine.  We did so much studying for this, after all.”  She held up a fist.  “I’m feeling confident!  That’s for sure!” 

“Yes!” said Monoma, who twirled over with Aoyama.  “I, too, am confident that we will defeat those philistines in class 1-B, not to mention everyone else!”

“Oui,” said Aoyama, “our performance will be tres magnifique!”

“Don’t forget we have allies in other classes, you two,” said Yaoyorozu, slightly exasperated.  

“Yes,” said Monoma, “but neither of them are in 1-B.  We have the excellent Mock and the ingenious Brigid to support us.”

Ashido sighed heavily.  “Speaking of support, I sure wish I could’ve used my costume.”

“It’s to keep things fair,” said Ojiro with a shrug.

Iida power-walked into the room.  “IS EVERYONE GOOD AND READY?” he shouted, clearly as nervous as Izuku, but trying to cover it up with sheer volume.  “THE EVENT’S ABOUT TO START!  Ahem.  Where is Todoroki?”

“Oh, jeez,” said Ashido, raising a hand to her lips.  “He never came to any of our practices, so I just sort of forgot he should be here…”

Honestly, so had Izuku.  Todoroki had quite the presence, but he could also fade into the background with surprising ease.  Maybe it was just because he hardly talked?  More importantly, what had happened to him?  Was he sick?  Did he get lost like Izuku did?  Did he get kidnapped by people trying to get at his father?  Endeavor might not have the social and political weight that All Might could bring to bear, but Number Two Hero wasn’t an empty title at all.  Maybe he–

Izuku’s thoughts ground to a confused halt when Todoroki casually walked into the room.  

Oh.  He was just late.  

Todoroki stood up in front of the room, clearly intending to make some sort of address.  

“Er,” said Izuku, “Todoroki, what is it?”

“Objectively speaking,” said Todoroki, “I’m stronger than all of you.  Even if you’re all working together… even if All Might has his eyes on you, Midoriya, no matter the reason…  I will beat you.”

"Did he just… declare a rivalry with… all of us?" asked Sero, quietly.  In the hush that followed Todoroki’s words, he might as well have shouted.    

"Can you do that?" asked Kaminari.  "Is that allowed?"

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“He's got a point,” said Banjo.  “A rival is like a nemesis, or a girlfriend, you can only have one at a time.”

“That's not true,” said Yoichi.  “You can have more than one girlfriend at a time.”

En squinted at him.  “Again, aren’t you gay?”

“Multitudes, En, multitudes.”

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“Aw, come on, man,” said Kirishima, “do you really have to pick a fight with all of us, now?  We’re about to go on and fight anyway.  Make your statement on the field!”

“I don’t care.  I’m not here to make friends.”  He shouldered past Kirishima and left the room.  

“Uh,” said Midoriya, “that… was something.”

“Yeah,” said Jiro.  “Does he intend to just wait in the hall or something?  We’re all going to the same place.”

Tokoyami shook his head, Dark Shadow mirroring him.  “What a mad banquet of darkness.”

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“Wow,” said Yoichi, chuckling.  “Sometimes I forget how needlessly dramatic teenagers can be.”

All the ghosts, except Second, turned to stare at him.   

“How needlessly dramatic teenagers are?” repeated Nana.  

“Yes?”

“Have you not been sharing the same afterlife as the rest of us, or what?”

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The class waited in the tunnel, fidgeting, bouncing, flexing, whispering.  Any minute, now, they’d be called in, to take their place on the field in front of the cameras.  

Any minute, now.  

“Is it just me,” whispered Uraraka, “or is this taking a really long time?”

“I am sure our eagerness is only making time appear to be passing more slowly than it really is!” said Iida.  

“No,” said Monoma, frowning, “they really are starting late.  I wonder if it’s a problem with the cameras, or if something else happened.  Midoriya, have you noticed anything?”

Izuku shook his head.  “I d-don’t think so? Just, um, just nervous for the event!  I think.  I hope nothing’s– nothing’s gone wrong.”

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Shouta and Yagi bent their heads over Hizashi’s so-called cheat sheet.  

“I’m not reading this,” said Shouta.  

“This is…  I thought we were supposed to avoid favoritism in these things,” said Yagi, sounding incredibly confused.  “What– What’s this about a ruthless grand battle?  That doesn’t really… sound heroic…”

“Yeah, this is just typical Hizashi.  Trash it and come up with one of those inspiring speeches you like so much.”

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The intercom speakers crackled into life overhead.  

“Welcome to the UA Sports Festival!”

“Is that…?”

“All Might!” squeaked a Gen Ed student several rows back.  

“The once-a-year event where our new students show how they can go PLUS ULTRA!”

The crowd outside, in the stadium, cheered wildly.  

“First, put your hands together for a class that has already faced some of the worst the world of villains has to offer and PERSEVERED!  Class 1-A!”

Somehow, they managed to turn their initial rushed stumble into a confident march before they emerged from the mouth of the tunnel.  Izuku squinted against the light at first, but recovered quickly and attempted to mimic Iida’s wave.  

“And next up, we have an equally worthy group of young heroes, who have been polishing their skills until they shine like the stars they are!  Class 1-B!”

As the classes emerged, Mr. Yagi continued to read out names and short accolades, and Izuku started to feel like he was about to throw up.  Oh, there were a lot of people here, and once all the classes came out, he would be speaking in front of them.  

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“Well, this is it, guys,” said Yoichi.  “The last minutes of Hisashi not knowing Izuku is in the hero course.”

“I'm still not sure why you think he doesn't know already,” said Nana, crossing her arms.  “You were listening to the conversation they had about hero names, right?”

“Are you kidding?  That's how I know he has no idea.  That was classic Hisashi, existing in his own world, having a completely different conversation than the other person.  That's why he got my lab partner deported when I was an undergrad.  He heard the word partner, and he immediately assumed our relationship was romantic.”  Yoichi shook his head sadly.  

“New question,” said Banjo.  “Did All for One ever go to school?”

“When in reality, Chan and I had only just started discussing the possibility of a QPR…”

“No, seriously, what is that guy's level of education?”

“They had to go back to China…  It was tragic.  Almost as tragic as Izuku inheriting that particular personality quirk.”

“Ew, don't talk about Ninth inheriting quirks from him,” said En.  

“I agree,” said Hikage.  

“Thank you,” said En.  

“That was indeed a tragic turn of events, Yoichi.”

“Is no one else interested in whether or not All for One graduated high school?”

“Furthermore, I believe that the danger involved in a non-ceiling vaulting and the preceeding kidnapping would trigger far more anxiety that Ninth is currently experiencing.”

“Er, thanks, Hikage, but you don't have to say ‘non-ceiling.’”

“Hey!” snapped Nana.  “Ninth's speech is starting, and I, at least, want to hear it.”

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“Now!” said Ms. Kayama, brightly, snapping her whip to get the attention of people close to the stage.  “The athlete’s oath!  Your student representative, from class 1-A, is Wonder!”

Izuku pasted on his best smile and climbed the stairs.

[ofa-on-crack]

Could you please give us a few of your hcs on how 3rd and/or Yoichi would be like as Dads? If you have any that is...

I'm back from the dead.

Wow this is my First ask! Thanks for this opportunity.

As for the headcannons.

The Third user always gave off "hard and serious" dad when you meet him at first. But when he's with his kid. A complete personality change.

Like this man is willing to sit through hours, and I mean HOURS of dress ups with his daughter if he had one. He'd stop what's he doing if his kid wanted to show him what they found outside, even if its a basic cool looking rock.

He would also keep the little gifts his child would give him, probably keep a little 'Lucky Charm" his child gave him whenever he went on missions.

I've got the feeling he keeps kid toys at his work place when he brings his kid for "bring your kid to work day" (except it's everyday).

Third would definitely be a protective and soft dad for his children.

*In a board meeting*

Second: *Explaining a very serious and important mission that could bring them a advantage to bring AFO down.*

Third's Child: *Sneezes cutely*

Third, one second away from pulling out a camera: Sorry to interrupt this very important meeting, but my child made a very adorable sound and I must capture it.

I also headcannon he raised Hikage.

As for Yoichi, I definitely think he's a gentle and caring father. Like this man will do everything in his power to not do what his brother did to him. He wants his child to feel safe around him and feel like they can trust him about their problems.

He would definitely read comic books to them when they were children.

I feel like he would want to remember and cherish even the simplest of things that his child does. For example, folding their clothes, or showing him their basic drawing. (He definitely keeps every drawing his child makes)

He would try and push boundaries onto his child and make them learn early on in their life on how these are important to have and they can speak out when they're uncomfortable and speak about their discomfort.

He wouldn't try and force his child to do something they're comfortable with. (Like some of these tiktok moms). Infact, he would show his child first and give them the choice if they want to do it or not.

He's heavy on privacy. He knows that anybody would want some alone time with just themselves. Even if they're a child. So Yoichi would always ask his child if they want some alone time and whatever response they give him, he will respect it.

Yoichi: Want some "me time"?

Child: Yes please. I've Got my Papa's love recharge for this hour.

Yoichi: Alright, call me if you anything my little Sprout.

AFO, somewhere: Why do I feel a weird sense of judgment and disappointment?

Yoichi is definitely the type of parent to call his child nicknames. He would also act out stories with them and roleplay with them. Mostly hero and adventure stories.

Thank you for this Ask!

[pocketramblr]

I'm still on a fairy tale kick! Please give me 5 headcanons for a Sleeping Beauty AU where All for One made up a story about his brother being cursed to prick his finger on a spinning wheel and die as an excuse to keep poor Yoichi locked up and isolated. Maybe he even faked an evil fairy incident. Thank you!

1- Yoichi loves fairy stories, always has, and the beautiful illustrations of them too. AfO has not, because when Yoichi is paying attention to the books, he isn't paying attention to him. When Yoichi asks him why he hates fairies so much, AfO says it's because they ruined Yoichi, cursed him. Gave him his tendency to be ill, and awkward, and that before his sixteenth birthday, he'd be pricked with a spindle and die.

2- Yoichi is pretty sure he made that up, but unluckily for him he's in the au where AfO gets to have a despotic boyking era, so when the prince asks about fairy stories the staff all nod along because he's sweet, and when AfO glares at them, they agree the curse happened. Every regent or advisor who's attempted to control the kid has ended up very dead, so everyone just kinda hope the boy grows out of it. And well, no one's exactly expecting Yoichi to live even to twenty anyway.

3- When the boys are thirteen, the carriage is attacked by someone jumping out of nowhere in a strange mask, holding out a spindle and lunging for Yoichi. AfO knocks them back and the fae flees. AfO announces it's clearly too dangerous for Yoichi to leave the castle grounds. When the boys are fourteen, Yoichi is enjoying the gardens and picking a flower when a lose spindle drops out of the bush, missing where his hand was by inches. He watches from the window as dozens more are found. AfO declares it too dangerous for Yoichi to go outside. When Yoichi is fifteen, something with glowing eyes half crawls through his window before being chased out, the spindle the only thing left. AfO moves Yoichi to a basement room with no windows.

4- Yoichi tolerates it for a time, before telling his brother that once they turn sixteen, this can end, he'll have beaten the curse. AfO remarks that he must have misheard- the curse was before his sixtieth birthday, not sixteenth. The next time that AfO visits, he finds Yoichi despondent, not reacting to anything, including him. AfO has to threaten to kill random servants and guards before Yoichi will eat, but he only speaks to ask to be released, and AfO finish the story. AfO always refuses.

5- eventually, the servants and guards have had enough. A maid flies into AfO's rooms one morning screeching that there are no guards downstairs anymore, only frogs in tiny suits of armor, and she couldn't find the one with the key to the prince's room. AfO races down with his key, the maid not following but slipping outside, and on opening the door finds Yoichi's bed empty. All that's on it is a spindle, wrapped in silvery hair, not thread, and a piece of paper with a drawing of Yoichi, eyes closed in sleep and wearing a crown of tiny golden spindles, with mirrored writing that says "Don't invite the fair neighbors where you don't want them to step."

+1- while AfO has his breakdown, Yoichi and every guard who'd worked down there is already smuggled out of the palace. For his own part, he's in a cart of straw, listening to Bruce complain that they should have saved a couple of the little suits of armor they'd all worked together to make for the frogs his cousin Hikage had helped collect, and Kudo telling him to stop complaining.

[animeyanderelover]

Tw: Yandere themes, toxic relationship, possessiveness behavior, obsession, stalking, overprotective behavior, clinginess

S/o is a second generation Pyrokinetic

❤️‍🔥​You join the Special Fire Force Company 7 under Benimaru as the newest assigned member and to say that you're nervous is an understatement. After all the captain of this independent Special Fire Force is none other than Shinmon Benimaru who is a legend for every Pyrokinetic and a hero in Asakusa. You're absolutely frightened when you introduce yourself to all members, nervous and tense as four pairs of eyes are watching you. Hikage and Hinata are already bombarding you with questions as soon as you enter until Benimaru and Konro pull both of them back and allow you finally to introduce yourself. Benimaru briefly congratulates you for your new position and wishes you good luck before he minds his own business. Konro apologizes for his friend's aloof behavior as he gives you a small tour of the company with the twins trailing closely behind you. He assures you that their captain will just need a little bit of time to warm up to you.

❤️‍🔥​You figure out that it is a bit of a challenge to get closer to Benimaru. The twins adore you already, in Konro you have found a good friend but somehow Benimaru seems still so tactiturn around you, so unreachable. You just feel so intimidated and your admiration for him makes you all the more awkward around him until you give up and decide to leave him be. From trying to gain his approval to fiercely avoiding to talk to him as much as you can, Benimaru notices your sudden shift in behavior and wonders what has happened. You're acting strange yet when he tries to ask you about it, you throw random excuses at him before dashing away from him. The captain questions Konro about it who just gives him a sigh, slightly exasperated but not surprised that Benimaru hasn't understood yet. He explains to him that his somewhat distant and quiet behavior around you has scared you and urges him to try to act nicer around you.

❤️‍🔥​Benimaru is thinking hard about how to get you to be less scared around him because it never was his intention to make you feel like you're not liked by him. He just draws a blank when he tries to think about methods to do so. Apparently there was never any need for words anyways as you walk one early morning in on him braiding Hinata's and Hikage's hair. He stares at you and you stare at him. He tries to come up with something to say because giving you a silent treatment or dry "good morning" probably won't help your impression that he doesn't like you but before he can speak of anything, you start chuckling. You try to cover your giggles as you look at the Pyrokinetic everyone holds in such high regards braiding the hair of the two girls and it feels like a burden is pulled off of you. Meanwhile Benimaru just stares at you confused as he wonders what it is that made you laugh all of a sudden. He doesn't mind though, the sound of your laughter reverberating through the room causing his heart to flutter inside his chest.

❤️‍🔥​After that day you feel less scared to approach him and talk to him and whilst he still doesn't fully understand what exactly he did to make you feel less nervous around him, he's ultimately just happy to have you feel that way. He now spends more time with you as he realizes that Konro was right and that he never really took his time to get to know you. You even get an apology from him as he admits that he was a bit wary of your sudden recruitment, especially since the Tokyo Empire was so pushy about you joining them that he accidentally took it out on you. You're flabbergasted when he bows down as you don't know what to do, only hastily forgiving him before begging him to not bow so deeply for you as it makes you feel uncomfortable. He's the captain after all.

❤️‍🔥​From that moment on both of you get rapidly closer to each other. You gladly tag along when he offers you to show you around Asakusa and introduces you to some of the citizens he is especially close to. Everyone loves him and seems to respect him and you admire him even more whenever he accepts sweet food someone prepared for him out of gratefulness and even eats it despite not being a big fan of sweet stuff. You start feeling incredibly at home now that all members of the company have welcomed you. You work hard and do your best to fight for the city by extinguishing and purifying Infernals, although it took you some time to accept the fact that Benimaru destroys entire buildings as offerings for the tragedy of losing someone when they are infernalized. It's in your eyes a strange way to tackle the problem but you go along with it since no one seems to mind.

❤️‍🔥​You wonder sometimes though why he has recently started staring at you whenever you are within his sight. It isn't uncommon that you turn around only to find his unique eyes already looking at you as if in a daze as he seems to snap out of his thoughts as soon as you question him about why exactly he is looking at you like this. He always answers you that he doesn't know himself, promises to not do it again only to find himself in the exact same situation soon again, his eyes automatically always following you. You also notice that he wants to spend a lot more time with you as he often asks you if you have time and want to join him when he goes out on walks and he even asks you one day if you'd be interested in helping him doing the twin's hair. His request is a bit strange but you still accept. Both girls only giggle as they glance at each other with knowing eyes as they observe Benimaru teaching you how to tie their hair or even braid it.

❤️‍🔥​He doesn't know what is going on with him himself. He only knows that he seemingly can't stop watching you, that his heart is pounding whenever you stand close to him and that his skin is always pleasantly tingling when you accidentally brush against him and he feels the warmth of your own body for a split second against his own. He's a lot more careful with you all of a sudden and certainly a bit more protective as he suddenly starts worrying significantly more when you put an Infernal to rest even if he has no reason to do so. You always laugh his worries off when he approaches you every time afterwards and asks you if you're feeling fine as you feel his eyes scrutinizing you for any tiny injury.

❤️‍🔥​You have a slight suspicion but you always dismiss it and tell yourself that you're merely imagining stuff. Why should Benimaru love you after all? Benimaru is even worse as he still hasn't figured out his own feelings despite the entire rest of the team desperately trying to help him realize what is going on. It isn't until a small accident happens where you nearly trip and fall flat on your face only for Benimaru to catch you in time that you realize that you might be right. His one arm is wrapped securely around your waist, holding you. But instead of letting you go, you realize that he's actually pressing you a tiny bit closer to his body and suddenly you feel his breath tickling the shell of your ear. Your heart starts pounding rapidly as you turn your head quickly around only to find his own close to yours, observing you with an almost dreamy tenderness in his eyes. Only when you stutter out that you wish to be unhanded does he snap out of it, although for a short moment he seems to hesitate to let you leave his arms.

❤️‍🔥​He finally approaches Konro after that incident and whilst his friend would have liked to explain everything calmly to him, Hikage and Hinata lose their patience and almost yell at him that he's in love with you. Love. He's never considered love before. He never was really invested in finding love so he has no idea how to tackle this problem initially. A part of him is still wondering if he really is feeling love for you. That last bit of doubt is eradicated when he takes a stroll through his city, deep in thoughts about how he is feeling about you when he actually spots you among the crowd. His heart is picking up some speed in his chest as a sudden urge to see you overcomes him and his feet automatically move as he approaches you. He slows down though when he realizes that you're talking to someone else and realizes that both of you seem quite close, especially judging by the way your hand is delicately touching their biceps.

❤️‍🔥​He doesn't know what comes over him in that moment. He just knows that he does not like this sudden strange weight that he feels in the pit of his stomach that makes him feel almost a bit queasy nor the sudden spark of anger he feels as he watches you with them. He feels the strong urge to interrupt this moment and acts on sheer impulse as he storms over to the two of you. Not only your companion is quite frightened, you are too when you see Benimaru almost stomping over to the two of you, his eyes ablaze with something. There are initially no words as he just stares at the two of you, especially your acquaintance and it feels like he's trying to set your arm on fire that is still touching them, this time to soothe them as you notice that they're quite scared by the captain's abrupt strange behavior. His hand suddenly wraps around your arm and forces you to let go, his eyebrows furrowed as he does so.

❤️‍🔥​Suddenly he is the one who comes up with a ridiculous excuse as he starts dragging you away from the scene, somehow deeply bothered with the thought to let you stay any longer with your acquaintance. They try to weakly speak up that they actually had plans with you only to shut up when Benimaru gives them a quick glare before replying that you belong to his team and that you have more important stuff to do. You're speechless as he pulls you away from them as you try to process what just happened. When you arrive at the building of your company, you have regained some composure and start quickly scolding Benimaru for his inappropriate behavior. His back is facing you and you don't even know that he's listening or not as you angrily rant only to be interrupted when he suddenly mentions that he doesn't like you spending time with someone he doesn't know and that he wants to know with whom you're spending your time with the next time.

❤️‍🔥​He figures out later that he probably was jealous as soon as he has cooled off a bit, although he's still mad at you for spending time with someone without telling him. He didn't know them after all. Why do you spend your time with people without him knowing about it? Isn't he your captain? Isn't he the one you admire so much? He indulges in such dark thoughts before he suddenly pauses and rewinds everything that just went through his head. Why is he thinking like this? He isn't bothered when Konro or the twins spend time with others. So why does it get under his skin when it's about you? He spends the rest of the day mostly in his room, his feelings suddenly troubling him. He wishes to be left alone even when Konro approaches him with a concerned expression, having heard everything from you.

❤️‍🔥​He apologizes the next day to you after he has calmed down and you hesitantly accept although you're still unsure how to feel about his behavior yesterday. You soon realize that Benimaru has started avoiding you again but this time you're actually a bit glad about it. Perhaps both of you should just spend some time alone and think about stuff as you're sure Benimaru is avoiding you more precisely because of his weird outburst. You feel relieved that he takes some time to reflect on himself but you couldn't be more wrong. Sometimes you wonder if you're hallucinating when you're in public and your eyes briefly fly over the crowd only to catch sight of a familiar figure standing amongst them and glowing eyes following you only to disappear seconds after. Are you losing your mind? Benimaru surely wouldn't just follow you like this, right?

❤️‍🔥​Wrong. You aren't imagining it. Benimaru has really been following you as good as he could, although reasonable enough to turn around as soon as you spot him amongst all the people. He doesn't know why he does this but he knows that he shouldn't just stalk you. Yet he can't help himself as his urge to know what you're doing at the moment is sometimes too strong to resist. He tries as good as he can to act as nonchalant as possible around you to not alert you even more as you have grown slightly more warily around him. He can't risk you straying away from him and making you lose your trust in him. Deep down he is yearning for the time where both of you were so close to each other and sometimes he feels a short flash of hot and bitter resentment to why you have to act so skittish around him now only to quickly snuff that feeling out. It's his fault after all.

❤️‍🔥​When Konro one day asks him with a serious look on his face that he wants to talk with him, Benimaru already knows that he knows. the Vice-captain has always been so observant after all and has known Benimaru for so long. Instead of throwing accusations at him straight away, Konro gives Benimaru the chance to explain himself and what he talks about with his friend afterwards is something only Konro gets to know. He admits to all of his sudden darker thoughts and impulses he feels when he's around you and even when you aren't with him. How strong he yearns for your body pressed against his own and how he sometimes wishes so selfishly that he wants you to spend all your time with him instead of spending more time with citizens and even confesses how he has been following you around just to satisfy his need to know with whom you're spending your time with. He doesn't know why he does such terrible things either.

❤️‍🔥​Konro tells him that it looks like Benimaru has started developing an obsession with you and even if this isn't what he wants to hear, Benimaru knows that his friend is right. He asks what he should do now but even Konro doesn't seem to know an instant solution to this problem as an obsession doesn't just disappear. The best advice he can give Benimaru is to try to control himself better and Benimaru makes him promise that he'll stop him if he should ever fall victim to his darker desires because he doesn't want to hurt you. Yet he also requests Konro to keep this discussion a secret from you because he is too ashamed to admit his obsession to you and also too scared that you might leave his division and his city. He wants you close to him, can't bear the thought of you being somewhere far away where he is unable to see you.

[paraliveimaginesblog]

hey~ how is everything? ^^ the request about overprotective little sister made me laugh hehe I was thinking if I could request the same for kanata, aoi, shogo, toma? thank you very much! have a good day <3

Aoi Kureha:

Aoi would be lying if they said your sister’s immediate animosity didn’t make them nervous. They didn’t expect for everyone to regard them in the way you did, but it seemed Aoi’s princely persona pushed them over the edge. They felt an intense need to prove themselves to your younger sister, to show their honest intent in this romance; they understood that others assumed it was all a show, considering their career, but they were capable of stepping away from the spotlight. Showing their imperfections helps their case but only the slightest bit, as your sister surely jumps on the chance to tease but as long as you kept holding their hand Aoi knew they’d be able to survive the night.

Kanata Yatonokami:

While Kanata understands it, it also irritated the hell out of him. It made him angrier because he knew that he’d be the same way if Nayuta suddenly brought home someone, wanting to know their intentions with his brother, but he hadn’t considered himself as difficult to deal with. But your sister is, butting her nose in where she doesn’t belong, giving him dirty looks that he mirrored right back at her, truly considering swinging on this short human who was testing his patience at every turn. Family, and siblings especially, were important to him though so he tried to hold himself back for the sake of your relationship.

Shogo Yamato:

Shogo wants to throw up. He had already been a bundle of nerves before meeting your family, worried about the association with his father, worried about what they might say about you dating an idol, but he sees his real fear should’ve been in gaining your younger sisters approval. He doesn’t know how to speak to her in a way that gets his intentions across without feeling fake, sighing when she rebukes him yet again and preferring to stick close to your side. He does start to relax a little more as your family is overall accepting of him, but he does feel like he’s walking on thin ice when your sister is around, as if she’s waiting for a chance to jump him when he least expected it.  

Toma Hikage:

Toma, with his power of optimism and ability to avoid harsh comments from years of being on social media, deals with your sisters insults like water off a ducks back. Nothing seems to bother him even when your sister started to give him the third degree, demanding details on what it was that he loved about you and if he saw a future with you. It’s embarrassing but Toma had long since accepted honesty was the only way to win her over, thus he didn’t hesitate to spout out his feelings for everyone to hear (much to your embarrassment). She doesn’t seem entirely positive about his intrusion into her family but she does have to admit respect to an opponent who refused to show weakness in front of her.

[neon-knights-mercenary-company]

8 October 3153 Islington System, Magistracy of Canopus, Rimward Periphery DropShip Electric Pony - docked with JumpShip Geranium Fever [NOTE: JumpShip unresponsive - disabled/destroyed(?) by misjump] [NOTE: Chronological error - pre-jump date: 4 January 3052]

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"A boarding team is being sent to verify the condition of your DropShip."

That was what the Star League Star Colonel had said - Binetti, Rowan de la Rosa remembered his name absent-mindedly as she stared at the viewscreen.

The members of the Neon Knights watched as a small dropshuttle vectored from the Canopian station - difficult to see, surrounded as it was by actual honest-to-God WarShips, all decked out with the SLDF star. What have we missed? Rowan thought.

The muffin-shaped shuttle beelined towards what was left of their ride - the Geranium Fever had gone completely unresponsive, so naturally the worst had been assumed - the comms officer zoomed in on the craft with the Pony's optical sensors. The proud red-and-black dragon insignia was plain to see against the slate grey of the shuttle's plating - as was, next to the dragon on either side, an SLDF Cameron Star. They weren't perfectly aligned with each other - probably means they'd been added later?

"It's a modified Dragonstar class transport shuttle, ma'am. Kuritan markings... the hell are the Kuritans doing in bed with the Clanners? It's squawking friendly ident, they haven't powered weapons, and their commo doesn't sound angry. So I doubt we're about to get vented," the officer snarked, before focusing on something in their headset.

"Hokay, they're sending a message - boarding team is being led by a..." the comms officer stopped mid-sentence, and swore in unbelieving Swedenese, though they recovered quickly and continued. "Led by a Tai-sa Ryūga Kurita, assigned to the... whoa. One of the Ryuken regiments, ma'am."

DCMS elite troops - the one's trained by the Wolf's Dragoons? An actual member of the Kurita family? What the hell have we jumped into here? thought Rowan.

"... also a Chu-sa Dahiya Ult Salah-Miyamoto? Assigned to the ... Hikage regiment? Never heard of them, must be new."

Another message made the comms officer focus again.

"ETA is... two minutes, they're burning hard. Looks like they've got other shuttles coming too, probably checking in on the Gerry and the other droppers."

The officer paused, and looked back to the others.

"We playing this cool?"

Rowan considered for a moment. A slight tremor buckled her knee, before she steadied herself with a hand on the good techie’s head. 

Dammit, not now.

“Aye, Xiong. Cool as cats,” she gave them a pat, “and speaking of cool cats- I want Charles and Jo to be part of the meet-and-greet, and with a quickness. Armed, but weapons holstered. Ags,” Rowan turns towards her XO. She had a white-knuckled grip on the other side of Xiong’s chair, but at least seemed to have steadied her breathing, instead glaring a hole in the Pony’s bulkhead, “I want you to take the conn while I meet the good Star Colonel.”

Agata flinched at Rowan’s words, but eased her grip on the chair nonetheless. “Understood, Commander. I have the deck.”

Some of the tension seemed to drop away from Agata’s shoulders at being given a task, like the strings holding her up were cut, but Rowan could tell she was still higher strung than a substation livewire.

Better to have her stay up here and stay cool. 

Rowan nodded, and turned in a parody of an about face to head on down to the airlock.

Time to meet the SLDF.

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In the span of a hallway and an elevator ride, the tremor had made it’s way out of her leg and up to her arm.

Least this means I shouldn’t loose my balance in front of our guests.

She hard them before she saw them, around the corner. Quiet chatter, the sharp bark of Joana’s laughter cutting through Charles’ curt replies, nearly drowning him out.

None of Jo’s usual warmth.

No laconic drawl out of Charles.

Both were already posted up, and their conversation withered as she approached.

“Boss,” Charles spoke up, one furry ear twitching with nerves, “what’re we expecting?” 

Rowan fiddled with the zipper of her jumpsuit, finally working the shakes out of her hand as she replied, “They claim they’re SLDF, but they’re using Clanner ranks and talk with a stick up their ass. Maybe got some Dracs with them too, from the sound of things. I’unno just what their game is here, but we’re playin’ it cool. Leave me talkin’ with the good Star Colonel, an if y’all think you can swing it, chat up some of their boarding crew. We’re working on limited intel here, and-” the sound of the shuttle docking to the Pony’s airlock cut her off.

Rowan flicked open her sunglass, setting the round lenses over her eyes.

A deep breath in.

And slowly out.

The Commander turned to the airlock, wearing her role like a uniform jacket thrown over a shoulder.

“And we’re out of time. Buckle up, y’all. Let’s see just who’s claiming to be the SLDF.”

[the-void-speaks]

to the kids of other holders: how is it spending eternity trapped with your parent :)

Quite nice actually, considering he died just before I turned 18 -hikage

torture. dad keeps tryna give me hugs :/ -en

[mishy-mashy]

Shinomori is cute. Here's a post.

He is so baby-faced. He hasn't changed at all since he was 22, to when he died of "old age" at 40

(Old age? With a face like that? 40 years old?? Gimme that kind of youth and hotness Shinomori-)

He has tiny eyebrows. Like a puppy's (rottweiler's, for example). So cute and tiny and fuffy

He naturally frowns. Look at him and his mouth and his lil nose

He has a thing about keeping his arms near his chest. He sits with his arms crossed, introduces himself with his hands over his torso, and even walks with his arms crossed toward Midoriya

He has such clear skin for someone who lived the rest of his life in a forest??? Why do Hikage and Yoichi have such nice skin despite living in terrible environments? (forest and vault + abandoned streets respectively)

Is easily scared

They knew their Quirks could be used, but Shinomori got scared of it when it happened. Even though he gave Midoriya his support and access to his Quirk beforehand. Depending on the translation; "it startled me", "you scared me", "it surprised me"

I'm not going to hold running from AFO against him because he knew he was running for his life. Who wouldn't run for their life when it's in danger? Shinomori was being chased by the strongest person in the country (and likely the world)

His sense of self-preservation is probably heightened by the nature of his Quirk to keep him out of danger too. Which makes him all the more sensitive and jumpy to danger and anything that startles him, especially when he has no warning

He's actually extremely tall, but is so socially inept and jumpy it's adorable. He's taller than Bruce.

Bruce is as tall as a vault door that the 2m AFO used.

(Meanwhile Kudo is down there-)

He has such a bad sense of humor that it's cute (his puns off Danger Sense)

It's also adorable how Shinomori just doesn't understand social conventions sometimes. He lived in a forest, so it made sense, but also— Midoriya shows up in the void to the vestige platform for the first time. He has no mouth, no clothes—and Shinomori's first idea is to stand in front of him menacingly and go: "I shall explain. I am Shinomori Hikage." SIRRRR

This.

His Ability is basically like glorified anxiety. What if something is coming to hurt him? If something can hurt him? What if that tree falls while he's under it? And the ideas come so hard they hurt (although yes, it does detect ill intent and that's what sets it off)

He talks weirdly. Formal? Old-fashioned? Listening to him speak Japanese compared to others, it just sounds a bit different. (Translated subs don't show it very well, it's the voice itself methinks)

"This too, is destiny." *about Midoriya having OFA*

Kinda wise or sage-y. He did spend his life in solitude in the forests so he definitely spent a lot of time with his own thoughts. Maybe he found the meaning of life in a centipede or something one day

For someone so cute, he is also such. A fine. Specimen???

Look at those back muscles, dang.

LOOK AT HIS CALVES AND ARMS DANG.

[aimportantdragoncollector]

Hi katydid,

I often read your MHA fanfics involving DFO and the relationship between AFO and First. I really like them. Yandere AFO is so spot on, but I also liked yandere Yoichi. But what about if other characters were yandere? So I want to propose you an idea about yandere Second and yandere Third with Yoichi as darling if you want to write it. You have already made a fic about Yoichi being possessive about Kudo and Bruce [Carved in Stone (Eroded by Water)], so why not the opposite?

Just imagine the heartbreak from Yoichi when he realizes he traded one yandere for two!

My idea invvolves Second and Third becoming yandere for First after rescuing from the bank vault.

At first they don't display yandere tendencies, but do after falling in love with First and fearing constantly his capture from AFO. They try to be much more subtle about it than AFO. The two try to prevent Yoichi from going out of their base with several excuses, until the latter finally understands what's going on. At that point, they try to guilt trip him, but it doesn't work, so they think they have no other choice but lock him up in their base. Their yandere tendencies are now open, but different from AFO, because they hope a slower pace would help him see reason/fall in love with them (translation: develop Stockholm syndrome).

For starters, they give him more space:

1) when Yoichi cried for the first time (due to the pain of betrayal), trey tried to hug him, but he rejected them, so since then they let him cry until he stops and just silently offer handkerchiefs; in fact, they avoid initiating contact unless Yoichi does first (including the sexual kind)

2) no infantilisation: they let him eat, dress, shower...etc by himself; they only stay near to be vigilant of any escape attempt

3) they let him sleep on his own bed, though they will sleep in the same room to be vigilant of any escape attempt; they only sleep with him when he starts "warming up" to them

4) speaking of escape attempt, if he tries to, they might chain him; however, they wouldn't really go further: they would rather deal with multiple escape attemps, no matter how headache inducing, than to put him in inhumane conditions, speaking of which...

5) NO BANK VAULTS OR DARK ENCLOSED SPACES: seeing Yoichi broken in the bank vault really hurt them, so they would rather keep him in large illuminated enclosed spaces, or if not possible, they would avoid leaving him alone so he doesn't suffer from isolation, even using other people of their vigilante organization. If Hikage is with them, he's an accomplice.

Also, if/when he tries to hunger strike, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES THEY FORCE FEED HIM. They make deals instead, like letting him decide which AFO's bases to destroy or letting him shop animal food online so they could give it to animal shelter. Basically they bribe him with the possibility of helping people or animals, even if indirectly. 

They also let him excercise, so he would have more chances to escape AFO if he finds them. Kudo and Bruce exercise with twice effort to protect him and, of course, be able to catch him if he escapes. They won't let him near object he could use as weapons, though.

Kudo and Bruce are still vigilantes, so they wouldn't murder the first person they find to make Yoichi comply, only if they are a threat to his wellbeing. That being said, it doesn't mean there aren't buttons that mustn't be pushed. Yoichi learned the hard way when in anger he compared Kudo and Bruce to AFO. In tranquil fury, they asked Yoichi to take it back. He didn't. They decided to MAKE HIM take it back and apologize (translation: they tickled him until he gave in).

Besides all of these implementations, they also try to bond with him sharing their tragic past/experiences (up to your imagination).

With all of this, Yoichi eventually gets attached to them. He thinks he has no one else and this might be the best he can get without being too smothered. The three begin to sleep in the same bed and might even have sex.

I hope you like this. If you think the actions are not really in character for them, you can change them. My idea is to make them possessive, obsessive and overprotective, but no sadistic, in order to differentiate them from AFO. They still haver more empathy than he could ever have. Nevertheless, if you think I made them too soft, I understand if you want to change that.

If you don't like the prompt, I'm open to being redirected to someone else.

Thanks for your time!

This is a fun idea! I should give Second and Third a turn to be yandere. I'll write something like that one of these days, after I finish up my current projects.

[oducchan-ofthelowercourt]

Some OFA Previous Users thoughts I need to get out of my system otherwise I won't be able to properly function anymore

We know now that Kudou (2nd user) and Bruce (3rd user) notice that Kudou has a second quirk only after Yoichi's death. This means that Yoichi didn't pass OFA before that, but he did it while he was dying -Bruce asks if Kudou had contact with AFO, they they had no idea that Yoichi could pass the quirk. We also know that OFA can't be transferred without the holder's consent, so as AFO was pulverizing him Yoichi must have thought something like "i want to stay with Kudou" or something along that line and as he bleed all over Kudou's face, including his eyes, he unconsciously transferred OFA. So Kudou's tears are not only for the pain of Yoichi's death, it's Yoichi's quirk and will passing and creating the chain that brings OFA for the future.

Kudou says that the only thing that can help bring back Izuku from the dark spiraling he's gone into is "those who will with the same intent, at the same pace, continue to run alongside him". He says this like he speaks from experience, and I can totally see it happening to him too: losing Yoichi, inheriting OFA, having to lead the rebellion, deciding to shoulder everything by himself. But he had someone who was on the same page as him who kept him sane and helped him every step of the way. Who? Bruce. The third user -and probably the whole rebellion group- definitely is a mirror to the relationship Izuku has to 1A. We all know of the parallelism between Yoichi and Izuku and Kudou and Bakugou, so Bruce has a parallelism to 1A as a whole -and, at least in my eyes, to specific people of 1A (such as Shoto, Tenya and Ochako).

As Yoichi died, Kudou and Bruce had no idea of how OFA worked and how could be passed down. They definitely spent time to figure things out, and I do wonder if they had any type of conversation with Yoichi's vestige while doing it. I do believe they swapped blood instead of hair to pass OFA, and that it was Hikage that went with hair (since he was convinced he was dying for a illness and probably didn't want to pass it to Banjo)

Speaking of Hikage and Banjo, the fact that Hikage was in isolation for 18 years (or more. Was he already an hermit when Bruce gave him OFA?) and then decided to pass the quirk to a loud and brash man is very interesting on his own. How do they met? What was their relationship?

Banjo is bald. So what did he use to pass OFA to En? I hope it was his beard.

Izuku believes he will be the last holder of OFA since quirkless people are very rare to find nowadays, but we do know at least three people that are "supposedly" quirkless RN. One is Aoyama (born quirkless, got a quirk by AFO. We don't know if AFO's eventual death will cause his acquired quirk to vanish, but if he receive a quirk like OFA he may be probably able to hold it). The others are Hawks and Ragdoll (who got their quirk stolen by AFO, so their bodies are currently "empty"). I don't think he's gonna pass it to neither of them, but the Aoyama option would work great as a means to complete his redemption arc, so to speak. [There is also All Might, but I don't think he can get it back]

[five-rivers]

Danger First chapter 15

(This is the actual chapter 15 btw, I mislabeled the last one, which was actually chapter 14.)

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“Hm,” said Hikage.  

“His anxiety has certainly gone up,” said Nana.  

“But it isn’t super anxiety.”

“Uh, why do you sound disappointed about that?” asked En.  

“Maybe All for One isn’t watching?” asked Nana, not really believing it even as she said it.  After all, when Toshinori had participated, she’d been his biggest fan.  Not to mention Kotaro’s soccer games…

“Not a chance,” said Yoichi.  “I bet he’s just convinced himself of something stupid.  Like UA changing the rules so that it’s the top entrance exam scorer in the whole school who gets to do the oath, rather than the top scorer in the hero entrance exam.”

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Ah, thought Hisashi as he slowly sipped a quirk from a failed nomu, UA must have been so impressed by his Izuku’s natural talents that they had changed their rules about who gave the insipid welcoming speech.  Of course, if they were going to change them for anyone, they would change them for Izuku.  And Izuku’s speech was much superior to anyone else’s.  

The nomu husk flopped to the floor and expired.  Ah, what he wouldn’t give to be able to drink wine again.  It was much less messy.  

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“I mean, is that really that stupid?” asked Nana.  “It probably would be good to celebrate the other tracks as well, even if UA is hero-focused.”

Yoichi shrugged.  “If my brother thinks it, then it’s stupid.”

“Fair.”

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“All of us,” said Izuku, gripping the microphone stand, “are here, in this competition, for the same reason.  To win.”  There were a few cheers and a distinct growl from Kacchan.  “But winning– winning looks different to everyone.  Some-someone from gen ed might want to join the hero course.  A person from support will want to advertise their inventions.  The business students want to polish their skills, win contracts, build– and build their brands.  And in the hero course–” Izuku took a deep breath.  “I-in the hero course, we want to show you, all of you, and- and ourselves, too, what kinds of heroes we can be.” He raised his fist.  This was All Might’s pose, but he didn’t think Mr. Yagi would mind.  “I believe we can all win!  Plus Ultra!  Go beyond!

“PLUS ULTRA!” the other students screamed back at him.  

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“Huh,” said Third, scratching his ear.  “That was actually pretty good.”

“Hahahaha,” chortled Yoichi, reaching out as if to embrace him, “you’re coming around to the Izuku side.”

Third leaned away from Yoichi.  “What– What was that sound you just made?”

“My avuncular laugh!  I’m working on a new one, since you said my other one sounded like my brother’s.”

En cleared his throat.  

“Yes?” said Yoichi, turning towards him.  “What is it?”

“I think I speak for all of us when I say, never make that sound again.”

“I’d honestly prefer your All for One sound-alike laugh,” said Banjo, looking rather ill.  

Yoichi dropped his arms and curled his lip.  “Seriously?”

“Seriously,” chorused the other ghosts.  

“Well, see if I share my popcorn with you guys, then.”

“We can imagine our own.”

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Izuku hurried back down the stairs.  He wasn’t running away, but it felt a little bit like it.  He took his place between Monoma and Hagakure and breathed deeply.  

“So, Wonder?” asked Hagakure, leaning towards him.  

“It just felt like something that everyone helped me with,” said Izuku, “and I’m always wondering what my quirk even is, so it fits there, too…”

“Surely,” said Monoma, “you have a better idea of what it is after my generous guidance.”

“Y-yeah, it really helped.”

“Shhhh,” hissed Iida from further up the line.  “Ms. Kayama is about to explain the rules of the first event!”

“What a wonderful speech from our student representative!”  The crowd clapped politely again, and the big screens all over the stadium lit.  “Now, without any further delay, let’s get the first event started.  These are the qualifiers!  It’s in this stage that so many are sent home crying every year!  And the fateful first event this year is… STAR SEEKER!”

“I don't know that one,” whispered Hagakure.   

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“Neither do I,” said Yoichi, worriedly.  “What is it?  Is it new?  Nana, Nana, do you know?”

“Hey, it's not like I participated in all that many of these myself!  If it wasn't in the kids’ presentation, I don't know about it!”

“I'm starting to wonder if anyone here went to school,” grumbled Banjo.

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Ms. Kayama gestured expansively behind herself, and the ground rumbled as concrete slabs pulled back and something else rose up from below.  

“In this game, students must find - and keep! - the Special Stars hidden on this Stellar Stage!  Speaking of which please give a round of applause to the heroes who put this stage together for us.  Kamui Woods, Pixie Bob, Aquarius, Cementoss, Power Loader, and their agencies!”

Yes, Izuku could see the expertise of all those heroes at work.  Cementoss for the underlying structures, Pixie Bob for the seemingly natural hills, Aquarius for the water features, Kamui Woods for the plant life and fantastic, if widely-set, trees, and Power Loader for the traps and robots that were doubtlessly hidden all throughout the ‘stage.’  

“But students will have to do more than seek and find in this game of combat keep-away!  There's more than a handful of hidden hazards scattered around, and, what's more, stars can be stolen!  Students will need to keep their stars until the end if they want to move on to the next event!”  

There were cheers all around the stadium as Ms. Kayama paused, letting the microphone rest by her thigh.  She brought it back up again, grinning.  “What's that?  You want to make it harder?  Well, never fear, here at UA we're always ready to go Plus Ultra!”  She waited again, this time for the choral response to die down.  “Our terrific teachers are going to get in on the fun.  They won't be using their quirks, but that doesn't mean they'll be going easy on anyone!”

This time, the cheer was more of a deafening roar than anything else.  

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“My,” said Yagi, “it does seem as if the ideas Nezu got from his discussion with the students bore fruit.”

Shouta grunted.  “Most of the teachers here are pretty popular,” he admitted, grudgingly, “but at least some of that is probably idiots thinking you're going to go out there.”

“I can't imagine how they think I can commentate on the event and participate in it at the same time.”

“In my experience, logic like that doesn't factor into it.”

Yagi sighed.  “You're probably right, but at least the two of us can give them a good show from up here.”

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“It is pretty cool how we have both Toshinori and Izuku's viewpoints,” said Nana, starting to settle more into the fake cinema she and the other ghosts had collaborated on.  

“Yep,” said Yoichi, unfurling a VICTORY IZUKU banner, “two whole ways to watch Izuku being awesome.”

“It's almost like having cable again,” said Nana. 

“Cable would have more channels,” said Hikage.  

“Well, sure, it's not literally cable.  But after just having one channel since I died, unless I want to watch your reruns, it's a big increase.”

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“Oh, UA is certainly a superior institution,” said Monoma, shaking slightly, “to take our disparate thoughts and turn them into something like this…  Midoriya, Yaoyorozu, you can never let them know this was our fault–”

“You know,” said Hagakure, “I'm invisible, not deaf.”  

“We're so dead,” muttered Monoma.  There may have been a swear word or two in there as well.  

“It-it's not that bad,” said Izuku, uncertainly.  Sure, in junior high people had ganged up on him for ‘not pulling his weight’ in group projects… even if he was the only one who had done anything…

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“I'm reiterating my desire to kill Izuku's junior high teachers,” said Yoichi.

“You know,” said En, thoughtfully, “if you could get him to mention any of that to his father–”

“You could get him to reveal his hideous lack of a high school diploma!” said Banjo, loudly, while Nana and Third dragged En off to one side of the mindscape.  

Yoichi sighed.  “Hisashi has a high school diploma.”

“But did he earn it?”

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But UA was different!  He had friends, now. 

Still, he could see some of the things they had mentioned to Nezu reflected in Star Seeker.  The need for something new, teachers on hand and close to competitors in case of an emergency, a dynamic activity that would pit students against each other…  

“It isn't too different from a scavenger hunt,” said Izuku.  And at least it wasn't like they had to deliver the stars and remove themselves from the game to pass on to the next event.  That meant they could support each other the whole time.  It also meant that they were at risk of having their stars stolen the whole time…

“And one more thing!” said Ms. Kayama.  “Don’t forget to stay in bounds!  If you leave the stage, that’s it for your search and your stars!”  A red line around the raised area of the stage pulsed with red light.  “Now, everyone, step on up to the starting line!  When it goes green, that’s your signal to go!”

The orderly rows of students immediately dissolved into chaos, and Izuku had Danger Sense and Hagakure to thank for his untrampled state.  

“Come on,” she said, “let’s find a good place to start from.”

“R-right,” said Izuku.  

“Everyone seems fired up after that introduction, don’t you think so, Eraserhead?”  There was a quiet grunt that might have been Mr. Aizawa agreeing with Mr. Yagi.  “I wonder if any of the stars have already been spotted.”

“If none of them have, then our students need a remedial lesson on assessing their environment.  Not to mention all the pros here,” said Mr. Aizawa, very dryly.  

Izuku took a deep breath, then let it out slowly.  Right.  Focus on the task at hand.  Not much point in learning all those anti-anxiety techniques during quitk counseling if he didn’t use them.  

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“I think I see two of those stars already,” said Yoichi.  “Do you think Izuku will go after them?”

“Hmm,” said Nana, “maybe if he was working on his own.  He could get one or the other, then use float to stay out of reach of most of the other students.  But getting a star too early is almost a liability.  Unless you have a really good defense or stealth quirk, you'll get worn down by sheer numbers.”

“Or if you've figured out a good defensive strategy with other students,” said En.  

“Eh,” said Banjo, “I think not knowing what the event was kept them away from the main pitfalls in planning, but you know what happens to plans when they're put into practice.”

“Against large but disorganized numbers, even simple cooperation can make a sizable difference,” said Hikage.  

“What are you talking about?” asked Banjo.  “When did you cooperate with anyone?”

“I have dedicated my life to cooperation,” said Hikage.  

“He kind of did,” said En.  “With the whole, you know, living as a hermit thing.”

“He would have done that anyway,” said Banjo, waving his hand.

“That is true.”

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A large, green, fifteen minute timer appeared on the screens scattered around the stadium.  Written in large, bold letters over it was the word ‘READY?’

Izuku wasn’t sure if the tingling, electric feeling all over his skin was anticipation, Danger Sense, or Kaminari, a few meters away, unconsciously charging the air in his excitement.  

The word above the timer changed to ‘SET.’

The air itself seemed to shift as hundreds of students tensed.

‘GO!’

Izuku activated Float as he lunged forward and pushed off the ground, then signaled his classmates towards the two stars he'd already seen– And there!  A third!

“Oh, and that's A15, creating an entire ice palace in the northern grove, right off the bat.”

“A decisive defensive move,” acknowledged Mr. Aizawa. “Made more impressive by how he avoided trapping any of the other competitors.”

“Indeed!  It shows a great deal of care and dedication.  Speaking of which, check out those springboard traps flinging students out of the arena!  Power Loader really outdid himself this time!”

As Izuku rose up over the trees and the spikes of Todoroki's instant glacier, he saw Hatsume bounce up with her jetpack and Sero get launched by a combination of his and Uraraka's quirks.  They weren't the only ones, however.  A small group of people seemed to be climbing the air like it was stairs, and dear All Might, was that half of someone's head?

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“Wow, quirks are sure amazing,” said Yoichi.  

“We're ghosts living in the back of a teenager's subconscious,” said Nana, “I think that at some point we have to give up on the idea of things being weird.”

“I didn’t say weird, I said amazing.”

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“It seems as if some of our students have taken to the skies to find their stars,” said All Might.  “We have B12 taking up Rule and Comicman, Cellophane rising with the help of Uravity, Brigid, of the support course, using a jetpack, and Wonder, C5, Jetplane, and Lizardy flying with their quirks.  What do you think of this strategy, Eraserhead?”

“Getting a big-picture view of a situation is frequently helpful, but it exposes you to attacks from below.”

Even as Mr. Aizawa spoke, thorny green vines shot out of one of the more wooded areas and seized one of the general education students.  A bright yellow star shape fell out of the student's grip, and was followed shortly thereafter by the student themself.  

Danger Sense screamed at Izuku, and he dropped just in time to avoid a pair of long, spear-like objects.  No– horns?

Izuku realized what was happening all at once.  The students on the ground had assumed that, because he'd removed himself from the chaos below, he'd already gotten a star. 

He dodged upward to avoid the next projectile, and saw Hatsume's jetpack take a shot.  The metal body was tough enough to endure it, but apparently whatever B12 was using wasn’t.  He and the two other class 1-B students fell, but one of them summoned…  A giant pillow made of the word POOMF!

Okay, sure, why not?

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“Quirks really are amazing,” said Yoichi.  

“You know what would actually be amazing?” asked Banjo.

“Giving Izuku your quirk?” asked Nana, sounding quite exhausted.  

“Well, yeah,” said Banjo.  “Are you going to let me do it?”

“In the middle of a competition?  Are you serious?”

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In the grand scheme of things, there actually weren’t a whole lot of quirks that could be used effectively at long distances without support gear.  That’s what made Lady Nagant so effective when she was a hero, and so devastating when she turned villain.  

However, in UA where most of the students had wanted to be heroes at some point in their lives, the ratio was much higher.  Adding those to the support students’ gadgets and weaponry made for a lot of attacks going up.  

Sero had to stick his tape to a clump of rocks and reel himself down.  Hatsume took several hits, and they were only mostly deflected by her own inventions.  

But as the students on the ground clashed with each other, they had to turn their attention to defending themselves.  After less than half a minute, few attacks were launched Izuku's way.  

Then, almost on cue, the roar of Explosion drowned out everything else in the stadium.  Izuku flipped himself over midair to look and grinned.  

He'd been right!  Kacchan really was awesome!  He'd known Kacchan had wanted to fly since his quirk first came in.  Well, since Izuku had compared his quirk to a rocket, but that was the same thing, really.  And after Uraraka had shown him what her quirk could do, there was just no way he'd tolerate being upstaged.  Then, seeing Izuku up here–

Honestly, thirty seconds was a bit long.  Izuku couldn't imagine that it had taken Kacchan that long to get the star tucked into his half unzipped gym uniform top.  He must not have realized that it was Izuku floating up here.  

“Another student in the air!  This one is, I believe, B17.  That's quite a bit of explosive power on display!”

“Foolishly.  He already has a star, and he won't be able to sustain that flight.  What is he thinking?”

He let Kacchan get a little closer, and then dropped.  The ground approached rapidly, and Izuku only barely caught himself before hitting the ground.  Then, he was wrenched sideways, under the shade of one of the sparse groves of trees.  

“Hi,” Izuku said to Dark Shadow, a little confused.  She and Tokoyami weren't supposed to be involved in the take-down-Kacchan plan.  The last iteration had them providing cover to Jirou and Shouji, so they could use their sharp hearing to their advantage.  The alternate grouping had been with Kouda, who was still a bit tentative when it came to physical combat.

“Hi!” she chirped back.  “Fumi and I got separated from everyone else.”  Behind her, Tokoyami shrugged, seemingly resigned.

Danger Sense pulsed sickeningly, giving Izuku time to dodge before Kacchan descended in a cloud of smoke and fire.  Dark Shadow squealed as she flinched away from the light.  

“Deku,” he growled, before a tumbleweed-like tangle of brawling students rolled in-between them.  

“Ha!” shouted a boy with a blue and white bandana, emerging on top and holding up a star.  “Hell yeah!  Tell them that Weld–”

“Out of the way, extra!”

“Hey!”

Izuku was in the air again, waving at Kacchan.  Dark Shadow slid up behind Kacchan, but he pushed her off easily with more explosions.  Or maybe not so easily.  As she withdrew, she grabbed the zipper of his uniform, and the star he'd tucked in there fell out.  He cursed and fumbled for it, forced to extinguish his hands and fall in the process.  

So, Kacchan still prioritized winning over beating up Izuku.  Good.  Izuku would've been disappointed in him, otherwise.

The boy with the blue and white bandana got to the star first and somehow fused it to the ground.  A glance at the still-prone group of similarly fused students, and the way the boy's star was stuck to his own arm told Izuku that must be his quirk.  Izuku had known someone in 1-B had a welding quirk - his class had researched more than the festival rules - but he hadn't realized it worked on organics, too.  Wow, Izuku definitely had to put that in his notebook!

After the event.  

“Take that, Lord Murder Explosion!” said the boy, dancing out of Kacchan's reach and into Kaminari's.  

“Don't bother,” said Izuku, still rising, and deliberately not looking at Kacchan.  “He's got it fused to himself somehow!”

“Gotcha!” said Kaminari.  “So, how're we gonna deal with Blasty, boss?”

Izuku cringed internally at the title.  He was no one's boss!  But this was part of the plan they'd come up with, so–

Kacchan screamed and exploded his star out of the ground.  Then, he turned his baleful glare back up, towards Izuku, and took off again.

Izuku watched, terrified, fascinated, and more than a little thrilled.  Right now, all he was doing was running away, but he was still putting that look on Kacchan's face.  

He had to laugh a little, despite his nerves.  This was so different from middle school.  

“What are you laughing at, you goddamned nerd?” roared Kacchan.  “Your pink-cheeked girlfriend won't be able to save you forever!”

Oh, Izuku thought, blankly, Kacchan doesn't realize I'm floating under my own power.  

He could probably use that, somehow.  Beings underestimated gave all sorts of advantages.  But it also made Izuku mad.  Kacchan hadn't even tried to research Izuku before this, had he?  He just assumed he already knew everything.  It was insulting.  

But it was true that Izuku couldn't stay airborne forever.  Or even the whole length of the event.  Even if he could keep Float going for that long (which was by no means guaranteed), he still had to get a star.  

And, for the next part of the plan to work, he had to get back to ground level and break Kacchan's line of sight while he was still raging.

Kacchan would be ready for Izuku to drop suddenly, this time.  There was no way around that.  Kacchan was smart, smarter than Izuku, and Izuku would be expecting it, if their positions were reversed.  

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“Boo, no, Izuku, he's not smarter than you.  He just got better grades because your teachers sucked.”

“That scene down there is missing something, though, isn't it?” said Nana.  “Where are the teachers?”

“And the robots,” added En.  “I was hoping for some robot battles, they're always fun.”

“The teachers are there,” said Hikage.  

“Where?” asked En, leaning forward.  

“Ohh, I see,” said Nana.  “And the robots are there, En.  Look at that, there, and there.”

“Huh, that's going to be interesting.”

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Izuku reoriented himself and got ready to drop.  Neither he nor Kacchan had experience in aerial combat, but Izuku knew Explosion, and Kacchan didn't know Float or Danger Sense.  

… It sort of felt like cheating, but Kacchan could have come to watch any of the class 1-A practices, just like Hagakure and Hatsume had gone to see the class 1-B practices.  So, there.  

He fell, feet first, towards Kacchan’s face.  Kacchan raised a hand to blast at Izuku, but wasn’t able to keep his flight path steady with only one hand.  He fell sideways, and they both missed.  Kacchan quickly recovered, diving at Izuku with starling speed.  Izuku arrested his descent and shot back up, and it was Kacchan’s turn to miss.  

“--that turned against villains!  And there’s an impressive dogfight shaping up over the south,” All might was saying.  “Aerial battles like this always remind me of my time working with the Angels in America.  They’re currently known for their Special-Class Villain Response work with Star and Stripe, but it’s less well known that many of them are quirkless!”

“Wait, really?”  None of the publications he’d read had ever mentioned that!  He was sure he’d remember it!  The Angels weren’t exactly heroes, they worked for the American army, but they weren’t not heroes, either, and Izuku had read about them when he was researching All Might’s early career, and when he was reading about Star and Stripe.  In both Japanese and English, too!

Not, like, nearly as much as he’d read about All Might himself, but still!

“Eyes on me, Deku!”

Izuku hadn’t really taken his eyes off Kacchan, but it was nice of him to remind Izuku!  Very sportsmanship-like!

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“Does Ninth know what sportsmanship is?” asked Banjo.  “Because that’s not it.”

Yoichi sighed.  “The next thing you’ll be saying is that Izuku never went to school.”

“You know, considering what his junior high was like–”

Banjo was cut off by numerous groans.  

“I still don’t believe either of you two went to school.”

“I already told you about the fire truck incident.  Why would he be so invested in winning a high school contest if he wasn’t in high school?”

“First off, you didn’t tell us anything, secondly, shoulding you call that the North Carolina National Guard incident?  And thirdly the bastard isn’t in government, and he still wants to win that, doesn’t he?”

All of the older ghosts, even second, cringed with their whole bodies.  “Wow, that is sure an optimistic view of the government you have there, Banjo,” said Yoichi.

“Oh, come on, there’s no way he could act normally enough to become president of a home owners’ association, much less– Oh, come on,” he said, noticing the tiniest shift in Hikage’s expression.  

“I was a building inspector.”

“What does that even mean in this context?  Give me a clue, man.”

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Kacchan tried to ram Izuku, next, and wrap his legs around him, but Izuku had no desire to engage with Kacchan that closely, and managed to push off.  Kacchan swung around for another attempt, but Izuku thought he had enough distance to get him back on the ground, and near Kaminari.  

If things had gone according to plan there, Shinsou would be nearby.  Hopefully, Kacchan was distracted enough for Shinsou's Brainwashing to work.  Shinsou hadn't wanted to reveal exactly how his quirk worked, which was fair enough.  There had to be some easy way to avoid or break free of the quirk's effects, or else he wouldn’t be so reticent.  Right now, Izuku suspected a vocal trigger of some sort, but eye contact, emotional states, and attention were still possibilities.  

Danger Sense spiked, and Izuku narrowly managed to avoid a volley of thorny vines.  But he had dodged down, not up, and he wasn't able to avoid the vines falling on him and wrapping him up that way.  Thorns dug into his skin, and he was yanked sideways and down.  Branches and leaves smacked into him as he was pulled through trees.  

When he was finally still again, he was hanging upside down and a girl with vines with hair was frowning down at him.  Two stars hung in her hair like oversized ornaments.  Kacchan was in a similar predicament.

“Only angels should fly so high,” she said, menacingly.  

This was bad.  Izuku on his own didn't have anything like an effective counter for Shiozaki Ibara.  Even class B's recommendation students would have been easier to deal with.  

“And another two victims fall to Vine's web!” announced All Might. 

“Stop making me sound like a spider,” said Shiozaki, aggrieved.  “I'm a holy warrior.”

Luckily, Izuku wasn’t actually alone.  “Hey, Kacchan, are you really going to let this girl get in the way of our fight?”  Ugh, he felt kind of gross just saying something like that.

Kacchan, predictably, exploded.

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“That kid needs anger management,” said Nana.  

“Yeah,” said Banjo.  “That's too much rage, even for me.”

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All the vines near him were shredded, along with Izuku’s ears.  Angry Kaccan was loud.  

But Shiozaki thought the attack was more against her than against Izuku - those were her vines he was blowing up - and responded in kind.  They battled

Izuku, torn free of the vine keeping him hung up, rolled over, trying to think how he was going to cut himself free of the rest of the vines.  Or, did he need to cut them?  He gripped one of the inner ones with both hands and pulled as hard as he could, digging his fingernails into the skin of the vine.  It was thin and flexible, not woody.  Green, and soft, if fibrous, like new blackberry or rose vines.  

With the right force in the right place, they tore.  

Izuku had to assume that the relative weakness of the vines directly wrapping around him was at least partially purposeful, to prevent injury.  Tougher thorns and more mature, rougher vines, would hurt.  

Then again, Shiozaki's hair was green, too, and it had taken multiple strands of vines to hang Izuku's weight from the branches overhead.  Maybe he could ask her about it.  After he apologized.  

He snapped three more vines, one after another, and the rest loosened enough that he could worm his way out.  He ran from the increasingly loud and vicious fight between Kacchan and Shiozaki.  It wasn't what they'd planned, but he wasn't anywhere near Shinsou anymore.  

He looked up at Hatsume.  Her role, at the moment, was basically control tower.  Unfortunately, she was pointing at him at the moment, so–

Wait.  

He'd only barely completed the thought when Iida zoomed up to him, Uraraka on his back.  Both of them had stars, and looked like they'd mostly avoided battle, although Uraraka was vaguely green.  

“Should we join that battle?” asked Iida.  

Izuku shook his head, then hesitated.  Shiozaki had two stars.  “Do you think you're fast enough to get the stars from her hair?”

Iida nodded decisively.  “If one of you grab them.”

“Hop on!” said Uraraka, holding out her hand.  Izuku took it, and she used her quirk on him.  

Izuku still couldn't get over how different Zero-G felt from Float.  

He gripped tight to Uraraka and Iida both as Iida accelerated.  First, Iida ran away from the fight between Shiozaki and Kacchan, but he turned, making a wide arc and gaining speed all the while.  They intersected several other fights.  The first time, Izuku was too distracted by their speed to do anything, but Uraraka made a grab for the star under contention.  She missed, but Izuku got the idea in time to keep her from falling off.  They almost fell into a pit trap, next, saved from uncertain doom only by the combined application of Zero-G and Float.  

And then they were racing back to Kacchan and Shiozaki.  Fast, faster, fastest–

And then Iida slowed, enough that Izuku and Uraraka could try grabbing the stars without breaking their hands.  He must have learned that from his family, because Izuku didn't remember talking about that at all in practice–

But Shiozaki must have sensed their approach somehow, because she pulled herself up off the ground, not entirely unlike Sero, using one of the few branches left intact by Kacchan's attempts to escape.  Izuku kicked off, reaching.  His outstretched fingers brushed against the stars.  

He curled away from a blisteringly hot blast on instinct, more than anything.  Kacchan must be working up a real sweat!

But Izuku should probably focus more on how the force of that blast meant he was rapidly approaching the out-of-bounds area.  

Uraraka, apparently seeing the same problem, disengaged her quirk, and Izuku caught himself with Float inches above the ground and sort of skipped himself to a gradual stop.  

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“Did you ever figure out how to move horizontally without using the stockpile?” asked En.  

“I'm starting to wonder if any of you paid any attention when you were with me.”

“Sure we did!” said Banjo.  “But it was a long time ago.  And also kind of short.”

“It was longer than yours, though,” said Hikage.  

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On the ground, Izuku patted out several smouldering patches on his PE uniform and had a brief tussle with a swirly-eyed support student with… taser nunchucks.  Carrying something like that around when you didn't have any electrical resistance yourself was a remarkably bad idea.  

But he'd done it!  He'd gotten a star!  Only one, as opposed to the two he was going for, but still!  It was bigger than it looked from a distance, and reminded Izuku of a prop from a video game, all rounded, and fat around the middle.  

A faint twinge from Danger Sense kept him from being completely blindsided by Mr. Yamada, but he wasn't able to keep his grip on the awkwardly-shaped star, and it was snatched from his grasp.  He turned, ready to fight, but couldn't help but stare blankly, for a moment, at the sight of Mr. Yamada - Present Mic - in the UA PE uniform.  

This– this felt like some kind of special event, for a hero fan like Izuku, but he was in the middle of a fight, how was he supposed to react…?

“And it looks like Wonder, after his meteoric path across the event stage, has been ambushed by none other than Present Mic!  What a twist!”

“Since they aren’t able to use their quirks, our teachers won't be using their usual tactics, and students would be wise to remember that.”

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Like usual, Kurogiri watched the UA Sports Festival with his charge.  

So why…  Why did it feel so unusual?  

Why did all of this feel wrong?

Shigaraki Tomura's debut as a leader of villains was only a few weeks ago.  Perhaps… No, it must be that, and the change in perspective such an event caused.  These child-heroes had already clashed with Shigaraki Tomura, and proved themselves to be a credible threat.  Therefore, it was natural that this sports festival, as opposed to others, would engender a sense of urgency.  Especially as Kurogiri had yet to make much progress in his goal of finding suitable companions for Shigaraki Tomura.  

However…  The feeling Kurogiri experienced as he listened to the announcers and watched the event unfold wasn't urgency, but nostalgia.   

The feeling intensified as the main camera panned over to where Present Mic was confronting the green-haired boy, the one both Shigaraki Tomura and Sensei were interested in.  The more negative of the two announcers was saying something, but Kurogiri couldn't hear it past the sudden thunder in his ears.  The side screens showed Midnight - presumably as fanservice, she wasn't doing anything at the moment - and a crowd of heroes in the stands that included Ingenium as an audience reaction.

That, that, there, was what Shigaraki Tomura needed.  A forceful blond, a depressive with lapsed hygiene, someone flashy, with a degree of showmanship, and someone friendly and easygoing who was nonetheless fierce and powerful in battle.  

Yes.  A set of personalities like that could form a bond that might transcend death itself.  

Kurogiri closed his eyes, briefly.  That was foolish thinking.  But now that he knew what he wanted for Shigaraki Tomura, he could communicate his requirements to Giran.

And… now that he had some idea of what he wanted for himself…  Unlike Shigaraki Tomura, Kurogiri wasn't supposed to have desires of his own, much less act on them, but as his half-lidded eyes roved across the screens, he couldn’t help but wonder…  What was a villain made for, if not transgression?

[rhythmic-idealist]

Everytime I start to think "maybe BNHA wasn't *that bad*, maybe I could bring it back in and let it just coexist with whatever interests I have nowadays" I just look at your blog and get a snap back to reality🙏

(SORRY THIS IS LONG. Oh my god. My bad. Yw, though)

This is so interesting. I adore BNHA, and the post that people are tagging "BNHA critical" lately was.... intended not to be read as "BNHA uncritically believes this thing" but instead as "BNHA constructs a society that it specifically exposes for this bad thing."

I really will never agree with decisions made with the end of the manga. [I'm about to do manga spoilers. I figured this was okay since you aren't coming back, but you can stop here if you'd rather.]

Tenko should have lived. Himiko should have lived. Touya DESERVED to live, although I find myself less burned by his specific tragedy & it seems handled with the most appropriate context and care.

Like. I've analyzed it, and I'll continue to. I get the feeling even Horikoshi may be uneasy with it, although I'll never know for certain obviously and I always feel strange speculating about that stuff. But I don't think the ending was good.

BNHA started conversations in public spaces for me and gave me specific characters and concepts in ways that I will never begrudge it, and for that I find myself really just unbelievably lucky. Lucky in the ways I find myself able to continue to engage, in the fact that its ending has managed not to taint the rest of it. There still exists in my mind a very real "BNHA before the ending was written" as its own piece of art that existed for a period of time and that I'm not really done talking about. BNHA has made me want to write a novel with more of a strong pull to action than anything has for a long time.

But—while I love Tenko, and love Himiko—my favorite characters are Tenya and Hikage. Tenya's ending is imperfect, but oh my god, it's barely imperfect. Hikage's ending is imperfect for Tenko, but for HIMSELF? I have no notes. Missed opportunities, but no complaints, no notes. Oh my god Hikage fans are the luckiest people in this goddamn fandom.

And so my heart winds up insulated. I experience the letdown of the manga's end but I think that myself having other CENTERS to my BNHA experience probably has a lot to do with why it was able to deeply disappoint me without hurting me or changing itself so drastically, in the way that it has alienated so many other fans.

I really do love BNHA as a piece of art. I believe it is a good piece of art.

Growing up my favorite book was The Two Princesses of Bamarre, and I hated the final chapter with a burning passion. The feelings were significantly more intense than my BNHA ending feelings somehow, although being a tween/teen may have had something to do with that. It was still my favorite book.

I love.... so much about how BNHA opens conversations about transformative justice. I love that it's a story about how parents cannot be abandoned to protect their chid from the world alone if the child is under constant fire, and how sometimes the fire is coming from inside the house, and it is everyone's obligation to meddle even when social rules say otherwise. I have sat in Discord servers having long conversations with people who NEEDED to be asked If heroes "save people," was Jin a person?

BNHA falls short of writing an ending that imagines the world where we actually all become the hero who saves everyone, but the fact that it speaks to a fandom that is so often lagging so far behind that concept on even a basic level—that Izuku provides a conversation space for me to even tell people no he says his goal is to save everyone. Everyone. Everyone. His goal is to save everyone. "Does [x] deserve to live" I have a question. is that person one of Everyone? Then Yes, Deku Is About Saving That Person. Whether he achieves it or not, that's what the concept of Deku is for. It is for trying.

(There's a lot that I disagree with about how Izuku's ending was written too. To speculate, and I'm not the first to say this, much of the ending feels like it was.... following a plan that was made years and years ago, even when it didn't fit anymore.)

I think it was trying to do something with the idea that Tenko and Himiko were tragedies. It feels vaguely like it was trying to do something with their lack of privilege, and like it was trying to do something with characters who deserved to live but were so successfully isolated by mainstream society that their survival, unlike All Might's and Izuku's, wasn't "possible." (When the world prayed for All Might, when Ochako yelled at the civilians to buck up and take on some of Izuku's burden- Tenko and Himiko don't have that.) The strategy heroes use to kill the villains is called Divide And Conquer, and this series is about how no one can manage without Those Who Match Their Pace And Run Alongside Them. And how even with a few people like that... that's only a stopgap, and the broader context they exist in MUST change.

It imagines more than thousands of its more mainstream fanbase are willing to. I think it is something deeply important for that. I think that as a piece of political art (all art is political) it WILL ultimately matter that

But I feel that it forgot that some of its audience relates more to the Tenkos and Himikos to anyone else, and that it managed to deeply betray that audience after building so much hope.

Anyway. It's a work that wounds a lot of people for extremely legitimate reasons. Also there is sexism and some such etc in it. I'm quite glad that if you won't have fun here I manage to remind you to stay away, ahfjdisgin.

I am.... a little sore lately abt that post of mine circulating with the tag "BNHA critical"—not because of the tag itself, but because it shows me several people seriously believing a post I made about "look at this cool flaw BNHA points out in its own society" means "wow, fucked up that Horikoshi EARNESTLY BELIEVES this," and that the misread is so consistent it's likely a problem with my phrasing—and so whenever I post about it now I always want to make my OWN feelings very clear. I hope this does not feel that it was at all in argument with you?

I am VERY glad we enjoy our various different fandoms in our own different corners. And that my portrayal of BNHA is honest enough to remind you that you wouldn't have a good time getting in here with me!

.....The other option for why I'm receiving this ask is that you just...... REALLY don't like local hermit Hikage Shinomori. In which case. There are so many people in BNHA-historical-era Japan who have that in common with you ahjfdsingkd <333333