#iida attempted murder

[dogwaterdish]

Midoriya: The fastest way to a Uraraka’s heart is through ch-

Iida: Chest cavity.

Midoriya:

Midoriya: Cheese.

[galaxia-art]

[image description: an illustration of iida from my hero academia. he’s in his hero costume, standing ridgidly with his arm in a chopping motion. he’s saying something but the speech bubbles are filled in with white noise. the background is blue with anime speed lines around. end id]

bitches love him for his autistic swag

edit: if you also love him hes avalible as a sticker or a6 print

[theawwesomeeridan]

At this point I’ve just gotta admit that my type is cool color coded boys who have attempted murder. I don’t know what that says about me.

[theawwesomeeridan]

does anyone have that meme that’s like

one of these characters attempted murder and the other one goes to bed at exactly 8:30pm every night

[miruac]

dating tenya iida headcanons - part two

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warnings: not proofread, extremely self indulgent, reader has a little bit of anxiety and theyre a lil insecure

a/n: listened to chappell roan while writing this. casual came on again and i imagined iida to it and i got sad so here u guys go

last time we were here it was a couple weeks when you two came back from your date

he got you that gift basket of things you eyed while window shopping, and your heart soard

this man loves to see you happy

as of now, it had been two months since your date, and you guys haven't gone out yet due to midterm exams coming up

but you've been setting for group study sessions with your classmates, in the dorm lounge

everyone's going insane and they're all pretty serious about studying

especially iida, he doesn't glance up at you much or now since his nose is always deep into his notes

he didn't realize but you felt a little distant, and a little scared that his feelings for you went away

you got up from your spot beside him and went back up to your room, to try and get some space

he didn't realize you were gone until his hand swung down and tried to hold yours

after asking around he found out you went up to your room to 'rest up'

he knocked on the door anad called for you, and you opened the door just a tiny crack

he was worried, and asked if he did something wrong

after you told him, he nodded and looked so upset with himself

"thank you for telling me, i'm sorry i made you feel like that. but rest assured, i still harbour deep affection for you. we may be busy now, but i will try my best to keep up with you."

IM SOBBING I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

the next day when you're heading down to your study sesh, he's waiting for you with a smile and blush on his face

his hand hovers over yours. and he's slightly shaking

you grip onto his, and you two are being all gross and cute while engaging in minimal pda(he approves this one time)

guys i dunno why i'm thinking of so many sad headcanons help

when youre sad or upset, he'll hold your hand or hold you in his arms

if youre crying or don't want to talk about it, he'll wait until you're ready

he won't push you, he just wants to mkae sure you know that he's there for you to fall back on

he does the thing where he's looking into your eyes as he caresses your cheek while wiping away your tears with his thumb(IM PHYSICALLY SICK. IM GOING TO BARF I NEED TO BE IN HIS ARMS)

he's so patient with you :(((

ok im done i dont wanna cry anymore

he always tries to cheer you up by telling you a funny story, or by reassurement. it depends on what you need

OK IM DONE IM DONE BACK TO HAPPINESS

now that exams are done, summer break is here!!!

majority of class 1-a went home for break, including you and iida

you two frequently messaged the other, until you came back to the dorms with a couple weeks left of the break

you didnt know but while he was home he bought a couple of souvenirs for you, HE GOT YOU A LITTLE BLUE BEAR WITH GLASSES THAT LOOKED LIKE HIM

as a celebratory 'summer's almost over' event, the class had a little dinner party

varied from bakugous murderous attempt of trying to get everyone to eat sichuan chili hotpot to satos sweet desserts

after the dinner, the class went outside to take a little breather(and to light some sparklers and play around with some fireworks WHICH THEY WERE SUPERVISED BY AIZAWA AND ALL MIGHT)

when everyone went in, you stayed outside for a little longer to look up at the pretty moon and stars

iida saw you from the window, and went outside to try

he was worried you'd get cold

like he had never seen your eyes sparkle like that, the way how all your features reflected upon the moonlight

this boy's heart did FLIPS LIKE CONTINUOUS 360S EVERYWHEREE

his face was so red stop hes so cute

he could not stop staring until you asked him what was up

"can i... kiss you.....?"

"what's with the informal speech all of a sudden?"

"apologies, may i kiss you?"

"yes, yes you may."

IM GONNA CRYYY HES SO CUTE

obvi he hasnt had his first kiss so when you guys did kiss he froze up and his hands literally hovered over you because he didn't know where to put them and if you were okay with it

after like ten seconds you both pulled away and LORD his face was REDDD

he had an awkward smile on his face AGHGHGHGHGHGHG I LOVE AWKWARD NERDSS

after composing himself he ushered you back inside in fear that you'll catch a cold

but when he got back to his dorm that night, he looked at himself in the mirror and smiled so triumphantly

he still felt your lips on his, and maybe he realized he wanted to feel them more often

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2nd a/n: hi guys!!!! part one got a lot of love which made me really happy, its so hard being an iida lover but you guys make it worth it <33 i also got a couple of dishes stuck together when i was washing them earlier and my parents got mad at me so this i decided to work on this to let out my anger AND HEY IT WORKED ok idk what im saying | fun fact i was listening to casual by chappell roan when i was writing the sad n sorta angsty part of this headcanon, because iida would NEVER partake in casual activity(i did a rant about this earlier im done ok goodbye) anyways THAT CONCLUDES MY RANT send me a plunger emoji if you guys got this far(in honor of the fallen dishes)

[theetwinkleboy]

i was thinking about it today, though, and as much fun as it is to joke about iida insisting on the rules and then going off the rails to kill someone, i think that the murder attempt is actually just a logical extension of his rules lawyer personality at the beginning of the manga. i mean, when you think about it, he and stain are just two sides of the same coin.

right from the beginning, iida's shown to be someone who has an ideal worldview built on order and perfection and rules. in a perfect world, busses have rows, everyone follows the rules, and everything can be predicted and therefore controlled. so when imperfect people are crammed into this worldview, there's very little wiggle room for mistakes, inconsistency, or extenuating circumstances. and if someone Breaks The Rules, they deserve an appropriate punishment. that strict adherence to an ideal is....basically what stain believes too, but just with more murder. and iida catches up pretty quick after his brother is attacked. the jump from 'iida the righteous enforcer/punisher with the full weight of the law behind him' to 'iida the righteous avenger of his fallen brother' is in many ways the same as the leap from 'stendal the vigilante' to 'stain the murderer of everyone who falls short of all might's ideal.'

like, what is a just and appropriate punishment for a literal 'stain' on your perfect worldview? what's the punishment for someone who literally attacks the ideal you try to live up to? honestly, nothing less than full removal from said world is appropriate, for someone built so rigidly around order.

on a side note, i really really love that iida's role in the final battle is not one of a just punisher or an enforcer of a perfect and unyielding worldview; he's there as emotional and transportational support for todoroki. he's made the journey from 'rules over people' to 'people over rules' and i just... really love that.

[nightshadow1607]

Aizawa: I'm not mad, I just want to know why you two need a fake ID?

Midoriya: *mumbles*

Aizawa: What was that?

Shinsou: *sighs* You need to be over 18 at PetCo to hold the puppies

--

Izuku: *does something reckless*

Iida: Midoriya, how could you do this? You are so reckelss!

Also Iida: *goes after Stain to murder him*

--

Kid Izuku: So I have this nice rock

Kid Izuku: Kacchan gave it to me

Kid Bakugou: I threw it at you

Kid Izuku: Kacchan is so cool

--

Vigilante/Villain Izuku, rolling down the car window: What seems to be the problem here, officer?

Tsukauchi: Get out of my car

--

Shigaraki: Time for plan G

Mr. Compress: Don't you mean plan B?

Shigaraki: No, we tried plan B a long time ago. I had to skip over plan C due to technical difficulties

Himiko: What about plan D?

Shigaraki: Plan D was that desperate disguise attempt half an hour ago

Twice: What about plan E?

Shigaraki: I'm hoping not to use it. I die in plan E

Dabi: I like plan E

--

Sero: Why are you smiling?

Bakugou: What? Can't I just be happy?

Kirishima: Midoriya tripped and fell down the stairs

--

Vigilante Izuku: Physically I'm here but spiritually I'm lying in a Waffle House parking lot somewhere, slowly bleeding out from several stabbing wounds

Vigilante Shinsou: Mood

--

Bakugou, angrily: ARE YOU-

Todoroki: fucking

Bakugou: KIDDING ME?! YOU-

Todoroki: fucking

Bakugou: IDIOT

Uraraka: ... what was that?

Todoroki: Aizawa-sensei banned Bakugou from swearing, so I volunteered to help him out

--

Hizashi: WHY AREN'T THERE ADULT-SIZED PLAYGROUNDS?!

Nemuri: Like, everything is the same as kids' playgrounds but bigger! Why don't we have those?!

Aizawa: Theme parks. Just theme parks

Hizashi: but you have to PAY for theme parks!

Aizawa: That's the adult part

--

Young Aizawa: I want to be a caterpillar

Young Oboro: Elaborate

Young Aizawa: Eat a lot, sleep for a while. Wake up beautiful

Young Hizashi: You know that they have a lifespan of like two weeks, right?

Young Aizawa: That's another highlight-

Young Oboro & Hizashi: Shouta, NO--

--

Hizashi: Truth or Dare?

Shinsou: Truth

Hizashi: How many hours have you slept this week?

Shinsou: Dare

Aizawa: Go to sleep

Shinsou: I don't like this game

--

Izuku, T-posing in the doorway: Greetings, parental figure

Aizawa, not looking up from his coffee: Good morning, problem child

--

Jirou: You remind me of the ocean

Shinsou: Because I'm deep and mysterious?

Jirou: No, because you're full of salt and you scare people

--

Dabi: Here's a funny idea: We hang a mistletoe, bit instead of kissing the person underneath, we have to fight them.

Kurogiri: We are not doing this

Himiko, nodding: Mistlefoe

Magne: Don't encourage her!

--

Vigilante Izuku: *breaks a window while Shinsou is sleeping*

Vigilante Izuku: Hey Toshi, I-- Stop screaming, It's me-- I need help

--

Bakugou: Did you guys buy the eggs I asked?

Mina: Even better!

Bakugou: ...what did you do?

Kaminari, holding a chicken: Here!

Mina: Her name is Kyle!

--

Immortal Izuku: Fuck, I wanna die!

Aizawa: Language

Immortal Izuku: Hickity heck, I crave death

--

Yagi: Aizawa-san, call the kids. They're not listening to me

Aizawa: I'm not their dad

Yagi: Just do it

Aizawa, to Class 1-A: *sigh* Okay everyone! Line up, we're going back to the dorms!

Class 1-A: *immediately following like ducklings*

Yagi:

Aizawa: NO! listen, LISTEN, I'm not their--

--

Aizawa: Hello, people who don't live here

Hizashi: Heya!

Nemuri: Hi!

Tensei: Hello!

Aizawa: I gave you the key for emergencies

Hizashi: We were out of food

--

Vigilante Izuku, talking to Shinsou: If I run and jump at Eraser, he will definitely catch me

Vigilante Izuku: *runs at Aizawa*

Aizawa: KID, NO, I'M HOLDING COFFEE--

Aizawa: *drops coffee to catch Izuku*

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Shinsou: *recording videos with Class 1-A* I have no intentions of being friends

Shinsou: *playing videogames with everyone* You're all stepping stones to my success

Shinsou: *baking a cake for Kaminari's birthday* Friends are a distraction

Shinsou: *in a group hug* Disgusting

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Vigilantes Izuku and Shinsou: *watching the neighborhood kids play*

Vigilante Shinsou: Look at them. They're having so much fun. They're so happy

Vigilante Izuku: Yeah

Vigilante Izuku: How long do you think it'll be until they lose their will to live?

Vigilante Shinsou: I don't remember ever having one

Vigilante Izuku: Yeah, those kids are doomed

incorrect quotes because why not? (part 6)

[i-am-a-secret-ssshhh]

Pet Peeve:

Does anyone else find it really annoying when people misspell character's names when their character information is easily accessible? I'm thinking of two in specific, but I'm sure there's more.

This sweet young boy who may or may not have attempted to commit murder, and it's none of my business to spill what he may or may not have done:

This is a character from My Hero Academia. His name is NOT Lida Tenya, it's Iida Tenya, or Tenya Iida. With an I. I as in pronounced like eye.

And this motherfucker!!

This motherfucker is named Chrollo Lucilfer. His name isn't Chrollo Lucifer. Lucilfer, pronounced like if sulfur was spelt with an I.

I understand some of these are because of language barriers, and I am not at all criticizing that, I understand how difficult English is. But every time I see the misspell it makes me want to comment, but it's hard to do that without seeming like a critical bitch.

Use at your own discretion, I guess I can't stop you from misspelling their names, just a pet peeve of mine. There are others as well, but these two are the ones that come to mind.

[deusvervewrites]

Start Again x Divinity x Problem Children

I was originally wondering if there was any direct fallout from All for One murdering a nascent god of Heroism, or at least a very powerful elemental of that nature. You know, beyond the impact of ALL MIGHT of all people being killed on live tv. How would it affect 1-A, his protoge and the class he had spent the most time with?

Then I looked back on some posts, specifically this one, and some other cross overs with start again, and I wondered if the reason Akari goes to UA isn't just because of Nezu, or Uraraka, but because of how many of her new classmates became significant or a problem in the coming years.

And I don't mean that in a good way.

To list,

Uraraka: One of Akari's lieutenants, close friend

Momo: Warlord by the name of Goddess, possibly unhinged/more zealotous without a high priest who can adequately reign her in as in the cannon

Asui: One for all holder, possible inheritor of All Might's divinity, prob at UA

Speculation on my part,

Bakugo: Likely a brainwashed Nomu because petty AfO, possibly high end like Kurogiri, definitely walking weapon pointed in target's vague direction and let loose.

Kirishima: Likely keeps his quirk, attempt to rescue Bakugo gone wrong, lost sense of worth, tries to keep his group alive at any cost

Ashido: Same group as Kirishima, lost her quirk in the attempt to rescue the Bakugo Nomu, worryingly ruthless, Leads one of the largest nomadic groups

Kaminari: Same group as Kiri and Mina, lost his quirk, lieutenant, blank/emotionless as side effect

Sero: Scout/assassin of the group, barely kept his quirk (heteromorph) but shares same side effect as Kaminari

Sato: one of Momo's chosen, high rank

Mei: One of Momo's chosen, possibly high priest in this time line

Hagakure: Prominent assassin for higher (possibly unwillingly)

Todoroki: Unwilling leader of another group, Still has his quirk (long ranged fighter), desperate to keep his remaining family alive, longstanding grudge with Dabi

Koda: Likely another warlord, territory is Not Habitable To Humans Anymore

Mineta: ?

Jiro: Informant/info broker,

Shoji: Fellow Info broker, focused on hunting down revived CRC in his warlord's territory. Emphasis on hunting

Ojiro: Vigilante, possibly no longer human, Also hunting CRC, albeit for revenge

Iida: Barely survived Hosu, was still recovering during Kamino, Did Not Take It Well. Went rogue and last heard of hunting Stain and his followers

Aoyoma: Unwilling Spy for AfO at UA if still alive

Tokoyami: Either a Nomu like Bakugo if Captured, or if not, closer to natural disaster than human, the reason no one moves at night

and then there's:

Midoriya: Who is this anxious sunny child, why is he here, why does he have a quirk that could rival All Might's, were was he the last time around, why can't Akari remember him?

I'd say that Akari puts up with so much but shit like this is why she went back

[barid-bel-medar]

“Real reason?”

“Psychologically tormenting him for a week seemed more fun.”

“Plus we did get the chance to rescue Eri that way!” Midoriya pipes up. 

Shouta just shakes his head, deciding to leave that alone for the moment. 

“You four, explain Stain,” he says, looking at Yaoyorozu, Iida, Uraraka, and Todoroki. 

“My luck is terrible and I stumbled across him,” Iida says. “I meant to hit the Heronet app but hit the class messaging app instead.”

“I did tell the sidekick I was with what was going on, she simply lost track of me due to genetic abomination,” Yaoyorozu says. “I didn’t realize she’d been knocked out of the way until too late and I was already on the rooftop.”

“And you two?” Shouta asks. 

“We were following the alert and knew both my father and all his sidekicks were distracted by the genetic abominations, and since it wasn’t like Iida to send a message to the class chat like that we decided to see what was going on,” Todoroki explains. “Stain was a surprise.”

“And the attempted murder of a villain?”

“We were attempting to apprehend, not murder,” Yaoyorozu says, looking almost offended. “We aren’t Midoriya or Monoma.”

“Hey!”

“Midoriya, you punched that yakuza leader so hard you collapsed his rib cage and Monoma used the man’s Quirk to somehow merge his arms into his torso.”

“Yes but he didn’t die!”

[delawaredetroit]

There’s a lot to say about this scoreboard. 

It’s no surprise that the top scorers with the least rescue points, Bakugou and Iida, are generally the least heroic of the hero students at this point in the story. (Bakugou spent the majority of his life beating down others for the sake of his own ego. Iida was too self-centered and by-the-book to the point of ignoring those in danger; and it didn’t take much for him to decide to try attempting murder.)

Also, the two characters with more rescue points than villain points, Izuku and Ochako, are the two that realized that there were also villains who were in need of saving. 

It’s interesting that this scoreboard implies that Kirishima and Shiozaki have the most balanced approach to heroism of the top scorers. And while it’s a running joke that Kirishima and Tetsutetsu are basically the same person, from their first “appearance” it’s clear that they have very different approaches to heroism, at least early on. 

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

About the ask on the hc of bksquad.

Look....can we say Izu ever had a Izusquad? Bc if he ever had one- flimsy line here- it is lost.

Iida punched him after Izu was coaxed to saved BK. Iida who wanted to murder a man and was saved by Izu. Iida who once Izu was in house arrest (the name alone bothers me) cater Aizawa's words and look at Izu as if he was a criminal

Ochako slaps him in that damn exercise (one may say "she want him to snap that" which ok but it had to be a slap?) And decides to ignores her so called feelings for Izu and zero attempt to knowing him

Shoto thinks BK gauntlets are cute, he thinks that as BK is destroying smth of Izu in front of Shoto (its an oneshot to explain the movie "Izu is a mass murder" god. I wish he had became one)

And so on...

I think Izusquad is the hc the fandom delulu together bc the story is never gave Izu friends.

I definitely wanna do an analysis of how Hori writes Izuku’s friendships because as much as I like the DekuSquad, Hori really struggles with writing an actual friendship.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Student: Wait! Mr. Shirakumo was a criminal??

Aizawa: Sure. Wait till I tell you about Deku, Hailfire, and Ingenium's stint as a vigilante.

The entire classroom: WHAT!?

Iida, appearing out of the aether: "You attempt vigilante murder ONE TIME-!!!"

Also speaking of Shoto, we're gonna have to address Toya going 'short term as villain, recruits a bunch of villains into a vigilante group'.

[pocketramblr]

For the five ask game, if that's still going on, how about an iideku au where OFA ships them?

Torn between thinking this means the vestiges ship them, or that it means the quirk itself is a very excitable puppy dog that wants Tenya around as much as possible...

1- Tenya did not make a great first impression on 5/7.5 vestiges. Kudo and Bruce were like 'let 👏 him 👏 speak 👏' because they do, you know, kinda think Izuku's annoying but they sorta all did a 180° turn about him after the exam when Tenya apologized and praised Izuku's choice. Most of them like him. Bruce and Kudo are wondering how this kid keeps getting people to decide to like him after all.

2- OfA reacts differently under Izuku's hands, but he never realizes it because he assumes it's his own emotions and projecting. Yeah, his quirk feels jumpy and volatile around Kacchan like he could set it off and blow up his arm too easily, and fun and bubbly around Uraraka who's sure he'll figure out how to use it soon, and ok Izuku isn't sure why OfA races up to his skin faster around Iida, pushy, but maybe it's because he feels competitive with his friend.

3- The vestiges are actually in agreement for once when Izuku looks at Tenya at the train station. That Kid Is Going To Try To Commit Murder (and probably die in the attempt). "Is that what I looked like the last time you saw me alive?" Kudo asks Bruce. "No. But it's what I looked like to Shinomori." They want to help him. They want Izuku to help him. Izuku wants to help him. But they can't do anything except try to bend the power into something Izuku can actually use, and hope it's enough when the kid jumps off the train to find Tenya.

4- Nana, romantic she is, keeps getting excited when it seems they might lean in closer, might take each other's hands. Kudo asks if she and her husband were high school sweethearts to have such optimistic expectation of such a relationship, but Banjo says that dang it, Izuku at least deserves boyfriend even if they split after school, and Yoichi who has little concept of school and had a max relationship length of two months just wants them to confess already. Tenya's admiration is clear to everyone in Izuku's head except Izuku, and they can feel the boy's heartbeat in return. But sadly, they can't do anything while Izuku can't hear them... But, once he can...

5- "Good job training today, you'll master Float as soon as it comes to you at this rate!" Nana cheers Izuku in his dreams. He blushes, still unable to talk in the fog, but they figured out how to have him write in a notebook while he's there. "Hey, you know, White Day is coming up. Any plans? I can help you make something." Izuku raises his eyebrows because he's been warned Nana is a bit of a lethal chef, and also he's already made plans to make chocolate in return for his classmates, and more than triple the chocolate covered apple slices Eri was so excited to present him with a month ago. "I mean, other than Eri and the courtesy chocolate. Any confession plans?" Izuku starts waving his hands because he didn't get any confession chocolate and haha, why would he need to give any now, and En just sighs and breaks in with a "they need a third day for gay chocolate, bet Iida-kun would have made something for you then."

Izuku is eventually cajoled into making some orange chocolate treats for Tenya, only because he'd have plausible deniability that he just wanted to gift to his friends, but then Tenya presents him with All Might shaped chocolates and admits that maybe they are not purely platonic but that he still highly values Midoriya's friendship and would never mention the feelings again if he didn't want them and completely understands rejection and truly he- wait he didn't get rejected? Wait, it's the same for Midoriya? Both of them are very red, but happy. They don't really change much, neither is one for pda and calling each other their boyfriend feels like A Lot, but they do share food more often and move to calling each other by their given name in a manner that is adorably both shy and excited. But ah, we're halfway through March, and at the end of the month...

A couple weeks later, Izuku tapes letters to the doors of his classmates, then packs a bag to go, not planning on returning to the dorms again. He picks up the little bag of All Might chocolates that he'd slowly been going through. There's only two left. He slips them into the side pocket of his bag, then slips himself out of his window and down the building to leave campus, the vestiges silent around him and his quirk burning to go back when he can't.

[nowoyas]

Edible Arrangements: Fortieth Bite: Polycephaly

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A/N: It has been three years, two months, and a day of Edible Arrangements. This is not the absolute final update, as you can tell by my navigation links above. That has not stopped me from sobbing during the formatting and uploading of this installment.

A sequel is undergoing planning. I'm not done with these loves yet.

Summary: You remember everything now.

Warnings: death. murder. blood. I cannot stress enough that this chapter is a bloodbath. I did gag a little writing one line. maybe don't read while eating, if you can help it. mentions of vomit.

Word count: ~4400 words

You’ve reached Tenya Iida. Please leave your name, number, and a brief message after the tone and I will return your call as soon as I am available. Thank you!

“Shit, Tenya, pick up!” Mina hangs up and shoves her phone in her pocket. “What are we supposed to do? They’re not waking up and all of our medical people are going straight to voicemail!”

“Hand me their phone,” Hitoshi says. “I’ve got an idea.”

When the phone’s in his hand, he begins to dig through it intently. “One of you, make sure they’re still breathing. Neito, you’re on standby in case things go wrong.”

“Standby? For what?”

“You’re a vampire. Revive them if you have to.” He hits dial, then another button to put it on speaker.

It rings. Once. Twi—

This is Dr. Midoriya Izuku, leave your name and number and I’ll get back to you!

Hitoshi hits redial. It rings once this time.

This is Dr. Midoriya Izuku, leave your name and number and I’ll get—

Redial.

This time, immediately:

This is Dr. Midoriya Izuku, leave your name and number and I’ll get back to you!

“Goddammit Izuku, pick up before we have to turn them you absolute dumb fuck of a vampire!”

He sighs and replaces the phone in your pocket. You don’t stir. He lets out an aggravated sigh. “Alright. Since they’re useless, here’s what we’re going to do…”

~

You are wrapped up in a fluffy blanket. Somewhere in the apartment, people are speaking. Tsuyu mentions the words “hot chocolate”. It’s later in the day now—how much later?—and you are on the couch nearest to your bedroom. The room has been cleaned up around you, and footsteps are approaching you. Instinctively, you slam your eyes shut and try to process what’s happened to you.

You remember sitting in the middle of the floor.

Mina holding you.

Reaching back and suddenly finding memories you couldn’t look at before.

Izuku.

Fingers rest against your neck. It takes everything in you not to flinch away from them.

After a moment, the presence leaves. Footsteps lead away. “Their heart rate’s going up a bit, but no sign of consciousness.”

“When do we take them to the hospital?”

The hospital.

You can’t go to the fucking hospital.

You need to go beat Izuku over the head for being an idiot.

You open an eye. Everyone’s in the kitchen, backs to you. You’re out of their line of sight.

You chew your lip in thought. Then, you slide off the couch and slip away to your room.

You’ll explain everything to them later.

~

Fuck. Getting your bearings like this is bullshit. The past few months are fuzzy, battling with all the old-new memories for space in your head as you try to make sense of it all.

The weirdest is remembering Tenya.

You’re on autopilot as you turn the memories over in your head. The way he treated you immediately after he enthralled you. All the times he tried to bring you back directly, and was forced to wipe your memory of his attempts to bring you back, too. The tearful apologies as he tried again, and again, and again, to bring back the person he loved.

The memories hurt, but oddly, you don’t feel the fondness you had for him back then. Absence makes the heart grow distant, and absence of memory makes the heart wither and die. That fondness is gone, replaced with a sense of pain.

Loss.

Grief.

It didn’t need to end that way.

You hope he’s healed all the same. (You’ve been his friend the past years. You know he hasn’t.)

Logically, you know that you loved him at some point. But then again, logically, you also know that grabbing your keys and a few other small items and climbing out your apartment window onto the fire escape without telling anyone where you’re going is a horrible idea, so you’re really not on speaking terms with logic right now. Emotion has become your new friend.

Emotion is telling you that you aren’t in love with him. Emotion is telling you to find your car and find Izuku right fucking now.

Sure, driving isn’t really the best idea right now. The sky is growing dark with afternoon clouds and your head is fuzzy with TV static, even before we stop to mention that you don’t remember the last time you drove anywhere. But you don’t have time to push through everyone else’s need for context. Not when Dr. “Let’s Hunt a Serial Killer” thinks that selfsame serial killer tried to serial kill you.

Halfway there and your phone rings. It’s Mina. You let it ring out to voicemail. It doesn’t stop ringing on repeat for the rest of the drive.

~

“Don’t we have anything more dignified to kill him with than a water gun?”

“Two water guns,” Izuku replies, cringing as he tests the gun in his possession with gloved hands. Nothing leaks onto his gloves, but he still shies away from the tiniest backsplash of water as he fires a shot into the bath.

“Careful with that. It feels a bit silly to go after a serial killer with water guns.”

He snorts. “Good. I hope, after everything he’s done, he knows that he got taken out with a little bright green hunk of plastic and hates it.” He slips a zip-loc bag over the end of the gun, then slides both bag and gun into his inner coat pocket. “Get ready. We don’t know when he’ll show up.”

Tenya nods and follows suit. Sbeve is locked away in his cat carrier with food and water set up to dispense. It’s not ideal, but if anything happens, he’ll be away and safe. You’ll want company in a house like this, after all. And Sbeve is good company.

They wait in the living room. There is silence between them which fails to conceal any noise. If only there were noise to conceal.

There is none, for he joins them silently. One moment, they are alone, preparing themselves for something that cannot be prepared for, and the next, he is standing beside them, a silvery knife in hand.

“You didn’t ask me here to pass on any message,” he says by way of greeting.

The men are on their feet in a moment, rage already burning in their eyes and hearts. “You.”

The Death Adder is a jagged line of a man in tattered clothing. A scar mars his face where a nose should sit. A greasy black mop of hair frames it all.

“Why don’t you have a seat.” Izuku gestures almost politely to the armchair. He isn’t asking. “You’ve been busy. There’s a lot of catching up to do.”

“I don’t need to sit. Tell me what this is really about. If you were going to speak to the world about the injustices I set you to, you would have begun years ago.”

Tenya’s voice is ice when he cuts in. “You attacked a dear friend of ours.”

He doesn’t even show them the courtesy of rolling his eyes. “You’ll have to be more specific. It’s not every day that I don’t attack a dear friend of someone.”

“They were literally on my doorstep. Take a guess at who!”

The Death Adder takes a slow moment to study them. Tenya hits the table hard as he stands, glare icy. “Of course you don’t remember. It’s never mattered to you who you hurt, has it?”

“I think you’ll find that it has exclusively mattered to me who I hurt, but then, I wouldn’t expect you to understand.” He looks over Tenya indifferently, almost without seeing him at all.

Izuku watches his face for a hint of recognition. Tenya comes to the same conclusion moments after Izuku, and if possible, the man becomes even angrier. “You don’t even remember who I am, do you?”

The man does not reply. He is searching for an answer, and he does not have one.

“You killed my brother. You turned me into this. You took everything from me.”

He took everything. And he does not recognize him.

What happens next cascades in slow-motion. Tenya is grabbing at his pocket, drawing his little water pistol of death, and the Death Adder is holding a knife to his throat, his movements decisive. Izuku reaches for his own water gun, desperately hoping he’s fast enough.

“There’s more than one way to kill a vampire,” he growls out as the blade rests on Tenya’s throat. “You are insignificant to me, but I can still take your head off right here. I’d like to see you try to survive that.”

“You kill him, and I shoot.” He’s proud of himself for not stammering, even as his hands shake.

He’s stuck. He can’t attack the Death Adder without killing Tenya, and as strained as their relationship has been, he’s only prepared to kill one vampire today. What idiot thought water guns were a good idea?

His brain blazes with the possibilities. He could use his quirk, force the Death Adder away. He’s strong enough, though, and unpracticed enough that the attempt might just kill them both. There’s no visible turning mark on the man’s skin. He doesn’t know where to shoot to knock him down.

Maybe he could disarm him somehow. Or distract him. If he keeps the Death Adder’s attention long enough, Tenya could shoot him and get away. But that requires Tenya to figure out what he's doing, and they're far from on the same wavelength, and in the meantime, that knife is still at Tenya's throat and Izuku needs to do something and—

You must be a ghost standing up from behind the loveseat, and Izuku blinks rapidly in hopes of dissipating the hallucination, but no, that's you standing there. Your glare is fixed on the Death Adder, and something glints in your hand, but before anyone can really process what that something is, you're grabbing the man by his hair and shoving it into the back of his neck.

There's an audible sizzling noise accompanied by a smell Izuku recalls to be a bad memory. The boiling, burning kind of odor that had accompanied the bloodbath back in the courtyard when Neito had shown his hand. Then, the Death Adder is screaming and thrashing, and the knife is on the floor as Tenya puts a healthy distance between himself and the serial killer. You are holding on tight, squeezing your eyes shut, and Izuku watches in horror as blood splatters onto your face from it all.

When at last the screaming stops and the man drops to the floor, you stagger to the floor with him and carefully pry the instrument out of his neck. It's the little antique mirror you’d gotten from Neito. "I... wasn't sure that was going to work. Are you both alright?"

They're staring at you. Horror mixes with pure confusion and just a touch of elation. Neither has begun convulsing yet, which is honestly what Izuku had been expecting, and yet, the Death Adder isn't moving now or ever again. The same angry tendrils of scarring are wrapping around his body, wherever visible, and the moment he's sure he's not going to fall to the floor in his own death, Izuku allows himself to take it in.

"Look," you sigh when it becomes clear no one is going to speak. "You've both got explaining to do. A lot of explaining to do." This shouldn't be happening. You had been near catatonic. You had remembered nothing of either of them. And yet...

"Tenya, I'm really sorry about everything. I can't imagine how much it sucked. Um, I'm really not sure how I feel about you right now, but just to be clear, I am breaking up with you. I've got that down, at least. Izuku, you are taking me back to Alexander's. Whatever their next available reservation is. Every steakhouse in the city, while we're at it. Start making calls after we get this cleaned up."

"I will take you everywhere you want just as soon as you explain to me how you remember anything."

You level an icy glare his way. "As though that's the issue we’re dealing with?"

His shoulders drop. He crosses the room to you, shoves the Death Adder’s corpse out of the way with his foot. He's pulling you to your feet, but before he can wrap you in his arms, he hears it.

The hollow, shrill laugh of a girl.

Tenya has his glare fixed on the interloper stood behind you, his water pistol again pointed in her direction.

She's a blonde girl, petite, with her hair tied up in two buns that give the impression they've been in those same buns for several days. She wears a tattered school uniform from who-knows-where, and in her hand glints a silvery knife not unlike the one still on the floor next to the Death Adder. The more she laughs with that dead look in her eyes, the less it sounds like laughter.

Her eyes are fixed on you.

"I thought we were friends, [name]."

You take a step back, bumping lightly into Izuku's chest as you do.

"We lived together for so long. You even let me borrow your sweater. You were so nice to me."

"You stabbed me," you snap back. "Twice."

"We were friends! I liked you!"

Something in you seems chilled at her reply. Izuku can't imagine what, except the information you've already given.

"I liked Chizzy more. And you just took him from me." Another hollow laugh. "I could return the favor, though."

Before his eyes, she morphs. From a schoolgirl out of a horror movie to an imitation of the man now lying dead on the floor, she grows in height, face twisting to match his. The sight is grotesque, a strange substance covering her in gray glops until all that's standing before you is a familiar face.

Oh. That's why the Death Adder didn't remember you or Tenya.

Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head. Polycephaly is most commonly observed in snakes and turtles.

The Death Adder always had two heads.

She moves. And you move.

The knife is coming for Izuku and he is fast but you are faster. (Why? Why are you—)

He can't pull you away fast enough. He wasn't good enough or quick enough back then, and he's not now. One easy cut is all it takes to destroy his world all over again.

She is smiling as you fall. She is smiling with his face.

He sees crimson as he screams.

~

A hospital cannot save you now. Someone is at your side—it's not Izuku. Izuku is across the room, covered in sparking green. His quirk? You’ve never seen him use it. You watch him as your vision fades and your body grows cold.

Familiar arms around you. Tenya?

He tries to pull you away from watching, but as much as you try to watch, you do not see.

There is a roaring in your ears. The phantom prickling of teeth. All those times you fed Izuku. All those times you gave him trust and care and life.

You try to speak. All you hear is a dull gurgle. A soothing whisper. You feel it all bubbling in your throat.

You see Izuku's viridian as you die.

~

Someone is knocking at the door.

No one knows why, because the thing is still barely on its hinges, but someone is knocking.

Tenya goes. He's the only one breathing and he's the one covered in the least amount of blood.

"Izuku, are you there?" It's Hitoshi's voice, bitter but worried. "Long story, but [name]'s missing, and—"

He breathes in. Breathes out. Creaks the door open a crack. "They're here, but you should go."

"Why?" he demands. "What are you doing here?"

Behind Hitoshi, there's the others—Mina, Tsuyu, Neito, and even a rare appearance from that redhead that hangs around Neito from time to time.

He can't let them in. Not after Izuku just beheaded some random girl, nor after you killed the main Death Adder, nor while you're a heap on the floor.

"They need time to rest. Please, go."

He isn't fully aware of what's going on when his brain washes over. Hitoshi glares through the crack. "Let us in."

His body moves against his will, fluid, and he opens the door and steps aside.

Well. It's not his fault when they're exposed to the bloodbath inside.

The fog lifts from his brain as they force their way inside and immediately recoil. Someone screams. He can only sigh. He's tired. "I did try to warn you not to come in."

"What the fuck happened?"

As Tsuyu throws up on the already ruined carpet, Tenya shakes his head and shuts the door. "It would be better if we just focused on cleaning up."

"Cleaning up," Neito says in disbelief. "I'd say you need a professional for this, but..."

Well, no professional cleaning service would know better than to ask questions.

"Fuck that, is [name]—"

"They're fine. [name]'s fine. They'll... they'll need bed rest for a few days at least. But they're going to be okay."

Mina steadies herself against the wall. "And who's the, uh, the one without the head?"

"Death Adder's friend. Also the Death Adder, as it happens."

"Right. Okay. Okay. I can, uh... I don't know if my quirk can get rid of a corpse. I can try, though."

"We might need you to get rid of the carpet, too, if you're up for it."

"I can handle this," Izuku says coldly. He's sat in the middle of the carnage, clutching your limp form. You'll be okay, and he should know you'll be okay, but it's not like Tenya's not also barely keeping it together after watching you die. "I didn't spend all those years hunting a serial killer just to not have a plan in place for when I did it."

Neito tentatively crosses the room, delicately avoiding the blood, and sits on the one couch unmarred by it all. "Now, let's not shut out honest offers to help. Let's start with what, exactly, happened."

Izuku shrugs. "We came prepared to kill the Death Adder. [name] got to him instead when he threatened Tenya. The Death Adder's friend—I guess also the Death Adder, since her kills were also being attributed to him—knew [name] from before and attacked me. They protected me, and died for it, so I ripped her head off."

"I turned them before it was too late," Tenya adds.

"So, you admit that if this weren't handled properly, [name] would also see serious criminal offenses for it?"

Izuku blinks owlishly at Neito.

"So, it would be better to accept help so that this is never discovered, and never hurts your dear [name]."

"But..."

"Mina, are you okay to help out?"

She looks like she's threatening to go the way of Tsuyu as far as the ruined carpet is concerned, but she nods. "I can—I can see what I can do. It'll take a while, though."

"I'll pay your therapy bills. All of you, if you want."

"I'm good," Tenya says. "I would appreciate a change of clothes, if you have anything that would fit me, though."

He nods. "Follow me. I'm going to take [name] to get cleaned up and changed into some other clothes so we can add these to the acid pile. I'll get you some clothes, too."

Izuku scoops you up in his arms and rises to his feet. Tenya follows him up the stairs to find Sbeve yowling behind the master bedroom door. The poor thing is still in his carrier, clawing at the door in vain attempts to reach you.

Once he's gotten dressed and scrubbed raw the skin your blood had touched, Tenya leaves you and Izuku upstairs with Sbeve. He takes the whole pile of clothes down to where Mina is steadily working at the evidence with Neito's help. Itsuka and Tsuyu appear to have been placed on water duty, pouring water into the acid squad's open mouths as they work.

Tenya drops the clothes on the Death Adder's corpse, gets in his car, and drives.

~

He's not sure what to do, so he drives. At first, it's just in circles around the city and campus and back, just to get his brain clear. As though his head could ever be clear again.

He should be helping. The only thing he can think of is to ensure that they eat. So, he stops at the store and gets a charcuterie board and drinks, then runs next door and leaves with three large pizzas to add to the mix.

When he returns to the mansion, he's not sure how long it's been, but at least one of the corpses is gone entirelyand Mina and Neito are sat collapsed against each other behind the couch. It seems Itsuka and Tsuyu have found some tools and started on ripping up the carpet at the far end of the room. Izuku is nowhere to be found. Probably watching over you.

He sets the food aside, nods to those working and resting in the living room. "You should eat something. I know no one has an appetite right now, but..."

Mina nods back. "In a minute."

"I'm going to check on them."

You are just as lifeless as when he left. That's to be expected. Izuku is huddled over you protectively, nearly hissing as Tenya enters the room. "It's just me."

Izuku calms, just slightly, but there's still a feral look in his eye. "Are the others still here?"

He nods and sits at the far end of the room. "I went out and brought back food. You should eat something, too."

"I'm not hungry."

"No one is. Eat anyway."

"...I don't want to leave their side."

"You know that they'll have to rest for several days, don't you? It would be best to help clean up so that when they awake, they don't have to face all that."

Izuku is silent at his logic.

"Sbeve will watch over them. Tsuyu and Neito's sister are working on ripping up the carpet. I believe Mina and Neito are resting after making significant progress against the evidence with their quirks."

Izuku casts one more long glance at you and rises to his feet. "...okay. Thank you."

~

Tsuyu sidles up to him as they eat. "Not that I think this is the time to ask, but you know, they remember you now."

Tenya nods slowly, staring at his slice of pizza. "They do."

"Have you thought about what to do about that?"

"Out of respect for the man who I watched rip someone's head off today, I don't intend to do anything."

"You can't do nothing. So what are you thinking?"

He's not sure. What are you meant to say? There is still pain. He's never felt the release that comes with closure. But you had said yourself that you didn't know how to feel about him anymore. That you were, at the very least, leaving him. You'd chosen Izuku, and that was fair. That was your decision.

Does he still love you? Or does he merely wish it had all gone differently?

"Move forward, I suppose."

"I hope you don't expect to do that alone."

He laughs softly at her blunt reply. "No, I suppose not."

~

Your friends do not leave after eating. It's a fact, an unfortunate one that has Izuku sighing as he cleans. He's taken to scrubbing the blood on the walls before it sets in too badly. The others are talking in the kitchen, moving on from the horror of it all to chatting, laughing, even. As though you're not dead upstairs.

He's so tired. He can't listen to this right now.

He sets aside the materials and hides away in his office, where he finds himself staring at the board with all the information he'd been collecting about the Death Adder.

Every paper plastering the walls. Really, extending far beyond the bounds of his corkboard. Years of work will do that. He turns on the lamp and soaks in it all for a moment.

Breathe in, breathe out. Meditate on it all.

The man is dead. His hidden partner is dead.

All those deaths, avenged. His parents, avenged.

They never made memories in this house. Before you'd come around, he hadn't, either.

The first step is to remove every semblance of that man's influence from this place, so when he's done breathing, when he's done sorting through all of it, he reaches towards the first thing he sees on the wall and takes it down. One paper. Another. Each and every pin, each string connecting them. The tangles unravel on his walls and in his head. He piles the pins on his desk, lets the papers pile up in his trash bin. When the bin's full, he lets them fall to the floor and keeps working until only the decorations hidden behind the papers are left.

Downstairs, your friends remain. At dinnertime, when he comes downstairs to throw out one bag of papers and find more bags to fill, they're sat around eating cold pizza and cheese cubes and greet him with tired eyes. Mina asks him for a first aid kit because she's overusing her quirk, and he obliges, even going so far as to patch up her burning hands.

Mina is the one to call your aide and let her know that you’re down with a summertime flu. Izuku makes sure all of your friends are fed, but none of them are willing to leave. Not until you’re awake.

So he feeds them. He brings them blankets when they are all done cleaning for the night, and directs them to the library on the second floor for a place to sleep that doesn’t smell like death and vomit. Just in case, he props furniture against the front door and closes the blinds.

When that’s done, he climbs the stairs. He finds you and Sbeve, both motionless, unconscious on his bed.

He climbs in bed beside you and tries to sleep.

It’s the best he sleeps in years.

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[cathwritestragediesnotsins]

What crimes I think some of the students from 1-A have committed.

Hagakure: public indecency

Iida: attempted murder (we know this)

Mineta: sexual harassment

Bakugou: assault

Uraraka: tax evasion

Todoroki: credit card fraud

Midoriya: treason