#maybe Hermes and they’ll be an underground hero? maybe another Apollo? unsure

[dark-elf-writes]

Percy Jackson being Izuku’s cousin and Percy has to move to Japan for college cause *spins wheel* there is a demigod run college there that is more based on nature stuff and includes Marine Biology.

Percy who takes one look at Izuku and goes: that's a baby demigod. And Inko suspiciously quiet when asked about her husband.

Izuku being like eleven or so. Just riding the edge of when a demigod starts to get too powerful to stay hidden and having no idea. Like they know they’re different. That’s easy enough to see. There’s not many quirkless kids running around, after all, and everyone makes sure they know how bad that is.

But then Percy arrives with a duffel tossed over his shoulder and an immediate frown on his face when he sees Izuku. Not the normal frown people get when they realize Izuku is quirkless, not one of… concern?

“So where is Mr. Midoriya again?” Percy asks over dinner with an easy smile that holds way too much tension just under the surface.

“He works in America…” Their mom won’t look at Percy, focusing instead on her plate as she cuts her food into smaller and smaller pieces. Izuku is pretty sure she’s getting close to splitting atoms at this point.

“It’s a big place, America. Where does he work exactly?” Percy takes a bite of his own food letting the question hang in the air while he chews and swallows. When she doesn’t answer him, Percy tips his head to the side. “New York? The Empire State Building?”

Inko slams her utensils onto the table. “I don’t way my d— child to be a part of… all that.”

Percy doesn’t do much as flinch. “They’re going to be a part of it whether you want them to be or not.”

Izuku frowns. “What are you guys talking ab—.”

“Nothing!”

“You.” Their mom and Percy say at the same time. She scowls at their cousin but Percy doesn’t drop her gaze.

(Izuku wonders how he was so brave. How he could star straight into their mother’s anger without folding. Was he a hero? Or training to be one? But that didn’t seem right he said he was studying marine biology so how…?)

“That’s enough,” inko starts but Percy’s boldness has made Izuku bold. Has lit a fire they didn’t realize had long since gone out. Has made them turn on their mother and for the first time in their life start to question.

“What does he mean?”

Later Percy stands guard at their bedroom door as they pack a bag to head to a hotel for the night. Unable to look at their mo- at Inko with the realization of how much she had been hiding. How much she knew and ignored. Percy promises to make a few calls and get someone, a child of Apollo, to drop by the hotel room once they’re settled to look at the burns on their arms. The burns Inko had known about. The burns she had let happen because Kacchan was normal.

Izuku isn’t sure what to make of anything that had happened that night, but they do know that they would trust Percy no matter what.