#midoriya izuku is akatani mikumo

[diirkss]

the two of them

[linxunderlife3]

I got possessed (Dandadan x Prototype Bkdk)

[heronoegg]

In Hori's friend's one shot manga "Black Milk" heres some of the reused design for concept Deku i enjoy

[summerdoddles]

Fanart for a MHA I'm reading recently

Kensei: Save Yourself by Forestsareprettyspooky

(Go check it out it's worth the read)

Bonus doodles with spoilers bellow !!

TW: Gore

[kushhii]

does anyone here care about mha prototypes......

[intheeveningsunrise]

Okay…i haven’t read mha fanfic in about two years but I found myself searching on Ao3 and came across your fic with Akatani and Izuku.

Your work is amazing! I just caught up on the second part and there are tears in my eyes.

My heart breaks for Akatani. You write him so well. I’m really glad that you make him into a fully fleshed character as opposed as a shadow of Izuku.

I can’t wait to read more of your work. And expect comments from me because you’re absolutely phenomenal.

I hope your Masters/PhD is treating you well (as well as any college program let alone those two😂).

I really appreciate the hard work you do!!!! ♾️ kudos.

Ahhh!!!!????? Thank you so much??? I have been reading your comments on ao3 as they've been coming through (i read every single comment, even if i don't reply) and those alone have brought me so much joy! You and someone else picked this up roughly at the same time and read it through, haha, so someone must have recced it somewhere??

I am now going to go on an epic ramble about mikumo i am so sorry ive been activated i keep meaning to write more of him but i'm so busy, please accept this in lieu of an update. this is over 1k words beneath the cut oh my god i could have just written half the chapter. directors commentary, i guess??

I'm so glad you enjoy it. I'm so glad you love my tiny little son! his characterisation is deeply important to me, especially because i wanted to compare and contrast Izuku as much as possible, and giving into the parallels between AFO and Yoichi. Mikumo came to me more or less formed, and though his character evolved over the course of writing the first work, since I kept the vast majority of it unpublished until it was mostly done, I was able to keep him very consistent!

For the story I'm telling, it felt absolutely crucial that Mikumo and Izuku are and are not the same in important ways. Mikumo is a coward - that's his thing - and Izuku is heroic. But Mikumo still wants to help people, and in the very first chapter, he nearly helps Bakugou from the sludge villain, and it's only his fear of his father and All Might that holds him back. Izuku, by contrast, is heroic and helps people to a fault. There is nothing that holds him back - Mikumo considers Izuku to be the better of the two, while Izuku considers Mikumo to be the better, because despite every ounce of fear that undercut every move Mikumo made in the fist work, he still helped.

He helped at Hosu, and fought against one of his own mentors, and was physically punished for it. He tried to help Eri, and Shigaraki nearly killed him for it - and he did save Eri, hoping it would kill him, because he was just so tired. He has really strong morals, paralleling him with Shigaraki, who grew up in functionally the same world as him, and still strives to help people even if it's going to hurt him.

Just like Izuku.

I think his quirk was truly my favourite way of expressing Mikumo on a kind of meta level? His quirk is - anything. Quirk Creation. He can do absolutely anything he wants. But he uses inefficient quirks, resorts to the same quirks over and over again - he could just any quirk that would crush 1A in training, but he chooses not to. He doesn't have the strength to, sure, but he has no genuine desire to. I love making theoretically overpowered characters that get nerfed, and while he's nerfed by his health at the moment, in the future when that's resolved (because of course, it will be), he's going to be "nerfed" by his own pure disinterest in heroics.

I think that's a unique angle that people don't go for often in fics, or stories in general - if there's someone who's annoyed by or resentful of the system, e.g., a tragically overpowered hero that doesn't care about being a hero, but soon learns that it's their Obligation and Right to do it, and then come to enjoy it. Or they have a bitter arc, that spirals into becoming an antagonist, you know? Or it's an alternative story about how they use their powers for that same job in a different way, for example, think the Support Course/Inventor Izuku AUs. I wanted to write a character that - could. The equivalent of like, Momo still has her creation quirk, but she doesn't want to be a hero, or even hero adjacent. Maybe she just wants to work in accounting or HR or something. I plan to give Mikumo a job where his quirk will come in very useful, but isn't at all a prerequisite or something that'll make him exceptional at it. More than that, Mikumo's attitude towards quirks, both in general and his own, is that they're cool, but don't really make much difference. He likes knowing how they work, likes to play with quirks himself if he ever gets the chance to, but he's not driven by a desire to "do cool things" or "have crazy strong powers". He doesn't care about a cool quirk to give him a fighting advantage. He doesn't even want one. He doesn't care about it, accepts that it's a facet of the world he lives in, but wants no part in upholding it - it just completely doesn't interest him.

Mikumo is a coward - but he's also a pacifist. And I mean that he's a coward insofar as, he's scared of doing this things, deathly scared, and he does them anyway, because it's right. But he doesn't fight unless he's furious - a la Overhaul - and his actions are almost always in self-defence. Even his knife, that he carried everywhere, was exclusively used for his own protection (that i have a backstory half written for but it's really dark so i don't know if i'd ever post it). When he felt threatened by Izuku, he threatened him with the knife, even when he was fighting against Stain, he chose to use a barrier quirk over an offensive quirk. Mikumo isn't exactly a tank, but he's a defender. He's the barrier. The only reason he went back to the League during and after Kamino is because he believed Izuku was dead - he believed that his actions had gotten his brother killed, and he now had an obligation to stop the worst as best he can.

Izuku, by contrast is full-force, all in, 100% OFA from the get go as much as humanly possible. That scares Mikumo as much as it inspires him - Mikumo is terrified of their father, and Izuku reminds him of AFO a lot. On purpose, even. Izuku is possessive and righteous, and encapsulates everything that AFO had wanted in a son, and if Izuku hadn't been born quirkless, had been born with Mikumo's quirk, AFO would have had his ideal child - but would Izuku have withstood AFO's manipulation to hating heroes? Debatable. Mikumo was largely indifferent, and didn't hate them - he was just fed AFO propaganda that heroes hated him, specifically. That heroes wanted him, specifically, dead, because he's AFO's son. Would the same fear have worked for Izuku? Who knows!

Mikumo has had a very sad, difficult life. There are those "Implied past non-con" tags on the works that readers probably figure out is part of his extreme aversion to touch, as well as the fact that his only reliable sources of physical contact include, in no particular order, his violently abusive father (physical and emotional), his "brother figure" shigaraki, who is incredibly unstable, noumu that he trains with, the doctor, and kurogiri. At least Kurogiri was not explicitly hurting Mikumo. Like so many kids in bad situations, he just wants to do better, and he wants to be safe, feel safe, and have people who care.

and he has that, now, but Mikumo is under the impression that he's on a time limit, and it's running out fast. He needs people to think he's okay, so that he doesn't die a more painful death because they try to help him, and he also doesn't trust anybody enough to actually tell them the truth. Izuku trusts them, but he doesn't really know that he can. A lot of them, rightfully, don't trust him - barely reformed villain, caught stealing knives within days? Doesn't know how to talk to other students without unwittingly dropping weirdly loaded comments about his trauma?

He's suicidal, a little more passively so now, but he's content to just enjoy some nice things while he gets to have them - good food, a warm bed, warm clothes (and that's another fun parallel - they both have shockingly bad taste in clothes and think the other's is worse), and at least some people who don't outright hate him. That's as good as Mikumo can hope for, and it's better than the life he had.

Things will get better for him. He'll get happier, he'll feel safe, he'll have a world that wants him, and he'll be free to navigate it however he pleases - and he'll always have Izuku with him, too.

okay im sorry forgive this absolutely insane rant that you did not ask for i hope you enjoyed it anyway?????

[newpoetry]

in the moment drawing of deku + my take on some au versions i like to see (left to right: normal, ghost, villain, some type of monster IDK, prototype)

[asterilya]

I quite literally have a bonkers crazy obsession with fiction including twins of any sorts. @intheeveningsunrise's midoriya twin au over on AO3 is no exception. It's crazy good. As a twin myself, I deem it twin approved.

[herbarimoon]

Izuku month day 16-18

Previous versions of him are kinda fun to draw actually

[immawraffle]

[bnhanerd]

Chapter 5! I love putting Mikumo through situations lmao.

[linxunderlife3]

Urusei yatsura trend w/ Prototype Bkdk!!! :D (my favs <3)

[nerdyneko6373]

I drew Mikumo in his hero costume for the next chapter of To Break Free :3

It's almost the same as Deku's costume in canon, I just changed the colors and made some modifications to the gear!

[kodd-eck]

Boku no hero pag #1

Quiero hacer un fan manga teniendo a mikumo (yamikumo) como protagonista junto con yuu y gogó (los prototipos de katsuki y uraraka) podría hacer que la historia avance de una forma realmente más cruda a como lo hacía el manga hace un par de meses,espero el proyecto avance