#naruto western au

[kankuroplease]

@aburameweek prompt: Any AU

I wanted to do this for teammates, but it’s a little too au heavy, so any au it is!

[nobelowz]

that one scene in living western where theyre riding the horse together (fic by @galeforcefish on ao3!!)

[crosshatchedaces]

@obito-week: Any AU (Western AU)

I wonder what they're talking about?

[lyxemin]

ouuughhhh i know that sakura technically has a cowgirl western design already... but it was weak. enjoy some shotgun gaucho sakura art. In this universe sasori is a very messed up little man. the revolver is just for show and in reality he carries around scorpions everywhere, or is like a scorpion charmer?? idk how that works, but it does! somehow! trust me!! i think they end up striking up an unlikely friendship from uniting over a common enemy, or something. they both sell "snake oil" to scam people, but sakura's medicines actually work, and sasori's is genuinely oil from a snake and people just... die. it's very fun and goofy in my head, but i cannot seem to vocalize it. anyway keep ur eyes peeled for yj and teen titans stuff, cause i've been into that.

sorry for inactivity, btw, i made starting lineup for varsity, so i have been very busy doing irl student athlete things...

[iamdslr]

western #NHMonth2022

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[fandomtrash-whataboutit]

Thinking about @tricodekus tsukkiyama spiderman au (again) and enamored with yamaguchi as a protagonist bc…

Shoyo fits that typical shonen protagonist so well of upbeat and energetic. He’s luffy and natsu and naruto, you know? But yama fits the western teen superhero so much when i think about it

He’s sort of plain but he’s determined and so kindhearted, he has an unusual friend group that he achieved by reaching out to those other people might not, he’s smart and a good student, i could see him having an artsy hobby (like peter parkers photography). Yamaguchi could Totally be the protagonist in an american superhero movie not bc hes spiderman but bc hes SO peter parker

[11thfempachi]

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often post about genshin impact, naruto, bleach, yume nikki, zelda (botw & totk), animal crossing, half life, sometimes hunter x hunter, hellsing, jjba, the witcher 3 and danganronpa

used to paint but not much anymore

im interested in Han Chinese and Manchurian cultures, specifically Qing dynasty, art of Abrahamic religions, medieval European and ancient Roman culture, specifically art and customs. Prefer to read and watch non-fiction media.

my favourite art movement is Northern Renaissance. I know a whole lot about nothing and nothing about a lot of things

i am rude and I will bark at you for nothing. My taste in men is bad. My taste in women is worse and not in a girlboss way. Spending 10 years in the metalhead community did irreversible damage to my psyche and so did 12 years of watching anime. As opposed to a popular belief, I do watch normal movies, just rarely fiction.

i don't care about shipping and I'm writing a gen genshin x bleach crossover au fic.

i have a graphic designer degree that I never used and I hate this profession and everything it stands for.

my favourite topic is me, my favourite colour is me and my favourite season is me.

i hate one piece, game of thrones, chapell roan and harry styles.

but more than that

I hate your boyfriend and your virgin cathowlwicism and your childbirth-centric greek neopaganism and america and your favourite kpop idol and japan and organised religion.

I am always right and if you can't communicate without slurs I assume you're 14.

If you're American or Western European reread your sentence before you speak to me on experience of being SSA

[tokiro07]

In a recent interview, Eiichiro Oda said that he probably won't do any more manga after One Piece (or at least nothing huge) because the world he constructed for One Piece inadvertently allowed him to explore pretty much every type of story he wanted to: Mock Town was a Western, Egghead is both a sci-fi and a murder mystery, Thriller Bark was a horror, etc. He never did it, but Oda probably could have found a way to work in a high school drama or romantic comedy if he'd really wanted to. I would argue that's how the Hungry Days promotion came about, he probably wanted to see it explored at least a little bit but couldn't quite find a good excuse for it

Undead Unluck, as I think at least one of us has mentioned before, is very similar: it can be whatever it wants to be whenever it wants to be. A sci-fi horror against the emotion-eating aliens on the space station, a zombie apocalypse Western against Spoil, a wuxia against Feng, competitive gaming against Spring, sports against Void, and now of course the high school AU centered around Chikara; Undead Unluck can do it all! If we end up going into Lucy's mind and it becomes a swords and sorcery fantasy with Lucy captive in a castle by a dragonified Ruin, would any of you really be surprised? Would any of you even complain? I wouldn't, and in fact I hope it happens now. That'd be such a funny way to get both Ruin and Lucy back into the main story

I don't know if I've ever really talked about it before, but there are certain niches that Jump manga fill. I don't mean in the sense of genre like sports or gag manga, I mean more thematically. When My Hero Academia started, the consensus was that it was the "new Naruto," with its plucky underdog protagonist competing with a cruel and prodigious rival and a society that discredits him for the circumstances of his birth. Black Clover draws inspiration from a ton of big name manga, but Bleach is probably the one that it best resembles in the structure of its world (the Clover Kingdom resembles Soul Society, the Magic Knight squads resemble the Thirteen Court Squads, and the Grimoires are basically simplified Zanpakutou)

Over the years, I've seen many things take major inspiration from Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball, etc., but shockingly, there was a long stretch where I never saw anything try to emulate One Piece, at least not in a way that was particularly obvious. The closest was Toriko, creating wild and imaginative animals, plants, etc. the same way that One Piece creates its islands, but nothing had a cast that felt reminiscent to me

Interestingly, the first one that I noticed that felt like what I was looking for was Dr. Stone, and that only sunk in for me when Senku had his group build a boat and put up a sail with their own unique symbol. I realized in that moment that where Toriko had covered the spirit of adventure that One Piece had, Dr. Stone covered the spirit of friendship and togetherness: every time a dilemma came up, the solution was almost always finding a new ally and awakening their talents, applying them in a way that they'd never thought to before, or reconciling with an old enemy for the sake of progress. "My friends are here to do the things I can't, and I'm here to do what they can't." This is one of the core tenets of One Piece, and while it took me a while to notice, it was equally a part of Dr. Stone's core as well

Undead Unluck does something pretty similar, though not as overtly, since the cast don't really have neat roles like "navigator" or "doctor" or "chef;" instead, everyone has their areas of expertise that can be used in multiple situations, so the individuals best suited for each situation are carefully selected, and if none are available, the hunt begins for someone who is. I think this didn't sink in because it didn't become nearly as prevalent until after the timeloop, but in retrospect, the first half of the story was like the pre-timeskip Straw Hats', unprepared and unable to reach the world's ceiling when finally faced with it, only to come back stronger and wiser in their journey to come back together

Coupled with its ability to be (Chucky voice) genre-fluid, Undead Unluck has unexpectedly become in my opinion a more than worthy successor to One Piece's particular niche in Jump. I've had this thought for a while now, but I think that Undead Unluck might actually be a good glimpse into what One Piece would have been like if Oda had been able to stick to his original five-year plan. It isn't able to take nearly as much time to flesh out its world, but its streamlined approach elegantly allows us to get to know enough about the cast to be invested while still allowing attentive viewers to pick up on fine details. Where One Piece ballooned to be a 30-year venture because Oda kept having more ideas he wanted to share and angles he wanted to analyze, Undead Unluck seems to have a stronger clarity to its vision and commitment to ensuring that vision is realized ASAP without sacrificing any of the essentials. Neither approach is wrong, it's just good to see that there is in fact a world that exists where One Piece would have been able to be just as solidly executed even without entertaining every whim and flight of fancy that its author could dream of

Of course, One Piece is still going, and likely will be when Undead Unluck naturally concludes, so calling UU its successor is definitely a bit of an overstatement, but my main point is that I'm glad that we're starting to see authors who aren't afraid of sharing One Piece's niche, and more importantly are doing it in a way that's fairly subtle, but identifiable. It's an extremely comforting sign for the rapidly approaching post-One Piece world, and I can't wait to see what fills the coming power vacuum

[subdee]

B and E for the ask game?

Pretending I answered this two days ago... Aha.

B:  What was the first fandom you read fic in?  Which was the first you wrote fic for?

First fandom: It was Ranma 1/2! In second grade we got a PC for the first time, a few years later we got a dial-up internet connection. The only people on the internet at that time - as far as I knew anyway - were adult nerds and college students. The college students had the fast college internet, so their pages were unusable because they all had huge fancy anime JPEG headers that took 10 minutes to load.

I starting reading fanfiction because plaintext loaded quicker, and my favorite page on the entire internet was someone's boring HTML page that was literally nothing but a manually-updated list of links to every Ranma/Akane fanfiction that existed on the internet in English.

I was probably in 6th or 7th grade. I'd never read the comics, which were expensive as they were still being sold in the western comics format, where you charged a lot of $$$ for a small number of (flipped) pages. The tankobans came out a year or two later. I'm probably mixing all this up. I saw some of the anime, eventually, renting tapes from a going out of business video rental store near my high school boyfriend's house.

Uhh where was I. Yeah, to this day I've never seen or read all of Ranma 1/2, but I read literally every English language Ranma/Akane fanfic that existed on the internet circa 1995. I liked the ones where Akane was in love with girl Ranma, and Ranma didn't care that they were dating a lesbian, the best.

First fandom I wrote in: Naruto! I was still in high school, or maybe just starting college? I started some ambitious WIP, specofically to make friends with a group of livejournalers whose blogs I'd been lurking for several years (I succeeded in this btw, just not with the Naruto fic - with Death Note mainly). Since I didn't have any real plan for the fic, I didn't make it very far before I gave up.

There's another one I wrote, close to around that time, that I wish I could orphan or at least delete from my ff.net account, but alas I can't as the email I used to sign up for ff.net no longer exists. It was a fic about Sasuke and Hinata in an arranged marriage, there's a rape in it, I wrote it as a proof of concept for how horrible that pairing would be, but it got positive feedback from Sasuke fans invested in how I was going to redeem him. Yeah, lesson learned, never write an anti-fic.

E: What character do you identify with most?  Is there a certain fic of yours that captures these qualities particularly well?

Hmmmmmm. Usually I'd say, Yukino Arizawa from His and Her circumstances? She is insanely competitive and ambitious but hides it so she can get more adulation from her high school fanbase. I'm not exactly like this but I admire it, and it's closer to my mental image of myself than the majority of female characters. "They think I'm sweet, but I want to beat them all into the ground with the best test scores, best grades, AND be the best athlete! Haha!"

In general I'm not really trying to write characters who are like me when I write, though. It's like, write my essay about the canon, pretend it's fiction and not an essay; or join a fandom event to make friends and write an AU I can put some of my personal experiences in to make it more interesting. Fanfic as a social thing, more than a way to explore myself.

I'll plug the way I wrote Ging (HxH) in "Pariging Coffee Shop AU" though (though you just said you don't read AUs and especially not coffee shop AUs). I like the way he's a mystery in that and then... Revealed to be SOMEWHAT interesting but in a way that only appeals to like, the niche of the niche. (Academic genius only popular among sociology grad students, etc.) Hah.

Here's the fic:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32737069

Thanks for the ask <333

[olderthannetfic]

Do you, or anyone actually, know where/when the '-bowl' sufix started being used in Fandom? Because I can't find any kind of origin, and surprisingly Fanlore doesn't have a article about it (as far as I checked maybe I didn't search well?). I just found and know that it's used for kinda old and relatively new fandoms, thanks to a two-year-old Reddit post.

For anyone who doesn't get/know about the '-bowl' sufix: is basically an All × One thing. For example, if you encounter 'Dekubowl' this means that Deku, the character, is shipped with everyone or that at least everyone else have a crush with Deku.

I can only think of the 'Super Bowl' (just as one comment in that Reddit post suggest) for its origin, but when we talk about Fandom culture we never know. It could have originated from anything no-related to the Super Bowl, LOL.

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Ooh, interesting. I've never heard of this in my life, and I have no idea what a -bowl suffix is supposed to mean, even if I guess it has to do with the super bowl.

It's not surprising Fanlore doesn't have this if it's coming from BNHA or somewhere similar. Fanlore is fantastic on the history of Western "Media Fandom", zines, K/S, etc. It's much weaker in areas that OTW early adopters haven't spent as much time in.

You should write the -bowl article yourself!

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I went into AO3's tag search and looked for 'bowl'. I found 1311 tags, 90 of them canonicals.

I'm seeing a ton of references to the Super Bowl, dust bowl AUs, pet play with pet food bowls, Dream in the fishbowl, unending uses like "I'm crying into my bowl of cereal as I write this", "bowl of honey nut feelios", "bowl of pornflakes", "me shaking the food bowl of sbi wilbur-centric angst: come get y'all's juice", etc., and plenty of references to YOI katusdon bowls. Lots of fandoms and episodes have 'bowl' in their titles.

Zeroing in on more related things, I'm seeing BNHA over and over and not much else...

EXCEPT!

Fruit bowls!

I see scattered references to "let's add him into that whole fruit bowl" and "the whole fruit bowl is here" and so on. Some of them are crack fic where everyone is a banana, but a lot of them seem to be a metaphor for "everything together".

Okay, I just spent far too much time trying to categorize tags. Out of the 'bowl' ones, about a third appear to be this kind of sense (counting by number of tags, not number of works).

Game of Thrones has a bunch, but they refer (as far as I know) to which characters will hypothetically kill each other and emerge victorious, not to group shipping.

Some tags I found, like 'edelbowl' sounded more like a group ship than an X/everyone. I also found a scattering of tags that were like 'all of them in a bowl together', which is probably related.

But mainly, what I found is that this is from BNHA and it's recent.

The other fandoms where I found it were:

Demon Slayer, Dr. STONE, Naruto, South Park, Fire Emblem, Genshin, HP, Lego Ninjago, My Next Life as a Villainess, She-Ra, Teen Wolf, Tower of God, VLD, A3! (Video Game), Assassination Classroom, Avatar, Batman, Black Clover - Tabata Yuki, Bleach, Blue Lock (Manga), BTS, Bungou Stray Dogs , Dangan Ronpa, Danny Phantom, Detective Conan, Dragon Age, Durarara!!, Fate/Grand Order, How to Train Your Dragon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), LEGO Monkie Kid, Osomatsu-san, Ouran High School Host Club, Percy Jackson, SK8 the Infinity, Soul Eater, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Tokyo Revengers, Virtual Streamer Animated Characters, Warcraft, Xenoblade Chronicles 2

That's giving me a very distinctive picture of a fan who's probably in their 20s or 30s, mostly like anime and some video games, and is not the type that edits Fanlore.

There's nothing actually old here: it's recent anime and stuff that is still a megafandom, like Naruto.

I'm seeing a scattering of 'dekubowl' from 2017 and then other character tags taking off in like 2019. This is definitely a recent trend in terminology, at least on AO3.

[kankuroplease]

Kibahina in the cowboy au?

Oooo thanks for the prompt! I was a little confused about which au you were referring to because there’s the one with the rodeo (that has cowboys ofc) and then there’s the one with cowboy!Shino and cowboy!Kiba , so I just went with the one they are actually flirty in ✨

[v1nsmoke]

𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒂 | 𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊 | 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 | 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒑 | 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒋𝒊 𝒇𝒂𝒏

hey, welcome to my corner! name's maya, and i write silly stories and make silly fanarts, mostly one piece related!

𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒎𝒔: one piece, resident evil, the boys, the last of us, red dead redemption 2/1, far cry, fnaf, game of thrones, stranger things, arcane, naruto, star wars, marvel, dc, hunger games, kingsman, final fantasy, devil may cry, you, the walking dead, the council, mortal kombat 11 and mk1, western movies, and just movies in general

my ask box is always open if anybody has questions or needs a listening ear ♡

clicking on the underlined parts will take you directly to the post itself!

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𝚂𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

-> Wine & die // Shanks x reader (zombie apocalypse au) -> Guns n' Roses // Cult leader!Law x reader

-> House of Blood and Death // Vinsmoke Sanji x vampire!reader (re8 x one piece)

-> Guns N' Roses // Cult leader!Law x reader - PART 2

-> Party Killer // Slasher!Zoro x reader

-> Guns N' Roses // Cult leader!Law x reader PART 3 -> The Circus // Buggy x reader

-> Family Dinner // ASL bros x reader

༄ ‧₊° 𝑴𝒀 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑬𝑺

Prince // Vinsmoke Sanji x reader (full fanfic out on wattpad)

Hanahaki Disease // Vinsmoke Sanji x reader (angst oneshot)

Officer Friendly // cop!Shanks x reader (oneshot)

Save a Horse... // cowboy!Rick Grimes x reader (oneshot)

Match My Freak // John Hancock x reader (fallout 4 oneshot)

Cure For Boredom // Frenchie x reader (the boys oneshot)

Casanova // Sonny Corleone x reader (oneshot)

For Old Time's Sake // Soldier Boy (multi-chapter fanfic) CHAPTER ONE

༄ ‧₊˚ 𝑴𝒀 𝑭𝑨𝑵𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑺

Sanji playing pool at a bar uncoloured coloured

Slasher zoro (spooktober oneshot inspired)

Nami

The Godfather 2 poster (digital art featuring robert de niro's vito corleone)

Egghead arc Sanji

Taz Skylar as Sanji

One Piece Live Action - Baratie fight

Shokugeki no Sanji panel redraw in my style

Sanji w/ gloves

Human version of Foxy from fnaf

Wano Sanji screenshot redraw

Kimiko x Frenchie fanart (the boys)

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v1nsmoke's taglist - comment what posts you want me to tag you in♡

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Casanova // Sonny Corleone x reader (oneshot)

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A LETTER TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN... (update about my recent inactivity) FIND ME ON AO3 FANFIC WRITER EMOJI ASK

© v1nsmokes 2023. Do not modify, translate or rewrite.

[kat-anni]

WIP Title Game

Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it!

Thanks to @theliteraryluggage for the tag! <3

2023_Looked so alive, turns out I'm not real [can't actually talk about this one but I can tell you why]

Book hit fic (Still sinking in the pool of your mistakes)

Our Scars remind us that the past is real → Ask

Way down we go

Yanli+WWX travel to the future

Non Untamed/MDZS Fanworks (considered UFOs):

Avatar - Kataang1 [??? dated 2009...]

Avatar - After War 1

Avatar - After War 2 [yes these are v different]

Avatar - The Western Airtemple

BBC Merlin - Meeting you again

DCMK - Curiosity killed the cat AU → Ask

DCMK - Shinran Fanfic

DCMK - Vergiss mein nicht (Forget me not)

HP - A kiss from a Dementor

LOTR - Age and Experience

LOTR - The Braid Incident

PJO - The Beginnings of Amelia Fairbanks → Ask

PJO - Dark Percy Fic → Ask 1 | Ask 2

PJO - Percabeth - Cinema Desaster

PJO - First Kiss BotL

PJO - On Destruction

PJO - Amelia - Torture excerpt

RPG Naruto - I thought you were-

RPG Fairy Tail - Fairy's End → Ask

Originals (also UFO):

Alvari Forsetii

Sidhe Witches

Yeah that's it! Holy shit I did not think it would be this many...I've actually completely forgotten about most of these 😂

I'm tagging... @sweetlittlevampire @twenty-orange-balloons @elven-child @keircatenation @veilfireshadows @the-sage-of-dissolution @arkodian @ellierenae @lady-byleth in no particular order and without any obligation whatsoever! I'm not even sure how actively y'all write. Also, if you're a writer and see this, also feel free!!! <3 tag me in yours and I will send you an ask, as is part of the ask-game etiquette :3 (also you can always just shoot me an ask just for being curious about one of these of course!!! <3)

Have fun and have a fantastic day ❤️

[and ignore what a mess I am having ....26 WIPs]

Edit: Added the asks I already got so you can look at the snippets :)

[youngster-monster]

Realized I've been pretty inactive on here (aside from my ongoing struggle with Monachopsis) so here's some of the stuff I've been up to:

Undisclosed desires (Fallout: New Vegas, Boone/M!Courrier, 1.4k words) – Turns out if I stare at @lelelego 's art of her courrier Eli for long enough words spontaneously manifest in a Google document

Friend of Molly's (Temeraire, gen, 1.2k words) – For the Temeraire Summer Exchange, about 19th century gay clubs

Storm Season (Temeraire, gen, Western AU, 6.9k words) – For the exchange as well, inspired by John Muir's writing and @skycowboys 's worldbuilding. This one has a playlist that I'm quite proud of

Base instincts (Temeraire, gen, 2.2k words) – For the exchange, in which I returned to my roots and made Laurence a werewolf

Lifeline (Destiny, gen, 99 words) – The Thin Line lore card, but about Ghost this time

Let my memory live (but darling, carry on) (Destiny, gen, 3.5k words) – Written with @baronetcoins and @kingstealer, about our fireteam getting back together and processing some trauma

Aberrant path (Destiny/Naruto, gen, 1.6k words) – Orochimaru does unethical experiments! In space!! I wrote two crossovers for International Fanworks Day 2023 and it's frankly one of the most fun things I've done that year. Naruto Is Widely Applicable

Place to try (Destiny/Naruto, gen, 4.3k words) – In which Cayde is the ANBU commander and One Day Away From Retirement

[spellcasterlight]

Hi there, Quick-witted Quokka Anon! 😊

I was actually rewatching Naruto Shippudden recently, and the scenes Shikaku and Mabui were in it together gave me a few ideas for this! So glad I rewatched it! 😂 Happy birthday Mabui! 🥳

Hope you like it! ✨

After The Sunset - [Shikaku x Mabui]

@kunoichi-central - Mabui’s Birthday Event

Spell’sAUBingo - Tile 18: Western AU

Warnings: Cowboy Western Style Alternative Universe. Alcohol. Sexual Scene.

Story Link: [Ao3🔗]

Ao3 ✨ |Story Request Bingo Cards 📖 | WIP Game Always Open ✒️| Ko-Fi ☕

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

as someone who's personally never been a big dad for one fan, why don't you like it? 👀

obligatory disclaimer that ppl can headcanon/theorise whatever they want, im fully aware that AUs are just ppl having fun and dont necessarily reflect what they want to/think will happen in canon, etc etc

okay so, to me dad for one is fundamentally antithetical to who midoriya is as a character and his position within the narrative. midoriya is not a chosen one. yes he was literally chosen by all might to inheret ofa, but midoriya is different from a lot if shounen protagonists in that there was nothing inherently special about him other than his heroic spirit. he doesnt have a demon inside him like naruto, or saiyan abilities like goku, or even a hyper genuius intellect like senkuu. midoriya is literally Just Some Guy who happened to get noticed by all might. which is actually what makes his story all that more powerful. yes, midoriya being quirkless ends up working to his advantage with ofa and the whole 'last holder' thing does kinda feel like destiny but ultimately, all might chosing midoriya wasnt predetermined. there wasn't some grand prophecy or legend, there was no fates whispering in all might's ear, its just that in that moment with the sludge villain, all might saw midoriya be a hero and knew that he was the right person to inheret ofa.

objectively i get the appeal of 'ofa, a quirk born out of defiance to afo, is passed onto his hero son who takes him down' as like this cool narrative parallel but to me it undermines the whole basis of midoriya's character. he didnt get involved with ofa and afo and all might because of some hidden deeper connection between them all linking their destinies or whatever. midoriya is involed with everything that hes involved in because regardless of the circumstances of his birth, regardless of whether or not he got a quirk or met all might or got into UA, he was always going to be a hero no matter what.

with shigaraki, the whole sereniputous narrative thing of 'the grandson of one of the ofa users is groomed by afo to be the 'next him' and is the super villian nemisis of the current ofa user' works because shigaraki's defining character trait, his core theme, his 'origin' if you will, of hatered, is literally a product of the relationship between ofa and afo. shigaraki would literally not be the character that he is without his life, before it even began, being shaped by ofa and afo. but midoriya's origin is completely seperate from that, his origin is that of being a hero, no matter what, before he even knows a single thing about ofa and afo, before his life is shaped by them in any meaningful way.

i think there are two moments in bnha that make it blatantly obvious to me that dad for one was never going to happen.

first is back during the sports festival when, after hearing todoroki's backstory, midoriya kinda breaks the 4th wall a bit and thinks 'if we were in a comic book, he'd be the main character'. and the thing is? thats totally true!! yes 'kid with no powers in a world where everyone has powers' is a quintessential shounen manga story set up, but its not a super-hero story set up, as far as western hero comics (which horikoshi obviously takes massive inspiration from) go, todoroki with his tragic backstory and special dual-power would be the main character, which is what makes it all the more poignant that midoriya is instead. yes he inherets this great legendary power from the greatest hero ever and gets embroiled in this centuries long battle between good and evil, but prior to that, theres nothing about midoriya, other than his overwhelming heroism that made all might choose him, which is a choice wholly made by all might rather than some predetermined destiny thing, that makes him a main character.

the second is during the paranormal liberation war when afo tries to steal ofa and critises all might and the other vestiges for allowing the quirk to fall into the 'wrong hands' by ending up with midoriya, who he deems as weak, only for yoichi to defend all might's choice in selecting him as successor and his + the other vestiges' choice to remain within him. that has nothing to do with midoriya being some perfect, narratively appropriate, parallel inspired chosen one, hell its even before the 'you'll probably be the last user because your quirklessness makes you perfect for ofa in a way that quirked people arent' reveal. yoichi and the other vestiges' support and defence of midoriya, just like all might's chosing of him to be his successor, comes from nothing other than the understanding that midoriya is a true hero through and through.

'but leo! doesnt the fact that midoriya is a true hero mean it would be even more poignant if he were the son of the greatest villain ever' i hear you all cry, and the answer is no.

because if midoriya is all for one's son then it makes too much sense that he inhereted ofa. he goes from being this true hero who embodies the will of everything ofa and its users stand for, who is ready to carry on their legacy and offer the world hope in a time of despair, to being the ~perfect~ narrative choice to inheret ofa to fulfil a circle of fate and break a generational curse.

in the canon universe, if all for one is midoriya's dad, midoriya goes from being this character who's sheer conviction to win and save, to be a hero, despite his non-suited circumstances, and nothing else about him, makes all might, who had already planned to go to UA and select a student to be his successor, pick him, out of all possible people, to inheret ofa, to suddenly being the only possible successor. if dfo is true then it doesnt matter that in another life mirio or bakugou or someone else couldve been the 9th user, because by being all for one's son midoriya is put in such a narratively perfect position to inheret ofa that its obvious it was literally never going to be anyone else. which to me, wholly and completely undermines all the poignancy and narrative weight in midoriya, who had absolutely nothing to do with ofa and afo but who was such a genuine hero that all might and the ofa vestiges chose him regardless, being the one to inherent ofa.

so yeah, i dont like dad for one, (and villain deku AUs for pretty much the same reasons), and thats why im convinced it'll never happen. because for all his many flaws horikoshi definitely knows how to craft a narrative, and i think hes both too smart and too good a writer to undermine his own protagonist's origin like that.