#ofa user tomura au

[mettywiththenotes]

Thinking about visual symbolism where Tomura gets OFA and the embers/fire visual that is usually shown with the users, which is usually something comforting or warm, instead with Tomura it's shown as a sort of wildfire. It's the culmination of the vestiges powers and strong will's becoming one with a 10th user added to it, but Tomura's strong will too. A villain holding this powerful quirk would be expected to use it for evil but he stands opposing his mentor, the man who manipulated his entire life, and it blazes in his soul with his rising hatred against him

A strong fire that is neither comforting or warm like a typical hero reassuring the masses, but an almost violent wildfire directed at evil

[writing-sideblog-behind-books]

yoichi kisses kudo with desperation. he pours everything of himself into the kiss in the hope that if they have to die he will at least be firt. his brother is vengeful and on a war path and the quirk he forced on yoichi is not enough to stop him. none of them are. and when he finds they they are all dead. yoichi needs to be among the bodies. couldn't bear going back into his brother's cage. his heroes are dead. kudo doesn't know how he got it but as he's bleeding all over bruce's cuts he hopes that yoichi's legacy won't die with him. it's hikage that figues it out and takes the burden off of bruce's shoulders. now when he'll inevetably have to face that Demon this power won't die with him. it's hikage that gives it to daigoro when his body can't deal with the quirk anymore. aware, he's condemning this man to death either by his body betraying him or getting discovered by Him. daigoro is dying when he gives en the quirk. it's a last desperate move and en hadn't even known of the quirk but he won't have the quirk die with him. won't allow the Monster to get away with killing the last piece of his brother and their only hope. En plans to give Nana the quirk for a long time, tells her what he knows of it's history and helps her train her body to recieve it. Then, he is found and Nana recieves it not in a controlled, secret location but on the side of a devestating battle where she chokes down a blodied stand of hair and her tears. The seventh user of their quirk is also the first one to have a child. her son has a wide, toothy smile and nana loves him more than anything. she hides him away before she goes to her death. yagi, ever the loyal student fights to stay by her side but she can't let this be the end. if she fails to beat this Evil there needs to be hope. Yagi, with his endless kindness and bright smile will be that hope. and when he grows strong enough he'll put and end to this endless cycle of condemnation and death. she's sure in her entire heart of that. kotaro is a stange child but his foster family attributes it to the shock of the sudden abandonment of his mother. izuku teaches all might to be more than he is. brings light into his live and lets him relearn to love himself. their mission is over. all for one dead. but it's his sensei's legacy and even with it's purpose fullfilled it can still bring hope, can still save lives. hana is a a bright child, as weird as her father in his youth - before he learned to hide it, before the spark left him - and too smart for her age. izuku gets the quirk after only a few months of training. it flows in his veins and explodes his limbs at first but it feels right. like it was always supposed to be this way. like the emptiness in his body was waiting for it his whole life. tenko is shy and quiet but there is intelligence in his eyes also. he and hana are strangely close, something pulling them together. as he grows older he grows into the weirdness, unlike his father and his sister. he is quirkless and there is space in him for IT to settle. then he gets lost on the playground and a strange man returns him home. memories spark to light as the man ruffles tenko's head and he flinches back with sudden, inexplicable terror. he comes home in tears and everyone believes it's the scare of getting lost. not soon after this tenko's quirk activates and in a terrible accident, he kills his entire family. as izuku gains control over their quirk he starts thirsting for the history of it. for the names and stories of those before him. not just their names but their favorite colors. it's stange but especially after the sports festival he feels as though he's sharing a flat with stangers. meeting shigaraki at the mall, those fingers closing around his neck belw the fear, a feeling of intense deja-vu hits him and yearning sparks along his veins like lightning. it's like his quirk is calling out to this villain.

[avis-fictional-world]

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[filipinoizukuu]

what comes next though? (MHA ch. 413)

// major spoilers for mha ch. 413 since its leaks, so please stop reading if you arent quite caught up. i havent written one of these in a LONGGG while lmao.

ANYWAY, with all that being said.... this week's leaks huh?

We saw it coming a long time ago, we speculated it to hell and back, we made aus and fics, and now it's finally here. The conclusion we've reached and the one that's been hinted at since the release of Heroes Rising in 2019:

bnha is going to end with deku giving up one for all and becoming quirkless.

(LOTS of words under the cut -- youve been warned.)

For those who are a little lost; the basic premise of the ending we are hurtling towards is that Kudou (the 2nd user of ofa) has a plan to take down Shigaraki. With AfO dead and gone + Shigaraki becoming so powerful he is essentially invincible -- theres no other choice for the heroes other than destroying him inside out; the plan being the equivalent of charging a battery so much it explodes.

the way they're going to go about this is by essentially, feeding Shigaraki bits of One for All until he's given all of it -- then allowing the vestiges of the previous wielders to create a massive revolt similar to what SnS did until they can successfully tear him apart from inside the "quirk realm" and shut him out. Kudou volunteers to go next since danger sense has already been taken, and if Shigaraki uses gearshift again after Deku already used it twice, Tomura's body will likely shutdown and receive twice the backlash Deku does when he uses kudou's quirk.

(sidenote: funny as fuck that deku only understood once kudou equated the strategy to bkg throwing papers at him. bro stupid af.)

its a sensible(ish) idea. one that seems plausible given the context of the last hundred or so chapters with heroes like Hawks and SnS having their quirks revolt against both AfO and Shigaraki in a way that makes it clear that its not uniquely OfA that animates the souls of peoples quirks. Its inherent. Quote, Nana Shimura, "romantic" even.

(let it be known though that i think hori absolutely did not plan on delving into this plot point as much as he is now. ill explain in a bit, but heroes rising was 100% a major factor of why he moved in this direction.)

That being said, the conclusion of the plan (and subsequently, the major plot of bnha) is as follows: Deku gives up One for All to Shigaraki. One for All unites with All for One within Shigaraki and destroys it in one final clash between Yoichi and his brother. The break in the barrier of Shigaraki's hatred will part, letting him find the consciousness of Shimura Tenko behind it after years.

Shigaraki dies, taking OfA and AfO down with him,

and then Deku is quirkless once more.

Sad conclusion aside for now, I firmly believe that no matter what way you look at it; Deku was always meant to end the story without a quirk. Given some of the original drafts of bnha where Deku was never supposed to be given a quirk in the first place, this is clearly unsurprising. What's more is my favorite piece of information relative to katsuki and deku's character development:

the fact that heroes rising was (one of the) ideas for the original ending of bnha.

a refresher for some of you: heroes rising is about class 1a going to the isolated village of nabu island and defending it against an upcoming big bad villain named "nine" with a quirk that is essentially a scaled down version of all for one. katsuki and deku eventually resolve the conflict together via brute force by deku giving katsuki ofa, them rushing in while the quirk is transferring and both of them have it, and then ultimately defeating nine at the end. the movie then of course circles back on deku losing one for all, undoing that consequence by saying the transfer never completed bc ofa chose him over katsuki and they all move on to the endeavor agency arc with katsuki remembering absolutely nothing of the final battle.

many fans often misunderstand one of horikoshi's quotes about the movie in that it was, without a doubt, the original ending of bnha. for the sake of accuracy, that is not what horikoshi really said; what he ACTUALLY said was something closer and to the tune of of how it was "one OF the endings" he planned on using for bnha, but his original idea for how the story ends "has not changed one bit."

obviously disregarding the cop out where ofa sticks back to izuku in order for the series to continue as normal; this can only confirm that bnha was going to end with midoriya izuku quirkless whether katsuki was involved or not.

so what's different this time?

its hard to figure out how far horikoshi had planned the ending of bnha with heroes rising's prototype conclusion in mind. if heroes rising never pulled through and horikoshi had planned on bnha ending with the shared ofa transfer and katsuki continuing deku's legacy -- then that means katsuki wouldve died an early death because of all might's confirmation that only quirkless people can hold on to one for all without dying young, meaning he either intended on katsuki dying soon after the story ends or only planned that plot point after heroes rising was released.

the plot as well of heroes rising's conclusion cannot have been thought of all that early on because of ANOTHER tidbit of information that changes perspective of the entire series: in that,

bakugou katsuki was never supposed to be a major character to begin with. (keep an eye on this link; i reference this interview a LOT)

he was not supposed to have an arc. he was not supposed to become a major focal point of the series. he was not meant to be the hero he is in the story today. bakugou katsuki was not written with the intention of being a major narrative this late into the story -- instead originally only existing as a character that deku would surpass within the first few arcs.

but then katsuki cried, and deku apologized, and then opened his big fat mouth, and then told him a secret he didnt even tell his own mother -- and suddenly bakugou katsuki was not just another footnote in deku's story, but a legitimate character that grew and created one of the most loved (and hated) character turnarounds in shonen history. he started of as a literal EXTRA before snowballing into the very same character horikoshi decided would defeat all for one, the original scariest antagonist of the entire series. someone not even ALL MIGHT could defeat.

but circling back, yeah. heroes rising was definitely not the ending horikoshi thought of first, nor was it the ending he thought of last. ultimately, it was simply another route he couldve taken into wrapping up deku's fate into what it was (probably) always meant to be:

deku was gonna lose one for all no matter what.

it's kind of fitting, honestly -- for this to be the ultimate conclusion to the series. it makes the most sense, since what sent deku down this path so many years ago was his mother apologizing to deku for being quirkless; as if being quirkless meant he was born inferior to those who had quirks. people, after all according to deku's famous beginning monologue, are not born equal.

Even still, i thought to note: deku never stopped wanting to be a hero. we all know this, obviously. this was his driving force -- but then when you REALLY think about the implications, you have to ask. what the heck was deku even planning to do?!

he had ideas. he had hope. he wrote notebooks for the future and thought of his costume for being a hero -- but not once do i remember him writing about his hero experience as if he was suddenly going to develop a quirk. he was planning on saving people quirkless -- an extremely interesting motivation especially when he couldve so easily chosen to walk the path of being a doctor or engineer instead if he wanted to save people so badly. its a story about conviction, about doing the things you wanna do in the way you wanna do it no matter what ANYONE else says and hey wait a minute that sounds familiar

it doesnt quite read that way at first, especially because of how izuku almost listened to all might about "being realistic" when the first met and nearly gave up on becoming a hero entirely, but izuku is a lot similar to katsuki in the sense that no matter what gets in his way -- he is determined to achieve his dreams in the way HE CHOOSES, and not the way that is more "convenient".

even when you look at just his name, "deku" in the way that uraraka had interpreted it (dekiru -- "you can do it!") and the way deku reexplains it to katsuki in deku vs kacchan 1 ("the deku that doesn't give up!") you can so easily tell that deku from the very beginning has only ever needed the slightest push to pursue being a hero, quirk-or-not-be-damned. hell, we even see a glimpse of this possibility in the sports festival race when deku absolutely DECIMATES not just bakugou but also TODOROKI (as well as every single other damn student participating in the festival) with nothing but robot scraps and his balls of steel. it just so happens that until the promise of one for all, no such encouragement or push was ever given to deku in his pursuit of heroicism, most especially in comparison to katsuki who had been receiving praise and validation for his goals his whole life.

i'd argue that deku's conviction is even stronger than katsuki in a way no other person seems to recognize (except maybe katsuki himself). katsuki had received only positive feedback and zero competition for his goals growing up while deku received nothing but discouragement. both of them kept the conviction of being a hero for TEN YEARS; neither wavering til the day of the sludge incident.

that aside; what comes next?

we know the story after that. deku gets his quirk, he goes to school, he fights, he drops out, he fights some more, and now he's standing before shigaraki tomura with every quirk of one for all unlocked and over twice the power that all might had in his prime -- fully knowing he's about to lose EVERYTHING in order to defeat shigaraki.

this is deku we're talking about. he doesn't care. he knows the implications and what that will mean for his dream -- but his goal right now is in front of him. his goal is shigaraki, consumed by hatred, threatening to take down the world izuku loves most into a pit of misery and decay because society failed people like them. does he care? probably. will he refuse to give up his power if it means not saving the world and fulfilling one for all's purpose? absolutely not.

deku has made all might's quirk his own, but one for all does not belong to him. it belongs to yoichi. and kudou. and bruce and nana and all of the other users who built that quirk for generations in hopes that one day, someday, someone would be able to yield it all and bring down the monstrosity that created it in the first place. deku will not hesitate, but also deku knows what he will lose.

i have... a few things i dislike about this.

Admittedly, i do think that this is a better resolution than the simple brute strength approach of Heroes Rising. For one, while i do love heroes rising with my entire heart and soul, i firmly believe it would not have been a satisfying conclusion to the core lessons and teachings bnha tries to impart throughout the story. simply outnumbering and outpowering afo/shigaraki would not be enough to close yoichi's story and one for all -- much less the story of shigaraki himself as tenko, the boy consumed by hatred.

Still, this new ending that horikoshi has laid out leaves me with more questions; as well as large expectations for how izuku's character will close out. its complicated, because deku's evolution and development is subtle and intricate in a way i havent seen from other shonen protagonists and i worry about doing it justice.

but most of my problems have to do with bakugou katsuki.

(aint that the truth)

i know i mentioned that bakugou was never intended to be a major character, but i want it to be known that that was only in the beginning. season 1, maybe even season 2 -- but horikoshi had said it best himself in that bakugou katsuki, against his permission, had gained a life of his own and inserted himself into the very grain of mha's story. you cannot deny this.

he is the series deuteroganist inarguably. one of the most beloved characters and one of the most attentively-written development arcs in the whole series. katsuki in and of himself embodies major themes in bnha that make it so that ditching his development and impact last minute after defeating all for one would reflect poorly upon the conclusion of the story itself. he and deku are intertwined in arcs -- even if they do have separate paths at the end of the day. katsuki is the one izuku told about the quirk. the one who followed izuku during the paranormal liberation arc. the one who understands one for all and is determined to learn about it more than anyone else barring all might and deku himself. the one who is closer to izuku than anyone else.

it can't be over for their arc, no matter what way you see it. friends? rivals? hero partners? what comes next, when the smoke clears? what comes next when izuku gives shigaraki hell, like katsuki told him to?

katsuki's atoned. we accept that, have known it since chapter 285 and have continued to know it until the iconic apology in the rain. that's not where katsuki stops however, because we know that its not all about begging for izuku's forgiveness nor atoning for himself. its about catching up to izuku -- the last words he uttered before shigaraki crushed his heard say it all.

"can i still catch up to you, izuku?"

since the moment katsuki died, we've been given a metric ton of material to read through what he and izuku have become in the story. firstly, the point of katsuki being the person closest to izuku. what does this mean? what does that say about katsuki? is he supposedly the person izuku loves the most? the person izuku believes in the most? i'd argue these two criterion would easily fit his mother or all might a lot better -- not his childhood friend turned bully turned rival turned barely-friend. katsuki sure as hell didn't believe he was the person closest to izuku before shigaraki brought it up as evidenced by the fact that he let IIDA bring deku back to UA -- and neither does izuku as far as i bet. what was shigaraki's intention?

katsuki heard that statement. he hasnt said anything, but he definitely heard it. its an open end that is left entirely unanswered PRECISELY because katsuki fought afo on his own and izuku is about to tackle shigaraki without katsuki by his side. if it was heroes rising's ending wherein they would both fight shigaraki and take him down together -- then that statement would easily be answered by how their strength and bond is the one thing that gave them an upper hand in the final battle. other than that... i'm not entirely sure how they're going to have katsuki and izuku acknowledge katsuki's brief "death" and Tomura's reasons thereof.

But fine, lets ignore that for the time being and move on to what happened when Katsuki came back.

katsuki answered izuku's cry for help. he came back to life in the last moment to save all might when izuku was too busy fighting tooth and nail to win. they are the penultimate example of two sides of a hero; the win and save. not one without the other. every single parallel thus far between izuku and katsuki have always been to draw attention over and over to each of their stubborn convictions to win and save under all might's tutelage.

katsuki has chosen to prioritize winning and fighting over saving and rescuing over. and over. and over. and over again. at every single opportunity from the very beginning of the series. in usj, in sports festival, in the final exam, every choice he's made up until --

chapter 285 - bakugou katsuki: rising.

he chooses to save izuku in this instant. as he says, his body moved on its own -- or in other words, he felt like how izuku has always did since the sludge villain incident. this is bakugou katsuki catching up to midoriya izuku. its katsuki realizing that he needs to save so deku can win, and actually being okay with that for once. it's a major turning point in his character that clearly tells even horikoshi that there's absolutely no way katsuki can go back to being a side character within the plot of bnha after a development like this.

and then, after this instance, we notice it happen again and again. katsuki choosing to save to win instead of winning to save. katsuki protecting best jeanist against the nomu. katsuki coming to chase after izuku when he runs away from UA. katsuki (in a way) saving aoyama when its revealed he's the traitor. hell, katsuki saving ALL MIGHT as soon as izuku -- the savior -- begs someone to save his idol when he can't because he's too focused on trying to win.

so what changed?

what changed since the moment of chapter 285 was katsuki accepting his fears and anxieties. katsuki letting go of his aversity to working with deku. the reason katsuki started accepting the path of saving to win was because he TRUSTED deku to win where he couldnt.

this is katsuki accepting that him and izuku already surpassed all might together.

but katsuki said it himself. it's not over. he accepts that him and izuku are finally on equal footing -- hell, he admits he's the one who needs to play catch up. it's not about katsuki conceding to weakness, but katsuki being able to trust in izuku to finish the job. the point is that they both will break and break until they win the way they choose to, and the other will be there to win while they save and save while they win. moreso, katsuki still wants to be number 1. he still wants to catch up and surpass deku. he wants to fight by deku's side. but ... as we've established:

deku will be quirkless soon.

my problem (or, i guess, curiosity?) with the path horikoshi seems to be going down for the end of this story is what happens to this end? what happens to the wonder duo? i believe in a quirkless deku plot as much as the next person -- but any reader would find it easy to see that once deku loses one for all, he will not be nearly as efficient nor quick nor capable of a hero as he once was. especially not against a developed katsuki with mastery over cluster explosions.

he will lose one for all and he won't ever be the pro-hero he was going to be before the final war arc. katsuki will get number 1 surely, but will he be happy about this resolution? i don't think so. All Might himself had said it when Katsuki spoke to him about his relationship to Izuku; that the twin stars reminded All Might very much of his own rivalry with Endeavor and the bitter feelings it created.

endeavor expressed regret and a bitter end to their rivalry; the acknowledgement of the bitter truth that the only reason he was the number one hero is because all might lost his own quirk. he knew he didn't deserve the mantle all might had held for a long time before him. he knew that he was still only just playing catch up with the wisdom and understanding of heroicism that all might had in his heart from the beginning. endeavor will likely retire from being a pro-hero unsatisfied with this truth and his own victory at becoming the no.1 at the very end -- never feeling like he truly surpassed all might of his own accord. both enji and toshinori -- victims of their destiny.

is this the fate that will befall katsuki once izuku is quirkless for good?

There are many questions I have in wake of the recent chapter. The end of the series is here, and that's a whole can of worms i haven't touched in and of itself. We all saw this coming; some of us know that this was always going to be Izuku's fate since the beginning of the series. But now that it's more than just izuku's character involved in his dreams of being a hero -- i dont know how this series is going to conclude and if it will be satisfying to any means. there's a lot of questions i still have; bakugous arc feeling incomplete ever since he came back to life, the conclusion of all might and one for all's dreams now that they will disappear altogether. where does deku go after this? where does bakugou go? where do any of them?

i guess i gotta wait and see lol

[princess-of-the-corner]

So, I'm unsure how you've worked out all the werewolf lore for the BNHA Monster AU, but:

I think Katsuki close to the full moon probably gets a little weird and hormonal as she gets closer to transformation. And I think one of the things she gets kind of weird about is personal space.

Like, she has an area that's considered her "territory" that only certain people are allowed or else she's gonna blow a gasket. She's got certain people that she wants to be really physically close to and/or have things that smell like them with her at all times. And she's gonna have certain things that she's registering as "dangerous" and is gonna want to keep her whole pack the fuck away from. This is largely gonna be things like "worse predators" (so villains that they're already avoiding), but also like, fire, or other people's territories. Oh and she'll be more on edge and ready to physically fight to release emotions.

With all that said, there's probably quite the range of reactions from 1-A. Like, Izuku'll probably take it fine, and a lot of them are great at rolling with the punches. But it's gotta be a pretty surreal experience for, like, Shoto, and I can see a lot of them being not fully ready to accept someone being that protective of them (they're all training to be heroes after all).

Also, can I get the list of what monster everyone is again?

Ye! Okay so!

The thing about being a Werewolf is that it's not a 'just on the Full Moon' thing. Yes the Full Moon causes an involuntary transformation where the Werewolf's form is monsterous rather than just 'a wolf' and they lose some of their thought process, but they're always a Werewolf.

They're no longer what they once were, they have senses and instincts that line up with the Wolf. Being more territorial of their space, being more protective of those they see as their 'Pack'.

Though yes some behaviors do increase with the Full Moon. Seeking comfort in the Pack is one.

also like. The thing here is that it's a no-Quirk/no Heroes au. Though everyone is wanting to help others, they're not necessarily trying to be Heroes in this universe.

as for what everyone is again:

Quick explaination of the AfO/OfA situation:

AfO and Yoichi are powerful Fae. Personalites similar to canon but toss in Fae Rules. OfA is a Fae Contract that turns the users Fae themselves.

Izuku is AfO's biological child, but was traded for Tenko in a Changeling Deal. Things went a little fucky so Izuku didn't replace Tenko and crafted his own identity as Izuku, causing both to have claim to the Name 'Tomura'.

Explaination of the Todoroki nonsense:

Demon/Angel. One of few species that can produce Hybrid children. Enji is a Demon, Rei is an Angel. The kids are all mixed in the same way they are with Fire/Ice.

Everyone else I have so far (mix of students, staff, Pros and otherwise).

Katsuki - Werewolf

Ochako - Bakeneko

Kirishima - Dragon

Mina - Slime Monster

Denki - Frankenstein Monster

Iida - Pegasus

Tsu - River Nymph

Sero - Spidertaur/Arachne

Momo - Selkie (Bear Variant)

Jiro - Witch(Bard)

Shoji - Merfolk

Fumikage - Harpy

Eimi - Living Shadow

Hagakure - Ghost

Koda - Gargoyle

Ojiro - Tsukumogami

Sato - Witch (Potionmaker)

Himiko - Shapeshifter afflicted with Vampirism

Shinso - Siren

Mei - Gremlin

Tetsutetsu - Dragon

Pony - Unicorn

Aizawa - Gorgon

Present Mic - Banshee

Midnight - Succubus/Incubus(same thing)

Vlad King - Vampire

Nezu - former Familiar turned Sapient, now a Witch

Selkie - Selkie (classic Seal Variant)

Eri - Kirin(Dragon/Unicorn Hybrid)

Hawks - still need a name for the species but essentially Cupids. Also got a job as The Grim Reaper.

Lady Nagant - Witch(Necromancer), formerly The Grim Reaper.

I know at least a few are missing because I'm debating on them exactly.

[pocketramblr]

Five headcanons for an AU where Yoichi and All for One were twins. Thank you!

They could be twins in canon for all we know but what if...

1- AfO can take quirks from someone he's touching. Yoichi can give quirks, if he's touching AfO and the person who gets it. It's a twin quirk split between two people. They're a set who has to work together, so this ties into "Yoichi formerly AfO's right hand man" thing

2- but AfO and Yoichi don't agree on everything for very long, and AfO can't do part of his conning thing without him. When Yoichi begins to refuse to give people quirks he knows are just traps from his brother, AfO casts him as the greedy one to the followers, and bemoans the betrayal and that if only he had a way to get around it. Garaki begins working on a way to move quirks artificially, and while he never exactly managed it, he did figure out how to make copies of quirks which could be implanted into new people. It was far less likely to work than Yoichi's perfect transfer quirk did, but oh well. AfO told Yoichi they managed it anyway hoping to break his spirits and get him back, but Yoichi just ignored him in the vault, silent.

3- Yoichi could take quirks from AfO and keep them in his own body to give out later, but he never really kept any for himself- not any good ones, anyway, and by the time he's in the vault he just has a little weak stockpiling that wasn't really good enough to give anyone else, and not worth giving back to his brother either.

It becomes far more worthwhile, after his rescue, then before he dies - when he wills his entire quirk to be given to Second, exactly as he had it in his own life... But a little bit stronger.

4- AfO initially is hunting down OfA users to force them to give him Yoichi's half of the twin quirk so he can do whatever he wants, but after so much time he realizes that's not going to work, so he takes Tenko hoping to groom him to be the perfect successor for All Might, only to turn around and give AfO the half of the quirk/ if he can't, to be the better version of Yoichi who works with him and does exactly what he says. It's a few years into grooming Tomura that he realizes it's probably not going to work either (Both he can't act to impress All Might, and also he's not a good enough Yoichi replacement for AfO, who really just wants his twin back and honestly started wishing decades ago that he had absorbed Yoichi in the womb so he had no escape), but might as well make All Might suffer for that.

5-late into training, Toshinori reveals to Izuku that there's another side of OfA than it's strength and lasting- the giving quirks part works on its own, in that if two quirked people want to switch, or one wants to give it to a quirkless person, Toshinori can let that happen by touching both of them. It only works if they really mean it though, and Toshinori keeps this very secret. Nana only switched three people's quirks in her life, and Toshinori only four- one was desperate mother fleeing domestic violence who wanted her quirkless daughter to take her quirk, one was someone trapped in a collapsed building who temporarily borrowed another hero's air quirk, and the other two of which were Endeavor's oldest children, twins who were more suited to each other's quirks.

[gece-misin-nesin]

OKAY this video, but its a Tododeku canon divergent au!!

Basically, after Izuku starts getting the prev user's quirks bc ofa hit singularity, (specifically after the first war) we learn that ofa's slowly killing izuku, and that using it only shortens his lifespan. Izuku does his vigilante thing, except he is actually alone, no pros or all might helping him. Shoto is devastated, and alongside 1a, tries his damn hardest to find a cure somehow. Everyone else is focused on getting izuku back first, but Shoto goes to Ujiko, learns that he was working on preventing quirk singularity shit, and that he can save Izuku's life if he continues his research. Obvs the heroes aren't gonna let him out of custody, nor let him conduct human experiments. The lov/afo, on the other hand, will. So Shoto either seeks out afo or dabi idk, and says he will join the league if Ujiko does his research thingy to save Izuku, and if that doesn't work, AFO will steal ofa from Izuku. Afo agrees in exchange of Shoto breaking out Ujiko from custody (and some lov members maybe?) to prove himself. Shoto arranges a prison break, and during the chaos finds Izuku (who came to stop it, obvs) and then Shoto explains what he's doing to Izuku. Izuku has Kiana's 'I won't let you leave!' routine as shown in the video, and Shoto is just trying to get Izuku to stand down, dammit! Anyway Shoto does Mei's monologue of 'you've saved us all at the expense of ur own life' etc. they fight.

Izuku here has been doing his vigilante arc ALONE, so he is exhausted and not even fully healed from his previous fights and doesn't want to hurt Shoto, so Shoto manages to knock him out as Mei does Kiana in the video, (maybe u can have him use blue fire or smth? Idrk what phosphor is tbh), and says the iconic "If rescuing you is a sin, I'll gladly become a sinner"

Idk how the rest of the series would go on from here, maybe you can even have league redemption by Shoto initially being closed off towards them but coming to sympathize w them over time? League saves Tomura from afo w the power of friendship? Also, todoroki drama.

Anyway, this au has me by the throat rn :D

[omorilovrrhere]

I legit have no idea where my note app is so, I'm using this.

au ideas.

Izuku has a quirk awaking (decay) while he rushes in to save bukugo in chapter 1

swap au where the 9th OFA user is all might instead of deku. deku is "symbol of justice" instead of peace

where izuku's mom finds tomura and takes him in

[truly-quirkless]

This was gonna be a whole list of AUs, and then it ended up just being one AU. Well-- still under a read more because it's quite a bit of stuff.

Modern Magic

A near-identical take on MHA to the canon, save that instead of Quirks, there is magic. Somewhat taking inspiration from the Fantasy Medieval 'verse, where 80% of Earth's population possesses some degree of magic- but with modern technology/Earth's modern world instead of a medieval setting. Magic is by-and-large down to one's personal energy, as well as what subsets one has an affinity for. Spells are merely willpower- and do not require runes, incantations, etc. to work.- though runes and the like can help focus the magic-user.

The (known) subsets of magic are as follows: Offensive, Defensive, Curses, Blessing, Summoning, Regenerative, Destructive, Banishing, Charms, Wards, Transmutation, and Divination. Some subsets have opposing subsets (Offensive v. Defensive, Curse v. Bless, Summon v. Banish, Regenerative v. Destructive, Charms v. Wards)- and often, if one is good at one, they're also good at the other- but this is not always the case.

One can usually only be good in up to two subsets of magic. For example, Toshinori Yagi's main subset of magic is Offensive, and he's decent at Defensive as well. Recovery Girl from U. A. is only good in the Regenerative subset. All for One's main subset is Transmutation, with a secondary under Divination. Fin does not have magic (so they're actually powerless in this AU), but their subsets if they ever gained magical abilities would be Bless and Curse (with a higher stat in Bless). Their eldest brother's, Evan's, would be Curse and Destructive.

One for All is passed from user to user through a spell known only to its users- which is a combination of the following subsets (all of which are in OfA, allowing for it to be passed on even by those without the given subset): Blessing, Summoning, and Transmutation.

Most of the series beyond that point is by-and-large identical, since it's essentially just 'replace 'Quirks' with 'Magic''. For the funsies, though...

Ochako Uraraka - Main subset is Bless. No minor. Izuku Midoriya - Main subset is Offensive, with a minor in Defensive. Tomura Shigaraki - Main subset is Destructive, with a minor in Curse.

Note: Alongside the subsets, the subsets are divided overall into a few sets:

Combat - Offensive, Defensive, Destructive Constructs - Summon, Banish, Transmute People - Curse, Bless, Regenerative, Charms, Wards Divine - Divination

[mettywiththenotes]

Talking about an au

This is one that has been on my mind since 419 and tbh I thought for sure it could happen

Remember when Tomura shed his skin during the Floating UA battle? Well I wondered if a similar thing would happen again in Mount Fuji

Picture it. In the void, AFO eats Tomura. He's dying as he's told everything about AFO's involvement in his life. AFO takes over his body, hand formed over mouth and all. It looks pretty bad. All the stuff happens with Izuku getting his arms back, the heroes coming to his aid etc. Izuku punches AFO (end of 422, beginning of 423). Here's where it diverges from canon:

Izuku punches AFO and he starts crumbling slowly, from his gut (where the impact was) to the rest of him. Except before it even reaches his chest, his face starts to crack open. Visually we can see this crack isn't the same as the crumbling of his body. It's one we've seen before, across his face in the middle of a battle. A parallel back to this

Except within the crack is Tomura's face. Tomura inside Tomura's body. Tomuraception

What happened? Well, the power of Izuku's will to stop AFO (the punch) allowed the vestiges that got thrown into the body to reawaken and bring Tomura's soul back. At the same time, minutes before, Tomura, slowly dying in the void, began to think. About everything AFO told him, how he was doomed before he was even born. How much that angered him, the rage coursing through his soul. He already had a strong will before, but now he really can't accept what has happened and he can't accept AFO getting away with it. Even if AFO's fate is to die, he'd rather be the one on the other end of it, alive and watching him. Better yet, being the hand that ultimately brings about his end

As a visual representation, it's like Tomura reaches out, desperate to climb out of the abyss he is slowly dying in, and he is met with several hands reaching back, taking his hand and pulling him out and back to the world. The vestiges, who have been reawakened by Izuku

Before, Tomura has not been able to die or stay dead. So why should this not be the same? With the power of rage, spite, his hero and some ghostly relatives, he lives on. He twists his own fate by accepting the hands that reach out and climbing out of the hole AFO threw him in

AFO's Tomura face cracks open. Tomura forces AFO's vessel apart from the head, almost like a butterfly climbing out of its cocoon, almost like he is actively prying his own cage open and escaping for good

AFO had been crumbling and was ripped open, but in a desperate attempt to stay together and stay alive (also fueled by anger at being pushed to the edge like this + Tomura somehow coming back from the dead), he uses his quirks (mostly drills) to keep his body intact for now (this is already shown in 423)

Also, I guess it depends on what you would like to believe, but the way I see it, Tomura could come back either with just his decay OR with the vestiges choosing another vessel for what little power they can give left and so backing Tomura up with the last of OFA. Aka 10th user Tomura. It's not as powerful as it was with Izuku but it still adds a lot, just enough to pack a real punch. Personally I think if we're already throwing away "what is realistic" then I might as well go big or go home and go with 10th user Tomura my beloved

It's from this point that he and Izuku begin to work together to kill the old body. As you can imagine, it's probably not an immediate bonding of friendship or whatever, but it's more or less teamwork formed with the general statement of "we still have things to work out, hero, but I don't care about that right now. I hate him more than anyone else on this damn mountain and I can't stand the thought of letting anyone else kill him but me" etc but then progresses as they fight

[aoicatto]

AU high school students 🤺🤺🤺

AFO - Yoichi Shigaraki - Tomura Shigaraki

[dual-legacies]

IFWD! Izuku and Tenko, I think it's time for a revenge against your father after he revealed those pictures when you were babies. Do you have any idea ? Or do you already have something really interesting that you can share with us ?

ITWD!Izuku: Actually.....

ITWD!Tenko: I think mom still has the photo of him sobbing over your birth bro.

ITWD!Hisashi: that is a proud moment, how am I going to be embarrassed over that?

ITWD!Izuku & Tenko: Damn it...

ITWD!Izuku: Hmmmm...maybe......(thinks)------

ITWD!Yoshi: (inside OFA) (smiling deviously and rubbing his hands together)

[thelonglist]

Masterlist - Part 4 - BNHA fan fic recs

I feel like crap after my Covid booster shot so i’m not getting out of the house today. On the bright side its the perfect time to get around to finally making part four of this masterlist series. I was thinking that I would make either a list for non-bnha fics or a list of bnha animatics next. If you have an opinion on the matter feel free to message me or comment about it. Once again thank you to all the amazing authors for writing these fics! Without further ado, here is list number 4. Enjoy!

Here are links for Part Three, Part Two and Part One 

For reference:

L - longer fic (100,000+ words)

O - One shot

& - ongoing

# - Complete

! - favorites

Thank you!

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Fics that do not quite fit in to the following categories - 

! Beyond the Broken Horizon - L & tododdeku Shiketsu Izuku

Noisy As The Dead - & izuku & past ofa users ghosts

Izuku Adopts Dabi as His Emotional Support Bastard and Society Suffers the Consequences - &

No One Sleeps - O# 5+1 fic Izuku sleep walks

The friendship between a nightmarish bunny and a little girl  - # noumu izuku

Wunderterror - & afo & izuku

! Through the grapevine - O # 5+1 fic ingenium hears about izuku from others

Permanent Membership Guaranteed - & vampire ofa

always just out of reach - O # v sad Izuku doesn’t exist but people still remember him

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Quirks cause plot (and problems) - 

Feral - & Izuku is hit by an anger quirk

In which the Bakusquad try to start a prank war but end up really, really confused instead  -O #  bakudeku

He's my twin. Kinda. - & dimension travel

Remembrance - # time travel izuku is sent to when Nana was still alive

A fishy situation - # izuku gets turned in to a mermaid

Like Minded. - O # Aizawa and Izuku enter each other’s mindscapes

Don't Miss Me (But I'll Miss You) - & Izuku has a forgetting quirk

Is It Wish Fulfilment If You're Thirty? - & time travel fix it

Eject Aspect - O # overhaul arc

Bakugou's Week from Hell - # bakugo is stuck in a time loop to save Izuku’s life

as small as an elephant  - & izuku and aizawa are turned in to cats

The Worst Things (get better) - & class 1A gets hit by a worst memory quirk

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Space AUs - 

Midoriya Izuku's Guide to Escaping Your Home Planet Twice - & space au izu is a space bandit

! Accidental Human Acquisition - & space au humans are space orcs alien eri, aizawa , bakugo and human izuku get captured by space overhaul

Theseus' Ship - O # space au creepy afo

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Cryptid/BAMF Izuku - 

! death upon desire - & immortal Izuku

North Side of the Tree - & forest spirit izuku

! What's Your Plague? - & bakudeku apocolypse au

Nihil. - Izuocha reincarnation 

This is (the real) me - O # scary Izuku during class Mirio fight

T.A.G. (The Assassin's Game) - # scary izu

Not All Cures Can Heal All People - O #  Izuku & Shigaraki red shoe theory quirkless clinic

Accident Prone - & quirkless vigilante izuku

midoriya izuku kills people and bakugou katsuki absolutely called it - & eldritch Izuku

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Dad for one - 

Teeth and Claws - O # vampires Dfo

Just Watch Me - & dfo izuku and shigaraki

Objectively Speaking, it Could've Gone Worse - O # dfo

Faith Becomes You - O # spirit afo and Izuku

Please Be A Hero - O # crack Izuku wants to beat all might 

! The Brains, the Brawn, and the Wallet - # crack big bro Tomura

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Crack - 

Shouta's Guide To House-Training Two Idiots - & all might and izuku go live with Aizawa to hide from Afo

! Mutuals - O # shouto & izuku have tumblr blogs

What’s The Right Age To Give Your Child Their First Firearm? And Other Questions by Midoriya Hisashi - O #

The Son of All for One Must be a Demon - # izuku collects dads

Overachieving - & Izuku accidentally starts a mysterious quirk analysis firm

don't look back into the sun - O # dustbunny this would be in the cute section but this ship is pure crack so i’m putting it here

Cats on Cats on Cats - O # dustbunny same here

The Perils of Parent Teacher Interviews and Small Glass Bottles  - O # Dfo/inko parent teacher conferences

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Dark: shades spanning from pitch black to light grey - 

between all these undefinable, impossible odds - O # russian roulette suicidal izuku

! Cain - O # extreme bakugo bashing

Hero Analysis for the Future, No. 13 - O # Kirishima and mina read Izuku’s suicide notebook

Prisoner - O # evil ofa

You're Not Alone - & creepy Dfo

Don't Swallow the Cap - O # semi-immortal izu

Killing Time - & zombie au

Poor Unfortunate Soulmates - H eri & deku are platonic pain sharing soulmates

bloody smiles and bruised knees - O # izuku & dabi

The Darker Sides of Deku - L H

Shattered minds - & unethical human experimentation super soldier Izuku 

How To Decipher A Midoriya's Mumbles -  O # crack jiro hears izukus mutters

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Cute<3 - 

Tuning in For Your Radio Static. - O # erasermic welcome to nightvale crossover

First Impressions - O # Izuku sees ghosts shinso and izuku 

Say Goodbye to Yesterday (It's a New Day) - O # ghost Oboro

i'm having a secret conversation about you with the tiny stars in the pitch-black sky - O# deku & eri

fault lines (drawn on my heart) - # tododeku soulmate au

Class 1-d(A)ycare - O # daycare au 

Peptalk Talk Them to Plus Ultra! - O # mic pep talks izu before the entrance exams

Green Tea with the Demon King - & izuocha

! Childrearing for Cosmic Horrors - O # Dfo & yoichi baby izuku

People Watching - O # izuocha modern au collage au

Rule Breaker - O # Aizawa adopts traumatized baby izu

Still to Life - O # aizawa adopts baby izu

! Never Even Saw it Coming - O # izuocha ghost izuku blind ochako no quirks au

! Home is Where... - & the cutest izumomo

! Time was an abstract thing - O # Izumomo Izuku and Momo get trapped under rubble

! Like Shakespeare in the Park - O # bio dadmight kid izuku aizawa finds lost kid izuku in the park

you've been talking in your sleep (things you'd never say to me) - O # izuku talks in his sleep

Sleepytime Hotline - O # Shindeku all night radio show contest

Deku Fan Club Origins  - O # everyone loves izuku

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Sickfics - 

A Family of Choice - & sick orphan midoriya’s secrets are exposed and is adopted by aizawa

Absent - O # sick Izuku dfo

giving up the fight - O # Sick Izuku survival training

Man, You're Sick - O # sick bakugo

Gifts and Talents - & sick Izuku

Puppy Love - O # sick Izuku izuocha nurse ochako

Somethings Never Change - O # Bakugo takes care of sick izuku

I Don't Deserve It - # sick shouto tododeku

It's The Little Things (That Make You Break Out of Prison Without Thinking About the Consequences) - O # dfo takes care of sick Izuku

Get Well Soon, Midoriya! - class 1A takes care of sick Izuku

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Fantasy - 

Sunshine Riptide - O# kirideku

Honour among thieves is the ancestor of all honour. - & tododeku

Complicated Answers - O #

Even Spiders Undergo Metamorphosis - O # creepy dfo 

Lairbreaker - O # dragon Izuku and dekusquad of bandits

[fangirlingpuggle]

A very dumb BNHA AU

AU where rather than Izuku seeing the vestiges/ghosts of the previous OFA users All Might can see them to

Just All Might whose spent his hero career with these 7 ghosts following him around and helping him in the fight against AFO...

Then them meeting Izuku and just all the vestiges being like ‘yes this one we want this one’

All of them helping with the training and always being around at least one of them, All Might and Izuku both being able to see them

Whenever Izuku does something crazy at least one of the vestiges is screaming ‘I SWEAR TO GOD IZUKU I AM TELLING ALL MIGHT YOU DID THIS!’

The Mall incident happening and there being a lot of vestiges freaking the fuck out and running to tell All Might while Nana is just staring at Tomura and Izuku is just there like ‘fuck this is so awkward’

Nighteye insulting Izuku and just whatever vestige is there leaving silently and suddenly All Might crashing into the building having being told exactly what’s going on.

Bonus A dad for one idea of this

They beat AFO but they still sense something/someone, like they could vaguely sense AFO (they think with him being the person who passed the quirk originally) and hey follow it and then suddenly see little Izuku defending a kid from being bullied and all of them go from ‘AFO HAD A KID’ to ‘Our kid now’

First just sobbing constantly because ‘I have a nephew’

Just Izuku being adopted by all the vestiges as well as All Might

I’m so if this makes no sense I need sleep