#parental yagi

[volya-horisvit]

Y'all, I'm cooking something 🤨🤨

[volya-horisvit]

We, as a society, need more fanfiction like this.

News reporter: A group of teens are now in police custody after causing an explosion in a nearby aquarium. Toshinori: God, kids these days are wild. News reporter: Let's hear what they have to say. *Todoroki looks resigned, Bakugou is flashing a peace sign, Izuku is crying, and Momo looks angry* Izuku: *getting pushed into a police car* TOSHINORI, HELP! Toshinori: *grabbing his car keys* OH GOD, THEY'RE MY KIDS!

[tekitothemagpie]

Eri, talking to Toshinori on ft : and then Lemillion-

*drops the phone*

Eri, gasping : All Might, are you okay?!

Aizawa and Toshinori : *dying of cuteness*

[shih-coulda-had-it]

One for All Band AU! Generation 1. Banjo's talking about fight night (code for "We are vigilantes disguising ourselves, but really effectively, as a rock band") which Toshinori enthusiastically wants to participate in. Torino and Bruce are gossiping.

[onesmolbean49]

They make me feel so single.

[createandconstruct]

Wait. WAIT. Wait.

I just had the thought that if Inko and Toshi got married, Izuku would be their best man.

I’m gonna go lie down and cry about it now.

WAIT. W A I T.

I can do you one better thanks to moonlunee on twitter. Not only is Izuku the best man...he also walks Inko down the aisle.

Like can you imagine Izuku just barely keeping it together next to Inko as he walks her down the aisle. Smile wobbling, eyes watering, he holds it together up until the moment he meets Toshinori's eyes at the end and just goes sprinkler system.

And then Inko is cry-laughing and then Toshinori is crying as well as beaming, and it's all three of them together at the end of the aisle being a mess together as all their friends laugh with quite a few tears of their own.

[may-we-rest-well]

Nothing is more inspiring or more terrifying than a person who's already made peace with death and who has nothing left to lose.

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Everything about the battle at yokohama was Amazing, I love all of your thoughts and world building in pez dispenser. If you have time (and feel like it), could you explain ‘this entire sub-analysis on Idaten’s internal culture and how it intersects with broader heroics standards’. (i was ENRAPTURED by your hero economic analysis)

ps. when i saw in the tags about how the class just. broke down. and asked for their parents, it was like sucker punch to the face, i couldn’t imagine how the actual heroes felt when they saw them. if the public saw that side of class 2a, would they lay off? probably not, but damn. your world building and ideas are just. so good

So my decision about Idaten and its subculture actually hinges on one question about canon: Why did Stain go after Tensei?

Stain was all about attacking people who had committed some kind of perceived failing of heroics. But Tensei seems to be legitimately above the board. He didn’t seem to engage too heavily in the consumerist culture around heroics. He did good work. He was a good hero. So what about him made Stain decide to go after him?

I didn’t want it to be an “IDK he thinks all heroes but all might is fake” thing because 1) that cheapens the character and 2) it doesn’t match what canon shows. Don’t get me wrong, he was a lunatic who thought he needed to kill a fucking kid over his extremist ideals, but he let Izuku go the second Izuku established he conformed to his moral system.

Stain kills when he perceives a reason to. That doesn’t mean he’s always right. But he needs an excuse first.

I decided that there was one detail about Idaten that would be his most likely motive: the number of sidekicks he had.

Tensei is canonically taking up his parents’ mantle. This is a family business he’s heavily suited to and excels at. He has working beneath him a much higher than average number of sidekicks. And we know from canon that he’s not the type to take advantage of his team. Fuck, he seems to emphasize taking care of his team and working together above all else.

But we know that from canon. Stain doesn’t. What he sees, from the outside, is a young hero who took over his parents’ agency and is bolstering his own career on the backs of his sidekicks, which is what so many heroes were doing at that time.

Because stain is an extremist. He doesn’t once consider that maybe Tensei is the exception to the rule. He didn’t think to ask the sidekicks who he was, in a way, taking action on behalf of what they thought of Tensei.

Which is consistent with his character. It took him less than five minutes to decide “yeah I need to put down this grief stricken fifteen year old boy” do you????

Iida becomes the kind of hero that meets his ideals. Stain would have killed him the first time Iida gave him a reason. He’s shown to not always be right or do due diligence to determine if someone is even consistent with his crazy fucking moral system. He was just wrong when he went after Tensei.

And a big reason why he was wrong is because Idaten, as a culture, is far from the typical agency experience. It’s just that no one knows this, because Idaten is shown to be all about maintain a strong and confident facade. It’s not releasing its fucking employment contracts. The public only gets the calm, in control demeanor of the team. It doesn’t see how the sausage is made.

Do you know that millionaire ceo who realized his employees lives sucked and voluntarily took a huge pay cut so that way he could raise all of their salaries to a huge degree and the company as a whole got much, much better because the workers cared about it now and they made more profits and his salary eventually increased too as the company improved and all of his employees loved him? And he published the results thinking maybe other ceos would follow them after it was proven to make their companies more successful? And literally not one single one of them did?

Yeah that’s Idaten.

We talked in the earlier post about how heroics culture, for the most part, is abusive and built on the backs of sidekicks who are being widely taken advantage of. Idaten just… isn’t. Their compensation is incredibly fair and above board. People get credited for busts based on who was in charge of that particular bust or went above and beyond. They genuinely take care of their team, which is consistent with how Tensei seems to treat his team in canon.

For the most part, the sidekicks don’t want to even leave Idaten and become big name heroes themselves. They are all so genuinely happy and fulfilled that most of them happily spend their whole career as a sidekick.

But that’s the exception, and not the rule. And from the outside, Stain saw another sidekick farm propping up a pretend hero.

Which is one of the reasons why all of the Idaten sidekicks got together to hunt him down like a sick dog when he escaped. Tensei was babygirl to them and Stain hurt babygirl. He besmirched babygirl’s name over something he didn’t even do. Tensei didn’t even coordinate that mission the sidekicks made a group chat without him and went out to kick that fucking guy’s ass.

Idaten is a model of what heroics could be if it wasn’t focused on self profit and promotion. It made sacrifices to be this way. But it resulted in a team of excellent heroes who are all able to focus on protecting society without going home and feeling like they got fucked.

Stain has this mental image of heroes who should be helpful and good and save everyone without any personal incentive. But when you’re breaking your fucking back and going home to a shit apartment while your boss does 3 hours of work per day and has five houses, you start to ask yourself why you have to fucked for society to be safe. The sidekicks’ “greed” took the blame for the meltdown with Tartarus, but really, people should have been pointing fingers at every single agency head who refused to treat them fairly.

Idaten is this sparkling model of a business that is incredibly successful because the company heads are actually fair and good. They are the exception. And they are operating within a system where many of the other agencies are treating their talent like disposable cogs in a machine. The system needs to be regulated to force everyone else to act like Idaten—Idaten’s independent success is not a sign that the system works on its own.

As to your second question—no. The world saw little snapshots of Class 2A melting down in the aftermath and it got traded around like every other moment. Someone took a picture of the moment I talked about with Iida just sitting on the curb and crying when his brother’s men came to relieve him of command, and it was just another famous picture of many on the internet do that incident.

It was just—a horrifically public event. All of the kids had to be hospitalized in the aftermath. The world knew that. Izuku took a hit during his big fight with Mirio against the major villain team. He got stabbed, and it was poisoned. He knew from the villain’s history that the poison they produced was slow acting, though, so he quietly took Todoroki aside, had him cauterize the wound, and kept fighting until more heroes came. There’s a fuck ton of photos of him lying down on the sidewalk with his head in Todoroki’s lap in terrible shape waiting for the ambulance to come get him. And the world took that as a “Look At How Strong He Is, All Might Reborn, He Fought All Night With That Terrible Wound And He Still Prevailed” not “wow, that actual child had to fight for hours through the night not knowing if he’d live long enough to make it to a hospital.” Which is like. What happened. Izuku didn’t tell anyone but Todoroki that he took the hit. They both knew that if he didn’t get the antidote in time, he was dead. And they also both knew that there was no way he was going to be able to have even a shot at a hospital until morning, so they just had to keep going.

The world also took that as fuel for the ongoing ship war around Izuku and Todoroki, that they are only marginally aware of. Which like. Would not be comforting, that that’s what they took from a picture where both of them were legitimately afraid that Izuku was going to die.

The world knew they were young. They knew they were a bunch of amazing kids who had done something spectacular. To a lesser extent, they knew that those kids struggled in the aftermath. But that was never going to save them from the media machine. The fact that this fell to kids who visibly struggled in the aftermath was picked apart and used as a bat to hit opponents with in the debates that followed.

The picture of Iida crying on the curb with his brother’s sidekicks around him is considered one of the seminal photos documenting modern Japan’s heroics. It is the kind of thing that is probably going to end up in a textbook down the line.

Iida hates that photo. He hates that he had one moment of vulnerability in the aftermath when he managed to keep it together the entire rest of the event, and people still pass it around like a trading card. He had worked so, so hard not to lose it, and right when he thought it was safe to, it got posted on the internet.

When Iida sat on the curb and started crying, he was barely standing. He was injured himself. Momo had a tremendous fight that left her in terrible shape, and everyone was afraid that she was not going to make it. Izuku had just revealed, by the way, guys, This Happened, and now everyone was afraid he wasn’t going to make it. Bakugou was like two days out of the medically induced coma Uraraka put him in when this happened and apparently the doctor’s warnings that he could only be on light work was a hard requirement because he was completely non responsive for the since the fighting stopped and now everyone was afraid he wasn’t going to make it. The entire class was concussed, exhausted, and wanted their parents.

And he just really, really wanted his brother. He wanted his big brother to come in as the hero he had always admired, sit down with him, and tell him it was over. That he did good, and he could rest now. His brother’s sidekicks were the closest second available to him.

That picture made Iida feel like he had failed. He hadn’t held it together, and he hadn’t had the same strong facade as his brother always did. His anguish became another thing for the world to chew on. And that was true for all of those kids at that fight.

[flying-cat]

How the fuck is All Might 7'3"

[adreneline-rushing]

Headcannon: when Inko and Toshinori meet in front of class 1a Inko’s like, “Yagi-san, what a pleasure to see you again,” in the iciest tone EVER. Of course, the crowd goes fucking wild. Todoroki’s wildest dreams have come true, Kaminari is rolling around on the floor laughing, and Izuku is questioning his entire existence. Toshinori just rubs the back of his neck and acts all awkward and weird around her while she glared at him, but neither of them will say how they met beyond “it was a while ago, let’s not dwell on the past, etc.” Even Eraser thinks they have romantic history and it’s the talk of the town. Bets are placed on who will get the story out of them first and everyone wants to know everything.

The reason they won’t say how they met is because it was when Toshinori tripped and spilled the coffee she was carrying all over Inko at the grocery store they both frequent and then when he tried to apologize and buy her a new shirt she took it as him lookig down on her and now kind of hates his guts.

[zylasweetbean]

The Moment All Might realized he was now a Father

Think back to the beginning of MHA when Bakugou is being attacked by the slime monster, and All Might and Izuku are watching on in horror.

All Might, of course, is beating himself up for being a "failure" when Izuku (being the wonderful, self-sacrificing, no-self-preservation, gremlin child that he is) decides the best course of action is to throw himself forward and attack this villain.

At that moment, All Might makes this face...

And every time I see it, all I can think is that he is having the startling and terrifying realization that this insane boy is now his child. He is a father now.

Because only his kid would be so reckless and self-sacrificing.

[thebnha-auhoard]

Taking a stab at the "The Fourth through Ninth One For All Users are All For One's kids" thing and decided immediately go into angst.

One For All being passed down from kid to kid was purely coincidental. Really it started with Bruce just accidentally picking up Shinomori shortly after Yoichi and Kudou died and then things just kept happening and happening and before you know it we have Izuku, who is AFO's sixth kid to have One For All.

All For One is very pleased with One For All is still within the family, less pleased that his children are all rebelling against him because of it. He always hopes that maybe one child would finally return the Quirk to him but none have.

This of course means that he has to put Shinomori, Banjou, En, and Nana in Vaults.

Those four are in Vaults and they all were given the Longevity Quirk so that All For One will never have his children die on his watch, even as they went and betrayed him. Isn't he a good dad because of that? Ignore all the other parenting decisions that he made while the four vaulted users were growing up and how Yagi and Midoriya essentially had an absent dad.

Don't worry they're eventually found by the League and interact with Heroes. It's just going to take a while to get used to the fact that you are no longer alone with your thoughts anymore and your Bio Dad is in jail and you are now talking to all your half-siblings who were all One For All Users. No big deal.

Don't go and think about the dread too much and don't go and think about the mixed feelings you have for your Bio Dad and your terrible coping mechanisms regarding his shitty parenting! Let's instead go and think about how shitty of a dad All For One is.

Especially in Yagi and Midoriya's case. They get to be salty about their absent dad and drag on him forever.

[slytherintothedms]

rewatching mha and you can’t tell me aizawa didn’t know about izuku and all might - right after bakugou asks AM in front of aizawa what izuku is to him, he then insists he goes to the midoriya household alone (you are not subtle mr yagi)

[shih-coulda-had-it]

too much like their father

[onesmolbean49]

They are my Roman Empire…💚💛

[helga-grinduil]

wishing all all might bashing dadzawas very warm almost hot pillows for the rest of their lives