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(We All) Lift Together AU where three mothers’ attempts to save their children result in a burden all must bear

It starts with Todoroki Rei trying to save Shouto. She notices the manifestation of his quirk before he does as he leaves ice behind on his things at the same time that small embers wisp from his hair. Afraid of what her husband will do if he is to discover that his means-to-an-end-marriage bore the desired fruit, she takes Shouto away to visit her relatives for some time to search for an alternative.

Rei hears of a man who can give and take quirks. She pursues the lead, takes her -sedated- son to a man older than the modern era and an exchange is made. When they go back and Shouto reveals his quirk, it is not fire and ice. A dual quirk though only Rei knows it, the first ability “Water” allows Shouto to manifest and control water from his entire body. The second was called “Puddle Puppy“ and lets him create glowing dog-shaped bodies of water that behave how he wills them. Young Shouto thinks they will act like real dogs rather than extensions of his will- which he has always desired- and seeing him play with a puppy of his creation is not uncommon. As far as anyone else is concerned, this is a single quirk.

Endeavor is angry. It’s him who burns Shouto, on the right bicep, trying to force a fire quirk to appear under duress. Shouto creates a geyser in his pain that shoots through the ceiling high into the sky, alerting nearby heroes. Endeavor is removed from their lives, but in years to come Shouto doesn’t fail to notice that his mother is worried about a debt of some kind. He resolves to become a hero to protect her from whatever fallout she fears.

Midoriya Inko is not blind to her son’s suffering for his quirklessness and tries to make it better. They try everything that’s suggested to help reveal “hidden” or non-physical quirks to no avail. Her husband is all out of ideas. His American lover is not. They tell Inko about a man who could purportedly take and give quirks. Any chance is a good chance.

Pursuing the lead, Inko takes her -napping- son to a man with a voice like the sands of time and another exchange is made. Izuku unveils fire and ice, from his left and right sides respectively, in the school yard the next morning. His ice withstands explosions and he quickly learns to take advantage it, but his left side is also naturally resistant to burns. The fire can be explained since Hisashi had fire-breath, but the ice is too different. If anyone asks, Inko’s fingers and toes were always made of crystalline ice and she simply wore faux-skin over them-- can you prove otherwise?

This incredible quirk and the newfound confidence in Izuku infuriates Bakugou, and a few days later to “put Deku in his place“ he pushes the limits of Izuku’s quirks’ protection and takes it too far. The Midoriyas do not have the resources to acquire the best treatment in the world and Izuku loses the eye. He still wants to be a hero, but now one that does not rely on brute force to resolve their problems. He tries not to be self-conscious about the scar but combs his hair over it anyway.

Izuku’s one good terms with his step-parent but they look at his eye and get a guilty look on their face. He wonders what that’s about, but is usually distracted by the interest expressed in his current progress with his quirk. When he enters U.A., the support course offers a prosthetic eye/HUD and he takes them up on it. The new eye is made to resemble a real one and while the iris is electric blue, and the sclera black, all his parents cry when they see him with two eyes again.

Uraraka Ochako’s mother worries about her daughter in the heroics field. She witnessed the death of the Water Horses and doesn’t want harm to come to her child. Aside from training, she’s unsatisfied with the resources available to prepare her child for heroism and her search for something more adequate draws a certain man’s attention. Beginning to feel desperate, she strikes up a deal with the man, and in the middle of the night he enters the Uraraka home while her husband is out of town and quietly gives her daughter a superior tool for heroism as the girl sleeps on.

Ochako wakes up as usual in the morning and screams when a cup she dropped form the table and failed to grasp begins to float in the air in a blue-purple flame-bubble like the one engulfing her hand. After the initial scare, she finds that this “flame“ does not burn or ignite like fire and instead causes things to float or become heavier, can be thrown to affect things at a distance, and can form a small “blackhole“ that draws things through the air though not in.

Unbeknownst to her, this quirk “Mass Manipulation“ has fused to her existing quirk and can be controlled by how many fingers she clenches as well as which muscles she moves different ways. Over the years she learns even more abilities, and is far more confident in her strength with her quirk better suited for combat and rescue. The nausea she experiences is still prevalent and, at times, worse and is now coupled with headaches, and static shock when touching other people or things. She still wants to be a hero to care for her parents and strives to master her quirk.

They all enter U.A. unaware of the truth of their abilities and just what their mothers agreed to as their part of each respective deal. All for One has had to adjust his plots with his near defeat six years ago, but it’s time to make a move.

(Who gets One for All? I love overpowering Izuku but we don’t explore the rest of Class A having it. I’m thinking Ochako, Momo, Tenya, Tsuyu??? It’s true I’m an Izukrew stan and I’ll probably be giving it to one of them.

I want Shouto to have a puppy and live with his mama. That’s it.

Izuku does have Shouto’s old quirk. His scar is risen and kinda gnarly, and he needed surgery on the skin before the eye could be implanted. Shouto sees the eye and asks if he’s All Might’s love child post-Kamino Ward rather than the Sports Festival. Inko was given a mutation quirk to be able to pass off Izuku’s ice as a natural evolution from her own. Her extremities are made of clear ice and she doesn’t get much touch from her fingers and toes. She doesn’t freeze things to the touch but she wears gloves and several socks now.

It’s a headcannon of mine that Inko and Hisashi had a marriage of necessity/convenience so he could escape his conservative family and she could have one. They’re friends more than lovers, and she’s on good terms with Hisashi’s partner OC, Monroe, who is nonbinary. The arrangement the three have results in all three treating the children as theirs. Monroe’s kids call Inko “mom” and they call their birth parent “zaza.” Izuku also does this. He loves being a big brother and getting to visit America on the regular is a bonus.

Yes, Ochako essentially has the mass effect from games of the same name but I don’t give a fuck so don’t @ me. She’s be pretty badass with Nova and Charge-- biotic explosions!!!-- in her arsenal. It fits the space theme and puts her more in the front line which not enough of the girls see.

Who’s gone traitor? hmmm... fun times. I got the name for this AU from the Warframe song of the same name. The road to hell being paved with good intentions and all that.

Bakugou? Izuku has a restraining order, and that bitch is at Shiketsu. I make the rules.)