#tenkos hair is back to black btw. and ihai doesnt dye his. so they are lightly colour swapped. symbolic to how ihai took tenkos place...

[the-lunar-warrior]

hnghhhh im thinking about. what if all might saved tenko. not right away. not fast enough to avert tragedy. but enough that all for one was left without his original pawn. left to pick one from the reject pile, stick a highly volatile quirk he's barely managed to snag back from tomura tenko into the child and try again. it wont be as personal for all might this time, but hey. yagi will feel guilty anyway that endeavours kid got caught in the crosfire anyway. right?

except where tenko was like, six. touya is almost fourteen and like. sure he can be easily manipulated into truly loathing the hero society, but thats because he's not far off from that already. there is no world in which he will see afo as his saviour, or an authority figure though. he's way too fucking stubborn. and the whole "successor" spiel? he already did that once with enji, thanks, and he wasnt yet lightly bacon-ed when all might rescued tenko - he knows he's 2nd choice. but it's not like he has a say in the matter. with afo hovering, and an extra quirk that's even more destructive than his own blue flame, he's not getting away

and thus, shigaraki ihai, afos "successor" who hates his guts but is willing to go along with being a puppet to fulfil his own revenge on his father/society, is born