#touya tried to KILL shouto when he was a baby

[bubblesxo]

I’m sorry but the flat way that the fandom tackles the Enji Todoroki problem is so blegh. Yes, how he treated them (especially Shouto—we don’t 100% know if Touya’s training was the same, especially because he actually liked his training) was wrong, the way he treated his wife was wrong, the way he ignored his other kids is wrong. HOWEVER, him cutting Touya off from training was NOT 100% wrong. Should he have treated it more delicately? Yes. Should he have been more considerate to his kid? Yes. Should he have gotten him some kind of therapy to help him cope with his obvious mental issues? Also yes. But cutting him off from training when he gets hurt doing so and it’s unavoidable is NOT wrong. He was trying to prevent exactly what happened in the end. Maybe he could have revisited it a few years later when training isn’t all Touya is and looked into support items, idk, but Enji’s approach was the right decision in the wrong way.

[tootysweetcheeks]

“Touya was evil from the start, he tried to kill baby Shouto”

People when the clearly neglected/emotionally neglected and abused child, riddled with unhealthy jealousy doesn't act morally correct:

[autumnmobile12]

Since the UA students were responsible for cooking their own meals in the Summer Camp Arc, there's an image in my head for Ambush Simulation that is of Shouto handing Touya a bowl of the food they made and it's a parody of the infamous soup scene from Lord of the Rings.

Dabi: I tried to kill him when he was a baby. Just now, I think he tried to poison me. So I guess we're even.

Spinner: ....you what?

[etradio]

I wish Tsuyu had a bigger role in the Uraraka VS Toga fight- kinda like how Iida had a role in Shouto VS Touya.

With Iida, not only is he one of Shouto’s closer friends- but he also contrasts and parallels Shouto and Touya’s relationship.

Tenya looks up to his brother, and Tensei is motivated to do better because of that- they have a very wholesome brother-relationship.

While with the Todorokis… Touya has literally tried to killed Shouto and even indirectly Natsuo. Shouto has literally done absolutely nothing wrong to Touya- he was a baby when most of Touya’s trauma was happening, and he wasn’t allowed near him growing up. But Shouto still loves him unconditionally.

Even though the relationship between the Iida brothers is so different from the Todorokis- Tenya can still understand how Shouto feels. Tenya couldn’t save Tensei- so that was why he had to do everything he could so Shouto could save Touya (and the rest of his family + the civilians)

Tsuyu’s backstory is explained in an extra manga chapter that was then animated in one of the OVAs. We get insight into her family and one of her friends- though we don’t really know the reason WHY she became a hero. We still don’t in way.

What we do know is that Tsuyu believed a hero is someone who follows the rules. She tells Toga this, and says that Uraraka doesn’t care about the rules- she just wants to help, so she asks Toga to listen to her.

In my opinion, Tsuyu isn’t really a developed character. I’d say Ashido and Jirou have more development than her. Tsuyu’s reasoning in what a hero is- contradicts what the audience is shown.

“Heroes should follow the rules”

But what about the unjust rules?

Lady Nagant and Hawks are basically child soldiers. When Nagant asked if what they’re doing is the right thing- the HPSC president responded by pULLING OUT A GUN- when Nagant killed him, that could’ve been argued to be self-defense. Instead, she’s thrown in jail for people she was groomed to kill, and the murder of the HPSC president was covered up.

Hero society is shown to be corrupt- so I think we should’ve been shown more insight on how a character like Tsuyu handles the reality that laws aren’t always right. I want to see how she would’ve been forced to reevaluate her way of thinking. How the world that society said it was- was a lot more complicated than she thought.

People should follow the rules- but when the rules are harming people who just want to live their normal lives- we need to make adjustments to the rules so more people don’t have to suffer trying to become something they are not.

Tenya was also shown to be a very rule-abiding person at the beginning of the series. Even so, we see what his breaking point is- so what’s Tsuyu’s breaking point? How does she connect to the Uraraka & Toga arc?

From how I interpreted the arc, Toga was someone who needed to be understood as a human being. The reporter, Curious, wanted to understand her- but she only wanted to understand her as a news headline, as a martyr for the Liberation Army.

Uraraka says in the fight, that she can’t ignore all the hurt Toga caused, she can’t accept every part of Toga, she can’t love her in the way that Toga wants her to- but she wants to understand who Himiko Toga is, why she smiles and why she cries.

Uraraka saw the ‘ugliness’ in Toga’s heart, and she acknowledged that- but she also saw the beauty and pain in her heart as well.

How does Tsuyu fit into this????

It’s mentioned that Tsuyu struggled in middle school to make friends, as people couldn’t read her expression since she has a poker face. Perhaps she understands the whole ‘wanting to be understood’ thing?

It could also be a case of quirk discrimination. As we’ve been shown, mutation quirks are looked down upon.

The thing with Tenya is that role was a small part, and yet a big part of the arc he was in. He told Shouto that he is able to be the hero he wants to be now thanks in part to him- and that Shouto can be the hero he wants to be as well; he didn’t say much, and yet that says so much more.

Idk…maybe the role Tsuyu could’ve had is something like ‘She is someone who was discriminated against for her quirk, and people failed to understand her or see her as a human being- but she had a loving family and friends to support her’

-so then the conversation could’ve been more like Tsuyu trying to empathize with Toga and let her know that Uraraka was there to support Tsuyu, so now she’s here to help her as well.

Or it could even have mentioned Tsuyu’s friend from middle school- who also struggled to make friends as well. They were both people who others couldn’t understand them (because of their unexpressive faces) and because of that they connected to each other.

I think it was even mentioned that Himiko is the ‘oldest’ child of her family, so…what about her siblings? How does she feel about them? Could Tsuyu and Toga being older siblings parallel somehow???

The more I talk about this- the more I wonder if Tsuyu should’ve saved Toga or have an equal role to Uraraka. There could be a lot of similarities when I really think about it…

I think the ‘rule’ thing could’ve worked, but I think Tsuyu should’ve had her own arc and perspective shown for it to have more impact.

Maybe this is just a me- thing, but I think Tsuyu should’ve been fleshed out more if she is the character supporting one of the Savior trio.

[perpetual-enjine]

So, do you see Touya as a victim? I’m like divided on this so hard 😭 a part of me is like no but then I also think yes he is, and more on the stance of he is a victim but not the biggest one especially out of the 4 siblings. I also read a post where they talked about Touya and they mentioned how Touya definitely has some serious mental health stuff going on, and that his parents' abuse definitely contributed to/worsened, but they did not force him to become Dabi and his mental health issues are major factors to why he acted the way he acted!

People can be many things at once. Admitting someone was a victim doesn’t absolve them of their crimes. All for One was a victim. Someone should have done something when literal babies were crawling around on the street. But being a victim in your childhood doesn’t mean that you are good to go with the life of crime, nor that you have to become a criminal. It’s still a choice what you do with your pain. Yoichi suffered the same but chose to be kind and forgiving. Shouto was treated way worse than Touya - he didn’t even get the brief years of happy childhood, of holding up his flaming fist to a proud and smiling father. And yet he chose to work on himself, to be kind to others, to admit that he could be wrong (like he did during that test where he fought with Momo against Aizawa).

Meanwhile, Touya took his victimhood and mental illness and made it everyone else’s problem. He attacked his siblings who were already victimized like himself, he tried to kill Enji multiple times - a disproportionate response even considering Enji’s abuse, and he killed innocent people and then blamed it on Enji. He rarely if ever considered anyone else’s trauma. When Toga tried to talk to him about her family, he out of nowhere brought up Endeavor, and then he burned her house, which is his default response to any and all problems.

Mental health problems can be an explanation but they’re not an excuse unless a person cannot tell right from wrong - that’s the legal definition of insanity defense in many justice systems. Touya can tell right from wrong. He calls himself a villain, he admitted in the video that he killed innocent people, he escapes from heroes and police because he knows he did bad things (legally insane persons are not able to tell that punishment is coming for them after what they did). When your mental illness is causing you to want to harm others and you’re aware of it, it is your responsibility to prevent yourself from doing so if possible and to seek help. It’s not a carte blanche to go around committing crimes.

So, you don’t have to be conflicted. Touya is a victim, and a mentally ill one, but after all these years, he should have worked on himself or at the very least not victimized people who didn’t abuse him.

[le-fruit-de-la-passion]

Touya Drabble

Sometimes I can't help but wonder how things would be for Dabi if he had stayed Touya. If his father had been to Sekoto Peak. If the course of life had gone on.

Touya would still grow to resent and hate his father as both a parental figure and a hero. It would never reach the level of pure hatred he has for Endeavour as Dabi, but the feeling of being thrown aside in Shouto's favour, of being nothing more than a failed designer baby, that, would always remain. He’s always had trouble controlling his emotions, because no one ever showed him how to. How long until he would run away from that house and all it represents? Fifteen, sixteen years old? Touya would still see his siblings and his mother, sometimes, but never his father. Never again. He would make him regret losing interest in him like a worthless toy. He'd become the greatest goddamn hero in Japan just to spite his father, and crush his pathetic dreams of being number one.

As a hero, Touya would be a lone wolf, refusing to work for an agency or any group that would try to use and publicize his title as Endeavor's son. He would fully shed away the last name “Todoroki”, because being part of that family's legacy had never brought him anything other than pain. Some would call him a vigilante more than a hero, but he has never really been one to care about labels, either way. If he would go by an alias, I'd like to think it would be something like Phoenix, a symbolic rebirth from the ashes of a past he's left behind (and a perfectly melodramatic name for his theatrical ass).

Touya would still have scars; although his body would never burn to the extent of Sekoto Peak, he would get heavy marks and scars from overusing his quirk, mostly around his arms and chest. At first, he hides them when he's out, not wanting to prove his parents were right about him slowly killing himself. It would be a cold day in hell before he admitted his father was right about anything. Then, tattoos and piercings start making their way into his life, and it becomes less and less about hiding the scars, and more and more about making them a part of his body. Dark swirls of ink would become indistinguishable from charred and marred skin, and he would show them of proudly. His skin would be a reminder of his determination, his drive to keep going despite being told he was weak. Nothing could bring the fire in him down.

It would take him time to forgive the rest of his family for not standing by him when he ran away. Natsuo and Fuyumi are the easiest, because Natsuo shares part of his anger towards their father, and he grows a begrudging respect for how Fuyumi tries to hold everything (and everyone) together. It takes him until he's eighteen to start accepting maybe his mother was a victim, too. Maybe her complacency with their broken household had less to do with cowardice, and more with wanting to protect her children. He'll bring her flowers at the hospital, from time to time, but he never apologizes for the words he might have yelled at her before. Apologies were never really his thing.

It takes Touya the longest to forgive Shouto. Deep down, he's known for a long time it isn't the youngest's fault. But it's hard not to feel anger at how easily he follows their father's plans, how stoic and seemingly devoid of any real identity he is. A puppet. It's only when Shouto joins UA that Touya starts seeing the fire of passion burn in his brother's eyes. Real emotions, trapped underneath the icy surface of the perfect child who had so efficiently replaced him. A bratty teen who bottled up his feelings until he exploded, finally letting others see how he felt all those years. His brother.

In many ways, Touya wouldn't have been very different from Dabi. He would still be angry, and hurt, and desperately in need for his father to notice him, one way or the other. But in many other ways, he would have been so different. He would have been a hero on his own terms. He would have been able to grow as a teenager rather than be trusted into adulthood with no landmarks or experience. He would not forget, but he would forgive.

But Touya died a long time ago, and these are just thoughts I get at night.

[gentrychild]

MHA AU where when Touya attacked baby Shouto he managed to kill him

You are very cruel but you're not the only one who decided to kill Shouto through the ask game.

1 - While Endeavor intercepted Touya like he did in canon, Touya still flooded the entire hallway with fire. Rei managed to survive thanks to her ice but the heat and the sudden lack of oxygen was still too much for baby Shouto, who died.

2 - Rei is rushed to the hospital, along with baby Shouto (even though it's not necessary anymore in his case). She survives her wounds but she is heavily injured and will have to spend several years hospitalized to recover.

3 - Shouto's body is whisked away by a certain scientist who doesn't believe in letting potentially powerful quirks go to waste and who is good at pulling frankenstein-like-miracles but that's a story for another day.

4 - Even though Endeavor tries to prevent it because he doesn't want to lose another son along with his wife, Touya is sent to juvie. He plays the "accident" as him losing control of his quirk in a moment of anger. He is very good at pretending he regrets what he did and a few years later, he is allowed to go back home. His record is sealed because he is a young man with a brilliant quirk who has his life ahead of him, most of his family learns to buy in the "This was a terrible tragedy caused by the stress of quirk marriage + Touya's quirk problem + Endeavor in general", and he gets to go to a hero school. The family is still fractured, with Fuyumi and Natsuo booking it out of the house as soon as they are 18 and Rei never setting a foot back there.

5 - Years later, Touya starts to get haunted by a teenager that reminds me of the rival he eliminated years ago. That's not a problem, though. He got rid of Shouto, he would get rid of this creepy kid if he crosses the line. He just needs not to get caught.

[fairystar111]

The Heirs of Yesterday

By: fairystar111

Rating: Gen

Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia

Summary:

The worlds come to be a dark place. So why shouldn't Shouto regain the childhood he lost? And why shouldn't he stay with his brother through it all?

Characters: Dabi | Touya Todoroki, Shouto Todoroki.

CW/Tags: Kidnapping, Emotional Manipulation, Infantilism, Toxic Codependency, Moral Ambiguity, Yandere, Yandere Dabi, Obsessive Behavior, Possessive Behavior, Stockholm Syndrome, Big Brother Dabi, Manipulative Dabi, Minor DabixHawks.

Start/Previous/Next

If Touya was being completely honest, he absolutely despised his youngest brother in the beginning. When he first saw Shouto’s distinctive red and white split hair he knew that this boy was going to replace him in their fathers eyes. Shouto would be the Todoroki family prodigy while he would be the defective runt. Touya hated the toddlers adorable little face and his sweet little smile and how no matter how much he pushed him away Shouto still found a way to worm himself into his heart. When Shouto turned four his quirk came in and he began his training with their father. All Touya’s hate for him died when he walked in on their father beating his baby brother in the name of “hero training”. Touya had originally hated Shouto because he had thought that Shouto would be treated as something precious and would be loved as his fathers masterpiece unlike how he treated the rest of them. It wasn't until he walked into Shouto’s training that he realized that even if Shouto was a perfect prodigy and exactly what his father wanted he was still being treated just as badly as the rejects like him.

Touya tried to get Enji to stop training Shouto by offering himself instead but nothing he said would ever change their father’s mind. He even tried to report their father to the police and multiple heroes but was ridiculed. They said he was lying and looking for attention because there was a new baby in the house. When their mother had her breakdown and burnt Shouto’s face, Touya decided that no one was ever going to help them. He was going to have to be the one to take down their father before he ended up killing his siblings. He lured his father to Seketo Peak and ambushed him with the intent to kill; his father held nothing back when fighting his eldest that day. Touya was left for dead by his father with third degree burns covering fifty percent of his body.

The only reason he survived was because he was found by one of All for One’s lackeys and taken to his doctor. He's pretty sure he's technically more noumu than human now but whatever at least he’s still alive. During his rehabilitation with Dr.Giraki he met a pale haired boy with bright red eyes named Tomura. Tomura had told him that he was just like him too; he had an abusive father until his sensei came to save him. Tomura invited him to stay with him and his caretaker Kurogiri. It took him a while to realize that Tomura and his sensei were villains and what they did was not exactly legal.

Touya was conflicted while he had begun to grow fond of Tomura as a little brother, he sort of reminded him of Natsuo. He was raised to be a hero and heroes can't be friends with villains . When confronted, Tomura explained how heroes only cause pain for the people around them. He told him how his grandmother had been a hero and abandoned her child making him into an abuser. It left Touya thinking, the heroes in his life had only ever caused him pain and suffering while these villains were the nicest people he's ever had to care for him. He asked if he could join them and if they could help him take down Endeavour but Tomura said his sensei had been grievously injured recently and they were not strong enough to tear down an entire society just yet. So they spent the next years training and recruiting strong but loyal members to their league under the watchful eyes of their sensei. By the time Shouto is entering UA they should be able to launch the war on heroes starting with taking down the top ten. He hopes his baby brother won't be too mad at him for leaving him behind all those years ago but he's coming for him now whether he likes it or not. His family belonged to him; they were his to love, his to control, his to own.

Shoto awoke groggily to the feeling of an unfamiliar plush bed. Why am I on a bed? The base doesn’t have any of those he thought. He glanced around the room and found it to be decorated in a very childish way. The room he was in looked like it was meant for a small child. There was a canopy hanging over his bed and rails surrounding the bed, plushies everywhere, the walls were painted a soft powder blue, and he was even wearing a fluffy penguin onesie. Hmm this is a little strange, this room sort of looks like a nursery, Shoto thought. Endeavor would rather die than have his masterpiece be caught dead in something like this. So where is he?

Then it all came rushing back to him, the league had infiltrated their base and come for him and his friends. Touya wasn't dead anymore and now Endeavor was. Touya had come to take Shoto away like he had always promised he would. Shoto was conflicted, Touya his big brother and protector was finally back, but he's not just Touya-nii anymore he's also the villain Dabi. He’s supposed to be a hero; he can't just ignore all Dabi’s crimes just because he wants his big brother back. He has to stay strong, heroes can’t love villains and Touya-nii is gone.There is still a whole society out there that needs fixing and he’ll have to be there to help pick up the pieces.

Shoutos head shot up when he heard the door start to open slowly as if someone was trying not to wake him. He carefully lowered himself off the bed and into a crouch ready to attack when he tripped on a chain connecting him to the railing. The door slammed open when Dabi heard the loud crash.

“Shouto are you alright? You shouldn't be out of bed without me.” Dabi scolded, picking up the boy and placing him back on the bed.

“...” Shouto glared at his brother in defiance, refusing to talk back. The brother he remembered is gone now all that’s left is this villain.

“Listen Shou I understand your anger you're probably thinking why did I have to uproot your life once you were finally doing okay but I had to. I wanted to come for you sooner I really did but dad basically murdered me back when I tried to take him down as a kid. It took a long time for me to gain my strength back and find enough powerful allies to be able to take you back.” Dabi said, ruffling Shouto’s hair.

“I wanted to take you out of that home as soon as possible more than anything but I was too weak. I'm sorry Shouto, I never wanted to hurt you but this had to be done for the good of everyone. Hero society was a toxic breeding ground for abuse and corruption. It needed to be brought down one way or another. I was never going to let you become a hero and be abused for the rest of your short life before you get killed off and forgotten.” Dabi said, angry just thinking about some pathetic villain laying hands on his baby brother.

“I am a hero and when I leave this place I'll fix what you have done to society.” Shoto responded startled when he was grabbed harshly and pulled onto his brother's lap.

“You're not leaving me again. Now that I finally have you back I am never letting you go.” Touya growled, cutting Shouto off before he could speak.

“And I know damn well you're not being a hero. I didn't spend all this time fighting for you just for you to get yourself killed living out a dream you don’t really want. Think about it Shouto did you ever truly want to become a hero by your own volition or were you groomed to be one since birth. If you weren't praised by everyone around you for having such a heroic quirk would you still want to be one?” The villain growled out.

“I've always wanted to become a hero,” Shouto mumbled, eyes focused on his lap. At least that's what he had always thought. If he couldn't be a hero what could he do? It's not like he can waste his quirk on a regular job. Being a hero has just always been what he’s supposed to do. His mother went through hell to give him his quirk; he had to use it to become a hero or she went through all of that abuse for nothing.

“No Shouto you've been groomed to believe being a hero is the only thing that will bring meaning to your life but it's not. Don't you want to live a life free of danger and the pressure of heroics? A life where you can finally act your age and just be a kid. Don't you want to live with your big brother Shouto? I sacrificed so much just for you, can't you make your Touya-nii happy?” Dabi asked, watching his little brother's eyes well up with tears. He almost has him right where he wants him. Shouto just needs a little push in the right direction and then he'll be all his.

“I-i cant. I-i don't know what to-… Please dont make me-” Shouto sobbed as crystalline tears flooded his face. He didn't know what he wanted, he just wanted peace. He didn't want to be constantly attacked by villains. He didn't want to fear for his safety everyday. He didn't want to go up against an army. And he sure as hell didn't want to rebuild an entire society but what is he supposed to do? How can he even start to fix this mess? Did he even want to? All he could do was sob into the arms of his brother turned villain.

“Shh shh It's okay Shou. I think you don't know what you want and that's okay because that's what your big brother is here for. As long as I'm here you won't have to worry about a thing you can leave it all to me.” Dabi cooed, gently wiping the tears off Shouto’s face. Shouto said nothing as he buried his head into the crook of the villain's neck.

“Come on Shouto it's alright you don't have to cry everything is going to be fine. Just give up all control to your big brother and you won't ever have to worry about a thing.” Touya whispered into the boy's ear while running his hands through the soft red and white hair.

“P-please no I don’t w-want to be a villain.” Shouto sobbed. He just wanted his brother. He just wanted to be safe and happy for once in his life.

“Oh firefly, you could never be a villain. You could never have what it takes to be one.” Touya cooed, gently grasping the boy’s chin and forcing him to look him in the eye.

“I don’t want to fight anymore Touya-nii. I c-can't fight you.” Shouto stuttered out through his sobs.

“And you won't have to not now not ever again if you give up your hero fantasy. I’m the only person who really cares about you Shouto. The heroes don't care if you want to fight or not, they just want a mindless soldier. I just want to make you happy.” Touya purred, he could see his baby brother’s resolve crumbling.

“What can I even do if I'm not a hero? I'm useless.” Shoto sniffled. 

“Don't say that firefly you could never be useless to me, maybe to the heroes but not to me. And you don't have to do anything really as long as I'm here I'll always take care of you Shouto. No fending for yourself, no more long sleepless nights, no more fighting for your life. As long as I'm here to take care of you unlike those heroes you like so much.” Touya said, watching Shouto’s eyes twinkle when he was called by his childhood nickname. The villain could tell it was getting harder for Shouto to differentiate the villain Dabi from his big brother Touya. Soon he will be falling right into his arms and he will never let go.

“So firefly, will you give up being a hero for your big brother? No one else will ever take care of you and love you the way I do.” The villain purred.

“Okay,” Shouto whispered. Maybe this is the best option for me, he thought. No one has ever cared about what he wanted except Touya.

“What was that?” Dabi asked with a smirk wanting to hear the exact words come out of his little brother's mouth.

“Yes Touya-nii I give up. Please take care of me.” Shouto said, looking up at him with pleading teary eyes. He could feel a small part of him finally letting go. He knows he's never been the most morally righteous person in the world but he never thought he would be siding with villains when Japan needed heroes most. But a little bitter voice in the back of his head always knew this was coming. Why should he have to give up his life to save everyone when no one ever bothered to save him when he was getting beaten black and blue by his father his entire childhood.

“Good boy,” Touya said, grinning so hard the gaps between his staples showed. He knows Shouto will still need some minor attitude and behavioral adjustments but he wants to stay with Touya willingly and that's way better than how the others are doing with their kids.

“There will be a probationary period before you can walk around freely. Just a couple of weeks at most. I want you to be on your best behavior and prove to me you really meant what you said. I don't want to punish you for lying to me, Shouto.” Touya lectured in a stern tone. He didn't think his brother was lying but he just wanted to make sure.

“I would never lie to Touya-nii” Shouto said in a scandalized tone, his eyebrows furrowed as if lying to his big brother was a strictly forbidden act that can never be done. Touya snorted; it seems that his baby brother hasn't changed all that much since he left. He doesn't know if it's the lack of socialization at a young age or all the abuse he endured but Shouto is pretty stunted for his age. Sometimes he’ll say something or do something only a small child could think of, not a teenager.

“That's good Shou but I just want to make sure. I don't know what they've been teaching you at that hero school of yours but if it's anything like what Keigo went through, there was probably some infiltration and undercover training.” Dabi seriously doubted Shouto could pull something like that off though. No offense to his little brother but from what he remembers he has seriously got to be the worst liar in Japan. 

“Okay nii-chan. Does this hurt?” Shouto murmured distractedly, his little fingers lightly tracing the villain's facial scars occasionally poking the shiny staples in wonder and concern.

“No firefly it doesn't hurt. Not anymore, the doctor fixed me up after my ‘accident’ and Tomura gave me a fire resistance quirk. You don't have to worry about me. The scars and staples are more aesthetic and to scare people off more than anything harmful.” The scarred man replied.

“You're not scary,” Shouto said with a confused look on his face, squealing when his brother dug his fingers into his tummy.

“Only you would think that Shou.” Dabi snorted fondly, tickling his little brother mercilessly.

“Stop, stop. Wait, I have a question!” Shouto cried out through peals of laughter.

“Okay, okay” Dabi said as his fingers slowed to a stop leaving him with a flushed breathless baby brother in his lap.

“What was so important you had to stop our fun?” Touya asked.

“Shigaraki Tomura, the leader of the League of Villains, gave you a new quirk? That's very kind of him, is he nice?” Shouto asked in a confused tone.

“Yeah he’s a real softy on the inside but don’t tell him I told you that. You can meet him some other time. He is pretty busy wrangling your green haired friend right now.” Dabi whispered with a smirk. He can share embarrassing stories about his and Tomura’s youth later on once Shouto gets to know him better.

“Oh-” Shouto uttered sullenly. He had forgotten about his classmates. What will they think of him when they find out he betrayed them? Will they hate him because he doesn't want to be a hero anymore? Shouto could feel himself start to tremble as his eyes filled with tears. He didn't want his friends to hate him. He doesn't know what to do. He needs help. He needs his big brother.

“What's wrong firefly? I thought we were getting along. What's with the waterworks?” Touya cooed, placing a kiss on his brother’s forehead, smiling when he felt Shouto lean into his touch.

“My friends, I don't know if they'll be okay. I know you love me and will take care of me but you're my brother it's different. What if the others are mean? What if my friends get hurt? I don't want them to be sad, I don't want them to hate me.” Shouto sobbed in his brother's chest, feeling his brother's hold on him tightening.

“Calm down, your friends are going to be just fine. I know you must think we all must be horrible villains and maybe we are to everyone else. But with each other the league is family and we take care of our own. And starting today your friends are also part of the family, they won't be hurt any more than a timeout or some other kiddy punishments.” Dabi said, rubbing soothing circles into his little brother's back.

“Are you sure?” Shouto sniffled, wiping his runny nose childishly on the sleeve of his onesie.

“Yeah Shou trust me Kurogiri and Compress are like strict dads to all of us, Shigaraki, Spinner, Magne, Twice, Toga, were all like siblings. We would never hurt each other and we could never hurt you. You all belong to us now, we'll take good care of you.” Dabi cooed gently, rubbing the tears away from Shouto’s puffy eyes.

“ I trust you Touya-nii. Will I be able to see them again?” Shouto asked.

“Yeah, after your probationary period you can have a playdate with some of your friends. It all depends on your and their behavior. If they're not behaving correctly you won't be able to see them for a while bud.” Dabi said resting his head on his little brother.

“Oh okay” Shouto pouted sadly, knowing that Midoriya and the others were not going to submit to a stranger’s will so easily. He probably won't be able to see his friends for months.

“Don’t pout at me. I'm sure you can play with Sako’s kid soon after you finish. He's pretty sassy just like Compress but I'm sure you'll get along. He wasn't in your class but you two will have to play nice. He's going to be your cousin now.” Dabi chided.

“He wasn't in my class? Who is it?” The boy asked.

“His name was Monoma Nieto though he goes by Sako Nieto now.” Dabi responded.

“Oh I don't like him.” Shouto pouted, anyone else would have been better than Monoma.

“Come on, Shou don’t be like that. He follows Compress around like a little duckling. I'm sure he's not that bad. You don’t like the old him but he's been here for a while now and Sako has straightened him out. He's a sweet kid mostly…He hasn't had company his age besides Toga in a while and she's mostly in and out of the house with her dad. Come on firefly can't you at least try to play nice with him for me?” Touya pleaded with his little brother.

“Okay I’ll try,”Shouto responded, the pouty expression still stuck on his face.

Three Weeks later

Shouto’s probation is finally over and if he’s being honest he'd rather it not be over. He’s been having fun spending every day with his Touya-nii. He doesn't really want to meet everyone else, especially not Monoma or Sako now I guess. They all seem nice from what his brother has told him but he’s still nervous to meet everyone.

“Firefly are you ready?” Touya called, knocking on the door.

“Shou?” Dabi called and received no answer.

“I'm coming in.” Touya opened the door to find no one in the room.

“Shou? Firefly? Where are you? Please come out now?” Touya yelled momentarily panicking. There's no way his brother escaped right? Shouto could not have been playing the long con right?

“Himura Shouto if you don’t come out by the count of three you're going to be punished.” Touya snarled. He is three seconds away from putting the entire mansion on lockdown.

“One”

“Two”

“Thr-” Dabi was cut off by a whine.

“Nooo” Shouto whined, the sound coming from underneath his bed.

“Shouto what are you doing down there? You almost gave me a heart attack.” The villain asked crouching down relieved to see two little feet sticking out from under the bed.

“I don't want to meet them…too nervous,” Shouto finally spoke.

“Come on Shou they're aren't going to bite, they're all pretty excited to see you again. They're nice and remember all the stories I told you about. They all have been waiting to meet you. We cleared this day off specifically for you to meet everyone.” Touya cooed trying to coax his baby brother out of his hiding spot.

“Do I have to meet Monoma? I can meet everyone else but not him. He’s going to be mean to me.” Shouto whined.

“How about this you can meet the league first and then Nieto separately later.”  Touya negotiated.

“Fine,” Shouto answered reluctantly, wriggling out from under the bed.

“Jeez firefly you haven’t even started getting ready yet, your hair is a mess. Hurry up, lift up your arms, they've been waiting on us for a while.” Dabi said, dressing him in a pair of powder blue corduroy overalls and a creme top.

“Well I was going to hide for the whole day so I didn't bother.” Shouto said with a shrug as his brother helped him snap the overalls in place and brushed his hair.

“Okay let's go.” Dabi said, grabbing his little brother's hand and leading him out of the room.

This was Shouto’s first time out of his room. It seems their living space is quite big. Their floor is a pretty wide space with a large living room, kitchen, elevator and a lot of other rooms he saw on their way out. This place must be a pretty big mansion if just him and Touya-nii have an entire floor to themselves, the boy thought. The elevator was taking them down to one of the common areas where the league shares the place. Apparently they all have their own floors. As the elevator went lower Shouto could feel butterflies in his tummy, his grip tightened on his brother's hand as the doors opened.

Shouto darted behind his brother as they walked out of the elevator. He peeked behind his brother's arm to see the league in a lounge area hanging out and happily chatting amongst themselves. He quickly ducked behind his brother's back when their eyes shot up to them.

“Come on Shou, will you introduce yourself for me?” Dabi asked. He felt Shouto slowly shuffle in front of him and placed his arms around him in a hug.

“Hi…my name is Himura Shouto. It's nice to meet you.” Shouto spoke quietly before he turned around and pushed his head onto his brother's stomach. He didn’t notice all the eyes of the league softening, staring at him with adoration and fondness.

“Aww that was sooo cute! You have such an adorable little brother Dabi!” Toga squealed, twirling a knife around in her hands.

“Come on Shou let sit down” Dabi sat down on one of the couches next to Hawks and pulled Shouto onto his lap.

“Hi Shouto! Do you remember me? It's been a long time since we've seen each other,” Hawks spoke gently, trying not to spook the kid. He did kinda help murder his dad on live television. He just wanted to make a good impression on his mate's little brother.

“Hi Hawks.” Was all Shouto responded not feeling up to talking too much.

“You can call me Keigo. I don't go by Hawks anymore.” The bird said cheerfully.

“Ok.” Hawks looked up at Dabi, perplexed as to why Shouto was not speaking. Wondering if it was something purposely against him or if he was that way with everyone.

“He woke up pretty shy this morning. You guys can talk to him all you want but I'm not sure you're gonna get much of an answer.” Dabi explained before his pretty bird worked himself in a panic over what Shouto thought of him. He hasn’t introduced Keigo to Shouto yet but he was sure they’ll get along.

“Well this is quite different from the show stopping Todoroki Shouto we saw in the UA sports festival.” Mr.Compress put into words what everyone else was thinking.

“Yeah, his demeanor is so much cuter than before. He’s so much weaker now” Twice blurted out.

“Ignore the second voice, the first one is what he really means.” Touya murmured into Shouto’s hair, feeling him nod in response.

“Well I think this Shouto is the cutest. I wish Ochako was acting like this already. Why did Dabi have to get the perfect little sibling?” Toga whined.

“How is Uraraka?” Shouto asked curious about his friend's new homelife.

“She's good! She lives with me and dad now!” Toga giggled pointing at Twice.

“Twice is your father? The quirks would make sense in a way. Are you his secret love child by any-?” Shouto is cut off by his brother's hand covering his mouth.

“Shouto! We do not ask questions like that!” Dabi scolded though he was laughing on the inside at the shock on Jin’s face.

“Why?” Shouto asked, genuinely confused as to why that would be rude.

Laughter exploded around them as Dabi tried to explain that asking people if they were created by accident and kept a secret is rude to Shouto. Even Kurogiri was cracking a smile by the end of it.

“Man Dabi, your brother sure is a riot” Spinner said, the lizard man still chuckling.

“He’s not trying to be,'' Dabi said with a small smile. All the laughing had helped Shouto relax a little bit; he didn't feel as stiff in his lap as he did before.

“Okay that's enough of that I want to hold him too.” Magne said, making grabby hands at Dabi. Dabi looked down at his brother who just shrugged in response. He was handed off to Magne who carried him with ease.

“Hi sweetie I'm your Aunt Magne. I'll be taking care of you whenever your brother is out on business.” Mange cooed as she placed him on her lap. She had always wanted kids but the time never felt right. This will do for the time being.

“We get to be Aunts? I want to be Auntie Toga!” Toga squealed, loving that she is not the youngest anymore with all these new kids around.

“Wow I've never had an aunt before,” Shouto said, eyes filled with wonder.

“Really? How come honey?” Magne made the mistake of asking not seeing Dabi shaking his head and making an x with his arms.

“My father did not have any siblings and my mother was sold to my father by her family so we never saw her family again.” Shouto said nonchalantly as if he was talking about what he wanted to eat for lunch.

“Oh sugar, I'm so sorry.” Mangne replied, hugging the boy.

“It's okay, Keigo and Touya-nii killed my father so everything is good now.” Shouto replied; Hawks made a choking sound while Dabi chuckled at how uncomfortable Shouto was making everyone.

“Dabi, do you believe young Shouto here is ready to begin his studies again?” Kurogiri asked, trying to change the subject.

“Yeah he should be able to start soon. He isn't a flight risk anymore so he can go.” Touya replied.

“I have to go to school again? I don't want to meet new people” Shouto pouted. He didn't want to go to a public school where people would expect him to be a hero for them because they saw him in the sports festival.

“We would never make you interact with the public. We had a small learning institute built in the mansion for you children. Currently the only member is Nieto. Once the others are all fully conditioned you will all be able to complete your studies together again.” Kurogiri explained to the pouting child.

“Oh I don’t know if that's better or worse.” Shouto said.

“What seems to be the problem, little one?” Compress asked.

“My friends are very stubborn so I'm going to be stuck with Monoma for a long time. I don’t like him, he is very mean.” Shouto murmured not wanting to offend Monoma’s father.

“Shouto I already explained he better behaved now it won't be the same as when you were in UA.” Dabi said gently.

“Indeed Shouto. My little magician is quite the sweet boy with me but… I know how he is so I will be there to supervise his behavior on your playdate later today. I can assure you if he is mean to you in any way he will be punished swiftly.” Sako said sternly.

“Hmm okay.” Shouto said with a mischievous glint in his eyes. He could get revenge for all the times Monoma terrorized his class.

“Anyways, how are the rest of your kids doing? I've only heard about Nieto so far.” Dabi asked. They've all been so busy with getting their kids settled in they've hardly had any real time to sit down and talk to each other.

“Izuku was acting like a brat so he's in isolation right now.” Shigaraki muttered sadly, missing the misbehaving brat he calls little brother.

“Ochako is still a bit too feisty for my liking but at least she is letting us take care of her now. She's a little brat. She was so underweight when we first got her but she’s doing better now. She's still too skinny!”Jin said.

“Yeah she's so cute when she stuffs her chubby cheeks full of the sweets we get her! I want her to call me Himi-nii but she won't say it yet. Honesty Dabi, how did you get Shouto to call you such a cute name?” Toga whined.

“Can’t help you there. Shouto is just the best, no training required.” Dabi said smugly, grinning at all the annoyed and envious looks sent his way.

“Fumikage is doing pretty well since both our quirks are avian in nature. I can use his bird biology against him to imprint on me. It's actually pretty cute since he’s never had an older avian in his life so he doesn't really understand that he's acting like a newborn hatchling. He'll be ready to play with Shouto soon.” Hawk spoke excitedly, trying to change the subject before someone attacks his lover for his bragging.

“How's he handling the quirk suppressors?” Dabi asked genuinely curious since it seems Shouto has forgotten about his collar or doesn’t seem to mind it.

“That's the only thing that's been rough on Fumi since his quirk is sentient and he's had it since he was a toddler. He keeps asking for his brother and saying he’s lonely. And I want to take the collar off, I really do but Dark Shadow is an extremely strong quirk that will do anything to protect its user so he probably won't be getting it back for a long time. How’s Shouto taking not having his quirk?” Keigo asked, hoping little Shou isn’t having as much trouble as his Fumi is.

“Honestly I don’t even think he remembers that I took it away. He hasn't tried using it as far as I know and doesn't seem to care that he can't.” The villain explained glancing over to his brother playing a game with Toga on her phone.

“Lucky you Izuku wouldn't stop trying to use his quirk to attack me the whole time I visited him.” Shigaraki snarked, secretly a little jealous of Dabi. Not that he would ever admit it but he really wished Izuku would act a bit more like Shouto. When he spoke, the little Himura’s head snapped up to look at him. He could see him hesitating before he nodded and began crawling over people’s laps. Shigaraki had assumed he was trying to get back to his brother but Shouto stopped at his lap and sat down.

“Um, what are you doing?” Tomura asked awkwardly, wrapping his arms around Dabi’s little brother so he wouldn't fall.

“How is Midoriya? He must be having a hard time without All Might.” Shouto asked.

“He’s been a brat but that is what I expected so… Why would he have a hard time without All Might?” Tomura asks, confused. Did Shouto know about One for All? He didn’t think Izuku had told anyone about the origins of his quirk.

“Because he's All Might’s secret love child.” Shouto said casually.

“WHAT!” Shigaraki shrieked.

“Shou we just talked about this.” Dabi groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose.

“All might is NOT his father! All for One is!” Tomura exclaimed, wondering if Shouto was dropped on his head as a baby. Knowing his and Dabi’s history… maybe.

“Who’s that?” Shouto asked with a confused pout on his face.

“Ask your brother later. Anyways, what was so important that you needed to come sit on me?” Shigaraki's dry voice scratched out.

“Oh I want to thank you for helping Touya-nii when he was hurt and for giving him a new quirk so he won't burn himself. Thank you for saving big brother.” Shouto said quietly.

“Oh it was nothi-” Shigaraki started but was shocked silent by Shouto hugging him. Tomura’s cheeks flushed pink as he was thanked so sincerely by the kid. He had never had anyone react so kindly to his actions.

“Y-your w-welcome.” Tomura stuttered as he watched Shouto scooch back over to his brother.

“Wow that was bold of you Shouto.” Dabi smirked looking over to their leader looking very flustered.

“Yes, I saw on the Tv that the best way to thank someone is to give hugs.” Shouto said with a very serious expression on his face, as if he didn't get the information from a kids show.

“Can we leave now? There are too many people. I want to go home” The boy whispered into Dabi’s ear. He didn’t mind the league, they were actually kind of fun but he wanted to go back to his room now. He hasn't been around this many different people in a while. It was tiring for him.

“Okay the kid is sick of all of you, we’re leaving. Come on Compress, Shouto wants to go on his play date with your brat.” Dabi grunted smirking at the disgruntled faces of the rest of the league members. He knew they all liked Shouto but they could spend more time with him later.

Shouto almost choked when he heard about the playdate. He was having so much fun talking to his new family he had forgotten he was supposed to meet Monoma after! Is it too late to say he wants to stay longer?

“Come on Shou say bye.” Dabi cooed as he picked Shouto up and placed him on his hip.

“Bye bye, you all were nice to talk to.” Shouto mumbled, sticking his hand out to do a little wave before he put his head back into the crook of Dabi’s neck. He missed all the longing and adoring looks that were being thrown his way as they left. The league was absolutely smitten for the boy.

As they rode the elevator to Sako’s floor Shouto’s stomach dropped. He felt like there were one hundred butterflies playing tag in there. This is going to be the first time he’s going to see someone from UA since his brother came to get him. He can't help but think it's going to go very poorly. Class 1B never really got along with his class and Monoma especially hated 1A a lot.

When the doors opened they walked into an extremely extravagantly decorated home. It was very different from his brother's more traditionally decorated home. They were seated on a flamboyant red sofa while Compress went to get Monoma from his room. His heart hammered in his chest as he heard two sets of footsteps leading to the living room.

“No way… This is my surprise, the Todoroki Shouto. Ahahaha of course a member of the inferior class 1A would be kidnapped by villains!” The blond laughed, looking at the boy from class 1A dressed so childishly and in the lap of a villain.

“You're here too stupid.” Shouto muttered, averting his eyes.

“Well only because I was caught helping your stupid class escape. If you inferior 1A students hadn’t needed so much help, I wouldn't be here right now! But no you useless heroes couldn’t even-” Momona screamed all his anger from the past months coming to the surface and boiling over.

“Nieto. I would stop talking right now if I were you unless you want to be punished in front of little Shouto here.” Sako scolded, satisfied with seeing Monoma’s face pale.

“Why don’t you two head to Nieto’s room to play.” Compress added, hoping to ease the tension between the two boys.

Shouto could feel Monoma’s death glare on him as they walked to his bedroom. He wishes he had just stayed in his room.

“When did you even get here?” Monoma asks, cutting through the thick silence.

“Um, I'm not sure. I think it's been a couple weeks, maybe a month ago.” Shouto replied.

“You're still fairly new then. I suppose you have an escape plan already?” The boy asked with a scrutinizing glare.

“No, why would I?” Shouto answered, confused. He hasn't thought about leaving his brother since his first day home. And even then it was a more reluctant thought that he really didn't even want to do.

“Because you're a hero that was kidnapped by villains! Of course you should be planning to escape!” Nieto exclaimed. He knows he’s not the poster boy for typical heroes but before he gave up being a hero even he had tried to escape a couple of times.

“I'm not a hero anymore and I wasn’t kidnapped. My brother just came to pick me up like he had always promised me. As for escaping, why would I do that? I like it here.” Shouto answered honestly.

“Are you really that pathetic? Your morals didn't even last a month before you gave up! You were supposed to be one of the most promising heroes of our generation. What is wrong with you?!” The blond boy screamed outraged with Shouto’s behavior.

“Well I never wanted to be a hero! Everyone around me just expected me to. If hero society hadn’t crumbled, yes I would still be one. But only because I could never get away with not being one. Everyone would always look at me as the son of Endeavor and powerful quirk and wonder when I was going to become a hero, not if I wanted to be one at all. Now that it's gone and the only option for people who want to be heroes is to rebuild an entire society. I would rather not fight my own family for some stupid dream I didn't even want to begin with.” Shouto yelled back.

“So you were blessed with a perfectly heroic quirk and the number two hero as your father and you’d give it all up like it meant nothing.” Monoma yelled.

“Shut up! You know nothing about me or my life and what I went through.” Shouto growled.

“Oh please like a perfect little rich boy like you ever went through hardship.” Monoma scoffed.

“I was created from a quirk marriage for one purpose and that was to create the perfect hero that would beat All Might like my father never could. My father bought my mother and forced her to have three children before I was born. My oldest brother had a defective quirk not suited for his body and my two other siblings had weak quirks so they were neglected. Before I was born my eldest brother was trained by my father until his skin would burn from the inside out. His body was made to handle ice but he had a fire quirk. When I turned four my quirk came in and I was abused everyday in the name of training. Do you think it's a blessing to beat a four year old until they vomit everyday? Later my eldest brother tried to stop my father and was almost killed. The stress eventually made my mother go insane and she gave me the scar on my face. The ‘training’ went on for years until I got into UA and then my brother saved me.” Shouto explained with big tears running down his face.

“Do you want my quirk since you think it such a waste not being used for heroics. Because I can ask Shigaraki and he can give it to you because I don’t care anymore. You can take it and go try to be a hero because I won’t. I didn't even want the stupid thing in the first place!” Shouto cried out, staring at the sick looking blonde.

“Hey, what's going on in here?!” Dabi yelled as he and Compress rushed into the room to see Shouto sobbing and Monoma looking pale.

“Papa I didn’t know. I didn’t mean to make him cry! I'm sorry.” Monoma apologized with teary eyes turning to hug his father.

“Its okay Neito, can you tell me what happened?” Sako asked only to receive no response but a head shake and eyes looking anywhere but him.

“How about you Shouto, can you tell me what Nieto did to upset you?” Compress asked, looking over to the sniffling boy being held by Dabi.

“He said that I was pathetic for not trying to escape and that I was wasting my quirk not being a hero.” Shouto said, pointing at the blond in question, happy to get him in trouble and finally get a taste of his own medicine.

“Neito, is that true?” Sako asked. The boy just nodded looking down at his socked feet.

“Well seems like this play date is over. We can try again once you retrain him.” Dabi said ready to take Shouto and walk out of there.

“Yes it would seem it is. You two can let yourselves out. I've got a brat to punish.” Compress said as he closed the door to Monoma’s room.

The ride back to their floor was silent beside the sound of Shouto’s sniffles.

“Well that went well…” Touya said sarcastically, as the doors opened to their floor.

“I told you this would happen Touya-nii. He hates me.” Shouto cried. He doesn’t really care if Monoma likes him or not. But his reaction to him scared Shouto. What if his actual friends react the same way.

“Shouto he doesn’t hate you he is just having a hard time adjusting to his new life and needs some re-education. You’ll see eventually all the other kids will be like you too. Some just take a bit longer to train.” Touya explained gently, trying not to make Shouto break out into tears again.

“Okay Touya-nii,” Shouto replied sullenly. Even if it takes them a while eventually all his friends will be with him again. 

Five months later

In the following months his brother sorted out a routine for them. Most days Dabi would be there to wake him up, play with him a bit and give him a bath and dress him before taking him to school but when he was away on league business Magne and Keigo usually filled in and were suitable caretakers. Shouto started his schooling with Monoma soon after their fight and they have settled into quite a rocky relationship of playing/learning together and having fun but also hating each other and trying to find ways to get the other in trouble. They were frenemies… for now just until Shouto can get his real friends back.

He’s allowed to roam the mansion within reason now and allowed to visit whoever his heart desires. He usually likes to visit Toga, Kiego, and Tomura the most. The girl would act like his big sister and never hesitated to spoil Shouto and give him something fun to do. While Tomura showed him how to play video games and was always happy to play with him. Shouto liked him; he never got mad at shouto when he made them lose or got frustrated when Shouto couldn’t understand the mechanics of a game, he also regularly liked to spoil Shouto with new games and consoles much to Dabi’s ire.

Hawks would take him on mini flights around the mansion and tickle him half to death with his feathers. The man would regularly spend his free time with them on their floor. Keigo was always happy to entertain him playing hide and seek with him or tag. Shouto really likes Keigo and Keigo really likes his big brother too so that makes him one of Shouto’s favorite people. He doesn't like when they send him away while both of them are home though. He doesn’t know what they're doing and why he can't be there with them but whenever he asks anyone in the league they just give him amused looks and tell him he’ll understand when he’s older. But knowing how Dabi is that day may never come, many of the league thought.

The others also really liked Shouto’s presence and would regularly seek him out to spoil and cuddle. Twice was really funny and always made Shouto laugh. The man was really sweet despite the contradictions he would blurt out. Jin was what Shouto thought a good father should be like. Sometimes when he saw the way the man interacted with Toga it made his heart ache. He wishes he could have had a kind father like Jin when he was younger.

Magne was a kind and motherly figure in their home. She was one who he seeked out when he was longing for his mother. When his heart ached and he wanted nothing more than to see his mom. She would brush away his tears and comfort him until he felt better. She wasn't his mama but it helped and he appreciated her a lot. For now he just had to wait until the rest of his family was found and relocated. He really wanted to see his Mom and his other siblings.

Spinner was fun too. He taught him how to be a super secret ninja and how to use swords. Until his big brother found out and after that visits with Spinner had to be supervised to make sure he didn't give more swords to the baby. Shouto pouted for an entire week when his lessons were taken away but the restrictions were never lifted.

Mr.Compress was nice and showed him his magic tricks and would play with him too. But Shouto rarely goes up to him for that because Monoma always gets a jealous pout on his face and will be mad at him for days. Which he understands he doesn't like sharing his brother either. One time Monoma asked Dabi to carry him to his room just to make Shouto mad. And his brother did it?! He couldn’t carry both of them at the same time so Shouto had to trail behind them with Monoma giving him smug looks the entire time. That was the only time Shouto wished he had his quirk so he could fight the other boy properly. And fight they did, the next day Shouto waited until no one was looking and tackled Monoma pulling his hair and biting him while the other boy flailed, slapping him wherever he could reach. They were eventually separated by Kurogiri and sent off to their parents to be punished. Neither boy could sit very well at dinner that night after the spankings they received.

Kurogiri was a strict but kind man. He didn't hesitate to swat them when they were acting bratty but he also loved making them sweet desserts and cute bento boxes for lunch. The man said they both reminded him of his days taking care of Tomura and Touya. Much to the younger villains ire insisting that they had never been as bratty or as cute as Nieto and Shouto are. Kurgiri disagreed stating that they most certainly were a pair of cute brats making the duo blush.

One day Tomura stopped Dabi out of the blue to ask how Shouto’s behavior has been recently.

“He’s been good, why?” Dabi answered, confused. 

“Because Izuku has been behaving really well and making a lot of progress recently and has been begging to see the little peppermint for a while now. I thought I could give him a little reward to help him settle in.” Tomura explained.

“He’s been good enough for a playdate? That’s new, but yeah when do you want them to have to meet?” Dabi said surprised that the stubborn green brat was actually doing well.

“I promised Izuku today. If you're not busy.” Tomura winced, hoping they weren't busy; he would hate to disappoint his little brother.

“That's fine I'll go get Shouto ready then. We can meet at the play area in the garden in half an hour.” The scarred man said, already walking away.

“Okay. See you in a bit.” Tomura replied.

Dabi rode the elevator up thinking of how excited Shouto was going to be to see his friend. When he got to their floor he went straight to Shouto’s room and opened the door. Privacy is a concept Shouto has never understood so he doesn't bother knocking.

“Hey Firefly I got some good news,” Dabi said, walking in to see Shouto on his bed playing a game on his switch.

“What is it nii-chan?” Shouto asked, pausing his game looking at his brother with big round eyes and a cute little smile.

“Tomura says Izuku’s made a lot of progress recently and he wants to reward him with a playdate with you today.” Touya said watching his little brother's eyes light up.

“Really!!” Shouto gasped, bouncing a little in excitement. He's been waiting so long to see his friends. He’s so happy they're starting to like it here too.

“Yeah firefly. Come here let's get you dressed then we can go meet them in the garden.” Touya replied while picking out an outfit for Shouto to wear.

“Okay nii-chan!” Shouto answered, lifting his arms up to be undressed. He thought his big brother changing him and giving him baths was a little strange at first but if it makes Touya-nii happy he doesn’t mind. His brother thinks he had grew up too overly independent so he often did things like spoon feeding him and carrying him around to try to break him out of his old bad habits. Now that he has Touya-nii back, he's not supposed to be independent ever again.

“So what are you going to do with your friend?” Dabi asked as he changed Shouto into a fluffy light brown hooded sweater with bear ears and matching brown pants with a bear’s face on the butt. Again Shouto thought the clothes were a little bit childish but if it made his brother happy then he doesn’t care. 

“I’m going to tell him all about my new school and my new game Tomura got me and the lessons spinner taught me and what Monoma and I do so at school and-” Shouto babbled on about all the things he was going to tell Midoriya while his brother watched him fondly responding with the appropriate hmms and ahhs. Touya hasn’t seen Shouto act so excitable since before his quirk came in, it was good to see it coming back. His baby brother has been through a hard life. He deserves to be a happy kid for once.

Once he was finished putting on Shouto’s brown fuzzy boots Dabi picked the boy up, placing him on his hip and headed to the elevator. On their way down Shouto continues to babble to his big brother about anything and everything that has happened in the past six months that he was going to tell Izuku about. The closer they got to the garden the more Shouto would wiggle happily wanting to get there faster. Dabi held him tighter as they walked into the garden towards the play area.

“Shouto!” Izuku yelled, still holding onto Tomura’s hand. This was his one and only chance he and Shouto had to escape and make a plan to come get the others once they find some outside help. Maybe they can find a way to bring heroes in from other countries to help.

“Izuku! Can I go down please?” Shouto called back happily before asking to be put down. 

“Of course,” Dabi said watching the boy start to run toward Izuku the second his feet touched the ground.

“I missed you.” Shouto murmured as he pulled Izuku into a hug.

“Yeah I missed you too,” Izuku said, tearing up. Tomura and Dabi watched fondly off to the side, letting the boys have a moment to themselves.

“Let's go play,” Shouto said, pointing towards the massive playground in the garden.

“Um okay, let me ask Tomu-nii first?” Izuku answered confused as to why Shouto was asking to play with him. Maybe he wants to hide in the structure so they can plan their escape without prying eyes watching them, Izuku thought walking back towards the adults.

 “Nii-chan can I go play on slides with Shou-chan please?” Izuku asked with pleading puppy dog eyes towards Tomura.

“Sure, just stay where we can see you.” Tomura replied.

“Thank you nii-chan!” Izuku yelled hugging Tomura quickly before running back to Shouto. Not noticing Shouto watching him and Tomura with a happy smile.

“Let's go!” Midoriya yelled, taking Shouto’s hand in his and ran toward the play structure.

“Let's go on the slide first,” Shouto said, already climbing the ladder.

“Um okay,” Izuku answered, following his friend up the ladder.

“Um Shouto,” Izuku tried to talk to the boy but he was already sliding down. Izuku reluctantly followed him down.

“Let's go again.” Shouto giggled racing back to the top of the slide before Izuku could catch up to him.

“Shouto wait-” Izuku tried but his friend was already going down the slide again. Maybe he was just trying to make them look less suspicious, Izuku thought. He decided to wait on the platform near the slide for Shouto to come back up.

“Izuku, why aren't you playing? Do you not like the slide?” Shouto asked, confused. Maybe Midorya had never been on one and he didn't like it. Shouto had also never been on a playground before he came here. But he found the experience fun; it was kinda like a little obstacle course.

“No it's not that I thought maybe we should talk first. Since we haven't seen each other in so long.” Izuku explained trying to get Shouto to stop playing. Shouto is acting a lot different from how he remembered him. He’s acting a lot more childishly and happy than ever before and while that should be a good thing he doesn’t know if it is necessarily by choice or if he was being brainwashed.

“So what have you been doing since you got kidnapped?” Izuku asked, startled by the look of displeasure Shouto sent him.

“I don’t know why you guys keep saying that. I wasn’t kidnapped, Touya-nii just came to pick me up like he always promised he would. A big brother taking back his little brother is not kidnapping.” Shouto answered with an irritated pout.

“S-sure... so what have you been doing?” Izuku stuttered, feeling like ice was being dripped directly into his veins. There's no way he is being serious right?

“Oh yeah I was just about to tell you at first I was only with Touya-nii and I couldn't leave my room and then I was good and I got to meet everyone and they let me walk around now. You don’t have to worry about the league, they are all very nice. Tomura plays games with me and Toga plays with me and Spinner teached me how to be a ninja, and Twice is really funny-” Shouto babbled on not noticing the boy in front of him no longer paying attention.

Izuku felt like he had been stabbed in the chest. From what he heard it sounds like Shouto has had access to roam around freely for a long time now. So why hasn't he tried to escape?! Maybe he's been waiting for help?

“So Shouto, have you tried to escape yet?” Izuku asked gently, trying not to anger the boy in front of him again.

“Um no.” Shouto answered confused. Mononma had asked him the same question when they first met too. 

“It's okay, I'll help you now. I need you to help me break my collar and then I'll break yours and we'll make a run for it towards the nearest exit.” Izuku said urgently.

“W-wait, you want to leave now? B-but you and Tomura looked like you were getting along so well.” Shouto stuttered, feeling his heart break. He had thought his friend was happy to be here too but he just wanted to betray Tomu-chan.

“I know it's sudden but this is our only chance. We'll come back to rescue everyone else once we can get some help from other heroes. And don’t worry about Tomura, he thinks I'm happy being his dumb little brother. He won't notice a thing until it’s too late.” Izuku said with a smirk.

“You've been lying this whole time?” Shouto questioned feeling angry for Tomu-chan. Tomura was so nice to him he didn’t deserve Izuku acting this way towards him.

“Well yeah it's not like anyone can actually like it here.” Izuku scoffed, not understanding why Shouto was acting this way. They needed to hurry up and get out of here he thought. When suddenly Shouto bolted down the steps toward the edge of the yard. Izuku, thinking Shouto hadn't heard the plan correctly, ran after him.

“Wait! We were supposed to break the collars first!” Izuku whisper-shouted. Well he can pretend they are playing tag. It wasn’t until he heard Shouto scream for his brother that he noticed that they were actually running toward their kidnappers instead of away. Izuku stopped dead in his tracks but it was too late.

“Touya-nii” Shouto screamed, while tears ran down his face. Tomura and Dabi exchanged looks of concern.

“What wrong firefly?” Dabi said, picking up his little brother. Not again he groaned internally. What’s with all these little brats and making Shouto cry?

“Izuku said he wanted to escape and that he was going to take me with him. He said he was lying to Tomu-chan the whole time so he could get a playdate to escape.” Shouto stuttered out through his sobs.

“Shouto what are you doing?! You're supposed to be a hero! We need to get out of here.” Izuku screamed in rage. His only chance at escape had just been destroyed by Shouto. 

“I don’t want to be a hero! I just want to stay with Touya!” Shouto yelled back. They're screaming match was interrupted by an angry Tomura.

“Izuku” Shigaraki growled as he stalked toward his little brother. He can’t believe the brat has been lying to him for months. Oh he is going to be punished severely.

“Wait Tenko-nii he’s lying. I promise I wasn’t trying to-” The boy tried to lie.

“Save it Izuku. Shouto has a much better track record when it comes to lying than you do.” Tomura snarled.

“I-” Izuku couldn’t come up with any excuse so he just ran as fast as he could trying to get away. 

Tomura just pressed a button on his phone and Izuku could feel a needle puncture his neck. Soon he was falling on his back looking up at Tomura Dabi and Shouto staring down at him as his vision started to fade.

“Shouto how could you…” was the last thing Izuku said as the world went black .

“Touya-nii I want to go home” Shouto whined into his brother's neck. The exhaustion of Izuku’s betrayal started to weigh on him.

“All right firefly, anything for you” Touya purred with a deranged smirk on his face. He was thoroughly satisfied with how today’s playdate had gone. While Tomura grimaces carrying his reckless brat back already thinking of all the ways he’ll punish him for his misdeed. 

What neither boy had known was that today had been a test for both of them. Their collars have hidden microphones built into them. Touya and Tomura had been listening the entire time… 

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[ofmermaidstories]

From your posts so far I feel like you have such a wide variety of understanding complex characters. How do you think you would tackle writing for Todoroki Touya, and have you ever considered any storyline for him? What kind of civilian reader do you think you’d craft for him if so?

beyond a post-canon bonnie and clyde AU, i’ve never really seriously considered a fic for dabbers. 🧐 he’s a fun character in canon, but to me that’s because he’s a walking tragedy—his hatred and desperation for his father. his resentment of his perfect baby brother. the way both of those things blindside him to his other brother, his sister, their mum. i don’t see him as like, the fun flirty bad boy that i think was a given read of him, earlier in BNHA—i think what he eventually goes through will profoundly change him, if he lives. it’ll take hard work for him to get to a place where he can be like, happy with the family that’s reaching out to him—his father, his mother, his siblings…. his perfect baby brother.

for a post-canon dabbers fic, i’d probably strike at the in-between time between him physically and mentally healing—like, his injuries have been treated, he’s gotten physical therapy. maybe he has a prosthetic arm like his arm, or a cane to help him walk but he can do things, he can physically be apart of the world again—but he still bubbles with his resentment. touya’s a massive fazacon in canon and everyone who disagrees with me can argue with a wall LMAOOO i’m right about this forever, but like, for a x reader fic i think that means competition for his attention on a very base level, you know? like, how do you bond with and romance a guy that’s constantly sour about how his father ruined his life??? to me that means you benefit best from having a Reader-insert who either has their own baggage, or is nihilistic enough to laugh his off LOL. and i think if you’re going to make them both like, kinda unrepentant assholes, you’re almost obligated to give them a happy ending??? or rather—that’s how i would write it. like with the dabi/bonnie & reader/clyde idea, i would set it up so that they both think they’re gonna die at the end of it, that the reader (lowercase) thinks they’re gonna die, that endeavour and rei and the todo siblings (minus Shouto) think they’re gonna die—and then at the end they don’t. one of them—maybe dabi himself, because i think we owe him that chance—tries to pull a stunt that like, lets Reader live, say. maybe he meets up with his perfect baby brother at some stage during the Crime Spree and it’s Shouto who’s like, I can help you. I can help both of you, please let me, and at first Dabi’s furious (how fucking dare this useless squirt of endeavour’s hot fucking snot talk to him like a hero) but then. you know. he gets attached like a chump, or whatever. maybe he sees more of himself in you than he wanted to, or maybe being outside of the careful, clinical surveillance he was under before means he has to confront like—what the point of it all is, you know? he failed in killing his father, his baby brother, himself. he got patched together and now endeavour’s grovelling like a worm for forgiveness Touya doesn’t want to give him, almost (it’s not atonement or forgiveness he wants—he wants the family he should’ve had, the power he should’ve had from birth, perfect and whole). and it’s like—the choice is either go out in a blaze of glory or…. i don’t think he’d even let himself imagine it, LOL. you and him and your fucked up issues like linen in the cupboards of some cute little house with a tidy fence around it? bullshit. pathetic.

(but you patch each other up. and the way you laugh when someone eats shit trying to run during one of your robberies makes him think of his days with the League of Villains—the way everyone was so unrepentative in what they were after, the hurt they wanted to inflict. And yet Toga’s out there somewhere, getting rehabilitated back into society and last Touya heard Spinner was working with heteromorph discrimination programs after a rough recovery—and you could still make it, he thinks in disdain. He’s on his last, last chance but you—you could still have that tiny home, somewhere. The linen cupboards that hold more than the issues that sent you to the same centre he was languishing in. You could still have a future, and later that night when you’re asleep he walks away from the car you’ve traded (stolen) the van in for—and calls his perfect baby brother, who answers the phone silently, waiting.

“You wanna help?” Touya asks, dry. “Then help, Hero.”)

[californiannostalgia]

I've abandoned my boy (can I go back for him?) Ch.1

An instant before he exploded like a nuclear bomb, Dabi saw his youngest sibling running toward him. Touya's fracturing mind saw his tear-drenched face and thought, Wait, he's a baby. I tried to kill a baby. Why is the baby trying to save us when we gave up on saving him before he learned how to walk?

Todoroki Touya dies three years into his life sentence. He opens his eyes four years in the past.

The three greatest villains in modern history find themselves with a second chance. Shigaraki Tomura decides he's going to kill Sensei because he actually hates him. Toga Himiko wants to spend every minute of the day with Ochako, but she has a lot of love to give to her friends too. Touya is trying to figure out how to coax Shouto away from the family so he can feed him noodles.

(Takami Keigo and Bubaigawara Jin might just end up destroying the world.)

The only way through is forward. Isn't it horrible?

Chapter 1: Dabi

[anglaland]

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Fandom: bnha (my hero academia)

Relationship: Platonic Touya & Shouto post-War

Rating: Gen

Additional tags: fem!Todoroki, learning, healjng, and live all together

Summary (AO3 link in reblog):

Shouto visits Touya just before Valentine’s Day.

“You almost killed yourself in one of these when you were a dumb baby, you know.”

Shouto looks at Touya curiously. The sun wanes in the sky, still an hour out from sunset. The koi pond they’re sitting by reflects golden hues in the scales of the fish.

“What happened?” she asks.

Touya doesn’t look at her, focusing on the fish beneath their dangling legs instead. She doesn’t mind. It’s enough for her that the two of them can sit here, like this.

“You stumbled into the pond when no one was watching. Mom must’ve been gardening or something, I don’t know. You didn’t even yell. I found you splashing pathetically, half frozen in the water with tears rolling down your face.”

Shouto kicks her legs. The action is freeing. She’d never been allowed to in childhood; her tutors would snap a wooden stick across her shins. “So you saved me.”

Touya scoffs. “You would have killed the fish, and that was the only good thing that godforsaken place had going for it.”

It’s quiet out here, in the countryside, away from Musutafu. Away from the house, from the history there. Their father is away in Fukushima for a charity event, no longer a working hero with what the War had brought out.

Strangely, Shouto thinks he doesn’t mind. It’s almost inconceivable to consider, that her father spends his time out here with Touya, away from the public eye. She can’t reflect on it for too long without it becoming difficult to breathe.

“No one saw?”

“Obviously not. You couldn’t even figure out how to dry yourself. Just sniffled with smoke coming off of you.” There’s a twitch at the edge of his lips as he follows the koi as they float, suspended in the cold water. “I had to pick water weeds out of your hair after I dried you.”

The only thing Endeavor used to tell her about her siblings was how jealous they were of her quirk, how they would be grateful for the training she received, how superior she was to them. The only thing she had ever heard about Touya was that he tried to kill her as a baby, and if she didn’t train diligently, she would turn out to be a failure like him.

These moments are a blessing she doesn’t deserve, to sit across her brother like this and reminisce, to hear things so different to what she knew. It causes an addicting warmth to rise in her chest.

She’s lucky. She’s so lucky. It could have all been so different.

“Should’ve let you drown, honestly.” Touya says, eyeing her.

“I don’t think my body would have been good for the ecosystem,” Shouto says. “Then I would have really killed the fish.”

“Look at you. An environmentalist on top of being the golden prodigy.”

There’s still some resentment behind the words. He’s watching her now, assessing her reaction. She never knows how to respond, can only hope that what she says won’t end in a fight.

“I’ll add the endorsement to my twitter bio.”

There’s no burst of blue flames, in fact, Touya — Touya snorts, rolling his eyes. “That’ll be the most exciting thing on your entire profile. How is it possible for you to be even more boring online?”

“I’m not boring,” Shouto defends. “I tweet about exciting things all the time.”

Touya is already pulling his phone out of his pocket. He was given internet access two months ago (monitored, of course). Fuyumi had made a group chat immediately, which Touya had tried to leave six times before Fuyumi had started a group call to yell at him. He doesn’t text often — mostly reacts 👎 to memes Natsuo sends, 🙄 to questions Shouto asks, and 🫡 to every single one of Fuyumi’s texts, including the one where she told him to stop adding reactions to every single one of her texts.

“I recently had the amazing opportunity to spend two weeks volunteering at JCN,” Touya reads, sarcasm dripping from every word. Shouto thinks he would have been good at being a stage actor, or maybe a newscaster.

…she keeps that thought to herself.

“That is exciting,” Shouto interrupts. “And it’s important. Did you know that 93% of cats who are returned are euthanized? It’s even worse with the recent zoning changes —”

“You literally say exactly that here. I think you need more talking points.”

“You could volunteer with me next time.”

“Pass. I’d rather drown in the koi pond.”

“Not very environmentalist of you,” Shouto mutters.

Touya knocks his shoulder into hers. “Look at that,” he croons. “Baby’s first joke.”

They slip into silence. The sun slips further down in the sky. Shouto needs to leave eventually. She has class tomorrow, and her father will return here in the evening. Their relationship has gotten better, and Shouto has even forgiven him, but —

— but it was still hard, sometimes.

Empty trees shift with a slight breeze. The two of them sit in a single layer of clothing each. Their quirks are even more similar, now.

“Mom sent this for you,” she says, pulling an envelope and a small box out of her bag and handing it over. Touya raises an eyebrow but takes it from her, setting the package to the side, holding the letter in his hands.

He turns it over a few times. There’s only his name written on it, in their mom’s handwriting. It’s not a particularly thick letter, or anything particularly elaborate — Rei had used stationary gifted to her by Shouto. Touya sets it aside and opens the box.

“We made chocolate the other day,” Shouto offers by way of explanation. “Fuyumi helped. I brought you some.”

Touya picks up a chocolate piece between two fingers, but makes no move to eat it. After a few seconds, it melts instantly into his hand.

“Oh,” Shouto says. “I have some hand wipes —”

“Why are you still here?” Touya says, abruptly, coating his hand in ice and melting it off. The chocolate water drips into the pond. “You did your good deed for the month, and you can go home and sleep peacefully now.”

This happens, sometimes. The testing. The unsaid do you actually care? Shouto’s all too familiar with it herself. Pushing people away because letting them in made it your fault when they would hurt you.

(She can never convey just how deeply grateful she is for her friends, for pulling her in. )

She doesn’t move, but doesn’t push in closer either. “I didn’t visit to do a good deed,” Shouto rebuffs softly. “I visited because I wanted to spend time with you.”

“Right,” Touya scoffs. “Because you’re just so good and loving.”

“I’m not trying to be good,” Shouto says, trying not to let frustration leak into her voice. It’s a familiar conversation, and she’s not sure what spurred it, exactly. “I do love you. I come because I love you.”

“You’re fucked up, you know that, right?,” Touya says cruelly. “Just like me. I’ve tried to kill you your whole life, and you’re sitting here saying you love me.”

“You saved me, too,” she says quietly. Touya’s eyes narrow. “I don’t care if it’s fucked up. It won’t change.”

“How sentimental.”

There was nothing Touya hated more than sentiment.

“What did I do wrong?” Shouto says plainly.

“Why do you assume you did something wrong?”

“You’re upset. I made you upset.”

Touya rolls his eyes. “Not everything is about you, little hero.”

“But you’re upset.”

Touya stands up suddenly. The air around them heats up, and the frost over the pond begins to melt. Shouto doesn’t move, watching him carefully. “You seriously don’t get it,” he laughs. “You seriously don’t know.”

He stalks away from where they were sitting. Just when he’s gotten far enough that Shouto almost stands up to follow, he stops. She can see the energy slump from his form, and he turns back.

“You always needed things spelled out for you,” he mutters. “Could never understand hints unless they were said straight out to you. Even then, you’d still hang off of me until I pushed you off.”

Shouto waits.

“You’re the only one who makes such an effort, you know?” Touya says, finally. “If it wasn't for our birthdays just recently, I wouldn’t have even seen Mom. Even Natsuo barely knows what to say to me.”

Shouto doesn’t know what to say to that, either. She still lives at the dorms, only coming home for the weekend, and they’re still settling into their family dynamic at home.

“…I never saw Mom until I went myself,” she says eventually. “Sometimes I think it wasn’t a good idea. We…ended up crying making the chocolate. I think I made her cry. Even though she denied it.”

“Save it for your therapist,” Touya snaps.

“It’s not easy,” Shouto says. She takes a deep breath. It’s not easy to say this either, to be so candid about her feelings. But it was not talking about anything that got their family in this mess in the first place, so she continues. “We’re both learning. I think we might always be.”

“You want me to reach out,” Touya says, mirth underlying his words.

“Mom tried to save you at Gunga too,” Shouto says. “Most of your skin grafts are grown from,” she stops herself from saying what was left, “— from her.”

“This is how we show love in our fucked up family, huh,” Touya says.

“My therapist loves that topic,” Shouto shrugs, and Touya looks at her for a moment before doubling over with a wheeze.

“God,” he chokes out. “This is my life.”

“I’m happy you let me be part of it,” Shouto says.

“Fuck off,” Touya says back, but it’s without the heat of their earlier convo. He picks the chocolate back up. “Surprised you made chocolate and not your shitty noodles.”

“…”

Touya turns so quickly towards her Shouto has to suppress a flinch. “Don’t fucking tell me. Are you serious?”

Touya was always quick on the uptake. “I didn’t say anything,” Shouto says weakly. She’s glad they shifted conversation topics, but. This one?

“You?”

“I don’t know why that’s such a surprise,” Shouto says, definitely not sulking.

“What the fuck,” Touya says, laughing in disbelief. “Wow. Who is it?”

“…is that really important.”

“Yes,” Touya says with emphasis. “Absolutely. As your older brother, I have to know. It’s part of how things work. I have to approve.”

“What happened to our fucked up family dynamic?” Shouto asks.

“This is the only normal part,” Touya dismisses. “Tell me. Or the first thing I’ll tell Mom is that you never talk to me.”

“She’ll know that’s not true,” Shouto says, exasperatedly. Touya gestures give it up.

Shouto sighs. “It’s Bakugou.”

Touya’s silent for all of one second. “Explosion boy? You’re joking. This can’t be real. Shouto, he’s fucking crazy.”

“I just told you his name,” Shouto says. “And I’m crazy too.”

“You’re one of the sanest people I know,” Touya brushes off. “Unbelievable. He looked insane in that fight with AFO. Literally manic.”

Shouto is silent for just a little too long. “Shut the fuck up. You found that hot?”

“We’re friends,” Shouto stresses. “We get along. We have fun.”

“This is my next therapy topic,” Touya mutters.

“It’s really not that serious,” Shouto says.

“No, it really is. Unbelievable.” Touya eats a piece of chocolate, continuing to mutter to himself. “Blasty boy. Toga’s going to lose her mind.”

“Bakugou,” Shouto corrects, and Touya rolls his eyes with exaggeration.

The alarm on her phone rings, thankfully disrupting the moment. “That’s for my train,” Shouto says.

“You’re ru~nning~ a~way,” Touya singsongs.

“I am not.” Shouto stands, brushing dirt off the back of her skirt. Touya watches her lazily, making no move to get up himself. “I’ll tell you how it went the next time I visit.”

“I’m equal parts interested and horrified at finding out,” Touya says, looking up at her.

“You’re being dramatic again.”

“Yeah, yeah.” He waves his hand in the air languidly. “Feel free to never come back too. You won’t be missed.”

She can hold his gaze. There’s no trace of the glee she saw in the forest the first time, no manic glint from the first time he hugged her.

Or — not the first time, actually. A time. And if she’s lucky, if he lets her, it won’t be the last.

Shouto smiles. “See you in two weeks, Touya-nii.”

[haleigh-sloth]

Is it bad that when I saw Touya tried to attack baby Shouto, all I thought was ppor Touya and shouto(even tho he baby so he most definitely thought nothing of it 😅)? like I've seen peeps use that attack as proof that Touya was evil from the get go, but all it did for me was make me feel sad for him and in fact my negative feelings were more aimed at Enji(and somewhat Rei) more so than Touya! it's a parents job to help guide their children in life, and I don't know I feel it really paints a bad light on them that Touya's first experience with baby Shouto is to attack. Kids get jealous I know, but still that speaks volumes on how their actions led to a horrible outcome for Touya.

Ahh I mean no there's nothing wrong feeling that way because at the end of the day, the situation was awful for both of them.

I can't really find it in me to very seriously and deeply explain away the "Touya was born evil" takes bc if people still think that at this point then they're beyond help.

But feeling bad for both siblings is, imo, the correct response you're supposed to have. Both of them were given a responsibility before they were even fucking conceived.

Touya was already seriously distressed at that point, which is just horrible to think about for an 8/9 year old. Distressed to the point of snapping and attacking a family member who can't even lift their own head, WHILE crying the whole time (the anime portrayal made my stomach turn bc the screaming and crying was so well done).

The basis of it all is this: Enji developed an actual father-son bond with Touya. During that time Rei obviously did not foster her own relationship with Touya, evidenced by everything we've seen and how unwilling Touya is to listen to what Rei has to say, or go to her for comfort like literally all three of the other kids did. Shouto never had Enji the dad, he just had Endeavor the abusive powerhouse hero who put a roof over his head. That's all he had. The two siblings just had very very different circumstances with their father. If you look at their past and remove what you already know Enji is going to do to Shouto and Rei in the future from the equation for that time period, you can see exactly why Touya is so hung up on his dad and why it makes sense for the way to stop him from killing himself is to show him his family loves him.

Rei also became very fixated on Shouto after he was born and you can only imagine how that looked to all three of the other siblings, even if Touya wasn't too fond of Rei's attention at the time anyway. (If you want to take light novels as canon, Natsuo speaks about how he grew to resent Shouto because he pretty much lost all of his mom's attention after Shouto was born, just to pile it on a little more as to how much that household sucked).

It does speak volumes on the energy put in that house. It really sucks.

[marielittlelou]

♡𝙂𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙂𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙂𝙤𝙣𝙚♡

: ̗̀➛SYNOPSIS: Nothing could have prepared you for the moment Touya finally burned in his own flames.

All that was left of him was his pile of ashes in the battlefield, the remainder of his flames dying out. It was at this moment you realized, he was gone. Your Touya was gone. To a place where you could not follow. And that's what hurt the most.

: ̗̀➛WARNING: MAJOR, MAJOR NEW LEAKS SPOILERS! Contains mentions of Death, Endeavor, grief, loss of loved one. Same thing 💀 , swearing, anxiety, use of nicknames such as baby, babydoll.

: ̗̀➛ GENRE: Angst, sad ending. [🥀/💔]

: ̗̀➛ CW:// Use of you/your, gender neutral unless stated otherwise.

A/N:// FIRST OF ALL, HOLY SHIT?????? (Excuse my french) THE NEW LEAKS????? THEY CAME EARLY, AND THEN???? THEN???? SJFJFMDMFKSKSKKRMGJEJ I'LL RANT SOME MORE IN A SEPERATE POST BUT OH MY GOD

Absoloutly nothing could have prepared you for the day where Todoroki Touya was finally consumed in his own flames while killing Endeavor. And there was nothing you could do, you couldn't stop it, no matter how much you wanted to.

Before the first war, and his performance on Live TV revealing himself as Touya Todoroki, he told you before the war was set in place, including his goal, his revenge, to finally to kill Endeavor, like he always wanted since the birth of Dabi.

You knew it would be inevitable, you couldn't stop him even if you tried, but you also didn't want to stop him from achieving his goal even if it meant you were gonna lose him. It was hard, taking in the news. Knowing at one point in another he'd be as good as gone, so much so he'd be consumed in his own flames into his own pile of ashes. And didn't that just make your heart hurt and ache at the thought?

At that time, it was just you and Touya in a room, both of you having not seen eachother in a while due to Touya being busy with the liberation Army and Shigaraki, prepping for War. Touya decided to climb through your window at the midst of Midnight to give you one of the most hardest talks you'd ever had. It was sad, really, but it was the reality of being a villain, you supposed.

From Touya's uncomfortable body language and his head looking down, you could tell it was difficult for him to even talk about, especially when it came to speaking about his goal, revenge against endeavor. It was the same to you, the room you two were in full of silence.

Silence that'd never felt so incredibly loud.

You were just taking in everything he'd said, and it made sense, everything made sense, but it was all just so sad. It made sense why'd he'd want to kill Endeavor, the monster who hurt his family and put them through hell, creating children out of Rei for the sole purpose of wanting a child with a perfect quirk. And when he did, he simply just threw Touya away, who wanted his attention and ended up burning himself in sekoto peak, who would later be birthed as Dabi all because he wanted his attention, who wanted to be a hero exactly like his dad.

But that never happened, Endeavor just leaving Touya behind for his baby brother, Shouto. And now, they were here, sitting on the opposite sides, talking about everything happened, and Touya's goal that would be inevitable to prevent.

It just all made so much fucking sense.

It was hard, so difficult with your own ears to hear Touya, your Touya, would be dead in achieving his own goal.

For a moment, you felt numb, not feeling anything at first as you were taking everything in. Your pupils dilated, your eye color taking over as you could feel your heart thump in your chest, which hurt as your heart could be felt beating hard in your chest, knowing it was both of your anxiety and heart breaking, your hands gently closed into fists on your thighs, trying to control your slight heavy breathing, biting your lip and looking down, trying so hard not to cry. You couldn't do that to him. You couldn't. You couldn't hurt him like that, he was already hurt enough. You didn't want to make him feel worse.

Too deep in your heavy thoughts, you didn't hear the footsteps walking towards you, being out of your thoughts with a soft, deep voice you could easily recognize.

Only Touya would be that soft with you.

"Hey, Hey, Baby look at me," the scarred man spoke, his hand gently taking yours and squeezing it as you looked up to him, starting into his gorgeous ocean eyes that oh made you so weak.

"I need you to breath with me, okay, babydoll?" Touya spoke again, still squeezing your hand to confirm you were still with him as you nodded your head gently, your breathing still feeling heavy,

"Gently breathe in slowly through your nose, and count to four, slowly," Touya instructed, and you did as said, breathing slowly through your nose, then slowly counting to four. Touya smiled, rubbing your hand softly, "You're doing so good for me, babydoll," he smiles softly, before instructing again, "Now make sure to keep your shoulders down and to allow your stomach to expand while you breathe in, and hold your breathe in for a moment," Touya instructed again, doing just that, making sure to keep your shoulders down and relaxed, allowing your stomach to expand as you breathed In, while holding your breath only for a moment.

The villain in front of you spoke again, "Now release your breath, slow and smooth, while you count to seven," He said softly, while continuing to rub your hand gently and give it a gentle squeeze, encouraging you as you did so, releasing your breath smooth and steady, while you counted to seven.

You finished counting to seven, and you'd had to admit, you felt...lighter. Though, it wasn't quite enough to erase the heartache you felt, but you definetly felt a lot calmer than you did before.

"How do you feel, babydoll?" Touya asks softly, still rubbing your hand softly, looking at you as you looked back at the villain who was absoloutly soft for you, "lighter, definetly lighter," you quietly spoke, while you sniffled, you could tell tears were forming in your eyes, Touya taking notice as he gently stood you up, "c'mer," He says, bringing you close and wrapping his one arm on your waist, the other gently resting your head on his chest, his head resting above yours.

That's what finally broke the damp.

Tears burst out as you sobbed, you cried into his chest as he held you a bit tighter, while he rubbed your back for a while as he let you cry.

He managed to calm you down a while later, his fingers brushing through your hair calmly, your sniffles the only thing that fed the silence.

"I'm sorry," You suddenly said, voice strained and hoarse from a long while of crying, "I didn't want to make you feel bad or prevent you from completing your goal," you'd admit as Touya's hands gently cup your face, his thumbs wiping your tears, his eyes staring into yours,

"Babydoll," He quietly says, "You have absoloutly nothing to apologize for, so don't apologize, y'hear me?" He asks, firmly but gently as you nodded slightly, Touya still cupping your face. "Second of all, you're not making me feel bad or preventing me from achieving my goal," He continued, "I promise," He says, as you looked into his eyes and sniffled again,

"You promise?" You'd ask, your voice strained again, as he placed a kiss on your forehead, "I promise," Touya whispers as he holds you close.

For a little while longer, it was silent again, before Touya spoke. You'd wish it last forever.

"But this is something I have to do, I have to take down my old man, and that means I have to take him with me to the grave," Touya says quietly, while your heart ached even more from hearing it from Touya himself as your lips quivered, Touya continuing to brush your hair with his fingers for comfort.

"I don't know how I'll live without you gone," You admitted with a trembling voice, Touya lifting your face by your chin and giving you a soft, gentle kiss, before his face softened, looking at you. "You'll be okay," He whispers.

Touya then thought of an idea, letting you go, confused, of course, he took off his famous leather jacket he was known for wearing as the Villain 'Dabi', wrapping it around your shoulders and looking down at you,

"Keep it," He says, as you looked at the leather jacket that was now given to you, it had his scent on it, looking up at him. "My last gift to you to remember me by, Babydoll," He says soberly, as your lips quivered and trembled again, Touya bringing you in for a hug.

"I'm going to miss you so, so much, Touya," You cried, and oh if that didn't break Touya's heart, who thought his heart was burned years ago back at Sekoto Peak. "Me too, Babydoll," He whispers quietly, and he wouldn't admit it, but if he head the tears instead of the blood dripping down his face from his stables, he's be crying.

"I love you, Touya," You said with your trembling voice, "I always will," you finished, the blood slipping down Touya's staples became heavier as he was silent, before he replied, with his first and last "I love you more, Babydoll," He quietly says, blood from his staples now over his shirt, continuing to hug you for the remainder of the time you had with him.

That was then.

Now, you were in your apartment, which was lucky enough to be far away from the second war that was currently going on, news reporters flying in a helicopter above where the war is happening on the battlefield, currently filming the most bloodiest fight fought yet between Endeavor and Touya- who no longer looks the same as he once looked, his entire body burnt flesh and his legs now exposed to the bone.

Watching the fight made you wanted to puke, cry, scream, because you were watching Touya burn in his own flames, as well as endeavor, you were watching Touya die right in front of your own eyes.

You clutched Touya's leather blue jacket to your chest, watching as Todoroki Touya was being extinguished into ashes along with Endeavor.

And now, Touya, your Touya, was gone.

Touya Todoroki, The Late Villain Dabi, was no more.

He was as good as gone.

Now all that was left was his Leather Jacket, and you, who sobbed into his jacket, giving a heartbreaking curtailing scream of grief.

Touya Todoroki was gone, gone, gone.

This was now.

A/N:// AAAAAAAAAAAA writing this was so painful oh my GOD 💔 *Flips table* I CANT DO THIS TODAY NO I REFUSE TO BELIEVE HE'S GONNA DIE AHDJSJSJSJ- Okay, but seriously, if you read this, thank you so much! I apologize if it doesn't make you as emotional or cry, I want to be able to practice storytelling and to be good at storytelling at some point...also, for the anxiety portion I deal with it myself, so I typed out that anxiety scene with the heart hurting the chest thing based off of my own experience. Anything that also includes anxiety and depression that is requested ill be able to understand as I deal with them myself. Including Dermetillomania, (a disorder where you cannot stop picking at the skin). Oh! One more thing! Sorry 💀 The breathing portion of this Fic(?) I searched up, and I used the measured breath if you wanted to know. Anyways, that's all! Thanks so much for reading!

[ao3feed-todoroki]

Iced Hot Burns

Iced Hot Burns by Renee4567

It is an entire year before Dabi- Touya -realizes what exactly has happened.

Of course he had realized from nearly the beginning that after he'd died he'd woken up as a baby, realized mere days later that he once again was born to Endeavor and Rei.

Despite this, Touya did not realize exactly when, or whom, he'd been born as for an entire year.

And then he tried to kill himself, well- technically speaking, Touya had tried to kill him.

After all he wasn't Touya anymore.

Words: 663, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, M/M, Other

Characters: Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor, Todoroki Rei, Todoroki Fuyumi, Todoroki Natsuo

Additional Tags: Todoroki Enji | Endeavor's Bad Parenting, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor Bashing, Mental Breakdown, Mental Health Issues

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47891275

[sporksaber]

Elaborating because I have a specific thing in mind now:

So this was prompted because I had pulled up a random playlist before going to work on my tddk fic and sober by fidlar came on. I decided to work on an argument scene first but them went -but what if fuyumi? So this is what has set the vibe. I then thought of her singing the song. I see a lot of rebellious touya and natsuo who introduce it to shouto, but what if fuyumi.

So, I'm just gonna give a rundown of what I'd do if I wrote this, as I do often. (Also, as I do often, no afo because that's complicated and sad so I say no. And I'll be changing some other stuff as I see fit, entirely because I can and it's easier.) (Also, I'm using a lot of fanon and common fic tropes for this. So the beginning is ramped up for some extra strength angst to set everything off.)

First off, a big difference between this concept focused on fuyumi and not one of the boys is that she hits this phase as an adult. Meaning she has adult responsibilities she needs to keep in mind, but also adult money and practically unlimited freedom outside of her work hours.

So the fic starts with a rundown of how much fuyumi has been forced to be an adult since she was 12 and her mother was hospitalized, and how even before that she was treated different than her brothers and felt like she had to do everything to keep everyone together while simultaneously lacking the power to actually help anyone. It also shows shouto shutting everyone and everything out while natsuo gets more and more antagonistic. Shortly before shouto gets to UA her and natsuo have a huge argument as he starts one to many arguments with there father which leaves more messes for her and more abuse for their baby brother. She asks why he can't just leave it be and stop making it worse, he tells her that nothing she does to help ever actually helps, she tells him he never helps at all, he tells her she should just give up and calls her a suck up and an idiot, she tells him she's just trying to keep everyone from getting more hurt, he says none of it will bring back touya, she screams that at least she wasnt actively pushing for another sibling to be killed.

The whole situation is fvcked, they both took things way too far and neither of them deal with it. They end up just not talking at all afterwards.

So then shouto moves into the school dorms (UA is like that now because I prefer it. The rules are a lot more lax tho bc they dont have to worry about villain attacks. Shouto comes home for training on weekends.) Fuyumi starts her new teaching job, making it so shes out of the house most of the day. Natsuo is avoiding her and her dad has no reason to actually exist in the house when shouto's not home. So fuyumi is alone the whole week, and it's fine. Its somehow so much harder to get through the day when it should be easier without other people to look after, but she's fine. It's probably just her job being stressful.

Shouto's first weekend home. Theres screaming, her father is back because shouto is back and because her fathers back natsuos back to butt heads any chance he can. (A little note, this isnt really natsuo slander. They're all dysfunctional and blinded to the consequences of their actions. Natsuo thinks making their dad angry at him distracts him from shouto as it worked with touya. He doesnt consider the ways fuyumi deals with the fall out or how it affects their brother's training. He's also acting out due to anger and its worsened by how not angry fuyumi seems to be. Not an excuse but he doesnt see the full scope if it yet. He will tho dw)

The weekend passes and fuyumi feels like she's dying. But it's probably just a cold from one of the kids. She goes through another week, alone. She tries to push through the week as she always had, but it's so much harder to cook for one than it is for four, and the leftovers the week before had gone uneaten.

Eventually the weekend does come around, and she is not relieved. Their dad had been sent some sort of notice about shouto's performance at school and he was worse than usual. Fuyumi had spent the entire time leading up to shouto getting home flitting around trying to ensure there was nothing else that could set him off and trying to calm him down as much as possible. It doesn't help, she knows it.

Sunday, while endeavour isn't home, fuyumi and natsuo end up alone together after they both see eachother in a hallway. Their conversation starts awkward, maybe theyd both intended to apologize, for going too far if nothing else. It quickly devolves into another argument though, a misplaced word and a snippy responce snowballing into full on screaming. Fuyumi just wanted it all to stop while natsuo wanted her to see his way. At some point he told her she was an adult and she should act like it and move past clinging to her dad. she shot back that he was an adult too and should stop throwing tantrums, and he didnt have to forgive him but could at least stop trying to force a worse fight to justify himself.

They're loud enough that shouto comes to see what was wrong. Fuyumi immidiently switches to telling him everything is fine, they weren't fighting, nothing was wrong. It was just an overreaction, /i/ just went overboard when I shouldn't have. Natsuo is annoyed that she, like always, is placating and pretending instead of dealing with anything. So he tells her if it was just an overreaction she should apologize. And she stumbles around ot for a moment confused and kind of hurt he (as it seems to her) would use this to win an argument. But in the end she stops, and smiles and says she's sorry. Just like she always did with their dad. (The expression was exactly the same and it sent natsuo and shouto ~spiraling~. But we'll get to that later.)

So we're focusing on fuyumi so we're gonna jump a bit forward. She's invited for drinks after work and agrees for once, to avoid going home. She then agrees to go to a second bar and ends up going a bit overboard. She ends up outside a bar with heavy music playing. She likes it, she never listened to it as a teen since her father would have disapproved. But she needed some that didnt feel like it was boiling right now, which is how she found herself outside the side exit. She squatted down, hand to her head with the smallest amount of the coolest ice she could make coating her hand so she could press it to her head.

(I like the idea that fuyumi can control the temperature of her ice buf differently than her mom and natsuo. They can control it to make it denser and clearer and a bit colder or less cold, but fuyumi can only make hers super low. She had to work with a quirk counselor to get it low enough that it didnt burn people. She never had an im issue with it burning her though.)

She felt pleasantly fuzzy when she ignored the uneasiness of her stomach. She stood back up and leaned against the wall. There were a few people smoking further down the alley but no one else around. She went to go back inside and stumbled a little. A man called out to her looking very annoyed and ends up leading her back inside (telling her to follow him and not throw up as she did.) He held the door for her but didnt help her when she stumbled. He got her bottled water and called a cab for her, very irritated while he did it. She apologizes but he scoffs and tells her it's his job. He tells her she's going to overheat so she laughs and frosts over her skin. He tells her he meant she needs water and that was the opposite of helpful. She rolls her eyes and tells him he should of said that then. He tells her she isnt as smart as how she dresses and calls her a nerdy npc. They argue a bit and the taxi arrives. Before she gets in she asks what the bar is called, she likes the music.

(Kurogiri is not shirokumo in this. Or it's not brought up at least. He adopts shigaraki when he's a kid and owns a decent but very well liked bar. He let's his employees choose music)

It was, in fact, her first hangover. But they were no where near as bad as the stress headaches she got as a teenager, so it's fine.

22 14 19 24 (character ages at the start of the fic, fuyumi shouto natsuo touya/dabi)

I want to end with a jump forward in time by several years. Shouto has his friends over, all of them now in their early twenties. They're all talking about dumb things theyve heard people have done and fuyumi sighs while reminiscing and makes a comment about it. One of them asks if she has any dumb stories and she laughs because she did so many things she shouldn't of.

(And when she reveals them shouto is absolutly dumbfounded)

××××

(This is 2+ years old)

I think this would have touya as a teen runaway, changing his name to dabi while living on the streets. Fuyumi meets him several times and there are moments where she implicity trusts him in a way she should not be trusting a stranger. When he basically scolds her for this while she's drunk off her ass she apologizes and says he reminds her of her late brother (he definitly doesn't cry over that later).

He would eventually go to see the rest of his siblings, but not until after endeavour is arrested.

Also fuyumi would have to deal with being the "obsession" of toga for awhile. She is very confused by it, but kind of just ends up treating her like a little sister. (Toga makes a comment that she's real similar to dabi at some point, at which point dabi realizes she Knows and that was a threat to tell her.)

I want a fic where fuyumi snaps and has a rebellious phase. I feel like all her siblings have fics where they get to pull some shit and piss off their dad but fuyumi never does, but she deserves to.

[candycandy00]

What do you think of the people who say Touya was evil from the time he was a child because he tried to kill baby Shouto and was “misogynistic”? I’ve seen people using that to argue that Dabi “can’t be saved”.

I think that’s a pretty ridiculous argument, to be honest.

Let me tell you a story. I have several older brothers. My mom likes to tell the story of the day she brought Brother #3 home from the hospital. Brother #2 walked over, took one look at him, and said “I don’t like that baby.” Over the next few months, Brother #2 made numerous attempts to harm Brother #3. He once bit him on the face badly enough that the younger brother still has a faint scar from it, nearly fifty years later. Once mom left the room to answer the phone, only to come back and find Brother #2 standing over Brother #3 with a pair of scissors in his hand, looking very much like he was about to cut his little brother’s throat.

Now, was Brother #2 evil? Was he an irredeemable monster for wanting to murder his little brother? Of course not. He was a jealous child acting out because, as a child, he didn’t know any better way to express that jealousy. Around the time they hit their teen years, the two brothers started getting along very well and have been close ever since. Now they’re middle aged men who live next door to each other and they both laugh hysterically when they get to talking about their early childhood years of bitings and almost-scissor attacks. Let’s hope Touya and Shouto will have a similar future.

Children act out, sometimes violently. They don’t have the emotional maturity to deal with extreme emotions, so they deal with them in any way they can. Touya was a child when he attacked baby Shouto. He was a child when he said “the women of this family are useless” or whatever. And, like, that is so unbelievably tame compared to the stuff I heard my nephew say about women as a kid. And he grew up to be firmly in the “respect women” camp. Little boys always think girls are useless or weak or whatever. At least Touya qualified his remark as being about the women in his family, not women in general. And hell, when I was around twelve I went through a phase where I would say stuff like “all men are trash”. I was a kid. I grew out of it. That’s what kids do. If we ever see adult Touya talking shit about women, I’ll entertain those “Touya is a misogynist” comments. Otherwise, it’s just silly to even bring it up.