#unless of course AfO is also testing out early mental meta abilities too

[pocketramblr]

Have you ever hit Yoichi with the "actually never AFO's brother, AFO just got a bad concussion/too many quirks for his brain and invented a whole brother out of a random stranger" stick?

i haven't (that i remember) but i SHOULD because can you imagine, Yoichi is just some guy walking home one night as AfO gets to thinking that he really needs something to add oomf to his demon lord image, and he's already a self made orphan who was a pretty spoiled only child, but... hey, maybe a little brother would work? something with connection, but that couldn't be a threat? yeah, that works! and so after a bit he decides on Yoichi, gets a quirk to make his hair white to match, and kidnaps him.

Yoichi breaks out the next morning, baffled as hell as to why some guy with a crazy strong meta power and some kind of cult thinks he's his little brother. perhaps, for a moment, he thinks it's a legit mistake. that something horrible must have happened to this guy's brother, but he couldn't handle it mentally. that perhaps he can help. but then he just. keeps getting kidnapped. and keeps having to break out, and unfortunately learns more about AfO and his personality each time, and AfO won't tell him his name and only answers when Yoichi calls him 'big brother' so that's what he had to use to get anywhere, so.... yeah by the time he's vaulted and had some strange meta power forced on him (stockpile picked up the 'giving' part of afo when it was stuck in the quirk, which perhaps led to afo having less giving urges than taking urges, even though he was still capable of both afterwards), and then two strangers are willing to break him out? sure, why not. He'll go with them, and try to stop the guy he can only call AfO or big brother. Besides, he has to admit- that does make a better story, and if a story like that motivates some future holder along the line to actually kill AfO? then it was worth going along with AfO's lie.