Thats’s Me

Ok so Izuku is AFOs son, but in this au all might and him had the fight when Izuku was like 2years old or younger. AFO is presumed dead but no body is found and Izuku is found at AFOs base. Realising he’s AFOs son all might decides to raise him because the alternative is give him to the HPSC which he didn’t want to do because Izuku is just a kid and he didn’t deserve that. So he starts raising Izuku and at first it’s ok, it’s grounding and gives him something to come home to and stay alive for. But then as Izuku grows he starts showing mannerisms like AFO, not big things just the way he’ll look at things, the expression on his face when he’s thinking too hard, or his fascination with quirks. But it’s not Izuku’s fault; he’s a little boy and all might lives him like his own! Sometimes he’ll distance himself from him to make sure he doesn’t lash out at him, but that’s all might fault for being irrational, not Izuku’s. And then his quirk comes in. Izuku looks so innocent playing his own version of duck duck goose where he’d snatch his friends quirk and give it back when they catch him. All might starts homeschooling him. The two of them start training at home and Izuku is so excited because his dad is finally paying attention to him! It’s not that his dad never saw him before, but being the number 1 must be hard so it makes sense he never had time for Izuku, his dad loved him so of course it wasn’t his fault. The training gets intense sometimes and if all might were honest with himself he’d admit to sometimes letting his anger out on Izuku; he just looked and acted so much like that monster that killed nana, sometimes its easy to forget Izuku is a child. No one could blame all might if training got out of hand. Sure sometimes it ended with broken bones and a trip to recovery girl; but Izuku didn’t mind, he’d always blame himself and give all might that bright smile. That smile always made all might feel so guilty, he’d see it and remember this wasn’t AFO it was a little boy, it was HIS little boy. When Izuku is 13 all might decided to make up for it by giving him OFA. Izuku cries and clings to him for hours, he was so happy his dad cared for him that much. They keep training and Izuku’s bones break from OFAs strain, but he’s young and adjusts well to the power; reaching 30% by the time he starts UA. He aces the exam and the quirk apprehension test but it’s the first time he’s been around people in so long, he’s anxious and their are quirks everywhere but he can’t reach out for them, his dad taught him better and he has to be good, his dad has been so proud of him he can’t let him down. The usj happens and it’s almost the same, except he stops the noumu from landing that final hit on Aizawa, saving him from quirk damage. Izuku accidentally snatched the regen quirk from the noumu and all night defeats it. But Izuku can’t help but feel like tomura and kurogiri are familiar. He doesn’t tell his dad; and he doesn’t tell him about stealing the quirk. He’s good, and good boys don’t steal quirks. Eraser starts noticing Izuku’s skittish behaviour, and the way he’ll slingshot between following all might like an excited loyal dog, to suddenly acting like a kicked puppy at the slightest change in the number ones tone or expression. Somethings wrong there and he doesn’t like it. At the sports festival todoroki asks if midoriya is all mights love child, and Izuku admits it happily. He doesn’t see any similarities in endeavour and all mights treatment of their kids. Izuku wins the festival and makes all might proud. The year is going well, his teacher cares for him and is always asking if things are ok, how his home life is, he has friends who are so amazing. For the first time since his quirk came in he has people around him and he’s happy. And then the summer camp happens and it’s Izuku who’s captured. Shigaraki is so adamant that they are brothers, that all might had stolen him away and brainwashed him which is ridiculous! His dad loves him; he would never hurt him, he’s his dad! And then he meets AFO. He knows that voice. (Part 1 🌻)

(Part 2)

He used to have dreams about that voices, about being held safe in large arms while that voice hummed lullabies and nonsense stories. He’s crying. AFO shows him his quirk and tells him the truth. Izuku can’t believe it; his dad loves him, he would never do something like that! The heroes come to rescue him but it doesn’t go quite the same. All might and AFO stand off but neither attack first, not while Izuku’s in the way. He asks him. He’s has to know, he has to tell him that AFO is lying, at the very least he has to know that all might hadn’t known that AFO was Izuku’s dad. All might tells him the truth and it’s like his world shatters. He’s never been angry before in his life, but he’s actually shaking with rage. It’s like the scene in the first Thor where Loki finds out his parentage; he’s angry and accuses all might of keeping him as a battle trophy, finally accepts out loud that all the training all might have him wasn’t training it was abuse and calls him a coward for taking his grudge out on a child that depended on him and didn’t do anything wrong. All Izuku ever did was to try and make him proud but he was never going to be proud because he was just some conciliation prize for defeating all for one. All might tried to reason with him but nothing he says will fix this. AFO tries to lure Izuku to his side, to come home and have the chance of a family that was stolen from him. All might is a liar. AFO is a villain and a murderer. He is their combined legacy. He punches all might and runs. The kamino fight happens but Izuku isn’t there. He doesn’t know where to go. He wants to go home. He doesn’t have a home. He wanders. He hides from ua and the LOV. He acts as a vigilante and steals the quirks of villains. Finally he runs into overhaul and steals his quirk and saves eri. The raid happens right as he’s leaving. He sees Aizawa and he wants to go back to UA. He sees toga and twice and he wants to run. Eri’s clinging to him scared because he’s distressed. He doesn’t know what to do. 😭

Addams family Aizawa or adams family class 1A au

I love the idea of an Aizawa thats just a little,,, off. His smile too wide, his teeth too straight and square, his eyes never reacting to light, always a little brighter than the ambient light should allow for.

He tends to be given the powerful students, but this year he got something better: the weird ones. The ones like him, touched by something beyond the veil. A boy that sees too much, another with a living shadow, one part machine - unclear where student ends and metal begins, a girl with space in her eyes and gravity at her finger tips -

Just like him. His students.

Which one do I throw the ball at?!

I still admire how perfect she is.

friendly reminders with stock photos

Okay, self-indulging moment here and also serious thinking.

A call-out back to Midoriya just about to lose himself to his misery--

But what's happening here is this:

"Some hero..." not just any hero though, "Midoriya".

I'm going to point out once again how Horikoshi reverts characters to their child selves during honest moments--so we know that this moment really counts toward something.

If you follow my blog you know why I'm excited. But I also want to point out that in this post that I made back in March (when ch. 305 & 306 came out), I pointed something out that I thought and--this new chapter MAY have proven it right? We'll have to see how it's addressed later, but this is what I said back in March:

"I’ve been thinking about that for a long time now, because on more than one occasion, EARLY in the manga, Shigaraki had taken notice of Midoriya also:

I mean at first glance this can be taken as villainous. “I need to learn more about him so I can defeat him”. But to me, from the GET GO, this was always just sad. His first encounter with Midoriya he immediately got All Might vibes from him, which brings me back to Shigaraki truly wishing AM had saved him long ago. To me in this panel looking at baby All Might, he’s still wishing and hoping that he’ll somehow get saved-deep, DEEP down (like so deep down he isn’t even aware of this desire to be helped)".

So--the desire to be saved being in there was correct. Not that I ever doubted that. But what I had always wondered was if Shigaraki took notice of Midoriya's willingness to just jump into things head first to save someone. And now, well, obviously he did. Because I, for the life of me, cannot think of any other reason that Shigaraki would be saying Midoriya's name of all people at a time like this.

Midoriya--a complete stranger. A complete stranger who came across as just a fanboy of an overblown celebrity-hero, just like everybody else. A complete stranger who gave him a brutally honest opinion that probably stung a little, but ultimately gave him a conviction to go on with. A complete stranger who continued punching the shit out of him after spilling his guts out on the battle field, refusing to listen and failing to--once again--understand. Why would he think of somebody like that?

Well, idk. He was there to see Midoriya rescue Bakugo when he was kidnapped. He was there to see Midoriya jump in to save All Might at USJ (who--at the time, nobody thought AM needed saving because of the simple fact that he's AM, so that definitely stuck out to Tomura). He was there to see Midoriya rescue his friend from Stain. He was there to see Midoriya rescue Eri from Overhaul. And an example of a moment where Tomura saw Izuku saving somebody that I feel goes unnoticed, is Izuku vs. Shouto at the sports festival. And I have to give a shoutout to @/mettywiththenotes (I am not tagging her because she avoids spoilers until the chapter drops!!) who wrote the post I just linked to--talking about how Tomura was probably affected by watching Shouto change drastically throughout his fight with Midoriya. What he took from watching that fight.

After this chapter, I think it's fair to say that maybe some of what's said in those posts I linked to holds some water. Because again---after all the hurt Midoriya *contributed* to (not necessarily caused--because he didn't)--why would Shigaraki think of Midoriya of all people in a moment of desperation?

I think it's because he really did notice all this time.

I actually think Shigaraki noticed from the beginning. I think he noticed that if anybody in the world was going to be the one to turn the tide and reach for him and save him, it was going to be Izuku Midoriya.

(X)

I just thought of something, what the hell would the rest of All Mights confidants do in this situation? I don’t want to think of Nighteye advocating for abandoning Izuku for Mirio but it’s a possibility. Torino would probably start causing problems

Nighteye is trying to be 'reasonable' and insisting that All Might would be able to help more people if he simply stopped his personal investigation and expressed his concerns to the HPSC. All Might looked ready to set the man on fire and growled out "why would I trust the organisation that lobbied for this legislation to do anything close to fixing it?"

All Might knows there is a non zero chance they'd just hand Izuku over to shut him up - but he and his successor would both be unable to abide the thought of others trapped there. (Plus, there is also a good chance they'd just disappear Izuku, or insist that the law was the law. They'd be on to him then and he'd have no hope of saving his boy."

Torino is just fucking furious and is causing as many problems from the government as humanly possible - he's old as shit and doesn't have a reputation to ruin, but he's a close friend of All Might so they can't risk doing him any actual harm. He never even got to meet Izuku, and thats what makes him angriest.

I experienced magic in Central Park today