It’s an AU where Shouto becomes a vigilante and it was cheesy and self indulgent and just warm. It was really cathartic to write, and I made myself laugh. I still like to imagine those two iterations of the boys as adults, living happy, peaceful lives.
POV — something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective
Everything was supposed to be ok. They’d beaten the bad guys, beheaded the vampires, foiled the evil plot. They were supposed to be alright.
The worst part of it was the fact that, deep down, Vex knew it wasn’t. She’d known from that first night, when Vax had turned up messy and evasive, refusing to give them a straight answer. Of course, her gut instinct had quickly escalated into full blown nausea once they’d realised that Vax was missing. That hadn’t really gone away.
So now he was telling her everything: telling her the sources of the echoes and shadows of pain she’d felt in the ten days they’d been apart. Now she knew what happened.
The part of her that was still a little girl in a ruined town wishes that she didn’t.
But her not knowing won’t stop it from having happened. So instead she wraps her arms around her brother, and she kisses his head, and they cry.
NEXT — the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.
Right now, Critical Role. It’s a youtube series where voice actors play Dungeons and Dragons. It’s surprisingly awesome and I’m kind of in love with it right now. Also, The Adventure Zone podcast kind of keeps me afloat, mood-wise.
Arawn: What is the most terrifying thing you’ve ever done?
Lord, a bunch of things. Physical safety wise, probably jumping out a plane? It was a tandem skyjump, it wasn’t too scary because it was tandem. Emotionally, making the decision to cut contact with my parents was a pretty big deal.
Morpheus: Do you daydream often? Of what?
Almost all the time, honestly i have trouble concentrating on most things. I daydream about stories primarily. I’ve got five core stories that are original which I hope to make something with one day. Lots of smaller stories and ideas. Plus, y’know, I write fanfic, so I daydream about that. Fun fact: I never actually appear in my daydreams, I’m normally just kind of watching everything happening. How tired I am has an effect on how much control I’ll have on what’s happening.
Vesta: Do you like being home or do you try to get out whenever you can?
Right now, I like being home. I kind of feel safer in my room. And overall I do like being indoors, I’ve got a lot of geeky hobbies that lend themselves to being inside. Reading and writing mostly. But I like being out as well. It’s kind of a weird question for more because I move roughly every 6 to 12 months, so nowhere really feels like home.
Okie doke, since you didn’t specify people/fandom I’m gonna guess BNHA and MomoJirou? I hope you like it!
“Don’t Flirt With Death Cause It Will Kiss Back”
Momo has always been a good witch, in terms of both competency and humour. She receives nothing but praise at the academy for her skills and her virtue: her aptitude in conjuration is especially remarkable. She can pull objects out of thin air as easily as breathing, when such spells would leave other magic-users drained for days.
There is, however, a problem.
See, Momo can’t conjure living things. She can’t conjure creatures at all, for two reasons. First: she seems to have some kind of magical block. It is a source of constant embarrassment and annoyance to her that even when she tries to cast the very, very simple spell to conjure her familiar, all she gets is a dead raven. That leads rather neatly into the second problem: Momo can only conjure dead things, and conjuring dead things is necromancy, and necromancy is very much not the sort of the thing that Good Girls do.
But that’s not enough for Yaoyorozu Momo. Because she’s clever, and she’s powerful, and she’s powerfully curious and there has to be a reason that all she can bring out of the Other Place is dead things, right? There has to be a cause?
With all the guilt and pent up tension of a girl who’s spent far too long behaving, Momo starts going on late night study sessions, creeping into forbidden parts of the library and learning more and more about necromancy. It turns out that she’s an even better necromancer than she is a conjurer, and Momo is one of the most gifted conjurers in the land.
So one day, Momo finds herself in a graveyard, giving herself a continuous mental lecture that sounds oddly like her best friend, Shouto. It’s the middle of the night, and it’s cold. She finds a tree, an old tree: a Yew standing at the corner of plot. Nervously, she pulls candles out of her satchel, and draws a pentacle in the dirt.
Yaoyorozu Momo conjures her Familiar.
There’s a shiver in the air, the whole fabric of reality ripples, just for a moment. And then, casual as anything, a young woman steps out of nothing into the pentacle. She’s got short black hair and dark eyes and pale skin. Her lips are painted black, as are her nails. She smirks at Momo.
Then she steps forward, and breaks the pentacle, and kisses her.
“Took you long enough.”
(Or: the many adventures of Momo the witch and her maybe-possibly-reincarnated-possibly-infernal-undead-girlfriend )
Marzipan Tell us about something you like, even though many people don’t.
I love reading the dictionary!!! I have been told repeatedly that this is boring, but it’s not. Like you obviously don’t read start to finish, but you can just flip a dictionary open and then skip the words you know and learn a whole bunch of new things that you didn’t even know there were words for! It’s the best!
Also, I really like rogue-like survival games. It’s kiiiind of a love-hate relationship, but I get very obsessed. Right now I’m playing one I adore called the Flame in the Flood, which is kinda glitchy, but I still love it very much.
O Captain, My Captain Is there any scene in a movie or book bursting of such grandness you could cry?
Yes!!! Oh man so many. The whole ending of the Infernal Devices quartet by Philip Reeve. Essentially the entire book that is Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. Sonmi-351′s speech in Cloud Atlas.
Actually this trailer for Cloud Atlas always makes me cry:
Serenade Tell us about a rather unknown musician you love listening to.
I really like Jason Webley!! Jason Webley and Little Comets, I think they’re not super well known. I especially love Pyramid by Jason Webley, mostly cos of Welcome to Night Vale.
Zärtlichkeit Name a word you love, from a foreign language.
Oof, I’m gonna cheat and do a few because I love them all far too much.
Glas – Welsh, can mean the blue of the sky, the green of the grass, the grey of the cliffs or the colour of the sea. Kind of archaic now, but in Medieval Welsh it meant all those things.
Uhtceare – Old English, the worries that run through you mind in the grey light before the dawn. Uht refers to that specific time of day, and ceare is for worries or cares.
Kintsukuroi – I think a lot of people know this one, but Japanese – referring to an artistic method of repairing broken ceramics with gold or silver glaze. The idea suggests that something becomes more beautiful for having been broken.
Komorebi – Japanese. A word for the sunlight through leaves in the trees.
Shouto isn’t dense, he’s quiet and dealing with trauma. If I was gonna put him in a slightly more realistic world than superpower shounen (not that this world isn’t awesome) he’s functioning pretty well all things considered. But honestly, rich celebrity overachiever? I don’t really buy the idea that he’s so totally socially awkward/dense that he doesn’t understand how people work. I feel like what actually happens is that Shouto bites his tongue/controls his reactions, and sasses when he thinks he can get away with it. I think he’s holding a lot of things in, and it’s difficult to manage. But yeah, I also think that whilst he might not know the latest memes, he’s going to have had at the very least media training/ a nauseating amount of fancy parties to attend, so he has to know how to hold a conversation.
(Heads up, because this is about Shouto, this post will contain references to abuse)
Headcanon B: what I think is fucking hilarious
Shouto knows how to hold himself, but his boundaries are way off the mark. So he takes things that aren’t serious way too seriously, and considers things that are very serious to not be serious at all. I think this is more fun if he deliberately messes with people (especially Bakugou and Jirou) but I also think sometimes stuff just flies over his head. This leads to a series of increasingly ridiculous misunderstandings and, as Shouto grows and escapes his abusive household, turns into an in joke. So these days, when he’s free and safe and recovering, he’ll look at Iida and Deku, barely containing a smile, and explain that he’s a ‘hand-crusher’. Bonus points for Shouto doing this with paparazzi/media, and his 1A friends just cracking up whilst Shouto looks the reporter dead in the eye with an absolutely straight face and just says the most ludicrous bs. “No, I haven’t heard of Pepe the Frog. Are they another hero? Do they work in this area?” Etc
C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends
Part of Shouto’s awkwardness comes from a combination of abuse and triggers. Sometimes he shuts down because he’s triggered, and reacts disproportionately according to the trigger. There’s a specific thing some abusers do that’s along the gaslighting spectrum, and I wouldn’t put it past Enji: where they essentially force their victims to control their expressions/not flinch/run away/fight back etc. Which is awful. I imagine that sometimes when Shouto shuts down it’s just retreating into that shell, and sometimes it takes him a long time to come back out. Personally, I hc that the reason Shouto was so rude to Inasa at the UA entrance exam was because of something like this.
#option D: what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway
LITERALLY ANY OF THE ADULTS WHO WORK WITH VICTIMS OF TRAUMA NOTICES THAT SHOUTO IS SEVERELY TRAUMATISED AND WORK TO GET HIM OUT OF THE DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH HE LIVES.
This particular thing continues to drive me insane. I know it’s shounen, so you know, we won’t get it. But if these people can recognise that Eri was abused then they can recognise that Shouto is. It’s vitally important that he not stay in that goddamn house, and it makes no sense to me that none of the professional heroes have noticed the issues this teenager is going through. Considering their line of work, and the whole working with victims thing, and the fact that teenagers aren’t adults and they aren’t as good at hiding secrets? Idk it feels like saying yes there is a school full of competent social workers spending significant amounts of contact time with a severely traumatised kid experiencing regular physical abuse. But none of them notice? Nah. Nope. Absolutely not.
The UA staff notice. Shouto gets out. Enji quietly retires and literally any other professional hero takes his place.
hells yeah thank you so much!!! So I’m assuming this is for the headcanon thing from this post
Lets get started!!
Headcanon A: what I think realistically
I’m just gonna pick random things, I hope you don’t mind.
First: I think All Might is probably at least aware that he’s not a fantastic teacher, and probably doesn’t favour Deku as much as we see him do in canon, since at some point someone would probably point that out. Like it makes sense story wise that things are Deku-centric, but within the world I don’t think (I hope) it’s not quite as obvious. Also Deku would be in even greater danger if it was that obvious, so yeah, I feel like he’s probably more subtle.
Second: realistically I think All Might knows that he’s a bit of a heartthrob, and either is Ace and Aro (kinda my personal preferred hc), or else made a decision not to get into relationships.
Headcanon B: what I think is fucking hilarious
First: All Might is not aware that he’s a terrible teacher, or that it’s painfully obvious that he favours Deku over the rest of his students. Why is this funny? Well, in my head, it leads to every goddamn member of the UA Faculty trying to clean up his messes. Like, oh, everyone just sat down for an english exam but got handed maths papers? Goddamn it Toshinori. There’s a clip on local news of All Might having lunch with a high school student? Goddamn it Toshinori.
Second: All Might has no idea that he’s a heartthrob, despite his larger than life screen presence. He’s emphatically not interested in romantic/sexual relationships, and he accidentally leaves a trail of broken hearts wherever he goes because he’s just polite. If you’ve seen Brooklyn 99, I’m thinking of when Terry broke up with someone but it looked like a proposal. All Might helps you carry your shopping the whole way home, tells you he thinks you’re pretty and accomplished, and then literally disappears. There’s a betting pool in the staff room on if/when he’ll actually notice.
C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends
Oh hey it’s my favourite!!
First: All Might knows that he’s painfully obvious about favouring Deku, but he is actively terrified Deku is going to get himself killed. All Might deliberately spends as much time with Deku as possible because a) he knows his own life is short and b) after losing Nana, All Might gets severely anxious when he doesn’t have Deku within his line of sight. This gets several orders of magnitude worse when he loses his second form. Kinda ditto re: being a bad teacher. All Might wants to focus on the admin, he really does, but he can’t stop thinking about the horrors and fear that these teenagers are going to be facing, and how he’s actively enabling that, and he veers between wanting them to be prepared and keeping them away from it. He has yet to have the Conversation that all the UA faculty have had about this personal conflict, but Aizawa is ready to sit him down and talk it out soon.
Second: All Might is aware of the heartthrob thing and severely uncomfortable with it. A) It only adds to the already immense pressure on him to perform/be the symbol of hope. B) He couldn’t keep a partner safe even if he wanted to (Nighteye) C) He’s dying, he doesn’t want to bring anyone else into that. D) Hero society is a whole lot more progressive than it was when Toshi was a teenager, but the idea of a queer-platonic relationship is alien to him. He does want companionship, just not romantic or sexual, and as of right now, he’s resigned to living the rest of his life alone, despite everything he’s done for everyone around him. (Of course, he often forgets the people he already has: Naomasa, Aizawa, etc)
option D: what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway
All Might is asexual! Well, he is in my head. Also, All Might notices that Todoroki Enji is a flaming douchebag and has a conversation with him and quietly removes him from Shouto’s life and gets Shouto to a safe place.
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