#anyway. can't wait for Dad Might to eventually activate and get fun quirkless hero Izuku

[pocketramblr]

Not sure if you've done this before but what about an AU where Manual gets OFA?

Keep putting this poor normal man in Situations

1- Masaki is putting out fires in the wreckage AfO and All Might cause in their first flight when he finds All Might's heavily damaged body, and does what he can to keep his blood in his body. All Might, barely conscious, passes on OfA but does not explain. By the time he awakes in the hospital, he has forgotten that he did it at all, and attributes the weakening levels of OfA to his injury.

2- Masaki, of course, also has no idea. And since he doesn't have any reason at all ever to use super strength, he never tries and never breaks any bones activating OfA. Instead the quirk simmers in his body, slowly strengthening his original quirk. It gets stronger a little at a time as Masaki adds drops to the stockpile.

3- Years later, this means his ranking and power are higher, though he's still no top ten. When the Sky Egg Party is attacked, Tensei gives him a different job- use his quirk to keep the building balanced by moving the water in the plumbing around until reinforcement can arrive, and lighten Captain Celebrity's load. So, he's in a different place when the bomber proto nomu attack, and more under heavier fire. So when he acts on instinct and kicks a proto nomu back, OfA activates and sends the bomber to the ground, breaking Masaki's leg in the process. He would have fallen had Tsukauchi not called for All Might to catch the building and everyone else.

4- speaking of Tsukauchi, he's one of the only three people who saw what happened- also Masaki himself, and Eraser. However, Tsukauchi and Eraser were a bit distracted, and so it takes a minute to put it together. Eraser picks up Masaki to help him to an EMT while Tsukauchi goes to hide Toshinori, who's out of time. But Masaki looks over and is like "uh I think that guy needs your help more than me". When Tsukauchi gives Toshinori a jacket to cover up, Masaki sees the injury, and puts the pieces together. Eraser is doing some of that too, realizing that no hysterical strength is going to take down one of those monsters, and worried that the villain factory made some sort of contagious strength that Masaki caught. So he brings him over to Tsukauchi for a statement. Masaki doesn't want to impose, so he tells Tsukauchi not to worry about him, he'll be fine, he needs to take care of that civilian he found." Tsukauchi realizes that last part is a lie- but that means Masaki knows AM's identity, plus the quirk weirdness, very sus. He takes both Masaki and Toshi, and sends Eraser away.

5- a very confusing conversation ensues, with everyone realizing what happened. Toshi almost cries at the fact that he had a successor all along and no one knew. Instead, he laughs softly and imagines Sir's reaction. He calls in a favor to get Masaki's leg healed quickly by RG. Masaki offers to return OfA, but Toshi thinks it might kill his body to take it all back now. He invites Masaki to train at Might Tower, if he wants, but he doesn't need to- AfO is dead, after all, he can live a normal life as he wants. Masaki squints, and asks a couple questions about the Villain Factory. "And... You think all that doesn't have anything to do with the AfO guy?" When Toshinori tells him how sure he is that AfO died in that fight, Masaki just frowns and tells him: "All Might, when I got down there, there wasn't another body."

A heavy silence falls over them. Masaki accepts the invitation to train, and is there often- though, to Toshinori's surprise, he seems to care about Yagi as much as he does All Might, if not more.

#masaki is like 'well i can't make yagi go to therapy but i can get him a nice potted plant and make sure he's eating at least' #anyway. can't wait for Dad Might to eventually activate and get fun quirkless hero Izuku #as Masaki gets to be a nice if odd uncle. normal except for having All Might's strength. normal except haunted by seven and a half ghosts #pocket talks to people #starredmoth #ask game