#does yagi have OFA im not sure

[guesst]

have you considered dadmight quirkless au where they are an assassin pair with hella guns and knives. gunmight but MORE

okay firstly thats very fun

secondly by quirkless au there are two possibilities and those are

a. quirkless am and izuku, but still in the universe where quirks exist

b. quirks aren't a thing

(i think you meant a but also b is very interesting so im going to ramble about BOTH hehehe)

it got long bewarned

a. quirkless assassins in a world where quirks still exist

one for all is not a quirk. all for One still exists.

in this universe, yoichi would have legitimately been quirkless. how sad. but one for all is his legacy, as in, the assassin organisation that he creates in order to take down all for one's followers and eventually him. he does this upon realising that his brother is not someone that can be easily killed.

yes he knows this because yoichi has attempted to kill his brother since verbal persuasion did not work. his brother thinks him funny because he's a quirkless kid. what's a person without meta powers going to do against him, the person who can literally collect any meta power ever?

yoichi still gets vaulted though

introducing SECOND and THIRD. people who he communicates with, who are part of a shadow organisation working against afo (i havent read the backstory so i am not actually sure if this lines up with canon. who cares it's an au). yoichi only manages to talk with them for a few days, but its enough to establish a pretty solid alliance. enough that they agree to help yoichi become an assassin like them.

and then yoichi gets vaulted. and second and third break into the vault and afo screws up, because now his brother is dying at his hands. and yoichi knows hes not going to be the one to stop his brother, so he passes his brother killing legacy down to his newest allies, who become assassins specifically targeting afo. sure, they'll fight against any villains committing crimes, but that isnt their primary goal. and they fail. and so ofa is established: a legacy of assassins chosen to target afo, working in the shadows. no one knows their names. they're chosen purely on merit, and because, usually, they'll have a personal vendetta against all for one.

(the personal vendetta is usually that afo killed their mentor, except for nana, in which case afo killed her mentor and also forced her to give her son away and in this au she stays alive until her grandson is born and afo grins and tells her about her grandson and his plans for tenko in her last moments so that she dies in despair so that sorta feeds into toshinori's vendetta too, because all for one is the one that made this society so dangerous and its because of all for one that his mentor died alone and in pain and grieving)

so. now we're at toshinori yagi, feral quirkless teenager, whose mentor figure chooses him after seeing this quiet polite kid beat the shit out of some random villain in an alleyway and walk out unscathed and silent and go back home to do his homework. he's perfect.

she doesnt teach him long.

toshinori's feral energy is directed at afo, who killed his mentor. he works as hard as possible to fix society from the shadows (hey! theres a bonus! he does it from the shadows. that instils fear in the villains, because they dont KNOW where this mysterious cryptid is coming from. what his quirk is. so he reduces crime and helps people and remains unknown in face and name though not through reputation… underground heroes are more prevalent tho! and there isnt the whole i am here being harmful to hero society and oh wow look at that enji isnt an ass to rei because hero rankings arent as big and- yeah its sorta better)

(wait i just remembered he's an assassin. he goes round killing super bad villains. yeah thats a fear tactic but for the better i guess)

anyway yeah he plans to beat the shit out of afo and kill him at last and he ALMOST DOES IT but afo has some quirks up his sleeve so both of them come out battered but alive (seriously battered) (lung loss remember)

so. toshinori's assassination skills are reduced blablabla now for the FUN bit five years later he meets this scrawny looking kid who beats the shit out of - not the sludge villain! toshinori just dehydrated the dude with salt and the guy's dead now - some villain, while crying in terror and huh well clearly this is prime success- oh young man you want to help people too? you have violent tendencies??? (midoriya isnt self destructive here hes just destructive) you dont have a da- he's an asshole and he left you at five???? would you like to be my son young man ahem i mean would you like to be my successor young man?????? you would??? EXCELLENT here's a gun

so now whenever people report seeing the Skinny Man attack a villain they also report a small child.

"did he… have a child….?" fear.jpeg "maybe he stole it away from its parents and brainwashed it and now its his loyal follower. maybe its immortal. what is this child" "he divided by mitosis there are two of him now" (todoroki) "but people say the small one has green ha-"

"i said there are two of him now"

gunzuku and gunmight assassin pair dont go to ua. izuku does online schooling and inko gets him knives and training classes etc etc etc ad they screw around tbh they just patrol and pewpewpew and stabby stab. crime decreasing very fast

however they do find out about shigaraki early and toshinori is like "lets go and get the kid" and so the ua invasion, which occurs because mr t. shigaraki wants publicity, is gatecrashed by two individuals, one long and one short, who chloroform the head villains and shoot every henchperson with tranquilisers (did i mention their skills are op) and forcibly warp kurogiri, themselves and tomura away. todoroki does ask if izuku is a clone and the answer is a "YES" because izuku wasnt listening

long story short the assassination gang expands and expands again a little bit because stain is an ardent admirer of one (1) assassin man

anyway they all look at each other and they're all like… wow we're all pretty skilled here… all we need is some quirk cancellation and afo is definietly dead…. so aizawa gets kidnapped and they explain the situation to him and oh wow oboro is that you? anyway yeah aizawa joins up temporarily for the weekend and afo is killed quite easily once aizawa manages to cancel his quirks.

so yea afo died thats cool. aizawa goes back to teaching. kurogiri hangs out with him. tomura gets adopted by kurogiri and aizawa and toshinori. and toshinori and izuku keep up their training and become the most feared assassin duo ever. btw every member of class 1-a runs into midoriya at some point. bakugou is his behind the scenes dude who is ocassionaly capable of helping out but bkg wants to be a limelight hero so really toshinori and midoriya are usuaully the ones helping out. todoroki and midoriya are besties. tokoyami and hagakure team up with midoriya sometimes. they have weekly hide and seek games. iida tried stabbing midoriya because stain accidentally stabbed tensei, and midroiya is associated with stain but then they become besties too.

stab stab pewpew the end.

b. quirks aren't a thing au

i. modern au so since quirks arent a thing afo and ofa arent a thing either theyre just all ancestors of each other idk. afo is the legendary grandpa.

anyway toshinroi and midoriya are just two people who run into each other regularly at the grocery store and they become friends cuz they read the same comics and izuku likes to ramble to mr yagi about them and mr yagi gives him workout tips and they end up being workout buddies and izuku invites him home to have dinner like every week. inko and yagi are good friends :D

so toshinori and izuku are real good friends and izuku trsuts him a lot. one day izuku turns to toshinori and just.

"dont you want to go apeshit mr yagi"

"what"

"dont you want to let loose and murder people"

"oh…"

"sorry. that was rude of me"

"no no. in fact i gave into those urges long ago"

"what"

"i am an assassin"

"what"

"what"

"what"

"would you like to be an assassin too"

"yeah"

"great"

so yeah izuku becomes an assassin. they go on a road trip together they kill this random doctor guy and this assholey germaphobe…. hey eri would you like to join up on this roadtrip???

yes???

mission complete: assassin baby acquired!

so theyre all an assassin family. inko is currently overseas when she comes home shes like 'how dare you exclude me' and so assassin mother. uhh theres no plot in this one tbh

ii. sort of noir au so this is the same thing but noir detective au and theyre working to find the mysterious All For One who is trying to create an immortality formula except he's also creating bioweapons out of people and kidnapping kids, the most recent being the Class 1-A, all gifted kids. theyre on a race against the clock to find the kids, defeat all for one and dismantle his empire.

obviously they succeed and uhhh this is how:

they get allies:

midnight, a famous theatre star who works as an informant aizawa. underground chemist who is really good with antidotes and tranqs

'present mic', an investigative journalist

tsukauchi, their in with the police force

nedzu. afo survivor, works with tsukauchi and aizawa. head of a vigilante sort of organisation that takes criminals into their own hands when police arent good enough

gran torino. veteran

eventually, tomura shigaraki. previously the face of the LoV which is afo's underlings working to help him etc etc. super helpful with insider info and works well with aizawa to create destructive formulas

eventually, kurogiri. previously oboro shirakumo, taken in by afo after an orchestrated accident that caused amnesia. really ood escape artist

with these people helping, its easy to get to where class 1a is being held - wait, why are there only a few people here?

of course they scattered where they're hiding the kids…

alright so theyve found aoyama, a previously hospitalised kid (had cholera, was cured, somehow…), uraraka, iida (bougie kid, still nice) and todoroki (super bougie. son of the idk the head of the police or smth). clearly they all friend midoriya clearly theyre all super willing to help out. aoyama confesses that his parents are being blackmailed by afo because they went to him for help getting aoyama cured so they have a couple extra people to rescue

wow i forgot about the assassin bit. all these kids become assassins, aside from aoyama who learns theatre and informanting from midnight

toshinori is a bit concerned like why are kids so violent nowadays but theyre all channeling personal issues into their assassin work and theyre all good and have parental permission so its okay????????? he guesses???????????????

so anyway ja they go and find another place, kill the villains and find asui tsuyu who aspires to be a professional swimmer.

anyway yeah one more person added to the party.,,,,.,,., etc etc you get the gist. except!

the last location is always the most dangerous.

kamino! except theres a wholeass mob of people attacking afo so its not that dangerous and oh hey kacchan howve you been oh huh i guess afos dead now.

and now theres a mass surge in assassins for hire i guess.

the end

#yellow’s mailbox #yellow writes #arbitrarily aged and old and decrepit #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #midoriya izuku #yagi toshinori #bnha au #mha au

[karliahs]

for prompts um.. aizawa learning about ofa but in like a painful way? in a 'im telling you this because i have no choice/we're gonna die anyway so what does it matter' way? maybe? i also just want... people realizing that deku had a Hard Time and because of that its hard for him to really be like. thoroughly happy. he's so passively suicidal it hurts lol!

content warning for descriptions of serious injuries

Shouta is aware of how fast things can turn bad. USJ had gone from a training exercise to a desperate struggle to preserve 20 lives in a matter of seconds. 

So, he isn’t exactly surprised when he wakes from unconsciousness chained to a wall, still-blurred vision scanning the room - some kind of basement, two masked men, Midoriya chained up on the same wall. That suggests a lack of knowledge, that maybe they’d expected Shouta to be alone and grabbed the kid as a bonus, because chains aren’t exactly-

As if he’s brought it into being with the thought, power crackles along his student’s arms and the chains holding Midoriya break with an oddly-muted crack. Midoriya jumps to his feet, spinning the momentum straight into a kick that launches one of the men across the room. The other, instead of backing away from the 16-year-old explosion of power they’ve clearly vastly underestimated, steps in closer, and Shouta activates erasure with a lurch of panic in his gut.

Then, everything goes oddly still. Midoriya and the captor still on his feet just stand there, at an angle where Shouta can’t see what’s happened to make them stop. The man takes one step back, and still Midoriya just stands there, suspended, angled too far away for Shouta to be able to see his expression.

What he can see is the man in the corner starting to recover from the blow, dragging himself up - then stopping with pure panic in his eyes when he sees Midoriya. He bolts for the stairs, the other man backs up another step, and finally Shouta can see the knife embedded in his student’s abdomen.

When things go bad, it happens fast. So fast it feels like time is slipping away, like he’s moving in slow motion compared to the rest of the world. Both men are bolting now, clearly in over their heads, leaving Shouta still chained up with a kid with a stab wound. 

“Leave the keys!” Shouta yells after them, venom mixing with pure panic. “Call for help!”

He activates erasure even though neither of them seem to be using quirks to escape, just trying to have any impact at all, take something away from them. If this is remorse, it’s worse than useless. Corrupt enough that cut holes in one of his kids, cowardly enough to run without letting them out first. 

Midoriya turns to face him, eyes wide. “Midoriya,” Shouta says, pieces clicking into place in his mind - his primary obstacle is a set of chains, and his only asset is a student who’s just proved he can break them without an issue. If only he weren’t hurt, bleeding and confused. “It’s going to be okay. You just have to-no, don’t.” Shouta interrupts himself as he sees one of Midoriya’s hands hover in the air by the knife. “Don’t take it out. It’s slowing the bleeding.”

Midoriya obeys all too easily, face unmarred by pain - just blank shock, and a hint of helplessness that looks strange on a student who so rarely asks for help with anything. 

“It’s going to be okay,” Shouta says again. “If you can break the chains, I can get you out of here and we can find help.”

“Okay,” Midoriya says, voice choked and young. He takes one step towards Shouta before collapsing, finally crying out as he goes, but thankfully the angle of his fall takes him close enough to Shouta.

“Alright,” Shouta says, trying to keep the anguish out of his voice. If time is going slowly for him, he can only imagine how it feels for Midoriya, drifting in that timeless haze of agony. He needs to be clear and calm. He wants to believe one of those terrified men called an ambulance, but he’s lived too long to have faith in that kind of mercy. Clear, calm and fast. 

Shouta wraps his hands around Midoriya’s, moves them to the chains on the wall and tries to help him get a grip. “Just one push, okay?” Shouta says. “Then we’ll get out of here.”

Midoriya shuts his eyes, and for an awful moment Shouta thinks he’s losing him - then his quirk comes to life, haltingly, the bright patterns on his skin skipping and lurching as if afraid. Usually, Midoriya’s control is such that his quirk seems to become active through his whole body at once, but now the glow starts at his chest and spirals out erratically - then it reaches his abdomen and he yelps, the light blinking out, hands falling to press down around the knife.

“Alright, alright,” Shouta murmurs. There’s blood spreading through the kid’s T-shirt. He’s taking short, stuttering breaths.

“Sorry,” Midoriya mumbles.

“Stay with me, kid,” Shouta says, taking his hand again. The chains clink as he moves, and god, Shouta would give every second he has left just to break that metal. “Try again.”

Midoriya obediently, painstakingly calls on his quirk again and gives a hard shove at the place where the chains meet the wall, but that little bit of movement causes him to let out a breathless scream and fall back. Shouta has to reach out his chained arms just to keep him from collapsing all the way down onto his back. Instantly, his hands are warm and wet; there’s blood at Midoriya’s back, too. 

This can’t be happening. His student can’t be about to die because of two inches of metal. This bright, wonderful person can’t be about to die in his arms.

“It- it hurts,” Midoriya murmurs, leaning on him. “I can- I can feel the knife moving.”

“I know, I know,” Shouta says. “But we need to get you help. It’s either you make it up the stairs-”

Midoriya gives a panicked groan, shaking his head frantically.

“Or you break the chains and I carry you out. You can do this. I promise you can do this.”

Midoriya nods, tears gathering in his eyes, but several panicked breaths later and he hasn’t moved. 

“Take a breath,” Shouta insists, quiet but firm, “then try again. Try to concentrate your quirk just where you need it.”

“It’s…it’s called One For All,” Midoriya says, tipping back a little in Shouta’s clumsy hold. “All Might gave it to me.”

Time slips away again, or something like it. There’s blood on the shackles on Shouta’s wrists. They look at each other, and even through the pain Midoriya seems to be searching his face for something.

“I wanted to tell you,” he adds, then slips back a little further and yelps in pain. Shouta is holding him up as best he can, but it still takes abdominal muscles to hold yourself in that kind of position - and every contraction of those muscles risks jostling the blade. He can’t die like this. He just can’t.

“Midoriya, please,” Shouta says. He doesn’t think his voice holds steady. Shouta has seen victims of stab wounds before, has been the victim of stab wounds before, and so he can’t avoid the knowledge that these minutes of coherency are numbered. As sure as up is up and down is down, soon enough shock and blood loss will render Midoriya unable to listen to what he’s saying, let alone use his quirk. If he hasn’t broken the chains by then - and if neither of those monsters called for an ambulance… “Please, kid. There isn’t anything else I can do. It has to be you, and it has to be now.”

“S-sorry,” Midoriya says, shutting his eyes for another heartstopping moment. He opens them and there’s a shred of his old determination shining there. “Sorry I caused you so much trouble.”

He moves his hands and before Shouta can register what he’s going to do, he’s clutching the hilt of the knife and pulling it out, activating his quirk in the next second and shoving forward to punch at the root of the chains. Finally, finally, they break, and Shouta is gathering Midoriya up in his arms and trying to put pressure on the wound at the same time, sprinting for the stairs.

“You did it, you did it, I’ve got you,” Shouta mutters, barely taking in his own words, and as he reaches the top of the stairs he hears the distant sound of sirens.

...

Hours later, in the grey light and never-quite-quiet of the hospital Shouta has refused to leave, he sits side by side with a silent Yagi, letting Inko Midoriya have some privacy with her son even if the doctors don’t think he’ll be waking up any time soon. 

Shouta has had a lot of time to think, and mostly hasn’t done so. He won’t really be able to think until he sees his student alive, moving, talking again. 

What few thoughts he has managed are shards of memory. A student who works harder than anyone, but came into high school with hardly any control over his quirk, the foundation most aspiring heroes start from. And Yagi, hiding off to the side, watching over his class’s first training session. Like he had a personal stake. 

Shouta doesn’t pry into students’ lives for the sake of it. He and Nedzu have disagreed a couple of times over the level of surveillance UA should aim for when it comes to students, especially now that the dorm system had been implemented. But he can’t help a kid he doesn’t understand. He can’t help Midoriya recover from anaesthesia any faster, but he can try and understand the missing piece connecting Midoriya to Yagi.

“So,” Shouta says, voice flat. “One For All.”

Yagi sits up straighter. “He told you?” 

“He was scared,” Shouta says. He was dying, he doesn’t say, because he isn’t, he didn’t. 

“It’s…his story to tell, now,” Yagi says, and there’s a discomfort there that almost makes Shouta smile.

“Sure,” he says. “Delay the inevitable.” Shouta shakes his head. “That kid’s braver than you.”

“I know,” Yagi says simply, and a quick scan of his expression shows Shouta that he isn’t joking. 

Shouta thinks they’re done, but Yagi turns to face him, solemn and sincere. “Thank you,” he says. “Thank you for getting him out of there alive.”

Shouta gives a short nod. “He did it himself.”

Yagi smiles. “You should get used to being thanked. I’m sure young Midoriya will be very grateful when he wakes.”

“Delaying the inevitable,” Shouta murmurs, slumping back in his chair, letting his eyes fall shut trying not to see echoes of the night’s horrors reflected in the dark.

#bnha fic #dadzawa #aizawa #midoriya #feel like my ~brand~ makes this kinda obvious but there's no major character death here!! #just big angst #thank you for the prompt!!! #gonna keep the second part of your ask in mind too bc that's exactly my kind of shit