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Some Vain Attempt At Giving Every Member of Class 1-A (plus one more) a 'Nemesis' Pt. 2 of 3 - MLA Edition

The second edition of my posts in my, as you can see, vain attempt to give every person in Class 1-A (plus, one more) a Nemesis/Rival Villain that's League-affiliated!! First one can be read here!

In this rendtion, it's five of the 'upper echelon' of Class A paired with the five Executives of the Meta Liberation Army! Bit more in depth when it comes to these guys, so hope it becomes a nice read for you all!

Trumpet

For this one, I raise you Koda. Narrative wise, Koda and Trumpet serve as not really frontline or distance fighters, but ones best at support using their voices to command others to do their bidding. Like most on this list, it comes down to how they use their powers and their personality themselves.

For Koda’s arc, its pretty much just an enhancement of the small one he gets in the main story, which is overcoming his shyness to become bolder. If I had to make a small adjustment, I’d probably have this impetus for being a Hero, being reassured and helped by a Pro Hero like how Jiro helped him back in the Final Exam arms. Probably Hound Dog, who could also be like a mentor to Koda that helps him to have more confidence in himself (and leans into UA having a good guidance counselor). Honestly, from there, probably have him be even more of a friend to Jiro, since I really think they could have had an even deeper bond than before.

As for Trumpet, how I would focus on it has to do with why he joined the MLA in the first place. He would be a Shinso situation, someone who had good intentions, but society distrusted him. In his case, he was a politician trying to operate genuine noble reforms, but when people found out about his Incite quirk, his popularity fell due to fear of him essentially ‘forcing’ people to join him - even though he never used his Quirk at all. Re-Destro, though, sympathized with him and basically offered an extended hand. “If the world rejects you just because of your ability, why not join us, embrace your power instead of rejecting it and make a new world that would accept it.” Re-Destro became his light and with the MLA’s help, formed the Hearts and Minds Party to become the political juggernaut he is in today. Though, its become clear what principles he did have was discarded for supporting Re-Destro’s liberation ideology, becoming a bit of a hypocrite and letting his new role as apart of RD’s quartet go to his head.

In this timeline, this is a Trumpet who escaped the Villa raid and was a mess (in this timeline Re-Destro was beaten at the Villa while his posse escaped). He lost the light of his life and had to organize a group of stragglers, while coming to grips with the fact he lost all the progress he worked up to until now in one day. But…perhaps he can salvage it? Spinner…how he hated that man with his weak Quirk. Who nearly killed him!!! But, he’s a light himself. Using his Incite Quirk, Trumpet fastens himself a sympathizer to the Heteromorphic cause - anything that allows him to free Re-Destro and have his Liberation dream come true. Alongside Spinner and Neptune (...oh, and the Advisors are there too~), they charge to Central Hospital to take back Kurogiri, with his Quirk amplifying the mob’s power and dropping their ability to reason. Having them still fight even when hurt by the police or when its clear they need to pull back to stop their injuries from being life threatening.

I feel like there could be a cool introspection with how both use others to obtain results, with Trumpet even pointing that out between them if they ever were to meet and even applaud Koda for it. After all, when it comes to the greater good, aren’t sacrifices of one’s soldiers needed to gain victory? But the deciding factor that would put Koda in the right and eventual victory over Trumpet is his empathy - while he asks for help, he tries his hardest to not get his animals hurt and factors that in. In short, valuing tactical, beneficial to all uses. However, Trumpet has no true care for those that work for him, at least those that aren’t apart of his inner circle/Re-Destro. So how does this come to play? During Koda’s confrontation of Trumpet, he’s pinned down and mic mask taken away, as well as mouth shut. But when his Quirk awakening happens, it allows his true feelings to still wash over nearby animals - to go after whose really at fault. Instead of attacking the crowd, people who just want their grievance heard, they all converge onto Trumpet. Or rather, Trumpet’s mask and mic, taking it away from him. Similar to Mic, Trumpet, vulnerable and fully afraid of the hoard, passes out. Thus, negating his Quirk and allowing the mob to properly reason if what they're doing is right without being riled up. Leading to a case where some of the mob do still follow Spinner, some are staying back conflicted and some are very upset at the PLF side of things pushing them this far.

True, when it comes to war, there’s hardly a case where both sides don’t come out without losing some people. But one should still have consideration for even your ‘lower’ allies no matter what and work to ensure they are used in the best possible way. That’s what separates a good tactician from an awful one. Something Trumpet will stand to learn as he reunites with Re-Destro in prison. At least happy with his light once again.

Curious

For Curious’ rival, Mina’s up! Now, off the bat you can already recognize a pretty blatant reason for such a situation given their designs. Both have differently colored skin with dark eyes, resembling more of an alien than anything and their personalities are also fairly similar: both are spunky extroverts that can’t help but get in the thick of things with a curiosity for their peers. Heck if you didn’t know any better, you could probably mistake Curious as being Mina’s big sister, mother or aunt in a way!

But what is going to bring these two together for this line-up? Well, the theme I’m setting up for them is grievance of justice within the system. What we know of Mina is that she did have the heroic spirit to intervene and save way back in middle school, such as saving a kid (and even reforming some bullies) or getting in the way of Gigantomachia by lying to him to save two other peers as well. It’s admirable and I want to make that more apart from her character. Perhaps her backstory here that led to her trying to be a Hero was learning early on that she had to take a stand, if not for herself than for others, since people tried to bully her and her friends for looking different or having ‘troublesome Quirks’ (think about it. It's Acid as a Quirk, that probably is going to be a bit of a stigma growing up). Wanting to be someone people can look up to, that can tackle conflict and bring people together head-on, she sought to do so as a Pro Hero.

As a ‘meddlesome Hero’ her journey in UA, could have her struggle with dealing with just how much of the systems wants to control that spirit of hers and discourage her sense of justice into being their standard. From having her code name be denied for a more marketable Pinky, to possibly dealing with Yoroi Musha who interferes with her actually talking down a Villain (who was going to surrender) by knocking them out instead. Trying to instill in her that it is not a hero duty to ‘care for the fallen’ but for the ‘interest of the public’. You can imagine the complicated and hurt feelings she gets when Yoroi decides to retire because of his image, and yelling at him for being so awful.

As for her relationship with Midnight, perhaps the teacher sees herself in Mina, being so gungho and expressive about justice in her own way, but having to deal with a system that wants its reputation maintained first (such as the debacle with her first Hero outfit). As such, she could apologize for the name issue before and genuinely try to mentor Mina figuring out ways to both be herself while not letting the current institution get her down. Heck, even find ways to get around the system like she did! It could make losing Midnight hurt that much more later on, as she could genuinely have been considered Mina’s ‘All Might’ for a while.

As for Curious, the reason she joined the MLA has to do with her own justice having her take on the path of an investigative journalist. During this time, she uncovers many scandals of Pro Heroes: from Heroes causing accidents that cost people their lives to heroes instigating people into fights and making them out to be Villains. Not to mention some shady dealings of the HSPC, leads of embezzlement, and corruption to various industries throughout Japan, even the government. But, as you can imagine, trying to expose them is no simple feat. Everytime she tries, pressure from the HSPC has her works censored and stories rejected. Eventually to the point, she is even, even threatened with blacklisting to get her compliance. In distress, and wanting to do more, its her interview with Re-Destro that not only reignites her passion for her work, but instead channels it to working it towards the MLA’s favor as his inspires her curiosity to run rampant for the truth. Well, her truth now! If Hero Society wants to control the narrative as they feel fit, why shouldn’t she and her new comrades seek to try to do some story control as well?

Curious, naturally, sees herself in Mina when she confronts her. Perhaps she hitches a ride on Gigantomachia for the story of a lifetime and, together with Compress, is able to fend off Heroes from getting ontop of Machia. It’s her landmine, combined with Compress’ debris, that results in Midnight being so beat up that she gets finished off by Skully (Dabi’s 2nd Adviser) and her notice of Mina’s hesitation when facing Machia has her be the subject of interest when her group faces off against the Junga Ruins Team. She is able to see that same spark in Mina, one who wants to do more and is stifled. She’s getting under her skin when pointing out her fear of Gigantomachia, and asking if Mina ever considered her hesitation might’ve cost people their lives because she didn’t put her vial in at that one moment. How nervous she must feel having the responsibility of the giant being released on her shoulders. Can she handle it? Perhaps its best if she gives up, after all if she’s anything like her than the ruin of a Society run by that horrible HSPC and its values allows her to do what she wants, right? She’s now in full control of the story - her life that she wants!

For Mina, she does note that Curious is right. She is free from how HSPC and Hero Society wants her to conform to…and its with that freedom she’ll settle things her way! With her dancing skills, she nimbly avoid Curious’ mines and melts her support weapon. All before quickly striking her down before she goes on to handle Gigantomachia, Skully and the Sludge Villain - which taxes a lot out of her. But before she passes out, she returns to a beaten Curious...and hugs her. Since she truly knows how it feels to be under pressure from corrupt people, and is genuinely sorry that happened to Curious. In an epilogue, while Curious is imprisoned, her original stories on the cases of corruption within the HSPC has finally come to light with many offenders and victims finally getting justice in the world. Something that has a certain former reporter giddy in excitement~

Skeptic - Kaminari

A brain versus brawn dynamic? Exactly - though there another aspect in play here too! Kaminari and Skeptic are best known as being silly, yet dangerous, cornerstones of their group. People that are very to forget that they are dangerous when not making you laugh from their wit or comedic antics.

When it comes to Kaminari - whose role in Class A is pretty much the embodiment of a confident, goofy, teen - his arc would have to be more towards his growth concerning him being wiser in combat with such an all or nothing power. One of the early worldbuilding comments that weren’t elaborated much was how Elec types kind of have it easy when it comes to their power since its in such high demand. Perhaps Kaminari could be a staunch believer in the ‘Electric Dream’, not to say he’s a Quirk supremacist, but rather in that he thinks he doesn’t have to improve or grow much as a Hero since he has such a strong, well favored power. Which is a pretty funny mentality to have when his powers have a cognitive drawback + and no real way to control it to avoid hitting allies (least yet). He’s pretty much coasting and kinda taking things for granted, because (even when attacked by villains or in the SF arc), he still ends up ok or getting his beliefs validated in the form of so many Hero offers. Something that ends up irritating his friends in Momo and Jiro at times (the three of them I kinda want to make their own, even closer, trio).

So what changes? I think the change is the Training Camp arc in this, as he experiences actual survivor’s guilt for what happened. Jiro was knocked out and poisoned by Mustard, Momo injured by a Nomu, and one of his friends was kidnapped - and he couldn’t be there to help. All because he didn’t take his training seriously enough to pass his exam. Thus, this marks the start of him legitimately trying to be smarter with how he uses his Quirk and the Shooter method he gains later on, as well as wiser in terms of using his brain for more tactical methods in general.

Skeptic’s role here is to be the inverse of Kaminari. He’s cocky in relation to his IT talent and brain, instead of his Quirk. Basically, for why he joined the MLA, I want to take his allegiance as being as a result of Re-Destro being the one that properly recognized his skills and pushed for Skeptic to be apart of the board of Feel Good Inc. We know Skeptic had an issue with said board for being too old fashioned during the Second War, so I think it's a good angle of his origins for villainy being feeling ignored or pushed to the side in spite of his talents and new ideas, for people that just want to play it safe or overstepping their seniority (which is likely a mix of that and due to his attitude) It feels natural that he ends up falling in with someone who gives him the time of day. Though, that being said, its clear RD recruiting him into his upper circle has made Skeptic’s ego worse and not really prepared him for life in the MLA beyond his role. He thinks that he just needs to keep doing the same thing he's always been doing for RD, and doesn’t really bother improving much of his Quirk, even if he’s taking the bare minimum to put it into action, and certainly isn’t really considering he isn’t as infallible as he thinks he is. As such, he doesn’t take failure well and when he does get blindsided (by La Brava or Heroes) flies into utter panic. His arc leading into the Second War is believing that his mistake that cost him the man who saw potential in him, was not taking the MLA training seriously, meaning he couldn’t protect his boss well��so he seeks to correct it.

During the Second War, when Skeptic is hacked by La Brava, who comes to his area isn’t just Ketsubutsu and Hound Dog, but (in this version), Kaminari too. The latter of which has disabled his computers further. But, Skeptic isn’t done yet - with his Quirk he’d made even stronger, more resilient golems to attack the Heroes to hold them off until he gets his machines up and running. He’s learned from the First War and knows how debilitating Kaminari’s shocks are so made sure that, if he ever runs into Kaminari again, his creations can’t be neutralized so easily and makes doubly sure they protect him from any shocks. Thus, Team Kaminari is put on the back foot trying to get to him, with Kaminari in particular struggling to defeat them. At the last moment, he’s pinned down and about to be killed, when he fires a disc, missing Skeptic. Skeptic, thinking he flubbed his last move, gloats over his assured victory, but that’s when Kaminari reveals his last gambit: he deliberately shot it away from Skeptic… because his true target was his computer. With all of his energy, he channels it into one final shot that destroys the computer trying to make UA drop and makes it explode. Something that has the nice effect of knocking out Skeptic as well!

Both were people that were humbled for their ego during their careers in heroism and villainy, seeking to correct such mistakes that cost them so much. But, what both differ is the lengths in which they correct their errors. Skeptic only sees the physical side of his mistakes, not realizing his arrogance was the poison that led to everything going wrong for the PLF in the first place. As for Kaminari, realized the limitations of his Quirk and his own attitude, it was by working on both that he was able to get the win needed. As such Skeptic now learns such a lesson in confinement, at least using his stay in prison to lecture other IT start-ups on what not to do to wind up in his shoes/be successful (hey, he is good at his job, might as well give him some chance at still have some ways of positively affecting society~)

Geten

Next are the vice leaders of the MLA and Team Momo sides of things, those who hold the closest bond with their leader. It’s Kyoka Jiro against Geten, fighting for the sake of their closest friend-girlfriend/father figure. For their theming, it comes down to forging your own path beyond family legacy while still being just to yourself and your companions.

For Jiro, one of the things that was interesting (and never really developed on because fuck us) was that she desired to be a hero, in spite of her love of music and probably family expectations she’ll go down that path too. I want to make that her arc. Her parents are famous in the music biz, and while they were supportive of their daughter, Jiro constantly had to deal with people (from their fans or coworkers) expecting and even kinda pushing for her to continue where her parents left off. Thus, she ends up somewhat pushing aside her own musical interests in favor of proving she’s serious about Hero career, and could have her be one of the snarkier or even jerkish of Class A at first, since its her way of trying to show off that she’s not someone joking about with her path. Or why she gets prickly when Kaminari or, seemingly, Momo try to coast or don’t understand how much effort is put into something.

Her arc, at its strongest in the Cultural Festival, is learning she can enjoy her own interests and still prove she’s a true-blue hero as well. She can march to her own tempo without having to prove that to anyone. I also imagine during this time as she bonds with Momo, she also realizes that she doesn’t have the full scope of what she’s been snarking at others for, in this case Momo having quite the ‘family’ being so negative at her back, and strives to be someone that can help others get their own ‘tempo’ as well without pressure from people to be anything other than themselves. As a side note, for what inspires her to be a Hero, perhaps its seeing Gang Orca, someone with a ‘rocking’ appearance and similar sound Quirk, saving the day inspires her to do the same and kinda be like him.

Her contrast is with Geten - someone who lives and breathes the dogma of his MLA family after separating from the Himura clan. On the surface, he’s going through something similar to Jiro here - basically someone choosing their own path in life instead of what their family does. He, too, is someone that’s determined to show their worth towards their new path in life, in his case being an MLA executive, by constantly training his Quirk off as a warrior. That said, like Jiro, its clear some effects of his old life stuck with him. In this case, the elitist aspect that has manifested in believing someone’s worth is tied to their Quirk’s power. In this storyline, I imagine Geten was recruited into the MLA fold at a young age after the Himura’s scattered, perhaps his own family was hit hardest by the separation and became dirt poor. So when Re-Destro and him crossed paths, it was just a major step up from his old life (with his own parents agreeing to part with Geten in exchange for better living conditions, kinda like Hawks’ mom). In addition, I imagine that with Re-Destro, Geten was probably aware of RD being, deep down, not as happy with the MLA than how he acted. But, instead of encouraging RD to break away for his own path or even think that's a possibility, believes that by being the perfect warrior and fulfilling the MLA’s dream he can make a world where RD is free to never have to worry about that pressure again. Hence him obsessively trying to get stronger for RD’s sake, much to the decay of his social, educational and even familial life at times (like to imagine RD is somewhat blaming himself for bringing Geten into the fold and turning him out like this)

Concerning Dabi, in this I imagine that, after hearing Geten is a Himura, Dabi gets the idea to include Geten in the Dabi expose video. Considering it a worthwhile venture in taking down Hero Society, Geten agrees and pretty much airs the Himura clan’s dirty laundry and past to really help sell the idea of a corrupt Hero going to a corrupt elitist family to start one of his own. Relationship wise, while I doubt Dabi and Geten would be friends, knowing both are technically family and are on the same side has made them more like vitriolic brothers than true hatred to each other.

In the First War, Jiro (who is overhearing a certain leader v leader) fight, hears Re-Destro venting about how Shigaraki needs to be the one to bring liberation and how RD can’t be the one to take the reigns again. Something that sticks with her when facing Geten in the Second War after he’s transported to Gunga by Kurogiri. Like the other MLA Executives, he escaped the battlefield last time, but was devastated after hearing RD’s capture. Angry over his father figure’s defeat, he joins on the fight to slaughter every Hero there - though ends up transported to Kamino Ward to fight off Heroes with the High End and Dabi. He would briefly assist Dabi with Shoto before Dabi insists on finishing things himself.

The duo hitch a ride on the Kurogiri taxi to Gunga, reigning down on the battlefield with fire and ice, but Geten ends up being separated from Dabi by Jiro as Endeavor and his son move away to fight. Geten proclaims he’s fighting for the future of Re-Destro, though it's here that Jiro reveals Re-Destro’s true feelings on the matter. Asking if Geten really thinks what he was doing was best for RD, and if he ever really considered if seeing the MLA succeeding would have really gotten his leader the relief he wanted. Something that she gets through to him with a version of her amplifier jacks - sending off waves of her own sincere heart (alongside, you know, just knocking Geten’s eardrums for a loop XD). Disoriented with the truth and ears thoroughly rattled, Geten’s is unable to properly fight back with his ice, and is knocked out when Jiro delivers another blast of the truth to Geten: that the liberation RD needed was a life away from what he was born into. Something that has Geten in tears, regretting not realizing it sooner as he passes out.

Both were two people that were trying to take a path beyond what their family line had in store, and overcompensated with said paths. However, while Jiro was able to work through best of both worlds healthily in the end, and learn to see the troubles in what others were going through (and guide them to their best path), Geten took the extremes of both sides, leading him blind to the truth of his father as Apocrypha. As Geten is reunited with RD, he’ll have a chance to rekindle a new relationship with him, without the weight of the MLA souring things.

Re-Destro

Lastly, it’s leader of the Meta Liberation Army versus, arguably, the true leader of the First Years of UA. It’s Re-Destro against Momo Yaoyorozu! As you can probably guess, what both of them have for their theme is that of familial pressure to conform and learning that that the life they truly need is one beyond the toxic life they were raised in.

For Momo’s arc, I want to have her arc concern both her established anxiety issues and also flesh out the Yaoyorozu family as a whole since I feel It's something that could have really been worked out upon in-canon as a part of her character. In this, the reason Momo is trying to be a good Pro Hero has to do with a lot about proving herself against the family business. In this timeline, the Yaoyorozu Family isn’t…the cleanest business. Or at least, it had a history that was based on a greyer path. Since the advent of Quirks, the Yaoyorzu clan made a killing as arms dealers, distributing weapons and items for all sides of the chaos brewed by Quirks. Anti-Hetormorphic rioters? Vigilantes trying to make a difference? Dictators hoping to crackdown on dissidents? Just the average joe trying to defend themselves? They cared only for profit and sold to anyone seeking their wares, growing much in the way of influence.

As time passed, their business became, on the surface, more legitimate as they got in league with the reformed government and began operating seemingly clean business in the support industry. But that was just a ruse, in truth, even the modern day clan still had major ties to the black market and the underworld. Many villains and brokers got their wares from third parties of third parties who sell the clans goods in their stead. Some including Shie Hassakai, the League and escpeially AFO throughout his years.

As the sole heiress to the Yaoyoruzu fortune, Momo was expected to walk down that path…but even as a kid she didn't fully agree with it. What they were doing was bad, right? But also allowed? How many people got hurt or killed because her family gave out items to the wrong people? Wasn’t this bad? She was entirely conflicted and wondered what she should even do. Eventually, she was inspired by the acts of heroes she saw, those not involved in the clans business, but those like All Might or Majestic, who were trying their damndest to clear out all wrong in the world, even long-established corrupt organizations like the yakuza. Heroes can do this sort of thing, so she decides to become one. One that can bring about change in rotten organizations and life!

As such, an inspired Momo opted into the Hero course instead of business or tech that her parents expected. Though on that note, they weren't taking even her Hero career seriously, chalking up to youthful exploration, with full thought that Momo will give it up to take over the business once she ends her studies. A silly hobby to pass the time. Momo didn’t see it that way, and so developed a perfectionist, tactical, if a bit snobbish mindset that we see earlier in the series.

You can also imagine that her failing in the Sports Festival hurts even harder now. Her chance to prove herself to her folks had her defeated without much effort, and likely had her mocked by her parents for it. I imagine they’d be the sort to be passive-aggressive or give backhanded compliments in front of company, something Jiro and Kaminari, to an extent, could be exposed to as she develops her friendship with Momo, and becomes the start of her trying to get Momo to stay on her path of going away from her clan’s expectations.

What happens that breaks the camel’s back is the Forest Invasion Arc. After Momo is injured and before she helped out her friends in the Bakugo Retrieval mission, she gains word during this time that she is to drop out of UA. No because her parents give a shit about her, mind you, but because they feel that between her failure in the Festival to being among the hurt in the FT arc, she is just wasting her talent and brain on a ‘childish endeavor’. It’s this time that gets Momo, who hears this during a meeting with AM, Midnight, Jiro (who snuck into the manor to tell her folks to not go through with the removal) and she just snaps and tell her parents off. That she declares she wants nothing to do with them and their awful company, and gladly disowning herself. In exchange, she won’t reveal the truth of her clan in front of a pissed off AM, Midnight and Jiro. Bitterly, her parents accept…and Momo’s life in the family is over. At least, so it seems. Once in the dorms, she does weep and reveal the life she’s been living in private to Jiro, Kaminari and Midnight, and how guilty she feels just being apart of such a misaligned group. But is reassured knowing she has a place with her friends.

This marks her fully getting into her mature confidence arc, with her being an anchor that can relate to the difficulty Todoroki is facing given her own issues with her family and certainly, later down the line, when it comes to Aoyama’s parents getting him stuck as AFO’s mole. It also marks her gradually finding her own style and interests beyond what her family pushed on her - her true freedom that she can express to those actually closest to her. This is what also gets her to be fully onboard more with being a legitimately good leader to the first years as much as she could. To be something her family never was!

Also, on a side note, I also think it’d be cool if Midnight also became a mentor/Mom figure for Momo, like Mina. Considering she sees potential in Momo becoming a stellar leader that can ‘dominate’ the opposition and finding kinship in both essentially having similar costume styles for practical reasons (well, in Midnight’s cases it’s more like 80/20 for her reasons xD) and fighting styles that revolve on heavy reliance on what they can make. With Momo’s self-esteem issues showing themselves, Midnight seeks to raise the girl’s confidence and teaches her on how to handle herself if someone manages to bypass her Quirk, and use it for quick neutralization before a scuffle can really occur (especially since Momo can create her own gas products). As for Majestic, he aids her further in getting her to open up her creativity, reminding her to always keep ‘tricks up her sleeves’ in case of unexpected events and that deception can often prove to be far more useful than brawn.

Now, for Re-Destro! Honestly, as the only real MLA executive that the story gives both backstory and depth, his foundation is a lot more solid compared to the others and doesn’t really need much altering, I feel. Similar to Momo now, he’s someone who was raised and groomed in an environment that, deep down, he doesn’t quite agree with. But, unlike Momo, he’s someone that couldn’t escape that pressure, especially given how society left the state of their family following Destro’s demise and the country’s strict grip on Quirk usage. Unlike Momo, he is someone that basically resigns himself to being within the family, and embracing the liberation message…because that’s all he feels he can do. That he just exists to be an extension of Destro, and not his own person. Not realizing the effect his actual compassion had on his four Executives, who he reached out all on his own. He wasn’t even on business when he met those four, it was by chance and he just wanted to help them out. Unaware that what got him his close circle wasn’t being Re-Destro, but Rikiya.

If I did have to make a further change, to further tie a link between RD And the Yaoyorozu clan, I’d have RD be business partners with the Yaoyoruzu’s. Both exchanging support and weapon ideas with each other. The Yaoyoruzu’s are aware of RD’s link to the MLA and see their future attempts for societal reform, in all its destructiveness, as perfect way to gain money and are all too willing to support him…though with one new caveat as RD aligns himself with Shigaraki, who goes to get upgraded. The current Heads of the Yaoyorozu clan insist that, if Re-Destro sees Momo whenever he goes about his Liberation crusade, that he ‘disciplines’ her into becoming such a ‘good boy’ like himself. Induct her into the Army, or simply just 'scare her a bit'. Make her know 'her place'.

Something that has a chance to happen during the First War, after Machia awakens. His rampage allows RD, his Executives and numerous soldiers to escape the Villa and runaway, with RD following closely behind trying to catch up to Machia. Though once he witnesses the giant fall due to Momo’s trap, becomes livid and seeks to aid him. Momo, seeing RD coming their way, and knowing if he arrives the others efforts into getting the vial into Machi’s mouth will certainly fail, rushes out to intercept RD. Stressed out to the max, its a brutal fight that has Momo fighting to stay ahead from RD’s swings by obscuring his vision with ‘smoke bombs’ from her matryoshka dolls. RD, remembering the words from the Yaoyorozu Heads, relays this to Momo. He’s bitter, thinking she has the audacity to do what he could not. That she could just up and leave her legacy behind?! Why?! What gives her the right to do that?! How could she do that?! Even he fights to free Machia - to ensure he never has to be Commander of the MLA/PLF again - he still can’t turn his back on what he was raised for.

In response? Momo simply replies she just couldn’t find a way to live with herself anymore if she didn’t at least try. Now RD’s the one rattled, but tried to push her away after getting a solid hit in…and it happens. He collapses to the ground, groggy and sleepy. Huh? As it turns out, what Momo was throwing wasn’t smoke bombs, but rather sleeping gas that she made during her time under Midnight and Majestic - a combo owed from her beloved mentors! She merely made it seem like just average smoke and fought to ensure RD would be deeply inhaling it. The dolls aren’t enough to stop Machia, hence her making the bigger vials, but Momo knows about RD’s Quirk from the Villain Files the Heroes got before the mission, so she’s able to use that knowledge to take him down. As RD begins to black out, he’s sobbing, not of regret for defeat - but in pride. She’s truly liberated, huh? Why…why couldn’t he have that strength like her? Relating to him, Momo shouts that he always can. No matter how much he falls, he can still do something to be free for himself!! No one has to be shackled to what others force upon them.

Something that he takes to heart as he is arrested. While he refuses to give up the core circle and the remaining free PLF, he does testify to the Heroes about the shady dealings the PLF had with heads of various organizations and government officials. Something that gets them arrested, including the Heads of the Yaoyorozu Clan, once the shelter plan goes underway. Putting an end to the corruption of a clan with generations of blood on their hands. As a bonus for Re-Destro, when all is said and done, he's able to at least reunite and talk to occasionally with the Executives - no, his friends - that he made once more. Free at last.

And that's it for this section!

I actually had a bit of a difficult time concerning who should be paired with Re-Destro, Geten (especially fucking Geten) and Skeptic. I wanted these three to have satisfying Class A students to go against, but trying to find common ground for these guys (and not ruin one for the remaining League) was tough.

Originally, Kaminari and Jiro were swapped, with the former taking on Geten and Skeptic for the latter. Elemental against tech support, but I found that too 'ehhh' and tried to figure out if I could switch them, and having it still be meaningful, which I think I suceeded.

Re-Destro was a majro choice between Momo, Ida and even Tokoyami at one point. But, ultimately, Momo and her own dealings with her rich family had more potential that I feel she should take down Re-Destro.

With that said, hope you loved the read!

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