pitviperofdoom:

I don’t know if any of you remember this AU but it is very much still a thing that I think about sometimes.

Basically YUTSwap is an AU of YUTS in which Rei is the UA student and One For All inheritor, and Izuku is the spooky ghost child who follows her around. Now, to be clear, their quirks are the same; Izuku’s still the one with the ghost quirk, not her. It’s a mixture of Izuku’s ghost quirk and her own empathy quirk that allows her to perceive him. Also, because of circumstances, Izuku is the one who goes by “Rei” (he’s mute and amnesiac the same way Rei is in normal YUTS) while Not!Rei goes by her real name. I didn’t say it in the last post, but the name I’ve picked out for her is Morigawa Hitomi; it doesn’t spoil anything for YUTS proper so there’s really no point in keeping it hush-hush.

I said in the other post that Hitomi… isn’t very nice. It’s not that she isn’t a good person, just that she tends to assume the worst of others, and on top of that she really enjoys messing with people. In spite of this, she manages to befriend Tsuyu, because Tsuyu’s bluntness allows Hitomi absolutely no room to misjudge her. Through her, Hitomi also buddies up with Uraraka and Ashido. Iida’s a bit of a stick-in-the-mud for her taste, but damn if he isn’t fun to mess with.

In spite of her best efforts to be a cynic, “Rei” keeps bugging Hitomi to help people, and has spent the past several years of their friendship bringing her ghosts with unfinished business. It’s gotten her in the habit of doing good for the sake of it, and at least part of the reason why she decides to become a hero is that Rei LOVES heroes, and deep down Hitomi wants to be the kind of person her tiny dead friend would be proud of. Rei’s interventions are also what lead her to attracting All-Might’s attention, and hey! She’d be crazy to turn down an offer like that, right?

Her first impression of Todoroki is…. not a good one. He immediately sticks himself into her mental “stuck-up asshole” box, but luckily for him “Rei” takes notice and spies on him a little (and MAN that little ghost cannot mind his own business) before running to Hitomi and vehemently insisting that her new enemy really just needs help, look you’re the one with the empathy quirk, he’s SAD and LONELY and SCARED come on Hitomi. She’s resistant until a chance meeting with Endeavor, and over the course of the Sports Festival she goes from “would not piss on him if he were on fire” to “why didn’t anyone tell me he’s a big dork okay he’s mine now.”

They form this bizarre inexplicable friendship and honestly Todoroki’s not really sure how it happened either.

Might draw some more for this. I kind of want to try designing Hitomi’s hero costume.