inko is still izuku’s mother!
she gave him up when he was one in a spectacularly on the nose example of history repeating
she still hooked up with hisashi but he couldn’t handle being all might’s significant other and flaked, leaving inko alone with a kid and absolutely no idea how she’s going to handle this. how could she possibly do this on her own. she’s got a target on her back a mile wide and to consign her own son to it–
so izuku was put up for adoption.
the thing inko forgot to do if she was really gonna repeat nana’s choices is tell gran torino not to approach the kid. so gran torino got an apartment near toshinori and babysat izuku growing up without telling her lmao.