AU where the reason Shimura Nana and Midoriya Inko look alike isn’t because of narrative conveniences or that they’re secretly related.
It’s because they’re clones.
#I’m not saying orphan black au#actually no that’s exactly what I’m saying
It doesn’t happen when Izuku finally lets Inko know during idle chatter when he’s home for a weekend, that according to All Might, she bears a strong resemblance to his deceased mentor. And maybe it’s because he’s in another room, doesn’t notice Midoriya Inko freeze for a few moments
It doesn’t happen when Gran Torino nearly loses his footing the first time he meets Izuku’s mother because the resemblance is uncanny. It’s chalked up to a coincidence.
It doesn’t happen when Eri spots Midoriya Inko and mumbles out a confused jumble of words under her breath, that if Aizawa was paying closer attention too, would’ve been, “Mama?”
It doesn’t happen when a missing or dead woman without an identity kicks up multiple hits in the system for various others: missing, dead, and still alive. It’s wiped from the system the next moment. It’s not the first time it’s happened, and it won’t be the last. The cop who tries to kick up a fuss about it, suddenly just, stops. Just like every other cop or doctor or concerned authority who’s found something fishy and bothered to look stops.
It doesn’t happen when Todoroki notices that one of the new nurses taking care of his mother looks a lot like Midoriya.
It doesn’t happen because of some new villain attack or the debut of a new villain, or vigilante. (If someone were to look, they would find a strange pattern of records of all villains or vigilantes bearing a similar resemblance missing. Further digging would lead to locked government files.)
No, it happens like this: Asui Tsuyu notices that her younger sister’s new homeroom teacher looks very similar to Midoriya Izuku. Like Todoroki, Tsuyu also dismisses it as coincidence. Unlike Todoroki she actually mentions it to Izuku during dinner at the dorms. This in itself would not be something noteworthy, except Hagakure and Satou overhear it and jump in. And that catches Kaminari’s attention and suddenly, half the class (or that’s what it feels like) is exchanging stories about having met or run into people – mostly women – who bear a strong resemblance to Izuku. Todoroki finally brings up the new nurse. Kouda signs about the cashier at the shop near his house. Ashido mentions her old babysitter. Shouji talks about one of his caseworkers.
Kaminari mentions how it’s funny that despite what someone would assume are unique features, there are a lot of people who look similar to one Midoriya Izuku.
He means it as a joke.
That’s before Ashido shows them the picture on her phone. Sometime during the conversation she’s texted her mother and her mother has sent back a picture. Izuku goes unnaturally quiet against the cacophony of noise of his classmates, as he stares at the woman holding a toddler Ashido in a onesie. There’s things such as a similar resemblance, and then there’s there’s this. Izuku stares at someone who’s identical to his mother. The same eyes, the same hair, the same smile.
“Midoriya?” Iida’s hand is on his shoulder. Izuku snaps out of it to several pairs of worried glances. Shouji and Kouda are both frantically talking – signing in Kouda’s case – about how the women are not similar, they just look similar. Shouji adds that he was young so he may be misremembering his caseworker. But no matter how much they backtrack it’s obvious they too are a little shellshocked by the picture on Ashido’s phone.
Just why do so many people have his mother’s face?
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