Listen, if fandom can have a huge number of fics where Izuku meets Shigaraki or Sensei early on in life and becomes a Villain, then it can totally have fics where Izuku meets Shigaraki as a kid and unintentionally drags him kicking and screaming into the light.
And this can totally happen in a fic where they end up starting a Leverage like vigilante team because you know what, fuck heroes and villains, and every asshole.
Real talk though, it wouldn’t even be Izuku dragging Tomura kicking and screaming into the light, it would just be Izuku being Izuku that could honestly bring Tomura back into the grey zone if anything.
Because Tomura in current canon is volatile. Whatever affection Sensei/AFO has for Tomura, it still doesn’t change
that Tomura was chosen with the intent of fucking over Nana and All
Might. Who knows how deep AFO’s manipulation actually goes?
But Tomura as a teenager? Deprogramming him would still be a task, but tbh with how volatile he is now, he’d have probably been a conflicted hellion as a teen.
Like I can see Tomura trying to win Izuku over to Sensei/AFO philosophies, but Izuku is stubborn, brash, and also he’d unintentionally poke so many holes in Sensei’s ideology without meaning too. Because have you met kids? Kids are blunt. Kid Izuku would be cautious, but not that cautious.
Like take Tomura’s quirk for instance. Izuku would go starry eyed analysing it at first, but then the questions would inevitably come:
Can he quicken the time of disintegration? Can he lengthen it?
Do different elements disintegrate at different intervals?
Do all five fingers really have to touch the surface of the object
to disintegrate it, or through training can the effect still take place
if Tomura touches it with one finger?
Can Tomura through training his quirk, actually turn it off until he intends to use it?
On that note Tomura have you actually trained your quirk at all?
Wait if it’s untrainable and dangerous, why didn’t AFO/Sensei give you easily removable at convenience Quirk negating bands or something for day-to-day usage so that you don’t hurt yourself with your Quirk?
Like those questions are ignorable for a while, but not forgettable. and if Tomura doubts AFO, it’s the start of him being deprogrammed.
The more I write in this universe the more I’m enjoying it because BNHA has so many problems that aren’t addressed beyond punching it away and some pseudo-deep talking, and the more I look at canon the more I find that Horikoshi himself doesn’t get his characters, because:
LET IZUKU AND TOMURA BE ACTIVISTS. THESE BOYS WERE MADE TO BE ACTIVISTS.
It’s the year 2030. They’re making a Harry Potter remake, not a modern adaptation but set in the original era. And it’s fucking indulgent in 90s nostalgia. Someone’s got a butterfly clip, Ron is wearing a choker, there’s muggles playing with pogs, Spice Girls is playing in the background. Voldemort is wearing a crop top.
It’s simultaneously the worst and fucking best thing you’ve ever seen.
I’ve backslided into Harry Potter again, and now I really want to write the fic where Vernon and Petunia actually try and do right raising their biracial magical nephew, but they stillfuckinghatemagic.
Because just how much would’ve changed if he had a decent upbringing?
How much would’ve changed if he had Vernon and Petunia on his side as
loving adoptive parents rather than abusive assholes? Harry who grew up in a loving home. Harry who grew up with Dudley as a brother. Harry who spent weekends helping Petunia in the garden or being a happy kid. Harry who fights
Voldemort and his Death Eaters not for prophecy, but because they took
lives and they robbed his parents and his adoptive parents chances for
reconciliation.
Because:
Petunia looks at the baby, reads the letter, rages and rages, and rages.
Petunia buries the Potters alone. But comes back days later to lay flowers only to find a fucking monument built for them. No-one came to bury them, but came to glorify them.
Petunia looks at Harry, who even at one, looks more like his father, but
he has Lily’s eyes, and they look at her like an accusation.
Petunia looks at Harry again and all she can feel is anger. Is rage. Is despair. Because she was robbed of magic at an early age. She was robbed of any limelight by Lily. And now, and now, she’s been robbed of Lily. Of any second chances with Lily because despite everything she loved Lily. And now she’s being asked to care for Lily’s son. Raise him until he can be sent off into battle too to die.
So she looks at Harry, with James tan skin and James messy hair, and Lily’s eyes, calling for his Appa and Amma, looks at this boy that’s been sent to her to fatten up before the slaughter and decides no.
Harry’s skin and hair and eyes will be his own. He will not be anybody’s goddamn saviour, nobody’s warrior, nobody’s soldier, and nobody’s second chance.
Hi, I’m bringing this back because I had the greatest mental images in this AU of an actual decent human being Vernon Dursley absolutely losing his shit when his sister makes the eventual shitty comment about Harry, and throwing her out of No 4 Privet Drive in the middle of the night without a care about what the neighbours think.
Years again, she decides shitting on an olive branch (that was only being offered because Harry is an insistent child who dislike families splitting apart wants her around) is more important than being a decent person to a child. So while Vernon and Marge get into a legendary shouting match, Harry maybe loses his temper causing her to inflate. But instead of running off, both Vernon and him have to calm down immediately, because Petunia and Dudley see nothing wrong about just shoving Marge out the door and letting her float into the stratosphere.
After the Third Year of ridiculous events that should not happen at a school (“what do you mean you have a godfather who was wrongfully arrested?”), Actual Decent Human Being Vernon Dursley puts his foot down and signs Harry and Dudley up for self defence classes.
Petunia writes a lot of long angry letters to the school clearly stating at if they do not get their shit together she will not be sending Harry back, the wizarding world can go burn for all she cares.
She also has Harry write letters to Sirius and Remus inviting them over, because she knows the boy she raised. She knows he may not say anything but he’s internally drowning. And as much as Vernon and her hate magic, it will not come at the cost of Harry’s well being. So Sirius and Remus get invited, get told to not do blatant magic, and Harry and Dudley get a very fun summer.
Harry Potter does not participate in the Triwizard Tournament, because the moment he writes home about it, Petunia makes good on her threat. A very determined Remus Lupin shows up on behalf of the Dursleys (he has a letter to prove it) to pull Harry out of school.
Lord Voldemort’s plans are fucked because Harry has decent people who care about him, but they also give zero fucks to respect Dumbledore so they will not go along with his bullshit. He’s running a school. If he cannot guarantee the safety of their nephew and surrogate son, then they will take him out and send him to a place where he’s safer.
I’ve backslided into Harry Potter again, and now I really want to write the fic where Vernon and Petunia actually try and do right raising their biracial magical nephew, but they stillfuckinghatemagic.
Because just how much would’ve changed if he had a decent upbringing?
How much would’ve changed if he had Vernon and Petunia on his side as
loving adoptive parents rather than abusive assholes? Harry who grew up in a loving home. Harry who grew up with Dudley as a brother. Harry who spent weekends helping Petunia in the garden or being a happy kid. Harry who fights
Voldemort and his Death Eaters not for prophecy, but because they took
lives and they robbed his parents and his adoptive parents chances for
reconciliation.
Because:
Petunia looks at the baby, reads the letter, rages and rages, and rages.
Petunia buries the Potters alone. But comes back days later to lay flowers only to find a fucking monument built for them. No-one came to bury them, but came to glorify them.
Petunia looks at Harry, who even at one, looks more like his father, but
he has Lily’s eyes, and they look at her like an accusation.
Petunia looks at Harry again and all she can feel is anger. Is rage. Is despair. Because she was robbed of magic at an early age. She was robbed of any limelight by Lily. And now, and now, she’s been robbed of Lily. Of any second chances with Lily because despite everything she loved Lily. And now she’s being asked to care for Lily’s son. Raise him until he can be sent off into battle too to die.
So she looks at Harry, with James tan skin and James messy hair, and Lily’s eyes, calling for his Appa and Amma, looks at this boy that’s been sent to her to fatten up before the slaughter and decides no.
Harry’s skin and hair and eyes will be his own. He will not be anybody’s goddamn saviour, nobody’s warrior, nobody’s soldier, and nobody’s second chance.
Hi, I’m bringing this back because I had the greatest mental images in this AU of an actual decent human being Vernon Dursley absolutely losing his shit when his sister makes the eventual shitty comment about Harry, and throwing her out of No 4 Privet Drive in the middle of the night without a care about what the neighbours think.
Years again, she decides shitting on an olive branch (that was only being offered because Harry is an insistent child who dislike families splitting apart wants her around) is more important than being a decent person to a child. So while Vernon and Marge get into a legendary shouting match, Harry maybe loses his temper causing her to inflate. But instead of running off, both Vernon and him have to calm down immediately, because Petunia and Dudley see nothing wrong about just shoving Marge out the door and letting her float into the stratosphere.
After the Third Year of ridiculous events that should not happen at a school (“what do you mean you have a godfather who was wrongfully arrested?”), Actual Decent Human Being Vernon Dursley puts his foot down and signs Harry and Dudley up for self defence classes.
Petunia writes a lot of long angry letters to the school clearly stating at if they do not get their shit together she will not be sending Harry back, the wizarding world can go burn for all she cares.
She also has Harry write letters to Sirius and Remus inviting them over, because she knows the boy she raised. She knows he may not say anything but he’s internally drowning. And as much as Vernon and her hate magic, it will not come at the cost of Harry’s well being. So Sirius and Remus get invited, get told to not do blatant magic, and Harry and Dudley get a very fun summer.
Jfc it’s not like JKR came out of the womb clutching the first draft of Harry Potter, have people forgotten that she’s not always been rich and that she was actually pretty fucking poor not so very long ago and remembers what it’s like?
Have we forgotten this is the woman who took herself off the Forbes list because she gave away so much money?
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