Toshinori Adopts the Todorokis AU

 Proposal: An AU where All Might figures out exactly what is going on in the Todoroki Household in the absolutely most unlikely way possible, and maybe adopts some Todorokis in the process of trying to fix it.  (More-or-less cowritten by @hawk-in-a-tree of Tumblr)

 

So, when Shouto is around 7, one of his older brothers, let’s say he’s 10, is at the park when he meets a weird guy.  He’s this tall skinny blond man with sunken-in eyes and clothes that don’t fit, and his big sister Fuyumi would say he couldn’t talk to this guy.  But Fuyumi is busy with school right now and his Father doesn’t care and his mom is gone, so…maybe he’s pouting a little.

 

Anyhow, the weird guy starts asking him questions about what’s bothering him, and he’s angry and not really thinking so he answers them.  He knows he’s not supposed to, that Father might get angry if he talks too much about private things, but everything’s really stressful.  And…he’s worried.  About him, and about Shouto.  Because he used to be jealous that Shouto gets all of his parents’ attention, but he’s starting to realize that having Father’s attention wouldn’t be a good thing.  Mom had Father’s attention, but it wasn’t good attention.  And something was wrong with Mom, before she left, and Fuyumi says that’s why Shouto’s face got hurt.  He doesn’t really know everything about what’s going on–not because he couldn’t understand, but because Fuyumi won’t tell him everything.

 

The weird guy does not get any less weird.  He does cough up blood, though, which is why the Todoroki brother doesn’t leave.  He has a cell phone; he can call an ambulance if he has to.

 

(Meanwhile, All Might is planning to call Child Services as soon as he gets a name)

 

Except, when the brother accidentally mentions his last name, he doesn’t get the reaction he expects, which is maybe this guy calling a gossip magazine or something.  Instead, the man’s eyes get really scary, he stands up, and he starts yelling like he knows Father.  And like he can punch him.  Which is weird, because this guy is built like a twig.  

 

Finally, the guy calms down, and says that the brother should go home and wait for one of the man’s friends to show up and help.  

 

About an hour later, All Might–All Might, bursts through the door, starts yelling at Todoroki Enji, and eventually gets into a fight with him.  By the end of it, the house is a wreck and All Might is gesturing for all of the kids to follow him to someplace safe.

 

They thought he meant a hotel, not Child Services.  Things happen very fast after that–there’s paperwork, checkups, a visit to the police station for a restraining order, some discussion about “temporary accommodations” and then suddenly, they’re at a relatively bare apartment full of blankets and pill bottles, with a man that one of the siblings recognizes.

 

“You’re All Might?” the child demands.

 

There are explanations.

 

An hour or so later, there’s a knock on the door.  “You broke Endeavor’s house and stole his children.  Tell me there’s an explanation for this. Please.”

 

There are more explanations, and a few phone calls to media outlets about how to handle this without putting the children through any additional trauma.

 

Eventually, the kids settle into the house.  All Might doesn’t immediately take to child-rearing, and the kids are jumpy and uncomfortable at first.  He doesn’t eat enough himself, so he’s bad at cooking and keeping food around.  He has a huge learning curve when it comes to dealing with their trauma.  The kids, meanwhile, have trouble remembering that All Might is a little bit fragile when he isn’t in hero mode.  But they figure it out, and Aizawa helps where he can.

 

And Endeavor quietly gets kicked out of the Hero Association after due process.

Originally posted 12/6/2016 with 506 notes

In answer to a question about how I came up with Riddle in Reverse

 I am spoiler-cutting how I came up with the fic because, well, how I came up with it basically spoils the ending of RiR; I came up with that before anything else in the fic.

 

As for how I came up with the idea,  I’d been wanting to write a timetravel fic for a while before I wrote Riddle in Reverse.  I also really liked Hakuba and I wanted to write a fic centered on him.  

 

But the catalyst for it was really the MK 1412 anime.  First off, the OP was done by a group I like and was immediately my favorite thing, and also, the lyrics sound kinda time-travel-ish.  A favorite Youtube singer of mine did translyrics, and the time-travel feeling got even more blatant (this is a song I can’t add to the eventual playlist because copyright but you should listen to it).  

 

Second, it really brought home how…weird Hakuba’s place in the narrative is.  Like, it makes sense for Gosho to have him help Kaito during the Chat Noir heist, in terms of what Gosho wants to achieve, but we’re never given an in-universe reason for why Saguru would want to engage in this frankly odd behavior.  He’s just really contradictory…dramatic at some times and cold to the point of being withdrawn at others; I know at least some of the reasons for his inconsistencies are that his appearances are years apart, but still…it made me want to try to write a fic where he had a backstory that made it all make sense. 

 

Finally, there was the Kaitou Corbeau arc, and I frankly just needed fixit for that on a number of levels.  Both because Chikage had potential to be interesting, and it was wasted, and because a terrible thing was done in those chapters but it had no emotional or actual consequences in the narrative.  I was not okay.

 

Anyhow, at some point, I think after watching an episode of the show together, I told miladyRanger, (my friend and beta reader for the fic) “I should write a fic where the explanation for Hakuba’s weird is that he’s timetraveling Kaito.”  And like the amazing person she is, she immediately started suggesting ways in which this could work and before you know it, we had a pretty sprawling AU.  

 

It starting with Corbeau, and being narrated by Chikage, came from my desire for Corbeau fixit as well as my love of complex female characters and spy shenanigans.  Everything else built from that point.  Structuring it as a mystery just seemed natural, given the fandom, and I thought it would make things fun. 

 

While I didn’t have it written first, Saguru quick-changing into KID was one of the clearest mental images I had from the fic, and it was present almost from the beginning.  I knew it had to happen. 

Originally posted 12/6/2016