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Noe of the Mist

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When Nikola finally gets her new body

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Old Man Yaoi AU future rambles

I never posted the full thing here, so I thought why not, since I'm struggling to get anything new down lol. Just copy and pasted from twitter, so forgive any weird formatting or errors!

I started this not knowing where I wanted to go with it, just knowing '10 years after being gone from japan, old man yaoi afomight come back because Toshinori has a bleeding heart and AfO is along for the ride' . And I didn't know what I wanted to show exactly, just the comfort and ease at which the two acted with one another.

AfO's gonna join Toshi at the railing and hold out a hand. Knowing what he wants, Toshi's gonna pull out a pack of cigarettes and let AfO take one.

"I don't know why I still carry these." Toshi says, watching as AfO lights the cigarette with a flicker of a stolen fire quirk. "

Habit." AfO says. "The lingering effects of the leash around my neck. Does it bother you?"

All Might quirks a brow. "What? The fact that I have to carry your shit for you, even now?"

AfO chuckles. That wasn't what he meant, and Toshi knows it. That's answer enough really - the experiments, the chip in his brain (even now long destroyed), the torture that AfO went through at the hands of the HPSC - of course it still bothered Toshi.

Coming back to japan…

It's weighing on Toshi. He's here to help his former students, even though he's retired officially as a hero. Vigilantism is still frowned upon, but no-one has the balls to tell All Might to keep to the sidelines, especially now that he has a few quirks on his side. And AfO. And isn't that funny? AfO has stated many times that he refuses to lend a hand. Toshi's alright with that. He's alright with the company alone. He still marvels at the fact that AfO still kept himself leashed to-

(Guilt, self hatred, Toshi still hasn't let them go. His former enemy could throw him that crooked grin that he'd hated so much in the past and Toshi would just melt these days.)

Toshi let out a heavy breath. Being back here… it was making it so much harder to rationalize his thoughts. His emotions. AfO stood by his side through all the meetings, appearing bored out of his mind and throwing in many a snide remark, and Toshi looked at him and thought 'I should hate this man.'

He didn't, though. The heroes, his former students scurried around the former demon lord like he was going to snap at any minute. Tenko refused to be in the same city as him. Izuku and Katsuki watched AfO with a single minded determination to put him down before he can even think to make a move, and only Toshi knew that AfO really had no intention to shatter the tentative truce in place.

Only Toshi knew AfO had other plans. He always had other plans. Some Toshi knew the details of, some he didn't, and there was a time when that would have terrified him. 15 years to spend together, through danger after danger…

Toshi knew AfO.

The doubts, when they appeared, didn't last.

"Does it bother you?" Toshi tossed the question back, and AfO paused, cigarette to his lips. Hazy white eyes drift to meet Toshi's, and the former hero marvels at just how easy it was to read AfO now.

AfO was disgruntled.

"Yes, and no." AfO said. "I don't care about your little students." A pause, and AfO's eyes gain a focus that has Toshi's hackles raising. "Hm. No, I suppose I do. But not because they all fear me or I feel any guilt for what I did to them."

A long time ago, Toshi would have flinched. He didn't even bat an eye now, even as he thought of Tenko and the sheer torment that All for One put that boy through.

(Guilt, guilt, guilt...)

"No, your one boy... Izuku Midoriya." AfO's gaze dropped focus again, his form relaxing when Toshi didn't bite at him defensively at the sound of his former students name. Toshi stood there, listening. "Or rather, One for All. And my brother."

Toshi hummed. His focus is intent. "Are you going to try taking it back again?"

AfO didn't look at him. Eyes unfocused again, cigarette dangling from between his fingers, burning away without being used. Toshi waited patiently. "... I said I would not." All for One finally said as he came back to himself. There's a tension to his mouth now. He's unhappy about it. "Your trust was hard enough to earn as it was. However..."

AfO is in Toshi's personal space now, a wall of heat pushing back the encroaching chill of the evening. Toshi braced a hand against the railing and shifted to face him, brow quirked. AfO always did like to crowd when he wanted to make a point or had something important to say.

"Do you remember what I said to you that last night we were here?" There's that crooked grin again, charming and threatening and so very well practiced. "When you played at hero when you didn't need to? When you were bleeding out and I had to carry you to safety?"

Toshi swallowed a sudden lump in his throat. "When - yes, what are you getting at?"

AfO finally brings the cigarette to his lips and takes a lazy drag. Smoke curls through the air, and Toshi breaths it in with shiver, remembering a time when he would have doubled over, unable to breathe.

"I can't fault you for being a hero." AfO said. "It's who you are at your core. You're the perfect hero, and I so utterly adore that. You're here to help, because of course you are, you're All Might."

Even when praising him it sounds condescending.

"But I want you to remember what I told you then." AfO flicked the cigarette carelessly to the ground and crushed it under the heel of his shoe. "About what will happen if your heroism gets the best of you, and you end up killing yourself."

At that, Toshi winced. Ah.

(a preview of THAT is this)

(imagine Toshi's head in AfO's lap after being shot by the president of the HPSC lmao...)

AfO's smile is all threat. "If you let your heroism get the best of you, and you end up killing yourself, then know that there is nothing left to prevent me from completing my initial goals and taking One for All for myself."

It wasn't the healthiest of ultimatums.

But it was one Toshi remembered laughing at after hearing it for the first time. Live, because if not then AfO would turn back into the supervillain he was at heart? 'Live, or else I kill everything you hold dear?' He'd thought it was kind of sweet. Hadn't wanted to question why.

Still doesn't want to question why. Even now, he finds it kind of sweet. Knows its... messed up.

He smiles at All for One, feeling warm. "Don't worry about me. I don't plan on dying anytime soon."

"Good boy." All for One croons, and his arms snake around Toshi's waist.

They stand together in silence for a moment, and the evening sky deepens around them. AfO breaks the silence. "I feel you should know it's actually quite difficult to behave. I'm showing remarkable restraint."

Toshi snorts against AfO's neck, muffling his laughter. "Good boy."

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For context (i dont think I ever posted the thing here??) but this is why they're back in Japan LMAO (again fully copy and pasted from twitter, edited a wee bit)

(This is all very vague and not thought out, just an idea)

I've been imagining that All Might's back in Japan after a decade, All for One in tow. He'd been wanting to come back-for a long time, but had been dallying. Afraid of seeing what's become of those he left behind (that he abandoned)

But Izuku had reached out, frantic. Something odd has been targeting the pro heroes, putting them in a deep slumber. Everyone's stumped, a good deal of the ranks are under this mysterious quirk's affects (Bakugo….) , so Izuku's… really kinda desperate

No one knows how it happened, no witnesses

So All Might comes home. AfO tags along (collared but not leashed.) (So very tame)

("It sounds familiar." Dull white eyes stare at Toshi, unfocused. Unabashedly listening in on the phone call with his freaky enhanced hearing. "That sounds… like an old friend of mine." AfO teases this little tidbit of information over their heads, bemoaning about how it was "x amounts of decades ago. I don't remember him. He wasn't memorable. His quirk, however… he did nothing of merit with it. I took it and put it to better use." And he grins at All Might, eyes lighting up in prideful joy. "It's mine. Which means whoever used it has a copy. My dear Doctor is still alive, yes?")

(And Ujiko is still alive, yes, kept under lock and key, so he would have had no part in it . It's a mystery, idk, I haven't thought it out)

But at some point Afo, tagging along, not interfering or helping , randomly says to All Might Loudly at some point (in izuku's ear shot) "I can lend a hand, if you'd like?" All Might snorts and shoots AfO a toothy grin. "Do whatever you want." Hearing that chills Izuku to the core, because All Might just fucking told All for One that he could do /whatever the fuck he wanted to do/

Danger sense has been a constant strain on him, never letting up a second in All for One's presence.

Izuku had to trust All Might

He has to. (And cut to a climax later. Big finale, All Might is off taking care of something else, Izuku is stuck dealing with the guy with the copy Dream quirk. AfO is there. I don't have any details. The point is Izuku is alone with 2 enemies (one way way way scarier than the other) and Izuku KNOWS he needs to trust All Might.

(But its hard. Its so damn hard.)

All for One holds a hand out to Izuku, skin a pale glow against the black smoke around them. The hole in the center of his palm is so stark, a bottomless void. It was almost silly for it to be so terrifying. "Well?" All for One says with a toothy smile. "Want that hand, Izuku?"

And damn it all. Danger sense screamed at him, the vestiges a roar in his head, deafening and painful - and Izuku reaches for that hand. He had to trust All Might)

(And to Izukus surprise, All for One did just as he said. He helped. There was no sudden betrayal, no force trying to scrape the vestiges from his core.

They won, the day was saved (villain was an obsessive fangirl who had somehow gotten her hands on the copy of the dream quirk and was basically sucking out her fave heroes souls to live in a dream world with her LMAO)

(I'm just gonna have it that AfO used the dream quirk to zap Izuku into the girls dreams/psyche whatever where he talk no jutsued her or whatever lmao) (Like I said I haven't really thought it out) But anyway BECAUSE AfO did nothing, and Izuku trusted All Might - Izuku lowered his guard. Danger sense was a constant, it never stopped, but Izuku had been growing used to it- All for One's hand on his shoulder. A friendly gesture. The pull knocked the air out of Izuku's lungs, and he couldn't react. He was ready for anything. To fight with tooth and nail if he had to.

But there in the vestige world, AfO simply stood and smiled at them.

His eyes were only on Yoichi.

"Worry not, my beloved little brother." He coos. "I just wished to see you again, is that so wrong?"

(AND thats all I have lmao)

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(Old man Yaoi AU)

All for One encounters her during one the HPSC's missions. He hasn't seen, nor really thought about Himiko Toga since he'd surrendered himself, but he finds himself pleasantly surprised at her appearance.

Until she speaks.

(Full thing in celebration of completing my deadline stuff! All for One, having these sorts of feelings? Ridiculous.)

(Had to crop the smut cause it was nuked before but you can see the full thing on my twitter and my patreon)

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So it looks like NaNoWriMo are happy to have AI as part of their community. Miss me with that bullshit. Generative artificial intelligence is an active threat to creativity and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in creative fields.

Please signal boost this so writers can make an informed choice about whether to continue to take part in such a community.

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In the process of reblogging newer art over here... friendly reminder to friends that you should definitely be following my art blog @blackberreh-art since thats where I talk more :"D

I really wish tumblr allowed us to make side blogs a main blog...

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Too close!!

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To see her at the Hero Gala... what's going on?

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New month!!! You know where to find these two demon AU things eheh~ (and ill hopefully have the threesome comic up tonight/tomorrow morning~)

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4 page Demon AU shenanigans is up~!

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My pieces for the Thread of Fate tarot zine!!! 8 of cups and The Tower! I had fun with these~

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Guards! He's being inappropriate!!

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Near the End - Old Man Yaoi AU

(spoilers for what's to come, the HPSC stand-in president is about to be obliterated because how dare he take away AfO's 'toy' before he's done playing with it)

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In the HPSC's main headquarters too?! How does she keep doing this...

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Truly the cutest in the whole world 🥰

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Sunrise