I hope this message finds you well. My name is Aziz, and I’m reaching out with a heartfelt plea to help my family find safety and reunite with our mother. 😞
The ongoing war in Gaza has torn my family apart. My mother and newborn sister are stranded in Egypt, while I, along with the rest of my sex family members, am trapped in the midst of the genocide in Gaza. We have not only been separated but have also lost our home and are enduring unimaginable hardships. 💔
Your support can make a difference. Whether by reading our story, donating, or sharing our campaign with others, you can help us reunite, find safety, and start anew. 🙏🕊
Thank you, from the depths of my heart, for your kindness, compassion, and solidarity during this difficult time. ❤🍉
@pininguntamedshrew, I am so sorry it took this long.
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The last one to leave the hospital was Toya.
Extensive damages during the attack, the trauma experienced that day and what was experienced after that. Even after he was taken in to be treated for his burns… Toya lacks control over his quirk. The hospital staff in charge of him, still remember his cries for help as they themselves, grit their teeth as they tried to fight off the blue flames. It took the teamwork of Enji, Eraserhead and Recovery Girl to help the young Todoroki to learn control and start a long path of recovery.
“Is… Shoto…?” Enji combed his son’s hair, doing his best not to pull his son’s delicate skin, wires or breathing mask. Toya had such lovely reddish hair, that turned white after the incident. Just seeing the change was enough to cause Toya’s flames to rage. Hearing his son’s raspy pleading voice, has the father run his hands through the tween’s hair.
“He’s okay. He’s home with the Bakugo’s bothering Katsuki-chan.” Enji murmured, brushing his thumb across his son’s forehead. Seeing the visibly relief rush across the entirety of Toya’s body, has the man rage within him with resentment. That worry… Toya is so young to feel such responsibility. That was his and Rei’s to bear.
Enji should be the one clinging onto an inch of his life. Not Toya… Natsuo… Fuyumi… Shoto… and especially Rei, who still blames herself. He should have paid better attention to the recent events. Set better protection to his family… so many what if’s that are eating him alive still.
“Knock-knock~”
Enji glanced back to see All Might, leaning into the room with a bouquet of flowers. The man was dressed in a yellow suit that he seemed to think suits him well. Enji doesn’t have the heart to tell the other hero the suit does not give him justice. “All Might, what do I owe this visit?”
“All Might?” Toya’s raspy voice caught All Might’s attention. There was a touch of shock and hopefulness in his voice that has Enji mildly of the other hero. “He’s here?”
“I am here! And I brought flowers!” All Might walked into the room and the hero’s smile tightened at the sight of the ten-year-old. This isn’t the first time he saw the young boy, both before and after the attack. Every visit just reminds him just how despicable humanity could be. Those cowardly villains, attacking a family in such a… “I was informed you are quite a fan of mine!”
Toya’s attempt at smiling truly shows how much one’s hero could change the entire outlook of one child. All Might signaled for Enji to leave the room as he went on about his latest hero work. Taking his que, Enji placed the brush on a side table, muttering to his son that he’d be right back. Toya didn’t seem to hear him, completely enthralled over All Might’s stories.
Enji left the hospital room to see Nighteye and Eraserhead looking into the room through the one-way window covered in posters. It was learned early on; Toya is still not ready to see his reflection. “Any updates?”
“I found their hideout.” Eraserhead said bluntly, causing Enji’s eyebrows to shoot up. Shota Aizawa, a UA student who was called in to help Toya with his recovery. Aizawa was called in after it became evident that every attempt to wake up Toya, he would unknowingly activate his quirk. Which… Toya’s body is unable to withstand against the heat. It was a long process and Enji is forever grateful for the upcoming underground hero.
“You… found it?”
Eraserhead looked away, figuring out his words. “I found a guy, who knows a guy.”
“I traced back the man who is connected with the group in question.” Nighteye mentioned, he kept his gaze into the room and hands in his pockets. “I already contacted everyone we will need for this mission. All we need now, is for you to be ready.”
“This is it, isn’t it?”
“By the end of this mission, your son finally comes home without worry.”
-.-
Rei gulped down her sixth water bottle for the past hour alone. She has had several surgeries and extensive rehab for her to start her training to become a hero again. A painful experience to the point her husband had to force her to return to bed to rest. No, right now, Rei needs to get back into her training.
Train her body, mind, and control. Recovery has been an actual snowball chance in hell for her. Her quirk… Rei look down at her feet, covered in layers of ice. That is something she is going to be doing whenever she goes into fights. To avoid having her injury come back on full force or be used against her.
“Mama! Mama!”
Rei looked over to see Fuyumi and Natsuo running towards her, both in training gear. It looked like it was time for their training. She couldn’t help but let out a soft laugh at the sight of Shoto trying his best to run after his siblings. Watching her children now… brings her both joy and sorrow.
The joy of them being alive and able to spend another day with them. Seeing their smiles as they lived their lives. Sorrow… sorrow as they still have the scars of what happened to them on that frightful day. Fuyumi may no longer have physical scars, but her mental health took a massive hit. Her smile is no longer the same. Never reaching her eyes that kept looking out for any possible danger. To many times now, during Fuyumi’s treatment that her team of doctors would arrive to her room covered in ice and had cocooned herself in layers of ice… what would have been a showcase of talent turned to showing how much Fuyumi is hiding behind her smile.
Natsuo… he has not spoken since waking up after his coma. Every attempt to talk is met with puffs of freezing smoke that left his body. Now having to wear a temperature controlling vest that always beeped whenever he needed to get to a cooler location. A way to help cool himself from the sun is carrying an umbrella around that also has a cooling system. Masaru created the item and made several models for the young Todoroki.
Their training is mainly centered around being able to withstand the heart. Even if they attempted to use their quirks, it was pointless if they get easily overheated. Ice quirk users always have had that problem. Getting so easily over heated is their biggest weakness right now and they need to condition themselves to withstand it. To one day be able to use it for themselves in future fights.
After all, they plan on becoming heroes in the future.
-.-
Toya smiled along with his siblings as they played a couple of board games in the hospital’s gaming room. It was one of those rare, good days the Todoroki kids have together. Being able to play, laugh and feel normal again. Even if it is just a moment during this dark time of their lives. Early on, they chose to ignore the hospital staff, that kept a close eye on all of them. Mainly focused on Toya to ensure he did not accidently activate his quirk. Something he’s been doing less and less throughout his state in the hospital on his own now.
Now, what was different for today is Toya’s hair color. It was mentioned to Fuyumi and Natsuo that Toya’s therapist recommended something… different. It resulted with Toya dying his hair. It was already a huge shock beforehand to see his once red hair turning into a stark white after the incident. Now, it is a vastly different color that has Toya being able to stare back at his reflection without incident.
“Cookie monster?” Shoto pointed at his eldest brother’s hair. A look of curiosity crossed his face at the sight of Toya’s now blue hair. There was a long pause, everyone sucked in their breaths. All eyes on Toya, waiting for something to happen.
Toya, for his own part, looked down at his youngest brother. The first thing he saw is the healing burn marks that marred Shoto’s skin. Yet… Toya did not see fear, dislike or hatred. What he is seeing is his baby brother seeing demanding to play with his hair. He had to give it to Shoto… he has an adorable pout.
This… this is progress.
-.-
Endeavor wanted to be there for Toya, for finally leaving the hospital. Nearing nearly a year there and now being able to leave? A milestone if there was ever one. Yet… he is missing it. They know the reason for it. Everyone in the room knows why he is missing it. All of them sat or stood as they listened to the plan to strike down the Villain Organization that has been terrorizing many of their families over a year now.
For them, this is personal. This isn’t just a run of the mill job. This is a mission to take down a group that has brought down harm to their love ones and so many innocents that had no connections to any of them. This ends here, before the villains could attack another family.
“They will be expecting Endeavor and All Might to be there. We will use them as diversions…”
The mentioned heroes glanced at each other from across the room, both nodding in agreement. The organization will expect them to be there. Endeavor more so than All Might. They would set up individuals with quirks that could negate his own and of his own agency. This group is well organized to the tiniest of details. This isn’t a time to take chances with them.
“I am going to take a small group with me, we are to create a diversion while several other groups will infiltrate into the area…”
-.-
Rei knew they were being watched from all sides as she moved her children into the secured vehicle Masaru has created for this occasion. Durable and quirk proof to various degrees. Smiling along as the paparazzi took photos of her family. She didn’t want this but knew this needed to be done to get the heat off them.
Glancing back, she could see her husband being the last to exit the hospital. This was part of the plan. They needed to bring in a decoy as an insurance they won’t be attacked and to bring in an element of surprise to the final attack. The children… have an inkling but knew in their own way.
This has to be done. As much as they wanted their father to be here with them, they want those villains… those monsters be permanently gone. They all suffered and are still carrying those scars with them.
“How about we go get ice cream?” Enji smiled at the kids, all of them laughed and agreed to getting ice cream.
Ice cream… meant they are finally going home. Perhaps they’ll make it in time to see the news.
-.-
Endeavor stood in front of the fallen building that once stood the villain organization that nearly destroyed his own family. This was a personal mission, helping his family and so many others. Perhaps now, his family will be able to fully move on from this mess. After today’s battle only made his resolve stronger for the future. His children need to learn how to protect themselves to the fullest. Full on quirk training and so much more.
There must not be a repeat of that dreadful day.
-.-
“I-”
Grunt.
“We! We want to become heroes! We want to protect others! We…we…WE WANT TO BE STRONGER!!!”
Rei and Enji looked at each other with shock expressions. The two have agreed to have the children further train their quirks to the fullest. They haven’t even talked about the possibility of their children becoming heroes like themselves. They would have thought after what had happened…
Fuyumi, Toya, Natsuo and even Shoto sat across of them, all determined. All still carry their wounds but holding their heads so high and not backing down from their decisions.
“If all of you wish to go down this path, we will help the best as we could.”
“Please don’t hold back while training us.” Toya stated, his eyes filled with a fire that has his parents smiling. “We… I never want to lose control again.”
Sniffle~ Sniffle~
Enji couldn’t help but cry at the sight of his children, asking to not only be trained by him and Rei. But to also become heroes? His love and pride for this children only seemed to overwhelm him by the second… which also caused his children to let out varying sighs of disbelief to annoyance at their father’s currently display of emotion.
“I’m so proud of you four. I am going to make sure that you all reach your fullest potential!”
“Mom… dad is crying again.”
“Please ignore him… you know how he gets.”
“My babies are growing up…”
“Honey, we talked about this.”
“But my babies~ They are growing up!!!”
-.-
Toya sat in stool as Fuyumi and their mom applied dye onto his hair. He doesn’t know what color it’s going to be this time around as Natsuo and Shoto picked it. It didn’t sit well with him how they kept giggling and smirking at him whenever he asked about the color choice. It felt… nice.
“Your hair is so soft.” Fuyumi smiled brushing out her brother’s hair while Rei placed in the hair dye.
“Is it?” Toya asked wistfully, humming under his breathe. Life… has been good. More than good. Looking down at his hands, he still has the obvious burn marks that cover majority of his body. No longer do they bother him whenever he sees them. Now, they are a testament to his fully awakened quirk and the power to protect his family. Even if his body is still not fully capable with withstand his flames, it is for not. It just means he met his limits and it is a new milestone he needed to reach to surpass. “I can’t believe I got into Shiketsu High School.”
“Of course you did!” Rei smiled at her son’s achievement. “You’re father and I are so proud of you.”
“Is dad still pouting I didn’t get into UA?” Toya smiled.
“He’s……. you know how he gets.”
“I can still hear him sobbing from here.” Shoto deadpanned from his spot in the room.
“THEY ARE HAPPY TEARS! HAPPY TEARS!!!” Could be heard throughout the home.
“You did the same thing when Fuyumi got into Seiai Academy!!!” Shoto yelled back, that was quickly followed by another agonizing sob from his father. “Natsuo is planning on going to Ketsubutsu Academy!”
“Shoto, you’re killing your father.” Rei said through a strained smile as she heard her husband’s sobs throughout the home.
“He’s a big cry baby! He cried when Toya burned his hair off or when I burned is eyebrows off! How is he the number two hero!!!”
It happens because Aizawa straight up refuses to have a kid so reckless he is willing to break three limbs to leap in the air to kill a giant robot worth, with no plan to land. Since Nedzu knows Izuku has OFA, he can't just put him in Gen Ed so he gives him to Vlad.
I cannot begin to explain how panicked Vlad was when he learned the bone-breaking-kid was coming to his class.
Monoma kind of teases Izuku for breaking his bones and Izuku explains he got his quirk the day of the exam and that he intended to pass it quirkless. Monoma immediately shifts gears and is willing to murder anyone threatening this poor boy who got an even weirder quirk than his.
Vlad is the traitor so AFO receives very detailed reports on how his kid (along with the other 1-B students) is doing. I don't know if he is the one to explain to Vlad how to prevent a fragile kid from wrecking his body (A man can only take so much "Yeah, that strange green kid broke his bones again) but Izuku gets Full Cowl sooner than in canon.
I don't know the details but I know in my heart and my soul that 1-A got decimated during the Sport Festival. You cannot tell me that Monoma, king of competition, didn't take one look at Izuku's many notebooks and didn't exploit the hell out of it.
What if air nomads are pacifists bc they used to do shit like suffocating people and then saw the destruction they caused so turned away from it 🤔🤔
secret lore 👀? what if the reason why air nomads distance themselves from the rest of the world is because they don’t want to be tempted back into that cycle of violence
ya when i first saw someone mention the implication that he took all the air in the room, killing all the firebenders AND himself, i had to lay down for awhile
Everyone can do magic. Everyone except you, that is. Your aunt and uncle have always made fun of you for not being able to do magic, until one day you received a letter inviting you to a school of “science”, and you discovered a secret society of people who make great things without magic.
“Excuse me?” The young boy said to the blonde man reading on his desk, “I have been told I was called by the principal,” he says.
“Oh, you must be the new kid, the one with the scholarship,” the blonde man says looking at him, “Sure, my brother will see you in a moment,” he adds before touching a button on a strange thing the kid didn’t recognize, “He’s here, should I send him in, Hagane no Kōchō?” he asks, only for both of them to hear a clear yes from that object, “You may go in,” the blonde man instructs the student.
“Thank you,” he says before walking to a huge door that seemed made of stone, but it was too light to be from that material, “You wanted to see me, principal?” he asks once he was inside the huge office.
“Ah, yes,” another blonde man says to the student, “Allow me to welcome you to our school,” he says, walking to the student and shaking his hand, “I’m the new principal, my name is Edward Elric,” he says, introducing himself.
