Class 1a are hit with a quirk that cause them to show ways of how their quirks effect them like aizawa's hair floats and eyes stay permanently red while bakugou's palms glow and momo's skin glows(like a goddess)
but ofa manifests like 8 pairs of glowing hands wrapped around izuku like a hug or pat on the back
feels re assuring for izuku, looks really creepy for everyone else
Izuku has a hand ruffling his hair, a fist pressed to his heart, a splayed palm on his back pushing him forward, a pair on his shoulders in reassurance, hands wrapped around him in a hug, some holding to his arms to balance him, some around his legs to lift him up. It's strange, but not uncomfortable- it feels nice, even
Except Class 1A, who've all seen Shigaraki in his full Hands McMike outfit at USJ, are having flashbacks and nervously trying to figure out why a strength quirk looks like that.
"Eh?" said Midoriya, who happened to be the closest to Kaminari as they filed into the Demonstration Hall with the rest of the school. "What do you mean? We're always getting stronger, and the teachers--"
"Not that," said Kaminari. "I mean, definitely, we are getting stronger, we killed it at the licensing exam. Ninety-five percent pass rate for the first year class, right? But I'm not sure how showing us hallucinations about our quirks is supposed to help with that, it just seems illogical--"
"What seems illogical?" asked Aizawa, looming up behind them.
"Nothing, sensei!" said Midoriya, recovering far more quickly than Kaminari. "I can think of dozens of reasons visualizing one's quirk might be useful for a hero student, especially if the visualization reflects reality well. Like if that student is having trouble activating their quirk, or if the quirk has secondary effects that aren't well understood, or if--"
Aizawa let Midoriya go on for another few list items, then cut him off with a heavy sigh. "Go find your seats, you two."
They scurried off.
Aizawa sighed again, but this time it was less exaggerated. The fact was, both of them were right. Higuchi's quirk was quite useful under certain circumstances, and they'd contracted with her several times in the past to work with students that were having trouble with their quirks. But today they were bringing her in to do the whole school, on the theory that quirks foreign to their bearers might be visualized differently from a native quirk.
Honestly, they were running out of valid leads on the suspected mole. The reaction Higuchi's quirk had on the captive nomu had been... interesting... but without a known, living person who had received a quirk from All for One to compare to, Aizawa didn't think any results from this were worthwhile. Might as well go by whose body was least suitable for their quirk, and if Midoriya was working for All for One, Aizawa would eat both his hero license and his teaching license. And his driver's license. And his fishing license. And his license to kill (which he didn't actually have, but a guy could dream).
Aizawa slunk off to his designated spot as Higuchi walked up to the front of the stage.
"Hello, everyone," she said in that casual air of hers. "I'm Higuchi Chie, nice to meetcha." She adjusted the microphone and put her hands in her pockets. "Any of y'all know what my quirk does?"
Dozens of hands went up. Higuchi pointed into the crowd and Midoriya sprang to his feet.
"Your quirk generates a wave that, when it encounters a quirked individual, produces semi-tangible holograms or other minor physical effects that correspond to the effects that individual's quirk has on them."
"That's-- actually right. Huh. Sorry. I'm just so used to people calling them illusions or hallucinations. Anyway." She scratched her eyebrow. "Effects of my quirk can range from duplicating your emitter side-effects to, like, your own personal Pokémon. Pokémon is still popular, right?"
There was silence in the hall.
"Okay, whatever," said Higuchi. She raised a hand. "Watch the birdy!"
She snapped her fingers and her quirk rippled across the Demonstration Hall.
Some of the effects were at least somewhat expected. Togata's skin became transparent. Harmless spirals appeared in the air around Hado. Sato and Koda both had lines on their bodies that converged on their mouths. Shinsou initially didn't seem to have undergone any changes, but when he opened his mouth to say something to a classmate, glowing lines radiated outwards from his mouth.
Others were stranger. Todoroki's quirk manifested as two beautiful (and admittedly rather Pokémon-like) birds, which immediately started fighting one another. Nezu was plugged into a huge computer chip that faded in and out of view.
The wave reached Aizawa, and he grimaced at the odd sensation of his eyes glowing and his hair floating when his quirk wasn't active. It was distracting.
But not distracting enough for Aizawa to ignore how things had gone unnaturally quiet near Midoriya.
He pushed past several rows of children who were standing and craning for a better view, including Bakugo, whose hands were wreathed in smoke and covered in ember-like veins, firecraker sparks in his palms, then he stopped.
"Problem child," he said, voice strangled.
"What?" asked Midoriya, both worried and defensive. "What is it?"
What "it" was, was hands. Hands that clung to Midoriya, to his shoulders, his back, his arms, even the top of his head.
It painted a disturbingly Shigaraki-like picture. Aizawa wasn't sure if the bright colors of these hands and the way they moved made the image better or worse. It didn't look like his classmates knew, either, from the looks of them.
It had to be a coincidence.
Aizawa really wanted it to be a coincidence.
Oblivious to the multiple crises he was causing, Midoriya poked curiously at one of the hands. The hand, one of two blue ones, started poking him back.
Aizawa wrenched his gaze away to pick out other strength quirks in the crowd. Almost all of them, including Sato, featured some kind of glowing pattern on their skin. Other than Midoriya, the only exceptions were a girl from 3-C whose strength was actually contact telekinesis and fit that pattern well enough, and Yagi, whose quirk manifested as a diffuse golden cloud swirling around his body like pale fire.
... One that was suspiciously similar to the color and aura around one of Midoriya's extra hands.
Shinsou was quiet throughout dinner. It wasn’t much of a surprise, Aizawa more or less expected it. Switching houses and families two days into the school year was a big change, especially moving to live with one of his teachers. Aizawa himself wasn’t even sure how long he’d be fostering the kid, but unless Shinsou said otherwise, he was preparing for throughout high school at the least.
What if Aizawa is some form of cryptic that one day stumbled upon the school someday and he wasn't allowed to leave ever since? Like he's Mothman or some shit (btw check out this wip of aizawa being Mothman that i found) and he's being a lil cryptic shit like "Everyone's gonna be so confused" and so he sits their as a student in the hero course. Enter Oburo and Hizashi.
They take one look at the thing with hair as black as the void, eyes that are hazy, always shifting, always watching, and the smell of dew and grass and mold coming off him like he's been living in the forest all his life. They take one look at this Aizawa i-take-your-quirk-if-you-come-too-close Shouta and decide he's their best friend now.
And since then Aizawa is stuck.
He hisses and scratches and his eyes turns blood red and somehow your quirk refuses to work? Aww he's an introvert!
He skips school until either one of his 'friends' come and drag him their? Aww he wants to walk to school with them!
He lives in a forest? Ooh he's also antisocial too, but don't worry shouta! We'll be sure to give you a healthy dose of socialisation so you wont go crazy all alone!
He can talk to animals? Must have been hit with a quirk when you were younger!
Can talk to shadows? Wow, young shouta must have been very clumsy to be hit with so much quirks
Wait what's his quirk? Well, nezu gave them this analysis after shouta tore his to shreds and looks like he can null quirks he looks at. Cool!
How shouta got into school? The teachers figured he was a potential nezu found. Nezu figured he was a potential one of his staff found and wanted to be cryptic about him to get back at all th bs nezu pulls on them.
A quick search into the school's database and another search in the government database and nezu is slightly concerned about why this child does not have an identity
The next day official papers were presented to Hizashi and co. to keep on and make sure aizawa doesn't shred
And it went on for years. No one could figure that aizawa Was Not Human for years, until he's somehow roped into teaching a bunch of brats about heroics and whatever other bs this society is on about these days. A young kid with bush-like hair enters his classroom, takes one look at him, and asks "what the fuck is that"
If aizawa could die, he would be happy dying at this moment. He swears he can feel these 'happy tears' his friends talk about.
And so aizawa and midori for the remainder of the year try to find anyone who’d just believe them.
His friends thinks it’s nice that he's bonding with his students. He's using "friends" with heavy quotations for the rest of the year as retaliation.
On the day of oburo's death, two pieces of shouta died. A piece he intentionally gave away to his...friend to still have a connection to this earth to visit it whenever he wishes to
And a piece, crumbled to dust when the ghost of oburo stood above collapsed buildings and shot him a smile. It was not eye-hurting-bright smile, and was not i-am-annoying-you-like-friends-do smile. It was like the smiles nezu-sensei gives him when he says he's not human, or that he doesn't need therapee because he'll never feel like other people do
And oburo looks at him and asks him one question
"How many quirks were you hit with, sho-sho?"
A glass-shattering scream could be heard from across the country. Many believed it was a grieving hizashi scream. It was the scream of a very frustrated aizawa
He threw the piece of his shadows at his face, and left with a done shout of "this will ground you to this plane. Visit hizashi and nemuri for fucks sake!" And leaves
And if he goes to check on hizashi after two whole days on no-pestering, if he lets nemuri cry on him and doesnt complain of the salty, slimy liquids that get absorbed into his hair, if he lets tensei talk and talk and mourn a shout and cry more than any human probably should, if he talked and talked and talked and checked and persuaded his, his friends to try this therapy guy and let them hug him and drag him around with less aggression because now they're sad and fragile and he doesn't want, he refuses to be the reason they snap
Then no one but his shadows will know. And the annoying ghost of oburo.
And the therapist nezu-sensei forced him to go to. Maybe he shouldn't have said that he can't feel like humans.
BNHA AU where both All Might & Eraserhead meet Izuku before UA in separate events. And then, for plot reasons, they both end up visiting the Midoriya household a lot. Eventually they cross paths and—here’s the important part—they are both think that the other is Izuku’s dad.
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