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Big Bang Fic #22: One for Sorrow by @thestormfall
Ao3 Summary: [Semi-AU] “They say that seeing a lone magpie is a bad omen.” – In the midst of his third year, Izuku has started getting glimpses of what he discovers must be his past lives. Past lives that seem to be inexplicably linked to Uraraka’s. As his dreams grow more frequent, he realises that there is one common thread that links them together: they always end with a death. He’s got one thing going for him that none of the others did, however. He’s a hero and he’s going to find a way to prevent history for repeating itself.
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All of our Big Bang stories also had another summary for the artist, to entice them to the different fic ideas. This was the original summary given.
[Semi-AU] Being born quirkless in this modern hero society, when Izuku wants nothing more than to save people, seems like it is nothing short of a curse. That’s because it is. Izuku is a reincarnation of someone who had angered a powerful yokai 500 years ago, who in turn subjected him to a continuous curse. The exact conditions to breaking the curse are…ambiguous to say the least. Yet, he’s dreamt of his past lives. And he is quite certain that his curse is in relation to Ochako, who is present in every lifetime. While discovering more and more of his history with Ocako’s past selves, he realises that there is certainly a disturbing pattern emerging - one of them always dies saving another. They’ve already saved each other countless times in this life - yet in their line of work there are so many more opportunities to die. They have to discover how to break this curse, before it’s too late.
[Art by @afanatic4life on twitter, link in the replies!]
