Alpha Tokoyami Headcanons
Yes! My bird boy needs love and he doesn’t get enough of it! Mix that with Omegaverse, especially him being an alpha? Hot damn I’m down! I’ll try to post again later tonight but we’ll see if I can finish it in time. Anyways, thanks for reading, and until next time!
He’s not the most standoffish of alphas, and you probably don’t even notice he’s pining after you as he’s a master of watching from afar, studying your habits and likes in preparation for when he finally finds the courage to ask you to court him. Keeping Dark Shadow controlled whenever any other person that wasn’t an omega, or even an omega friend who was getting too close in his opinion, was a struggle.
It takes him the longest out of anyone in class 1A to approach you. It’s no secret that he’s not the most confident, and he views you as the most perfect creature on this unforgiving earth, so why would you want to be with someone as dark and damaged as him?
After enough pep talks and pushing from Dark Shadow, who can hardly contain himself around you at this point, and his classmates who just want to see him finally go for it after watching him pin after your oblivious ass for so long, he finally works up the courage to present you with his courting gift.
The seasons were turning from fall to winter, and he had noticed how much you shivered in class and how you complained about the cold to your friends and he had lent you his jacket more then once, relishing in how cute in looked draped over your frame and how much it smelled like you when you gave it back to him.
What better courting gift than a hand knitted sweater? Easier said than done. After buying a pattern book and spending hours in the craft store trying to decide on the perfect yarn to use, he found out that knitting wasn’t as easy as he thought it would be, and his first couple attempts were total flops. The struggle he had with making something that he was pleased enough with to give you was what contributed to how long it took him to ask you out.
When he finally had something he didn’t hate, he immediately went to your dorm before he could chicken out.
He knocked, heart rapidly beating as he heard your footsteps patter across the floor towards the door, and as soon as you opened the door he shoved the black sweater your way. Momentarily confused, it took a second for you to recover and move the garment from where it blocked your view. When you could see him again you saw that he had his face turned away, trying to hide his blush while Dark Shadow peeked pensively over his shoulder at you with what you could only say was puppy eyes.
“Tokoyami, is this?...are you?...are you asking to court me?”
“Yes. You are the light to my dark life in this cruel world, and nothing would bring my wandering soul more joy then if you would agree to stand by my side.” Dark Shadow nudged at his shoulder, as if reminding him that he was there. “Our side, I mean.”
It was your turn to blush. You had a crush on the alpha, but had always been too nervous to ask him out. He placed third at the sports festival after all, and while your quirk wasn’t anything to scoff at (you had gotten into UA’s class 1A after all), you weren’t the strongest of your classmates.
Glancing from the black hand knitted sweater in your hands to the two shy alphas in front of you, you were unable to contain the content purrs that sounded from your chest.
The sound made the shy bird look back at you as Dark Shadow perked up.
“Of course. I would be honored to.”
And thus started your relationship with class 1A’s resident emo bird.
Even though he’s an alpha and likes to pretend that he’s all emo and edgy, he’s actually a softy. He likes to read and write poetry for you, taking you on midnight picnics and reading them to you under the moonlight while Dark Shadow sandwiches you between them.
Don’t even get started on nest because this guy is the king of them. Low key probably has something to do with his bird instincts but he has such a talent for arranging things in your nest, which no alpha has ever been good at as far as you knew. You only had to do minimal adjusting but that was it. After a while he even discovered your love for wrapping yourself in his cloak, making sure to leave one that was freshly scented whenever he couldn’t be with you during your heats.
The first time you asked him to scent something for your nest he promptly did so, as well as Shadow. What you weren’t expecting was for him to turn up the next day with an armload of blankets and other plush items for your nest, freshly scented.
When he discovered the sweater he had knitted you in the heart of your nest he had all but turned into an emotional mess, honored that you would put something that he made and represented his love for you in such a personal part of your life.
While he is doting like all alphas, he’s one of the best for giving you your own space to breath, trusting in your strength as a hero and a person to be able to handle yourself for the most part.
Doesn’t mean he won’t hesitate to destroy anyone who harms you, classmate or not.
If you’re looking for an alpha who has control over himself then Tokoyami is your guy. This guy getting teritorial is almost completely unheard of as it takes a large amount of control to control Dark Shadow and that translates over to controlling his own instincts. In short, very disciplined.
If Tokoyami has control over his instincts then Shadow is on the completely other side of the spectrum. He has no shame or limits when it comes to things like being territorial over you or showing others how strong of an alpha can be. They more or less balance each other out.
It’s like you have two mates dating Tokoymai because dark shadow also comes along with the deal. Funnily enough, they both have a different scent. Tokoyami’s scent is akin to old pages and what can only be described as fall air, while dark shadow smells like campfire smoke and surprisingly vanilla.
While you find both of their scents very calming, they seem to almost become jealous of each other at times. If one scents you then the other has to and it's like a constant fight, trying to get you to smell more like them then the other. With the scent of both alphas smothering you as they fight for your attention, it often left you as a pile of mush as you drowned in their scent.
After times like these you would smell so strongly of them that some would mistake you for an alpha yourself, or would avoid you and give a wide berth in fear that you had an incredibly territorial alpha that would rip them to shreds if they got too close.
Dark shadow was clearly pleased that everyone knew you were theirs, and while Tokoyami himself was more bash about it he couldn’t deny that he was pleased that you proudly walked around with his scent on you.
While he is a gentleman that has remarkable control over his instincts, he still has the capability to let go and become feral. The first time you saw it, it honestly scared you. You had been there when he lost himself at training camp, and even then you had been more concerned for his own safety than anything.
This was unlike you had ever seen him before.
It was during your internships and Hawks had gotten word that Tokoyami had a mate, and after he walked in with a scarf you had scented there was no way he was going to go any longer without meeting his shy intern’s little mate. After a bit of poking around he found out who you were interning under and suggested you all go out patrolling together.
So there you were, walking around the city with Hawks shooting rapid fire questions your way while Tokoyami tried not to die of embarrassment.
When the villains hit it was without warning. You were quickly separated and while he was concerned he knew you could handle yourself.
Fighting to find where you were, his head whipped sharply to the left as your burnt distressed scent flooded the area. There you lay pinned under some rubble as the villain above brought his sword down in a killing blow. You whimpered, waiting for the strike.
When you cracked your eyes open, you were met with the familiar almost pitch black body of Dark Shadow. The weight of the rubble was lifted from your leg and the familiar comfort of being cradled in the shadow’s claws. While you were in his grasp, the quirky creature was nowhere to be seen.
Glancing up you were met with a sight that would forever be burned into your memory.
While alphas going feral wasn’t completely unheard of, nor uncommon, it was extremely dangerous. When alphas went feral, their bodies themselves went under extreme changes, not to mention the chemical makeup in their body shifted, increasing testosterone and adrenaline while almost completely numbing them to pain and, in most cases, reason. In short they turned into deadly machines.
Dark Shadow was cloaked around Tokoyami. His grasp reached out behind him, cradling and shielding you. Tokoyami’s teeth, especially his canines, were elongated, sharp as knives and just as deadly. His nails were the exact same way, made only deadlier with Dark’s own addition.
It was all over in an instant. The villains laid on the ground, dead or alive you didn’t know but you didn’t have time to be concerned with your own rapidly fading consciousness. The last thing you remembered was the flashing or police sirens and shouting voices as Tokoyami’s familiar figure approached.
When you woke up in the hospital later, Tokoyami was instantly by your side along with Dark Shadow. Hawks later told you that they hadn’t even been able to get you away from him for the first hour after the fight, growling and lashing out at anyone who came near, including Hawks. They ended up having to tranq him with enough sedative to kill a horse to get him to calm down enough for them to load you into the ambulance.
Needless to say, he didn’t leave your side for weeks, constantly scenting and coddling you, not letting you walk anywhere with your injured leg and insisting on carrying you. Ironically, his popularity skyrocketed even though he wasn’t a hero yet. ‘The Alpha of Alphas’ the newspapers called him. No doubt you teased him about it.
Yes, you really struck lucky with Tokoyami as your alpha. Though, he would insist it was the other way around, claiming that he’s the one luck to have you.
All in all, best alpha 10/10.
