rip I’m also wading through job apps right now 😔✌️ good luck!!! I’d love to hear any tidbits you might like to share about Despite the Milestones though :))
Oh I def do!! Im gonna stick to things I probably won't touch on in the fic (bc I dont want to go over his entire life and would rather not make it more angsty)
Hitoshi managed to snap mic out of his paralysis on his own in one scene, but this was the first time he had done it- he had never said the command "stop" for "stop being frozen" before then and currently isnt strong enough to shake anyone out of their trance state on his own. There are two reasons why he hadn't tried it before: one, he's a baby. And two, after a while of getting frozen on her own, his mother instilled a fear of both freezing and unfreezing others into him.
A little more info about his mother- shes slightly older then hizashi, but not by much. She was about 22 when she had him. She didn't start out abusive, but after getting frozen for long periods of time by hitoshis quirk (which developed around the time he started to talk) she started to fear it and snap after she was frozen. She eventually muzzled him, but she quickly realized how fucked it was and gave him up. She's currently facing minor charges for the abuse she put him through, but bc she realized she was unfit to care for him due to his quirk and gave him up, she will not face a big punishment (bnhas systems r shown to be flawed in these ways and discriminatory towards certain quirks). She will eventually try to get partial custody when Hitoshi is older, but she will be rejected. Hitoshi will get to decide if he wants to pursue a relationship with her or not, and treats her like a distant aunt he occasionally meets with. Erasercloudmic takes turns supervising these visits.
Adapting an idea an anon had, but for a while, hitoshi figures that erasercloudmic used a quirk to have him, and that hes biologically all of theirs. He doesn't remember much from his early days and hizashi doesnt have pictures from before he got custody of hitoshi. He also decided it would be better to avoid showing Hitoshi pictures where he still has fresh muzzle marks, so this plays into hitoshis confusion when he finds out he has a mother. It never occurred to erasercloudmic to remind him of her when he was older jabshdksshsj. Hitoshi figures out that mic is his sole bio father due to the eyes, as well as his complaints about hitoshi looking more like oboro and shouta.
This is something i actually might write into the fic but. When hitoshi is older and their family is in a more stable place, erasercloudmic realizes that they'd like another kid someday- not right away, and they aren't sure if they'd want to use a quirk to have a child or adopt. After they realize this, Oboro and Shouta will privately tease mic by asking him to go out and make them another kid. Mic quickly grows tired of the joke, eventually jokes back that hes gonna make sure that hitoshis sibling doesn't look like the other two parents at all, so they better drop the idea.
Mic really worries about hitoshi having doubts about if mic wants him or not (after all, he is a lovechild that mic didn't know about for a while) so mic showers him with a lot of love during the times when he’s most anxious about it. Hitoshi gets the message loud and clear, he experiences brief doubts but in the end knows that hes wanted and loved.
