41/50 Ghost/Living Person AU KiriDeku
Izuku is a ghost that haunts depressed Kirishima at night and sometimes joins him in his dreams
This has been going on for years
Starting when they were like 4 or 5 and Izuku was feeling down about being labelled as Quirkless and Kirishima was hurt by his own Quirk and started hating it and himself
They talk and bond and stuff and Izuku encourages Kirishima all the time
Fanboying together in the dream world where Kirishima masters lucid dreaming early on so they can do pretty much whatever they want
When they hang out as irl Kirishima and Ghost Izuku, they’re a little more real with each other since random thoughts and distractions don’t just appear at the slightest whim
Izuku confides in Kirishima about Katsuki’s bullying and learns that he didn’t need to follow a toxic person like that, even if they had the makings of a great hero
Kirishima talks about his fear that his Quirk will never be strong enough to help anyone and will just end up with him hurting over and over again
Izuku isn't sure if Kirishima is real or just a literal dream guy until they go to UA and that's how he discovers his Quirk.
Izuku may or may not have gotten OfA, haven’t decided.
If yes, they meet the first day when Izuku enters the 1-A classroom and things proceed as normal.
If no, they meet in the cafeteria (cause Izuku is in the general ed section), maybe during the panic that the VA caused when they broke into the school, and they literally run into each other, are forced to squeeze together and Kirishima can touch Izuku? That’s never happened in the real world?
Izuku is seeing his dream guy in front of him? What? He just grabbed his arm? OH SHIT HE’S USING HIS QUIRK TO PROTECT HIM?! HELP, THIS BEAUTIFUL BOY IS BEING AMAZING AND IZUKU IS NOT GOING TO SURVIVE THIS.
Kirishima thought Izuku was a Quirkless kid (he said so himself when they were talking) who was either an actual ghost (not so out there in a world of random powers) or someone he just made up so he could talk his problems out with
Lot’s of screaming “YOU’RE REAL?!”
If yes OfA, say his Quirk strengthens his empathy and mental capabilities along with physical strength.
If no OfA, it’s a secret Quirk that has always been active, but neither of them thought it could be anything other than a dream/hallucination
They find out it's a kindred spirit thing that really does need a large amount of empathy and emotional capacity in general.
Connected with Kirishima early on because of their similar feelings of self-hate and resignation regarding their Quirk status.
Izuku decides to explore more and try to control and accidentally ends up haunting Uraraka while she was studying and made her scream so loud a nearby hero came to investigate.
Izuku apologizes 5 eva and Kirishima thinks it's hilarious since he's so used to Izuku just showing up.
Izuku tries to concentrate on Katsuki and after a couple of failed nights where he just hung out with Kirishima instead, he manages to haunt Katsuki after falling asleep next to his notes on him.
Proceeds to scare the life out of Katsuki and offers to buy a new set of text books since he made him blow his up by accident.
Katsuki's mom refuses and actually wants to pay Izuku to do it again because that was the funniest thing she's ever experienced.
She loves haunted houses.
They figure out that he's able to haunt someone if he focuses on them, but only if he's not afraid to and that he can only join their dreams if they're sleeping at the time of the haunting.
That's why he took so long to haunt katsuki.
He accidentally haunts aizawa during school when he's knocked out during training.
Everyone sees Izuku's actual ghost leave his body and then just vanish, only to appear next to aizawa.
It either leaves through his mouth like a cartoon or just a transparent, muted version of Izuku remains in place when Izuku’s body falls to the ground.
It is very scary for a lot of people.
Katsuki was the one who knocked izuku out and was actually scared shitless when the ghost rose and looked him in eye before vanishing.
Aizawa tries erasing the ghost, but can't since it's only an extension of Izuku
He tries again on the vulnerable body and the ghost vanishes, but it rises and reappears when he stops erasing it.
Someone stupidly tells aizawa not to do that anymore because it's actually scary and Katsuki is trying really hard not to explode.
Kirishima just walks over and picks up Izuku's body to take him to the nurse's office.
He asks ghost izuku is he wants to join his body in the office or stick around to watch the rest of practice.
The fight keeps going, but Izuku keeps accidentally jump scaring everyone when he starts to focus on them too much.
There are many accidental quirk usages in this moment. Along with shrieks.
He tries to stick with just Kirishima or Aizawa, but it's hard.
Kirishima thinks it's hilarious.
Aizawa agrees, but says instead that it'll be good for training against unexpected enemies or allies popping up.
They all learn that Izuku can still feel and sense things around his body when he suddenly feels warm from recovery girl's quirk.
Years of haunting kiri made him able to tell when he's about to wake up and he warns everyone when he does so they aren’t worried when he disappears for too long
Only to focus and reappear by Kirishima one more time to say thanks.
Katsuki wasn't expecting this and exploded part of the wall away
Izuku is waiting for everyone when they get back to class and is so sorry, but they forgive him.
Mostly because scaring bakugo is funny to everyone.
Tsuyu points out it was bakugo's fault anyway since he's the one that knocked Izuku out.
That night, izuku ends up back with Kirishima in the dreamscape
It's been a while and they both kind of missed it.
Kirishima encourages izuku to keep exploring the uses of his quirk.
See if he can make it a stealth thing.
Izuku says he'll think about it, but he's just glad that his quirk lets him spend time with Kirishima/Eijirou/Eicchan (his bestie of several years now).
Kirishima blushes and is like "how dare with the flirting. Warn a guy."
Izuku Is a little flustered and starts babbling about how he meant that he's glad he got to know Kirishima before going to UA because Kirishima has been such a big part of his life even if he only thought of him as his dream guy and Izuku stops and turns even more red than he was before he started his rant.
Kirishima is just wide eyed and blushing hard too and is like "I told you to warn a guy…" and then just grabs izuku's hand (they can’t really feel it cause dreamworld, but it’s the thought that counts) and they both smile until Kirishima says "I am pretty dreamy." and Izuku laughs so hard he wakes up.
One of my detailed outlines that I want to make into a fic, but can’t seem to get it beyond this stage. There is so much trope cheese. Someone please write this for me. It’s so cute in my head and my eyes and soul need it to happen.
