Simon Riley has a lot of weird little quirks that I couldn’t fit in any other fic idea
Simon Riley knows how to braid hair and braid it well. French, Dutch, fishtail, anything you wanted. Little tiny braids didn’t deter him either. He would sit on the couch, you standing or sitting between his thick thighs and glare silently in concentration as he braided your hair. He’s also able to pick up any hairstyle real easily. Show him some inspiration on Pinterest and he’ll be able to replicate it almost perfectly. Simon isn’t as good at buns because he can’t quite get how to twist his wrist just right, but give him a strand of hair and he loves to weave it between his fingers. It makes him feel close to you and he is so proud when you wear the braid all throughout the day
Simon Riley folds laundry with military precision and gets a little miffed if you fold the laundry wrong. He literally grumbles and mutters to himself and then re-folds the entire load. He tries to show you how to fold it, but you don’t care as much as him, so he just does it himself. Laundry and the majority of the cleaning goes to Simon because as much as he has qualms about the way you do laundry, don’t even get him started on the way you attempt to clean the house. It’s better for everyone if he just does it
Simon Riley likes to rub his face over your pillow. Especially before or after deployment, he’s like a cat. He circles your pillow in his beefy arms and just presses his cheek to it again and again. It’s like he’s scenting it so that when he goes away, you won’t forget him. You think it’s absolutely adorable and you like to scratch at his hair as he does it
Simon Riley has very strong opinions about Christmas lights. He likes to put them up every year because he grew up Catholic (though he’s now an atheist) and it reminds him of his childhood. He doesn’t really care whether the lights are all white or different colours, but he cannot stand it if they blink. It’s much too annoying and busy and he thinks it’s a cry for attention. It also doesn’t help that sometimes he sees them out of the corner of his eye and the red ones look like the lights on a bomb or the green ones like the call signal on a radio
Simon Riley likes to buy you jewellery. He likes to buy anything and everything that he thinks will look pretty on you. When he finds something with little birds on it, he can’t help but splurge because you’re his Birdie and he loves you
Simon Riley is really good at most any sport, you name it. Rugby, basketball, baseball, American football, the list goes on and on. But put a gun to his head and tell him to score a goal for football and he would take the bullet. There’s really no explanation for it. One could blame it on his utter behemoth size, but he’s able to dribble the basketball or swing at the baseball hurtling towards him, but his feet just trip over themselves as he tries to get the bloody football down the field. He hates that little black and white ball with a burning passion
Simon Riley who is actually pretty involved in the VA. He doesn’t go out and advocate for more funding or anything, but if he sees a homeless veteran, he definitely guides them in the right direction. He goes there once a week just to catch up with everyone. You think it’s very healthy that he’s establishing a community for himself and he really enjoys it – you can see it in his eyes after he comes home
Simon Riley who needs to sleep on the couch sometimes after deployment. It’s not that he doesn’t want to hold you close, but the mattress is sometimes a bit too soft for him after sleeping on the ground or in a hard cot for weeks on end. You usually end up joining him, just splaying out on his chest. After a night or two, he returns to his place in the bed, holding you close
Simon Riley has the 141 insignia tattooed on his bicep and then the numbers on his chest. He was going to put the numbers over his heart, but, a week before his appointment, he had met you and some little part of him told him to move the tattoo up three inches. He was very glad he decided to move it because a year later he had gotten your initials with a little bird tattooed right over his heart
I actually theorize that Shoto might have something called quirk induced chimerism because fire and ice quirks seem to hate mixing. In Touya’s case, they tried to combine but the genetics from both sides of his family deleted or disabled the necessary information for his body to handle his quirk, resulting in a body that cannot tolerate fire but handle ice fine despite having a fire quirk. The two middle Todoroki children just inherited their mother’s quirk because, what was likely happening was that their parents quirks would try to blend but the ice quirk canceled out Enji’s fire quirk completely and the ice quirk turned off the genes for producing fire. But Shoto is a case where instead of the genetics of his parents fully combining, the genes that influenced his quirk instead decided to repel each other rather than combine or cancel out, resulting in one side having a fire quirk and the other having an ice quirk.
Because, for him to actually be a chimera is rare but seeing how the quirk genetics in his family has worked makes me think that it is possible that his parents’ genes just looked at each other when the sperm cell and egg cell combined and were like ‘nope!’ and immediately split away from each other. It also makes quirk genetics in their world far more interesting. It might even explain why some people are quirkless; maybe the genetics of their parents cancelled out the genes that were responsible for producing a quirk.
I also theorize that quirk induced chimerism is something that’s known about in their world. I think his parents immediately knew that he had it. So Shoto is immediately seen as a precious thing the moment he’s born, which was probably why Touya was so quick to immediately resent him. The moment Shoto was born, he was the golden child. However, Touya’s condition was also known to happen which was part of the reason quirk marriages were banned in the first place. So the odds were: 1/4 chance of the parents’ quirks combining badly or 1/4 of them combining successfully and I’m sure quirk induced chimerism is still rare but not unheard of. And Enji was still willing to risk having a child like Touya if it meant having a child like Shoto.
Headcanon that when Fuyumi manifested her Quirk, she accidentally froze the kitchen floor in knee-deep ice and Rei right along with it.
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Rei: So Fuyumi manifested her Quirk and, long story short, I need you to come home and melt me out of the floor.
Endeavor: ...can you get Touya to do it?
Rei: He's two. And he's a little upset about the floor situation because, and I quote, 'his legs don't work' because, 'the floor broke.' It took him forty-five minutes to Bambi-scramble across the ice in order to bring me my phone so I could call you.
Endeavor: All right, I'll be home in twenty. Stay put.
Rei: Duh. .... I can hear you laughing, Enji, and for the record, this had better not be an office story tomorrow.
Yknow. The more I think about it. The more I realize that I think All Might DID have the past users quirks in some ways. I think HE just didn’t notice it. More on this after I wake up in the morning.
