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For once he had the immense pleasure of having the house to himself.
Despite locking himself away in his room for weeks on end, his “family” still somehow believed that he couldn’t be trusted. Overall it could be considered as an even stupider idea when you think about how it was his cousin who was the thief not him.
You weren’t born a thief, but he had no doubts that he was born gay. Hell, even if he wasn’t born that way was it really so much worse a sin to be homosexual over a criminal?
He didn’t really care in the end about the favor of his shitty family. Not once did they show any hint of genuine love for him, even as a child who only yearned for familial love instead of … more indecent types of love.
Still it hurt. It hurt and festered and grew like a terrible mold in his veins. He looked for solace from his peers and teachers only to be met with unwarranted, but familiar disgust.
Like his family they already held disdain for him from their youth, who would dare to love a dirty quirkless orphan bastard good for nothing idiotic… well the image is clear enough.
It wasn’t his open admittance of his sexuality in the form of his first love confession that broke him, but it was the final straw.
After many miserable years of school, with nothing to show other than mediocre grades, he quit his pursuit of education in favor of being a shut-in.
No one tried to stop him. The teachers ignored him anyway so his presence made no difference and classmates had always marred his desk with graffiti telling just where he should go. At the time he wasn’t planning on going to hell just yet, but his disappearance from their lives should be good enough.
Perhaps it was his family that showed the most pleasure at his choice to seclude himself from society. His mother was a wound for the family’s image and his existence was nothing but an ugly scar to remind everyone of the embarrassment.
He only ever left the room at night to occasionally raid the downstairs pantry for the boxes of cupped noodles and various other cheap junk foods. Normally such “peasant” food would never be found in the Esteemed Mo household, but his aunt was a smart woman.
By buying this food she killed two birds with one stone. Almost no money would be spent on the family’s disgrace and they wouldn’t have to see him for weeks on end as well since the food was bought in bulk and consisted of non-perishable items.
Anything else he needed was bought with the small allowance his uncle gave him. Uncle Mo had married into the family so he was the only person able to feel even the faintest hints of pity for the orphan that had lived in his house for so many years.
Not enough to really care of course, to like him meant to go against his wife and as a qualified gold-digger he didn’t hesitate to only allow the slightest hints of kindness shine through.
This money was mostly spent on video games, cosplay, and makeup.
While he held no shame in displaying his sexuality, it was something completely different to announce his love cross-dressing.
Not because he feared disapproval, but because he didn’t want to give people ideas that him effeminate was due to him being gay. He can stand the abuse, but he didn’t want to drag others down by falling into hurtful stereotypes.
He didn’t dress up for sexual pleasure, but because he honestly enjoyed it. His family, he knew, would never understand, nor would the people who knew them. If outsiders heard that the Mo family’s little bastard was not only a homosexual, but a cross-dressing pervert as well, such news would be blasted everywhere.
These concerns would later turn out to be completely valid and would lead him to his current situation.
The only place he found any sort of positivity was on the internet. He spent days sewing and piecing together intricate costumes and hours getting his make up just right. Thousands of hearts and comments would abuse his phone telling him how good he looked, how talented he was, how they wanted to meet and spend time with him.
For almost a whole year he basked in the love of being a shut in internet idol. Then his gender was leaked, followed shortly by his identity.
People who once showered him with flowers were now showering him with poison tipped arrows.
It hardly took more than a day from the news escaping for his family to take away every small piece of comfort he had in addition to his freedom.
There was no access to the internet as his phone and computer had been destroyed before his very eyes. He couldn’t leave the room as the door was fixed with a shiny new lock that couldn’t be opened from the inside.
It was likely the presence of this lock that gave the family the courage to leave. Their disgrace was secured safely away with no way to escape or cause any more trouble for them.
Not that he planned to escape. Where would he go? The monsters he lived with were his only family as far as he knew. A father was a pipedream he let go of before he was out of diapers.
There was no way for him to get a job with his middle school education and a mystery quirk that refused to even show a hint of what it could be.
No, he was not going to escape, at least not in the way they feared.
In the quiet mansion his crazed laughter echoed through the empty halls.
There were no tears left to cry, not even ones of pain escaped him as he brought the sharp edge of a knife to the tender skin of his arm.
The first cut is shallow and crosses his inner arm in a jagged diagonal. It bleeds slowly and he knows it will not kill him.
‘Attention whore’
He can hear the whispered mockeries of the internet denizens and open insult coming from snobby rich busybodies.
The second cut is much deeper, but just as jagged as the first. Unlike its predecessor its much longer and runs lengthwise up from his wrist to the middle half of his upper arm.
His breathing grows more ragged from the pain but he refuses to let it manifest from in anything more than a small gasp of pain.
The third cut is the worst. This time he cuts his other arm. It is hard to grasp the weapon and move it with his wounded arm, but he succeeds in the end.
Blood now flows from both limbs and he lets the knife go so he can collapse comfortably against the wall.
For no reason other than the sheer petty belief that he will bleed out more the longer he is alive, meaning more work for his aunt, he clings to life.
Thoughts drift through his mind as he relives his past. His mother's solid belief that his father would return for them. The snickers and pity at her funeral. Doctors giving up on him after finding no way to awake his latent quirk. Bullying and abuse is the only other thing he can remember after that.
Why is it that he is so hated by everyone? Why was everyone so keen on making him the villain when he hasn’t done anything worse than stalking the boy he liked a little bit?
Sometimes he compares himself to Deku, the most dangerous and psychotic villain Japan had ever faced.
Even years after his death people still bring up his name and vilify his every action in life. Would that great villain be able to understand the hate the world piles upon him?
He thinks the villain would. There is a game that goes around the schools nationwide. It is said that Deku will get revenge for the weak and bullied if they give his lingering evil spirit a body to possess.
Even to this day many deaths are listed as casualties of Deku as children plummet from school rooftops and bash in the heads of a classmate or family member in the blind hope that the once all-powerful villain will grant their dying wish.
The only reason such a story exists is because Deku was known to have a soft spot for children. For all his evil deeds the harm or killing of children cannot be labelled. At least until after his death that is.
His self-pitying thoughts drift away along with his life. In the end his last moments are spent not on the tragedies of his life, but on a man he never really knew.
‘Still’, he thinks ‘I think Deku wouldn’t be happy with what these kids have done. If he really loved kids he wouldn’t want them to hurt themselves or others in his name. Still I can’t blame them. If Deku is really still haunting this Earth as an evil spirit I hope he can…’
Akatani Mikumo dies before he can finish his inner musings. He closes his eyes and draws in one last breath before his spirit departs for a better after-life.
Before he goes he does not notice the energy thrumming through his body as his life drained away.
A minute after the body of the lonesome boy stilled a sharp exhaled wheeze cuts through the stagnant silence.
Tears built behind trembling eyelashes as the boy’s body jerks forward and chokes on nothing but air.
When the quivering body gains control over it’s breathing the eyes that blink open to take in their surroundings do not belong to a pitiful boy abandoned by the world.
Midoriya Izuku breathes and sees and thinks and feels for the first time in a long time. To him it is mere moments after what he was sure was his death.
He does not yet know that this body is not his own, nor does he know that he has been for 13 years.
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-Yamikumo takes the place of Mo Xuanyu from mdzs. Everything takes place in the hero academia universe.
-Yamikumo's quirk is called Sacrifice and at the cost of his own life he can bring someone back from the dead by letting them use his body. By using his quirk he dies so there is no way for him to come back. Who knows what will happen if Aizawa uses his quirk on their body…
-Izuku follows the cannon backstory and the beginning part of the show. He meets All Might and gets One for All and all that good stuff
-Things differ at some point maybe after stain and the heroes do something he can't justify so he helps the villains escape in someway leading him to labelled villain.
-Izuku at some points defeats Sensei and gets All for One and becomes incredibly OP but still has to fight against the heroes and his now friends
-Izuku and Katsuki are kinda like Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng in their relationship. Katsuki plays a major role in Izuku's death and feels really guilty about it. He tries to hide it and forget by overworking and keeping himself busy as the #1 hero
-Todoroki is kinda more like Lan Wangji where he deeply mourns and had tried to save Izuku at some point by getting him to turn himself in. This Todoroki differs a little because he was the "good model son" of Endeavor until the time very near Izuku's death.
-Todoroki totally finds out that Izuku is in Yamikumo's body because Izuku is still a good boy with hero syndrome who can't sit still and watch someone in pain for the life of him and tells someone the whole "It's your quirk" thing in the exact words he said to Todoroki
-Katsuki has a feeling but is deep in the denial train so pretends everything is a coincidence.
-Eri is the A-Yuan of this story as she gets taken in by the heroes after Izuku's death and Izuku only gets to meet his former friends because he is searching for information on what happened to her
-Maybe Katsuki became a big brother type of guy to Kota because Izuku would secretly sometimes visit the boy so he is kinda like A-Yuan too
-I think maybe Iida or someone else from the class dies and the rest of the class thinks Izuku was responsible. Very few know the truth
-Everyone thinks Izuku is this major evil bad guy, but most of the things he was accused of were just pinned on him and he accepted it
-He did do some rather bad things though and did kill some people
-Izuku after gaining All for One can’t control the sheer number of quirks in his body. Sensei slowly gained and had time to assimilate all of the quirks in his body but Izuku had to do it all at once
-Izuku dies in a big hero vs villain fight where him in Katsuki get into a big ugly crying screaming match
--Izuku still doesn’t want to hurt his friends so Katsuki pulls some major blows on him but as he gets weaker from the fight the control on his quirks begins to fade or something so he chooses to destroy All for One and One for All at the same time somehow.
--Maybe combine it in a weird way so a single lock of his hair contains all All for One but could be passed down like One for All and then destroying the hair so its gone forever
--Maybe Izuku was injured before in the fight with Sensei and the healing ability was the only thing keeping him alive so once the quirks were gone he died.
--There is no body after his death maybe it goes all Thanos Snap or it gets destroyed in the still raging fight
-Time place is definitely years after cannon where the familiar cast is grown up and are all adults
-No romance between underage Izuku and anyone. Maybe hints from before but not now.
-Yamikumo is like 15 or 16 maybe and returns back to school, probably UA because Izuku wants to get information and UA has it, but is still in first year cause Yami stopped going to school before he even graduated middle school
-Izuku as Yami does not have a quirk but is still a bad ass strong fighter because he has years of experience in fighting ( especially in fighting heroes) and is still super smart
-Thinking of having Todoroki as a teacher at UA
-Would be more wholesome cause everyone deserves it
-I have no idea what conflict would be though cause there is no league of villains and no murder mystery arm drama
-Maybe have Izuku as more of a rule breaker now after experience as a villain. He wants to drink alcohol or smoke and the respectable adults are like NO YOU ARE A CHILD STOP
-People definitely underestimate Izuku especially cause Yamikumo is all fragile looking
-Izuku embraces cross dressing to fuck with people
-Izuku is hiding major guilt for some of his actions doesn’t regret
-Sassy villain friends with Dabi as a kinda Wen Ning?
-Gotta keep the bunny moti