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iām actually curious to hear about what was gojo, shoko, and nanami immediate reaction to finding out about the abuse megumi suffered? like the way you said that nanami was the one who found out and how it played a role in nanami wanting out of jujustu society? i can only imagine how megumi mustāve felt like heās the type to suffer in silence and assume the worst, so i just know he thought gojo and the others knew about the abuse but thought that it was something he was suppose to shoulder for tsumikiās sake.
it also make me curious on your interpretation of gojo and megumi dynamic bc when megumi first woke up he was lowkey surprised that gojo was with him instead of doing gojo things, like it just make me think that despite megumi looking up to gojo as a parental figure and gojo taking in megumi as his own, megumi must think that heās not a top priority in gojoās life especially when the abuse he suffered at the zenins come into play.
Immediate reaction:
Nanami saw Haibara.
In my mind, Haibara died saving Nanami's life. Nanami would have died; Haibara died in his place. Nanami had survivor's guilt out his ears when they first adopted megumi and tsumiki, and a part of him always thought it should have been the other way around. Haibara was the one that had so much passion for life. He had a sister and a family and people he was close to. Nanami was always just... less, in his own mind. It wasn't supposed to go this way.
What happened to Haibara haunted him. He swore he would never again be so useless as he was when that curse ripped off the lower half of his best friend's body.
Adopting Megumi and Tsumiki actually made him feel like they were doing something good, for once? Gojo had all these pie in the sky ideals for what they would make this society into that a part of Nanami couldn't help but buy into. They kept the kids together. They were all genuinely happy, for a time.
The Zenin just shattered that reality. It had been cracking all throughout their custody, and it broke irreparably when the Zenin pushed too far and didn't even seem to think they'd face consequences for that. This isn't the first time they put him in a hospital bed, is the thing, and it was sort of a slap in the face for them all to realize that they had let it get so bad that the zenin genuinely thought they could do that to their kid without fearing reprisal.
Nanami saw Haibara, experienced some of the most potent guilt and anger he's ever felt in his life, and rushed Megumi to Shoko for treatment.
Then, he went back to the Zenin compound to kick Zenin Naoya's ass.
In my mind, Nanami and Naoya has a sort of ugly dynamic in school. Nanami and Naoya were in the same class year, so they were often paired against each other in goodwill events and the like, but Gojo was the one that Naoya wanted to rival.
Naoya was always after Nanami as a student. He has an insecurity complex the size of the international space station and constantly wanted to prove he was better by stepping on Nanami. He'd tried to kick Nanami's teeth in pretty much every time they had seen each other, and if Nanami was being honest? Naoya won almost all their fights.
But a lot of jujutsu sorcery is about mindset, and Nanami had the mindset of ripping out Zenin naoya's spine. He got into a brutal, bloody, neck-and-neck, good old fashioned semipublic brawl with Naoya in the middle of the Zenin compound, which is around the time that Gojo showed up.
And Gojo's reaction is what Maki remembers: the ground shook with his anger. And he took Megumi away forever.
But first, to wrap up Nanami.
Nanami really snapped when they were all in megumi's hospital room and Yaga was trying to figure out how the hell to fix this and floated the idea of a binding vow or something regulating Megumi's treatment. He broke down, started screaming at Yaga that Yaga and the higher ups were going to kill them, they were going to kill all of them. And just. refused to go on. He couldn't do it anymore. Not if it was just going to end like haibara.
He told Gojo he was taking visitation with Megumi and Tsumiki. They'd have a set schedule where they'd go stay with him. It would be reliable. It would be a place where they could go and not have to worry about the jujutsu world. They needed stability and safety, and Nanami wasn't about to walk away from them.
He also told Gojo he wanted their passports. And it was pretty strongly implied that it was so he could take them and run if he had to. Gojo gave them to him, and they both politely pretended like that would have made a lick of difference if Nanami wanted to take them and Gojo wouldn't let him. There was no where in the world that Nanami could actually run to that wasn't at Gojo's allowance.
Shoko I'm actually gonna decline to answer for right now. She had her own issues going on that we're gonna get into with more detail in the next few chapters that heavily contextualize what her response was.
What happened to Megumi was honestly was the real turning point for Gojo. He was over halfway there with Riko and Geto and Haibara, but Megumi set him on the road to no return.
He never forgave himself for letting the Zenin alone with Megumi, and he never forgave Yaga and the higher ups, either.
I really do want to emphasize that Yaga cares, but he approaches every issue with with a fundamental distinction from Gojo's--and he sort of had to, at the beginning. He didn't have to later, but he never really acted that fact.
Gojo has all the leverage in the world, is the thing. He's got power and money and influence. He was born irreplaceable. Yaga's got some very very limited leverage. He's extremely powerful even if he's nowhere near Gojo's league, he's got a useful technique, and he's good at playing the political game. That's it, and almost all of it is replaceable. Gojo can butt heads with the higher ups all he wants and be fine, but Yaga will be shown the door if he makes too much noise.
When Gojo first brought Megumi home, he had never gone up against the higher ups before. Not really. He thought he did with Riko, but the point was moot by the time the higher ups even found out about it. He hadn't figured out just how to push and how far he could go. He relied on the help of the only adult he trusted, Yaga, and Yaga taught him to play the game the same way Yaga had to play it his entire life.
Except Gojo never had to play the game. It was pointless from the start. Which means his kid spent a long time getting abused for absolutely no benefit, on Yaga's recommendation, to pander to some assholes who were never going to play nice back.
Megumi set him on the path to his Absolutely No Compromising policy with the higher ups and the rest of the society. He taught him that these aren't rational people who are working for a common good--they're fucking crazy and they will hurt kids to satisfy their whims. Every single time that he dug his heels in about a student with the higher ups, he had the memory of what happened to Megumi when he didn't dig his heels in hanging over him.
And a big part of that was that he doesn't know if he could handle feeling a second time how he felt when he found out what was happening to Megumi behind his back. He had built up this idea in his mind about how he would make a better world for the next generation, that he wouldn't be like the higher ups slowly killing geto by sending him on mission after mission... and then he got the very first member of his next generation and slowly killed him sending him off to people who were hurting him. It was gojo making the drop offs and the pick ups and not goddamn seeing it for all his six eyes.
He almost killed the entire Zenin clan, honestly. Wiped them all out. He's always sort of struggled with homicidal thoughts and low empathy, and just fucking. slaughtering the zenin felt like a pretty good idea right then.
But he didn't want to be like the great sorcerers of old, who were madmen on a power trip killing everyone who made them angry. and he knew if the slaughtered an entire clan of sorcerers, he'd become that. he couldn't come back. so he took megumi away forever, and he promised him it would never happen again, and he tried to do it right every time after, and it has never, ever felt like enough.
Megumi as a kid was just very young and not clued into the dynamics of everything and in a terrible fucking situation that he couldn't get out of. His family thought he was acting out and getting upset because he didn't want to stay with the Zenin, he wanted to stay with his sister instead. And they were coming off the sorcerer equivalent of the cold war just getting this compromise. They thought this was all about Megumi wanting to stay with his sister, and this was the deal they brokered to keep him with his sister. The zenin wanted tsumiki gone from his life completely. they wanted full custody of him. This, staying with them with a few days a month, this was what let him stay with Tsumiki the rest of the time. It was the best deal they got.
Of course, Megumi didn't understand what was really happening. And he thought that Gojo, who knew everything, knew this too, especially because Megumi had told him (as best he knew how). He thought he had to shut up and take it with the abuse or he couldn't stay with Tsumiki anymore. So he shut up and took it, and he's never really come back from it.
In my mind, Megumi walked into canon with a sort of mindset that he just would never be as powerful or big as someone like gojo. He didn't know he had special grade potential. He didn't think he could win special grade fights. he didn't know how to put in his best. and a big part of that was because he hadn't gotten past who he was as a little boy, who had to shut up and let himself be hurt. The Zenin were the ones who taught him how to feel small and helpless and frustrated with that fact. He had so much practice being hurt that he couldn't imagine a world where he was too strong to not be hurt anymore.
Megumi and Gojo's relationship:
I actually think Megumi's surprise came more from his conviction that Gojo would intervene if he had known the truth of what the Zenin had spent the past week doing to him.
Like, your reading is the one that's most apparent from what Megumi said. It's absolutely the impression Gojo took from it. But megumi was very out of it when he was talking, and a lot of wires got crossed. it had a very different context in his head that he couldn't really express in the moment.
Megumi's consistently shown to be one of the most strategically minded characters in the show. He's great at assessing threats, figuring out techniques, and coming up with plans to beat the odds. He knows how to properly assess his risks and figure out how to stack the deck to give himself at least a shot.
And I think Megumi realized that he wasn't getting out of the Zenin compound alive a while ago. And a big part of that was because he knew from the start that he could not for a second rely on Gojo coming to get him.
It was just math. Megumi didn't have a way out on his own. He would need Gojo to come get him out. But Gojo was busy. If he wasn't busy, he would have found out already, somehow, and he would have already come to save him. The Zenin only managed this because Gojo had a war, and he was busy, and he'd be busy for weeks.
And Megumi did not have weeks.
It was a constant running calculation for him. At first, maybe he could make it through a few weeks. It would suck, sure. They'd beat the shit out of him, but it wouldn't be the first time. He'd be in terrible goddamn shape by the end of it all, but he'd survived the Zenin's abuse before, and he wasn't six years old anymore. He could make it until Gojo realized what had happened, and then he would come. Megumi was certain of it.
Then, they locked him in the room with curses for days. And he realized that he would be dead before Gojo's war finished.
Gojo wouldn't realize he was gone for weeks. And Megumi's estimates of his own survival quickly dropped from a few weeks to a week, to a few days, to a few hours.
Gojo would save him, if he knew, but Gojo was busy. He had a war. He wouldn't be there for weeks, and Megumi did not have weeks.
It sort of stuck in his brain? Gojo was busy. He didn't know that the Zenin were doing this to him. That's the only reason why he wouldn't come for megumi, and he was not going to find out in time. He wasn't coming, and Megumi was not going to die waiting to be saved by someone who was. not. coming. he had enough pride left for that at least.
Seeing Gojo in his hospital room broke the math for him. It just didn't compute. He was busy. He had a war. The Zenin could only do this to him because Gojo was busier than he had been in a decade, and he wouldn't be back until after the clock ran out for him. He was supposed to die before ever seeing Gojo again. So why the hell was Gojo standing above him? He was supposed to be busy.
for the megumi and the world's most inconvenient custody battle, i just head canon geto and gojo screaming at each other in front of kfc (AGAIN) and the conversation goes something like:
Geto: I HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE I HAVE TWINS AT HOME ILL BE A BETTER PARENTAL FIGURE THAN U!
gojo: THATS MY BABY I CHANGED HIS DIAPERS! HE CAME OUTTA MY WOMB! GIVE HIM BACK!
megumi and the kfc workers are so so done someone get these gay men couple therapy pls
i have so normal feelings for ideas i totally dont think about them every single day.
The funny thing is that Megumi actually have no awareness of Gojo at all during the custody battle due to the intricacies of the binding vow (there's a clause where Megumi has to kill himself if Gojo intervenes at all during the span of the agreement. Geto wanted the clause to be that Megumi has to kill his sister, but Megumi threatened to kill Geto and then himself if he made that the clause. Geto doesn't actually want to make Megumi kill himself, it's just a dead man's switch to keep Gojo from swooping in and ending the entire thing prematurely. There's nothing Geto can do to actually stop Gojo, but he can deter Gojo with the consequences of a binding vow which even Gojo cannot break, and he knows Gojo won't actually risk his son, so he'll let the entire thing run it's course naturally). So it's just:
Megumi: *very grumpily going ice skating with Geto's twins because he's under binding vow to play nice and cooperate with the cult members during the terms of the vow*
Geto and Gojo, squatting behind a vendor's cart: *having the world's quietest and most hostile divorcee bitch fight*
forever ago you mentioned in an ask post that you have a story in your head about college-aged Matt saving Frankās kids and in return the Castle family forcibly enfolds him into their tribe. There is literal kidnapping involved, and every word in your little summary was fucking hilarious. I want you to know that that scenario has lived in my head rent free ever sinceāI am astounded by your brain and that concept makes me want to eat dirt (in the best way)(that is a compliment of the highest degree)
anyways! Please donāt think this is me asking āwhen will you write thatā bc i get it, some plot bunnies are just bunnies, and time/real world is a bitch, BUTāif you ever have any little ramblings about it, Iād love to hear them :) the Castle family is Insane and I love them dearly and I am forever entranced by your characterizations of Matt and Frank
Have a good one!!
Christmas with the Castles my beloved. I love this one so much that I typed out an outline of the fic entirely. It is long. Please, take my ramblings if you want them:
It's Christmas at Columbia, hohoho, peace and goodwill to all mankind. The dorms are closed over winter break to replace the pipes and Matt's out on his ass for the holidays, so get fucked, blind little orphan with no surviving family, and God bless us everyone.
Normally the Nelson clan would have taken him in but Foggy's bitch of a Great Aunt Bertha insists on holding the entire family hostage for the holidays with the will as collateral, and she sucks in many respects but even more in the sense that she doesn't want any blind orphans schlepping around her holiday table. But the Nelson clan will risk it all for Matt, who they think is neat. They'll put the whole fucking will on the line, buddy.
Matt assures them that he's got it all under control and has a place to stay. Yes, with a person. Yes, a real one. An old friend of his dad's. No, he's not going to be homeless. Stop asking questions.
This is a lie.
His plan is to simply be homeless. Peace and goodwill to all mankind.
Except Foggy knows when Matt's on his bullshit and insists on speaking to the guy he's staying with, which means he needs to get Fogwell to lie for him. Except Fogwell knows when Matt's on his bullshit and won't let him off the fucking hook until he knows Matt won't be homeless for the holidays.
Matt unequivocally refuses to come home with him. Stop asking. He'll find someone else to do the phone call.
They compromise with Matt staying in the fucking boiler room of the gym. Peace and goodwill to all mankind.
Except Matt sort of makes Fogwell think that he only needs to crash for a few days, and Foggy's family is going to take him in for the rest. This is also a lie. He is fucking off to be homeless for the rest of the holiday season.
Peace and goodwill to all mankind.
He's swallowing his misgivings and putting up with staying in the boiler room of the gym for a few days so Fogwell won't freak out. Which he now regrets. Because it puts him right in the earshot of an active hostage situation. Are those kids? Those are fucking kids.
Anyway he tries to call the police anonymously like ten times but this just tips off the hostage takers, who apparently have a mole in the police, surprising no one. Now they're going to kill the fucking kids.
Matt can't listen to this.
Peace and fucking goodwill to all mankind.
Okay. Fuck. He's doing this now.
Fuck.
THE CASTLE'S HOLIDAY SEASON, THUS FAR:
The kids got kidnapped.
like
fuck.
that happened.
The thing is that some random NSA guy got into contact with Frank and in this AU he actually blew the whistle on the the CIA's bullshit. His family was in protective custody, until his best friend and pseudo brother stabbed him in the fucking back and sold them out. Now they have his kids.
He then kills a lot of people.
Like a lot.
But he can't find his kids. They have his kids.
They're going to kill his kids.
MATT'S NIGHT, THUS FAR:
He's an asshole in sweatpants with a t-shirt wrapped around the top part of his face and no fucking plan, and there are so many assholes with guns in there. Like. So many.
But fuck it. He's doing this now.
fuck.
He fights a lot of guys. He gets super shot. Some guy tries to shoot him with arrows. Like, what the fuck even is this, Robin Hood? Honestly, fuck this night.
Anyway, he saves the kids. Wheee.
It's sort of nice? They bond, when the crying stops. The kids like him a lot. He calls their parents. Sets up a place for them to get picked up. The boy gives him the sweatshirt he's wearing under his jacket, which is kind of him, because it's fuck-off cold and Matt's about ten minutes from going into shock. Anyway, he drops them off at the spot and fucks off into the night before their oddly bloodstained dad can stop him like the world's shittiest off-brand batman.
He then goes to exercise the right of any God-fearing American citizen, which is to bleed out in the basement of his childhood church.
Fogwell's never gonna be okay again if he finds Matt's blood-soaked body in the gym. Matt figures he can just break into that basement no one uses, steal a med kit, make a solid confession about breaking into and stealing from a church if he lives long enough, and hopefully no one will even notice he was there.
This does not pan out.
A really angry nun finds him and narcs him out to Father Lanthom and they bitch him out for "dying" and "not seeking life-saving medical attention" and drag his ass to to the hospital.
NOW THE CASTLE FAMILY, REUNITED AT LAST:
The kids' will be in therapy forever but the danger is gone, because frank killed them all very dead.
He then received a presidential pardon for All The Murder.
Peace and goodwill to all mankind.
Anyway he's testified about the CIA corruption, the government is occupying itself with the coverup to end all coverups, and his only remaining concerns is (1) taking care of his family and (2) making sure the bleeding dipshit who saved his kids lives doesn't die in the streets. He's gotta find that dumb asshole.
Then he gets a phone call from a very concerned nurse at Metro General about the bleeding dipshit that got brought in with his kid's sweatshirt. They're calling because he keeps trying to goddamn leave while very fucking shot and he had a jacket with Frankie's information written on it in magic marker. Do they know him? Can they please come pick him up? They think he's going to die in the streets if someone does not pick him up.
And Yeah. Yeah, Frank Can Do That.
Matt.
Yeah.
The magic marker, he didn't.
Didn't
Didn't see that part.
Fuck.
Anyway, Matt's On His Way Out To Be Homeless For The Holiday Season, Peace And Goodwill To All Mankind, As Soon As The Goddamn Nurses Stop Hiding The Leave Against Medical Advice Forms. He lied and said he got jumped by a lot of guys, no, he didn't see who did it, because, you know. Blind. Just a regular ol' blind guy here. Poor fucking blind orphan alone and shot for the holiday season. Just give him the goddamn form.
And then that fucking guy shows up in his hospital room. The suspiciously bloody father of the kids he just got shot over. He's here, he's insisting that Matt's one of his family's closest friends and they're paying all of Matt's medical bills, and he's not commenting on the blind bit, but Matt can literally smell his curiosity. Matt's insisting that some random guy gave him the jacket, no, he didn't see his face, because, you know. Blind. He's not the guy Frank thinks he is. Nope. Please fuck off now.
They do not fuck off. Maria Castle blows through the hospital room like a hurricane, hugs him very genuinely, cries a little, and tells him that the Castle family pays their debts, and they've never had a greater one. Then the kids show up, and they fucking recognize him. Fuck.
Matt: imindanger.exe
Matt keeps feigning ignorance. Then, he waits until they leave the room and he fucking books it.
Anyway the Castle family minivan catches up to him when he's legging it a block away. They keep pace with him, and ask to just take him where he's going, and they swear they're not going to hurt him. They just want to help him out. He saved their kids.
And he can hear that they're telling the truth.
And it's so goddamn cold.
And he can hear his own internal bleeding.
And he's so, so tired.
So he tells them that no one would ever believe them. And he gets in the car. and he gives them Fogwell's address. And he tells himself he'll crash there for a day or two and fuck off to be homeless in the streets, peace and good-fucking-will to all mankind.
WHAT THE CASTLE FAMILY DID NOT SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY:
A kidnapping.
WHAT THE CASTLE FAMILY DOES:
It's. It's a kidnapping. They do a kidnapping.
Look. Look. they pay their debts. They pay their fucking debts. It's what they do. And they get to Fogwell's boiler room and rapidly fucking realize that the guy who they owe their everything to is a terminally stupid 20-something and living in the rundown boiler room of an empty gym. And they simply cannot have that.
Frank? Frank, show Matthew back to the car, will he? Maria's going to pack up his things for him.
Matt: what.exe
WHAT MATT DID NOT SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY:
it's.
It's the kidnapping.
it's that.
This fic is fundamentally founded in my premise that the entire Castle family is simply fucking insane. They're just all like that. Frank is not an outlier.
For the Castles, they're being perfectly reasonable. It's obvious that no one's taking care of this lovely young man who saved their kids, so no one will mind if they do it instead. He definitely needs it. So they sit their kids down and explain that sometimes Stockholm Syndrome is for someone's own good, which sounds perfectly reasonable to them. They then proceed to treat this like when you somewhat impulsively get a sick puppy from a Home Depot parking lot, and, well, he's a bit poorly behaved, and he keeps trying to run away, but the kids had wanted it so badly and eventually he's going to settle into his new home and then maybe you can stick felt reindeer antlers on him for the Christmas card, so you keep shoving his meds in peanut butter and forcing them down his throat and keeping the door blocked so the puppy can't slip out into the freezing new york night.
Matt treats this for what it is, which is a fucking kidnapping.
He is now fucking handcuffed to these crazy assholes' guest bed in their suburban home. It's by definition a kidnapping. they're acting like he's the unreasonable one for pointing this out. Except every time he wriggles out of his handcuffs, Frank just lugs his ass back to bed and chains him back up while they scold him. As if he's the unreasonable one for trying to escape his own kidnapping. They make him take his meds and eat three meals a day and the kids watch fucking Christmas movies with him while narrating the screen, as if this wasn't a kidnapping. This is insane. They're all insane.
Which is what he eventually tells them, out loud and to their faces.
And then Maria cries.
Stop.
Stop that.
That thing she's doing with her face. Stop that thing.
And Maria's like. Maybe they were over enthusiastic. But, being a mother, she just wants to take care of the nice young man who saved her little angels. And if that makes her a criminal, then she guesses she's a criminal. Because she cares.
Matt: shoving me into a van and handcuffing me to a bed against my will makes you by definition a criminal
maria: *cries harder*
Matt: stop
And Matt's like. Fine. Fine. He'll give into their crazy fucking kidnapping. Saves him the trouble of being homeless. Just. It's only until Christmas, and then he's gone.
maria, tearfully: and new years too?
Matt: don't push your luck
So fuck it. He's doing this now. But he's not going to like it. And he gets to come and go when he wants.
Frank: no.
matt: seriously fuck you
Except Matt's got shit they didn't pack at Fogwells. Shit they didn't realize belonged to him. His dad's shit. And he's absolutely desperate to get his dad's shit before some well-meaning janitor tosses it. So he very reluctantly agrees to let Frank go in his stead. Just. Just don't talk to people. And don't tell anyone he kidnapped matt. matt does not want to deal with that fucking court case.
Fogwell, immediately catching Frank gathering Matt's stuff for him, when he finds out that Matt sent him: are you a Nelson?
Frank, not a Nelson: Guilty.
And Fogs is just. Thrilled. So fucking thrilled that Matt has the Nelsons. Matt needs people like that, you know? People that'll welcome him home.
He's a good kid. And he hasn't had a home in a good long time. And Fogs--he's so fucking sorry that he couldn't give Matt that. And he. He.
Just tell him Merry Christmas from him? He understands why Matt didn't want to spend it with him.
Just tell him ol' Fogs was thinking of him. Tell him he really, really cares and hopes his holidays are good.
Fuck. Tell him he loves him. Just. Just tell him that. Fogs should have done it a long time ago.
What follows from there is a lot of wholesome, family-friendly Christmas activities, like:
making gingerbread houses
ice-skating
having a total mental breakdown when you get the message passed along from your pseudo-grandfather that he wishes he could have given him a home.
drinking cocoa
getting shit-faced drunk out on the town with the somewhat insane mother of those kids you saved, only to both be lugged home by a very exasperated Frank Castle.
watching Christmas movies
Visiting the grave of your dead father whose loss you've never recovered from
drinking eggnog
Confessing about your superpowers to the crazy fuckers who may or may not have given you stockholm syndrome, as well as your lasting trauma around the fact that you were child-soldierified and your soul-crushing terror that it will happen again
Making paper snowflakes
(Matt may not have meant to do all those things.)
I really like having backstories in communication with each other across my fics taking place in the same fandom? And Fogs is a great example of that. He tends to show up in all of my Daredevil fics, and he usually does something that brings Matt in from the cold in his backstory.
But in this world, that Fogs didn't do it.
In this one, he had the chance, and he failed.
Matt came to him. He ran away from the foster care system when he was a teen, and he went to Fogs as a desperate, last ditch effort. He begged Fogs to still love him the way he did when he was a kid. He begged Fogs to take him in the way he once took in Jack Murdock. He'd help Fogs around the gym. He'd do anything Fogs asked. He just wants to go home.
All he's wanted for years was to just go home.
And Fogs hugged him. He held him. He let him sleep on the couch.
And he called the police.
He wanted to do it the right away around, this time. He didn't want Matt to be hiding from the system for the rest of his youth the way his daddy once did. He wanted him to still get to go to school. He wanted him to be a kid. He wanted to adopt him proper, and didn't think of the fact that no one was gonna let him do it.
And he didn't account for how Matt would never trust him again.
He didn't account for Matt ending up on the streets, and he didn't account for matt refusing to come for him for help again, and he didn't account for Matt refusing to have anything to do with him until he hit law school and barely tolerated hanging around the gym at night again, and he didn't account for Matt not being able to stand the idea of spending the holidays with him.
There's a lot Fogs won't ever forgive himself for.
Anyway, Matt's stockholm syndrome was a great success. They fucking did it. They now have a crazy motherfucker with superpowers who's occupying this space as a the kid's new pseudo uncle. Unmitigated success. God, what an addition to the family. He's just as crazy as them.
Except Matt gets a call. From a very upset Foggy Nelson. Who says that they decided to burn the defunct bridge that was their relationship with their torrid bitch of a great aunt after she said something homophobic to Foggy's sister, and they went to go surprise Matt for the holidays, only to find out that he was already supposed to be with them. Matthew.
The thing is, foggy knows who Matt is as a person. He knows who Matt is as a person. There is such a very real chance that his blind best friend has been living under an overpass in subzero weather for the past few weeks and not telling him. He's having a heart attack and needs to come pick him up immediately before Matt starts selling his body or something.
And like, good news is that Matt was kidnapped by a lovely suburban family who have been keeping him warm and fed and dry, and they're going to be baking gingerbread today. The bad news is that Matt will literally have a heart attack if he has to explain to foggy how he got here so he just. Panics.
And hangs up the phone.
And matts panicking about how he hung up the phone, because foggy will absolutely call the police and report him as a missing person, holy shit will he call the police on him, Matt was literally kidnapped but he likes his kidnappers now and doesn't want them to be arrested, they're making gingerbread you see and that would be inconvenient to the gingerbread making. So Maria and Frank and the kids are watching this weird feral law student they forcibly adopted go through every single stage of grief in a two minute span, wonder how he made it through life so far on his own, and Maria wrangles the phone from him and calls Foggy back and politely tells him that this is Maria Castle, matts basically a part of their family and has been staying with them through the holidays, they've heard so much about foggy, won't he come visit? How about tomorrow at two? They're making gingerbread today.
Matt: MARIA
Matt is panicking. Foggy knows he doesn't have a family. Foggy is his family. Foggy has unlocked his tragic backstory. Foggy is going to wonder how he acquired a family in like a two and a half week span.
Foggy is panicking. He knows Matt doesn't have a family. He has unlocked matts tragic backstory. Matt was in their fucking Christmas cards because he has no family's Christmas cards to be in.
Maria is not panicking. They're taking a step back and making gingerbread now. Take deep breaths, Matthew.
FOGGY NELSON'S THEORIES ABOUT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH HIS BEST FRIEND (ABRIDGED):
Matt has started a polycule with a suburban couple and is raising their children with them now.
Matt was switched at birth and that's his newly discovered real family and he just never told Foggy.
Matt has been kidnapped by a family in the suburbs and they've enslaved him to make gingerbread with their children.
Which is true, weirdly enough.
Matt is having a spiraling panic attack because while he's like, not on deaths door anymore, he's still healing and clearly beat to shit and foggys going to think the castles did it and freak out and he doesn't have a lie for this prepped. And the castles are like "okay okay but, quick point, you've even prattling on about this kid for like, a minimum of four hours per day, you are more likely than not in love with him, have you considered the truth"
And Matt doesn't know what to do with that, is the thing.
Foggy comes by. He is four hours early. He arrived immediately after he got the address. Maria is lovely and kind and welcoming. Frank pumps his arm firmly and is built like a brickshit house and sort of intimidating.
Matt is absolutely beat to shit.
Matt is absolutely beat to shit.
Foggy: AHAHAHA HEY BUDDY IMMA GIVE YOU A HUG BECAUSE I MISSED YOU AND LOVE YOU SO MUCH IN THIS THE SEASON OF GOODWILL AMONG MEN. did they do this to you cough twice for yes
Matt: oh for the love of god.
And the problem is. For a family that commits felonies. They're weirdly open about that fact.
Foggy: how did Matt end up staying with you
Lisa: oh we gave him Stockholm syndrome after kidnapping him
matt: ahahaha kids say the darndest things
Frankie: no really dad kept having to drag him off the windowsill when he tried to climb out and we had to be extra welcoming to him so he'd stop trying to escape
Matt: AHAHAHA KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS
Foggy told his cop friend Brett to be on standby before he came here and now he's rapidly wondering if he needs to actualize that.
There's a good deal bit more after that, but this is getting long. There's emotional honesty. There's homosexuality. There's confessions about superpowers that Matt may or may not have. There's discussing trauma.
There's the fucking shadow government showing up to recruit Matt.
The thing is that Frank Castle is one of the best military operatives, like. Ever. And SHIELD was interested in recruiting that. And they thought, hey, saving his kids may do that. And they sent Hawkeye to infiltrate the mercenaries that had taken them.
Except they were fuck-off guns there and while he could take them all out if it was just him, he'd have to be 90% crazier of motherfucker than he actually is to try that shit with two kids in the line of fire.
And then an absolutely crazy motherfucker showed up and did exactly that. Caught his arrow mid-backflip. Kicked his ass too. It was sort of sick as hell. He hasn't met anyone so good at hand to hand since black widow.
They couldn't not recruit that guy.
And like. They found him. They found him really easily. The castle family kidnapped him. It was kind of obvious.
So Clint and Coulson roll up with the recruitment pitch and Clints like "hey, haha, I'm Clint, you stabbed me, wow you're like, completely insane, I mean that literally and in a figurative impressiveness sense, want to be best friends" and matts a fucking centimeter from launching himself out the window and starting a new life in Mexico.
And coulson's good at what he does. He can tell that matts not at all buying what he's selling, is more than a little freaked out at the idea of being identified as enhanced, and is almost definitely a former child soldier if their background was accurate about who took him from his orphanage for a few months. He also knows that Matt's abilities are too unique and too useful to just walk away from them. Nothing can be hidden from him. And if a fucking nuke is missing and they need someone to sniff it out, they need to be able to set Matt loose on a city for it. So he makes the pitch of "what if I keep you out of all databases, tell no one your name, and have you as a strictly as needed member of the roster," to which Matt replies with something along the line of "you can go and get fucked with you fascist shadow agency bullshit, you fucking totalitarian nightmare freaks, you try and drag me off to your freak show org to be a fucking dog on a leash for your illegal agency and I'll bite your goddamn face off, the world would have to end for me to come within a hundred godforsaken feet of you," which isā¦ a coarse but technically affirmative answer that Coulson takes to mean as "Yes, if the world is ending, I will come to your agency." He honestly tells him that he'll keep matts secret and leaves. And Matt is still considering the Mexico plan but decides that he has a family to keep him here now in foggy and the castles and decides to risk staying. And that's that.
Which leads into my semi-crack fic of Matt being in the original Avengers, which I won't subject you to here. but some highlights:
Matt misses the first day of world-saving because he took off the second the SHIELD guy came by to pick him up. He managed to hide for 27 consecutive hours before they dragged his ass to the helicarrier.
He wasn't briefed at all because they ask him if he read the files they gave him and he just tosses them on the table and asks "does this look like fucking Braille to you." He repeatedly threatens to sue them for a lack of ada compliance.
He keeps getting stuck in rooms because this nightmare space ship only uses screens for everything, including door handles.
The hulk: *is the hulk*
Matt, has a stick: WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT
Tony: in a few minutes I'll know every secret SHIELD has ever had
Matt, has listened to at least eight top secret HYDRA meetings since being locked into this fucking hell ship: MHMM
They save the day, he's in a mask, the press asks them all whats next for the avengers and he's like "well I have a day job, I'm going home" and just. Walks away.
Three weeks later he starts fighting crime of his own volition and whenever anyone mentions hey is it maybe that avenger fellow he replies to the official inquiries with "oh no you see I have a day job" which should not work but does
Of course, Matt learning about HYDRA leads into my other semi-crack fic involving Matt simply immediately telling Captain America about the fucking Nazi's, and Cap rediscovering his life's passion, which is punching some fucking Nazi's. Except, he really needs Matt to spy on HYDRA for this to work, and Matt's identity is still almost entirely secret even within SHIELD and he doesn't want to endanger that. So they embark on introducing everyone to Matt Murdock, his totally normal, blind attorney boyfriend who is not at all a superpowered ultimate spy who happens to be secretly a very reluctant Avenger. It is now a fake dating AU.
SGG for the fic ask game: Gives us something wholesome that happened after the first Horrible Zen'in Disaster? Thanks~
After the first horrible Zenāin disaster, Nanami fucks off to be a salary man but isnāt about to abandon the kids. He wants partial custody. He and Gojo had an entire divorced dads thing going on for a bit.
There was a Bring Your Family To Work Day and Nanami would have never told Gojo, except it fell on one of his days. So he grit his teeth and asked him if he could pretty please have them for the extra day. And Gojo was very accommodating, and assured him it was fine, heās a reasonable man.
And then he swooped onto Nanamiās fucking office with a big bouquet of flowers, kissed him prominently on the cheek, and announced himself as nanamiās trophy husband in front of god and everyone.
Nanami almost killed the man on the spot.
Except Megumi was a total little asshole as a kid. So he very quickly said it was nice that they could all come see where dad worked, thereby locking Nanami further into the bit.
And, well. It was the first time Megumi had engaged with just about anything since it happened. He went entire days without talking. He just sort of had shut down in the aftermath.
It was also the first (only) time that Megumi called him his dad.
So Nanami grit his teeth and fucking committed to the bit for megumiās sake. They all did. He had Gojo hanging off of his arm the entire day. He was a disgustingly clingy fake husband. He also had to put up with Gojoās increasingly pointed attempts to get Megumi to call him Dad too, which he didnāt. He made it through hours of this, and then as soon as the doors to his office closed behind him, Megumi very quietly said, āI cannot believe you fell for that.ā
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āYuuta from sea glass gardens to pez dispenser debris. LET HIM SUFFER!
ā SLIDING DOORS: pick a character from one fic to drop into another!
Itās after the conclusion of SGG, into jjk canon territory and past it, because weāre not doing the entire Shibuya incident thing for this. Yuuta comes back from Africa to a not-destroyed life and is trying to do like, normal readjustment things after a study abroad experience, like hauling ass down a busy street after a special grade curse you spotted while just trying to get a nice relaxing cup of tea and now youāre really really hoping it lets you corral it into an unpopulated area instead of attacking willy nilly.
(The special grade curse, feeling Yuutaās aura coming down the street: oh fuck oh god itās the megalodon I gotta haul ass)
He runs through a crowd of children. Itās not his goal. Itās an unfortunate by product of the situation. Yuuta is cursed by the cosmos. He bumps a child. Accidentally. He is not a monster. Okay admittedly subject for debate but it was not intentional. He doesnāt know that crowd seems to have a lot going on some guys passed out he hopes heās okay but bigger fish and whatnot.
He feels suddenly, randomly dizzy, and starts to pass out. Bigger fish and whatnot. He heals himself with RCT and carries on.
He does miss the tiny version of him appearing in a dazzling sparkle of light behind him. He. He had bigger fish. And whatnot.
Hanaās teacher, seeing Hana hit a second fucking person who keeps walking and leaves his fucking copy behind: *faints on the spot*
From Yuutaās perspective, he felt kind of weird for the rest of the day, went back to his dorm, passed out, and woke up the next morning to Nobara trying to smother him with a pillow because thereās a photo of a tiny Okkotsu Yuuta schleping alongside newly minted global power couple Leku.
And Yuutaās like. Okay. That might as well happen.
And heās like. Not Ideal! He has to go get tiny him and figure out why thereās a fucking tiny him. But he missed a day. A day. How bad could this have gotten in just a day?
Anyway he goes to UA to try and collect tiny him and the police are immediately called so the answer is āveryā
From Izuku and Mirioās perspective, they were about to leave the scene and Hanaās teacher piped up with the very relevant information that thereās another fucking copy of some random guy who already took off and fuck it, this might as well be their day. They figure they can take him to UA, figure out who the guy was, and offload on him his own personalized nightmare. Simple solutions to complex problems.
Mirio, gods greatest man: hey kiddo! whatās the last thing you remember??
Baby Yuuta, eyes wide with the Horrors: my. my friend. rika. She just. She died. Her head was open and, and all over the street. And then. She. She climbed out again. Of the blood. As a monster.
Mirio, doesnāt know why he canāt have normal days: oā¦ kayā¦
Frankly they just assume this kid is super traumatized by his friendās death and not actually haunted by violent and malcontent spirits, you know, the way Izuku is, and take him back to UA so they can try to contact a family member. But baby Yuuta also comes with his own Rika. When he gets upset on school grounds, Rika lashes out. There is some violence by invisible, unstoppable forces. Lots of screaming and crying and begging for Rika to stop. Extensive property damage. Some injuries. The continued erosion of Aizawaās sanity.
But Mirio is an enchanting presence even to violent and malcontent spirits, so Rika chills out without killing and only minor bloodshed.
Okay then! Obviously this kid is going through a lot and has an uncontrollable and powerful Quirk of his own! That, for some reason, Aizawa canāt erase. All the more reason to immediately track down who he is and get his older self to help manage this Quirk!
Anyway they run the name Okkotsu Yuuta with the birthdate Yuuta gives and it comes back to a kid who is medically Quirkless and legally dead.
Aizawa opens another criminal investigation.
Iāve decided that all jujutsu sorcerers are Quirkless and their cursed energy is an entirely separate thing. Itās some genetics overlap where they donāt get Quirks too, late the toe bones. The one who grew up in clans are entirely severed from heroics society and are only vaguely aware that Quirks exist. They mostly look down on Quirks as lesser to jujutsu sorcery. The ones who grew up outside of clans, like Nanami or Nobara, either are diagnosed as Quirkless or their technique gets mistakenly assumed to be their quirk.
By middle school Gojo just started fucking lying about Megumiās status because he started using his technical Quirklessness as a bullying bait and he was kicking the shit out of too many people. He got expelled so many times that Gojo was running out of school districts to put him in. He managed to get expelled in 13 minutes once. Ijichi hadnāt even made it out of the parking lot yet. And Tsumiki insisted on going to the same school as him (he would do dumb shit without her there to yell at him otherwise) so now he had two kids he was going to have to home school if he didnāt figure something out, which somehow portended more violence than with Megumi having access to an entire school of victims. Gojo eventually just fucking wrote down Super Punch in his records and told Megumi to lie and say he had some kind of mild increase to physical abilities as a quirk that was really the product of his cursed energy.
Anyway you have tiny Izuku insisting he doesnāt have a quirk and this guy fucking killed and replaced him and baby Yuuta sitting next to him seeing Horrors Beyond Comprehension and whispering that Rika says she wonāt let him die. Theyāre both living two opposite ends of the spectrum of horror movies. They trust the other implicitly as a result and are now roaming the UA campus together, causing Izuku specifically Agony. Itās a weird dynamic. Shinsou has no idea whatās going on.
Aizawa asked nedzu to figure out what the fuck was going on with this kid and why he was legally dead when thereās security camera footage of him very much alive chasing something off frame and disappearing into Tokyo backstreets and Nedzu almost immediately gets a call from the prime minister of Japan wanting to know why he was asking questions about Okkotsu Yuuta and warning him to stop digging. This delighted Nedzu. He is burrowing into this little tangle of information like a maggot into rotting flesh. He has not had this much fun in years. There have been multiple high level emergency government meetings trying to figure out what the fuck Nedzu is up to and how to stop him.
So thereās Yuuta. Unknowing. Dreading this life experience as a whole. Who is really hoping maybe he can treat this like school pick up situation and apologize for the trouble and figure out how to Get Rid Of That Thing.
Howeverāand this is keyāhe goes to school with some real fucking assholes. Public humiliation is their most cherished spectator sport. And Nobara told literally all of them before she told Yuuta.
They all schlep along after him, refusing to fuck off and let him do this. Yuuta wonders why his life has to be this hard sometimes.
Megumi is there to be actually helpful, because heās a little bit better at navigating the real world than Yuuta and Yuutaās his favorite senpai, so he wants to be there for him. Yuuji is there for reasons of gay jealousy, because no one told him the context of sgg and all he knows is that some beautiful son of a bitch came back from Africa and suddenly Megumi was hanging out with him and they were close and people were talking about how Megumi was his boy and all he hears is about how Yuutaās this gorgeous and perfect asshole who gets his execution suspended and the curse living inside of him resolved in a million dazzling lights and has fucking Nanami kento as his legal guardian. What do you mean heās jealous. What. Whoās jealous. Not him.
Anyway if Megumi gets to go he doesnāt see why he doesnāt get to go too.
Everyone else went to mock Yuuta. Yuuta expected this. He does not appreciate it, but he expected this.
Anyway Yuuta goes to the intercom of the UA gates and is about four words into his shambling explanation about how their celebrity students appear to have hard launched their relationship with a tinier him stumbling beside and how heād just sort of like him back now, please, before heās immediately buzzed in and told to please come in and join them at the Class 3-A dorms.
Yuuta feels this is a trap, but does not see how he has another choice. He goes in.
UA security guard: do you know these people
Yuuta: no
Panda: you son of a bitch weāre raising a child together
Megumi, the child in question, has not been told this yet: Iām sorry what
Yuuta: never mind that
Yuuta enters. This is increasingly apparent to be a trap. He decides to see if theyāll just let him walk off with the kid anyway. They. Will not.
Aizawa insists they canāt release tiny him unless itās to a guardian. Yuuta offers to leave and come back with one. Aizawa says they need the guardian to come before they can let either of them leave. Yuuta asks if this is another governmentally sanctioned kidnapping situation. Aizawa stares at him for a long time and asks what that even means.
Yuuta says it was just a joke, but no one seems to believe him.
He texts Nanami to come get him and hopes the police are not already en route and, if so, that he can convince them not to call the police.
The police are already en route.
Aizawa wants answers. Yuuta is good enough at acting and lying to make this not a complete disaster.
Everyone else with him is bad enough at it to make it a complete disaster.
Aizawa: why are you legally dead
Yuuta: Im sorry but I really donāt know what youāre talking about
Maki, at the exact same moment: thatās a different Okkotsu Yuuta
Panda, also at the same moment: he got better
Nobara, thinks this is funny: heās hiding from the yakuza
Yuuji, hates him: heās in the yakuza
Inumaki: tuna
Megumi, the only other person there even mildly good at lying: *staring at them in horror*
Izuku feels like the heavens just opened and sent him the only man alive whoās more of a train wreck than him to save him from this social interaction. Who is he. Does he know that Izuku is also cosmically cursed. Does he know that they are both haunted by violent and malcontent spirits who live inside them. Does he know Izuku has fallen a little bit in love with him, here, in this moment. Also who is that guy standing behind him because he has the vague sense he knows him.
Izuku: have we met before
Megumi, knows for a fucking fact he made it three and a half days in the same elementary school as Izuku before he was expelled and permanently banned from the entire district: no
Sero, noticing him: oh shit didnāt you go to my middle school
Megumi: no
Sero: fushiguro right? You were like a year below me, you, uh. You were pretty notorious for beating up all thoseā¦ *suddenly afraid* you know what maybe Iām mistaken
Megumi: you are
Nobara, smells blood in the water: wow fushiguro that sure sounds like you
Izuku, connecting the dots between Megumi and that feral Quirkless child that was his best and only friend until he got expelled for biting Bakugou and multiple other people and Izuku never saw him again: ohhhhhhh
Megumi: I have to leave actually
Aizawa, needs the police here: no one is leaving without a parent
Megumi: Iām an orphan
Izuku: your teen dads died????
Nobara: heās lying man Iāll text his dad
Megumi: *grabs her phone*
Nobara: *pulls out a hammer*
Yuuta, confiscating the hammer from her, which results in her pulling out a second, larger hammer: I am begging you to let them leave
Aizawa: *starts taking deep breaths*
At this point, Tiny Izuku realizes who Megumi is. Heās impossibly relieved to have found Megumi, that vicious Quirkless kid who seemed to have a lot going on in his home life and was being raised by three teenagers of no apparent biological relation to him, who resorted to immediate and indiscriminate violence in defense of Izuku, which Tiny Izuku could really use some of right now.
Tiny Izuku: I need to talk to you
Megumi, looking heavenward for strength: why are thereāyou got hit by the same thing Okkotsu did, didnāt you.
Izuku: unfortunately yes.
Tiny Izuku: itās different. And youāre the only one I can trust. Except for all might if he does show up. But right now itās just you
Megumi, doesnāt know why this is his life or what the worlds most famous man has to do with this: okay
Mina: boooo why does he get to be the only one you trust
Tiny Izuku: heās Quirkless too! He gets it
Sero: what no he isnāt
Megumi: *stares at him, threateningly*
Sero, afraid now: but maybe Iām mistaken
Megumi: you are
Tiny Izuku, horrified whisper: oh my god they got you too
Megumiās willing to just let whatever that means sort of ride. But this is immediately and violently thwarted by the love of his friends. Yuuji and Nobara nearly suffocate laughing. Because no, no, this is their favorite story about Megumi. He was just such a violent little freak of a child that his dad just fucking falsified his paperwork because he was using it as an excuse to beat too many people up. He has been expelled from 23 different schools in the greater Tokyo area. They both find him impossibly enchanting. Yuujiās completely in love with him. What. Who said that. Not Yuuji.
Megumi, after a long pause: Iām gonna take off
Aizawa, needs to stop discovering new crimes in this little torture matrix of a situation: no one no one is leaving until I speak to everyoneās guardian
Yuuji, raising his hand: wait does that mean me too because I am actually an orphan
Aizawa, taking deep breaths: if youāre underaged you still have a guardian
Yuuji: haha youād think so
Aizawa, needs a Xanax: yes???
At this point, Bakugou comes in.
Bakugou, seeing that one guy who got expelled for biting him in childhood: what the fuck
Bakugou, now seeing tiny Izuku: what the fuck
Megumi, never forgets a guy he fucked up: didnāt I get expelled for beating you up. are you still a piece of shit.
Sero, nervously laughing: but wasnāt your entire thing beating up bullies why would you have beat upā¦
Megumi: *stares at him, threateningly*
Sero, feeling unsafe: you know i forgot i had a uh, dentist appointment. I think, uh. I think Iām gonnaā¦ go
Megumi, still wants to leave: you know what me too Iāll walk you out
Sero, feeling more unsafe: *crying a little* please donāt
Tiny Izuku, recognizing Megumiās iconic bitch stare, newly hopeful again: it is still you. Listen you have to help me Iāve been killed and replaced
Megumi, interested there are still life problems out there that he hasnāt personally had yet: huh. that so?
Izuku, close to tears: no
Tiny Izuku: yes. can you help me
Megumi, shrugging a bit: I can look into it. if he really killed and replaced you Iāll kill him for you
Izuku: hey wait
Tiny Izuku, bursting into tears: I knew you were the best friend Iāve ever had
Megumi, viewed him as more of an acquaintance: okay.
Bakugou, thinks heās stroking out: guys what the fuck is going on
Then Megumi tries to leave again. Aizawa insists Megumi canāt leave. Megumi stares at him for a long time and asks him if thatās a hill he wants to die on. Yuuta starts laughing nervously and says that was a joke, but no one believes him.
They wait in haunting silence until Nanami arrives.
When Tiny Yuuta sees him, he immediately bursts into violent and inconsolable tears.
Tiny Yuuta: thatās not my dad
Yuuta: hey hey itās okay! He justā¦ takes over our guardianship when we get older
Tiny Yuuta, horrified: mom and dad die????
Yuuta, has had a long day: they donāt die they just stop loving us
Tiny Yuuta: *shocked into traumatized silence*
Izuku, has no idea how thereās someone alive whose life is more of a mess than his: :o
Inumaki, softly: tuna
Maki: that means fuck, dude
Rika: *explodes out of the wall*
Panda, weakly: oh hey guys look itās Rikaaaaaa
Thereās screaming. Thereās violence. The dorms have to be evacuated. Panda is thrown through several brick walls after insisting that he can resolve this through the power of the dream of millions. But it is not Rikaās dream. Yuuta has to personally contain Rika, to the bewilderment of Tiny Yuuta, who didnāt know he could do that.
After Panda crawls out of the rubble, Panda and Inumaki hang out at the side and try to start a betting pool about whether Yuuta will destroy his second school with the power of love. This is to the direct confusion of all of Class A, who want to know how he did that the first time.
This is also to the direct confusion of Yuuji and Nobara, who were not told anything about what happened before they came to jujutsu high and suddenly have a lot of questions. Megumi does not want any of them answering any fucking questions about what life was like before Yuuji started at the school. This generates even more questions.
No one understands whatās going on, except for Yuuta, who wishes he understood less of this, actually. He says this out loud, furthering Izukuās belief that Yuuta is his soulmate. Izuku starts wondering if itād be weird if he asked Yuuta if he wanted to hang out, on account of god hating both of them. Itād be weird, right? Probably weird.
There is a very tense conversation between Aizawa and Nanami, where Aizawa does not want to let them leave until the police get here, and Nanami explains that Aizawaās involvement with his kids is over and that the police have already been called off. Aizawa does not fucking want to hear that. Matters. Escalate.
The prime minister of Japan has to call UA in extreme distress and tell them that if those fucking people are not off of UA grounds in the next ninety seconds he is canceling every ounce of public funding for UA, ever.
Then they just all sort of fuck off.
Itās just an odd, fucked up thing they never get answers about and always slightly haunts them. At one point, Megumi shows up in the dead of night, having inexplicably gained access to the dorms, tells Tiny Izuku he confirmed he was not killed and replaced, refuses to explain how, and then just fucking leaves. No one knows why this happened. Itās just another confusing and painful aspect of their existence.
Izuku thinks of Yuuta wistfully, like heās his soulmate lost at sea. After years without him, he decides heāll probably never see that guy again, and then immediately runs into him at a konbini the next day, because god loves to prove him wrong. Once in a blue moon, one of those random fucking guys from back then will show up and take over a crime scene from the class a alumni, usually whenever itās a crime scene particularly horrifying. At one point in his career, Sero gets trapped in a cursed spiritās barrier and is saved by Megumi, who he is still afraid of.
From the jjk gangās perspective, they have a New Child to raise, which is a healthy activity for teenagers everywhere. Everyone is fucking jazzed about having Baby Yuuta as the new village baby, except for Yuuta, who hates all of this, and Baby Yuuta, who is horrified by all of this, and Megumi, who found out he was the old village baby during this and is too angry to talk to anyone. Inumaki and Panda, with great ceremony, draw up a very complex shared custody agreement for Baby Yuuta, which involves intense negotiations for who gets him on Arbor Day and the entire month of June and nearly escalates to the point of violence.
It is immediately rendered moot by Nanami, who informs them that jujutsu high is hardly a proper place to raise a young boy (he knows from personal experience), and takes custody of him until the Quirk is resolved. Gojo insists on raising Baby Yuuta with him, thereby successfully babytrapping Nanami Kento for the third time.
Panda and Inumaki consider this an abduction of the child they birthed and decide to double down on raising Megumi, thereby abducting Gojo and Nanamiās child right back. Megumi. Suffers.
After reading sgg (as well as all of the asks about it) i have become Attuned to whenever you use the phrase āhis boyā so all i have to say about the last pez dispenser debris ask (besides the fact i called it from the start that aizawa was concerningly codependent with his kids) is that shinsou is aizawaās boy!! Rip aizawa even the teen parenting trio and jjkās second years had more ppl supporting the single parenthood than he does.
If you asked Aizawa heād say that he has no favorites and he tolerates all of his students an equal amount but that is because he is an irredeemable liar he has one favorite and that is Shinsou. That is his blossoming little butterfly boy and Aizawa is so so proud of him. He insists Shinsou isnt his favorite and all might insists Izuku isnāt his favorite and then they avoid all eye contact because they are the same kind of liar
Shinsou v Megumiās parenting situations fight fight fight. Which is worse to have one over extended dad fighting in the goddamn trenches as the pseudo guardian to your nineteen classmates who are all in a state of existential distress or to be forcibly raised by three unrelated teenagers in a nonsexual platonic coparenting polycule who are all medically insane and then as soon as you get out of the goddamn trenches of them trying to explain the miracle of your changing body to you four kids who are one year older than you decide you are their little flour sack boy who they shall raise as the village baby and also one of them is a panda
itās hilarious to me that fushiguro went back to his old middle school and everyone talked about how his sister, who went to middle school with him, was the one taking care of him because Iām convinced that seventeen year old gojo had his ass in a chair every pta meeting starting shit with the other moms and the entire administration collectively said āthat man cannot even take care of himselfā and decided twelve year old tsumiki was the only possible caretaker
ā4. Fushiguro Megumi and the Worldās Most Inconvenient Custody Battle: pre JJK0ā
you see i love this. because ā on one hand, megumi would be totally willing to throw hands with geto bc of his monkey issues. like megumi, who sister is one of those monkeys geto is trying to kill, would ofc hate geto BUT geto would ofc be interested in megumi bc of his technique. he would also (probably idk many toji traumatized these gay teens.) find it so funny to try & co parent the kid with gojo, who has no idea heās co parenting rn.
in a happier world where toji learned to chill tf out or when yaga look at this depressed little man & signed that bitch up for therapy: gojo, shoko, & geto would absolutely adopt the fushiguro siblings. but ofc gege is a coward so he settled for satosugu adopting kids to cope after the kfc divorce when they couldāve raised those kids TOGETHERRR.
Getoās entire reason for pressuring Megumi into the binding vow (he has to stay with his cult for a specific period of time with a lot of qualifiers) was very much because of his technique. He hadnāt realized Yuuta as a plan yet and the ten shadows was supposed to be the six eyes equal, so he thought he could give this emo middle schooler self-actualization and offer him a world that isnāt ābe wizard indentured servantā and Megumi would unlock his full potential and be a heavy hitter for his cult army.
Except he put in all the work and got to the end of it and Megumi was like āoh. Yeah. I was only playing along because the binding vow literally requires me to. Yāall are still bonkers tho. You literally want to murder my sister. Thanks for the power ups, but uh. Gonna head out now.ā And just. Leaves.
Like in Geto and gojos minds this was the custody battle of the century but the SECOND it comes to head Megumi is like āuuhhhh youāre mean to my sisterā and fucks right off. Never a competition. Just total knockout. Tsumiki wins.
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omg !! you started writing megumi POV !! i love you for that. but i also love your fic ideas especially the one where itās like gojo just fucking unleashed megumiās menace ways into junpei school š. like tbh idc for junpei but the hilarity that would ensue would have me cackling. like imagine your adopted dad asks you to pull up in some basement, reveal that your dead bestie/crush is actually kicking & breathing who pulls up with another traumatized emo, & then your adopted dad is basically bullying you into going to a school just to go back to your menace ways. i like to imagine that gojo would always give megumi ice cream or gifts whenever he was called into a school meeting to discuss megumi violent ways. heās totally the ādid you win son?ā kind of dad & i love that for him.
I love that one so much, itās so fun, and the best part is that gojo doesnāt even tell Megumi thatās what heās doing. He just says āIāve got the perfect person to solve this problemā and puts Megumi on the assignment no explanation no instruction fully 1200% counting on the fact that Megumi will crumple like a wet paper towel and relapse into his bully days within minutes of the school day starting. Megumis just fucking sweating knowing thatās exactly why gojo drafted him for the assignment and trying not to prove him right.
And then he crumples like a wet paper towel within minutes of the school day starting and reverts to his bullying ways. Gojo stop laughing.
for the megumi and the world's most inconvenient custody battle, i just head canon geto and gojo screaming at each other in front of kfc (AGAIN) and the conversation goes something like:
Geto: I HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE I HAVE TWINS AT HOME ILL BE A BETTER PARENTAL FIGURE THAN U!
gojo: THATS MY BABY I CHANGED HIS DIAPERS! HE CAME OUTTA MY WOMB! GIVE HIM BACK!
megumi and the kfc workers are so so done someone get these gay men couple therapy pls
i have so normal feelings for ideas i totally dont think about them every single day.
The funny thing is that Megumi actually have no awareness of Gojo at all during the custody battle due to the intricacies of the binding vow (there's a clause where Megumi has to kill himself if Gojo intervenes at all during the span of the agreement. Geto wanted the clause to be that Megumi has to kill his sister, but Megumi threatened to kill Geto and then himself if he made that the clause. Geto doesn't actually want to make Megumi kill himself, it's just a dead man's switch to keep Gojo from swooping in and ending the entire thing prematurely. There's nothing Geto can do to actually stop Gojo, but he can deter Gojo with the consequences of a binding vow which even Gojo cannot break, and he knows Gojo won't actually risk his son, so he'll let the entire thing run it's course naturally). So it's just:
Megumi: *very grumpily going ice skating with Geto's twins because he's under binding vow to play nice and cooperate with the cult members during the terms of the vow*
Geto and Gojo, squatting behind a vendor's cart: *having the world's quietest and most hostile divorcee bitch fight*
Don't feel bad, OP. Experimental replication and blind testing are important to scientific research. By publishing your findings, you have provided valuable input to the field. š«”
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Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.
My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter
If you're not playing Leroy Anderson's 1953 classic "The Typewriter" with an actual typewriter on stage... why would you even BOTHER?
From wiki
According to the composer himself, as well as other musicians, the typewriter part is difficult because of how fast the typing speed is: even professionalĀ stenographersĀ cannot do it, and only professionalĀ drummersĀ have the necessaryĀ wristĀ flexibility
