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okay, I REALLY LIKE THIS, Engineer Touya is great but I think the timeline needs sorting out and a stronger reason as to why Shoto ran away/had a breakdown.

My suggestion;

-Rei gives Shoto his scar+is sent away

-Shoto, already in a fragile mindset+hating his dad, looks for comfort in Fuyumi.

-Touya and Natsuo are there, Touya is covered in his own burns, and Natsuo is upset because Rei is gone. If you lean into the fact Natsuo, as a child, resented Shoto a bit for taking away their parents’ attention, you could have him be bitter that Shoto yet again is taking a mother figure away from him (Fuyumi) and because Natsuo is still a kid (8?) he’s partially blaming Shoto.

-Touya is being Touya and being mean to Shoto, giving him the same look that terrified Rei, and Shoto sees his father’s anger in Touya, realities what his mother saw on his own face, gets scared, and runs away before Fuyumi can stop him. Fuyumi wants to call Enji, but her and Natsuo are scared of his reaction, and Touya doesn’t care.

-Shoto runs away, and has his meltdown because no matter who he goes to in the family, he isn’t his own person, he’s always a means to an end or a representation of something, and the only person who had ever comforted him/been his anchor scarred him. Since his Quirk is different, both his side would blow up at the same time, scarring his body like Rei did and having a huge conflict of elements that cause more damage than Touya’s meltdown had.

-Shoto’s fire isn’t as hot, but because of the hot-cold explosion, the weather is acting up as well, violently, and nobody can get passed it, not even Endeavor.

-Enji is desperately looks for Shoto in the aftermath, neglecting the other three more than usual, and when the authorities try to convince Enji that Shoto is dead, Fuyumi breaks and starts wailing, properly crying for the first time ever, blaming herself for not stopping Shoto when she’s supposed to support her siblings, then Natsuo starts crying because he had blamed Shoto for something that wasn’t his fault and starts screaming at Enji, finally saying all the things he thought about him, and about Touya and all the things he said while keeping Natsuo up at night, and Enji looks at Touya, which makes Touya start crying to because ‘I just wanted you to look at me’. -All of that combined hits Enji like a freight train because his youngest is dead, his wife’s been sent away because of his own actions and his three eldest have been neglected this entire time and are now blaming themselves for something they had no control over. It doesn’t snap him out of his obsession completely but it does force him to look at himself and realise he majorly fucked up and has been spiralling for years.

-Endeavor takes a break to refocus on his kids, giving them attention and support they needed while trying to fix himself on his own, which at first, really doesn’t go down well, but Touya is just happy to have his father’s attention back, and seeing Touya happy, it encourages Fuyumi. Natsuo takes the longest to come round to the new dynamic, but eventually he too accepts Enji’s efforts (but the bitterness never fully goes away).

-3 years later, Shoto would be 8 years old when he wakes up, and considering he never had Touya’s dynamic with Enji, I actually don’t think he’d burn the hospital and run away. I actually think he would’ve stayed because “nobody wants me at home anyway…they all hate me” and AFO would have a field day with that, lovebombing Shoto and make him feel special and ‘loved’. -Shoto stills has his ‘rebirth’ but it’s as AFO’s student/underling. Shoto having bad memory and a messed up emotionally state is perfect, considering it all happened when he was so little. You could have some interest parallels between him and Shigaraki.

-BUT Shoto isn’t as useful as Shigaraki, because while Shigaraki hates everything, Shoto only hates Endeavor and those like him/around him by proxy, so while Shoto is a back up vessel, AFO knows he’s useless outside of a weapon to take down Endeavor.

-The remaining TodoFam somewhat heal, it’s awkward not easy and there’s a lot of hurt/bitterness, but Enji is trying and the three are receptive to it. Touya becomes an engineer (probably to try and make support gear that would cancel out his and his father’s overheating issues because bro is still obsessed), Fuyumi becomes a teacher and you can either have a Pro-Hero Natsuo who wants to be a child rescue hero OR have him become a doctor with a focus on mental health to help unstable heroes like Endeavor.

-I think Zankuro killing Bakugo is very interesting BUT you need a better reason that ‘he ticked him off’ XD if you lean into the “hates anything Endeavor-like” you could have Bakugou’s feral nature triggering something in Shoto and have him lose control/go overboard in sheer fear/panic/flashbacks of what Enji used to be like.

-Have Zankuro meet Endeavor after he becomes N1 BUT he doesn’t recognise him because Enji has completely softened up since his death; “where is Endeavor, I want to kill him” straight to Endeavor’s face and Enji is like “uh…I’m a Endeavor”, and Shoto replying with something like “No way, your eyes are too kind”. Really smack Enji with the reminder of how terrible he used to be.

-AND IF YOU HAVE THE FINAK WAY, TOUYA FINALLY MAKES A PROTOTYPE OF THE SUPPORT ITEM HE WANTS WITH THE HELP OF MELISSA SO HE CAN FIGHT SHOTO AND IT CAN’T WITHSTAND SHOTO’S STRENGTH BUT TOUYA IS MORE TENACIOUS THAN HIM AND WINSSSSS

There’s honestly sm you could go with this, but I think you need answers to the “why does this happen/why does character do this” questions. But namely, I’d have Shoto be way more focused on Endeavor rather than Heroes as a whole. I have more ideas with All Might and Endeavor, like Enji being ashamed but asking him to come to Shoto’s funeral because that’s one of the only things Enji knew about Shoto: that he liked All Might. And that way, All Might and Endeavor are more involved in each other’s story, and thus Izuku’s.