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Under the read more: post pacifist end spoilers, papyrus being a goober, soriel, and sans being the best brother he can be ‘cuz he has no idea how long any of this will last and someone might as well get to enjoy it.

Dry Brush Font by Levi Szekeres

Dry Brush Font by Levi Szekeres

Dry Brush Font by Levi Szekeres

An AU where Duck doesn’t get bitten.

Instead, he matures and breaks from his childish self after the deaths of Katjaa and, later, Kenny.

Before dying, Kenny taught him a lot about survival, in his own ways. Duck grows to become much like his father: stubborn, caring and a little short-tempered - though he can still be childish and arguably annoying at times.

He becomes a strong survivor, good at long range shooting and hunting. He’s very protective of Clementine and AJ, and would easily kill to keep them safe.

He has difficulties entrusting strangers with their safety and, much like Kenny, wants to keep constantly on the move, much for AJ’s dismay, as they never settled down in a single place for too long.

After everything they’d been through, him and Clem silently bond over their lost loved ones and the difficulties of coping and living through it all. Even though neither of them liked to mention Lee, Kenny of Katjaa for emotional reasons, they both knew exactly how eachother felt, no words spoken.

Grown up, Duck prefers to be addressed by his real name: Kenny Jr, or just Kenny, both because it sounds more mature and for the sake of his father. Clementine, however, got used to calling him just Duck since childhood, so she sticks with it. 

He instinctively got used to calling others “shitbird” from hearing his father use the term so constantly. 

A puppet with loose strings is still a puppet

If AFO is  an incredible manipulator and is able to clearly read the wishes and intentions of other people, then why in the hell would he give his little brother (who he knows hates his guts) such a strong Quirk?

*Tin foil hat mode activated*

Let’s not forget that AFO is prolly around 200 years old. So I have this idea that maybe at the beginning he wasn’t such a bad guy. Yeah, maybe a douchebag and doing horrible things but for the best of intentions- to seek a more equal world for everyone. 

Seeing this, maybe OFA was displeased on how AFO used his powers and/or he was jealous of his brother’s abilities and he let AFO know this. MAYBE, so far AFO had been moving on his own and MAYBE taking in some of OFA’s criticism and slowly begin to open up to his little brother.

Then, MAYBE, OFA took his opportunity to get close to his brother, infiltrated the ranks and get his hands on a Quirk powerful enough to beat his older brother. So in a moment when AFO was more emotionally vulnerable OFA attacked- maybe even almost killing him before AFO used all the weight of his power on his little brother. 

And then we know how the story goes, the Quirk pass on to the next generation to deal with the past one’s mistakes. Now we know that some percentage of the consciousness is passed when you give someone a Quirk, so now either OFA doesn’t remember correctly the details and filling up the blanks.

Or he is lying to everyone’s faces, trying to justify his actions as heroism and for the greater good... Right?

And then, why haven’t AFO mention anything about this? Well, again, he has lived at least 200 years. After being betrayed by his own brother probably he would have closed off entirely to the world around him, decide to push his own ideals forward no matter the cost and over the years he became more cruel. More cold. More evil. 

*super tin foil hat mode activated*

At first he took Tenko in simply because he was part of Shimura’s legacy. But maybe over the years he begin to care about the kid. Ya know, in a Walter White and Jesse Pinkman kinda father-son relationship. And the reason he is so evil in the latest chapters is because is a part of his consciousness, not all of it.

during the beginning of quirks, AFO was someone who had a meta ability, and that would mean being discriminated against / being in danger. It’s the collapse of civil society, people are attacking each other on the streets, and ‘Metas-human’ were feared and despised, from what we have seen. And AFO had to grow up in that era, as part of that minority, knowing what this power would mean for him.

Though it’s also true his quirk was ‘invisible’. AFO didn’t have a mutant appearance, his power wasn’t very flashy, so he could’ve easily slip under the radar. He wasn’t in the worst circumstances, especially once he realized how powerful he could be, but I’m sure he still had to be careful.

Meanwhile, his brother (OFA) in all aspects was ‘normal’. Yeah, turns out Lil’ Bro did have a quirk, but neither of them knew it at the time because it was functionally useless, totally invisible - Lil’ Bro, in every practical sense, was not a meta-human, not seen as one, wouldn’t be treated as one, lived most of his life thinking he wasn’t one.

Of course, in the manga, the dynamics of humans and meta-humans shown weren’t so simple and as clear-cut as like X-men style anti-mutant persecution. So we can’t say All For One was like, ‘marginalized’, technically; plus he himself straddle that in-between line, he could basically control that dynamic to a degree.

But I imagine for AFO, having his ‘normal human’ brother tell him - someone who, likely by the standards of that time, wasn’t seen as totally human - what he can and can’t do with his power, how he should or shouldn’t use it, why he had to care about a world that was against him; that might have been rather unsupportive, if not patronizing. Even more so as he seems to be the one watching out for both of them, no parents or guardians in the picture.

AFO, definitely at some point: “My adorable but ungrateful little bother, I'm the one with a supernatural ability. I'm the one in danger. I'm the one making sure the both of us are alright, and here you are telling me what I can and can't do to protect us."

There was definitely discrimination when quirks first appeared, but I’d say that the manga also shows just as much that there were major issues between “those with power” vs “those without”. Like it reads like there’s more to it than just discrimination against those with quirks.  It was a power struggle; there’s a reason it was called an “age of chaos”.

We see quirk discrimination, but we also see people using these newfound abilities to assert their power of those who didn’t have them.

OFA doesn’t know what it would be like to have people discriminate against you because you have a quirk. And AFO doesn’t have any idea what it’s like to be powerless in a world where people’s bodies can be these powerful weapons. I honestly think, in the past, it was less of a struggle where one side had power or privilege over the other (you’re right, it’s def not as clear-cut as X-men) and more of just a widespread panic over this new reality that people were faced with. 

In the middle of all that chaos was AFO, someone with the power to bring balance and order. Someone who can take a quirk from someone who doesn’t want it, and gift it to someone who does. 

I think you’re probably right about the idea that AFO saw his little brother as ungrateful. After all, they’re living in these unprecedented times, where people are chasing their own family away and attacking people in the streets, and OFA is complaining about him bringing order back? OFA is complaining when his brother is the one keeping him safe from harm?

Now, the events in Death Note occurred across five years and Light went from questionable hero to a serial killer with a god-complex. So I don’t think it’s too far fetch to think that some point AFO was somewhat of a good guy with somewhat noble intensions that after maybe some life-changing events and many years of alive turn out to be the terrible villain.

Also, I’m giving AFO the benefit of the doubt because everything we have seen of his background has been through OFA’s point of view. There are three things going on. (From most likely to least likely).

0̶.̶ ̶C̶a̶n̶o̶n̶i̶c̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶,̶ ̶O̶F̶A̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶b̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶t̶e̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶u̶t̶h̶.̶

1. OFA’s memories had aged well and doesn’t remember exactly everything, so he fill in the gaps.

2. OFA is changing or omitting certain parts to make him appear more like the good guy.