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I think Dad for One stories that have Izuku as AFO’s only child are thinking too small. The man has been running around for over 200 years, and it would be WAY FUNNIER if he was actually the Deadbeat Dad TM to at least half a dozen kids spanning at least 3 generations.

Does he have these kids on purpose to experiment with the quirks? Does he just happen to have romantic relationships about once a decade or so and nature takes its course? Does he stick around long enough to even realize he has kids half the time? I don’t know.

So, here’s my list of candidates that meet any of my criteria. That is, red eyes/white hair, as I believe AFO had before All Might turned his face into a potato; or a quirk that could be tied back to All For One. (Or if it would be funny for plot reasons)

Midoryia Izuku because it’s already the common theory and would be funny for plot reasons.

Monoma Neito can copy quirks.

Aizawa Shouta can suppress quirks and has red eyes.

Toga Himiko discovers a secondary aspect to her quirk that allows her to copy quirks. I think she might have red eyes too.

Eri has white hair, red eyes, and a quirk that allows her blood to be used to make quirk erasing bullets.

Aoyama was born quirkless just like Izuku and received his quirk from AFO, so that could be a fun connection to play with.

Tamaki can take on traits of things he eats, and I’ve seen at least one fic where he’s able to use that like Toga if he eats dna from a mutant type and mimics their quirk.

Gran Torino. No reason except that it would be funny.

Actually, by that logic wouldn’t it be hilarious if Toshinori Yagi were ALSO a son of AFO? And that’s the real reason AFO decided to recruit Nana’s grandson. Because she stole his kid first, lmao.

That’s all I’ve got off the top of my head. But you can always add whoever you want. The best part is, they don’t all have to be AFO’s *kids*. Some of them could be grandkids or even great x3 grandkids. Meaning Aizawa could legally be Eri’s adoptive father but biologically be her nephew and it would be the funniest thing.

“I cast shocking grasp!” *jabs you with stun gun* (not to be confused with lightning bolt/taser)

*sneaks up and hits you with baseball bat* “Surprise round! Roll initiative b!t<h!”

“Blinding smite!” *pepper sprays you in the eyes*

One player is getting chased and something just happens to fall on the attacker. Yells something about wild magic/tides of chaos.

The serial killer or whatever corners the wizard with a smoking habit in the bathroom towards the end of the movie. Monologues about how they’re all out of tricks now. You have no weapons! And none of your silly pretend spells translate to real life!

Wizard grabs the open can of hairspray off the counter and their lighter.

“FIREBALL!”

Basic Worldbuilding:

MHA characters in a mostly-atla-but-still-some-mha World.

Obviously Seven Havens isn’t out yet and we have limited information about what the world looks like in that era except DIFFERENT. But let’s say this is the generation after Pavti and call it a modern au.

There’s bending and there’s quirks. Quirks are the result of either being briefly possessed by a spirit, or being exposed to way too much spirit energy as a kid. Once your DNA is altered by that spirit energy, the alterations can be passed down to your children.

As per canon, about 20% of people are quirkless nonbenders. Another 40% make up the standard, non-quirked benders. Then 20% quirked benders (think anyone whose quirk can ALMOST be bending. If you squint). And last but not least, quirked nonbenders (think mutant quirks or anything else that REALLY can’t be tied back to any of the elements).

The Hero System is Not A Thing and Quirkless Discrimination is Less Bad (but still A Thing) because the divide between people who have superpowers and people who don’t predates known history and civilizations were literally built around the most common powers.

Discrimination against mutant quirks, “villainous” quirks, and quirks that limit bending is still pretty bad. For instance, Shinsou is a quirked waterbender who can only bend blood, which has the double negative of being creepy and “not a proper waterbender”. A lot of people would consider him to be cursed by the spirits.

Even without a “hero school”; my community college has classes/programs for people who want to be cops, firefighters, or other First Responders. And there are multiple “early college” type highschool programs working with the college. UA could be converted into a couple of Early College/Headstart/Whatever-You-Want-To-Call-It programs. The Hero Course would be the school with a focus on various first responder training programs. The Support Course could be the engineer program/trade school. Etc.

White Lotus has gone back to being a secret spy network. People know they exist in the same way they know the CIA and MI6 exist, but you don’t see them walking around in an obvious uniform and telling everyone what they’re doing.

This next idea probably isn’t realistic but whatever -> The White Lotus actually works with the various intelligence agencies of the different nations. (We’ll call it seven nations to match Pavti’s era.) (Definitely not possible in a world with hundreds of nations, but I’m going to pretend it’s possible when the nations of the world can be counted on one’s fingers.) They train with the national agencies, but draw their own members from recruits willing to forego national allegiance in favor of prioritizing the global community. They do a lot of work to try and maintain balance between the nations. They also oversee the training of the Avatar.

Plot Premise:

Izuku is training under Lotus member Toshinori Yagi so he can join the White Lotus once he hits the age of majority. Minors can be recruited to train under mentors and can report any information that they happen to have, but can’t be sent out on missions until they reach adulthood and are officially sworn in as agents.

Everyone knows that the Avatar is supposed to be the same age as Izuku though, so a lot of Lotus members are currently posted at high schools to search for themselves and/or recruit kids to keep an eye on their classmates.

As an aside; There’s an atla fic called “Embers” which includes a chi-manipulation technique to enhance strength. I’m substituting this technique for OFA, so Izuku is learning to give himself super strength.

So, Izuku is looking for the Avatar when he sees his waterbending friend Shoto, firebend.

So Izuku tells Yagi that he thinks he may have found the Avatar and promises to report back after further investigation.

Further investigation reveals that Shoto is actually the DARK Avatar, inherenting firebending from his father and waterbending from his past life as Unalok (Shoto was NOT happy about that realization).

Uncertain how the White Lotus would react to this news but pretty sure it wouldn’t be good, Izuku recruits Tenya, Ochaco, and Tsu to help him find SOMEONE ELSE in their school that he could claim to have been talking about when Yagi asks for a follow up. Anything that would keep the White Lotus’ attention off of Shoto.

What would your akuma be?

What got you akumatized, what are your powers, what’s your name, do you have any thoughts on your visual design?

For me:

Reason I’m upset enough to get akumatized: A fictional character is pissing me off.

Powers received to correct this issue: The ability to summon characters into the real world so I can yell at them. Presumably I would also receive the ability to control this characters so I can make them fight Ladybug, Chat Noir, and whoever else shows up.

Name: Réalivre. Réaliser is French for “to realize” (as in “realize my vision”, not suddenly understand. Basically to turn concept into reality.) And Livre is French for “book”. Not sure what a good English name would be though.

Look: Not sure. Maybe a paper-colored outfit covered in book quotes?

Okay so, several headcanon ideas have collided and I’d need some help with the last details of the premise.

Premise Part 1: Master Fu choosing both halves of the Wish as his go-to miraculous to put out in circulation seems unnecessarily risky. Especially when just days later the villain in question told everyone that his goal was to take those specific miraculous. Obviously Ladybug’s Purification and Miracle Cure are must haves when dealing with akumas (which I can only assume means that Tikki has been pitted against Nooru/Duusu before and specifically adapted for that), but he could have at least swapped out the Cat.

Premise Part 2: Now that the show has introduced so many other kwamis with so many other powers, I think the Purification and Miracle Cure actually fit better as extensions of other miraculous powers rather than Lucky Charm. I debated for a while and landed on A) the Ox purifying akumas as an extension of Resistance (nullifying miraculous magic, thereby stripping the Butterfly Holder’s influence from the akuma). And B) The Snake performing the Miracle Cure as a powered up extension of Second Chance. (Rewinding damage done over the course of the fight). (I considered if this would remove the fight from the timeline entirely, but that would create complications that I’d rather not tackle)

Premise Part 3: So, instead of picking a Ladybug and a Cat in this au, Fu would pick an Ox and a Snake, because they would have the necessary adaptations to deal with akumas. Plus, frankly, immunity to the villain’s powers and the ability to redo things as many times as you need seem like the perfect powers for brand new superheroes that are likely to make mistakes because they’re on their own with no mentor.

SO!

I can’t think of a better Snake than Luka and I trust him to function as an OG superhero. (If anyone does have interesting Snake suggestions though, please share them in the comments. I am open to suggestions.) But, while Ivan makes a good Ox in general, I don’t know that he would be the best person to deal with the responsibility of being one of the original heroes of Paris, with no mentor or support network. Especially season 1 Ivan.

Which is why I’m making a poll for potential Ox holders that could have a fun dynamic with Luka! (I am deliberately leaving Adrien and Marinette out of this just for the sake of switching things up from canon, but they could still be among the later holders.)

Quote-

Kagami: “You like her, huh?”

Adrien: “Yeah, she’s a very good friend.”

Fun Fact-

Copain/copine = boyfriend/girlfriend OR casual friend

Ami(e) = VERY GOOD FRIEND

Conclusion-

(I could just watch the French dub to confirm but then I could be proven wrong)

Kagami: “Is she your copine?” *she means girlfriend* Adrien: *thought she meant casual friend* “Not just copine, but amie!”

Okay, so I’ve been looking through a lot of Tumblr kwami swap au’s lately. Including some really interesting ones where either Marinette or Adrien wields the butterfly miraculous. Sometimes as heroes, sometimes as villains, sometimes somewhere in between. In one au called “metamorphosis/aftermath”, Adrien finds the butterfly after his father was arrested and his motives are evenly split between giving the heroes a reason to stick around, and recreating some of the positive side effects of akumas (when people pay attention to WHY someone was akumatized and try to fix it).

So now I’m thinking, “You know who could be a fun character to play with that motivation?

Alya.”

Exactly how that characterization works comes down to 2 options.

1- Much like the metamorphosis au, Alya finds the butterfly brooch after Gabriel is defeated. This version of her was never Rena Rouge and never learned Ladybug’s identity. Unlike Adrien, Alya finds the brooch by snooping around the final battle, rather than Gabriel specifically leaving it for her. This Alya never fully gave up on trying to uncover the heroes’ identities. And as she’s talking to Nooroo and bemoaning the assumed* loss of the heroes with Hawkmoth gone, she also starts thinking about all the people who were only able to be heard and get a wrong righted because being akumatized made people pay attention.

I feel like Alya would be totally down for breaking a few rules to get the scoop, especially if it’s calling out an injustice.

And outside of the mind control aspect creating new trauma; getting superpowers to play with and an outlet for your frustration knowing that Ladybug will reverse the damage and that you won’t be held accountable? Would be incredibly therapeutic if it weren’t for the aforementioned mind control. But I digress.

Basically, by the time the heroes are 2 weeks into their well deserved hiatus, Alya has already talked herself into the idea that Justified Akumas + Keeping the Heroes Around = Good Journalism.

*They probably wouldn’t actually disappear without akumas. But Adrien probably needed a couple weeks off because I’m pretending he was included in the final battle and just found out his father was Hawkmoth. And Marinette was busy rebuilding the miraculous for at least as long. So from Paris’ perspective, they defeated Hawkmoth and decided they were no longer needed.

2- Alya is the original butterfly villain. I have no clue where the heck she would get it from in this au. (Gabriel and Emilie would still need the peacock, unless you just want to pretend Adrien, Felix, and Kagami we’re all born the normal way, in which case do as you please with the peacock.) But she was trying to use it to create superheroes because she LOVES superheroes.

Bad News: Her attempt to turn a bullying victim into a heroic Champion accidentally created an akumatized villain instead.

Good News: Her villain drew out some Actual Superheroes 🤩!!! This is the best day of her life!!!

By the time she masters Kamiko vs Akuma, she and her butterflies already have a reputation and she figures she might as well work with it.

As a side note: Where did Alya move from? She was new in “Origins”, so maybe that could inform any theories on where she got her brooch from?

Fact One: Miraculous has a surprisingly large and varied fandom, reaching far beyond its original target audience.

Fact Two: The vast majority of the fandom (maybe not counting the actual target audience. I don’t know a lot of 7 year olds who create fandom content, so I don’t see as much of their thoughts on the internet.), including myself, seem to have a love-hate relationship with the show.

There are obviously a lot of issues that fans tend to be divided on. Things that get people pissed off, frustrated, or just flat cringing.

I’m not here to go over EVERYTHING that’s wrong with the show. But I did have an epiphany today about one core conflict that might be the root of a good chunk of those issues. Now, let’s only hope that I can articulate it 😅.

Miraculous started purely as a kids’ show. As mentioned earlier, the original target audience is about 7 years old.

From what I can tell, the majority of the fandom (again, my data might be screwed since the target audience doesn’t usually post on Tumblr or Ao3, as they are 7) are not only older than that now, but even when they first discovered the show I think most of us were teenagers.

Season One was just a straight kids’ show. It was silly, repetitive, over-the-top, and had just enough depth for an older audience to be entertained if they’re willing to look past the repetitive surface.

The conflict, I think, was a clash between this model and the directions encouraged by an older, more mature audience that unexpectedly became interested in the show.

(I am not saying fans did something wrong, I’m saying the two directions weren’t balanced well. So please don’t get mad before I even explain.)

Considering the number of things that I’ve seen dominate mlb fanfiction for years before showing up in the show itself, I’m pretty sure the show writers do take what the fans want into account during the writing process. And I think that’s why the story content has grown more serious, complex, darker, and more mature with each season.

However, while the CONTENT has grown darker and more complex; the Presentation hasn’t. Even though the topics and plot lines have grown in weight and nuance, they aren’t being treated appropriately.

And the thing is, within a fiction, the line between “funny” and “disturbing” is partially dependent on genre and how seriously the show takes itself. So there are some things, like Marinette’s stalker habits, that work in Season One when pretty much everything was intended to be comedically exaggerated and hardly anything was meant to be taken seriously. But then we get to Season Six when most of the show has gotten a lot more serious, but bits like that are still being treated the same as they were in Season One even though the entire genre/tone/whatever-the-correct-literary-term-is-here has been completely overhauled and it doesn’t fit anymore.

So basically, I think what’s driving fans crazy is a poorly handled transition between target audiences. (Or at least, you know, that’s one of the big things. But talking about character favoritism and such would be a whole other post that I’ve already seen plenty of people explore.)

Ivan: *explains to Tori that the Guild avoids pulling jobs in places where a superhero’s loved ones might get caught in the crossfire and piss off said superhero*

Tori: “Wait, how would you even know? Don’t superheroes have secret identities?”

Ivan: *trying not to laugh*

Book two-

Tori’s new neighbors-across-the-hall: *trying very hard to pretend that Austin hadn’t been holding that couch up by himself*

Kyle: *says a neighborly hello in exactly the same voice as when his superhero persona had super sped Tori out of the path of a flying car just this morning*

Tori: “…”

Book vs movie on this one is crazy. Because the movie does a great job of portraying the events from the book. But there’s so much of the subtleties of Coryo’s inner monologue that simply doesn’t translate into the movie format. To the point where around the time he gets to District 12 my father (who is only seeing the movie for the first time and has never read the book) is asking “How is he not a good guy?” And he was confused about how this guy was supposed to become the sadistic President Snow.

Because Coryo was very good at pretending to be a good guy, helping people, telling them what they want to hear, being likeable, because it would help him later if the rich kids who were still rich liked him.

And the distinction between acting like a good guy in order to network and actually being a good guy, is a lot harder to see when you’re not inside his twisted head.

It is fascinating to look at Adrien and Felix’s respective behavior through the lens of/with full knowledge of their status as senti-beings and their respective parents’ supernatural control over them.

For one thing, Felix’s erratic, nonsensical behavior MAKES SENSE with that context!

Felix KNEW (presumably always, though we don’t technically know that) that his father controlled him through magic. He also understood that his father was an abusive a-hole. So he spent his life thinking about everything he wanted to do to express his pain and frustration. But since it wasn’t physically possible for him to actually make those choices, he never had to worry about the consequences.

Then his dad dies. Felix suddenly gains his free will. OF COURSE he has no impulse control! He’s never had the opportunity to develop any! So he’s doing every little weird, rude thing that runs through his mind, every scheme that he ever cooked up as a revenge fantasy. Just reveling in the ability to make choices and not thinking through the consequences. With his Mom being super supportive but frankly overly permissive because they survived an abuser together and she doesn’t have it in her to deny him any of his newfound freedom, even when he uses it to be a dick to people who don’t deserve it.

Adrien on the other hand, was manipulated more subtly, with significantly less understanding of the situation. There were a few things that he knew he wanted outside of his father’s plan for him, but he always expected any choices he made (with the exception of Cat Noir) to be something with would have to work with his dad to decide.

So when Adrien’s dad dies and he receives his amok, he’s NOT READY to think for himself. Everyone’s trying so hard to be sensitive and supportive and let him make his own choices, but he doesn’t know how. If choices were water, he’d be a desert child suddenly thrown in a lake without a single swimming lesson.

So yeah; Felix makes terrible, impulsive decisions until he experiences enough consequences to beat some forethought/impulse control into him. While Adrien freezes at having to pick his own outfit, until he spends enough time under his own control to actually develop opinions of his own on little things and not just the huge things (like being Cat Noir, dating Marinette, and staying with Natalie).

As soon as the Mansons heard that Wayne had obtained a child the same age as their Samantha, they rushed to Gotham to introduce her at the first possible Rich People Event. (Ages can range anywhere from WFA where Damian comes to Gotham at age 7, to the more popular trend where Damian comes closer to 12)

When left alone together, Sam resolutely ignores the boy on principle. Her parents can make her come, but they can’t force her to “network”. Damian ignores her in turn, not out of rebellion or any assumptions about her as a person, but because he’s tired of Human Interaction Where He Is Not Allowed To Stab The Humans. The silence is a nice break. Bruce notices that Damian appreciates the break, which is why he continues to encourage the Mansons to come.

For a couple years, that’s it. Two kids told to hangout stand on the fringes of a party and ignore each other. Until…

Sam wondered if she was having a weird lucid dream when, during one of her family’s visits to Gotham, she found Damian Wayne at her penthouse window at 1 in the morning. It was too weird to even question. She opened the window.

“You’re vegetarian, correct?”, he asked in lieu of a greeting.

“Yeah?”, she was too baffled to do anything except answer.

“You believe animals should not be slaughtered?”

”That’s right…”

“Are you willing to act on that?”

A razor edged grin took over her face. “Absolutely.”

Damian was still a little unsure of his place in his father’s side of the family, but he did know that the rest of his family ate beef (just as he had until he Saw). So, when he committed to this particular venture, he could only think of one likely ally.

They rescue Batcow together.

After that, they move from ignoring each other at parties to ignoring everyone else together.

Tim: *falls asleep in his food* Damian: “I can’t believe I’m legally related to that fool.”

Sam: “Honestly, I’d rather be asleep than at this party too.”

Damian: “Despite my father’s best efforts, there are still dozens of spare beds in this house that have yet to be filled by orphans or freeloaders. Follow me. If your parents notice your absence, tell them I gave you a tour of the manor.”

Later, when the Bats find out about the ghost problem at Amity Park and Damian displays an unexpected expertise in ghosts, they assume it’s because he grew up around a Lazarus Pit. But nope. It’s from his friend Manson sending him gossip and FentonTech.

OH! Damian should ask to spend the summer with the Mansons when they’re 14 or 15 without bothering to inform his family that he’s going to get some Ghost Specific training and offer Team Phantom some General Hero Training.

I think it would be funny if Damian did keep it a secret from Sam that his family are the Bats, but didn’t consider his background as an assassin Prince as the same secret, so Sam knows that he’s a ninja.

So the Bats think Damian is taking a break from being Robin to hang out with his friend this summer.

Sam knows that she invited an ecto-contaminated ninja to train as a ghost Hunter with her friends.

Damian knows that Amity is overrun with ghosts and that Manson and her friends are helping deal with it. He doesn’t know Danny has powers (not that it will take him long to find out).

Danny and Tucker know that they were talking about training and Sam said “I know a guy”, and then this kid showed up carrying an improbable number of hidden blades on his person.

I can’t help but laugh, because…

Leia - Was actually hidden. New family, new name, new planet, no connection on paper to Anakin or Padme or any fugitive former Jedi. No idea who her birth parents were or even if her parents know the answer to that question.

Luke - Goes by his actual name. Lives with his actual Uncle (a brother that Anakin KNOWS he has). They don’t even pretend that he’s Owen’s son instead of his nephew. He KNOWS that his birth father was Owen’s brother (he only has one). And his neighbor Kenobi didn’t bother to make up a fake last name to match his fake first name while he watches over the Skywalker boy.

I headcanon that when Batkids are play-threatening each other, they get super detailed and graphic because they find it funny (I’m totally projecting but who cares).

Dick: *steals Damian’s blanket to wake him up* Damian: “Next time we patrol I am going to drive my (specific blade that has its own name) into your intestines, steal your comms, tell Oracle you had to go to Bludhaven, and leave you to die of infection as your own feces invades your bloodstream.”

Tim: *is doing WE work in his bed after being awake for 30 straight hours* Jason: “If you don’t shut that laptop I’m going to take (name of bazooka), wait until you need to take a piss, and blow off your bathroom wall so the whole world can see you on the toilet.”

Stephanie: *messed up one of Bab’s drones* Barbara: “If you put one more dent in my things, I will hack into all of your college classes and make all of your assignments due in one week.”

Obviously there have been various cultural changes between the 90’s and now that would make a difference if Stargate SG-1 were to be rebooted. But the biggest difference is that the US actually has a Space Force now. So if we had off-planet military operations, it wouldn’t be the Air Force’s job anymore.

The problem here, is that if Space Force had actual extraterrestrial threats to monitor and the ability to actually go on off-planet missions, then Space Force would be Cool. And that would be Weird.

The best way to do this then of course, would be to have running jokes because the existence of the Space Portal is still Incredibly Top Secret Super Blackout Classified TM. So everyone on the outside thinks Space Force is a joke. The only people that even bother to learn what the SG members’ Official Cover Story SAYS they do for a living are the Space Force officers that weren’t selected for SG teams and ACTUALLY do… whatever Space Force does… (not making fun of the people who actually join Space Force. If I wanted to join the military, I’d pick Space Force too. But I am making fun of the people who decided that we needed to create a Space Force when we can barely send people to the moon and get excited at the idea of bacteria living on other planets. I doubt there’s anything Space Force can actually do about space that NASA doesn’t already do.)