Okay but what if a YUTS au where Rei is the live one/gets One For All, while Deku is the ghost child
So itās been way long since I got this ask but I just HAD to draw it and I finally got around to it so
Her real name isnāt Rei, of course; in fact, in this version of things, little Izuku is the one who gets dubbed Rei; he doesnāt talk and seems to have a bit of a memory problem, so heās never told her his real name. But for the sake of clarity and avoiding spoilers for normal YUTS Iāll just call them Not!Rei and Izuku.
Not!Rei isnāt the universal ray of sunshine that Deku is; I wouldnāt necessarily call her bitter, but she does tend to default to thinking the worst of people unless sheās given reason to believe otherwise. This gives her a bit of a selfish, judgmental streak, and she doesnāt often put herself out there for people she doesnāt know. in fact, left to her own devices she probably wouldnāt have thought of becoming a hero in the first place, but she just had to go and befriend an adorable hero-obsessed ghost boy when she was seven. Heās followed her around ever since, exhorting her to make selfless decisions and help people and basically being her own personal Jiminy Cricket. Itās his influence that gets her to put the effort into being more understanding and helpful and, dare I say, heroic.
Case in point, at her first Sports Festival:
Luckily, it doesnāt take too much to change her mind, and when she does latch on to people, sheāll go to the ends of the earth for them. Itās still selfishness on her part, though, since sheāll only do that for people and things she cares about. I imagine she struggles with it until she has sort of a Tiffany-Aching-esqueĀ āThen make all things yoursā realization.
(Over the course of the Sports Festival her opinion of Todoroki evolves fromĀ āwow what pompous assā toĀ āIāve only been his friend for five minutes but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.ā)