#small might

origin story of bkdk’s cat, small might :-)

stay with us nonnie! *insert help is on the way gif* i've gotten quite a few requests for all might and i had to straight-up do research before writing him (and by research i mean reading all might smut haha) to make sure i did him justice. a lil nervous about the end result bc i've never written for him before but i hope you enjoy!!

touchstarved!toshinori who has no idea how to capture moments of joy for himself, watches you from a distance with a resigned longing (him on his lil teaching bench 🥺)

touchstarved!toshinori who wrestles with a hundred different insecurities, trying to reason his way out of liking you

touchstarved!toshinori who hasn’t been with anyone in YEARS and is a stammering awkward mess when you first express interest

touchstarved!toshinori who is so fucking gentle with you, touches you like he can’t believe you’re in front of his eyes, "need me to touch you right here, sweetheart? use your words and tell me what you need, promise i'll make you feel so good"

touchstarved!toshinori who rains praise down on you like he’s paid to do it, “my gorgeous girl, what did I ever do to deserve you?”

touchstarved!toshinori who lets himself dream of living for you instead of living as a symbol

LIKE OK IVE SEEN HIM GENUINELY HAPPY BEFOFD BUT HE WAS BY NO MEANS HAPPY OR SATISFIED WITH HIS LIFE OR THE WAY HE WAS LIVING AND A GOOD PORTION OF THE TIME HE WAS ON SCREEN IT WAS OF HIM STRESSING OUT. NOW LOOK AT HIM. HES HAPPY AND HES OLD AND HES RETIRED AND HE HAS SMILE LINES. HE HAS SMILE LINES!!!!!!

and. AND HE SURVIVED. AGAINST ALL ODDS. AGAINST A DEVASTATING INJURY AGAINST A LITERAL PROPHECY STATING HE WOULD DIE AGAINST THE TYPICAL ‘MENTOR DIES’ TROPE AGAINST SO SO SO SO MANY FIGHTS AGAINST EVERY SINGLE THING HE SURVIVED. AND HE CHOSE TO DO THAT AND HE DID IT HES HAPPY HE CHOSE TO LIVE AND HE GETS TO BE HAPPY NOW.

I could genuinely talk for AGES about how important it is that he didn’t die. It’s such a massive thing about his character that he diverts the audience’s and other people’s expectations of him and what’s going to happen to him. From the very beginning where we first meet him and we learn he’s an emaciated depressed skeletal figure when we were introduced to him at the strongest hero to ever live who’s always smiling no matter what. When we learn he started quirkless and every single other thing that NO ONE would expect about All Might the former #1 pro hero!!!

Then there’s every single time something happens that gives us red flags saying ‘oh. He’s definitely going to die soon.’ (His injury, Nighteye’s prophecy, he even hints to it himself at some point in an episode where he says that he isn’t going to be here long enough to see Midoriya become a hero!!! AND THERES SO MUCH MORE.) only for it to be proven to us that the FUTURE THAT NIGHTEYE SEES CAAAN BE CHANGED! Only for him to turn around and PROMISE Deku that he was going to live.

soo much of his character is about subverting expectations and no one does it quite like he does. I could go on and on about this there’s so much more it’s so important to me. No matter how many horrible things happen to you no matter how you look no matter how inevitable it seems that this terrible thing is going to happen it doesn’t matter because even if everyone expects you to be this amazing person who can do anything you don’t have to be able to do everything!!! And that doesn’t make you useless!!! It makes you human!!

no matter how inevitable it seems for this terrible thing to happen you’re the one who can take it into your own hands and change it because it’s your life!!! And that is what Toshinori’s character is about! Everyone is human in their own right everyone has the ability to do anything even if you, yourself, expect to end up miserable and sad or even dead, you might surprise yourself because there is always ALWAYS a future where you can be happy, where you take the ending expected and crush it in your hands to create your own ending. A better ending for yourself. No matter what happens to you no matter your disabilities happiness is within reach for everyone, even if it takes eight years to get there.

And he does literally crush the ending card in his hands.

does any of this make sense of is it all the inane ramblings of a madman. I’m genuinely insane over Toshinori I think.