What if, instead of staying dead, Midnight is resurrected as a nomu like Shirakumo. Like, AFO has shown us he has the ability to steal bodies right out from under peoples' noses, and although Midnight's quirk isn't the most powerful in the series, it could be merged with other quirks to become something incredibly dangerous, like mustard gas.

And WHAT IF Shirakumo was brought back to himself, albeit with Kurogiri's quirk and body. That's 10 months of him, Aizawa and Yamada becoming "okay" with Midnight's death (according to Ujiko, a nomu takes roughly 10 months to be made functional) before AFO throws her and other undead heroes back in their faces.

The moment Oscar had taken the hit he’d known something was wrong. His arm had hurt worse than anything he’d felt before, but he couldn’t stand the idea of his first trip out of Atlas with the others turning like this. The last thing he needed was for them to think he was even more useless. Sure, he wasn’t really...comfortable around all of them, but it was better than being left alone in an academy of strangers, nearly all of which looked at you with a confusion that said ‘you don’t belong here’. 

So, he’d told himself he wouldn’t say anything. He’d swallow the pain, no matter how terrible, until his aura came back and if that didn’t fix things...he’d find the nurse and hope she didn’t tell Professor Ironwood. 

However, as they returned, the pain only seemed to get worse, and the words escaped. 

He blinked rapidly, surprised by his own slip, and only managed to lift his gaze from the floor when he heard Jaune’s voice. Logically, he’d known what the older teen was trying to do. He’d understood that he was trying to help. However, for just that moment, his pain addled brain jumped back and---

hey, thanks for asking!! it’s going okay, I guess. I started out pretty good this year, managing to reach my goal for the first few days. I fell behind a bit because I was traveling for the last 5 days, but today I got a day off and i’m trying to get back on track - I got about 6k words to catch up on, that seems manageable.

in terms of story, i have no idea what i’m doing, and i know what i’m writing is far from perfect, but it’s a start, and i’m happy about it. this story is going to need a lot of editing, but I just love my characters and for them, it’s worth putting in all that work.