#tiny posts

I was thinking a lot about Kurogiri today, specifically his relationship with Tomura Shigaraki and All For One. It’s safe to say that the three have known each other for some time; AFO seems to trust Kurogiri to guide Tomura and support his ideas and actions, and Tomura, however begrudgingly so, trusts him enough to allow for his aid with his plans and also to. Well. Not kill him.

Which probably means they’ve all known each other for perhaps, at the very least, a few years. My guess; Kurogiri, if not already around earlier, was probably brought by around the time AFO was gravely injured in the first AFO vs All Might battle. Regardless of whether he was around when AFO first found Tomura, or when AFO was injured and very slowly recovering, I’d imagine Kurogiri had to continuously provide familial and moral support to Tomura, as both the loss of his father and the potential loss of AFO had to have almost destroyed him.

So I’ve just been imagining Kurogiri, in his best attempts to comfort this small, disgruntled, vengeful kid, cooks Tomura his favorite meals, steals video games and consoles for him via his warp gates, plays said video games with him, steals animals from shelters for him to play with if he ever gets lonely, encourages Tomura’s villainous ideas, tends to his wounds, trains him, etc. Most likely early on in his life, Tomura would probably get very distraught over the sheer destructive power power of his quirk, and would probably be constantly crying and screaming about everything he touches dying (not that it really matters; Kurogiri is quick to replace whatever he destroyed immediately). But seeing that constant fear, I can imagine Kurogiri trying to aid that problem by stealing a pair of those smudge guard pinky gloves for him to wear, at least until he can get completely 100% used to touching and holding things without using all five fingers to do so. Kurogiri is in Ultra Mom Mode, he will do anything to make sure this kid is Not Sad; partly because of All For One’s desire for Tomura to become his successor, but also because. He just cares.

He wants to see Tomura succeed. He wants to see him make the right choices and create his own league so powerful that nobody has even a smidge of hope in stopping him. However many years the two have known each other, Kurogiri has developed a strong sense of care for this spoiled gremlin brat (and, if we’re being honest here, was probably half the reason why he’s a spoiled gremlin brat to begin with), and he’ll be patient with him, despite Tomura’s temper tantrums, despite his threats to kill him as well as everyone else he doesn’t like, despite his general unpleasantness.