When Izuku startles to awareness, he finds himself seated at a table with a bowl of soup placed in front of him. The bowl is half-empty and there is a spoon in his hand. He sets the spoon down, trying to remember what he was doing just prior to this but his memory comes up blank.

Well, it appears he was in the middle of eating some soup. Izuku looks into the bowl, heartbeat quickening in anticipation of something. But all he sees is normal miso soup, with white cubes of tofu and clumps of seaweed half-floating, half-sinking in the brown broth. Steam is rising from the surface but it dissipates before reaching his face. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except…he squints his eyes. Yes, there seems to be a hair in the soup, skimming the surface like a water skier bug.

He reaches for it, more out of habit than conscious choice, and plucks the hair out of the soup between his thumb and his index finger. He raises the hair to eye level, to get a better look. It’s green, the same shade of green as his own hair. Long, too. Almost the length of his forearm. Too long to belong to him…

He drops it. Drops it like it was the end of a burning match. He stands and the room reverberates with the crack the chair makes as it hits the floor. He nearly stumbles and trips over it, in his haste to get as much distance between him and the table as humanly possible.

He cries out, out of relief or pain he isn’t sure, when he rams his back into a doorknob. It feels like someone pressing a gun to his spine but it is an escape. He fumbles to grab hold of it all while keeping his eyes glued to the table, to the bowl, as if it could somehow leap out and attack him.

When he gets his hand firmly around the knob and it turns without resistance (oh, thank god, thank god), there’s tears in his eyes. He has to get out of here and find his mom. He has to make sure she’s alright. She must be alright. She can’t be—

“Leaving so soon, Izuku? Not hungry?”

Run, screams his mind. Run now, while he still has a chance. But his legs will not cooperate. His feet are rooted to the floor. His head turns towards the source of the voice, no more able to resist its tug than the sailor could resist the siren’s song, leading him to his doom.

“Hey, son,” he says, dressed to the nines and leaning against the counter like he owns the whole place and everything in it. “Long time, no see.”

“What are you doing here?”  

“How did you find us?”

“Where’s mom?”

The questions ring in his head, as loudly as if he had shouted them at the top of his lungs, but the words are drowned out by a rising swell of nausea that will not be held back.

His body wretches convulsively, helplessly, and forces him down on all fours in its desperate attempt to expel whatever foul thing is sitting in his stomach. Out, out, out. Burning a track up his throat, through his mouth and coating his tongue, his teeth and the hardware floor in a thick, acidic sludge. 

More long, green hairs lie in the puke. A whole clump of them, like they’d been pulled straight from the shower drain.

“Aw, poor little thing, you made a mess,” his father teases, sounding entirely too gleeful.

Izuku spots his own reflection in his father’s polished shoes. The man had taken the opportunity to come closer, too close. From Izuku’s angle, he looks like a giant, as huge as he once appeared to his three-year self.

“Mom—you bastard—where is—” Izuku barely manages to choke out the words before another wave of revulsion hits.

“Surely, you figured that much out yourself.” His father laughs, a full-belly laughter. He’s enjoying this. “Or did you honestly think I would ever let her live after what she did to me? What she did because of you, my Izuku?”  

It’s only then that he catches sight of something incongruously shiny amidst the greasy rat’s nest of undigested hair. A golden band with a large diamond set in it. A ring. No, not just any ring. His mom’s wedding ring. Oh god, oh god, oh god. 

He can’t hold it in anymore. Izuku screams, both inside his dream and out of it.

Enjoy! (I drew it as a comic because why not)

Stardew Valley Expanded: a recent mod but highly recommended. a total revamp and expansion to the base game, creating a lot of new content to enjoy! it’s absolutely amazing and i recommend it to everyone.  immersive map edits: makes some edits to the game map. needs to be installed for sdv expanded to work. farmer to florist: adds beautiful flowers to plant, as well as potted flower decor for your farm. not essential, but great for decorating! 

aesthetics:

A Wittily Named Recolor: the map recolour i use. as far as i can tell it works with sdv expanded.  some building edits: the farm building mod i use!  Cuter Cellar & Cuter Coops and Barns : building edits!  better artisan goods icons & Aquilegia's Cute Item Retextures & Colored Seeds:  re-textures items!  classy new interior: mod i use for furniture. here’s the CP version. fixed mouse house: gives out little mouse friend a cute & totally fixed house!  yellog’s wood craftables + yellog’s woof fence: the mod i use that changes the appearance of wooden fences and all the craftables. 

animals: 

elle's Cat Replacements  &  elle's Dog Replacements & Elle's New Horses & Elle's New Barn Animals: self explanatory. i love their mods.  CHONKINS: some fat fucking chickens  MythicPhoenix's Mythical Hares: i use the jackalope. more animals: using in tandem to the cat & dog recolours. lets you have more that one pet! it works fine for me though im sure it has the potential to be buggy. i currently have 4 cats and 2 dogs on my main save file!  Cat in a Coat: a wittle coat for ur cat.... 

character:

kisekae: a mod that adds the option to change your character’s appearance (without the wizard) also adds the possibility for hair and clothing mods! this is a replacement for the get dressed mod that no longer works. seasonal hats: so adorable! i love this mod a lot, the flower crowns look so pretty.

npcs: 

seasonal outfits: gives npcs seasonal outfits!  shane’s new job: gives shane a job at the stardrop saloon after joja shuts down.  ran’s harvest goddess: i highly recommend this mod. it adds a new npc (unfortunately replaces the wizard) the harvest goddess has her own heart events as well as is a romanceable npc. (she’s very cute and i love her.) 

quality of life:

xD interesting insight, yep, but Chan’s got some self-preservation instincts in Gladiator that Sokka distinctly lacks (?)

Meaning, had Azula simply showed up at his doorstep and said “HEY THERE, WE’RE ENGAGED!”, he probably would’ve run away from home and become a hermit just to avoid marrying her at all xD Azula definitely went for an overkill with him, by doing what she did: after the Beach’s incident there’s no way Chan would’ve wanted to marry her.

That being said, it’s true enough that he might have been the easiest puppet-husband to control? Yet I raise you to a BETTER appropriate match yet for Azula, one who could have married her without her immediately rejecting him, who would have known more than enough about her biggest secret (Sokka xD) and not outed her for it, who would likely be very willing to let Azula rule through him while also maintaining enough of his own integrity and common sense that people wouldn’t think he’s just a puppet...

... and that’s Rui Shi xD