Imeeji - Registry
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asonoficeandfireThis whole post is a WIP, and I'll add memories as I go.
* = minor appearances/memories
Canon
1. A test of quirks*
2. Indoor anti-personnel battle training
3. The League of Villains attack
4. Scum like you could NEVER kill the symbol of peace
5. All Might vs Nomu*
6. I will beat you
7. Cavalry battle
8. The boy born with everything
9. Shinsou vs Deku*
10. Todoroki vs Sero
11. Classmate battles and Urakaka vs Bakugou*
12. Todoroki vs Deku
13. Baku vs Kiri and Todoroki vs Iida
14. Todoroki vs Bakugou
15. Something to settle first
16. Pro drafts and hero aliases.
NTH. Pro hero license interviews
Headcanon
1. Childhood training montage
* = minor appearances/memories
Canon
1. A test of quirks*
2. Indoor anti-personnel battle training
3. The League of Villains attack
4. Scum like you could NEVER kill the symbol of peace
5. All Might vs Nomu*
6. I will beat you
7. Cavalry battle
8. The boy born with everything
9. Shinsou vs Deku*
10. Todoroki vs Sero
11. Classmate battles and Urakaka vs Bakugou*
12. Todoroki vs Deku
13. Baku vs Kiri and Todoroki vs Iida
14. Todoroki vs Bakugou
15. Something to settle first
16. Pro drafts and hero aliases.
NTH. Pro hero license interviews
Headcanon
1. Childhood training montage
3. The League of Villains attack
Date: 2018-11-12 06:41 pm (UTC)Ch. 14 p2-p13 + p20
Ch. 16 p4-p5
6. I will beat you
Date: 2018-11-12 06:42 pm (UTC)Takeaways:
- Again he's only obsessed with revenge thoughts in this memory.
- He's not friends with Mori here. He's not friends with anyone.
- He declares a war, quite literally.
- He's cold and callous and arrogant and overall not at all a pleasant person.
8. The boy born with everything
Date: 2018-11-12 06:42 pm (UTC)This is clearly right before his fight with Mori in the sports festival, and Duality's called Mori to a back hallway to talk. He's downright scowling at him, and his general feeling towards Mori is entirely antagonistic and cold as ice. Mori is fidgety, nervous and very unsure about what Duality might want. Duality talks about a sort of pressure Mori gave off from the cavalry battle, a pressure that caused him to lose his composure and break his pledge to never use his left side, his fire. He likens Mori's pressure to All Might, and then straight out asks him if he's All Mights illegitimate child "or something"? Mori immediately flusters and stutters and tries to explain that no that's not it and then asks why Duality thinks so?
Duality is sure he's hiding something, no he's certain of it, that Mori has some connection to All Might. And then he launches into a tirade about the number two hero, Endeavor, his father. That if Mori has a connection to the number one hero, then there's all the more reason for Duality to crush him in the upcoming fight. Endeavor has always seen All Might as an obstacle and an eyesore, never being able to beat him and take the number one spot. So his solution was a quirk marriage. Mori wonders why he's telling him all of this, but Duality keeps on, explaining how his father forced the marriage between himself and Duality's mother solely to get a hand on her quirk and produce a child with a strong enough quirk to surpass All Might himself, to fulfill Endeavor's ambitions. Duality hates it, he hates his father for using him as a tool, how he broke his mother and how she poured scalding hot water on his face because she couldn't stand seeing his left side.
In short, he's rebelling against his father, has no intentions to use his left side against Mori in the fight and is going to rise to the top using only his mother's quirk. He's denying Endeavor all his ambitions, denying him everything.
He walks away there, saying he's sorry he's wasted his time. He won't tell anyone about Mori's connection to All Might, he doesn't care, and he'll raise above Mori with just his right side. Mori doesn't let him walk away before he declares war back at Duality. To repay back all the people who helped him, he's not going to lose to Duality, he'll beat him.
TAKEAWAYS:
- He decidedly doesn't like himself in this memory.
- He is cold. So cold and extremely callous.
- He has no regards for Mori's feelings in this conversation, and is fixated on revenge against his father and using his classmates as mere stepping stones.
- MORE FUN CHILDHOOD FLASHBACKS.
- His scar itches in this memory.
- Is Mori All Might's child?
- There is a sense of conspiracy theories here, but it's vague.
- The rivalry feelings with Mori are kind of intense, but they're the wrong kind.
- In other words, he's not taking Mori seriously.
- Even if he acknowledges that he's got the kind of pressure that makes him interesting.
10. Todoroki vs Sero
Date: 2018-11-12 06:42 pm (UTC)12. Todoroki vs Deku
Date: 2018-11-12 06:43 pm (UTC)TAKEAWAYS:
SHORT VERSION: A friend helps you with some family issues and only realize after the fact that you're gonna light him on fire a a result.
LONG VERSION:
- His first name is mentioned but clearly erased. That's frustrating.
- All Might's got his eye on Mori? Who is All Might? At least he's reason enough for Duality to call Mori a rival. They're not friends?
- They're put up against each other in a school festival 1v1 match!
- Mori's last name is Midoriya! His power is apparently creating huge shockwaves by uh, breaking... his own limbs? Why is that a power??
- Oh and POWERS. That he has both ice and fire explains a lot, especially his dual hair colors. That's cool.
- He's fighting Mori without using his fire, just as a stepping stone to spite his famous hero father. That is NOT cool.
- There really is a crazy amount of deep, ingrained animosity and hatred towards his father. He. Is. So. Pissed. Off. That sure is a feeling™.
- Mori keeps riling him up as they fight, goading him about why he's not using the full extent of his powers: Is he not being serious about this fight? About becoming a hero? What is he fighting for? Is he looking down on everyone else who's working themselves to the bone? Give me everything you got! Come at me!! Be serious!
- Mori, please stop breaking your fingers what the fuck.
- Too much ice takes a toll on his body if he doesn't use his fire to balance it out. He doesn't have the same amount of control of his fire as he does his ice.
- Getting punched in the stomach really hurts, okay? Mori packs some serious power.
- "THEY'RE YOUR POWERS, AREN'T THEY?". Mori chill. But also burn, because I want to be a hero too.
- "You want to be a hero, right? That's fine, you're not bound by his blood. You decide what you become."
- Their powers combined against each other is ridiculous and the resulting explosion flings Mori out of bounds and Duality wins the match.
- Completely dismissing his father afterwards and even saying he forgot all about him in the moment of battle is a... cathartic experience.
- He's calm and pensive but still confused. He needs to think about this entire event, and possibly feels more lost than ever.
- Mori is literally a crazy inspiring avalanche.
14. Todoroki vs Bakugou
Date: 2018-11-12 06:43 pm (UTC)Ch. 43 p1-p17
15. Something to settle first
Date: 2018-12-21 02:00 am (UTC)Takeaways pt1:
All spoken names are available and visible.
- It's a direct follow up to all the festival battles.
- Bird classmate Tokoyami is third, Duality is second and Hardcore is in first place.
- Apparently the school have decided to chain and muzzle Hardcore because he's too angry. What the fuck.
- All Might is there! With medals! And pep talks and congratulations!
- It's significant that he mentions Duality held back in his fight.
- Duality has lost his way in terms of how he views himself and his powers and his family and all his issues.
- Specifically the match with Mori, it really did something to him. He's emotionally drained, conflicted and lost.
- He has things he need to settle before he can really work towards becoming a hero. WHAT CAN IT BE?
- He likes All Might and aspires to be like him. Some hero worship is definitely in here.
- Duality doesn't pay much attention to Hardcore's yelling but he's aware he's mad because Duality gave up and let him win.
- He only feels a little bad about it.
- The festival is concluded and everyone is going back to their regular curriculum and daily class routines.
Takeaways pt2 THE DAY AFTER:
- Duality has siblings?? Specifically an older sister, it seems like. She appears very doting.
- The feeling of doing something "new" is very tangible. He's never done this before.
- Hell yeah he can go outside without telling the shitty old man. Just watch him.
- He blames his father for never doing this before. "This" being walking all the way to a hospital to visit his mother, which is new and scary and wheeze.
- The walk there is easy, but as soon as he's at his goal...
- He's literally shaking too hard in apprehension to open the door to her hospital room at first, the emotional feedback intense enough to scare him more than anything else has ever done before.
- But he has to know, he has to see her, he has to apologize. He has to make things right, and reconcile with her.
- He's saving his mom, even if she doesn't ask for it.
- Saying "mom" is like letting a huge burden fall off his shoulders, and seeing her turn around to look at him is an indescribable feeling he can't contain and doesn't know what to do with, but it's such a light and good feeling.
- This is his new starting line.
Headcanon 1. Childhood training montage
Date: 2019-01-11 04:27 pm (UTC)There's quite a lot of defiant glaring in between coughing up bile and getting goaded into fighting harder, and at one point during a fight with his father, Duality encases his own entire left side in ice and refuses to drop it, refuses to use his fire, no matter how beat up he gets. After a while, Endeavor calls him rebellious, disrespectful brat and leaves the room. He's off training for the day, it seems.
Duality stays curled up in a fetal position for a while before carefully getting up, scrubbing at his eyes. He's not crying, he refuses to cry. It doesn't help, it just makes things worse. He misses his mother, but it doesn't matter to dwell on things he can't fix.
It's when he's made his way back to his room, quietly patching his wounds up with a first aid kit he keeps (he's learned. he had to learn, no one but his sister could help, and she's not always at home), that he looks up and notices his calendar on the wall.
Oh. January 11th. He apparently turned 9 today and he didn't notice, as with every other birthday since his mother was hospitalized. He barely remembers celebrating them then either, only a vague memory of a cake that was pretty nice. Now, birthdays are a "frivolous waste of time". Somehow, he doesn't really have it in him to disagree. It doesn't seem to be a lot of fun, he has no friends to invite, and it's not like he wants to celebrate the fact that his father will most likely push him harder the older he gets.
So ultimately he feels rather indifferent towards it. Besides cake, that is, though he doesn't get to eat sweets very often, beyond the rare times his sister makes desserts after dinner.
Re: Headcanon 1. Childhood training montage
Date: 2019-01-11 04:37 pm (UTC)- ...I guess my birthday is the 11th. Oh well, it's not like it matters.
- His sister makes amazing pastries. He figures that's why he likes sweets.
- More father defiance and hate. It's basically just reinforced.
- Again... throwing up bile really sucks.
- Acquired fairly okay first aid skills! Having to patch up yourself from when you were a kid at least paid off.
Re: 10. Todoroki vs Sero
Date: 2019-04-22 03:59 am (UTC)- Duality doesn't know how to hold back when he's annoyed.
- Seriously, just. Take a chill pill.
- His father can die in a ditch.
- Wow, he's just really annoyed. "Annoyed".
- Poor Sero, he tried his best.
- It's just a very emotionally intense moment of anger.
- That's not a wall of ice. That's a whole ice berg. Mountain?
- He refuses to feel like a failure but there's an intense emotion of "Why is this the only reason I exist?"
- In the middle of all that anger, he's just incredibly sad, tired and lost. He's still stubbornly holding onto his promise to never use his fire, though.
- The memory itself is frustrating, but it's even more frustrating to know you have these powers but you can't use them in Imeeji.
Re: 3. The League of Villains attack
Date: 2019-05-27 10:21 am (UTC)- This must be an early memory. It seems the class is still in its early stages and people are just getting to know each other.
- He's not interested in mingling with his classmates.
- Sleep is nice. Ignoring your classmates while sleeping on the bus is even better.
- UA must have a lot of money to build these huge training centers.
- Quirks are just as dangerous as they are useful. Learn to utilize your powers to save lives, not destroy.
- Why is All Might not on the scene? It's never explained.
- Villains are annoying. Especially teleporting ones.
- Duality's left side is entirely encased in ice as part of his hero costume.
- "The League of Villains" is a dumb name. But they're there to kill All Might. To hell with that.
- Technically, you should be afraid in this kind of situation, but Duality's general emotion through this whole event isn't as much fear as it's cold determination.
- Duality's class is halfway made up of reckless fools. Especially Bakugou and Kirishima.
- "No good hero is a one trick pony." Eraserhead is a badass hero.
- Being teleported is disorienting.
- "You all lost to a kid, how pathetic. Come on now. You're adults, aren't you?"
- Wow his entire demeanor is cold and arrogant.
- He's also overpowered for being a kid, easily taking out a squad of minions in a heartbeat.
- Duality is not above threatening people with frostbite. That's... concerning. What did 13 just tell you? But see, heroes don't do such horrible things, and he's trying to become a hero, so fess up before it actually happens.
- The memory ends without a clear resolution. That's frustrating. What's going to happen?
Headcanon 2: Recklessness
Date: 2019-11-13 06:43 pm (UTC)---
Your opponent is a hulking beast of a man. His defense is solid and his strength is overwhelming as you barely dodge a barrage coming your way, causing you to crash into the ground. Your muscles are screaming in desperation as you push yourself to the limit, carelessly throwing safety to the wind because you have no limiters or breaks when it comes to fighting him. You send off attack after attack, even on your knees, blasts larger than your usually controlled way of fighting when you train with anyone else and he keeps blocking them, keeping his defenses up. The moment you stop to catch your breath, he just crosses his arms, watching you, waiting.
“You’re overextending yourself. Your control is in shambles at best. I have no time to train a petulant child.”
You stand up on shaking legs, feeling your lungs burn with the exertion. It’s barely been ten minutes of this back and forth game, but he’s yet to give his all, keeping you at arm's length with powerful attacks, but not doing his utmost, and it’s infuriating.
“Look at me, old man! What the hell was that?! You fought harder when I was a child.”
“This is a general training regimen. Don’t throw this childish tantrum, boy.”
The fact that he’s still speaking as if it’s just another day at the job, as if you’re just another point in his schedule only serves to fuel the anger and hatred that burns inside you, like a roaring flame you can’t contain the longer this goes on. You want to strike him down, to take him off his pedestal, goad him into finally unleashing hell on you, to let his guard down. You feel your powers at your fingertips as you fling out attack after attack out at any possible openings you can find, your control shaky around the intensity of your abilities.
“Enough!”
The world explodes in flickering blue lights and you brace yourself for the impact, not bothering to step out of the way, even if that would have been easy. Because not even in this moment is he giving his all, the attack a warning shot and slow enough to be a test of your skill to dodge. But you won’t. You’ve been waiting for this moment, and you look up at him, cold.
“Hey. Did you know?” Your blood is roaring in your ears and you can feel yourself smiling. “That attack always leaves you open for an extra second when you recover.”
And you unleash the biggest barrage at him yet, foregoing your own defense completely. It’s with satisfaction that you watch him stumble under the weight of your attack, even as you feel heat pierce your chest, a white-hot agony blooming through your body and you fall to your knees with a scream.
It’s a painful struggle to get back on your feet, but you’re not done. “That’s the best you can do?” Your voice is a wheezy snarl and you can feel your head fogging up, your vision clouding a little from the exertion. He’s recovered from your previous attack, narrowing his eyes in disapproval as he advances on you and reaches out with a hand to lift you from the ground by the neck. You grab his arm with your hands, struggling futilely. “Let... go…”
“That is enough. You need to cool your temper.”
After that, everything goes black.
Re: Headcanon 2: Recklessness
Date: 2019-11-13 06:51 pm (UTC)- Endeavor has a weakness.
- As usual, Duality is a little pissed off in the general direction of his father.
- He's is still too weak and small to properly exploit his father's weakness, though it doesn't stop him from trying.
- LOOK AT ME. I'm not some tool you can do what you want with. This is MY power.
- It took him many times of sparring with his father to see the pattern and his father's blind spot.
- He's extremely reckless in this memory just to get one hit in on his father.
- The petty emotional whiplash in this particular memory is overwhelming.
- What is he trying to prove? After this, Endeavor would most likely make up for that blind spot and be even harder to fight next time.
- The satisfaction of actually catching Endeavor off guard is also palpable.
- It's short lived though, seeing as it didn't amount to much in the end.
- He's literally acting like an angry child, and it's frustrating because that's what he's reduced to.
- The pain of the injury and his father's hellfire pales in comparison to all the complicated feelings he's experiencing.
- Endeavor can jump off a cliff kthnx.
Re: 14. Todoroki vs Bakugou
Date: 2019-11-13 07:24 pm (UTC)- His name is clear and loud in this memory! He's only had Mori say it to him before, but now he remembers his name is Todoroki. His first name is still left unsaid, though.
- It seems this memory is set after the memory of his fight with Mori in the sports festival.
- Bakugou sure is a character. A very loud, very abrasive character who thinks very highly of himself.
- Todoroki has a hard time focusing on him though, after his emotional meltdown from the fight with Mori. He has a lot to think about, and says as such, which only serves to earn more of Bakugou's ire, since obviously he's talking about Mori and Bakugou seems to really hate Mori? Even though it seems they're childhood friends. Right? Todoroki isn't sure, he doesn't know much about their relationship really.
- Bakugou keeps saying basically the same thing as Mori, but in much more colourful ways, and it seems he's really invested in having Todoroki fight him using his fire, so don't you dare ignore him!! Because if Todoroki won over Mori, he's definitely Bakugou's target.
- Todoroki isn't particularly phased by Bakugou blowing up in his face, though. He's too preoccupied with his own emotional turmoil.
- Mori did smash through Todoroki's doubts, but then Bakugou goes and comments on his family (how does he know??) and now he's getting new ones.
- The battle starts off intensely from the get go, but Todoroki has new doubts, his moves unsure and careful, not as reckless and intense as before.
- Bakugou is strong. Crazy strong, with incredible battle sense, a real challenge. Which is too bad since Todoroki's emotional state is shaky at best. He's unsure about everything, about his powers, about his fire, about what he wants. He has a chance to use his fire once, and then just... doesn't.
- Half the match is literally Bakugou yelling at him to fucking fight him already!!
- This is a little like a record scratch, since he's not giving his all and he's getting questioned for it, again. Is Bakugou not good enough for his all? He is, but he can't focus.
- He knows he's holding back, but he doesn't know what to do. It's not that he's looking down on Bakugou, but he's not in a good mind to fight, and he can't break through right now. He wants to be a hero, he wants...
- He's genuinely apologetic towards Bakugou because he knows he wants a proper fight. He just can't right now, because what is even right anymore? Does he want to win?
- Mori's shout temporarily revives his will to fight, as Bakugou is charging at him, and he can feel his left side flaring up in defiance— but right before impact, he loses the moment, his flames going out completely, and the world collapses in on itself.
- He's vaguely aware of being grabbed and yelled at at some point but in the end he passes out entirely.
16. Pro drafts and hero aliases
Date: 2020-01-04 05:37 am (UTC)The aspiring heroes are gathered for another class when their teacher, Aizawa, enters and one of the students comments on how he looks better, his bandages are gone etc. Apparently it's time for a special hero informatics class. It's time to come up with hero names!
The entire class cheers at this new development, but it doesn't start before Aizawa mentions the hero pro drafts picks from the sports festival and displays chart on the whiteboard, where Duality and Hardcore are leagues ahead of everyone else, as the top two of the class. Everyone chatters around themselves about whether Hardcore should've been first, and that the pros might've been scared of him or something and picked the safest option. As per usual, Hardcore yells his indigence and is completely ignored. Mori isn't on the chart, and someone mentions he might have scared people too.
The girl beside Duality, Momo, congratulates him on a good job done, but he coldly dismisses it to being due to his old man's influence and not much else. It's grating, because he's ready to make a name for himself, but his connection to the current second best hero just shadows his own accomplishments. He doesn't want to surf on someone else coattails, especially not that man, but the world won't give him a choice as he is right now.
Aizawa quiets everyone down and together with another teacher entering explains that a hero name is one of the most important aspects of hero work, and how it can affect your entire career and how the world looks at you, like the name All Might. So choose wisely.
Pens and name plates are passed around and everyone is asked to think of a name for themselves. Midnight gives everyone constructive feedback on their name. Duality... well. He doesn't think too long on his, just picks his first name, "Shouto". It's as disconnected with his father he can get, and that's better than anything else. "Shouto" is his own. He doesn't give an explanation, and Midnight only questions it being his name, but doesn't tell him it's bad.
Hardcore's name picks are immediately vetoed, because frankly he just doesn't have any naming sense whatsoever. Mori steps up and... picks Deku?
The class ends on a relatively good note.
Takeaways:
- Hero names are super important!
- Shouto feels like a name that comes from his mother, not from his father. He takes great comfort in this.
- Hardcore can't name himself or anything or anyone else for shit.
- Mori picked a peculiar name... considering it seems to have had bad connotations? In the memory, Duality didn't know exactly what they were beyond Hardcore's nickname for him.
- His class has kind of a creative streak, to be honest.
- He's annoyed with the fact that Endeavor's influence will likely pave a way for him.
- He's prepared to work extra hard for his own ideals, to get away from his father's shadow.
Pro hero interviews
Date: 2020-01-04 05:44 am (UTC)Re: Pro hero interviews
Date: 2020-01-14 05:08 pm (UTC)- Bakugou is totally his friend. Seems/feels legit.
- Why is he so yelly, though, they clearly get along great! According to Duality.
- Apparently they attended remediary classes together? Since when? And why?
- ...he has his hero license(!?)
- He and Bakugou must have done something impressive to be interviewed like this.
- Cut to the next day where Bakugou has been cut entirely from the interview. Probably a good idea, considering he wasn't exactly polite.
- The whole class is there! Mori too!
- On a more serious note, a whole city has been annihilated, and there's unrest in the hero community. Seems new heroes are in demand, and the public view of them is more encouraging than blame seeking, so that's good.
- "Endeavor tried his best" hm...?
- So the majority of this memory is thrust into a media training class with two female pro heroes.
- Duality is up first and safe to say he's completely out of his element besides the moment he's showing off his ice powers. He's not nervous, though.
- Is Shouto his hero name? Isn't it his first name? Which is it??
- "Do you have heart problems, or something...?" ...oh. That's. Not what she meant, is it?
- The feeling of wanting to beat his father is more simmering under the surface now and seems to be more contained to wanting to better himself, so this is a good feeling!
- Smile more!
- .................people don't die when I smile, right??
- Everyone in their class gets to show off their move names, and then Bakugou steps up and is his charming, yelly self.
- He does feel a little bad because Bakugou got cut from the interview because of him.
- It's quite refreshing to feel so calm in the face of a angry tornado of yelling. Bakugou doesn't face him in the slightest. He's not afraid of him at all.
- Oh. Oh dear. Mori seems to be worse at standing in the limelight than Duality is.
- Mori's hero name seems to be Deku.
- ... wait, does Mori have more than one quirk?
Training camp kidnapping
Date: 2020-01-28 01:30 pm (UTC)Ch. 78 p2, p5-8
Ch. 79 p15-19
Ch. 80 p1-7, p15-18
Ch. 81 p6-10, p18-23
Ch. 82 p9-18
A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS MEMORY. But the basic gist seems to be their hero summer training camp has been suddenly invaded by villains, and because Duality and Hardcore have been paired up for some earlier activity, they're now running into a villain in the middle of a forest, while also carrying around an unconscious classmate(?).
The villain is some grade A lunatic with blades for teeth, and Duality realizes he came from the direction their other classmates were, and he's instantly worried for them. They're all under strict orders not to engage the enemy, to avoid battle at all costs and try to get out alive and don't go pick fights they can't win. That is until there's a message over telepathy that they're allowed to engage, they're allowed to fight back! But that one of the villains targets have been identified as Kacchan, that Kacchan needs to avoid battle at all costs and isn't allowed to make moves on his own. This, of course, infuriates Hardcore, since he obviously wants to fight too and what the fuck did Deku do now? Duality tries to fruitlessly dissuade him to not charge in recklessly, didn't you hear, they're after you!
Of course, Hardcore ignores that and does whatever the fuck he wants so now they're fighting blades for teeth and obviously they're caught in a trap. Duality is trying to think strategically, block attacks with his ice, protect the person he's carrying while trying to keep Hardcore from doing something stupid to endanger them all, as Hardcore yells at him to shut up.
Their party is crashed by an injured Mori carried by another classmate, yelling at them to please lend them light to calm Tokoyami's rampaging quirk. A huge shadowy figure emerges, stunning everyone for a second before Hardcore thinks on the fly, telling them to shut up and just watch as the shadow's rampage takes out the villain. When he turns on his classmates, Duality and Hardcore both seal his quirk with theirs. Apparently the shadow entity is weak to light. Tokoyami lost control of his emotions and his quirk when their other classmate got injured.
They immediately discuss how to best move along while protecting Hardcore. Duality tells him to stay in the middle of the group, much to Hardcore's chagrin as he yells he doesn't fucking need protection. Soon after that they run into more classmates, Uraraka and Tsuyu, effectively scaring off another villain who they were fighting. She disappears before they can pursue her. Mori and co tells them they need to protect Hardcore but he's... gone? He was right behind them, and now he isn't, and they all panic for a second before another villain in a top hat shows up, holding a pearl in where he's captured Hardcore, announcing that the villains will be taking him, thank you. He's going to shine much better on a different stage that the hero's side, that they wish to show him "other ways". Mori yells at them to give him back, and Duality wastes no time attacking the villain with his ice. They realize the two people at the end of their group were taken, Hardcore and Tokoyami.
Duality hands the injured boy he was carrying to Uraraka and sends an avalanche of ice at the villain in an attempt to hit him, but the villain easily avoids his attacks, good at running away and dancing around them. The villain announces into a communications device that their mission is done and they acquired their target, so they're leaving in five minutes. Both Duality and Mori refuses to accept this, both yelling at the top of their lungs and the group immediately gives chase, though he's way too quick. Mori announces a plan to catch up, even when he's barely able to move with his numerous injuries, and while Duality wants him to stay behind, Mori grouses that he'll forget the pain and that they have to move.
They're flung into the air by Uraraka and Tsuyu's quirks, and and they land squarely on the villain, trying to knock him out. Unfortunately, this all happens right in front of the rest of the villain group, and they're immediately attacked by blue fire from a patch work of a man, effectively dispersing them in all directions. Duality barely has time to react to a villain coming at him, blocking him off with his ice. Meanwhile, Shouji has stolen back the pearls with Hardcore and Tokoyami in them, and shouts that they need to run.
However, they don't get far as a black portal opens up in the air in front of them, and the villains are... leaving? But not until the top hat villain reveals that he had the pearls all along, and the ones they stole back were only decoys. It looks hopeless, they won't get to them in time, just as a beam of light from the bushes disrupts his spiel and he drops the pearls. Duality, Mori and Shouji all jump at the same time to reach for them before it's too late. Shouji grabs one, and just as Duality is about to close his fingers around the second pearl, another hand steals it right in front of him, and all he can do is look up at piercing blue eyes and a smiling patchwork face as the man looks at him with mock pity. "How sad for you, Todoroki Shouto." The emotional whiplash of failure is sharp and it gets even sharper as the top hat villain releases the prisoners from the pearls, Tokoyami safely with Shouji, and Hardcore being pulled back into the portal along with the villains.
It ends there. They failed, half the class is injured and Hardcore is kidnapped.
TAKEAWAYS:
- Yeah. That just happened.
- He hates it.
- What the fuck are some of those villains?
- This entire memory is a clusterfuck of bad.
- Mori has, again, ruined his body while using his quirk.
- Duality almost managed to save Hardcore, but he failed.
- The villains wanted Hardcore because he's... good villain material?
- But that's not true.
- Who is the patchwork man and why are those eyes so familiar?
- Duality has good strategic skills, but what use are they if he fails?
- He knows his full name now, Todoroki Shouto!
- Kacchan does what the fuck Kacchan wants.
Extended canon write up: Domestic abuse
Date: 2020-03-15 08:33 pm (UTC)"Get up. You won't even be able to defeat third-rate villains, let alone All Might, if you get knocked down by a hit like that."
His mother is kneeling beside him with a hand on his back, trying to soothe his pain, begging his father to leave him alone, let him rest. She's the only kind person he knows in his life. His only life line.
"Stop it, please! He's only five years old..."
His father is having none of it, and Duality can only stare through his tears with wide, horrified eyes as the man throws a punch at his mother, yelling at her to get out of his way.
"Yes, he's already five! So get out of my way!"
He can only watch her fall to the floor beside him, and he tries not to hiccup, tries to quell his tears, because what if his father will hit his mother again? It'd be his fault, because he's too weak. He's having a hard time breathing through the tears and the taste of bile on his tongue, and he tries not to cry out as his father silently grabs his arm to haul him off the floor and out of the room. He's mercilessly shoved towards the bathroom and told to clean up and go to bed.
He whirls on the spot in a panic as his father goes back to the training room, and he tries to follow him inside because his mother is still there!! But the sliding door is shut in his face and he doesn't dare to open it again. He trembles a little as he hears the first noises of someone being hit and he's frozen for a few seconds before he stumbles over his feet to get back to the bathroom and clean up as he's been told. Maybe... maybe if he's being good, maybe his father will stop hitting his mom.
He doesn't get far, can't drown out the sounds from the training room enough and ends up retching into the toilet, coughing and crying silently. He doesn't want this. He doesn't want his mom to get hurt because of him. But he can't help her, because he's too weak and useless.
...
He doesn't know how long he's in there, with the world slipping in and out of his vision, but he startles as a cold hand gently touches his shoulder and he slowly looks up. His mother is there, looking down on him with a sad smile, but she doesn't speak. She helps him clean up, wipes his mouth and washes his face and takes care of his bruises, bandages his burns. He wants to hug her, to say he's sorry, but he's afraid to, because while she's helping him, she's also hurt. He can see it on her face, a bruise covering a large part of her cheek and down to her chin, a split lip still bleeding...
He does his best not to cry while she works, does his best to be brave for his mother's sake. When she's done she takes his hand and walks him to his bedroom to tuck him in for the night. He falters then, curling his small arms around her waist and burying his face against her stomach, crying silently. He tries to talk in between quiet hiccups and tears.
"I hate him, mommy... I... I don't wanna be like daddy. Someone who bullies my mommy. I don't wanna be like that."
She hums and holds him close. Despite her own injures, her voice is light and kind as she speaks to him, comforting.
"... But you want to be a hero, right? That's fine. You're not... him. You're not your father."
She continues to soothe him, pet his hair, and eventually he dozes off in his mother's arms.
Extended canon write up: Burning
Date: 2020-03-15 09:10 pm (UTC)His mother is still there, she's still trying her best at helping him, patching him up, but her expressions have grown increasingly sad, he's heard her crying alone in her room, and he knows it's his fault, because he can't protect her from his father. He needs to get stronger, if only so his father won't hit her again. He's trying, really trying to create the proper amount of flames from his left side that is demanded of him. But he still can't, he can't do what he wants. He hates it, he hates it so much. He knows he has siblings, he's watched them play outside, but he's never been allowed to meet them. Why does he keep being hurt, and not them? Why can't he play with them too? Why isn't he allowed to play with other children at school? Why is it like this?
He sniffles a little and wipes at his nose, though he goes quiet when he hears a voice as he walks by the kitchen and he comes to a halt. His mother is in there, boiling water for tea, most likely. She's talking on the phone, and he's about to slide the door open further to call out to her, but pauses at her tone of voice, how it's shaking between dry sobs.
"Mom... I know it's not right, but I can't do it anymore. The children, they're... like him more and more every day. And Shouto... his left side. Sometimes I look at him and I hate what I see. I... can't raise him anymoe. I shouldn't raise him..."
The words are like shards of ice to his heart, and he staggers a little, hand gripping the side of the door as he stares at her. He croaks a little as he calls out to her, eyes wide.
"M-mommy...?"
She immediately turns around, eyes wide in a strange, haggard and panicked expression. Behind her, the kettle is making a high pitched noise on the stove as the water is boiling over.
It all happens so fast he has no time to react, but the next moment he knows, she's grabbing the kettle in one hand and grabbing him with the other, all but shrieking.
"I can't stand to see that left side of yours!"
That's all he hears before his world explodes in pain when scalding hot water is poured over the left side of his head, like lava washing over his left eye and he screams, trashing and trying to pull away from her grip, but it's like iron. What feels like an eternity is only a few seconds before he feels her grip falter and she falls to her knees in front of him with a gasp, kettle tumbling to the floor and rolling to the side. He can barely feel it through the pain and shock when she grabs his head with both her hands, an agonized sound tearing its way out of her throat between broken sobs and frantic apologies.
"Oh no my Shouto no no what have I done I'm so sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm—"
He can barely see, blinded by the pain, but he goes entirely still as something icy cold folds over the burn as his mother tries to undo the damage with her powers, still babbling in her own meltdown, tries to cool him down with the ice at her disposal. He can only gape as his face burns even more with the ice she's applying to it, no words coming over his lips. It's like he forgets to breathe, the agony on a level he can't even comprehend, and the world goes white before a dark haze dims his vision and everything goes black as he passes out.
...
When he comes to, he's in a bed, and his head is throbbing. Bandages covers the left side of his face and his left eye. Despite the pain, he gets up though, scared and frantic, tries his best to stagger out in the hallway. He needs to find his mother, where is she?
The only person he finds is his father, and the man is glaring down at him with a stern face, though he doesn't tell him to get back to bed. Duality stares back at him, and asks, voice shaking a little.
"Where's mommy?"
His father only clicks his tongue with a dismissive noise.
"She hurt you, so I had her put away. The fool... during this crucial time in your development, no less..."
He turns his back to Duality as he talks, mutters, as if his mother has just been another obstacle he's removed. Duality just stares at him, feeling his insides crumble to dust. Put away? Where? What does that mean? How can his father talk about her as if she doesn't mean anything? He can't control the trembling anger lodged in his throat as he shakily yells back.
"It's all your fault!"
He'll show him. He'll show his father, he'll win over him using his mothers powers, he'll beat him. He'll beat his father to the ground and make him pay for what he's done!
Chapter 204-205: Go Beyond
Date: 2020-04-16 05:59 pm (UTC)Takeaways:
- A training battle between classes!
- Duality's clearly been training, as his fire is infinitely larger and hotter than it used to be in earlier memories.
- He needs distance to fight, he's not a good close range fighter, and is easily overwhelmed by close range battle in this memory.
- It's not a weakness he currently has in Imeeji, though that might be because he's not fighting with powers.
- Raise your body heat to the limit, and then overcome that limit, because you have a hidden power greater than any other!
- He doesn't want to think of his father's words, and he hates that it strikes something in him because he knows his father is right.
- Mori's "Your power is your own!" resonates over his fathers words in his memory so at least that's something.
- He's... literally rising his body temperature to dangerous levels, to himself and others. (And cameras!)
- He remembers the feeling and it's a really intense amount of heat and pressure.
- "Do you ever shut up?" Duality has a mouth on him! Who would have thought?
- More. Hotter. Ignite myself beyond all limits.
- And then he's hit in the head by a falling piece of debris and things go dark and fuzzy after that.
TOUYA
Date: 2021-05-01 09:08 pm (UTC)Immediate reactions would be:
- Touya.
- Dabi is Touya.
- Touya is crazy.
- My family is just fucked up.
Aftermath
Date: 2021-07-28 03:23 pm (UTC)Summary TBA.